Speaker 1: Welcome to the No Sports Report, a production of I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio Entry Fort Media. My name is Jensen Carbon.
Speaker 1: I'm a sports fan, so I'm concerned about a lot
Speaker 1: of things, the NBA Playoffs, the start of a baseball season,
Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup. But above everything else, I'm most concerned
Speaker 1: about the high five. It's an athletic institution. It was
Speaker 1: arguably invented by l A Dodgers outfielder Glenn Burke and
Speaker 1: Dusty Baker after home run, and now it's entire future
Speaker 1: is under review. Will germs take away the easiest way
Speaker 1: to celebrate your favorite player doing something cool? Will it
Speaker 1: be replaced by a head nod, or a polite bow,
Speaker 1: or like a running man from six ft away. It's
Speaker 1: things like this that keep me up at night, and
Speaker 1: I need my rest because I'm continuing to talk to
Speaker 1: athletes and sports industry professionals about what they're doing in quarantine,
Speaker 1: hoping to figure out if famous competing as much as
Speaker 1: I miss watching it. This is the No Sports Report.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite NBA players is Ennis Cantor, and
Speaker 1: for many reasons. You see, this guy went through a
Speaker 1: lot to play professional basketball in the United States. He
Speaker 1: left his family behind in his dangerous homeland of Turkey,
Speaker 1: a country whose government he's criticized publicly and as a result,
Speaker 1: received serious death threats and been completely disavowed from speaking
Speaker 1: to his relatives still living there. And on top of that,
Speaker 1: at seventeen years old, he had to hop from high
Speaker 1: school to high school trying to find a program that
Speaker 1: would find him eligible to play, despite having a professional
Speaker 1: contract at one point in another country, and after finally
Speaker 1: playing in a senior year at a school in Simi Valley, California,
Speaker 1: he committed to Kentucky, the basketball institution that planned to
Speaker 1: thrust him into the spotlight and get him ready for
Speaker 1: professional competition. Well, that is until they found him ineligible too.
Speaker 1: The good news about Cantor is that since these false starts,
Speaker 1: he's put together quite an oppressive NBA career. Drafted by
Speaker 1: the Utah Jazz and then traded to the Okay See Thunder,
Speaker 1: where he was the first player in franchise history escore
Speaker 1: at least thirty points and grabbed twenty rebounds in a game.
Speaker 1: He since made himself a dependable utility player, especially in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, with stops in New York, Portland and the
Speaker 1: team he signed with right before the season the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 1: He's been a fan favorite at every stop, even though
Speaker 1: his true passion seems to be that of a despicable
Speaker 1: w W e heel. I talked to Ennison depth about
Speaker 1: his eventual career in pro wrestling, the Lovable Enigma, that
Speaker 1: his Taco fall, the end of Ramadan and Quarantine, and
Speaker 1: if the Undertaker's eye roll thing is real get ready
Speaker 1: to have a brand new favorite basketball player. On this
Speaker 1: episode of The No Sports Report, from It's Cancer to
Speaker 1: accept Press one. Hello, Annie, Hello, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm good? So I wanted to start off by asking
Speaker 1: where are you currently quarantine? And how is it going
Speaker 1: for you Chicago right now? Okay? And and how would
Speaker 1: you say you're surviving pretty good? You know, because right
Speaker 1: now we have in our houses and and literally just
Speaker 1: doing nothing. I'm not gonna lie I gained seven to
Speaker 1: eight pounds. Great, But the good thing is it is Ramadan,
Speaker 1: so like I'm probably having like the easiest romba I've
Speaker 1: ever had. See now, I was gonna ask you about that.
Speaker 1: We're talking on one of the last days of Ramadan,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to know it seems to me now
Speaker 1: here's my thing. It would be harder for me during
Speaker 1: quarantine because I have more time alone to think about food.
Speaker 1: Well true, that's that's one way to look at it.
Speaker 1: But like, well, if you're playing a game, if you're practicing,
Speaker 1: if you are walking out, trust me, it is so
Speaker 1: much harder than just been at home fit just thinking
Speaker 1: about food. Right But like right now, I'm obviously I'm
Speaker 1: still trying to work out and stuff, but it's definitely
Speaker 1: the easiest I've ever had, so I know, such a
Speaker 1: big part of Ramadan is staying connected with the community
Speaker 1: and being able to meet and go to a mosque,
Speaker 1: and that is something that has been taken away, uh
Speaker 1: this year from you. How are you being how are
Speaker 1: you trying your hardest to stay connected? I mean it's
Speaker 1: definitely tough because my man is all about the lacing
Speaker 1: your body and soul and also focus on your inner
Speaker 1: robe and listening to yourself to be a better person.
