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Speaker 2: have this guy on. Xavier Woods joins us and before

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Speaker 1: Are you ready to do this? Here we go, Exavier Woods.

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Speaker 1: This is part one.

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Speaker 2: We talked to Xavier Woods uh for well over an

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Speaker 2: hour and a half and the first half we talked

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Speaker 2: about wrestling. The second half we talk about video games.

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Speaker 2: So the first half of part one with Xavier Woods

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Speaker 5: pro wrestling from the independent scene to w W E A,

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Speaker 2: So I would figure out if I thought, how am

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Speaker 2: I going to intro this show and there's no way

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Speaker 2: go ahead and say it that we are very honored

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Speaker 2: to have on the Battleground Podcast today.

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Speaker 1: The man, the myth, the legend, Xavier Woods is with us.

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Speaker 3: Dude, what's up, what's going on? Thank you for such

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Speaker 3: such a kind intro.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, nobody can really do ease thing like he does it.

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Speaker 3: It's it's the big lungs in that big.

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Speaker 4: Chest that I was gonna say, they're strong, just like

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Speaker 2: I thought about trying to do that, and I was like,

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Speaker 2: and I tried to do that and completely butchered it.

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Speaker 2: And I was like, you know what, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 3: That's the thing. It's it's something that people need to understand.

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Speaker 3: Lay to your strength.

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Speaker 7: Don't try to beat somebody else because you can be

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Speaker 2: Boom right, Oh, I love that so we are excited

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Speaker 2: to have Xavier Woods on. We're going to talk all

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Speaker 2: video games. So we're gonna kind of like we always

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Speaker 2: a softball question to kind of get the things flowing.

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Speaker 2: So when was that moment that you knew you wanted

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Speaker 3: It's like that's when I knew, Like, man, screw you all,

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Speaker 2: This and I know exactly what that feeling because when

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Speaker 7: Yeah, because like my what was in my head was like, okay,

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Speaker 7: so I'm gonna remember this day.

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Speaker 3: I remember.

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna remember your faces, I'm gonna remember what you said,

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Speaker 7: and when once we're in our thirties, I'm gonna call

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Speaker 7: all you and see if any of your reach day because.

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Speaker 3: I know, not a wadi, not a waddie. It's going

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Speaker 2: And I guarantee you one of those people that laughed

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Speaker 2: asking for a photo and be like, yo, dude, remember

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Speaker 2: we were in the same class together.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, dude.

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Speaker 7: It was so it's so incredibly satisfying people in high

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Speaker 7: And by then I had luckily started like amateur wrestling,

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Speaker 7: But to those few people who were still hating, one

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Speaker 7: and I wanted to say, I'm so sorry for being

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Speaker 3: Back in the day. I was like, you know what, man, and.

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Speaker 2: It's probably that guy the kid probably you know, wanted

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Speaker 8: I'm looking at my box of bootyos as we speak.

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Speaker 8: It's right to my right over here.

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Speaker 1: And I'm being being the nerd that I am.

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Speaker 8: I do have to tell a short story somewhat related.

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Speaker 8: But when I got back into wrestling, I think this

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Speaker 7: It's funny that, uh, it like it it worked out

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Speaker 8: So same kind of thing. Like I mean, when you

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a it's a weird thing. And uh, Tyler

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Speaker 3: This when we're in developmental together. We talked about it now.

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Speaker 7: Still it's uh, it's always weird to be in that

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Speaker 7: It allowed us to kind of take that that emotion

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you don't want to go home heat exactly.

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Speaker 7: So so we've always been very thankful that that was

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Speaker 3: So you're actually out there doing it.

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Speaker 7: So again, like just super was, it's a very humbling

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's been it's been crazy, so you uh, you know,

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Speaker 3: What was We'll tell you a story. Can I tell

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Speaker 3: you story about yeah?

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Speaker 8: Please?

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Speaker 3: Please?

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Speaker 7: Pretty I'm pretty sure somebody drove around the different people's

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Speaker 7: neighborhoods and still their Wi Fi to vote for me

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Speaker 7: from different ideas?

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Speaker 3: What And I'm totally okay with that.

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Speaker 8: I mean, you know, obviously NBA is a legendary promotion,

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Speaker 3: Wish that was the case. What I mean, no, as

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Speaker 3: He goes, gosh, so you lost. And then after that

439
00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:07,160
Speaker 3: it was maybe maybe like a month or two.

440
00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:09,920
Speaker 7: I got a call and they were going to offer

441
00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,320
Speaker 7: me a deal and I'm so excited.

442
00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:13,080
Speaker 3: I call my parents.

443
00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:15,439
Speaker 7: I'm like, oh my god, I got My goal was

444
00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,920
Speaker 7: to get signed to wrestle on TV before I graduated,

445
00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:20,240
Speaker 7: Like and it's happening. My mom was like, you're still

446
00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,159
Speaker 7: in school, like you still have to finish this is

447
00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:26,360
Speaker 7: senior year. And I'm like, yeah, I do, and I will,

448
00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:28,880
Speaker 7: like okay, well figure it out. That was the whole thing,

449
00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:32,359
Speaker 7: Like they'll help me in anything in life. But my

450
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,360
Speaker 7: mom said, this is your dream. You have to do

451
00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:38,399
Speaker 7: this and make the decisions yourself. That's how you have

452
00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:40,679
Speaker 7: to handle it because you have to know that you

453
00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:42,480
Speaker 7: did it and if you failed at it, it was your fault,

454
00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:43,800
Speaker 7: and if you succeeded, it was your fault.

455
00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:45,520
Speaker 3: This is your dream. And I was like, that's the

456
00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:47,400
Speaker 3: best lesson I've ever met got in my life.

457
00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:48,400
Speaker 8: Yeah.

