Nashville guru

It’s 7:30 AM here and I’ve had 3 cups of coffee but hear me out: I believe one of the main reasons the trolls are moving back to Nashville is to do a “health supplement” collab with JJD. We all know she’s short & stubby fit but collaborating with her will bring more awareness to SSF & JJD may be able to add snake oil salesman/ health guru to her resume. Thoughts?? Or is it the coffee?

I'm particularly on the hunt for Cantonese dim sum, Vietnamese, Caribbean, smoked meats, and Indian. Due to good options in NYC, I probably won't bother going for Thai, Korean, French, pizza or Greek unless you have a real standout recommendation. I'd prefer stuff accessible by public transit + walking but don't mind going outside that range for a good restaurant.
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Please let me know what I'm missing or if you think I should bump a restaurant up/down from the "must try" list!
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Must try:
Vietnamese: Pho Tien Thanh, Pho Lien Hung, Pho Anh Vu
Italian: Famiglia Baldassarre
Smoked Meats: Summilicious
St. Lawrence market (Veal with eggplant and all toppings from Uno Mustachio in the basement, peameal bacon sandwich from Carousel Bakery with only mustard
Dim Sum: Casa Victoria, Casa Imperial, Skyview, Din Tai Fung, Yu Seafood
Fusion: DaiLo
Jamaican: Allwyn's Bakery (stuffed sandwich/baked goods, one of y’all get the jerk chicken sandwich with slaw, the other get a small jerk chicken with rice and peas with ox tail gravy), Island Foods, Mona's Roti, Simone's Caribbean, Chubby's (jerk), Patois Toronto, Miss Likklemore's (goat and slaw) Indian: Madras Masala, Roti Mahal
French: Alo, Aloette
Fried Chicken: Chen Chen's Nashville Hot Chicken, Chicas Nashville Hot Chicken, Ding a Wing
Middle Eastern: Mahas (Cairo Classic or the Po' Boy, long line- go Tuesday, Thursday or Friday before 11 or after 1)
Sandwiches: Black Camel (brisket sandwich with extra horseradish)
Ramen: Ramen Isshin, Hokkaido Ramen Santouka
Bakery: Wanda’s Pie in the Sky (coconut cream)
Etheopian: Rendez-Vous
Alternatives/other options:
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Mexican: Itacate, Seven Lives Tacos y Mariscos, Campechano Taquería, Puerto Bravo, King's Tacos (Carnitas)
Ramen: Kyouka Ramen, Midori Ramen, Kyouka Ramen, Musoshin Ramen
Jamaican: Chris Jerk Caribbean Bistro, Albert's Real Jamaican Foods (plate), Raps Authentic Jamacan, Roywoods, Fahmee bakery (doubles)
Haitian: Rhum Corner
Middle Eastern: Fat Pasha, Flaming Stove, Alforat, Parallel (parallel salad and a hummus bowl of your choice with a 4 piece falafel set), Zaad (Shuwarma), Aleppo Kebab
Sandwiches: Illstyl3 Sammies, DAM Sandwiches, Papamio's, Grandma Loves You
Nicaraguan: La Bella Managua (Jalapeno chicken)
Himalayan: Loga's Corner, Himalayan Kitchen
Dim sum: Crown Prince Fine Dining and Banquet, Pearl Harbourfront Chinese Cuisine (closer but not as good), Rol San (same), My Wonderful Kitchen, The One Fusion, Sue Fung's (best downtown option), Casa Deluz
Chinese: Swatow, Richmond Court, Chat Bar (skewers), Qin's Garden (soup dumplings), New Sky, Fredericks (Mississauga location), Chung Moi, Congee Wong, Congee Queen, Chung Moi
Vietnamese: Linh Anh Vietnamese Cuisine, Pho Non La, Tam Cafe, Banh Mi Nguyen Huong, Pho 90, Vit Beo, Anh Dao, Pho Ngoc Yen
BBQ: Beach Hill Smokehouse (Brisket), The Carbon Bar (Ribs)
Indian: Chauhan’s Indian Express, The Host Fine Indian Cuisine, Guru Luckshmi, The Nilgiri’s, Roti Mahal, Desi Burger, Kerala Curry House, Madras Kaapi, Mother India, Curryish Tavern, Adrak, Banjara, Roti Cuisine of India
Italian: Giulietta, Ferro Bar and Cafe, Forno Cultura, Gio Rana's, Ardo, 7 Numbers, Charisma, Viaggio
Filipino: Republika, Tinuno, Kanto by Tita Flips (sisig fries), Mineral
Indonesian: Little Sister
Greek: Pantheon, Mezes, Mamakas Taverna
Eastern European: Ossington Stop, Tiflisi
Chicken: PG Clucks
Smoked Meat: Pancer's Original Deli, When the Pig Came Home (Sloppy Rueben And beef patty), Centre Street Deli, Dave’s Original Deli (Beef Knish, Rice Pudding, Corned Beef Rueben)
Fusion: ODDSEOUL
Korean: Buk chang dong soon tofu
Etheopian: Wazema
Bakery: Roselle, Romi's, San Remo Bakery (apple fritters), Le Beau, Serano Bakery
Japanese: Imanishi
African: Afrobeat Kitchen
German: Wvrst
Gelato: Soma Chocolate, Bar Ape
Pizza: Pizzeria Badiali, Fresca Pizza and Pasta

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/columnist/bell/2019/04/20/nfl-draft-lying-season-means-dirty-tricks-misinformation-norm/3528356002/
Opinion: NFL's 'Lying Season' before draft means dirty tricks, misinformation are the norm
Jarrett Bell
USA TODAY
Published April 20th, 2019
It’s that time of year. Lying Season. Be careful what you believe as the NFL draft looms. Because what you hear is not necessarily rooted in the truth.
No, we’re in full swing with another type of NFL gamesmanship. Misinformation and mixed signals rank right up there in the process with 40-yard dash times and three-cone drills.
As the league embarks on celebrating its 100th season, this too, is NFL tradition.
“April should be known in the NFL as National Liars Month,” Gil Brandt, the Hall of Fame-bound, former personnel guru told USA Today Sports. “Everybody is trying to create a smokescreen, both ways.”
Every draft season, it seems there is some top prospect whose stock suddenly falls in the weeks before the draft, while others rise. Typically, word is leaked that one or multiple teams were unimpressed with an interview, or conversely, a player blew away teams with a workout or chalk talk.
And why is that?
“It increases every year,” Brandt -- once the Dallas Cowboys' personnel chief and now a media maven with NFL.com -- said of the agenda-fueled gossip. “It’s like the pole vault, where the record goes up every year. There are more smokescreens. More subterfuge. A very interesting time of year.”
This time, with the three-day draft kicking off Thursday in Nashville, it has been widely reported that Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins’ (1st round, pick 15) stock is supposedly slipping – just as Missouri’s Drew Lock and Duke’s Daniel Jones are climbing the QB charts.
Don’t buy the hype. Lock (Round 2, Pick 42) and Jones (Round 1, pick 6) are indeed projected as first-round picks, but it’s not like Haskins is chopped liver. During the combine, Haskins was viewed as the alternative opposite Kyler Murray, who is widely pegged to go No. 1 overall to the Arizona Cardinals.
Now Haskins might not be the second quarterback drafted? C’mon. He hasn’t played a game since the combine and now his draft stock is in a free-fall?
Haskins insists he isn’t sweating the gossip.
“I don’t pay attention to it,” he told USA Today Sports on Friday. “Now my friends have been asking me. My mom is like, ‘Did you see what they said?’ It doesn’t bother me.
Former Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins has been viewed as a possible alternative to Kyler Murray in the first round. “The biggest thing is to do what I have to do. Do well in the meetings. Do well with the visits. Throw the ball well in the workouts. I know I’m going to be a great NFL quarterback.”
Still, stuff is out there from all angles. For instance, Brandt warns it could be a mistake to read too much into the 30 players each team is allowed to bring for official visits – presumably because they have more than casual interest. Some teams use the visits as a sleight-of-hand move in an attempt to conceal true intentions about prospects they could draft.
Add to that the pre-draft news conferences teams conduct, where the messaging can get deep. Or comical. That will continue on Monday when Washington’s Doug Williams, Seattle’s Pete Carroll and John Schneider, San Francisco’s John Lynch and Indianapolis’ Chris Ballard will be among shot-callers at the podium.
On Thursday, Giants GM Dave Gettleman danced around the quarterback question in weighing what he might do with his second pick in the first round, 17th overall. He threw out cornerback, wide receiver or maybe … "A sports writer,” joking to throw off the scent.
Of course, it would be a bit reckless to reveal specific strategy. But Gettleman, who hailed the worth of the quarterback crop, stopped short when asked if it was better than last year’s group.
“I am not going there,” he replied. “C’mon now.”
Whatever he said, as is the case for other GMs, was likely well-scripted.
“Anything that you say into a microphone can go all over the country instantly,” Phil Savage, former Browns GM and Ravens personnel director, told USA Today Sports.
Twenty years ago, Savage pointed out, the pre-draft sessions were attended by a handful of local reporters. It was local news. Now it’s national fodder.
“Now, I’d think that every GM in the league has a session with their PR director beforehand, determining what they are going to say,” Savage said. “There’s more strategy. Certain players, there’s already a narrative and the mock drafts. Well, if you think the player is overrated and want another player, as a GM you’re going to keep pumping that narrative.”
Like Brandt, Savage was a bit stunned to hear the narrative coming out of Oakland on Friday. Reportedly, Raiders coach Jon Gruden and new GM Mike Mayock sent the bulk of the team’s scouts home because of a lack of trust. During what could be the most important draft in the franchise’s history, with Oakland holding three first-round picks, apparently only a handful of the Raiders' personnel staff will be in the mix during the draft. Clelin Ferrell 1st round, pick 4 / Josh Jacobs 1st round, pick 24 / Jonathan Joseph 1st round, pick 27)
Sure, every team runs its draft differently. Bill Belichick typically will have only four or five staff members in the Patriots’ war room during the draft (and no, Belichick didn’t give up anything during his pre-draft presser). Others fully involve scouts, even to the point of including them in open war-room discussions during the draft.
The Raiders’ apparent action, though, connects with concerns about how information – and misinformation – flows with the draft.
“I can understand why people would have some paranoia,” Savage said, alluding to the capabilities of smartphones. “I think there’s more risk than ever of having information go out of your war room.”
Yet that risk has always been part of the process. Let Brandt tell you about the 1987 draft, when he set a trap because he suspected one of his scouts leaked information to the media. In the days before the draft, he arranged the Cowboys’ draft board to appear as if the target with the 12th pick was Duke linebacker Mike Junkin – a player Brandt had no intention of drafting.
“Two days later, there’s a story by Jim Dent (in the Dallas Times Herald) saying that we were going to draft Junkin,” Brandt recalled.
The Cowboys ultimately picked defensive tackle Danny Noonan in the 12th slot. Junkin went fifth overall to the Browns – who swung a trade to move up – and wound up as a major bust with just seven starts and 20 games played in the NFL.
Did Brandt fire the scout?
“No, but we knew who did it,” he said. “And he knew we knew.”
Funny, but that brings to mind another episode with Brandt during the ‘80s, when I worked as a writer for the Cowboys’ team newspaper. The year before the Junkin experiment, Brandt told me he would use the Cowboys’ first-round pick on UCLA receiver Mike Sherrard.
Knowing the draft information twists, even back then, I didn’t believe Brandt.
A few days later, he drafted Sherrard, 18th overall.
I reminded Brandt of my suspicion. He laughed.
“Yeah, I remember,” he said. “I told you because I trusted you!”
Trust? With draft intel? Seems odd. Brandt tipping me off about Sherrard now seems like a classic smokescreen on top of a smokescreen. It figures. With the NFL draft, there’s a fine line between shooting straight and being bamboozled.
Over the past couple weeks, seemingly odd info has come out. Perhaps misinformation.

1. Commanders said Howell was not their starter, now suddenly they are likely to stick with him.
   
2. 1st overall? Bryce for weeks, then CJ for weeks, now Bryce again.
   
3. The Colts have been tied to drafting a rookie 4th overall, now articles arguing they will pass are showing up.
   

What are your thoughts?

