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Speaker 1: giving up for your host. Welcome to the Battle Crown.

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Speaker 2: What's up you, guys, Welcome back to the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 2: It's Battle hanging out with you and we are just

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Speaker 2: Cakeson is on the show. Ophy, My man, what's up buddy?

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Speaker 1: What's up? Man? How are you lit tai Chi over here?

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, I'm always on the chill,

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Speaker 1: gotta stay on the loose, and you know, it's a

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Speaker 1: lot of things have changed since the last time we

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Speaker 2: And you know, we were kind of bummed because we're

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we had the stacked against us. What a

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Speaker 1: lot of people don't want to talk about, is that

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Speaker 1: that was an USO Themes pay per view They've been

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Speaker 2: And real quick, Kobe before we let you go, is

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Speaker 2: Well, Kope, it's honor have you back on the show.

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Speaker 2: When you roll through Nashville, whether it be for SmackDown

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Speaker 1: Get you in studio to hang out. Thanks for taking

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