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Speaker 1: Battle Crown.

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Speaker 2: Why from the Parts Unknown Studios into the Battle Brown.

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Speaker 1: Battle, the Battle Round, Battle the Battle Crowd. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the Battleground Podcast, your place for all things pro Wrestlady,

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Speaker 1: the Battle Road, the Battle Round.

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Speaker 3: Now making their way to the microphones. Give it up

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Speaker 3: for your hosts.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Battle Crown. I feel as if like

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Speaker 1: I have an Adam Copland shrine behind me for some

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Speaker 1: odd reason. I've got the tag title. I've got the

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Speaker 1: Big Gold, I've got the inter Continental. I've even got

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Speaker 1: the uh, you know, the Funko Pops sign, the United

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Speaker 1: States title sign. Uh. The only thing I don't have

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Speaker 1: is the rated R Superstar Spinner. That's the only one

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Speaker 1: I don't have. But I do have two additions that

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Speaker 1: I believe you're gonna be adding that TNT title eventually

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Speaker 1: in the AW title. Eventually.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you never know. It's uh, you never know.

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Speaker 1: We'll leave it. We'll leave it at that. I I, uh,

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Speaker 1: great stuff, great stuff. I've got Adam Copelan on with

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Speaker 1: us of course this week in AW Collision and Battle

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Speaker 1: of the Belts eight debuts at the FedEx Forum this Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Of course. You can grab your tickets now at all

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Speaker 1: Elite Wrestling dot com. Real quick, I do want to

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Speaker 1: ask you a question, and I've seen rumors on the

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Speaker 1: internet about this. It is because I know you're in

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Speaker 1: the upcoming Percy Jackson series. We've all seen it at

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Speaker 1: the New York Comic Con. Big congrats on that. My

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Speaker 1: question is is it true that if you're in a

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Speaker 1: Disney show or movie or whatever, you get passes to

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Speaker 1: all the Disneys for life, like all the theme parks.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know it to be true yet,

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Speaker 4: so I think we can debunk that one.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that would be kind of cool that if

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Speaker 1: you if you're in a Disney you should get free access, right.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I got two daughters who would definitely agree

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Speaker 4: with that sentiment, But.

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Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, I haven't. I haven't been privy to that

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Speaker 1: Well, we we'll have to get to the bottom of

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Speaker 1: this and figure this a lot to make sure everything's

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Speaker 1: taken care of. Uh, you know a lot of headlines

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Speaker 1: have been made you. You came over to ae W

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Speaker 1: and it was a monumental moment. Everybody lost their mind

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Speaker 1: when that theme song hit. And you know, Aw's got

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Speaker 1: a unique blend of talent. What seems like a more

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Speaker 1: relaxed creative environment. How does this differ from your previous

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Speaker 1: experiences and how do you find it more fulfilling as

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Speaker 4: I mean, every process has its pros and cons, Right,

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Speaker 4: It's great to be involved to a heavy extent creatively.

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Speaker 4: Now I've been lucky in that throughout the years and

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Speaker 4: throughout a lot of years and producing that you you

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Speaker 4: are given some creative freedom. That's always great, you know,

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Speaker 4: because as a performer you have to be able to

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Speaker 4: bite into what you're trying to produce out there. I've

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Speaker 4: always said, if there's some element of truth that the

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Speaker 4: should follow that truth. And that doesn't change, you know,

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Speaker 4: that's always treated the saying. But it's really nice to

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Speaker 4: sit down and go, Okay, how could this story play out?

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Speaker 4: And be heavily, heavily involved in that and being here

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Speaker 4: on a week to week basis, that becomes more possible.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's not poking in every three months, and

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Speaker 4: that becomes hard, you know, it becomes a hard process

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Speaker 4: to be involved, you know, in a large creative way

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Speaker 4: when it's just kind of popping in and out like that.

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Speaker 1: Right, for sure, and you know, we've already started seeing

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Speaker 1: all the wheels turning. You've already made who made it

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Speaker 1: the press conference and something really cool, and it's been

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Speaker 1: making its way around the internet. Recently, a photo was

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Speaker 1: posted on social media of you, Ryan Danielson, and Soraya,

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Speaker 1: all of which were told at some point going to

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Speaker 1: in the same company, all defying the odds and wrestling.

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Speaker 1: How awesome was that moment for you three when you

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, if we're Brian and I are not

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Speaker 3: We're like, oh yeah, yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we've got to get a picture of this

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Speaker 4: You know, three people who who wanted to do this,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I got to tell you, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: growing up, I was a big wrestling fan, and I've

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Speaker 1: My sixth wrestling is the greatest thing in the world.

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Speaker 1: And I was able to grow up watching you wrestling.

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Speaker 1: I watched you when you came in as the Brood

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Speaker 1: and everything else ministry. I was there at wrestle Mania

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Speaker 1: was you and Del Rio and then when later that

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Speaker 1: think my kids will ever be able to, you know,

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Speaker 1: think ahead, my kids be able to watch you know,

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Speaker 1: Adam and a ring. And now my kid gets super

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Speaker 1: excited and he's like trying to spear me as I'm

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Speaker 1: it's great because now you know he can watch you

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, the biggest thing for me was the challenge.