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Please add those names in the Create a Superstar Mode and please in #WWE2K24. You guys improve the Presentation Names in the Create a Superstar mode.
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Names that have been in the game for ages:
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Letters: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
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A: Aaron, Abs, Ace, Action, Adam, Adams, Adder, Adrian, Akane, Akira, Al, Alan, Alex, Alexander, Ali, Alice, Alien, Alpha, Amanda, Amateur, Amazing, Amazon, Amber, Ambiguous, American, Amir, Amy, Andersen, Andrew, Andy, Angel, Angelina, Angle, Angus, Ant, Anthony, Antoine, Antonio, Ape, Aquarius, Arcade, Arch, Archangel, Arctic, Aries, Armadillo, Ashley, Asian, Astronaut, Atlantic, Aunty, Austin, Awesome, Azrael
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B: Baby, Back, Bad, Bailey, Baker, Balmer, Baltimore, Bane, Barbarian, Barnett, Bart, Base, Basket, Bay, Bear, Beast, Bee, Beginus, Bell, Belt, Ben, Beret, Bernie, Big, Bigdaddy, Biker, Bill, Bily, Bison, Black, Blade, Blake, Blank, Blaze, Blizzard, Blue, Boar, Bob, Booger, Bottom, Bouncer, Bowen, Boxer, Boy, Brad, Bradley, Brain, Bradley, Brain, Brandon, Brawler, Brent, Brett, Brian, British, Brittany, Brock, Brody, Brooklyn, Brother, Brown, Bruce, Bruiser, Bryan, Bryant, Bryce, Bubba, Buffalo, Bug, Buggy, Bull, Burglar, Buster, Butcher
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C: Caffeine, Cage, Cali, Camacho, Campbell, Canadian, Canary, Cancer, Canine, Capricorn, Captain, Carl, Carlos, Carter, Case, Casey, Cassidy, Cat, Chameleon, Champ, Champion, Chang, Charles, Charlie, Charlotte, Cheater, Cheese, Chef, Chen, Chet, Chicago, Chicken, Chief, Chimera, Chinese, Cho, Cholo, Chris, Christian, Christina, Christopher, Chuck, City, Clarence, Clark, Claws, Cliff, Clinton, Cloud, Clown, Coast, Cobra, Cockroach, Coconut, Cody, Cole, Colin, Colt, Columbus, Commander, Communist, Convict, Cooper, Cop, Corporal, Corporate, Corpse, Cory, Cougar, Cowboy, Coyote, Crab, Crack, Craig, Crazed, Crazy, Criminal, Crimson, Crocodile, Crow, Cruiser, Crusty, Crystal, Curtis, Cyborg
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D: Daddy, Dallas, Damn, Dan, Danger, Daniel, Danielson, Daring, Dark, Darrell, Dave, David, Davis, Day, Deadly, Deal, Dealer, Death, Defector, Demon, Dennis, Denver, Destroyer, Detroit, Devil, Devin, Diamond, Dickey, Dinosaur, Dirty, Disaster, Diva, Doc, Doctor, Dog, Dojo, Dominator, Don, Donald, Double, Douglas, Dragon, Drake, Dreamer, Dublin, Dude, Duke, Durr, Dustin, Dusty, Dwayne, Dylan, Dynamic, Dynamite
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E: Eagle, Earl, Earp, Earth, East, Eastern, Eater, Ed, Edward, Edger, El, Electric, Elephant, Eliminator, Elite, Elizabeth, Emerald, Emily, Epic, Eric, Erik, Ethan, Evan, Evening, Executioner, Expert, Eye, Eyed
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F: Faceless, Falcon, Fallen, Familiar, Fanboy, Fast, Father, Feline, Female, Fiend, Fierce, Finch, Fink, Fire, Finisher, Flea, Fletcher, Fly, Flying, Fool, Foot, Fort, Fox, Franco, Frank, Freak, Freaky, Frenchman, Fresno, Friend, Frisco, Front, Frost, Funky, Funny, Future
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G: Gabe, Gabriel, Gaming, Gangster, Garcia, Gargoyle, Gary, Gas, Gates, Gemini, General, Genie, Genius, George, Ghost, Giant, Gibby, Gilbert, Girl, Gladiator, Goat, God, Gold, Golden, Goldman, Gonzalez, Good, Gondo, Gorilla, Goth, Grabber, Graham, Grandma, Grandpa, Grave, Gray, Great, Green, Greg, Gregory, Griffin, Grime, Grizzly, Groovy, Gulf, Gun, Guru, Guy
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H: Hacker, Hammer, Hammett, Hannibal, Hardcore, Harris, Harry, Hat, Hawk, Heart, Heather, Heavenly, Heavy, Henry, Herbert, Hernandez, Hero, Hideous, Hill, Hippo, Hitman, Hockey, Hogg, Holiday, Holly, Hollywood, Homer, Homie, Hood, Hooligan, Hornet, Horse, Horsemen, Hosoqai, Hotstuff, Howard, Hubert, Hugh, Hundred, Hunter, Hustler, Hustlin
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I: Ian, Icon, Icy, Immortal, Indian, Indianapolis, Indy, Iron, Irritating
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J: Jack, Jackie, Jacksonville, Jacob, Jade, Jaguar, Jake, James, Jane, Japanese, Jared, Jason, Jay, Jefe, Jeff, Jeffrey, Jen, Jennifer, Jeremy, Jerry, Jesse, Jessica, Jester, Jet, Jim, Jimmy, Jin, Job, Joe, Joel, John, Johnny, Johnson, Joker, Jonathon, Jones, Jordan, Jose, Joseph, Josh, Joshua, Juan, Judge, Judo, Jun, Just, Justice, Justin
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K: Kabal, Kang, Kano, Karate, Kareem, Katelynn, Keith, Ken, Kendall, Kendo, Kenneth, Kent, Kevin, Kid, Killer, Kimberly, King, Kirk, Kisser, Kitty, Kline, Knight, Kobayashi, Kong, Korean, Kowalczyk, Kurt, Kyle
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L: Ladiesman, Lance, Land, Larry, Las Vegas, Lassiter, Laura, Lauren, Ledesma, Lee, Legend, Lenny, Leo, Leon, Leonard, Leonardo, Lewis, Lex, Liam, Libra, Lightning, Lilith, Lion, Lisa, Little, Log, Loki, Long, Long Beach, Lopez, Lord, Los Angeles, Louisville, Love, Lovecraft, Lover, Luchador, Lucifer, Luger, Lui, Luis, Lumpy, Lunatic, Lurking, Luthor
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M: Machine, Macho, Mack, Macleod, Madison, Madman, Maggie, Magic, Majestic, Maker, Malcolm, Male, Mall, Mamba, Man, Maniac, Manly, Mantis, Marcus, Marge, Mark, Marko, Marshall, Martin, Martinez, Marty, Masked, Master, Mastodon, Matador, Matsuda, Matsumoto, Matt, Matthew, Maverick, Max, Maximus, McCarthy, McDonald, McGregor, Mega, Megan, Melissa, Member, Memphis, Men, Mercer, Mercury, Metal, Meticulous, Mexican, Miami, Michael, Michelle, Mick, Mike, Miles, Miller, Mime, Mini, Miss, Mitchell, Model, Mohammad, Mommy, Money, Monk, Monkey, Monster, Montana, Moore, Morgan, Morning, Morris, Mortal, Mosquito, Mother, Motor, Mountie, Mouse, Mr., Mrs., Ms., Mummy, Murphy, Muscle, Mutant, Mystical
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N: Nashville, Nate, Nathan, Nathaniel, Natural, Navajo, Nelson, Nerd, Nero, New, New York, Nice, Nicholas, Nick, Nicole, Night, Nightmare, Ninja, Nitro, Noah, North, Northern, Nose, Nurse, Nut
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O: Oak, Octopus, Of, Ogre, Old, Oliver, Olympian, Omega, Online, Oozing, Opal, Ophiuchus, Orange, Otaku, Outlaw, Owen, Ox
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P: Pacific, Page, Pain, Palmer, Panda, Panther, Park, Parker, Pastor, Patch, Pathetic, Pathological, Patrick, Patriot, Patriotic, Paul, Peanut, Pedro, Peltier, Penguin, People, Perez, Perry, Peter, Phantom, Phenom, Philadelphia, Phillip, Philly, Phoenix, Pierre, Pine, Pinky, Pirate, Pisces, Platinum, Playboy, Player, Poker, Polar, Pow, Powell, Power, President, Prince, Princess, Principal, Pristine, Pro, Prodigy, Professional, Professor, Prototype, Prune, Psycho, Puma, Punks, Purple
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Q: Queen, Quinn, Quitter
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R: Rabid, Rachel, Raiden, Rain, Ralston, Ram, Ramirez, Randy, Rat, Rattle, Raymond, Real, Reaper, Rebecca, Recluse, Recto, Red, Reese, Regime, Renegade, Reptile, Rhino, Ricardo, Richard, Richardson, Rick, Riley, Ring, Rio, Riviera, Rivers, Rob, Robert, Robinson, Rocker, Rocky, Rod, Rodriguez, Ronald, Ronin, Rookie, Rooster, Roy, Ruby, Rude, Russ, Russian, Ryan
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S: Sack, Sacramento, Sagittarius, Saint, Sakamoto, Sam, Samoan, Samuel, Samurai, San Antonio, San Francisco, San Jose, Sanchez, Sand, Santa, Sapp, Sapphire, Sarah, Sarge, Satin, Satoru, Savage, Savior, Scarecrow, Scorpio, Scorpion, Scott, Scottish, Screaming, Sean, Sears, Seattle, Senator, Senior, Sensation, Serbian, Sergeant, Sergio, Serpent, Seth, Sexy, Shadow, Shamownage, Shane, Shang, Shannon, Shaolin, Shaw, Shawn, Sheldon, Sherrill, Shingo, Show, Shrinker, Siberian, Side, Sikh, Silent, Silva, Silver, Simon, Simpson, Sin, Sister, Skater, Skinner, Slate, Slopes, Small, Smasher, Smith, Smoke, Smoking, Snake, Sniper, Snow, Soccer, Sokolov, Soldier, Sonya, Sophia, Soul, South, Southern, Soviet, Space, Spartan, Spectacular, Spider, Stalker, Stallion, Star, Stephanie, Stephen, Steve, Steven, Stick, Stinky, Storm, Storms, Straw, Street, Strong, Student, Stunt, Styles, Sub, Submission, Sue, Sullivan, Sunshine, Superstar, Supreme, Surfer, Surgeon, Suzuki, Syndicate
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T: Taipan, Tank, Tarantula, Tattooed, Taurus, Taylor, Teacher, Technical, Ted, Teddy, Teenager, Terror, The, Thief, Thighs, Thing, Thomas, Thompson, Thousand, Thug, Thunder, Tia, Tic, Tickler, Tiffany, Tiger, Tiki, Timothy, Tin, Tiny, Titan, Toc, Todd, Tokyo, Tom, Tommy, Tony, Top, Tornado, Torres, Town, Toy, Travis, Trevor, Triple, Trouble, Troy, Tsung, Turbo, Turner, Turtle, Twin, Tyler, Tyson
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U: Ugly, Ultimate, Ultra, Uncle, Unstoppable
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V: Vampire, Van, Vandiver, Vega, Vegas, Vice, Victor, Viking, Villain, Vince, Vincent, Violet, Viper, Virgil, Virgo, Virtual, Visor, Voodoo
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W: Walken, Walker, Wall, Walter, Wandering, Warden, Warlock, Warlord, Washington, Wasp, Water, Watson, Wayne, Web, Webmaster, Wesley, West, Western, Whiny, White, Wide, Widow, Wild, Will, William, Williams, Williamson, Wilson, Witch, Wolf, Wolverine, World, Wrestler, Wyatt
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X: Xander
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Y: Yamashita, Yap, Yellow, York, Yosef, Young, Youngblood, Yuri
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Z: Zachary, Zero, Zodiac.
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WWE2K19, WWE2K20, WWE2K22:
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A - A K 47 - A-List - Aaron - Abbott - Ace - Adam - Adams - Adorable - Adrian - Ahmed - Aiden - AJ - Akane - Akira - The Alabama Slamma - Alan - Albert - Albright - Aldo - Aleksander - Alex - Alexander - Alexia - Ali - Alice - The All American - Allen - Alpha - Amanda - The Amateur - Amaya - Amber - The American Dream - Americas Sweetheart - Amir - Amy - The Anarchist - Andersen - Anderson - Andre - Andrea - Andres - Andrew - Andrews - Andy - Angel - Angela - Angela - Angelina - Angelo - Angus - The Animal - Ann - Anna - Anne - The Anomaly - Ant - Anthony - Antista - Antoine - Antonio - Archangel - Aric - Arik - Armstrong - Arn - Arnold - Arthur - Ashley - The Asian Nightmare - The Assassin - The Athlete - Austin - Avalanche - Awesome - The Axe - Axe - Azrael
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B
B - Babe - Babos - Baby Face - Backlund - Bacon - Bad - Bad Attitude - Bad Boy - The Bad Guy - Bailey - Baker - Bakke - Baldwin - Ball - Ballesca - Balmer - Balousek - Bannon - Barbara - The Barbarian - Barber - The Barber - Barend - Barker - Barnes - Barnett - Barrett - Barry - Bart - Bartlett - Barton - Bas - Basham - The Basket Case - Bass - Bates - Batista - Bay - Bear - The Bear - The Beast - The Beastmaster - Beauchamp - Beautiful - Becca - Bee - Beech - Beefcake - Beginus - Behrens - Bell - Ben - Benally - Benjamin - Bennett - Benson - Beretta - Bernie - Berry - The Best - Betty - Beverly - Big - Big Bad - Big Evil - Big Ham - Big Magic - Big Meanie - Big Money - Big Nasty - Big Time - Bill - Billy - Bishop - Bison - Black - Blacksmith - Blackwell - Blade - Blake - Blanchard - Bland - Blaze - The Blueprint - Bob - Bobby - The Body - Bolek - The Bombshell - Bombshell - Boone - The Boss - Boulay - Bourne - Bowen - Bowers - Bowlin - Bowman - Boy - Boyd - Brad - Braddock - Bradford - Bradley - The Brain - Bram - Brandon - Bravo - The Brawler - Brayden - Brenda - Brent - Brett - Brewer - Brian - Briggs - Brinton - Brittany - Brock - Brody - Brooks - Brown - Bruce - Bruiser - The Bruiser - Bruno - Brute - Brutus - Bryan - Bryant - Bryce - Bubba - Buck - Buckley - Buddy - Bui - The Bull - Bulldog - Bulldozer - Bullwhip - Burchfield - Burns - Burnstorm - Burton - Bush - Buster - Butch - The Butcher - Butcher - Butler - Buzzsaw - Byrd - Byron
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C
C - Cactus - Calcote - Caldwell - Caleb - Cali - Cameron - Campbell - Candy Man - Cannon - Captain - Carl - Carlito - Carlos - Carmelo - Carol - Carolyn - Carpenter - Carr - Carter - Case - Casey - Cashman - Cassidy - Castle - Castro - Catherine - Caveman - Cepeda - Cesar - Champ - The Champ - Chandler - Chaney - Chang - Chapman - Charles - Charlie - Charlotte - Charming - Chase - Chen - Cheryl - China - Cho - The Chosen One - Chris - Christian - Christie - Christina - Christine - Christopher - Christopherson - Chuck - Church - Cindy - Clarence - Clark - Clarke - The Claw - Clemens - Cliff - Clingan - Clinton - Clown - Coach - Coachman - Cobb - Cody - Cole - Coleman - Coles - Colin - Collins - Colonel - Colossus - Colt - Columbus - Connor - Consiglio - Cook - Cooke - Cooper - Corino - Cory - Cottonbelly - County - Cowboy - Cox - Coyote - Craig - Crawford - Crazy - Cretchman - Crimson - Cruce - Cruise - Crush - Crusher - The Crusher - Cruz - Cry Baby - Crystal - Cubas - Culver - Cummings - Cunningham - Curt - Curtis - Cutie Pie - The Cyborg - Cyclone - Cynthia
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D - Daddy - Daigle - Dalehite - Dallas - Dalton - Damian - Dan - Danger - Dangerous - Daniel - Danielle - Daniels - Danielson - Danny - Darrell - Darren - Dashing - Dave - David - Davidson - Davis - Dawn - Day - Dean - Death - Deaver - Deborah - Debra - Demers - Demoise - Demon - Denise - Dennis - Derek - Derick - Derk - The Destroyer - The Devil - Devious - Devon - Diamond - Diana - Diane - Diaz - Dickey - Diego - Dino - Dirty - The Disaster - Dixon - Dizzy - Doc - Doctor - The Dog - Dog - Doink - The Doll - The Dominator - Dominguez - Don - Donahue - Donald - Donaldson - Dondelinger - Donna - Doris - Dorothy - Double A - Doug - Douglas - Drago - The Dragon - Drake - Draven - The Dream - Dregs - Drew - Droese - Drolet - Dubb - Dublin - Dude - Dudley - Duece - Duggan - Duke - The Dumpster - Duncan - Dunn - Dustin - Dusty - Dwayne - Dyer - Dylan - Dynamic - Dynamite
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E - The Eagle - Earl - Earp - Eaton - Eddie - Edward - Edwards - El Guapo - El Jefe - El Numero Uno - Elgin - Eli - Elijah - The Eliminator - Elizabeth - Elkins - Elliot - Elliott - Ellis - Elston - Emerson - Emily - Emma - The Enforcer - The Engineer - England - Epps - Eric - Ethan - Eugene - Evan - Evans - Evelyn - Everett - Ewing - Express - Extreme
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F - The Falcon - Faria - Farmer - The Felon - Felt - Fenwick - Ferguson - Fernandez - Figueroa - Finch - Fingers - Fink - Finkel - The Fireman - Fisher - Flapjack - Flash - Fleites - Fletcher - Flores - Flyboy - Flynn - Fonseca - Ford - Foster - Fowler - Fox - Fraga - Frances - Francine - Francisco - Franco - Frank - Frankie - Franklin - The Freak - Freakzilla - Freeman - Freight Train - French - The French Paradox - Fresnedi - Frost - Frye - Fuller - Funky - Furious - The Future
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G
G - Gabriel - Gallareto - Gang - The Gangster - Garcia - Gardner - Garrett - Gary - Gates - Gauge - Gavin - Geary - Gene - General - Genie - The Gentle Giant - Gentleman - George - Georgie - Gerald - Gertz - The Ghost - Gianfranco - Giant - The Giant - The Giant Killer - Gibson - Gilbert - Gilberto - Girl Dynamite - The Gladiator - Gloria - The Godfather - Goldman - The Goliath - Gomez - Gonzalez - Good Girl - Goodish - Goodman - Goodwin - The Goon - Goose - Gordon - Gorgeous - Gorilla - Gould - Grace - Graham - Grant - Graves - Gray - The Great - The Greek Goddess - Green - Greene - Greg - Gregory - The Gremlin - Griffin - The Grim Reaper - Grime - Grimm - Grise - Groovey Homes - Guan - Gudmundson - Guillermo - Gutierrez - Guy
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H
