WEBVTT - 🎙️✨ Another last match for Ric Flair? 🎙️✨ 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:14.840 H h h h. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:27.040 You're listening to Eyes up Here with ECW's one and 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:30.880 only Queen of Extreme franc only on iHeartRadio. 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:36.400 Hey everybody, it is the Queen of Its Queen, Frank 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:38.680 Tine and you are listening to Eyes. 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.240 Up Here with Frank Pine on the iHeart Being. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.760 Network or where we did the podcast as always, I 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:48.440 am employed, my my co host, Chad and Chad I 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.839 didn't think we were doing a new episode for Thursday, 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:51.400 but we are. 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:56.440 We are on Tuesday. I just pushed it to next week. 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.440 Think you know, we were gonna have a remundy, but 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.560 we decide it to do and do something new. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.959 So it is Thursday. Welcome in everyone to a brand 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.880 new episode of izal Here. How are you feeling today? 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:10.800 I'm loving it? You know how I know it's a 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:11.440 new episode. 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:12.760 I don't know. 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.240 New theme music? Yeah, I love this music. 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.440 Well technically we use this music on Tuesday. 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:20.000 Yeah, but we didn't put it over. 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.319 Oh yeah, what do you think about our new song? 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:25.560 Kind of edgy, greedy. 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.160 I don't even want to fade it out like it. 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:29.400 I like it a lot. 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.160 Yeah, I like the old one, but out with the 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.480 old and with the new, new year. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:38.640 Knew us. Let's go, Let's go. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:41.440 It's like a good pair of underwear. 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:42.440 Good pair of underwear. 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.880 Yeah, and I'm sure everybody watched me last night on 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.280 US Signed by Superstars, and I hit I hit it 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:50.440 out of the park last night. 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.640 I did well, you did rebounded. 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.400 Yes, thank you for everyone who tuned in. And uh, 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.520 you know, hopefully, well, we'll do an other one at 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.520 the end of twenty twenty five. But what do we 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.520 have on the agenda for today, because there's going on. 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.160 Yeah, you know, we've definitely you know, again, we took 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.680 a little break, but we popped in a couple of times, 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.880 and we talked a lot about WWE, But we haven't 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:20.080 really talked about AW at all the last couple of months, 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.080 So I don't know if that's really good, But I 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:26.480 figure maybe we'll kind of shoot the old shizzle on 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:30.440 what's been going on with AW. So these anytime we've 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.560 talked about them, it's only been about the Costco guys, 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:36.080 and I can't necessarily say that that's very good because 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:40.000 they suck. So it's you know, we haven't talked about 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:41.040 the actual company. 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.800 I disagree with that. I think they're way over I 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:48.320 think you're jealous. I think if you had the opportunity 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.280 to do what they're doing, you would jump at it. 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:52.400 But that's just me. 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.320 People have mixed opinions about the Costco guys. I myself 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:59.480 am a big fan of the Rizzler. There's there's no 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.560 one on this earth in the world of professional wrestling 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:04.680 that's cuter than the Little Riz. 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.600 I love them, But I digress. 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.919 Yes about that. Let me tell you how much this 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.640 shit is following me now, these Costco idiots. I have 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.000 people telling me all the time now how much they 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:20.440 love them, And you know, I got to get over it. 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.560 Somebody who listened to our show said, how you finally 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.560 put me in my place as it relates to these douchebags. 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.800 But I put you in your place. Yes, very good, 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:32.240 as you should be. 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.680 It's my show, damn it. I know what I'm talking about. 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.440 These look but Okay, in State of aw we've only 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.480 talked about the Costco guys. But how come one of 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:44.960 the things that I have to talk about is the 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.600 fact that the friggin Costco guys are coming back to AW. 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.080 Well, that's what I had said. The success of that 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.160 last pay per view, was it all out all in. 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.480 I don't even know what it was called. They were 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.200 so over in the state of New Jersey, right, because 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.160 that's where they're from. And we discussed, like, you know, 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.480 are they going to be a trend everywhere else or 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:06.600 is it going to fizzle out? 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:07.200 So? 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.160 Where is this other show going to be broadcast from? 