WEBVTT - "The Franchise" Shane Douglas returns 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:29.240 H h. Hello everyone. 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:33.839 You are listening to the eyes of your w Transcine. 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.760 Nan, you're a bost You listening transcine alongside is my 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.160 buddy and partner in crime, d Sir. Are you doing today? 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.920 I'm doing awesome. I'm so happy to be here tonight 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:47.680 with you. 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:49.159 You're always going, but. 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:51.080 We're doing tonight tonight. 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.840 It's different, different five because. 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:58.520 It's right, Yeah, I feel different. 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.280 I'm tired and then I feel tired in the morning. 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:03.920 It's different. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:05.720 I don't know. I yeah, I don't know if I 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:07.880 feel better, if I feel worse. But it's different. 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.319 Yeah, it's weird because like you wake up in the 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:15.360 morning and like usually we come down here like what nine, 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.960 nine thirty. Sometimes I'm just kind of my coffee's just 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.320 kind of kicking in, but I'm still kind of sleepy. 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:26.640 And now it's seven o'clock and I'm just starting to 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:31.360 get sleepy from the day from you know, doing everything 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.680 in the day, and it's catching up on me now. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.520 And usually seven o'clock is the time where I kind 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:37.199 of wind down. 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.760 I get my decaf coffee, I sit on the couch, 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.000 I go to the DVR, look up some. 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:46.160 Stuff and kind of unlined for a couple hours, but 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:50.920 tonight it's all about the podcast. There is no rest. 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:52.480 Do you always drink decaf? 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:54.840 No, I drink caffeinated. 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:59.080 I drink one cup in the morning of caffeine, but 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.480 then at night I can't drink. If I want a 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.400 cup of coffee, I have to do decaf or else 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:05.000 it'll keep. 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:06.000 Me up for really. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.600 Oh yeah, I can't have caffeine at night. 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.720 See this, This is calf to the gills. 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:13.240 Really. 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:18.160 Now, I could drink a vat of caffeinated coffee at 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.320 night and give me a pillow. I'll be asleep in 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:21.920 five minutes. 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:22.560 Yep. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:24.880 But you stay up late, don't you. 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:25.919 Sometimes. 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:31.280 I'm not like a late person anymore. I used to be. 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.520 Gosh, I used to play poker online until like five 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.799 point thirty in the morning. Sometimes I was a maniac. 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.000 I guess after I got married and had kids, I 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:46.280 got so regulated with my times. I have to be 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.680 in bed by like ten o'clock or I'll I'm sleeping 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:49.320 on the couch. 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.239 But you've also run into you know. I do stay 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.519 up a little late, but I also wake up a 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:58.200 little late sometimes too, because. 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.560 Yeah, like, oh my god, that one day it was 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:02.200 what eleven thirty, like. 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:03.720 Ten forty five. 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:07.560 I'm like, look, I just got up. I'm just catching 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:09.760 my bearings. I get back of you in a few minutes. 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.560 I can't even tell you the last time I slept 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:15.240 past like seven o'clock. 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:17.080 I can't tell you. 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:18.040 Oh my god. 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:19.360 Yeah, no, it's too funny. 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:20.440 That's rare. 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.320 I was like ten forty five, it's almost eleven o'clock 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:24.320 at trias out of bed? 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:25.680 You got work to do? 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:26.360 No, it was? 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:28.280 And that was was that the day I was confused 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:29.880 on what day we were recording. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.520 That probably yeah, and I think it's the day that 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:34.000 both girls were sick. 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.600 Yes, oh my god, we were so thrown off. Oh 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:39.920 so thrown on. We might have been drinking that night before. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.440 And I woke up so paranoid that either I was 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.080 about to miss our recording time because I was like 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.520 thinking about it, give. 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:52.760 Me a half hour and I go, that wouldrow are about? 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:53.320 Then? 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.360 I thought I was off. I was like, what day 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:55.760 is it? 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:55.920 Like? 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.160 Am I wrong? No, you're wrong? 0:03:58.680 --> 0:03:59.520 That's too funny. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.280 Yeah, but I'll tell you what like some nights and 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.320 I I'm trying not to do this anymore. But for 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:10.880 Christmas one of my presents from Hubs, he got me 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.960 two bottles of Bailey's, so one bottle was like the 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:21.200 original and one bottle was a vanilla cinnamon. So I've 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:25.479 been putting like a double shot in my nighttime coffee. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.000 Okay, that's good. 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.920 It's like every night I'm drinking. Now, it's like seventeen 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:35.000 percent alcohol. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:36.679 It's not good. 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:41.719 I mean it's good. Okay, it tastes good. It's good, 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:43.560 but is it good. I mean it's not great. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:45.240 That is not good for you. 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.400 And I've been like knocking myself out in the gym, 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:50.720 you know what I mean. And I said to myself, Man, 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.800 I'm sitting here and I'm drinking this. I'm not that 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.040 I'm an alcoholic or anything, but I'm drinking this cup 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:57.440 of coffee with this double shot. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.760 This can't be good at nighttime. That's I guess. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.880 There would be sugar in it, plus the additional calories 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:07.240 plus the alcohol. So I stopped doing that. I said, 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.560 I can't do that anymore. Now I'm trying to stop 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:13.320 the coffee at night altogether, like I don't want to. 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.680 I'm trying to just drink water. But I was on 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.720 a kick. I was like every night. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:20.640 I was getting my little coffee and I was sitting 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.200 down because it's so relaxing. 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.520 I had my heating pad, I have a fuzzy blanket. 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.440 Then you know the cough, the spiked coffee like it's 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.880 it's that's a dream night. That's so fun for me. 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.400 Can't beat that. Well, you know, so, I know you 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.760 like the moonshine, right, you like the Uh, it's. 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:42.280 Not that I like the moonshine. It was the watermelon 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:46.080 moonshine was very, very tasty, but it got me effed up. 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.320 I was spinning. 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:50.920 Drunk. 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.559 Well, okay, well that's liking it. If you get spinning drunk, 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.479 that's usually that's fun. But there's a there's a like 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:00.240 a little booze bottle of moonshine that you can there's 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.320 like a coffee flavored one out that you could like 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.320 it's like a chaser almost that you can put in 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.280 your coffee that makes it like it's like a Bailly's. 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.240 Well I got those, put it in the wife stocking 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.520 and we've added that to the coffee at night as well. 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:18.320 There's a strawberry one, I think, and like a mocha 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:20.719 like it's like a straw like a hint of like 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.360 a strawberry, like I don't know if it's streamer, yeah, 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.240 like a creamer. And then there's like a mocha one. 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.240 It's awesome, but it's like a Bailey's. 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.440 You know, it's so delicious. But I said, this can't 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:38.920 be good for my body, Like I'm trying to detox. Yeah, 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.120 I've been going like, you know, the days that I lift, 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.640 I lift heavy, right then the days that I don't lift, 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:50.120 I do cardio and then I we have a steam 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:55.240 the steam thing and I go in there and I 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.479 sweat my ass off, and I'm trying to like detox 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.720 and like drink the water and get the tox. 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.960 And I'm saying, Balli's is not good. I'm sweating out 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.400 Bailey's right now. This isn't good for me. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:13.160 You know, it's a sauna, so I love that. 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.040 Yeah, yeah, a fine stein goes. Oh is it the 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.720 kin the plastic that you zip up like the bean 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:23.400 bag chairs? What is real? Sauna? 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:27.040 Made of wood? It has infrared lights on it. It's 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:31.720 it's like it's awesome and you sweat, like you really sweat, 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.040 And I've been doing that because it's supposed to help 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:38.840 like your inflammation and your joint. Yeah yeah, and they say, 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.240 you know, you might live longer if you start to 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.480 use the sauna more. So, I've been trying to get 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.600 in there for like thirty minutes and do that. So, 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.920 I mean, once in a while, like when I have 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.440 my girl's weekend, I'll go and I'll have a drink. 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:58.320 But I think the baillies and the coffee needs to stop. Yeah, 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.480 you know, but it's so good. Oh, it's so relaxing 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.680 at night. Put a little whooped cream on the top. 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:06.640 It's so good. I miss it. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.960 I don't blame you, I know. All right, Well, I'm 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:15.200 gonna send the link to our We're being we're being 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:16.200 meme bombed. 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:18.440 I'm not even checking my father. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.040 We're being mean bombed to death. 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.280 I'm sure you people know who's coming on. And if 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:26.960 you don't, you're gonna in a minute. 