H - Haas - Hacksaw - Hagan - Haku - Hale - Halie - Hall - Hamilton - Hammer - The Hammer - Hammett - Hammond - Hancock - Handsome - Handy - Hank - Hannah - Hannibal - Hardcore - The Hardcore Icon - Harnage - Harold - Harper - Harrington - Harris - Harrison - Harry - Hart - Harvey - Hatcher - Hawkins - Hayabusa - Hayes - Headhunter - Heart - Heath - Heather - Heenan - Hein - Helen - Henderson - Hennig - Henry - Herbert - Hercules - Hernandez - The Hero - Hero - Hicks - Hill - Hillbilly - The Hippie - Hogan - Holland - Holly - Holmes - Holt - Homeboy - Homer - The Hooligan - Hopkins - The Horseman - Horton - Hosoqai - Hot - Hotrod - Howard - Howe - Howell - Hubbard - Hubert - Hudson - Hugh - Hughes - Hughs - Hulk - Hull - Hunt - Hunter - Hurricane - Hustler - Hyper Speed
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I
I - Ian - The Iceman - The Icon - The Idol - The Illustrious - The Immovable Object - Indestructible - The Innovator - Iron - Ironman - The Irresistible Force - Irvin - Isaac - Isaiah - Isabella - Italian Stallion - Ivar - Ivy
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J
J - Jack - Jackie - Jackson - Jacob - Jacobs - Jacqueline - Jade - Jaejin - Jake - James - Jane - Janet - Janice - Jannetty - Jared - Jarret - Jarrett - Jason - Jay - Jayden - Jean - Jeff - Jeffrey - Jeffreys - Jen - Jenkins - Jennifer - Jeremiah - Jeremy - Jerome - Jerry - Jervis - Jesse - Jessica - The Jester - Jesus - Jet - Jillian - Jim - Jimenez - Jimmy - Jindrak - Joan - Joe - Joel - Joey - John - Johnny - Johnson - Johnston - Jonathan - Jonathon - Jones - Jordan - Jose - Joseph - Josh - Joshua - Joyce - JStone - Juan - The Judge - Judith - Judy - Julia - Julie - Juliene - Junior - Junkyard - Jushin - Justice - Justin
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K
K - Kaiva - Kamron - Kang - Kaplan - Kareem - Karen - Kari - Katelynn - Katherine - Kathleen - Kathryn - Kathy - Katsuyori - Kazarian - Keith - Kelley - Kelvin - Ken - Kendall - Kendrick - Kennedy - Kenneth - Kenny - Kent - Kerry - Kevin - Key - The Kid - Kid - Kidman - Kimball - Kimberly - The King - King - The King of Old School - Kink - Kinsel - Kirk - Kisser - Kitty - Klien - Knight - Kobayashi - Koloff - Kortje - Kristin - Kristy - Krom - The Krusher - Kurt - Kushida - Kuykendall - Kwan - Kyle
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L
L - The Ladies Man - Lady Destroyer - Lance - Landon - Lane - Lanza - Larry - Lars - Lashley - Lassiter - Last Call - The Latina Sensation - Laura - Laurant - Lauren - The Lawman - Lawrence - Lazzara - Ledesma - Lee - Lees - The Legend - The Legend Killer - Lenny - Leo - Leon - Leonard - Leonardo - Lewis - Lex - Liam - Liger - Lightning - Lilith - Lillian - Lincoln - Linda - Ling - Lisa - Little - Little Homie - The Living Legend - Lochlan - Loco - Logan - Loki - Long - Lopez - Lord - Lori - Louis - Love - Lovecraft - Loverboy - Low - Lowenberg - Lucchese - The Luchadore - Luenser - Luger - Lui - Luis - Luke - The Lunatic - Lunchbox - Luscious - Luthor
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M
M - The Machine - Macho - Mack - Mackey - Mad Dog - Madison - Madman - Maggie - Magic - Magical - Magnificent - Magnum - The Mailman - Majors - Malandra - Malcolm - Malenko - Man - The Man of 1000 Holds - The Maniac - Maniac - Manin - The Mantis - Marcantel - Marceau - Marcella - Marco - Marcus - Maragaret - Marge - Maria - Marie - Marilyn - Marissa - Mark - Marko - Marsh - Marshall - Martha - Martin - Martinez - Marty - Marvelous - Marvin - Mary - Masca - The Masked Man - Mason - Masters - The Mastodon - Mat - Mathews - Matsuda - Matsumoto - Matt - Matthew - Matthews - Mauler - The Maverick - Maverick - Max - Maximus - May - McCarthy - McDonald - McGregor - McIntyre - McKay - Mean - The Meathead - The Mechanic - Medusa - Megan - Melissa - Mentioned - Mercedes - Mercer - Michael - Michaels - Michelle - Mick - Mighty Ugg - Mike - Mildred - Miles - The Milkman - Miller - Mills - Miner - Mitchell - Mochacchino - Mohammad - Mondo - The Monster - Montana - Montgomery - Moore - Morales - Morgan - Morris - Morrison - Morse - Mortis - Motoda - The Motor - Mountain Man - The Mouth - The Mouth of the South - Mr - Mr Amazing - Mr Black - Mr Macho - Mr Perfect - Mrs - Ms - Mullet - Mullins - Munoz - Munson - Muraco - Murphy - Murray - Muta - Myers
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N
N - Nancy - The Narcissist - Nate - Nathan - Nathaniel - Natoli - The Natural - The Navajo - Navy Seal - Neal - The Necromancer - Negron - Nelson - Nemeth - Newman - News - Newton - Nguyen - Nicholas - Nichols - Nick - Nicole - The Nightmare - Nightmare - Nikita - Niles - The Ninja - Noah - Nolan - North - Norton - Number One - Nuzback
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O
O - OGrady - Oliver - Olivia - The Olympian - Omar - The Omega - Omega - The One - One - The Original Gangsta - Orndorff - Ortiz - Orton - Osborne - Otunga - Outlaw - The Outlaw - The Outsider - Owen - Owens - Oxley
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P
P - Page - Palestini - Palmer - Pamela - Parcher - Parker - Parsons - Pat - Patch - Patera - Patricia - Patrick - Patterson - Paul - Payne - Pearson - Peck - Pedro - Pee Wee - Peltier - Percy - Perez - Perfect 10 - Perkins - Perry - Peter - Peters - Peterson - The Phantom - Phelps - The Phenom - The Phenomenal One - Philip - Phillip - Phillips - Picone - Pierce - Pierre - The Pig - Pine - Piper - Pitbull - Plantagenet - Platinum - The Player - Pontarelli - Porter - Porticos - Post - Potter - Powell - Pratt - Precious - The Predator - Pretty Boy - Price - Primetime - The Prince - Prince - Princess - The Princess - The Prodigy - The Professional - The Professor - The Prototype - Psycho - The Psycho - Psychosis - Puerta - The Punisher - Punk
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Q
Q - The Queen - Quickdraw - Quinn
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R
R - Race - Rachel - Rage - Raiden - Ralph - Ralston - Ramelle - Ramirez - Ramon - Randleman - Randy - Raparaz - Ray - Raymond - Razor - The Real Deal - The Reaper - Rebecca - The Rebel - Recto - Redhead - The Redneck - Reed - Reese - Reeves - Reid - Reks - Reptile - Reyes - Reynolds - Rhodes - Ricardo - Ricci - Rice - Richard - Richards - Richardson - Richie - Rick - Ricky - Riley - The Ringer - Rip - Rivera - Rivers - Rob - Robbins - Robert - Roberts - Robertson - Robinson - Rock - The Rocker - The Rockstar - Roddy - Rodgers - Rodil - Rodriguez - Roger - Rogers - Rolando - Romi - Ron - Ronald - Rose - Ross - Rossi - Rousakis - Rowdy - Roxanne - Roy - Rudden - Rude - Rude Boy - Rufus - Rusev - Rush - Russ - Russell - Russian - The Russian Giant - The Russian Gladiator - The Russian Gladiator - Rust - Ruten - Ruth - Ryan
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S
S - Sabin - The Sailor - The Saint - Sakamoto - Sal - Salas - Sam - Samantha - Sammartino - The Samoan - Samuel - Samuels - The Samurai - Sanchez - Sanders - Sandra - Santana - Santos - Sapp - Sara - Sarah - Satoru - Saturn - The Savage - The Savior - Sawyer - Schettino - Schliebe - Schmidt - Schultz - Sciacca - The Scientist - Scorpion - The Scorpion - Scott - Scotty - Sean - Sears - Sebastian - Selina - The Senator - Sergeant - Sergio - Seth - Severn - Sexton - Shade - Shamownage - Shane - Shang - Shannon - Sharon - Sharp - Sharpe - Shaw - Shawn - Sheffield - Sheik - Sheldon - Shelly - Sherman - Sherrill - Shibata - Shields - Shirley - The Show - Showboat - Showstopper - Showtime - Shy Girl - Silva - Simmons - Simon - Simpson - Sinister - Skett - Skinner - Sku - Slater - Slugger - Smash - Smith - Smoke - Smoky - Smooth - Smooth Operator - The Snake - Snow - Snuka - Snyder - Sokolov - The Soldier - Sonya - Sophia - Soulman - Sparks - The Specialist - Spectacular - Speedy - Spencer - The Spider - Spike - Spivery - The Sportsman - Squire - Stafford - Stan - Stanley - Stasiak - Steel - Steiner - Stephanie - Stephen - Stephens - Steve - Steven - Stevens - Stevenson - Stewart - Stone - Storm - The Strong Man - Strongman - Stuart - Stubbs - Studd - Stuff - Stunning - Sturgeon - Styles - Sub Zero - Sue - Sugarfoot - Sullivan - Sunshine - The Super Athlete - Super Smooth - Superstar - The Superstar - The Surfer - The Surgeon - Susan - Sutton - Suzuki - Sweet - Sweetness
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T
T - T Rex - Tama - Tammy - Tanaka - Tank - The Tank - Taryn - Tawfik - Taylor - Technical - The Technician - Ted - Teddy - Tenacious - Teresa - The Terror - Terror - Terry - Theodore - Theresa - Thomas - Thompson - The Thug - Thumper - Thunder - Thunderbolt - Tia - Tiffany - Tiger - Tim - Timothy - Tito - TNT - Todd - Tolos - Tom - Tomassian - Tommy - Tonga - Tony - The Tool - The Tornado - Tornado - The Torpedo - Torres - The Total Package - Tough Man - Townsend - Trash Man - Travis - Trevor - Trowell - Troy - Tucker - Tully - Turner - Tyler - Tyson
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U
U - Ultimate - Ultimo - Unbreakable - The Unpredictable - Unpredictable - Uptown - The Urban Gladiator - Urena
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V
V - Vachon - Vader - Valentine - Valliant - Van - Van Cise - Van Cisely - Vandiver - Ventura - Victor - Victoria - The Viking - The Villain - Vince - Vincent - Violet - Virgil - Virginia - Vivacious - The Voice - Votta
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W
W - Wade - Wagner - Walken - Walker - Wallace - Walter - Walters - The Wanderer - Wang - War - Ward - The Warden - The Warlock - Warlord - Warner - Warren - The Warrior Princess - Washington - Watkins - Watson - Watts - Wayne - Weaver - The Web Master - Webb - Webster - Welch - Wells - Wesley - West - Wheeler - Whiskers - The White - White - Whitney - Whol - The Wick - Wickiser - Wilcox - Wild Thing - Wildcat - Wildman - Wildside - Will - William - Williams - Williamson - Willie - Willis - Willy - Wilson - Windham - Winters - The Witch - The Witch Doctor - Wolf - Wolf Man - Wonder Boy - Wonderful - Wonderkid - Wood - Woods - Woodward - The Worm - Wright - Wyatt
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X
X - The X Factor - Xander
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Y
Y - Yamamoto - Yamashita - York - Yosef - Young - Young Blood - Yuri
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Z
Z - Zachary - Zack - Zenk - Zucconi - Zynda
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These names we need:
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Surnames: Adonis, Allot, Arrington, Atkins, Avery, Aycoth, Bakers, Bates, Barter, Boardten, Bollenbach, Bonner, Brinkman, Brown, Burton, Butz, Collier, Cloud, Cambage, Cisneros, Colwell, Combs, Cooke, Couch, Dangerously, Dees, Delle, Del’Bonis (Pronounced Tell Bonless), DeShields, Diggins, Donne, Detty, Eads, Favors, Fields, Fowles, Francis, Frye, Furbacher, Gains, Garrison, Greenfields, Greenwell, Griner, Grub, Grubb, Grubs, Grubberg, Grubbauer, Grubby, Grubbie, Grubworm, Grubbs, Grubbström, Hamby, Harmon, Hartmon, Hatmen, Hisle (Pronounced High-sell), Holden, Hoskins, Humphrey, Jennings, Jewell, Kaiser, Kanu, King, Lane, Levesque, Licciardello, Lonescu, Loyd, Loy, Magbegor, Manak, Mastino, Meadows, Meesseman, Mollet, McBride, McCoughtry, McGuffey, Miceli, Morehead, Ogwumike, Ogunbowale, Oli, O’Neil, O’Neal, Perpich, Philbeck, Plum, Quest, Quigley, Quincy, Qays, Ramsey, Rose, Ryzin, Saxton, Satou, Spiritoff, Springer, Stamps, Striker, Supe (soup-pe), Taurasi, Tettenhorst, Thornton, Topper, Vandersloot, Voisard, Watson, Wheeler, Woolsey, Wray, Wrestleton, Xander, Yancy, Yana, Yank, Yaro, Yenifer, Yessica, Yeo, Yetty, Yarrow, and Yarden.
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Forenames (First Names) : Ailen, Ajax, Alyssa, Ariel, Arike, Art, Azurá, Brionna Carlton, Cargan, Candace, Candra, Cara, Carissa, Carmen, Cheyenne, Chloe, Cindy, Courtney, Crystal, Damon, Dan, Daniel, Danny, Dario, Dearica, DeWanna, Doak, Edna, Elena, Ezi, Fred, Gary, Glen, Gunter, Hannah, Hank, Harvey, Jario, Jean, June, Junpei, Kayla, Kelsey, Laura, Lauren, Lexie, Liz, Loretta, Mishi (Pronounced Me-she), Monica, Nneka, Nat, Natasha, Nate, Natty, Nathan, Nathaniel, Nina (Pronounced Nigh-Nah), Nina (Pronounced nee-nyah ), Napheesa, Placito, Romeo, Ralph, Rhyne, Rita, Sabally, Sabrina, Sandra, Sandy, Sherri, Sheryl, Skylar, Swoopes Sylvia, Tybolt, Xandra, Xara, Xavi, Xarissa, Xenon, Zogan, and Zoey.
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Other names:
Gatliff
McGuire
Tincher
Sratton
Pinson
Witten
Honaker
McBrayer
Mayo
Seel
Ogan
Crawford
Fauver
Knapp
Stewart
Cossin
Nicholl
Dewees
Massie
Dickel
Kruse
Bergman
Dunkel
Stocker
Carson
Moody
Caldwell
McGarvey
Ferrel
Palmer
Propst
Kiser
Trumbo
Eye
Wolfe
Glaus
Harper
Ockerman
Harman
Homan
Ruddle
Swadket
Hall
Huegel
Bisher
Hoon
McIntosh
Grieff
See
Holland
Helberg
Gassert
Horvath
Crane
Bither
Gallatin
Elliotte
Stroud
Scoles
Tibbets
Hansen
Thornton
McDermitt
Sayre
Bowers
Waller
Darrow
Shrauger
Caviness
Dillon
Higgins
Shumate
Adair
Neumann
Graham
Edwards
Stephensons
Eckard
McNeal
Withrow
Acord
Johnson
Dye
Bloomfield
Stanley
Ramsey
Milhouse
Reniker
Sickle
Rickard
Fry
Bumggarner
Yeager
Ratajkowski
Hays
Halstead
Roush
Zerkle
Hoffman
Galaspie
Keefer
Aumiller
Zimmer
Zirkle
Rader
Salser
Rausch
Neas
Ness
Alberts
Magdalena
Faberin
Gabler
Hammerin
Irrang
Mezin
Irrang
Von Kirkel
Jost
Heinz
Kirsch
Gensel
Ankenbauer
Seiffert
Filtzer
Goering
Backmeyer
Rosen
Waterson
Denton
Varin
Conway
Aman
Kestler
Runzer
Herbe
Reel
Sucher
Whiteside
Reichart
Walk
Blizzard
Hemmer
Traughber
Selby
Fleming
Hulan
Forte
Dowlen
Koonce
Storey
Hudgens
Tills
Simeral
Harter
Street
Howard
McCoy
Alevy
Hern
Stockton
Lundy
McGeorge
Tillotson
French
Crutchfield
Cave
Echols
Garland
Keyes
Gilmore
Nagel
Kuhn
Haley
Rutledge
Davenport
Pierce
Pilcher
Carringer
Hutchins
Allgood
Bacon
Long
Evans
George
Haylor
Spenser
Spranger
Given
Price
Conrad
Kearney
Huggart
McDaniel
Bounds
Monday
Hodges
Barton
Carmichael
Ferguson
Jarnagin
Rymer
Summerfield
Maddux
Melanin
Huddleston
Ritz
McKinney
Essary
Edmondson
Soledean
Durbin
Fulton
Lauricella
Riffle
Jividen
Vickers
Sterling
Louk
Young
Ash
Bonnell
Robey
Kile
Pyle
Pitts
Lyons
Starkey
Shields
Prunty
Dotson
Edgell
Cain
Ice
Gifford
Evans
Swiger
Townsend
McCamic
Allen
Underwood
McCamie
Duval
Tetrick
Backus
Esch
Barkley
Ashcraft
Shreve
Robinson
Abercrombie
Barnett
Bramhall
Broadstone
Bartenschlag
Matthess
Anderson
Gaston
Arnett
Lancaster
Tennant
Criss
Ford
Shrader
Schrader
McCullough
Brammer
Francis
Bland
Bates
Sheets
Montgomery
Shaffer
Thornhill
Poe
Modesitt
McPherson
Hemlock
Carder
Ross
Delbert
Grant
Pollock
Heflin
Arnett
Duty
Bosworth
Zahniser
Salesman
Kincaid
Beasley
Leasure
Shreve
Cork
Haywood
Claybrooke
Hardin
Yost
Shine
Cunningham
Read
Harvey
Asbury
Wathen
Haff
Gaskell
Westfell
Tate
Glover
Wingard
Rigdon
Crider
Gable
Kirkbry
Cupp
Sigafoos
Tomlinson
Swartzell
Lidgard
Valadas
Brooke
Irwin
Berlin
Strosnider
Halliburton
Bannon
Harbaugh
Burbridge
Woolsoncroft
Nation
Downs
Martin
Pope
Quisenberry
McNett
Swan
Lorena
Gibbons
Tonubbee
Mercer
Bockius
Hagerty
Rees
Kaddoad
Temple
Amos
Smyth
Schoetz
Ely
Augustine
Byron
Taft
Bush
Boice
Malzahn
Behrendt
Reitmeyer
Leonard
Fargo
Pinneo
Comstock
Forcie
Woulfe
Rupprecht
Copeland
Bonney
Tope
Brisker
Mossman
Wallace
Angles
Quick
Hughes
Alfred
Adkins
Banks
Hensley
Bartlett
Ashworth
Sental
Bartlett
Parrish
Schilt
Boyd
Bair
Roddy
Thrasher
Newsbaum
Lewis
Diven
Boyce
Stout
Siefker
Newsome
Bok
Holtsberry
Merman
Valle
Jeffery
Trammell
Greenwalt
Carlisle
Frazier
Potts
Watkins
Ankrim
Kocheran
Swift
Slater
Border
Froess
Albers
Trisko
Seeley
Froehler
Hartman
Ivarson
Doetkott
Gabgk
Leukam
Pogatchnik
Hoeschen
Fleischhacker
Rypstra
Paquette
Mertz
Freriks
Houde
Solar
Hilliard
MacDonald
Pulvermacher
Ley
Grogan
Wehling
Oswalda
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Nicknames: Alluring, Bones, Bricks, Cool, Dangerous, Dancing, Dazzling, Enchanting, Fantastic, Fetching, Hunky, Interesting, Knockout, Lush, Machine, Magnetism, Mission, Rad, Revelation, Sticks, Striking, Sublime, Taste, Toxic, Tribulation, & Trikkey (Pronounced Trike-e).
-Money terms.
-Country names.
-USA States names.
-Numbers 1-90.

