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Speaker 1: It's time to play the game. Time to play the game.

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Speaker 1: Sha't bet in my vein all of this came out

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Speaker 1: my love going you crazy in the stadiums.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of The Roommate Show, presented

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Speaker 2: by Bett three six five, where the vibes are always

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Speaker 2: a mac lator, a playmaker original. Obviously we have mister Captain,

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Speaker 2: Captain Jaylen Brunson, we got Maddie Ice over here, and

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Speaker 2: then we have a ooh me. Today we have one

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Speaker 2: of the greatest pro wrestlers of all time. He clasped

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Speaker 2: with ring legends like Dwayne the Rock, Johnson Stone Coast,

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Speaker 2: Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, and John Cena. This

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Speaker 2: fourteen World Champion has headlined WrestleMania on several occasions, captured

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Speaker 2: almost every major WWE championship, the King of the Ring

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Speaker 2: him Oh, the King of the Ring Crown, and two

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Speaker 2: Royal Rumble victories. Now is WWE Chief Content Damn. I

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Speaker 2: was doing I was doing it a lot. I was doing.

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Speaker 3: This is a good good intro makes me sound important.

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Speaker 3: I like it. Now.

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Speaker 2: As WWE Chief Content Officer, he looks to keep the

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Speaker 2: company at the forefront of all sports entertainment.

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Speaker 4: It is time.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's the time to play the game. I mean

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Speaker 2: introduced today's guest aka Triple A. This is one of

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Speaker 2: my better intro bro. It was they have eighteen points, bro.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and yet this thing is still skyrocket. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: Congratulations I got.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to like make sure he sounds good. I'm

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Speaker 2: trying to read everything. I'm trying to look at the camera.

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Speaker 2: Introduce you guys. There's a lot of my play to

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Speaker 2: start a podcast.

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Speaker 3: How you doing, I'm great man. How are you?

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Speaker 4: A pleasure to have you? This is this is a

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Speaker 4: pleasure to be here. Dream come true, Dream come true

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Speaker 4: for me. I've been big fan since I was like

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Speaker 4: eight years old, eight and nine years old. And where'd

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Speaker 4: you grow up? I grew up in everywhere. I grew

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Speaker 4: up in New Jersey. I was born in New Jersey.

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Speaker 4: I lived there for most of my childhood. In South Jersey.

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Speaker 4: I went to Virginia for a couple of years. My

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Speaker 4: dad was coaching in Virginia. I went to suburbs of

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Speaker 4: Chicago for high school, and then family relocated back east

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Speaker 4: when I went to college. And yeah, we're back back

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Speaker 4: in Jersey.

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Speaker 5: That's cool. So were you watching everywhere you went? You

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Speaker 5: just kind of stayed with.

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Speaker 4: W Yeah, I took it once I got the high

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Speaker 4: school though, high school basketball started, like you know, it

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Speaker 4: takes over your whole life.

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Speaker 6: But did you play the video games?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I did. I did play game.

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Speaker 5: It's funny for a certain generation, like I feel like

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Speaker 5: the video games are the dr right, Like you sort

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Speaker 5: of hang out with some kids, next thing you know,

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Speaker 5: you're playing WWE video games and then you start watching

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Speaker 5: the show and then you're hooked.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's kind of the end point.

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Speaker 4: Now, that's little how it started to play the game.

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Speaker 4: I watched the Summer Slam one time and then all

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like you're playing the game. I forget what

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Speaker 6: the terminology, but like the meter starts to go, like

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Speaker 2: So I got a question, how does it feel? I

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Speaker 2: want to say single handedly because it was two of you,

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Speaker 2: but speaking of one of the kids that got in trouble,

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Speaker 2: how does it feel, you know, knowing the fact that

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Speaker 4: Phone calls home.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because that was one of the kids I got

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Speaker 3: Yeah all the time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what, we were just talking about this yesterday.

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Speaker 5: I was at, you know, we're moving to Netflix on

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Speaker 5: like high level media people came to me and we're like, man,

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Speaker 5: We were doing our thing, and you know, everybody would

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Speaker 5: like everybody was saying, like, you see the game last night,

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Speaker 5: so and so scored a touchdown, did the crouch job?

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Speaker 5: You see this? You know the other day somebody at

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Speaker 3: Whatever.

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Speaker 5: Like it was happening so much and it was so crazy.

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Speaker 5: It was hard to digest how impactful it was. Looking

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Speaker 6: That was with no social media really at the time, right, nothing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it like now it would be yeah, it felt.

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Speaker 5: Like at the time looking back at it now, it

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Speaker 5: There was no internet then, it was just water cooler.

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Speaker 5: It was kids talking at school, it was kids talking

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Speaker 4: I remember one episode off I remember, but I remember

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Speaker 4: seeing it when apparently the network was like coming down

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Speaker 4: You guys got chill, and they gave you like a letter. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and you guys brought it on TV and read the letter.

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Speaker 3: That was legit.

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Speaker 5: So when we very first started doing it, did.

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Speaker 3: He X stuff.

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Speaker 5: There was a lot of stuff we would do every

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Speaker 4: Doing a job by telling you to stop.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't want to get in trouble here, but

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Speaker 5: like the no means no version of right, and the

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Speaker 5: then finally they sent us this letter, like USA sent

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Speaker 5: not allowed. They're no longer this has gone far enough,

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Speaker 5: like no longer allowed to save these words. They can

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Speaker 5: say these words from you know, eight to nine, then

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Speaker 5: can't say these words, and they can't mention their genitalia

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Speaker 5: And we were like, can we use this make a

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Speaker 5: like there's just like this list of swears that we

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Speaker 3: So we did it.

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Speaker 5: And the big thing in that moment was the Clinton

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Speaker 3: So like, how do we want to do it.

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Speaker 5: Let's do a like a presidential address and we'll do

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Speaker 5: have to fire you, like if you keep doing it,

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Speaker 5: like I'm gonna have to fire you. And we were

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Speaker 4: You know, that's crazy.

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Speaker 6: I know you guys are about to start a new

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Speaker 6: it's so authentic, it's so important that it remains true.

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Speaker 6: Are you do you feel like you're at the point

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Speaker 6: now where those conversations are past or our networks still

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Speaker 6: Like how have those conversations been.

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Speaker 5: I think the world has slightly changed, and like there's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I got Indie Troy, I got the I

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Speaker 6: Cool, and then I mean, I know your answer to this.

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Speaker 4: I'm a hater, so I'm going Steelers.

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Speaker 4: Ah, I think they Eagles.

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Speaker 6: We got Commanders at Saints.

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Speaker 2: I got Commanders, but New Orleans is a tough place

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Speaker 6: We got another good NFC matchup, Packers is at Seahawks.

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Speaker 6: to the business from behind the scenes. Has that has

437
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:40,800
Speaker 6: it scratched that it's for you?

438
00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:42,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's why you know.

439
00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:45,320
Speaker 5: I was sort of at a point in my career

440
00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:47,879
Speaker 5: a few years ago, like I had a health issue

441
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:48,640
Speaker 5: with my heart.

442
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:50,080
Speaker 3: It's all good now.

443
00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,760
Speaker 5: But when it happened, I was kind of already at

444
00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:57,439
Speaker 5: a place in my career where ironically they'd come to

445
00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:00,359
Speaker 5: me to wrestle that year at WrestleMania, like, hey, it's

446
00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 5: two nights, it's Dallas, like I need you to need

447
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,600
Speaker 5: you to wrestle, And I had told its like I

448
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:08,639
Speaker 5: don't want to do it, and he was like, no,

449
00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:10,520
Speaker 5: come on, I need you to do it. Tell me

450
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:12,080
Speaker 5: who you want to work with. It can be anybody,

451
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,600
Speaker 5: I don't care, can be anybody you tell me who

452
00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:17,000
Speaker 5: you want to work with, will make the story. It'll

453
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,159
Speaker 5: be great. And I was like, let me think about it,

454
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,879
Speaker 5: but I don't. I'm not really into doing it. I

455
00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,160
Speaker 5: was kind of at peace with I should be at

456
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:26,679
Speaker 5: the end getting old. Didn't feel like I could deliver

457
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,679
Speaker 5: the way that I wanted to deliver. And also, for me,

458
00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:31,880
Speaker 5: I was so busy on all the other stuff behind

459
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,480
Speaker 5: the scenes that it was like, you know, trying to

460
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 5: have a a twenty four hour day day job, and

461
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,280
Speaker 5: then also on the side of that, like, oh, I

462
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,200
Speaker 5: got to train twice a day, I got to think

463
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,960
Speaker 5: about this match. It was just too much. I didn't

464
00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:47,880
Speaker 5: want to do it. So when my health thing hit

465
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 5: and you know, I knew, okay, like I can never

466
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,199
Speaker 5: do this again, it didn't really didn't really bother me

467
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,440
Speaker 5: that much because I was already on the other side

468
00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,679
Speaker 5: of it and I'm so deep in the stuff with

469
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 5: our talent and creating the product. That for me been

470
00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 5: the difference between do you have kids, you know, four

471
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,159
Speaker 5: month old, Oh, congrats, man, that's awesome. That's awesome, but

472
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:15,040
Speaker 5: so and a twenty nine year old. Twenty nine year old, Wow,

473
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:24,159
Speaker 5: it's a good distance. Yeah, yeah, yeah, good distance. Congrats. Yeah,

474
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 5: everybody's got a kid like that that hangs with it.

475
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,000
Speaker 3: Yeah. You really feel like you're the adult.

476
00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:29,760
Speaker 4: We bring the fun.

477
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, who you do, he's the adult. Yeah. You know.

478
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 5: For me, it's sort of like if you were to

479
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:41,639
Speaker 5: fast forward twenty years and you're coaching, and you're coaching

480
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,919
Speaker 5: your kid and you're watching them win championships and playing

481
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 5: games and just be this ultra successful. That's what it's

482
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,679
Speaker 5: like for me now. Like my career was great. I

483
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,119
Speaker 5: really enjoyed it. I loved every second of it. I

484
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 5: wouldn't change a minute of it. Loved every bit of

485
00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:59,200
Speaker 5: it that I did. But I don't know that I

486
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 5: almost don't joy what I do now more. It's like

487
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,880
Speaker 5: watching my kids because you're so invested in these kids,

488
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,640
Speaker 5: and then when you see like somebody come up out

489
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,360
Speaker 5: of our developmental system and then succeed on raw where

490
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,879
Speaker 5: they get their first shot at WrestleMania and they're you know,

491
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,439
Speaker 5: I don't know, it's just there's a it's a different feeling,

492
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 5: but it's just as gratifying, if not more so.

493
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,879
Speaker 2: You know, when you're off, so when you're in your

494
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 2: prim you work with these guys, what is like the training, Like,

495
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 2: I'm so curious to see, Like how do y'all get

496
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 2: after it?

497
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 3: It's a lot.

498
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,160
Speaker 5: So we have a performance center in Orlando, Florida, and

499
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:39,199
Speaker 5: we have about what once NIL hit with colleges, we

500
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 5: can really change how we recruited, So we recruit a

501
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 5: lot out of college straight out. We have ANIL program.

502
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 5: We have kids that aren't in an al that are

503
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:53,200
Speaker 5: just coming through, so they're all, you know, whatever level

504
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 5: D one, D two, D three, whatever level college athletes

505
00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 5: for the most part, and we have about one hundred

506
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 5: two hundred and twenty at any given time in Orlando

507
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 5: training and that's the talent that ends up in NXT

508
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,239
Speaker 5: first and then eventually comes up the line. And so

509
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,960
Speaker 5: probably eighty to ninety, like ninety percent of our roster

510
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 5: now existing came through that performance center and that system.

511
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,120
Speaker 5: But you know, we have like seven rings in their

512
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,239
Speaker 5: strength and conditioning just like any college level D one

513
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,600
Speaker 5: program would have, and they get after it every day

514
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 5: and they're just in there hitting the ropes, bumping train

515
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 5: and learning. You know, you can teach if somebody's really

516
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,440
Speaker 5: physically coordinated and has watched this, like you could kind

517
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,399
Speaker 5: of teach a lot of the moves and the concepts

518
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:48,880
Speaker 5: of the moves and stuff in a reasonable amount of time.

519
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 5: It's crowd psychology. It's why do you do things when

520
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,360
Speaker 5: you do them? Why does the bad guy do this

521
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,719
Speaker 5: at this time to get the good guy this reaction?

522
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,880
Speaker 5: Why does a good guy do this at this time too?

