WEBVTT - Aron Stevens 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:32.680 Yeah, hello, everyone, to be creaking and you. 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:37.640 Are listening to Eyes up here the iHeartRadio Network or 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:39.240 wherever you get your podcasts. 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:43.600 Along for the ride is my co host Chad. Chad, 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:45.160 what is up? My brother? 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:45.720 Oh? 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:48.760 Chilling like a villain? 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:49.839 Yo? 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:50.680 Yo? 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:50.879 Yo? 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:51.960 Yeah, what's that's right? 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:52.400 Yo? 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:56.760 Feeling funky today? I was just jamming to her two. 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:57.480 I love that. 0:00:57.720 --> 0:00:59.960 I know, I get caught up in it sometimes it's great. 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.160 It just it's grown on me, like like. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:04.400 They say the plague. 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.399 He hated it, guys, I hate it. 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.040 I just wasn't in love with it. 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:10.880 I loved it. I loved it from day one and 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.680 I love it. Now. How's everything doing you good? 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:15.560 Great? 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:17.360 Great? 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:19.440 Well, we're going to start off pretty hot today. We 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.880 have a special guest that I'm excited to talk to 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:25.399 and he's going to be coming on in just a 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:31.920 few minutes. But until he comes on, trying to think 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.080 of what's happening. We got our bathroom floor done and 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:39.520 it looks spectacular. Now I'm looking for a painter, so 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:43.040 we're getting it painted, and we're getting new uh, I 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.399 have quarts now, we're getting new countertops and I think 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.400 we're getting a new new sinks, double sinks put in 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.800 and uh so what I'm trying to say is my 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.360 bathroom is a wreck right now because there's so much 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:58.200 work being done on it. But that's what's going on 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:02.559 in the Queen's cost. Uh, just the redoing one room 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:06.320 at a time, slowly but surely. I know, you know, 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.280 trying to catch up to your house. Your house is 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:12.200 just your house is like one of those houses in 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.800 Good Housekeeping. Oh my gosh, you open, you open, you 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:19.160 open the book and there's the house of the day. 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:23.640 It's a it's debute Clark, isn't you abute clerk? 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:25.440 I appreciate you saying that, Thank you very much. 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.359 I love it. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.320 But yeah, it ain't easy to keep up. 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.040 So no, I'm sure it's not. But that's what we've 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:33.440 been doing. 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.280 We've been trying to fix up around here, and slowly 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:37.680 but surely it's coming along. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.760 The one day I tried to paint, I tried to 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:41.520 help out the guy. 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:45.680 We were painting the crown molding and we had to 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:46.160 remove it. 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:47.520 So I was like, oh, I'll help you out. So 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:48.520 I did the first. 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:49.919 Coat and he comes up to me and he goes, 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:54.799 don't do the second one, and he's like, yeah, he goes, 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:56.320 You're not really doing it that good. 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.480 It took me forever to do the first coat, and 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.640 I took offense to that I had paint all over me. 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.960 I was like, man, you know, try to help people. 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.600 It just didn't work out. So a painter I am not. 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:14.240 But anyway, he finished the job and it looks beautiful. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:16.840 I like I could do it, you know, I like it. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.919 We did a couple of there were some accent walls 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.680 in this house. Yeah, and we did them. But I 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:27.360 really gotta be focused because if I'm not, I gotta 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.640 walk away or it's gonna be real shitty. 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.600 Yeah, well, I said to myself. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.440 At first I looked and I was like, oh, maybe 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:36.440 I can conquer the bathroom. And then I was like, hey, 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:37.680 maybe I'm gonna hire someone. 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:42.360 So now we're looking for Bathrooms are tough, Yeah, because 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:46.120 of those little little spots where you have vents and 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.680 the lighting. Bathrooms are super tough. 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.400 Not only that, but I want my cabinets painted, so 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.280 I don't Yeah, I don't think I can. 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.120 I mean, if I do that, it's gonna be shitty. 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.480 Bathrooms are shitty. That's the moral of the story. 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.360 You know it's gonna be like really bad, so I said, no, 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:09.240 I'm not gonna try so looking for a painter right now. 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.480 But you know, like I said, tackling one room at 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.440 a time. We're changing my son's room to Star Wars. 