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Speaker 1: Welcome to the battle Ground Podcast, Joly and exclusive interviews

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Speaker 1: with some of your favorite wrestlers.

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Speaker 2: Abound podcast.

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Speaker 1: Stop being.

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Speaker 3: What's up you guys, Welcome back into iHeartRadio's official wrestling podcast,

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Speaker 3: to Battleground Podcast, and for the first time since twoenty eleven.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's a long time, TNA returns to Pittsburgh Friday

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Speaker 3: and Saturday, June twentieth of the twenty first, and it's

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Speaker 3: gonna be at the upmc evin Center. And on the

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Speaker 3: show today a guy that has been on here plenty

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Speaker 3: of times. You say his name, he shows up, he appears.

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Speaker 3: Give it up for Joe Hendry joining the show. Joe,

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Speaker 3: how you been doing?

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Speaker 4: Man, I'm doing very well. Thanks.

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Speaker 3: How are you doing pretty good? Glad to have you

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Speaker 3: back here on the show.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: I gotta talk to you because this was a kind

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Speaker 3: of a cool thing recently at Triple Many. Yeah, another

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Speaker 3: viral moment for Joe Hendry coming out to the Spanish

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Speaker 3: version of your song that we've all seen shared many

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Speaker 3: times on social media.

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Speaker 2: Tell me about the story on how that came about.

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Speaker 4: How it came about it is I got to the

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Speaker 4: venue and they said, we got this cool idea for

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Speaker 4: your entrance, and I thought, okay, I usually had the

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Speaker 4: liverything to do with my entrance, but it was actually

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Speaker 4: a Triple A that did that. And I think, if

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Speaker 4: I can remember the name of the band, I think

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Speaker 4: it's the Easy I want I want to put them

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Speaker 4: over here. I don't want to. I want to make

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Speaker 4: sure to get the name absolutely right here. But I

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Speaker 4: didn't actually know about it until we got to the venue.

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Speaker 4: But before they said yeah, the Easy band. That was correct.

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Speaker 4: All I needed to do is sad bad, But yeah,

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Speaker 4: they did an awesome version of my song. And when

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Speaker 4: they said we're going to do this song, I knew

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Speaker 4: pretty much exactly what it was going to be, so.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And it was great because we were sitting there

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Speaker 3: and I was watching some of the videos and I

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Speaker 3: was watching the footage and I was like, are we.

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Speaker 2: Getting the regular Joe Hendry song?

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Speaker 3: And then you start hear and then I was like, oh,

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Speaker 3: this is fantastic, and you sit here and think about

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Speaker 3: it for a second. How does it feel that people

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Speaker 3: are out here covering your theme song? I mean, we've

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Speaker 3: got Easy Band doing their I think I recently I

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Speaker 3: saw like a dubstep version of your song.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I posted that on social media

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Speaker 4: the otherday. At Download Festival, there were people with flags

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Speaker 4: and like, people really want me to perform Download Festival.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm seeing a bunch of like new music

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Speaker 4: stuff coming out that's really awesome.

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Speaker 3: And it's pretty cool that the fact that there's people

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Speaker 3: out here covering your theme song, and like you said,

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Speaker 3: I mean we got the dubstep version, I'm waiting for

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Speaker 3: like a scream o heavy metal version. That's gonna be

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Speaker 3: a cool thing, right to see people covering like a

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Speaker 3: it's a chart topping song.

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Speaker 4: It's it's very cool. Like I thought the song was good,

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Speaker 4: and like I say, this is a terrible example to

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Speaker 4: out again when I say this, But I saw an

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Speaker 4: they made and Never by Neravana. They were like, I mean,

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Speaker 4: we knew it was good, but we didn't know it

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Speaker 3: And I mean, I can't tell you how many times

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Speaker 3: and I'm like, it's caught on.

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Speaker 2: Well, it is caught on for sure.

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Speaker 3: And you know, the one thing I will tell you

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Speaker 2: And you're at the front of that movement.

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Speaker 3: Was there a moment maybe recently backstage where it clicked

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Speaker 2: We are one of the like major companies.

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Speaker 4: Now, yeah, that is. That's something I take a lot

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Speaker 4: there's been people who have been there for you know,

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Speaker 4: Have been people who have been there since the very beginning.

