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Speaker 1: If you follow us on YouTube, you might have seen

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Speaker 1: this interview. But if not, YouTube dot com slash Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 1: The week of February twelve, the NWA took over our

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel. I mean, we had Trevor Murdoch, we had

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Speaker 1: who had a birthday yesterday. Now, known as Mayweather, and

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Speaker 1: today we're gonna play back the episode that we have

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Speaker 1: for you of the National Treasure Nick Audus. Now I

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Speaker 1: will tell you that this episode was recorded during our

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Speaker 3: So Nick had a lot to say about.

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Speaker 1: it's always a pleasure when we get Nick Audas on

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Speaker 1: the show. So, without further ado, here's our interview with

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Speaker 3: All right, here's the interview. Let's go.

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Speaker 4: Parts Unknown Studios to the Double Battle Crowd, the battle Bound,

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Speaker 4: the Battle Crowd. Welcome to the Battleground Podcast, your place

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Speaker 4: for all things pro Wrestlady.

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Speaker 3: The Battle the Battle Round.

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Speaker 2: Now making their way to the microphones. Gear it up

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Speaker 2: for your hosts. Welcome to the Battle Crown.

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Speaker 3: What's up you guys.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back into another episode of the Battleground Podcast. Of course,

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Speaker 1: this week is NWA Takeover Week, and all this week

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Speaker 1: we're sitting down talking with all the superstars that are

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Speaker 1: gonna be a part of NWA Power Trip that is

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Speaker 1: this weekend, uh Saturday in Oak Grove, Kentucky. Of course,

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Speaker 1: you can grab tickets right now NWA ticks dot Com.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring in my tag tee partner Elis here.

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Speaker 1: And this is a guy that's no stranger to the show.

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Speaker 1: I think that's along with Mayther.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: This guy has been on our show. He's probably up

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Speaker 1: then you know what, let's just this is the National Treasure.

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Speaker 3: Nick Allis joins the show again. Our friend Nick.

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Speaker 2: Happy to be back at the battleground. Yes, I'm afraid

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Speaker 3: It's great to have you back on.

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Speaker 1: Of course you got a big match this week, of course,

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Speaker 1: former friend, former business partner, strictly business you and Tom

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Speaker 1: this Saturday, Oh Grove, Kentucky Valor Hall. You can still

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Speaker 1: get grab tickets at NWA ticks dot com. How do

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Speaker 2: It's a situation where you're essentially saying that, like you win,

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Speaker 2: I have nothing left. I can't, I can't fight you.

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Speaker 2: I don't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't be in the position

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Speaker 2: but hey, I'll give the I'll give the devil his due.

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Speaker 2: What I intend to do is win the match, wash

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Speaker 1: That's the plan, because I mean, you know the track

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Speaker 1: We had Trevor murd dot Con. So he's already got

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Speaker 2: I've deliberately sort of recused myself from all of that

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Speaker 2: And by virtue of the fact that Trevor defeated me,

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Speaker 2: need me to fight a battles for him. But I'm

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Speaker 2: very aware of it. And obviously I'm sure you can

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look absolutely, Uh you know, I don't need to

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Speaker 2: May it ain't show friends, show business, it is, I'll pay.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's what I mean. That's the name of

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Speaker 2: Yeah? And how do you how do you collect on that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course. Uh, you know, Tom Latimer is going

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Speaker 1: You still grab tickets right now NWA ticks dot com.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a hell of a show. I mean,

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Speaker 2: It comes what perfect example of it. Do I ever

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Speaker 3: For sure?

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Speaker 3: But you know, what's the experience been like so far?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, Well, look, the Crockett Cup is fast approaching,

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Speaker 2: It was a good day for the good day for

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Speaker 2: sort of it's that you know, you can't put your

430
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 2: finger on it. It's a bit like the Chase in Saint Louis.