523
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 5: Right Like, those are the things that take a lot

524
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,239
Speaker 5: of time to learn, and it's really just repetition of

525
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 5: doing it. So you can do drills and shoot shots

526
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 5: and do all that stuff all day long. Then you

527
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 5: get on a court and put other people out there

528
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 5: and their movements and your movements and everybody's psychology, right Like,

529
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,160
Speaker 5: it's it's a that's different. Playing the game is different

530
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 5: than doing at versal, So it's or in practice. So

531
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:32,119
Speaker 5: just those reps are important. When we have celebrities come

532
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 5: in and do it, it depends, it depends on how much

533
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:39,600
Speaker 5: they're going to do so during the pandemic, you know,

534
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 5: Bad Bunny is like a huge fan and for the

535
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 5: first time in forever he wasn't touring, and he wasn't

536
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 5: he's had some downtime and we talked and he's like, man,

537
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:54,399
Speaker 5: like dream come true. If I could do something with

538
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 5: you guys. We came up with a plan. He wanted

539
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,640
Speaker 5: to do it, and he went and rented a house

540
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 5: in Orlando, and like at that time, I was at

541
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 5: the performance center of like probably three or four days

542
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 5: a week in Orlando, and every day I'd walk in there,

543
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 5: he'd be there. I'd walk in. They'd say, bunnies here,

544
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 5: if you want to say hello, I'd go in there.

545
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,919
Speaker 5: We had like a one ring off place can be

546
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 5: insane with one hundred twent training in there sometimes, so

547
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,160
Speaker 5: he'd be in the other room. We'd have a couple

548
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:23,919
Speaker 5: of guys in there. He'd be in there training with him.

549
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,959
Speaker 5: He'd be he'd be all beat up and you know,

550
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 5: like we're have pads all over him because he was

551
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 5: killing himself. But he'd be in there every day because

552
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,679
Speaker 5: he wanted it to be good. And came in and

553
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 5: did something with us at WrestleMania and like absolutely crushed it.

554
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 5: And he's come back a couple more times. And last

555
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 5: year and or last year the year before in Puerto Rico,

556
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,919
Speaker 5: he did a big match with us with Damian Priest

557
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 5: in Puerto Rico and like unbelievable performance. But he'd be

558
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 5: dedicated himself to it and put in the time and

559
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 5: the effort. So it's not easy to do. It takes

560
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 5: a lot of work.

561
00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 7: But you know you were in there that the rings hard, dude,

562
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 7: the ropes are hard. Like it's it's a lot of work. Yeah,

563
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 7: it's I can't even put in the words. It's something

564
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 7: that like you understand why people train so hard. It's

565
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 7: it's ridiculous. It's something that I can't, like I said,

566
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 7: I can't put in words.

567
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,680
Speaker 5: At the performance center where you know, we bring a

568
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,959
Speaker 5: lot of people in there, they come to see it.

569
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 5: So whether executives that we have deals with or or celebrities,

570
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 5: everybody says the same thing when they walk in the door,

571
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 5: like the two things, well, let's say it's three things.

572
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 5: They'll say, while they'll hit the ring and say that's

573
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 5: a lot harder than I thought it was. Then they'll

574
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 5: feel the stairs that you go up to get into

575
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 5: the ring that like we'll pick up and hit each

576
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 5: other with and stuff, and they hit the stairs and

577
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 5: they're like, well shit, these things are hard and like

578
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 5: real steel, like you know, like people always say like

579
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 5: I thought they were like aluminum foil or something like,

580
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 5: you know, which is ridiculous, but you feel like it's not.

581
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 3: But you know, they probably weigh.

582
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 5: Seventy five pounds or something like that at the top end,

583
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 5: and they're heavy and they're hard.

584
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 3: They hurt when they hit.

585
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 5: And then the other thing they'll say as soon as

586
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 5: they get in the ring is they they'll try to

587
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 5: go like they're going to hit the ropes once and

588
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 5: they'll immediately be like, oh my god, those things are hard.

589
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 5: They think they're like bungee cords, you know that just

590
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 5: kind of like you hit the spring and it shoots

591
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 5: you back in the middle of the ring, and it's not.

592
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 5: It's you know, our ring is just four posts and there's.

593
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 3: A rope.

594
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 5: It's like literally just a rope that connects that goes

595
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 5: all the way around to all four posts and then

596
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 5: that's what holds the ring together. Right, So it's just

597
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 5: a tight rope, three of them. And they're like, this

598
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 5: sounds silly, but they're covered with duct tape, Like you

599
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 5: know what I mean. It sounds ridiculous, but like duct

600
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 5: tape is tacky and it has some stick to it, right,

601
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 5: so they're not slick, and so it's the best thing

602
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 5: to cover them with. So it's just ropes covered with

603
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,479
Speaker 5: duct tape. So when you hit them, it's like, you know,

604
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 5: like people that come to train with us the first time,

605
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 5: they'll hit the ropes two or three times, and the

606
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 5: next day they'll come in and their ribs are like

607
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 5: black and blue and their hip is black and blue,

608
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 5: and they're like Jesus, like the ropes killed me. And

609
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 5: it's it. You get used to it. Your body builds

610
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 5: up a catalyus to it, and you don't notice it anymore.

611
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 5: But like it's a lot harder than you know, the

612
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 5: physicality part of it is a lot harder.

613
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 2: This segment is brought to you by Macy's Mode of

614
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 2: One with a style as simple yet bold. In business

615
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 2: and in wrestling, Fortune favors the bold. What are three

616
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 2: bold moves, risks or gambles that you took as a

617
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 2: performer or an executive that's paid off for you in

618
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 2: a big way.

619
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 5: Oh wow, Yeah, it definitely does. If you're just going

620
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 5: to be a person in our business, no different than

621
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 5: anything else that just sits back and waits for the

622
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 5: opportunity to drop in your lab it ain't gonna happen,

623
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 5: you know. So you know, at a at a moment

624
00:30:52,160 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 5: in time when it's a famous story and our business

625
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 5: of a moment in time called the Montreal Screwjob, where

626
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 5: you know, they they flipped the finish of a match

627
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 5: on Brett Hart. But there was a moment when we

628
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 5: were all on the phone together and Vince had come

629
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 5: to us and said, Brett's not gonna he's not resigning

630
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 5: and he won't drop the title to Sean and Survivor

631
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 5: series was booked. We were maybe a week out or

632
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 5: something like that. It was close, and the conversation was basically,

633
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 5: here's what he's willing to do and it's gonna kill business.

634
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 5: And there was just a silence, and you know, nobody

635
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:41,959
Speaker 5: knew what to say, and I was the one, like

636
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 5: I was I was probably the least important person on

637
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 5: the totem pole at that time, but I was like,

638
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 5: I gotta say it, and I was like fuck that, Like,

639
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,479
Speaker 5: if he won't do business, do it for him. And

640
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 5: that started a conversation that led to the Montreal Screwjob.

641
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 5: So it was that's kind of like a bold move.

642
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 5: I guess that paid off. The other would be a

643
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 5: certain point in time where right in the middle of

644
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 5: the Attitude era, the guy that was writing the shows

645
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 5: with Vince McMahon left and took his team with him

646
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 5: and signed with WCW right in the middle of the

647
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 5: Monday night Wars, so Vince was left to write the

648
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 5: shows by himself, which is really difficult task. I was

649
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 5: still young, but I had had I knew creatively, Vince

650
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 5: and I got along and I knew creatively we kind

651
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 5: of worked well together, and I debated doing it, but

652
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,719
Speaker 5: I went to him before we left TV that day

653
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 5: and I said, Hey, I'm going home for a few days.

654
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 5: I got a couple of days off. Can't be easy

655
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 5: to write these shows on your own with nobody to

656
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 5: bounce information off of. I'm home if you need it,

657
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 5: and I know you probably won't call, but I just

658
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 5: wanted to say that to you. And I left. This

659
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 5: is way before Stephanie. This is like, he's just my boss.

660
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 5: And after I left, I remember driving in the car

661
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 5: thinking myself, what an idiot saying that to him. He

662
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 5: was probably like this kid could help me, Like what

663
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 5: a war on?

664
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Speaker 3: You know what I mean? And I was like, fact,

665
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 3: should have said that. Anyway, I went home next day,

666
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 3: my phone rang. He's like, hey, Vince, and I was like, Oh,

667
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 3: how's it going.

668
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 5: I thought halfway thought he was gonna be like, what

669
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 5: are you thinking telling me he'll help me or whatever,

670
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 5: and he was like, write in TV you got a

671
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:22,719
Speaker 5: couple of minutes, and I was like yeah, And we

672
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 5: started talking creative on the phone, and then that led

673
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 5: to him down the line saying, hey, why don't you

674
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 5: start coming to production meetings? And you know, it wasn't

675
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 5: I wasn't getting paid to do it. I wasn't anything else.

676
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 5: I'd have to get there four hours earlier than everybody else.

677
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 5: And I was like, all right, I like that side

678
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:42,479
Speaker 5: of the business. So decision like that of just taking

679
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 5: that gamble sort of I'm kind of sitting here today,

680
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 5: you know, as the chief content officer running the creative

681
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 5: because I made that. I asked, I made that offer.

682
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 5: If I hadn't, I don't know. We you know, I

683
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 5: suppose maybe over time we would have had a creative relationship.

684
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 5: But that's sort of started our creative relationship at a

685
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 5: time when he needed it and I was fascinated by it,

686
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 5: and we started working together and it just kept going

687
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 5: from there.

688
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692
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693
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694
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696
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703
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704
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705
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706
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707
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Speaker 2: I would that Motive One into the game and we

709
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Speaker 2: got the dove.

710
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711
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712
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713
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714
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Speaker 2: Motive one is a brand design for those who view

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Speaker 6: How has the rise of social media and us now

719
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,800
Speaker 6: being in a social first era? How has that changed

720
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 6: how you build the product, whether it's talent, creative, etc.

721
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 5: So I think the biggest challenge and the biggest benefit

722
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 5: to it is it's twenty four to seven. As a product,

723
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:35,359
Speaker 5: we almost never really go off the air because there's

724
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 5: always somebody talking about what you do. People are smart

725
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 5: enough in today's world because of the Internet, Like they

726
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 5: know what our business is and they know how it works. Right,

727
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 5: You don't every now and then you'll still get somebody going,

728
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 5: is that real? You know what I mean? But you

729
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 5: really don't. Like people know what it is and they

730
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 5: can read about it on the internet. They can see it,

731
00:35:56,239 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 5: and the gossip of what's going on behind the scene,

732
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 5: it is almost as big and no different than you guys, right.

733
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 5: I would imagine the gossip of what's happening on the

734
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 5: team and this person's arguing with that person, and this

735
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 5: person wants to get traded and this person doesn't, you

736
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 5: know what I mean, Like, I would imagine that's as

737
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 5: big of a chatter as the game itself. It's the

738
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 5: same in our business. Everybody almost kind of has like

739
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 5: a few different lives as a performer. You have the

740
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 5: in ring storyline that you do, and you have the

741
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 5: kind of politics of backstage and what they believe is

742
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 5: going on, which they have created this unbelievable world in

743
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 5: their minds of the political game that happens backstage, and

744
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 5: then they have their real lives of like, oh, this

745
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 5: guy's a dad, he's got two kids, he's got a wife.

746
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 5: His wife does this like and they're fascinated by all

747
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,399
Speaker 5: three components of that. So they talk about us a lot.

748
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,840
Speaker 5: It sort of helps the business is constantly being talked about.

749
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 5: So you know, we have a billion social media followers

750
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 5: with a number one sports channel on YouTube. We are

751
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 5: Chris what number are we now on social for? Like

752
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 5: YouTube for overall channel top ten in the world. So

753
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 5: like the stuff that beats us as like Bollywood channels,

754
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. The social presence is unbelievable.

755
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 5: If you watch it a Monday night or a Friday night,

756
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 5: it's usually the number one trend unless something happened in

757
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 5: the world or you know, something incredible happens on a

758
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:29,240
Speaker 5: football game or whatever that might shift it for a minute,

759
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 5: but it's always it's always trending one or two. You know,

760
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 5: sometimes things happen in our business, somebody gets released, or

761
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 5: somebody gets whatever. It on a random afternoon, somebody will

762
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 5: be trending number two, number three on topics in the

763
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 5: world because somebody in our business got moved or whatever

764
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 5: got released, or something happened to them or whatever. It's

765
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 5: the presence of it, the social presence of it is

766
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 5: off the chart, and we use that. We use that

767
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 5: to tell storylines. We use that, uh you know, future stuff.

768
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 5: When I when when we did the develop our developmental

769
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 5: system and we first started NXT, you know, I wasn't

770
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 5: I had no budget to do it with, and I

771
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,800
Speaker 5: used to just drive I drove all our ticket sales

772
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 5: off my social media just I would say we're gonna

773
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 5: we're going on sale at the Barclay Center, you know,

774
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 5: whatever time. I would sort of push it off my

775
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 5: social media accounts. That's where it would all start and

776
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 5: it helped blow up the brand, you know, it's uh,

777
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 5: the the presence of of what we have and multiplied

778
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 5: by all the people out there that are fans of

779
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 5: it is it's second to none.

780
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 4: I have a question, what is your favorite, your personal

781
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 4: favorite restumate entrance as you've done, and then you can

782
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:53,439
Speaker 4: say who one as you've seen?