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.240 We have all we have curtains, we have posters, we 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:24.000 have bedding, like everything is Star Wars now. He's really 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:27.320 excited because he's been getting into Star Wars. So we're 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:31.600 transitioning his room right now into that and just big 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:32.600 changes around here. 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:33.600 There's a lot going on. 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:35.920 So weird, isn't it weird? 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.839 There's never been a Getmick where there's been a wrestling painter. 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:45.520 There hasn't, No, I don't think so. There's been like Beatnicks, 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:49.159 but never like a wrestler that's a painter. 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:51.280 Nick is a Is that a poet? 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:51.760 No? 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:55.400 Beat Nick's like a hippie, like a was. 0:04:56.120 --> 0:05:00.480 The guy that led the what was his name, Adam? 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:01.720 Was he a hippie? 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:02.599 Adam Rose? 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:03.600 Adam Rose. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:05.360 He's just like a party guy. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:06.760 He was a party guy. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:11.719 Oh the Exotic Express the Yeah, we should. 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.640 Go back and look at some of these gimmicks one day, 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:17.040 because I swore there was kind of like a painter. 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:18.960 I mean there was. 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.760 I'm sure our guests would probably enlighten us whenever he 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:23.800 comes on, So he probably have a good. 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:24.080 Idea of it. 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:25.400 I need to ask him. 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.520 Imagine he's always like so wrapped up in his work 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.280 that like to go wrestle his match would like distract 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.000 him and that would be like the start of an angle. 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.800 Is that you knock over his painting set? Or is 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.760 a you know, was his easel? 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:44.240 Oh, I can't remember. I thought there was. I don't know. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.600 Don't bother me while I'm worshiping on my work of art. 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:52.040 There should have been or a sculptor. Was there a sculptor? 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.720 Well, I mean, well, you know there's been a wrestlers sculpted. 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.320 You know who were you know? Made out of works 0:05:58.320 --> 0:05:58.680 of art? 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.960 Most of them are what I mean, I don't know. 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:07.440 Well, listen he is he's been known as the Savior 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.880 of the Unwashed masses? Is that not the greatest like 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.279 surname ever for a professional wrestlers. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:18.320 I think he's royalty in NWA, isn't he? He comes 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:19.640 down in these elaborate roots. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.240 I mean, he's got one of the greatest fashion senses 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.720 I think in the history of wrestling. Now, he's probably 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:29.159 one of the greatest overall personalities in wrestling history. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:30.160 He seems like. 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:36.280 He's a very distinguished human being to me, Aaron High, Honey. 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:36.680 Can you hear us? 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:36.960 Hey? 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:37.520 How you doing? 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:38.720 I'm good? How are you? 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:39.640 I'm awesome? 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:40.919 Thank you Aaron Stevens. 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:44.760 Everyone, we were supposed to give you this wonderful you know, 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.680 lead in and he shared the bed number one, So I'm. 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:49.320 Sorry about that. 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.760 We were we were just having get discussion. Was there 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:57.320 a wrestler who was a painter. Do you remember any 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.960 wrestlers who had a painting gimmick or a painter gimmick? 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:05.000 I mean like d X, I know, like painted people 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.720 of green, but like that, I like I was, I'm 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.640 assuming you're going in like the Bob Ross vein. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:16.720 I cannot remember. I can't remember one. I know that, 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:20.480 Like I'm trying to think now, h yeah, I don't. 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:22.800 I mean, it's certainly not at a level that was 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.280 like nationally known, right or internationally known. 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.960 I don't think that. Maybe think about that for your 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:28.960 next gimmick, because. 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.320 That painter sculptor something like. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:32.880 That, that might be a winner. Aaron. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.200 You know what, I will I would try to make 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:36.600 it work. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:38.680 Work that down, I think that I would try to 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:40.560 make it work. I think you would excel at that. 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.440 How are you, by the way, thank you for coming 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:43.160 on today. 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.119 Oh I'm great. How are you? How is everything doing 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:46.880 doing well? 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:52.560 I finally got to meet Aaron uh last year, never 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:53.120 met him. 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:54.200 It's so funny. 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.280 There are so many people in this business I've never met. 