WEBVTT - The Miz 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to It with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.959 Steve Smith Senior and I and this is cut to it. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:16.919 Good do it, Good do it. They's getting down to 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.720 do it. Good do it. We asked the questions you 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.200 always want to know, but no one ever asked, let's 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:29.840 cut to it. You ain't heard them about it, then 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:42.480 we're about to let you know. It's all you can't 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:49.120 give it to us and then take it back. Huh, 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:53.120 all right, let's go good morning, good afternoon, good evening. 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:58.440 When us what is that afternoon? That is good morning? 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:03.040 All right us, that's what you're rolling with. That's what 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:06.640 I said. So just I'm just trying to test your 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.640 gangster when it comes to your to your Espanol. Uh. 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:14.280 And then we're gonna have some fun with this one. 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.720 So we got our we talked about doing this segment, 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:25.039 but we've got our inaugural Big Dummy Award that back 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.720 that Fred Sanford right there, The Big Dummy Award dropped again. 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.559 So we wants a month. We're gonna try to collect 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:38.080 enough and pick and see which one gets this one 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:43.040 and and and listen, I hate to what they said, 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.840 kicking man while he's down. But I'm I'm jumping off 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.840 the top rope. Did the Eddie Garri ro leg drop, 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:55.960 Oh my gosh, So just to give some contact Seahawks. No, no, no, no, 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:01.400 former rookie there we go Farmer Seattle see Hawk Chima 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:06.360 Sivering and I hope I'm pronouncing that don't matter tried 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.960 to sneak in a female visitor into their team hotel 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.640 during this whole COVID pandemic where everything is locked down. 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:20.200 He had a visitor and decided to sir, they it 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.920 was had to be tag teams. But they decided somewhere 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.120 along this this route that they we're going to dress 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:30.960 her up as a Seahawks player to get her in 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.520 the building. So here's my question, give me, give me 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:37.840 your take on this NFL VET. I would love to 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:42.600 be in the room when these two dummies, you big dummy, 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:50.640 decided on how they were mastermind. Yeah, what was the 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:55.160 plane break in? Yeah? Right? Like did he meet her 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:59.000 like at the at the insurance Probably they're probably start 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:00.840 from the top of what you ain't happen. They're in 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:04.200 a relationship. Maybe No, I'm just gonna go I'm gonna 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.760 get him benefit out there in a relationship that's his 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:14.560 girl and training camp whatever maybe, and he's in there like, look, 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.920 I want to see my boot I miss her, and 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:26.119 they FaceTime and he says, I got it, I got 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.040 the idea. I got a great idea. And her reply 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.880 isn't no, babe, I don't think that's a good idea. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.880 She tells him, Yeah, I like that one. So this 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:39.400 is where I can already poke holes in the stories 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.440 because I don't think a wife or girlfriend's gonna go 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:47.160 along with this one. You don't think so? Um have you? 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:50.880 Have you been in the same place as I bear this? 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:56.160 This quarantine has really shown there something. There's some folks 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.160 that when they get on the elevator and their body 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:05.840 in their minds our floors. It's a few are missing. 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:07.960 So some don't go all the way to the topics, 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:12.720 which just hell, some of my under construction indefinitely mean 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:17.640 they just boarded up. And and here's the here's the part. 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.839 You know you're in trouble when you got a floor thirteen. 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:24.080 You're already in trouble. The elevators go to Florida, so 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:28.160 they faced time. They faced time, and they say this 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.400 is what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna dress you up 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:35.039 as a player. So when you come in there, don't 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:39.719 make eye contact and don't talk to nobody. Nobody. Throw 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.560 this a just throw this all. So I want to 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.320 know did she have ye what was the component like? 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.520 What did he give her hoodie? Or did he give 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:52.280 her like his work. I'm trying to sweatpants because if 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.640 she got on shorts, then they made that may tell 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:58.280 the whole possibly right, because we don't know. Now, I've 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:02.160 I've I've laid with some guys who do not look 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:06.360 like NFL football players. Hell I don't at times. I'm 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:12.440 five nine three, four hundred nineties something d ninety seven pounds. 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.280 Why receiver? You line me up next to Calvin Johnson, 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:20.360 you say, who's the wide receiver? That the short guy 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.400 is not that so I and that's why I say, 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.040 you know, it depends on what that individual looks like 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.400 when you put it in the category of examining that 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:38.200 individual as a superior athlete. Not all superior athletes look superior. 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.600 That's just the talent, that's the gift of God. That's 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:46.440 why you have God given abilities. But I just am 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.680 completely confused on why they thought that they were going 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:56.360 to be able to fool the team and just walk 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.760 up in there like she's a player, that we who's 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:01.520 the new person? Because you also got to think that 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:03.640 there could have been some other things. You could if 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:05.520 you was going to go to dress up, bro, that 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.719 could have been some others. They were in the hotel, 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.360 so she could have been she could be have been 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:17.599 room service, these security, no, these brain surgeons. You're gonna 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.719 be another player? Yeah, I got it, I got it. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:27.839 Don't hunt your Dave and clowney stuff. Stuff. Nobody's gonna 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.919 notice that is gone, is gone. And you're like, yeah, 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.799 let me get up, let me get these sweats. Baby. 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:39.159 What sides that? Well, I'm a small your medium today. 