WEBVTT - Mick Foley Meets World

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<v Speaker 1>Guys.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know if this is art imitating life or

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<v Speaker 2>life imitating art, but there was a horror movie announced

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<v Speaker 2>and I can't ignore the connections it has to Boy

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<v Speaker 2>Meets World. Okay, Okay, I'm gonna share. I was trying

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<v Speaker 2>to find a poster, but it was released so like recently,

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<v Speaker 2>like this trailer was just like within the last hour,

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<v Speaker 2>and I saw it and went, this isn't real, is it?

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<v Speaker 2>And then I realized it is real? And I'm going

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<v Speaker 2>to show you two things about it. One is the

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<v Speaker 2>name of the film, and the second part is the

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<v Speaker 2>star of it. Okay, okay, all right.

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<v Speaker 1>Here we go. And then there was sean.

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<v Speaker 3>Adam Scott.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, so the name of the movie is one hundred

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<v Speaker 2>percent Hokum h O k u M. That is the

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<v Speaker 2>name of the movie, and it is starring Adam Scott.

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<v Speaker 2>Huh is that not insane?

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<v Speaker 4>Hom that happened?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, HOCM. We decided to do it.

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<v Speaker 2>HOCM.

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<v Speaker 4>We are not a part of this.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, is what is is hocum the name of a

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<v Speaker 5>town or something or Okay?

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<v Speaker 2>So my novelist very scary looking obviously you can see

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<v Speaker 2>here like it's this is a very scary moving, and

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<v Speaker 2>it's it's produced by Saint. People's like long legs and

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<v Speaker 2>I mean it's supposedly like gonna be.

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<v Speaker 4>The last thing you were on had a description. There

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<v Speaker 4>we go Hokum.

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<v Speaker 2>No, you want me to see it?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I want to see the description the last.

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<v Speaker 6>Thing I was reading at first it said something like,

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<v Speaker 6>he's an author travels.

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<v Speaker 4>To an Irish inn, unaware of the witch rumored.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, let's share it. Adam Scott's ours and Damian McCarthy's

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<v Speaker 2>new horror film Hokum, which follows a novelist who travels

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<v Speaker 2>to an Irish end to scatter his parents' ashes, unaware

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<v Speaker 2>of the witch rumored to haunt the place.

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<v Speaker 4>Cool, So what do we think is the witch named

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<v Speaker 4>Hokum or or.

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<v Speaker 5>The like the hocom you're stopping here.

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<v Speaker 2>There's a witch here, hocme, there's a witch here, pocus.

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<v Speaker 1>Hocme.

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<v Speaker 2>My body is tingling.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh wow, that is so funny.

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<v Speaker 5>It's not weird.

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<v Speaker 2>Am I the only one who was like it was like,

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<v Speaker 2>that's very strange.

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<v Speaker 1>It is strange.

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<v Speaker 2>Hocum itself is a weird title. And then now I'm

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<v Speaker 2>Scott and.

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<v Speaker 3>Now he's starring Scott.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Wow.

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<v Speaker 4>All right, well, hocum, we're going to go see this together.

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<v Speaker 3>That's what It's just scary. I don't scary now, hocum, hocum.

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<v Speaker 3>I can't sleep tonight.

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<v Speaker 1>Is what I was talking.

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<v Speaker 2>But you guys, we should see this and we should

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<v Speaker 2>RecA it's hope.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, I'm not watching that, which is are real and

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<v Speaker 6>they scare me.

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<v Speaker 1>I do or know that.

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<v Speaker 2>And we could shoot like ourselves in that like weird

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<v Speaker 2>radar looking thing where you can see Danielle's scream when

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<v Speaker 2>something crazy happens in the dark.

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<v Speaker 4>You'll see me. You'll see like most of the movie's right.

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<v Speaker 4>But also I have my thumbs in my ear and

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<v Speaker 4>I go like.

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<v Speaker 2>This, yeah, she covers her So the sound.

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<v Speaker 4>The sound is huh, you're still seeing yeah. But then

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<v Speaker 4>if I want to it's very quickly to just do this.

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<v Speaker 4>But it more importantly is that I have my fingers

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<v Speaker 4>in my ears. It's more about the sound.

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<v Speaker 3>That was so sired night Live. And then I pull

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<v Speaker 3>out my arms. I smell them like this.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm like this, like thumbs are.

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<v Speaker 2>Smell them real quickly.

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<v Speaker 4>That's what I was for Halloween. This pasture are.

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<v Speaker 2>You Yeah, yeah, I will say that when I see

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<v Speaker 2>a horror movie and there's something like a nail, like

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<v Speaker 2>I know a nail's going through someone's leg or something,

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<v Speaker 2>I will put my hand in front of my eye,

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<v Speaker 2>but I still see. But I don't know.

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<v Speaker 3>Why I want to.

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<v Speaker 4>I want to watch, but I want it to be limited.

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<v Speaker 4>I want to see it like through a little only.

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<v Speaker 2>A little bit, like you want to see it through

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<v Speaker 2>a peopole.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I want to see it through a people. And

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<v Speaker 4>I need to have my hands in my ears to

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<v Speaker 4>calm the sound because the sound's the worst part. So ears,

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<v Speaker 4>and then just peephole and then I can close the

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<v Speaker 4>people like we just did Indiana Jones at Disneyland, and

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<v Speaker 4>I know where the spiders come up, and so I

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<v Speaker 4>blocked my face. Oh okay, Like I could just close

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<v Speaker 4>my eyes, but I have to be more dramatic than that,

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<v Speaker 4>so I had to fully cover my head with my arms,

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<v Speaker 4>and yeah, it works.

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<v Speaker 6>Did you see the meme that I sent you, which

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<v Speaker 6>I thought was pretty perfect, not the one?

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<v Speaker 4>Oh yes, it was unbelievable. Will sent me an Instagram

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<v Speaker 4>DM with a meme that said you, and it was this.

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<v Speaker 4>It says when someone asks what my biggest fear is,

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<v Speaker 4>but I can't answer flying economy internationally, so I just

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<v Speaker 4>say spiders. Well that's okay. Also you but no spiders.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah no, oh well interesting.

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<v Speaker 2>Well Hocum May one, twenty twenty six. Okay, so maybe

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<v Speaker 2>we'll birthday. Yeah, maybe we'll just create a Hocum Rewatch

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<v Speaker 2>podcast and just talk about it every episode.

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<v Speaker 6>That sounds great. Can we can actually do it from

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<v Speaker 6>an Irish pub in Ireland? Because then I'm yeah, good.

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<v Speaker 4>Luck, thank you. Welcome to this episode of Pod Meets World.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm Daniel Fishel, I'm Roder Strong, and I'm Wilfredell.

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<v Speaker 1>Sure.

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<v Speaker 4>We've been dreading the season seven recaps since the moment

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<v Speaker 4>Angel and Vicki first pitched us this podcast, but we

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<v Speaker 4>always knew that if we ever made it to the

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<v Speaker 4>end of the series, there would be at least one

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<v Speaker 4>silver lining, probably wrapped in barbed wire. That bright spot,

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<v Speaker 4>our show's second iconic wrestling cameo, the only man to

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<v Speaker 4>survive both a fifteen foot fall through a steelcage and

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<v Speaker 4>a note session with Michael Jacobs, and now a thirty

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<v Speaker 4>years later, one of our most requested podcast guests. He

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<v Speaker 4>was best known as Mankind, a masked horror movie ready

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<v Speaker 4>loon who took the WWE by storm during its iconic

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<v Speaker 4>Attitude era of the nineties. In addition to that deranged

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<v Speaker 4>fan favorite, he also simultaneously performed as two other characters,

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<v Speaker 4>Cactus Jack and Dude Love, once even appearing as all

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<v Speaker 4>three during a single royal rumble. Oh God, But to us, yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>isn't that crazy? Just would leave in the somebody.

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<v Speaker 3>Else, that's crazy.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll have to ask about that.

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<v Speaker 4>But to us, he was just the lovable teddy bear

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<v Speaker 4>who showed up in our season seven episode for Love

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<v Speaker 4>and Apartments in order to referee a wrestling match where

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<v Speaker 4>the winner claimed the least to an apartment. Why or

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<v Speaker 4>how Mankind suddenly popped into the show is never explained,

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<v Speaker 4>but considering it meant keeping this guy in our lives

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<v Speaker 4>for more than thirty years, we are more than happy

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<v Speaker 4>to just let that slide. He's a WWE Hall of

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<v Speaker 4>Famer who wrestled around the world, most infamously in Japan,

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<v Speaker 4>then with mythic stops in WCW and ECW, making him

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<v Speaker 4>one of the biggest stars in wrestling history. He's a

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<v Speaker 4>three time WWE Champion and eleven time tag team Champion.

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<v Speaker 4>Including an all time run in the Rock and Sock Connection,

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<v Speaker 4>and he was the inaugural WWE Hardcore Champion. He is

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<v Speaker 4>undeniably the hardcore legend, but most importantly for the next

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<v Speaker 4>hour or so, he is our former co star. Finally,

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<v Speaker 4>Welcome to Pod Meets World, the Great Mick Foley. It's

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<v Speaker 4>so good to see you. We have been kind of

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<v Speaker 4>counting down the episode for the last three years basically

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<v Speaker 4>to get to you.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I'm so glad to be here. I understand. It's

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<v Speaker 1>like a phenomenon this podcast. You guys that going on.

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<v Speaker 4>You You hear about it quite a bit at conventions.

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<v Speaker 1>Huh Yeah. I keep it being asked when I'm going

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<v Speaker 1>to be on it. Yeah, I guess whenever they invite me.

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<v Speaker 1>But no, the invitation has been there for a long time.

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<v Speaker 1>And can I share what happened earlier today?

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<v Speaker 4>You certainly can? I would love to. Yeah, go ahead.

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<v Speaker 1>I text Danielle and I'm like, hey, know, I don't understand.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I woke up early just so I could

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<v Speaker 1>do this. I don't see anyone on there, and we

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<v Speaker 1>deduced that when I was told nine am, I mistakenly

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<v Speaker 1>thought that made East Coast time. When it is Westcot.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna turn this chair around a little bit. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm here, not in the format you'd like me

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<v Speaker 1>to be, but but I'm here.

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<v Speaker 4>You're here. And you know what when he texted me

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<v Speaker 4>at six am and he was like, Hey, is it

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<v Speaker 4>six Pacific or is it? And I was like, it's

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<v Speaker 4>definitely not right now because I'm in a robe.

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<v Speaker 1>And are you doing up at six am? Sleep?

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<v Speaker 4>Mike, You're so sweet to think that I would still

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<v Speaker 4>be asleep at six am when I have two small

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<v Speaker 4>children and nine thousand jobs. Yeah, no, I had. I

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<v Speaker 4>had already lived a couple lives by six am and

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<v Speaker 4>was happy to write you back. And I'm thinking he

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<v Speaker 4>was like, I'm going back to sleep. I said, please do, Danielle.

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<v Speaker 1>You will have a Santa video. It's I recorded it

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<v Speaker 1>a few days ago and my guy is doing the editing.

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<v Speaker 1>You know how much Friday taking these videos. So my

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<v Speaker 1>guy's doing the editing, and I believe you'll really enjoy it,

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<v Speaker 1>as will of the children.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, I am so excited to get your Christmas everything

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<v Speaker 4>you do around Christmas. You're wearing one of your Christmas shirts.

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<v Speaker 4>I did tell the guys that you have every Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>how many Santa Slash Christmas shirts do you think you have?