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:11.600 Where are they live from? 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:18.040 This one? Yeah, Revolution twenty twenty five. I don't let 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.840 me see if it says it here. It's not New Jersey, 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:21.200 I know. 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:27.080 That right, right? Is it on the East Coaster? 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:31.000 I don't know. 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.960 I will find out, Okay, anyway, it'll be nice to 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.000 see if they get the same reaction at this show 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.159 depending on where it's located, you know, where it's broadcasting from. 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.280 So I think they will. I think they're pretty over. Now. 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.800 Who is he wrestling on this one? Because it's not QT. 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:50.800 It hasn't been said yet. 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:55.520 Interesting, Okay, well, I'd like to watch that match. I 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:59.120 enjoyed the other one a lot, and you got to 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:03.920 give a qu Marshall credit. He bumped his ass off 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:08.800 for that guy, so they I think the the grouping 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:12.520 made it entertaining. So let's see who he works with 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.880 this time, and if so, will this guy, get him over, 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:17.440 you know what I mean? 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:21.960 Okay, Yeah, it's March ninth in California, LA. 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:27.480 Very interesting. Okay, So are they over on the West coast? 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:29.960 That could be a that could be a very good 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:34.080 question because LA is not a New Jersey that's for them. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:38.640 Sure, sure, so we'll see what happens. But lots of 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.520 different things going on with AW right now. You had 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:43.720 mentioned to me that one of their shows got canceled. 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:48.440 Yeah, yeah, they no longer AW Rampage. 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:50.840 So what night was that? Was that a Wednesday show 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:52.360 or was the Dynamite Wednesday? 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:57.640 Dynamite is the Marquee show. Dynamite is the Wednesday show? 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.200 That one is definitely not going anywhere. That's gonna be 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:05.760 your AW Monday Night Raw. That's going to be you know, 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:10.960 you're nitro, that's going to be a mainstay. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:13.559 So was this the Saturday show? 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:19.120 This was the let me see Wednesday? Yeah, they ended 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.279 on the twenty seventh, So this was the was it 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:25.000 the Saturday or the Friday? Say I get confused with 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:26.760 these two. The twenty seven was the Friday show. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:31.000 Friday show? Yep, So they still have Wednesdays and Saturdays 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:31.560 that they're. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.080 On yep, so they also have the Saturday show as well. 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:38.200 Was the cancelation due to poor ratings or was it 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:39.200 budget cost. 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.359 So that one. You know, I'm unsure on that, but 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.400 I'm gonna say the ratings probably had a really big 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:45.839 part of it. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.560 So okay, so we can check and see why it 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:50.840 was canceled. 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.919 During the twenty twenty During the December twenty second, twenty 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:01.280 twenty four tapings, Tony Cown announced that's the twenty seventh episode, 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.320 which was the New Year's Smash Special, would be the 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.560 final episode of Rampage for the foreseeable future, as the 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.880 program was not included in aw's media rights deal with 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.280 Warner Brothers Discovery that takes effect on January first, So 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.040 they're using the it's not coming over with the rest 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.000 of the package as the scapegoat. But these the show 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:24.320 did nothing in the ratings after them Punk debuted, This 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.840 show was barely the show was barely getting watched for 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.560 like a commercial would on a primetime show on network TV. 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.560 So wasn't these these were horrid for Punk? 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.000 Yeah, like an extra show? 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.040 No, that was the Saturday show. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:40.840 That was Saturday. 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:44.240 Oh okay, but the Saturday show is doing better rating 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:45.520 wise than the Friday show. 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:46.640 Yeah, slightly. 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.440 Friday nights are not a good night for wrestling. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:51.120 No, I'm sorry. 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.160 We were on Friday nights and we did not draw 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.560 and we had a good show. So I don't know. 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.480 Friday is a propitnight for our wrestling program. 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.480 But you know, you put your ratings up against their ratings, 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:08.680 you guys, uh yeah. 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.640 Yeah, how are they drawing on a Friday? 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:12.560 They do really well, do they? 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:13.040 Yeah? 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.920 Back in the day, we didn't draw well on Friday nights, 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.880 but like our Tuesday show did great, Our syndicated show 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:20.360 did great. 