Speaker 1: H h. Hello everyone.
Speaker 2: You are listening to the eyes of your w Transcine.
Speaker 1: Nan, you're a bost You listening transcine alongside is my
Speaker 1: buddy and partner in crime, d Sir. Are you doing today?
Speaker 3: I'm doing awesome. I'm so happy to be here tonight
Speaker 3: with you.
Speaker 1: You're always going, but.
Speaker 3: We're doing tonight tonight.
Speaker 1: It's different, different five because.
Speaker 3: It's right, Yeah, I feel different.
Speaker 1: I'm tired and then I feel tired in the morning.
Speaker 1: It's different.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I yeah, I don't know if I
Speaker 3: feel better, if I feel worse. But it's different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's weird because like you wake up in the
Speaker 2: morning and like usually we come down here like what nine,
Speaker 2: nine thirty. Sometimes I'm just kind of my coffee's just
Speaker 2: kind of kicking in, but I'm still kind of sleepy.
Speaker 2: And now it's seven o'clock and I'm just starting to
Speaker 2: get sleepy from the day from you know, doing everything
Speaker 2: in the day, and it's catching up on me now.
Speaker 1: And usually seven o'clock is the time where I kind
Speaker 1: of wind down.
Speaker 2: I get my decaf coffee, I sit on the couch,
Speaker 2: I go to the DVR, look up some.
Speaker 1: Stuff and kind of unlined for a couple hours, but
Speaker 1: tonight it's all about the podcast. There is no rest.
Speaker 3: Do you always drink decaf?
Speaker 1: No, I drink caffeinated.
Speaker 2: I drink one cup in the morning of caffeine, but
Speaker 2: then at night I can't drink. If I want a
Speaker 2: cup of coffee, I have to do decaf or else
Speaker 2: it'll keep.
Speaker 3: Me up for really.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I can't have caffeine at night.
Speaker 3: See this, This is calf to the gills.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 3: Now, I could drink a vat of caffeinated coffee at
Speaker 3: night and give me a pillow. I'll be asleep in
Speaker 3: five minutes.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 1: But you stay up late, don't you.
Speaker 4: Sometimes.
Speaker 1: I'm not like a late person anymore. I used to be.
Speaker 2: Gosh, I used to play poker online until like five
Speaker 2: point thirty in the morning. Sometimes I was a maniac.
Speaker 2: I guess after I got married and had kids, I
Speaker 2: got so regulated with my times. I have to be
Speaker 2: in bed by like ten o'clock or I'll I'm sleeping
Speaker 2: on the couch.
Speaker 3: But you've also run into you know. I do stay
Speaker 3: up a little late, but I also wake up a
Speaker 3: little late sometimes too, because.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, oh my god, that one day it was
Speaker 1: what eleven thirty, like.
Speaker 4: Ten forty five.
Speaker 3: I'm like, look, I just got up. I'm just catching
Speaker 3: my bearings. I get back of you in a few minutes.
Speaker 2: I can't even tell you the last time I slept
Speaker 2: past like seven o'clock.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's too funny.
Speaker 1: That's rare.
Speaker 2: I was like ten forty five, it's almost eleven o'clock
Speaker 2: at trias out of bed?
Speaker 1: You got work to do?
Speaker 4: No, it was?
Speaker 3: And that was was that the day I was confused
Speaker 3: on what day we were recording.
Speaker 2: That probably yeah, and I think it's the day that
Speaker 2: both girls were sick.
Speaker 3: Yes, oh my god, we were so thrown off. Oh
Speaker 3: so thrown on. We might have been drinking that night before.
Speaker 3: And I woke up so paranoid that either I was
Speaker 3: about to miss our recording time because I was like
Speaker 3: thinking about it, give.
Speaker 1: Me a half hour and I go, that wouldrow are about?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 1: I thought I was off. I was like, what day
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: Am I wrong? No, you're wrong?
Speaker 3: That's too funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'll tell you what like some nights and
Speaker 2: I I'm trying not to do this anymore. But for
Speaker 2: Christmas one of my presents from Hubs, he got me
Speaker 2: two bottles of Bailey's, so one bottle was like the
Speaker 2: original and one bottle was a vanilla cinnamon. So I've
Speaker 2: been putting like a double shot in my nighttime coffee.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's good.
Speaker 2: It's like every night I'm drinking. Now, it's like seventeen
Speaker 2: percent alcohol.
Speaker 1: It's not good.
Speaker 3: I mean it's good. Okay, it tastes good. It's good,
Speaker 3: but is it good. I mean it's not great.
Speaker 1: That is not good for you.
Speaker 2: And I've been like knocking myself out in the gym,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And I said to myself, Man,
Speaker 2: I'm sitting here and I'm drinking this. I'm not that
Speaker 2: I'm an alcoholic or anything, but I'm drinking this cup
Speaker 2: of coffee with this double shot.
Speaker 1: This can't be good at nighttime. That's I guess.
Speaker 2: There would be sugar in it, plus the additional calories
Speaker 2: plus the alcohol. So I stopped doing that. I said,
Speaker 2: I can't do that anymore. Now I'm trying to stop
Speaker 2: the coffee at night altogether, like I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to just drink water. But I was on
Speaker 1: a kick. I was like every night.
Speaker 2: I was getting my little coffee and I was sitting
Speaker 2: down because it's so relaxing.
Speaker 1: I had my heating pad, I have a fuzzy blanket.
Speaker 1: Then you know the cough, the spiked coffee like it's
Speaker 1: it's that's a dream night. That's so fun for me.
Speaker 3: Can't beat that. Well, you know, so, I know you
Speaker 3: like the moonshine, right, you like the Uh, it's.
Speaker 1: Not that I like the moonshine. It was the watermelon
Speaker 1: moonshine was very, very tasty, but it got me effed up.
Speaker 1: I was spinning.
Speaker 4: Drunk.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, well that's liking it. If you get spinning drunk,
Speaker 3: that's usually that's fun. But there's a there's a like
Speaker 3: a little booze bottle of moonshine that you can there's
Speaker 3: like a coffee flavored one out that you could like
Speaker 3: it's like a chaser almost that you can put in
Speaker 3: your coffee that makes it like it's like a Bailly's.
Speaker 3: Well I got those, put it in the wife stocking
Speaker 3: and we've added that to the coffee at night as well.
Speaker 3: There's a strawberry one, I think, and like a mocha
Speaker 3: like it's like a straw like a hint of like
Speaker 3: a strawberry, like I don't know if it's streamer, yeah,
Speaker 3: like a creamer. And then there's like a mocha one.
Speaker 3: It's awesome, but it's like a Bailey's.
Speaker 2: You know, it's so delicious. But I said, this can't
Speaker 2: be good for my body, Like I'm trying to detox. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've been going like, you know, the days that I lift,
Speaker 2: I lift heavy, right then the days that I don't lift,
Speaker 2: I do cardio and then I we have a steam
Speaker 2: the steam thing and I go in there and I
Speaker 2: sweat my ass off, and I'm trying to like detox
Speaker 2: and like drink the water and get the tox.
Speaker 1: And I'm saying, Balli's is not good. I'm sweating out
Speaker 1: Bailey's right now. This isn't good for me.
Speaker 3: You know, it's a sauna, so I love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, a fine stein goes. Oh is it the
Speaker 1: kin the plastic that you zip up like the bean
Speaker 1: bag chairs? What is real? Sauna?