458
00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:52,000
Speaker 7: And so I had a call with Jeff Jarrett and

459
00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:53,400
Speaker 7: he was like, hey, so you know what do you think?

460
00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,200
Speaker 7: And again, me nineteen years old talking to Jeff Jared,

461
00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:00,480
Speaker 7: I'm thinking like uh jeh, like.

462
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:01,520
Speaker 3: I'm freaking out.

463
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:02,720
Speaker 1: I'm freaking out.

464
00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:06,040
Speaker 7: And so I'm like, I this is such a such

465
00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:08,480
Speaker 7: a like great thing that you guys are offering me

466
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,560
Speaker 7: I appreciate it so much and I want to sign this,

467
00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:12,320
Speaker 7: but I have to finish school.

468
00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:17,480
Speaker 3: He was like okay, and like, I'm what does what

469
00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:18,199
Speaker 3: does okay mean?

470
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:19,960
Speaker 7: He's like, well, can we put you on a half

471
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,679
Speaker 7: schedule until you graduate and then put you on a

472
00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:23,199
Speaker 7: full schedule.

473
00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:23,560
Speaker 3: What you do?

474
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,239
Speaker 7: Like, well, that'll be okay. Can you sign it then?

475
00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,320
Speaker 7: And I was like yeah. He goes, all right, Cool'll

476
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,639
Speaker 7: send it to you in a few days. Like wait what,

477
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:35,679
Speaker 7: And so I'm I'm I go back to my my roommates.

478
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:39,359
Speaker 7: I'm like, guys, uh, I just got signed And I

479
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,480
Speaker 7: were like wait, wait, wait what, I'm like.

480
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,840
Speaker 3: No, like, I got signed to DNA, and so again

481
00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,760
Speaker 3: we have like another freak out party. Yeah, and so

482
00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:51,159
Speaker 3: it was. It was very uh, I don't know.

483
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,040
Speaker 7: It just felt really good to be able to, uh,

484
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:55,600
Speaker 7: to be able to do what I was trying to

485
00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 7: do for so long, especially because I had previously sent

486
00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:00,920
Speaker 7: like my my resume and all stuff everywhere. And when

487
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 7: I say resume, I mean my my folder with my

488
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 7: eight byton on the front, with my my cover letter

489
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,280
Speaker 7: and my resume behind it, my business card, my LightScribe

490
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,600
Speaker 7: DVD with a bunch of my matches on it. I

491
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:12,639
Speaker 7: sent that everywhere and the only people to reply was

492
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 7: WWE and they said, you know not right. We want

493
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:16,760
Speaker 7: to reply because, like, you put so much effort into

494
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:18,760
Speaker 7: this resume. You didn't just send us a random flimsy

495
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,439
Speaker 7: DVD in a box, and we want to let you know,

496
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,399
Speaker 7: like we're not hiring guys right now that are as

497
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,800
Speaker 7: small issue. So that's the that's the main reason. So

498
00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,199
Speaker 7: but the pendulum might swing back at some point. So

499
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,080
Speaker 7: when I got picked up by T and A, uh,

500
00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 7: it was just like this feeling of elation because you know,

501
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,239
Speaker 7: once you are are trying to get a job and

502
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 7: like the largest company in the world is.

503
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,240
Speaker 3: Like you're not good enough for us. I'm like, oh,

504
00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 3: this stabs me and my soul.

505
00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:46,440
Speaker 7: But then getting a job right there, it's like, okay, perfect,

506
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:48,200
Speaker 7: this is this is this is just as good. I'm

507
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 7: so fighted and so I was just I'm very happy

508
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,679
Speaker 7: that I got the opportunity to be a part of

509
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:56,200
Speaker 7: P and A, especially at that time.

510
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:57,640
Speaker 3: There were so many.

511
00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:00,320
Speaker 7: Talented people there that I was able to learn very

512
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 7: important lessons from that. I don't think I would have

513
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:07,440
Speaker 7: been anywhere near successful in WW if I didn't learn

514
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 7: those lessons.

515
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,399
Speaker 8: Well, we were looking up some of the members of

516
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 8: the front line. I mean it's like a who's who

517
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,920
Speaker 8: you know? Samojoe, AJ Styles, Jay Lethal, P. D Williams,

518
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,840
Speaker 8: Eric Young, ODIB MotorCity machine Guns. You I mean, that's

519
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 8: a that's a heck of squad, you know.

520
00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 7: Yeah, uh, well debatable. You got to watch the footage.

521
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 7: It doesn't say that really.

522
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 8: Yeah, well on paper, so yeah, but yeah, yeah, it's man,

523
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,679
Speaker 8: that's crazy. Yeah, I didn't realize. I didn't realize you

524
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,399
Speaker 8: signed with him so young. I just assumed you're, you know,

525
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 8: twenty five, twenty six or something.

526
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 7: No, it was, Yeah, it was like six months before

527
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 7: I graduated college. So so when I when I walked

528
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,200
Speaker 7: my diploma, I walked and went to like get on

529
00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:54,880
Speaker 7: an airplane to go to a show the next.

530
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 1: Day, and it just had have been a surreal moment.

531
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 7: Though it's absolutely insane, especially because so my my degrees

532
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 7: were in psychology and philosophy, so I was able to

533
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 7: double major. And as I walked across the stage, took

534
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 7: the hand, got the diploma.

535
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 3: And go to my dad.

536
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,359
Speaker 7: He goes, hey, congrats, and now you can sit around

537
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,159
Speaker 7: and think about why you don't have a job, And

538
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 7: I was like, how how long.

539
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 3: He've been waiting to say that to me? Yeah, but

540
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 3: he clearly thought of it like sophomore year. But then

541
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,919
Speaker 3: I clearly have a job, but he still had to

542
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:27,160
Speaker 3: get it in. Yeah.

