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5 Questions With ABJ Paul London · ABJ

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  This is a Ben Frank connection presentation.
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  What's going on everybody welcome back with five questions
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  with ABJ. We are here at Labor of Love and
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  Attic Brewing here in Philadelphia, PA.
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  Euphoria, which is going to be a super exciting show.
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  Yesterday on the show, my guest today was part of it and I am
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  here today with. Just this guy who wrestles from
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  time to time. Hello everybody.
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  Paul London in the brewery. Yeah, a fun match yesterday,
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  Mike Bailey took it up, you know, a notch or two.
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  And boy, I'm feeling that knees to the back thing that was as
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  well. I'm going to let him do that
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  again. Come on.
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  But no a lot of fun man. It's a fun show.
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  You enjoying yourself? I'm.
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  Having an absolute flat, it's mainly a weekend.
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  This is this is the Super Bowl for us.
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  That's right. Being from the Northeast is like
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  in our backyard. It's great stuff.
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  Endless amount of shows, endless amount of wrestlers.
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  Who will you remember in the end?
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  Yes, so, so let's get right into it.
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  What is your current goal in life currently?
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  My current goal in life is to go from job to job as an actor and
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  just find projects that I would want to watch and that I would
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  want to share with people and just keep telling stories on a
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  bigger platform. You know what I mean?
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  I think cinema is pretty universal and to me that's,
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  that's, you know, the top. Nice.
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  What are you currently doing to achieve this goal?
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  I live out in the the muck of Los Angeles amongst all the
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  other delusional dreamers like myself.
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  And I'm just, I'm constantly auditioning.
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  I'm auditioning. I've worked more last year than
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  I have in my entire career. Yeah, I did I think 5 Christmas
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  movies last year, can't tell you if they're good or not, but you
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  know, it's it's picking up steam, but I'm not I'm not
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  satisfied. Yeah, yeah.
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  So constantly auditioning. I got 2 auditions I got to do
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  after this interview today so. Awesome.
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  Awesome. Yeah.
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  What is currently holding you back?
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  Or a possible distraction from your goals.
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  Well, I have this awesome side gig where I put on spandex and I
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  travel away from Los Angeles, away from a lot of the
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  auditioning jobs. And then I put my body and my
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  health and my life on the line. And often times I am banged up
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  and in a lot of pain. But, you know, in an odd way,
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  depending on the role, that can sometimes assist me as well.
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  But I also run an Academy, K Fab Academy in Los Angeles.
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  And I train young hopefuls, young hungry hopefuls, four days
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  a week, twice a day, two of those days.
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  So I'm constantly, you know, I'm at the gym more than I'm at my
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  home. Yeah, so that's just more
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  wrestling stuff that I'm doing in addition to the shows that I
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  do on the weekends. And so that's the long winded
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  answer to #4 no #3 so. Who or what motivates or
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  inspires you to keep going? Wow, that's such a I've such a
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  there's so many people. I would say artistically as an
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  actor, I'm Sam Rockwell's my favorite actor.
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  He really inspires me. One of my dear friends who also
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  train, his name's Paul Walter Hauser.
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  He also inspires me, especially as an actor because he really
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  helps me understand that, you know, it's not always the best
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  person that gets the job. You can be super talented, and
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  there's just so many other very, you know, variables that are out
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  of your hands. Even just the other day, I had
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  one of my friends who's directing a film, and I actually
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  got an audition for his film. And I sent in the tape and he,
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  you know, said you were by part of the best tape we got.
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  But the girl they cast for the leads pretty young.
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  I'm like, OK, I get what you're saying.
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  You know, I can't fit that demographic.
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  Yeah. I'm like, well, recast her, man.
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  Come on. Actually, as we're talking, your
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  match is being. Played Oh my God, I.
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  Don't know if I. Want to see that?
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  So what are you grateful for and are you currently happy?
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  I am, I am grateful. I'm grateful to countless
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  people. I'm grateful for my health.
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  I'm grateful for, you know, people still wanting to see me
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  in tight clothing and sing songs and, you know, lay on my head.
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  You know, I'm, I'm grateful that people seem to enjoy stuff that
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  I do. That's that's very nourishing.
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  You left a great impact your your your tag team run alone
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  slower were were fantastic. You you and Brian were very
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  insanely entertaining. Thank you and and you brought a
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  level of wrestling of like maybe this at the time, the smaller
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  guy, the high flyer. You brought it an era of
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  wrestling that was really fun and you left a huge impact for a
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  lot of people. Thank.