783
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I did one. Uh, I'm terrible with dates,

784
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 5: times and locations. They had all blurs to me, but

785
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 5: I did one where that sort of came out with

786
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 5: a red cape and a gold that the king mask

787
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 5: with I had. It's funny. Actually they were still in

788
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 5: developmental at the time and they weren't stars. And I

789
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 5: was asked three of the girls that were three or

790
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 5: four of the girls that were in developmental at the

791
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 5: time that would become huge stars like Charlotte Flair and

792
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 5: Alexa Bliss and stuff. Hey, would you guys be in

793
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 5: the entrance. We wanted to create like one of those

794
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 5: old Fazetta paintings of me sitting on this throne with

795
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 5: a mask and all this shit, and the you know,

796
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 5: the girls and the like the warrior girls with the

797
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 5: bikinis on next to me and all that stuff, and

798
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 5: they would take my armor off before I would go

799
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 5: to the ring, right, So we recreated that and gave

800
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 5: them the opportunity to be on that stage at WrestleMania

801
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 5: before they ever became like huge stars. So that's one

802
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 5: of my favorite because it had a lot of It

803
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:02,440
Speaker 5: was hit first of all, but then also it just

804
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 5: the getting them involved in it and all that stuff

805
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 5: was pretty cool. One of my other favorites was, well,

806
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 5: two others. One I tagged with my wife against Ronda

807
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 5: and Kurt and we rode big trikes with a big

808
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 5: motorcycle gang around us to the ring. That was pretty cool.

809
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 5: I was cool because it was my wife was with

810
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 5: me also. And then I did one at I don't

811
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 5: know what WrestleMania was, but we were in at Levi Stadium.

812
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 5: Was it did it like a terminator, so I had

813
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 5: my skull king mask on, but the stuff was all

814
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 5: morphed to look like a terminator and it was sponsored

815
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 5: by like whatever terminator movie they were making at the time,

816
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 5: And Arnold was cool, just like Arnold did the voiceover

817
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 5: for it and all that stuff. So it was like,

818
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 5: if you can get Arnold to do your voiceover, everything

819
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 5: is cool, you know. As far as other people favorite,

820
00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 5: Probably my other favorites would just be anything with Taker,

821
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 5: and I always felt like he had the you know,

822
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 5: he just said the character was so cool. Just anything

823
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 5: he did with the the dark and the moon and

824
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,360
Speaker 5: the lightning and the I mean, it's just it was

825
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 5: the coolest ship of all time. The one where he's

826
00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 5: coming up out of the out of the stage and

827
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 5: I think he was wrestling me. I think, uh, but

828
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 5: he's coming up out of the stage and there's a

829
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 5: big glow behind him and all the arms you're trying

830
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 5: to reach him, like they're trying to pull him back

831
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,399
Speaker 5: in the hell Like it was just.

832
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,720
Speaker 3: Badass. He can't beat Takers entrances.

833
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 4: I feel like he had a really good one this

834
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 4: this past one, the the wrestling menia. His uh came

835
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 4: out of nowhere, surprised, that's all.

836
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, when the Whites went up and there, mind Rock.

837
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 4: Did not think he was he was going to be there.

838
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 4: I was like, someone's coming up. I don't know who, Yeah,

839
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 4: I was.

840
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 5: It took us forever for me to get him to

841
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 5: do that thing, like a lot of that stuff comes

842
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 5: together and the tail end, like how you're putting all

843
00:41:58,239 --> 00:41:59,400
Speaker 5: that stuff together and uh.

844
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 3: When I first called him for it.

845
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 5: He's like, I don't know, I don't think I want

846
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 5: to do it, And you know, I'm like, dude, like

847
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 5: eighty thousand people are gonna go absolutely insane, you know.

848
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 5: Like anyways, it just took us a bit. Rock had

849
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 5: to call him, everybody had to call to get him

850
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 5: to finally acquiesce to doing it. You know, he went

851
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 5: when he retired, he sort of wanted like, I'm just

852
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 5: I'm done. I don't I mean, yeah, he doesn't ever

853
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 5: want to put the even then at that thing he

854
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 5: didn't put. He didn't come out with a hat and

855
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 5: the jacket. He just wanted, like the hat and the

856
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 5: jacket are retired, will come out. I'll come out as me,

857
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 5: But I'm not coming out as the Undertaker, you know

858
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:40,879
Speaker 5: what I mean? Like he just wanted to be over

859
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 5: sounds like something I know.

860
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,800
Speaker 2: Oh for sure, once I'm done, I'm done. Yea, you

861
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,960
Speaker 2: might not see me against I might live in a

862
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 2: small small city in like Europe.

863
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,760
Speaker 4: That's not gonna happen. It's a dream.

864
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 3: How will you should without him?

865
00:42:57,760 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 4: I don't know.

866
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 2: I'll live off the land to figure it out. I

867
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 2: do have a question because obviously a lot of the

868
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:08,240
Speaker 2: people I watch, you know, the pod or basketball fans.

869
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 2: So you know, for us, our process is like high school, college,

870
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 2: some you know, starting to do g League now the NBA,

871
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 2: and sometimes you know, younger dudes go from NBA.

872
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,760
Speaker 4: Back to g leag to get reps. So you talk about.

873
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 2: The developmental side of ww like, talk about that, but

874
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 2: the people.

875
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 4: Don't see, like you know, the NXT and those kind

876
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:29,919
Speaker 4: of things.

877
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:33,760
Speaker 5: So there's a couple of ways I think that talent

878
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 5: end up in our business. Now there's people like that

879
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 5: that did it sort of how I did it, which

880
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 5: was kind of the only way to do it back then,

881
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,319
Speaker 5: so it wasn't like a choice. But at some point

882
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 5: in time you see this in your life. You watch

883
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 5: WWE for the first time you see it, you think, like,

884
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 5: my god, that's the coolest thing ever. You become this

885
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 5: massive fan and as you get older, you're just like,

886
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 5: I got to do that, like I want to, I

887
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 5: have to want to try to do it, and you

888
00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 5: go get At the time when I did it, they

889
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 5: were it's hard to find anybody that would train you

890
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 5: or anything, right, So I was lucky enough that I

891
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 5: did and got trained to do it, and it took

892
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 5: off quickly for me. But you know, there's a lot

893
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 5: of schools out there now, and guys will try to

894
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,439
Speaker 5: find a school and start getting trained, and then they'll

895
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 5: start to trying to work little independent shows here and there.

896
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,879
Speaker 5: But it's really difficult road to try to figure out.

897
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 5: It's it's it's it's not an easy process, and you know,

898
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 5: even just finding somebody that's really good to train you.

899
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 5: So we just started a program called wwe ID that

900
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:39,840
Speaker 5: we sort of identify schools that are actually training people

901
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 5: properly and kind of do a good job with it,

902
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 5: and we're putting a stamp on them like sort of

903
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 5: like a good housekeeping like this is a good place

904
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 5: to go train. And then for the talent that are

905
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,479
Speaker 5: out there that are trying that, you know, they didn't

906
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 5: go through college, they didn't have that opportunity or whatever,

907
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 5: but they're pretty good at this. We keep an eye

908
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 5: on everybody that's out there and we identify the top

909
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 5: like say twenty five in the country, and then we

910
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 5: subsidize them. We give them some money, we give them

911
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 5: our coaching, you know, so as they're going out there

912
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 5: and doing shows, they send us the videos, we analyze them,

913
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 5: we give them coaching, we give them, you know, help

914
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 5: them along the way. Part of the deal with as

915
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 5: we're subsidizing them financially is for them to get themselves

916
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 5: to more shows so they can get more repetitions in

917
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 5: their career and advance. And then you know, if the

918
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 5: timing is right, we either shift them into our performance

919
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 5: center at some point to continue their training, you know,

920
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 5: or if they're not getting it, we move away, or

921
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:44,839
Speaker 5: if they're ready, then they might move into NXT at

922
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 5: that point in time. The other avenue of doing it

923
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 5: is the college route, which is where we do probably

924
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 5: a larger percentage of our recruiting from. And that's you know,

925
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 5: it's kids that they might think about this as a

926
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 5: career before. But for a lot of them, they were

927
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 5: fans they want but they played football. They and we've

928
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 5: had guys come in that played basketball in college. We've

929
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 5: had guys we get a lot of track and field,

930
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 5: especially with the women, but even for guys like we've

931
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 5: got some really great athletes that were like hammer throwers

932
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,280
Speaker 5: or shot putters that are like big dudes.

933
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:22,839
Speaker 3: That's like a crazy sport.

934
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 5: They all have like big, huge personalities and you know,

935
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 5: like it there's not a lot of call for hammer

936
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:32,439
Speaker 5: throwing on the other side of college, right, like, maybe

937
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:35,720
Speaker 5: maybe you go to the Olympics, and if that doesn't

938
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 5: pan out, like you're where you're coaching, or you have

939
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 5: you know, or you rely on your college degree to

940
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,439
Speaker 5: be the avenue for you and you get a desk job.

941
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 5: But if you want to stay an athlete, this is

942
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 5: a really cool option. So we recruit from all these colleges.

943
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 5: We are constantly out there. We have a program we

944
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 5: call ANIL, but we call it instead of name Image Likeness,

945
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 5: we call it Next in Line, and we go to

946
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 5: these college We have kids under NIL deals and they

947
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 5: sort of are visible sort of badges for us at

948
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 5: all these sports events that people can come up to

949
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 5: and say, you go, you get an NILD with WWE

950
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 5: how's that work? Oh, here's a guy's number. Call them.

951
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 3: You know.

952
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 5: We find out those athletes and then either while they're

953
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 5: in school still or after they graduate, we bring them

954
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 5: down to Florida or we sometimes we go to them.

955
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 5: We do like regional tryouts, and we do tryouts and

956
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 5: we you know, no different than like some of these

957
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 5: people have never been in the ring before, right, so

958
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 5: we're looking for obviously athletics and how they can be coached,

959
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 5: but more so we're looking for charisma and big personalities

960
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 5: and like who has charisma, who doesn't. And then the

961
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 5: other biggest thing we look for in our business, and

962
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 5: it's surprised a lot of people want to say it

963
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 5: is we look for emergent leaders. So like our business

964
00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:00,399
Speaker 5: is heavy in the like it's a team. Like if

965
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 5: we do like a three day tryout with somebody, day one,

966
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 5: we physically destroy them, right. So now when you get

967
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 5: to day two, they're thinking, holy shit, if they do

968
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 5: it to me again, I don't know if I'm gonna

969
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 5: make it right. Then first half of the day we

970
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 5: start to physically destroy them again. Then we start to

971
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,760
Speaker 5: run them through skill stuff, and we see who falls apart.

972
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 5: We see who picks the person up next to him

973
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 5: and says, come on, you can do it, let's go,

974
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, like as a team player,

975
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 5: And we see who's like just thinks about themselves and

976
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,800
Speaker 5: kind of like I gotta keep going and just pushes

977
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 5: the other people down and tries to make it about themselves.

978
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 3: Right.

979
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:37,839
Speaker 5: We're looking for that emergent leader who who the first

980
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 5: day seemed like they were had a ton of charisma

981
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 5: and they were all gung ho and everything was great.

982
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 5: And then day two when we start killing them, all

983
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 5: of a sudden, they're a bit of an asshole or

984
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 5: they're you know, you see when people are exhausted, you

985
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:53,400
Speaker 5: see their true personality. So we break it down like that,

986
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 5: and if they make it, they come to the performance center,

987
00:48:56,640 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 5: they start training with us. If they don't, you know,

988
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 5: they move on. But if they if they start training

989
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 5: with us, it's a period of time. Sean Michaels is

990
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:10,760
Speaker 5: down there, he's he runs Uh, I used to uh

991
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 5: head that up, and now obviously I had a lot

992
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 5: more going on, so Sean heads it up. Sean runs

993
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 5: everything stoop the nuts about our developmental system and uh,

994
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 5: you know, those guys are down there training people, and

995
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 5: he's making decisions who's working, who's not, who's making it,

996
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 5: who's not. And then they as they come up the line,

997
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:29,839
Speaker 5: they move into a few other shows that we have

998
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 5: to get some experience with the goal being NXT, and

999
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 5: if they succeed at NXT, then the next step is

1000
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:38,319
Speaker 5: they get called up to raw or smack down, and

1001
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 5: you know, so it's it sort of starts there and

1002
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:42,879
Speaker 5: moves up the line.

1003
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 6: I hope they have to get a sweetschen music before

1004
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,320
Speaker 6: they before they leave the training facility.

1005
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 5: If they screw up, they do. You know, Sean's a

1006
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 5: lot older and a lot mellow or in some instances,

1007
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 5: but every now and then there's that old Sean Michael

1008
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 5: still in there, and he he can, he can, uh,

1009
00:49:58,680 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 5: he can chew people out.

1010
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 3: He can. It's it's.

1011
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 5: Sean's amazing at at seeing talent and finding talent and

1012
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 5: then getting you know, it's it's and I'm sure you

1013
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 5: guys know it's it's a goat. A good coach can

1014
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 5: get your places that you never thought you could go right.

1015
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:21,399
Speaker 5: A good coach can really get you to perform once

1016
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 5: you're at a high level professionally, like there's still that

1017
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 5: teamwork there and you know you kind of do your thing,

1018
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 5: but especially in your early formative years, like a good

1019
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:33,839
Speaker 5: coach can take you can make you succeed or make

1020
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 5: you fail. He's a really good coach. He and Matt Bloom,

1021
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 5: who was you know back the attitude areas like a

1022
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,800
Speaker 5: train or Prince Albert depending on the time you watched.