Speaker 2: Made of wood? It has infrared lights on it. It's
Speaker 2: it's like it's awesome and you sweat, like you really sweat,
Speaker 2: And I've been doing that because it's supposed to help
Speaker 2: like your inflammation and your joint. Yeah yeah, and they say,
Speaker 2: you know, you might live longer if you start to
Speaker 2: use the sauna more. So, I've been trying to get
Speaker 2: in there for like thirty minutes and do that. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, once in a while, like when I have
Speaker 2: my girl's weekend, I'll go and I'll have a drink.
Speaker 2: But I think the baillies and the coffee needs to stop. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, but it's so good. Oh, it's so relaxing
Speaker 2: at night. Put a little whooped cream on the top.
Speaker 1: It's so good. I miss it.
Speaker 3: I don't blame you, I know. All right, Well, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna send the link to our We're being we're being
Speaker 3: meme bombed.
Speaker 1: I'm not even checking my father.
Speaker 3: We're being mean bombed to death.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you people know who's coming on. And if
Speaker 2: you don't, you're gonna in a minute.
Speaker 1: You can do the intro for him. Well, you love
Speaker 1: him so much.
Speaker 3: I love him so much.
Speaker 1: You love him so much.
Speaker 3: Go that far as to say that, But I mean,
Speaker 3: what what can you say about former e CW Champion,
Speaker 3: former w CW United States Champion, former w CW Tag
Speaker 3: Team Champion, the one and only and now back in
Speaker 3: the podcast Realm Yes with what is it? Franchise University?
Speaker 4: Is that the name of it?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't want to butcher it. But he also
Speaker 3: had a great association with the Queen of Extreme Francine
Speaker 3: and E. Cwat the greatest duo in ECW history.
Speaker 2: We are and let me tell you, I can't get
Speaker 2: rid of this guy. He's up my ass twenty for seven.
Speaker 2: I just can't get rid of him.
Speaker 1: But now he's one of my best friends. We're still
Speaker 1: traveling the road together, up and down the territories doing
Speaker 1: our thing. We have a lot of stuff planned for
Speaker 1: the first half of this year.
Speaker 3: There he is, so I was right.
Speaker 1: He is.
Speaker 3: He is my good friend and yours. He is a
Speaker 3: well quapped franchise. I guess can I do this too?
Speaker 3: As he comes on, look can I do this too?
Speaker 4: Look? Look?
Speaker 3: Oh man, it was hot in here. Oh man, oh
Speaker 3: so hot already the title?
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 1: It's the we quaffed franchise.
Speaker 4: E's easy taking care of this prodigious quaffing.
Speaker 1: Did you just get it done? It looks fabulous, Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Yeah, how are you doing all right?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I understand me. I'm doing great. Right now. I
Speaker 4: understand there's a massive air strike going over in the
Speaker 4: Middle East by the United States and Britain.
Speaker 2: So do you know I was just looking at a
Speaker 2: film of Alaskan airlines.
Speaker 1: Are the doors are flying off in midair?
Speaker 4: I saw that.
Speaker 3: That was crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was going on. As much as you love
Speaker 4: to fly, I could just see you on that. I
Speaker 4: was done.
Speaker 1: I would literally lose it.
Speaker 4: The door just came off, full disclosure. I'd have a
Speaker 4: cinder block in my pants.
Speaker 1: I swear to you. It was I remember one time.
Speaker 2: You know, Sandman was a self called plant atheist at
Speaker 2: one point, and I don't know what he believes in now,
Speaker 2: but uh, we were going down. We were on a
Speaker 2: flight and it was so I've never been like that,
Speaker 2: had turbulence like this, And he grabbed my hand and.
Speaker 1: I don't know who you pray to, but you better
Speaker 1: pray to him now. And I was just like, how
Speaker 1: do you want to pray to my God? Because you're
Speaker 1: gonna die. I thought we were goners. The plane was
Speaker 1: literally doing this.
Speaker 4: I thought you were gonna say Sam and bolted to
Speaker 4: the to the to the cab and crushed in and
Speaker 4: like flew the plane and landed it and saved everybody.
Speaker 1: That would have been a better story. Unfortunately. What's going
Speaker 1: on with you? Do you wanna do you want to
Speaker 1: talk about your podcast? First?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, absolutely, it's well. First of all, Happy New
Speaker 4: Year's to everybody gets there. Uh we uh franchise university.
Speaker 4: We've uh been you know, pushed us to number that.
Speaker 4: We had to take seven weeks off because James when
Speaker 4: got married. I tried to talk him out of it,
Speaker 4: but he wouldn't.
Speaker 3: He would join the club.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's he's so we're back. We had to record
Speaker 4: two episodes this week. Uh, apologies to everybody. Honestly I
Speaker 4: was getting delused by people at the grocery story. Hey
Speaker 4: so episode this week. But yeah, so we got caught
Speaker 4: up to it. Uh two weeks we got we're three
Speaker 4: weeks behind, so we got caught up to well and
Speaker 4: two weeks hit two more. But uh, we're having fun
Speaker 4: with it. It's uh, you know, it's it's for me,
Speaker 4: as you know, I get so nervous on cameraon in
Speaker 4: front of people. What about you guys, what's new? What's happening?
Speaker 1: Oh, well, you know we're on.
Speaker 3: He has Yeah, he hasn't been here since we've been on.
Speaker 3: iHeart yes, right, that's right, since you been on. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: he hasn't. I think the last time Shane was on
Speaker 3: was when Punk had the meltdown at the press conference?
Speaker 4: Was that time He's gonna kill ton That was?
Speaker 3: That was the time when Tony when he had the
Speaker 3: meltdown in front of the press and Tony was just
Speaker 3: sitting there with the bug guys watching it, and then
Speaker 3: uh uh the brawl out went on backstage and then
Speaker 3: Jericho whispered to Tony, some ship just went down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know this this thing that happened what last week?
Speaker 4: Week before? I lose track of time. I'm like, it's
Speaker 4: a kind of twilight zone. But you know, first of all,
Speaker 4: I'm sure Tony Kahn's dad has some pretty well qualified
Speaker 4: communications experts. There are times you go public and you
Speaker 4: say things and there's other times to shut the hell up,
Speaker 4: And clearly he doesn't know the difference. So it's, uh,
Speaker 4: it's it's it sends a shiver down your spine watching
Speaker 4: it and thinking, like, you know, how carefully we would
Speaker 4: try to do things in the past, and when you'd
Speaker 4: screw up, and there were plenty of those, you know,
Speaker 4: we try to figure out the best way. What's the
Speaker 4: old saying when you're in a hole, stop digging, And boy,
Speaker 4: it seems like old Tony Khan's got himself a backo.
Speaker 4: He's taking this thing as deep as he might end
Speaker 4: up in China. Who knows before we're done well.
Speaker 3: And he's made even more I would say, even the
Speaker 3: press conferences and whatever he's had to say publicly in
Speaker 3: front of people, being as bad as he could possibly do.
Speaker 3: That that's terrible. Online, he's worse because he's created a
Speaker 3: controversy between the companies now by going after talent. And
Speaker 3: have you seen that Shane this week?
Speaker 4: I hadn't, but but I've heard people like complaining about
Speaker 4: things just in general. So fill me in please.
