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Speaker 1: What's up, guys. It's Battle, host of the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode. It's kind of crazy week. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Sunday we had the big show with Juice and Rocky

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Speaker 1: and David in studio. Thanks to New Japan Pro Wrestling

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Speaker 1: for hooking us up with tickets to that Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: But we're a little late in putting out this episode

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Speaker 1: because we kind of wanted to let everything digest from

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Speaker 1: you know, Royal Rumble and then the night after. So

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Speaker 1: on the show today, we're gonna be talking about n

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Speaker 1: WA's pay per view on Friday night, we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: a little bit about World's Collide, NXT's event Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we're gonna talk about the World Rumble, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about how awesome it was to experience

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Speaker 1: New Japan Pro Wrestling live here in Nashville this past Sunday.

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Speaker 1: So sit back, relax, get your popcorn, because it's time

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Speaker 1: to get this show started.

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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome tune up battle Ground Podcast. This

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Speaker 2: is a podcast all about professional wrestling, joined Battle and

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Speaker 2: Eli as a breakdown what's going on in the world

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Speaker 2: of professional wrestling, with special guests, including some of your

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Speaker 2: favorite wrestling superstars. You never know who's gonna stop by

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Speaker 2: now making their way to the microphone. Give it up

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Speaker 2: for the greatest podcast team in the world, Battle and Eli, Yo,

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Speaker 2: what is off?

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Speaker 1: Everybody in is back?

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Speaker 3: We are back.

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Speaker 1: It is another episode of the Battleground Podcast. It's weird

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Speaker 1: that this episode did not come out on Monday.

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Speaker 3: Yes, right, it's very strange.

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Speaker 1: I am your host Battle along with my tag team partner.

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Speaker 3: Eli, and Welcome to the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Normally we put out a show on a Monday and

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Speaker 1: or Friday. Fridays are usually reserved for guests. But this

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Speaker 1: past weekend, it was such an amazing weekend for us

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Speaker 1: as wrestling fans because you had Friday Night was NWA,

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Speaker 1: then you had the Rumble on Sunday night, and here

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Speaker 1: in Nashville knew Japan was taking over War Memorial Auditorium,

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Speaker 1: which was phenomenal. Which by the way, we had Juice

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Speaker 1: and David and Rocky on the show, which definitely go

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Speaker 1: back and check that out. But also want to give

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Speaker 1: a quick shout out to New Japan for hooking us

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Speaker 1: up and getting us some good seats and you could

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Speaker 1: see some of the cool stuff that we posted. It's

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Speaker 1: up there on our Twitter. Battleground IHR is on our

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Speaker 1: Twitter follow us. But yeah, New Japan in Nashville.

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Speaker 3: We we we got to hold actual ring used IWGP belts,

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Speaker 3: so that, like.

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Speaker 1: I try, we tried not to geek out because if

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Speaker 1: you've ever listened to the show, you know that we're

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Speaker 1: both belt guys. Well I just started getting into belts

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Speaker 1: thanks to ELI. But the fact that we got to

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Speaker 1: I know, my wife is like so pissed off about

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Speaker 1: you know, getting to hold those things is just thinking

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Speaker 1: of the history behind those belts and you could just

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Speaker 1: see it worn down and like to play like kind

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Speaker 1: of like coming apart like our belt is, and you

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Speaker 3: Almost like just battle armor, like it almost really looks

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Speaker 1: And you know, I didn't think about that. But who

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Speaker 1: which is Battleground Podcast. But I did notice something after

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Speaker 1: Wrestling with an R R A S S L I AM,

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Speaker 1: which you can get at Territory Wrestling teas dot Com.

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Speaker 1: I've had a bell that would be like a plug

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been smooth, like you seg into the Twitter

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Speaker 1: So far, it's it's all those years in radio, but

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Speaker 1: And something that did not click until after I posted

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Speaker 1: interview and also gonna let you guys know because this

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Speaker 1: is what's happening. Seamus will be on the show this

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Speaker 1: week and Thursday night there is a really cool meet

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Speaker 1: and greet going on at Nashville Humane Association where you

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Speaker 1: Association and you can come meet Seamus, got to autograph

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Speaker 1: and a photo. All that details also as well on

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Speaker 1: the Instagram Battleground podcast where you can get your tickets.

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Speaker 1: You do have to buy tickets. I'm not one hundred

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Speaker 1: National Humane Association details on the Instagram Battleground podcast. But

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Speaker 1: if it wasn't for me and Eli, that Rocky, Juice

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks to us. We helped them get that victory.

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Speaker 3: All because of us. So, I mean, we won't go

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Speaker 1: Hopefully most definitely, And my wallet doesn't like me, and

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Speaker 1: I don't think your wallet liked you.