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.159 I don't think David was no, but I'm just saying 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.760 he just grabbed some stuff, walked in there and then 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.279 they called it and not just you know, and then 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.359 I'm hurt. I'm I'm the individual. Let's be honest. Is 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:57.520 she a person who has maybe done some things that 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.440 they've done before, which and I mean just like you know, 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.080 like you know how you got some people where, let's 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:09.000 be honest, you wouldn't necessarily commit a crime with them, right, 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.000 because you know you've got some folks like they will 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.280 tell on themselves, right, They're getting nervous, get anty, and 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.200 I'm wondering, like hurt. I wish I could like be 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.600 in her mind, a psyche like her psyche. You don't 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.040 talk to anybody? Do they know? I'm running? I'm runn 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.160 through the progressions? And they noticed that I'm really not 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.440 a player? What do I work? Does this make me? 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.040 How about this? And I'm being a guy and being 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:35.120 a husband? Does this swett? Who make me look fat? Right? 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:36.720 It needs to make you like you're on the roster. 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:42.160 It's just a whole bunch of stuff. And of course 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:46.320 the end of the story is they got caught. And 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:48.000 I'm trying to figure out when she walked in, Like 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:49.720 was it a side door? Did she walk in the 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.680 front entrance of the lobby like here you know? Or 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:56.680 was it the sneak in like you know everyone everyone's 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:01.440 been a teenage? Do you know you're getting If I 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:05.320 just close my eyes, they won't notice me, right? Or 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.880 did she walk into like did they FaceTime and go 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.920 over the walk you know, walk like a dude, like no, 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.960 walk like a corner and put a little pull, a 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.240 little pip of your step, and you know it's like 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.680 we try to imitate guys, right or when you try 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.160 to imitate somebody, you're just kind of like who walks 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:30.840 like that? Right? Are you watching? Yeah? Yes, you try 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:40.400 to discus Oh yeah yeah yeah, uh huh. But regardless, 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.360 this did not work and his ass got fired. Chema 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.520 lost his job, so he didn't didn't even get started. 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.400 Good even. But I guess seriously though, as a vet, 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.480 something like this happens all the time. Dumb dumbs all 0:08:54.480 --> 0:09:02.559 the time. Oh no, you it's just stuff. I don't 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.640 know what it is about us athletes, but we really 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:07.760 believe don't remember that the athletes, bro, no, no what 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:11.559 I'm saying this athletes, we really believe we could do anything. 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:18.560 Though I'm talked about that sometimes we people have done 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.160 things like this before. You everyone that started to sneak 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:22.840 someone in the house and sneak out of the house, 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.200 you snuck into like people have done that you know about. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.000 Just so don't just don't just limit that the athletes. Brother, 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:33.600 yeah there's not but this athlete is one big you 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:40.520 big DUMBI first recipient of the first Recipient Congratulations Schema Hey, 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:49.120 that virtual unemployment line is long. Pick a number? You did? Alright, guys? Hey, 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.640 who's our guest for today? Coming up on the Cut 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.920 to It podcast, We've got The Miss, a former Real 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:58.920 World star who's turned w W superstar. He's a former 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:03.000 champ who now host USA's Cannonball and Miss and Mrs. 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:12.240 Alongside his wife. The Miss. Well, this segment we got 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.080 coming up, Miss is called get Iced Up. It's our 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.920 version of an icebreaker. The random questions that we formulated. 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.400 Smithy may and may not have a follow up. It 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.440 may be something to where we get down a rabbit hole. 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.400 Who knows, but this is our segment of called Getting 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:28.120 iced Up. So Smithy, go ahead and give him the 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:36.280 first one. Alright, what is your favorite scent? Favorite scent? Yeah, 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:40.520 like a car scent. My wife whenever she puts on 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.600 this perfume, I don't even know what the perfume is, 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:44.480 to be honest, but when she puts it on and 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.360 she walks by me, my my, literally, my nose just 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.280 follows the whole thing. It's like it's like literally, I'm 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:54.719 like floating in the air just right behind her. What 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.000 if that was old spice? What would you do? Right? Now. 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.760 I mean, if if Old Spice is paying me a 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.439 lot money, then I'll guess what it's Old Spice, bar 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.880 glow you know whatever that whatever that's soap is. If 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.960 you can learn a new skill, what would it be. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:13.360 I've always wanted to play guitar, Like I'm even trying 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.520 right now. Like I have a buddy that plays guitar, 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.480 and he like teaches me like through like face time 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.080 all the time, and I just can't get it. I 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.680 can't pick it up. I can't pick up a musical instrument. 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.000 I hope I have too baby girls, and uh, once 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:28.920 they're old enough, I want to teach them how. It's 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.920 not me, but have someone teach them how to play instruments, 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.360 because it's something I've always wanted to do. I think 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.760 when you're an entertainer, like being a rock star is 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.000 like always on that list of things that you've always 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.240 wanted to do. But I don't have a good voice. 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.520 I can't play an instrument, but I can entertain you, 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.240 So probably why I'm a w W superstar. Yeah. Your 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:56.280 top three email subscriptions Email subscriptions. Honestly, I try not 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:00.120 to subscribe to anything because I don't want emails at all. Like, 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:01.920 I get so many emails a day that are just 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:08.160 garbage emails that honestly zero. I don't want any subscriptions whatsoever. 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.000 There's none you look forward to at all. No, No, 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:13.880 I honestly I get I get like when I wake 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.720 up in the morning, I have thirty emails and I'm 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:18.840 not one of those people that like the red dots 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.160 on my phone, like I have to get rid of 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.800 them so I can go through forty eraces, which takes 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.720 me about you know, five minutes of going through things. 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.520 And so no, I don't want an email from anyone 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:32.720 or anything. I don't even like emails. I'd really have 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.320 a text message. All right, Well you would hate my 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:40.719 email because I got emails over. I couldn't do it. 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.360 I could not do My wife has the same thing. 