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:24.280 I don't know. It's such a weird dynamic wrestling, you know. 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:25.960 I don't know. 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.520 And and plus had to head competition kind of hurts 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.120 you too. I think you have to pick and choose 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:31.720 your spots. 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.240 So do they really need a third show? 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:39.960 Probably not no, But their roster is so large, yes, 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.400 so you know when you have when you do have 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.560 a third show, unless you're pushing the same talent over 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.959 and over again, it kind of like helps get some 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.600 of the lesser known workers. 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.880 Some TV time. So in that aspect, I'm all for it. 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.800 But if the ratings were horrible, then it's it's just 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.679 a waste of money, right, But. 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.960 It's really like their fourth show because they also have 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.800 a Ring of Honor. So so where does that AC 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:07.480 that's online? 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:09.920 Well that doesn't roll. Yeah, I'm talking about that. 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.600 But it's still it's like it's another spot for them 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:16.800 to ye have their their roster spread. But you know, 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:21.160 the technically had four shows in production, and you know, 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.960 I'm sure Lee some people may be relieved that that 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.280 show is gone, but you know, maybe some of the 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.680 enhancement guys that were getting booked on there might not 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.200 be happy about it too, because the little spot for 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.000 guys to get a little bit of work when they 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:35.600 use them there. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:43.320 Well, I I read something industry interesting about ae W 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:44.680 the nature boy. 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.560 Rick Flair was supposed to make a cameo and got 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.000 pulled and was replaced by the Rock and Roll Express. 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.400 Yeah, so I thought that was weird too. When I 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.480 saw the Rock and Roll Express. Yeah, when they I 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.400 heard it was them popping up, I was like, it's 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:04.120 very interesting group to promote on the level they're promoting them, 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.520 But I did not know it was Flair. Interesting. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:08.800 It was supposed to be Rick Flair, and I wonder 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:12.600 why they pulled him. And then I see all over 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:19.400 social media Rick Flair wants another match, and even Conrad Thompson, 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.439 who's his son in law, put like this gift up 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.120 of a man shaking his head. 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:29.600 No, Everybody's like no, no, no. I think it's more 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:36.120 so just for health reasons, you know, because when did 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.880 he do his last match? At least two years ago 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:39.200 if not? 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:45.160 Yeah, okay, and he was barely breathing towards the end 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.600 of that match, like and you know, now he's two 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:52.120 three years older and he wants one more match. 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:53.880 Is he going to gig all over the place and 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:54.480 pass out? 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.760 Like? What is the probably like the last time he 0:10:58.160 --> 0:10:59.680 remember he blacked out. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.160 Why why do you want to put your body through 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.520 that again just to draw money. 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.560 I'm sure Flair is very well off at this point. 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.720 He uh, well. While we were on our break, he 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.560 had a very public fight with former Ring of Honor 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:20.040 owner Carrie Silkin over a twenty year feud over money. 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:23.400 But I'm sure he still does very well with his 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:24.080 his deals. 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.280 But he owed them money. 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:33.240 He owed carry Silkin forty grand I believe it was, 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.480 And then Flair claimed that it's not that he owed 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:43.080 them forty grand. It's that they cost him millions, So 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:44.400 it was a stupid fight. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.840 Was it because he took a deposit and didn't show 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:48.560 up or something? 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:54.880 Oh but Flair's claim is that, well, they cost him 0:11:54.920 --> 0:12:00.319 millions of dollars, so ignore the forty grand. If he 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.640 lose millions because he could have done other business. I 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.240 guess I don't know. This is because of that. You know, 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.880 it's so stupid, it's so old. It's so old. It's 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.800 a twenty plus year old argument that they're having and. 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.880 Coming to fruition in twenty twenty five. 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:22.280 Yeah, kids are commenting on it that weren't alive. They're 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.840 commenting on in social media. You know, their take on 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:26.360 the matter. 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:30.000 It's a come on, Well yeah, I don't know. Do 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.240 fans really want to see Rick Flair wrestle. 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:35.560 In twenty twenty five. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.400 I think it's cool that he pops up places because 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.760 he's Rick Flair and he's he's still will always be over. 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.480 I mean, really, all he has to do is stand there. 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.320 In WU and he's over. He doesn't even have to 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.680 bump or talk. It just hasn't let out a big WU, 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.920 and everybody's like, man, he's the man, that's Rick Flair. 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:58.439 Why does he have to wrestle? 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:01.120 I mean, you know, you tell me. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:03.079 I can't tell you because I don't know. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.600 Is that the you know, you've been in the in 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:09.120 the back thousands of times. Some of the guys that's 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:10.880 in their blood right, they just can't let it go. 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:11.320 Yeah? 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.679 Is it that addiction that they got to get that adulation? 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.840 They have to be involved in the business? Like what 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:18.840 what is it? 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.560 It comes to a point where you have to listen 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:28.920 to your body. Yeah, And you know, like he's he's 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.280 goin of being close to eighty years old. 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.800 Isn't he He's I think he's seventy four. 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.920 I want to say, oh, well, I mean he's getting there. 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.679 That's close to eighty. That's close enough to eighteen. 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:45.960 I mean it's getting there. So why on earth are 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:47.040 you going to five? 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.320 He's seventy five years old and God bless them, you know, 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.320 still looks good for his age, still moving around. 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.080 But why put your body through that if you don't 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.920 have to. I just don't understand it. 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.800 I talked to some of the guys that I worked with, 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:07.760 and they're ready to like just hang it up, and 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:11.400 they're like sixty they're not seventy five, you know what 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:11.760 I mean? 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.719 Yeah, I don't know, he could just be do you know. 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.880 Like I gotta say, Hulk Hogan has done it the 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.640 right way as it relates to like protecting the Hulk 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:26.560 Hogan character right in the Hulk Hogan legacy. He hasn't 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.440 come out of retirement, you know, one hundred times he 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.720 I think he has last match in maybe twenty eleven 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.160 or twenty twelve or something like that. But you know, 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.080 he gives the right rubs to certain guys. He'll come out, 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.160 do an interview and he'll put a guy over and 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.480 that's it. He's not involved in storylines. He's not out 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.920 there trying to have another match. Like Hulk Hogan does 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:50.200 it right, and he gets so much shit because of 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.800 his past indiscretions that he's not used nearly as much 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:54.920 as he probably could have. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.480 Yeah, I would like to see Ric Flair come out 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:03.440 as a manager, a mouthpiece some somewhere where he doesn't 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.920 have to get physical, because at this point it's just 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:07.960 like elder abuse. 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:09.960 Yeah, that's a great point. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:15.360 I just don't understand getting younger talent beating up on 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:16.040 an old man. 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:19.680 I don't I don't know. I don't think it's it's 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.160 sells I. 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.680 Personally, as a fan, I don't want to say it. 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:28.080 You know, I feel like he still has a lot 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.240 to give to the business. He could be a good 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.400 backstage agent if he wanted to be, and if he 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.320 needs to be on camera, he could be used in 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:37.440 a million different ways. 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.080 But there's no last match. Don't do it. I don't 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:41.840 I don't think so. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.360 You did it already, yeah, and it was bad. 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.880 Well again, I mean, you know, some people liked it, 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:52.600 some people hated it, but his health is what's most important. 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.000 And I just feel like, you know, you want to 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.800 be on camera, that's fine, but find something to do 0:15:58.880 --> 0:15:59.800 that protects you. 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:02.800 And don't put. 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:07.960 Yourself out there just to be humiliated, because ain't nobody 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:08.840 got time for that. 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.480 No, No, I think that. 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:12.120 Would be. 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:25.760 The oh oh, I I'm literally I'm wondering what you're saying. 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:27.600 So that would be the same. 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:33.320 Yes, that is to say, what segment of this week 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:34.880 or broadcast? 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:36.440 Yeah, I'm like, wait for I thought you were gonna 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:38.200 drop me on some like poignant queens. 