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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

TJP's Newborn Baby Crashes Our Interview!

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.94.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

TJ Perkins (@megatjp) is better known as simply TJP. He is a professional wrestler who has worked for WWE, IMPACT Wrestling and he is currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling where is one half of the current IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. He joins Chris Van Vliet inside the Blue Wire Studios at the Wynn Las Vegas with his 1-year-old son James to talk about what has changed since the last time he was on the show in 2019, his fiancée Aria Blake, working with NJPW, his favorite memories from Impact Wrestling, he tells a great story about Hulk Hogan on a Southwest flight, how William Regal convinced him to be part of the first ever WWE Cruiserweight Classic and much more! For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. Follow CVV on social media:  Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All systems are going.

0:01.3

Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blea!

0:07.8

It is so good to see you, my friends.

0:11.4

Welcome back to another audio adventure here on Insight.

0:14.3

I'm CVV, Chris Van Vleek, coming to you from the beautiful, incredible,

0:19.8

unbelievably amazing Blue Wire Studios inside the

0:24.2

win Las Vegas.

0:25.2

And this was definitely a first for the show.

0:28.3

Our first baby, TJP texted me like an hour before our interview and said that plans

0:33.6

have changed and that he and his fiance, Aria Blake, didn't have anyone to watch

0:38.6

their almost one-year-old son, James. So he said, hey, could James come with me for the interview?

0:45.2

I said, of course. So TJ set up a little playpen during our interview just to T.J.'s

0:51.5

Right. And there's definitely a few moments where you can hear James

0:55.8

in the background. He just clearly had a lot to say. But it's been, it's been three years since the last

1:01.3

time I interviewed TJP. Obviously a lot's changed in the fact that he now has a fiance and he now

1:06.7

has a son. But that last interview was just after he left WWE and was having some amazing

1:13.5

success doing his own thing. He's now doing a lot of work. He's signed to New Japan. He is the

1:19.4

current IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion. And he's on social media at Mega Tjp i'm there at chris fan vlead please take a

1:30.4

screenshot share this on social media and tag us so we can share it as well and please enjoy it

1:37.0

it's cv and t j p this is a first for the show it's the first baby J. P.

1:47.1

This is a first for the show.

1:48.1

It's the first baby.

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