543
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 8: I mean if he doesn't bust balls, like what is

544
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 8: what is he? You know?

545
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:31,400
Speaker 3: Yeah?

546
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 1: So that's what that's what Dad's got to do, right

547
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 1: you know.

548
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

549
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 2: So kind of in between your time with tn A

550
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 2: and WW, you got to find a new Japan Pro

551
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 2: wrestling tagging with Coda Abushi. What was that experience like?

552
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 2: And is Abushi as magical as we all think he is?

553
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 3: I flew there for a day.

554
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 7: Wow, I like landed that the night before or like

555
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 7: the afternoon before, slept, woke up, went to the show,

556
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 7: flew out the next morning.

557
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:03,280
Speaker 3: Wow.

558
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 8: Wow that was that the Tokyo down.

559
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 3: Yeah.

560
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,680
Speaker 7: So it was my first time in Japan. Beyond excited.

561
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 7: I'm so pumped and it was like, hey, this is

562
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 7: a super short trip and I'm like why It's like

563
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,360
Speaker 7: it was so it was the Super Junior Tag Tournament

564
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 7: and so I hadn't had any experience calling matches with

565
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 7: people that where we didn't share a common language, and

566
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 7: so I was I was super nervous about how things

567
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 7: were going to go down. I didn't know if there

568
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 7: were like a bunch of people who spoke English and

569
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,639
Speaker 7: might be able to be the middleman for me to

570
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,359
Speaker 7: help translate, or if they could translate the Japanese back

571
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 7: to me and like just tell me what's going on.

572
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 7: But uh, it was. It one of the easiest things ever.

573
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 7: I had nothing to worry about. All of those guys

574
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,439
Speaker 7: were so incredibly good at like the nonverbal use of

575
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 7: wrestling too. So even if I didn't understand something just

576
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 7: like a hand motion or the way like the body

577
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 7: would be positioned, like okay, cool, we're all good. This

578
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,400
Speaker 7: is all the same language regardless where.

579
00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 3: We are, right.

580
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 7: But yeah, it was. It was super fun. Like I said,

581
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 7: first Super Juniors tag and I wanted to go and

582
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 7: like try to do all like the crazy what At

583
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,480
Speaker 7: the time, I was like, oh, this like the cool

584
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,399
Speaker 7: like Japanese style. I was like I want to do this,

585
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 7: And they're like, hey man, you realize you're like one

586
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 7: of the very few Americans here and you're doing like

587
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,920
Speaker 7: a dancing boxing gimmick. You realize, like, we don't really

588
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 7: do that over here, So why don't you just play

589
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 7: into that people will like it. I was like, no,

590
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 7: but I want to. I want to do this stuff

591
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 7: like I'm the We're telling you just try it. And

592
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 7: so I went out and like played it up even

593
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,959
Speaker 7: harder than I did at home, and people like I

594
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 7: did like a spin and a split, and all I

595
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 7: heard was oh, And I was like, you know what,

596
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:41,959
Speaker 7: I can do this.

597
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 3: I like this a lot. No, but yeah it was.

598
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 7: It was a good time, and luckily I got a

599
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:51,119
Speaker 7: chance to go back. But the going backstory is super

600
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 7: weird because I was going to go for three months

601
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 7: and I was like begging to stay in the jojo

602
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,000
Speaker 7: because like like you said, I was wrestling at like

603
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 7: n w A and I just kind of was in

604
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 7: the South Southeastern region before I got signed to TNA,

605
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 7: so I never got to go up north to like

606
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 7: Philly or Chicago, and never went out west to Cali

607
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 7: for like the indies, and so I had a very

608
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:14,120
Speaker 7: Southern style, Like we.

609
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 3: Talk a lot more.

610
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 7: It's all it's all glitz and glam, aarisma and and

611
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 7: not fighting really, you know, it's it's it's the characters

612
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 7: and the personalities and so that's all I was. And

613
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 7: so when I got to TNA, I realized, oh my god,

614
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 7: like exhibsion, like I'm gonna I can do it, like

615
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 7: I'm gonna do a hip toss here, if that's that's cool,

616
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 7: arm drag maybe, And so I was always tried to

617
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 7: learn that type of like high energy, fast paced, like

618
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,640
Speaker 7: hard hitting style, and that's what I really didn't really

619
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 7: learned at the Jojo. And so they told me it

620
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 7: was full so I wouldn't be able to stay. But then,

621
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 7: like very suit shortly before I left, it was maybe

622
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 7: like three weeks before three or four weeks before I

623
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 7: left to go over there, I got a call from

624
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,879
Speaker 7: WWE saying that they wanted to bring me in for

625
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 7: a tryout, but the tryout in the same week that

626
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 7: I would fly out Nugipan. So me, I'm not gonna

627
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 7: be like, hey, I got I got something else to do.

628
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 7: I was like, uh sure, and just didn't say anything.

629
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 7: And so I go down there and we do like

630
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,639
Speaker 7: the first three days. I think myday Tuesday, Wednesday, and

631
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 7: then they had like the show Thursday, and then I

632
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,199
Speaker 7: think they do something else with us on Friday. But

633
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 7: after Wednesday, night or Wednesday night came and I told

634
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 7: him like, oh, hey, you know when we're ending practice,

635
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 7: you know, thank you so much for this opportunity.

636
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 3: I have something that I have to leave for.

637
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 7: I drove down so I could drive back up Wednesday

638
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 7: night fly out Thursday morning, Tokyo and I was like, yeah,

639
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 7: I gotta fly out, so I have to leave night

640
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 7: and John Lornis was there. He looked at me and

641
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 7: he's like, you're telling me that we're giving you the

642
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 7: opportunity that you've been trying to achieve your entire life,

643
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 7: and you're gonna leave halfway through it. And I said, sir,

644
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 7: I know how it sounds. I am so sorry I

645
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 7: have to do this. And he's like, what's so important

646
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 7: that you have to leave the pier that I before

647
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 7: we had a conversation about me coming.