WWE2K14, WWE2K15, WWE2K16, WWE2K17, WWE2K18 :
Numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, (This isn't in other WWE2K14, WWE2K15, WWE2K16, WWE2K17, WWE2K18. If I'm wrong please. corrected me.)
Letters: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
A: Aaron, Abs, Ace, Action, Adam, Adams, Adder, Adrian, Akane, Akira, Al, Alan, Alex, Alexander, Ali, Alice, Alien, Alpha, Amanda, Amateur, Amazing, Amazon, Amber, Ambiguous, American, Amir, Amy, Andersen, Andrew, Andy, Angel, Angelina, Angle, Angus, Ant, Anthony, Antoine, Antonio, Ape, Aquarius, Arcade, Arch, Archangel, Arctic, Aries, Armadillo, Ashley, Asian, Astronaut, Atlantic, Aunty, Austin, Awesome, Azrael
B: Baby, Back, Bad, Bailey, Baker, Balmer, Baltimore, Bane, Barbarian, Barnett, Bart, Base, Basket, Bay, Bear, Beast, Bee, Beginus, Bell, Belt, Ben, Beret, Bernie, Big, Bigdaddy, Biker, Bill, Bily, Bison, Black, Blade, Blake, Blank, Blaze, Blizzard, Blue, Boar, Bob, Booger, Bottom, Bouncer, Bowen, Boxer, Boy, Brad, Bradley, Brain, Bradley, Brain, Brandon, Brawler, Brent, Brett, Brian, British, Brittany, Brock, Brody, Brooklyn, Brother, Brown, Bruce, Bruiser, Bryan, Bryant, Bryce, Bubba, Buffalo, Bug, Buggy, Bull, Burglar, Buster, Butcher
C: Caffeine, Cage, Cali, Camacho, Campbell, Canadian, Canary, Cancer, Canine, Capricorn, Captain, Carl, Carlos, Carter, Case, Casey, Cassidy, Cat, Chameleon, Champ, Champion, Chang, Charles, Charlie, Charlotte, Cheater, Cheese, Chef, Chen, Chet, Chicago, Chicken, Chief, Chimera, Chinese, Cho, Cholo, Chris, Christian, Christina, Christopher, Chuck, City, Clarence, Clark, Claws, Cliff, Clinton, Cloud, Clown, Coast, Cobra, Cockroach, Coconut, Cody, Cole, Colin, Colt, Columbus, Commander, Communist, Convict, Cooper, Cop, Corporal, Corporate, Corpse, Cory, Cougar, Cowboy, Coyote, Crab, Crack, Craig, Crazed, Crazy, Criminal, Crimson, Crocodile, Crow, Cruiser, Crusty, Crystal, Curtis, Cyborg
D: Daddy, Dallas, Damn, Dan, Danger, Daniel, Danielson, Daring, Dark, Darrell, Dave, David, Davis, Day, Deadly, Deal, Dealer, Death, Defector, Demon, Dennis, Denver, Destroyer, Detroit, Devil, Devin, Diamond, Dickey, Dinosaur, Dirty, Disaster, Diva, Doc, Doctor, Dog, Dojo, Dominator, Don, Donald, Double, Douglas, Dragon, Drake, Dreamer, Dublin, Dude, Duke, Durr, Dustin, Dusty, Dwayne, Dylan, Dynamic, Dynamite
E: Eagle, Earl, Earp, Earth, East, Eastern, Eater, Ed, Edward, Edger, El, Electric, Elephant, Eliminator, Elite, Elizabeth, Emerald, Emily, Epic, Eric, Erik, Ethan, Evan, Evening, Executioner, Expert, Eye, Eyed
F: Faceless, Falcon, Fallen, Familiar, Fanboy, Fast, Father, Feline, Female, Fiend, Fierce, Finch, Fink, Fire, Finisher, Flea, Fletcher, Fly, Flying, Fool, Foot, Fort, Fox, Franco, Frank, Freak, Freaky, Frenchman, Fresno, Friend, Frisco, Front, Frost, Funky, Funny, Future
G: Gabe, Gabriel, Gaming, Gangster, Garcia, Gargoyle, Gary, Gas, Gates, Gemini, General, Genie, Genius, George, Ghost, Giant, Gibby, Gilbert, Girl, Gladiator, Goat, God, Gold, Golden, Goldman, Gonzalez, Good, Gondo, Gorilla, Goth, Grabber, Graham, Grandma, Grandpa, Grave, Gray, Great, Green, Greg, Gregory, Griffin, Grime, Grizzly, Groovy, Gulf, Gun, Guru, Guy
H: Hacker, Hammer, Hammett, Hannibal, Hardcore, Harris, Harry, Hat, Hawk, Heart, Heather, Heavenly, Heavy, Henry, Herbert, Hernandez, Hero, Hideous, Hill, Hippo, Hitman, Hockey, Hogg, Holiday, Holly, Hollywood, Homer, Homie, Hood, Hooligan, Hornet, Horse, Horsemen, Hosoqai, Hotstuff, Howard, Hubert, Hugh, Hundred, Hunter, Hustler, Hustlin
I: Ian, Icon, Icy, Immortal, Indian, Indianapolis, Indy, Iron, Irritating
J: Jack, Jackie, Jacksonville, Jacob, Jade, Jaguar, Jake, James, Jane, Japanese, Jared, Jason, Jay, Jefe, Jeff, Jeffrey, Jen, Jennifer, Jeremy, Jerry, Jesse, Jessica, Jester, Jet, Jim, Jimmy, Jin, Job, Joe, Joel, John, Johnny, Johnson, Joker, Jonathon, Jones, Jordan, Jose, Joseph, Josh, Joshua, Juan, Judge, Judo, Jun, Just, Justice, Justin
K: Kabal, Kang, Kano, Karate, Kareem, Katelynn, Keith, Ken, Kendall, Kendo, Kenneth, Kent, Kevin, Kid, Killer, Kimberly, King, Kirk, Kisser, Kitty, Kline, Knight, Kobayashi, Kong, Korean, Kowalczyk, Kurt, Kyle
L: Ladiesman, Lance, Land, Larry, Las Vegas, Lassiter, Laura, Lauren, Ledesma, Lee, Legend, Lenny, Leo, Leon, Leonard, Leonardo, Lewis, Lex, Liam, Libra, Lightning, Lilith, Lion, Lisa, Little, Log, Loki, Long, Long Beach, Lopez, Lord, Los Angeles, Louisville, Love, Lovecraft, Lover, Luchador, Lucifer, Luger, Lui, Luis, Lumpy, Lunatic, Lurking, Luthor
M: Machine, Macho, Mack, Macleod, Madison, Madman, Maggie, Magic, Majestic, Maker, Malcolm, Male, Mall, Mamba, Man, Maniac, Manly, Mantis, Marcus, Marge, Mark, Marko, Marshall, Martin, Martinez, Marty, Masked, Master, Mastodon, Matador, Matsuda, Matsumoto, Matt, Matthew, Maverick, Max, Maximus, McCarthy, McDonald, McGregor, Mega, Megan, Melissa, Member, Memphis, Men, Mercer, Mercury, Metal, Meticulous, Mexican, Miami, Michael, Michelle, Mick, Mike, Miles, Miller, Mime, Mini, Miss, Mitchell, Model, Mohammad, Mommy, Money, Monk, Monkey, Monster, Montana, Moore, Morgan, Morning, Morris, Mortal, Mosquito, Mother, Motor, Mountie, Mouse, Mr., Mrs., Ms., Mummy, Murphy, Muscle, Mutant, Mystical
N: Nashville, Nate, Nathan, Nathaniel, Natural, Navajo, Nelson, Nerd, Nero, New, New York, Nice, Nicholas, Nick, Nicole, Night, Nightmare, Ninja, Nitro, Noah, North, Northern, Nose, Nurse, Nut
O: Oak, Octopus, Of, Ogre, Old, Oliver, Olympian, Omega, Online, Oozing, Opal, Ophiuchus, Orange, Otaku, Outlaw, Owen, Ox
P: Pacific, Page, Pain, Palmer, Panda, Panther, Park, Parker, Pastor, Patch, Pathetic, Pathological, Patrick, Patriot, Patriotic, Paul, Peanut, Pedro, Peltier, Penguin, People, Perez, Perry, Peter, Phantom, Phenom, Philadelphia, Phillip, Philly, Phoenix, Pierre, Pine, Pinky, Pirate, Pisces, Platinum, Playboy, Player, Poker, Polar, Pow, Powell, Power, President, Prince, Princess, Principal, Pristine, Pro, Prodigy, Professional, Professor, Prototype, Prune, Psycho, Puma, Punks, Purple
Q: Queen, Quinn, Quitter
R: Rabid, Rachel, Raiden, Rain, Ralston, Ram, Ramirez, Randy, Rat, Rattle, Raymond, Real, Reaper, Rebecca, Recluse, Recto, Red, Reese, Regime, Renegade, Reptile, Rhino, Ricardo, Richard, Richardson, Rick, Riley, Ring, Rio, Riviera, Rivers, Rob, Robert, Robinson, Rocker, Rocky, Rod, Rodriguez, Ronald, Ronin, Rookie, Rooster, Roy, Ruby, Rude, Russ, Russian, Ryan
S: Sack, Sacramento, Sagittarius, Saint, Sakamoto, Sam, Samoan, Samuel, Samurai, San Antonio, San Francisco, San Jose, Sanchez, Sand, Santa, Sapp, Sapphire, Sarah, Sarge, Satin, Satoru, Savage, Savior, Scarecrow, Scorpio, Scorpion, Scott, Scottish, Screaming, Sean, Sears, Seattle, Senator, Senior, Sensation, Serbian, Sergeant, Sergio, Serpent, Seth, Sexy, Shadow, Shamownage, Shane, Shang, Shannon, Shaolin, Shaw, Shawn, Sheldon, Sherrill, Shingo, Show, Shrinker, Siberian, Side, Sikh, Silent, Silva, Silver, Simon, Simpson, Sin, Sister, Skater, Skinner, Slate, Slopes, Small, Smasher, Smith, Smoke, Smoking, Snake, Sniper, Snow, Soccer, Sokolov, Soldier, Sonya, Sophia, Soul, South, Southern, Soviet, Space, Spartan, Spectacular, Spider, Stalker, Stallion, Star, Stephanie, Stephen, Steve, Steven, Stick, Stinky, Storm, Storms, Straw, Street, Strong, Student, Stunt, Styles, Sub, Submission, Sue, Sullivan, Sunshine, Superstar, Supreme, Surfer, Surgeon, Suzuki, Syndicate
T: Taipan, Tank, Tarantula, Tattooed, Taurus, Taylor, Teacher, Technical, Ted, Teddy, Teenager, Terror, The, Thief, Thighs, Thing, Thomas, Thompson, Thousand, Thug, Thunder, Tia, Tic, Tickler, Tiffany, Tiger, Tiki, Timothy, Tin, Tiny, Titan, Toc, Todd, Tokyo, Tom, Tommy, Tony, Top, Tornado, Torres, Town, Toy, Travis, Trevor, Triple, Trouble, Troy, Tsung, Turbo, Turner, Turtle, Twin, Tyler, Tyson
U: Ugly, Ultimate, Ultra, Uncle, Unstoppable
V: Vampire, Van, Vandiver, Vega, Vegas, Vice, Victor, Viking, Villain, Vince, Vincent, Violet, Viper, Virgil, Virgo, Virtual, Visor, Voodoo
W: Walken, Walker, Wall, Walter, Wandering, Warden, Warlock, Warlord, Washington, Wasp, Water, Watson, Wayne, Web, Webmaster, Wesley, West, Western, Whiny, White, Wide, Widow, Wild, Will, William, Williams, Williamson, Wilson, Witch, Wolf, Wolverine, World, Wrestler, Wyatt
X: Xander
Y: Yamashita, Yap, Yellow, York, Yosef, Young, Youngblood, Yuri
Z: Zachary, Zero, Zodiac
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D
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E
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F
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G
G - Gabriel - Gallareto - Gang - The Gangster - Garcia - Gardner - Garrett - Gary - Gates - Gauge - Gavin - Geary - Gene - General - Genie - The Gentle Giant - Gentleman - George - Georgie - Gerald - Gertz - The Ghost - Gianfranco - Giant - The Giant - The Giant Killer - Gibson - Gilbert - Gilberto - Girl Dynamite - The Gladiator - Gloria - The Godfather - Goldman - The Goliath - Gomez - Gonzalez - Good Girl - Goodish - Goodman - Goodwin - The Goon - Goose - Gordon - Gorgeous - Gorilla - Gould - Grace - Graham - Grant - Graves - Gray - The Great - The Greek Goddess - Green - Greene - Greg - Gregory - The Gremlin - Griffin - The Grim Reaper - Grime - Grimm - Grise - Groovey Homes - Guan - Gudmundson - Guillermo - Gutierrez - Guy
H
H - Haas - Hacksaw - Hagan - Haku - Hale - Halie - Hall - Hamilton - Hammer - The Hammer - Hammett - Hammond - Hancock - Handsome - Handy - Hank - Hannah - Hannibal - Hardcore - The Hardcore Icon - Harnage - Harold - Harper - Harrington - Harris - Harrison - Harry - Hart - Harvey - Hatcher - Hawkins - Hayabusa - Hayes - Headhunter - Heart - Heath - Heather - Heenan - Hein - Helen - Henderson - Hennig - Henry - Herbert - Hercules - Hernandez - The Hero - Hero - Hicks - Hill - Hillbilly - The Hippie - Hogan - Holland - Holly - Holmes - Holt - Homeboy - Homer - The Hooligan - Hopkins - The Horseman - Horton - Hosoqai - Hot - Hotrod - Howard - Howe - Howell - Hubbard - Hubert - Hudson - Hugh - Hughes - Hughs - Hulk - Hull - Hunt - Hunter - Hurricane - Hustler - Hyper Speed
I
I - Ian - The Iceman - The Icon - The Idol - The Illustrious - The Immovable Object - Indestructible - The Innovator - Iron - Ironman - The Irresistible Force - Irvin - Isaac - Isaiah - Isabella - Italian Stallion - Ivar - Ivy
J
J - Jack - Jackie - Jackson - Jacob - Jacobs - Jacqueline - Jade - Jaejin - Jake - James - Jane - Janet - Janice - Jannetty - Jared - Jarret - Jarrett - Jason - Jay - Jayden - Jean - Jeff - Jeffrey - Jeffreys - Jen - Jenkins - Jennifer - Jeremiah - Jeremy - Jerome - Jerry - Jervis - Jesse - Jessica - The Jester - Jesus - Jet - Jillian - Jim - Jimenez - Jimmy - Jindrak - Joan - Joe - Joel - Joey - John - Johnny - Johnson - Johnston - Jonathan - Jonathon - Jones - Jordan - Jose - Joseph - Josh - Joshua - Joyce - JStone - Juan - The Judge - Judith - Judy - Julia - Julie - Juliene - Junior - Junkyard - Jushin - Justice - Justin
K
K - Kaiva - Kamron - Kang - Kaplan - Kareem - Karen - Kari - Katelynn - Katherine - Kathleen - Kathryn - Kathy - Katsuyori - Kazarian - Keith - Kelley - Kelvin - Ken - Kendall - Kendrick - Kennedy - Kenneth - Kenny - Kent - Kerry - Kevin - Key - The Kid - Kid - Kidman - Kimball - Kimberly - The King - King - The King of Old School - Kink - Kinsel - Kirk - Kisser - Kitty - Klien - Knight - Kobayashi - Koloff - Kortje - Kristin - Kristy - Krom - The Krusher - Kurt - Kushida - Kuykendall - Kwan - Kyle
L
L - The Ladies Man - Lady Destroyer - Lance - Landon - Lane - Lanza - Larry - Lars - Lashley - Lassiter - Last Call - The Latina Sensation - Laura - Laurant - Lauren - The Lawman - Lawrence - Lazzara - Ledesma - Lee - Lees - The Legend - The Legend Killer - Lenny - Leo - Leon - Leonard - Leonardo - Lewis - Lex - Liam - Liger - Lightning - Lilith - Lillian - Lincoln - Linda - Ling - Lisa - Little - Little Homie - The Living Legend - Lochlan - Loco - Logan - Loki - Long - Lopez - Lord - Lori - Louis - Love - Lovecraft - Loverboy - Low - Lowenberg - Lucchese - The Luchadore - Luenser - Luger - Lui - Luis - Luke - The Lunatic - Lunchbox - Luscious - Luthor
M
M - The Machine - Macho - Mack - Mackey - Mad Dog - Madison - Madman - Maggie - Magic - Magical - Magnificent - Magnum - The Mailman - Majors - Malandra - Malcolm - Malenko - Man - The Man of 1000 Holds - The Maniac - Maniac - Manin - The Mantis - Marcantel - Marceau - Marcella - Marco - Marcus - Maragaret - Marge - Maria - Marie - Marilyn - Marissa - Mark - Marko - Marsh - Marshall - Martha - Martin - Martinez - Marty - Marvelous - Marvin - Mary - Masca - The Masked Man - Mason - Masters - The Mastodon - Mat - Mathews - Matsuda - Matsumoto - Matt - Matthew - Matthews - Mauler - The Maverick - Maverick - Max - Maximus - May - McCarthy - McDonald - McGregor - McIntyre - McKay - Mean - The Meathead - The Mechanic - Medusa - Megan - Melissa - Mentioned - Mercedes - Mercer - Michael - Michaels - Michelle - Mick - Mighty Ugg - Mike - Mildred - Miles - The Milkman - Miller - Mills - Miner - Mitchell - Mochacchino - Mohammad - Mondo - The Monster - Montana - Montgomery - Moore - Morales - Morgan - Morris - Morrison - Morse - Mortis - Motoda - The Motor - Mountain Man - The Mouth - The Mouth of the South - Mr - Mr Amazing - Mr Black - Mr Macho - Mr Perfect - Mrs - Ms - Mullet - Mullins - Munoz - Munson - Muraco - Murphy - Murray - Muta - Myers
N
N - Nancy - The Narcissist - Nate - Nathan - Nathaniel - Natoli - The Natural - The Navajo - Navy Seal - Neal - The Necromancer - Negron - Nelson - Nemeth - Newman - News - Newton - Nguyen - Nicholas - Nichols - Nick - Nicole - The Nightmare - Nightmare - Nikita - Niles - The Ninja - Noah - Nolan - North - Norton - Number One - Nuzback
O
O - OGrady - Oliver - Olivia - The Olympian - Omar - The Omega - Omega - The One - One - The Original Gangsta - Orndorff - Ortiz - Orton - Osborne - Otunga - Outlaw - The Outlaw - The Outsider - Owen - Owens - Oxley
P
P - Page - Palestini - Palmer - Pamela - Parcher - Parker - Parsons - Pat - Patch - Patera - Patricia - Patrick - Patterson - Paul - Payne - Pearson - Peck - Pedro - Pee Wee - Peltier - Percy - Perez - Perfect 10 - Perkins - Perry - Peter - Peters - Peterson - The Phantom - Phelps - The Phenom - The Phenomenal One - Philip - Phillip - Phillips - Picone - Pierce - Pierre - The Pig - Pine - Piper - Pitbull - Plantagenet - Platinum - The Player - Pontarelli - Porter - Porticos - Post - Potter - Powell - Pratt - Precious - The Predator - Pretty Boy - Price - Primetime - The Prince - Prince - Princess - The Princess - The Prodigy - The Professional - The Professor - The Prototype - Psycho - The Psycho - Psychosis - Puerta - The Punisher - Punk
Q
Q - The Queen - Quickdraw - Quinn
R
R - Race - Rachel - Rage - Raiden - Ralph - Ralston - Ramelle - Ramirez - Ramon - Randleman - Randy - Raparaz - Ray - Raymond - Razor - The Real Deal - The Reaper - Rebecca - The Rebel - Recto - Redhead - The Redneck - Reed - Reese - Reeves - Reid - Reks - Reptile - Reyes - Reynolds - Rhodes - Ricardo - Ricci - Rice - Richard - Richards - Richardson - Richie - Rick - Ricky - Riley - The Ringer - Rip - Rivera - Rivers - Rob - Robbins - Robert - Roberts - Robertson - Robinson - Rock - The Rocker - The Rockstar - Roddy - Rodgers - Rodil - Rodriguez - Roger - Rogers - Rolando - Romi - Ron - Ronald - Rose - Ross - Rossi - Rousakis - Rowdy - Roxanne - Roy - Rudden - Rude - Rude Boy - Rufus - Rusev - Rush - Russ - Russell - Russian - The Russian Giant - The Russian Gladiator - The Russian Gladiator - Rust - Ruten - Ruth - Ryan
S
S - Sabin - The Sailor - The Saint - Sakamoto - Sal - Salas - Sam - Samantha - Sammartino - The Samoan - Samuel - Samuels - The Samurai - Sanchez - Sanders - Sandra - Santana - Santos - Sapp - Sara - Sarah - Satoru - Saturn - The Savage - The Savior - Sawyer - Schettino - Schliebe - Schmidt - Schultz - Sciacca - The Scientist - Scorpion - The Scorpion - Scott - Scotty - Sean - Sears - Sebastian - Selina - The Senator - Sergeant - Sergio - Seth - Severn - Sexton - Shade - Shamownage - Shane - Shang - Shannon - Sharon - Sharp - Sharpe - Shaw - Shawn - Sheffield - Sheik - Sheldon - Shelly - Sherman - Sherrill - Shibata - Shields - Shirley - The Show - Showboat - Showstopper - Showtime - Shy Girl - Silva - Simmons - Simon - Simpson - Sinister - Skett - Skinner - Sku - Slater - Slugger - Smash - Smith - Smoke - Smoky - Smooth - Smooth Operator - The Snake - Snow - Snuka - Snyder - Sokolov - The Soldier - Sonya - Sophia - Soulman - Sparks - The Specialist - Spectacular - Speedy - Spencer - The Spider - Spike - Spivery - The Sportsman - Squire - Stafford - Stan - Stanley - Stasiak - Steel - Steiner - Stephanie - Stephen - Stephens - Steve - Steven - Stevens - Stevenson - Stewart - Stone - Storm - The Strong Man - Strongman - Stuart - Stubbs - Studd - Stuff - Stunning - Sturgeon - Styles - Sub Zero - Sue - Sugarfoot - Sullivan - Sunshine - The Super Athlete - Super Smooth - Superstar - The Superstar - The Surfer - The Surgeon - Susan - Sutton - Suzuki - Sweet - Sweetness
T
T - T Rex - Tama - Tammy - Tanaka - Tank - The Tank - Taryn - Tawfik - Taylor - Technical - The Technician - Ted - Teddy - Tenacious - Teresa - The Terror - Terror - Terry - Theodore - Theresa - Thomas - Thompson - The Thug - Thumper - Thunder - Thunderbolt - Tia - Tiffany - Tiger - Tim - Timothy - Tito - TNT - Todd - Tolos - Tom - Tomassian - Tommy - Tonga - Tony - The Tool - The Tornado - Tornado - The Torpedo - Torres - The Total Package - Tough Man - Townsend - Trash Man - Travis - Trevor - Trowell - Troy - Tucker - Tully - Turner - Tyler - Tyson
U
U - Ultimate - Ultimo - Unbreakable - The Unpredictable - Unpredictable - Uptown - The Urban Gladiator - Urena
V
V - Vachon - Vader - Valentine - Valliant - Van - Van Cise - Van Cisely - Vandiver - Ventura - Victor - Victoria - The Viking - The Villain - Vince - Vincent - Violet - Virgil - Virginia - Vivacious - The Voice - Votta
W
W - Wade - Wagner - Walken - Walker - Wallace - Walter - Walters - The Wanderer - Wang - War - Ward - The Warden - The Warlock - Warlord - Warner - Warren - The Warrior Princess - Washington - Watkins - Watson - Watts - Wayne - Weaver - The Web Master - Webb - Webster - Welch - Wells - Wesley - West - Wheeler - Whiskers - The White - White - Whitney - Whol - The Wick - Wickiser - Wilcox - Wild Thing - Wildcat - Wildman - Wildside - Will - William - Williams - Williamson - Willie - Willis - Willy - Wilson - Windham - Winters - The Witch - The Witch Doctor - Wolf - Wolf Man - Wonder Boy - Wonderful - Wonderkid - Wood - Woods - Woodward - The Worm - Wright - Wyatt
X
X - The X Factor - Xander
Y
Y - Yamamoto - Yamashita - York - Yosef - Young - Young Blood - Yuri
Z
Z - Zachary - Zack - Zenk - Zucconi - Zynda

