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Swerve Strickland Talks Being AEW’s First Black World Champion · The Baller Alert Show

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  Speaker 1: I do have a question who pay better, oh as
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  Speaker 1: far as like WW or a w aw by far
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  Speaker 1: by far because because it's guaranteed.
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  Speaker 2: Oh so WW doesn't do guarantees.
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  Speaker 3: And they got their select few up top that like
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  Speaker 3: the top top top, like they're just like untouchables, like
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  Speaker 3: but a lot of those guys starting to retire now,
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  Speaker 3: so those that's starting to like you know, Scena just
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  Speaker 3: retired a those are like the top top runners, like
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  Speaker 3: Taker can't go no more. So like that's that pyramid
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  Speaker 3: is starting to really get the really pointy and smaller.
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  Speaker 3: So up here is like because if I could compare
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  Speaker 3: the two. Like Tony Kahan owns AW. He's also part
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  Speaker 3: owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Fulham soccer team
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  Speaker 3: in the UK. He treats the roster like talent, like
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  Speaker 3: like not talent, but like athletes. He's like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's player coaches, there's organization, there's system coaches. He's a
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  Speaker 3: players booker. Okay, he's in tune with his talent and
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  Speaker 3: his roster and where to put those guys. Like he
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  Speaker 3: utilized us very well and it's like a scheme on
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  Speaker 3: a football team. So that so me and him, Jael,
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  Speaker 3: are very very very very well because he knows like
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  Speaker 3: my strengths, he knows where I belong. He knows how
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  Speaker 3: to utilize all his players in the right way. So
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  Speaker 3: therefore he knows how to pay him to so and
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  Speaker 3: motivate them in certain ways. He's like, especially, we're only
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  Speaker 3: in year seven of the company, which is very small,
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  Speaker 3: very very small window and short time of being in
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  Speaker 3: the wrestling promotion as big as we are. We did
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  Speaker 3: eighty thousand seats in Wimbley Stadium and we filled it.
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  Speaker 3: What's going on? This former aw world champion sway strict
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  Speaker 3: swerves house? Baby?
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  Speaker 4: Welcome to the greatest shown Nurse yet it's the battle
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  Speaker 5: Broadcast, a live for the Nigel Law Firm studios here
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  Speaker 5: in Atlanta, Georgia. Welcome to the ball Alert Show. I
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  Speaker 5: go by the name of Ferrari Sims. I go by
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  Speaker 5: the name you know, BT Swerve of the Buildings. Sweet,
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  Speaker 5: what's good?
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  Speaker 3: Who's house Swerves? House? Baby?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: What's up man?
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  Speaker 2: You?
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  Speaker 3: Everything's been lovely, wonderful, so moving around. Got a lot
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  Speaker 3: going on right now.
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  Speaker 5: So now you definitely a e W World Champion, a
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  Speaker 5: W Tag team champion, professional wrestler.
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  Speaker 3: Artists, Yes, sir? What else I mean? Shoe ambassador now
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  Speaker 3: with Bach and Alan Iverson?
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like number one shoe on shamp Sports. They came
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  Speaker 3: out talking about number one music out now Hit Different
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  Speaker 3: with Ray Kwan and Manteezi, produced by you know, rest
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  Speaker 3: in Peace Prophet the producer. You got two great AMI's
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  Speaker 3: working on the Donda records. So yeah, we're moving how
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  Speaker 3: it has to be these days.
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  Speaker 5: Bro, you got to do like ten different things just
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  Speaker 5: to yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, exhausting, exhausted. So I don't know who made it
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  Speaker 3: this hard. Who's the one that really start.
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  Speaker 1: Like like somebody just woke up that we don't know and.
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  Speaker 3: Just said, man, you gotta have five jobs. Yeah. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: like you should be able to go viral off one
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  Speaker 3: thing and you can live off that for like two
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  Speaker 3: three years and then do the next thing and then
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  Speaker 3: like off one thing at a time, you can like
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  Speaker 3: get some Now it's like you got to have your
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  Speaker 3: hands in multitude of different things to like just for shoot,
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  Speaker 3: just that's like two years worth of work.
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  Speaker 5: What do you enjoy more?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, my passion is always going to be pro wrestling.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what got me here. That's what I was
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  Speaker 3: doing since I was like twelve years old, and so
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  Speaker 3: like like, yeah, pro wrestling for sure, entertainment all of it.