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.720 You can do the intro for him. Well, you love 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:31.400 him so much. 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:32.840 I love him so much. 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:35.240 You love him so much. 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.840 Go that far as to say that, But I mean, 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:42.480 what what can you say about former e CW Champion, 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:48.760 former w CW United States Champion, former w CW Tag 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:52.920 Team Champion, the one and only and now back in 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:58.000 the podcast Realm Yes with what is it? Franchise University? 0:08:58.320 --> 0:08:59.079 Is that the name of it? 0:08:59.720 --> 0:08:59.840 Uh? 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:04.760 Maybe I don't want to butcher it. But he also 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:09.040 had a great association with the Queen of Extreme Francine 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.760 and E. Cwat the greatest duo in ECW history. 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.040 We are and let me tell you, I can't get 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:18.400 rid of this guy. He's up my ass twenty for seven. 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:21.400 I just can't get rid of him. 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.240 But now he's one of my best friends. We're still 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:30.199 traveling the road together, up and down the territories doing 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:32.280 our thing. We have a lot of stuff planned for 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:33.800 the first half of this year. 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:35.760 There he is, so I was right. 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:37.120 He is. 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.720 He is my good friend and yours. He is a 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.520 well quapped franchise. I guess can I do this too? 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.120 As he comes on, look can I do this too? 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:46.319 Look? Look? 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.920 Oh man, it was hot in here. Oh man, oh 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:55.200 so hot already the title? 0:09:57.960 --> 0:09:59.240 What is it? 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.679 It's the we quaffed franchise. 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:07.680 E's easy taking care of this prodigious quaffing. 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.480 Did you just get it done? It looks fabulous, Thank 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:16.400 you very much. Yeah, how are you doing all right? 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:18.960 Yeah? I understand me. I'm doing great. Right now. I 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.920 understand there's a massive air strike going over in the 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:23.680 Middle East by the United States and Britain. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.920 So do you know I was just looking at a 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.040 film of Alaskan airlines. 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:34.120 Are the doors are flying off in midair? 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:35.040 I saw that. 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:36.160 That was crazy. 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:40.480 Yeah, that was going on. As much as you love 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.040 to fly, I could just see you on that. I 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:43.600 was done. 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.040 I would literally lose it. 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:50.680 The door just came off, full disclosure. I'd have a 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.400 cinder block in my pants. 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.880 I swear to you. It was I remember one time. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:02.720 You know, Sandman was a self called plant atheist at 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:04.800 one point, and I don't know what he believes in now, 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:08.160 but uh, we were going down. We were on a 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:12.000 flight and it was so I've never been like that, 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:19.040 had turbulence like this, And he grabbed my hand and. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:19.840 I don't know who you pray to, but you better 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.240 pray to him now. And I was just like, how 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.160 do you want to pray to my God? Because you're 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:29.880 gonna die. I thought we were goners. The plane was 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:31.280 literally doing this. 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.000 I thought you were gonna say Sam and bolted to 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:37.240 the to the to the cab and crushed in and 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.840 like flew the plane and landed it and saved everybody. 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:46.200 That would have been a better story. Unfortunately. What's going 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:47.960 on with you? Do you wanna do you want to 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:49.680 talk about your podcast? First? 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.880 Yeah? Yeah, absolutely, it's well. First of all, Happy New 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:58.839 Year's to everybody gets there. Uh we uh franchise university. 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.960 We've uh been you know, pushed us to number that. 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.439 We had to take seven weeks off because James when 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.240 got married. I tried to talk him out of it, 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:07.920 but he wouldn't. 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:09.640 He would join the club. 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.600 Yeah, he's he's so we're back. We had to record 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:17.200 two episodes this week. Uh, apologies to everybody. Honestly I 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.480 was getting delused by people at the grocery story. Hey 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.040 so episode this week. But yeah, so we got caught 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:25.319 up to it. Uh two weeks we got we're three 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.599 weeks behind, so we got caught up to well and 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.920 two weeks hit two more. But uh, we're having fun 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.800 with it. It's uh, you know, it's it's for me, 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.520 as you know, I get so nervous on cameraon in 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:43.640 front of people. What about you guys, what's new? What's happening? 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:46.200 Oh, well, you know we're on. 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:48.200 He has Yeah, he hasn't been here since we've been on. 