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<v Speaker 1>Well, in twenty fourteen, we had this little documentary called

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<v Speaker 1>I Am Santa Claus and it's really good. It's touching

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<v Speaker 1>a unique way if people want to track it down

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<v Speaker 1>streaming somewhere. And Morgan Spurlock was the executive producer and

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<v Speaker 1>I told him, you know, there's not a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>there's not a lot of money and to promote a small,

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<v Speaker 1>low budget documentary film, so I said, I will wear

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<v Speaker 1>something Christmas eat every single day for this year and

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<v Speaker 1>I will document it on social media. And I did,

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<v Speaker 1>which actually caused my profile to lose followers. Oh my god,

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<v Speaker 1>my kids are like that, Yeah, why are you losing followers?

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<v Speaker 1>I said, I don't think people like the whole Christmas

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<v Speaker 1>in my mark thing. So I probably had like maybe

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<v Speaker 1>one hundred different things at that time, but I've scaled down.

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<v Speaker 1>It was one of those things where you lose. I

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<v Speaker 1>lost weight and I gave away all my stuff because

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't want that signal to myself that I was

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<v Speaker 1>going to be that heavy again. Then I did get

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<v Speaker 1>that heavy again. I had to buy a new things

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<v Speaker 1>and now I'm back down almost ninety nine point two

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<v Speaker 1>pounds down from my all time high, so I'm proud

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<v Speaker 1>of that. For you, a shirt fits me much better.

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<v Speaker 1>I appreciate that it's hard, especially when at the Galaxy

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<v Speaker 1>cons and they have that amazing selection of homemade candy.

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<v Speaker 1>It could be really tough to get. Yeah, it could

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<v Speaker 1>be really tough, but I probably have. I'd say I

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<v Speaker 1>still have about forty forty shirts, probably forty shirts combination

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<v Speaker 1>button down T shirts, long sleeve shirts. I'm still known

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<v Speaker 1>to fire ups and that King Cole. Oh holy night

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<v Speaker 1>in the month of the year.

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<v Speaker 4>I love it. I love that you're mister Christmas. It

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<v Speaker 4>really it brings our family a lot of joy. So

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<v Speaker 4>thank you.

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<v Speaker 1>You're welcome.

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<v Speaker 4>My first question is had you ever seen Boy Meets

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<v Speaker 4>World before Mankind came barging into the girls apartment to

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<v Speaker 4>inexplicably referee a match?

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<v Speaker 1>What I was thinking of that earlier after I talked

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<v Speaker 1>to you or texted with you, as I was laying

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<v Speaker 1>back down, I was like, why did Mankind show up

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<v Speaker 1>to referee the match? It just wet, It just seemed

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<v Speaker 1>to make sense, right, we don't have a referee. And

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<v Speaker 1>then boom, I knocked on the door. And like somebody

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<v Speaker 1>asked for a referee. Yes, I had because my son

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<v Speaker 1>and daughter were fans of the show. Okay, so I

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<v Speaker 1>really I always enjoyed it. You know. It was one

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<v Speaker 1>of those things where the ultimate, I think compliment is

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<v Speaker 1>that when someone is multitasking on their phone, they're reading

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<v Speaker 1>the paper, whatever it might be, while simultaneously watching the show,

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<v Speaker 1>when they put down everything else just to enjoy the

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<v Speaker 1>show with their children. Yeah, I really liked it. I did.

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<v Speaker 1>And then when I met the cat you guys, and

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<v Speaker 1>you kind of took me in. Did not make me

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<v Speaker 1>feel like I was, you know, outside, And I think,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, for fifteen years now, since we've all gotten

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<v Speaker 1>back in touch, it makes people's feel warm and fuzzy inside.

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<v Speaker 1>See that I was on the show one time, and

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<v Speaker 1>it's it's been responsible for a really good friendship.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, well, you were only on the show once.

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<v Speaker 6>It seems like you were on more than once because

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<v Speaker 6>of your such a presence.

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<v Speaker 1>It was just that one time. And if you remember,

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<v Speaker 1>Will at the end of the show, I'm supposed to

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<v Speaker 1>like throw you up into the air and the bumbent

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<v Speaker 1>is like if anyone's seen me in wrestling, I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>have great deltoid development, Like I could lift you up

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<v Speaker 1>into the air, but I could not yet. Oh no,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not capable of doing that, and I can only

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<v Speaker 1>lift your like like Headlang and the stunt guys, like

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<v Speaker 1>I thought you're wrestlers, Like if you see my arms,

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<v Speaker 1>I can't see you. There were things I could do

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<v Speaker 1>and things I could not do.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I'm also not at the time, especially I wasn't light.

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<v Speaker 6>You know, I was probably close to two hundred pounds

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<v Speaker 6>at that point, so lifting that anybody lifting that up

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<v Speaker 6>is tough.

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<v Speaker 3>God, that's funny.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah, But that was where you stood up and

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<v Speaker 1>you called mankind of bully. I know you're back down,

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<v Speaker 1>and I said something like something or throwing. You went

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<v Speaker 1>throwing please. And then there's that. I won't say it's

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<v Speaker 1>an iconic photo, but it's a popular photo of me

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<v Speaker 1>laying down in bed as Mankind. Hello kitty, yeah a

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<v Speaker 1>hello kitty. Yeah that was that was so great.

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<v Speaker 4>You have a long storied history wrestling in Bingo halls Japan,

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<v Speaker 4>ECW thumbtacks, death matches, marbed Wire was acting in a

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<v Speaker 4>Family Network sitcom. Ever, something you saw in the car

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<v Speaker 4>for Mankind.

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<v Speaker 1>Fed No especially early mankind. You know, I was cactus

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<v Speaker 1>jacked for twelve years, went to WW, and so I

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<v Speaker 1>was I had this kind of scary mask, and I

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<v Speaker 1>decided I was going to do my best to make

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<v Speaker 1>this character dark and foreboding. And I guess it was

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<v Speaker 1>working because as a certain point WW asked me not

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<v Speaker 1>to participate in anymore Make a Wish events and I

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<v Speaker 1>was yeah. I was like, you know, it hurts, right,

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<v Speaker 1>And I was like why, And one of our road

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<v Speaker 1>agents said, brother, you have to understand, it's supposed to

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<v Speaker 1>be one of the best nights of their lives and

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<v Speaker 1>you're making it one of the worst. So that was

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<v Speaker 1>kind of a dark, scary character. Because I got to

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<v Speaker 1>Boy Meets World, he mankind of lightened up so much.

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<v Speaker 1>He was like, it was like a big Muppet. So

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't I had not foreseen it, but I welcomed it.

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<v Speaker 1>Thought it was a strange choice, but it seemed to work.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, so how did it come about? You didn't know

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<v Speaker 4>anybody from the show.

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<v Speaker 1>They I knew one of your producers man like, yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>Because Mark was already gone there.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh that's right, they'll come to me. I'll have to help.

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<v Speaker 1>I might have been checked Pishlar. It was Tishlar. Yeah, Bobler.

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<v Speaker 1>So Bob Tishler was a friend of Barry Blaustein's who

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<v Speaker 1>directed Beyond the Mat and uh, you know, they they

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<v Speaker 1>knew wrestling was really popular. And despite what our critics,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, w AB critics thought there was a crossover,

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<v Speaker 1>there was a definite crossover. And you see that even

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<v Speaker 1>to this day. Uh, Danielle not so much, you will

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<v Speaker 1>when they pointed out Danielle in the audience, Oh yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm at home yelling to my TV with my kids.

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<v Speaker 1>Will is right next to her.

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<v Speaker 4>Will no one care?

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<v Speaker 1>Just do ever?

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<v Speaker 3>Just the dude sitting next to Panga. That's all it is.

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<v Speaker 1>But there's you know, clearly acrossolver audience. And you know,

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<v Speaker 1>as as the years go by, it only makes what

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<v Speaker 1>you you, all of you did more iconic. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>I didn't use it talking about the photo, but all

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<v Speaker 1>of you if it's an iconic show and you probably

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<v Speaker 1>experienced what I did, is that for a little while,

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<v Speaker 1>you're on top of the mountain. For a little while,

0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.320
<v Speaker 1>people think you're washed up, and then as the years

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<v Speaker 1>picked by, it's like no, no, no, here we go.

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<v Speaker 4>We want them again.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, we're relevant, right. It happens to bands, it

0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.120
<v Speaker 1>happens to wrestlers, and happens to actors. And if you could,

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<v Speaker 1>like I don't want to say I'm obsessed, but very

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<v Speaker 1>much taken with the whole David Cassidy story. Oh yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>And if he would have just realized, if somebody could

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<v Speaker 1>have said, hey, twenty years from now, you're going to

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<v Speaker 1>be back and bigger than ever, he wouldn't have needed

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<v Speaker 1>to be depressed for twenty years, right, Like, I think

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<v Speaker 1>maybe we need to as a support group support other

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<v Speaker 1>wrestlers at their sitcom stars. Let you know, hey, you

0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.959
<v Speaker 1>may have troubled picking up jobs because you're so you know,

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<v Speaker 1>you're seen as that one, that one person, but you

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<v Speaker 1>give it twenty years and you'll clean up on the

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<v Speaker 1>convention circuit. So we need to be there for those

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<v Speaker 1>other sitcom stars.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 6>So you mentioned that you were Cactus Jack for twelve years,

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<v Speaker 6>and we know that you've played so many different kind

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<v Speaker 6>of characters in the wrestling world.

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<v Speaker 3>Is there one you preferred to play over the other ones?

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<v Speaker 1>Well? Well, when I started as Mankind, I remember having

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<v Speaker 1>so much trouble breathing through that mask I did with

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<v Speaker 1>Stone as of run in. I guess if you have

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<v Speaker 1>to start off in a company, attacking the undertaker and

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<v Speaker 1>leaving them lying is a good way to do it.

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<v Speaker 1>But I couldn't see the upside because I was having

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<v Speaker 1>so much trouble breathing in that mask. It was so prohibitive,

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<v Speaker 1>and I remember calling my wife and saying, maybe I

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<v Speaker 1>could just do this for six weeks and become Cactus Shack.

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<v Speaker 1>And then I as time went on, I began to

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<v Speaker 1>see how that, you know, that character was working for me,

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<v Speaker 1>and it became a little easier, and I, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>it didn't take as long to kind of get into

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<v Speaker 1>that character beause Cactus Jack was essentially me with the

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<v Speaker 1>dial turned up. That's the best portrayals of characters, whereas

0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:31.960
<v Speaker 1>Mankind in the beginning was it was like a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit of character acting because I was trying something different, darker,

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<v Speaker 1>and it was on My face was obscured. But as

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<v Speaker 1>that became to feel natural, I began to enjoy it.

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<v Speaker 1>But later on, when I did have that kind of

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<v Speaker 1>transformation from dark to light, especially when I teamed up

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<v Speaker 1>with Dwayne Johnson, you know, we just we started making

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<v Speaker 1>people feel happy and and that was me, just with

0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:00.840
<v Speaker 1>the nerd dial turned up a little bit. I realized

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<v Speaker 1>something very vital. I realized our audience was nowhere near

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<v Speaker 1>as hip and cool as we were making them out

0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.080
<v Speaker 1>to be. And I remember thinking, there's a lot more

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<v Speaker 1>on me out there than there are them. Yeah, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>going to embrace it. I'm not going to be afraid

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<v Speaker 1>of it. I'm not going to try to be the

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<v Speaker 1>eleventh guy to be stone cold light. I'm going to

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<v Speaker 1>see if there's an avenue for someone who's you know,

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<v Speaker 1>a little naive and polite, who doesn't just beat up

0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:30.600
<v Speaker 1>people as soon as he has a disagreement. You know,

0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:34.959
<v Speaker 1>that seems counterintuitive, but it really worked for that character.