Preface: I love Ramsey I think he is a genius and is making the world a better place. A bunch of people here are being pretty negative. I'm just a huge business nerd and I love to breakdown businesses for fun.
I'm trying to paint a picture of how much money Ramsey's businesses make. I'll put the information I have found so far and lets see what you've got.
So he has 2 main income sources: Ramsey Solutions (a.k.a The Lampo Group, LLC) and his real estate (his 3rd income source would be the mutual funds he invests in but I'm less interested in that).
Ramsey Solutions has radio shows/podcasts, books, courses, live events and other products.
Radio Shows/Podcast:

• It is a nationally syndicated radio program that by 2018 was being carried by more that by 600 radio affiliates. (I wonder how many radio affilaites they have now?)
• 20 million people tune in to the show each week though the radio, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, the Ramsey Network app or the website.
• This makes it one of the top radio shows in America.
  • As of 2020, it was the 3rd biggest talk radio program in the country, after only Rush Limbaugh’s and Sean Hannity’s (The Guardian, 2020).
  • According to YouGov, it is the 16th most popular show right after Howard Stern.
  • According to Wikipedia, it is the #1 radio show in America (I wonder which of this sources is actually correct?)

Books:

• Collectively, the Ramsey Personalities have 23 best selling books.
• Ramsey himself has 8 national best sellers. (I wonder how much they are making from these?)

Courses:

• $99 Financial Peace University - 9 lessons - covers everything from paying down debt to planning charitable donations. Taught online and in person at more than 5,000 locations nationwide, primarily churches, schools and nonprofits. (Politico, 2018) (at how many locations is it taught now?)
• Five states require high schoolers to take some financial planning curriculum before graduation; Ramsey Solutions has a team actively lobbying more state governments to do so. (Politico, 2018)
• Dave’s net worth sits at an estimated $200M (according to Investopedia & Wealthy Gorilla, Realtor).
• He owns $600M of fully paid off real estate (Dave says so here).

Live Events:

• You can book Dave or a Ramsey Personality (anyone know for how much?)
• They host several summits and events in their HQs throughout the year
• For example, they have a 2 day event coming up in April. Their platinum tickets go for $699 (sold out), vip for $199 (sold out) and general access is $119. The auditorium sits 2,350 people.

Other Products:

• They just launched a personal financial OS for $4.99/month, the Ramsey Vault.
• $12.99/month budgeting tool called EveryDollar.
• $20 Know Yourself Money Assessment.
• $39 Rachel Cruze Slim Wallet.
• $10 Envelope Envelope System (a wallet for cash and checks).
• And a bunch of merch

Apparently, the above products/services are making $300 million/year!
Now to his Real Estate Empire:

• He owns $600M of fully paid off real estate (Dave says so here).
• A big part of Dave’s $600M real estate collection is the Financial Peace Plaza Headquarters which consist of:
  • 2x 200,000 sq ft office towers with a 25,000 sq ft connection between them.
  • 1x 50,000 sq ft events center.
  • 60 acres of commercial property (originally bought the land for $10.5M)
  • As a side note, Dave sold his custom-built home in the Nashville area for $10.2 million in 2021 after living there for over a decade. A spokesperson said he was having another home built in the area (Realtor, 2021).

Finally, Dave’s net worth sits at an estimated $200M according to Investopedia & Wealthy Gorilla, Realtor but it is obviously much more than that because of the $600M real estate portfolio!
All right! That is all I got. Can anyone help me fill in the gaps?

