WEBVTT - Nightcap Hour 2: Unc & Ocho are joined by Seth Rollins to talk WrestlePalooza! 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.520 Hey, we got a very very special guest joining us. 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:08.200 Six times w w E Champ, a, two times w 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:13.360 w w E Universal Champ, two time w w E Champ, 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:18.440 two time Heavyweight Champ. Here you, ladies and gentlemen, the Revolutionary, 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:23.280 the Architect seth rollins. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:27.280 Ay, what's going on? Rob? 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:28.960 Doing good? How are you doing? 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:30.080 That's what's good? 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:32.720 I got I got the gold on my shoulder. Man, 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.600 I'm feeling great. How you guys doing, Man. 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.200 We're doing amazing. Thanks for joining us. 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:39.400 Thank you boys for having me. Man, good to see 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:40.400 you again. Out just sinko. 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:41.680 Yes, sir, I love you. 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.040 Listen before we start, before we get serious, before we 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:48.720 talk about raftling, I have one question. What are the chances? 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:52.120 What are the chances you and I we do a match? 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.160 Because I always listen. I've been a wrestling fan since 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.200 I was a little kid, and I just I just 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.880 would love to share the ring with you, and and 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:01.920 and just whatever happens happens. 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.839 Okay, Man, you put your mind to it, you get down, 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.800 you get training, you get going. I'm always available, my friend. 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.200 We are working fifty two weeks a year. We are 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.040 on twenty four to seven. Anytime you need a title shot. 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.039 You let the people wwe know I got you back, man, 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:16.520 Let's do it. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.480 I love the things. We don't we don't have to 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:19.760 do it in front of the world. We don't have 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:20.720 to do it in front of the world. 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:21.319 You know, I don't know. 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.160 That's the fun. That's the fun. Man. Come on, don't 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:25.520 be shy now and. 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:31.520 Let me let me put on twenty more pounds first deal. 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:36.520 Deal. I mean obviously universal you guys. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:38.440 I've talked to a lot of wrestler and they say 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.480 the travel and all the things that you guys go through. 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:46.040 When did you know, like, you know what, I really 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.240 got the hang of this thing. I'm gonna do this? 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.320 Oh man, Well, I mean it was my dream since 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.040 I was a little kid, so really yeah, yeah, I 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:57.520 loved professional wrestling. I fell in love with it at 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:01.760 a super young age, about fourteen or so. My friends 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.240 and I started doing it in our backyard right and 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:09.080 to me, that was when I got the knack for performing. 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.560 That's when I we would invite our friends from school, 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.680 they'd come watch us on the trampolines, the whole nine, 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.760 and I got the knack for performing there. I really 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:19.480 got like an itch for it. And I thought, well, 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.960 you know what, why not why not give it a shot? 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:23.720 You know what I mean? Why not let it go? 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:25.040 Right? 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.799 So had you went through the training facility down in Orlando. 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.880 So I trained. I've been wrestling for a long time 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.000 before I started training in Orlando. I signed with WW 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:41.560 in two thousand and gosh would have been would have 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:45.760 been two thousand eleven, ten, twenty. 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:47.840 Ten, two thousand and nine, maybe. 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:51.840 Twenty ten, I believe. I signed with WWE, and from 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.799 there I went down to actually was in Tampa at 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.160 the time. It was in a little warehouse. It wasn't 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.040 this beautiful training facility that we have out of Orlando now. 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.800 But yeah, man, I suffered in a warehouse in Tampa 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:08.440 for a couple of years, sweated out, grinded my way 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.000 up the ranks and NXT and made my debut in 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.720 WW in twenty twelve and the rest is history. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.240 That's dope, Hey, Seth, How long did it take you 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.400 to get comfortable in front of the fans, you know, 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.240 being able to engage obviously wrastling, being able to perform, 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.280 but also had that sadness to make sure the fans 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:27.359 are always engaged. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.600 I mean, it's such a work in progress man. You know, 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:32.120 I said I got the knack for it when I 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.680 was really young, and then you just you learn and 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.480 you get a little bit better each time you go 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.320 out there, you know, and then everything starts to slow down, 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:42.040 you know. You know how it is when you're playing football, right, 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:44.920 the more reps you get and the more time you 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:49.080 get against these defenses, everything just slows down. It feels 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.480 like you're moving at warp speed and they're moving in 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:54.880 slow motion, you know. And that's sort of what it 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:59.680 felt like for me. Gosh, I suppose I really hit 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.480 like a low state, probably like a decade in maybe 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.160 I would say, like ten years into doing doing this thing, 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.960 and then uh and and every year since then, it's 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:11.600 just kind of gotten better and better and better. 