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WWE Star Liv Morgan On Her Royal Rumble Win, WrestleMania 42 Decision, Video Games & Sneakers · 25 Whistles with Bobby Bones (A Football Podcast)

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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, it's Battle Brown.
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  Speaker 1: Today.
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  Speaker 3: We're on the road to WrestleMania forty two and we've
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  Speaker 3: got a huge guest, which you already know the guests
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  Speaker 3: because you got the notification and that's.
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  Speaker 1: Why you're here.
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  Speaker 3: Royal Rumble Winner Live Morgan, the greatest Rumble winner of
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  Speaker 3: all time, according to her and the rest of the internet.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a lot of things to talk about on
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  Speaker 1: the show.
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  Speaker 3: We're talking about that whole lost in the Sauce moment
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  Speaker 3: right after her win, how she blocks out the online noise,
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  Speaker 3: what's going on with Judgment Day, and of course we talk.
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  Speaker 1: Video games and sneakers as well.
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  Speaker 3: on the Battleground Podcast. We'll hope you guys welcome back
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  Speaker 3: into Iheartradal's official wrestling podcast. Battleground Podcast, and we are
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  Speaker 3: on the road to WrestleMania forty two in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: Before we get to Vegas, Monday Night, Raw is coming
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  Speaker 3: to Memphis, Indianapolis, and Sacramento. Triget's available right now at
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  Speaker 3: WWE dot com. And I was looking at our guest
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  Speaker 3: notes for today, and it's been four years since we
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  Speaker 3: last spoke to our guests and a lot of things
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  Speaker 3: have changed since.
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  Speaker 1: Then. Give it up for the greatest.
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  Speaker 3: Women's Royal Rumble winner ever, Live Morgan joining the show.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, you almost had it. It's the greatest Rumble
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  Speaker 4: winner of all.
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  Speaker 2: Time.
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  Speaker 3: Watch that ever, that counts as all time. But I
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  Speaker 3: will go back and we'll say.
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  Speaker 5: Also just in general, I'm the greatest Roma winner in general,
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  Speaker 5: not the women's, not the men as a whole, Like
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  Speaker 5: I'm the greatest as a whole.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll just say when it comes to the Royal Rumble,
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  Speaker 3: Live Morgan is the goat there.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do it that way.
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  Speaker 3: So let let's talk about that real quick. You just
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  Speaker 3: won the Royal Rumble. Take me back to that exact
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  Speaker 3: moment when it hits you. I'm pointing, I'm going to WrestleMania.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I wish I was like, I'm pointing and
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  Speaker 5: going to WrestleMania, but I was so in it.
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  Speaker 4: I was just like lost in the moment. I was
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  Speaker 4: lost in the sauce. I just really took a moment
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  Speaker 4: to kind of just acknowledge what I had just done and.
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  Speaker 5: To really try to soak it all in and to
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  Speaker 5: remember as much of how I felt and the energy
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  Speaker 5: from the audience as I could. But it was, it
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  Speaker 5: was iconic. It's one of the best moments of my career.
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  Speaker 5: I'm still buzzing off of it. I mean, I'm bragging
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  Speaker 5: about it every moment that I get. So it's been
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  Speaker 5: it's been incredible.
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  Speaker 3: You and Natty are the only two have competed in
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  Speaker 3: every women's Royal roy But what's the biggest way that
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  Speaker 3: you evolved from that very first one to now?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I've had like every position you could
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  Speaker 5: possibly have in this roma match.
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  Speaker 4: I've started them, I've ended them.
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  Speaker 5: I've had the fastest elimination time actually by Natty.
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  Speaker 4: Naty eliminated me, I think in like twelve seconds.
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  Speaker 5: So it's kind of funny how, you know, everything kind
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  Speaker 5: of comes back around because I eliminated her this year.
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  Speaker 4: But Yeah, it's been It's.
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  Speaker 5: Been awesome to be in every single one. I have
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  Speaker 5: a lot of experience in that match, so to have
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  Speaker 5: every kind of spot in that match to finally winning it,
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  Speaker 5: you know, finally being the bride and no longer arives
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  Speaker 5: me because I've been running round.
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  Speaker 4: Twice as well. It just felt right and it felt
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  Speaker 4: like this year was.
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  Speaker 3: My year, absolutely, and it was an exciting time, especially
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  Speaker 3: for everybody on social media when it finally had when.
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  Speaker 1: You won the Royal Rumble.