Speaker 3: So what he did was so Jinder Mahaal, who's a
Speaker 3: WWE talent, was on TV a few weeks ago. He
Speaker 3: was in a segment with the Rock. Okay, the segment
Speaker 3: got rave reviews, got pretty decent rate. Means they decided
Speaker 3: to give gender Mahal a title shot. So gender Mahall
Speaker 3: has been kind of off TV. They've used him as
Speaker 3: a manager, but they he is a former champion. They
Speaker 3: gave him a title shot. Well, Tony used the fact
Speaker 3: that he hasn't really won to match as the barometer
Speaker 3: to say, oh, well, why does he deserve a title
Speaker 3: shot and kind of took a shot at him in
Speaker 3: a tweet, right, and you hook Tasa's son as an example,
Speaker 3: you know, as to somebody that is a superstar. So
Speaker 3: then Gender took a shot at Hook, and then Tony
Speaker 3: came back and took a shot at Gender and then
Speaker 3: shots fired back and forth and it just did not
Speaker 3: look good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and and what's the end goal? You know, it's
Speaker 4: it's you're putting heat on some of the boys. That
Speaker 4: poor Hook. But I mean, good kid, Right, he's sitting
Speaker 4: there minded his own business. Hall sudden he's in the
Speaker 4: middle of his controversy. It's uh again, like there, I
Speaker 4: think it's time for Tony to sit back and say,
Speaker 4: like call his dad, Hey, you get one of your
Speaker 4: damage control people, communications experts online. It's it's it's so
Speaker 4: frustrating to watch because there's so much talent. My god,
Speaker 4: we've talked about the sad nausea and there's so much
Speaker 4: talent in those dressing rooms and yet you know, you
Speaker 4: see stuff like that, it's like Peyton Place, you know,
Speaker 4: for all your kids out there, that's the soap opera.
Speaker 4: It used to be the TV, uh, you know, and
Speaker 4: it's just like this flailing about. It's it's embarrassing to watch.
Speaker 4: Focus on the product. It's the product in the ring.
Speaker 4: And you know, I did JP's a podcast in today's
Speaker 4: ninth anniversary and was saying, then, you know that it's
Speaker 4: the product. Remember the old line from Bill Klint is
Speaker 4: the economy stupid. Uh, it's the product, stupid. Fix the product,
Speaker 4: Get the product right. And instead of trying to take
Speaker 4: these shots. You know when we did in ECW, we
Speaker 4: were the little tiny guy trying to get eyeballs on
Speaker 4: us and uh, you know, taking shots to get some
Speaker 4: of that attention. But to be like one of the
Speaker 4: quote unquote big two and out there playing this kind
Speaker 4: of Peyton place where you know we're gonna go and
Speaker 4: tweet something mean out and everything else, it's just so
Speaker 4: ill advised and so stupid. And again, everybody knows my
Speaker 4: personal feelings for Vincent man, but I you know, there
Speaker 4: are still things I've learned from Vince. You know. Whenever
Speaker 4: I remember when Hogan years ago did the uh the
Speaker 4: promo after went the WCW said he had all the irishmen, yes,
Speaker 4: even the man shaking in his boots. I went to Vincent, said, hey,
Speaker 4: during one of the Dean Douglas vignettes, let's have a grip,
Speaker 4: make some noise in the back of the room and
Speaker 4: I'll be annoyed by it and I'll finally say something like,
Speaker 4: mister Bellie, will you sit down and shut up? And
Speaker 4: maybe you'll finally learn something about this business. And Vince
Speaker 4: loved it. He tuck you. But you know, we don't
Speaker 4: do it, never talk about the enemy and directly from Vince.
Speaker 4: And now this this kind of stuff. Tony has tried
Speaker 4: to place himself as being one of the talk three
Speaker 4: bookers and all this other stuff we've heard. But you've
Speaker 4: been on national television for three years and failed to
Speaker 4: grow the audience. There's still between this three and eight
Speaker 4: hundred thousand number. Correct. Yeah, yeah, so they've already failed.
Speaker 4: I mean three years in my guess would be somebody
Speaker 4: at T and T. Unless they have absolutely nothing to air,
Speaker 4: it's start. There's there's discussions going on like, hey, how
Speaker 4: long do we want to do this? Because are they
Speaker 4: still paying the production costs? Yeah? I'm not sure at
Speaker 4: some point this this this fan dango will come to
Speaker 4: an end unless they get it right. And they have
Speaker 4: some really great young talent there, but they're also you know,
Speaker 4: I won't use names. I'll try to keep my friends'
Speaker 4: names out of this, but I had spoken to one
Speaker 4: of my dear friends from there, and they told me
Speaker 4: that in since the beginning of the company, there wasn't
Speaker 4: a single question asked of them. And I can assure
Speaker 4: you this person taught me a world of stuff that
Speaker 4: I would later use as the franchise. So the fact
Speaker 4: that nobody's asking him questions or asked him any questions,
Speaker 4: seems to me to be just crazy, insane. They got
Speaker 4: to write that ship. They have a chance. You know,
Speaker 4: they have the money and they have a great dressing
Speaker 4: room of talent. But you know, a runner, the ship
Speaker 4: just sort of floats around and goes in the circles, right,
Speaker 4: And I think that's what we're seeing with aew. Get
Speaker 4: the ship right, get the runner fixed, get this thing
Speaker 4: moving in the right direction, especially as Vince's numbers have
Speaker 4: sort of sloughed out. We keep saying this for the
Speaker 4: company formerly owned by Vina McMahon. It's you know, take
Speaker 4: some lessons from him, because, you know, love him or
Speaker 4: hate him, the guy knew what the hell he was
Speaker 4: doing as far as business goes.
Speaker 1: We talked about this before when they the scrum.
Speaker 2: The way that Tony was behaving and cursing and just
Speaker 2: acting more so like one of the boys and not
Speaker 2: the boss. Right when I see him tweeting and childish
Speaker 2: stuff like not even something like an adult man would write,
Speaker 2: just like taking cheap shots. And to me, he's trying
Speaker 2: to poke the bear, which is either like triple h
Speaker 2: or you can even say Vince McMahan or somebody in charge,
Speaker 2: and nobody ever pokes back. You know, gender is the
Speaker 2: one that poked back, and he's talent. So the boys
Speaker 2: always fight on Twitter like it's like an everyday thing.
Speaker 2: Somebody's fighting with somebody on Twitter, okay whatever. Tony, to me,
Speaker 2: I don't know what his ultimate goal is, but he
Speaker 2: keeps trying to poke that bear and no one is responding,
Speaker 2: and it's like, after a while, you have to say
Speaker 2: to yourself, Okay, do I look like an asshole? Or
Speaker 2: am I getting my point across? Which is your point?
Speaker 1: You look like you're seven years old and making like
Speaker 1: potty humor jokes half the time. It just comes off.
Speaker 2: As very childish to me and just disrespectful to the
Speaker 2: business that we're all in. Yes, because why do you
Speaker 2: have to take shots at another worker just because he
Speaker 2: didn't win a match in a year?
Speaker 1: Guess what, Tony, it's a storyline. It's not real. He
Speaker 1: was booked to lose.
Speaker 5: So honestly taking jabs at this guy, it's it's to
Speaker 5: me that just shows you how disrespectful he can be,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, just to make his company
Speaker 5: look better, but it just makes.
