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Hello everybody. This is Rob Shivers
and I am the manager of the greatest

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stable and professional wrestling today, the
Emerald Empire. And you are listening to

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the King of Wrestling podcast. This
is Johnny Swinger, that King of Swing.

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You're listening to the King of Wrestling
podcast and don't sing it, swing

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it. And you're listening to the
King of Podcast number one. Ladies and

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gentlemen, my name is Brian Pillman
Junior, and you are listening to the

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Kings of Wrestling podcast. This is
our land. You're listening to the King

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Wrestling podcasting. And now you're host. Yes, I am the host with

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the most baby, I am Brandon
Turner. And well I got probably one

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of the second greatest managers in professional
wrestling today, none other than the manager

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of the Emerald Empire, Rob Shivers. What's going on? Rob? First

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and foremost? I cannot tell you
what our honor and a trivilege it is

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for all of you to have me
on this podcast today and second best and

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then look, look, look,
don't downgrade yourself so bad, brother,

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Hey, being second best, there's
nothing wrong with it whatsoever. I mean.

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Look, Charles Bronkley ever won the
championship because Jordan was around. It's

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okay to be Charles Bronkley brother.
Heyton, nobody's hold against you. Okay,

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I can see this podcast is gonna
be going south real quick. I'm

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gonna I'm gonna remove my ego for
half a second, for half a second,

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I'm gonna let you have the shine
for just one second. I usually

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don't do this, the breathing one, don't take a backseat to nobody,

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but I'm gonna let the Emerald Empire
come in for just a second and take

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over. So I'm gonna let you
have the floor tonight. Okay. That's

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what we do everywhere we go.
Man, that I mean, you didn't

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have to say that we are to
you. That's gonna happen. Yeah,

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yeah, I'll see that. Well, mister Shivers, it is an honor

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to have you on the podcast.
One of the reasons that I'm ha be

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that you're here. And I don't
know if you know this yet, but

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I have a problem with a certain
little worm and I heard you took him

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out at the AWF show a couple
of weeks ago, so thank you for

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that. You know what, I
heard that you had been having a problem

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with him. And I'm always around
too, let's just say fixed problems.

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That's kind of part of my job
as a manager. I am so sick

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to death of the worm. Walter
the worm. Jeezus, you should have

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saw him last night. All I'm
gonna say is, I'll send you the

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video so you can see it.
But he showed up last night to APW

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as the ring announcer, wearing dad
really new new balances and warm in the

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ring. I don't know about you, guys, but before I leave home,

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I make sure I have things like
I don't socks, pants, shoes.

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Come on, worm, you're better
than this. No, no,

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he's not. But I'll say this
though too. I've never seen him prepared.

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You know. The night before that
he was ring announcing at Awa and

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I mean I have to interrupt him. I can't, I tell him mean,

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you cannot introduce my guys, you
just don't have the voice. Farts.

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You gotta get out there because we
got I mean, I managed the

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Asa Spade, the Truth Star of
the Ace of the Awa and that's Charlie

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Ace. But uh and he picked
up the wind over DJ cit Brown.

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But I'm not gonna let that worm
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you know, you're pretty much tried
about him not being ever being prepared because

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his parents had five kids and he
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brother, brother is a lot behind, is all I'm trying to say,

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Worm, you gotta stif the game
up. I would, but you

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know our host Brandon Turner here,
he was correct when he said, you

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can't do better, but you can
at least try to do better. Kid,

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Come on, yeah, you can
try, and just don't do it

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with my clients. But Rob,
I want to jump into this, man,

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I kind of want to get started
with the fact I how long did

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you before you got into wrestling?
Like, were you a fan growing up?

