Ep 608 - WrestleMania (feat. Cody Rhodes)

I'm gonna go with the belt, don't be the belt, don't be the belt.

“Yeah, this is, so you got quite a scene in here.”

Let's see what's going on. Ah, let's see what's going on. Let's see what's going on this free spirit in here. Watch who would rise in the ballerage. Oh man, that's pretty good.

Well, thanks for having me. We do so much, dude. This is a fact of energy. This is a fact of energy. Oh man, man, we're going to do this part.

What are we going on? We're cheering on the TV. Why do you have it so loud? You're right here. Oh man, I love this man.

All right, man. We're going to work. Yeah, I'll be up covered. That's just real. I don't know.

That was the last thing you'd expect to see.

Yeah, the bag's on you. The bag's on me. Hello. There's going to cry. It was a man.

Crying. Crying, dude. It was very surprised. It's a good surprise. Yeah.

It's a nice surprise, dude. It was tough to keep you out. Normally, you're asleep by one. [LAUGHTER]

“I thought we could sleep in there while you'd still be asleep.”

Yeah, very nice. And said, he's not top of them. He tried to go to the gym this morning. And I had to be like, no, dude, get back in your room. I have a meeting.

I don't think it's even like the parlance anymore. But I have one where I tell my one buddy. And he knows I'll be like, I got a zoom. And this zoom. I don't think people haven't zoom anymore.

But he knows that's just because I'm leaving. It's a good move. What's going on? Thanks for coming. Yeah, really appreciate it.

We're in Austin, huh? Yeah. My dad grew up in East Austin. And I feel like I forget that. And I feel bad because I'll come into town.

I got two nephews who are at the University of Texas. Just, that's awesome. Forget to say hi. Breared over him. They're out there doing it.

You're going to say hi to him today. Nope. [LAUGHTER] No, we're meeting. Yeah, I do.

They were dead from East Austin. I didn't know that. Yeah, no. He was from East Austin. His whole story.

Coming up in Austin was just like, especially when he got into his, his rest in Korea and the American Dream. He was the plumper son. Yeah. My grandfather, Virgil, was a plumper.

But the story he would tell, and you see it in a lot of the old, old territory wrestling interviews is that like they were down on their luck style plumper. But my mom knows better. He was a non-union plumper who was killing it. Yeah.

He was doing very well. Yeah. And Dusty, my dad was like his pride in joy. You see all these pictures him and like full-blown brand new cowboy outfits and like the red wagon and everything.

I mean, they weren't super, super rich or anything like that. But it's funny to hear the story as it's told later in my dad's career because you know, I'm the common man that, you know, dad was a plumper. I came up on the streets. Yeah.

“There's some elements of that, I don't know about, you know?”

A lot of big, like my life ends up very much. Have you seen the movie Big Fish? Yes. Okay. So my life, I felt like that movie hit me in a way that no movie has ever hit me.

When my dad passed away and we were at his service, it is literally like the scene in Big Fish where you realize man. A lot of this stuff was real. Like a lot of these stories were cheese. Like these characters are, it's accurate.

Which is a crazy thing to think. But yeah, he's the lore. It was there. You're just calling him out on that one detail. Well, this is what I don't mind it because like he's a plumper son.

They grew up on a collar. Exactly. So it's real. It's real.

But I always laughed like my mom knows a little better on that.

How he was, he was treated very well. Yeah. I looked at my dad with that. My dad, I like to tell him he was fake poor. But he loves crying poor. I'm more than 10.

We didn't have a pot of pill. You know, all that shit. It's like, bro, you're spoiled. You shut up. You got spoiled.

We call it a spring scene. When you pretend to be more working class. You know, arts, Bruce Springsteen. It's real.

Yeah.

Is they seem to, for how bad it was.

“It seemed to get everything they ever wanted.”

You know, everybody got the big family and everything. And I get it. Collector's 20 bucks house was $150. Right. They're doing great.

And then, so, because we're talking about your hours, sleeping hours. What's what? When are you up? When are you down? That's a good question.

Lamar. When are you up? When are you talking to? No, no. This is actually a book.

What are you trying to talk to? She'll be talking about it. We've got, we've got guys in our group that run at a completely different speed. That there, you know, if you text him in 7 a.m. You'll receive or apply at 1 p.m.

That's when he's up. It's got most of the squad. Okay. Yeah. That's the way the rest of the squad is.

See, I'm from like a different. I think I'm misplaced in time. I'm up super early. Yeah. I'm a total goodie two shoes.

I'm also real. Let everyone know.

I'm working real hard here.

Yeah. It's like it. Speaking of the most of the guys who wake up early, let everyone know they're up early. Yeah, they're really like it's a car.

“Everyone goes, just, you know, I'm a way cry.”

I do it every single time. It's the best. I love it. Like, because we were just filming a TV show. And I had to wake up every day.

Like, six every day. I would text all my friends. I think wake up. You bombs. Yeah.

The struggle. Yeah. Yeah. Right. I'm already working.

There is something beautiful getting up early in the morning. There's a whole day that you don't. Yeah. It's nice. It's awesome.

I discovered the super old man thing. That I do. I was describing it as maybe the most old man thing I do. We just went to the beach with my girls. Mm-hmm.

And I go down to the beach, right when the, the, guess the chair part, like the chair person opens. And I'm there waiting for my beach chairs. And then I put stuff in the chairs. Yep.

So that people know. These, these, these chairs. Yep. These are taken. So I was standing around with a group of men that were much older.

And talking about things a lot different than what I would be talking about. I thought this is, yeah, this is where I'm supposed to be. Yeah. This is me. Now I have two little kids.

Any chance you can get to just like get it like a solo 15 minutes is pretty nice. Yeah. I'll wake up where the beach I wake up. I got to set the 10 up now. I'm going to set it up.

You know, it's nice to you. You're like, oh, it's probably low tide now. I'm going to push it back a little high tide. It's coming. You start getting the tide.

Yeah. I know the tide. I'd probably love that. I know. Yeah.

I don't know how long this lasted when they go back out. No clue. You're thinking about the tides. Got him on. That's the type of talk I want.

Yeah. You guys make it up. I just make it up. Go there and just go like, probably low tide. This is my thing on it.

You guys with your kids. You can be wrong about everything all the time. Yeah. To your little kid. You can go.

The sun explodes at night. Yeah. There we go. But then they start going school. And then they start going.

But you, I think for like six years. Oh, sure.

You have just like, I've never been wrong.

No. You haven't been wrong in six years. You haven't said anything. Yeah. Complete free radio.

But I'm tired. It's going to be gone in 20 minutes. Yeah. I'm running up against kindergarten on right now. She's the bunk to come.

Yeah. Well, your teacher doesn't know. I don't know if that's good. You're best to get it. It's just starting to find out some things.

Yeah. You're undefeated for a while. Yeah. You're undefeated. But it's also to the tides thing.