For fellow KSR fans, I have transcribed Stan's recent interview on his new book The High Sierra. (Original clip here, thanks to Lin Weaver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCEGD04gXzo)
I have used automatic software to do this to limit the time commitment from my side, as otherwise it could've eaten up quite a few hours, so apologies for errors where they do crop up.
I'm not sure I've heard him share so many personal hiking stories before, including the time he came closest to dying during a hike. Good listening if you've enjoyed his characters trekking across the wilderness, be it in the Mars trilogy or somewhere like Antarctica or Shaman.
He also talked about the trap Hemingway and Kerouac eventually found themselves in by writing about real life, and how that later on lead them to pursue artificial experiences through more and more alcoholism.
What were your favorite insights from the interview? Happy reading!
(P.S. Stan has said recently that he's not working on anything right now. For fans, what would you like to see from him next?)
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Lin Weaver 0:29
Hello, everyone, and welcome to our show. It is a privilege today to interview one among the most prominent authors of our time. Wikipedia tells us that Kim Stanley Robinson is an American writer of science fiction. He has published over 22 novels and numerous short stories, and is particularly known for his earlier novels Mars trilogy. His work has been translated into over 24 languages, and many of his novels and stories of ecological cultural, and social and political themes, and a deep concern for the earth, and climate change. His work has been labeled by the Atlantic as the gold standard of realistic and highly literary science fiction writing. And according to an article in The New Yorker, Stan is generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science fiction writers. His latest novel, the High Sierra, a love story describes the geological forces that shape the Sierra, and the history of its exploration, going back to the indigenous people who made it home, and whose traces can still be found today. Stay tuned, Stan, your latest book, the High Sierra, a love story, by the way, a perfect title. It's an extraordinary book. It's an encyclopedia of sorts. It's, and yet it's also an amalgam of so many different subject matters and pictures and maps and people. There is something for everyone, it seems it's a beautiful book. It's almost when I was reading it, it's almost as if you have held it in your heart for 25 years. And then all of a sudden, it exploded, and, and ran into such a long, long river. It will be difficult to talk about it. But there was something else that I quickly wanted to mention. And that's very, oddly enough, it made me think of Dante's Divine Comedy, in the middle of the journey of our life. Now, my question is, is this a moment with your book is a moment you pause and think about a new path forward?
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Kim Stanley Robinson 3:29
Well, I thank you for all of that. I appreciate it very much. And indeed, it has been a thought in my mind this book for decades. And then when the pandemic hit in 2020, I had the chance to write it. Yes. So the Dante in the middle of my life, I entered a dark wood. Well, for me, I think it's different. When I was young, I was lost. The dark wood was in my youth and part of the tangles of being young in the 1970s in Southern California, a quite crazy life that I have written about, in my novel, The Gold Coast. Well, even that novel tells the story of a friend, the Terry bear that the book is dedicated to taking me up to the Sierras for the first time with my friend Joe. So in the Gold Coast, it's told as a fiction, it's an autobiographical fiction, and then in the High Sierra, 50 years later, it's memoir. And so it's, it's more retrospective than forward looking. Really. I mean, I now in my 70s, my backpacking career may be it certainly there's less of it in the future than there has been in the past. Let's put it that way. So I wanted to write about all of that. And so yes, I, I decided to do it as multi genre as having memoir, history, geology, Gear Guide, bibliography, route suggestions, and what I call the psycho geology, the effect of the mountains on on one's consciousness and life. So each chapter is a different kind of thing. And it that allowed me to expand. And indeed it is a long book. In fact, it was longer, I had to cut it back to the size of this app, because it just seemed like there was so many things I wanted to talk about.
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Lin Weaver 5:41
Yes. Oh, well, it is an extraordinary book. And it will be enjoyed, as I said, by so many different people. And what I think you've done an amazing thing, and that is you've organized all this material in different chapters, and they are self self sustaining. Another question for you. The High Sierra or the Sierra Nevada, the High Sierra are really the protagonist of this book. And throughout, and your love for these mountains is sown so easy to see, for example, when you were doing the presentation at the Community Church in Davis, not long ago, you you you were so joyful, and so passionate about it. And my question here is, why is it? Perhaps also because this wilderness was your first escape when you were very young, and you were trying to move into your first adventure?
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Kim Stanley Robinson 6:58
Well, no, because I was a beach kid. I grew up in Orange County, about 10 miles from the ocean. And I was a body surfer. And so my friends and I a little bit inland, and we would drive. At first, my mom would drive me down to the coast, drive us down and drop us off at the beach, we've been body surfing all day, we would come she would come back down, pick us up and take us home. I owe my mom an immense amount. She was an athlete herself and loved this kind of activity and was happy that we loved it. So then when we got our driver's licenses, we would drive down there. And we never had surfboards, we just had a pair of fins, we can throw in the car, we went down there and we buddy served and that was crucial. You get even 30 yards offshore. And you're in wilderness, and you're even in danger, mild danger, but the ocean can kill you. And I had three near drowning experiences through my childhood and youth. Just in the ordinary course of being a body surfer and being in the ocean every day. I'm actually kind of frightened of the ocean now for its power. So I had that experience. But things were changing. In my undergraduate years at UC San Diego, we had a beach in fact, we went to college there specifically for the beach access. We didn't care about the academics at all. But somehow, San Diego's beach wasn't as friendly to body surfers, as Orange County had been and one of the near drowning experiences happened then down there. So when we went to the mountains, okay, it was different. You're in the ocean for about 20 minutes, swimming for your life, or maybe an hour and then you get out rest, do it again. It's a day and you're always still in civilization. At the end of the day, you're back in suburbia, back in America. Whereas the first time we went to the mountains, I can see that we were indeed getting away. And it was an adventure of a different kind. It was slower, it was on foot. It had different sensory pleasures, but it had different cognitive aspect in that you had time to think. So body surfing is very reactive. You see a wave forming, it's coming at you. You swim hard to get into it, then it carries you along. You're right in the moment. But when you're walking in the mountains, you can think about past and future you can. You can be a little more contemplative. So it's a different kind of outdoor experience. Very different, I think. And so it is also a sport and that you're trying to find your way across complicated terrain, and it's a little bit of scrambling. It's a little bit of like being on a jungle gym when you're five years old. which is joyous and involving, but it's also slower and more contemplative. And it takes up. Well, very typically for me, it's been like a week at a time. So you can, you know, you can dive into it.
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Lin Weaver 10:15
Yes. Well, that's a, it's a very diff. Diff different explanation that I was expecting, which is very nice, different topic. You dedicate beautiful chapters to the Sierra people. And I know they're very close to your heart, as well as nature and animals and climate change and all that. But the Shira people, chapters are very moving. My question is, you bring them to life? Like, perhaps not too many people have too many authors have done? And did you learn more about? Do you know more about them now? And how do you?
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Kim Stanley Robinson 11:14
Well, I don't know much more about them now than when I wrote the book, because I wrote it in, say, April in May of 2020. So now, one, two, my gosh, it's coming on three years, if I've counted, right, so in those three years, I would say, I haven't learned a whole lot more about them, I had to learn about them to write those chapters. And I'm glad that you like them. It was a pocket biographies are impressionistic, and they can be like a prose poem. They're not the totality of life, they're an impression and an attempt to catch them on the fly. And say, in brief, what I think makes them distinctive and memorable, and some people to admire. So that was a chance to bring my, my skills as a novelist, into this book, to try to make characters out of them. And to give it a sense of their character as such, and they left written records. So it's a way of interpreting earlier writers. A couple of them were professional writers like Mary Austin, or John Muir himself, who made his living as a writer as well as an orchardist. Well, the others left written records or else we wouldn't know about them. So they're not professional writers. But they did leave a written record that I could interpret and they have characters very clear. And some of them most of them, there were photos of them. And sometimes these photos like of Norman Clyde, immensely evocative, and I found those late in the, in the process. Well, after the book was written, went to the museum and independence, California, the Eastern Cal, eastern California. I'm not sure what the name of the museum is, but it's in independence. And uptown is no more than 300 people. But it's quite an extensive museum. And the photo of, of Norman Clyde was just beautiful. And I haven't seen it anywhere else. So I just took an iPhone photo of it and got that transferred directly into the book with a pretty good clarity compared to my own photos, for instance. So yes, it was, it was important to me to try to talk about the people that had been up there. And of course, that included something that was more anonymous, but maybe more crucial, which was to try to talk about the Native American presence, the indigenous presence in the Sierra was poorly understood and the the archaeologists and the still existing Paiute and mostly the Paiute Tribe, and bishop has managed to recover a sense of what indigenous life was like in the Sierras. So it was important to write about that too, because that was a really crucial encounter that came pretty late in my Sierra, hiking life. In other words, we had seen obsidian on the ground in this year, which is a absolute marker of human presence. There's no natural endemic country rock obsidian in the High Sierra. It's always been brought there by human beings. And so it's a clue. And it's almost the only clue. So I only really understood that in the earliest parts of the 21st century. I'd already been hiking up there for almost 30 years. And I'd seen him sitting but I didn't understand what it meant. And when I did that was a vast expansion of our sense of that place.
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Lin Weaver 14:55
And revelation in a way you have evolved into the that you write about to yourself, of course, especially in terms of your evolutions of feelings and interests and loves in some ways. For example, I wanted to mention, I wanted to ask you about this, your love for the animals in the Sierras. And how you mentioned and I paraphrase somewhere that when you were young, you, you weren't really interested in interacting in their own interactions and your interaction with them. And those are beautiful passages, too. And you mentioned the deer, the moments and everything. And I learned so much about the animals. But my question here is, Do I detect a fear that with climate change, humankind may survive? But perhaps a lot of species will not? And that's something that people are bringing up all the time, there are a lot of extinction. Are you What do you feel about this the animals on our beautiful planet?
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Kim Stanley Robinson 16:23
Well, I think you got it right. And I'm glad because I tried to convey it in the book, I am scared. Life is robust, and we can do a lot of damage to this biosphere, and it can recover with our health, landscape restoration and biosphere health are still within our powers to accomplish. extinctions you can't come back from the de extinction movement is a kind of a party trick illustrating our powers in genetics. But it isn't a real project. So and we are trembling on the brink of causing a mass extinction event, the sixth great mass extinction event in Earth's history. Well, this is profound in its danger. And in it's the responsibility we carry. And so for this year is in particular, in 2008, I was taken by a couple of national park rangers, who are one of them now a good friend and the other one I admire tremendously. I haven't had as much contact with Bill tweed and Armando Quintero. Well, they took me immediately to see a herd of bighorn Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep, which I knew existed, but I'd never seen at this point I'd been going the 35 years to the Sierras and never expected to see them. At a certain point in, say, the 19, I'm guessing the 1980s or early 90s, there were only 100 of these creatures alive on this planet. Well, that triggered the Endangered Species Act. And since then, scientists and government workers have been protecting and helping the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep to thrive. Sometimes by radical interventions, they'll go in and they'll Dart a group of these sheep, knock them out, airlift them to another basin nearby with exactly the same food supplies and drop them there. They've also removed mountain lions that were predating on them and eating them and killing them and move those mountain lions somewhere else, by the same process of knocking them out because it's illegal to kill mountain lions in California, which is another good law. But of course, you want an endangered species to survive. Now, there's about 700 individuals and the number of herbs is gone from just maybe five or six to something like 15 or 20. So and I have to say I'm, I'm kind of guessing at the numbers here, because I my memory, and also the situation keeps changing. But not important in with this context, while they're roughly correct. And what they suggest is that we the Endangered Species Act is a beautiful thing, a kind of sacred action. We ought to make it an overriding consideration. It's amazing that the federal government passed it and although it's always under assault... the moral stupidity of that shocks me but of course, then we're in a world where it's that there are many shocking things going on. But what alerted me to and so I've been better at this since. It was always nice to see wild animals in the High Sierra. Now it's more like a religious experience for me. And even deer, very common marmots, very common, to see them living their own lives up. There is a beautiful thing. It's something to stop and watch for a while to hang with them in the national parks. They are not afraid of humans, you're not really disrupting them. In fact, marmots kind of show off for the camera, they they have they pose and the deers don't care. So you have a end the end, the bears definitely don't care, although that's very rare to cite them as high as we are. i There are a lot of bears, they are not endangered. But they tend to stay lower because of their food sources. Yes. So as high as we backpack we see them seldom but when we do it's astonishing. And there is a strong element of fear in that. As I joke to people of the I don't have any good photographs of bears. They're all the cameras always shaking.
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Lin Weaver 21:03
You mentioned something else about people. At first, you weren't interested in people. And now you are curious, and you want to, in some way interact with them. And some of those stories you tell about your encounters are fascinating. I could you elaborate on that.
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Kim Stanley Robinson 21:28
Yes. And thank you for that. When I was young, we were up there to get away from people if we did a backpacking trip, and never saw anybody or saw considerably more deer than people because we go off trail. And we leave the Muir Trail as quickly as we can, because it's highly overpopulated now, and always has been. So that was great. And I still love that. But now when I do run into people, there's a healthy population of elderly people my age and even older who are up there, and I've loved it all their lives. It's fun to talk to them about it, because we recognize each other as fellow Sierra lovers. And then also many and many a person up there now is younger than me and even considerably younger. So then you've got people the age of my children, or even younger than that now, who are up there. And you can see they're on fire that they're discovering it. I mean, I recognize that they're feeling the same thing I felt when I was 50 years ago, a whole half century ago. Talk to them to you know, how did you discover this year? What are you going to do? What are your plans? A trip plans are of intense interest to me now, because that's kind of a technical issue, but also a an Explorer's issue. Like, where do you appear to see you have a destination? Are you going to climb a peak? Are you going to circle circumambulate a massif? There are, because so many people go up there in a car, drop off their car, they have to get back to their car. That's quite typical, then how they organized their trip is of interest to me, but it's also just a matter of spirit. You see the enthusiasm, which that word means filled with God. It's it's beautiful.
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Lin Weaver 23:23
Yes. And there is a very amusing incident that you mentioned about the wrong map. And and how you were baffled by the fact that you the map was wrong. And then you encountered someone go on with the story.
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Kim Stanley Robinson 23:44
