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I don't even care if 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.440 you're here? Rarely am I so excited to talk about 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:30.599 a story as I am today? 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:31.120 Oh? 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:31.440 Good? 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.120 Can I sit out? And this is gonna be a 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:34.560 nine minute Brian opening? 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:35.880 I mean you can if you want to, but you're 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.279 gonna want to talk, all right. We all want to 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:46.000 talk about an interesting private meeting reportedly took place this week. 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.359 I'm just gonna read this from Wrestlingobserver dot com and 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:54.680 then I'm gonna go an interesting private meeting reportedly took 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:58.600 placed this week. Shane McMahon is said to have met 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:04.560 with Tony Kahan on to discuss possibilities moving forward Wreussell 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:08.200 Talk and Fight forul A reporting the meeting was held 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.840 in Arlington, Texas, where aw is running a residency at 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.240 the Esports Stadium until mid August. Russell Talk obtained the 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.160 below image of the meeting, which we'll talk about in 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:23.080 a moment. Rumors regarding Shane McMahon to AWD began last 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.440 month when Conrad Thompson mentioned on a podcast that he'd 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.760 heard McMahon sent feelers to the company. However, Tony Kahn 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.360 told Dave Meltzer he had never met or spoken to McMahon. 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:38.239 Meltzer also later wrote that McMahon had never seriously pushed 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.800 to get into the company. One person noted to US 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.720 said Dave that there was a conversation between McMahon and 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.160 an ex WWE tallent inn AW. It was described as 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.280 not a pitch to get in or anything, just two 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.800 people chatting when McMahon said something to the effect of, 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.840 can you imagine if I walked out there on dynamite? 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.320 I heard the rumor he might be interested, said Tony 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:05.160 Kahan too, sports illustrated. I've never met Shane, but we 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.640 have a lot of mutual friends. I have a lot 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.360 of respect for him as an executive and a professional wrestler. 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:17.200 I'm dying here. Shane is always welcome in AW. And 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.640 there was an instant where McMahon and Mercedes had a 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:25.320 chance encounter at an airport as well. And I will say, okay, 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:31.200 I will say, I may be a fool here. I 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:35.720 do believe that that was in fact a chance meeting. Okay, now, 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:38.959 so I. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.120 Heard us poors don't have a chance to get to 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.839 the Delta Club much or anything like that. That's where 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:45.440 the mighty mingle. 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:53.280 I heard about this earlier this morning. I was mildly amused. 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.079 And then I saw the photograph. Have you said, I 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:00.680 have guys seen the photo? Please please put please tell 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:04.640 me you've seen the photo of Tony Khan and Shane McMahon. 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:06.200 It's out there now. 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:14.960 I suppose it's possible, Okay, it's possible that this is 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:19.080 some sort of photoshop. Okay, However, this photo has been 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:23.800 out for hours and hours and hours, and at this point, 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:29.160 the reality is this. It's either real or if it's 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:32.520 a photoshop. Tony Khan wants you to believe it's real 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:37.520 because nobody has Oh, you know, it's not real, etcetera, etcetera. Okay, 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:41.240 so we're gonna presume for the sake of argument that 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:46.120 this is a legitimate photograph. Okay, it's like, this is 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.000 like after dark. I gotta explain this photograph to people 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:57.320 of Bigfoot. There there's a long desk. Tony is sitting 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:02.720 in front of it. There a chair on the opposite 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.360 side of the table. Shane McMahon is leaning against it. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:11.000 They are both looking at the camera. Shane McMahon is 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:15.679 merely looking stern and Tony Kahan is like this, He's 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:22.079 got his hand on his face. Ah, I've been caught now. 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.760 I saw this photograph. I howled, I cried with laughter. 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.439 It's the funniest frickin' photograph you've ever seen in your life. 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:37.400 Dying Okay, and when I saw it immediately. I don't 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:42.280 care what anybody says. Okay, I don't care. I know 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.160 some people don't like this word. I'm gonna use it anyway. 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:52.160 Do not be a mark. You cannot convince me that 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:57.400 this photo was not leaked by Tony Khan, either leaked 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.000 by Tony Khan or approved to be leaked by Tony kan. 