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.559 Every time I see your phone, it drives me nuts. 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:52.400 Well it works fun for me. So well I'll tell 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.800 you what emails subscription you need to get because I 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:58.040 do it one a hundred flowers. So when I saying, 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:02.640 you know, occasions, I'll get off. So it's pretty good. 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:06.400 I like those, like I'll leave on a Wednesday Thursday morning, 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:11.800 she gets up, there's a there's a bouquet of roses 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:16.200 for Debonair Smithie. Yes, I'm I might. I might do 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.559 that tonight. I think I might just have to do 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.880 that this week and get some get some brown dosing points, 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:30.720 you come back. I uh, last one. What do you 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:36.560 think your best quality is? Uh? Sometimes I think my 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.000 best qualities are my worst qualities. It depends on who 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.959 you're talking to. UM, I think I'm very outspoken, I'm loud, 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:47.960 I'm obnoxious, and for some that's fun, that's entertaining. Other 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.760 times it's a bit much, and I know him a 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:55.360 bit much and so uh. And sometimes I literally my 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.480 mouth just goes and I'm like, oh man, did I 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.240 really just say that. I can't believe I did it. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:00.880 And some people are like, that's the most genius thing 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:02.680 you've ever said. Other people are like, that's the stupidest 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:04.960 thing you've ever said. So you never know what's gonna 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.720 happen with me, you know. Okay, Well, let's get down 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:14.320 to how about you. What's what's your best quality? My 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:16.720 best quad? Let's see, I have so many I don't 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:22.440 know where to go. Uh. My my gift and my 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:28.000 curse is um, I think about things so simple but 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.600 yet so complicated and I go down a rabbit hole 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.240 that where it's like my wife is like, Babe, it's 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.800 not that serious. Where are you from and what do 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:43.320 you call home. I'm originally from parm Ohio. It's a 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:46.280 suburb outside of Cleveland. Obviously. The reason I'm a Cleveland 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.560 Browns fan is because I've lived there in my entire life. 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:54.520 I moved to Los Angeles when I was about one, 0:14:56.600 --> 0:15:01.760 and uh, I literally lived out here ever since. Um 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:03.800 So now I live in Los Angeles. I love the 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:07.440 seventy and sonny every day. Uh there's no humidity and 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.840 there's you know, sometimes a little hot from just a heat. 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:14.680 But I actually went to Austin for one year because 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.160 I was like, I don't want to pay state taxes anymore. 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.360 I'm gonna move to Texas where you don't have state 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.800 taxes that eleven percent will get you. So I moved 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:26.880 to uh, Texas for one year, and I literally said, Yep, 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.080 Texas is not for me. My wife said the same thing. 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.320 We both literally lived there. We moved like literally we 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.560 had a baby and then drove all the way in 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:38.560 a in like a like we kind of had like 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.680 this RV like this big bus that we just drove 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.280 in and thought it'd be fun little trip. We did it, 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.000 and a year later we were doing the same exact 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:48.920 thing back to l A. Because we were just like, 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:53.120 look we are l A people. Uh threw the eleven percent. 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:56.440 I'll pay the eleven percent state tax just to be there. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:02.280 So yeah, family version of rule grooves, Yeah, a hundred percent, 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.320 like literally, And it was like that because I had me, 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:09.680 my wife, my two dogs, my two cats, my daughter 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.400 who was three weeks old, and then my my mother 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.200 in law. We're all in this bus and it was 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:20.280 my cat was NonStop me owing the entire time. Uh, 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.800 he wouldn't let you even come near him, so we 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:24.880 had to shove him like in a bathroom, so we 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:29.440 didn't uh you know, like sick everyone. My two dogs, 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.640 which I have a Doberman and a mint in. My 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.760 Doberman didn't even fit in the place. He She had 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:37.080 gas the entire time, which stunk up the entire bus. 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.360 We forgot my mother in law at one stop because 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:44.120 she said, um, she said she was the bathroom. Well 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:46.240 all right, all right, say you're at a truck stop, 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:51.760 right and you're you're getting gas. Your mother in law 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:58.000 my convenience. She goes, I'm going to the restroom. So 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:01.040 we go, okay, fine, worth thinking she went to the 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.159 restroom in the bus. She didn't. She went to the restroom, 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:05.680 And why would you go to the truck stop when 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.120 you have you have you have a good bathroom at 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:11.040 the bus. And so we started driving elson we get 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.600 a phone called you son of a mother, blah blah 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:19.880 blah with her French accent. So yeah, we forgot her. Yeah, 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.320 and we had to drive back. So it was it 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:28.000 was definitely a nice little road rules episode if you want. Okay, so, 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:34.600 how did your upbringing impact your view on the world today? Wow? 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.520 My upbringing? Well, where I'm from in Parme, Ohio, you 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:39.280 go to high school, After high school, go to college. 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.200 At college, go back to Parma, Ohio. You get a job, 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:43.919 you get a family, and that's exactly what you do 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.520 for the rest of your life. When I got onto 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.680 a show called The Real World, Back to New York, uh, 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.480 it basically put me in like the melting pot that is, 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.080 you know, New York. It opened my eyes up to 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:59.879 so many different things, and once I got there, I 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.119 kind of realized that I could do anything. I wanted 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.320 with my life. So what was my dream? What did 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.040 I always want to do? And I always want to 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.040 be a w superstar. The problem is where you know, 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.960 back then you'd have to be six seven three pounds 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:17.119 of pure solid muscle, and I was not that. But 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:19.879 when I was in the real world, like I was 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:22.600 like everyone said I couldn't make that show, and I did. 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:27.080 So when you when you finally see a goal, like 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:28.800 maybe maybe for you, and I don't know if this 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:30.720 is your story, but maybe for you it might have been. 