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  You we did the best we could with what we were able to to do.
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  Yeah. You know, again, it's one of
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  those things where you think, well, we have to take care of
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  what we what we can put in our hands, what we can do, you know,
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  and that was always, you know, working out and working on our
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  wrestling skills. And, you know, yeah, we did the
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  best we could with what we had, and we're grateful for that.
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  You know I am. Yeah, so where can people find
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  and support you? I'm not so much of A social
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  media whore, but I I do dabble on Twitter from time to time,
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  but I use Instagram more. But those are the only two
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  things I really use. And it's at London Foo.
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  It's my last name and then FU like Kung Fu London Foo.
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  And it means nothing else but Foo, right?
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  That's it, yeah. Yeah, just like ABJ doesn't mean
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  anything but my initial exactly. Yeah.
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  And people try to make these acronyms.
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  Yeah. It's like, oh, you're perverted,
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  ABJ No, it's. My name?
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  I'd ask for several at least. Yeah.
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  So Twitter, Instagram at London Foo.
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  I have, I have, I have a movie called Maternal Sin, I think on
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  Amazon Prime. It's whatever.
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  It's fun, you know it's, you know.
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  Awesome. Well that's going to do it. 5
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  questions at ABJ. We'll catch you on the next one.
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  We're out of here, so. OK, thanks for watching this
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  presentation. Like, share and subscribe for
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  more. We are back for the post credits
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  scene here with Paul London. So you, you said you're getting
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  an act, you're doing the acting, you're auditioning for a lot of
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  roles. Is there a genre that you prefer
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  over other? Like are you, you like the hard,
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  do you like the suspense? Do you like drama?
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  Like is there a role that you that a style you would like to
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  do more than others? Yeah.
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  I mean, what and, and to to actually rewind a bit, I was an
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  actor as a kid. So I was an actor before I was
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  ever a wrestler. Yeah, yeah.
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  And that's, I think that helps in going into the whole
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  storytelling aspect, you know, because as an actor, you're
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  really just kind of a cog in this big wheel.
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  And it's such an ensemble that you can only really hope to work
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  with better actors that are going to help you, you know, and
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  you're going to be like, well, they made me look great.
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  You know, this person was really generous.
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  And you hope the same thing in wrestling.
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  And but with the genre of films, I, I grew up on horror.
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  I love action, martial arts films.
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  I think anything that I can best highlight my abilities and my
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  skills, but also, you know, of course, the the goal really is
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  to move people and to hopefully give them moments.
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  And so for me, if the story's great, it doesn't matter if
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  it's, you know, a gay comedy. I don't, you know, I gay
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  romantic. I mean, whatever.
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  I'm not, you know, I've answered that question in some circles
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  were like, ah, would you, you know, kiss man or something like
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  if the part calls for it and it's a good role, like, yeah,
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  because I'm, you know, it's, it's basically what am I, what
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  is it about me that what am I infusing in this character?
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  You know what I mean? And it's not me, right?
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  So it's really how good is the writing?
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  The writing is a huge thing because bad writing is really
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  hard to ask. Yeah, you.
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  Know sometimes those bad movies, they'll stick more to you like
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  yeah, you go do a bad movie and it becomes like a cult classic
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  that's. So true.
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  That's so true. You tear me apart, Lisa.
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  I I, I really appreciate your time.
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  Please go check it out. Is there any movies that maybe
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  people can go, I know you're talking about on Amazon, Yeah.
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  I mean, these are all whatever's I did.
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  I yeah, they're nothing off the top of my head that I want to
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  share. Nothing good that I want to
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  share just. But there is some stuff coming
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  out. If you go to like my social
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  media at London Foo, that's easier where I post stuff
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  because then I have the green light to be like, OK, you can
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  talk about this now. Awesome.
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  Well, I appreciate your time. Thank.
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  You enjoy? Manny Weekend.
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  You like Mike? Wise you too.
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  It was awesome. We had a great job.
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  You're already kicking speedball in the.
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  Head. Oh God.
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  Oh come on, you can. Commentate your match.
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  Oh, no. I wish we could hear it.
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  Yeah, I. I appreciate your time.
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  Thank. You so much likewise, brother.
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  We'll see you on the next one. Yeah, that was awesome.
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  Thank you.