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Speaker 3: Let's not talk about that, but I will.

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Speaker 1: Say those New Japan shirts were pretty cool. They had

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Speaker 3: that's gonna kind of drive a wedge in between the group,

433
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Speaker 3: and I think you'll eventually kind of see them break away.

434
00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 3: But uh, but yeah, that was easily the best match

435
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Speaker 3: of the night and we've right now, it's just a

436
00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 3: matter of lining up a date. But we are talking

437
00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:50,240
Speaker 3: about getting thunder Rosa on the show. So that's exciting, yes, and.

438
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Speaker 1: Super pumped about that.

439
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Speaker 3: We will chime in though. Ricky Starks is the new

440
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,400
Speaker 3: television champion. The way he's a young buck, I think

441
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 3: he'll I think he's got a bright future. A lot

442
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,879
Speaker 3: of people kind of him and Sammy Gulvera like they

443
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,679
Speaker 3: kind of similar, you know, young you know, they've got

444
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:18,920
Speaker 3: a lot of athleticsism, athleticsism. Am I saying that right? Athletics, athleticism, athleticism,

445
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,879
Speaker 3: thank you. I'm sick in case you can't tell on meds. So,

446
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 3: but he's just he's a young guy, you know. He

447
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 3: they kind of put him over. He fought Nick all

448
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 3: it is for the six minute and five second to

449
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 3: the time limit and then the match ended, uh you know,

450
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,439
Speaker 3: it's a time limit draw, and then Ricky Morton came

451
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 3: out and said give him five more minutes and he

452
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,119
Speaker 3: went and do it. And I think that kind of,

453
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,359
Speaker 3: you know, gave him a little bit of a rub

454
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 3: to kind of put him over a little bit. So yeah,

455
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 3: all in all, I mean the pay per reviews are

456
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:57,200
Speaker 3: usually like twenty bucks. So I mean, like, that's the

457
00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,360
Speaker 3: second one I've in it, or the third, I don't

458
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 3: remember where. I think it's their second. I mean I haven't.

459
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,639
Speaker 3: I haven't like thought it was a waste of money.

460
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:09,360
Speaker 3: I haven't felt ripped off like I mean, even when

461
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 3: you know with the wwf ork you only pay ten bucks,

462
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 3: but still there's pay per views where I'm like, well,

463
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 3: that was a waste of ten bucks, you know what

464
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 3: I mean, Like, I don't think I got my worth.

465
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 3: But so far, I would say the NWA pay per

466
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,240
Speaker 3: views are two for two and we haven't even gotten

467
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 3: into their first full year, and we know there's some

468
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 3: exciting things that are on the horizon for them. So yeah,

469
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 3: so Crocket Cup comes in April, I would encourage you

470
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,679
Speaker 3: to rent that pay per view because I personally have

471
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Speaker 3: enjoyed the last two. They've been very, very solid.

472
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Speaker 1: And they haven't announced where the Crocket Cup's gonna be,

473
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 1: but they said it's gonna be a lot bigger.

474
00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 3: Yeah. So last year was in Charlotte, North Carolina, I think,

475
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:59,479
Speaker 3: and I almost went I think this was right before

476
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 3: I jumped on the show with you, but I had

477
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 3: I think I had just gotten back from a trade

478
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 3: show or like I was coming back to that day

479
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 3: or something. Oh, I know what it was. We were

480
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 3: interviewing Lloyd Kaufman here in Nashville and it was the

481
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 3: same day as the Crockett Cup. So I couldn't I

482
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,359
Speaker 3: couldn't blow that off to go watch wrestling four states

483
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:24,120
Speaker 3: away or whatever it was. So but not anymore, not anymore.

484
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 3: But you know, maybe they're bringing it to Nashville. If

485
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:30,359
Speaker 3: we say it, maybe if we throw it out into

486
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 3: the universe, maybe that'll happen.

487
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,199
Speaker 1: So yeah, so let's throw it out in the universe.

488
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 1: Cracket Cup. We know it really good place. We even

489
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,160
Speaker 1: planted that scene in Billy's head when he was last year.

490
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 3: And Billy, we have your number now, Buddy, we do.

491
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 1: But I'm so afraid to just like be like awesome,

492
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 1: like just text him, be like awesome pay per views.

493
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 1: So it's just like I'll just tweet him, even though

494
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 1: it doesn't follow us, but I'll just tweet him because

495
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,199
Speaker 1: it's it's still weird that it's like his numbers in

496
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,880
Speaker 1: my cell phone. Yeah if that is his cell phone number?

497
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 3: Yeah.