648
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 3: Out for tryout.

649
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 7: I was booked to go to New Japan and I

650
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 7: have to make good on that, on that booking, and

651
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 7: he was like.

652
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 3: Oh you're going to New Japan. Oh, get the hell

653
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 3: out of here.

654
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 7: Have fun, kid, And then like shortly after that, they

655
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 7: like when it hired me pretty quick, and then I

656
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 7: told New Japan it's rather than staying for like three months.

657
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 7: I was there for like a week and then they

658
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 7: sent me back so I could start with WWE, which

659
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 7: was like to me, I was like, that's super I

660
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Speaker 7: don't know, upstanding of you to be like, hey, you

661
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Speaker 7: know what, we get it a big opportunity for you. You

662
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,479
Speaker 7: go ahead, we'll figure it out. So I was always

663
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 7: ultra thankful to them for that, rather than being upset

664
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Speaker 7: about it or being mean to me or mad at

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Speaker 7: me or anything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

667
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Speaker 8: I hope at some point that the New Japan and

668
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Speaker 8: WWE can do stuff again. I had just seen I

669
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Speaker 8: think this was from ninety but it was I mean,

670
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Speaker 8: I to my knowledge, I think it was a new

671
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 8: Japan show. But the Ultimate Warrior was the main event

672
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 8: against the Million Dollar Man and same thing. They had

673
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Speaker 8: the same entrances that they had in the States, and

674
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,959
Speaker 8: it was just Japanese announcers you know, doing it and everything.

675
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Speaker 8: I think I saw. Who else was it? Well, you

676
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 8: was Hogan in great MOODA that's incredible. That's probably the

677
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 8: best match Hogan ever had. But there's somebody there was

678
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 8: something else that was like that? Oh it was it

679
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 8: was a Hogan against was he fighting? Was it Stan hand.

680
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 8: I don't remember anyways, but I mean there obviously was

681
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 8: a working relationship, and I think that I think now

682
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 8: would be the perfect time to kind of, you know,

683
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 8: bridge that again and try to get it combined. I

684
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 8: don't know events agrees with that, but I think it

685
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 8: would be cool. I mean, at one time there was

686
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 8: that little alliance there.

687
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 7: So I feel like there's always the prophecy of when

688
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 7: the time is right, all of the planets are aligned

689
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 7: and all things shall come together as one.

690
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there we go, and then nobody would have to

691
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 2: bash everybody's and we can all just watch wrestling together

692
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 2: as wrestling fans in harmony.

693
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 7: I just want everybody to be happy or something for everybody.

694
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Speaker 7: I'd say, So, somebody gave me a very good phrase,

695
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Speaker 7: don't yuck my yum. So if I like thing A

696
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 7: and you like thing B, yucking my yum of thing

697
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 7: A doesn't make your enjoyment of thing B any better.

698
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 3: So just leave me alone and enjoy what you enjoy.

699
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Speaker 7: Right, Rather than tearing down someone's thing that they loved,

700
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 7: why don't you just prop up the thing that you love.

701
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 7: And so that's that's where I am on that topic.

702
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Speaker 7: Everybody just be happy.

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Speaker 1: Use the code battleground.

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Speaker 2: It's time to grab twenty twenty by the horns by

749
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Speaker 8: Well, you said it, I mean there's tons of Yeah,

751
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Speaker 8: I mean, I think there is something for everyone right now.

752
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 8: So if you're complaining now, I think you're just looking

753
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 8: for an argument.

754
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 2: So the one thing I always find interesting about wrestling

755
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 2: fans in general is we always want to complain about

756
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 2: wanting something different, and then when something different happens, everybody

757
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 2: just completely craps on it.

758
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I don't think that on today's.

759
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 3: Solely wrestling fans.

760
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 7: I think that's just kind of like society currently as

761
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,320
Speaker 7: it is, you know, and in any form of entertainment,

762
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 7: it's it's a very instant gratification type of society.

763
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 3: And I'm very guilty of that well myself.

764
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 7: But I think that sometimes we don't give things the

765
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 7: proper time to play out.

766
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 3: We don't want to. We want to read the whole

767
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 3: book on day one, yes.

768
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 7: Rather than allowing chapter one to be read to us,

769
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Speaker 7: and then the next week chapter two, and then maybe

770
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 7: the next month chapter three. But over time we get

771
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 7: to see this beautiful story play out of things. And

772
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 7: I think if, if, if all of us would collectively

773
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 7: make an attempt to just be a little patient sometimes

774
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 7: with things, And I think that movies would be much

775
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 7: more enjoyed, that music would be much more enjoyed, that

776
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 7: wrestling would be much more enjoyed, because because again it's

777
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 7: just don't yuck to my yam.

778
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,959
Speaker 3: If you don't like it, that's okay, total, that's totally fine.

779
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 2: It's kind of like, you know, def Jam Vendetta, that

780
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 2: happened Monday night, give a some.

781
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 3: Time, hell of a game, and if we don't have

782
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 3: a remake set stat we got a problem. We got

783
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 3: a hell of the problem.

784
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: I remember playing that game.

785
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 7: Yes, somebody made a graphic because you know, like the

786
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 7: cover of Vendetta has the guy in the hood. Yes,

787
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 7: I saw a picture on Twitter and it was like

788
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:21,400
Speaker 7: if somebody put Shane inside of it. And I was like,

789
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 7: because like I know that people are like messing around

790
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 7: and joking, but like I'm dead ass serious about this. Yeah,

791
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,800
Speaker 7: like I want this game. It would be It would

792
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 7: be so good because you know, isn't isn't isn't not?

793
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 7: Isn't Justin Bieber technically a deaf jam artist?