1023
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 5: And he's a really good coach as well. And just

1024
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 5: just mentoring people to get the most out of them

1025
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:52,240
Speaker 5: and for them to understand what this business is about

1026
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:53,800
Speaker 5: and get to another level of you.

1027
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 4: This MVP segment responsored by Tommy John, the MVP of

1028
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:00,400
Speaker 4: My Underwear Drawer, even the Common and I'm there in

1029
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 4: some very iconic ww stables if you're put on the

1030
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:05,759
Speaker 4: spot because you give us your MVP for these three

1031
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 4: DX evolution the authority.

1032
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:10,359
Speaker 5: So I would say for me on DX, I would

1033
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 5: say Sean, though there's a part of me that would

1034
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 5: say China like Sean only because at that time when

1035
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 5: we first started and Sean was heavy in DX with me,

1036
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 5: I was learning so much from him on a day

1037
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 5: to day basis about the business, right, But China was

1038
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 5: kind of like the glue that held that together. If

1039
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:32,839
Speaker 5: you look at that crew that's on there, and Billy

1040
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:34,319
Speaker 5: Guenna is not on there, But if you look at

1041
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:40,239
Speaker 5: that crew, I'm like the guy that doesn't drink or

1042
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:42,799
Speaker 5: do any other stuff like so I'm like a I'm

1043
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 5: easy to deal with. Sean is a mess, road Dog

1044
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 5: is a mess, Xbox is a mess, Billy is a mess.

1045
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 5: Like the glue that sort of held that all together

1046
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:56,760
Speaker 5: was China. Because she sort of kept everybody in line,

1047
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 5: like there's only so much shit I can tell them

1048
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:03,880
Speaker 5: and can control them before they're like, you know, f

1049
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 5: off and we get a fight about it, right, nobody's

1050
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 5: gonna give her a hard time, so whatever she says go,

1051
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:13,760
Speaker 5: So she's kind of the glue there. Evolution, I'll say

1052
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:19,880
Speaker 5: the MVP, and evolution is Batista And that might surprise people,

1053
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 5: but like the truth is Rick was established, I was established.

1054
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:26,400
Speaker 5: Randy sort of established him coming out of the group.

1055
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:30,319
Speaker 5: But as we were forming the group, and Rick and

1056
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 5: I are the ones that put that together solely, like

1057
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 5: we're the ones that picked Randy, and we're the ones

1058
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:36,400
Speaker 5: that picked Dave. A lot of people had kind of

1059
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 5: written Dave off as he's never gonna make it, and

1060
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 5: Rick and I rad him in about putting him in

1061
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 5: the group. And as we started to do the group,

1062
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 5: everybody kept saying, Randy's the breakout, Randy's the breakout, Randy's

1063
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,880
Speaker 5: the breakout, and I kept saying, he has wrong. It's

1064
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 5: gonna be Dave. It's gonna be Dave. Like he was

1065
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 5: a sponge, he got it. He might not have known

1066
00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 5: at that time, but the level of what he put

1067
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 5: into it and how Hardy worked at and all that stuff.

1068
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 5: For me, he was the MVP there, the authority. I'll

1069
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:15,120
Speaker 5: say Seth only because we did the most with him.

1070
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 5: You know, Roman and Dean were kind of the shield.

1071
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 5: But the real when when Seth turned on Roman and

1072
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 5: came with us as the authority deal, it sort of

1073
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:28,120
Speaker 5: sealed his career. But it also made Roman at the

1074
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 5: same time.

1075
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 6: So I'll say Seth on that one headed Tommy john

1076
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:33,400
Speaker 6: dot com slash roomies so you two can lock in

1077
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 6: the MVP of your underwear.

1078
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,880
Speaker 4: Oh, it's holiday season. You know what that means is

1079
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Speaker 4: you tell us about Killer Quasi's wrestling school.

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Speaker 5: When we started the performance center, which I said, is

1108
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 5: like a D one like a D one level facility,

1109
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:03,560
Speaker 5: right like professional sports training facility. When we opened it

1110
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 5: up as twelve years ago or whatever. Now, somebody asked

1111
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:08,439
Speaker 5: me that day at the grand opening, like what would

1112
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 5: Kowalski say? And I'd say, tell me, I'm making a

1113
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:18,439
Speaker 5: bunch of pussies. You know, sounds like coach, right, yeah, yeah,

1114
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:21,840
Speaker 5: it's you know, the world is different now and and

1115
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 5: generations you have to speak to them differently, and you

1116
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:31,320
Speaker 5: have to train them differently. There weren't a lot of

1117
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,360
Speaker 5: options when I was coming up, and you know, finally

1118
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:40,319
Speaker 5: found I got Kowalski's number. I called him, went to

1119
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 5: his school and you know, there was a bunch of

1120
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:45,440
Speaker 5: people training in there, but they were all sort of

1121
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:48,839
Speaker 5: smaller guys that he was older. And at that point

1122
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 5: he was just taking their money, like if you want

1123
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 5: to train, I'll train you. And you know, he'd work

1124
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:57,239
Speaker 5: with people, but I was a bit bigger, and I

1125
00:55:57,239 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 5: think he saw something in me, so he took a

1126
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 5: liking to me. But along the way, your training in.

1127
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:05,040
Speaker 3: One ring.

1128
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 5: There's a boxing ring, so it had no like our

1129
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 5: ring is hard, but it has a it has give, right,

1130
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:12,440
Speaker 5: you see it when people take a big thing, it

1131
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:14,880
Speaker 5: bounces a little bit, right, it's got some give to it.

1132
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 3: He had one ring.

1133
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 5: It was a boxing ring, had a big steel ibeam

1134
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 5: that went to the floor in the center, so it

1135
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:21,600
Speaker 5: was like hitting this concrete floor.

1136
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 3: There was no give to it at all. So the

1137
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:29,920
Speaker 3: ring itself was brutal. It was in an old warehouse that.

1138
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 5: He split with a martial arts like with the guy

1139
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:34,840
Speaker 5: that taught karate or whatever. So there's some mats on

1140
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 5: the floor where they did the karate stuff. The ring

1141
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 5: it had like barely any heat in the winter, no

1142
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:46,239
Speaker 5: ac in the summer. And you know, like in the

1143
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:49,000
Speaker 5: performance center now, if you screw something up, like you know,

1144
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 5: somebody calls you over and they're like, a listen, here's

1145
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 5: what you did wrong, and I want to try to

1146
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 5: get this, like you know, it's explained to you when

1147
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:57,800
Speaker 5: I was training with Kowalski. If you were in the

1148
00:56:57,880 --> 00:56:59,799
Speaker 5: ring and you did something wrong, he'd call you over.

1149
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 5: And he used to keep a plastic bag like that

1150
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:05,759
Speaker 5: you'd get at the grocery store with phone books in it.

1151
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:07,719
Speaker 5: And you guys are fairly young, so explain what a

1152
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:10,759
Speaker 5: phone book is, like, you know, big thick phone books

1153
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 5: right with all the numbers. And he'd have like two

1154
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:15,880
Speaker 5: or three phone books in these like like three or

1155
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 5: four plastic bags, and he would tie a knot at

1156
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 5: the top and he would just sit it next to him.

1157
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 5: He'd call you over, like come here and then when

1158
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:25,000
Speaker 5: you got over, he'd grab the phone books and just

1159
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 5: swing it, hit you in the head with it fucking

1160
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 5: on as you could.

1161
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:29,640
Speaker 3: And knock the shit out of you and then like

1162
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 3: tell you what you did wrong, and don't have a

1163
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 3: fucking do that again.

1164
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 5: And you'd like, if you were still conscious, you'd go

1165
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 5: back to the ring and start training.

1166
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:41,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, you know stuff like that. When when when

1167
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 3: you learn to do what we.

1168
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 5: Do a lot, you you know, you hit your elbows

1169
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,320
Speaker 5: a lot and you end up with these big swollen elbows,

1170
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 5: your bursch or sack blows up and it's painful and

1171
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 5: uh he if you everybody gets some when they start

1172
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 5: right and now with us, it's like medical talks to you.

1173
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:00,840
Speaker 5: If we have to, we'll drain them. But it's like

1174
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 5: you know, and he can't get in the ring until

1175
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 5: they're cleared up, so you don't have the problems and stuff.

1176
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 5: He would either he would just tell you just take

1177
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 5: your hand and put it behind your head like this,

1178
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 5: and I'll pull your elbow in and you pull in

1179
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:14,720
Speaker 5: his tight He would either hit you in the elbow

1180
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 5: with the phone book or he would push you into

1181
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:21,440
Speaker 5: a brick wall to smash the burster sack and like

1182
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 5: bust it inside and it would drainie inside your arm

1183
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:29,960
Speaker 5: and it was like being shot with a bolt of

1184
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:31,919
Speaker 5: lightning when it would you know, when your elbow would

1185
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:35,360
Speaker 5: hit right, because it's like obviously very painful, and he

1186
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 5: wouldn't care.

1187
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,440
Speaker 3: He just walk away, right, He didn't care at all.

1188
00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:42,240
Speaker 3: It just is a different world back then, you know.

1189
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 5: So you know, I I at the time, like I

1190
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 5: don't know, as a kid, like I thought the business

1191
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:57,200
Speaker 5: was supposed to be that hard, and I thought like

1192
00:58:57,280 --> 00:58:58,840
Speaker 5: it was supposed to be like that. I don't know,

1193
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:00,760
Speaker 5: it just for me, it worked. It was like I

1194
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:04,560
Speaker 5: loved it. I love the fact that it was almost

1195
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 5: borderline abusive in how you learn how to do things.

1196
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 5: I don't know, it just way clicked for me. And like,

1197
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:11,880
Speaker 5: I don't know, maybe I was just afraid of them too.

1198
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 5: So I just like, you didn't fuck up much, you

1199
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:15,640
Speaker 5: know what I mean, you kind of had to you

1200
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 5: kind of had to do things right, and you learned

1201
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:21,000
Speaker 5: very quickly. It wouldn't work at all today at all,

1202
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 5: but this is the way it was.

1203
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:29,000
Speaker 6: We've talked obviously a lot on this episode, but one

1204
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:30,720
Speaker 6: of the things that the WW does so well is

1205
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:33,080
Speaker 6: they build that universe, they build those characters, they build

1206
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 6: that narrative. So going back to your career, can you

1207
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 6: walk us through what it was like to go from

1208
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 6: Paul to Triple H Like, what is that process of

1209
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:42,280
Speaker 6: coming up with the pedigree the walk in music?

1210
00:59:42,320 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 4: Like? How was all that constructed?

1211
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 3: And it sort of morphs over time? Right?

1212
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 5: So some of it is, some of it's planned. Now

1213
00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:52,880
Speaker 5: there's a system also, right, Like, so when when we're

1214
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 5: making a talent, we have like a whole creative thousand

1215
00:59:57,400 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 5: people or whatever the company, right, we have a whole

1216
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:01,920
Speaker 5: creative department that I'm like, here's what we're thinking for

1217
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:04,680
Speaker 5: this guy, here's his personality, Here's what we're thinking character wise.

1218
01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:08,640
Speaker 5: They're designing a look, and we have a team that

1219
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 5: makes music, so we're looking at the style of what

1220
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:14,800
Speaker 5: they're going to represent and then we're trying to create

1221
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:18,760
Speaker 5: something around that. That's how we do it now, Then

1222
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:23,920
Speaker 5: it really I think there really was no system. Right Like,

1223
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:29,280
Speaker 5: before I came to WWE, I was in w CW

1224
01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:32,840
Speaker 5: right sort of right before the Monday Night Wars happened.

1225
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 5: I was in WCW. Then Hogan went there. Then I

1226
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:40,040
Speaker 5: moved over to WWE WWF at the time, and then

1227
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 5: you know, right when my stuff was hitting, sort of

1228
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 5: Monday Night Wars happened. So prior to the Money and

1229
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:50,920
Speaker 5: I Wars, I was in w CW I got hired there.

1230
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:56,640
Speaker 5: Kowalski had given me a name. He wanted me to

1231
01:00:56,680 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 5: be called the Terrorizer, and like, you know, he's like old,

1232
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:02,600
Speaker 5: was it terrorizing?

1233
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:02,960
Speaker 3: Yes?

1234
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:06,760
Speaker 5: So, but here's how that happened. So he said, we

1235
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:09,160
Speaker 5: were supposed to do this show. It's the first match

1236
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:12,920
Speaker 5: I was ever gonna have. He said, you know, I'm

1237
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 5: gonna I'm gonna book you on that show. I was

1238
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:16,520
Speaker 5: like great, he said, I'm gonna call you the Terrorizer

1239
01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:19,480
Speaker 5: and I was like, oh really like this, like just

1240
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:21,840
Speaker 5: you know, I get it in like the fifties and

1241
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:24,040
Speaker 5: the sixties like the Crusher and the Bruiser, like those

1242
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:28,040
Speaker 5: are cool names, Like there was nineties like a terrorizer

1243
01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:32,160
Speaker 5: wasn't cool. And I was like, he as you could

1244
01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:34,520
Speaker 5: understand what the phone book story like, you didn't argue

1245
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:37,120
Speaker 5: with him much, right, So I was like, oh, well, Walter,

1246
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 5: I'm not real big on that name. And he was like, well, God,

1247
01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:42,160
Speaker 5: damn it, what do you want for a name? I said, well,

1248
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:43,919
Speaker 5: can I just have a name, like a first name

1249
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:47,240
Speaker 5: and a last name. And he took a magic mark

1250
01:01:47,280 --> 01:01:49,360
Speaker 5: because he had written it down on like a poster board,

1251
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 5: and he took a magic marker and do a line

1252
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 5: between the words terror and Riser. And just took a

1253
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:57,960
Speaker 5: magic marker and done between the words. He said, now

1254
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 5: you have two names, Terror Riser and I was like great.

