Welcome to the Sunday edition of The Bust Open podcast, along with Justin LaBarr.

I'm Jonathan Hood.

And on today's show, we discuss Triple H's legacy from Connecticut Blue Blood to the game.

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Triple H, what a legacy from when he first got to WWE to where he is right now.

When you hear the nickname the game, it's not just the game as a wrestler or as a performer or as entertainer.

The game is being able to have awareness of everything and understanding your surroundings around you when it comes to pro wrestling.

If you just go in there with your gym bag, go in there with your boots and your tights,

and you're not, don't have your ear to the ground, finding out what's going on around you and in the business,

then you're doing yourself a disservice.

Triple H is one of those rare guys that understood walking into the building that he had a job

to do, but also knew everything around the WWE to get to where he is today.

Yeah, great, great point about the moniker of the game.

And because, you know, 25 years ago or whatever it was when

he started calling himself that and using that you know you could you interpreted it and just

listen to it in the context of what you thought of just in the present time of you know okay he's

he's he's he's the business He's the best wrestler at the moment.

That's what he's saying.

And you look back now, 25 years later, and you go, oh, whoa, he was playing 3D chess

when some of us thought that he was still on checkers.

He was making moves.

He truly was playing the game here.

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