Speaker 1: I was sitting shotgun, Brian was in the back seat,
Speaker 1: and Shane had this like fifty four Chevy with like
Speaker 1: a big block super modded motor under the hood, and
Speaker 1: we were going down the expressway like one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty miles an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready's
Speaker 1: about to hit the fan? Welcome to Sanctioned Thursdays Terrestling.
Speaker 1: We fready, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another episode of
Speaker 1: Unsanctioned Thursdays. I promised you guys at the end of
Speaker 1: Wednesday show that we would start with some negativity, because
Speaker 1: I think that's a good way to start the day,
Speaker 1: isn't it, Jeff, start with some bullshit? So here we go.
Speaker 1: We get a one star review. Oh wait, one star
Speaker 1: one Jeff, so get ready to be ye tell us
Speaker 1: what rufos aside? Let's see, well, let's see. I don't know.
Speaker 1: He says that the headline, Oh no, the headline is commercials, commercials, commercials,
Speaker 1: and the review is last episode was twelve minutes long
Speaker 1: with nine minutes of commercials. Thanks Dix. He didn't write Dix.
Speaker 1: I threw that part it. He didn't write dis But okay,
Speaker 1: hold on rufos, I hear, I hear you, but your
Speaker 1: math is off because our episodes are not twelve minutes long,
Speaker 1: so you're exaggerating. However, I acknowledge there are three sets
Speaker 1: of commercials. Twenty five to thirty minutes worth of content.
Speaker 1: May feel like a lot, but I appreciate I hear
Speaker 1: what you're saying. I am trying to make the episodes longer.
Speaker 1: We are trying to make the episodes longer, and I
Speaker 1: don't think it's an impossible quest that we're on, So
Speaker 1: bear with us. Hang in there. Jeff's probably gonna cut
Speaker 1: into you a little bit, but let me just tell you,
Speaker 1: I freaking hear you, dude. Yeah, and what you wrote
Speaker 1: is funny, and sorry for saying that you called his dicks.
Speaker 2: Hey, Rufo, if that is your real name, Rufo, you
Speaker 2: got a wrestling name to leave your one star reviews.
Speaker 2: You didn't want to put your actual name. You're afraid
Speaker 2: will find you. You should be afraid we'll find your Rufo.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, Pal, you think I like commercials, I don't.
Speaker 2: When I'm watching wrestling and they keep jumping over to
Speaker 2: watch my reality show with Mars, I don't like that
Speaker 2: crap either. I don't like commercials, but that's what pays
Speaker 2: the bills. That's what pays the bills. That's what lets
Speaker 2: us have this podcast. You know, as long as you
Speaker 2: like the nine minutes we're doing when we're on, then
Speaker 2: we're doing our job. That's the whole point. But we
Speaker 2: do love you for listening. Please don't give up. We're
Speaker 2: gonna make these episodes longer. I am growing in success
Speaker 2: in stand up comedy, and Freddie Prince Junior works more
Speaker 2: than anyone I've I thought he retired from acting, and
Speaker 2: every time I turned something on, he's on a big
Speaker 2: like a high budget movie than a Hallmark movie. Then
Speaker 2: a commercial for Cascade. This guy warns, baby, none of
Speaker 2: that's true. That is true, dude. He's murdering chicks and pools.
Speaker 2: He's dating girls and dance studios.
Speaker 1: This guy works all right, rufos, you've taken enough abuse
Speaker 1: from Jeff and you've gotten enough love for me. But
Speaker 1: anytime you guys want to send a review hateful or not,
Speaker 1: that wasn't even hateful. I threw in the dick's part
Speaker 1: to make it seem meaner that it was just that
Speaker 1: was just a criticism. I got got you, dude. I
Speaker 1: can take criticism. Let's talk some Thursday shit. We could
Speaker 1: talk wrestling news. I can give you guys an update.
Speaker 1: I will soon have no more updates to give. I
Speaker 1: will have my definitive yes or no by the end
Speaker 1: of this week or by the end of next week.
Speaker 1: I'll repeat that, or by the end of next week.
Speaker 1: So give me two weeks. If I don't have an
Speaker 1: answer for you on the next Thursday episode, the one
Speaker 1: after that, you will, And then after that I'll start
Speaker 1: giving you guys a backstory of how the process went,
Speaker 1: where I thought it went well, where I thought it didn't,
Speaker 1: what things I would change if and now. I put
Speaker 1: a lot of thought into it so to be kind
Speaker 1: of like a not a documentary, but sort of like
Speaker 1: a podcast documentary of how the process went. But I'm close.