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<v Speaker 1>And again, you know, big kudos to Dwayne Johnson, not

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<v Speaker 1>only is my tag team partner, but earlier on a

0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:44.359
<v Speaker 1>really great opponent for me.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, another opponent someone that ties into the Boy Meets

0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:54.360
<v Speaker 4>World universe. Vader, a wrestler, not only appeared on Boy

0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:57.080
<v Speaker 4>Meets World a few times, but also had a historic

0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:02.399
<v Speaker 4>feud with you as Cactus Jack INWW. He broke your nose,

0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:07.320
<v Speaker 4>split your eyebrow open, And then there's the infamous power

0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:13.080
<v Speaker 4>bomb onto a concrete one of the worst bumps of

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<v Speaker 4>your career leading to a concussion and numb extremities.

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<v Speaker 1>Ideah, for a few seconds, definitely for a fifty minutes.

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<v Speaker 4>And so I ask you, how were you both so

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<v Speaker 4>insanely kind and nice in real life? And what was

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<v Speaker 4>your relationship with Leon?

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<v Speaker 1>Like? You know what? I really When people asked me

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<v Speaker 1>about my favorite rivalries, my favorite opponents, I'll say Rock Austin, Undertaker,

0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:48.920
<v Speaker 1>Triple H. I'm probably leaving out one Terry Funk in Japan. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>And they'll say, like, what about later, And I'll say, well,

0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:56.439
<v Speaker 1>those those matches weren't fun, but they were great matches.

0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:59.000
<v Speaker 1>I go, yeah, they were great, but they weren't fun

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<v Speaker 1>because you had to really I mean Leon, he had

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<v Speaker 1>a very, very physical style. He was the hardest hitting wrestler.

0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:09.400
<v Speaker 1>I think anyone who's been in the ring with him

0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:12.720
<v Speaker 1>will say, yeah, hands down, he's the hardest hitting wrestler.

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<v Speaker 1>He took what he Yeah, he took what he did

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<v Speaker 1>really seriously. And you but the thing with Leon is

0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:25.879
<v Speaker 1>if you were willing to take what he gave and

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<v Speaker 1>give back, he was in a position where he could

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<v Speaker 1>make you look better than you'd ever be cause they

0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:39.080
<v Speaker 1>were so they were so physical. I met a couple

0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:42.360
<v Speaker 1>of fans in Birmingham, UK and they said, we were

0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:45.920
<v Speaker 1>at the match you had with Vader, probably in ninety three,

0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:48.800
<v Speaker 1>and he said. I turned to my friend and I said,

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<v Speaker 1>I can't believe what they're doing to each other at

0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:54.719
<v Speaker 1>a house show, which is a non televised event. And

0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:57.439
<v Speaker 1>I said, that is a coincidence, because that's exactly what

0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:04.000
<v Speaker 1>I was saying to myself. Well, at a house show.

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<v Speaker 1>But Leon, you know, you knew if you went out

0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:10.880
<v Speaker 1>there you were in for. It wasn't a night off.

0:23:11.040 --> 0:23:15.080
<v Speaker 1>And I saw three, maybe four people during my time

0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:19.800
<v Speaker 1>in WCW. They would see their name on the chalkboard

0:23:20.160 --> 0:23:24.000
<v Speaker 1>against Vader and they would leave. They would leave. Now

0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:26.080
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if they will retire, but they just

0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:29.679
<v Speaker 1>look at their friends like shake their head. And not

0:23:29.840 --> 0:23:32.040
<v Speaker 1>one time did I see their friends go, hey, come on,

0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:35.840
<v Speaker 1>think about it. They went like, okay, I understand because

0:23:35.920 --> 0:23:38.280
<v Speaker 1>he could be you know, he was ruthless out there,

0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:41.000
<v Speaker 1>but he was deep down he was you know, he

0:23:41.080 --> 0:23:44.960
<v Speaker 1>was a nice guy and a sensitive guy. And during

0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:47.720
<v Speaker 1>the last two years of his death, before his death

0:23:49.440 --> 0:23:54.000
<v Speaker 1>years of his life, we were in Leon. Please don't

0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:57.560
<v Speaker 1>try to let the ww Hall of Fame dictate to

0:23:57.640 --> 0:24:00.240
<v Speaker 1>you whether your career was successful or not. And it

0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:02.520
<v Speaker 1>was like the words are going in one ear and

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<v Speaker 1>out the other, and he would end, he would listen

0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:07.600
<v Speaker 1>to what I said, and he go, I just have

0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:09.040
<v Speaker 1>to get in that Hall of Fame. And I was like,

0:24:09.119 --> 0:24:12.400
<v Speaker 1>Leon and it's a really special thing on one hand,

0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:14.720
<v Speaker 1>by the other hand, to kind of make believe, you know,

0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:17.280
<v Speaker 1>it's like a few people make that choice. You know.

0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:19.159
<v Speaker 1>It's not like they put the issue out to the

0:24:19.160 --> 0:24:21.800
<v Speaker 1>fans to vote on or they have a team of

0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:25.359
<v Speaker 1>forty journalists like they do in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

0:24:27.800 --> 0:24:30.280
<v Speaker 1>And I think that's where the head injuries came into play,

0:24:30.359 --> 0:24:32.600
<v Speaker 1>where he just could not he could not get that

0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:35.960
<v Speaker 1>out of his mind. And he was inducted posthumously. I mean,

0:24:36.200 --> 0:24:39.359
<v Speaker 1>I did go to the powers that be and I said,

0:24:39.640 --> 0:24:43.719
<v Speaker 1>Leo's got two years to live. We know he's going

0:24:43.800 --> 0:24:46.040
<v Speaker 1>to get in sooner or later. I'm just asking you

0:24:46.119 --> 0:24:49.640
<v Speaker 1>if you could make it sooner. And why they why

0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:52.000
<v Speaker 1>they waited. I don't know. I would have meant so

0:24:52.119 --> 0:24:54.000
<v Speaker 1>much to him, But he was a great guy and

0:24:54.000 --> 0:24:57.560
<v Speaker 1>we had really great matches, and I understand you know,

0:24:57.720 --> 0:25:00.360
<v Speaker 1>I hadn't seen those episodes at the time. I've seen

0:25:00.359 --> 0:25:03.520
<v Speaker 1>them rerun where he is the father of one of

0:25:03.560 --> 0:25:08.159
<v Speaker 1>the one of the children. Yeah, yeah, and uh, I

0:25:08.200 --> 0:25:11.040
<v Speaker 1>guess you can kind of see where, you know, Frankie's

0:25:11.080 --> 0:25:15.080
<v Speaker 1>not getting along with everyone. To forget me if I'm wrong,

0:25:18.480 --> 0:25:23.040
<v Speaker 1>But then that Leon being his father kind of explains

0:25:23.080 --> 0:25:25.280
<v Speaker 1>who he is a little bit. It's been a while,

0:25:25.480 --> 0:25:27.600
<v Speaker 1>you're not in your head but not really agreeing with me.

0:25:28.240 --> 0:25:31.800
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, we don't remember ourselves, that's the problem.

0:25:31.880 --> 0:25:36.119
<v Speaker 1>Okay, I'm sure you get people all the time, because

0:25:36.119 --> 0:25:41.520
<v Speaker 1>I know the shot says he was sixty years ago

0:25:41.720 --> 0:25:46.000
<v Speaker 1>or whatever. Y. Hey, can I tell you Bill Shatner story?

0:25:46.200 --> 0:25:46.920
<v Speaker 4>Please please?

0:25:47.640 --> 0:25:51.360
<v Speaker 1>Because you know Bill's like the Grand Pooba of the conventions, right,

0:25:52.280 --> 0:25:55.199
<v Speaker 1>like we all play a role in the hierarchy, but

0:25:55.680 --> 0:25:58.920
<v Speaker 1>he's way up there at the top, right. Uh. And

0:25:59.040 --> 0:26:03.000
<v Speaker 1>So I had seen Shatner's documentary on a plane and

0:26:03.040 --> 0:26:05.439
<v Speaker 1>I really enjoyed it. I thought, all right, he's had

0:26:05.440 --> 0:26:06.879
<v Speaker 1>an interesting life. This is going to be an A

0:26:06.960 --> 0:26:10.919
<v Speaker 1>Diz documentary. And it was different. It was a lot different.

0:26:11.240 --> 0:26:14.439
<v Speaker 1>And I told myself, I know Bill always Yeah, he

0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:16.359
<v Speaker 1>just says hi to me. You know, I've never had

0:26:16.359 --> 0:26:21.480
<v Speaker 1>a real conversation with him, and I'm risking the risking

0:26:22.680 --> 0:26:25.840
<v Speaker 1>possibility of the very real possibility being stubbed by Shatner.

0:26:26.359 --> 0:26:27.879
<v Speaker 1>But I'm going to at least take the time to

0:26:27.960 --> 0:26:31.119
<v Speaker 1>let him know how much I enjoyed that documentary. So

0:26:31.200 --> 0:26:33.000
<v Speaker 1>I go up to him and he's in a scooter,

0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:35.240
<v Speaker 1>you know, because he's what, he's ninety years old.

0:26:35.240 --> 0:26:36.119
<v Speaker 3>I think, yeah, I think so.

0:26:36.240 --> 0:26:36.840
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.

0:26:36.880 --> 0:26:39.240
<v Speaker 1>So he's on a scooter and I say, excuse me,

0:26:39.320 --> 0:26:42.280
<v Speaker 1>mister Shatner, and I tell him exactly what I said

0:26:42.320 --> 0:26:44.000
<v Speaker 1>to you, and he looks at me and he says,

0:26:44.880 --> 0:26:49.160
<v Speaker 1>I love Dark Side of the Ring. I said, I said,

0:26:49.320 --> 0:26:51.359
<v Speaker 1>you know there was an episode about me. He says,

0:26:51.400 --> 0:26:53.600
<v Speaker 1>I know. That's why I'm telling you, and he looks

0:26:53.640 --> 0:26:56.680
<v Speaker 1>at me. He goes, the dedication and your willingness to

0:26:56.840 --> 0:27:01.560
<v Speaker 1>sacrifice for your business is so admirable, and I said, wow,

0:27:01.720 --> 0:27:03.760
<v Speaker 1>thank you. I sure wish we had that on video.

0:27:03.840 --> 0:27:09.000
<v Speaker 1>He goes, would you like it on video? Here? I

0:27:09.000 --> 0:27:12.280
<v Speaker 1>was thinking he's the guy who snubs me, and uh,

0:27:12.560 --> 0:27:16.400
<v Speaker 1>I guess he's the exact opposite. Made me feel pretty good.

0:27:17.720 --> 0:27:21.000
<v Speaker 4>That's a cool story. I love hearing those stories you.

0:27:33.400 --> 0:27:36.000
<v Speaker 4>So back to your Boy Meets World episode, what do

0:27:36.080 --> 0:27:39.040
<v Speaker 4>you remember most from that week of taping.

0:27:39.880 --> 0:27:43.320
<v Speaker 1>When I got to you know, rehearse that everyone was

0:27:43.359 --> 0:27:46.879
<v Speaker 1>really nice and open towards me, and uh, you know,

0:27:46.960 --> 0:27:50.040
<v Speaker 1>you'll read like a memoir about somebody who was a

0:27:50.080 --> 0:27:53.399
<v Speaker 1>guest star or something and they'll say, you know, no

0:27:53.440 --> 0:27:56.080
<v Speaker 1>one really had time for me. And there was one

0:27:56.119 --> 0:28:00.639
<v Speaker 1>I read one of the uh, one of the Walton

0:28:00.720 --> 0:28:04.040
<v Speaker 1>girls from the show, the seventy show, The Waltons talk

0:28:04.080 --> 0:28:06.320
<v Speaker 1>about it. A guest star and I don't want to

0:28:06.359 --> 0:28:08.399
<v Speaker 1>say the guest star was and she ran up to

0:28:08.480 --> 0:28:10.919
<v Speaker 1>him on his current show and said, oh hi, and

0:28:10.960 --> 0:28:14.120
<v Speaker 1>he he didn't really remember or didn't think much of it.