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.080 You know, you want to play football in college, and 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:35.440 then you make it into college and you play football 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.960 and you're like, oh my god, I'm I'm playing football 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.280 in college. Maybe I can do this the NFL. And 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.080 then literally you hone in and you drive yourself to 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:44.879 make it to the NFL. Then when you make it 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:47.119 to the NFL, you go, all right, I don't just 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:48.639 want to be a wide receiver. I want to be 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.440 one of the the most premier wide receivers out there. 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:53.200 And then when you do that, you're like, all right, 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:55.480 I want a Hall of Fame career. All right, maybe 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:58.000 now I want a Super Bowl. So you keep your goals, 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.240 keep excelling. So one again. On the real world, my 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.040 goal excelled to be a W superstar. When I became 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:07.240 a W superstar, I wanted to be the biggest WW superstar. 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:09.520 I wanted to be, you know, main event WrestleMania, b 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:13.200 w W E Champion, win all the titles. And then 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.479 once I've done that, now I want to, you know, 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:18.720 make sure that I have a Hall of Fame career. 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.560 I want to get back to being a Universal Champion 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:23.439 or w W Champion. I want to get back to 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.600 being main event of WrestleMania, you know. And I also 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:28.639 want to do other things and not not only do 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:30.760 I have my own reality show. Now I started on 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:32.600 the real world, I was just a cast member. Now 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:35.639 I'm an executive producer. And I also start in my 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:39.199 own show that gets incredible ratings, Miss and Mrs on 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:41.840 the USA Network as well, and so and now also 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.920 I'm developing a couple other shows for other people. And so, 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.439 you know, I've kind of except exceeded my dreams and 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:53.280 expectations and my goals, and I keep on going and 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:56.320 doing it because that's just where my mindset is now. 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:58.919 It wasn't like that when I was in Parmer, Ohio. 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:01.680 Real world changed at all. If I wouldn't have gotten 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:03.840 the real world, I would have been at home flipping burgers. 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:05.880 I would have dropped out of college because I wasn't 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.160 very good at it. Um, you know, I was good 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:12.200 at school, but honestly, I just enjoyed like school, school, 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:15.320 college school more than anything else. And I probably have 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:16.919 dropped out and just went back and worked for my 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:19.840 dad at a local Mr Hero flipping burgers. Was that 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.439 correct in your assessment of like where you were, Like 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:25.800 would you say that's how kind of your goals kind 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:27.600 of happened or did you always have that goal like 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:29.800 I'm gonna be a NFL star, no doubt my mind. 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:34.199 That's a really good question for me was Um, my 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:37.360 dad plays semi pro football. I always wanted to play football. 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:39.159 That's all I knew. That's all I wanted. That was 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:43.840 on my old desire. College was not on that road 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:48.480 trip of success. But for me, I guess what is 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:52.159 a little bit different is once I got to the 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:56.199 league and I realized what it was, I started to 0:20:56.200 --> 0:21:00.840 have to equip myself around how to were just to 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:04.560 becoming a football player. How do I master my craft? 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:07.680 How do I become one of the best. But then 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:09.760 I started to realize, well, what is one of the best, 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.000 And so I was on the team we were my 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:15.119 first year, we were won of fifteen, but I I 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:17.240 played with some I was on the team with some 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:20.040 guys that I I had admired, but I was also 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:23.200 on the team where I wanted to be better than them. 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:26.440 So it was it was very complex because I wasn't 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:30.200 necessarily looking down on them, but growing up as a 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:34.840 fan like you are of of Hawk Hogan, Rady, you know, 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:40.160 Macho Man, Randy Savage, the Honkey talk Man, Brutus de Barber, Beefcake, 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:45.199 all these guys. Those were the guys Jerry Rice right, 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:48.159 John Taylor, those guys I looked up to because I 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:50.720 grew up in Los Angeles and I was a huge 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:55.159 forty Niners fan, and Tim Brown where the team I 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:57.359 was on, I didn't believe any of those guys were 0:21:57.359 --> 0:22:00.240 in that category. So if I didn't believe kne of 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:03.719 those guys in that category, I kind of saw them 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:06.760 I once. I didn't see him as equals or I 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:08.880 didn't look up to him. I just saw almost like, well, 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:13.959 my guys that I want to emulate aren't on this team, like, 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:15.680 I didn't want to be one of the one of 0:22:15.680 --> 0:22:17.880 the teammates. Who's who who's like a brother of mine, 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:21.640 is a good friend? Was muss and Muhammed. I wanted 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:24.399 to be better than Moose And so did you have 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:27.600 did you have um a person that that you would 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:30.480 that would teach you or guide you or go, Okay, 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:32.439 you want to be Jerry Rice, you want to be 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:35.359 you know, like these talents, these are what these guys 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:38.800 did to do that. Did you have anyone like that? No? 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:43.320 So that another great question. I looked at the guys 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:46.960 as my teammates. I just looked at him as guys, 0:22:47.640 --> 0:22:52.560 like like A great example of that is at the 0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:55.840 time when I was drafting two thousand one, which was 0:22:56.000 --> 0:22:58.080 around the same time that you were in a world 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:03.320 world mhm, I was looking at Moose and I'm like, 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:06.800 I want to be on the record books, and Moose 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:08.840 at that time was the record books. That my goal 0:23:08.960 --> 0:23:16.840 was two be the best Carolina Panther wire receiver in 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:19.800 in their history. That was your goal, then that was 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:22.440 my goal in my mind. I said, I want to 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:28.359 erase moose in from the record books soutique. So to 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:31.719 have that mentality to erase somebody for the record books. 