498
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:05,439
Speaker 1: So yeah, So NWA phenomenal stuff. So we'll kind of

499
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: now transition into talking about the Royal Rumble, which, by

500
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Speaker 1: the way, speaking of Royal Rumble, there was a guy

501
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 1: on the Royal Rumble. You might know him. He goes

502
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Speaker 1: by the name of Seamus. We are recording this on

503
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Speaker 1: Tuesday Nights with Today it's his birthday. Happy birthday, Seamus.

504
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 1: He's gonna be on the show Thursday, and if you

505
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 1: would like to meet Seamus, you can donate twenty five

506
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 1: dollars to the National Humane Association and you can meet

507
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 1: us there at the National Human Association Thursday night. Shamus

508
00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,160
Speaker 1: will be there hanging out pictures, autograph all that stuff.

509
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: All the information. You can grab that on our instagram

510
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,959
Speaker 1: right now, Battleground Podcast. That's our Instagram. It's good cause

511
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,719
Speaker 1: we all love the National Humane Association. So let's kind

512
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: of talk about the thing that happened over the weekend

513
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 1: Sunday night, the Royal Rumble. I literally when I got

514
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 1: home and kind of settled in, I think I had

515
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 1: just tuned in and it was the Bray Wyatt Daniel

516
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 1: Bryan rap match was when I turned it on, which

517
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: it was okay, it wasn't anything exciting, it wasn't anything

518
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 1: that I was gonna be like, oh my god, this

519
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 1: is a great match.

520
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 3: CBS disagrees with you. They give them an A.

521
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't really watch it. It was kind of

522
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 1: background knowledge. They're probably the same people that gave Baron

523
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: Corbin getting shoved in a porta potty.

524
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 3: In a let's see Roman Reigns defeats Baron Corbin b.

525
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:29,880
Speaker 1: Close enough.

526
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I I I even I got it in later

527
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 3: than you did. The Let's see I saw, I saw,

528
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 3: I guess I just saw the very end of that match,

529
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,239
Speaker 3: and then I saw Becky and Oscar, and then I

530
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,840
Speaker 3: saw the Men's Royal Rumble. So I only saw like

531
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 3: two and a half matches. Yeah, I saw.

532
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,439
Speaker 1: Well, I take that back, so I did see a

533
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: little bit of the Becky Oscar Matt and then we

534
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 1: were watching the Women's World Rumble in the uber on

535
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 1: the way back to the radio station, which shout out

536
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 1: to Bianca bell Air and to see Native up there

537
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,880
Speaker 1: and you know, up there in the Royal Rumble eliminating

538
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: all those people. I've kind of thought that maybe they would,

539
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 1: uh you know, maybe she would take the w on

540
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,880
Speaker 1: that one. But of course it was Charlotte and they

541
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 1: a lot of people. A lot of people were pissed

542
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 1: off at the Royal Rumble because they used an entry

543
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: for uh Santino Marilla also known as Santina, and a

544
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: lot of people were really pissed off about that one.

545
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I I won't I won't harp on

546
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 3: this too long. I mean, you know, I I have

547
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 3: I have tons of gay friends, and you know, I'm

548
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 3: sure I know trans people. You know, I have a

549
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 3: ton of friends in that community. So I likewise, yeah,

550
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 3: I would definitely consider myself an ally for sure. I

551
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 3: think a lot of people. What I The biggest thing

552
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 3: that I saw over the weekend that kind of irritated

553
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 3: me was just like, oh well, Nia Jackson was in it.

554
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 3: Oh well, Beth Phoenix was in it, you know, and

555
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 3: I think China was in it one year, like right,

556
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 3: but they showed up to the Men's Royal Rumble as women,

557
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 3: like they got in the ring as themselves. He dressed

558
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 3: up like a woman and took the spot of another

559
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 3: woman in a women's World rumble, and they're already like

560
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 3: they're only like is this the second year or the

561
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 3: third year? I can't remember.

562
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: I think this is the second year, because last year

563
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: was when they did the big Royal rumble. Yeah yeah,

564
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: I mean like sixty man, and they're like, we're gonna

565
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 1: do something different. We're gonna have women like a Charlotte

566
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: want or no, Becky won it last year.