0:28:14.440 --> 0:28:19.160
<v Speaker 1>And I contrast that with me being your guest star.

0:28:19.400 --> 0:28:22.280
<v Speaker 1>And literally every time we see each other, you know,

0:28:22.359 --> 0:28:24.960
<v Speaker 1>we sit down, we talk. I think I think we're

0:28:24.960 --> 0:28:28.640
<v Speaker 1>all we're will you and my writer including you. We're

0:28:28.680 --> 0:28:33.439
<v Speaker 1>on bro hugg terms, right, absolutely. Yeah. Danielle thinks in

0:28:33.480 --> 0:28:36.399
<v Speaker 1>a little firmer, but I always let her initiate the contact,

0:28:38.120 --> 0:28:40.760
<v Speaker 1>and I think it's cute. I think it was about

0:28:40.760 --> 0:28:44.720
<v Speaker 1>a year ago where we had agreed to wear each

0:28:44.760 --> 0:28:49.200
<v Speaker 1>other's shirt and so there's a great photo of me

0:28:49.680 --> 0:28:52.959
<v Speaker 1>and you, and you're wearing the Halloween Havoc shirt with

0:28:53.000 --> 0:28:55.320
<v Speaker 1>me and Vyner on it. I'm wearing the shirt. You know.

0:28:55.640 --> 0:28:57.840
<v Speaker 1>I don't think you get royalties on the one that

0:28:57.880 --> 0:28:58.760
<v Speaker 1>you get off at.

0:28:58.560 --> 0:29:01.240
<v Speaker 4>Sea that as the royalties off anything.

0:29:01.920 --> 0:29:08.400
<v Speaker 1>No, no, I know that it's one.

0:29:08.480 --> 0:29:11.960
<v Speaker 4>It's one way wrestling treats their their people better than

0:29:12.640 --> 0:29:16.840
<v Speaker 4>than network. But yes, that was so fun. We Mick

0:29:16.840 --> 0:29:19.040
<v Speaker 4>and I talked about it via text before we went

0:29:19.080 --> 0:29:21.640
<v Speaker 4>to the can. He said, listen, I'm going to wear

0:29:21.680 --> 0:29:24.880
<v Speaker 4>a Tipega shirt. Do you want? And I was like,

0:29:25.040 --> 0:29:28.360
<v Speaker 4>I'll wear my mankind, I've wear my Halloween Havoc shirt.

0:29:28.440 --> 0:29:31.440
<v Speaker 4>Let's do it. And then we picked the day took

0:29:31.480 --> 0:29:35.360
<v Speaker 4>the photo. So much fun. Always always enjoy seeing you

0:29:35.600 --> 0:29:35.960
<v Speaker 4>and I.

0:29:35.880 --> 0:29:38.360
<v Speaker 1>Want to reiterate this is based on me being on

0:29:38.400 --> 0:29:44.240
<v Speaker 1>the show what y years ago and we're wearing each

0:29:44.240 --> 0:29:47.520
<v Speaker 1>other's shirts. Yeah, it's been really it's been a lot

0:29:47.560 --> 0:29:47.880
<v Speaker 1>of fun.

0:29:48.600 --> 0:29:51.200
<v Speaker 4>How much were you involved, if I mean in the

0:29:51.200 --> 0:29:54.880
<v Speaker 4>answer I think is entirely how much were you involved

0:29:54.960 --> 0:29:58.880
<v Speaker 4>in choreographing the wrestling that we did in the episode.

0:29:59.200 --> 0:30:03.080
<v Speaker 1>Oh, I don't know. I think it had been pretty

0:30:03.160 --> 0:30:08.440
<v Speaker 1>laid out. I think I had a few ideas, but yeah,

0:30:08.520 --> 0:30:10.480
<v Speaker 1>I don't think I was an essential part of that,

0:30:10.680 --> 0:30:14.040
<v Speaker 1>because you know, if you guys did something was per

0:30:14.160 --> 0:30:16.960
<v Speaker 1>you know, it was perfect. Now, why you're wrestling for

0:30:17.000 --> 0:30:19.320
<v Speaker 1>an apartment that remains, that's a valid question.

0:30:19.320 --> 0:30:19.720
<v Speaker 4>That's a miss.

0:30:20.240 --> 0:30:20.840
<v Speaker 3>We don't know either.

0:30:21.360 --> 0:30:25.600
<v Speaker 1>How a referee magically shut up your door another valid question.

0:30:25.760 --> 0:30:30.280
<v Speaker 1>Another mystery, best less of the ages. But I think

0:30:30.400 --> 0:30:34.360
<v Speaker 1>you guys had been working on your scene and you

0:30:34.440 --> 0:30:36.200
<v Speaker 1>may have asked me if you It seems to me

0:30:36.360 --> 0:30:38.640
<v Speaker 1>like I was there for tips, but I wasn't trying

0:30:38.640 --> 0:30:40.800
<v Speaker 1>to force my vision of a wrestling match on you.

0:30:41.120 --> 0:30:44.360
<v Speaker 4>Okay, was mister Soco originally in the script or did

0:30:44.400 --> 0:30:45.000
<v Speaker 4>you pitch that?

0:30:45.800 --> 0:30:48.720
<v Speaker 1>I can't remember. I would assume that Bob Tishler was

0:30:48.760 --> 0:30:51.520
<v Speaker 1>in the mid that he would have known and wanted

0:30:51.560 --> 0:30:52.840
<v Speaker 1>mister Soco in the mix.

0:30:53.400 --> 0:30:54.040
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

0:30:54.120 --> 0:30:57.040
<v Speaker 4>So, because of your day job, do you think having

0:30:57.080 --> 0:31:00.440
<v Speaker 4>a live studio audience was intimidating for you as an

0:31:00.440 --> 0:31:02.600
<v Speaker 4>actor or did it actually make you feel more at home?

0:31:03.160 --> 0:31:06.160
<v Speaker 1>No? I liked it. I liked it, and I can't

0:31:06.200 --> 0:31:13.000
<v Speaker 1>remember if if your show, Yeah, your show was been

0:31:13.320 --> 0:31:16.520
<v Speaker 1>the first one I did, and I saw mister Feenie.

0:31:18.280 --> 0:31:20.680
<v Speaker 1>I told him what a big fan of Saint Elsewhere

0:31:20.720 --> 0:31:24.960
<v Speaker 1>I was. He William Craig. Wait, no, he was Doctor

0:31:25.000 --> 0:31:28.800
<v Speaker 1>Craig and Saint Elsewhere. His real acting name.

0:31:28.760 --> 0:31:30.080
<v Speaker 4>Is William Daniels.

0:31:30.280 --> 0:31:32.600
<v Speaker 1>William Daniels. Yeah, And so I told him what a

0:31:32.600 --> 0:31:34.880
<v Speaker 1>big Saint Elsewhere fan I was. And then I told

0:31:34.960 --> 0:31:40.280
<v Speaker 1>him my favorite line, because he was he was undergoing

0:31:40.280 --> 0:31:43.120
<v Speaker 1>psychotherapy as doctor Mark Craig. And the doctor said, now

0:31:43.160 --> 0:31:46.600
<v Speaker 1>this dream where you said you saw the silver spaceship

0:31:47.000 --> 0:31:49.320
<v Speaker 1>sewing in the yellow haze of the sun. And he

0:31:49.360 --> 0:31:52.280
<v Speaker 1>said I was kneeling and I was young, which is

0:31:52.320 --> 0:31:54.440
<v Speaker 1>such a great line, you know. And there was another

0:31:54.480 --> 0:31:57.800
<v Speaker 1>one about him being bit by a spaniel and how

0:31:57.840 --> 0:32:00.320
<v Speaker 1>the next time he saw that dog when he riding

0:32:00.320 --> 0:32:02.880
<v Speaker 1>his bike, he had a stick and he and he

0:32:02.960 --> 0:32:05.760
<v Speaker 1>hit the spaniel and then he just looked at the doctor.

0:32:05.800 --> 0:32:11.080
<v Speaker 1>He said, I shouldn't have hit Joe's cocker. So they

0:32:11.120 --> 0:32:14.280
<v Speaker 1>had some fun lines you know that you either got

0:32:14.360 --> 0:32:15.000
<v Speaker 1>or you didn't get.

0:32:15.280 --> 0:32:15.480
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:32:15.520 --> 0:32:17.840
<v Speaker 6>He used to tell us one specifically about how he

0:32:17.920 --> 0:32:21.720
<v Speaker 6>was playing the piano and uh, there's flower, there's a

0:32:21.760 --> 0:32:24.120
<v Speaker 6>flower base on the piano. And the line is something

0:32:24.240 --> 0:32:27.920
<v Speaker 6>like I've always enjoyed two lips on the organ. Yeah,

0:32:27.960 --> 0:32:29.520
<v Speaker 6>And so he would tell us they would throw in

0:32:29.560 --> 0:32:31.600
<v Speaker 6>these lines everywhere, and he's like they would take it

0:32:31.640 --> 0:32:34.520
<v Speaker 6>as far as they possibly could without needing some kind

0:32:34.560 --> 0:32:36.600
<v Speaker 6>of a sensor to come in and say something yeah

0:32:36.840 --> 0:32:38.680
<v Speaker 6>crazy yeah.

0:32:38.960 --> 0:32:41.560
<v Speaker 1>And that's that show broke ground because they had a

0:32:42.440 --> 0:32:46.280
<v Speaker 1>patient with particular cancer and I believe that word had

0:32:46.360 --> 0:32:49.360
<v Speaker 1>never been on network TV before, so it was a

0:32:49.440 --> 0:32:51.960
<v Speaker 1>landmark show. But anyway, going back to the live audience,

0:32:54.160 --> 0:32:57.200
<v Speaker 1>I would I found some reassurance and finding out like

0:32:57.280 --> 0:32:59.960
<v Speaker 1>you could mess up a line, and then the crowd

0:33:00.160 --> 0:33:03.520
<v Speaker 1>was they're there for you, right, these are they really

0:33:03.560 --> 0:33:05.680
<v Speaker 1>want to lift up the every one of them I

0:33:05.680 --> 0:33:08.560
<v Speaker 1>think takes. I know because I was in the audience

0:33:08.560 --> 0:33:12.320
<v Speaker 1>for an episode of Jessevius. My younger kids really liked

0:33:12.640 --> 0:33:15.880
<v Speaker 1>Jesse and you see that, you see like, Okay, we're

0:33:15.920 --> 0:33:18.880
<v Speaker 1>part of this. We can make this show better with

0:33:19.000 --> 0:33:23.080
<v Speaker 1>our support. And so when I saw I don't know

0:33:23.120 --> 0:33:28.479
<v Speaker 1>who who missed the line, but you know played it

0:33:28.480 --> 0:33:31.240
<v Speaker 1>off with the laugh and the crowd like enjoyed being

0:33:31.240 --> 0:33:34.000
<v Speaker 1>in on that. It's almost like that peek behind the

0:33:34.040 --> 0:33:37.120
<v Speaker 1>curtain that you know w W used to offer. Now I

0:33:37.160 --> 0:33:41.120
<v Speaker 1>think it curtains a little too wide open. Yeah, pretty

0:33:41.120 --> 0:33:42.880
<v Speaker 1>wide open, you know, And I don't know how I

0:33:42.920 --> 0:33:45.120
<v Speaker 1>feel about that. I like the idea of reading between

0:33:45.120 --> 0:33:49.960
<v Speaker 1>the lines and being shown glimpses, but that was that

0:33:50.040 --> 0:33:52.600
<v Speaker 1>was fun for me, And once I realized that that

0:33:52.680 --> 0:33:57.120
<v Speaker 1>everyone was there, you know, too, to lift up the show,

0:33:57.560 --> 0:34:00.000
<v Speaker 1>and that it was okay to make mistakes. I think

0:34:00.320 --> 0:34:02.680
<v Speaker 1>it's really important in anything you do to not be

0:34:02.760 --> 0:34:05.640
<v Speaker 1>afraid of mistakes. You know, like you're part of the process,

0:34:05.720 --> 0:34:09.240
<v Speaker 1>and anytime you're playing, not to make mistakes, you can't

0:34:09.239 --> 0:34:12.160
<v Speaker 1>really play to win. So I think it's great if

0:34:12.239 --> 0:34:14.880
<v Speaker 1>you make a mistake and it becomes it's almost like

0:34:14.920 --> 0:34:19.600
<v Speaker 1>when actors break on SNL and the crowd loves the course. Yeah,

0:34:19.680 --> 0:34:21.839
<v Speaker 1>as long as you don't do it too often, right,

0:34:21.960 --> 0:34:24.040
<v Speaker 1>you know. I think it was done too often, it

0:34:24.080 --> 0:34:29.560
<v Speaker 1>loses its uniqueness. But I felt very welcomed and supported

0:34:29.640 --> 0:34:31.759
<v Speaker 1>on the set.