Speaker 1: And then also again just because of this is happening,
Speaker 1: it is not possible to just go out there and
Speaker 1: do iftar if mus like breaking your fast with family
Speaker 1: and love MOUs because if you don't know anything about Ramada,
Speaker 1: this is how I explain it. It is thirty Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: Day dinners in a row, you know, because because you
Speaker 1: fast all day and the end of the night, you
Speaker 1: come with brands and families and you know love, they're
Speaker 1: the ones you care about and they just just have
Speaker 1: little bit them and share things with it. So it
Speaker 1: is more than just food. But just because of this,
Speaker 1: pandemics happened. Obviously it's not possible, but you know, we're
Speaker 1: still trying to do to some kind of connection over
Speaker 1: the zoom or something right. And speaking of celebrating, you,
Speaker 1: like many of the people I've talked to on this podcast,
Speaker 1: which is startling to me, you celebrated a birthday while
Speaker 1: in quarantine. What did you do? What did you do
Speaker 1: for the big day? It was a sad birthday obviously,
Speaker 1: because like birthday is all about go out there, hanging
Speaker 1: out with your friends, celebrated with your loved ones. But uh,
Speaker 1: I was just set out home. I had a lot
Speaker 1: of cookies, like a lot. I had a lot of cookies.
Speaker 1: It was like it was like a cheat day for
Speaker 1: me for sure, But you know, it was just like
Speaker 1: it was a quite birthday. Okay, I don't because I
Speaker 1: don't want to imagine and a scancer, just a loan
Speaker 1: at a table with a cupcake with one you know,
Speaker 1: candle in it. Well, I wanted to know. I've read
Speaker 1: that you are a big reader. You love documentaries. What
Speaker 1: have you watched? What have you read during this time?
Speaker 1: There's actually a show on Netflix. I really like. It's
Speaker 1: a dirty Money. I don't know if you ever heard
Speaker 1: that before. I did a little bit because there's a
Speaker 1: big Jared Kushner episode right there you go, and I
Speaker 1: mean they did they talk about lots of things. I
Speaker 1: mean obviously said of just watching a movie and getting
Speaker 1: nothing out of it. I was just like, you know what,
Speaker 1: this is like quarantine time. So I'm just gonna like
Speaker 1: not waste my sound was actually use it in good
Speaker 1: so like I'm actually watching that. There's actually a really
Speaker 1: interesting show called The Family on that Flix too, and
Speaker 1: I know the people, so like that's why I wanted
Speaker 1: to watch it. But but the books, you know that
Speaker 1: there's a really good motivational book that Coach Bred bread
Speaker 1: Steams actually give it to us during the season Lettles
Speaker 1: Eat Last, you know, I mean it's especially on this
Speaker 1: time you need motivation because like when you're sitting in
Speaker 1: your house and it's like you don't want or you
Speaker 1: don't feel like just going out and working out, you know.
Speaker 1: So like right now, I think that book has been
Speaker 1: amazing to me. And I'm sure there other book players too,
Speaker 1: So it's, um, it's been a very productive you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did did you get into the Last Dance at all? Last?
Speaker 1: I did actually watch it? Yeah? Were you talking about
Speaker 1: goose Bumps Man? And it's like when you watch that documentary,
Speaker 1: I'm like, like, right now, I want to just go
Speaker 1: out there and stuff playing basketball, like right now. But
Speaker 1: like it was the best time they put it out
Speaker 1: there because everyone at home they are dying to just
Speaker 1: watch any kind of sport activities. But I think the
Speaker 1: last sense was that's only like a breath, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: was there anything? I mean, Jordan's mind frame was so
Speaker 1: rare and so unique. Did it bring to mind any
Speaker 1: teammate you've ever had? Was there when you saw it?