Sure, sure. Thank you for that, um, the map was right. I was confused. Oh, yeah, I was I was in Palisades basin, which is has no trails in it. And it is both simple. I thought it was a simple basin. But it's a little more complicated than I thought it was. And I was leading to friends who had never been in this year, that part of this year is before. And so I was the guide. And I had a particular route in mind that I thought I was on. And I was steadfastly leading my two friends up towards what I thought was going to be Thunderbolt paths in the Palisades basin. And because it sits up above, right underneath North Palisades and Thunderbolt peak. It's not. It's an easy pass to see. Let's put it that way. And yet, I was confused into where I was in the basin such that I was actually leading them towards a wrong paths, much worse, much less interesting paths. And there was a figure in white and this figure in White came towards us he wanted to talk a solo he was wearing white clothes and he had on a French Foreign Legion type white hat with its skirt that came down around his face. I can barely see his face. He was was like an angel as I later filled, because he said, I'm lost. Can you tell me where I am? And I said, Yes, I can. I was quite confident. And we got out the map. We looked at it and I said, we're right here. And he said, No, we're not. And he said, I was just there half an hour ago. So I know that that's where that is. But what I need to know is where is knapsack paths which we had just come over the previous day, across country paths, that's a giant, you know, Ridge and Glacier made it. It's beautiful. It's easy, but it looks formidable as they so often do. And from it. What would be its east side? It looks like a cliff, but it's not. So I told him, Yes, you are, where you think you are, that is knapsack pass, he had gone to look at it and felt like he was at the wrong place. So I told him, No, you're at the right place, just take the left side. And you'll find it Chutes and Ladders. If there's a staircase, it's easy as can be not a literal staircase, but a granite break. So often, granite breaks in ways that are nice for humans to walk up. And so he was comforted. And so here's the thing, he was in the right place, and he thought he was in the wrong place. I was in the wrong place, but I thought I was in the right place. So in talking to each other, we clarified our situations to each other and I immediately had to take off in a different direction to get my two friends to the correct paths to Thunderbolt pass, rather than I saw Sully's Pass, which would have been extremely disappointing for me, and more difficult for them. So it was a weird encounter. And his name was Tim. He was from Nashville. It was his first time in the Sierra. I asked him how he trained for it, because he was almost my age are close to it. And he said, Oh, I walked up and down my driveway with a backpack full of rocks on my back and I said, your driveway? And he said yes, well, my driveway is about four miles long. So I wondered if he was a country western star. But I never got his last name Tim something. And he was in the music industry. He told me he was in the national music industry. And maybe he's a technical person or a studio musician. Maybe he's a giant star. I have no idea. But for me, he was my, my angel of Palisades basin. And I Yes, yes. It just makes me laugh to think that we help each other from exactly the opposite perspectives.
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Lin Weaver 27:32
It's very well described in the book. And did you ask him about his attire? Or didn't you didn't dare to?
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Kim Stanley Robinson 27:39
Oh, no, I think that's actually quite common and smart. You wear white to reflect the sun and you presumably stay cooler. Although the people in Arabia, obviously feel that black works also. So I don't understand the physics of that. But very many Sierra people will wear that French foreign legions hat with the skirt on the sides. I do it myself, element backpacking stores to keep the sun off your neck and your ears, because you are going to get torched up there by you know, extra radiation, the sun at 12,000 feet isn't extremely intense. And in summer, it lasts for 15 hours, and you're never in the shade in the High Sierra, there are no trees to speak of. So you have to take care of the sun. So I knew why he was dressed that way the man in white.
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Lin Weaver 28:31
I'd like to stay with people for a moment, if you if if I may. You mentioned in the book that or maybe during your presentation. I'm sorry, I don't quite recall that it was very difficult for you to write about your friends, especially Terry.
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Kim Stanley Robinson 28:53
Yes, well, I have written novels that are somewhat autobiographical. I've described my parents and my family. In novels, they're, it's nerve racking, because it feels like magic and you can't write anything bad happening to them. Or it might come true in the real world. So because I'm a utopian writer I have Well, first of all, the thing to do is to avoid that kind of novel, and I won't do it again. And I've only done it twice. 20 books and it was probably a mistake. Both times, although I think they're okay as novels. They aren't my best novels, I think actually, writing about people, you know, is an error that writers like Kerouac or Hemingway. Eventually, they had to eat up their life and try artificially to have new experiences to write about which combined with their alcoholism, destroyed them. So it's not good to write novels out of your life and novel should be about other people. And so that's what I typically do, but if versus the characters you make up are indirectly based on people that you've seen combined or altered or you make up someone entirely new. But where did those elements come from? They come from your experiences of other people. So it's an other directed thing novels, the way I like it. Now, this book high, Sierra was intensely uncomfortable, because first of all memoir about yourself, you're always lying. And you're also judging your younger self. And that's inappropriate. I suppose that the younger Robinson would look at me and say, Well, what an incredibly suburban bourgeois character you have become compared to my plans. And so you would, the judgment should go both ways, but it can't because you're alive and they're not by living onward. So I don't like memoir, I'll only do it this one's and I had to do it to try to explore this year is in full. And of course, my own experience of it is what I know best. So I had to do memoir I did it. Well, memoir includes reminiscences of my friends, there, I needed to do the same thing as in my autobiographical novels, I had to be positive, I present them at their best, these people are idealistic images of them, that I, I forbid Myself even a word of criticism. They're basically tribute. Like the biographies in the book, I attribute it to my friends, then they read it, they can't complain. They're, they they probably feel like I've, I've done them justice and haven't been critical, and they can feel relief, or they can feel pleasure. But in any case, they aren't going to be mad at me. Well, that's all good. And indeed, for my friend, Michael bloodline, who died in 2019, a tribute to him was something I wanted to do. And the same for teddy bear who I knew since we were in sixth grade together, he also died in 2019. And he was kind of my mountain guru. He was way more deeply involved with the Sierra Nevada than I have ever been it. It overtook his life, it became his main not overtook, but let's say this, the rest of his life was kind of for him, problematical what he really wanted to do was be in the Sierra. And unless you become a ranger, which he probably should have, but he didn't, being up in the Sierra tends to put a heavy torque on the rest of your life. And then Terry had some health problems, that it turns out, he died of ALS. And this is a muscle wasting disease that also has cognitive and mood effects that sometimes manifest before the physical effects, which we only learned later. So it was a sad story. And we lost Harry well, before he died, in that he renounced us and we couldn't really understand it. We had, we had been so close for so long, there wasn't any reason for it, that we could tell. But he was quite certain that we had somehow betrayed him. Well, this was painful for all of us. And him, I'm sure it's a sad thing to be isolated from your friends by lack of trust. That is a that is a sad and painful experience, I am sure. And I feel quite bad about it for him and for us, but especially for him. So any and other health problems that he struggled mightily against his entire life. So he had, he had both good luck and bad luck. As I say in the book, he was immensely strong, well coordinated, a gifted athlete, and amazing endurance. On the other hand, he had some health problems that that plagued him his whole life, and then eventually, one of them got them being a quite dangerous and fatal disease. So good luck and bad luck. And I mean, I dedicated the book to him for a very powerful reason. Without him, no, no book and my life would have been completely different. So it's important to emphasize like he did High Sierra a love story. It is the right title. My editor, the moment I proposed it said yes, that's the title. And that's way simpler than most of my science fiction novels. But love for this year is love for my friends, love for Terry and, and for the animals. And so it's a it's a comprehensive feeling that has been a big part of my my whole life, even though I am really just a Davis citizen, as suburban house husband, but I have this hobby you might say, that has really brought the rest of us to to up to a higher level or a feeling that it's always an adventure.
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Lin Weaver 35:04
There were some very scary moments in the book when you risked your life, basically. And can you recall for us one of them? Obviously, a successful one, because you're still here with us. So that really was the limit.
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Kim Stanley Robinson 35:27
Yeah, well, I've only really had one close call. That was quite dangerous. And that was being caught out there in the wintertime in blizzard. And this was in say, I it was New Year's Day of maybe 76 or 77. I can't maybe I can't quite be positive which year it was, although I think I tracked it down once. In any case, we were snow shores. But we also tried to cross country skiing on this particular trip. It was just Terry and me. We went at Echo Lake, off of Highway 50 into desolation wilderness. All was good. But this was before good weather predictions and satellite maps. It's amazing how much more we know about incoming weather than we used to. And we didn't pay much attention anyway. We thought we were impervious because we were young and foolish, inexperienced. And we got hammered. It was like this most recent the last two weeks where you see these photos out of the Sierras and eight feet has fallen in 24 hours. We were in one of those and overnight our tents went from being tents to being caves that were can't nylon caves where we had to actually dig a hole up and out. And to to get our caves out of the snow and head for the car. And it was still blizzarding so I'm thinking that it was a wind of maybe 30 or 40 miles an hour. Luckily at our backs because we were headed down to the Eco lakes and out of there and but the snow was so thick we could only see maybe 50 yards at most and then it was a what it was like being in a white bubble of flying snow that was flying from behind us to ahead of us almost horizontally. And I was falling as we skied down the hill often no snow was so soft. I was having trouble I said to myself, let's change to snow shoes. This is one of the only trips of my of our lives where we had both skis and snowshoes at the same trip. And so I switched to snow shoes, but in that switch, Terry didn't see me we lost each other. He didn't see I'd stopped I was behind him. He's a good skier. I was was. And so we lost each other I was on my own. And then to make it a little bit shorter story, I struggled. And I got lost because I couldn't tell north south east west and in Echo Lakes Basin you would think you can't get lost but I proved that you can. And at a certain point trying to cross the ravine I simply fell through the new snow into a running Creek about knee to thigh deep with snowshoes on the snow collapsed in on top of my snowshoes. I was trapped there with very cold water like right above freezing running over me say to knee deep and the snowshoes being on my feet kept me trapped there. I had to reach down I had to unstrap the snowshoes, I had to pull them out I had to get out of there. I had to set up my tent between trees, jump in it, turn on my stove, heat myself back up, eat some food, drink some water, jump out of my tent, feeling very accomplished and competent to have saved myself. Because that was a dangerous moment for high hypothermia. And I could only find one snowshoe. So at that point, really angry at myself in it fate because I couldn't understand. I still don't quite understand what happened to the second snowshoe that I couldn't find. I threw the other one away into the wilderness. I was so angry and someone found a problem presumably found two yellow plastic snowshoes in the following years. And I had to ski out and I skied out I finally Rendezvous in with Terry late in the day we had started at sunrise and no it was more. My I don't know when it was sometime in the afternoon we found each other at the stone building that is at the dam at the outlet of lower eco Lake. A woman was there in a writing retreat. She let us stay in the porch area to we collect it ourselves and then we tromped out to the car and got ourselves home. So a trip home that should have taken I would guess, in good weather about four hours from our tent site. Today this took about 24 hours to maybe 22 whoever's to accomplish because of my, my little adventure. So I've done other stupid things in the wilderness and lightning is a perpetual danger up there stream car scenes are always dangerous. You shouldn't change your stove canisters inside your tent by candlelight because I blew myself up once, etc. I mean, there are lots of foolish things you can do up there. And it's not. It's not a dangerous place. And it's not a dangerous activity. But there are exposures.
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Lin Weaver 40:30
Well, the weather, harrowing. And more, I believe we'll have to get used to these unpredictable rage of nature that are really frightening. Well, we're coming to the end of the interview, Stan. But I'd like you to, I'd like to give you the opportunity to add something that you'd like to say this is, this is such a precious interview to have you one on one talking about this fabulous book. Thank you so much.
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Kim Stanley Robinson 41:13
Well, it's been my pleasure, as I hope you can see, I love to talk about this year as I like to be up there. Maybe I can eat lights up when you talk about the Sierra. It's amazing. Yeah, well, it's been, it's been a big part of the joy of my life. And I hope it continues right through to the end of my life. I feel lucky to still be able to walk without pain. And I'll continue to do that as long as I can. I guess we as Californians, this series are such a blessing in multiple ways. But Muir was right, go up there, get there Glad Tidings it will help you in ordinary suburban, civilized existence. To put things in perspective to make you happier in memory in anticipation, you can organize your life around staying fit and capable. And it's a blessing. So it's also an accomplishment, a human accomplishment to save that area, to name it wilderness, which is a complicated name that has some problematic elements to it. But I want to say that Mir was never a person that said we need the Native Americans out of there to make it pure. He never said that. And it's important to defend him because he has been accused of that falsely, and what he helped to do, and it wasn't just him. This is an actor network. That was quite a big group of people, many of them Californians. And including because the Sierra Club was very good on including women in their efforts from the very beginning as writers in the bulletin as organizers of the club. And as backpackers in the early Sierra High Trips. This is William Colby, not so much mirror, although he loved having his daughters up there. But Colby said, let's get women up there, the wives, the sweethearts, and single women, a lot of them from Berkeley sororities from Stanford sororities, but also a women who were single in San Francisco society, come on up and join us. So the Sierra Club has a lot to be proud of, for that and for protecting this area that now that the now that animals are in danger, wild animals are in danger. That place is more important now than it even was in the 19th century. Because they had the vision to save it. We now have a space that is part of the 30 by 30 project that they just approved at the Montreal cop every nation on earth signed off on it. This is a huge accomplishment under reported that every nation will try to save 30% of its land for wild animal use by the year 2030 30. By 30. wonderful accomplishment incredibly believable to you. If I had written it, people would say oh, these utopian science fiction writers, you know, they they're making things up it would that will never happen. And yet it's happened. And it's a project that people have to keep promises. But California has a woman, Jennifer Norris, who is operating that program for Governor Newsom. It's an active state program with a lot of money behind it and a lot of intellectual efforts. And we're California is already at 24% because it's got so many wild places that you can't really civilize and because they protected it early on. So this this eras are now a huge part of that and any kind of academic intellectual attack on the bad colonialist or racist origins of wilderness? Well, there's some truth to it, those the bad parts of our past has to be acknowledged and coped with. But the current use value and moral value of having these wild lands is just undeniable. So we have to say yes to wilderness, and that it's got a new value for wild animals. And it keeps us from being so self absorbed, which some of these academic historians are, are over concerned with human history and not understanding the current moment. In the Anthropocene, we need wild spaces that we have created ourselves, and humans visit them, it isn't like keeping humans out entirely, it's more a matter of making sure the wild animals have precedence. And that I think is crucial and will become part of a larger project. I think maybe I said it California is already at 24%, we can get to 30%. Everybody involved with these projects, they talk about 50 by 50, that if we create 30 by 30, that at that point, and seven years from now, we'll want to create a expansion of that project to dodge the mass extinction event and give a healthy biosphere to the generations to come. So for me, it's like a redemption story where, okay, this era is was a place for privileged, middle class white people like me to go party and have fun, most people, I mean, it's a privilege, an elite, you have to have been well educated enough and wealthy enough to afford the time to do it. So that's true. On the other hand, now, the space the activity is a kind of a salvation for the wild world for the other fellow creatures on the planet. So it's gone from being a kind of a hobby to a kind of a sacred ritual over the course of my lifetime. So in the 50 years, it's been a beautiful thing to see. And, and it'll continue to be something that you have to work to get to do, you have to arrange it, you have to have a certain amount of privilege, comfort security in life, to be a Sierra backpacker. But it will always now be also a matter of supporting the fellow wild creatures. So it'll have that, that extra moral and religious aspect to it. So I'm happy at that evolution.
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Lin Weaver 47:40
Yes. And California is at the forefront. And you know, privilege can be very useful if it's put to the good use. Yeah. Stan, thank you very much for taking the time. This has been a whole crown jewel of an interview. And I wish you the very best and we needed this book. Thank you.
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Kim Stanley Robinson 48:12
Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity. Talking about this book is a joy and talking about the Ministry for the future is an obligation and a necessity and this is kind of a way to make it real.