0:34:31.440 --> 0:34:34.719
<v Speaker 4>When it aired in nineteen ninety nine. Did you get

0:34:34.760 --> 0:34:38.920
<v Speaker 4>any response from it from either other wrestlers or the public.

0:34:39.000 --> 0:34:42.240
<v Speaker 4>I mean, I feel like the WWE was so red hot,

0:34:42.760 --> 0:34:45.040
<v Speaker 4>you would have been helping us more than we were

0:34:45.120 --> 0:34:47.560
<v Speaker 4>helping you. But did you get response from it back then?

0:34:47.840 --> 0:34:52.160
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? I did, and that was nice, but not surprising

0:34:53.560 --> 0:34:58.040
<v Speaker 1>because your show was so popular and WW was at

0:34:58.040 --> 0:35:00.879
<v Speaker 1>that time. It was super popular and it is as

0:35:00.920 --> 0:35:03.440
<v Speaker 1>well in a different type of way, but globally more

0:35:03.480 --> 0:35:07.040
<v Speaker 1>popular than ever. But what did surprise me was that

0:35:07.239 --> 0:35:11.600
<v Speaker 1>every time that Love and Apartments episode came over in

0:35:11.680 --> 0:35:15.799
<v Speaker 1>reruns that I would get the feedback. So it did

0:35:15.840 --> 0:35:19.000
<v Speaker 1>not surprise me that I got initial feedback. It does

0:35:19.080 --> 0:35:23.200
<v Speaker 1>surprise me. Stop surprising me ten fifteen years ago, the

0:35:23.280 --> 0:35:25.399
<v Speaker 1>fact that people will come up to me. I mean,

0:35:25.440 --> 0:35:28.920
<v Speaker 1>I've signed a few of those photos with Hello Kitty,

0:35:30.040 --> 0:35:34.680
<v Speaker 1>and it's really you know, it's that role and the

0:35:34.840 --> 0:35:38.520
<v Speaker 1>three lines I delivered on Avatar Last Airbender are the

0:35:38.560 --> 0:35:41.799
<v Speaker 1>things that people remember me for outside of wrestling. And

0:35:41.880 --> 0:35:44.719
<v Speaker 1>every once in a while, I'll see you like a

0:35:44.840 --> 0:35:48.319
<v Speaker 1>certain type of expression on the face. I don't mean

0:35:48.320 --> 0:35:52.680
<v Speaker 1>to generalize, but it's usually women of thirty five to

0:35:52.880 --> 0:35:56.839
<v Speaker 1>fifty and it's an expression and I'll go say yes

0:35:56.880 --> 0:35:58.840
<v Speaker 1>to the dress. Yes, I knew that I knew you

0:35:58.880 --> 0:36:03.040
<v Speaker 1>from somewhere ten years earlier. It was the same expression.

0:36:03.080 --> 0:36:05.680
<v Speaker 1>I go celebrity wife spot. Yes I knew. I knew

0:36:05.719 --> 0:36:07.040
<v Speaker 1>You're from somewhere.

0:36:07.920 --> 0:36:09.200
<v Speaker 4>That is so funny.

0:36:10.680 --> 0:36:14.400
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Like I got called, like by a friend of

0:36:14.440 --> 0:36:16.239
<v Speaker 1>mine who was going to be on say yes to

0:36:16.280 --> 0:36:18.640
<v Speaker 1>the dress, And she says, will you come into New

0:36:18.719 --> 0:36:21.600
<v Speaker 1>York and help me make the selection? I was like, yeah,

0:36:21.640 --> 0:36:24.360
<v Speaker 1>because I'm exactly the guy you want making your most

0:36:24.400 --> 0:36:28.879
<v Speaker 1>important decision. Yeah. Yeah, why wouldn't you want me on there?

0:36:29.360 --> 0:36:31.160
<v Speaker 1>And I had I had a really good time. Like

0:36:31.200 --> 0:36:33.680
<v Speaker 1>as soon as I saw Randy, although I'd never seen

0:36:33.719 --> 0:36:35.479
<v Speaker 1>the show, I was like, okay, yeah, I can play

0:36:35.480 --> 0:36:39.680
<v Speaker 1>off Randy. And you know, they were appalled by my

0:36:39.800 --> 0:36:45.680
<v Speaker 1>fanny pack and course, and when I when my friend

0:36:45.719 --> 0:36:48.680
<v Speaker 1>Heather finally found the dress of her dreams and everyone's

0:36:48.680 --> 0:36:51.120
<v Speaker 1>like it's perfect, I was like, it needs just one thing,

0:36:51.520 --> 0:36:54.319
<v Speaker 1>and I took the fanny pack off, and Randy all

0:36:54.360 --> 0:36:58.759
<v Speaker 1>but tackled me, don't be there, don't be there. So

0:36:59.360 --> 0:37:02.840
<v Speaker 1>I did have a good time, but uh, nothing in

0:37:02.920 --> 0:37:07.200
<v Speaker 1>terms of recognition compares to your show at Avatar.

0:37:08.760 --> 0:37:12.920
<v Speaker 4>Well, soon after Boy Meets World, The Rock would host SNL,

0:37:13.239 --> 0:37:16.880
<v Speaker 4>which was a big step for wrestling in pop culture,

0:37:17.000 --> 0:37:20.520
<v Speaker 4>and you made a cameo on that week show. I

0:37:20.560 --> 0:37:23.319
<v Speaker 4>know you are a big comedy fan, so this must

0:37:23.320 --> 0:37:26.520
<v Speaker 4>have been a big deal for you. Was it just

0:37:26.560 --> 0:37:27.600
<v Speaker 4>an incredible week?

0:37:28.320 --> 0:37:30.359
<v Speaker 1>Wasn't it incredible? Well? I was there. I wasn't there

0:37:30.400 --> 0:37:32.680
<v Speaker 1>all week like rock was. I was there. The final

0:37:32.760 --> 0:37:36.800
<v Speaker 1>day rehearsal, we get a guy, a writer named Tommy

0:37:36.880 --> 0:37:40.960
<v Speaker 1>Blocha who is best known for metal How do you

0:37:41.000 --> 0:37:46.920
<v Speaker 1>pronounce metalcalypsecalypse? So Tommy Blacha was the brains behind go

0:37:46.920 --> 0:37:49.799
<v Speaker 1>ahead and say it, well I have a metal metal acalypse.

0:37:50.880 --> 0:37:54.319
<v Speaker 1>And he had written me and Triple H and Big

0:37:54.360 --> 0:37:57.680
<v Speaker 1>Show into a few scenes. Yeah uh And and then

0:37:57.719 --> 0:38:01.480
<v Speaker 1>we did a cold open. How I'm trying to think

0:38:01.480 --> 0:38:03.920
<v Speaker 1>of the little fellow a big show had behind his

0:38:04.040 --> 0:38:06.520
<v Speaker 1>back And Vince was like, what do you have to

0:38:06.520 --> 0:38:09.279
<v Speaker 1>be on your back show? And he's like nothing, come on, Joe,

0:38:09.400 --> 0:38:10.960
<v Speaker 1>give it show to me. He turns around. He had

0:38:11.200 --> 0:38:15.120
<v Speaker 1>the little guy who did the man. I can't believe

0:38:15.120 --> 0:38:17.839
<v Speaker 1>it what I'm saying, but he was a show had

0:38:17.920 --> 0:38:21.760
<v Speaker 1>him tucked behind his back like in a hammerlocked position

0:38:21.880 --> 0:38:24.839
<v Speaker 1>where you don't actually have much strength, right, but he

0:38:24.880 --> 0:38:27.240
<v Speaker 1>was able to hold one hundred and fifty pound human

0:38:27.280 --> 0:38:30.600
<v Speaker 1>being for like a minute behind his back with one

0:38:30.640 --> 0:38:34.360
<v Speaker 1>of arm. It was like he had him in the front,

0:38:34.440 --> 0:38:36.439
<v Speaker 1>you know this way he had him in the back.

0:38:36.760 --> 0:38:41.920
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, exactly, you know his lats and did it.

0:38:42.080 --> 0:38:45.960
<v Speaker 1>But I know right the power it must take and

0:38:46.840 --> 0:38:50.239
<v Speaker 1>show I was the least interesting WW guy on that

0:38:50.320 --> 0:38:54.440
<v Speaker 1>show because Rock was in another stratosphere like that really launched.

0:38:54.680 --> 0:38:58.080
<v Speaker 1>I think that opened people's minds up to his potential

0:38:58.600 --> 0:39:02.239
<v Speaker 1>and it was fun but like it was it was

0:39:02.440 --> 0:39:06.920
<v Speaker 1>when I say, but I mean, the key takeaway for

0:39:07.080 --> 0:39:12.320
<v Speaker 1>me was that I could see the Rock's future expanding

0:39:12.560 --> 0:39:15.319
<v Speaker 1>as the show is going on. Like when he was

0:39:15.360 --> 0:39:19.080
<v Speaker 1>doing they asked him if he, you know, be willing

0:39:19.080 --> 0:39:21.320
<v Speaker 1>to poke fun in himself. He said, I'll do anything,

0:39:21.320 --> 0:39:24.040
<v Speaker 1>but he didn't want to do a wrestling skit. Yeah,

0:39:24.080 --> 0:39:28.040
<v Speaker 1>so when he did Superman in Smallville, yeah, he just

0:39:28.160 --> 0:39:32.239
<v Speaker 1>he just crushed it and then he crushed it. He

0:39:32.239 --> 0:39:36.120
<v Speaker 1>he really, you know, he nailed every one of his skits.

0:39:37.880 --> 0:39:40.400
<v Speaker 1>Somebody asked me when I dropped the People Out People's

0:39:40.440 --> 0:39:43.160
<v Speaker 1>elbow on one of the cast members, like he said,

0:39:43.920 --> 0:39:46.719
<v Speaker 1>I'm surprised Rock let you do that. When he saw

0:39:46.719 --> 0:39:49.680
<v Speaker 1>it in rehearsal, I said, I didn't do that rehearsal.