Speaker 1: Did it? Did it bring back any memory of someone
Speaker 1: you've played with? I will say maybe Lass Westbrook, But
Speaker 1: if you look at his mindset, if you look at
Speaker 1: his mentality, I will say Kobe Bryant for sure, because
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously they just give them some percent. They
Speaker 1: don't care about no haters or distraction. They focus on
Speaker 1: what they need to focus on, and it just becomes
Speaker 1: not just like a support that they played, becomes like
Speaker 1: a lifestyle, you know. So it's not like going to
Speaker 1: practice and work out two hours or going to playing
Speaker 1: play two hours and leave. No, it just becomes a lifestyle,
Speaker 1: you know. I think it's just with mentality that what
Speaker 1: they do on an offtok. It was just amazing. You
Speaker 1: have a very rare perspective on the global pandemic and
Speaker 1: the globe in general because you have a grasp on
Speaker 1: so many cultures, whether it's Swiss or Turkish or or
Speaker 1: these I wrote down the United States you've lived, and
Speaker 1: I've probably missed some, but here's here's a list I
Speaker 1: wrote down quickly. Nevada, West Virginia, California, Kentucky, Utah, Oklahoma City,
Speaker 1: New York, Boston, Chicago. Right, okay, So what have you
Speaker 1: noticed about the differences in these states and what you're
Speaker 1: seeing happen during this major event amongst people that the
Speaker 1: reactions that people are having. I mean, I'll just say
Speaker 1: this first, our world are experiencing stuffing like every experience
Speaker 1: before and whenever you turn on the news man, it's
Speaker 1: like there's so much negative news and people forgetting the
Speaker 1: main goal that when you turn on the news there's like, okay,
Speaker 1: decided attacking this side the market, Democrats attacking the Republicans,
Speaker 1: people attacking this like we have forgeten our main goal.
Speaker 1: Main goal should be like Okay, how can we get
Speaker 1: through this together? You know. I feel like around this
Speaker 1: time it's a lot of positivity. But every state, every
Speaker 1: city does some different things. I mean I watched I
Speaker 1: think it was the mayor of Vegas. I was talking
Speaker 1: to Anderson Cooper, and I was like heartbroken by what
Speaker 1: she said. It was like, oh my god. And in
Speaker 1: the same time I listened the mayor of Chicago. I mean,
Speaker 1: she is just well, probably right now like doing one
Speaker 1: of the most funniest and the safest I guess may that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you follow her on Twitter, She's like,
Speaker 1: your jump shot was broke and it's going to stay
Speaker 1: broke after quarantine, So just like stay in the house. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, just people are forgetting the
Speaker 1: main goal. It's just like we should just stay as
Speaker 1: one and fight against this together, not like oh there's
Speaker 1: there's said this, you know absolutely. I mean you have
Speaker 1: lived in both red states and blue states your entire
Speaker 1: time here in America, and I guess you've been able
Speaker 1: to see both sides, and like you're saying, the best
Speaker 1: best case sterio is that we could at least work
Speaker 1: together to beat a global pandemic. Exactly. Yea, yea. When
Speaker 1: you were growing up, your mother was a nurse. Nowadays
Speaker 1: we depend on them more than other. This is clearly
Speaker 1: a sacrificial job. It really shined a light for me
Speaker 1: on medical workers on the front line. Did you always
Speaker 1: know growing up that your mom was putting her life
Speaker 1: on the line actual be not? You know, till this happened,
Speaker 1: I didn't know how. Obviously I knew how, you know
Speaker 1: valuable that the doctors and nurses are brother I didn't
Speaker 1: know this much. I mean literally, they put their not
Speaker 1: just their life, their families life online too, to make
Speaker 1: the world better and healthier. And it's it's a huge
Speaker 1: sacrifice because those doctors and nurses have kids in their houses,
Speaker 1: have you know, husbanes and wives in their houses, and
Speaker 1: they literally just say, okay, you know what, I'm going
Speaker 1: to sacrifice for my whole family in my life and
Speaker 1: try to make people better. And so now I appreciate
Speaker 1: more deafitul. I appreciate teachers, and I appreciate the you know,
Speaker 1: the nurses board up because like you ask anybody. I
Speaker 1: don't have a kid, but like whoever I talked to,
Speaker 1: it's at the homeschooling is the words they going kids
Speaker 1: are going crazy, you know. So like so I feel
Speaker 1: like the you know, the teachers and nurses, man, they're
Speaker 1: so precious. I'll throw in supermarket workers as well. I
Speaker 1: never saw them as frontline workers and now now they're
Speaker 1: my hero exactly a little bit of basketball talk, the
Speaker 1: NBA season, rumors returning soon. I want to know this
Speaker 1: is a very broad question, but if you had to
Speaker 1: pick somewhere to hang out for about a month or two,
Speaker 1: would you go to Las Vegas or would you go
Speaker 1: to Disney World. I have a dis in perspective. I
Speaker 1: feel like the West maybe she'll play in Vegas and
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference shop play in Orlando, and then after the
Speaker 1: final they can just go to one place, because if
Speaker 1: you're trying to move the whole Lakers to Orlando will
Speaker 1: be like a four five hour s thing, you know.