567
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is either the second women's room or

568
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 3: the third. I mean they just started this. I mean

569
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 3: it's still in its infancy. So you're already taking away

570
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 3: a spot from a woman by dressing up a not

571
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 3: active member of your roster. It's not even like someone

572
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 3: that's in the locker room right now. And then you know,

573
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 3: have them dress up, you know, as a girl and

574
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 3: get in the ring. I mean, it's just it's stupid

575
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 3: and yeah, you know, and then if you get into it,

576
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 3: I guess, I guess Marilla has said some like transphobic

577
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 3: things and bashed the community, so it even made it

578
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 3: even weirder that they made him do that, you know,

579
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 3: So I don't know, man, it's just you know, you

580
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 3: kind of you see the women make steps and you

581
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 3: know they do this evolution pay per view. It's incredible,

582
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 3: and then that's it. They never mention it again. And

583
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 3: you know, you look at Carmela, you know she got

584
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 3: the first women's money in the bank thing. But she

585
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 3: won it because of a guy, you know, Ellsworth, you know,

586
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 3: helped her win. You know, it's just it's just stuff

587
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 3: like that that they keep like stunting the women's division,

588
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 3: and you know, you go over and look at like

589
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 3: the w A and like, I mean they're you know,

590
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 3: it's a small roster, but they're killing it, and you

591
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 3: go look at whoever else you know, I mean, Impact

592
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 3: has a solid women's division right now. Aw, they're not

593
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 3: highlighting a lot of them, but that you know, they've

594
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 3: got solid I mean even the n xt to women's

595
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 3: division and is portrayed better on TV I think than

596
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 3: the main roster. So one thing, Oh sorry, I was

597
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 3: just saying. So that was a little disappointing. You know,

598
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 3: there was a rumor that he was going to be involved,

599
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 3: and you kind of thought they would go against you know,

600
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 3: they would use their better judgment, and they didn't. So

601
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 3: I mean it definitely left a you know, black mark

602
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 3: on the on the Women's World rumble unfortunately, right.

603
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: But you know, and over the weekend with it being

604
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: in minute May Park, there was a lot of people

605
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,239
Speaker 1: sitting there, you know, leaking photos of like people who

606
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: are going to show up with the Royal Rumble, like

607
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: everybody knew that MVP because that would happen. And then

608
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: there was like, you know, some other stuff and people

609
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: were like, oh, that's Killer Crosses intro and then it's

610
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: Edges intro. But the one thing that I because I

611
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: sent you the screen shot, but they showed that victorious

612
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: Titan tron graphic was showed up. And then earlier today

613
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: you sent me a thing that said before the Royal

614
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: pay per view, pictures of Leda's and Victoria's Titan Tron

615
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: graphics were leaked that ruined the surprise and then made

616
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: WW take them out of the Rumble entirely, which was

617
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: really stupid.

618
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, I mean it's just you know, sometimes that

619
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 3: crap can backfire, you know. I mean it's I mean,

620
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 3: we've all done it. We've all been you know, right

621
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 3: before or something starts, you're taking pictures of your seats

622
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 3: and you know, like when we went to RAW in December,

623
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,479
Speaker 3: we were front row, So I mean, you know, stuff happens.

624
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 3: But I mean when you know, if you're there a

625
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 3: day early, or you're there like super early for the show,

626
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 3: or even like I think the pictures that you were

627
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 3: sending to me. It looked like someone was like outside

628
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 3: the stadium, like they weren't even you know what I mean,

629
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 3: like and I mean, you know, I don't I don't

630
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 3: foresee Victoria or lad A winning, but it still would

631
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 3: have been huge pop. You know, it would have been.

632
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: If some of the wrestling fans aren't even on social media,

633
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: so they would have never saw it.

634
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 3: So but but yeah, anyways, you know, that was our

635
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 3: little soapbox there. But uh, but yeah, I mean Bianca Belaire,

636
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 3: I mean uh, I mean she's incredible. I mean, we

637
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 3: we've all been fans of her, not only because she's

638
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 3: from Tennessee, but she was, Uh, she was undefeated on

639
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 3: NXT for the like the longest time. I mean she

640
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 3: she was you know, started out and didn't get beat

641
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:08,280
Speaker 3: and finally I think, I guess she, I guess Shana

642
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 3: beat her. I guess Shana Basler beater that she got

643
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 3: that title. Yeah, and you know, so she kind of

644
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 3: kind of went down a peg a little bit. But uh,

645
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,919
Speaker 3: I mean she's awesome. I mean, I I definitely hope

646
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 3: she gets pushed either on n x T or goes

647
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 3: up to one of the other rosters. And Naomi came back.

648
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:33,879
Speaker 3: She had a huge reaction at the Royal Rumble, and

649
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 3: so you know it's minus the the one dull part

650
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 3: in which we've already discussed. I mean, CBS said it

651
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 3: was a bee. You know, I didn't watch all of it.