Speaker 1: Him look worse.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think nail on head, right. I mean
Speaker 4: it's they at this point should be nipping at Vince's
Speaker 4: or the company formerly owned by Vince's heels. But I
Speaker 4: think there's some criticism to throw there too. Completely different topic,
Speaker 4: but I would think that if if I was going
Speaker 4: to spend nine billion dollars for a company, I'd have
Speaker 4: a plan in place today, I got the keys, I
Speaker 4: would hit the ground running. And from what I'm hearing
Speaker 4: from fans, and again full disclosure, I haven't watched more
Speaker 4: than thirty seconds here and there of their product in
Speaker 4: the last two months. Been too busy. But from what
Speaker 4: I'm hearing from the fans is that it looks as
Speaker 4: though there's really no plan in place. They just took
Speaker 4: the keys and said, okay, one hunter running like you
Speaker 4: want to. Is that accurate?
Speaker 3: Sort of, It's like it's like almost like some people
Speaker 3: had like the ideas that they've always wanted to bring
Speaker 3: to the forefront and they just kind of were able
Speaker 3: to use them now. So kind of like that, but
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's kind of hard to say. It's
Speaker 3: like it's almost like they finally got the clearest to
Speaker 3: be like, all right, the old guy's gone, let's kind
Speaker 3: of do whatever we can now.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I mean it's you know, it's you got
Speaker 4: one guy like Franny just hit the nail on the head,
Speaker 4: you know, trying to play like the guerrilla Warfare tactic.
Speaker 4: As one of the companies that's been on the air
Speaker 4: for three years national television and has shown no propensity
Speaker 4: to grow that company. It looks like desperation, right, Remember Fannie,
Speaker 4: when Paul kept wanting me to do the Flair stuff,
Speaker 4: and I kept saying, it's clear he's not coming. It
Speaker 4: looks desperate for us, right, And he wanted me to
Speaker 4: keep doing it and you know, we had that argument
Speaker 4: over it, same thing, like we there's a time to
Speaker 4: cut and run and move on. And they need to
Speaker 4: focus at this point on whatever the hundreds of millions
Speaker 4: of dollars invested so far. They need to figure out
Speaker 4: how to make that investment and get a return on
Speaker 4: that investment. And h Keyko or Endeavor whoever, I don't
Speaker 4: know which one is the parent company, but they need
Speaker 4: to figure out what it is they want to do
Speaker 4: with that nine billion they just spent. It's uh, you know,
Speaker 4: it's it keeps going back to what we've talked about
Speaker 4: for years on a Triple Threat podcast and other places.
Speaker 4: There is a massive audience built in to professional wrestling
Speaker 4: that has been completely ignored and worse than that, you know,
Speaker 4: given a little more, let me there, we go get
Speaker 4: the nice you know, that's basically what our industry is
Speaker 4: saying to that forty eight to fifty million fans, and
Speaker 4: it's sort of just see a child Tata. They've they've left,
Speaker 4: and nobody but nobody's even thinking about them, let alone
Speaker 4: figuring out how to get back. Ww's make it still
Speaker 4: making a ton of money, right that had the most
Speaker 4: profitable year from what I'm reading, Uh, if if that's true,
Speaker 4: what if they would do something to get some of
Speaker 4: that forty eight to fifty million fans back, and what
Speaker 4: if they w would sort of court them in some
Speaker 4: way and get them up. They probably get the ratings
Speaker 4: beyond that three to eight hundred thousand range that nobody
Speaker 4: is paying attention to. That is, like, to me, incredibly perplexing.
Speaker 2: Every time I hear an adult talk about wrestling. Oh,
Speaker 2: I used to watch that stuff, like when I was
Speaker 2: a teenager. That's the most the sentence I keep hearing.
Speaker 2: It's the same one from different people all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I used to watch that back in the day. I
Speaker 2: don't watch it anymore. Like to me, people they don't
Speaker 2: think it's cool anymore. Like I don't know how to
Speaker 2: explain that they're still a market for it, obviously, because
Speaker 2: you know people are still tuning in, but like you said,
Speaker 2: the numbers aren't there like they were years ago. And
Speaker 2: you know, it's kind of like some guy or even
Speaker 2: embarrassed to admit they were wrestling fans at one point,
Speaker 2: which I.
Speaker 1: Don't get that.
Speaker 2: It's like, you like what you like, you know, wrestling movies, whatever,
Speaker 2: you're into your dungeons and dragons.
Speaker 1: Who cares. If you like it, you like it, and
Speaker 1: that's me. But when you talk to these people like people.
Speaker 2: Will like, you know, if I meet like my Oh,
Speaker 2: I went to uh my husband's where he grew up,
Speaker 2: and there were people there that we were talking to.
Speaker 1: Oh, you used to wrestle? Yeah, I used to.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know, I like that when I was
Speaker 2: like seven, and I go, Okay, that's fine, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean.
Speaker 2: But to me it comes off nowadays like it's not
Speaker 2: the cool thing to like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Like what did they switch over and get into all
Speaker 2: those millions of people?
Speaker 1: What are they into now?
Speaker 4: UFC right, remember this point where there were so moose
Speaker 4: in the company pushing to take wrestling more in that
Speaker 4: realistic direction as the rest of the industry was flying
Speaker 4: off the cartoon land. And the UFC is massive. That's
Speaker 4: how they were a Ford nine billion. But they excuse
Speaker 4: me for the WWE. I wonder though, first of all,
Speaker 4: to support what you just said. How many times have
Speaker 4: we been at a table and somebody comes up and says, oh,
Speaker 4: I used to love watching you guys, and you or
Speaker 4: I will ask them do you still watch and it's all, okay,
Speaker 4: I got a rock, you know what I mean, the
Speaker 4: plane goes down in flames. Yeah, I watched my kids.
Speaker 4: And you know, my kids had grown up in the
Speaker 4: dressing rooms. They loved being around the business. Uh, they
Speaker 4: used to really enjoy I think, just you know, they
Speaker 4: thought they were important. They could come and go as
Speaker 4: they wanted and get a hot dog when they wanted
Speaker 4: or whatever. When they walked away from wrestling coincide with
Speaker 4: the time that they both started wrestling amateur and uh,
Speaker 4: and I remember it like being like literally today tomorrow,
Speaker 4: thing today. Up until today, they loved it. Every day
Speaker 4: they were out on the front stoop playing with their
Speaker 4: friends and the wrestling rings and the video games and
Speaker 4: all of that. And suddenly tomorrow they didn't. They just
Speaker 4: stopped and it was UFC for them. But for others.
Speaker 4: You know, kids, you've got kids, There's gonna come a
Speaker 4: time when your kids a little bit younger than mine,
Speaker 4: they're gonna find music, they're gonna find girls and boys,
Speaker 4: and they're gonna find a whole slew of lot of things,
Speaker 4: cars and whatever else. And you know when that happens,
Speaker 4: other things fall by the wayside, and that's that's the
Speaker 4: real look, see right to the what wrestling had always been.
Speaker 4: I started watching wrestling at six seven years old, and
Speaker 4: I've been a fan since you started watching wrestling. All
Speaker 4: three of us here started watching wrestling young, grew up
Speaker 4: watching it, and now we've got into the industry and
Speaker 4: worked alongside of it. But I still can watch great wrestling.