Speaker 1: Or if you want to move to I don't know,
Speaker 1: like us all the way to Vegas. It's like four
Speaker 1: five hour thing. But like, I mean, if I have
Speaker 1: to pick, obviously I will because of the mayor of Vegas.
Speaker 1: I've kind of state of Vegas right now. Might tick
Speaker 1: Orlando because obviously because of Disney, they said, obviously cannot
Speaker 1: go out there and hang out. But like I'll probably
Speaker 1: say Orlando. Well, they're saying, I mean, these are again rumors,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna have families there and stuff, so they
Speaker 1: do think they might open some parts of Disney World
Speaker 1: for people to have some life outside of the game.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm voting for Disney World with you. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know how they're gonna do it, but I mean,
Speaker 1: good luck. I mean, and that's that's a that's a
Speaker 1: bigger question for you. After the Adam Silver call, which
Speaker 1: you've been rather candid about, and discussions within your team,
Speaker 1: would you do you feel safe. I would just say this,
Speaker 1: not from my team, not from the Celtics, but there's
Speaker 1: so many players out there that do not want to
Speaker 1: play I heard, because like it's a huge risk and
Speaker 1: they're saying, I'm not going to risk my life to
Speaker 1: just go out and play basketball. But I mean, if
Speaker 1: you're asking me as my other Celtics teammates, I mean
Speaker 1: they trust NBA, and I think Adam Silver been doing
Speaker 1: an amazing job. Especially every other major league are taking
Speaker 1: an example of what NBA is doing. Because India was
Speaker 1: the first world first thing to suspend itself. So NBA
Speaker 1: and that have Silver played a huge role on this.
Speaker 1: If the NBA opens up, and I know other major
Speaker 1: league going open up to so I mean, if if
Speaker 1: it's all safe to go, yes, I'd love to play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's day to day, and I like you said, Adam
Speaker 1: Silver is different than any other league missioner and he
Speaker 1: even just as a fan and players I love like
Speaker 1: you guys in Boston and so many teams. I mean
Speaker 1: it's like I would I trust him enough? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just tend to cancel the peasion. They should give it
Speaker 1: the MVP. Adam still he should should. I also say
Speaker 1: that a funny m v P vote would be to
Speaker 1: a Lonzo Ball because he was the only guy who
Speaker 1: would come out on the court to that game that
Speaker 1: they canceled. Did you ever see that he just came
Speaker 1: and practiced by himself. I was like there's your m
Speaker 1: v P. He has nothing else going on. He's he
Speaker 1: doesn't care about a huge pandemic. Uh my big question,
Speaker 1: big question here. Do you miss Taco Fall as much
Speaker 1: as I do? You know, when I saw him first
Speaker 1: Ensemble League the last summer when he was playing, I'm
Speaker 1: like this, dude, it's going to be a rock star. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not a superstar rock star because like this personality,
Speaker 1: how humble he has helped down to earth his cool.
Speaker 1: His lack room is right next to mine. Yeah, gool
Speaker 1: lacks room guy, always been bringing positive energy. Obviously, now
Speaker 1: we we we do miss the guy. Well, I mean
Speaker 1: we based down probably like three full times a week
Speaker 1: and see how like how easily doing that stuff? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he needs a good dude. Man. I like them a lot.
Speaker 1: And you guys as a team have been doing U
Speaker 1: Instagram lives. We did do Instagram as well. We do
Speaker 1: a lot a lot of Zoom conferences because like you
Speaker 1: still want to build that team chemistry. Right, every Tuesday
Speaker 1: we have chapels and every Wednesday actually had this motivational
Speaker 1: with Halt that we invite some celebrities to come and
Speaker 1: give us a talk. Right month, Wolburg came Baby ortees On,
Speaker 1: Paulits came, and John came from hangover a Terry Crews game.