431
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, there are there are obviously sort of

432
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 2: cooler buildings, I guess, or bigger buildings, and obviously you know,

433
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,640
Speaker 2: ones that might even be better suited. But like, there

434
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:34,560
Speaker 2: was something about when we were in there. You know,

435
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 2: it's like you you can feel a little bit of

436
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:43,200
Speaker 2: that energy from all of the great wrestling that's been

437
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,040
Speaker 2: there through the years. There's a sort of I don't

438
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:49,159
Speaker 2: know what it is, you know, there's a spirit to

439
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,119
Speaker 2: That's one of the reasons why I always try to

440
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,400
Speaker 2: push to sort of if there are any of those

441
00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:58,919
Speaker 2: historical buildings still running, I always try to sort of

442
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 2: make that push, like let's do the fairgrounds, you know,

443
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 2: let's just do the chase in Saint Louis. You know

444
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 2: that that kind of thing. So I'm looking forward to

445
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,640
Speaker 2: that and then to sort of obviously and then add

446
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 2: to that the Crocket Cup. Obviously, you know, Tennessee was

447
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 2: not a Crocket territory. Obviously they had their you know,

448
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 2: they had Memphis and you know, Jerry Jarrett and Lawler

449
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 2: and everything. But there's a sort of there's a cool,

450
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:26,199
Speaker 2: sort of hybrid kind of mix of you know, tipping

451
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,199
Speaker 2: her hat to the history of the business in a

452
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 2: couple of different ways and then bringing it forward with

453
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 2: guys from all over the world. And look, yeah, I've

454
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 2: loved reuniting the team with Doug again. It only happened

455
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 2: because there was a demand. It only happened because because

456
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 2: it was it was something that never went away, even

457
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,439
Speaker 2: with even with you know, having the being the NWA

458
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 2: World Champion for over a thousand days, it was like

459
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 2: it never went away. There was there was always a

460
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:02,880
Speaker 2: sort of consistent messaging from from fans kind of man,

461
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:04,679
Speaker 2: you know, it would be cool to see a British

462
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:09,159
Speaker 2: Invasion reunion. I loved British Invasion. You know, I was

463
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 2: never really aware of it at the time. You know

464
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,479
Speaker 2: that we had, I guess made more of an impact

465
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 2: than I had given myself credit for. But we're we're

466
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 2: having a lot of fun doing it. And obviously we're

467
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,479
Speaker 2: in a very different position now because the first time around,

468
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:27,240
Speaker 2: I was suberene. You know that I was sort of

469
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,199
Speaker 2: I was limited, and that was a good That's why

470
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:32,919
Speaker 2: being in Attack team was a good place for me

471
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 2: because Doug could, because Doug could excel where he excels,

472
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 2: which is wrestling and the you know and the ring

473
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:47,679
Speaker 2: psychology and just you know, the leadership like this. You know,

474
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 2: you know, he's cool hand Luke, and I could be

475
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:54,920
Speaker 2: a little more brash and a little more cocky and

476
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 2: explore that, you know. And my verbal skills were pretty

477
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,920
Speaker 2: decent then, you know, not not what they are now,

478
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 2: but they were still okay. But we kind of complimented

479
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 2: each other. But now it's a kind of different dynamic

480
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,400
Speaker 2: because now I feel like I'm pretty well rounded. Yeah,

481
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 2: you know, and Doug is obviously, you know, in a

482
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 2: different stage of his career, but he's also having like

483
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 2: this great run, like this great resurgence where he kind

484
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,199
Speaker 2: of he retired and then like this is legit, Like

485
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 2: Doug retired and then basically just instead of trying to

486
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:34,920
Speaker 2: make some you know, phony excuse, he just went, I've

487
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 2: changed my mind. I don't want to I don't want

488
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 2: to retire like I love and said I'm pretty freaking

489
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 2: good at it, and it was and everybody just went, great,

490
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 2: thank God for that. Like he's in he's in like

491
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,639
Speaker 2: arguably the best shape of his life, and you know,