652
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 3: I haven't gone back and watched it yet, so but uh,

653
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,760
Speaker 3: looked like it was pretty solid. And then I guess,

654
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:57,839
Speaker 3: let's say Becky beat Osca, I got an A and

655
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 3: then yeah, so then I guess the Men's Royal Rumble,

656
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:03,399
Speaker 3: I guess yeah.

657
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: And you know, that was one that I was sitting

658
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: there thinking. I was like, okay, there's really no rhyme

659
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: or reason. There was always that leaked thing that came

660
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 1: out of showed, you know, the Royal Rumble match, and

661
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 1: it was gonna be like brock was number one and

662
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: Kan was Kane Velaska was number two, and somehow Cain

663
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: ended up winning the Royal Rumble, which thank god that

664
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 1: that was not what it actually happened. But you know,

665
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 1: brock Lesnar comes out and I'm like, okay, you know,

666
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: and I think I texted you. I was like, you know,

667
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: he just literally started throwing everybody over the rate over

668
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,320
Speaker 1: the top Rope and uh, I think I texted you

669
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: and I was like, watch nobody good is going to

670
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 1: come out until like number fourteen or number fifteen, and

671
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 1: you know, and I was I was too off. So

672
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,879
Speaker 1: it's like you had Brock come out. And then Elias

673
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: Eric Row and Robert Rude, John Morrison, Kobe Kingston, Mysterio

674
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: who kind of put up a little bit of fight,

675
00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 1: Biggie Cesarro, Shelton, Benjamin shinsk a MVP. That's the first

676
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 1: twelve right there. So pretty much Lesner eliminated all of them.

677
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: And then the next one was the one that everybody

678
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: had been hoping for. And and no, it's not brock Lesner

679
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: and Matt Riddle because apparently there was an altercation beforehand.

680
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: It was Keith Lee and that was the moment that

681
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: we all had been asking for. And those two faced

682
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 1: off in the middle of the ring and I was like,

683
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: because I think I texted you and I was like,

684
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: watch them try to do something to where they make

685
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: Keith Lee look like a chump, which they didn't. Thank

686
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: god they didn't do that, because right after Keith Lee

687
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: was Ron Stroman. Yeah, but just seeing Keith Lee and

688
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: brock Lesner in the middle of the ring going at it.

689
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: It was amazing, and you know the rest of the

690
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 1: thing was it was it was kind of weird because

691
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 1: I think I think you had texted it. It's like

692
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: imagine being John Morrison and you come back to job

693
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: in the Royal Rumble, be paired up with miss and

694
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 1: then mis has the job again too.

695
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I I tweeted out because by the time

696
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 3: this started, I was I was watching it live. But

697
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 3: I mean, who wanted to see that? Like who wanted

698
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 3: to see Brock come out number one and then just

699
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 3: eliminate half the Royal Rumble entry or almost half? You know.

700
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 3: It's like and a lot of people were like, oh man,

701
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 3: this is awesome, and like, man, you know, Brock should

702
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 3: have put out like four or five more people. And

703
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 3: it's like, well, the problem is is usually, you know,

704
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 3: the Royal Rumble like kind of elevates people, you know,

705
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,720
Speaker 3: it kind of puts people up to that next spot,

706
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 3: or potentially put them up to the next spot. I mean,

707
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 3: Brock already has his match, you know what I mean, Like,

708
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,839
Speaker 3: whoever wins the Royal Rumble faces him at WrestleMania.

709
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 1: So like I didn't under smack Down champion. Yeah.

710
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 3: I mean they get to pick now, but you know

711
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 3: generally you kind of go for the biggest guy. Well

712
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,320
Speaker 3: it depends on which ross they're on, I guess. Anyways,

713
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,760
Speaker 3: I mean he I mean he didn't need he doesn't.

714
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 3: I mean, he didn't need it. I mean he's a

715
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 3: twenty year veteran. He's YadA, YadA, YadA. I mean, he's

716
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 3: the current world champion. Like, I just I didn't see

717
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 3: I didn't I didn't get it, So that kind of sucked.

718
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: I didn't send out a tweet from the Battleground podcast

719
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,959
Speaker 1: Twitter excuse me, I said, this is the most work

720
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: Brock's done in the last six years combined.

721
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 3: I mean, I kind of like the kind of like

722
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:40,399
Speaker 3: goofy uh kind of brock Lesner, like when he won

723
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 3: the money in the bank and he came out like

724
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 3: it was a boom box and he was, you know,

725
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 3: kind of dancing a little bit in the ring, and

726
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 3: then you know he was when you know, when Keith

727
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 3: Lee came out, He's like, who's this motherfucker? You know,

728
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 3: and like people saw it, and you know that screen

729
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 3: grab was you know, got posted around and stuff, and

730
00:38:58,440 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 3: so I mean it's kind of cool. That he's kind

731
00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 3: of playing being more playful and stuff. But like again,

732
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 3: I just didn't see the I didn't see the need

733
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 3: for him to be in there. So anyways, I mean,

734
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 3: I guess we'll talk about Entry twenty one. I mean,

735
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 3: I think that was the most important event of the weekend.