Just to get back. Sure. You're not totally wrong. Yeah. Do you, I feel like you may not know exactly what you mean.

I was like, low tide high tide. There's something to what you're saying. That's accurate. Absolutely. It's come waters coming in waters.

It's going to happen. Yes. I'd be surprised if anybody here knew timing. Like how long is it the high tide and low tide. See, I got observed.

We're talking like 12 hours. No. It's like, I think it's every. I know the moon controls. The moon controls the tides.

I got that. You're ready to go. Yeah. It's all you need. One fact.

I can talk tides. I look at wet sand. If I see the waves on exactly making it to the wetest point, I go up. Tide must be going on. Yeah.

So yeah. Man, you're undefeated right now. Make your garden or by cone start, clear the frueling to the best price. From a bottom-blown type of robust garden,

“what I would've liked when we visited the Lomeris room was for you to see here's a secret cabinet of...”

Oh, it's his guy's. Ooh. A shrine here's a shrine of guys. You took down a shrine? Yeah.

You saw I get some pussy in there and you had some fucking... Get your eyes on it. Yeah. Well, man, what was the shrine? It was like a coffee king's stew in Orange Cax.

Oh, see? Oh, wow. Yeah, the figures in there. We're like, "Well, man, it's time to put down the figures." But he had to be in the water cabinet.

Why did you take him down? I don't know. I just... I don't know. I just...

I don't know. Well, I'll tell you if you have a lady friend in there. Be you. Keep your figures up, man. Sure, that.

Keep your... I just... You went in there? You can't be yourself of it. What was in there?

I mean...

“Well, what did you go through to play in my video game?”

It was a lot of... I noticed a lot of sensory overload. That TV was jacked up on a documentary, and then you were playing your RGB, but you were deep in that.

Obviously, they're cannabis swirling in there. Oh, wow. Oh, see. And then, like, a very makeshift cleaning system where things were stacked.

Yeah. Yeah. You see his weight and the cleaning. Yes. We can...

I'm on my way to cleaning. It's like a series of a tree. You can see the last time he cleaned the body. You don't let you some trout. And that was April.

Oh, man. We'll be proud of your figures, man. Yeah. Yeah, I don't want to be afraid of that. I am jealous.

My nephew has all my figures now. Yeah. And I saw him. And I was like, fuck, I was wondering where there was went. I want him back.

Just take him back. I should. Any grails in there? Anything that was real... I was a big DX guy.

So I was like... When I saw the DX figures. Yeah. I was like, damn, I wish I had those guys back. It's done cold, obviously.

It's a classic. What was it about DX there? Was it them just... They were just being bad boys. I'll suck it.

Suck it. It was inside of us. That was huge. That was the biggest. I don't know what the...

No, not six, seven. Yeah, it was. Every single kid of a camera was on. I don't know what genius it was. If that was X-Pock himself or there's just like an absolute genius somewhere.

That was like, here's what we're going to do.

Because that was one of my favorite things. Yeah, do you know who came up with socket?

“So I think if you kind of pull the thread on socket,”

there's going to be a two or three guys who try to say it was them. Because at first people were doing crotch chops. Yep. And DX classic WWE style. Let's mark it this.

We're just... Yeah. And it's a whole another thing. I'm going to say it's someone... It's a X-Pock.

Probably if anything, Shawn Michaels would get the credit for it. Yeah. Because he was doing this. Yeah. Yeah.

But it's like the Fargo Strut, which is what Rick Flair does. That whole deal. If you really look at it, it's hard to always determine who came up with it. First, more wrestling, the rule is whoever got it over. Whoever made it famous becomes theirs, especially like the 70s and 80s.

They were just Bob Dylan songs. Straight ripping the lyrics and putting them into promos. They would do similar stuff in different territories, but there's no cable at the time. Yeah. Probably whoever marketed it in patented prime example, Hulk Ogan's Hulk Up.

Every wrestling baby face. Pretty much used to do the hit yeah, nope, not anymore. And they start coming back, start coming back. And then he made it such a big thing. The Hulk Up was so the finger point that nobody else could do it anymore.

And if you do it today, you're like a crazy person. You try to Hulk Up at any point. Even though that was a common baby face.

Basically they'd be selling, hey, I'm done with you hitting me.

Yeah. Like now I'm coming back in the crowd because feel it. But yeah, wrestling whoever gets it over. It's there. So it's Pox pretty much.

That's it. Yeah, that's awesome. Tim or Sean Tony Ayo came up with. You can't see me. Yeah.

He can't. You don't think so. Oh, no. Here we go. The mayor's activated.

He's like by the rules. John's seen me got him more over. You know, I don't know. Tony Ayo did it in him. And like get rid of that.

I tried. But John seems we're doing it for 20. Plus years, you know. Yeah. Where do you stand on?

I think you're going to be the. You're going to be the boat. [LAUGHTER] Where is it? It's John, right?

You're taking it from me Ayo. I'm going to go get you a bit. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to have him break in your room.

Later this week.

“How many people going his room, by the way, was that?”

Not many. You're most people don't make it back. That's a tough. How many of these refuse? How many of these do not go in?

I'm honored. Yeah. Because I saw you at the Austin show you came to. Right? Was it?

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Are you going to WrestleMania? Why? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know.

I want to go. I don't know. You got me back into wrestling with a mania like two years ago. Dude. I like to say I got you.

You got me wrestling too. I was going to go into it. Yeah. So you're responsible for, because Jellie is a full-blown wrestler now. Yeah.

Jellie loves it. How did you get him into it? We were in this car during the national festival. And we're smoking. And then we're hanging out.

And I was like, we were all rose on Monday.

“And I was like, I would like to go and he was like, you should go.”

He saw it was a Harley. I think was dog medicine. He was like, dude, I want to do that. And I was like, bro, you should definitely do that. Damn.

They can validate. And Jellie was a big part of what we do now. Yeah. Thank you. So that was the matter.

Yeah. The guy sitting next to a guy going, I think I'm going to do that. And you go, yeah, you should. Yeah. Yeah.

That was all made. That was really good. Yeah. But you got to come to Mania, man. It's Vegas.

Oh, no. I had to come to Mania. But did you get you got into it? Because he got me into it for a minute. It was.

Yeah. It was during WrestleMania. And I was like, man, I don't like watching wrestling. Turn this off. Then I started watching it.

I was like, oh, yeah. And then we were watching it. Actually, I watched less few Manias. When years, when a taker came back and like all that. I was laying on this couch.

I was laying on the couch. And then when the lights went out and taker came back. I was like. [ Laughter ] I was like, man, he'd be back.

Everything came back. I was a fool. He, uh, I've told this story before. But he ran to the ring with two brand new. I believe it.

Either hips or knees. He just had double. And this was the first time he'd run. But the blackout when we do it in the stadiums and the arenas. It's not full like it is on TV.

Yeah. It's you can see a bit. And he rolled in the ring in a way that he could have probably killed a full-blown lion. He had such testosterone. And I mean, he was so ready to be standing up.

