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Speaker 1: the first pure tag team match.

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Speaker 5: Correct, Yes, the first ever pure rules tag team match

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Speaker 5: I mean, if you if you want to be honest,

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Speaker 5: Well, it's a certain possibility. But with the Foundation, our

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Speaker 4: All right, Well you're in it and you let's just say,

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Speaker 1: Back when, back when like k FOB and everything was

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Speaker 5: himself first.

437
00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:14,720
Speaker 3: You know.

438
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:19,160
Speaker 5: Obviously he did that when we won the ring tag

439
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:20,840
Speaker 5: titles and then he rowed up on the n A

440
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:24,520
Speaker 5: a few weeks later. But you know, me and Tracy Williams,

441
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:30,080
Speaker 5: we're team in that final this upcom weekend, and we

442
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:34,119
Speaker 5: both have the same mindset. You know, We're here to

443
00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,359
Speaker 5: show people how tag team wrestling is supposed to be done.

444
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,840
Speaker 5: There's going to be you know, all hand to hand tags.

445
00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:44,679
Speaker 5: We'll be holding the tag rope with both feet on

446
00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:45,320
Speaker 5: the apron.

447
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:50,880
Speaker 3: Uh. There will be three rope breaks. You know, if

448
00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:51,600
Speaker 3: you break up.

449
00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:55,399
Speaker 5: A pin or submission, it counts as a rope and

450
00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:00,680
Speaker 5: no close fists. If you do as a close fist,

451
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 5: you get one morning. If you use too you get

452
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:06,160
Speaker 5: this qualification. There would be no outside.

453
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:07,399
Speaker 3: Interference and.

454
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,920
Speaker 5: If somebody does interfere, they get terminated from rent of honor.

455
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:17,760
Speaker 5: And it's pretty cool because I watched Tigan team wrestling

456
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,320
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty and I'm just sitting there like, oh

457
00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:22,919
Speaker 5: my gosh, like what.

458
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,440
Speaker 1: Is Sometimes it's chaos in the ring.

459
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,920
Speaker 5: There's no rules, you know, and yeah, what's the what's

460
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 5: the point of having rules in place? You know, if

461
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 5: you're not going to follow them. So it's it's going

462
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 5: to be a throwback to to Titan team matches of

463
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 5: yesteryear where the rules actually meant something, and hopefully, you know,

464
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,640
Speaker 5: going forward into twenty twenty one, you know, people will

465
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 5: watch this match and be like damn, like you know,

466
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,400
Speaker 5: this makes sense, Like this is how tig team wrestling.

467
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:53,639
Speaker 3: Is supposed to be.

468
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,160
Speaker 5: It's supposed to be different than you know, any other

469
00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:00,200
Speaker 5: style of wrestling, and hopefully that catches on and people

470
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 5: follow it and you know, a byde by it right.

471
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 4: That's a good thing.

472
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I kind of want to just go back

473
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 1: a little bit. We talked about throwback, and we talked

474
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 1: about Kenny King, and you've been very vocal in the

475
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 1: past interviews about Kenny King, Like what went through your

476
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,239
Speaker 1: mind when you found out Kenny literally walked out on

477
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:24,679
Speaker 1: you and just left you high and dry, and you

478
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: said he was all about himself?

479
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:31,400
Speaker 3: So, uh, what the hell, Kenny?

480
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 5: We worked hard for this solong and now you're just

481
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 5: gonna up and leave because another opportunity came along.

482
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 3: I was very disappointed, and you.

483
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,439
Speaker 5: Know, I kind of was like, you know, well, you know,

484
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,119
Speaker 5: they'll fix something out, you know, and then all of

485
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 5: a sudden, I went online and I saw that we

486
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:55,199
Speaker 5: were stripped of the tag team titles. Then I was

487
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 5: like really pissed because I didn't do anything wrong, you know,

488
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 5: you know, was the one who.

489
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 3: Went to TNA and all that. So and then I

490
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 3: got punished for it, you know, and I.

491
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 5: Got forced to team with Charlie Hass and the Tag

492
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:16,160
Speaker 5: team title tournament, and you know, we went to the finals,

493
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 5: but you know, we didn't win the titles back. And

494
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 5: that's something that that's always kind of halted me. And

495
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,959
Speaker 5: that's something that you know, it's definitely on my bucket

496
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,879
Speaker 5: list of things to do and to rectify that situation

497
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 5: and get Ring of Honor gold once again.

498
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 4: So we're right around the corner from twenty twenty one RT.