736
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 1: Which everybody was pissed excuse me, because the camera crew

737
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: completely with Edges, you know, returning to the ring and

738
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,240
Speaker 1: him spearing Dolph Ziggler. And by the way, Dolph Ziggler

739
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,879
Speaker 1: is probably one of the greatest sellers of any move

740
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: A lot.

741
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 3: Of people don't like him, and I get it, but

742
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 3: like his selling.

743
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 1: He's the hardest worker in the room.

744
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:44,240
Speaker 3: Oh dude, he is an incredible seller. He actually, Adam

745
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 3: Cole is really good too. Adam Cole, Like right after

746
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,840
Speaker 3: he got into n XT, I was like, you know,

747
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,800
Speaker 3: and this was right after Sean Michaels had started working

748
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 3: down there with with NXT and with Triple H and stuff,

749
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 3: and I was like, that's gonna be a made in

750
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,800
Speaker 3: heaven and and and then right after that he started

751
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 3: doing matches. Like, dude, his selling is as good as

752
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 3: heartbreak kid, Like they you know, he's really good.

753
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: I mean, look at when Keith Lee launched him into

754
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 1: the crowd. Uh huh, the the Walter slap of his soul.

755
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 3: Out of his soul, out of the body.

756
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 1: You could just see the soul just leaving Adam Cole

757
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 1: at that job. But yeah, I mean, the camera crew

758
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 1: was more focused on fan reaction than edge was there,

759
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: so they could put that in the promo and completely

760
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: whift on the first amazing spear and so all we

761
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 1: got to see was the spear of Carl Anderson.

762
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and that sucks. I mean, they they put

763
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,919
Speaker 3: the they put the feet up on Twitter the next

764
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 3: day or the later that night, but yeah, it was

765
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 3: that was a bonehead. Whoever did that they definitely missed.

766
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: And then and then the next couple was like King

767
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: Corbin and then Matt Riddle, which, of course a lot

768
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: of people, including myself, was a little up set that

769
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: Matt Riddle didn't at least have a little fun with

770
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,879
Speaker 1: brock Lester. But there was also some issues that brock

771
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: Lester confront of Matt Riddle before the show, and you

772
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 1: can find that online. We're not going to really dive

773
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: into this, but you know, then Luke Gallows, Randy Orton,

774
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 1: Roman Rains and I texted you and I remember this,

775
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: I said, watch that money, and I even put this

776
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: on tweet, that money that Roman reigns eliminates Edge.

777
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I don't think that happened. I think it

778
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 3: was Anderson, right, No.

779
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:37,399
Speaker 1: So well no, no, no, no, Edge, Yeah, and Edge

780
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 1: got defeat Anderson did it. But I thought at the

781
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: end that what happened was it was was it? I

782
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 1: want to say it was it Edge. I thought Edge

783
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: and Roman Rains were sitting there at the edge. I

784
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 1: don't know, beats me, I can't remember. It's not even

785
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:05,240
Speaker 1: that important anymore. But yeah, I think I really thought

786
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:08,919
Speaker 1: that Edge and Roman rings. I thought roaming eliminated Edge

787
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:09,919
Speaker 1: after they were on the rope.

788
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember, there's something like they were both outside

789
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 3: the ring or something on the apron and then I

790
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 3: guess Anderson did something and Edge got off or something.

791
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 3: I don't remember what it was, but uh but yeah, anyways,

792
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 3: long story short, Drew McIntyre won the Royal Rumble.

793
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 1: Which I think they got that one right.

794
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, evidently that was you and I talked about it.

795
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 3: I guess they changed that at the last minute. It

796
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:43,879
Speaker 3: was originally Roman and Paul Hamon talked Vincent to letting

797
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 3: him do Drew because he said, whatever program Roman is

798
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 3: doing at at Mania, he doesn't have to win the

799
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 3: rumble to do it, you know what I mean, Like

800
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,320
Speaker 3: he can just do it. It's a normal story. And yeah,

801
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 3: same thing with the women's I don't remember who they

802
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:01,319
Speaker 3: said was gonna win the women's. Uh it might have

803
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 3: been Sasha, but then she wasn't in it, so then

804
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 3: they scrambled and made it Charlotte. But anyways, yeah, I

805
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 3: think I think Drew. Obviously, Vince has always been high

806
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 3: on him, and you know when he left and then

807
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 3: went and got an incredible shape and he was the

808
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 3: Impact World Champion, and then he came back and then

809
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 3: it was an XT champion and then he you know,

810
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 3: got on the main roster and he's you know, he's

811
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 3: always featured. I mean, he's always in the last hour

812
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,280
Speaker 3: of raw. You know, he's always been in the mix.