Speaker 1: So it's been so nice to see your teammates more
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Speaker 1: with the Boston Celtics and its cantor. Well, let's get
Speaker 1: into what I really want to talk about, which is
Speaker 1: w w E. I am a big fan. I also
Speaker 1: in a prior life, I was a writer of Monday
Speaker 1: Night Raw back in two thousand five. So so I
Speaker 1: can hang with you. Yeah, I can hang with you.
Speaker 1: When did you start watching and what drove you to
Speaker 1: be such a fan of pro wrestling? Okay, so first
Speaker 1: time I started watching it, I was in college, you know,
Speaker 1: because I couldn't get the college basketball because of some
Speaker 1: you know, eligiblutive stuff because I played professionally whatever. So
Speaker 1: and then I was like, wanted to get a hobby.
Speaker 1: And I stopped watching it when I was seventeen years old,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, wow, this is like so amazing. And
Speaker 1: I actually once to one of the matches in Indiana
Speaker 1: because it's close to Kentucky. It was like, basically my world,
Speaker 1: I'm going to become a wrestler. I was watching. I
Speaker 1: remember watching it came I'm like, okay, this is amazing.
Speaker 1: And after that, you know, I was just like keep
Speaker 1: watching it. But like, my favorite was Undertaker obviously, but
Speaker 1: the most heartbroken moment I had, my whole mba and
Speaker 1: the whole American life said when on the Taker loss
Speaker 1: in WrestleMania against Brock last Man, it was so shocking.
Speaker 1: Oh my lord. It's hard to tell people who aren't
Speaker 1: inter wrestling. What it meant you have? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I really truly felt it was the streak. It was
Speaker 1: the cal Ripken streak. I thought it was supposed to
Speaker 1: be the thing that never gets broken. And and then
Speaker 1: there went away so fast, actually they did that. I
Speaker 1: was so heart broken. You have no idea I actually
Speaker 1: get to meet him. So I was p placed on
Speaker 1: the nick. I actually get to meet a lot of
Speaker 1: the wrestle, like John Cena, and so I actually get
Speaker 1: to me will run the Rousea almost sure the street
Speaker 1: her she was so nice and I'm like, how is
Speaker 1: she like that where she was fighting? She's like one
Speaker 1: of the like the matest person I know. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: and then I met under Taker. Yeah. Well that was
Speaker 1: the weirdest part about writing there. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you go in there as someone who just watched on television.
Speaker 1: I mean I had a different history. I mean most
Speaker 1: kids in America we ended up watching pro wrestling, you know,
Speaker 1: Whole Hogan and such growing up, and you know, good
Speaker 1: guys and bad guys. And then there you are in
Speaker 1: catering and you know, Ray Mysterio is eating you know,
Speaker 1: a hot dog, and he's he's sitting next to you
Speaker 1: know Sean Michaels who's talking about his weekend. It's just
Speaker 1: like this is just a workplace and that's the weirdest feeling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I actually went to the backstage. I saw some
Speaker 1: of the wrestler's girls and guys. I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is so amazing. But say've time is so weird.
Speaker 1: Actually get to be a Midway undertaker in mastercare Garden.
Speaker 1: He came to my locker room and I always wanted
Speaker 1: to like know that the eye roll in. Think it's
Speaker 1: fake or not? And I asked him and I took
Speaker 1: a video, but it's actually on my Instagram and it's real.
Speaker 1: He did that, So actually I should sat and talk
Speaker 1: to him a little bit. He asked me how older
Speaker 1: your kid. I'm like I am back then, I was
Speaker 1: like twenty five. He was like, I got boots older
Speaker 1: than you. I'm like okay, but like he was my
Speaker 1: like idol. My knees were shaken. Yeah, just because of
Speaker 1: my play for it for the next Paul Human actually
Speaker 1: just comes to some of our games and he's actually
Speaker 1: my really good friend. He actually was like, hey, let's go.
Speaker 1: Are we doing this? I'm like the like relaxed I
Speaker 1: gotta finish my basketball career first. Then I am all yours. Oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to talk about that. At number one
Speaker 1: Hayman Rules. Shout out to Paul him and a great guy.