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  Speaker 2: Does pro wrestling take a toll on your body?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, But like I would say, it's different now in
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  Speaker 3: like the two thousands comparedor was like the eighties and nineties.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, I've seen the videos of the eighties and nineties.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of them, guys are like a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more.
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  Speaker 5: It looked a little bit less entertainment, a little bit more.
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  Speaker 3: It was like more to take your head off for real.
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  Speaker 3: I mean like we still have that too, but like
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  Speaker 3: now we have the sports medicine. We have a lot
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  Speaker 3: of like education on the body, you know, Like we're
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  Speaker 3: not like like our generation doesn't want to like go
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  Speaker 3: out to the bars and stuff after shows. We want
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  Speaker 3: to go home, we go to the hotel. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to like be on video games and we want to chill.
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  Speaker 3: Like we're not like that. Them guys were smoking, drinking
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  Speaker 3: in the locker room before in between matches and then
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  Speaker 3: taking pills to like hoide the pain and then in
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  Speaker 3: like the next town the same night, pills, like the
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  Speaker 3: same ordeal, a little bump between the match. It was
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  Speaker 3: a lot of like drummers, you know, and so like that,
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  Speaker 3: like that's it was like a generational thing to like
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  Speaker 3: our generation we're not really on that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: We're health, Yeah, we're healthy health geeks. We're not we
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  Speaker 3: don't even smoke anymore?
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  Speaker 5: Could that be wild? Lot of the the ogs and
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  Speaker 5: the forefathers of wrestlers have had they had heart attacks.
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  Speaker 3: They had bad heart They weren't taking care of themselves.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't have insurance and all that, they didn't have
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  Speaker 3: like time to take care of their bodies.
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  Speaker 5: And like you just see a lot of wrestlers like
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  Speaker 5: the like the Mystic Perfect.
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  Speaker 3: Smart Failure out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 5: Randy Savage, like they had heart failure.
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  Speaker 3: Correct me for wrong.
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  Speaker 5: Those guys right, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They just went to sleep and didn't wake up anymore,
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  Speaker 3: which is crazy, but they had you look at trauma thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they didn't know about.
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  Speaker 1: Crippled and eventually you know, became crippled and stuff after all.
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  Speaker 3: The those guys like also they were like really big guys,
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  Speaker 3: Like now we have all shapes and sizes. We got like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Raymondsterio fifty years old, still flying. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: like multiple he has a multitude of like knee surgeries
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  Speaker 3: over the course of his career, but stemselves get them
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  Speaker 3: right back in the ring like two months later. So
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  Speaker 3: that's what's up.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 5: All right, so let's talk about the music. So how
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  Speaker 5: long have you been doing music?
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  Speaker 3: I would say, like yeah, like during COVID, Like we
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  Speaker 3: started me and my man man Tez started the Sour
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  Speaker 3: City podcast and we started like I was in WW
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  Speaker 3: at the time, so I was getting like w W
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  Speaker 3: champion Drew McIntyre to come on. I was getting like
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  Speaker 3: Pat McAfee to come on the podcast. We was like
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  Speaker 3: doing like a lot of like integration. You know at
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  Speaker 3: the time, so it was like, you talk about music
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  Speaker 3: so much, and the music is such an integral part
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  Speaker 3: of your wrestling character once you just actually do it,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I never thought of actually doing it.
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  Speaker 3: So like I went to the studio in Saint Pete
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  Speaker 3: We're down, Florida, and just getting a studio like time
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  Speaker 3: over and over and again, time and time again, and
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  Speaker 3: really building that skill and really figuring it out and
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  Speaker 3: then putting music, like put formulating a track and actually
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  Speaker 3: song together. It was intimidating at the time, but then
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  Speaker 3: like I started becoming more confident and confident making music.
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  Speaker 3: Then collapse started coming around, like me and Benny the
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  Speaker 3: Butcher hopping on records Westside Gun but Bow Music, Soul Child.
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  Speaker 3: I recorded with him here last time I was in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: Then recently Kwan on the newest record with a hit
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  Speaker 3: different like so they started growing, like guys really started
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  Speaker 3: like Okay, started putting the trust in me as well.
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  Speaker 5: All right, so we tend to go viral all the time. Brother,
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  Speaker 5: and I hate to put you in across fire between something,
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  Speaker 5: but we're just gonna do it. I'm sorry. Swerves. Top
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  Speaker 5: five wrestlers of all time M.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm, all time, all time.
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  Speaker 5: Who are your top five wrestlers all time?