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.360 I'm trying to give you a subtle hit. I'm going 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.560 like this push the button. You're looking at me like 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.280 I'm insane. We're gonna work on a gang, We're gonna 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.840 get it together. But yeah, that is to say what 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.880 segment in my opinion of this week, So. 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.920 Oh yeah, I mean because again we did this two 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.000 years ago. We watched the match. It's not good. It's 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.920 just it's like, you know when you see it, pass 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.320 out a pull of his own blood, and he's like, 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.960 he's a great he's still great at selling at seventy 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.240 two years old. It's like, no, he's passed out in 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:08.399 a pool of his own blood. 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:10.520 That's not called selling. That's called dying. 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:17.200 Sorry, called blood transfusion. Backstage. Yeah, that's called you clear, 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:18.480 Oh my god. 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.840 And he doesn't need to do it. He doesn't need 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:27.400 to reinvent himself or reawaken his career. He's Rick Flair. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.840 No one else on this planet is Rick Flair but 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:36.320 Rick Flair. Okay, so he does not need to resurrect 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.280 his career. He's fine, just do other. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:44.600 Stuff, but don't don't have a match. It's just my opinion. 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:46.320 Let me ask you this. You think he saw the 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:50.600 footage of Dori Funk doing the death match from over 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:51.560 the Summer and he was. 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.720 Like, shit, I'm gonna one up him. 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.840 I gotta do that, because remember when that happened, we 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.159 didn't really talk about it on the air, but that 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:03.080 was that was a scary, scary proposition. 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:07.760 Well now, listen, I didn't see it, but everything I 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.040 read about that match said that they protected him one 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:16.359 hundred percent. So he must be a hell of a 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.520 worker if he fooled you, because every single person said 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.200 that he was one hundred percent protected. 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.639 Again, I didn't see it, so I don't know. I 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:25.600 don't know what the match is. 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.000 Putting him on the plane and sending him to Japan 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:32.000 and making him go through that that's the death match part. 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:35.280 Well again, why do these old timers need to do 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.359 this stuff? They don't. 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.919 I'd rather remember Flair for what he brought to the 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:45.240 table in his prime, you know. And then and then 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:48.120 you see something like what he did two years ago, 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.440 and it kind of like, I don't want to say, 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.040 tarnishes it, but it makes you look at him and 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.480 feel bad for him, right because then you say, oh 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:58.639 my god, he used to be so good. Well, yeah, 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.520 he was in his prime, and now he's just an 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:05.600 older man trying to live like a young man in 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:10.000 the ring, and he just doesn't have it anymore. 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:15.680 So what's the point? You know? They say you're only 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:17.240 as good as your last match, and. 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:22.240 If your last match is shit, I mean really like, 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:26.159 I want to remember you being cool and the legend 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:26.720 that you are. 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:28.639 Mister Flair. 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:33.480 Well, I was never a Flair fan, so that last 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:35.159 match was just how I remembered him before. 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:42.719 Wow. Okay, on that note, do we have anything coming up? 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:43.959 We don't have anything coming up. 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:46.320 We have a very well I'm gonna put it over 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:50.479 again this Tuesday coming up. We have a really really 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:55.160 fun interview and again it's a person that I've never 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:57.520 had on the show that I think you're gonna love. 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.520 So please tune in Tuesday. All new episode of IZ 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:05.480 appear with Francine. Tell your friends get ready for it. It 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:09.080 drops at three to zero one am one Tuesday morning. 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:12.760 Listen to it when you go into work, or on 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:15.160 your lunch break, or whenever you get a free moment, 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:15.800 because it's. 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:17.680 Going to be no sneak it at work. 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:19.919 Sneak it at work. I don't want them to get fired. 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.760 This is probably going to go an hour. I could 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:26.160 talk to him for twenty hours, but This will probably 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:28.120 be a long one. This will probably be an hour, 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.960 so just set some time aside. But it's going to 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:32.639 be a good one. 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:34.280 So there you go. 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.080 And if you're not following me on the iHeartRadio app, 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:37.719 please do so. 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:38.240 If you're not. 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:42.119 Subscribed on Spotify or Apple, push that subscribe button. And 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.080