Speaker 4: You know, pull something up old or whatever. Somebody sends
Speaker 4: me something and I watch it. I still learn from
Speaker 4: the stuff. You know, you're watching an old Harley match
Speaker 4: or you know, an old Bruno match or something. You know, Wow,
Speaker 4: you just see that they're thinking in the ring. But
Speaker 4: that's gone. You know, we've seen our industry. I think
Speaker 4: it's now more transitory. The kids come in at six, seven,
Speaker 4: eight years old, they watch it for a couple of
Speaker 4: years and they sort of mature and say, oh, hey,
Speaker 4: there's girls, there's boys, there's cars, there's music, there's UFC,
Speaker 4: there's all these other things going on, and that I
Speaker 4: think is a bad slap in our business and what's
Speaker 4: being presented.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just I hear so much negativity about the sport,
Speaker 2: and part of me gets enraged because there is still
Speaker 2: a part of me because I love it, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, I still that's what I did for
Speaker 2: the last thirty years and that's what I continue to do.
Speaker 2: So I'm offended at one point, but then the other
Speaker 2: half of me.
Speaker 1: Goes, I kind of get it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, like I kind.
Speaker 2: Of see where they're coming from, especially with today's product.
Speaker 2: So you know, there was a time when I I
Speaker 2: didn't even have cable and Monday night Raw would be
Speaker 2: on and I used to run up the street to
Speaker 2: my girlfriend's house for that hour and watch hers because
Speaker 2: I didn't have it.
Speaker 4: And then I did you guys cat fight?
Speaker 1: No, I was in the business back then. I would
Speaker 1: just run because I wanted to see it.
Speaker 2: And I would run up the street and I would
Speaker 2: sit and they you know, her mom was great, she
Speaker 2: was like my second mother.
Speaker 1: She would let me watch it and then she watched
Speaker 1: me run down the street. I'd go home.
Speaker 2: Right, That's how much I just adored the sport. And
Speaker 2: now I can't even sit there and watch it. And
Speaker 2: it's no again, no offense to anybody working, but I
Speaker 2: think at this stage in my life, I'm just doing
Speaker 2: different things. I have different obligations and I'm not as
Speaker 2: obsessed as I used to be, because I used to
Speaker 2: be obsessed with it. You know, we would drive and
Speaker 2: all we talk about our spots and what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: It was constantly running through my brain.
Speaker 2: Maybe because I'm not working, you know, ringside, although we
Speaker 2: do have two shows coming up with that we're.
Speaker 1: Going to plug and I'm freaking out over them. Just
Speaker 1: to lay I have to do stuff and it's killing me.
Speaker 4: But you know, one little power bomb off the top
Speaker 4: road table.
Speaker 1: That is not happening. Well, you know, you get into
Speaker 1: like the older you get, you get a different mind
Speaker 1: free and you know, there's just certain things that I
Speaker 1: think about now that are way more important than professional wrestling,
Speaker 1: and you know, family and kids of course, life, and
Speaker 1: so I get the transition onto other things.
Speaker 2: But you know, when people talk about it in a
Speaker 2: negative way, I want to punch them in the face.
Speaker 2: I'm like, ew, you.
Speaker 1: Don't have to be crude about it, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So, you know, there's.
Speaker 4: How many times how many times have you heard me
Speaker 4: say in interviews and including our podcast probably on here,
Speaker 4: I'm not indicting the kids, it's you know, when we've
Speaker 4: both been there when you're a kid in this business,
Speaker 4: unless somebody takes you by the nose and explains to
Speaker 4: you when to do those big bumps, when to take
Speaker 4: this or do this move or not do it? Speed up,
Speaker 4: slow down. At Dominic's, Jim, we learned how to do
Speaker 4: the moves. And it wasn't I didn't learn the business
Speaker 4: like actually wrestling and telling a story till I was
Speaker 4: on the road. And and I've said this so many times,
Speaker 4: it's like that goes in my own brain. If it
Speaker 4: weren't for the pez Wattley's and the black Barts and
Speaker 4: the Dick Slators and Murdocks and all those guys, you
Speaker 4: would have never met me. You guys would never have
Speaker 4: known me. The fans would never have known me. Because
Speaker 4: everything that I learned that I would apply later came
Speaker 4: from being in the ring with those guys. And these kids,
Speaker 4: bless their hearts, they have never been given that opportunity.
Speaker 4: So I was asking a kid again, name irrelevant. Last summer,
Speaker 4: Moose was having a show down there in Kentucky and
Speaker 4: he was a fan of mine and came up and
Speaker 4: introduced himself and we started talking, and I said he'd
Speaker 4: been in the busines us for four years. The first
Speaker 4: question was how many matches per year? How many matches
Speaker 4: have you had in those four years? And it was
Speaker 4: something like sixty seven or sixty eight and four years?
Speaker 4: And I asked him, I said, have you ever been
Speaker 4: in the ring with the guy with twenty years experience?
Speaker 4: And he said, yeah? Said how many times? He said,
Speaker 4: one time with Al Snow? And I thought, so four years.
Speaker 4: This kid had been in the ring one time with
Speaker 4: the guy with a lot of experience. Again, in my day,
Speaker 4: would have been passing all those guys I just mentioned.
Speaker 4: You know, if me and mit fully had gone on
Speaker 4: the road together and only ever worked with each other,
Speaker 4: what could I possibly have learned from him or he
Speaker 4: from me? We were at the same level. There was
Speaker 4: none we could teach you about each other. But you know,
Speaker 4: so I always looked at stress. I'm not indicting the kids,
Speaker 4: but when you have a dresser room full of guys
Speaker 4: back there that have all proven themselves on deck for
Speaker 4: decades that you know, drawing money, telling stories and surviving
Speaker 4: in this business, if you make to the top of
Speaker 4: this pile in this business, you clearly know something. Because
Speaker 4: there's a whole lot of people that don't. It just
Speaker 4: perplexes me that anybody would think that there's nothing I
Speaker 4: can learn from talking to Francie and or Shane or
Speaker 4: anybody that has that thirty forty years in. It's just
Speaker 4: a head scratcher. And so, you know, there's that push
Speaker 4: and show. And the last time was at an aw
Speaker 4: show in Pittsburgh. One of the kids came up and
Speaker 4: please don't mist understand. He was not being disrespectful. He was,
Speaker 4: I think, trying to explain, you know, me and Taz
Speaker 4: and we started talking, and his son Hook was there,
Speaker 4: and Jerry came over, and Dean came over, and different
Speaker 4: people were coming over, and suddenly there's this little crowd
Speaker 4: of people and Taz and I started talking about my angle,
Speaker 4: and one of the kids said to me, see franchise,
Speaker 4: that's the difference. Like back in when you guys worked,
Speaker 4: the fans still believed in the business, but everybody knows
Speaker 4: it's to work now, so it doesn't have to make sense.
Speaker 4: And I looked at Taz, really just say that to me,
Speaker 4: like jokingly, and so I asked the kid, you know,
Speaker 4: trying to be funny. I guess it didn't quite land
Speaker 4: the way I thought it would. I said, there's a
Speaker 4: movie I used to watch when I was a kid.
Speaker 4: Have you ever heard a little movie called Star Wars?