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I will, I can honestly say, without one question, I can't

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remember a time in my life where
there was no such thing as there were

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I didn't watch wrestling, like the
story goes, I was just a couple

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of weeks old and up here around
at up here in Bruton, Alabama,

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there's a National Guard Army, and
like I was a couple of weeks older,

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my folks took me to my first
matches and been in it and literally

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ever since. I mean, like
some kids can say I can remember I

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was eight years old. Ought,
I can't remember not watching wrestling. Yeah,

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that's about like me. I man, when I grew up, I

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grew up on the Mid South.
I grew up on you know, WCWWWE

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you know. But I used to
go to the fairgrounds with my grandpa on

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Friday nights and watch Cowboy Bob Kelly
and all them guys back in the day.

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And uh it was it was a
fun time. So what what kind

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of sparked your interest into getting into
the wrestling business. It you've probably heard

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of ten million times. But like
when when up, like when you're growing

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up as kids, you always see
these kids say, oh, I want

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to be a fireman, I want
to be a police officer. I want

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to be in the military. I've
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Like, yeah, we all have
jobs, but I mean, like,

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if somebody come to me and put
a gun on my hands, and you

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get to do one job for the
rest of your life and it only one,

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what would it be? We have
to think about pro wrestling. I'm

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and like legit, most kids,
like when you're growing up and you have

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wrestling, you know, friends in
school like wrestling you know, you play

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wrestling and this guy, I want
to be whole Covid or I'm gonna be

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Andre. I legitimately understood from the
time I was a young child that I

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wanted to be Bobby Eating. Oh
my goodness, baby, no wonder we're

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great, like I mean, even
at a young age. And there stood.

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Yeah, everybody bought Russellmannia three to
watch Hogan and Andre, there's no

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question about it. And everybody loves
steing Vos Savage, but who really taught

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that program up besides the commentators like
Gorilla and Jesse and Vince who sold those

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tickets. Bobby, Bobby Heenvid and
Bobby Heenan gave was the reason. Like,

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if Andre would have just attacked Hogan, there would have still been a

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lot of fans who were on Andre's
side, But the minute he aligned himself

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with Henan, it's like, okay, there's no question we hate this guy.

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And I mean guys like Bobby Heenan, Jim Cornett, Gary Harp,

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those guys. I've always been a
heel fan. I never liked good guys.

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Yeah, I like Hogan, okay, but my main guys were Flare

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and Savage. When he was a
heel. Guys like that, I was.

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I was always a fan of the
heels, so I got it from

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a very young age. It's like, Okay, yeah, Hogan's cool,

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is big, he's muscular, he's
ten, he's got some hair. But

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then you look across the rent.
Then you switch the channel and you got

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Rick Flair, Who's coming out,
And literally you knew he was not be

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asking you about he's got limousines,
he's got women, money, how is

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this car? So that what you
knew, You could feel that, and

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even as a kid, you knew
that this guy was the epitome of what

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a pro wrestler was supposed to be. You really did. And you know,

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you talk about Bobby the Brain hen
Bobby the Brain Heenon was my inspiration

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to get into wrestling. Absolutely,
you talk about the heel factor and all

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that. I'm gonna just say this
back in the eighties when I was watching,

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I'm dating myself a little bit,
but Rick Rude one of my favorites.

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Yes, God, yes, I
loved him. If every wrestler could

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look like Rick Rude and everybody talked
like Bobby Henan, there would be there'd

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be there'd be turning away fans right
now, there'd be people still sitting outside

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of the building want to buy fin
By tickets. But yeah, Rick Rude,

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I loved his stick. You know, Bobby Hen could talk his head

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off, but all Rick Rude had
to do was say, cut my music.

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I want right now for all of
you inner city sweat holks to feast

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your eyes on what a real man
looks like. And it was like the

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dudes wanted to kill him and the
chips weren't to be with him. That's

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that's the ticket, That's that's arn. Anderson said it best. He said,

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baby faces sell merchandise, heels sell
tickets. Because people legitimately fought,

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paid money, got in the car
to come see somebody steps shove it up

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Bobby Hen's ass. Can we ever, by the way, what was that?

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Can we cursed on here? Oh? You can do whatever you want

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it. Man, you're you're free. This is a free rain. Okay.