And for that moment, it was incredible.

Just to see how casual. Because we were such a great athlete. Uh, actually was, but then again, in the moment, he hits the choke slam on rock. And I told him when he was on my podcast. But I can't believe it happened this way.

He literally looked over to me. And I think I missed the moment a little bit. Because I think he was looking for a little bit. I got you kid, sheriff, leveled the playing field there. Yeah.

But I was just half dead from whatever Roman and I had done. But he completely just winked at me. Lights went out. I was in it. I was so, like, man.

It's again, like the big fish element of it. With what we do, this is mentioned of disbelief. What's real, what's not? You cannot convince me. He's not magical.

[LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] [INAUDIBLE] And save my WrestleMania.

“So, do you know that's how my Eagles level that all started?”

No, I'd know I did. Okay, so I bounced around NFL wise. I'm from Georgia. I'm from Marietta, Georgia. So, as far as teams to root for in Georgia, that are safe.

The Bulldogs and Athens can't ever go wrong with EGA. The Braves. The Braves are going to consistently be a good team. I got really into the Falcons as a kid. But Michael, a little bit more.

Michael, it came on board. That's awesome. Two seas and tickets sold out. I was wearing that number seven jersey. Every day, I was all about it.

And then the worst thing that could have possibly happened

Yeah. And then we fell off as a fandom.

“And then, of course, Maddie Ice and the comeback.”

So, I always loved my home team.

But I never, I was never fully juiced in. Yeah. My sister, my oldest sister, she ended up her big dream growing up. She wanted to cheer for the cowboys. So, she cheered for the cowboys for two seasons.

So, most of my family are cowboys fans. But I never really had a team. So, I bounced all around every year. I just kind of take a pic. Yeah.

Hey, I like a good SEC quarterback. I'll follow him. I, my favorite arena to perform in arena is Wells Fargo and Philadelphia. It's a hard arena. They like the bad guys more.

And for whatever reason on a night, I had nothing going on. This is money in the bank years ago. I'm sorry, I'm looking at you. Am I like you?

Am I? Am I? You're like, exactly. Get in Tito. You know.

And the way the story we told the match was maybe they'll get behind Cody. Because it's kind of an odd group that we don't have a running favorite. Maybe they'll get behind him. They got behind me in this match.

“And the story the match was more about me losing the winning.”

But after that, I thought, so strange. I'm a Neppo baby in the business. A lot's been handed to me. I've, this is a type of crowd that wouldn't take to me. And from years of performing in front of them, they did.

So I always had this Philly love.

Fast forward to the biggest match of my life. And where my whole life changes and why the title exists. Why I have it here is there on the link is WrestleMania 40. And after that, I just couldn't. I mean, I dressed in their locker room.

Yeah, that's all. My life was my life changing as an entertainer in the wrestling business. All the scuffs right there in that infrastructure. So I just felt I'm in. I'm in.

I'm in. Good team. Good. Very good. Very good.

Great. Great. Great. Great conversation with Syrian. Everything like a great team.

I'm in. And you know, everything he did.

“I felt like I had just something about this place.”

Yeah. Fast forward to I want to take my. Some of the camera guys and one of our writers at WB's. They want to go to this. Philly's raiders game in Philadelphia.

Like they want to go to the Eagles raiders game in Philadelphia. And I was like, Oh, we can do it. We can make it work. And I didn't want to go through anybody. I just got a sweet.

Got a catered. I didn't try to do any of these hookups. The same game that I did this Joe Biden was that. And I'm not kidding. They treated me better than they treated Joe Biden.

So he's kind of a surprise. Makes sense. I got pictures of me on the field. On the ball. I stood by the tunnel.

They made everyone in my crew feel amazing. All we so afterwards were going to leave. We've had the best experience ever, especially some of the crew. This was just all of it was a bonus. Hey, come back.

Come in the locker room. Going in the locker room. Doing some local access interview. About how the offensive line played that day. And I'm just talking nonsense.

But they treated me like a native son. So every time I go, it gets deeper. Like I can't because my mom, the other day, she asked me. She was, why are you an eagle's fan? Nothing ever good happened there.

And I'm thinking. You were in a range. You were in a range. Yeah. That's where they were.

But yeah, that's where that's where it all started. So I'm new. It's fun. But man, they do. They've been so good to me.

Yeah, he goes around. Yeah. I'll also go back to the Neppo baby thing. I don't like that idea at all. I hear it about like ice cubes son, all this stuff.

And it's like, the idea of somebody working hard. And then putting their kids in a good position to like work hard and do good stuff. People resent that. I'm like, I look at it like a Roman senator. So you're just bringing more glory to the house.

Yeah. So it's like, yeah. Dude, it's like house. Oh, shake your accent. He brings glory to the house a cube.

You bring glory to the house a rose. I don't that whole thing. I just, I'm just not with that man. Bro, it's bought on. That's the, that's it.

I mean, the song as drew. I'm a super dramatic person when it comes to wrestling. I take it so seriously for how often silly the job actually is. But I mean, the first words of my song are wrestling has more than one royal family. And it's all about, you know, the hearts, the McMahon, the Guerrero's.

And finally getting a little. Hey, the roads are here dude. So we're going to run this scora. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. I think that's awesome.

When you hear people look, it's like, dude. Tell your dad to do better, man. Tell your dad to stamp it up, man. So anybody brings their kids around work. And they're, if they're like young boys or whatever,

and they're thinking about getting into wrestling,

I always tell him like, hey, it's going to be easy for you.

Private jets. You know, I can always see like their parents stop.

That's okay. They're just just if it's going to be bad, just lean into it. Yeah, lean into it. You know, like WrestleMania. Somebody called me the golden boy yesterday in a backstage pre-tap.

Or a few weeks ago on TV. And I thought hilarious because I used to be a job guy here. I started very low here. But after that, I decided I'm going to just go in on this. And my mania gear, a lot of gold, like real.

Real a little bit of under the, under the cow. Oh, yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to go, dude. Oh, it's hard for Hollywood.

It's easy to go. Big Bob. Yeah.

“Do you have any bodybuilders in your, in your life?”

No, just just me. Yeah. Yeah. That's the juicer for a while. No.

So he was the first guy who taught me how to train.

But his life consisted of one night I drove him from James Town, New York to somewhere Upstate New York in the middle of a blizzard. And we get to a red roof in at 7 a.m. Legit. Barely, this has just been brutal.

The show's not so 7/30 the next day. And I asked him when he wanted to meet. And he's the old school guy who they didn't just set times. They all call me when you wake up that thing. No, tell me the time because that's weird.

But he was like, I don't know. What is his 7/30 now? Let's say meet at 10. What? What?

And we'd work out. We'd eat. Then we'd have nothing to do. We'd eat again. He was just very much the first guy I met.

That was one thing he did right by me. He taught me about, I guess, proper training and proper nutrition. And took me to the gym and as far as a tag team partner. He was one of the toughest guys in the locker room. So no one ever really messed with any of us.