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Eleven Years after the Dhyanalinga Consecration
It is 11 years now since I told people that I would go. And later on, I didn’t keep my word. [Laughs] A few were disappointed; many were happy. I have always been telling people, every 12 years, my life goes through a change. The current 12-year phase will be completed in the coming next year – so be ready for changes. When I was 30, I thought I would leave; then I determined at 42 for sure, I would leave. Now I am approaching the next 12-year phase. Don’t look hopefully – I’m not leaving yet. [Laughs] We will schedule it some other time. But for sure, there will be changes.
We initially started off the three-and-half years of Dhyanalinga consecration process in a 90-day session like Anaadhi, hoping to develop 14 people – seven male and seven female – who could be the instruments of consecration. Though those 68 people who were in that program did wonderfully well in various things, we still could not get them to be ingredients for a larger process. They were nice, wonderful people, but still we could not make them into building blocks. So I had to fall back on a few people whom I had brought from elsewhere. In spite of this limited or more risky format of doing things, the consecration process went like a dream. It went so good that I became apprehensive – because such things will never happen without impediments. They have never ever happened without major debacles. So I became suspicious of the whole goodness of the situation, that it was just going like a dream.
I told people around me, “This is too good to be true. Something is fishy about this whole thing. Something has to happen; some trouble has to come.” – Because when you are establishing such a powerful, positive force towards human liberation, the negative forces naturally have to gang up; not necessarily in human form, in so many other ways. So I was surprised ­­– a whole assembly of positive forces was making things happen in phenomenal ways. Every day was another world. Every evening, when we sat – this went into the early morning hours – it was an absolutely magical process; everything was simply happening, everything was falling into place. So I started saying to people, “Something is going to go wrong. Whether it will come from the village, the larger society, whether it is going to roll down upon us from the mountains, or it is going to fall upon us from the skies – which way it is going to come, we do not know.” But my old karma has always been social problems; so I said, “Watch out for the society; the rest, let me see.”
We curtailed all our outside activity just in case somebody does something foolish and things may burst upon us. When it came, it came in a torrent. [Laughs] It came in such a torrent that people thought we would not last. Nobody believed that once again, we would raise our head and be active in this place. People wrote us off, “This is finished.” When I was in that kind of turmoil and struggle, I wanted to go away for some time, and there were calls from the United States. That was the first time I landed in Nashville, Tennessee. [Laughter] In a way, partially out of this gratitude, I decided to start up the US center in Tennessee; no matter what people say about Tennesseeeee. [Laughter]
So during these two months in the US, I had some time to look at things from outside. And when I went back, I went back totally unchained, using everything possible – all kinds of beings, demons, goblins, yogis, disembodied beings, gods, goddesses. I didn’t sit and pray and invite them, I just did everything forcefully. I knew if I used my energies like that, it would destroy my body, but anyway the body was not the issue at that time. So I went about doing things which were only towards making Dhyanalinga happen, but completely destructive for myself.
There are many forces in the existence which are normally beyond human perception and human capabilities, which need to be dealt with gently. People do months and months of homams[1] and havans[2], rituals and sacrifices to invite them so that they can have their blessings. I kidnapped them.[Laughter] And they don’t get kidnapped without taking a toll. They are not forcefully made to come without venting their stuff. But because anyway it was the last phase of my life, they couldn’t catch me anywhere to torture me. The confluence of these energies made it possible. He [referring to his Guru] didn’t ask me whether I’m going to do it or not – he just assumed that I have to do it. This one commitment that I have to establish my Guru’s dream was more than norms, ethics, and safety. Everything I kept aside because my commitment to him is larger than my commitment to life.
Whatever the scriptures would judge me as, all the other beings, those who are called devas and gods, are extremely happy with me. In India, in Sanskrit language, when we say “god,” we are not referring to the Supreme Being. The word “deva” literally means “a radiant being.” There are many radiant beings. They say their population is also growing. Shiva himself said that by the end of Kali Yuga – that is this eon – there will be some three-and-half billion gods and goddesses. And either their blessing will see humanity through, or their displeasure will end the human race. Shiva says, as this eon comes towards an end, it all depends on whether the devas are happy or not. I see they have been extremely happy with me.
In making the temple a powerful force, a temple which is beyond religion – it is beyond religion, it is beyond belief, it is beyond dogma, it is beyond scripture – there were wonderful human beings, dedicated human beings, human beings who did not think of themselves twice… What do I have for them? I don’t have these sappy words in my vocabulary… [Laughter] I have nothing for them [laughter] because in every possible way, I have made them a part of myself, and I don’t know anything better. Apart from them, we employed so many other forces; beings who had no business with us. The radiant ones, the hideous ones, all kinds – I want to express my gratitude to all of them today because they have been making our life very effective and conducive.
When we completed the consecration, it was the greatest celebration. At the same time, for people who were there at that time, the fact that I had prepared my grave and my body was broken, was a difficult thing to handle. I will not forget the day when I sat under that tree at Isha Yoga Center and spoke, or rather somebody else spoke for me because I had lost my speech, and all the things a few people around me did to somehow piece this body together. There are many who staked their lives. So like many are in debt in the United States[3], I also got into a horrible debt, because so many people staked their lives to keep me alive. I didn’t want to go with bad debts, so I had to stay back to pay the debt. [Laughs] There are no bankruptcy laws in that realm; you got to pay.
These eleven years have been a phenomenal run for Isha in India. One thing is, because too many beings are happy with me; the world may not be, people may not be – but these days, they are also happy. But I never went by social approval. Catering to all kinds of idiotic things is quite tedious. At the same time, I have no problem doing anything that works. Right now, we have taken up a social mission. We want this to reach as many people as possible, so I am willing to do it the way it works, because I got nothing to lose, nothing to gain. Everything has been done. I am sure if I leave, all those in the Isha Yoga Center will do a much better job than they are doing right now. They have the fortune – which even I don’t have – of constantly being in the physical presence of Dhyanalinga, which is not a small thing. It is a kind of force which can deliver you to the Ultimate.
It may take a long time for the world to realize what is being offered to them, but those who are physically there, have to know the significance of it now. Everyone who breathes this Grace out there, in the physical Presence of the Linga, has to ensure that this space is always maintained as the most sacred spot that you can imagine. Because living in such a space, living under a constant reverberation of Dhyanalinga, not feeling it and sticking your nose up, it is better I cut your nose rather than you go and suffer somewhere else. Everyone has to maintain the sanctity of this place.
So the last eleven years, those who were there during the consecration and many who were not there have done such a fabulous job. As a spiritual possibility, Isha has grown beyond most people’s expectations and predictions. But one thing that is still bothering me is, the temple is not complete. Before the end of 2012, we have to have the temple completely ready.
“Oh Sadhguru, there is more to be built?” You already see, there is not an inch of space in both the temples for anybody to sit on any busy day. So we want to create a substantial sphere of the temple so that people can feel and experience Dhyanalinga even if they cannot enter the inner spaces. We want to create substantial space all around, so that anywhere in the larger parikrama, people can experience Dhyanalinga the way they would experience it inside the dome; because the dome was a terrible compromise. I had plan A, plan B, plan C. The time limits and the budget limitations we had at that time compelled us to go for plan C, plan C-minus. The exact location of the temple in the site and the way we built the temple, everything got restricted because of that. If I had had six, seven years instead of three-and-half years, we would have done a completely different job. If we had had maybe five to ten times the budget we had at that time, we would have done something more befitting for him.
The way I compromised the temple designs is one aspect of my life which still makes me cringe. Every time I walk through the temple, I know what it could have been and what we have done because of our own limitations. We could make it up to some extent in the next one or two years.
Excerpted from a talk by Sadhguru on 24 June 2010, the 11th anniversary of the Dhyanalinga consecration