794
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 3: He Yeah, Justin Bieber would be in this game with

795
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 3: like with all of these deaf jam artists who would

796
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 3: think like, oh, stereotypical deaf jam. Yeah, but then you

797
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 3: got Justin Bieber in the mix too. Let's plus it's

798
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 3: w W branded too. Why wow?

799
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: Is it not exactly the thing yet?

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00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 8: And it's like things that you like, the big companies

801
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,359
Speaker 8: don't think fans would want that thing would sell out

802
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 8: day one. I mean, like the original game kind of

803
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 8: has a soft spot for most people. And then, like

804
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 8: you said, who wouldn't want to punch Justin Bieber in

805
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:05,400
Speaker 8: the face?

806
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 3: Like you know, well, I'm I'm picking him. I'm picking

807
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 3: him and beating everybody up with them.

808
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 8: Yeah, there you go.

809
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 2: I mean, just the run of thes Justin Bieber versus

810
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 2: DMX and deaf Jam Vendetta bro O.

811
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 3: God, I'd be losing my mind Justin.

812
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I'm sitting here looking at the lineup,

813
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,320
Speaker 2: and you know, with as many rappers that have beef

814
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 2: with Joe Budden if you put deaf Jam Vendetta and

815
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 2: Joe Budden's a character on there.

816
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 7: Man, especially if you have like Beat, Joe Budden is

817
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:38,399
Speaker 7: the mode.

818
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 3: But he's just so incredibly hard.

819
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 8: Yes, like Tyson from Punch Out hard, like his big

820
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 8: boss man. And then you think about the modern graphics

821
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 8: and stuff like, oh my gosh, yes, incredible.

822
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:54,960
Speaker 3: Man, I'm looking at the deaf Jam roster right now,

823
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 3: like the actual.

824
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: That's what I was just looking at.

825
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 7: Okay, Rihanna Run, DMC, got Beastie Boys back in there.

826
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 2: Too, Mass New Day Lady Gaga is a deaf Jam artist.

827
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 8: I think technically, yeh bts bs, they're not deaf Jam.

828
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 8: I think deaf Jam. I think that, like I think

829
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 8: there's the parent company that owns def Jam.

830
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: So I think then there's like the umbrella.

831
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,959
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that. But still I think that's enough.

832
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 8: I think that's enough coverage to throw them in the game.

833
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, look Slayer too. All right, Sorry, this is not

834
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:29,320
Speaker 3: relevant anything.

835
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:35,359
Speaker 8: So we're okay. I think we're gonna skip a little bit.

836
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 8: So where are we at?

837
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 1: Okay?

838
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 8: I think we're gonna do number seven.

839
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 3: All right.

840
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 8: So New Day is not only the longest reigning tag

841
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 8: team champions in the history of the dev W. Congratulations

842
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 8: you also just the faction itself is also the longest historied.

843
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 8: That's not the word I'm looking for.

844
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: Uh, tenured you could tell that you've been you've been.

845
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 8: Yes, you've been a faction the longest.

846
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 3: I was trying to think of the word too, and

847
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 3: I couldn't, so I was just like, yeah, I'm gonna

848
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:06,319
Speaker 3: lay out.

849
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 8: Yeah, So okay, Yes, you guys were voted Tag Team

850
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 8: of the Year two years in a row by Pro

851
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 8: Wrestling Illustrated, Thank you, mister Meltzer, and voted Best Gimmick

852
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 8: by Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Do accolades like that matter to you, guys,

853
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:23,839
Speaker 8: or do you just try not to dwell on it?

854
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 8: Or you know what, what's your opinion of you know,

855
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 8: stuff like that.

856
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 3: I think it's great when it's positive.

857
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 8: No, No, it's a good point.

858
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 7: It's it's cool because it's people who are like actual

859
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 7: fans of of the wrestling product, you know, So it's

860
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 7: definitely Again, I can keep thinking, it's like a humbling

861
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 7: experience to say, like oh, like this group that this random,

862
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 7: like nerdy kid from Georgia happened to like make his

863
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,280
Speaker 7: way into is winning these awards and as these accolades

864
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 7: and it's breaking records, like it's uh, it's it's like

865
00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 7: every moment is kind of real once you get to

866
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 7: a certain point, because people will ask us like, oh,

867
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 7: did you did you think this was going to happen?

868
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:07,399
Speaker 7: Did you know in your soul like that you guys

869
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 7: would achieve something like this, And it's like no, like weird,

870
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 7: just three dudes who are really good friends and wanted

871
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 7: to be on TV together, and like that's that's always

872
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 7: the goal is to just have fun with our friends

873
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 7: on TV. And I feel like that's kind of what

874
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 7: makes it work because when people see us, say whether

875
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,840
Speaker 7: they like us or not, you can sense that genuine connection,

876
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 7: that genuine human connection, connection that is completely void of

877
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 7: like toxic masculinity that you see all over the place

878
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 7: on television and entertainment. So I think people people understand

879
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 7: the point of the group. Whether people aren't super excited

880
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 7: about like the kitty kid friendly aspects of it, like

881
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:55,800
Speaker 7: that's whatever. I feel like any mean logical adult can understand,

882
00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:02,240
Speaker 7: like the importance of our presence and wrestling, and it's it's.

883
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,919
Speaker 3: Really cool to see people.

884
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,760
Speaker 7: Enjoying it in ways that you wouldn't normally see people

885
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 7: enjoying it.

886
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 3: For instance, like.

887
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 7: When we started up with like the Unicorn things and

888
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 7: the studios and all that stuff, there were so many

889
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:25,880
Speaker 7: grown adult men who were like, hey, my young daughter

890
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 7: didn't want anything to do with wrestling. She wanted nothing up.