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:12.240 Yeah. 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.600 Yeah, we had we had your boss on Triple H 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:16.600 and he was telling us say, yeah, wrestling is one 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.720 aspect of it, but you gotta be really good with 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:21.800 this thing in your hand, because you got to get 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:23.800 the PA. You got it, you gotta you got you 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:24.760 gotta win the fans over. 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:25.120 You got to. 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.160 You got to make the fans have a vest it's 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:28.240 interest in you. 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:29.000 Good bad. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.240 You could be the heel it doesn't matter, but the 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.360 fans need to know my self is our guy. 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.000 Yeah, yeah, I mean, look, it's it's it's storytelling at 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.599 its core. That's what we do. You know, it's storytelling. 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:44.000 It's it's heroes and villains and uh and it's a 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.400 lot of fun. And honestly, that microphone you got in 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.479 front of you, man, that was the hardest part for me. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:50.440 That was the part that it took. Yeah, it took 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.800 me the longest time to figure out how to feel 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.360 comfortable holding the microphone standing out there. I mean, it 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.760 is not an easy thing to stand in front of 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:03.400 ten fifteen twenty thousand people, live in front of millions 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:07.200 on television by yourself with a microphone and keep people 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:11.120 captivated and interested. That is a hard task. And I 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:15.360 would say there are less than twenty guys in our 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.720 industry that can do that well, you know right now, 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.360 right now, you know all time. That number spans a 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.080 little bit, but it is a small percentage, and in 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.240 my opinion, it is what separates the good ones from 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:27.960 the great ones. 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.279 And speaking and speaking of being in front of fifteen 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.400 twenty thousand having the mic when it comes to whatever 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.760 you're going to say, has there ever been a time 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:38.720 where you had to just go from the top of 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.000 the head because you forgot exactly where your lives might 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:41.800 have been at that time. 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.560 So the thing, so the thing about for wrestling is 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:48.560 that it's not fully scripted. It's it's it's this amazing 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.280 interplay that you get with a live audience and so 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:55.440 and so there is a there bullet points, and there's ideas, 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.720 and there are major plots that you want to kind 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.680 of weave through your your story, but you don't know 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.320 what the live crowd is going to give you. A 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.960 prime example of that this past Monday on Netflix. I'm 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.320 in the ring. It's my wife and myself were setting 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.359 up for this big match at Russell Palooza coming up 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.240 this Saturday in Indie, which I'm sure we'll get to 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.480 talk about. But I'm in the ring seeing Punk his 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.680 wife A J. Lee on the other side of the ring. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:21.920 But the crowd in Springfield, Massachusetts was going nuts. They 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.919 were they were chanting all sorts of wacky anything you 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:30.080 could think of. They were chanting constipated at one point, constantiated. 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:32.800 And then that's a real thing, and you have to 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.800 react to stuff like that in real time. So you've 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.039 got to be able to flow. You know, you can't 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.240 just stick to what you've got if it's not working 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.200 or if they want to take you in a different direction. 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:44.960 That's that's the magic of it, man, that's the fun 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:45.240 of it. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:47.000 And so you just go a little ready. 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:53.400 You're right because he's full of you know what, absolutely. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.359 See you get it, You get it, you understand, you 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.839 got it, man, you got to knock for it absolutely. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.480 So let me let me, uh, what the what? What 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.080 exactly is Wressell Palosa. 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.840 So Wressell Palooza is going to be our first essentially 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.799 pay per view or what we call premium live events 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:10.640 in our partnership with ES. 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:25.560 Okay, okay, hang on it. 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:29.920 We're launching one right now, September twentieth, Saturday, this coming 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.800 Saturday from Indianapolis, Indiana, and uh it's going to be 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.400 our first major live event, premium live event on the 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.360 ESPN app and so we're pretty stoked on it. It's 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.280 going to be huge. We got you know, I mentioned 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.239 the tag team match with myself and my wife against 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.840 seam Punk and his wife. You've got brock lesnar versus 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:50.320 John Cena. You've got Cody Rowdens versus Drew McIntyre. You've 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:52.640 got a hell of a car going into this first one, 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.400 so it's going to be a banger man. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:56.080 I like it. 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:01.240 So SummerSlam Wressel Paloosa are so the only thing difference 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.520 between wrestled Paluza is that this is a pay per view. 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:08.080 Other than that, Summer Slam, WrestleMania, all those are really 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.280 the same thing. But Wressel Paluza, this is the first 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:12.520 pay per view thing that's gonna be on your new 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:13.440 partner with ESPN. 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:17.080 Exactly. It's just like WrestleMania. It's just like SummerSlam. We 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.480 just did Clash in Paris not long ago. It's just 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:21.960 like that. We've been partners with Peacock for the past 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.200 five years. They've been incredible partners in our pay per 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.760 view streaming service. But we're moving to ESPN and this 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.120 is the inaugural pay per view premium live event for 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:34.240 WWE crossover with ESPN. 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.640 How much longer, seth how much longer do you want 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.040 to do this? You're going to go into because you know, look, 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:45.400 there ain't no there's no old Timers League in wrestling. 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.240 This is done, It's done, and then you go off 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:49.839 with the wife and I don't know if you have 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.480 kid and then you you what you do, So how 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.880 much longer? Because even though look we know it's entertainment, 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:59.000 it's scripted, you still take those falls. You still fall 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.679 a story. You still get flipped out of the ring 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.880 and land on pavement, you landing on chairs. So that's 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:10.240 a toll on your body. We had Sean Michaels, had 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.160 Seawann Michaels, we had to undertake on and I've done 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.319 Rick Flair and I've talked to John Cena, and it 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:16.880 is a toll on your body. 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:17.880 Those flips. 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:22.440 After ten, fifteen, twenty years, they start to accumulate st Yeah. 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.360 Man, I've been added for twenty two years now. I 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:28.360 started in two thousand and three and so I've been 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.280 added for twenty two years. I've wrestled over two thousand matches, 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.760 and You're right, it takes its toll. Fortunately, I think 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.840 our generation, you know, we have a lot more information 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.079 available to us as far as prehab and rehab and 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:44.439 recovery and what it takes to keep ourselves in shape athletically, 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.000 and so we have an advantage in that regard, I 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.560 think a little bit. So you know, I'm almost forty 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.160 years old right now. Like I said, I've been doing 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.520 it for twenty two years. I don't know, man, You know, 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.959 I think the nice thing about our industry is it's 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:02.360 it's an entertainment, right, So you can do this for 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:06.280 a little bit longer than your body might allow you to. 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:10.559 You know, there are ways around and that the older 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:12.840 you get, the smarter you get, and the more equity 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.880 you have with our audience, and so you get a 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.760 little you get a little extra time, I think. So 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:20.480 who knows, you know, I don't know if I want 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.560 to do it into my fifties. I got a couple 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.319 of years left on my contract with WWE. But yeah, 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.520 my daughter is four and a half, she's almost five, 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:30.760 and you know I would I wouldn't mind spending some 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:32.760 extra time with her in a few years. So we'll 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.559 see what happens. But I don't know, man. I love 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:37.719 this business. I've given my entire life to it. It's 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:39.959 given me a great life. I met my wife through 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.360 this business. I have my daughter because I met my 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.600 wife through this business. You know, I'm able to provide 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:48.079 at my wrestling school down in Iowa jobs for other people. 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.360 I built a little mini empire out of this industry. 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.520 So I imagine in some capacity I will stay involved 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.120 one way or another for as long as I can. 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.760 As you mentioned, you guys know more, and it seems 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.040 like every generation, no matter what particular sport, guys get 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.319 to have a little bit more knowledge. They're able to 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.880 play a little bit longer. The nutrition, the training, the 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.360 things of that nature, the physios to put the body 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.439 back together. Talking to Rick, Rick said, there's sometimes he 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:20.560 would be wrestling three four matches in a day. Yeah, 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:22.560 and you know he was on the road three hundred, 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:26.160 three hundred and ten days a year, and you know 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.959 that's over. And it wasn't like it is now. So 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.400 he came up in the old era. And so, like 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.120 you said, you know more now you're smarter about it. 