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.440 I think it's because I don't get out too. 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.760 Much, exactly like I just did that for Nova. 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:07.400 Yes, so at Nova's retirement, which I think he'll come back, 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.520 I don't really think we're never going to see him again. 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.080 But Aaron was there, and I was so excited to 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.400 meet you. 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.600 Yeah, and I was so glad that that we got 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.880 to talk a little bit and hang out. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.440 Did you want that show that night because I kind 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.040 of powdered after the convention. 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:24.600 Yeah. 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:24.760 No. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.880 The reason I was there is because you know, Nova said, hey, 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:29.880 I'm retiring, and he wanted to do a six man 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:34.080 because Frankie Kazarian was his partner on the indies for 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.400 a long time, like in between E c W and WWE, 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:40.640 and then he and I were tag partners in OVW 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:42.920 on Cornett and everything. So like we we became close. 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:44.520 I'm godfather to his daughter. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:45.600 I know you are. 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.320 I love him. So it's just like he wanted me 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.120 there and I was like, hey man, yeah, absolutely, like 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:51.480 this is your retirement, will do it. And it was 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.160 just a fun show. But it was funny because Miss 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:58.559 Francine got to find out what a horrible independent wrestler 0:08:58.559 --> 0:08:59.040 I would make. 0:08:59.559 --> 0:08:59.640 No. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.080 I just like we did a signing, I was just 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.600 like not talking to me. I was I just don't 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.800 have the like, yeah, I don't have the patience for 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:08.360 a lot of things. 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:12.479 And so here's my take on this. You were adorable. 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:13.320 I have to say it. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:18.200 I sat at a table between Kevin Kelly and Nova. Okay, 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:23.240 so Aaron was like Caddy Corner at his table, but 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.559 he was never there. And I'm saying to myself, where 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.280 is he? Like why isn't he sign? And Novah goes, oh, 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.840 this kid can't sit still. He's all over the place. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.480 You'll never see him sitting still. And every time, like 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.280 I would sign an autograph and I would look up, 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.160 he'd be walking that way, or then he'd be walking 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.280 that way, or he'd come over at us and say 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:42.679 something and then he'd walk away. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.800 I was like, why are you not sitting at your table? 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.880 And you were just like I can't do this. And 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.200 I'm like, this is part of the profession. Do you 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.360 not like it? Or is it just are you irritable? 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.200 Are you nervous to me? 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:05.199 No, because like, like so the thing is like okay. 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:09.720 For when when I was in WWE, which again, and 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:14.040 I I will admit this wholeheartedly, for the vast majority 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:19.040 of my career, I've kind of been spoiled in the 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.960 sense of like, look, I've yes, I put in the 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.360 work to make it, but then I always had someone 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:26.960 telling me where to be. I've had a handler to 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.800 make sure that I I don't have to worry about 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:34.679 like exchanging money and like all that stuff like bringing 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:36.440 your own eight by tens. I didn't bring eight by 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.559 tens because I always thought no le generally, and I've 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.760 been I've been in this since ninety eight, like people 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.760 are going to provide them, like and even in Puerto 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.920 Rico when I was with Carlos, where you know, whatever 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.520 we were going through, you know, like we would well 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.600 whatever drama was going on in Puerto Rico, Like I 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:59.880 always had kind of a baby's and I just you know, 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.880 it's it's my thing. We all have shortcomings. I have many. 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.160 That is one of them. And I am not a 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.400 very good independent wrestler and I'm not a like I 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:11.040 just I just don't. 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.560 But when okay, but when Nova booked you for this, 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.800 or Donnie b or whoever you talk to, yeah, let 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:21.880 me tell you, like bring merch. Because there was one 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.360 point where you leaned over in my ear and whispered, 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.640 I don't even have any pictures, and I just started laughing. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.680 No. I had to borrow Sharpie from Sargeants slaughter because 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.760 like I I was like, I went over to talk 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:35.280 to him, We're talking and stuff. I'm like yeah, and 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:36.560 he goes, oh, I'll just have mine, and I mean, 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.959 God bless him. He was a wonderful man. And that 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:40.880 was cool about that night, Like I got to see 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:44.000 people I hadn't seen in a minute, right, and it 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.800 was good. And but like again, there's positives of it, 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:48.600 which is why I was, I think walking around a lot. 