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I'm I'm trying not to drop me
a bombary and feel like that.

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I just didn't want to like say
asking somebody go We'll wait a minute.

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But anyway we can edit that out, I guess. But yeah, people

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bought tickets to see Hogan kind of
get his hands on, Bobby. And

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that's the art of a manager.
You make people hate you, but thereby

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when I bring you to the ring
with me, they hate you too.

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You don't even have to work at
making them hate you. They automatically hate

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you. That that's the art,
and that really is And that's why I

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modeled myself after Bobby the Brain healing
on both when I do when I'm a

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manager, I'm modeled by by Bobby
the brain When I do commentary, I'm

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modeled by Bobby the brain heading.
So you know, Bobby the brain heading

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was a big part of my childhood
as a as a manager and a commentator

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exactly. And the thing about Bobby
was he taught me Brussel, I'm sorry

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he started over each taught me to
manage like you're a wrestler and rustle like

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a manager. Don't have to go
out there and nobody expects you to go

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out there and look like rain Mystereo. You your guy lost, so you

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your opponent's got five minutes with you. They're not expecting you to fly around

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the ring like a Lucador. They
want to see you get your ass kids,

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exactly. And then if it's a
hot enough issue. Maybe my guy

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screws screws the fan favorite and I
slide out somehow by the skin of my

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teeth. Then they're gonna be like, Okay, that's it, that's it,

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we're gonna get We're gonna come back
next next month, and we're gonna

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watch or guy kick your ass.
That that's just like fishing man. All

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you got to do is use the
right fate and set the hook. Completely

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agree there. Now, I want
to get into it. What how long

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have you been a manager? How
long have you been in wrestling. I've

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been in wrestling now for six years. I'll tell you right now. I'm

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forty years old. I got into
wrestling just by happen stance. I've always

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been going to shows, and you
know, bought my ticket and met up

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with the right people and come hook
or by crook. I got introduced to

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Seeker of the Lots and Molins and
his head booker at the time was his

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son Matt, And Matt said,
uh, you want to come try to

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be a manager? Sure, absolutely, So I show up the first show

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it's at a church, and I
get out of the truck, get all

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the stuff inside, and Matt goes
we don't have a ring anounce. Can

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you do the ring announcing? Absolutely, I just wanted a jersey. I

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didn't care what position I was playing
at the time. I really didn't care.

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So I ring announced for that show. And at the end of the

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show, Matt aka Rosie Rest in
Peace Rosie comes up Tim. He goes,

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we're having a show with the Senta
Rosa Auditorium next month. Come on

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back. So I go out to
the ring before the show and some of

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the guys that have just you know, having a little run through and they

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needed a referee to work out spots
and seek As Sammy Diey goes, you

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have referee shirt? I said,
no, sir. He gets somebody on

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the phone and next thing, I
got a referee shirt in my hand.

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I'm referee. So I spent the
last five years referee, just being a

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ref and then at the big and
then last year, of course, the

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pandemic hit, so I guess we
can count We were all, yeah,

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I guess we can count last year
as a year in the business or whatever.

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But then at the beginning of the
year, mister jacobone of the Emerald

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Empire, messes me up. He's
like, hey, you ever thought about

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being a manager every day since I
can remember. Uh, come on,

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manage us and the Renstess history.
That was in January this year, and

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I've been there manager ever since.
Wow. Well, I'm gonna just say

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this. I'm thirty eight, okay, so I'm right there. I'm knocking

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on the forty door with you.
Our pasts are very very similar. I

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mean almost to the tea the first
wrestling show I showed up to, or

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not the first wrestling show I showed
it too, But the first time I

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showed up, they needed a ring
announcer, and I ring announced, and

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then after that I went to referee
and and then here I am as a

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manager. That's how That's how it
worked with me as well. And I

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mean I've put in a lot of
time driving and everything. But you you've

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managed the Emerald Empire, which has
got a Gulf Coast legend himself and it's

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Cyrus Lavay and you got jacopone in
there. Now you've the Emerald Empire has

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been around for a little while,
so yes, and it's a pretty good

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name down are in Florida. Yes, you're trying to venture out law.

