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We got a lot 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.599 to get into and Lance before we go any further, 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.520 you have any memories of Dennis Kndrey. 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.720 I never met him. The only Midnight Express member I 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:31.360 ever met really was Jimmy and Bobby, and even Bobby 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.640 was only one time. Obviously saw some of his work, 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.640 although again it was Stan and Bobby by the time 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:43.400 I was a regular fan. I did go back when 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:45.920 I was able to find the videotape of the first 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:50.400 Scaffold match, which I believe was Dennis and Bobby. Never 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:52.320 heard anything but good things about his work. But yeah, 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:53.880 it was not a person I ever met. 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.120 Unfortunately, you've seen many of his matches. Well, yeah, when 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.880 we go back in Yeah, Jim Cornett had a big 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:05.239 update on on on his death yesterday, very sad. Actually, 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.240 apparently he was just at his house and he'd had 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.680 I think four it was two. He'd well, he had 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:17.920 multiple bouts of cancer, and I believe he'd already had 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:22.120 so much work done on his neck. And apparently his 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:23.800 wife was at work and he was supposed to pick 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:25.560 her up and he wasn't there, and she called and 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.880 nobody answered, and he wasn't there, and they went to 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.760 the house and he'd suffered a fall and he'd broken 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.520 his neck and he was still alive, but he was 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.360 like paralyzed, and they tried to get him to the 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:43.720 hospital and he ended up passing away. But sad, the 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:45.560 sad part of the story. I mean, it's all sad, 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:47.360 but one of the really sad parts of the story 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:51.080 is his wife. It wasn't that long. It was like 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.480 a very short period of time. She was she was 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:58.040 going to retire, and he was just he could not 0:07:58.160 --> 0:07:59.680 wait for her to retire. It was like, I don't 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.520 know if it was months or I mean, it was 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.600 a very short period of time and he couldn't wait 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.600 for to retire. There was to spend all this time 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:12.440 together and right before it happened. This happened. So very 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.800 sad story. There is a go fundme that has been 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:20.040 set up and lots of people have donated. I actually 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.440 don't have the link, but I'll try and find it 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:26.240 during the break and tweet it out. But really sad story. 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:30.840 All the best to her, and that's what happened. So 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:36.920 that's the latest on Dennis Condrey. I guess in I 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.800 suppose this is I mean, it's good news for the family, 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:45.400 but Sid Vicious, who also passed away of cancer a 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.000 little over a year ago. I think it was twenty 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.679 twenty four. Well, it was announced today that he is 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:55.480 going into the WWE Hall of Fame, and his family 0:08:55.559 --> 0:09:02.040 obviously is very happy about this. And I'm happy to 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:08.679 see Sid go in because I loved Sid Vicious. And 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:11.640 I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that he 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:13.920 was the best wrestler I ever saw in my life, 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:16.200 but you know what, he was. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.200 A tremendous professional wrestler. 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:22.640 Cally, he was a great He was you know they 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.360 always go if you if you wanted to build a 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.920 wrestler from the ground up, it would be Randy Orton, 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:35.240 That's all lie, It would be Sid. Sid was everything 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.040 you can imagine a pro wrestler being. I mean he 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:43.800 was tall, he was gigantic, he was like just a 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:48.760 complete maniac. I mean, I just for those of you, 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.000 I mean, does anyone not remember Sid Vicious. Sid Vicious 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:55.439 have been around for like forever, And he started out 0:09:55.520 --> 0:10:00.199 in World Championship Wrestling and obviously went to WWE and 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.600 had a run there and then went back to WCW 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.120 and like everything that this guy did, it was like 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.600 there was everywhere he went. Everywhere he went, in everything, 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:13.880 everything that he did, there was always a story about Sid. So, like, 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.319 you know, he started in you know, actually Continental and 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.440 then went to New Japan and ended up getting signed 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.400 for World Championship Wrestling, and they put him together with 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:26.160 Dan Spivey as the Skyscrapers, and then he ends up 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:30.679 in the Four Horsemen, and you know, he's one of 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.559 the four members of this stable, and you know he's 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.080 on his way to