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:52.680 But I just, honestly, friend, I've never ever just been 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:54.040 the kind of guy to like, oh, these are my 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.320 eight by tens and set them up. That's just it's 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:02.240 not something I really like. It's part of the business 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.400 that I'm completely ignorant to for the most part. 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.440 Well, you learned, you know now if you need to 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.080 bring something. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:12.800 Yeah, yeah, but luckily, luckily takes care of that for me. 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:14.160 Oh my god. And we're gonna talk. 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.120 We're going to talk about you there in a minute, 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:20.640 but I'll never I'm watching you. I was so entertained 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.439 because you were like, it was like a little wind 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.760 up toy. You were just bouncing from here to there, 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.200 and you had your table was blank, you had no 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.400 merch on your table, and you never sat. 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:33.839 In your chair. 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:34.960 It was great. 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:38.280 You were great. 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.280 You were very, very entertaining. 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:42.520 I want to start. 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:44.800 I don't want to talk about how you get into business, 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.880 blah blah blah. I want to talk about what I 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:52.760 liked about you. I loved the angle with you in 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.080 the miss and I'm sure you got that a lot. 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.960 When I watched wrestling, I don't watch much. I'm gonna 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.600 one hundred percent honest. I keep up on social media 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.240 mainly because I don't have time to watch twenty hours 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.680 of wrestling. You know, I got kids, I got a family, 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:12.320 I got Yeah, But when I did watch you were 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.679 always one of my favorites because and my husband will 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.520 tell you he can back this up. You and the 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:23.160 miz were so entertaining, and I just I fell in 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:26.680 love with your character because it was there was so 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:32.400 much acting wise, not even like working, like wrestling, like 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.559 acting wise. And I did go to your wiki really 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.600 quickly just to just to freshen up a little bit. 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.520 And it says that you want to act, You're aspiring 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:43.440 to do some acting now. 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:44.679 Anybody can write on Wiki. 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.120 I know that it said. I I mean no, I've 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:48.040 like done stuff. 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:50.760 It says I think if you go there now. 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:54.640 It said something like he's open to different roles in 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:55.360 the future. 0:13:56.320 --> 0:14:01.319 I can't stand Wikipedia because there was a lot of 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.160 false information about me on there, and I wrote them. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.280 I wrote them a very kind letter and they're like, 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.040 first of all, it isn't your Wikipedia page, no one 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.360 owns it. And I'm like, yeah, but like there's a 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.440 bunch of stuff on there that's not true about me 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:18.240 as well. We'll have our fact checkers. I'm like, dude 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.480 or madam whoever it was. Because they didn't sign it, 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:25.040 I was like, just hey, I kind of like I 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:26.960 know what's going on with me, and this ain't it 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:28.120 you know, wait. 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.080 A minute, you need a fact checker for you. 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.520 Oh my god. Yeah, like like someone like some weirdo 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.960 took control of my page and I can't even make 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.400 edits to it. And there's so that they have the 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.240 worst picture of me. I think it's someone that doesn't 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.080 like me because they have the worst picture of me 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.600 on there, and I like, out of all the pictures 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.000 of me, it's just horrible. And then there's a bunch 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.840 of false information. No, like I've when I when I 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.440 left WW yeah hard, Why are you putting that on there? Dude? 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.520 Come on wait she had to say this. 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.720 Wait a minute, my picture I'm eight months pregnant. 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:10.120 It was like through my according to that picture, Yeah. 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:11.000 I can't she had to see it. I'm sorry. 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:13.280 Call the text message. 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:17.280 Oh my god, but seriously, it's your page. So you're 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.520 trying to fix things that are false and they're telling 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:22.040 you we can't do that. 