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Tell us a little bit about the
Emerald Empire and its members. Well,

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we started out the original Emerald Empire
was managed by Mike Jacobs, who is

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currently right now recuperating from next surgery. I guess that's how I got the

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spot open for me, But thank
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me to come in and step in. And it was Aaron James, who

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is now partnered up and tagging with
Hass Jensen. They are the Southern Stretching

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Crew. We've worked in and out
loosely affiliated with those guys for this past

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year. But the original Empire was
Jacob Holme, Mike Jacobs, and Aaron

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James. And then of course,
like I said, mister Jacobs had to

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go off and have next surgery,
and mister James decided, you know,

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he wanted to try to tag team
seeing for a while with a new partner

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and they're they're kicking ass. So
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to thinking about it, and uh, you know, we we kept cyrus

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On who was already a member when
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who is one of the he's he's
coming up pretty hot, but he's

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still uh an untapped resource in the
business. Uh, you got any time

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look him up. Frederick Yeager spelt
just like the drink. Also, we

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have downtown Cleveland Biggs. Cleveland Biggs
is an at mora Alabama native. He's

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uh. I literally watched him his
first day of training there and at War

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and the kid is has got nothing
but onward and upward for him. You

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know, once he once he really
taps into that, you know, finds

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out who he is as a wrestler
is going to be. How I see

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great things for this kid. But
that makes us up thus far, it's

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a Jake of Cyrus Leavey, Fredrick
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manager. And I will tell you
right now, buddy, as of last

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night, we've got more gold We
got more Golden Port Knox is all I'm

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trying to tell you. That's good
to hear because I mean the Emerald Empires

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coming. I'm gonna tell you something, Cyrus. I've been watching Cyrus for

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a long time and so a matter
of fact, I saw him the night

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that he joined forces with Jake Capone
and Aaron James. At the time I

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was at at More main event back
in at More. I'll buy back in

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I want to say December nineteen,
maybe, yeah, it was nineteen.

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I was there for that show.
And I've been around and seeing Cyrus for

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a long time. And so some
of the listeners out there because I want

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Cyrus on this show, you know, I don't wanting to get Syrus on.

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Tell some stories, but tell the
listeners a little bit about mister leave

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himself. Saras LaVey is a I
would say nineteen twenty plus year veteran of

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Gould Coast Wrestling. He's wrestled everywhere
you can think of really that that had

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open door to it of the mid
South. He's wrestled everywhere in the South

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that I can think of. I'm
not quite sure that very knowledgeable about his

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experiences outside of the Southern region here, but he's one of those guys.

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If you see him on the poster, you're gonna get a professional wrestler.

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He's not out there selling candy bars, T shirts and cokes. He's out

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there selling ass weapons and ARUs LaVey
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kings of Southern professional wrestling right now. It's it's it's tough to say this,

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but you know, the older we
get the more legend we lose,

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but at the same time, every
legend we lose, we get another spot

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opened up for another legend to be
bumped up. And Cyrus's right there.

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It's a tippy talk and I'm not
just saying it because he's a personal friend.

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I have this weird we had that
instant bond because I was at a

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referee there at at More's main event, and the first night we met,

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it was like, click, Okay, let's go get this. And like

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he he came to me the first
the first show he was there, I

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was gonna he's gonna punch me.
He's like, you're comfortable taking a bump?