492
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 2: he's like, he's kind of I kind of liken Doug

493
00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,160
Speaker 2: the style. Now it's almost a bit like Rocky Balboa

494
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 2: like where it's you emver like in the in the

495
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 2: in the movie where they kind of said, you know,

496
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,320
Speaker 2: you're a little older now, so you're bigger, so you're

497
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 2: gonna so you're gonna basically rely on, you know, horsepower,

498
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 2: Like Doug's kind of he's kind of evolved into like

499
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 2: a power guy. Yeah, because he's now like you know,

500
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 2: especially I guess because the business overall has gotten smaller

501
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 2: as well, so he you know, in terms of the talent,

502
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 2: I mean, and he's like, so now he's you know,

503
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:33,199
Speaker 2: six foot and two fifty and she's like, he's you know,

504
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 2: he's a he's a tank. Yeah, it's kind of yeah,

505
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 2: So it's uh yeah, so he's kind of it's it's

506
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 2: really cool to sort of work out our new dynamics

507
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 2: where it's like, Okay, here's where you excel, Here where

508
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 2: I excel. You know, here's that we can do this

509
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 2: and we can just have so much fun because now

510
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 2: at this point, he's got so much experience. I've got

511
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 2: a pretty good amount of experience we're both very comfortable

512
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 2: in front of a microphone and in the ring and

513
00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 2: everything like that. So it's really a night off. So mean,

514
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 2: like you know, as any chance I have to to

515
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 2: do do a bit of that with with Doug. Absolutely,

516
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 2: as long as I still can maintain my focus on,

517
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 2: you know, where I need to be as a single.

518
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 3: And don't forget sweet tracksuits.

519
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 2: Too, beautiful track suits. They were actually a gift from

520
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 2: from Tony Sinclair, who's a very well known English wrestler

521
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 2: from from back in the day, and he was the

522
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 2: booker of a very good promotion in Germany and when he,

523
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 2: Doug and I were out in Germany tagging together and

524
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 2: and Tony gave us those as a gift. So yeah,

525
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 2: that's incredible. Yeah.

526
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 5: And well if you if you guys entered the Cracker Cup,

527
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 5: well we're gonna we're gonna have your support, so we'll

528
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 5: be supporting you.

529
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 2: I should say, that's the that's that's the intention. I mean,

530
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 2: the Crocket Cup, like you know, the Briscoes, British Invasion,

531
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 2: Lar Rebellion, I mean already like just a real good

532
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 2: diversity see of styles and characteristics and you know, backgrounds

533
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 2: and you know, I mean, there's there's a lot to

534
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 2: come in the come, you know. And look, I think

535
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 2: I think it's pretty obvious that a lot of the

536
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 2: Crockett Cup is going to be shaped by what happens

537
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 2: this Saturday. M hm, you know in Kentucky. So one,

538
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 2: one step at a time, that's my focus now. And

539
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 2: with all due respect to to Jonathan Gresham, who you

540
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 2: know is on a tear like doing the best work

541
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 2: of his career, I haven't I have I've got I've

542
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 2: got an equip match that i have to think about,

543
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 2: you know, and then now I've got to get through

544
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 2: that in one piece. Uh, and then and then I've

545
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 2: got to hit the road and try to try to

546
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 2: remember all my holds.

547
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, the counters and.

548
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 5: Well this question you would think that we kind of

549
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 5: just wrote it down based on what you said earlier,

550
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 5: but this this was already here, so you're kind of

551
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 5: tuned into it. So NWA has always been on the

552
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 5: forefront of the forbidden door, you know, going back to

553
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 5: their you know, work with New Japan and you know,

554
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 5: I mean they've always worked with other promotions, and like

555
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 5: you said, the NWA champion has always been going to

556
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 5: the different cities and defending and stuff. Recently, obviously Matt

557
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 5: Cardona made his presence known and is now going after

558
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 5: the ten pounds of gold. What does a free agent

559
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 5: like Cardona bring to the nw A.