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  Speaker 3: Now, in that Royal Rumble match and you have to ask,
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  Speaker 3: you did eliminate your friend Raquel, but obviously it goes
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  Speaker 3: on for bigger, better things because there's another opportunity for
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  Speaker 3: her to win a title too. How are things going
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  Speaker 3: right now between you and Raquel?
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  Speaker 4: You know, we've had a complicated couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 5: I did eliminate her, but it's because she had a
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  Speaker 5: title opportunity already, and so you know, it was more
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  Speaker 5: opportunities for the judgment day, so she understands that she's
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  Speaker 5: not selfish. We moved on and then we did have
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  Speaker 5: a miscommunication.
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  Speaker 4: I was back on last week where she.
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  Speaker 5: Stooted me in the face, and that was pretty unfortunate,
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  Speaker 5: but I guess, you know, miscommunications happen.
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  Speaker 4: Miscommunications happened. It's wrestling.
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  Speaker 5: You know, timing is of super importance, and so these
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  Speaker 5: things happen, and so I will take it as a mistake.
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  Speaker 4: That it was We are yeah, we're moving on. We
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  Speaker 4: are family at the end of the day, and it's
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  Speaker 4: all that really matters.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And you know, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: you have made this is very known that you have
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  Speaker 3: said if you're not my boss, I don't care about
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  Speaker 3: your criticism, especially when people like to go online and
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  Speaker 3: say something. Who are those voices that you do listen
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  Speaker 3: to and what's the I guess the cold heart truth
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  Speaker 3: that they've told you.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, in this industry, Yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 5: That's not to say that I don't care about my
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  Speaker 5: supporters or the people that watch the product, but pertaining
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  Speaker 5: to online criticism, yeah, I do not care.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care what you have to say.
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  Speaker 5: I care about, you know, obviously, what Tiple h thinks,
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  Speaker 5: my boss, my producers, my peers involved.
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  Speaker 2: And whomever I'm seeking guidance for or advice for after
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  Speaker 2: the fact, and that could be you know, various people
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  Speaker 2: or no one, you know, But yeah, I just feel like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like it could be what is that saying,
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  Speaker 2: Like it's could.
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  Speaker 5: Be the yummiest, jessiest, the most you know, delicious peach
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  Speaker 5: in the world, but like there's still someone that doesn't
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  Speaker 5: like peaches, you know, and that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care, not out of disrespect, I just don't care,
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  Speaker 5: just because I understand that.
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  Speaker 4: Not everyone's gonna like everything, and so I'm okay with that.
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  Speaker 3: Right absolutely, And you know, everybody's got it's kind of like, uh,
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  Speaker 3: here in the South, we say everybody's opinions are like buttholes.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone has one and they think there doesn't stink, right,
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  Speaker 1: but you know.
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  Speaker 4: But it could stink ork and nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care exactly.
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  Speaker 4: But the thing is, the thing is.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's still talking about you. So that's the thing that matters.
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  Speaker 1: Really.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's still top of mine. Everybody's got to live Morgan
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  Speaker 3: on their mind. Everybody's got to live Morgan in the conversation. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I do want to go back for a second because
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people, including myself, remember when you debuted
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  Speaker 3: and you came out with the riot squad, and you've
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  Speaker 3: kind of done stuff with them.
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  Speaker 1: You've did singles round. You've done factions and tag teams.
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  Speaker 3: What is one lesson from being with that Riot Squad
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  Speaker 3: faction that you still use today?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we were tagging all across the world, multiple
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  Speaker 5: nights a week. I became a low key kind of
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  Speaker 5: tag team specialist, and I learned from you know, Ruby
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  Speaker 5: and Sarah, who have both been wrestling longer than me,
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  Speaker 5: both had more experience than me, and so they really
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  Speaker 5: took me under their wing and were patient with me
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  Speaker 5: and taught me a ton and I'm so much better
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  Speaker 5: for at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 4: But honestly, we just had so much fun.
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  Speaker 5: Me and the girls, we just had so so, so
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  Speaker 5: much fun.
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  Speaker 4: We really became a family. We still keep in touch,
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  Speaker 4: and so I feel like.
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  Speaker 5: The foundation and the fundamentals of my tag team Pross,
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  Speaker 5: you know, formed from.
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  Speaker 1: The Riot Squad right absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And something cool that's been known to see here as
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  Speaker 3: fans watch WW here recently is ww working with other companies,
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  Speaker 3: because beforehand, we never thought that that would happen.
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  Speaker 1: But you see WWE.
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  Speaker 3: Working with a Triple A and TNA and other promotions
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  Speaker 3: as well. Is there anyone outside of WW in those
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  Speaker 3: promotions that I just mentioned that you would like to
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  Speaker 3: step in the ring with.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I'm sure there are people across all
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  Speaker 5: promotions that I'd love to work with, to be in
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  Speaker 5: the ring with.