1255
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:04,400
Speaker 5: And they made the posters for the thing and they

1256
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:08,160
Speaker 5: screwed it up and wrote Terrorizing, and that became my

1257
01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:12,360
Speaker 5: wrestling name. Fast forward to I get hired by w CW,

1258
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:17,560
Speaker 5: which is at the time the second largest promotion, Like

1259
01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:21,919
Speaker 5: WWE is one, they're two. I get hired by them.

1260
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:26,120
Speaker 5: They bring me in. I have a tryout what they

1261
01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:28,640
Speaker 5: call it a dark match at one of their TV tapings.

1262
01:02:29,520 --> 01:02:33,880
Speaker 5: Before I leave town, they hired me. I get home,

1263
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 5: they tell them, I said, well, asked them about the

1264
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 5: match that I did dark They said, no, no, that's not

1265
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:42,160
Speaker 5: going to air on TV. We're going to get you

1266
01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:44,480
Speaker 5: some creative will come up with a new name and

1267
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:45,840
Speaker 5: all that stuff.

1268
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:52,240
Speaker 3: Great. I get home that Saturday night, I'm on.

1269
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 5: TV as the Terrorising and I'm like, holy shit, this

1270
01:02:56,800 --> 01:02:58,840
Speaker 5: is how bad business was at the time. I called

1271
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:01,000
Speaker 5: the office upthing day and I was like, hey, I

1272
01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:03,800
Speaker 5: wasn't supposed to be on TV and they you know,

1273
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:06,640
Speaker 5: I'm going to get repackaged and what happened.

1274
01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:08,000
Speaker 3: And they were like, I don't worry about it.

1275
01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:11,000
Speaker 5: Nobody watches those shows anyways, which I was like, well

1276
01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 5: that's that's comforting at least, like no one cares, so

1277
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:18,520
Speaker 5: don't worry about it. So then they gave me a

1278
01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:21,960
Speaker 5: new gimmick. They liked my real last name, Levec, right,

1279
01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:25,720
Speaker 5: they were all down south. They thought that name sounded

1280
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 5: incredibly unique, so they wanted to make me a French aristocrat.

1281
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:32,880
Speaker 5: Like they were like, your name's going to be John

1282
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:37,160
Speaker 5: Paul Levec. You're French. And I was like, I got

1283
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:40,240
Speaker 5: a as. Actually, Rick Flair tells me this right at

1284
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:44,160
Speaker 5: the time he was booking, and I said, and Miss Flair,

1285
01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:46,360
Speaker 5: I said, I don't want to be difficult on this,

1286
01:03:46,440 --> 01:03:50,240
Speaker 5: but I said, I don't speak French or anything like that,

1287
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:53,080
Speaker 5: so me being French is kind of an odd thing

1288
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 5: for me. And he was like, you don't speak French.

1289
01:03:55,440 --> 01:03:57,440
Speaker 5: I said, no, it's just my last name. And he

1290
01:03:57,520 --> 01:03:59,360
Speaker 5: was like all right, well it doesn't matter. Go in

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01:03:59,400 --> 01:04:01,440
Speaker 5: the other room and promos on this kid Alex right

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01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:03,760
Speaker 5: and do it with a French accent. And I was like,

1293
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Speaker 5: holy shit. So I went in the other room did

1294
01:04:06,760 --> 01:04:09,880
Speaker 5: like the worst inspectaclusoh accent of all time came out

1295
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:12,160
Speaker 5: and I said, so, what is the character like what?

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01:04:12,320 --> 01:04:14,720
Speaker 5: And He's like, that's for you to figure out. Get

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Speaker 5: yourself some gear and look like a French guy, see

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Speaker 5: you next week. And that was the process. Right came here,

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01:04:20,120 --> 01:04:23,720
Speaker 5: they they morphed that character. Vince liked the character that

1300
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 5: I had come up with there to some degree, but

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Speaker 5: he didn't like it being French. He was like, I

1302
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Speaker 5: can't ever turn you into a good guy I for

1303
01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:33,480
Speaker 5: you're French. So I triple h is hunter Hurst Helmsley.

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Speaker 5: That became my name here when I came in, and

1305
01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 5: I was like an American blue blood. I was like

1306
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Speaker 5: a rib on his neighbors, rich rich people that he

1307
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:47,040
Speaker 5: didn't like. So I was like an American snob kind

1308
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Speaker 5: of thing. As the attitude Eric came in, we were

1309
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Speaker 5: all on. Vinceibelt like, the business has got to change.

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Speaker 5: You can't have these goofy characters joint the clown and

1311
01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:58,200
Speaker 5: you know why, can't we just be wrestlers instead of

1312
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Speaker 5: firemen or cops or like, you know, a clown. So

1313
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Speaker 5: they made the offer, Like Vince was like understood this

1314
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Speaker 5: attitude era was going to happen. He said, we can

1315
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Speaker 5: change your name. I said, man, I've got a year

1316
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Speaker 5: and a half or two years or whatever it was

1317
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 5: invested in the name. Everybody backstage called me Triple H.

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Speaker 5: So we just said, let's just go with a nickname.

1319
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Speaker 5: We'll lose Hunter Hurst, Elmsley call me Triple H. We

1320
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Speaker 5: went with that, and then from there it was just

1321
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Speaker 5: like what do I want to be? So I switched

1322
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Speaker 5: to trunks. I switched to what I saw myself as

1323
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Speaker 5: as a wrestler, grew a beard, wet my hair. The

1324
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:40,360
Speaker 5: water spit thing was just a evolution of when I

1325
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:42,320
Speaker 5: first won the title. I would hold the title up

1326
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:43,960
Speaker 5: in the air and I would spit water at fans

1327
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Speaker 5: like ringside, you know, they'd be throwing stuff and yelling

1328
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Speaker 5: at you. I would stand up with the title up

1329
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Speaker 5: and spit water at him as an f you right,

1330
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Speaker 5: And we were also doing the crotch chop and all

1331
01:05:54,040 --> 01:05:56,720
Speaker 5: the other stuff too. That was sort of a thing

1332
01:05:56,760 --> 01:05:59,480
Speaker 5: that myself and Sean did, and then it just morphed

1333
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Speaker 5: into what it was was overtime and became a moment that,

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Speaker 5: you know, when I would do it, people would react to.

1335
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Speaker 5: So we changed it and did the lighting and just

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Speaker 5: over time things become what they become. The Crouch Shop

1337
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Speaker 5: was us just being bad guys and tell it like

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Speaker 5: we we weren't allowed to flip people off. We weren't

1339
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Speaker 5: allowed to do that, so we were just like, hey,

1340
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Speaker 5: you go and it and it just man, they reacted

1341
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Speaker 5: every time we did it, and then it became our thing.

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Speaker 4: You know, I know, I know you did it in

1343
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Speaker 4: Philly with Joel, but you got to come in the

1344
01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:35,760
Speaker 4: garden and do it one time. I'll do Yeah, Well

1345
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you can do it.

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Speaker 5: He's a fun one. It's funny. When I did it

1348
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1349
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Speaker 5: of a surprise for him. They brought me in. They's

1350
01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:52,000
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Speaker 5: you do, you're hungry? What's going on?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

1353
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Speaker 5: When I did it with Joelle, so they no one

1354
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:11,280
Speaker 5: told me don't go on the court And we went

1355
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Speaker 5: to do it. And he's like, let's just do the

1356
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Speaker 5: crouch shop. Just follow me, and he like ran straight

1357
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Speaker 5: out of the court. I ran out of the court.

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Speaker 5: We were doing all the ship when I came back

1359
01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:20,920
Speaker 5: there like why did you go on the court And

1360
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Speaker 5: I'm like he said. They were like, no, you can't

1361
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1362
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Speaker 5: like a shoot thing, right or something like that.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

1364
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Speaker 5: They were all they were all upset about it. He

1365
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Speaker 5: didn't care, don't worry about it.

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Speaker 4: They went viral, so it was fun.

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Speaker 3: It Yeah, it's fun.

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Speaker 5: Sina's like the if you were to say, give me

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Speaker 3: He'll do all the media.

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Speaker 5: at all times. Cody Roase is very much like that

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Speaker 5: as well, right like, sort of models himself because he

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Speaker 5: was a young up and coming guy when Sina was

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Speaker 5: on top, so he was seeing that and that's like

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Speaker 5: how he sees himself as that's how you become the

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01:11:26,520 --> 01:11:32,600
Speaker 5: top guy. Roman is totally different, right Like, so not

1450
01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:37,040
Speaker 5: in a bad way, like to do the ultimate pr

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01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:41,240
Speaker 5: thing or you know, do the ultimate appearance thing. He's like,

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Speaker 5: I don't feel like that's worth my time.

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean?

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01:11:45,200 --> 01:11:47,960
Speaker 5: Like, but that works for him because if we took

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Speaker 5: that character and we put that character in, all these

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01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:52,280
Speaker 5: other things will kind of hurt the character because it's

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01:11:52,320 --> 01:11:54,840
Speaker 5: not what the character is, right, So he's it's not

1458
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Speaker 5: that he doesn't want to do it, it's that he

1459
01:11:56,760 --> 01:12:00,240
Speaker 5: doesn't feel like the character should do that stuff. Aker

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01:12:00,400 --> 01:12:03,040
Speaker 5: was everybody has their strengths and weakness. Taker was always

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01:12:03,040 --> 01:12:04,479
Speaker 5: like I used to call him the measure and stick.

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Speaker 5: He was the guy that I used to use this

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Speaker 5: as an example with him, like if we were all

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Speaker 5: on a plane together and the fucking plane started going down,

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Speaker 5: and like it's everybody's freaking out, and the guy you

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01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:19,400
Speaker 5: look at Taker to see if he was freaking out

1467
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Speaker 5: and if he was just sitting there like he'd be like,

1468
01:12:23,320 --> 01:12:25,759
Speaker 5: all right, we're gonna be fine, right, We'll be fine.

1469
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Speaker 5: If you looked over and taker was like that, you'd

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Speaker 5: be like, oh shit, we're all gonna die. Like he

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Speaker 5: just that was like his position in the locker room.

1472
01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:34,880
Speaker 5: He was like the guy you looked at and were like,

1473
01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:38,519
Speaker 5: should I worry about this? Or is this you know,

1474
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Speaker 5: if something big happened to you, Like he was a

1475
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Speaker 5: guy that I could go to and say, you know,

1476
01:12:46,240 --> 01:12:47,960
Speaker 5: what do you think about this? I'll give you the

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Speaker 5: example of the key example of that is I'm when

1478
01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:53,360
Speaker 5: I met my wife. Right, so I'm married to Vince's

1479
01:12:53,439 --> 01:12:59,719
Speaker 5: daughter at a you know, like totally not cool, right

1480
01:13:00,439 --> 01:13:03,439
Speaker 5: and not allowable, and I like, I know, like now

1481
01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:07,280
Speaker 5: like that there's something there and we're like sort of

1482
01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:09,719
Speaker 5: like we're seeing each other, but we're keeping it really quiet,

1483
01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:13,040
Speaker 5: but it's gonna get out there. And like you, I mean,

1484
01:13:13,080 --> 01:13:14,920
Speaker 5: like Vince knows that kind of thing. But like with

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Speaker 5: the talent, this changes my career completely, right, Like all

1486
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Speaker 5: of a sudden, I'm I'm with the boss's daughter like that. Now,

1487
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Speaker 5: anything I've ever accomplished in my career is only because

1488
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:30,960
Speaker 5: I'm married, right, Like it's changes everybody's viewpoint on me,

1489
01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:36,439
Speaker 5: changes everything, but like that that's where we are, right

1490
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Speaker 5: and like I realize, like I'm in love with her

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Speaker 5: and like the whole thing, and we're going to take

1492
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Speaker 5: a go with this.

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Speaker 3: The guy I go.

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Speaker 5: To to say help me through this is take her.

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Speaker 5: Like I pull him aside and I'm like, here's a situation,

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Speaker 5: you know, Steph, And I say, I know, you know,

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Speaker 5: you know, what's your take on this?

1499
01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:02,840
Speaker 3: Like how do I how do I.

1500
01:14:02,840 --> 01:14:04,600
Speaker 5: Make this working? And he's a guy that gave me

1501
01:14:04,600 --> 01:14:06,960
Speaker 5: the advice and was like fuck everybody else, and like

1502
01:14:07,479 --> 01:14:10,920
Speaker 5: he just was really cool with it, and you know,

1503
01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:15,160
Speaker 5: he's always been the measuring stick for me. So we

1504
01:14:15,240 --> 01:14:16,840
Speaker 5: have another guest coming.