being this big star. And then 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.800 he quits and he goes to WWF and of course 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.439 they can't call him Sid Vicious because it's Vince, so 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:47.040 they have to call him Sid Justice. And he ends 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:52.160 up in that famous nineteen ninety two Royal Rumble where 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.520 Rick Flaer came out I think at number three, and 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.319 he went the entire way and he won and he 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.080 ended up with a vacant title. But they had the angle, 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.240 like the end of the matcher is like four guys, 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:06.839 It's Flair, Hogan, Macho Man, Randy Savage, and Sid like 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.000 four big stars. At the end, one of these guys 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.960 is gonna end up the champion. So Macho Man ends 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.199 up getting tossed out of the ring and so it's 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:19.560 down to Rick Flair, Hulk Hogan, and Sid Okay. Sid 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.240 is supposed to be a heel, Hogan is supposed to 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.199 be a babyface. But if you remember Hogan during this period, 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.319 like people were already sick of this guy number one 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:30.839 and number two, like he was always cheating and he 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:35.200 was just like a despicable So, uh, he ends up 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:39.520 getting dumped out of the ring fairly fairly, and it's 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:45.240 down to Rick Flair and Sid Okay. But Hogan grabs 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.000 Sid from the outside after being eliminated, and he starts 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:52.480 yanking on Sid, and Rick Flair goes and he dumps 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.800 Sid over and Rick Flair wins the time. Of course, 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.360 everybody goes crazy because you know, Flair won everything like that, 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:02.199 but like they immediately turned on Hulk Hogan. And I 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.760 remember this as a kid, because they would air these 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:09.760 shows on pay per view and then they would sell 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:14.240 a VHS of the pay per view. Okay, now, not everybody, 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.400 I mean a lot of people had had VCRs, but 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.160 not everybody was like taping all of the pay per 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.240 views and watching them one over and over again. But 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:26.760 I was, and I remembered Hogan getting booed when he 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:31.960 threw Sid out of the ring, and later I ended 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:36.679 up getting the videotape. I watched it and they edited 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:41.360 in cheers for Hulk Hogan and I was like, this 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:45.079 is BS, what is this? So of course, you know, 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.559 everybody turns on Hogan and they're all int Sid. And 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:52.280 that was the year that for WrestleMania, and everybody thought 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:55.800 it was gonna be Hulk Hogan versus Rick Flair because 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.920 that's the obvious match, Hulk Hogan versus Rick Flair. You know, 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:01.080 they'd never done it on pay per view and everything, 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.000 but I guess they gone all around the horn and 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.760 uh and they felt they burned it out. And so 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.520 even though they initially announced the match as as Hulk 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.640 Hogan versus Rick Flair, it was never the plan and 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.200 they ended up changing. It ended up being Hogan versus 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.440 Sid and Rick Flair versus Rady Savage, which was an 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:23.320 incredible match by the way, that Rick Flair Randy Savage match, 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.520 it was great. And so you know, Hogan and Sid 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.959 go in there and I think that I guess the 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.560 finish was supposed to be Hogan is supposed to pin 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.520 the guy with a leg drop, but Sid just decided 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.199 that don't work for me, brother, so he kicks out 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:37.880 of the leg drop. 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.280 And then that when Papa Shango was supposed to make 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:41.720 the saving time and didn't, I. 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.040 Think he just I think he kicked out. But regardless, 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.160 like they did some sort of finish and uh maybe 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.520 maybe Papa, I'm sure Papa Shango maybe it was part 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.040 of it. But Sid kicked out is the point he 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:56.480 kicks out of the leg drop and then uh, they 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.439 end up doing I think it was the actual finish 0:13:58.559 --> 0:13:59.520 was a disqualification. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.560 Yeah, I think he was supposed to save to protect Sid, 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.240 and Sid wasn't gonna lay there and get the three count. 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.480 Well one way to the other. Sid then quits again, 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.120 goes back to World Championship Wrestling, and he has a 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:16.599 run there for a while, and uh, I think that 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.600 was when he went back, he was in line for 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.720 the w CW title. But there was an incident where 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:27.440 everybody was in the bar after the show and Sid 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:32.040 starts just bragging. He goes, yeah, you know, yeah, everyone 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.520 talks about how Arn and flare these great workers, but 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.640 I don't even need to I don't even need to work. 