0:23:32.440 --> 0:23:36.960 Technically you can't be friends with them. And I looked 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:38.920 at Moose, and I believe Moose looked at me. At 0:23:38.920 --> 0:23:41.800 one point in our careers we were enemies on the 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:46.120 same team. So when he make a one hand to catch, well, 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:47.920 in my mind, I'm like, well, I'm gonna make four 0:23:47.960 --> 0:23:51.879 one hand to catch us. If he's gonna make a 0:23:51.960 --> 0:23:55.600 hunter yard game, man, I'm an average a hunter yards 0:23:56.359 --> 0:23:59.720 and elevate your It was making me but but it 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:02.520 isn't elevating it in the way you think it was 0:24:02.560 --> 0:24:06.320 an elevating it to where I mean, this is my podcast. 0:24:06.320 --> 0:24:08.080 I man, I wanted to be I wanted to be 0:24:08.160 --> 0:24:11.080 the standard like I didn't want but I wanted to 0:24:11.080 --> 0:24:13.800 relate it back to even with with with miss and 0:24:13.960 --> 0:24:17.080 you like, it's having a goal, then I achieve that goal. 0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:20.399 Now is I have to recalibrate it's not, it's not. 0:24:20.480 --> 0:24:23.840 I wanted to be the standard I wanted When you 0:24:23.920 --> 0:24:27.600 talked about the Carolina Panthers, when you talked about w 0:24:27.600 --> 0:24:31.200 w E, I didn't want them to talk about well, 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:35.920 this guy that guy, I'm the damn guy. Yeah, well, 0:24:36.080 --> 0:24:38.439 I'm the same exact way like whenever I see a 0:24:38.480 --> 0:24:40.960 poster that I am not front and center, whether I'm 0:24:41.000 --> 0:24:43.639 on the poster or not, if I'm not front and center, 0:24:43.720 --> 0:24:46.600 it infuriates me, and it makes me want to work 0:24:46.640 --> 0:24:50.399 harder and figure out a way how I can be 0:24:50.680 --> 0:24:53.879 the focal point of not only that poster, but the show, 0:24:54.200 --> 0:24:57.199 the entire show SmackDown on every Friday. If I'm not 0:24:57.320 --> 0:24:59.920 the focal point of that show, you better believe I'm 0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:02.520 working towards to becoming that thing. But the thing I'm 0:25:02.520 --> 0:25:05.480 different than you is I look at everyone as my friends, 0:25:05.560 --> 0:25:08.280 like how come you can't uh, you couldn't look at 0:25:08.359 --> 0:25:11.680 as moose as like Jarvis and O'Dell look at each other. 0:25:11.880 --> 0:25:14.840 They elevate each other. They literally are saying, Hey, I 0:25:14.880 --> 0:25:16.840 want to make you better. You want to make me better. 0:25:16.920 --> 0:25:21.120 We're going to be better together. Well one they grew 0:25:21.200 --> 0:25:24.719 up together. They want to Now you you're living in 0:25:24.920 --> 0:25:27.879 l A. You know the listeners. We don't wanna We 0:25:27.920 --> 0:25:31.280 don't want you to tell exactly your your address location. 0:25:31.600 --> 0:25:33.520 Where are you in l A? Because I'm from I'm 0:25:33.560 --> 0:25:36.719 in the suburbs. I used to live in the in Hollywood, 0:25:37.040 --> 0:25:39.520 but now I live in the suburbs like I live 0:25:39.600 --> 0:25:42.399 past Calabasas, like I'm in a thousand Oaks area. Okay, 0:25:42.440 --> 0:25:44.639 So when you used to live in the Hollywood area, 0:25:45.200 --> 0:25:49.960 I lived off A hundred and six and Avalon. Okay, 0:25:50.160 --> 0:25:55.120 that's a mile from Welcome to Compton. Okay. You don't 0:25:55.119 --> 0:25:59.399 have friends. You either with me? Are you against me? 0:25:59.480 --> 0:26:02.359 Or you against me? But we can't be on the 0:26:02.480 --> 0:26:09.280 in the same wagon like we we The truck does 0:26:09.359 --> 0:26:11.720 not come with two staring wheels. It only comes to 0:26:11.760 --> 0:26:16.359 a one stam wheel. And honestly, I've been driving, I've 0:26:16.359 --> 0:26:20.000 got a family. I probably sat in my back seat twice. 0:26:21.760 --> 0:26:24.679 I don't don't share, I don't I'm not sitting in 0:26:24.680 --> 0:26:27.080 the back. I don't care what the back seat or 0:26:27.119 --> 0:26:29.280 how much room you got back there, because I'm only 0:26:29.280 --> 0:26:31.520 sitting in the front and I need to be comfortable. 0:26:33.080 --> 0:26:34.920 And that's kind of how I looked at it. I mean, 0:26:34.960 --> 0:26:37.520 that's that's just a mentality that I grew up with. 0:26:37.680 --> 0:26:40.040 Did you go to school in the Content area as 0:26:40.040 --> 0:26:43.080 well to school in l A. I mean, okay, a 0:26:43.119 --> 0:26:46.199 few schools, uh, because I got in trouble a few times. 0:26:46.240 --> 0:26:49.320 But I went to a few school all right, Um, 0:26:49.359 --> 0:26:50.919 I was gonna ask you how you stayed out of 0:26:50.960 --> 0:26:53.920 the trouble and how you how you geared yourself to 0:26:54.080 --> 0:26:56.600 It was a football the reason that that that geared 0:26:56.640 --> 0:27:00.520 you away from everything that that's out there or well, well, 0:27:00.560 --> 0:27:02.680 if my mom was on here, she would say she's 0:27:02.680 --> 0:27:08.440 still working through that in process. Uh, I mean sports 0:27:08.560 --> 0:27:11.720 was that. Um, there was a lot of different things. 0:27:11.880 --> 0:27:15.840 It was unique because back in the day, man, you 0:27:15.880 --> 0:27:17.920 could get in trouble if you wanted to, no matter 0:27:17.960 --> 0:27:20.119 what you're doing. Like I mean, dudes got beat up 0:27:20.119 --> 0:27:24.120 and shot or it was faced at the escaping ring, right, 0:27:24.160 --> 0:27:28.600 So there was always stuff right foolishly. I remember we 0:27:28.640 --> 0:27:32.520 stole quarters out of the pact miss pac Man machine. 0:27:33.040 --> 0:27:38.280 And I'm not the average five nine guy, so my 0:27:38.440 --> 0:27:41.520 arms are pretty long, and so I was the short 0:27:41.560 --> 0:27:44.639 guy that they I was standing up and it was 0:27:44.640 --> 0:27:48.119 a little and my hands are so big that I 0:27:48.200 --> 0:27:50.640 was actually able to grab a whole bunch of quarters. 0:27:51.320 --> 0:27:56.040 And then the manager of the laundry, Matt Sauce, and 0:27:56.080 --> 0:27:59.399 we all took off running and some kids got caught. 0:27:59.440 --> 0:28:02.840 I didn't get caught, and I remember his kid named 0:28:02.960 --> 0:28:07.480 Random Random. I ran everybody. I ran home. That's what 0:28:08.480 --> 0:28:11.679 And I remember Junior got caught and he was like, hey, Steve, 0:28:12.560 --> 0:28:14.480 are you good? And I looked at you know, we 0:28:14.520 --> 0:28:16.800 had the screen porch, you know, the spray play in it, 0:28:16.880 --> 0:28:19.040 so you can't know. You don't know if that's if 0:28:19.040 --> 0:28:21.679 you're looking or anything. Ain't trying to get me come 0:28:21.720 --> 0:28:25.000 out there. Oh boy was hiding in his truck waiting 0:28:25.000 --> 0:28:28.000 for me to come out because Julia had negotiated with him. 0:28:28.000 --> 0:28:31.840 I'll tell you the kid that stole who has and 0:28:31.920 --> 0:28:35.680 I'll call him man, Julior. Junior got his asshole. I 0:28:35.720 --> 0:28:40.200 was gonna put up he got, Okay, dooke on them. 0:28:40.320 --> 0:28:43.560 We beat Junior down. So but the old old school, 0:28:43.600 --> 0:28:47.600 you know, we have to take a break and the 0:28:47.600 --> 0:28:55.880 morning anything, we gotta pay some bills. I I talked 0:28:55.880 --> 0:28:58.400 to some folks and then some poland they that I 0:28:58.400 --> 0:29:01.400 don't know if you're gonna like this question. And but man, 0:29:01.440 --> 0:29:07.400 everybody freaking wants to know, like take us through this process. 0:29:07.520 --> 0:29:12.120 Because I grew up watching a real world. I was 0:29:12.320 --> 0:29:15.600 I was looking at that stuff and I remember you, 0:29:16.200 --> 0:29:18.800 and I remember your great relationship with a friend and 0:29:18.880 --> 0:29:21.320 we will talk about but I remember the miss and 0:29:21.360 --> 0:29:27.160 that persona you were building even on that how instrumental 0:29:27.360 --> 0:29:31.680 was going on a real world for you. I wouldn't 0:29:31.720 --> 0:29:33.560 be where I am today if it wasn't for the 0:29:33.600 --> 0:29:37.000 Real World. If John Murray and Mary Osbunim didn't pick 0:29:37.080 --> 0:29:39.160 me to be on the show as a cast member, 0:29:39.200 --> 0:29:42.440 I would not be where I am today. It changed 0:29:42.600 --> 0:29:44.800 my mind frame. Like do you ever have moments in 0:29:44.840 --> 0:29:48.120 your life that it just changes the way you think. 0:29:48.880 --> 0:29:51.800 That's what Real World did for me. And some people 0:29:51.920 --> 0:29:55.240 have that happened in middle school, high school. Some people 0:29:55.280 --> 0:29:58.120 don't have it and happen until in mid middle life, 0:29:58.360 --> 0:30:00.720 you know, but there's some there's some times in your 0:30:00.760 --> 0:30:03.560 life there are moments where you can look at and 0:30:03.600 --> 0:30:07.120 you can go this changed everything. And that's what Real 0:30:07.160 --> 0:30:10.000 World did for me. And it not only changed that, 0:30:10.040 --> 0:30:12.120 but it changed the way I thought about things, like, 0:30:12.560 --> 0:30:15.120 you know, because I was I was in my own 0:30:15.160 --> 0:30:18.440 little Bubbalos, in my own little Parma, Ohio, you know, 0:30:18.800 --> 0:30:21.880 you know, a little spot and going onto the real world, 0:30:21.920 --> 0:30:25.480 meeting the six people from all different walks of life, 0:30:25.680 --> 0:30:29.680 getting educated about these different people and where they're from, 0:30:29.760 --> 0:30:32.120 how they grew up. It made it gave me an 0:30:32.160 --> 0:30:35.479 interest on everyone and everything and so that allowed me 0:30:35.760 --> 0:30:39.280 to literally go, I don't want to live in Parma anymore. 0:30:39.320 --> 0:30:42.760 I want something bigger. I want something And I love Parma, 0:30:42.880 --> 0:30:45.560 I love the city. I love Cleveland, but I wanted 0:30:45.600 --> 0:30:48.640 something bigger and better. And I that's why it was 0:30:48.680 --> 0:30:50.800 either New York or l A is where I was 0:30:50.800 --> 0:30:54.560 gonna move and uh l A has se and sunny 0:30:54.600 --> 0:30:57.520 every day, So I'm gonna take the uh the better weather. 