891
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:30,879
Speaker 7: She wouldn't even be in the room when I turn

892
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 7: it on. But now she sees New Days. She doesn't

893
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 7: know that y'all are called New Day. She just says,

894
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 7: I like the Unicorn guys, and she wanted his shirt,

895
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 7: so I got her one and I got one too,

896
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 7: And now she wants to come to a show with me.

897
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 7: And now she wants like action figures, and now she

898
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 7: wants to watch the pay per views and seeing that

899
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 7: us doing like the most the most ridiculous things that

900
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,800
Speaker 7: we can do on television just to see, like what's funny,

901
00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 7: what makes people laugh, Like is creating this genuine expperience

902
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 7: with this this guy and his daughter that may not

903
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 7: have happened otherwise through wrestling. And so it's stuff like

904
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 7: that that really makes it a memorable experience because like,

905
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 7: like we've talked about millions of times, like as a kid,

906
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 7: you want to get into wrestling because of like the

907
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 7: lights and the action and it's crazy with the crowds

908
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:22,839
Speaker 7: and the costumes and all this stuff. But then when

909
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 7: you actually get into it, you find out there's so

910
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 7: many more important things than all of that, like that stuff.

911
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 7: Not to say that it doesn't matter, but it doesn't matter,

912
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 7: you know that the stuff about like the families that

913
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 7: are getting the opportunity to now experience it showing a

914
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 7: different light because of something that you've been able to

915
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 7: bring to it. Like that's that to me, that's what's

916
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 7: important about being a wrestled.

917
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 8: It's a good point.

918
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 9: Yeah. I love the connection between all you guys and

919
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,840
Speaker 9: the New Day Phillip Power podcast. Y'all have such a

920
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 9: chemistry that's like you're so funny together but so much

921
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 9: fun at the same time. It's like, you know, I'm

922
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 9: sure I'm like everybody else. I wish like I was

923
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,760
Speaker 9: just best friends with you guys. We call hang out together.

924
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 3: Well after after Corona we get a cure, we'll be

925
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 3: traveling around there.

926
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:15,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be great, But yeah, the places you could

927
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 2: do a live podcast taping in Nashville.

928
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 7: I love that, But you know what I gotta say,

929
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 7: I gotta say I got a problem with that state though.

930
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 3: Oh I'm a firming guy. We have big heat with

931
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 3: that state.

932
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:35,280
Speaker 8: Oh are you are you talking about Tennessee.

933
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: No, I'm talking about Oh he's talking about Ashville. Oh

934
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:40,799
Speaker 1: you said Ashville?

935
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 3: Sorry, wait what'd you say?

936
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: We said Nashville?

937
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 3: You said Nashville. You know what, disregard that last minute.

938
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 4: I do love Asheville. I love all the Brewers there.

939
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 5: But.

940
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 2: There we brought it back full Circleville.

941
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, the college rivalries are nonsense. Don't mind.

942
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 4: I guess we are still recording.

943
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 8: I mean, Tennessee is in the news for like all

944
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 8: the wrong reasons right now.

945
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: So when you the worst being of coronavirus.

946
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 8: Yeah, so I was like, oh god, what do we

947
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:14,600
Speaker 8: do now?

948
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 7: Everybody feels like their state is the one that's in

949
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 7: the news the most. Like, I think everything kind of

950
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 7: is going through some things right now.

951
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 8: Yeah, for a while, Text was really the bad one.

952
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 8: But then I think, actually Georgia just had all those

953
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 8: teachers or all those students test positive in the schools

954
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 8: that reopened.

955
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 7: It's crazy, and it's like that situation where you don't

956
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 7: know what to do to say you can that's what

957
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 7: I'm hoping for people, or you know what.

958
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 8: To do, but you you know, don't do it because

959
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 8: it's infringing on your rights, that kind of thing. Video

960
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 8: games college rivers on.

961
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 2: I don't need to be up there right now, speaking

962
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 2: of college, When can we get n ca A football

963
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 2: back on PlayStation Xbox?

964
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 3: That's what I want. I haven't trying. Everybody wants it.

965
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 3: I don't even like football, and I want.

966
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 8: I wish we're let's see. I think yes, I think, Lena,

967
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:11,799
Speaker 8: are you that's me?

968
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:12,800
Speaker 3: Yeah?

969
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 9: My next question. Yes, you know twenty twenty were very

970
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 9: over it. So let's go back to twenty nineteen better days.

971
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 9: And one of the greatest things that happened last year,

972
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:24,839
Speaker 9: if not in the.

973
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 4: Last decade, was Kofe Mania.

974
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 8: Woo.

975
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 9: He defeated Daniel Bryan for the world title. So when

976
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 9: did you know he was going to win the belt?

977
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 9: And most importantly, can you described the moment being in

978
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 9: the ring after he won.

979
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 3: I knew he was going to win when he won

980
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 3: that LA before I didn't want to know.

981
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 8: No, awesome, I think I think too. Honestly, yeah, you.

982
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:57,879
Speaker 4: Could feel it.

983
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: You feel like I cried. I was crying.

984
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 7: Everyone was very emotional because like because honestly, wrestling changes

985
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 7: so much. If if people really knew how often and

986
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 7: how much things just change mid match, yours head would spin.

987
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 7: And so I didn't want to know because if I

988
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,879
Speaker 7: knew and then that didn't happen, I don't know what

989
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 7: emotions would have came out of me. I don't know

990
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 7: what I would have turned you in front of a

991
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 7: camera if that would have happened. So, yeah, the dude,

992
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 7: don't tell me. Whatever happens, happens.

993
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 3: I love you. This is going to be awesome. Let's

994
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 3: go do this.

995
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,719
Speaker 7: And obviously, like we had and I had our part

996
00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 7: in the match, but after that, no clue what's going on?