But then other nights he'd scare me. I think like one night I was in the shower. And you know those soap caddies, the things you put at Barnes a bar soap. I guess I was taken too long. And he was getting frustrated with him anyways.

And also that soap caddy flew by my head and shattered against the shower wall. Oh my god. I had like a. A Mariano Rivera speed to the point where I. I hope he wasn't aiming for me because that would have killed.

But now he he he has a very grumpy reputation. But I had at the time I got nothing but respect for it because I needed that.

“I needed I think that's why they put us together.”

Give him the most. I mean, I mean, his name is hard core Holly let's let's see how they do he do.

One thing he did that would always be a lesson, but a tough lesson.

Sometimes he did way cooler stuff than me in the ring. And then they'd build the biggest big hot tag we call it. The guys getting beat up is getting beat up. He's going to beat up finally. The other team are going to power placed out switch the odds here.

Sometimes instead of him getting beat up to tag me in and give me this big glorious moment. He just grab a guy in a full Nelson and pick him up and slam him, which is a full Nelson slam, which is a finish. Yes. And then he just walk over and tag me like this and I'd get in and like.

Oh, punch. Drop. Come on. He's down. He like really plucky.

He's like, yeah, baby. Oh, this guy. So he was he was the exact right person. I still friendly with him to this day.

“I think the exact right person I needed in my life.”

A wild one.

And but never never did anything crazy or unsafe because he's got a lot of weird stories.

He was great by me. What I needed at the time. What is the training like thing? Because you got like it's almost probably similar to body building. But then you probably have to do a lot of like.

I don't know like a guilty balance flexibility. So you don't just like jump off the thing and rip everything. Today it's the way in XT operates, which is art of element of system, the performance center. I I won't. I like how I came up.

Which was a different system. I came up. I went to OVW where you got with like minded people. You'd sit there and watch wrestling. This is before the network.

It was W to be on demand. It was like seven nine like on the cable package. Watch a mystery network shows and stuff like that. I got around people like wrestling. I'd go to the gym.

That was if you liked it. You'd click today. It's all. They've got it all mapped out really well. They've got exactly what you mentioned.

They've got agility. They've got multiple rings including one that has an extra layer of pad and bounce. If you're going to try big high spots. They've got Shawn Michaels again. We're talking about probably the greatest in the ring ever.

How could you not be good?

The system they have down there with the performance center now is designed for the NIL athlete. Because they're used to it. I came from baseball. I came football. I came from gymnastics.

So they need all that. They need a room that's recovery sweet. They need a full blown weight room, which they have. They need all that. When I came up, you were just doing it yourself.

Which I liked because you found like minded people.

“I remember my whole class of coming up from OVW.”

It's a system now. It's a lot healthier. Yeah. A lot healthier to get everybody ready. But the body building aspect of it because since 2007, they've the wellness policy is there.

So the body building aspect of it. There's a couple of OGs still who treat it that way. For the most part, it's it's all shapes and sizes again. So 87 star where not everyone is shredded to the gills and not moving us. There's a lot of I guess better athletes.

Yeah. Supposed. Just less juicy.

I would try to put it in.

You didn't get those boys. You were wrestling. You're not. Yeah. Yeah.

See the old wrestling. You got sprint at like Osmer warrior. I'm not saying he was probably definitely was, but. So you can just sprint out of the fucking tunnel. It's kind of the highest guy I've ever seen in my life.

Yeah. It's kind of awesome though. Yeah. There's this crazy clip. Yeah.

Of road warrior hawk. I think running. This is pre WWE, but talking about that type of energy and flowing through the vein. Yeah. He's running out in a studio TV show.

So his distance he needs to move is about 10 feet to the ring. And then he's going to have to turn to face the little studio camera. Forget if you save in my dad or if they were saving somebody. But he's running with such. Everything that he jumps to top rope nearly hangs himself.

The rope gets. And then he's able as strong as a bull and the adrenaline and speed. Yankees that out. Save the pulse. So you never pulse.

He jumps to the top rope where his head is falling. And then he's. You know when you're falling and you he's something to catch. He touches on the top rope where they're all like this. Anyways, looking at the heels.

Yeah. You know the conversation after had to be like, What the fuck? Yeah.

“You know the conversation after had to be like, what the fuck?”

Yeah. He's just running. Like when Rick's there, when he's old, when he runs into the turnbuckle, and like bounces off of it. Yeah.

He's just flying. I think nature boy, if you were to shoot him in today. Yeah. He could flip up both sides. He's he's got it.

What about the shock master? You think he was a little juiced. Oh, shots. Wow. The shock master might have juiced a lot.

Shock master's connected to my family. Oh, I didn't know that. So he had no longer married to my Aunt Bobby, but that was my Uncle Fred. What? And my dad.

I'm trying to word this nicely because I don't know. I was a kid. Seems like my dad was trying to help Fred out. Okay. And seems like he was trying to give him a roll.

He had great run at WWE as Typhoon. And tugboat. So the shock master was the role. I don't like to disc.

“It doesn't seem like the idea was that well.”

It was a storm. It was a fantastic. It was a fantastic. It was a fantastic. It was a fantastic storm.

It was a storm. It was a storm. Bad genius. Good morning. Good morning.

The spray paint. It's over spray paint on it. But the story. The story I've heard is that it wasn't Fred's fault because before when they did where for a goal, the he, this guy ends up falling as he busts through a wall.

His helmet falls off. And he's the whole thing's dead in the water right that moment. The best part about that is Sid who's going to WWE's Hall of Fame right now is still trying to hang on to it. Most people in that group are.

Like who that's the same good. We got to get out of here. We can't just go, well, cut.

You know, it's alive always with us.

But Sid's going, who is that? He's trying to stay in. But the thing that Fred told everybody is there was a board a guy named Jackie Crockett. It was a camera man. He put that board there to just make sure the flare for the goal.

Because it was just a three-wall set doesn't fall. That board apparently was not there earlier in the day. And that board is what did it. I don't know anyway, which this ever would have worked. Say he emerges through the wall in his story.

Yeah, there's a man. This fur best. There we go. I've been shocked by his death. Holy Anderson, who's doing his voice.

He's like, he's like, yeah, it's not him talking. He's like lip syncing like he's talking. It's so crazy. Well, okay. So this happens.

And it's funny to the entire wrestling world. Some stuff is so bad. It's funny.

Where it's just, oh my god. It's gone so bad.

“Look at like, let's stay. But I had a very interesting ride home”

because my dad was mortified. And I'm pretty sure he thought he was going to be fired by Ted Turner and TBS. My uncle was not going to make it in that role. That wasn't going to. So we just drove home from wherever that was in dead silence.

Like the lost games, like that type of. So all we ever talked about was wrestling. And how cool that was. But I knew it was bombing. We did we do this.

Yeah. Yeah. Hey, you bomb me getting the car with everyone. Drive home silently. Yeah, the bit.