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I was like, yeah, he
hit me. I bumped and he'd

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been good ever since. I mean, he's one of those guys that you

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know when he walks in the building, it's like we get our little puddle

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up and just do business. No
matter what position we're in, We're just

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whether they're scheming, Okay, we
can do this, this will be better

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for that. I mean, we
just have a It's like that instant click,

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and pretty much every one of the
guys and Empires like that. I've

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been like that with the Empires it's
like this business, you know how it

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is. You get in the locker
room, that'll be twenty guys. You're

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gonna instantly click with, maybe one
or two at a time. But it

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seems like all of us, all
these guys that I'm associated with, and

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that's like click that. But you
know what I'm talking about when I say

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that, Oh, exactly exactly,
bully h. And I think the Emerald

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Empires they've got a lot of stuff
coming in twenty twenty one. As long

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as they don't step on breathing inks
toes, they're gonna be just fine.

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On who's that now, brilliant ink? I don't clear clear that ear wax

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out of ears? Listen, here's
a deal. Now. I'm sure over

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there and miss a CSD y'aller top
ship, there's no question. But when

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you come when you cross that state
line over there where pople can read to

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Alabama and Florida, and that's saying
something about literacy, you're going to spind

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out that when we step in up
olding, we owned that building and we

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didn't have to pay for it.
Okay, well you got I stepped foot

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in Alabama and I had to sign
it, said quiet pleasing those people couldn't

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read that, so you might want
to rephrase that about Alabama. I just

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told you, man, I'm just
see you're not listening to see turn turn

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that belt one up. What I'm
trying to tell you is, yeah,

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we were not We were good.
But I'll tell you what we do do

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we will have asked better than anybody
in the business. Okay, we're not

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out here selling spoons, knives,
sports networks, TV shows, uh T

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shirts, Barbie dolls. We're not
selling none of that. What we sell

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is violence, and we give it
out for free and then we get the

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gold. Because we're only after three
things. Pay attention when I'm trying to

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tell you, we're after the MPG. That's money, power, and gold.

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And I'm telling you right, nasty, I don't even have to join

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a gym anymore. I don't have
to work out. You know why,

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because these boys is bringing me ten
pounds of gold. Every time they go

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out to the ring, they bring
back more gold. I'm out here,

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My back's killing me. I'm toting
all their stuff, just belt, just

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leather and gold. I don't have
to go out there and the PEG membership

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dudes for a gym Off, Cyrus
Levy, Jacopone, fred Vic Yeager,

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Cleveland Biggs. They're my own personal
goals gym. Literally, Well, I

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will say, you got a good
clientele list built up there, and uh

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so you said you've been in it
for six years. Hum, yes,

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sir, there's nothing like it is
there. If there is, I don't

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want to find it because it's it's
there's nothing more powerful. No, there

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really isn't at all, And that
you did. It's just like anything else.

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There are people who who are into
games thrones or football or baseball or

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basketball. You know, everybody's got
their their bug, their device, but

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until you're in it. And that's
why it's so hard, because it's I'm

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supposed to be easy. If it
was easy, anybody could do it.

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But it's it's the most difficult slash
enjoyable good in the world because if you

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if the fans don't believe it,
they're not going to buy it. And

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the first thing about it is you
got to believe it for them too.

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Exactly when I walk you know,
when I walk out there in that arena,

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I believe every word that I'm about
to say. Rather I could go

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out there and read you a doctor
Seus's book and have those people ready to

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stabbing, because I believe it.
It's just that something. I don't memorize

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stuff, I don't write stuff down. I'm not going over a script.

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I look out there in the crowd
and I'm like, okay, we am

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I gonna kill tonight. And I
just picked the entire crowd every time,

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because you know, singling out one
person is. But if you make an

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entire room, hey, you you
got it exactly. You're exactly right there.

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And but Rob, before we do, we're gonna start wrapping up here

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in just a short that I mean, let me just say this, even

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though you know you've manage a good
faction, good stable there, You're welcome

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on this show anytime, no doubt. We're gonna get you on here more

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than once. I promise you that. But before we do start to roll

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on out, I want to give
you the floor. You can plug whatever

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you want. I don't care what
it is. Man. Even if you've

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got cookies to sell, you can
sell them right here the floors yours.