813
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 3: But like he's never really been booked like he was

814
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:39,760
Speaker 3: in n XT. And I think the last six months

815
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 3: you've really kind of started seeing them push him, and

816
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 3: you know, to me, he looks like a guy that

817
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 3: could beat brock Lesner. He's he's six like seven two

818
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 3: eighty five chiseled. I mean, like I could believe him

819
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 3: being in a fight with with Brock, you know what

820
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 3: I mean. So so yeah, I mean I'm I'm a

821
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 3: big Drew McIntyre fan. He said the right thing. He

822
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 3: was just like, I like Brock, you know, he's like,

823
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 3: people get mad at his schedule, and He's like, why

824
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 3: would you get mad at him? It was in his contract,

825
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 3: you know. It's one of those things like if if

826
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 3: WW offers it to him, like why would he turn

827
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 3: it down? And I'm like, I'm the same way. I

828
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:24,280
Speaker 3: wish I could work less.

829
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean Jim Ross even talked about that.

830
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: If you go back and listen to the podcast we

831
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: have with Jim Ross on the show, he kind of

832
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: talked about it. It's like get paid a lot of

833
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: money and work less, or work more and get paid less.

834
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 3: Which would you do? Yeah, I mean it impacts the

835
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 3: product obviously because they keep putting the belt on him,

836
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 3: but I mean, I mean, I can't fault him for

837
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 3: it whatsoever. But but then he instantly was just like,

838
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 3: we need the belt back on TV, you know, And

839
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 3: he's like, I want that belt on TV. And I

840
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 3: think you know, I think with all he's been through

841
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,439
Speaker 3: with the company, with this first stint and then leaving

842
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 3: and coming back and you know, all that history and stuff,

843
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it. I think it's gonna be

844
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 3: a good match. Somebody made the joke about, you know,

845
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 3: gender mahaal left came back jacked, he got a world title.

846
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 3: Drew McIntyre left, came back jacked, He's got a shot

847
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 3: at the world title. And they're like, well, he Slater

848
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 3: knows what he's got to do.

849
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Pater's going to be able to do that.

850
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, so interesting stuff. So that's kind of

851
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 1: the recap of everything that's kind of gone on over

852
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: the weekend.

853
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 3: And that was with us skipping a lot too.

854
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 1: Which by the way, this is a spoiler alert. I'm

855
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Speaker 1: scrolling through and uh, a very formal guest of the show,

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Speaker 1: which we have been just wondering when it's gonna happen. Well,

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Speaker 1: they sent out a tweet about fifty three minutes ago

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Speaker 1: and it says your ass better be watching NWA hashtag

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Speaker 1: n WA power. Can you guess which former guess that was?

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Speaker 1: Isn't that tweet out?

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Speaker 3: My guess would be Crimson No close but he is

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Speaker 3: his tag team partner, David Arquette, Jack's Day Day.

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Speaker 1: Jack's Day. He has posted your ass better be watching

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Speaker 1: NWA hashtag in WA Power, which by the way, if

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Speaker 1: you look at the group photos, if you zoom in,

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Speaker 1: you'll see our buddy Jack Daye and you'll see Crimson

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Speaker 1: on there, which they've got an event next month, which

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Speaker 1: we'll discuss that on next week's show when we break

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Speaker 1: down all the things in wrestling, because this week has

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Speaker 1: been a jam packed week for us, and we just

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Speaker 1: wanted to kind of get on here and recap the

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Speaker 1: weekend because we didn't get to do that Monday because

873
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Speaker 1: we wanted to see what the fallout with rawl and

874
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 1: really wasn't all that exciting other than finding out that

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Speaker 1: Andrade got busted for drugs performance enhancing drugs, not just dry.

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Speaker 3: Right, But and we'll see how that plays out because

877
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Speaker 3: a lot of that stuff, you know, some people claim

878
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Speaker 3: that it's you know, it is a prescription, but there's

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Speaker 3: something in there that's they don't approve or I've even

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00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 3: heard of some people have like, you know, how like

881
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Speaker 3: Ben Gay, how you can get like the jail. Did

882
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Speaker 3: you just rub over your knees or something like that.

