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Speaker 2: Into the Battle Crowd, Battle Crown, the Battle Round.

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Speaker 1: The Battle Crowd, Welcome to the Battleground Podcast, your place

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Battle Crowd. Welcome into episode number two

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Speaker 3: oh two of the Battleground Podcast. At your buddy battle

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Speaker 3: We welcome back Bobby Lastly to the show. Now if

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Speaker 3: But episode two or two of the Battleground Podcast talking

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Speaker 2: That could happen? We ask you about that, of course, Bobby.

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Speaker 3: Kind of drops possibly a Survivor Series Raw Versus SmackDown match. Ooh,

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Speaker 3: Welcome to another episode of the Battleground Podcast. It is

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Speaker 2: First, you can watch it eight pm EA on Peacock

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Speaker 4: How are you doing.

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Speaker 3: I'm good and I'm excited because our guest that's on

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Speaker 5: It's it's it's gonna it's gonna be.

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Speaker 2: I will give.

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Speaker 2: You my entire year salary and radio to have that happen.

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Speaker 5: The only one. Again, take my money.

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Speaker 4: Bobby, take it, Give me my money.

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Speaker 2: Before twenty twenty two rolls around.

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Speaker 1: You know, you know, you know what I thought to do,

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Speaker 5: Pick your best five. I picked my best five and

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Speaker 5: lets meet the Survivor series. We'll see that.

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Speaker 2: Um that a challenge?

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Speaker 5: Is that a challenge? Do we start throwing out names

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Speaker 2: Can we can?

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Speaker 5: We?

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Speaker 2: Can we do this?

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Speaker 5: I'm picking of course, Drew.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I have so many I have so many

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Speaker 5: Just Roman, Roman.

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Speaker 2: And nobody else, nobody else. That's the famine.

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Speaker 5: That's it.

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Speaker 3: I think if that would happen Roman be like we

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he just needs some people to stand on the roads,

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Speaker 5: Just tag him in.

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Speaker 3: Man looking forward to it at this this is coming

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Speaker 5: Thank you, man, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: And real quick, anything you want to say to the

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Speaker 5: No, man, I just say you know, we're back on

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Speaker 1: So we've been selling out everywhere we've gone and the

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Speaker 5: We're all professional exactly.

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Speaker 1: And let's just have fun watch it all, enjoy it all,

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