499
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 4: I'm looking at my calendar here, literally seventeen days until

500
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Speaker 4: we flip that calendar over to the new year. I

501
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 4: know you mentioned the tag team wrestling going into twenty

502
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,919
Speaker 4: twenty one. Hopefully everyone will get a good look at.

503
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 3: It and.

504
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 4: You know, finally see some you know, some decent tag

505
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 4: team wrestling the way it was supposed to be watched.

506
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,920
Speaker 4: But what else does twenty twenty one hold in store

507
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,680
Speaker 4: for you. Obviously, twenty twenty completely a year that none

508
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 4: of us expected it to be. Hopefully we're looking at

509
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 4: the beginning of next year. It could be the best

510
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 4: year ever compared to what we had this year. What

511
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 4: do you have planned for twenty twenty one?

512
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 5: In twenty twenty one can't be anywhorse than this year, right,

513
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:23,160
Speaker 5: But being aligned with the Foundation now we all have

514
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:27,679
Speaker 5: similar goals in a similar mindset, and it is to

515
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 5: you know, capture all the gold in Ring of Honor

516
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 5: and purify each and every division and bring Ring of

517
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 5: Honor back to the golden days where you know that

518
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 5: people actually respected the Code of Honor and the company

519
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,199
Speaker 5: was built on honor and respect and digy, and you know,

520
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:50,159
Speaker 5: there was no outside interference, and you know, everybody shook hands,

521
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 5: and you know, people looked at us as athletes. You know,

522
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 5: you look around wrestling and you see a gift or

523
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 5: you know, a video people doing some stupid stunt or

524
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 5: you know, joke or something like that like that away

525
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 5: In twenty twenty one, you know, we're trying to bring

526
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,880
Speaker 5: into pure wrestling back. We're trying to trying to bring

527
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 5: back athletes and have people look at us this serious

528
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 5: athletes instead of you know, guys doing funny spots and

529
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 5: stuff like that.

530
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 3: I watch a lot of wrestling these days and I

531
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 3: shake my head, and.

532
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 5: It a goal to show people how wrestling is supposed

533
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 5: to be done and make people take notice and be like,

534
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 5: you know what all this stupid stuff peeling for the

535
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 5: past few years, like this is like bull crap, you know,

536
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 5: like this isn't We didn't get in wrestling to be

537
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,880
Speaker 5: a joke and make a mockery of wrestling. We got

538
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 5: into wrestling to you know, be taken seriously and you know,

539
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 5: leave a legacy behind us. And you know, tw twenty one,

540
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 5: hopefully we start really pushing forward towards that, and hopefully

541
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,919
Speaker 5: I get some championship gold back around my waist in

542
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 5: twenty twenty one, because something that's alluded me for the

543
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 5: past few years, and to be honest, it's kind of

544
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 5: haunted me a little bit. So you know, hopefully that

545
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,360
Speaker 5: we'll get that going in twenty twenty one.

546
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 4: Nothing wrong with some extra hardware for the new year,

547
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:25,719
Speaker 4: exactly exactly.

548
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: And so you know, final battles go on Friday night,

549
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,160
Speaker 1: and of course our friends at Fight TV have hooked

550
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 1: us up with a code that you could watch it.

551
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: Of course, rhet earlier said, the Ring of Honor is

552
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 1: putting that first hour out for free that you could watch.

553
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: And then if you're like I'm on the fence and

554
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: you see that first hour, you're gonna want to buy it.

555
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: But thanks to our friends at Fights, we're gonna hook

556
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: you up with the code to watch the entire show

557
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: for free. All you have to do is head on

558
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 1: over to our Twitter account in his battleground IHR. So,

559
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: rett I do have a quick question, because the thing

560
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:55,719
Speaker 1: that we love about Ring of Honor, and we've had

561
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 1: several people on. We've had Pco, We've had Tracy, We've

562
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 1: had drawn some blanks because we've had a lot of

563
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 1: people on. And the thing that I love about Ring

564
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: of Honor is the fact that they still kept everybody employed,

565
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: they still paid everybody, and nobody got laid off or

566
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: furlough during this whole pandemic. So that's got to say something.

567
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: I mean that kind of keeps you there.

568
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 7: Correct, Yeah, you want to go back to itch Like

569
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 7: twelfth we all flew into Vegas for a pay per view.

570
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 3: On a TV taping and that was the day.

571
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 5: Where you know, the President made a big speech about

572
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 5: you know, the coronavirus and COVID nineteen and that sort

573
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 5: of thing, and it was really apparent that this wasn't,

574
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 5: you know, something to be taken lightly.

575
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 3: And Ring of Honor had already paid for.