560
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 2: Well, I think that the you you answered part of

561
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 2: that question really in the sense that historically the NWA

562
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 2: that was the NWA, it was not a promotion, it

563
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 2: was a collective of promotions, and the idea being that

564
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 2: it kept everything interesting by making sure that all the

565
00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 2: different promoters across the country got sort of equal share

566
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 2: of good attractions, you know, and and so that so

567
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 2: as a as a collective they could all continuously, you know,

568
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,719
Speaker 2: be profitable by maintaining together agreeing to maintain the value

569
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 2: of of certain guys and champions and so on and

570
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 2: so forth. So in the in the in the in

571
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 2: the current, you know, the modern era. It's like I

572
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 2: always felt like the philosophy was to try to represent

573
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 2: that without doing it, you know, if that makes sense.

574
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 2: So it's like that, you know that the old adage,

575
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 2: right is does the champion make the belt or the

576
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 2: belt make the champion and the champion makes the belt? Right,

577
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 2: no question, and one of the best ways to do that.

578
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 2: But you get to a point where they make they

579
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 2: it's it's symbiotic, you know, they kind of like you

580
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 2: kind of it's it's it's a kind of self propelling cycle.

581
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 2: But a big part of that is the quality of

582
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 2: your opponents. Right, So, like during my first run with

583
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 2: the belt, like I defended it in four different continents,

584
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 2: and you know, multiple promotions, you know, and obviously a

585
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 2: lot of stuff, a ring of honor. So as far

586
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 2: as like free agents, as long as they are as

587
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 2: long as I don't really care like about people someone's

588
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 2: contract status, as far as like being being a champion

589
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 2: in the nw A, well, what I care about is

590
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 2: that they respect what what the opportunity is, you know,

591
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 2: like that they respect the title that they have the

592
00:33:55,520 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 2: opportunity to hold, right, that they respect the history that

593
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 2: you know, Dory Funk, Junior, Jack Briscoe, Terry Funk, Harley Race,

594
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 2: Dusty Rhodes, Rick Flair, you know, Pad O'Connor luth says,

595
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 2: like that's that's more important to me. You know that

596
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 2: they understand that and they want to take that and

597
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 2: enhance it and you know, maintain that high standard. Right,

598
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can, I don't know if

599
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 2: I can honestly say that about the gentleman you just mentioned.

600
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 2: But time will tell, because ultimately, look, a lot of

601
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 2: people say a lot of stuff to get attention, but

602
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,720
Speaker 2: I don't care who you are when you hold that title,

603
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 2: and especially if somebody like Dory Funk is in the house,

604
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:52,840
Speaker 2: you know, or some of the old timers who have

605
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 2: paved the way, you know, it becomes very real, right,

606
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 2: it becomes, and you know when you because it has to.

607
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 2: So as long as they respect the championship and as

608
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 2: long as their intention is to leave it in a

609
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 2: better place than they found it, then I have no

610
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 2: problem with it.

611
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:14,919
Speaker 1: And you kind of worry though, because me and Eli

612
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: had this conversation and I said, it's the Trevor the

613
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 1: other night. Everywhere that Cardona has walked in, he's walked

614
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: out a champion. Did it at GCW did it? And

615
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,360
Speaker 1: you know, impact with the Digital Championship, any any promotion

616
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: outside of leaving WWE. He's walked in as a champ.

617
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: He's walked out of a champion. So you got to think, though,

618
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: it's like if if by some miracle, Trevor doesn't come

619
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: up and get the victory on Saturday, does do you

620
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: think that that might tarns the NWA because every time

621
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 1: he's won that title, he's changed it and.