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.280 I'm just a you know. He he's just bragging and 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.880 just being an idiot and uh and they got they 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.600 got hot, and so Arne ends up going to his Uh, 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.440 he ends up going to his room in the hotel, 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.360 and Arn's gonna you know, he starts banging on the 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:56.160 door and Sid ends up coming out with scissors and 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.240 they get in this huge fight and Sid just like 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.960 stabs this guy over and over again multiple times. It's 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:07.320 like a big it's a big to do. And yeah, 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.280 that was the end of Sid again, and then he 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:14.520 goes back to WWF and had another run as Psycho. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.480 Sid ends up in there with Sean Michaels does the 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.680 old bodyguard gimmick and then they do the big turn 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:25.080 and you know, every it was like every year Sid 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.480 would just disappear to go play softball. It was like, 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.360 you know, it didn't matter what was going on, he'd 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.680 go off to play softball. Then he would come back 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.960 and he was always over with the fans no matter 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:40.640 what he did. And eventually, when that WWF run ended, 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.360 he went back to w CW had another run and 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.200 then finally at the end he did that spot that 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.680 he didn't want to do. They were talking to him 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.000 into doing this jumping kick off the middle rope, which 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.280 why would Sid jump off the middle rope and do 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:58.200 a kick and of course he lands, he just shatters 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.600 his leg. I mean, it was one of the brutal 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:02.840 injuries in the history of wrestling, right there on pay 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.200 per view. And that was the end of his career. 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:11.440 So now he's back for the Hall of Fame and 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.040 we'll get into that after the Breakers over Life. 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.760 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.480 and Mike semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.880 Well, thanks to Death of ww available right now at 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.320 Amazon dot com or thanks to me, Well, I looked 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.160 it up after you said, So, what actually happened was 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.320 they were in the bar, and I guess I guess 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:46.000 it started with Sid saying that they want me to 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:48.800 put over Sting and I ain't gonna do it. I'm 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:50.800 gonna demand another one hundred thousand dollars to do it, 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.360 And so he says he'd be up like six hundred 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.240 thousand dollars a year, and then he starts making fun 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:59.000 of Arn because Arn had just gotten a pay cut 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:03.120 to one hundred thousand dollars a year. So Sid starts saying, well, 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:04.960 you know it's fitting I make so much money. You 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.680 guys don't make nothing because you old dinosaurs Flare and 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:10.120 Arn you need to be out of here. And Mike 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.880 ways guys like me, I'll make this sport great again. 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:16.479 So of course Arn gets hot and they almost got 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:20.280 in a fight in the bar, but it got separated 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:22.879 and then they both got sent back to their rooms. 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.360 So once they got back to their rooms, that's when 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.960 Sid got the chair leg. He broke off a wooden 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:34.760 chair leg. Sid goes to Arne's room. He's banging on 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.959 Arn's door. So Arn is the one that first had 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:42.320 the scissors. So Sid ends up in the room and 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.919 then each man has their own story. But Arn claims 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:50.280 that Sid went after him with the chair leg, and 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:54.560 so he defended himself with the scissors. Sid actually got 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:58.240 stabbed a couple of times, but then Arn got lost 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.560 the scissors and then Sid got ahold of him, and 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.840 then he stabbed Arn from head to toe and that 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:07.960 was that was the end of that run. 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.560 And they avoided criminal charges because they were in the UK, 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:13.920 and the UK just said, get out of our country 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:15.040 and it's not our problem. 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.520 Yeah, And then you know there was a moment like 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.960 years later. I mean this was probably ninety nine or 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:25.080 two thousand where both guys were back in World Championship 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:29.720 Wrestling and they end up in the ring together for 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:35.160 an angle and Sid did walk over and he shook 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.240 Ron's hand and they didn't make a big deal out 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.359 of it or anything like that, but that's what happened. 