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Speaker 1: CEO of the Hurt Business.

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Speaker 2: I am Lip Morgan and you're listening to the Battleground Podcast.

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Speaker 3: Battle Why from the Parts Unknown Studios.

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Speaker 4: Into the Double Battle Brown, Battle Crowd, the Battle Round, Battle.

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Speaker 5: The Battle Crowd.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the Battleground Podcast, your place for all things

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Speaker 3: pro wrestling.

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Speaker 1: The Battle Road, the Battle Round.

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Speaker 6: Now making their way to the microphones.

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Speaker 1: Give it up for your hosts.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to Battle Crowd. Today's show is going to be

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Speaker 4: a very big show. And I'm not talking about big

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Speaker 4: show that went to aw no no, no, no, no no.

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Speaker 4: I'm talking about two guests today on the Battleground Podcast. Hey,

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Speaker 4: it's Battle your host with the most. I don't know

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Speaker 4: besides the fact, yeah, big show today. We're talking with

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Speaker 4: Bobby Lashley and we're gonna be talking with liv Morgan. Now,

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Speaker 4: first part of the show, we're gonna talk to Bobby Lashley.

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Speaker 4: Bobby called him right before Flat fast Lane and we

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Speaker 4: and Drew McIntyre and of course tickets for WRESTLEMANI are

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Speaker 4: on cell now. But the question that everybody wants to know,

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Speaker 4: when are we getting Bobby Lashley and brock Lesner. Well,

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Speaker 4: he answers that question, also a very interesting question about

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Speaker 4: who he would like to have in the hurt business. So,

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Speaker 4: without further ado, real quick, before we jump into the

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Speaker 4: interview with Bobby Lashley, if you could do me a favor.

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Speaker 4: watch both the Bobby Lashly interview and the Live Morgan

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Speaker 4: interview on our YouTube page. So without further ado, here

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Speaker 4: it is our interview with Bobby Lashley. Bobby Lashley is

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Speaker 4: joining us on the show. What's going on? Champ?

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Speaker 3: Not too much, man, I just got out of strength

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Speaker 4: Getting a little lunch, and you know, tomorrow's a big day.

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Speaker 4: WrestleMania tickets go on sale. But as of right now,

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Speaker 4: kind of looking at WrestleMania, you don't really have a

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Speaker 4: because you've got Drew versus Seamus Winter that goes to

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Speaker 4: WrestleMania to face you. Are you looking forward to watching

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Speaker 4: you're gonna go against the WrestleMania Well, I mean, what's.

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Speaker 3: True, So if something happens this weekend, you know something

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Speaker 1: So I think when I was doing some of those things,

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Speaker 7: The hurt business, myself, Shellon, etc.

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Speaker 4: And we we actually were at an event in Clarksville

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it's beautiful. I mean because when he first

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Speaker 7: I'm not.

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Speaker 7: So that's something that we came from. Our generation. We

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Speaker 1: And yeah, times have changed, but we wanted that to

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Speaker 1: Who who And you know, there's there's a lot of people,

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Speaker 1: I say, hmm, could it be a possibility. But you know,

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Speaker 6: Live Morgan Live. Thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 8: This past year has been crazy for everyone, quarantining and home.

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Speaker 8: As Li've mentioned, WrestleMania thirty seven will take place April

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Speaker 4: Great stuff from Tara Reeves over there at Fox seventeen

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