576
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 5: The review time and all the production truck, so everybody

577
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 5: was there already, and they thought it was in the

578
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 5: fans and their staff and the wrestlers and the crew

579
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 5: everyone's best interest to cancel that weekend shows.

580
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 3: And I respect Ringamona for that. And not only did they.

581
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 5: You know, not make us wrestle at the TV tape interview,

582
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 5: but you know, they didn't have us wrestle again until

583
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 5: they found a way to be able to do it

584
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 5: safely where you know, everybody was going to be taken

585
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 5: care of. And that when they knew more about the

586
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 5: virus and how it you know, spread and how things work,

587
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 5: because you know, we're looking new stuff about it every day,

588
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 5: you know, and Ringmano really took its time to to

589
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 5: put the pause button on and do it the right way,

590
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,760
Speaker 5: and they created this bubble environment for us where unfortunately

591
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 5: there's no fans there, but you know, we get tested

592
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 5: prior to going to the tapings. We get tested at

593
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 5: the tapings. You know, we wear masks the whole time.

594
00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 5: The canvases are changed after each and every match, the

595
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 5: ropes are sprayed down, the turnbuckles are sprayed down, the.

596
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 3: Guard rails, the pads on the floor. Then, you know, they.

597
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 5: Really spared no expense in making sure that our safety

598
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 5: was taken care of, and throughout the whole time trying

599
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 5: to figure us out. Everybody was getting paid still, so

600
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 5: and you didn't have to worry about, you know, where's

601
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 5: how am I going to pay this month's rent?

602
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 3: Or how am I gonna pay my car off? You know, right,

603
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 3: it was.

604
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 5: Very very appreciative of that, you know, especially having you know,

605
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 5: two kids and that sort of thing and married. So

606
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 5: it's very very appreciative and I'm very thankful for it.

607
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 5: And uh, you know, the cost to do the bubble

608
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 5: and how we're abound it operates now is about five

609
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 5: times the amount of a regular TV tape and where

610
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 5: they you know, what they're used to do so at

611
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 5: they're really, like I said, they're sparing no expense to

612
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 5: make sure that we're all safe.

613
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 4: That's great that they're taking care of you really really

614
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 4: great and it's good to hear that you don't have

615
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 4: to worry about your rents or your mortgage or your car,

616
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 4: and it's just that's a good feeling to know. As

617
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Speaker 4: as we go along here, Rett, thanks for joining us

618
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Speaker 4: today on the Battleground Podcast. Can you let everyone know

619
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Speaker 4: where we can find you out on social media?

620
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so on Twitter and Instagram. You can follow me

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Speaker 5: at Ret Titus a n X. That's r E T

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Speaker 5: t t I t U S a n X, Facebook

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Speaker 5: dot com, slash Rett Titus, YouTube dot com, slash ret Titus.

624
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Speaker 5: I'm on TikTok as retit as well, Pro Wrestling ts

625
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Speaker 5: dot com slash Ret.

626
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Speaker 3: Titus a n X.

627
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Speaker 5: And you can also head over to r O H

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Speaker 5: Wrestling dot com the pro.

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Speaker 3: Shop over there. I got a new.

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Speaker 5: So go ahead and grab yourself one of those. Yeah,

631
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Speaker 5: you know, thank you guys for having me here. You know,

632
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Speaker 5: it's a pleasure being on the Battleground Podcast.

633
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Speaker 1: Guys, well, it is an honor to have you on

634
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 1: the show. RHT Friday Night, Final Battle again going down.

635
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: You and Tracy Williams going on as a tag team,

636
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: which we have said on this show, and we are

637
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: good luck charms, with the exception of Tracy because he

638
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: didn't get to beat Jonathan Gresham for the title. But

639
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: most of the people that have come on this show

640
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: have all gone on to win gold, so you are

641
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,959
Speaker 1: in good hands with us. And everybody that has been

642
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: on the show has gone on to win gold. So

643
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 1: we are putting that out there in the universe that

644
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: RHTT Titus will have gold or silver if you have

645
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: the roh pure title around your waist. So HTT, thank

646
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: you so much and looking it forward to Friday night.

647
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 3: Thank you guys for the great mojo.

648
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: That's what we do here on the show. We put

649
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: out to mojo. But once again, RHTT, thank you so

650
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: much for joining the show and we're looking forward to

651
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: Friday night.

652
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 5: Hell yeah, everyone tune in the first hours free so

653
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 5: Friday night, December eighteenth, ring a hoor fine, how bad alive.

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Speaker 1: On the for you there it is RITT. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for joining the show tonight with us.

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Speaker 3: Thank you guys.

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Speaker 6: We hope you enjoyed today's episode of the Battleground Podcast.

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