Speaker 1: You were able to make an appearance in the w
Speaker 1: w E already one of the most historic buildings for
Speaker 1: that business, which is Madison Square Garden. You won the
Speaker 1: seven title, even if for just a few minutes. What
Speaker 1: was it like to be in that ring for you? Oh?
Speaker 1: You have no I was so nervous, and Paul Human said,
Speaker 1: you're going to be the one of the most hated
Speaker 1: person in New York that night. Are you ready for it?
Speaker 1: I'm like, I booned for this. Let's go so like
Speaker 1: I've turned them. I want the title. I revealed my
Speaker 1: jersey was a Tolpic jersey. The whole crowd was bullying
Speaker 1: because I played for the team. They should love me, sir,
Speaker 1: But the whole crowd was bullying for me. It was
Speaker 1: just like the lifetime experience. I actually in the backstage,
Speaker 1: I got to meet with and Which McMahon. I talked
Speaker 1: to the tchiplation a little bit. He's like, man, sure
Speaker 1: you keep my number in your phone. I'm like, okay, sure,
Speaker 1: that's great. Do you feel more confident as a heel
Speaker 1: over a baby face? For sure? Oh my god, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be healed. I'll be the hill, like the biggest
Speaker 1: hill that that that we dout we ever seen. What
Speaker 1: is it that you like about being I mean, I
Speaker 1: know you troll certain people obviously this this last week
Speaker 1: you put up a little bit of a troll on
Speaker 1: on Jonas and Harden uh and then you know you
Speaker 1: went you went at Lebron in the past. I mean,
Speaker 1: is that kind of where you feel, you know, the most,
Speaker 1: the most fun. I feel like it is more fun,
Speaker 1: like entertaining people more. And it's like for me, it's
Speaker 1: all about like gett people's face and trash trop to
Speaker 1: them and troll them. I don't tut well, I trash
Speaker 1: talks a lot, but it's just definitely more fun to
Speaker 1: just go out there and just be a hell be
Speaker 1: a bad guy. I don't know why, I just like
Speaker 1: it better. What do you think about Gronk as your
Speaker 1: current seven champion? So the sum Slam was going to
Speaker 1: be in Boston and Atidic Garden this summer, but I
Speaker 1: think it's canceled. So I was thinking, like, if me
Speaker 1: and Ground go against each other, the Boston crib has
Speaker 1: will go crazy. You know. The only way you can
Speaker 1: get that to be bigger is if Brady is the rest.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, right now they probably hated so with
Speaker 1: a huge reveal of his jersey. Who would you say
Speaker 1: are your current favorite superstars if if you're watching every week?
Speaker 1: Oh man, I guess so many of them right now.
Speaker 1: Hold on, um, I like the big dogs. I like
Speaker 1: the big dogs. I like the Big Dog a lot
Speaker 1: from the girls. Actually that they never was my really
Speaker 1: good friend. Yes, I'll probably say her. Did you watch
Speaker 1: WrestleMania and what did you think of the cinematic matches?
Speaker 1: Those sort of out of the ring movie things? Oh
Speaker 1: my god, russa Maniel was like the biggest events right
Speaker 1: Like this year was like so awkward and weird because
Speaker 1: with no fans, it's like you only here like the
Speaker 1: resting moves and the ring whatever, but nothing else because
Speaker 1: the rusta man is all about the fans going crazy,
Speaker 1: wildness whatever. But it was a little lot more, but
Speaker 1: they still did it. I guess I'll think it. Did
Speaker 1: you like the stuff that was outside of the rings?