Speaker 4: Because oh my god, I love Star Wars. I said, okay,
Speaker 4: so you know what a lightsaber is, and you know
Speaker 4: what the millennial falcon is, and see three po in
Speaker 4: Darth Vader's mask because yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I said, well,
Speaker 4: why does Disney spend two three hundred million bucks per
Speaker 4: on special effects? I mean they can put you out
Speaker 4: the actors with a broomstick and put the sound effect
Speaker 4: over it and you just imagine that it's a light saber,
Speaker 4: or put a ten bucket on the actor playing Darth
Speaker 4: Vader's head, et cetera. And the kids look at me
Speaker 4: like I'm like I'm crazy, And I said they do
Speaker 4: that because not going they'd want ry to put two
Speaker 4: three hundred million bucks in the bank. I assure you
Speaker 4: they do that because they want you to suspend disbelief,
Speaker 4: to go to that place that doesn't exist. And in
Speaker 4: our business. I told the kid, I said, if you're
Speaker 4: telling yourself before you go out that curtain, none of
Speaker 4: this has to make sense. You've already defeated yourself before
Speaker 4: you've walked through that curtain. I hope he listened and
Speaker 4: learned and he's learning from it. But again, it's just
Speaker 4: a completely different industry. All that talent in the dressing
Speaker 4: room that could could, you know, allow them to sit
Speaker 4: into the learning tree. None of them are in the ring.
Speaker 4: Billy gun a bit, but uh, none of them are
Speaker 4: in the for the most part, not in the ring.
Speaker 4: So they can't literally get in there and say, Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna teach you time we go out there. Here's
Speaker 4: here's how we're going to do this. And and it's
Speaker 4: a shame because the kids, again I've said this so
Speaker 4: many times and I meet it from the bottom of
Speaker 4: my heart. They are so incredibly athletic that if somebody
Speaker 4: would just make them learn their craft, imagine the stories
Speaker 4: they could tell with that athleticism.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I think there was a missed opportunity
Speaker 1: not hiring a certain franchise to be.
Speaker 2: A coach, because you know, I think there's youngins into
Speaker 2: shape anders.
Speaker 3: You know, Shane, I didn't realize I saw a match
Speaker 3: from I think it was last summer that you worked
Speaker 3: the match, but Adam Cole was in the corner of you.
Speaker 3: I had never seen that before. What was his role
Speaker 3: at that show? Because he's taken on such a role
Speaker 3: there in aw as a top guy, but like, what
Speaker 3: did the guys at that show kind of treat him?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: He came in and was respectful. Uh, you know, he
Speaker 4: was seemingly like took his segment of that and then
Speaker 4: worked on it. But here there wasn't a whole ton
Speaker 4: of communication. Uh you know, so he uh how do
Speaker 4: I put it without making this sound good or bad?
Speaker 4: I mean just describing it. Uh, he he came It
Speaker 4: was almost like he came there and filled his role.
Speaker 4: You know. It was uh yeah, I think he was
Speaker 4: trying not to be like seemingly disrespectfully. You know the
Speaker 4: look first of all these kids today, the twenty twenty five,
Speaker 4: they can't make eye contact, so you know, you get
Speaker 4: a whole lot of this. But he was he was
Speaker 4: pretty uh conversational and uh you know, and I can't remember.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go back and ask Mose. I can't remember
Speaker 4: why he wasn't working that night.
Speaker 1: He's been injured a lot.
Speaker 3: It was it was a weird spot, but he's coming off.
Speaker 1: Of he was injured and then he got injured again.
Speaker 2: So maybe they just brought him in as a name,
Speaker 2: but he really couldn't do anything.
Speaker 3: He was physical, He was physical, He hit a move,
Speaker 3: he he laid somebody out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but why didn't they bring him into work work?
Speaker 3: That's why it was so weird. But I was wondering what.
Speaker 1: He probably could do something, you know, how you work
Speaker 1: around your injuries.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, so maybe maybe that's what happened, But I
Speaker 2: didn't see it, so I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm just yeah, it's that's a year ago is ten
Speaker 4: million years ago to me? I'm sure specific.
Speaker 1: But he uh he had for breakfast this morning.
Speaker 4: You have no idea it is a coffee, Yeah, coffee.
Speaker 4: I always coffee for certain Yes. Uh. I also heard
Speaker 4: that Kenny Omega is uh yeah, the diverticulitis and you
Speaker 4: know it's a elt. Yeah, that's you know that that's
Speaker 4: I had a person I grew up with, one of
Speaker 4: my friends in the neighborhood. She's had that life long
Speaker 4: and you know, we've talked quite a bit about it.
Speaker 4: And you know, that's no joke. I mean that's a
Speaker 4: really pretty serious thing and at some point if it
Speaker 4: gets you know, I don't know the modalities today, how
Speaker 4: what the treatments are. But back then, her big concern
Speaker 4: was that she would start losing pieces of her intestines
Speaker 4: and uh, you know, so, I mean that gets pretty serious.
Speaker 4: And I said, look, when Kenny first got it, had
Speaker 4: all those injuries needed surgeries. Uh I. I think it
Speaker 4: was on the Franchise podcast where I said, you know,
Speaker 4: that's as somebody who's had you know, a long list
Speaker 4: of surgeries. You know, you can bounce back from a
Speaker 4: certain number, but once you get like over seven eight
Speaker 4: nine surgeries, it starts getting harder. And you know, as
Speaker 4: you're getting older, that gas thing goes empty a lot quicker.
Speaker 4: And uh, you know, and like I said in my podcast,
Speaker 4: like a message to him was, you know, I understand,
Speaker 4: And I noticed for these kids impossible like it was
Speaker 4: for us to understand. There's going to come a time
Speaker 4: when you hit that ripled age like we have thirty nine,
Speaker 4: and you know, you still want to be able to
Speaker 4: get out and like in your case, out in the
Speaker 4: pool with your friend, your your kids and I you
Speaker 4: know me, you know, playing like an idiot with the
Speaker 4: NERF guns and the you know, balls and stuff in
Speaker 4: the backyard. There there is life after wrestling. And so, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, hopefully I wish them the best of luck
Speaker 4: on that because that's a tough tough thing to deal with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's sad. Let's let's uh change the tied
Speaker 2: to something happy. We today were announced for Wressel Con.
Speaker 4: Yes, finally, where is it this here?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I was going to ask you where do we have
Speaker 2: to go? It's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, And I was like, they're
Speaker 2: they're announcing everybody, where are we?
Speaker 1: So there's there's this strapping young buck right there. That
Speaker 1: was your announcement.
Speaker 4: Today, Handsome Devil.
Speaker 1: Actually you were. You were announced two days ago. I
Speaker 1: was announced today, But did the drummerroll first? I don't
Speaker 1: think you got it circumstance.
Speaker 4: Be honest with us. Now, full disclosure here the Hall
Speaker 4: of Fame.
Speaker 1: Me absolutely not comment.
Speaker 3: Right there, it says great announcement, looking forward to meeting
Speaker 3: the franchise, But how are you going to announce Shane
Speaker 3: without the lovely E CW diva?
Speaker 4: Fred?
Speaker 1: Now? Yeah, I was nowhere to be found. So I'm like, hello,
Speaker 1: am I booked?
Speaker 4: You would be shocked in Chaddy and how many times
Speaker 4: people book us? And like like at the gathering. What
Speaker 4: was that last year? The year before Francine was appearing
Speaker 4: with with him man.
