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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Metal Ground Podcast and exclusive interviews with

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Speaker 1: some of your favorite wrestlers.

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Speaker 2: Stop.

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Speaker 3: I think probably the greatest beard ever on this show

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Speaker 3: right now.

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Speaker 4: Bron Stroman joins us.

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Speaker 3: Bron How I gotta get I gotta step my game up, man,

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Speaker 3: what's the secret sauce?

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Speaker 2: Just don't touch it?

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Speaker 4: See that's being hard.

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Speaker 2: I just had it trimmed up yesterday. I was literally

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Speaker 2: sitting here like trying not to be a mark for myself.

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Speaker 2: But I'm like, damn, I look good right now.

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Speaker 4: Hey, you know what, We'll be a mark for you

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Speaker 4: on here. You do look good. I love the beard.

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Speaker 3: Bron Stroman joins the show today here to talk about

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Speaker 3: his brand news show Everything on the Menu with Bronche

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Speaker 3: on the USA Network.

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Speaker 4: Now, let's jump right into it because.

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Speaker 3: I got to ask, how did the concept come about

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Speaker 3: for you? And what's been the biggest surprise so far

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Speaker 3: moving from being in the ring to TV food Explorer mode.

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Speaker 2: So the concept behind it was twenty twenty three. I

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Speaker 2: had that really bad neck injury in the match with

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Speaker 2: Otis where my head went back and it pinched my spine.

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Speaker 2: Both my arms went limp for like three seconds, and

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Speaker 2: then match and I'd pinched my spine in between my

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Speaker 2: C four and five, and I end up having to

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Speaker 2: So I'm out with recovery for this, and I'm going, well, man, like,

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Speaker 2: am I ever gonna be able to wrestle again? Am

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Speaker 2: I gonna be able to have a normal life?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: What's life gonna look like? So I'm going through all

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Speaker 2: this crazy mental anguish of what am I going to

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Speaker 2: be able to do? And I have this real realization

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Speaker 2: with myself that even if physically I can't continue to

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Speaker 2: do certain things that I love to do, I know

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Speaker 2: that I've been given a gift and not everybody's given

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Speaker 2: at putting smiles on people's faces. And I'm like, how

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Speaker 2: can I continue to do this. I'm on the phone

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Speaker 2: one day with my agent, Nick and my friend Kevin,

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Speaker 2: who's the producer of the show. We're throwing ideas at

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Speaker 2: the wall of like what else can I do if

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Speaker 2: I can't be physical and I can't do what I

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Speaker 2: about something. I think they're picking on me, or something

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Speaker 2: about when I go out to eat. I'll order two

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Speaker 2: three entrees at a time when I go out to eat, well,

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Speaker 2: one because I'm hungry. I'm three hundred and fifty pounds

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Speaker 2: of twisted steel and sex appeal. It's not to pat

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Speaker 2: that I really learned to love food and different types

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Speaker 2: So it's not always necessarily about being super hungry. It

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Speaker 2: to eat, So that's the idea behind it. I do

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Speaker 2: two restaurants every episode. One the first restaurant is known

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Speaker 2: all being fifty sixty years old, getting in there, hearing

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Speaker 2: You're sitting watching around foods coming out, and you're like, man,

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Speaker 3: Menu, which is a fantastic concept for sure. Of course,

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Speaker 3: watch Everything on the Menu with Broun Troman on the

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Speaker 3: USA Network. Now you have built this identity of being

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Speaker 3: this unstoppable force in the ring, a monster among men,

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Speaker 3: right as you involve into something into someone doing food shows,

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Speaker 3: How do you hold onto that identity that you had

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Speaker 2: So what I like to say about it, Everyone in

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Speaker 2: the world knows Braun knows Braunstroman. They've seen Braun Stroman,

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Speaker 2: the character that I've played for a quarter of my

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Speaker 2: be Adam Schaer. So now you're going to get to

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Speaker 2: of destruction, whatever they've called me throughout those years. This

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Speaker 2: because I always joked if wwe ever just let me

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Speaker 2: I also like to show that I'm compassionate, articulately loving,

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I got to tell You're gonna put a

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Speaker 3: coming up here. October twenty fourth, Everything on the Menu

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Speaker 3: with Bronze Roman premieres on the USA Network ten pm Eastern,

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Speaker 4: I've got an eight year old, big big wrestling fan.

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Speaker 3: Let me tell you, when I have an eight year

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Speaker 4: And I was like, I'm gonna let bron know this

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Speaker 2: You aren't the first. You aren't the first parent that

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Speaker 2: the talks, a big venture into the tequila market. Now

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Speaker 2: which I'm a big music festival guy, and you know,

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Speaker 4: And could we see Braun back in the ring anytime soon?

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Speaker 2: I mean, these things are available for anybody that want.

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Speaker 2: We just got to figure out the money of it,

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Speaker 2: while I'm not taking away that I wasn't exciting all

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Speaker 2: so much the first four years of my career. I

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Speaker 2: that I had in the opportunities. But at the same time,

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Speaker 2: in normal life. Whatever normal is is being this. So

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Speaker 2: it's neat slowing down a little bit, having opportunity to

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Speaker 2: think about my unbelievable career and then catch up on stuff.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, I have a five year old goddaughter

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Speaker 2: stuff that I enjoyed doing when I was a kid.

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Speaker 2: And it's so neat, like how full circle life works.

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Speaker 2: And now being able to do this stuff that I

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Speaker 2: love doing, it is part of my job and my career,

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Speaker 2: Like it just was out with NASCAR just this past

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Speaker 2: and growing outside of growing up outside of Mortsville, North Carolina,

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Speaker 2: Now it's back circle in my life and it's just man,

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Speaker 2: life's such a blessing. I just I thank the Lord

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Speaker 2: to keep making him proud, keep making my family proud

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Speaker 2: and my fans proud, keep putting smiles on people's faces

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Speaker 2: and stuff in mind with food