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Speaker 4: I've been watching it since two thousand and two. So

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Speaker 4: to be at the forefront of this ERAO where we're

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Speaker 4: doing unprecedented business like to be honest, business wise in

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Speaker 4: terms of live gate, I don't know for sure, but

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Speaker 4: I'd love to find that out, but regardless, it's certainly

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Speaker 4: this is a huge upswing for TNA Wrestling. A lot

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely for sure.

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Speaker 3: And of course, for the first time since twenty eleven,

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Speaker 3: twentieth of the twenty first held at the UPM see

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Speaker 3: Evin Center. Now this is something awesome because again this

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Speaker 3: goes back to the viral moments. You've gone viral on TikTok,

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Speaker 3: that don't even belong to TNA. Yeah, is wrestling finally

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Speaker 4: And I think I think so for sure. But also

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Speaker 4: I think that different waves of popularity in pro wrestling

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Speaker 4: you know. I think that's that's the main thing. When

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Speaker 4: it comes from the pute intention of trying to entertain

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Speaker 4: And what I the stuff that I've made, whether it

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Speaker 4: I was happy doing it in front of two hundred people.

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Speaker 4: You know, A lot of the time less I was

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Speaker 4: And a key example is when I wrestled Brandy or

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Speaker 4: With doing my spin into the RKO, and then there's

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Speaker 4: again I said I'm the one that said it. I

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Speaker 4: I had a positive impact on business and that's what

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I got to tell you our buddy that

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Speaker 3: does the show with us, Josh Big Joe Hendry fan,

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Speaker 3: Like I kid you not, anytime a shirt pops up,

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Speaker 3: having a WrestleMania moment. Yeah, when legends like that see

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Speaker 4: Think it is more a motivation. I mean, I think

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Speaker 4: I've kind of been in those big pressure, those high

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Speaker 4: if you'll do this at a high level, everything is

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Speaker 4: I think motivation is more the word that I would

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Speaker 4: It's very motivating to hear those words, and it's like, right,

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Speaker 4: you got to keep going. There's so many people who

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Speaker 3: And you know, you talk about the motivation, you talk

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Speaker 3: band aid off. A TNA World Heavyweight Champion is not

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Speaker 3: of people have things to say about that, one of

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Speaker 3: those people being Nick Nammoth, who recently was on our show.

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Speaker 3: We talked to him about that for a brief second,

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Speaker 3: and I've got some audio for you and he I

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Speaker 5: Joe Henry has been doing. Aweso Like, I beat him

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Speaker 5: and I shook his hand and said, damn it, tonight

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Speaker 2: So you see Nick say something like that, what's your

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Speaker 4: Well, if I can't back and if I can't back

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Speaker 2: I think so.

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Speaker 3: And you know what I think, once Joe Hendry gets

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Speaker 4: I like it. I like I like I like you

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Speaker 3: I think we are putting it out in the universe,

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Speaker 2: What do you think I think it could happen. I mean,

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Speaker 3: We're just gonna put out in the universe Joe Hendry

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Speaker 3: and then Joe Hendry will didn't defend his TNA World

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Speaker 2: Maybe champion versus champion match never seen ever.

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Speaker 3: I like the way you think about that, and uh,

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Speaker 3: lot of people on the internet. Anytime that Joe Hendry

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Speaker 2: Recently, Uh, you posted.

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Speaker 3: Like a Joe Hendry and mister Iguana tag team just

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Speaker 4: I was devastated that they that we didn't have a

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Speaker 2: What about this?

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Speaker 3: And we talked to the powers that be mister Iguana

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know what, I'd never I'd never thought

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Speaker 3: I mean there, there's your way to, you know, get

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Speaker 4: Yeah, sounds good.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the great thing.

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Speaker 3: Last thing I want to ask to you because this

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Speaker 2: What is that song on your playlist that would surprise us?

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Speaker 3: If you, hm, solid solid pick, solid pick, and I

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Speaker 4: I like it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a life metaphor right there, Joe Hendry. It's

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Speaker 3: on the show before we let you go. Is there

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Absolutely, I just I would encourage you to come

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Speaker 4: UPMC Arena. It's our events center. Again. We're gonna what

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Speaker 4: whereas if you are a TNA Plus subscriber on a

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