Speaker 1: You know, these kind of like movie matches. I like it,
Speaker 1: so yeah, okay, what would be what would be the
Speaker 1: n Scanter movie match? Like if you if you had
Speaker 1: to set up a cinematic thing, would we would we
Speaker 1: start in a basketball court? Where would we be? I
Speaker 1: think just because I'm coming from basketball, so like I'll
Speaker 1: be playing one on one with somebody, and then as
Speaker 1: soon as he's like taking a shot, right, I'm probably
Speaker 1: just like attacking him and just like I don't know,
Speaker 1: just body slamming him. I told one of my friends, like,
Speaker 1: can I like? Tom Stollman is like, you're not there yet? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know you're not. You don't want to bring
Speaker 1: nobody to make Tombstone is the one move that I
Speaker 1: think Undertaker is the only one really allowed to do
Speaker 1: it because it's so dangerous. Yeah. I think my dream
Speaker 1: for cinematic matches at this point is that it is
Speaker 1: the only way we could get the dream match of
Speaker 1: Undertaker versus Sting, see because Sting doesn't have to keep
Speaker 1: up he's older. But in the cinematic match, you can
Speaker 1: hide it. Oh my god, Yeah, you know what that
Speaker 1: would I hope it happens. You have been very open
Speaker 1: about your plans to become a sports entertainment superstar when
Speaker 1: you do retire, and you said recently the open door
Speaker 1: offer from Vince seems to be there. When you watch
Speaker 1: any wrestling, do you think to yourself, now, that's who
Speaker 1: I need to have a match with. Is there someone
Speaker 1: that you see out there that you're like, that's my
Speaker 1: guy that I got to take down? Oh? Man, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think. I want to say, like, big show. Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm going for a big I'm going for a big show. Yeah. See,
Speaker 1: you're you're the opposite of me. You see someone very
Speaker 1: big and you go, I gotta take him down. I think,
Speaker 1: who's in two oh five? Who's who's the smallest guy
Speaker 1: that I could go for? Exactly? Wasn't the Beatles' Oh
Speaker 1: yeah they have they have the guy Chad Gable? Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah cha, yep, he's very little. Are there any other
Speaker 1: NBA guys that you know who are huge dressing fans
Speaker 1: like you that you connect with? I think I think,
Speaker 1: m hmm, I can't remember any. Yeah. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you might be the king of it. Hey, I'll take it.
Speaker 1: I also think you'd be good as a tag team,
Speaker 1: and I would love to suggest Taco as your partner.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I was actually thinking a two person
Speaker 1: either Taco or Steven Adams. Steven would be incredible. Steven
Speaker 1: also would love to play the heel with you, I think, so,
Speaker 1: I think, so yeah will be like it will go viralent. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's a he's a true at like you. I think
Speaker 1: he finds his happiest moments as a heel. I think
Speaker 1: I think when you think about it, when do you
Speaker 1: see yourself going there? How many years do you think
Speaker 1: you have left in the NBA when you when you
Speaker 1: look at wrestling, and I think you'd be making a transition.
Speaker 1: So I think I'm hoping to play five more years. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I gotta finish up like FoST fifty years in
Speaker 1: the league. That's not too bad, that's I mean, that
Speaker 1: would be incredible. And then then pro wrestling, man, I hope,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I know it will be amazing. Okay. So,
Speaker 1: I think all wrestling fans have distinct moments from watching
Speaker 1: it over the time of their lives, you know, just
Speaker 1: sort of little moments that they connect with, Like I
Speaker 1: remember when Chris Jericho debut in the w w E
Speaker 1: I was a sophomore in college, or seeing Punk's pipe Bomb.
Speaker 1: I was at my apartment in West Hollywood writing on
Speaker 1: a project I hated. Do you remember your milestone moments,
Speaker 1: things that you know coming up, whether in college or
Speaker 1: rookie year in the NBA. What was something that you
Speaker 1: remember from w W E that you you look back
Speaker 1: and it's your favorite. I remember, like when I was
Speaker 1: in Kentucky the undertaking out a match again be came.
Speaker 1: So they like brothers right when they're like they both
Speaker 1: like this like scary character, but when they go at
Speaker 1: each other. I think that's definitely one of my favorite.
Speaker 1: The brother is of Destruction, Yeah, that's right. And the
Speaker 1: Paul Bear, who it might be their dad, I think
Speaker 1: it's still kind of up in the air if he's
Speaker 1: their real biological father. I know him, man, I know,
Speaker 1: all right, Paul Bear. Uh So we usually end with
Speaker 1: something positive and then something stupid, but I'm gonna change
Speaker 1: it up today. Let let's first ask you. Is there
Speaker 1: anything that has happened during the pandemic that you hope
Speaker 1: we keep as a practice even when things clear up
Speaker 1: and we're out in the real world again. Is there
Speaker 1: any sort of new human behavior that you hope sticks.
Speaker 1: I think like this pandemic show how much we needed
Speaker 1: each other, and right now our world need players the most.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's what I'm really focusing on. I mean,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what your religion, what you're seeing color,
Speaker 1: what's your ethnicity, or what's your background. I feel like
Speaker 1: the most important in life is the video difference on
Speaker 1: the table and trying to find what we have in common.