883
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Speaker 3: They're using that kind of stuff, but there's just one

884
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Speaker 3: there's one ingredient in there that they banned or something,

885
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Speaker 3: you know, so it may not be like he's straight

886
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Speaker 3: up just injecting steroids. You know, we we'll probably never

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Speaker 3: get the full story, so you know, we don't know

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Speaker 3: exactly what happened, but you know, he got popped for

889
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Speaker 3: thirty days. But on raw, I mean, the highlight obviously

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Speaker 3: was Edge came out. For those that don't know, he

891
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Speaker 3: signed a three year deal, so he is back for

892
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Speaker 3: at least three years. They doesn't, They don't. That doesn't

893
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Speaker 3: mean he's gonna wrestle every week or every pay per view,

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Speaker 3: but you know, maybe like a shame man kind of deal,

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Speaker 3: you know. But uh Orton came out and you know

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Speaker 3: they were rated r KO Tag Team Champions at one time,

897
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Speaker 3: and he had an r K on Edge and kind

898
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Speaker 3: of assaulted him with a chair. So that'll probably be

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Speaker 3: the WrestleMania match.

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Speaker 1: Which I'm okay with that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I would have rather seen him with

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Speaker 3: like AJ Styles or somebody he hasn't you know, doesn't

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Speaker 3: have a history with. But I mean, you know, it's

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Speaker 3: it is what it is, but but yeah, this just

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Speaker 3: happened to be one of those weekends that were just

906
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Speaker 3: jam packed. I mean there's just tons of stuff and

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Speaker 3: I even think there was some local stuff in the

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Speaker 3: area that was going on that we weren't able to

909
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Speaker 3: attend to. So sometimes we just get loaded with stuff

910
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Speaker 3: like this and it's just it all piles up at once.

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Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's good to be busy. That's

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Speaker 1: why we always say it's great to be a wrestling fan.

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Speaker 3: the classic Battleground logo and then there's a variation of

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Speaker 3: Funkco Pops. It's it's yourself and myself as Funkos. And

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Speaker 3: the guy that did that mocked it up those I

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Speaker 3: mean he crushed it. One looks like the box like

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Speaker 3: So so those are our three designs to start with.

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Speaker 3: So we think you should like at least one of those.

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Speaker 1: And when when you buy a shirt you support us,

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Speaker 1: working on and I haven't talked to this with Eli,

938
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Speaker 1: but we're working on a little kind of little grab

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Speaker 1: you know, and I've got some stuff sitting around that

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948
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Speaker 1: the other really cool wrestling podcasts. We greatly appreciate you

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Speaker 3: Indeed, And yeah, so that's it.

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Speaker 1: So I guess happy trail. So I haven't said that

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Speaker 1: in a.

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Speaker 3: While, so maybe by the time we record next time,

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Speaker 3: I'll be better. Because I was sick at the beginning

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Speaker 3: of the month and I'm sick at the end of

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Speaker 3: the month. So I'm over it's weather man, I'm over Janiet. Well,

961
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Speaker 3: I've also been on both coasts within the last two weeks,

962
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Speaker 3: so I was in California back two days and I

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Speaker 3: was in Florida.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's the weather. So that's what we're talking

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Speaker 1: this up to. But yeah, so by the way, also

966
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Speaker 1: once again, Seamus will be on the show this week.

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Speaker 1: He's got a really cool event that he's doing Thursday

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00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 1: night over at National Humane Association, which we get to

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00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: be a part of they're doing a special meet and

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Speaker 1: greep which he is doing for the puppies and the

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Speaker 1: kittens at the National Humane Association. And then of course

972
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Speaker 1: Saturday night is National Humane Associations Unleashed, which Seamus is

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Speaker 1: the special guest host, and for some reason they have

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Speaker 1: asked me to be a celebrity dog walker. So we're

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Speaker 1: raising money for that. Our team goals one thousand. Right now,

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Speaker 1: we're at about two hundred and fifty dollars, so I

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Speaker 1: will you've seen it on our Twitter. Finally donate even

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Speaker 1: if it's a dollar. I mean every little bit helps,

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Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean twenty five percent there. Yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: almost there, So go do that and we will see

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Speaker 1: you on Thursday when Seamus and in studio will drop

982
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Speaker 1: the episode early this week because he's in on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, we're just gonna give it to

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Speaker 1: you on Thursday because that's what we want to.

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Speaker 2: Do to.

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Speaker 3: Two big interviews in one week.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, and then thunder Rosa. We we're gonna be

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Speaker 1: uh twenty twenties off to a good year.

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Speaker 3: Worse so far doing good so farn oh yeah.

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Speaker 1: So follow us. We'll talk to you guys on Thursday. Okay,

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Speaker 1: play that see uh.

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Speaker 3: We hope you enjoyed this week's episode of Battleground.

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