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  Speaker 3: Man Shingo Takagi is one of them. He's very like Japanese,
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  Speaker 3: like very underrated for like as as Japanese culture, He's incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Then I will go honestly, Sean Michaels is up there
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  Speaker 3: and learning from him in WW that put him on
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  Speaker 3: a whole nother playing field for me. Edge, Adam Copeland Okay, phenomenal,
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  Speaker 3: like incredible, Ray Mysterio phenomenal, phenomenal, incredible And Jericho Jericho, yes, sir,
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  Speaker 3: because my guy and like we did music together as well.
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  Speaker 3: Got to open up for him and him and his
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  Speaker 3: band Fazzi. You know those guys are like yeah, so
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  Speaker 3: like all these guys are like, well most of them
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  Speaker 3: are like very much crossover cross cultural talents in a
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  Speaker 3: lot of ways, like Jericho music and acting, same edge.
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  Speaker 2: And so the Rock No No, the Rock, No Stone Cold.
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  Speaker 3: Those guys that influenced me in the ring as far
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  Speaker 3: as like those guys were like I knew who, I
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  Speaker 3: knew what their impact on the wrestling business was, but
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  Speaker 3: those guys made me want to get up and actually
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  Speaker 3: get in the ring. Yeah, they have a lot of
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  Speaker 3: like influencing, like what I do in the ring, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like your style. Yeah, well just it made me want
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  Speaker 3: to become a wrestler. They made me. I study more
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  Speaker 3: tape on those guys than anybody.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Michaels is up there man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Stone Cold made me want to drink a
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  Speaker 1: beer exactly.
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  Speaker 3: See, like they didn't make you want to get in
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  Speaker 3: the ring. No, yeah, Brett Hart too thought.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the excellence of execution.
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  Speaker 3: Rick Flair, who every time I see Rick, he's at
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  Speaker 3: the bar. He's at the he's at the bar. Every
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  Speaker 3: time I see like the next wearing I will say,
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  Speaker 3: after I came back from a promo at a w
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  Speaker 3: I did it live in the ring stuff. I came
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  Speaker 3: to the back. He was the first one. He was like,
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  Speaker 3: that's how you ripped the mic. Brother. I was like, yo,
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  Speaker 3: from Rick, that's like the highest his promos. That's the
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  Speaker 3: highest praise you get from one of the best to
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  Speaker 3: ever do, one of my favorite.
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  Speaker 5: Well you do something mean hul Camania anyway, So now
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  Speaker 5: let's let's shift it back to music now rap singing.
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  Speaker 3: What do you prefer h Growing up? Arm growing up,
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  Speaker 3: I was RM behead my guy. Yeah, child on my
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  Speaker 3: favorite artists ever of all time, Like I just want
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  Speaker 3: to sing. It was the first. Like my sister had
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  Speaker 3: the CD and I stole it from her and I
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  Speaker 3: was just like wow, took it on.
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  Speaker 5: And that's show you a he said CD. People don't
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  Speaker 5: even know what the CD is.
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  Speaker 2: The CD.
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  Speaker 5: Most people that don't know my my kids don't know
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  Speaker 5: what to compact.
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  Speaker 3: They don't know said CD.
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  Speaker 5: Women in cars sel.
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  Speaker 3: Walk none of it. You're not going to They're not
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  Speaker 3: going to see it. Yeah, they're not going to see
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  Speaker 3: it in everyday life. You know.
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  Speaker 5: That's that's because I don't get started on that. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know what's a video.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what it is. My daughter does not
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  Speaker 3: put us a disk in the play PlayStation, just downloads.
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  Speaker 5: They just laughed at me the other day. Remember I
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  Speaker 5: showed y'all my two k oh. Yeah that was crazy
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  Speaker 5: and many because man he's twenty five. He was like
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  Speaker 5: a disk, it's the last when someone bought that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why go to game Stop.
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't even understand how game stop is
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  Speaker 1: still in business.
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  Speaker 5: Need to love going to They sell the consoles though,
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  Speaker 5: you have to buy the consoles.
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  Speaker 3: But that's not Amazon. That everything they can order at
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  Speaker 3: eight am that would be at your door by two pm.
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  Speaker 5: Guys, do you know I bought a Mac computer from Amazon.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: Made my day. I didn't have to get up. Usually
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  Speaker 5: you have to get up and go to the Apple Store. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: depending on where you live, the Apple Store could be
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  Speaker 5: a little further away drive. I ordered it on the
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  Speaker 5: Apple Store. It took two days to get to the house.