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  Speaker 4: But we're on the roads to WrestleMania, baby, and I
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  Speaker 4: have a big decision to make.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm not really so much focus on anyone else,
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  Speaker 5: especially not anyone that's in my company, especially not anyone
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  Speaker 5: that's not in my direct plane of fire, Jade or Stephanie.
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  Speaker 4: And so I feel like I can't give.
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  Speaker 5: You my best answer right now because it hasn't really
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  Speaker 5: been on my radar.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I understand you got you got bigger things
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  Speaker 3: to worry about, and I exactly exactly is there is
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  Speaker 3: there any which way you're leaning more towards Jade or
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  Speaker 3: Stephanie because I know you've you've kind of gone after both.
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  Speaker 3: Are you just gonna kind of play it cool and
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  Speaker 3: then you're just gonna wait for your moments strike and
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  Speaker 3: be like, yeah, I'll see you in Vegas.
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  Speaker 5: I haven't had like that feeling yet, you know, when
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  Speaker 5: you know, you know and you know, and I clearly
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  Speaker 5: don't know.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why I haven't decided. As I have shown
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  Speaker 4: up everywhere every week.
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  Speaker 5: So when I when I get that instinct, when I
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  Speaker 5: get that feeling, I know that this is right.
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  Speaker 4: Trust me, you will you will hear about it in
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  Speaker 4: my loud mouth. You will hear about it, of course.
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  Speaker 3: Uh you we might be able to hear about it
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  Speaker 3: at one of the stops coming up Memphis, Indianapolis, Sacramento.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, grab your tickets WWE dot com. Now, one
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  Speaker 3: thing that is awesome is uh Dominic currently the Triple
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  Speaker 3: A Mega Champion.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Any chance that after you get your title between whether
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  Speaker 3: it's you know, Jade or Stephanie, maybe you and dom
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  Speaker 3: go after Triple A Mixed tag titles after you're both champions.
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  Speaker 5: I think that is holy an option. You know, I
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  Speaker 5: said that twenty twenty six is the year of the
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  Speaker 5: Judgment Day, and so you know, me making a trip
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  Speaker 5: to Triple A and us winning those mixed tag titles.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't sound like out of the realm of possibilvi.
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  Speaker 5: You know, that just sounds highly likely. I guess we're
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  Speaker 5: gonna have to just wait and see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Just wait and see what happens. For sure.
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  Speaker 3: Now we're we're coming up towards the end of our
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  Speaker 3: our our chat and we'll always like to have fun
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the interview, and I know that
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  Speaker 3: you're a big game.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think fun it's been fun.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it's fun? That that's the question. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think it's been fun? I hope that you're having fun.
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  Speaker 3: If not, maybe it'll be another four years before we
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  Speaker 3: get you back on the show again. So I know
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  Speaker 3: that you're a big gamer, and I've got to ask,
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  Speaker 3: with you being involved with WW two K and everything else,
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  Speaker 3: what's been the coolest thing that you've gotten to be
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  Speaker 3: a part of behind the scenes with this game that's
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  Speaker 3: coming out soon.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I think like the voiceover work.
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  Speaker 5: The voiceover work obviously, I know the storyline, I know
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  Speaker 5: the thread in the game, I know how I'm utilized,
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  Speaker 5: and so Live in two K twenty six is.
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  Speaker 4: Just as messy and obnoxious super Live in real life.
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  Speaker 5: And so that's been really fun for me to be
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  Speaker 5: involved and to bring with Morgan to life through your
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  Speaker 5: through your TV, through your video game. And so that's
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  Speaker 5: been that's been really, really really cool.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's exciting. We can't wait to get the game.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: With that being said, of course, you're being a part
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  Speaker 1: of this video game.
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  Speaker 3: Could this lead into something else would maybe potentially bucket
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  Speaker 3: list item being in, like GTA when it finally drops,
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  Speaker 3: or any other video games that you would love to
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  Speaker 3: be a part of.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'm waiting for GTA. They keep releasing
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  Speaker 4: and they keep pushing me back.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like saving my big one for GTA because when
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  Speaker 5: I play games, I don't play to like play for
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  Speaker 5: a couple hours, like I'm gonna play until I beat it,
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  Speaker 5: like I'm gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: Up I win.