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:45.120 So yeah, that jump off the middle rope, I guess 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.680 it was a double compound fracture of his leg. He 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:52.040 like landed on the ground on one leg, legs snapped, 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.639 falls on his back. His leg is just dangling like 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.360 it was so disgusting. Yeah, that's right. 0:18:59.160 --> 0:18:59.440 I was. 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:03.200 There was around when Johnny Ace kept insisting he do it, 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:05.720 and Sid said he didn't want to do it, he 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:08.919 was afraid he would break his leg. And Johnny basically 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:13.639 said quit complaining, it's easy, just do it. And he 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.119 did it and legit broke his leg and was not 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:17.040 happy afterwards. 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:19.119 I remember, like when he broke the leg, it was 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:24.560 like so gruesome, but then the word was it might 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:28.440 not be so bad because it's such a clean break 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:31.480 that I guess like they figured they could just like 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.359 you know, put a put a rod in it or whatever, 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:37.800 and he'd be he'd be back quick. Never the same again. 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:39.880 I mean, he was never the same again. 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:41.800 So he had. 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:45.840 Incredible promos, some of the funniest unintentional comedy ever in 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:52.680 his promos. That line I'm twice the man with half 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:55.680 the brain. He had some he had some preposterous. 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.399 Line everybody knows that I'm twice the man that you are. 0:19:57.440 --> 0:19:59.280 Everybody knows I have half the brain that you do. 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:03.320 Then there's in the ring belly laughing. 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:04.560 Yes, it was incredible. 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:07.159 I think the again, first time I saw Sid was 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:09.760 Great American Bash eighty nine. It was the skyscrapers and 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:12.600 he was so over it was just incredible. But I 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:15.080 think my my standout memory of him is the one 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:19.480 of him on Nitro standing on the crushed car, jumping 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:21.400 up and down, screaming. 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:25.000 Oh yeah, was he screaming somebody's name? 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:27.040 Whoever did Yeah, he crushed his car. 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:31.760 It was something like that. And then I'm pretty sure 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:33.920 didn't he win the WWF title when he hit Jose 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:38.480 Lathario with that camera and then like that like cheered 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:42.480 him like crazy. He killed this old man. It was like, literally, 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.680 it's Sean Michaels versus versus Sid. It's like this always 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:47.879 happened with Sid because Sid had a look and he 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:51.440 had a personality. People loved him and like he came 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:55.120 off as a really likable guy. And so they're doing 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:59.200 this match with Sean Michaels and and uh in Sid. 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:03.639 It was Survivor series and Sid's supposed to be the 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:07.000 heel and Sean is there's the baby face with Jose 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.200 Lothario who's like his trainer and he's like this old man, 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:14.000 and the finish is supposed to be Sid hits Jose 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:16.840 Lathario with the camera and Jse's supposed to sell it 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:19.120 like he's actually having a heart attack, Like Sid killed 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:21.719 this guy. Man. Sid hits this guy with the thing. 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:24.960 They start going crazy for him, they're so happy, and 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:26.639 then of course he ends up winning the title and 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:30.800 they just go nuts. So it was always like this. 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:33.920 He was always He always got over, even when he 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:37.280 was not supposed to. So I'm happy to see Sid 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:40.040 going into the Hall of Fame. I was always ah. 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:44.200 Now he's going in as a legacy candidate, which to 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:46.959 me means no speeches, just a video package. 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:51.560 I guess we'll find out the thing with all of 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:55.359 fame is there are no rules. I mean, they do 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:58.040 whatever they're gonna do. I mean, listen, if we're being honest, 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:04.520 being honest, what are the chances Dennis Rodmin is gonna 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:04.760 make it. 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:10.040 Or stay awake and be coherent. Probably, I don't know 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:11.720 what kind of shape he's in now. He had his 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:12.719 moment back in the day. 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:16.000 Well, the point is, it's a Friday night in Las 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:20.480 Vegas at ten o'clock. I mean, there's a decent chance 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:23.240 they might want to have somebody on hand, a stand 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:26.840 by induction. So we'll see what they do. I hope, 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:29.879 I hope Old Gunner, his son gets to go out 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:37.160 there and do a speech and really let the world 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:40.359 know about sid. All right, what else do we have? 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:40.679 Oh? 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:45.080