Speaker 1: I was appearing with Bill after.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah Bill after, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we saw that who I love.
Speaker 4: It's great, but but I mean how many hello? We
Speaker 4: were both there I used to work with remember that
Speaker 4: it was.
Speaker 1: And the promoters promoter there I A promoters will say
Speaker 1: to me, oh, yes, thank you.
Speaker 4: Do you still look at that quaff?
Speaker 1: I know that was the porn star hair. I love that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Promoters are still like, oh do you and Shane still talk?
Speaker 4: Never?
Speaker 1: I go what?
Speaker 2: And then somebody said, oh, you worked with Shane before.
Speaker 1: I looked them like, are you what? I don't understand. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm a big ec W fan. Oh you worked with
Speaker 1: Sene Douglas. Did you watch the show? I mean you
Speaker 1: missed the big chunk of that year. It's battles me.
Speaker 1: I don't get it.
Speaker 2: But anyway, they announced us today, so we'll be appearing
Speaker 2: all three days. They also announced us uh for icons, which.
Speaker 1: We'll be doing double duty.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna high tail it out of.
Speaker 4: This one more one more power bomb.
Speaker 1: You're nuts. Look, this is what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: We're working with al Snow for battleground. Uh, Night of
Speaker 2: the Extreme two or something like that. The spot that
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna steal ahead and
Speaker 2: take her to the back, not come back out alert.
Speaker 4: That's all you're doing, So let me drop an elbow on.
Speaker 1: I'm going nothing. I'm just gonna take head and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm telling you, don't do my entrance. Waive it everyone,
Speaker 1: steal head and I'm on my way. So you're on
Speaker 1: your head? Yes, goodbye?
Speaker 4: Am I going? I can't get my hand in the right.
Speaker 4: Is that the way you do it?
Speaker 1: Is?
Speaker 4: That? Is that it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You just did, Shane.
Speaker 3: You guys have had some tag matches you you and
Speaker 3: l against each other, But have you had many one
Speaker 3: on ones since ninety seven?
Speaker 4: No one that I can remember in Blah Detroit the
Speaker 4: day that got thrown out of the building and.
Speaker 3: The day yeah that was the building.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Uh he dominict for setting up and he was
Speaker 4: talking about somebody he is a politician, show remained nameless
Speaker 4: and I had told him I had voted for that person,
Speaker 4: and he about lost his mind. He started going great.
Speaker 4: Dominic Walker was, hey, can take East. You're gonna have
Speaker 4: a stroke.
Speaker 3: That's the day he slapped Santino.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, there was a slap. Yeah, he got grazy.
Speaker 4: We had left. I had taken Dominic back to the
Speaker 4: hotel because it was afternoon. We were setting up, and
Speaker 4: I took Dominic to the hotel and we came back
Speaker 4: and it was here what happened to?
Speaker 1: Here?
Speaker 4: What happened? I was likely smokes.
Speaker 1: Why did he smack him?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, long, some kind of you know Corney's opinionated,
Speaker 4: you know corny.
Speaker 3: Okay, So back in ov w Uh, Jim Cornett was
Speaker 3: trying to get over the Boogeyman as a as a
Speaker 3: scary character, and he had Santino in the crowd and
Speaker 3: Santino was laughing. Okay, So he took him in the
Speaker 3: back and he chewed him out and he has held
Speaker 3: a ground on him ever since. So he saw him
Speaker 3: at that show. They talked trash back and forth for years,
Speaker 3: and he saw him at that show and he slapped
Speaker 3: the piss out of him.
Speaker 1: And why he got ejected from you got thrown out?
Speaker 4: Yeah he should have taken dominant advice, take easy kid, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that all I.
Speaker 1: Needed to do. I don't know.
Speaker 2: We're booked on a bunch of stuff together, So get ready.
Speaker 2: There are a number of shows coming up. The big
Speaker 2: one was the Russell Khan announcement, which I wanted to say,
Speaker 2: but everybody knows to go to my Twitter. Shane doesn't
Speaker 2: go online.
Speaker 1: You have to follow me and you have to I
Speaker 1: feel them and everything.
Speaker 4: But so I've got to barry Franny here for a
Speaker 4: second because everybody calls it a queen of extreme and
Speaker 4: I recently learned that there was one hundred and six
Speaker 4: year old woman who drank one hundred and six shots
Speaker 4: of fireball. And you know, I've never seen Franny do
Speaker 4: more than twenty, so she's.
Speaker 1: He called me up after, uh, the after I did
Speaker 1: my virtual and I was like, oh my god, I'm
Speaker 1: so sick. And he's like, what's the matter. And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I did like eight shots of the
Speaker 1: fireball and I feel so ill. And then he sends
Speaker 1: me that old lady. I'm like, oh, and this is
Speaker 1: such a work shots. She crippled.
Speaker 4: You can crust you crust you. You got jogged by
Speaker 4: the by the centenarian.
Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you we are also booked for
Speaker 2: the Bash at Beckley in West Virginia. Dude, and Gary
Speaker 2: said he has the moonshine ready.
Speaker 4: Okay, are you gonna tell that story?
Speaker 1: You can tell that story, but you have to you
Speaker 1: have to come in early. I'm coming in the day before.
Speaker 1: You have to come in the day before.
Speaker 4: I'll get down there. Yeah, it's just so that the
Speaker 4: wrestlcade two years ago. There we are a year and
Speaker 4: a half ago.
Speaker 1: Whatever it was, Fran do I look like you smacked
Speaker 1: me across the face. I look like I have a
Speaker 1: black eye.
Speaker 4: Now that's your.
Speaker 1: I look like I have a black eye for some reason.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Anyway, Yeah, I invented the duck lips.
Speaker 1: But anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 4: So we were invited to Brian Meyer's room and we
Speaker 4: get there and he had two pretty big uh Mason
Speaker 4: jars of flavored moonshine. Franky pours herself like a glass,
Speaker 4: like the whole glass.
Speaker 1: He gave me the jar. He just gave me the
Speaker 1: Mason jar and it was full.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but when you poured it into your cup, you
Speaker 4: filled the whole cup up like to the top. I
Speaker 4: didn't know.
Speaker 1: I never had time before.
Speaker 4: That's pretty good watermelon. And about five minutes later.
Speaker 1: I chugged it. I chugged it. I did, and Shane.
Speaker 2: It was so loud in that room, like Shane and
Speaker 2: I were fossils. Everybody was doing something thirty something. Shane
Speaker 2: and I are like what you said, We're trying to
Speaker 2: talk to the room. I couldn't even hear him. Right,
Speaker 2: I'm sitting on the bed with this cup and he
Speaker 2: goes and I'm just rank it like a normal drink,
Speaker 2: and everybody was gasping.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Well I left the room ram laid
Speaker 1: down four am. I had the spins.
Speaker 2: I was sick, and then I was up at six
Speaker 2: with the world's worst headache in the world.
Speaker 1: So now, Heith Slater taught me, you have to put
Speaker 1: it on ice and you sip it. You sit on
Speaker 1: a rocking chair on Yeah, So that's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: Like a lady. I'm just gonna sip it.
Speaker 4: That old lady smoked you. She jobbed you out out
Speaker 4: of here.