0:30:58.040 --> 0:31:00.280 And so I moved out there and set out for 0:31:00.320 --> 0:31:04.160 a dream. You want it better? It set you up? 0:31:05.120 --> 0:31:08.040 What was other than the way you laid it out 0:31:08.160 --> 0:31:12.480 so clearly for us talking about your hometown. You know, 0:31:12.760 --> 0:31:14.840 you got you go to college, you get a degree, 0:31:14.920 --> 0:31:20.120 you could come back, you come back to Ohio, right, Yeah, 0:31:20.280 --> 0:31:22.560 you didn't a cookie cutter life, which I agree and 0:31:22.600 --> 0:31:27.880 I and I and I understand. But what was what 0:31:28.440 --> 0:31:31.440 why was getting on the real world? Like take us 0:31:31.440 --> 0:31:34.560 through that, Like, why was that your only route to 0:31:34.720 --> 0:31:38.520 get out of Ohio? Because you were you were in 0:31:38.640 --> 0:31:41.640 college at the time. It wasn't the only route. It 0:31:41.760 --> 0:31:44.440 was just the route that I like. So, for instance, 0:31:44.440 --> 0:31:46.720 I'll give you an example. So I was at college, 0:31:46.760 --> 0:31:48.800 I was Miamive, Ohio is a Theta Kai. There was 0:31:48.800 --> 0:31:52.160 a fraternity and I'm watching the rail World New Orleans 0:31:52.760 --> 0:31:55.160 and it's a commercial. Comes on, do you want to 0:31:55.200 --> 0:31:57.160 try out for the railroad? In my head, I said yes, 0:31:57.400 --> 0:32:01.280 Well here's how, and so I said in, I sent 0:32:01.400 --> 0:32:04.560 in this this video I'll never forget. I took my 0:32:04.680 --> 0:32:07.640 VHS cam quarter and here's how we edited it. By 0:32:07.640 --> 0:32:11.240 the way I put it, I attached these uh, these 0:32:11.280 --> 0:32:15.520 these wires to my my VHS uh tape. You play 0:32:15.560 --> 0:32:17.480 and then you press record, and that's how you edit. 0:32:17.600 --> 0:32:21.520 That's how editing was last time. There was no computers. 0:32:21.880 --> 0:32:23.840 Oh my god, are you kidding me? Like now they 0:32:23.960 --> 0:32:26.640 take a bunch of takes. I'm like putting this thing 0:32:26.640 --> 0:32:28.600 out over my shoulder and then I put it on 0:32:28.640 --> 0:32:31.320 a tripod and I talked to it. And then so 0:32:31.480 --> 0:32:33.280 I sent this video and by the way I put 0:32:33.320 --> 0:32:36.240 it in like this Manila envelope with all these pictures 0:32:36.320 --> 0:32:38.720 of me, you know, on things I did, this will 0:32:38.760 --> 0:32:41.840 stand out in the crowd, right, And it obviously did 0:32:41.920 --> 0:32:46.800 because then like I got a fifty page application, Yeah, 0:32:46.960 --> 0:32:54.800 fifty pages exactly right. So I I they asked everything, Well, 0:32:54.880 --> 0:32:57.640 your parents are like where are you from? YadA, YadA, YadA, 0:32:57.720 --> 0:33:03.760 all the right now, yeah, a little bit almost so. 0:33:03.800 --> 0:33:06.680 Then so then after that you have this, uh you 0:33:06.760 --> 0:33:10.520 have this like phone interview, but the phone interview, they said, 0:33:10.560 --> 0:33:13.480 put your cam quarter up um to where we can 0:33:13.520 --> 0:33:16.440 see you talking, and then we will ask you the questions. 0:33:16.480 --> 0:33:19.479 What be on speaker phone with us, and then we 0:33:19.560 --> 0:33:21.720 will and talk to the camera like you're talking on 0:33:21.760 --> 0:33:25.040 the real world and when you're asking answering the questions. 0:33:25.400 --> 0:33:28.360 So literally I did two of those interviews. Then I 0:33:28.400 --> 0:33:31.360 did an in person interview in Detroit. Had to drive 0:33:31.440 --> 0:33:33.880 up to Detroit on my own money, by the way, 0:33:33.920 --> 0:33:35.880 and I'm a college kid. I don't have any money. 0:33:35.920 --> 0:33:39.280 So literally I'm like struggling for gas money to get 0:33:39.400 --> 0:33:42.440 up there, and drove up there, did it. And I 0:33:42.480 --> 0:33:44.600 remember this this interview, and I was always trying to 0:33:44.640 --> 0:33:47.880 figure out how people would cry on the real world, 0:33:47.920 --> 0:33:49.520 like you know, like you ever see people like in 0:33:49.680 --> 0:33:52.320 interviews crying, And I'm like, dude, you're on the real world, 0:33:52.320 --> 0:33:55.400 You're in this multimillion dollar place you live in the life. 0:33:55.440 --> 0:33:58.360 How can you cry? I don't get it. And once 0:33:58.440 --> 0:34:01.880 I was done with this interview, like I remember the question, 0:34:01.880 --> 0:34:04.600 the question like there was a question, and these are 0:34:04.600 --> 0:34:06.200 the questions that they would ask. And I was like, 0:34:06.240 --> 0:34:08.279 this is how they get people cry. Now I didn't cry, 0:34:08.560 --> 0:34:10.799 but this is how they get people to cry. They're like, 0:34:10.840 --> 0:34:13.839 all right, Sam an onion and you're an onion. And 0:34:13.960 --> 0:34:16.000 we peel away the fract guy. We peel away all 0:34:16.040 --> 0:34:18.879 your friends, peel away, all your your family, peel away 0:34:18.880 --> 0:34:21.319 the divorce your parents had, peel away, this peel away 0:34:21.360 --> 0:34:25.759 that what's at the core of Mike Nazanin. And I'll 0:34:25.760 --> 0:34:27.960 never forget my answer because honestly I could. I couldn't 0:34:27.960 --> 0:34:30.120 even tell you. I was like, I don't know. I 0:34:30.160 --> 0:34:32.319 really don't know. I don't I wish I could tell 0:34:32.320 --> 0:34:35.000 you like a cool answer like oh yeah, this, but 0:34:35.239 --> 0:34:39.279 if you peel away everything about me, then there nothing's left. 0:34:39.880 --> 0:34:43.280 And uh, I remember um going to that same casting 0:34:43.320 --> 0:34:45.839 director once I was on the show and after we've 0:34:45.880 --> 0:34:47.759 done filming, and I go, why did you choose me? 0:34:47.800 --> 0:34:50.640 And she goes, it was that question, because I asked 0:34:50.680 --> 0:34:54.320 that question to everyone, and yours was the most real 0:34:54.920 --> 0:34:57.839 and it was the most heartfelt and you could tell 0:34:57.920 --> 0:35:00.880 it hit a nerve, but you but you allowed me 0:35:00.920 --> 0:35:03.640 to see that nerve and I like that. And then 0:35:03.680 --> 0:35:07.080 I asked the guy, the executive producer, UM, why he 0:35:07.200 --> 0:35:09.200 chose me? And he goes, I didn't. I thought you 0:35:09.239 --> 0:35:12.200 were a buckethead. And I went, what and he goes, John, 0:35:12.400 --> 0:35:14.440 John Murray and Mary Elie wanted you on the show. 0:35:14.480 --> 0:35:17.120 But to be completely honest with you, I am so 0:35:17.200 --> 0:35:18.879 glad that you were on the show because you were 0:35:18.920 --> 0:35:22.600 so open, so honest, and you just wanted to learn. 0:35:23.080 --> 0:35:27.040 And that's exactly what you did. And you you allowed 0:35:27.080 --> 0:35:29.640 the process of the real world and you allowed us 0:35:29.640 --> 0:35:31.879 into your life. And that's what I said. I said, 0:35:31.880 --> 0:35:33.560 if I'm going on the real world, I'm giving you 0:35:33.600 --> 0:35:36.800 all of me everything. I'm not gonna like some people 0:35:36.840 --> 0:35:40.160 you'll hear go you know, aggravated about how they were 0:35:40.320 --> 0:35:44.040 edited or how they were portrayed, and those people like 0:35:44.120 --> 0:35:46.440 and I've been on shows where people I see that 0:35:46.520 --> 0:35:49.720 they edit themselves. They they they are a completely different 0:35:49.719 --> 0:35:52.640 person that they are camera, that they are that they 0:35:52.680 --> 0:35:55.680 are off of the camera, and so when they look 0:35:55.719 --> 0:35:58.040 at themselves on camera, they go, that's not me. And 0:35:58.239 --> 0:36:00.880 in my mind, I'm going, yeah, that was I saw you. 0:36:00.960 --> 0:36:03.279 That's exactly who you were. And so some people get 0:36:03.280 --> 0:36:06.360 mad about editing, but I was like, I'm just gonna 0:36:06.360 --> 0:36:10.080 be me and just gonna allow it to happen. And honestly, 0:36:10.160 --> 0:36:13.160 I'm so glad I did because the process was a 0:36:13.280 --> 0:36:15.600 learning experience all the way from doing the real world 0:36:15.760 --> 0:36:18.440 to doing the challenges as well. It taught a lot 0:36:18.480 --> 0:36:21.920 about myself, a lot about hard work, dedication, and you 0:36:21.960 --> 0:36:24.239 know is people look at it and go, oh, it's 0:36:24.320 --> 0:36:26.240 so easy to be on the challenge of the challenges. 0:36:26.280 --> 0:36:28.399 I look at as a sport, you know. I mean, 0:36:28.440 --> 0:36:30.640 you're going for a lot of money and you have 0:36:30.719 --> 0:36:33.400 chances to get eliminated from these things, and you know, 0:36:33.480 --> 0:36:35.040 some of them, some of the people, this is what 0:36:35.080 --> 0:36:37.439 they do for a living, you know, so and it's 0:36:37.520 --> 0:36:39.160 it's it's a lot of money, but it's not a 0:36:39.200 --> 0:36:41.600 lot of money because if this is your life, that's 0:36:41.600 --> 0:36:45.640 what it is. You said, they edit all of that, 0:36:45.840 --> 0:36:53.000 you know, edit they're filming you, guys, twenty four hours 0:36:53.040 --> 0:36:59.239 for five months, for five months. What was what was that? 0:37:00.120 --> 0:37:04.160 Did that entail? Did you? You know? Like, because even I, 0:37:04.320 --> 0:37:07.000 you know, I do TV and there are times when 0:37:07.040 --> 0:37:10.480 we're in a studio they tell you, uh, in between breaks, 0:37:10.560 --> 0:37:12.480 bro kill you Mike if you have to go use 0:37:12.480 --> 0:37:17.480 a bathroom because the control room can hear everything can 0:37:17.520 --> 0:37:21.200 be a hot Mike. Everything is on. They have everything. 0:37:21.360 --> 0:37:25.240 They literally like there is a storage room in Bunimury 0:37:25.280 --> 0:37:29.000 that has everything. And I'm talking like like they film 0:37:29.120 --> 0:37:33.560 everything there with there's people with you seven so like 0:37:33.640 --> 0:37:35.840 say we all go to bed, they still have cameras 0:37:35.840 --> 0:37:38.319 on you while you're sleeping, and then when you wake 0:37:38.400 --> 0:37:41.440 up in the morning, there's a camera in your face. Uh. 0:37:41.480 --> 0:37:43.359 You know, if you're in a fight and you don't 0:37:43.400 --> 0:37:45.840 want sometimes you don't want to, you know, do something 0:37:45.880 --> 0:37:48.600 in front of a camera. You have to. It's that's 0:37:48.600 --> 0:37:50.960 what you signed up for. That is the real world. 0:37:51.400 --> 0:37:53.480 And the real world I always say, is the closest 0:37:53.520 --> 0:37:57.719 thing to real life. Um. You know, everything else now 0:37:57.840 --> 0:38:00.680 you can look at and you go, oh, that's scrap dad, 0:38:00.760 --> 0:38:03.560 that's this, that's that. Um. I always looked at the 0:38:03.560 --> 0:38:05.920 real world as just the closest you can get to 0:38:06.320 --> 0:38:11.480 real life. And obviously editing music, um, you know, in 0:38:11.640 --> 0:38:14.399 order to to be entertaining, Like think about your life 0:38:14.400 --> 0:38:16.920 on a day to day basis. It's not all funny games. 0:38:16.960 --> 0:38:20.120 Like you see highlights of a person's life. If you 0:38:20.200 --> 0:38:22.000 if you saw in my life, like literally, it's like 0:38:22.120 --> 0:38:24.200 it's not entertaining to wake up every morning at six 0:38:24.239 --> 0:38:26.840 thirty and see me ahold of baby and then change 0:38:26.840 --> 0:38:29.760 the baby every day the same thing. It's gonna be boring. 