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  Speaker 3: That's nothing. Yeah, this delivery stuff is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Like I ordered a PS five, I broke my controller
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  Speaker 1: and I was able to go puff a PlayStation five
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  Speaker 1: controller to my house and correct.
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  Speaker 3: You ordered that morning, you get it that afternoon.
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  Speaker 5: They have the PlayStation five's that don't take the disc
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  Speaker 5: it's just digital.
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  Speaker 3: Ye. Yeah, that's the one I got. Ye.
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  Speaker 5: I had no idea all right about to put you
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  Speaker 5: in another buying brother. We like to do clips and
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  Speaker 5: ship your top three singers of all times number one.
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  Speaker 3: That's never changing. This man doesn't get enough credit for
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  Speaker 3: how much of a run he was on. Okay, and
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  Speaker 3: like especially like the streak of albums the first four
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  Speaker 3: credible Genuine doesn't get enough credit for the albums that
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  Speaker 3: he was doing. One of my favorite. And he was
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  Speaker 3: like a multi fasted performer too, so like he was
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  Speaker 3: great and singer singer singer. I'm trying to like what through.
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  Speaker 1: My male or female I wasn't expected genuine gine very
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  Speaker 1: underrated in in my opinion.
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  Speaker 3: First like yeah he was kiitting number ones out of
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  Speaker 3: the park. Donelle Jones, Donelle Joe, Okay, I put done
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  Speaker 3: up there?
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  Speaker 5: You know what's uh? God to know what's up?
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  Speaker 3: And for his writing to his writing was great too.
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  Speaker 5: What's up? What's the other song you had too?
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  Speaker 3: They got records with Big Pun and Left Eye. What
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  Speaker 3: are you talking about?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you're right, Well listen swear what what you know?
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  Speaker 5: Give me some shoutouts?
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  Speaker 2: And what else?
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  Speaker 5: Do you?
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  Speaker 2: Did we miss anything?
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  Speaker 1: Man?
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  Speaker 3: Just like I honestly we might be sold out of
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  Speaker 3: my new sneaker like Rebok and Champ Sports, you know
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  Speaker 3: collab with Alan Ison Man literally approved the sneaker and
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  Speaker 3: improved me being on it as like like.
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  Speaker 2: How did you do that?
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  Speaker 3: That was all he wrestling a w they put that
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  Speaker 3: together they had because like they I think we were
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  Speaker 3: the third I was the third Collapse superstar they did.
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  Speaker 3: Uh rest in peace. Brodie King he was the first
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  Speaker 3: shoe they came out. They did designed did very well.
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  Speaker 3: Then the Young Bucks were next because they like go
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  Speaker 3: on the ring and they wrestling sneakers and stuff, so
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  Speaker 3: they like, let's do a pumps So they did that collab.
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  Speaker 3: But I was the first one to come in and
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  Speaker 3: actually collab with another like actual basketball player an athlete.
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  Speaker 3: So they did too, Yeah, legend too yeah, And I
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  Speaker 3: was like yo. I was like he. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: does he know about this? They were like they're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: like this his camp approved it and we did a commercial.
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  Speaker 3: We shot a commercial for it in at the arena
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  Speaker 3: and then they shot they gave it to the people.
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  Speaker 3: Iverson and his page collabed it, so they he was like.
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  Speaker 3: And then I was literally about to take off on
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  Speaker 3: the flight, like we were on like literally sitting on
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  Speaker 3: the tarmac. I'm about to take off. I got a
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  Speaker 3: call from Linda from PR and a w literally goes
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  Speaker 3: up in the air. Missed it. So she texted me
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  Speaker 3: she was like, oh sorry, we had Iverson on the phone.
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  Speaker 3: He wanted to say thank you so much for the platform,
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  Speaker 3: Like oh no, and then and so I land, I
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  Speaker 3: was like call him back, call him back, was like yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he's off, he's on doing another thing right now. We'll
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  Speaker 3: get back. Though never never got the call back. I
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  Speaker 3: never got a call back. That was like summer last year.
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  Speaker 3: I never got the call back, but they like she
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  Speaker 3: was calling me right there and then we were about
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  Speaker 3: to take go off. I couldn't even answer.
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  Speaker 1: You should told the POTTERT like, hold on, bro I
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  Speaker 1: got no, I'll never fly again. Well I do have
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  Speaker 1: I do have a question. Who pay better? Oh as
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  Speaker 1: far as like w W or ae W A W
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  Speaker 1: by far? Yeah, by far because because it's guaranteed.