The bit didn't work out. That. So one says one thing. Like you shut the fuck off. Yeah.

That's a bad ride. Yeah.

And there's always the one guy trying to be like, let's go to taco mac.

Or something like, no, man. Yeah. Friends. Yeah. We have a thing of the mash.

Oh, the funniest bomb ever. My two friends were on stage together. And just the crowd fucking hated them. And then we get in the car and we're driving back to our plays. And it's just dead silence.

Like, you guys suck. And then they were like, okay. All right. Yeah. It was pretty funny.

Yeah. We suck. And then after like an hour of me making fun of the one dude just lost his mind. And tried to fight me. Oh, no.

The reason to chair is that we had like a house with like five of us. There's one chair. We don't play video games. If you bomb me, like, do you guys hit the bomb chair? You bomb tonight?

Yeah. You got to the bomb chair. They kept bringing up the mashup. And he stood up fully. Like, fight me right now.

I can't. I thought he was joking too. He went into the kitchen. He was like, you were the fucker. So I got in his face joking.

I was like, and then I realized he was serious. I was like, oh, he might. Can you murder me?

“Do you feel it's important though the passion in terms of when you bomb or have them only?”

You need to have that bad night. Oh, yeah, for sure. But I would never.

Again, I don't know why I would say never.

I've spasped on so many people after I've bombed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think you need that bad.

Yeah. It's embarrassing though when you. If you bomb and then you get mad at somebody else. Yeah. Yeah.

You have to be mad at yourself. Yeah. I was through a can of liquid death just the other night. I flubbed the last like two words of my closer. I just like fucked up the clothes and flubbed the words.

And I was like, all right, yeah, you guys got that idea. I'm out here. So I'm about that. And I walked back stage. And I was getting like ready just to hurl a full liquid death.

And I saw a camera above me. I'm like, yeah, maybe I'll just chill. So I just squeezed it privately. I put it against my chest and squeezed it. I thought.

Yeah. I was like, right before you took a break from stand up. I, you got off stage at helium. And I was on the other side of the door. And I was just like, oh, that's like, fuck.

I was like, I don't remember. Yeah. Normally if you bomb, you can just be like laughing off. But every once in a while, you'll see someone like fully like. Yeah.

No. It works. We did a comedy contest in New Jersey. That was sick. And I, I had like, you know, okay, set.

“And I remember the guy came up after me and was just like, yeah,”

he started just like, trashing me. And I was watching it. And I was like, he was like fucker. Chains laughing. I'm like, it's not funny.

And then I, I chilled out for sure. But I remember he was done. He was with his girlfriend. And I was like, walking up to this is like hours later. Walked up to him.

I was pretty funny man. He was like, okay. And I was like, no, seriously. I would do that. I like pulled him in.

I'm like, every day they get a fucking kill. He was like, dude, relax. Just kidding. He was right. That one was just being a spasm.

Yeah, it's okay. As far as like wrestling promo is good. And the last line's being flubbed. That's one of the worst feelings ever when you think you've got some hot ammunition. And then you come back and realize, didn't get, I got 60% of that.

Yeah. And it didn't land. And it also, you feel like it's everybody else's fault. Because our least side, you go out there and it's alive. So there's the camera there.

And there's all these other elements.

I'll tell you a crazy one that people never take into account now.

My bus every now and then I'll try and do this. But the amount of stuff, physical stuff, sometimes in wrestling. So you're just sitting there, you're talking. I'm going to say this, I'm going to say this. And then you realize, like, I got to, I'm going to have the title.

And the mic. And then I might have the glasses on. You think of all these other elements. And I always, those are where I usually go to blame. Like that's right.

Yeah. You'll know there was one promo idea where I laid the title in front of me. And I just told the camera. And I said, shoot up like it's a big dramatic shot. I can't talk around with this thing right now.

Like it's so much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I play everything else.

I play everything else. When I'm talking about fucking crowd and sensitive. Whatever. No matter what. I got a fucking guy before me sucked.

When's the last time that you felt you bombed? I just happened to laugh. I bombed on Friday the fucking United Center in Chicago. Big Build. The biggest big money.

Literally the biggest arena. And that was actually sounds full. Yeah. Yeah. So it was a acoustic.

It was terrible. We fixed it. They were adjusting it the entire time during my set. Oh. Took like 25 minutes into my set.

They started to fix it.

Are you your own biggest critic that you bombed by your standards? Or did you feel like you really? It was a true. It wasn't a bomb. True.

It was fine. The show was fine. But there was definitely like sections of people that could barely hear it. So then you're like, damn those people wasted their money. Yeah.

Yeah. And like you feel. Yeah. You're a real one. Well, the consumer experience is everything.

I feel like the longer you go in any type of entertainment. I like being around people who care. Because a lot like a lot of young wrestlers. For example, there's just. Just wanted body slam him and then he kicks me up.

And we go they're thinking very much about just two of them. Yeah.

“And then I think especially if they go on before raw or smack down there.”

I'm thinking there was. 12,000 people. Yeah. They were they didn't mind what you did. But you could have brought them in.

Yeah. They could have like, get them going. Yeah. It's decided. We're about to go on air.

Yeah. Versus. You kind of your own performance. The first. I did the first arena I ever did.

I was always like, I'm not going to use fucking like.

Fog machines and fucking lights and shit. Yeah. Like I'm like, that's all fucking corny. I just it was the worst decision of all time. Oh, just stood on.

It was just. In a stage. I was like, we got to get some fucking lights and shit. We got to proof this up. Yeah.

That's the other comedies doing. I'd be like fucking losers. Yeah. And then you kind of have to. That's kind of the George straight in like country music world.

Just stands in the center of the stage. Yeah. Turns out I'm not George straight. I feel like a lot of people have the turns out. I'm not George straight.

You know what? Yeah. Loaded up. Yeah. I'm good.

Mine was night one. And then night two. I was like, all right. We got to get like some fog. So they got one tiny like.

All fog machine. It was like a hundred yards away from me. There was just like steam coming out of the side. Yeah. Bob the game.

It's like. It's a working progress. Yeah. We're figuring that out. Yeah, that's too big of a space.

Just to come out to him to like walk out quietly. Yeah. Everyone's waiting for you. Crazy. That's so fucked.

Yeah, it was bad. I used to think it would be funny to come out on stage to ambient music. Like the stuffy fall asleep too. Yeah. I tried it once.

It's just like. I'm doing some choices. It's a whole pick song. So walk out to it because it's funny. And the idea of it's funny.

Like what if I walk out to like flute EDM of fucking dubstep. And then every time Matt walks out at what are my shows. I'm like, who picked what is this? Turn this the fuck off. It was a place for three seconds.

It just blasts. Fucking garbage. Matt has been playing long enough for a long time. It's just a way.

You know, I also run you never.

No, again.

“That was funny. He just started he's like, hey, how's everybody doing?”