1505
01:14:16,960 --> 01:14:19,920
Speaker 2: Hi, handsome, can I go come here?

1506
01:14:20,439 --> 01:14:24,479
Speaker 3: Hays? Yeah, you have a club, you have the world?

1507
01:14:24,520 --> 01:14:26,840
Speaker 3: Can I see? Thank you?

1508
01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:44,479
Speaker 4: Hewl he eighteen months twins, yep, do some buddy.

1509
01:14:42,640 --> 01:14:43,280
Speaker 3: A triple leitch?

1510
01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:49,360
Speaker 4: Hi say hi, Hi Paul. Hello you say Paul.

1511
01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:59,840
Speaker 5: Very nice, A beautiful man. Congratulations before we.

1512
01:14:59,800 --> 01:15:02,120
Speaker 4: Go the picture me scrolling, I walked into that room.

1513
01:15:02,439 --> 01:15:04,639
Speaker 4: You're sidingping in my eyes, said dad, no.

1514
01:15:04,439 --> 01:15:06,320
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no.

1515
01:15:05,160 --> 01:15:06,640
Speaker 4: No, no picture me.

1516
01:15:06,720 --> 01:15:10,120
Speaker 2: Scrolling is just kind of our our reaction to funny

1517
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:13,040
Speaker 2: tweets of the week and stuff like that. So I said,

1518
01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:21,000
Speaker 2: what we got first? Okay, the bad Bunny.

1519
01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:24,479
Speaker 5: So that's actually one of the first times I realized

1520
01:15:24,479 --> 01:15:26,000
Speaker 5: how big of a WWE start.

1521
01:15:26,120 --> 01:15:26,280
Speaker 3: You know.

1522
01:15:27,080 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 5: Yeah, I obviously knew who he was and his music

1523
01:15:29,479 --> 01:15:33,280
Speaker 5: and all that stuff, and saw that clip and was like, wow, dude,

1524
01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:36,360
Speaker 5: he's a big w W fan, you know, And that's

1525
01:15:36,360 --> 01:15:40,080
Speaker 5: what started us talking to him. She is angry because

1526
01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:40,800
Speaker 5: he's over.

1527
01:15:41,680 --> 01:15:48,200
Speaker 4: What are you doing? Well? You're starting lineup? Is that'd

1528
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:51,439
Speaker 4: be kind of hard? Yeah, you're right, I should do it. Yeah,

1529
01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:53,599
Speaker 4: probably won't, but I should try it.

1530
01:15:55,400 --> 01:15:56,960
Speaker 3: So what age did you start growing?

1531
01:15:57,560 --> 01:16:00,360
Speaker 5: You do realize when I find out who you are,

1532
01:16:00,920 --> 01:16:02,160
Speaker 5: I'm gonna kill you.

1533
01:16:02,240 --> 01:16:04,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you won't find out Jordan, listen, I need

1534
01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:05,920
Speaker 4: you to hang out right away.

1535
01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:11,040
Speaker 3: Bernie. Is that you paul it on the phone? So

1536
01:16:11,160 --> 01:16:16,200
Speaker 3: that's how you got my number? Jordan, I'm gonna kill you.

1537
01:16:16,600 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 1: What are we gonna eat?

1538
01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:23,320
Speaker 3: High start? Hello, Jordan, It's time to play the game.

1539
01:16:26,720 --> 01:16:29,360
Speaker 5: That was such a fun show to do. He was

1540
01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:32,639
Speaker 5: a fun guy. Bernie was a fun guy.

1541
01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:33,880
Speaker 3: Man. We had a lot of fun doing that.

1542
01:16:34,560 --> 01:16:37,400
Speaker 4: I had to be well, did you do any other

1543
01:16:37,439 --> 01:16:39,400
Speaker 4: shows over the years?

1544
01:16:39,439 --> 01:16:42,759
Speaker 5: So like when when stuff started getting hot in the nineties.

1545
01:16:44,320 --> 01:16:46,360
Speaker 5: If you watched WWE at the time, you know, there

1546
01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:49,040
Speaker 5: was a show Pacific Blue. It's like a cop show.

1547
01:16:49,040 --> 01:16:51,280
Speaker 5: They were like, when do you say the premise is

1548
01:16:51,320 --> 01:16:54,639
Speaker 5: so funny? They were like, beach cops on bicycles. Really

1549
01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:57,880
Speaker 5: wasn't that cool? But I did that show. I did

1550
01:16:58,280 --> 01:17:02,120
Speaker 5: Drew Carrey show, Bernie Mad, bunch of stuff like that.

1551
01:17:02,600 --> 01:17:06,599
Speaker 5: A few movies here and there, Blade Trinity, which was cool,

1552
01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:11,640
Speaker 5: you know, little stuff like that. But uh, the Hollywood

1553
01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:15,559
Speaker 5: thing wasn't for me. It's too much, I don't know,

1554
01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:19,120
Speaker 5: especially the movies like just too much. You do the

1555
01:17:19,160 --> 01:17:21,800
Speaker 5: same scene over and over and over again and you

1556
01:17:21,840 --> 01:17:24,200
Speaker 5: just sit and wait a lot. But I don't know,

1557
01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:26,120
Speaker 5: just for me, it wasn't the same.

1558
01:17:26,280 --> 01:17:28,519
Speaker 6: Are you surprised we haven't seen more guys than Lock

1559
01:17:28,560 --> 01:17:30,720
Speaker 6: and See, you know, who have just completely gone gone

1560
01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:31,240
Speaker 6: in that direction.

1561
01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:36,360
Speaker 5: I think you will, you know, I think it's you know,

1562
01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:40,680
Speaker 5: obviously Dune's done an incredible job, but you see now

1563
01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:45,000
Speaker 5: John doing incredible stuff, and then you also see like

1564
01:17:45,080 --> 01:17:47,120
Speaker 5: Dave kind of went a different route like Batista went.

1565
01:17:47,400 --> 01:17:51,479
Speaker 5: Like when you look at Dave's like, Dave's a great actor.

1566
01:17:53,640 --> 01:17:55,559
Speaker 5: And if you would have asked me that during his career,

1567
01:17:55,880 --> 01:17:58,080
Speaker 5: like you think Dave becomes this great actor or something,

1568
01:17:58,120 --> 01:17:59,639
Speaker 5: I'd like, I don't know. He plays a big giant

1569
01:17:59,640 --> 01:18:00,320
Speaker 5: guy pretty good.

1570
01:18:00,320 --> 01:18:01,760
Speaker 6: I don't know if he came down so he's not

1571
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:04,120
Speaker 6: even like leaning on the big giant guy I think, yeah,

1572
01:18:04,160 --> 01:18:05,360
Speaker 6: but he really.

1573
01:18:07,040 --> 01:18:09,880
Speaker 5: He's the kind of guy that like, uh, it's funny

1574
01:18:09,880 --> 01:18:12,360
Speaker 5: he got done in his wrestling career. He just I

1575
01:18:12,360 --> 01:18:14,040
Speaker 5: didn't even know this until like about a year or

1576
01:18:14,040 --> 01:18:17,240
Speaker 5: two ago, but like he just like went broke, like

1577
01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:22,680
Speaker 5: because he like he just dedicated himself to Hollywood and

1578
01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:25,839
Speaker 5: he was just going to audition after audition after audition

1579
01:18:25,880 --> 01:18:28,240
Speaker 5: after audition. He was living off the money he'd made wrestling,

1580
01:18:28,320 --> 01:18:30,839
Speaker 5: and you know, he had made a lot of bad investments,

1581
01:18:31,040 --> 01:18:33,400
Speaker 5: but just at some point was broke. He was living

1582
01:18:33,439 --> 01:18:37,640
Speaker 5: on somebody's couch and then Guardians hit, and then you

1583
01:18:37,680 --> 01:18:39,840
Speaker 5: know he started getting other roles and it took off

1584
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:42,759
Speaker 5: of He's done an incredible job you know, happy for him,

1585
01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:45,240
Speaker 5: but he went the difficult route of doing it, like

1586
01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:47,599
Speaker 5: not just hey, I'm going to be the action guy

1587
01:18:47,640 --> 01:18:50,000
Speaker 5: and that's going to be what I do. But I

1588
01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:54,320
Speaker 5: think now that you've seen that sort of it takes

1589
01:18:54,320 --> 01:18:57,719
Speaker 5: a while before I think people get to the place

1590
01:18:57,760 --> 01:19:03,200
Speaker 5: where they're not being the wrestler. Right, Like, wrestling is

1591
01:19:03,240 --> 01:19:07,080
Speaker 5: accepted now, so if somebody goes and they do a

1592
01:19:07,120 --> 01:19:09,160
Speaker 5: movie or a TV film, it's so accepted that they're

1593
01:19:09,200 --> 01:19:11,200
Speaker 5: not like, oh, it's this wrestler doing in my movie.

1594
01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:14,120
Speaker 5: You know, now they sort of can fit in and

1595
01:19:14,120 --> 01:19:15,880
Speaker 5: and people are more accepting of it. So I think

1596
01:19:15,920 --> 01:19:18,320
Speaker 5: over the years, I do think you'll see some of that.

1597
01:19:18,400 --> 01:19:20,600
Speaker 5: I think, you know, guys like Roman Reigns, and I

1598
01:19:20,640 --> 01:19:22,880
Speaker 5: think some of our women too, you know, a Rihea

1599
01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:26,320
Speaker 5: Ripley or people like that that could that could especially

1600
01:19:26,360 --> 01:19:29,720
Speaker 5: with the action movie, like the superhero movie genre, Like

1601
01:19:30,479 --> 01:19:32,200
Speaker 5: I don't know if Rie Ripley is not a superhero,

1602
01:19:32,200 --> 01:19:33,479
Speaker 5: I'm not sure who is, you know, And.

1603
01:19:33,439 --> 01:19:35,639
Speaker 6: Then you see like Bianca bel Air and Monteza yeah

1604
01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:36,400
Speaker 6: l sho.

1605
01:19:36,600 --> 01:19:40,759
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, Bianca bel Air is another like again Bianca Bellair,

1606
01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:41,439
Speaker 5: Jade Cargill.

1607
01:19:41,439 --> 01:19:45,280
Speaker 3: If they're not superheroes, like what what? What is? Right? Like?

1608
01:19:45,720 --> 01:19:47,599
Speaker 5: I think all that stuff and I think people are

1609
01:19:47,600 --> 01:19:50,240
Speaker 5: fascinated with the life, so they're behind the scenes show.

1610
01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:53,040
Speaker 5: You know, over the years of the Bella's Show, Miss Show,

1611
01:19:54,840 --> 01:19:58,519
Speaker 5: all those are interesting options for people. And WWE is

1612
01:19:58,520 --> 01:20:00,639
Speaker 5: a much more open place now. If there's a project

1613
01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:02,599
Speaker 5: out there that's good for you and it's good for WWE,

1614
01:20:02,720 --> 01:20:06,360
Speaker 5: go do. It just raises everybody's profile, you know, So

1615
01:20:06,920 --> 01:20:09,200
Speaker 5: I think you'll see more of that in the coming years.

1616
01:20:09,520 --> 01:20:13,000
Speaker 5: You know, something is special and there's only ever been

1617
01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:20,479
Speaker 5: ten in the entire world. The Red Diamond Award one

1618
01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:24,679
Speaker 5: hundred million subscribers to our YouTube channel. You don't see

1619
01:20:24,680 --> 01:20:25,880
Speaker 5: something like this every day.

1620
01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:27,560
Speaker 6: One hundred Million's crazy.

1621
01:20:27,680 --> 01:20:31,559
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know when you speak to our social presence

1622
01:20:31,600 --> 01:20:36,760
Speaker 5: in the amount. We did Survivor series on Saturday, and

1623
01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:42,240
Speaker 5: there was just a random moment between Cmpunk and you know,

1624
01:20:42,840 --> 01:20:45,439
Speaker 5: they have to wait in a cage. Sempunk and Roman

1625
01:20:45,479 --> 01:20:47,680
Speaker 5: Reigns have to wait in this cage before they enter

1626
01:20:47,800 --> 01:20:50,840
Speaker 5: war Games the match itself, which is another cage SOT

1627
01:20:50,840 --> 01:20:53,439
Speaker 5: waiting in like this big shark cage. The door opens,

1628
01:20:53,439 --> 01:20:55,880
Speaker 5: Cmpunk goes to go out next in Roman Reigns puts

1629
01:20:55,880 --> 01:20:57,280
Speaker 5: his hand in front of him and stops him and

1630
01:20:57,320 --> 01:20:59,960
Speaker 5: sends somebody else in his place, like a very ten

1631
01:21:00,320 --> 01:21:04,599
Speaker 5: storyline moment. That moment takes place. Within twenty four hours,

1632
01:21:04,640 --> 01:21:09,880
Speaker 5: it did seventy eight million views on Instagram, I believe alone.

1633
01:21:10,200 --> 01:21:10,599
Speaker 4: Wow.