0:38:30.040 --> 0:38:32.560 You want to be entertained, and that's exactly what the 0:38:32.560 --> 0:38:36.120 real world does. It gives you that reality aspect of it. 0:38:36.200 --> 0:38:38.920 But it's entertaining because you see the highlights of what 0:38:39.400 --> 0:38:42.080 is going on in a person's life. I think it's 0:38:42.080 --> 0:38:50.440 about that time. Just take a little breather. Good, good, good, 0:38:52.400 --> 0:38:57.279 let's talk. So take us into the locker room of 0:38:57.719 --> 0:39:00.920 being a w W E superstarre fact. When I was 0:39:01.360 --> 0:39:03.279 first starting in w W I kicked out of the 0:39:03.280 --> 0:39:07.640 locker room because, uh, there was huge amount of respect 0:39:07.680 --> 0:39:10.160 when you So for instance, when you walk into the 0:39:10.160 --> 0:39:13.239 locker room, you shake everyone's hand. That is a standard 0:39:13.719 --> 0:39:16.719 thing that you know, was you know ingrained in you 0:39:16.800 --> 0:39:20.319 as a ww superstar. You shake everyone's hand, and all 0:39:20.360 --> 0:39:23.279 the veterans there, you thank them for you know, what 0:39:23.320 --> 0:39:26.120 they've done for the business. And it's literally like every day, 0:39:26.200 --> 0:39:28.319 like so every day you walk into the locker room 0:39:28.320 --> 0:39:30.359 and you shake everyone's hand. This was fifteen years ago. 0:39:30.760 --> 0:39:35.120 You know, it's kind of teetered off um now, and 0:39:35.239 --> 0:39:37.920 I think the locker room is is better for it. 0:39:37.960 --> 0:39:41.200 There are things that I miss about the old locker room, UM, 0:39:41.239 --> 0:39:44.520 but I like the fact that everyone walks in with 0:39:44.560 --> 0:39:47.520 a smile on their face and everyone is trying to 0:39:47.600 --> 0:39:51.239 make everyone else better. Um. You know, back then, I 0:39:51.280 --> 0:39:53.719 felt like it was more competitive, you know how you 0:39:53.719 --> 0:39:56.120 were saying, like with Moose, like you were like, I 0:39:56.120 --> 0:39:58.040 want to be better than this guy, and I'm gonna 0:39:58.040 --> 0:40:00.160 be better than this guy. We weren't friends, you know. 0:40:00.200 --> 0:40:03.719 I felt that that kind of competitiveness you know back then, 0:40:03.920 --> 0:40:06.960 like where you know, people would maybe tell you the 0:40:07.000 --> 0:40:10.279 wrong information so you wouldn't get better than them. And 0:40:10.320 --> 0:40:12.160 then there were others that that took you under their 0:40:12.200 --> 0:40:15.600 wing and literally guided you. Guys like you know, Shawn 0:40:15.680 --> 0:40:18.800 Michaels took me under their wing and you know, literally 0:40:18.920 --> 0:40:21.439 gave me advice that I still used to this day. 0:40:21.719 --> 0:40:25.680 You know, John Cena literally like you know, being in 0:40:25.719 --> 0:40:28.640 the ring with me with with John Cena taught me 0:40:28.719 --> 0:40:31.399 how to be a main inventor in a w W 0:40:31.440 --> 0:40:33.279 E ring. If I would have never gotten the ring 0:40:33.320 --> 0:40:35.759 with John Cina I wouldn't have known that. And it's 0:40:35.800 --> 0:40:38.120 just a matter of getting in the ring and being 0:40:38.200 --> 0:40:41.200 and feeling and understanding what it is to be a 0:40:41.320 --> 0:40:45.600 top level talent like John Cena is. M wow. So 0:40:45.640 --> 0:40:49.200 those so those are rivalries and feuds you had mentioned before, 0:40:49.280 --> 0:40:52.040 like you want to be friends with with guys, So 0:40:52.080 --> 0:40:54.680 those rovalies in those feuds, they don't do they spill 0:40:54.719 --> 0:40:58.280 over to the locker room or sometimes have you guys 0:40:58.360 --> 0:41:01.279 have that kind of cohesion together it Yeah, I mean 0:41:01.360 --> 0:41:04.400 sometimes it does spill over, but other times, like nowadays, 0:41:05.000 --> 0:41:07.920 it kind of doesn't. Usually can squash your beef and 0:41:07.719 --> 0:41:11.240 and figure it out, but honestly, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes 0:41:11.239 --> 0:41:14.960 you just don't like a person, and you know everyone's 0:41:14.960 --> 0:41:17.320 not gonna like everyone, and people are gonna say things 0:41:17.360 --> 0:41:21.200 that that hurt. And it's on national television and if 0:41:21.200 --> 0:41:24.080 someone says something that hurts, then you're like, all right, 0:41:24.160 --> 0:41:27.520 this guy, you want to go, let's go and we'll see. 0:41:27.800 --> 0:41:30.919 So you just you never know what people are gonna 0:41:30.920 --> 0:41:34.680 say or do um, But nowadays usually you can you 0:41:34.719 --> 0:41:41.600 can figure things out. What is a practice entail as 0:41:41.640 --> 0:41:45.480 a w D W W E superstar And the reason 0:41:45.560 --> 0:41:48.200 I asked that is because you know, obviously I haven't 0:41:48.200 --> 0:41:51.880 seen you do it, but there's some guys and gals 0:41:52.880 --> 0:41:55.840 who do some things off the ropes. You just don't 0:41:56.360 --> 0:42:02.439 You just don't wait, You just don't wake up a triple. Yeah. So, 0:42:02.440 --> 0:42:06.800 so being a w superstar is completely different than being 0:42:06.840 --> 0:42:10.200 an NFL star, MLB or NBA. It's a different type 0:42:10.239 --> 0:42:13.719 of training. For instance, my training, I make sure that 0:42:13.760 --> 0:42:16.520 I work out, you know, three or four or five 0:42:16.560 --> 0:42:18.759 times a week. I make sure I do as much 0:42:18.800 --> 0:42:20.919 cardio as I can so I can stay in the ring. 0:42:20.960 --> 0:42:24.200 And literally my cardio is usually like sprints, Like I 0:42:24.280 --> 0:42:28.480 do sprints, slow sprint, slow sprint, slow sprint, because that's 0:42:28.480 --> 0:42:30.239 what w W E is. When you're in that ring, 0:42:30.480 --> 0:42:32.279 you're sprinting and then all of a sudden you take 0:42:32.280 --> 0:42:34.520 a fall, and you you sell that fall for a 0:42:34.520 --> 0:42:37.680 little bit and then you sprint again, then you sprint again. 0:42:37.800 --> 0:42:40.520 Some matches are a complete sprint, so you gotta keep 0:42:40.560 --> 0:42:44.000 your cardio up. A lot of my practice is talking, 0:42:44.400 --> 0:42:47.319 so you know, I'll cut promos in a ring, in 0:42:47.440 --> 0:42:49.800 in a mirror all the time, even at this level, 0:42:50.080 --> 0:42:53.959 to keep my uh me feeling you know that I'm 0:42:54.000 --> 0:42:57.440 on my toes at all times. Honestly, being host of 0:42:57.520 --> 0:43:01.279 Cannonball kind of helps helps me practice for w w E. 0:43:01.400 --> 0:43:05.320 I think being on this podcast is a is a 0:43:05.360 --> 0:43:08.040 practice for w w E. When I first started in 0:43:08.120 --> 0:43:11.399 w E, UM, I wanted uh to be the top guy. 0:43:11.440 --> 0:43:14.920 I wanted to be at a level of of just amazing, no, 0:43:15.080 --> 0:43:18.000 I guess you could say. And I'll never forget my 0:43:18.080 --> 0:43:21.120 first time hosting a show. It was for w w A. 0:43:21.200 --> 0:43:24.520 It was a called Diva Search, and I forgot a 0:43:24.560 --> 0:43:26.360 phone number and I and it was in front of 0:43:26.360 --> 0:43:29.680 a live audience, and I forgot the phone number that 0:43:29.680 --> 0:43:32.080 that people would have to call in to vote. And 0:43:32.120 --> 0:43:34.560 this is the most important thing that I forgot. And 0:43:34.600 --> 0:43:36.640 there's no one in my ear, there's no one that 0:43:36.680 --> 0:43:40.359 can tell me anything about that. And I went into 0:43:40.400 --> 0:43:44.560 a cold sweat. I blanked out, And I'll never forget 0:43:44.760 --> 0:43:48.040 having that feeling and walking back and hearing the crowd 0:43:48.160 --> 0:43:51.399 just go complete silence, and I was like, I'm gonna 0:43:51.400 --> 0:43:53.879 get fired. I'm gonna get fired. And I never wanted 0:43:53.920 --> 0:43:57.360 to have that feeling ever again. So I asked, w 0:43:57.360 --> 0:43:59.920 w E, can I do all the radio interviews that 0:44:00.040 --> 0:44:01.480 people don't want to do. I will wake up at 0:44:01.520 --> 0:44:04.000 six in the morning every single morning to do radio 0:44:04.080 --> 0:44:07.759 interviews so I can practice, you know, just talking and 0:44:07.800 --> 0:44:10.880 getting points to where I ever feel that cold sweat 0:44:10.960 --> 0:44:13.239 happened again. I know what to do and how to 0:44:13.280 --> 0:44:15.440 get out of it and how to get that feeling. 0:44:15.600 --> 0:44:17.640 So you love it, I mean, like, honestly, I love 0:44:17.680 --> 0:44:20.399 being a like I love I used to love having 0:44:20.400 --> 0:44:23.759 a people booing me, but now you know, we don't 0:44:23.800 --> 0:44:26.920 have that. Now we have a virtual fans in our thunderdome, 0:44:27.400 --> 0:44:30.400 and uh and it's it's honestly, it's it's it's pretty great. 0:44:30.520 --> 0:44:33.759 Like it's it's interesting. It's it's tested me like now, 0:44:33.960 --> 0:44:36.200 the way we're shooting and the way we're filming, like 0:44:36.600 --> 0:44:39.440 w w E, it's like, man, this is different, you know, 0:44:39.560 --> 0:44:43.319 it's it's completely uh new kind of talent that you 0:44:43.400 --> 0:44:47.319 have to develop. And it's you're always changing and evolving. 0:44:48.040 --> 0:44:53.720 You are my tag team partner. You're getting me ready. Okay, 0:44:53.920 --> 0:44:57.839 let's pick up my outfit. What am I wearing? I mean, 0:44:57.920 --> 0:45:00.960 I wear trunks, but whatever you feel comfortable, and obviously 0:45:01.000 --> 0:45:04.319 you feel comfortable in football jersey football tights there you 0:45:04.400 --> 0:45:06.400 go like big show, like the one that strap, this 0:45:06.520 --> 0:45:08.200 goes over and then you got the whole like a 0:45:08.200 --> 0:45:11.000 little like a little leotard. All you do not want 0:45:11.000 --> 0:45:13.879 to wear a leotard like the Big like the Big Show. 0:45:14.680 --> 0:45:19.000 It depends on how you're feeling right now, are you 0:45:19.040 --> 0:45:21.120 did you did do you have do you have a 0:45:21.200 --> 0:45:23.640 dad bot? Or do you did you like a or 0:45:23.680 --> 0:45:26.839 do you still have the ripped abs? Now I don't. 0:45:26.880 --> 0:45:30.920 I never really had ripped apps. Then we want to 0:45:30.960 --> 0:45:33.080 cover a little bit. We want to cover just a 0:45:33.120 --> 0:45:38.840 little bit. I don't have ripped apps. I gotta, I gotta. 