997
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 7: So too to see it happened in real time like

998
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 7: that close to the ring obviously, because like as a fan,

999
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 7: it's like, oh my god, I'm right here. But then

1000
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 7: as a former as a wrestler, as like a brother

1001
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:04,800
Speaker 7: ju Kopie Kingston and as a brother to Kofi Sarkodi Mensa,

1002
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 7: like Austin Watson was losing his mind. You know that's

1003
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 7: my government name. If you're not aware. So so all

1004
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 7: of that was very, very real. And the thing that

1005
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 7: I really enjoyed about being a part of that is

1006
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 7: the fact that throughout all of the things that I

1007
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:33,320
Speaker 7: know about wrestling, throughout history, like it's always a story

1008
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 7: of like that that guy getting to the top of

1009
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 7: the mountain, and he might have some buddies or something,

1010
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 7: but they're not linked in the way that that New

1011
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:45,280
Speaker 7: Day's link. The story is always about that one specific person.

1012
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 7: And this story was yes about Kofy, but the way

1013
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 7: that we were allowed to intertwine like our love for

1014
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 7: him and wanting him to get to the top of

1015
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 7: the mountain, and to be a to show that just

1016
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 7: because in wrestling everything disintegrates and we can't have anything

1017
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 7: good and pure because there's always some form of toxic

1018
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 7: masculinity that says I have to be a better one

1019
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 7: than you. You can't just put your love for that

1020
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 7: person ahead of a strip of leather with metal on it,

1021
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 7: you know. That's that's the that's the importance of that

1022
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 7: we have or that we hold each other to in

1023
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:30,439
Speaker 7: this group. And so to be able to show that

1024
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 7: through storytelling, through matches, through promos and things like that

1025
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 7: I feel like it added this element that we haven't

1026
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 7: really seen before, again, something very different that we haven't

1027
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 7: seen because us being jealous and mad, like that's the

1028
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:48,719
Speaker 7: same thing, So people want something different, like this is

1029
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:52,840
Speaker 7: what we're always ultimately trying to do, and so so

1030
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 7: it's again to be a part of that and for

1031
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 7: for us have that thread of relying on E and

1032
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:00,120
Speaker 7: I to win the Gauntlet match, for KOFE to at

1033
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 7: a spot like it, mh. It made that whole moment

1034
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 7: at the end, like, Okay, you're at the you're at

1035
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 7: the top of the mountain.

1036
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 3: Now you've got to fight.

1037
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 7: You gotta hold your own, you gotta show them that

1038
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 7: you're worth being champion. And as much of wrestling is

1039
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 7: what wrestling is to show whatever, like, that's one of them,

1040
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:23,799
Speaker 7: that that situation, that that moment and mania. Literally I

1041
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 7: don't know if I've felt like that kind of emotion

1042
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 7: in my life. That's simply because obviously what I'm seeing

1043
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 7: in front of me, everything that we've been through as

1044
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:41,400
Speaker 7: as a group, but all of those people in that arena,

1045
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:43,360
Speaker 7: that's one of the few times there's a difference in

1046
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 7: people cheering for something and there's a and you being

1047
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 7: able to hear it. And there's a huge difference in

1048
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 7: feeling all of that energy, because it was like you

1049
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 7: could feel the heat coming off of people's bodies as

1050
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 7: the end of that match with happening and the joy

1051
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,839
Speaker 7: the tears. I saw grown men crying and hugging each other,

1052
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:09,800
Speaker 7: freaking out, and you could literally feel that. And I've

1053
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 7: never felt anything like that in my life. But it's

1054
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,320
Speaker 7: like taking your your one set of emotions and multiplying

1055
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:19,279
Speaker 7: it by a million people, it felt like, So it's

1056
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 7: not something that can be recreated.

1057
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:21,359
Speaker 3: It was.

1058
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 7: It was the perfect storm and definitely the greatest moment

1059
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 7: to me, the greatest moment in rest.

1060
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 2: I've got to say, hearing you tell that story, I'm

1061
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 2: like getting goosebumps right now because I'm going back in

1062
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:38,360
Speaker 2: my mind remembering that happening and sitting there thinking and

1063
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 2: all you guys were in the ring, and Kofe's kids

1064
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:44,319
Speaker 2: got in there, and how of a big deal that was,

1065
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 2: And like, you know, you go back and you look

1066
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:49,359
Speaker 2: at the videos that have been popping up all over

1067
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 2: the people of people watching it, like grown men crying

1068
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 2: in bars and you know, fans and everybody, and it's

1069
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:59,400
Speaker 2: just it's an amazing moment that I know will go

1070
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 2: down as as has to be a top five moment

1071
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 2: for you.

1072
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 7: Oh one, because like on an even larger scale, it's

1073
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 7: just so Remember how earlier I said in first grade,

1074
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:15,239
Speaker 7: I said I want to be a wrestler, and they

1075
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:15,840
Speaker 7: laughed at me.

1076
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:19,400
Speaker 3: So that's the kind of energy that I brought here.

1077
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 7: When we became a group and we constantly rep that

1078
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 7: KOFE would be champion, people.

1079
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 3: Laughed at us.

1080
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 7: I know what that feeling feels like, and I hate it,

1081
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 7: and I am it's the kind of person who understands

1082
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 7: that about himself, and I always do my best to

1083
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,719
Speaker 7: find a way to rechannel that into a way to

1084
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 7: negate that feeling so that people understand. Simply because you

1085
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:48,799
Speaker 7: don't see it doesn't mean that it's not there. If

1086
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:51,360
Speaker 7: you have the problem of not being able to believe

1087
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 7: in yourself enough to think that you can't defy all odds,

1088
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:56,919
Speaker 7: doesn't mean you need to put that on anybody else.

1089
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 7: And that is the hitom me. It's the epitome of

1090
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 7: new Day. That's like the main thing we stand for.