Speaker 2: Man, I was sick as a dog on New Year's Day.
Speaker 4: Oh you're killing your gimmick here for Anny, You're killing
Speaker 4: your gimmick.
Speaker 1: I am the worst. Anyway, this hour flew by. I
Speaker 1: can't believe it. I just saw your mug and now
Speaker 1: you gotta go.
Speaker 2: Do you wanna do you want to plug anything?
Speaker 4: Just a franchise university. It's but there's a story about it.
Speaker 4: You guys mentioned about the social media earlier. Both my
Speaker 4: Facebook and my Twitter had been hacked. Like my recovery
Speaker 4: stuff doesn't work. So if you're well, go through all
Speaker 4: that again, come on. It's and you know, I don't
Speaker 4: miss any of it. It's it's nice to just be
Speaker 4: floating long and doing the stuff. You know. Again, the
Speaker 4: podcast is doing well enough. I will probably get back
Speaker 4: on social media when time dictates. It's uh, but I honestly,
Speaker 4: I I really don't miss it. I know it's important
Speaker 4: and I just don't have the time for it. If
Speaker 4: I do that, it's invariably something else I'm not getting done.
Speaker 4: And it's I got you, I got you.
Speaker 1: I'll promote for both of us. We have so much
Speaker 1: stuff coming up.
Speaker 2: I told I was telling chatter earlier. I said, my god,
Speaker 2: I have so much up until June and then the
Speaker 2: second half of the year. We got to get it going.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, but I mean, but we're what we're
Speaker 4: two weeks into the new year, so.
Speaker 2: Something always comes up. But when you look at your
Speaker 2: calendar and it's like, oh, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: we have a lot of things coming up, and don't worry,
Speaker 2: I'll promote for the both of us.
Speaker 1: Curious.
Speaker 4: Yeah, your kids, they ever watch your stuff that you
Speaker 4: allow them to, or you ever see them ask me this? No,
Speaker 4: absolutely not Okay. Next time my.
Speaker 2: Son goes, mom, I think you have too much showing.
Speaker 2: I know I have to go downstairs and work. He goes, yeah,
Speaker 2: but I think you should cover up.
Speaker 4: A frock. You need a frock.
Speaker 1: I need a movement. Always what I needed, love me
Speaker 1: go get my Uh where are they called, uh the
Speaker 1: doilies that you put over uh depens.
Speaker 2: No, No, it's the women wear a modesty panel. That's
Speaker 2: what it's called. It's a modesty panel and you can
Speaker 2: clip it like in your shirt and it covers your chest.
Speaker 1: That's what I need to get as a modesty panel.
Speaker 1: I suppose you never heard of a modesty panel.
Speaker 3: I can't say I have.
Speaker 4: I think they used to call those bibs.
Speaker 2: Now I'm telling you, well, I did Brian Alvarez his
Speaker 2: live Yeah, it went really well and a very short
Speaker 2: amount of time. So they're going to have me on
Speaker 2: for the full hour next month. I literally had five minutes.
Speaker 1: Shall it was real quick. Uh.
Speaker 2: But he said, every time you say eyes up here,
Speaker 2: I get nervous. And I said, well, I said you should.
Speaker 2: I said, because you know your eyes should be up here.
Speaker 2: And he goes, how many times have you heard that
Speaker 2: out a signing like the eyes up here? I said, oh,
Speaker 2: I've said it all the time. And then the guy
Speaker 2: will say, well, look at what you're wearing, and I.
Speaker 1: Go to chet, Yeah, what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 1: I can't cover up? These are the moneymakers, Dodge, Perry
Speaker 1: Thrust any who do you want to plug Connor's gig?
Speaker 4: Oh my god? Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: That little ship.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's again welcome to that artistic brain. But
Speaker 4: I know he's in His group is called Dan do
Speaker 4: Vans d A N D O O V E I
Speaker 4: N S like in your arm. They're in the studio today.
Speaker 4: They went to Atlanta and they're working with I don't
Speaker 4: remember the guy's name, am with names, but he's like
Speaker 4: a fairly big producer and they're gonna be recording four
Speaker 4: songs and they'll be releasing those. So he's he's pretty
Speaker 4: excited about it. You know, obviously, I'm a proud father.
Speaker 4: But their music, I mean there's something there. You've heard
Speaker 4: their music, I mean it's it's not just strumming a
Speaker 4: guitar or whatever. These kids are pretty talented. And I
Speaker 4: have a college buddy that had gone to Nashville years
Speaker 4: ago and he became a big songwriter, wrote some pretty
Speaker 4: big songs and it was pretty well known. And so
Speaker 4: I'm gonna connect those two because he's in Nashville now
Speaker 4: and get those two together. But Dan do Veins. Go
Speaker 4: any any music outlet. You can check out some of
Speaker 4: their first four songs, four or five songs they put out.
Speaker 4: But they'll be releasing these songs fairly soon on the
Speaker 4: Imagining Party within the next month, and they're available all
Speaker 4: the all the music outlets.
Speaker 1: So talk about open invite when he's ready. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: want him on the show.
Speaker 4: And you know, well, I'm just gonna warn you. I mean,
Speaker 4: he's a talented kid. But the old man got the looks.
Speaker 4: Believe every time I every time I say that, both
Speaker 4: my boys go.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, buddy, well I will I'll talk. I'll
Speaker 2: probably talk to you tomorrow because that's how we all.
Speaker 2: But I appreciate you coming on. Everybody go over and
Speaker 2: check you out.
Speaker 1: Franchise University on YouTube with James right, James is your
Speaker 1: co host. Yeah, go and subscribe if you haven't. And
Speaker 1: always a pleasure to my friend.
Speaker 3: The second best looking co host he ever had.
Speaker 4: Appreciate you guys, Ma, I'm good seeing you again. I'll
Speaker 4: talk to you soon later, Buddy, I will see you guys. Everybody,
Speaker 4: bye bye bye bye.
Speaker 3: First is me, of course?
Speaker 1: Oh? Is that what it was? It was me spoiler.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I always good talking to my friend the franchise, who
Speaker 2: I talk to every day of my life anyway.
Speaker 3: So that those are my my pinch me moments, my
Speaker 3: my two best buds in the world, the Queen of
Speaker 3: extreme in the franchise.
Speaker 1: I just want to do this to you right now.
Speaker 1: What do you got going on?
Speaker 4: Anything?
Speaker 3: Well, I can announce it now here on the airwaves
Speaker 3: of Eyes up here. The first signing for IB Exclusives
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four is private signing with a returning
Speaker 3: guest beating up Scottie. William Shatner returns IB Exclusives for
Speaker 3: a third time. This April. We will be meeting with
Speaker 3: William Shatner again. I'll have all the details coming to
Speaker 3: my Twitter to ibexclusives dot com. So if you've never
Speaker 3: participated in private signing before, what you do is you
Speaker 3: send in an item to get signed, or we provide
Speaker 3: you an item to get signed. But all that information
Speaker 3: will be on my website. So you can go to
Speaker 3: ibexclusive dot com or my Twitter which is at Chad,
Speaker 3: E and B.
Speaker 1: That's great. Are you going to get them to come
Speaker 1: on the podcast?
Speaker 3: I wish? But that is out of the pay grade.
Speaker 1: That is terrible.
Speaker 3: I wish, I wish. No media says it in the contract.
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