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:06.600 You guys don't get it. This guy, Tony, nice guy, 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.400 been on our show, Friendly Chap. I'll tell you one 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:20.480 thing about this guy. He is so paranoid about leaks. Okay, 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:26.120 the stories I could tell you, this guy is petrified 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:33.600 of anything getting out. I've heard stories of like you 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:39.719 would be like what you go to a show. He 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.320 doesn't even put like the lineup of the show, and 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.479 like who beats you or anything anywhere backstage. It's absolutely 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:49.640 completely secret, and it's been like this for a while. 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:54.640 And as I've mentioned before, it's it's actually hilarious because 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:57.800 you know, I talked to a lot of people there, 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:04.680 and I have for years. Okay, I think maybe maybe 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:10.760 one time ever a person directly told me a finish 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:15.160 of an upcoming match. Once, okay, once in all these years, 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:17.960 I hear a lot of other things, but like nobody 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.800 spoils who beats who or things like that. But like, 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.079 this guy's so paranoid he he won't even tell anybody 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.200 what they're doing, who's beating who, whatever. And the thing is, 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.319 I can figure out the finish of ninety nine point 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:34.520 nine percent of these matches just because I know exactly 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:39.200 how this guy books. There's nothing being leaked, No thing 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:43.559 that being leaked is his brain. So anyway, he's all paranoid. 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.760 It doesn't like anything getting out. Everything is like. So 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.840 the point of this is, from what I know stories 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:56.800 I've heard, there is no chance somebody walked in on 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:01.520 this meeting, took a photograph tony ah and then they 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:07.199 fled and they put it out on the internet. No chance, zero, zilch, 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:11.120 not a chance in the world. Okay, so he wants 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:17.920 it out there. Why, Well, I don't know what's going on. 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.559 I don't have any inside of information on this one, 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.960 but I don't know. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:25.240 Man. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.400 I think Shane's coming in. I think he's coming in. 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:33.280 Why would you leak this? Why would you allow this 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.600 to go out on the internet if you did not 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:37.679 intend to bring this man in? Why would you do that? 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.160 So anyway, we'll see. 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.480 Because somebody did it without their knowledge and would get 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.640 fired for it, and we'd have a rebuttal and some 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:52.240 sort of statement. But we haven't gotten any of that. 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:54.439 So maybe Shane is coming in. 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:04.600 Shane what wressell to hang out with m JF colly. 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:08.880 Hey, look, don't tell me that Darby Allen and Shane 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:10.439 McMahon in the same sentence. 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:15.320 Brother, Do you remember Shane McMahon's last WWE entering appearance. 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:16.720 Yeah, that's why I'm bringing in. 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:20.600 He tore both quads, if I recall correctly. Yeah, Well 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.680 in the first, the second, the first seconds of this match, 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.320 old as Shane, he's older than I am. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.200 Didn't Matt Hardy fall off a fortlift onto his head 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.920 onto concrete, didn't Darby Allen dive off of. 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.840 He's fifty four years old, dude, fifty four years old. 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.240 Not in Shane McMahon's mind, he's not. That's the problem 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.120 goes out there every time he Well, don't worry. He'll 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.480 be able to be controlled by Tony Kahn and be 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.080 able to be very limited in what he can do. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.040 I've never been so disgusted with something you said on 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:55.560 the show. Stop already, Well, I mean we'll see. 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:55.800 Hey. 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.400 It got people talking. It got people talking for good 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.640 and for because the first thing that I saw were 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.600 a bunch of aw fans just rolling their eyes, hating 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.320 the idea, hating the thought. But it also got a 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.600 lot of people talking into oh my god, what if 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.040 Shane was there? And then their fantasy booking minds go, 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.000 what if he was with m JF. What if he 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.760 does do this? What if he runs into Christian? What 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.200 is Christian gonna say to him? 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.920 So Shane versus Miss with Snoop as a RAF, was 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.480 that Shane's opponent? Okay, yeah, brother, I watched that match. 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.720 The first guy'd hires Snoop. He was the best guy 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.240 in that match by Miles. 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:33.800 Best guy at the Olympics. Right now, I don't know 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:35.720 what else is going on over there in France, but 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.600 I know Snoop Dogg is over there having a field day. 0:15:40.320 --> 0:16:09.760 I'm back in a moment abs your life. 