1634
01:21:10,760 --> 01:21:14,879
Speaker 5: Right, Like the the traffic that we do, the amount

1635
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:17,919
Speaker 5: of social media that is put out by the company

1636
01:21:18,320 --> 01:21:19,720
Speaker 5: is a lot.

1637
01:21:19,920 --> 01:21:20,679
Speaker 3: It's crazy.

1638
01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:21,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy.

1639
01:21:22,880 --> 01:21:29,760
Speaker 1: It's time to play the game. Time to play the game.

1640
01:21:35,400 --> 01:21:39,320
Speaker 5: It's less intimidating when he does it. But it's pretty good.

1641
01:21:39,640 --> 01:21:40,720
Speaker 4: He came to it, so did he?

1642
01:21:41,360 --> 01:21:42,280
Speaker 3: He was just at his show.

1643
01:21:42,400 --> 01:21:43,160
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.

1644
01:21:46,120 --> 01:21:48,719
Speaker 3: You know that's another thing where like people can get

1645
01:21:48,720 --> 01:21:53,240
Speaker 3: into our stuff and sort of.

1646
01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:57,080
Speaker 5: Almost because they're a fan of it and they're doing

1647
01:21:57,080 --> 01:22:00,599
Speaker 5: stuff with it, almost use that to parlay other fame.

1648
01:22:00,680 --> 01:22:04,719
Speaker 5: And it's really interesting as well, the amount of people

1649
01:22:04,720 --> 01:22:08,440
Speaker 5: that right now we're like sort of in this resurgence

1650
01:22:08,479 --> 01:22:12,559
Speaker 5: of WWE. And you know, I was obviously a huge

1651
01:22:12,560 --> 01:22:15,120
Speaker 5: part of the attitude there, but like, right now it's

1652
01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:17,479
Speaker 5: bigger than it's ever been. I think it's bigger than

1653
01:22:17,520 --> 01:22:22,280
Speaker 5: the attitude there was even then. It's amazing the amount

1654
01:22:22,320 --> 01:22:26,880
Speaker 5: of people like on a weekly basis that we get

1655
01:22:26,880 --> 01:22:29,200
Speaker 5: to do cool stuff with like when you came out

1656
01:22:29,320 --> 01:22:33,640
Speaker 5: or you know, Terry's came out, or you know, I

1657
01:22:33,760 --> 01:22:37,160
Speaker 5: was just a week ago with Travis Scott making an

1658
01:22:37,160 --> 01:22:39,519
Speaker 5: announcement for him doing some stuff with us. We just

1659
01:22:39,560 --> 01:22:43,160
Speaker 5: did some stuff with Jelly Roll, you know, Bat Bunny

1660
01:22:43,240 --> 01:22:47,479
Speaker 5: doing stuff with us. It's it's just crazy the amount

1661
01:22:47,479 --> 01:22:50,839
Speaker 5: of like people as we go out there. Vanessa Hudgens

1662
01:22:50,880 --> 01:22:52,600
Speaker 5: was at a show the other night and like, I

1663
01:22:52,640 --> 01:22:54,800
Speaker 5: got a celebrity list a mile long for people that

1664
01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:58,200
Speaker 5: want to do something for WrestleMania and April in Vegas

1665
01:22:58,240 --> 01:23:02,600
Speaker 5: at Allegian Stadium. And you know, we just don't have

1666
01:23:02,680 --> 01:23:04,320
Speaker 5: the real estate to deal with him. So we'll pick

1667
01:23:04,360 --> 01:23:07,120
Speaker 5: the biggest ones and the ones that make sense storyline

1668
01:23:07,120 --> 01:23:08,479
Speaker 5: wise for us, and we'll do it with them. But

1669
01:23:09,080 --> 01:23:12,160
Speaker 5: it's it's incredible the amount of people that just want

1670
01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:12,799
Speaker 5: to be involved.

1671
01:23:12,840 --> 01:23:16,080
Speaker 6: So whoever's idea was to do Jalen and Terry and

1672
01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:18,160
Speaker 6: the Garden was I mean it just made a lot

1673
01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:19,439
Speaker 6: of sense. It was so good at the time.

1674
01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:22,000
Speaker 3: What a moment too, when they when they when you

1675
01:23:22,040 --> 01:23:22,479
Speaker 3: two square.

1676
01:23:22,680 --> 01:23:23,840
Speaker 6: He's a perfect garden villain.

1677
01:23:24,040 --> 01:23:27,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, when you two squared off, it was great.

1678
01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:29,640
Speaker 4: Are you actually upset me when I walked when I

1679
01:23:29,640 --> 01:23:32,559
Speaker 4: got into the ring with you, when I uh, when

1680
01:23:32,600 --> 01:23:34,000
Speaker 4: I look like when I looked at my hand.

1681
01:23:33,920 --> 01:23:35,439
Speaker 3: I wasn't upset. I was scared.

1682
01:23:36,760 --> 01:23:38,679
Speaker 5: I was like, the one thing we cannot do is hurt,

1683
01:23:38,720 --> 01:23:41,360
Speaker 5: like I had told everybody, because you know, like look

1684
01:23:41,400 --> 01:23:44,679
Speaker 5: at a certain point in time, somebody like you comes

1685
01:23:44,680 --> 01:23:47,960
Speaker 5: in and as everybody's talking to him, like you know,

1686
01:23:48,040 --> 01:23:50,559
Speaker 5: think you're a big star, especially walking into our world,

1687
01:23:50,640 --> 01:23:52,760
Speaker 5: and you kind of convince him of everything. It's my

1688
01:23:52,880 --> 01:23:55,679
Speaker 5: job to make sure no one gets hurt or anything else.

1689
01:23:55,680 --> 01:23:57,479
Speaker 5: So I am like, I don't care what he says,

1690
01:23:57,600 --> 01:23:59,479
Speaker 5: like he is not to do stuff with his hand,

1691
01:24:00,080 --> 01:24:02,080
Speaker 5: and we gotta be careful if anybody no, it was

1692
01:24:02,200 --> 01:24:04,320
Speaker 5: uh Therese's hand right?

1693
01:24:04,439 --> 01:24:04,880
Speaker 4: Was my hand?

1694
01:24:05,080 --> 01:24:05,800
Speaker 3: Was your hand man?

1695
01:24:06,040 --> 01:24:08,240
Speaker 4: Did he have something wrong too or something? He had

1696
01:24:08,240 --> 01:24:09,400
Speaker 4: the knuckles in his hand?

1697
01:24:09,479 --> 01:24:11,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, the knuckles in his it's right. But you came

1698
01:24:11,320 --> 01:24:12,920
Speaker 5: in and you slid in and you pushed off on

1699
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:14,680
Speaker 5: your hand. And when you, like I came up out

1700
01:24:14,720 --> 01:24:16,360
Speaker 5: of my seat, I was like, oh my god, and

1701
01:24:16,400 --> 01:24:18,000
Speaker 5: you got up and you did that, you looked at

1702
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:18,360
Speaker 5: your hand.

1703
01:24:18,360 --> 01:24:20,559
Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god, that was fully that

1704
01:24:20,680 --> 01:24:24,120
Speaker 4: was no because honestly it was like I didn't think

1705
01:24:24,160 --> 01:24:26,200
Speaker 4: I was going to do that. I like looked, is

1706
01:24:26,200 --> 01:24:29,120
Speaker 4: the first time I really used my hand, like since

1707
01:24:29,560 --> 01:24:32,559
Speaker 4: pre breaking, and I looked at it. I was like, oh, right,

1708
01:24:33,200 --> 01:24:35,679
Speaker 4: I guess it's all right. It wasn't like ah, I

1709
01:24:35,760 --> 01:24:37,160
Speaker 4: heard it like now, I was like, oh, that's all right.

1710
01:24:37,240 --> 01:24:39,240
Speaker 5: But we practiced like him getting in the ring. Here's

1711
01:24:39,280 --> 01:24:41,200
Speaker 5: how you're getting the ring without using that hand, Here's

1712
01:24:41,320 --> 01:24:43,960
Speaker 5: how the chair works like without using that other hand. Like,

1713
01:24:44,160 --> 01:24:45,800
Speaker 5: so we had practiced it, and when he got in,

1714
01:24:45,880 --> 01:24:49,000
Speaker 5: like adrenaline takes over and he like slid in, and

1715
01:24:49,160 --> 01:24:50,960
Speaker 5: you know, in my mind, I'm like, that's what I'm

1716
01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:53,400
Speaker 5: looking at is his hand right as he's sliding in.

1717
01:24:53,520 --> 01:24:55,520
Speaker 5: And when I saw him push off, and then immediately

1718
01:24:55,760 --> 01:24:59,280
Speaker 5: like I was like, we will we will never do

1719
01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:01,840
Speaker 5: anything with the other again, like were doomed.

1720
01:25:02,600 --> 01:25:02,920
Speaker 4: You know.

1721
01:25:04,640 --> 01:25:10,240
Speaker 5: Who, sorry, I'm terrible name. Who's the new kid on

1722
01:25:10,280 --> 01:25:14,360
Speaker 5: your team? He just came in. I just met him

1723
01:25:14,360 --> 01:25:14,639
Speaker 5: at the.

1724
01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:19,439
Speaker 4: Garden cat Conthon Towns. What was it cal Anthony Towns?

1725
01:25:19,520 --> 01:25:23,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So I just met him

1726
01:25:23,040 --> 01:25:26,800
Speaker 5: at the UFC fight a week ago and stuff, or

1727
01:25:26,800 --> 01:25:29,000
Speaker 5: a couple of weeks ago or whatever, and we were

1728
01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:30,920
Speaker 5: coming in at the same time, and then we were

1729
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:32,679
Speaker 5: leaving and he was talking about you, and he said,

1730
01:25:32,720 --> 01:25:34,760
Speaker 5: you have a picture, and like you said, you guys

1731
01:25:34,760 --> 01:25:36,320
Speaker 5: all have a chat or something, and you have a

1732
01:25:36,320 --> 01:25:38,000
Speaker 5: picture that you had showed him the picture of you

1733
01:25:38,040 --> 01:25:40,880
Speaker 5: and me together or something, and they want to take

1734
01:25:40,880 --> 01:25:42,519
Speaker 5: a picture so he could show it to you. And

1735
01:25:42,560 --> 01:25:45,679
Speaker 5: it just it just made me laugh, like how much

1736
01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:49,680
Speaker 5: your world is like our world, because that would be

1737
01:25:49,960 --> 01:25:53,479
Speaker 5: something that our talent would be. Like this idiot shows

1738
01:25:53,520 --> 01:25:56,200
Speaker 5: me this picture of you with the you know whoever,

1739
01:25:56,320 --> 01:25:57,920
Speaker 5: and I so can I get one? Because I got

1740
01:25:57,960 --> 01:26:00,840
Speaker 5: to stick it back. And the whole thing just made

1741
01:26:00,840 --> 01:26:04,840
Speaker 5: me laugh. I was thinking, like, it's like everybody's just

1742
01:26:04,960 --> 01:26:06,880
Speaker 5: the same everywhere go, you know what I mean. It's

1743
01:26:06,920 --> 01:26:09,479
Speaker 5: like you guys are just this like traveling family, busting

1744
01:26:09,520 --> 01:26:11,880
Speaker 5: each other's balls and like moving along.

1745
01:26:11,920 --> 01:26:12,320
Speaker 3: It's great.

1746
01:26:12,560 --> 01:26:13,680
Speaker 4: I love exactly who you are.

1747
01:26:13,960 --> 01:26:17,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, and being spent a lot of money on doing Yeah,

1748
01:26:17,040 --> 01:26:18,400
Speaker 5: he's got a couple of yeah.

1749
01:26:18,680 --> 01:26:19,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, see there you go.

1750
01:26:19,800 --> 01:26:26,840
Speaker 5: That's that's so that's phenomenal. Sure yeah, sure, so like, look,

1751
01:26:26,880 --> 01:26:29,360
Speaker 5: you gotta understand, this is the nineties. Everybody had a mullet, right,

1752
01:26:29,400 --> 01:26:31,519
Speaker 5: and I'm trying to grow my hair out, so it's horrible.

1753
01:26:31,960 --> 01:26:35,200
Speaker 5: That is my version of the Hey, you got to

1754
01:26:35,240 --> 01:26:37,839
Speaker 5: be a French aristocrat and they didn't tell me anything

1755
01:26:37,880 --> 01:26:40,760
Speaker 5: to do. So that is me. How can I make

1756
01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:43,680
Speaker 5: people hate me the most? And that seems to do

1757
01:26:43,760 --> 01:26:50,120
Speaker 5: it right there, Late Vampire. It's a crazy experience. So

1758
01:26:50,160 --> 01:26:54,800
Speaker 5: it's two thousand and four. It's Snipes, it's Ryan Reynolds,

1759
01:26:54,840 --> 01:26:59,479
Speaker 5: it's Jessica bal It's like the movie is so star

1760
01:26:59,560 --> 01:27:02,600
Speaker 5: studed now when you look back at it, right, like,

1761
01:27:04,400 --> 01:27:07,280
Speaker 5: is was just a crazy thing. I was supposed to

1762
01:27:07,280 --> 01:27:11,040
Speaker 5: be there for like a week or two weeks or

1763
01:27:11,080 --> 01:27:14,880
Speaker 5: something like that, and uh they ended up liking what

1764
01:27:14,960 --> 01:27:16,920
Speaker 5: I did and wrote me into the rest of the movie.