0:39:49.280 --> 0:39:51.160
<v Speaker 4>Oh exactly. He wouldn't have let me do it.

0:39:52.120 --> 0:39:54.800
<v Speaker 1>Let me do it. But we all had a great time,

0:39:54.960 --> 0:39:58.680
<v Speaker 1>and I think but it was funny because at that point,

0:39:58.719 --> 0:40:01.840
<v Speaker 1>I've been on the road, you know, almost NonStop with

0:40:02.000 --> 0:40:06.160
<v Speaker 1>WW for four years, especially on Saturday nights, and so

0:40:06.239 --> 0:40:08.799
<v Speaker 1>I hadn't actually seen the show in a long time,

0:40:08.840 --> 0:40:11.200
<v Speaker 1>even though I grew up loving it, you know, I mean,

0:40:11.239 --> 0:40:14.320
<v Speaker 1>my parents let me stay up late to watch the original.

0:40:14.400 --> 0:40:16.440
<v Speaker 1>You know, I just I thought John Belus she was

0:40:16.440 --> 0:40:19.280
<v Speaker 1>the man, and it's Chevy Chase and dan Aykroyd and

0:40:19.440 --> 0:40:23.680
<v Speaker 1>Gilda Radner, like this was just you know, an amazing

0:40:23.760 --> 0:40:28.440
<v Speaker 1>cast they had. But I kind of fall touch. So

0:40:28.480 --> 0:40:30.640
<v Speaker 1>at that time when Will Ferrell came up, I really

0:40:30.680 --> 0:40:32.360
<v Speaker 1>didn't even know who he is. You know, isn't that

0:40:32.400 --> 0:40:36.000
<v Speaker 1>crazy seeing as how you know, yes, not just huge,

0:40:36.040 --> 0:40:40.560
<v Speaker 1>but ubiquitous he is. Everyone was really nice, Jimmy Fallon,

0:40:40.760 --> 0:40:43.480
<v Speaker 1>Cherry O, Terry, Cherry O, Terry. The cast could not

0:40:43.520 --> 0:40:46.719
<v Speaker 1>have been nicer. But I wasn't that aware of who

0:40:46.719 --> 0:40:49.479
<v Speaker 1>they were because they hadn't hit reruns yet. They hadn't

0:40:49.520 --> 0:40:52.400
<v Speaker 1>you know, they weren't on syndication but that was a

0:40:52.560 --> 0:40:54.920
<v Speaker 1>you know, obviously, Tina Fay was great to me, and

0:40:55.520 --> 0:41:00.320
<v Speaker 1>she remembered me from I guess you know, she okay

0:41:00.480 --> 0:41:03.160
<v Speaker 1>me being a guest star on thirty Rock, which was

0:41:03.200 --> 0:41:05.680
<v Speaker 1>a lot of fun, incredible, And I went up to

0:41:05.680 --> 0:41:07.160
<v Speaker 1>her at the end of the at the end of

0:41:07.160 --> 0:41:08.799
<v Speaker 1>my time there, and I said, first of all, can

0:41:08.920 --> 0:41:11.840
<v Speaker 1>be can I be on every episode? And I said,

0:41:12.200 --> 0:41:14.640
<v Speaker 1>I want you to know that everyone has been so

0:41:14.840 --> 0:41:16.960
<v Speaker 1>nice to me, and I know that comes down from

0:41:16.960 --> 0:41:20.640
<v Speaker 1>the top. And she she thanked, she thanked me for that.

0:41:22.440 --> 0:41:26.040
<v Speaker 1>She was great. So every everyone I met was really

0:41:26.120 --> 0:41:30.000
<v Speaker 1>nice to me. I wish I'd been more aware, but

0:41:30.080 --> 0:41:32.320
<v Speaker 1>unless they've been on the show for more than four years,

0:41:32.360 --> 0:41:46.400
<v Speaker 1>I probably had not seen them.

0:41:46.719 --> 0:41:50.520
<v Speaker 4>You were also a multiple time New York Times bestselling author,

0:41:50.560 --> 0:41:54.080
<v Speaker 4>and you have been telling stories your entire career. Did

0:41:54.120 --> 0:41:57.360
<v Speaker 4>you ever think about writing scripts for TV or movies?

0:41:57.560 --> 0:42:01.560
<v Speaker 1>Ooh, oh, I think it's a different I think it's

0:42:01.600 --> 0:42:07.120
<v Speaker 1>an entirely different skill set. I do even when I

0:42:07.280 --> 0:42:10.279
<v Speaker 1>even when I wrote a couple of graphic novels, I

0:42:10.360 --> 0:42:12.800
<v Speaker 1>had to write them out as if they were short stories.

0:42:13.480 --> 0:42:16.160
<v Speaker 1>So I I did write a script for Have a

0:42:16.280 --> 0:42:20.359
<v Speaker 1>Nice day. I wrote it all in I'm Loose Leaf,

0:42:21.239 --> 0:42:23.520
<v Speaker 1>and I don't know, I you know, it was okay.

0:42:23.520 --> 0:42:26.600
<v Speaker 1>I don't know it was okay, but it is. It's

0:42:26.640 --> 0:42:29.120
<v Speaker 1>a different it's a different skill set. No, I never

0:42:29.120 --> 0:42:30.400
<v Speaker 1>really considered that. Honestly.

0:42:31.239 --> 0:42:32.399
<v Speaker 4>It's never too late, you know.

0:42:33.080 --> 0:42:36.040
<v Speaker 1>You never know. I have ideas, I have to write

0:42:36.080 --> 0:42:38.600
<v Speaker 1>them out, like their stories. I have to oh, that's okay,

0:42:38.880 --> 0:42:42.760
<v Speaker 1>adjectives and things like that, and then have someone else

0:42:42.920 --> 0:42:45.120
<v Speaker 1>like turn it around. Like I was always good in

0:42:45.239 --> 0:42:49.360
<v Speaker 1>pitch meetings because when I retire, yeah, in two thousand,

0:42:49.840 --> 0:42:52.640
<v Speaker 1>there was like a run of four straight years where

0:42:52.800 --> 0:42:56.320
<v Speaker 1>credible Bob Tischler was one of them. We pitched a product,

0:42:56.600 --> 0:43:00.440
<v Speaker 1>Bob titshlar uh, a Bob Pitschler product to the you know,

0:43:00.560 --> 0:43:03.640
<v Speaker 1>the four Networks, and Bob was not a pitch guy,

0:43:03.880 --> 0:43:06.200
<v Speaker 1>and I remember I was like, oh, we're drowning in here,

0:43:06.600 --> 0:43:09.680
<v Speaker 1>and I kind of took over the pitch and we got.

0:43:10.040 --> 0:43:12.640
<v Speaker 1>We got, we went to script and then it never

0:43:12.680 --> 0:43:16.000
<v Speaker 1>got past that and I had something resulting, you know

0:43:16.120 --> 0:43:19.480
<v Speaker 1>as sizzle reel. It didn't work out, but there was

0:43:19.560 --> 0:43:21.600
<v Speaker 1>four years in a row where I would go and

0:43:21.680 --> 0:43:25.640
<v Speaker 1>I was pretty good at pitching other people's ideas, but

0:43:25.760 --> 0:43:28.680
<v Speaker 1>I didn't have anything. It looks have you heard the

0:43:28.719 --> 0:43:34.840
<v Speaker 1>rumors now about this docu series? Paul walter Hauser signed

0:43:34.880 --> 0:43:39.400
<v Speaker 1>on to star and produce, and he said, dude, like,

0:43:39.440 --> 0:43:41.560
<v Speaker 1>I'm just worried, I'm a little I'm too short to

0:43:41.560 --> 0:43:44.160
<v Speaker 1>play you. I said, Paul, you're the height that people

0:43:44.200 --> 0:43:49.040
<v Speaker 1>think I am, so you're going to be fine because

0:43:49.120 --> 0:43:51.840
<v Speaker 1>I was six' four WHEN i went INTO, wwe and

0:43:51.920 --> 0:43:54.399
<v Speaker 1>people THOUGHT i was five ten BECAUSE i hunched. OVER

0:43:54.520 --> 0:43:57.360
<v Speaker 1>i wrestled guys who you, know Like undertaker And kane

0:43:57.640 --> 0:43:59.960
<v Speaker 1>were much bigger than. ME i, said you're the hype

0:44:00.080 --> 0:44:03.960
<v Speaker 1>people THINK i, am and he's such a great actor

0:44:04.280 --> 0:44:08.680
<v Speaker 1>that it's opening doors for. Us SO i might be

0:44:08.760 --> 0:44:11.439
<v Speaker 1>in a pitching meetings. AGAIN i love.

0:44:11.520 --> 0:44:17.160
<v Speaker 6>That i'm curious because you, KNOW i always love people

0:44:17.200 --> 0:44:20.000
<v Speaker 6>in the know and people who know you know everything

0:44:20.000 --> 0:44:23.200
<v Speaker 6>about their business inside and, out who they. Admire so

0:44:23.360 --> 0:44:26.279
<v Speaker 6>taking yourself out of the, equation who do you think

0:44:26.400 --> 0:44:27.879
<v Speaker 6>is the best wrestler of all?

0:44:27.920 --> 0:44:30.839
<v Speaker 1>TIME i Think Terry funk was the best wrestler of all.

0:44:30.920 --> 0:44:37.719
<v Speaker 1>TIME a lot of people haven't seen. Him he gave

0:44:37.840 --> 0:44:41.120
<v Speaker 1>the greatest wrestling Interview i've ever, heard and it consisted

0:44:41.160 --> 0:44:45.400
<v Speaker 1>of one, word. Forever he was interviewed when he retired

0:44:45.480 --> 0:44:49.040
<v Speaker 1>for good from wrestling the first time in nineteen eighty,

0:44:49.080 --> 0:44:53.360
<v Speaker 1>one and then he was wrestling until the mid probably

0:44:53.400 --> 0:44:56.400
<v Speaker 1>around two thousand and, seven two thousand and, eight so

0:44:56.480 --> 0:45:00.200
<v Speaker 1>it was a short lived. Retirement But terry, realized like

0:45:00.239 --> 0:45:03.080
<v Speaker 1>in a stoic culture Like, japan there was an avenue

0:45:03.160 --> 0:45:06.360
<v Speaker 1>open for someone willing to show. Emotions and you, know

0:45:06.520 --> 0:45:10.440
<v Speaker 1>no one ever wept openly or wept at all In japanese.

0:45:10.440 --> 0:45:13.920
<v Speaker 1>Wrestling and here's this, guy tough as they, come but

0:45:14.040 --> 0:45:17.520
<v Speaker 1>he was. Sensitive he would cry and the blood was

0:45:17.560 --> 0:45:19.880
<v Speaker 1>commingled with the sweat and the. Tears and he gave this.

0:45:20.000 --> 0:45:24.520
<v Speaker 1>Interview they tried to, interview and he just said, forever, forever.

0:45:25.560 --> 0:45:30.319
<v Speaker 1>Forever and a couple of years, later in nineteen ninety,

0:45:30.400 --> 0:45:34.719
<v Speaker 1>Nine i'm giving a backlot tour Of Universal, Studios, hollywood

0:45:35.160 --> 0:45:37.640
<v Speaker 1>and as my golf cart's going, BY i hear someone

0:45:37.719 --> 0:45:42.080
<v Speaker 1>going forever, forever AND i turned. Around it Was Eddie

0:45:42.120 --> 0:45:47.920
<v Speaker 1>murphy Doing Terry funk. Promo But terry had the ability

0:45:47.960 --> 0:45:51.640
<v Speaker 1>to suspend disbelief not just among the audience but among his,

0:45:51.760 --> 0:45:56.960
<v Speaker 1>Opponents and so there was this one scene WHERE i

0:45:57.160 --> 0:46:02.000
<v Speaker 1>was the guest enforcer ringside For Jerry lawler And funk

0:46:02.160 --> 0:46:05.640
<v Speaker 1>was coming out as the enforcer or manager for a

0:46:05.680 --> 0:46:08.560
<v Speaker 1>guy named Man. Scout you, know a grown up Boy.