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Well, you know, folks,
I'm just here to tell you right now,

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if you were in the sound of
my voice, go right now on

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your whatever device you're listening listening to
this podcast on Go type in the Emerald

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Vampire and search bar, go like
that page. Then I want you to

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go like the American Kai Jacopone.
Then I want you to go follow mister

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Red Yeager who goes by the name
of his real name. I'll tell you

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right now. It was Samuel Austin. He's on Facebook. And then you

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got Cleveland bigs. That's Cleveland,
like the city Biggs b I G G

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S. Go follow him. Then
what I want you to do is I

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want you to go to Cyrus Love
Baye. That's L. That's capital L

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small a capital V e y Cyrus
love A s I R U S love

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Abe. And then I want you
to do the greatest thing you've ever done.

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And you're like, go to your
search block and rob r O V

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shivers shi v E r S and
there you will find us, like all

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of our pages, follow us,
et cetera, et cetera. Then what

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I want you to do is find
that world we're gonna be no matter which

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one of us city is. I
can't be with everybody wants. These guys

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were spread out through all the Southeast. I can't be with everybody wants.

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But here's the deal. Find that
where we are, and when you find

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out where we are, get your
little calendar book out and type in going

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to see the Animals Empire. That's
all you have to do. Whatever they

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charge the door, no matter what
various ways you have are paying things,

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cards, cash, bottle, spoons, mile sports, tire of you pay

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for things, worre you're from,
you come on down and you sit down

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and get ready because you're about to
watch excellence and action. Now do we

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have all the championships? Not right
now we don't. But in a very

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very very short time. See,
here's the thing. We've already got the

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let's see the Brian Reese memorial cuff
from IPW alpreiser for Frederick Yeger one that

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check. We've got the a w
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check. And last night Cyrus Lavay
won the SWO Heavyweight Championship check. And

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in a very short time, mister
Lovy will be the ip W that's Impact

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Pro Wrestling out of our praising Florida. He will be that company's heavyweight champion.

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Now do you see the pattern on
Lana here for you folks, you

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see, you folks like to run
around here. I'm gonna speak to these

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enigma Alabama Crimson type things. You
like a football Pay attention dummies. You

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like to run around here, and
every year you win one championship, you

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had five. See that's how you
know you're a Bama fan. You can't

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count. You want to yell,
oh we got sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,

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twenty one championships. Well last week
he had teens. Pay attention dummies.

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Before long, we're going to have
all of the championship gold that this

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sport has to offer. See,
in the amateur world of college football,

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you heltly win one championship. Sit
one of years done. We've won one

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before breakfast this morning. Okay,
you are looking and listening to the greatest

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for wrestling manager. President Company excluded
the greatest professional wrestling manager and the sport

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today. Notice I didn't say the
greatest sports entertainment manager in the in the

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industry. Note I'm the greatest manager
in the sport to day. And that's

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not knocking anybody. That's like I
said of it. Charles Barkley, Patrick,

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you and all those guys Hall of
famers, adulation money everywhere but though

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championships because of Jordan, I don't
wear twenty three. I just wear number

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one. Okay, period. But
I'm here to tell you folks right now,

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if you'll want to see excellence,
come see us. But just remember

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before you sit, we're the Emerald
Empire. You're not. And I'm going

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to turn it back over to mister
Turner after I say this. All of

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you are welcome. Well, thank
you. Enjoyed your speech there. I'll

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pick it apart later, but but
I want to appreciate you for coming on

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joining this, and you're more than
welcome to come on anytime you get ready.

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Mister turned the pleasure was all of
you. It was all of your

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pleasures. However, you're supposed to
say that plurally if that's the word.

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If it wasn't it is now.
I make up words all the time.

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Don't worry about it. They'll be
in your dictionary next year. But you

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folks be safe out there coming to
ten and two in front of the shows.

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And because guess what we want your
money? Yes we do. Well,

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thank you once again. We'll see
you lady. Y'all have a good

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weekend and we'll check you out next
week. Right here on King Wrestling Podcast.

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