I just got down his mind. Yeah, it's like, boy, boy, boy, boy. Yeah. What's the song? You got the song? I know exactly what it is.

I can play right now. That's dude. This is a song. How did you come up with your theme song. Dude, damn.

Come out. Um. That song. He will be speaking to him coming out to the land. So long as I may not land.

Come on. This fucking hit it. I got a good one right here. Where is this? There is this one.

Oh, here it is. I found it. No, no, no. It's not that. Better try this sound pretty similar.

It's right. I got him excited. I'm worried that this is such a long. Here we go. Let me skip ahead a little bit.

It's good. It's a good fucking wrestling walk out.

“The song doesn't really tell us anything about you, right?”

Other than I probably think that's funny. Because to your question, the trick with a wrestling song, all the greatest wrestling music, it doesn't need to be a good song. It needs to be a catchy song. Jimmy Hart and the mouth of the south, the manager for Hogan, he was making all that great

90s content music that ended up being everyone's favorite. It was catchy. I like Kingdom the song that I come out to. But it and I actually think it's those guys are great. Downstate's great.

It's great song.

It's done amazing things.

It's the only walk out song. I think WWE has the WWE doesn't own. I don't know how we feel about that. The issue is I hear it so much that especially at the end of the night. It's fun doing the rounds and I'm staying and they're just playing that one.

It gets you. And I heard my daughter the other day, she doesn't know the words, but she was saying like something she put Paw Patrol on it all sudden. It's very, you can, I've heard people do something something Cody Rhodes, which is just kind of the appropriate way to sing it and whatnot.

Well, yeah, the way nobody seems to know the words, they just, there's one part of like something, something Cody Rhodes. And it's, if you think of it that way, it's, it's a pretty, it's a pretty interesting song by WWE standards too. It's got my voice which I recorded on a.

Generation one, I Mac when I first left WWE because I took this song on the road with me. That's one of the things why WWE doesn't own it. I took it when I went to independence and started basically started myself back over to eventually come back to WWE.

But I, I can say this, it can never change unless I was to go, you know, bad guy.

Then that song is out, I suppose. But that's the other thing. I'm locked into it. We're married together. That song and I.

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“Speaking of bad guys, what's going on with that prick pat McAfee?”

Yeah. What the hell? What a prick. I know. I know pretty well.

Yeah. He's a jerk. Let me see what I can see. I like to stop him. Yeah.

It Las Vegas, WrestleMania. I'm going to beat the fuck out of pat McAfee. I mean, that would honestly be awesome. I actually have to open the straightaway moves again though. Oh, yeah, fucking bit closed.

It's like I can't get a bit. Yeah. I've been, I've been told that some of the people in his, his orbit, his circle, uh, think he's the next Sylvester Stallone in terms of TV film. Uh, I don't know if I'm getting that.

Yeah. I love me some college game day. Yeah. Yeah. He is very good on college game day.

I will say I know you don't want to hear this. He's the fucking man in this. Yeah. I. I.

I would say. I. I'm glad. I'm glad. There are people who like to pitch themselves in these WrestleMania and these big moments.

I'm flattered. Yeah. You want to be a part of it. I'm flattered. Uh.

Yeah. That's just. You shaking your head. No. What was that?

Have you turned on pat? Have you turned on pat? This is a pat friendly house, right? I would turn on pat, but like. To like, you know, like, it doesn't make any sense.

Talk your shit dude. Yeah. Talk it. Like, yeah. Talk it 'cause I'm not.

Yeah. I'm. I'm just going to do the Mariah Carey answer moving forward. I don't know him. There's like no tough punners.

You know what, what's the cost of this, right? 'Cause you keep me in the like below the belt here. Yeah. Uh, that was an NFL punner. Yeah.

“That, that might be, you know, you want to stay away from those legs?”

Yeah. I don't know. Uh, that might be it. Yeah.

This is the first time I've been asked about him.

And I think hints forth. I'm just going with the Mariah Carey. I don't know him. Yeah. Response.

Even though I'm. What was the nature of the betrayal? What exactly happened? Oh, man. What do you do?

I, uh, let's see how we could explain. Randy Orton, who I'm wrestling in WrestleMania, we have a, like, almost two decades of history between each other. He was my mentor. I had seen how I drove around.

I had Randy. Very different opinions. Uh, but also really helped shape me. We were on screen together. As part of his group legacy.

He had my dad's last match. My first match in the company is Randy. There was a lot of rich story material. And then we inserted, uh, pat back. And that's, we are literally in that part right there.

Yeah. So your question is everybody else's question. True. And that helps us got you been doing it. Yeah.

Yeah. No. You know, like the, the troops all outside and there's that clown. Right. Like the clown in that regard.

He just, it's an interesting fit. And we're going to see where we're going to see where it goes. You're saying he's not a serious person. No.

“I don't, I think he seems like, you can't have that much success.”

And be ground up like he is without being a serious person. And having been to the Thunderdome. For sure. There's, what I would say is right now what I've seen is everyone around Pat McAfee, or his orbit.

Probably someone needs to say, no, every now and then. That seems, that seems like a dangerous group of people to, you know, you need, like, we're talking about Bob Holly earlier, man. You need that one guy in the room to be like, I don't know, man. Jumping into the WrestleMania main event.

Also, while I was getting my ass kicked in the ring the other night, looking up and he's wearing shades. Like he put the shades on to go out there. It's a different era of wrestling. It was like watching a guy at a bar do like a stone cold impression.

Or like, and here's, here's the thing.

And I'm really trying to, I'm just going to stick with the, I don't know him. But this is my, is he, I heard him. Again, getting my ass kicked. I heard him talk about the attitude there. And I'm thinking, oh, man, I don't think he knows.

Almost 30 years ago. Almost, so love it. And it was the most prolific era in the business until the last four years. Yeah. So if you're part of the last four years, you kind of feel like, Why are we talking about this?

Yeah. We're playing in this game. Why are we talking about this? And yeah, no. I'll stick with the official though.

I don't know him. Yeah. They should be interested. Oh, that's the best part of it. Yeah.

It's very interesting. WrestleMania. And something that modern wrestling fans and more what I mean is younger fans. You didn't watch WrestleMania 1 or 2. The original WrestleMania was built on the celebrity interaction.

“I think Mr. T. Hogan, Liberachi, everything there.”

You know, uh, uh, you know, Wendy Richter, everything like it's over. It's your asshole. Mike Tyson, and uh, you know, when WrestleMania with him was Sean and Steve.

So there's always that element.

Now that is there. There was at the ring. He's he's in it. He's this. He's the new Liberachi.

He's weird. Yeah. And that list of celebrities who come to the first. Romania, Muhammad Ali, Mr. T. Wendy Richter and Liberachi.

You decide where that falls on the list. You decide, you know, there's that.

I was watching the, I just saw an Instagram reel of uh,

when Mayweather was on when he punched the big show. I watched that live. And I was like, he really fucking punched him. Yeah. And then I'm talking about it.