622
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 2: Got Well, look, with all due respect to those other

623
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 2: championships you mentioned, there are those championships, and then there

624
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 2: is the ten Pounds of Gold. Yeah, okay, that's not

625
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 2: that's not that's not that's not denigrating the others. But

626
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 2: they don't have the history. No other belt has the

627
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 2: history and the lineage of the n W eight World's

628
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 2: Everyweight Wrestling Championship. Uh. I will reserve my judgment, you know,

629
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 2: one or don't come with the match, and two I don't. Again,

630
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 2: with all due respect to those other promotions and those

631
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 2: other belts, I don't really give a ship what he

632
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 2: did to those other belts. I give a ship what

633
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:43,720
Speaker 2: happens to the n WA Championship. But yeah, I mean,

634
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 2: of course it's a concern, and if that concern gets

635
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 2: any greater, then it will manifest itself in action.

636
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: All right, So we're not putting that out there in

637
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: the universe, so completely just scratch me asking that question.

638
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 3: We're just gonna e scrub it of everything.

639
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I mean we're not talking about anything

640
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 2: that people don't really already know deep down in their.

641
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 1: Hearts and you know, deep down our hearts. We've been

642
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 1: big fans of n w A and I got to

643
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 1: say when COVID hit were we were a little worried

644
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: because it was like, you know, you guys, stop doing

645
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: some stuff. You picked up Carney Land, which was really

646
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: good stuff, and then you did the thing.

647
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 2: With It's okay, you don't have you don't have to pretend.

648
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 3: I actually enjoyed it.

649
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, we actually we were talking about it yesterday, like

650
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 5: how the with the nw A all access, how you'll

651
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 5: probably start seeing more things that kind of.

652
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,799
Speaker 2: That's definitely a plan. I mean, you know, if I

653
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:41,240
Speaker 2: have anything to do with it, I don't think Connie

654
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 2: Land will be making a return. But you know I was.

655
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 2: I was outvoted on that one, but that's nonetheless. Yes,

656
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 2: look look I was too. It was you know, we

657
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 2: were right, and because it was unprecedented, and it was

658
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 2: just you know, look it is what it is. They

659
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 2: don't have time to litigate it, but it was just

660
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 2: it was out of all of the promotions. I felt

661
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:09,439
Speaker 2: like it was really bad timing for the n w A. Yeah,

662
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,919
Speaker 2: like just because at that you know, it was such

663
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 2: a key moment of momentum and stuff. But hey, that's

664
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 2: that's in the past, and I'm you know, I'm over

665
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 2: talking about it. It's kind of like there's there's nothing

666
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 2: you know with all we can do is move forward.

667
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 2: And that one of my favorite, one one credo I

668
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 2: tried to live by is you know, you're either winning

669
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,839
Speaker 2: or you're learning. And there's a lot of learning that's

670
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 2: taken place. And you know, so for for people who

671
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 2: have stuck with us, or even people who have written

672
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 2: us off, it's like, hey, you know, we've learned a lot.

673
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 2: And it's a it's a small group of people and

674
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 2: it's basically it's individually funded. So it's kind of like

675
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 2: anyone in regardless of how you regardless of where you

676
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 2: sit on this spectrum, I'm going to try to sell

677
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,360
Speaker 2: you on the you know, on the product of the brand.

678
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 2: You should you should at least respect if you love

679
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,800
Speaker 2: the wrestling business, you should at least respect anyone who's

680
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 2: who's willing to continue investing in it to to you know,

681
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 2: to help move the economy forward.

682
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: Of course, and and you know, you guys have come

683
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: back super strong. I mean, you had the women's division

684
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: killing it. Of course you had Empower killing it. The

685
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: Junior Heavyweight title is back, which is an exciting thing.

686
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,919
Speaker 1: Of course, the Crocket Cup, and now we have three, yes,

687
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 1: seventy three. And then we've got NWA All Access which

688
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: is on fight. You can pay fifty bucks a year

689
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 1: and you get everything or four month.

690
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 3: Or for nine nine a month.

691
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: But I mean, it's so such a great time to

692
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: be a wrestling fan, especially the NBA fans is us

693
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,320
Speaker 1: on here. So for Nick Aldos, what are you looking

694
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: forward to most in twenty twenty two. I mean NWA

695
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 1: is on a rocket ship right now and that project.