1765
01:27:17,880 --> 01:27:20,439
Speaker 5: And uh so I would do two weeks on that

1766
01:27:20,560 --> 01:27:22,840
Speaker 5: set in Vancouver, and then I would go two weeks

1767
01:27:22,880 --> 01:27:24,280
Speaker 5: on the road, and then I would go two weeks

1768
01:27:24,280 --> 01:27:25,840
Speaker 5: back to Vancouver, and then I would do two weeks

1769
01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:27,920
Speaker 5: on the road. I did it for six months make

1770
01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:30,719
Speaker 5: that film. It was a lot of fun. That's dope.

1771
01:27:31,479 --> 01:27:34,360
Speaker 6: So while you pull this up, one of you want

1772
01:27:34,400 --> 01:27:35,960
Speaker 6: to set the stage of, like what was happening in

1773
01:27:36,000 --> 01:27:37,040
Speaker 6: the game the series.

1774
01:27:37,320 --> 01:27:43,320
Speaker 4: Well, so they're playing Phoenix and they basically sweep them.

1775
01:27:44,320 --> 01:27:47,840
Speaker 4: Oh and this is I think this is game three,

1776
01:27:47,920 --> 01:27:52,479
Speaker 4: Game four yet, so this man's at half court just smiling, smiling, just.

1777
01:27:54,000 --> 01:27:55,200
Speaker 3: I get all of that.

1778
01:27:54,760 --> 01:27:57,800
Speaker 4: He had him got five? Yeah for sure.

1779
01:27:58,320 --> 01:28:01,400
Speaker 5: Well I would imagine they would have to write, yeah, consistency.

1780
01:28:01,439 --> 01:28:02,880
Speaker 5: If they're doing what they be, they gotta do it

1781
01:28:02,920 --> 01:28:03,160
Speaker 5: with him.

1782
01:28:03,280 --> 01:28:05,599
Speaker 6: There's no mistaking it because he's doing it like eight times.

1783
01:28:05,840 --> 01:28:08,920
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it went like he his hands slipped or something.

1784
01:28:10,360 --> 01:28:13,040
Speaker 6: We uh, whenever we do an episode, we'll post on

1785
01:28:13,120 --> 01:28:14,960
Speaker 6: social media who's coming on, and then fans will come

1786
01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:17,840
Speaker 6: on and ask a bunch of questions. So, well, this

1787
01:28:17,920 --> 01:28:21,080
Speaker 6: is a really good one. I think you got Okay

1788
01:28:21,840 --> 01:28:24,840
Speaker 6: or Thrust Graphics. If you could book a dream WrestleMania

1789
01:28:25,400 --> 01:28:28,320
Speaker 6: with superstars in their prime from any era, what would

1790
01:28:28,360 --> 01:28:30,320
Speaker 6: that look like? Three to five match card?

1791
01:28:30,880 --> 01:28:33,639
Speaker 5: Oh wow, three to five matches would be a lot

1792
01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:37,280
Speaker 5: to put together, but like call it three yeah, I mean,

1793
01:28:37,840 --> 01:28:40,760
Speaker 5: you know, a Hogan in his prime versus like a

1794
01:28:40,840 --> 01:28:43,519
Speaker 5: stone called Steve Austin in his prime, I think would

1795
01:28:43,520 --> 01:28:46,400
Speaker 5: have been would have been pretty cool. I don't know

1796
01:28:46,439 --> 01:28:48,960
Speaker 5: how it would have actually been because the styles were

1797
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:52,000
Speaker 5: so different, but I think I think that would have

1798
01:28:52,040 --> 01:28:52,879
Speaker 5: been pretty special.

1799
01:28:55,600 --> 01:28:57,799
Speaker 3: It's it's not really fully separate.

1800
01:28:58,200 --> 01:29:01,000
Speaker 5: I guess it is to some degree, but like in

1801
01:29:01,160 --> 01:29:06,000
Speaker 5: their primes, Andre versus Undertaker is pretty it's pretty amazing.

1802
01:29:07,200 --> 01:29:09,720
Speaker 5: This might stretch a little bit of the of the

1803
01:29:09,800 --> 01:29:12,400
Speaker 5: stuff you did, but just because I kind of see

1804
01:29:12,479 --> 01:29:16,000
Speaker 5: the business a little different. Like a prime Bruno San Martino,

1805
01:29:16,680 --> 01:29:20,920
Speaker 5: who was so massive at the time, you know, sixties seventies,

1806
01:29:21,080 --> 01:29:25,080
Speaker 5: like TV was big, but like it's probably the most

1807
01:29:25,280 --> 01:29:27,160
Speaker 5: one of the most famous people on the planet at

1808
01:29:27,200 --> 01:29:29,880
Speaker 5: that time, and was I can't remember. He's like something

1809
01:29:29,960 --> 01:29:32,639
Speaker 5: like two hundred sell eleg at Madison Square Garden, which

1810
01:29:32,680 --> 01:29:35,120
Speaker 5: is like saying you had two hundred pay per views

1811
01:29:35,160 --> 01:29:37,519
Speaker 5: that broke box office records, now you know what I mean.

1812
01:29:38,360 --> 01:29:41,160
Speaker 5: So if you said prime Bruno San Martino versus Sina,

1813
01:29:42,320 --> 01:29:44,800
Speaker 5: just because I think the crowd reactions and the way

1814
01:29:44,840 --> 01:29:50,920
Speaker 5: they would have worked would have been something special, that's three.

1815
01:29:51,720 --> 01:29:54,400
Speaker 5: If five, I'm gonna have to start digging. It's pretty cool.

1816
01:29:54,720 --> 01:29:59,639
Speaker 4: I can't pronounce them I can't read.

1817
01:30:00,080 --> 01:30:04,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, definitely, whatever what current NBA players would make

1818
01:30:04,840 --> 01:30:07,600
Speaker 2: the best ww E stars and it's gotta be up

1819
01:30:07,640 --> 01:30:09,200
Speaker 2: there for sure.

1820
01:30:09,560 --> 01:30:09,720
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1821
01:30:10,360 --> 01:30:12,559
Speaker 5: Well just because I think obviously everybody's a big dude,

1822
01:30:12,600 --> 01:30:16,280
Speaker 5: but like big dude that gets out to be a

1823
01:30:16,320 --> 01:30:19,560
Speaker 5: big dude and like has the personality to go with it.

1824
01:30:19,720 --> 01:30:24,120
Speaker 5: I think that would be a big one. I don't

1825
01:30:24,120 --> 01:30:26,640
Speaker 5: know who, do you who? If you guys were to pick,

1826
01:30:26,680 --> 01:30:28,280
Speaker 5: because you know, personality is better than I do.

1827
01:30:28,400 --> 01:30:35,400
Speaker 4: Dylan Brooks Dylan Brooks, Oh yeah, I mean he would

1828
01:30:35,439 --> 01:30:37,920
Speaker 4: thrive in that role. Yeah, he doesn't care what people think.

1829
01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:39,120
Speaker 4: He will thrive in that role.

1830
01:30:39,800 --> 01:30:44,360
Speaker 6: Zion Zion just pure sized athleticism. I think, Like I'm

1831
01:30:44,360 --> 01:30:46,800
Speaker 6: not saying he has the best personality, but he would

1832
01:30:46,840 --> 01:30:49,200
Speaker 6: do things out there at two seventy whatever.

1833
01:30:49,040 --> 01:30:50,920
Speaker 4: That like you shouldn't be able to do the kid

1834
01:30:50,960 --> 01:30:52,800
Speaker 4: from Atlanta, New Orleans.

1835
01:30:53,439 --> 01:30:54,479
Speaker 3: No, No, what's the kid from.

1836
01:30:57,520 --> 01:30:58,080
Speaker 4: Small Dude?

1837
01:30:58,200 --> 01:30:58,400
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1838
01:30:59,600 --> 01:31:04,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, sorry Trey Young. Yeah yeah, just because he was

1839
01:31:04,479 --> 01:31:07,080
Speaker 5: playing when I went and did the stuff with Joel,

1840
01:31:07,240 --> 01:31:11,479
Speaker 5: like he was playing and like I just he seemed

1841
01:31:11,680 --> 01:31:17,040
Speaker 5: like an irritant to everybody, Like I remember Steph and

1842
01:31:17,080 --> 01:31:18,720
Speaker 5: I were there together and we were sitting and I

1843
01:31:18,840 --> 01:31:21,519
Speaker 5: was like everything he did, like on the way back,

1844
01:31:21,560 --> 01:31:23,599
Speaker 5: he was just sticking up somebody's ass.

1845
01:31:23,560 --> 01:31:25,280
Speaker 4: On the team, right, Like I just felt like, man,

1846
01:31:25,360 --> 01:31:29,960
Speaker 4: he's he's an irritant. Yeah, I feel like Jimmy Butler would.

1847
01:31:30,520 --> 01:31:32,280
Speaker 4: I feel like Jimmy can be like a Sam Punker.

1848
01:31:33,439 --> 01:31:34,400
Speaker 4: He's gonna do what he wants.

1849
01:31:34,600 --> 01:31:34,800
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1850
01:31:35,760 --> 01:31:39,439
Speaker 5: That's the thing that's truly the personalities that make it

1851
01:31:39,560 --> 01:31:41,880
Speaker 5: or break it, you know, for all of it, Right,

1852
01:31:41,960 --> 01:31:45,519
Speaker 5: everybody's probably got in some manner of skill set that

1853
01:31:45,680 --> 01:31:50,559
Speaker 5: we could work off of the personalities, which is where

1854
01:31:50,600 --> 01:31:53,280
Speaker 5: you guys should know better. I don't even know if

1855
01:31:53,320 --> 01:31:55,920
Speaker 5: you see would see some of that stuff on TV

1856
01:31:56,320 --> 01:32:00,280
Speaker 5: much more so like when you're playing them, like almost

1857
01:32:00,320 --> 01:32:02,040
Speaker 5: not that guy, you know what I mean.

1858
01:32:02,080 --> 01:32:05,679
Speaker 4: Like people see our personality is just in the media.

1859
01:32:06,040 --> 01:32:06,960
Speaker 3: We don't, That's what I mean.

1860
01:32:07,000 --> 01:32:09,439
Speaker 5: It's manufactured a little bit, right, But when you're on

1861
01:32:09,520 --> 01:32:13,559
Speaker 5: the court and you're in close quarters and somebody's you know, like, look,

1862
01:32:13,600 --> 01:32:16,519
Speaker 5: I was a different era, right. I grew up in

1863
01:32:16,840 --> 01:32:21,639
Speaker 5: New Hampshire in the Larry Bird era. Right, I had

1864
01:32:21,760 --> 01:32:24,439
Speaker 5: like you know, to me, Larry Bird, it was like

1865
01:32:24,560 --> 01:32:27,720
Speaker 5: this unbelievable basketball player. But I was a kid watching him.

1866
01:32:28,320 --> 01:32:30,080
Speaker 5: I just thought he was like, he just seemed like

1867
01:32:30,200 --> 01:32:35,680
Speaker 5: the nice guy basketball player. Yeah, you know, when when

1868
01:32:35,760 --> 01:32:37,479
Speaker 5: you when now, what I know now is the most

1869
01:32:37,520 --> 01:32:40,080
Speaker 5: prolific ship talker in the history of the NBA, right,

1870
01:32:40,200 --> 01:32:43,360
Speaker 5: like fighting people and doing all this stuff, and you

1871
01:32:43,479 --> 01:32:45,360
Speaker 5: just think like, this wasn't what I saw at all.

1872
01:32:45,520 --> 01:32:47,920
Speaker 5: So I think that's where it gets to be different.

1873
01:32:47,960 --> 01:32:52,599
Speaker 5: When you're in the tide quarters, you know, banging around together.

1874
01:32:52,640 --> 01:32:55,280
Speaker 5: I'm sure there's a different take on everybody from the media.

1875
01:32:55,120 --> 01:32:59,040
Speaker 4: Sees Steven Adams. Adams would be a great one.

1876
01:32:59,200 --> 01:33:00,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, so triple A.

1877
01:33:01,080 --> 01:33:02,960
Speaker 4: First off, we appreciate you coming on.

1878
01:33:03,160 --> 01:33:05,720
Speaker 3: This is it's real for me to be here. Man.

1879
01:33:05,760 --> 01:33:06,599
Speaker 3: Thank you guys very.

1880
01:33:06,560 --> 01:33:10,360
Speaker 2: Much, appreciate it, and everybody we appreciate guy. Appreciate you guys.

1881
01:33:10,439 --> 01:33:12,920
Speaker 2: Good lord for tuning in. Make sure you guys tune

1882
01:33:12,920 --> 01:33:15,720
Speaker 2: in every Thursday for the new episode and much love.

1883
01:33:16,000 --> 01:33:17,680
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