It was pretty sick. Also, I think show that the big show. They had a nice agreement between each other. That when wrestling's done right.

“The best thing ever is when you can just have a little bit of doubt on.”

Ooh. Seems like those guys do hate each other. Yeah. Seems like. And we have a lot of that in both main events this year.

There's a lot of sincerity to the suspension of disbelief. I just believe, too. Yeah. Why try very hard to navigate. So now I'm sitting here.

No, dude. I do. We're talking on pat. Dude. It's wrestling.

Yeah. It's wrestling. Mania too. Pat backs up me on college agenda. Judging.

Oh, you got to tell me. Nick's saving love. Jim. Jim. Jim.

Jim. Jim. We got done. He was still going.

He was like, dude, go talk to him.

There's no way he was serious. Yeah. You bet. Well, so he's such a serious guy. Say that.

I uh, the crazy thing from my game day experience. Did you have notes when you did yours? No. No. Thanks.

I didn't know what was going on. You just went. Yeah. I had a couple drinks. I had a couple drinks during the day, too.

It was a night game. It was a no-day playoff game at night. I was Mac out on their Mac. Yeah. It's such a great show as well.

I went on and I had the night before kind of like a set had been thinking of. There's there's some teams I don't know. I don't know about Kansas State. Yeah. But I want to be able to make my picks.

And I'm in Athens. And I go up there and I got the title. And I get the fanatics, other UGA title. They're making me bring up there. So I didn't have notes.

And I sat down to next to Coach Lee.

“And I sat down and he looked at me and just went, no notes, huh?”

And I thought. Shit. Oh. Oh. Yeah.

Oh. No. Could I have notes?

I wouldn't have not been able to memorize who won this award.

Because some of those teams are, I'm not watching. Yeah. You know, I'm an SEC guy. Mainly for the most part. But that's where I was at.

But I loved game day. Yeah. You did great on game. Thanks. Yeah.

I like to replicate. There's a lot of things. Yeah. Let's see. It's a great man on that show.

It's real. So funny. You also have a deep knowledge of all the teams and stuff. Yeah. I wouldn't.

I'd be tough. It would stick me out pretty quickly. I think. Do you ever listen to a Sabin or a Kirby locker room speech to get yourself fired? Those are sick.

Those are pretty old. I have found myself listening to Kirby talk to a bunch of college kids. Like they're going to work. It's awesome. And I didn't realize he might have f-bombs in a college.

Like Kirby speeches get me. That's a regular little treadmill lesson. Freeman got one at a Notre Dame's coach got one at half time a Notre Dame Penn State. I think it was ten nothing. Ten three.

And he was like, it's just a fight. Go out and fucking fight. Yeah. That's crazy. He's like, you don't have to do this fight on me.

Get that on, man. Little old tells my favorite one. It was right before it was Notre Dame Miami. Yeah. They got a fight in the tunnel.

And all the players are like, because Coach holds was like a very serious. It's like, they're like, we're going to, he's going to yell at us for fighting. And he's like, I just got one thing to say. You leave Jimmy Johnson's ass for me. Yeah.

They're all. Yeah. All right, Pete. Is this Catholic's conflicts? Yeah.

Oh, gosh. Yeah. It was that game. It was that game. Yeah.

That's what that was. That was just real as a gift. That's fun. Oh, yeah. All on the line.

You know what I'll say about the Miami Shins? They, they love the whole were the bad guys thing. Yeah. You call him convicts once. And they're all like, that's me.

I thought you guys were Catholic. Shut up.

“Well, I think also the number seven to come for you, Miami.”

You're coming to South Bend. I think the sensitivity of that arrow is a little different, though, in terms of what was on TV. Also, the way they presented both themes. True.

True. Yeah. Well, people, the way the teams present themselves. Yeah. Miami is going to toss hands.

Probably the helmet off and spike it on. It's probably a good character question to find out where you stood during the Catholics conducts side of football. I know exactly where I stayed. I like my roster.

Not getting arrested constantly. I mean, what are we talking about? That's why my dad loves you. I see why you like the bulldogs. Oh, the dog.

They're the best. They're pretty good. Other than that sugar ball. Yeah. Yeah.

That's one. But also as far as a team to root for. It's a good team. You're consistently. You're winning home games.

Yeah. Between the hedges. August still on the field. August fucking rules. He's the best.

Always. The mayor's, the mayor's going to be August 15. But they're so good. I'm sorry. I like every time they bring, I'll go around another mask.

You know what I mean?

You like it. Bevo. Bevo. Yeah.

“Every time someone's like, I think it's a good idea.”

Let's just give it a dog.

Like, why would you put a full bone steer in this bulldog? You're going to do well again. You know? I love them dogs. And the dog biting people sometimes.

It's nice. Well, that great picture. I think he's got a five in the Auburn game. Yes. That's the type of run through brick wall stuff.

If our dog is getting into this. Yeah. That's pretty cool. Yeah. My niece is going to you, Jay.

Nice. Yeah, that's big. That's awesome. I'm excited. Yeah.

The dog's a good team. But my mom's a big Notre Dame fan. She's a safe. Yeah. Yeah.

She's happy to hear that. Yeah. She says you're struggle. Because we don't get it. Because here's why she got this.

So her air of growing up Notre Dame. It's Notre Dame. That's all you have to say. Touch down Jesus. It's Notre Dame, right?

However, we don't know anyone who went there anymore.

We don't have any connection to it. We don't have any connection to it. That doesn't stop. And multiple children have gone to other major universities. And it's still.

I'm going to the Notre Dame game with my sister. Who? Who do you know? It's like you got to get out there. That's their thing.

Once you see it, you go, I go. Does it get you? Yeah. You'll get it. Yeah.

You'll get it. It's one of the greater franchise. I'm franchise. Great institutions of all time. If not, top five.

Top five is crazy. Top five. Now, as since Bama went on that run with Sabin, now note aims to. In Bama being one. Bama's now number one.

Where was she put you, Jay? Recently, they made a good run.

“Because before that, I think they had one title since like 1980.”

Yeah, and they had. But now they, yeah, they're up there for sure. What about Texas? Not really. You live in here, man.

I still like Texas. They're great. They're the long ones are fun. But maybe they're not. You can't put them up there with.

They're not even above Oklahoma. Oh. All time though, just blue blood was. Wrestling. Famous wrestling announcer, Jim Ross is watching us now.

Yeah. Yeah. He's still waiting for us. Oh, man. Now, Texas is right there.

I, uh, I think I sent you a text about this. I don't know. I think I saw you talking about one time. And I was telling myself, I was like, I have to ask him about it. Is a kid burns civil war.

Shit rocks. I live for kid burns. Yeah. And it. Have you seen it?

Haven't seen it, though. It's 47 hours long. Yeah. He heard us. I haven't been able to commit to it.

I was no video. I've watched it. It's just pictures. It was eight times. I don't think I've gotten to get his friend.

I watched the first five hours of this thing.