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:55.760 iHeart yes, right, that's right, since you been on. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:57.600 he hasn't. I think the last time Shane was on 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.240 was when Punk had the meltdown at the press conference? 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.920 Was that time He's gonna kill ton That was? 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.600 That was the time when Tony when he had the 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.960 meltdown in front of the press and Tony was just 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.640 sitting there with the bug guys watching it, and then 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:20.679 uh uh the brawl out went on backstage and then 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.720 Jericho whispered to Tony, some ship just went down. 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:29.400 Yeah, you know this this thing that happened what last week? 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.640 Week before? I lose track of time. I'm like, it's 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:36.360 a kind of twilight zone. But you know, first of all, 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.599 I'm sure Tony Kahn's dad has some pretty well qualified 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:43.920 communications experts. There are times you go public and you 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.199 say things and there's other times to shut the hell up, 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:51.199 And clearly he doesn't know the difference. So it's, uh, 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.600 it's it's it sends a shiver down your spine watching 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:59.400 it and thinking, like, you know, how carefully we would 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.080 try to do things in the past, and when you'd 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.080 screw up, and there were plenty of those, you know, 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.079 we try to figure out the best way. What's the 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.440 old saying when you're in a hole, stop digging, And boy, 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.160 it seems like old Tony Khan's got himself a backo. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.640 He's taking this thing as deep as he might end 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.000 up in China. Who knows before we're done well. 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.480 And he's made even more I would say, even the 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:27.040 press conferences and whatever he's had to say publicly in 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.760 front of people, being as bad as he could possibly do. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:35.000 That that's terrible. Online, he's worse because he's created a 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:40.040 controversy between the companies now by going after talent. And 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:41.440 have you seen that Shane this week? 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.920 I hadn't, but but I've heard people like complaining about 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.320 things just in general. So fill me in please. 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:51.240 So what he did was so Jinder Mahaal, who's a 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.560 WWE talent, was on TV a few weeks ago. He 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.360 was in a segment with the Rock. Okay, the segment 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:01.760 got rave reviews, got pretty decent rate. Means they decided 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.320 to give gender Mahal a title shot. So gender Mahall 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:05.920 has been kind of off TV. They've used him as 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.080 a manager, but they he is a former champion. They 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.960 gave him a title shot. Well, Tony used the fact 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.920 that he hasn't really won to match as the barometer 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:17.720 to say, oh, well, why does he deserve a title 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.880 shot and kind of took a shot at him in 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:26.680 a tweet, right, and you hook Tasa's son as an example, 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.920 you know, as to somebody that is a superstar. So 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.520 then Gender took a shot at Hook, and then Tony 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.440 came back and took a shot at Gender and then 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.080 shots fired back and forth and it just did not 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:39.600 look good. 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.760 Yeah, and and what's the end goal? You know, it's 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.360 it's you're putting heat on some of the boys. That 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:50.200 poor Hook. But I mean, good kid, Right, he's sitting 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.000 there minded his own business. Hall sudden he's in the 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:56.440 middle of his controversy. It's uh again, like there, I 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.480 think it's time for Tony to sit back and say, 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.320 like call his dad, Hey, you get one of your 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:08.120 damage control people, communications experts online. It's it's it's so 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.400 frustrating to watch because there's so much talent. My god, 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:13.280 we've talked about the sad nausea and there's so much 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.200 talent in those dressing rooms and yet you know, you 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.320 see stuff like that, it's like Peyton Place, you know, 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:20.960 for all your kids out there, that's the soap opera. 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:24.200 It used to be the TV, uh, you know, and 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:29.040 it's just like this flailing about. It's it's embarrassing to watch. 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.760 Focus on the product. It's the product in the ring. 