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  Speaker 5: And so I haven't played. I'm waiting for two K
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  Speaker 5: and I'm waiting for GTA. I don't know what the
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  Speaker 5: heck I do in GTA, though, I don't know what
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  Speaker 5: I do, and I have to be involved in some
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  Speaker 5: kind of mission.
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  Speaker 4: Right, I don't know what. I don't know what. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know what my responsibility would be in that game.
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  Speaker 4: But I love to be involved, you know. I like
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  Speaker 4: to think of myself as like crafty and sneaky. I
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  Speaker 4: could do some kind of recon work, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Live Morgan just taking over not only WWE,
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  Speaker 3: but WW two K, g t A, all the video games,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, you know, as we we come up towards
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  Speaker 3: the end of this, I know you're a legit sneaker
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  Speaker 3: head like myself. Early on, you used to wrestle in sneakers,
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  Speaker 3: but now you've gone to kind of more of a
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  Speaker 3: wrestling style shoe. What kind of sparked that switch from
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  Speaker 3: going from you know, sneakers like Jordan's and everything else
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  Speaker 3: to wrestling shoes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so, like you just said, I have wrestled in
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  Speaker 5: sneakers my own entire career.
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  Speaker 4: It went from like converse to you know, retro.
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  Speaker 5: Js to custom made Jordan Won sneaker boots, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and then in like twenty nineteen, I believe I got
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  Speaker 5: a makeover, like complete kind of character changed makeover. I
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  Speaker 5: wanted to kind of have nothing from my past presence
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  Speaker 5: in this new iteration of Live Morgan, and so I
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  Speaker 5: decided to get rid of the sneakers and.
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  Speaker 4: I wrestled in boots for a while.
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  Speaker 5: But I really didn't like wrestling in boots, honestly, and
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  Speaker 5: especially after wrestling and sneakers for so many years, I
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  Speaker 5: felt like so constructed. So now I were just like
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  Speaker 5: an acic wrestling shoe, amateur wrestling shoe.
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  Speaker 4: When I put like kick pads over it, and then
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  Speaker 4: a leg cover over that to kind of give it
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  Speaker 4: the aesthetic. But it was really just sad.
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  Speaker 5: It was just me kind of wanting to be brand new,
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  Speaker 5: and that was getting rid of everything that I loved.
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  Speaker 3: Was there ever a favorite pair of sneakers that you
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  Speaker 3: wore to the ring that you really really love that
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  Speaker 3: you still have in your collection somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like a I.
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  Speaker 4: Have all of them. I literally have all of them.
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  Speaker 5: I just went through my shoes actually to make space
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  Speaker 5: like in my in my shoe raps, and I got
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  Speaker 5: rid of like I didn't get rid of them, but
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  Speaker 5: I took away like all my beater pairs, like all
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  Speaker 5: the pairs that I like really wore in the ring
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  Speaker 5: that are so creased, but like I am fence of
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  Speaker 5: my dolls, so like I can't let them go. That
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  Speaker 5: was about like thirteen pairs. I remember seeing the dorm
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  Speaker 5: bocker apes and being the hail like, I don't, I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I think I wrestled in them once.
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  Speaker 5: And it was in like New York City and I
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  Speaker 5: had I think Mets inspired.
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  Speaker 4: Wrestling gear and I wore the dorm bocker apes.
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  Speaker 5: So looking through my Sue Ragen Sin, those I was like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you know, just brings back memories.
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  Speaker 4: But I definitely kept them. They're you know, in storage now,
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  Speaker 4: but there was tons of bears.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, just donate them to WW.
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  Speaker 3: They'll put them up in like Fanatics World or something
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  Speaker 3: so I could see them. After you win that title,
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  Speaker 3: it'll be on the WrestleMania display everywhere else, And of
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  Speaker 3: course I'll.
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  Speaker 4: Get something up. I don't know why yet.
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  Speaker 3: Though, Well live, I know our time is running short here,
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  Speaker 3: so before we let you go, anything you want to
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  Speaker 3: say to the fans watching or listening to this right now? Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I want to say that the Judgment Day is
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  Speaker 5: the most iconic successful fashion in fashion in WW history.
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  Speaker 5: I want to say that myself and Dominic are the hottest,
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  Speaker 5: most talked about, most.
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  Speaker 4: Iconic couple w history.
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  Speaker 5: And I am the most talented, the funniest, the hottest,
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  Speaker 5: the most, the most, the most most, the most most
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  Speaker 5: and the greatest roma.
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  Speaker 4: Winner of all the time. And don't you forget that.
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  Speaker 4: Don't you forget that? And have a big decision to
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  Speaker 4: make the Watchman because I really don't know what I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna do, but it's gonna be good whatever it is.