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.000 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.760 and Mike Simpervivi on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:24.080 I've been asked by one of my beloved subscribers on Twitter, 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:29.080 y fine ladies and gentlemen there at Brian Alvarez At 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:34.400 Brian Alvarez. I only respond to my Twitter subscribers. Got 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:38.200 a question, ask, I'll answer. I may even do an 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.840 Ama today as the kids call it, only for my 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.800 Twitter subscribers. But anyway, they said, you got a fantasy book, 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.240 this Shane thing. Okay, believe it or not. I can 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.640 do this. It is actually easy, okay, And I actually 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:56.440 don't think it's a terrible idea, all right. Number one, 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.320 this man needs to be nowhere near creative, though. We 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.880 don't need to worry about that because I don't see 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.920 any chance of Tony handing over creative to Shane McMahon. 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:09.000 That's just not gonna happen, Okay. I wish he'd be 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:13.040 just like anybody else, makes some offers, offer some ideas. Whatever. 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:14.720 He ain't taken over creative, so we don't have to 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:18.720 worry about that. If that's your concern, okay, I'd be 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:20.840 fine with Shane book and Ring of Honor. That's fine. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.120 I don't think that's happening either. But the other thing 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:29.080 is he absolutely, do you understand me, absolutely positively cannot 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:34.000 be an inn ring performer. Okay. I don't mean this 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.600 in a flippant way, but this is for health reasons. Okay, 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.960 it would be it would be just wrong to let 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.639 this man wrestle at fifty four years old. Okay, the 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:48.760 answer is no. The answer is no. Now, there is 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:54.399 an easy storyline which I actually like, and that is 0:17:56.000 --> 0:18:04.080 that Shane McMahon buys the Young Bucks aw shares and 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:11.760 he becomes the Heel half owner. Because listen, here's the thing. 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:13.399 I know everyone's gonna say it's a stupid idea, I 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:17.440 don't like it. Whatever, Okay, but here's the deal. We're 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:22.359 already doing that. Okay, You've already got the Young Bucks 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:27.399 as like the heel owners, and Tony is the babyface owner. 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.760 And when this whole thing started, it actually made a 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:36.000 little bit of sense because Tony got injured, he couldn't 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.160 go to the shows, and so the storyline was when 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.199 the Young Bucks are at the shows because Tony's not 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:43.639 there and their EVPs they get to make all of 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:45.879 the rules. So they made all the rules and there 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.439 was no Tony con there to stop them. Well, it 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.359 was like two weeks later. Tony comes back. He's totally fine. 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:55.720 But then, like the Young Bucks inexplicably are still heel 0:18:55.800 --> 0:19:01.240 owners and they make these decisions, and Tony makes these decisions, 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.920 and it's never explained, like, why can't Tony override these 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.239 two EVPs? They make a horrible decision for the When 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:10.760 did Tony just say, not happening, I'm back, I'm in charge. 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.960 There's never been an explanation for it. Okay, if you 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:20.320 say both of them and now, hangman, since you know 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:22.879 he's uh, he's under their thumb or what who are 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.000 the other EVPs right now? It's it's those two and 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:28.399 uh Omega who he's out of action so he has 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:32.080 no voting power. But anyway, the point is they they 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:36.240 sell all of their their stock to uh Shane and 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:37.280 hey listen. 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.920 And the consortium was me Vince. 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:44.240 Where I'm not. I'm not a huge Shane McMahon fan, 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:48.600 never have been, but as a as a heel owner, 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:53.760 and his role is merely to be the mouthpiece for 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:57.600 the heels. The Young Bucks their their their job is 0:19:57.640 --> 0:19:59.679 to go do matches. Okay, their job is not to 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:02.840 do the not to do all the talking. You know, 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:04.480 if you ever watch The Young Bucks, it looks like 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.359 Nick never wants to talk anyway. So you have Shane 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:09.280 out there to do it. He's the guy that gets 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:12.840 the heat, you know, he's a big name whatever, and 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:15.080 he's the one that makes all the terrible decisions. And 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:17.800 you go that way, I think, if you're gonna do it, 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:20.160 if you're gonna bring the guy in, I can't think 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:23.359 of anything else that you do with him than that. Oh, 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:26.320 he's gonna come out and hug Tony like Bischoff and 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:30.640 Vince and they killed the invasion angle dead. No, it's 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:36.639 just there's bad guy McMahon, good guy Tony. That's it. 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:42.320 So yeah, and it's gonna go what for perpetuity? 