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.520 And you know, I did JP's a podcast in today's 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:41.160 ninth anniversary and was saying, then, you know that it's 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.280 the product. Remember the old line from Bill Klint is 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:47.880 the economy stupid. Uh, it's the product, stupid. Fix the product, 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.360 Get the product right. And instead of trying to take 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.000 these shots. You know when we did in ECW, we 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.920 were the little tiny guy trying to get eyeballs on 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:59.880 us and uh, you know, taking shots to get some 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.840 of that attention. But to be like one of the 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.200 quote unquote big two and out there playing this kind 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.879 of Peyton place where you know we're gonna go and 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.800 tweet something mean out and everything else, it's just so 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.199 ill advised and so stupid. And again, everybody knows my 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.639 personal feelings for Vincent man, but I you know, there 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.919 are still things I've learned from Vince. You know. Whenever 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:24.320 I remember when Hogan years ago did the uh the 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.560 promo after went the WCW said he had all the irishmen, yes, 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:31.280 even the man shaking in his boots. I went to Vincent, said, hey, 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.840 during one of the Dean Douglas vignettes, let's have a grip, 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.560 make some noise in the back of the room and 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.080 I'll be annoyed by it and I'll finally say something like, 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.159 mister Bellie, will you sit down and shut up? And 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:45.879 maybe you'll finally learn something about this business. And Vince 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.240 loved it. He tuck you. But you know, we don't 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:52.560 do it, never talk about the enemy and directly from Vince. 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:55.640 And now this this kind of stuff. Tony has tried 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:59.280 to place himself as being one of the talk three 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.560 bookers and all this other stuff we've heard. But you've 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:05.800 been on national television for three years and failed to 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.960 grow the audience. There's still between this three and eight 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:15.040 hundred thousand number. Correct. Yeah, yeah, so they've already failed. 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:18.200 I mean three years in my guess would be somebody 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.680 at T and T. Unless they have absolutely nothing to air, 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.160 it's start. There's there's discussions going on like, hey, how 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.160 long do we want to do this? Because are they 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:32.800 still paying the production costs? Yeah? I'm not sure at 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:36.000 some point this this this fan dango will come to 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.280 an end unless they get it right. And they have 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:42.840 some really great young talent there, but they're also you know, 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.520 I won't use names. I'll try to keep my friends' 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:49.359 names out of this, but I had spoken to one 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:55.679 of my dear friends from there, and they told me 0:18:55.800 --> 0:19:00.840 that in since the beginning of the company, there wasn't 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:04.880 a single question asked of them. And I can assure 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:08.840 you this person taught me a world of stuff that 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:12.400 I would later use as the franchise. So the fact 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:16.280 that nobody's asking him questions or asked him any questions, 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:21.680 seems to me to be just crazy, insane. They got 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:24.359 to write that ship. They have a chance. You know, 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:27.119 they have the money and they have a great dressing 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.080 room of talent. But you know, a runner, the ship 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:32.359 just sort of floats around and goes in the circles, right, 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.880 And I think that's what we're seeing with aew. Get 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.160 the ship right, get the runner fixed, get this thing 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:41.399 moving in the right direction, especially as Vince's numbers have 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:45.240 sort of sloughed out. We keep saying this for the 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:50.240 company formerly owned by Vina McMahon. It's you know, take 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:53.480 some lessons from him, because, you know, love him or 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:55.199 hate him, the guy knew what the hell he was 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:56.520 doing as far as business goes. 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:01.520 We talked about this before when they the scrum. 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:08.080 The way that Tony was behaving and cursing and just 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:11.199 acting more so like one of the boys and not 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:18.200 the boss. Right when I see him tweeting and childish 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:22.200 stuff like not even something like an adult man would write, 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:27.080 just like taking cheap shots. And to me, he's trying 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:30.920 to poke the bear, which is either like triple h 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.560 or you can even say Vince McMahan or somebody in charge, 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:38.919 and nobody ever pokes back. You know, gender is the 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:43.000 one that poked back, and he's talent. So the boys 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:46.959 always fight on Twitter like it's like an everyday thing. 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:51.399 Somebody's fighting with somebody on Twitter, okay whatever. Tony, to me, 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.159 I don't know what his ultimate goal is, but he 0:20:55.400 --> 0:21:00.760 keeps trying to poke that bear and no one is responding, 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:03.720 and it's like, after a while, you have to say 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:07.480 to yourself, Okay, do I look like an asshole? Or 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:11.399 am I getting my point across? Which is your point? 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:15.560 You look like you're seven years old and making like 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:19.120 potty humor jokes half the time. It just comes off. 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:25.959 As very childish to me and just disrespectful to the 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.399 business that we're all in. Yes, because why do you 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:32.639 have to take shots at another worker just because he 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:34.440 didn't win a match in a year? 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:39.360