0:46:08.600 --> 0:46:12.160
<v Speaker 1>Scout you, know which is a great Independ scouts. Hilarious, Yeah,

0:46:13.000 --> 0:46:18.280
<v Speaker 1>danielle you've been known to appear as an. Independent, yeah, yeah,

0:46:18.360 --> 0:46:21.279
<v Speaker 1>yeah it's a it's a good. Character AND i See

0:46:21.400 --> 0:46:23.799
<v Speaker 1>terry AND i can feel that it's it's a big.

0:46:23.840 --> 0:46:26.480
<v Speaker 1>Crowd it's about fifteen, hundred which is really good size

0:46:26.520 --> 0:46:29.960
<v Speaker 1>for an independent, show AND i CAN i can feel

0:46:29.960 --> 0:46:32.160
<v Speaker 1>that a lot of the fans don't know Who terry

0:46:32.280 --> 0:46:35.120
<v Speaker 1>is because he was before their. Time but by the

0:46:35.160 --> 0:46:40.240
<v Speaker 1>time he, left he's all that people were thinking. About,

0:46:40.560 --> 0:46:43.040
<v Speaker 1>yeah he comes into that, ring And i'm saying to

0:46:43.080 --> 0:46:46.399
<v Speaker 1>the referee AS i See terry's eyes on his way

0:46:46.400 --> 0:46:49.279
<v Speaker 1>down to the, RING i, said you'd better. Run he

0:46:49.320 --> 0:46:51.879
<v Speaker 1>goes WHAT i, said you'd better. Run and As terry

0:46:51.880 --> 0:46:54.520
<v Speaker 1>gets in the, RING i start, urgency you better, run

0:46:55.160 --> 0:46:58.240
<v Speaker 1>you'd better, Run AND i bailed out and he staid

0:46:58.960 --> 0:47:02.080
<v Speaker 1>in the ring And terry punched him square in the

0:47:02.280 --> 0:47:06.680
<v Speaker 1>forehead with his left hand which is a devastating left.

0:47:06.719 --> 0:47:09.799
<v Speaker 1>Hand and after the, show after after the, MATCH i

0:47:09.840 --> 0:47:11.480
<v Speaker 1>come back and the ringing hounder has got a big

0:47:11.520 --> 0:47:13.359
<v Speaker 1>goose egg on his. Head he's got an ice pack

0:47:13.400 --> 0:47:15.799
<v Speaker 1>and he, SAID i can't believe he hit. Me AND

0:47:15.840 --> 0:47:18.160
<v Speaker 1>i looked at him AND i, said what part of the?

0:47:18.200 --> 0:47:26.360
<v Speaker 1>Words you'd better run ringing Out Terry. Funk you never

0:47:26.560 --> 0:47:30.279
<v Speaker 1>know what he might. Do so he you, know he

0:47:30.360 --> 0:47:33.640
<v Speaker 1>did have respect for his. Opponents it's not that he

0:47:33.800 --> 0:47:36.560
<v Speaker 1>uh you, know took, liberties but when you got in

0:47:36.600 --> 0:47:39.600
<v Speaker 1>there with, him there was a very real sense among

0:47:39.640 --> 0:47:42.200
<v Speaker 1>the crowd where they, go, OH i think this one's.

0:47:42.239 --> 0:47:47.600
<v Speaker 1>Real but everything he, did, Yeah and he went from being,

0:47:47.760 --> 0:47:52.640
<v Speaker 1>uh you, know a like a more traditional babyface champion

0:47:53.480 --> 0:47:56.040
<v Speaker 1>h to be hit forty two and he came back

0:47:56.080 --> 0:48:00.279
<v Speaker 1>on W cw is middle aged and, crazy and then

0:48:00.400 --> 0:48:02.239
<v Speaker 1>even as he got, older it became old age and.

0:48:02.280 --> 0:48:07.560
<v Speaker 1>CRAZY i pitched an idea to the creative team in

0:48:07.600 --> 0:48:11.920
<v Speaker 1>two thousand and six that would pay off in the

0:48:11.960 --> 0:48:15.360
<v Speaker 1>mat be me And edge Against Tommy dreamer And Terry.

0:48:15.400 --> 0:48:19.239
<v Speaker 1>Funk AND i, said this whole angle hinges upon us

0:48:19.320 --> 0:48:23.080
<v Speaker 1>being able to convince fans That Terry funk is crazy

0:48:23.160 --> 0:48:26.960
<v Speaker 1>in about two weeks And dusty Rose pipe he, goes

0:48:27.000 --> 0:48:30.000
<v Speaker 1>that ought to be easy Because Terry funk is. Crazy you, know.

0:48:32.440 --> 0:48:35.600
<v Speaker 4>That's a Good Dusty rhodes. Impression that's not, bad, Right,

0:48:35.719 --> 0:48:40.000
<v Speaker 4>yeah that's pretty. Good you mentioned, retiring and we are

0:48:40.040 --> 0:48:44.600
<v Speaker 4>speaking to you shortly After John cena's big. Retirement. Yeah,

0:48:44.800 --> 0:48:48.680
<v Speaker 4>yeah can You i'm excited for you to be able

0:48:48.680 --> 0:48:51.239
<v Speaker 4>to have THIS x to give this. Explanation can you

0:48:51.320 --> 0:48:54.080
<v Speaker 4>explain to people who were upset that he lost the

0:48:54.120 --> 0:48:58.920
<v Speaker 4>match why it was necessary for him to lose the?

0:48:58.960 --> 0:49:02.600
<v Speaker 4>Match and do you Think gunther was the best guy

0:49:02.640 --> 0:49:02.840
<v Speaker 4>to do?

0:49:02.880 --> 0:49:10.600
<v Speaker 1>It? Oh, Yes john felt it was. Necessary it WAS i,

0:49:10.640 --> 0:49:12.279
<v Speaker 1>mean it was the right thing to do for the

0:49:12.360 --> 0:49:18.560
<v Speaker 1>sake of. Business it's because Now gunther will essentially have

0:49:18.640 --> 0:49:22.040
<v Speaker 1>that proverbial rocket strap to his. Back do you think

0:49:22.080 --> 0:49:23.640
<v Speaker 1>he was THE i think he was the right guy

0:49:23.680 --> 0:49:26.560
<v Speaker 1>because he. Is you, know he's got such a believable.

0:49:26.600 --> 0:49:32.200
<v Speaker 1>Style he's very. Convincing but you might say he doesn't

0:49:32.239 --> 0:49:35.960
<v Speaker 1>have the pomp and circumstance that that some of the guys.

0:49:36.000 --> 0:49:39.160
<v Speaker 1>Do i'm down to ten, percent so you might want

0:49:39.160 --> 0:49:42.440
<v Speaker 1>to sign me out in a few. Minutes and if

0:49:42.440 --> 0:49:45.520
<v Speaker 1>he needed that little. Something this would be that little. Something,

0:49:46.000 --> 0:49:49.480
<v Speaker 1>now when Brock lesnar defeated The undertaker At, WrestleMania ending that,

0:49:49.600 --> 0:49:53.040
<v Speaker 1>streak he Had Paul hayman on his, side And Paul

0:49:53.080 --> 0:49:57.279
<v Speaker 1>hayman made sure that every, week every week for at

0:49:57.360 --> 0:50:00.319
<v Speaker 1>least a, year he was the man who would defeat The.

0:50:00.520 --> 0:50:05.400
<v Speaker 1>Undertaking repetition is the, key you, know when it comes

0:50:05.400 --> 0:50:09.120
<v Speaker 1>to promoting, something and nobody's better out Than. Paul SO

0:50:09.280 --> 0:50:12.319
<v Speaker 1>i don't know if if they're going to align someone with,

0:50:12.400 --> 0:50:14.560
<v Speaker 1>him BUT i think he is a great guy to

0:50:15.040 --> 0:50:17.399
<v Speaker 1>do that. For i'm only going to argue the other

0:50:17.520 --> 0:50:20.560
<v Speaker 1>point is that because it Was Saturday night's main, event

0:50:21.239 --> 0:50:24.920
<v Speaker 1>because we were drawing in hopefully a few million new,

0:50:25.000 --> 0:50:28.719
<v Speaker 1>fans uh OR i would say at least a million new,

0:50:28.719 --> 0:50:32.839
<v Speaker 1>fans you had the opportunity to show them just how

0:50:33.360 --> 0:50:37.400
<v Speaker 1>JOYFUL ww can, be and we didn't give them that.

0:50:37.560 --> 0:50:41.719
<v Speaker 1>Moment AND i wonder if in the bigger, picture you

0:50:41.760 --> 0:50:44.799
<v Speaker 1>don't know because there's no, textbook BUT i can see both.

0:50:44.840 --> 0:50:48.759
<v Speaker 1>Points when when he, LOST i mean the camera hit

0:50:48.800 --> 0:50:51.839
<v Speaker 1>those reactions and people were genuinely.

0:50:51.960 --> 0:51:00.120
<v Speaker 4>Hurt there were chairs in my, house really, house you

0:51:00.239 --> 0:51:07.319
<v Speaker 4>are the children both, both and wrestling is kind of

0:51:07.320 --> 0:51:09.640
<v Speaker 4>famous for the retire but then come. Back do you

0:51:09.680 --> 0:51:11.800
<v Speaker 4>Think John cena is really?

0:51:11.840 --> 0:51:15.960
<v Speaker 1>Gone? Wait are you pointing fingers at, Me, Danielle, NO i.

0:51:16.040 --> 0:51:17.560
<v Speaker 1>RETIRED i came back in six.

0:51:17.600 --> 0:51:20.600
<v Speaker 4>Weeks uh did you enjoy your?

0:51:20.640 --> 0:51:25.000
<v Speaker 1>Vacation, well you, KNOW i got the phone CALL i

0:51:25.040 --> 0:51:27.600
<v Speaker 1>had retired from in my, MIND i was never going

0:51:27.600 --> 0:51:29.680
<v Speaker 1>to wrestle. Again and THEN i got a phone call

0:51:29.760 --> 0:51:31.719
<v Speaker 1>From Jim ross, Saying, Hey we've got some plans for

0:51:31.800 --> 0:51:33.960
<v Speaker 1>Your WrestleMania so do you want me to host like

0:51:34.040 --> 0:51:36.719
<v Speaker 1>a panel or. Something you should? Know we would like

0:51:36.800 --> 0:51:39.279
<v Speaker 1>you to be in the main. Event AND i, said

0:51:39.800 --> 0:51:40.239
<v Speaker 1>BUT i just.

0:51:40.320 --> 0:51:42.840
<v Speaker 3>Retired that's the opposite of, retiring.

0:51:43.000 --> 0:51:45.160
<v Speaker 1>Is the option. Retired BUT i will say, THIS i

0:51:45.200 --> 0:51:48.239
<v Speaker 1>am the only person in ww history to try to

0:51:48.320 --> 0:51:51.080
<v Speaker 1>talk their way out of being in A WrestleMania main event.

0:51:51.280 --> 0:51:52.520
<v Speaker 4>EXACTLY i don't.