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:45.400 I mean, well, I mean the way that Tony books. Yes, 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:47.159 this will be a fifteen year storyline. 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.359 The problem there is, then, in my opinion, then you 0:20:55.400 --> 0:21:00.800 continue on with this really stupid storyline. And to me, okay, 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:03.960 if that's the storyline for a guy like me, a 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:07.400 fan like me who was watching this in my mind, 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:11.320 what's the countdown? Then to Shad Khan because that's. 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.479 Oh, that's fine, that's fine. I'm all over Shad as 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:15.479 an on screen character. 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:18.119 But the problem is he doesn't want to be Tony. 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:22.560 Khan did a terrible job following up. Yes, the stuff 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:24.439 with the draft and all that, Yeah, he had to 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:26.679 play into all that. But then there was when he 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:30.200 came to the show again. Ice Fine, he's just kind 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:33.600 of here. The EVPs have no cut contracts. That's why 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:35.919 they can run wild, why they can't be demoted. We 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:37.399 have absolutely no idea. 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:39.879 It's just overrule like they were for years and years. 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:43.760 Tony always got to make the decisions like it doesn't 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:44.520 make sense. 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:47.320 None of it, none of it really makes sense. And 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:51.560 then we had these battles between these factions and legions 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:55.679 that were big. It was anarchy in the arena. It 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:59.440 was blood and guts. What were they all fighting for? 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:02.199 They were all kind of fighting. So you know what, 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:05.320 let it go to me. If you're gonna bring him 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:08.520 in and you want to utilize them, utilize them with MJF. 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:13.840 You don't have to bring up talk. That's not the point. 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:15.520 Nick boch Wickham could talk. 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:22.840 And he had Bobby Shane McMahon and MJF. Yes, yes, okay, 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:23.760 that doesn't at. 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:29.800 All Long Island. He can incorporate the hardcore, mean street 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:31.920 posse of Connecticut into the mix, and let me tell 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:34.800 you something, you don't think it would go through Tony 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:38.320 Kahan's mind to bring back the Mean Street possible. They've 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:41.800 brought back everything else, They've done a tribute to everything else. 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:44.200 Hold on, why not that? 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:47.600 Because if you're gonna bring in a McMahon, you've got 0:22:47.640 --> 0:22:51.159 to do con versus McMahon. Okay, And actually you know 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:54.000 you know how they do it. I actually had another idea. 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:56.840 Do you remember when Vince brought in Eric Bischoff and 0:22:56.880 --> 0:22:59.040 it was like, oh my god, And the first thing 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:01.480 they did was hug one of the dumbest things in 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:06.440 wrestling history. Well, you have Tony Khan come out, introduce 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:12.760 Shane McMahon, and they also hug, and then Shane kicks 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:16.439 him in the balls and reveals that he's bought the 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:20.520 Bucks share. And I also, if you all in the 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:23.639 chat here, they're like Shane backstage to help business in 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:26.639 some way? Yes, on screen character? No, do you guys 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:28.800 know I mean this in the nice way possible? Do 0:23:28.800 --> 0:23:29.959 you know nothing about anything? 0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:33.040 Your way? 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:36.399 Better off? Shane is an on screen authority figure than 0:23:36.480 --> 0:23:39.240 doing anything backstage. What do you what do you think 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:45.199 this guy is good for backstage? Historically creative? He has 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:50.280 absolutely zero creative you know, he has no experience whatsoever. 0:23:50.720 --> 0:23:53.200 He's got a lot of enthusiasm. He always had a 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:55.440 lot of ideas, but a lot of his ideas were 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:56.080 kind of crazy. 0:23:56.080 --> 0:23:58.160 He never heard about good Shane McMahon ideas. 0:23:58.200 --> 0:24:00.359 But then again, look if he was so influen by 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:03.000 ECW and he liked things like pride and other things 0:24:03.080 --> 0:24:05.040 like that, boy, that would fit right in with the 0:24:05.040 --> 0:24:07.120 Tony Kahan mind frame, would it not? 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:10.800 How many of how many of Shane's non WWE businesses 0:24:10.840 --> 0:24:13.800 are still around? You want him to run the business. 0:24:14.440 --> 0:24:16.040 I'm not saying that, not you. 0:24:16.160 --> 0:24:17.320 I'm talking to these people. 0:24:17.720 --> 0:24:22.760 Well, no, but you would want to let him. 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:25.680 And no, he didn't book Royal Rumble twenty twenty two. 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:29.840 He tried. He tried to book that Royal Rumble and 0:24:29.920 --> 0:24:31.679 his father sent him home. 0:24:33.000 --> 0:24:34.320 Did you get into a fight with Brock? 0:24:34.960 --> 0:24:36.600 They ain't get a fight with him, but they were like, 0:24:36.960 --> 0:24:39.000 we are doing this. What are you talking about? 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:41.720 But you want him to book Ring of Honor? In 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:42.760 your scenario, you. 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:47.440 Gonna watch it. Listen, I'd let you book a Ring 0:24:47.440 --> 0:24:51.280 of Honor. Okay, just get Ring of Honor off Tony's plate. 0:24:51.720 --> 0:24:55.800 Let him do dynamite collision or rampage. Have anybody? Anybody 0:24:55.880 --> 0:25:01.160