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.680 You built up a little bit more equity. You're universally known. 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:42.240 Where it was regional back then, you had Georgia Championship Wrestling, 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.160 the mid Atlantic, you had the Southwest, you had the 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:49.480 you know, the Midwest, you had the NWA, the AWA, 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.199 you know the AWA. You had all these. It was 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.000 so regional it was hard to branch out. But now 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.760 what your former balls, Evince McMahon was able to do. 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.160 He was able to put everything up on the one 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:05.080 umbrella and make it universal. And so now you are 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.360 you guys are rock star You like you said in Paris, 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:09.200 you can go anywhere, you go, anywhere in the country 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:10.920 and they know whose rollins is. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.880 Yeah, man, WWE is a global Bland brand. You hit 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.040 the nail on the head. We just announced not not 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:21.520 even a week ago, we're doing WrestleMania roadcast yep, exactly. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.200 We're going to riod in twenty twenty seven, so that'll 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.280 be our first. Uh. Yeah, it's amazing. We've had a 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.120 partnership with the Athletic Commission there in Saudi for the 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.480 last six years and this is a continuation of that. 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.240 But we've been holding these pay per views and premium 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:39.000 live events internationally now really heavy for the last few 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.959 years and it's really incredible to see the response. Like 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.760 I said, we were just in Paris, We've done Scotland 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.400 and England. I think we're going back to Italy next 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.040 year to do a premium live event. We're heading down 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.120 to Perth, Australia to do another big event here in October. 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.559 I mean, WWE is absolutely a global brand. Anywhere we 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.640 go on the planet. We are some of the most 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.960 record nieble athletes because we're on TV as. 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:03.640 Well with this. 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:05.760 You know right here we ain't got the helmet, you 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.559 know what I mean? No face, man, it's right here 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:11.360 all the time. You know, this is where you make 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.760 your money. So yeah, we are. We're a special breed 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:16.880 man and we do it. Like I said, three sixty 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.480 five year round. Rick ain't lyon when he says you're 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.200 on the road three in a day's a year you are. 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.320 You are traveling man. My sky miles are through the roof, 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:25.559 you know. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.120 Yeah, yeah, hey you get when you and you and 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.600 the missus gold vacation. Hey you like, Hey, everything paid 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.319 for the hotel to take care the flights taking care 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:35.680 of We got no points. 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.559 We go eat anywhere we want to. Baby, Let you 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:38.839 hear it. 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:40.800 Now, you know it, you know it. 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:42.880 So so say let me ask you this. 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.880 When it comes time and the script is written and 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.319 that thing that's across your shoulder is going to have 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.280 to change hands, how difficult is for you to like, 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:55.440 can I keep it another week? 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:56.960 Can I keep it another month? 0:13:58.160 --> 0:13:58.319 You know? 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.000 I love being a champ, right, That's the goal of 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.439 the business. It's one of those things where you know, 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:06.839 it's not like a super Bowl trophy where you know 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.400 it's a competitive athletic output that gets you to that point. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.480 It's one of those things where but when you have this, 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:19.000 you are the top guy. You are given the ball. 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.800 This is your chance to run. It is your industry. 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.040 And so when you have that title, you take pride 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.080 in it. And when you get into the business, this 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.040 is what you want. This is what you work for. 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:30.880 This is what you put in the long hours for, 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.720 the late night workouts, the long drive, all the injuries, everything, 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:36.840 this is what you work for. So it's a little 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.640 bittersweet because on the opposite end of that, there's no 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:44.960 better feeling than giving your dance partner an incredible moment. 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.560 So as many world championships as I've been on this 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.520 end of I've given five of them away. Right, this 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.680 is my six months, so I've given five of them away, 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.240 and every single time it's been an incredible experience for 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.680 me to give somebody else who's also put in that work, 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.760 that moment to see how they can carry the ball. 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.800 So it's in some ways it's the ultimate team sports. 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:09.760 Is there a certain number of years that you have 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.560 to wrestle before you get an opportunity to fight for that. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.840 No, man, not at all. It's it's one of those 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:19.080 things where you know, if you if you're getting over, 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.560 as they say in our business, if the people love you, 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.760 if you're entertaining, and the company feels like you can 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.040 carry the flag, they'll give it to you. You know, 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:28.480 they'll give you the ball. And there's a lot, a 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.040 lot that goes into making that decision. But at the end, 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.200 at the end of the day, man, it's it's you know, 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.800 longevity and tenure and reliability is part of it. But hey, 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:38.680 if you're hot and you're on fire and it feels 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:40.480 like you can make a lot of money, it's a business. 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:41.760 You're going to get that ball. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:42.560 You got to run with it. 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:44.680 Hey, you know what I'm thinking about. 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.000 As busy as your guys schedule is, as much as 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.480 you guys are on the road, obviously having a wife 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.520 and kid, how do you find time to do other 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.920 things that you might be passionate about outside of wrastling 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:57.880 or do you even have time to do that? What 0:15:57.960 --> 0:15:59.680 are some of the things that you enjoy outside of 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.200 rast and with the limited time that you do have 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:03.600 to enjoy those things. 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.520 Well, boys, A couple of things that I love. One 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.760 of them is football. I love football. Well, it's my 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.720 second passion, man. So this is a great segue for 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:14.840 Mojo Sinco right there for me to tell you that, 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.160 you know, I've joined the team at the NFL network 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.920 Good Morning Football for the season, and it's something that 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:23.880 I just always wanted to do, to sit down and 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:29.520 talk about football, and so I am I've been just 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:33.080 feel I feel like I'm one of the people that 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.640 if you want to make time for something in life, 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:37.800 you will make time for it, you know. And I'm 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:39.840 not like a sleep when you're dead, dude, but like 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:41.560 you know what I mean. Like, it's one of those 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.240 things if you want to do something you will make 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.000 time for you'll figure out how to make it work. 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.840 So I got passions in football. So I'm excited to 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.240 join that squad with Kyle Brandt and those guys for 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:54.840 the season. Talk about how awful my bears are all 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:59.400 year long. And and then on the other side of that, 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.840 I really love coffee. So I've invested a lot of 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:03.640 my time and money in a couple of coffee shops 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.480 that I have in Iowa. We've recently, my wife and 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.800 I have invested in a coffee shop in Los Angeles 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.080 called day Glow. They got a few locations Chicago, La, 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:18.040 New York, and uh so coffee, football, wrestling. That's kind 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:19.600 of my jam, man, I like it. 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:21.639 I like, well, that's that's enough to keep you busy 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.880 because you're on the road two hundred plus days a year. Now, 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:29.399 you've got the morning show on NFL Network. That's you know, 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:31.520 until the football See, I'm assuming you're gonna be on 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:33.080 there until football season's. 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.160 Over, Yes, sir, Yeah, I'm there to the super Bowl. 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.000 And you got your businesses outside, and you got almost 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:40.960 a five year old, so you you you got a 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:41.920 lot on your plate self. 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.480 Yeah we're doing it man. But hey, it's cliche, but 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.239 you only live once, man, you know, get out there 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.720 and make the best of it. So uh, I feel 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:51.520 like I'm a fortunate man to be able to get 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:53.800 the opportunity to do all these things, to be a dad, 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.159 to be a husband, to have a loving family, uh 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.480 and to be able to pursue all these adventures and 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.840 just you know, see see what the chips fall. You know, 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:02.520 I'm very lucky to be able to do that. 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:05.800 Well, you know, Seth, they say you only live once 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:07.679 and if you do it right, that's plenty. 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:11.359 Yes, sir, that's true. Ain't that the true? 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.119 Thanks for coming on with us. Congratulations on all your success. 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.399 Stay healthy, hey, and uh come back and join us sometime. 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:20.480 Dude. I'd love to thank you boys for having me on. 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.280 It's always great chatting with you. I appreciate it. Russell 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.240 pluza this Saturday, get after it on ESPN. 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.000 Sir, Thank you, appreciate it, Thank yourself. Enjoyed it. 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:29.840 See you boys. 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.000 Man, that was dope. 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:34.280 Man. 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:38.560 Yeah, man, we didn't have somebody. Uh so I'm trying 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:40.439 to think who we haven't had on yet. I mean, 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:42.720 I guess we got to get Roman Reigns. We got 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:43.800 to get Cody Rose. 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:45.600