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:26.560 Yeah, it was like that was years ago, and I 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.840 was just like, okay, whatever, I don't like because my 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.480 old thing is when I like, I was in like 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:36.600 when I left WW. You know, it was a it 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:38.520 was time for me to leave. Let's say and in 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:42.600 terms of my relationship with kind of people in the 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.920 administration or the office as we say in the biz biz. 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.200 And it was time for me to leave, and I 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.520 was like, okay, I'm gonna go do acting. And I 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:56.240 left and Impact I did some shows with them, and 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.800 then there was an administration changed there and I was like, 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.040 you know what, Okay, I'm good. So I had kind 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.400 of gone out, you know, Hollywood, I've gotten in. I've 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.640 done you know, a bunch of network shows and stuff 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.200 like was actually like did a couple of movies and 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:13.520 things were we're starting a roll, booked an episode of 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.680 Magnum p I as the lead heel. This was Hawaii 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:21.160 in twenty nineteen. This was like it was like late 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:24.280 augu Yeah, it was Labor Day weekend and I had 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.600 like three or four days off in Hawaii, so it 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.600 was great. I'm laying on the beach and Billy called 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.880 me from Billy Corgan FORWA, like, hey, we're doing TV. 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.640 You need to come. No, I don't, I'm retired. I'm 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:39.120 actually like starting this. He goes, well, you already have 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.080 a ticket, just come on. And then when I first 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:44.280 went to NWA, like I finished up the gig there 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.640 and went to Georgia and I was just like whoa 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.360 Like it was the old school field, the studio. It 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.120 was like the essence of what I grew up loving 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:56.840 and pre COVID, which we did about I think three 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:00.360 television tapings, so we had about three months worth the TV, 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:05.720 maybe four months worth of TV. And from there, you know, 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:10.440 again twenty twenty happened. Things were on pause as a company. 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:15.119 You know, we've survived and found ourselves in a post 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:18.720 pandemic world, and I think in the last several months 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.879 we have truly hit our stride as a company, and 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:25.280 that is that's just a wonderful place to be because 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:30.399 it you know, it ignites the pardon me that I 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.000 never thought I would get in touch with again as 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:35.040 a performer, right because like, acting is wonderful and I 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.920 love it and I know it's great. You know, it's 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.960 it's like it's nice to have a union when they're 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.399 not on strike, which thank god, the strike's ended. But 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:49.360 there's also like the the instant feedback you get from 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.119 fans and in my opinion, like the live performance of 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.240 it is it's just the coolest thing in the world. 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:59.480 And when I see wrestling today where it is such 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.560 like and I'm not knocking this, I think they're amazing 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.880 athletes today, but like, the vast majority of what we 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:11.120 see is choreographed acrobatics and you're seeing that, And again, 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:15.399 I think that's because of a number of reasons, not 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:19.200 the least of which is social media, when we consume 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.840 things much faster these days, when it's like we want 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.080 a ten second thing on Instagram or a thirty second 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:27.040 thing right where it's you see a person do this 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.080 crazy move, oh my god, and then you kind of 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:31.480 go scrolling onto the next thing. And I think a 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:37.720 lot of aspiring wrestlers or slash wrestlers today work to 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.480 that particular niche. But I think in terms of the 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:45.879 overall template of our business where no, we're storytelling and 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.120 you have to care about the people in the ring, 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.159 not the moves they're doing. And I'm not saying like 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.560 for any when that's listening to this, it's not like, oh, 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.840 just because I can't do a four fifty splash, I 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.080 don't want you to do. No, like, do what you do, 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.320 but make them care care about you. Make him care 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.879 about you doing the move, not the move itself. You 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:07.960 look at Raymisterio and WCW his quote unquote work rate 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:09.960 And I hate that word because it's used by people 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.600 who have never taken a bump, you know, work rate, Like, 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:15.479 come on, you don't even know what working is, right, 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:23.160 So his work rate was much higher to their standards 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:26.160 in terms of he did more moves, right, he did 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.640 way more moves and way more flashy stuff. But he 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:33.040 was never more popular than when he was in WWE. 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:37.000 And although he did amazing things, it was presented in 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:40.760 a way that the fan could digest and care that 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:42.399