0:45:39.760 --> 0:45:42.480 I got a can or two in the six packs 0:45:42.520 --> 0:45:45.319 showing right to the stone call. You get your little 0:45:45.360 --> 0:45:48.000 vest right, you can add vests, but the vest gotta 0:45:48.040 --> 0:45:53.200 come off at some point. The two little like, Yeah, 0:45:53.239 --> 0:45:56.080 I don't, I don't have I don't have ripped abs. 0:45:56.120 --> 0:45:58.600 But I mean I don't have a dad bot. I 0:45:58.600 --> 0:46:00.320 mean I ain't scared the show. I'm not scared to 0:46:00.360 --> 0:46:02.760 take my shirt off at the pool. Now, I'm good 0:46:02.800 --> 0:46:05.840 like that. But you know, you get the painting. Know 0:46:06.000 --> 0:46:11.600 that that phone goes. That phone you can hold it 0:46:11.600 --> 0:46:15.919 in for the first ten minutes. My boy on I'm 0:46:15.920 --> 0:46:20.640 looking at his view from the side and WHOA what 0:46:20.680 --> 0:46:25.520 trstor is he in? All right? So? Uh so okay, 0:46:26.040 --> 0:46:29.600 what about what about shoes? What am I wearing Jay's? 0:46:29.800 --> 0:46:32.640 You know, because I'm black man, I gotta have styled now, 0:46:32.680 --> 0:46:35.640 I can't be If you want to wait, I would say, 0:46:35.840 --> 0:46:38.840 where wouldever you feel most comfortable that you will be 0:46:38.880 --> 0:46:42.040 able to perform your best in and feel like a 0:46:42.320 --> 0:46:44.759 w W E superstar. I don't know if you want 0:46:44.760 --> 0:46:47.120 to paint your face. You want to paint your face? 0:46:47.200 --> 0:46:50.520 Paint your face, you know, because I don't want to 0:46:51.320 --> 0:46:55.000 if I'm gonna be running around and wrestling, wrestling and 0:46:55.120 --> 0:46:58.920 tumbling and jumping for an hour. Jay's ain't really the 0:46:58.960 --> 0:47:01.520 shoes you want to wear. No, I mean obviously, if 0:47:01.520 --> 0:47:05.200 you watched Jordan, he didn't even like him. Did you 0:47:05.200 --> 0:47:07.520 see that documentary? He literally goes, I put these on 0:47:07.560 --> 0:47:09.640 and I literally couldn't believe I was. I wore these 0:47:09.640 --> 0:47:15.640 at one point. Yes, I love that documentary. Yeah. Uh so, okay, shoes, Okay, 0:47:15.680 --> 0:47:18.799 comfortable shoes. Now what's my name? This is the most 0:47:18.840 --> 0:47:21.920 important right here? This can get him. I think I 0:47:21.920 --> 0:47:24.239 think your name is so is so big that you 0:47:24.280 --> 0:47:29.120 can't really change it. So he Smitty, I'm Smitty s Smith. 0:47:29.200 --> 0:47:33.880 Say you're Smitty Senior Steven what you could you could 0:47:33.960 --> 0:47:44.480 definitely be Senor Estevan definitely. Yeah. Oh man, that'd be 0:47:44.520 --> 0:47:47.880 a great matchup. That'd be a great matchup. I like that, 0:47:48.160 --> 0:47:50.400 you know we would be based off that would It 0:47:50.440 --> 0:47:53.040 would be the flon match, because well, what you could 0:47:53.040 --> 0:47:56.520 do is you could have Raymisterio and Dominic his son 0:47:56.760 --> 0:47:59.799 versus me and you, and whoever wins gets to wear 0:47:59.840 --> 0:48:04.360 them ask. So the object is to take Gray Masterials 0:48:04.400 --> 0:48:07.000 mask off and put it on you. But here's once 0:48:07.040 --> 0:48:09.560 it's on you, then it's your mask for now on. 0:48:09.920 --> 0:48:12.760 It would be a finisher move. I don't know, because 0:48:12.760 --> 0:48:15.279 if I get hit below the belt, gonna somebody, I'm 0:48:15.280 --> 0:48:20.839 whooping somebody's ass. I don't care, TV care. We take 0:48:20.880 --> 0:48:23.680 this spilling over into the locker room. I mean that's 0:48:23.680 --> 0:48:29.040 what it would be called the ass whooping. Just be 0:48:29.280 --> 0:48:32.200 hold persona, just now. I love it. I like that. 0:48:32.280 --> 0:48:39.880 I don't know about that. I agree. It's called the 0:48:40.000 --> 0:48:42.799 DP three And basically the whole premise of this is 0:48:42.840 --> 0:48:46.320 to go beyond who you are as a w W superstar. 0:48:46.440 --> 0:48:49.200 It is to go to just a deeper level. So Smitthie, 0:48:49.200 --> 0:48:50.960 go ahead and give him the first question. If I 0:48:51.000 --> 0:48:53.680 could peel away all the onions and get down to 0:48:53.760 --> 0:49:01.880 the of the mess, who are you? Who am I? 0:49:01.880 --> 0:49:07.799 I am a dad of two little girls who honestly, 0:49:08.400 --> 0:49:11.480 I didn't realize how much love I had in me 0:49:12.239 --> 0:49:15.400 until like I always, I always loved my wife. My 0:49:15.440 --> 0:49:18.520 wife is amazing, She's incredible. She's a hard working mother, 0:49:19.239 --> 0:49:22.919 and she's a hard working woman in general. She does 0:49:22.960 --> 0:49:26.239 so many things to make me better. But and the 0:49:26.360 --> 0:49:30.200 love for her is amazing. But the love for my daughters, 0:49:30.760 --> 0:49:33.120 it is something like when I when mom, when Monroe 0:49:33.239 --> 0:49:36.640 was born, it opened up a whole new like portion 0:49:36.719 --> 0:49:38.680 of my heart I didn't even know I had. And 0:49:38.680 --> 0:49:40.719 then my then I had my other daughter, and then 0:49:40.760 --> 0:49:42.480 that's another portion of my heart that I didn't know 0:49:42.480 --> 0:49:46.600 I had, And it's incredible. Like the other day, I'm 0:49:46.600 --> 0:49:49.320 trying to teach my daughters how to swim like she's two, 0:49:49.880 --> 0:49:53.400 and she went underwater and kicked her feet and listened 0:49:53.520 --> 0:49:56.880 to everything that I said and did it like she swim. 0:49:56.920 --> 0:49:59.840 Now she's not a good swimmer, not a strong swimmer, 0:50:00.239 --> 0:50:04.080 but she did it. And I've never had a proud 0:50:04.200 --> 0:50:08.200 popa moment. Then I did that day. So you asked 0:50:08.239 --> 0:50:11.200 me who am I? Who am I? I'm Mike Mzanin, 0:50:11.880 --> 0:50:16.319 a father of two and a husband of it. But 0:50:16.760 --> 0:50:20.160 as the Miss, like, I've done everything and anything I've 0:50:20.200 --> 0:50:23.839 wanted to do, and I still want more. As the Miss, 0:50:24.080 --> 0:50:27.040 I want it all, I Like my agent always asked me, Mike, 0:50:27.080 --> 0:50:28.719 you know you're hosting your show, you have your own 0:50:28.760 --> 0:50:31.640 reality show, your w superstar. What else do you want? 0:50:31.719 --> 0:50:34.239 I want it all? What do what does that mean? 0:50:34.480 --> 0:50:37.120 I want movies, I want animation. I want I want 0:50:37.120 --> 0:50:38.680 to own my own production company. I want to be 0:50:38.719 --> 0:50:40.640 able to executly produce. I want to be able to 0:50:40.640 --> 0:50:43.600 to elevate other people and to get other people their dreams. 0:50:43.880 --> 0:50:46.279 Those are the things that I want to do. And 0:50:46.360 --> 0:50:48.839 so they're like, all right, let's get started. So that's 0:50:48.920 --> 0:50:51.080 kind of where I'm at with my life. Now. How 0:50:51.080 --> 0:50:53.319 do you think people see you? And how do you 0:50:53.320 --> 0:50:57.000 want people to see you? If you watch Cannonball in 0:50:57.200 --> 0:51:04.640 w W, you see it allowed obnoxious, um, sometimes funny, uh, 0:51:04.840 --> 0:51:10.239 just egomaniac. And then if you see miss and Mrs 0:51:10.320 --> 0:51:13.880 you see a dad, you see a guy that um 0:51:13.920 --> 0:51:17.400 you know is just out there doing his best, um 0:51:17.440 --> 0:51:21.200 to to make right for his family. So I think 0:51:21.280 --> 0:51:24.560 my my best qualities are my worst qualities. You know. 0:51:24.640 --> 0:51:26.719 It's just it's just one of those things that I've 0:51:26.760 --> 0:51:29.759 lived with my entire life. What do you want those 0:51:29.800 --> 0:51:38.640 beautiful little girls to say about their daddy, Michael. I 0:51:38.719 --> 0:51:41.000 hope that they know. I hope that they say that, 0:51:41.080 --> 0:51:43.160 you know, no matter what, I know, I'm gonna make 0:51:43.160 --> 0:51:47.560 mistakes and sometimes I'm not going to be there. But 0:51:48.080 --> 0:51:51.640 Dad tried his hardest. He did his best to be 0:51:51.719 --> 0:51:55.759 the best dad possible. And I hope that I'm able to, 0:51:56.640 --> 0:52:01.719 you know, you know, educate and grow two beautiful, independent, 0:52:01.880 --> 0:52:06.960 strong minded women, and hopefully I do my best to 0:52:07.000 --> 0:52:16.920 do that. Mike's whole life changed after the real world. 0:52:17.280 --> 0:52:23.439 What was the moment Smithy that everything changed for you, man? 0:52:23.480 --> 0:52:28.320 That's a loaded question. Uh, A lot changed. The moment 0:52:28.640 --> 0:52:30.440 for me. The moment that changed for me is when 0:52:30.520 --> 0:52:34.839 I jumped on that airplane a couple of days after 0:52:34.960 --> 0:52:40.759 fourth of July two thousand, No I went off. I 0:52:40.800 --> 0:52:43.360 got on the airplane one way ticket to you University 0:52:43.360 --> 0:52:48.160 of Utah. That's when things changed for me. UM really 0:52:48.160 --> 0:52:52.560 realized that this was something different. Never really experienced anything 0:52:52.640 --> 0:52:54.840 outside of l A. Took the Greyhound when I was 0:52:54.880 --> 0:52:58.320 a kid, Greyhound bus to Las Vegas and we stayed 0:52:58.320 --> 0:53:02.239 at the Fremont Hotel, which is downtown Las Vegas, which 0:53:02.280 --> 0:53:05.080 is now is regentified and it is considered the old 0:53:05.200 --> 0:53:08.000 part of Las Vegas. When you go to new part 0:53:08.000 --> 0:53:10.920 of Las Vegas, Um, it's a lot different. I just 0:53:10.960 --> 0:53:14.120 remember when I have my brother's a fireman north Las Vegas. 0:53:14.160 --> 0:53:17.239 But I remember a couple of years ago we went 0:53:17.280 --> 0:53:19.759 to Vegas and we stayed that we stayed in a 0:53:19.760 --> 0:53:23.399 new part, but we drove down to the old part 0:53:23.520 --> 0:53:25.960 with my brother and we had lunch, and it just 0:53:26.040 --> 0:53:29.360 brought me back to understanding, um, how far I've come 0:53:29.560 --> 0:53:32.680 where I am today. Um. So I realized, just like 0:53:32.719 --> 0:53:37.320 the myths, that there are significant, um small little things 0:53:37.360 --> 0:53:40.400 that happened in your life to have such a huge result. 0:53:41.440 --> 0:53:45.200 And I think really just listening to mis and what 0:53:45.320 --> 0:53:49.160 it really put me back into is just kind of 0:53:49.200 --> 0:53:52.640 really I don't know. I guess doing a doing a 0:53:52.760 --> 0:53:57.400 grateful report, Um, what am I grateful for? And I'm 0:53:57.440 --> 0:54:01.040 just grateful for the things that I've learned, um about 0:54:01.080 --> 0:54:03.600 myself about my family and then also the things that 0:54:03.680 --> 0:54:07.480 I at that times you take for granted. Um, you 0:54:07.560 --> 0:54:10.359 take for granted the success, but you also, I think, 0:54:10.400 --> 0:54:15.000 more anything, you take the failures for granted. Right in 0:54:15.120 --> 0:54:18.359 hearing on the meds talking about how he grew up 0:54:18.400 --> 0:54:22.080 and what he went through in Ohio and realizing just 0:54:22.200 --> 0:54:27.200 going on the real world and understanding all the different people, 0:54:28.280 --> 0:54:30.839 he really didn't know the world. 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