Speaker 1: So right now, this pandemic is showing how much we
Speaker 1: need each other and we just need to just go
Speaker 1: out there and just fight against one well said well,
Speaker 1: I usually do suggestions here at the and but I
Speaker 1: figured we'd do something a little different. People always talk
Speaker 1: about their wrestling mount Rushmore the top four guys of
Speaker 1: all time. It's trended on Twitter, I don't know handfuls
Speaker 1: of times, and a lot of superstars and legends have
Speaker 1: jumped in with their opinions. So we each pick our
Speaker 1: top four wrestlers of all time. These are the faces
Speaker 1: that are to be etched to the side of the mountain.
Speaker 1: I can go first if you want, so, you can
Speaker 1: collect your thoughts. You go first, Go ahead, Okay, alright,
Speaker 1: I have number one. I have him for sure. He's
Speaker 1: changed the game. This dude is the most fame in
Speaker 1: my opinion, the most famous man on the planet. He
Speaker 1: started in pro wrestling. I think Dwayne the Rock Johnson
Speaker 1: is my first induction into Mount Rushmore. My second is
Speaker 1: a glass shattering Stone Cold Steve Austin. I think if
Speaker 1: you look back at the legends and all the moments
Speaker 1: and the things that have happened, Stone Cold uh is
Speaker 1: at the front and center of all of it. He
Speaker 1: was the attitude era as one person. So I say,
Speaker 1: Steve Auston. Third, I think you never get to where
Speaker 1: we are right now in the w W E if
Speaker 1: it wasn't for the first initial boom. So you have
Speaker 1: to say, Hulk Hogan. Yeah, oh my god, you're taking
Speaker 1: the good kay. All right, listen, there's there's a lot
Speaker 1: left huld Cogan up there. Listen, Let's pretend you never
Speaker 1: said anything weird. Hulk Hogan the wrestler, not the man. Okay. Fourth, Now,
Speaker 1: this is my controversial pick because there's a lot out there,
Speaker 1: and I know your your number one is is it
Speaker 1: was right on the cusp of being my number four,
Speaker 1: But my number four is Vince McMahon. Wow. Okay, all right, okay,
Speaker 1: because the character not even the Man. I'll say the
Speaker 1: Man obviously he started the whole thing. But but the
Speaker 1: character of Vince McMahon, I think pushed wrestling and also
Speaker 1: like his matches are really in the atag here. We're
Speaker 1: really fun and good. Uh So that's that's my fourth member.
Speaker 1: So those are my four the Rock Stone called Steve Austin,
Speaker 1: Hulk Hogan, and Vince McMahon. Not bad, Okay, So like, okay,
Speaker 1: let me give you my four. First, obviously, on the Taker,
Speaker 1: I got, I gotta go on. The Taker is my favorite. Yea.
Speaker 1: The second, like you said, I'm going with you know
Speaker 1: the Rock, Yes, I think you know. Like you said,
Speaker 1: what he did for Resting and it was just amazing.
Speaker 1: I'm going with Oh there you go. Good one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going with it. I think it's just Rick Flair,
Speaker 1: just the wood and everything was just so amazing. Wait,
Speaker 1: so was your was your first connection to Rick Flair,
Speaker 1: like when you were at Kentucky, like you had not
Speaker 1: seen the earlier sort of southern w c W stuff.
Speaker 1: I did not know. You have a lot of good
Speaker 1: YouTube videos. I know my last Pagan right, that's not bad.
Speaker 1: You have Undertaker, the Rock, Ric Flair, how Cogan. We
Speaker 1: share the rock and hold Cogan and then obviously your
Speaker 1: undertaker was going to be one. I mean, listen, I
Speaker 1: can only hope that one day. I can only hope
Speaker 1: that one day I remove Vince McMahon from my number
Speaker 1: four and I replace it with Ennis Cantor. Oh wow, hey,
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that idea. That's my goal. Well,
Speaker 1: and as thank you so much for talking to me,
Speaker 1: and uh, please stay safe and healthy and have a
Speaker 1: great endi a Ramadan, I'm excited for you to start
Speaker 1: eating in bulk. Thank you, guys, So I'm appreciated man.
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