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  Speaker 2: Oh so w W doesn't do guarantees.
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  Speaker 3: And they got their select few up top that like
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  Speaker 3: the top top top, like they're just like untouchables, like
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  Speaker 3: but a lot of those guys starting to retire now.
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  Speaker 3: So those that's starting to, like you know, Sena just
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  Speaker 3: retired at those are like the top top earners like
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  Speaker 3: Taker can't go no more. So like that's that pyramid
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  Speaker 3: is starting to really get the really pointy and smaller.
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  Speaker 3: So up here is like because if I could compare
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  Speaker 3: the two, like Tony Kahan owns a W. He's also
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  Speaker 3: a part owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Fulham
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  Speaker 3: soccer team in the UK. He treats the roster like talent,
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  Speaker 3: like like not talent, but like athletes. He's like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's player coaches, like there's organization, there's system coaches. He's
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  Speaker 3: a player booker. Okay, He's in tune with his talent
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  Speaker 3: and his roster and where to put those guys. Like
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  Speaker 3: he utilized us very well, and it's like a scheme
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: on a football team. So that so me and him
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: jail all very very very very well because he knows
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: like my strengths, he knows where I belong. He knows
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: how to utilize all his players in the right way.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: So therefore he knows how to pay him to so
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: and motivate them into certain ways. He's like, especially we're
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: only in year seven of the company, which is very small,
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: very very small window and short time of being in
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: a rustling promotion as big as we are. We did
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: eighty thousand seats in Wembley Stadium and filled it wow,
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: you know, And like we did thirty thousand and all
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: in Texas globally field this past August, in past July,
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: we're about to go back to Wembley again and we're
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: about to do Crypto Arena in two weeks in La
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: you know, so, and that's ten thousands. He's already filled.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: So we moved very very fast. We grew very very fast,
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: so quickly because of his mind for just like expanding
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: and putting and putting a great roster together to do that.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: So negotiating with him was like literally negotiating like an athlete,
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: and I never had that experience before. So like, I'm
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: really I'm very very much set for like the next
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: three four years and then after that, like I get
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: to decide what I want to do, and I got
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: the leverage I need to move however I want to
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: in life. I like that.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: And what I what I will say is that I
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: feel like with a W I feel like they do
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: a great job in marketing like black wrestlers, you know
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, because that's how I kind of like
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: found out about the you know, the promotion, Like because
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: I would see online and I'd be like, oh, what
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: is this I'm seeing like a lot of black wrestlers,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Like you.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Know what I'm saying. Yeah, and we're young, like they're
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: young black wrestlers, you know.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: And you were the first Black World championship champion for a.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: W Yeah, yep, And I think I'm the eighth one
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: ever in the company's history. So like seven years, eight champions,
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: that's not that's like, don't we don't change the belt
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: very often, you know, especially a new champions, Like we
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: have a couple of double time, two time champions and stuff,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: four time champions with John Moxley and stuff. But like
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: as far as like a new champion that's a new
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: guy coming into the main events scene, that's like, that's
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: very rare, and it's very hard. Like our roster, our
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: top main eventors are like the best in the world,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: and so in order to be up there consistently every week,
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: every month, every pay per view, so like these to
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: sell these arenas and give them the quality of n
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: ring like performing, it's it's you got to be on
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: top of your game. And he doesn't just trust that
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: with anybody, you know. Yeah, So to do it consistently
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: as a black man in this industry is very tough.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: There's not for many of them, but has some guys
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: coming up like Opa Femi, Young Dude, Powerhouse, great Dude.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: I look forward to his growth. Trick Williams like charismatic,
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: can talk like talk anybody into a building. Look forward
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: to his growth. Javon Evans young guy. He grew up
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: watching me, he said. Wow. Now he's over. Now he's
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: twenty one years old, living his dream on the main roster.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Is that the new Is that the new kid that's
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: uh with the w D.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I just saw him come up. Great kid,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: great kid, looking looking forward to his growth. So now
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: it's starting to expand to both companies, and that's the
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: beauty of what we're doing. You know. It's like hopefully
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: an influence on our side influences their side, and then
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: we both grow together, you know what I mean.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, wrestling is very intriguing. Man. Well listen, man, it's word.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: We appreciate you pulling up on us.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, man, next time.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: For man, Like I think they sold out. We got
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: to find a way to get I'm hit up, champs, champs, Aw,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: whats going on? We need to stop? Yeah, let's go
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: for peace.