696
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:06,399
Speaker 2: That is going, Yeah, it's the I kind of I look,

697
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 2: I feel like twenty twenty two is the year of

698
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 2: the level up for me. You know, It's it's kind

699
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 2: of like Legacy is sort of you knows, I'm a

700
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,880
Speaker 2: key point in the business with Legacy where it's like

701
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 2: we've got to scale and level up. We're at a

702
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 2: key We're at a key point with the n W

703
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 2: where where everyone has to really sort of dig in

704
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 2: and roll up their sleeves and go, okay, look, this

705
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 2: is this is what's required to get from this level

706
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 2: to this level, you know, and then hopefully on the

707
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:43,240
Speaker 2: other side of this hard work is you know, more funding,

708
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 2: better opportunities, you know, better exposure, et cetera, et cetera.

709
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:54,399
Speaker 2: And so you know, people, I'm I personally look at

710
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 2: situations like that and I'm and I'm encouraged by it.

711
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 2: I look forward to it, like you know, you know,

712
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 2: I I appreciate the journey, right Like you know, I

713
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 2: work out every day. I love bodybuilding, I love lifting weights.

714
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:10,359
Speaker 2: And that's essentially it's a it's a sort of it's

715
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 2: a great metaphor for life because you're you're going look

716
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Speaker 2: for one hour or an hour and a half, whatever

717
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 2: is It's like, you know, some of this is going

718
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719
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,400
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720
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Speaker 2: or you can push through and get nine, ten, eleven,

721
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:34,320
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722
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:37,719
Speaker 2: But and you know, but then you go home and

723
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,840
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724
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,799
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725
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 2: pain equals growth. Well, yeah, right on the other side

726
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:51,760
Speaker 2: of pain, is is something better?

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00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.

728
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,520
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740
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741
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742
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743
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746
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,399
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747
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748
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,759
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749
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00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:16,680
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762
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,600
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00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 2: you work out and eat right all of the you're

764
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 2: basically you're trying to encourage all these processes to happen

765
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 2: in your body. Yeah. Yeah, but all of those processes

766
00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:01,959
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767
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:04,279
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768
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 2: and over again. You know, when it when I'm trying

769
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 2: to sort of you know, get through to sort of

770
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 2: gym guys where it's like, look the you know, you know,

771
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 2: the majority of your testosterone release occurs while you're asleep,

772
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 2: so it will sleep isn't. So if you're not getting

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Speaker 2: And the same with obviously. The reason I call it

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Speaker 2: recovery PM is you know, because of training, like you know,

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00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,839
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778
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Speaker 2: this stuff you want. But again, if your sleep isn't

779
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Speaker 2: good quality, it's you know, all of that's going to

780
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Speaker 2: go to waste. So it's it's yeah, but we've been,

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00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 2: I've been, We've been blown away by the feedback and

782
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,800
Speaker 2: uh yeah, we're we're looking to make some major moves

783
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 2: this year as far as nationwide retailers and and things

784
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Speaker 2: like that. So that's challenge, but it's a good challenge.

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00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, we'll let you plug that when we get

786
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 5: finished with the episode. Make sure people know where to

787
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,439
Speaker 5: go to find that. So recently we got to talk

788
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 5: to a friend of the podcasts for Crimson now going

789
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 5: by Mayweather and you recently down South. We call it

790
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 5: a come to Jesus talk. You had to come to

791
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 5: Jesus talk with him, and now along with his new

792
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 5: look and his new attitude. He is challenging for the

793
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 5: national championship this weekend at Power Trip. What do you

794
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,720
Speaker 5: think he needs to do to bring home gold this weekend?