1091
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 7: If you think you can get it done, you can

1092
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:08,080
Speaker 7: get it done. If you don't think you can get

1093
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:09,479
Speaker 7: it done. You already lost.

1094
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 8: And I think a lot of people, you know, kind

1095
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 8: of playing into the cynical side of things. They weren't

1096
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 8: expecting that result at WrestleMania, just you know, there's obviously

1097
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:24,799
Speaker 8: been some booking blunders over the years, and you know,

1098
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:29,280
Speaker 8: I have to say that lead up to him winning

1099
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:32,840
Speaker 8: was almost perfect. I mean, you know, he gets the

1100
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 8: sub in, you know, and then you have the couple

1101
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,720
Speaker 8: because he fought I think he fought Daniel Bryan before

1102
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 8: Mania too, like non title matches or something, and then

1103
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:43,800
Speaker 8: you guys had your gaunelet Like I mean, I was

1104
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 8: sitting there just like holy crap, like this is incredible.

1105
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:49,359
Speaker 8: And then when he actually wanted it's like I don't

1106
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 8: even know what to say, Like this has been incredible,

1107
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 8: And I think it was just a perfect storm. And

1108
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 8: you know, obviously I think it was long overdue. You know,

1109
00:51:56,880 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 8: I think most people on the roster would it. Covey's

1110
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 8: Super Unrated probably should have happened five, six, seven years

1111
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 8: before that.

1112
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 7: But even so, and KOFE will tell you this too,

1113
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 7: like people say that, but like if it would if

1114
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 7: it would have happened like that, then it wouldn't have.

1115
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 3: Had this this energy.

1116
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:15,760
Speaker 8: Oh totally.

1117
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:18,360
Speaker 7: The reason it had this energy is because he should

1118
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,799
Speaker 7: he should have. He should have, but he didn't, and

1119
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 7: that boiled. It's been sitting in a crock pot for

1120
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 7: what like even after like the five six years us

1121
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 7: in and I was sitting in the crackpot for like

1122
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 7: five more years, like bro, So it was it was time.

1123
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 7: And I think one thing that really helped it a lot.

1124
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:36,320
Speaker 7: And I know, again I'm super biased in the situation,

1125
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 7: but are our stuff with the ussos and being able

1126
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 7: to have that like what three or four months deal

1127
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:45,759
Speaker 7: with them where we beat the piss out of each

1128
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 7: other every night and then they came to us and

1129
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 7: it's like with with the respect thing and they just

1130
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,400
Speaker 7: forfeited that part of the match. Like that, to me

1131
00:52:56,400 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 7: added so much to it because it's like everybody. It

1132
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 7: brought everybody back into the storyline. It was like it

1133
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 7: was like a like a pulp fiction. Yeah, all these

1134
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 7: different pieces and then at the end it all comes

1135
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 7: together and it all makes sense and it makes you

1136
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 7: feel a certain kind of way. So I think when

1137
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:16,839
Speaker 7: you're when you're adding all of those things together, it's

1138
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:20,360
Speaker 7: like there's a there's an idea in psychology that your

1139
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 7: in your mind, your emotions are a cup and whatever

1140
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 7: emotion is the last thing you poured in, your brain

1141
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,759
Speaker 7: thinks the cup is full of that. So that's that's

1142
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 7: the reason why if you're on a huge like if

1143
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 7: you just got paid a million dollars whatever and then

1144
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 7: found out something terrible that negates the million dollars feeling,

1145
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:43,280
Speaker 7: and your cup is extremely full of what seems like sadness,

1146
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 7: but no, underneath it is like the happiness, but you

1147
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,360
Speaker 7: don't know that. So to be able to layer emotions

1148
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 7: like that in my in what my thought is that

1149
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:53,360
Speaker 7: that mental cup with that end result being kofe winning

1150
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 7: at Mania, like it was just pouring a little bit

1151
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 7: in the cup every single week.

1152
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 3: Okay, we want you to feel this.

1153
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 7: I want you to feel this, to feel this, and

1154
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:02,839
Speaker 7: want you to feel the emotion that you're gonna feel

1155
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 7: and Woffy wins and everybody felt it until I don't know,

1156
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:08,320
Speaker 7: I'm gonna.

1157
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 3: Get all we're talking about it. It was dope.

1158
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, we can sit here all day long

1159
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 2: list of this because this is great storytelling that most

1160
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 2: people don't get to hear, you know, coming from somebody

1161
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,840
Speaker 2: that was there experiencing at firsthand, just sitting here listening

1162
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 2: to Xavier Woods talking about that moment at WrestleMania with

1163
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:28,320
Speaker 2: Kofi Kingston and the fact that he was like, I

1164
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 2: didn't even want to know until the end of the match.

1165
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 2: If I was a Xavier Woods, I would have loved

1166
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 2: to know them, but of course the raw emotion would

1167
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 2: have gone.

1168
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:36,239
Speaker 1: But that's me.

1169
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 2: But that that wraps up Part one of our interview

1170
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:43,480
Speaker 2: with Xavier Woods. We're dropping another episode on Monday, so

1171
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:45,760
Speaker 2: get ready for that. Make sure you listen and subscribe

1172
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 2: and turn on the notifications because on part two of

1173
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:51,239
Speaker 2: our episode with Xavier Woods, we're diving in to all

1174
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 2: things video games. Yeah, we're talking up, up, down, down.

1175
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 2: We're talking about contender for Video Game of the Year

1176
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty, what video games he's playing right now,

1177
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:01,400
Speaker 2: and of course we're going to talk about music from

1178
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 2: video games. So that's gonna be a fun one. So

1179
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:06,879
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1180
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:10,879
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1185
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Speaker 1: But that's gonna wrap it up for the show today.

1186
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 8: Have a good one.

1187
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:26,280
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1188
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:32,200
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1189
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:34,840
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