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Speaker 4: Initially, Okay, can I can I do this again? Can

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Speaker 4: I do something that hasn't been done before with the

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Speaker 4: And when I started seeing the little kids and now

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Speaker 4: You know, I think they all feel that dad energy

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Speaker 3: Been the greatest byproduct of this by far.

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Speaker 4: H It's so much fun, you know, because I think

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Speaker 4: Belief Gardens, you know, if I got to smack hands

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Speaker 4: with Texas Torrado and he let me touch the Interconninental championship,

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Speaker 4: Like come on, you know it to be of anything

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Speaker 3: You know, my favorite part of this now.

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Speaker 1: It's and it's great to just watch him react because

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Speaker 1: we were at the aw show in Nashville a few

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Speaker 1: were right there on ringside and Dax and all them

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Speaker 1: came by and handed my kid the belt like you

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Speaker 1: were just talking about, and he's like taking a photo

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Speaker 1: of it, and he's like losing his mind and he's like,

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Speaker 1: as well. But it's great to see kids getting involved

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Speaker 1: into it. And you know, this is what's great about

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Speaker 1: when you watch AW You've got a lot of people

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Speaker 1: there and it seems like everybody's there to help each

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Speaker 1: other out. And as a veteran in the industry, how

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Speaker 1: do you see your role in AEW in terms of

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Speaker 1: like mentoring and helping that younger talent develop their skills.

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Speaker 4: You know, I've always said I'm here to be that

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Speaker 4: if people want that. I don't want to be one

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Speaker 4: of those guys who who you know, walks around say

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Speaker 4: I don't want to be that guy. But if people

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Speaker 4: ask me, I'm always here help me and always here

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Speaker 4: as a sounding board. Always here, Like if you want

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Speaker 4: I love seeing a light bulb go off for young talent.

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Speaker 4: The growth of young talents to me is really exciting

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Speaker 4: because I think back again to what I was getting

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Speaker 4: took me under their wing and showed me, showed me,

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Speaker 4: you know, and woke me up two things. And that's

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Speaker 4: always you know, pay it forward, pay it forward, right,

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Speaker 4: It sounds cliche, but especially in this industry, it's really

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Speaker 1: I mean, you look at it, and I mean ae

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Speaker 1: W has been very very good at cultivating that young talent,

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Speaker 1: that home grown you know, I know they call it

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Speaker 1: And something also great that we've noticed when you watch

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Speaker 1: do certain things with like other promotions outside of AW

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Speaker 1: I know that has the working relationship with New Japan

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Speaker 4: But that's pretty exciting actually, you know. And and again

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Speaker 4: A byproduct of coming here is oh wait, hold on

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Speaker 4: a second Tokyo home could could I could get? That's

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Speaker 4: that's on a checklist. Arena Mexico, Well hold on, you know,

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Speaker 4: because I went there once. I was I was World Chap,

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Speaker 4: bands and just how to blast because I just I

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Speaker 4: love the culture of lucha libre and I love the

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Speaker 4: pageantry and and uh yeah, So I mean those those

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Speaker 4: two things I think would be very cool as as

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Speaker 4: you know, a lifelong wrestling fan. Those are two experiences

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Speaker 4: that I think would be really cool that I just

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Speaker 4: didn't know whatever be in the card, so you have

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Speaker 4: to kind of write it off. Especially after I'd retired

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Speaker 4: two thousand eleven. It's like, Okay, just didn't get those

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Speaker 4: things done. Now they can get done, and that's pretty fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And here's my thought. And I'm throwing this out

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Speaker 1: there in the universe because every time we've thrown something

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Speaker 1: out in the universe, it happens my personal thoughts. Adam

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Speaker 1: Copeland entered the g One Climax next year.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we'd have to carve out some time, I guess,

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Speaker 4: but Eddie did it this year, right, so it's possibility.

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Speaker 1: I mean, never say never, right, right, So you know

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Speaker 1: this weekend it's a big one AW collision battle. The

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Speaker 1: Belts aid FedEx Forum this Saturday, because you still grab

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Speaker 1: your tickets now all ali Wrestling dot com. And here

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Speaker 1: on the show. We were big into music, and I

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Speaker 1: know bringing in alter Bridge for your theme song for

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Speaker 1: AWS great, And I know that Tony likes to kind

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Speaker 1: of throw in some throwbacks every now and then. Is

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Speaker 1: there a possibility for like a random one off, we

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Speaker 1: might get that Rob Zombie theme song come out just randomly?

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Speaker 4: Nothing I do is random, Okay, Okay, there's always a plan.

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Speaker 4: So but but knowing how in tune I am, and

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Speaker 4: I look at things, you never know. But but I

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Speaker 4: In no way do I mean disrespect to this, but

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Speaker 3: Hey, I just weeks, but at least three.

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Speaker 1: Don't do my game up and just stop here in

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh, it's it's been fun to play this

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Speaker 1: is there anything else you want to say to everybody

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Speaker 4: More than anything, you know, I know how wrestling, the

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Speaker 1: You can definitely when we when we watch like your

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Speaker 4: And it's the It's the best gig in the world,

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Speaker 1: Absolutely well, Adam, again, I don't want to take up

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Speaker 1: too many of your time. You're a Hall of Famer,

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say thank you for everything and coming

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Speaker 4: Thanks for having me man.

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