That's still really good. It's great. I am. It's awesome. I got the part of Gile and Street Fighter coming up.

Oh, yes.

“And I think, like, I just want to get as American.”

Yeah. I'm looking at it, right? And deep dive in the military history. All stuff I already like. Yeah.

Clearly already. Very much like. Mm-hmm. But I was just diving in and for whatever reason. I got stuck on Ken Burns Civil War.

And I was just fine with that. Yeah. So it's so incredible. Still funny to watch that prepare for Gile. Yeah.

I got an opportunity. It's funny. What's real? You know what? I think about the tickets charge.

Yeah. It's like boom. It's just what it took to get you know. True. I was sheltered on that.

What's that? Andrew Shalton. We're talking about phenomenal. Yeah, he's amazing. Oh, and genuinely phenomenal.

Yeah. I think people will be. Because they have Noah, Centenao, Kalina, and Koji. That three leads, Chunli, are Ryu and Ken are killing it. They knew their stuff.

They were ready. They were pros, pros. And I think they put 50 cents and shorts in me. And we got to come in, float in. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Hey, Shaltons is in the movie. Really blew me away. Yeah. Because I got to see him both making people laugh hysterically.

And then also a couple sincere moments. He's special one. Yeah. Yeah. Really.

He told me he'd help me against McVee. I don't know. Shaltons. Well, yeah. Some jokes.

And then Shaltons also has started. I think single handedly. Shaltons started a mortal combat versus three fighters. And everyone, I think on stage thought like the same thing. Well, back him, because that's our guide.

But like, you know, I don't know how far. I think it's only getting worse. Like, Shaltons is ready for a fight. But also like, I don't know. I was saying he's like my tag partner.

I'm in. Yeah. We got his back. Great guy. I wish he had jumped in the ring with his shades on talking about the attitude

there. True. While I was laying there. Confused. You know, but yeah.

No. I know him. Yeah. True. Mac, these are freaking punk.

I can't wait for this all. I can't wait for this all to get settled. Hey, is this your wrestler go to? Yeah. I have you.

I have a hook, open. We're coming for you. And you. Do you know, when you when you do media and stuff for your shows, the people ever ask you,

All the time. Okay.

And what do you have a bit?

No, I said no. I don't do. I. Dude, I tell everyone because some people when they don't know wrestling. And I totally understand how great the 80s were.

And I get it. I loved it myself. But that is a common. Hey, man, why don't you just cut a quick little promo for the whole man. And that's what they want.

Yeah. And I usually it's it's so soft and just almost I'd say, I. You can see in their eyes. Oh, it's worth it. That's not what I want.

Yeah. I thought you were going to like say, let me tell you something, brother. You know, like, well, it's 7 a.m. I'm in a suit. And it's, it's 20 to 26.

You know, like, I just tell you this other stuff. But then also in my mind, I leave like, what should have something. Yeah. I sure have a thing.

Like, when I met Bert Kreischer, Bert's more of a person than half the professors. He's ready for that. Yeah.

So I, I now try to have one ready, but then I never do.

And just always try and tell him, let's just avoid.

“Before we get out of here, because I think you actually have to go.”

Yeah. Did you cut one for us? Please cut a WrestleMania. He needs you to cut one. I got it.

Let me. Get it from the camera. Get it from the camera. Get one. Give me a message.

Send Pat back. Give me a message right now. Give me a camera, bro. I'll send you a camera. This guy came for us.

Yeah, bro. He inserted himself in a WrestleMania. That's your turf. The mayor. The belt was in your pull house.

Yeah. Honor it. That they beat high. I got the note. In the bell.

In the bell. To the note. Yeah. Yeah. Feel the strength of it.

Yeah. Feel that. Yeah. Coach Lou's in there. Oh, yeah.

That's not. Get him. Can't have a broken man. Can't have a broken man. Tell McAfee what's up, dude.

What's the date? When's WrestleMania? 1890. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It's going to be crazy. Come on, Mayor. Pat McAfee.

“You dare say that the wrestling industry is the wrestling.”

The wrestling fandom that the IWC stinks. Yeah. Dude, this is this stuff that you made of. This is where you're from without the IWC. You wouldn't even be on TV.

You wouldn't be. Shit. Yeah. You can't. You can't.

Keep going. The mayor. He wants to be. This. This.

April 18th. April 19th. You and Randy Orton think you're going to take on the. The American nightmare. Cody Rhodes.

You're going to walk out unharmed. Yeah. You think you're going to walk out fully together. You think you're going to walk out the same guys. He's right.

He's right. He's right. He's right. Yeah. Yeah.

He's going to make. Just carry a Cody Rhodes. Do you make a nightmare? The the the QB one of the WWE. He really lets us down.

He. He. He. He. He won't let him get the gunner shit talking that. He's fucking me. That's pretty good for us. Put the fuck through.

The man that was great. I'm gonna tell him that. I got a gun.

“He's got a pretty good way in pursuit of the gun. I think unfortunately he said it up where it's like, oh man.”

He rarely let this down. Basically like, he's so chance to let this down.

Let me out. I was happy. So you're coming to Mania, right? Yeah, you know. He's gonna get into Mania. You got to be there after all that. Watch out for pets. You got to be there before you go have to do. I have to say one more thing. So on the way here, I was doing a little research. I came across an interview. You and your wife, Brandy, right? Yeah. And there was just a point of it. Maybe you left so hard where she introduced herself as the African American nightmare.

And you said it, like, yeah, forget America nightmare. You're like, okay, don't say that. Oh, that interview is so funny. It's not. It's not my name. It's not mine. It's not mine to access. Yeah. And I earn it more every day.

It's not so I reference my nickname on TV. We're a heme. And that was funny until I said it. And then now I, I live with it. Yeah, that interview is so funny. Yeah, that's not funny.

It's not funny. You love you. He wasn't feeling like, oh, I'm keeping that. No. See how it goes for me. Don't mind.

God, that was fun. Yeah, funny interview definitely. I learned every day. Yeah, it's good. You're growing. Yeah.

You learned. The mayor, thank you for the promo. That was a great job of the mayor. You're coming to WrestleMania man. You got it. And Pat, be scared. He'd be scared running into you, man.

You got him shaking, right? You got it. You're holding the Notre Dame title for him. Yeah. Yeah.

Yes.

You know, you feel in that energy.

It's past move now. Yeah. I do worry about you. I think you could take Pat.

I think you could take Pat.

Randy, Randy, like a human horse, though, thick, thick boy.

“Oh, so you got it on the mayor's, the mayor. You're strong as hell, right?”

Yeah. Okay.

I'm ready to order the straws.

Pat, we're talking about you taking out Pat. Oh, yeah. I can take Pat. Pat would beat that. Hell out. No, man.

It was all right. Yeah. I don't know your past. No, I don't know. I'm going to turn it here.

I'm going back. Pat made me a man there. All right. Well, thank you very much. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you, man. Thank you so much.

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