0:51:52.560 --> 0:51:56.840
<v Speaker 1>KNOW i, failed BUT i, tried SO i. Did but

0:51:56.880 --> 0:51:59.040
<v Speaker 1>then it was another four years BEFORE i came. BACK

0:51:59.239 --> 0:52:03.360
<v Speaker 1>i think every person has allowed one big comeback match

0:52:03.560 --> 0:52:06.920
<v Speaker 1>that does not violate the trust of the, fans but after,

0:52:06.960 --> 0:52:10.400
<v Speaker 1>that it's at least partially a grab for, money And

0:52:10.800 --> 0:52:15.319
<v Speaker 1>john's taking plenty of. That SO i will say that

0:52:16.480 --> 0:52:21.560
<v Speaker 1>for anyone who's down About John cena's last, match just

0:52:21.640 --> 0:52:24.920
<v Speaker 1>go to YouTube and look for the song medley From

0:52:25.040 --> 0:52:31.760
<v Speaker 1>Ricky stinicky and you'll feel good all over. Again that's movie. Magic.

0:52:31.840 --> 0:52:35.560
<v Speaker 1>There have you seen? It? No, oh you need to see?

0:52:35.600 --> 0:52:39.080
<v Speaker 1>It and then? Ryder how about? You, NO i don't even.

0:52:39.120 --> 0:52:43.440
<v Speaker 1>Know you need to Watch Ricky snicky When John. CENA i.

0:52:43.520 --> 0:52:45.400
<v Speaker 1>CAN'T i don't know how MUCH i can give away

0:52:45.840 --> 0:52:49.800
<v Speaker 1>from a you, know not just a content but A pg.

0:52:49.960 --> 0:52:54.279
<v Speaker 1>Standpoint what the medley is. About it is. Brilliant it

0:52:54.400 --> 0:52:56.680
<v Speaker 1>was one of those few times That i've laughed so

0:52:56.760 --> 0:53:01.000
<v Speaker 1>hard my back, hurt and it IS i think he

0:53:01.160 --> 0:53:04.759
<v Speaker 1>learned his fearlessness from. Wrestling you, know here's the guy

0:53:04.800 --> 0:53:08.880
<v Speaker 1>who showed up essentially naked at The Academy, awards, RIGHT i,

0:53:08.880 --> 0:53:12.160
<v Speaker 1>MEAN i believe he had like the modesty pouch but

0:53:12.280 --> 0:53:16.319
<v Speaker 1>nothing else so he could get a. Laugh and you,

0:53:16.320 --> 0:53:20.120
<v Speaker 1>know he poked fun of himself in the Train, wreck you,

0:53:20.120 --> 0:53:24.320
<v Speaker 1>know the. Humor and he's been increasingly better and better

0:53:24.480 --> 0:53:27.880
<v Speaker 1>at everything he. Does BUT i feel like the musical

0:53:28.000 --> 0:53:34.240
<v Speaker 1>montage where by turns he Is devo from the, eighties

0:53:34.800 --> 0:53:41.799
<v Speaker 1>he Is Alice. Cooper he, Is, yeah he put and

0:53:41.960 --> 0:53:45.000
<v Speaker 1>every one of his songs is about a certain act

0:53:45.040 --> 0:53:49.320
<v Speaker 1>that some guys do when they're. Alone so it's. Brilliant

0:53:49.680 --> 0:53:50.040
<v Speaker 1>it is.

0:53:50.239 --> 0:53:53.080
<v Speaker 6>Brilliant and If i'm looking at it right, now they're

0:53:53.120 --> 0:53:55.560
<v Speaker 6>looking at what it actually.

0:53:55.600 --> 0:53:58.120
<v Speaker 3>Is so it's a. Movie Ricky sicky is a.

0:53:58.160 --> 0:54:02.640
<v Speaker 1>Movie Ricky snicky is the imaginary friend that this core

0:54:02.680 --> 0:54:05.719
<v Speaker 1>group of friends created from. Childhood they can they could

0:54:05.760 --> 0:54:09.480
<v Speaker 1>blame anything. On and then they have to actually produce

0:54:09.600 --> 0:54:13.640
<v Speaker 1>him at a, party and they hire this actor with

0:54:13.719 --> 0:54:18.000
<v Speaker 1>some serious question. Marks and that actor Is John, cena

0:54:18.239 --> 0:54:23.080
<v Speaker 1>best known as under the pseudonym Rock Hard. Rick he's

0:54:23.120 --> 0:54:28.360
<v Speaker 1>best known for performing off off The boardwalk At Atlantic.

0:54:28.480 --> 0:54:33.000
<v Speaker 1>City and it's just. Brilliant but he puts everything he

0:54:33.120 --> 0:54:35.600
<v Speaker 1>has into. It and it's Oh. Billy one of them

0:54:35.640 --> 0:54:40.359
<v Speaker 1>Is Billy, Idyl so It's Billy idle and, uh there's

0:54:40.400 --> 0:54:44.480
<v Speaker 1>another one or, two But, Devo Alice Cooper Billy idle.

0:54:44.840 --> 0:54:47.680
<v Speaker 1>Man he hats off to, him and he's a good.

0:54:47.719 --> 0:54:52.000
<v Speaker 1>Guy his. Dad i'm actually better friends with his dad

0:54:52.080 --> 0:54:55.279
<v Speaker 1>THAN i am With, john just because his dad comes

0:54:55.320 --> 0:54:58.880
<v Speaker 1>out to my events Anytime i'm In, boston you, know

0:54:59.000 --> 0:55:04.520
<v Speaker 1>He one of the Great christmas gift openings in our

0:55:04.560 --> 0:55:09.160
<v Speaker 1>house was my Son mickey is very talented. Guitarist he

0:55:09.239 --> 0:55:11.799
<v Speaker 1>thought he was getting a new amplifier and there was

0:55:11.800 --> 0:55:14.719
<v Speaker 1>this one package that he just knew was his. Amplifier

0:55:16.320 --> 0:55:19.840
<v Speaker 1>we were recording. It he tears into. It it was

0:55:19.880 --> 0:55:25.560
<v Speaker 1>a case Of johnny fabulous Is fabo? Pop Because John cena's,

0:55:25.600 --> 0:55:27.520
<v Speaker 1>dad at eighty years, old is one of the best

0:55:27.560 --> 0:55:32.080
<v Speaker 1>independent managers in, Wrestling and the letdown Of seeing twenty

0:55:32.080 --> 0:55:36.399
<v Speaker 1>four he was. Devastated and THEN i had the amp behind.

0:55:36.480 --> 0:55:39.719
<v Speaker 4>Them oh my, god that's. Amazing, yeah that's a good

0:55:39.760 --> 0:55:44.239
<v Speaker 4>gift exchange right. There, well we are so honored that

0:55:44.360 --> 0:55:47.560
<v Speaker 4>you are a part Of Boy Meets world's, legacy and

0:55:47.600 --> 0:55:51.680
<v Speaker 4>we still hear about you And vader all the time

0:55:51.800 --> 0:55:56.000
<v Speaker 4>everywhere we, go especially the, conventions and so the fact

0:55:56.040 --> 0:55:58.760
<v Speaker 4>that because of you And, leon we are also always

0:55:58.800 --> 0:56:02.160
<v Speaker 4>connected TO wwe is very special to. Us so thank

0:56:02.200 --> 0:56:05.719
<v Speaker 4>you for gracing us with your presence long. Time we're

0:56:05.719 --> 0:56:06.400
<v Speaker 4>happy to have you.

0:56:06.800 --> 0:56:08.879
<v Speaker 1>CLOSING i just want to say it's great to see

0:56:08.880 --> 0:56:12.000
<v Speaker 1>you looking so. HEALTHY i know you've been through a

0:56:12.000 --> 0:56:16.000
<v Speaker 1>lot and, uh if you noticed the folly text messages

0:56:16.080 --> 0:56:19.440
<v Speaker 1>were more frequent when, uh you, know when you were

0:56:19.440 --> 0:56:19.879
<v Speaker 1>going through.

0:56:19.920 --> 0:56:23.000
<v Speaker 4>That, yeah you were really you were really good about

0:56:23.080 --> 0:56:25.160
<v Speaker 4>checking in with, me making SURE i was. Okay and

0:56:25.560 --> 0:56:29.040
<v Speaker 4>you also you've survived a terrible car.

0:56:29.080 --> 0:56:31.160
<v Speaker 1>Crash yeah, YEAH.

0:56:30.800 --> 0:56:33.160
<v Speaker 4>I mean we both really went through it around the same,

0:56:33.160 --> 0:56:34.920
<v Speaker 4>time so we were checking in with each. Other so

0:56:34.920 --> 0:56:37.640
<v Speaker 4>it's it's always nice to see us healthy and well.

0:56:38.040 --> 0:56:41.759
<v Speaker 1>That's, right, writer thank, you, will thank, You, danielle thank.

0:56:41.800 --> 0:56:42.319
<v Speaker 1>YOU i had a great.

0:56:42.360 --> 0:56:51.560
<v Speaker 4>Time oh my, gosh what a. Life.

0:56:51.760 --> 0:56:55.080
<v Speaker 6>Right, Yeah i'd love to pitch something with him BECAUSE

0:56:55.080 --> 0:56:56.040
<v Speaker 6>i just want to see him in the room.

0:56:56.280 --> 0:56:57.560
<v Speaker 4>Exactly you, know he'd be.

0:56:57.600 --> 0:56:59.600
<v Speaker 5>Great when he said, that he's, LIKE i Think i'm

0:56:59.600 --> 0:57:03.280
<v Speaker 5>pretty good Pitch like we, know oh, yeah how about.

0:57:03.320 --> 0:57:05.000
<v Speaker 3>You we know you're good in pitch.

0:57:05.080 --> 0:57:09.319
<v Speaker 4>Meetings so. Fun that's been a that's been in a long.

0:57:09.400 --> 0:57:11.759
<v Speaker 4>Time that's a long time coming that, Interview jensen says

0:57:11.800 --> 0:57:13.600
<v Speaker 4>he's been in a pitch meeting With. Mick what was

0:57:13.640 --> 0:57:14.480
<v Speaker 4>the pitch meeting.

0:57:14.640 --> 0:57:16.320
<v Speaker 2>W W e WHEN i was working, there he came.

0:57:16.360 --> 0:57:19.480
<v Speaker 2>In it's just ideas and he's, great tremendous of, Course i'm.

0:57:19.520 --> 0:57:23.200
<v Speaker 4>Sure, well thank you all for listening to this. Episode

0:57:23.200 --> 0:57:25.200
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0:57:30.240 --> 0:57:31.400
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0:57:31.400 --> 0:57:33.240
<v Speaker 1>MERCH i think you.

0:57:33.160 --> 0:57:36.640
<v Speaker 3>Should buy some. Merch i'm trying to do a mankind

0:57:36.680 --> 0:57:38.080
<v Speaker 3>AND i. Don't he's got that.

0:57:38.200 --> 0:57:40.240
<v Speaker 6>LITTLE i can't do, IT i, know AND i wanted A,

0:57:40.320 --> 0:57:42.600
<v Speaker 6>soco but the Sock i'm wearing is too small and.

0:57:42.640 --> 0:57:43.360
<v Speaker 3>Gray it didn't.

0:57:43.360 --> 0:57:44.680
<v Speaker 1>Work forget. Me i've.

0:57:44.680 --> 0:57:51.560
<v Speaker 5>Done it's like little screwed up WHAT i did and it's.

0:57:51.600 --> 0:57:54.280
<v Speaker 3>Awful SO i DON'T i don't think we should even air.

0:57:54.400 --> 0:57:55.720
<v Speaker 2>This this episode should be.

0:57:55.760 --> 0:57:58.000
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