795
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 2: And he's got to It's it's pretty much what I

796
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 2: told him, that he's focus like he you know, I

797
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 2: think that he worries so much about playing up to

798
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 2: the crowd and and worrying about what people think. And

799
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 2: he's he's in his own head. I see it. You

800
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 2: know a lot with him, and you know, the the

801
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 2: the the irony of that is that we all have

802
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 2: to worry about our image, right, We all have to.

803
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 2: We all have to be concerned with that. Anyone who

804
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:07,320
Speaker 2: says that they don't care what other people think is lying. Yeah,

805
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 2: you have to care to it. It's only to the

806
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 2: degree of how much you care is what's different. Right.

807
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 2: But the irony is is that the less you can

808
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 2: be affected by what other people think, the more you

809
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 2: tend to get a reaction from people, right, because you're

810
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 2: different from everybody else, But the average person really care

811
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:33,319
Speaker 2: what other people think. That's why that's why Twitter is

812
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 2: such a dumpsterfier, you know, because everyone's projecting that, everyone's

813
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 2: projecting their own anger and insecurity on everybody else. So

814
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 2: if you're so the you know, to become attractive, and

815
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:53,760
Speaker 2: I mean that in the in the sort of metaphysical sense,

816
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 2: not not the not the not the sort of beauty

817
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 2: way right to be to to sort of attract opportunity

818
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 2: and attract success, you have to sort of you have

819
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,839
Speaker 2: to learn to not to not be bothered by that.

820
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 2: And the irony is then it's like that the less

821
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 2: you care the more, the more you tend to get.

822
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 2: And I think that that's where he's at. If he can,

823
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 2: you know, one of the hardest things in this business

824
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:25,319
Speaker 2: is learning how to relax. And if he can do

825
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 2: that and have a control because you know, he there's

826
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 2: a guy carrying around a lot of anger. You know,

827
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 2: he carries around a lot of he's you know, he's

828
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 2: just one of those type of guys. He's wound up

829
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 2: tight and there's nothing wrong with that as long as

830
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:40,719
Speaker 2: you can harness it in the right direction. So that's

831
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 2: what that's what he needs to do. It's a it's

832
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 2: a controlled rage, right.

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00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:47,319
Speaker 5: I Mean, he's got all the tools, but if you

834
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 5: don't use the tool correctly, what's the point.

835
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's right, it's all about right. It's all about

836
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 2: effective use of your of your energy, and I mean

837
00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 2: energy in the in the sort of in the wider sense.

838
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 2: He can, he's got to be able to channel it

839
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 2: and really focus, you know. Chris Adonis is like Chris

840
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 2: is a guy who ah. When you're assessing him as

841
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 2: an opponent, it's like he's it's he's you can, you can,

842
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:25,800
Speaker 2: you can you can prepare for him because he's because

843
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:27,839
Speaker 2: he because he kind of he puts all his eggs

844
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:31,399
Speaker 2: in one basket, right, power game Yep, Yeah, like sort

845
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:35,919
Speaker 2: of he's gonna he's going to try to get get

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00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:37,800
Speaker 2: his hands on you. He's going to try to and

847
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:41,359
Speaker 2: he's gonna try to throw you around, right, not a

848
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,799
Speaker 2: lot of not a lot of avoiding contact with him,

849
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 2: and a lot of you know, and a lot of movements,

850
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 2: certainly a lot of aerial stuff. So it's like, you know,

851
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 2: so Anthony is if he can, if he can get

852
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 2: his he can get his tactics right, and he can

853
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:58,240
Speaker 2: seize the moment. He may walk out with the strap.

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00:48:58,640 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 3: That's what we're hoping.

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Speaker 3: You know you're a busy man.

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Speaker 3: Before we'll let you go.

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Speaker 1: And uh again Nick, this Saturday power trip oh Grove, Kentucky,

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Speaker 3: Go get those tickets right now.

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Speaker 1: And again, Nick, it's an honor to have you on

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Speaker 1: the show and look forward to getting you back on again.

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Speaker 2: All right, my pleasure. Thanks guys.

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