Speaker 1: I'm really frigging close. I've been talking with my booker,
Speaker 1: and we're so excited at some of the matches, including
Speaker 1: our potential main event that we could do if we
Speaker 1: get the yes soon enough. So I'm just really excited,
Speaker 1: more excited than anybody outside of the people that are
Speaker 1: involved with making this show. With me, I'll be relieved
Speaker 1: for the journey to come to an end, hopefully with
Speaker 1: the successful conclusion. It's been a lot of stress, a
Speaker 1: lot of good stress and bad stress, but a lot
Speaker 1: of stress. Let's stick with wrestling, and let's stick with
Speaker 1: wrestling news because I don't have anything else to report,
Speaker 1: but the interweb did because Tony Kahan and Shane McMahon
Speaker 1: were seen in a meeting together. I thought the photo
Speaker 1: was fake. I thought it was just a fake, like
Speaker 1: a good job on like not CGI but whatever, like photos,
Speaker 1: that's what it's called. But apparently it was real. Shane's
Speaker 1: made a statement, and a statement goes as follows. I'll
Speaker 1: do a Shane McMahon impression. Tony and I were connected
Speaker 1: through a mutual friend and we had a great meeting.
Speaker 1: We talked about many things, but mostly about our shared
Speaker 1: love for the business and the rewards and challenges of
Speaker 1: working with family. I congratulated him on the five year
Speaker 1: anniversary of AEW and look forward to how he evolves
Speaker 1: the business moving forward. That was said by Shane McMahon.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts, mister Jeff Di.
Speaker 2: I've got a lot of theories on this. I love
Speaker 2: Shane him and by the way, I'm good good, He's.
Speaker 1: A cool dude.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: He drives super fast. To help him bro, he put
Speaker 1: me in his car. One time. We were driving back
Speaker 1: from Stanford with me and the head writer for All
Speaker 1: This dude, Brian Gowertz, and I was sitting shotgun. Brian
Speaker 1: was in the back seat, and Shane had this like
Speaker 1: fifty four Chevy with like a big block super modded
Speaker 1: motor under the hood. And we were going down the
Speaker 1: expressway like one hundred and twenty miles an hour. Oh my,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there like yelling out the window like I'm
Speaker 1: twenty one years old, howling at the moon. And I
Speaker 1: look back and Brian Gewurtz has his hands are white
Speaker 1: knuckled on either side of the car, and he's like turned.
Speaker 1: He's already like the whitest dude ever. He's like transparent.
Speaker 1: You can see his heart beating in his chest and
Speaker 1: he's like, sow down. Shade's just cackling like a madman.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh shit, maybe we should slow down
Speaker 1: a little bit. It was mad, fun dude. He's a
Speaker 1: cool dude. Anyway. That's my Shane McMahon story.
Speaker 2: I've always was like when I was young, I was
Speaker 2: never like a Shane McMahon guy. Like I was never
Speaker 2: like that's gonna be my favorite match, he's my favorite
Speaker 2: wrestler or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I've always you know, just the fact that he's.
Speaker 2: Vince McMahon's son, Like he's always been in the business,
Speaker 2: Like he's always been around. He's got the best entrance music.
Speaker 2: Really love Shane McMahon. One time I was going to
Speaker 2: an XFL football game. You and your wife had a
Speaker 2: suite for the game, Like you had like a little
Speaker 2: bo what is it called the Sweet right, yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: And so you were like, come on over to the suite.
Speaker 2: So I was like so excited, and in your was
Speaker 2: Shane McMahon, and yes, I couldn't believe it was I
Speaker 2: was already like new friends with you. So it's like,
Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm hanging out with Freddy Prince Junior.
Speaker 2: This is pretty cool. And then like then Sarah Michelle Gellers,
Speaker 2: I was like, that's pretty that's a nice little bonus
Speaker 2: to already get into hang out with Freddy Prince Junior.
Speaker 2: And then Shane McMahon was in the box and I
Speaker 2: was like, this is this is the life righter. But
Speaker 2: I didn't get any I didn't get to talk to him.
Speaker 2: I didn't get he was he was sure.
Speaker 1: With the lawyer of the team. They were in full
Speaker 1: on business mode. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I was like a little disappointed. I was like,
Speaker 2: dangn man, I didn't get to like kick it or
Speaker 2: like he didn't get to whatever was shanean man. But
Speaker 2: then I later in life, you know, got to meet
Speaker 2: Shane McMahon at the Lakers game and now we've become
Speaker 2: friendly and he and he's the best.
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 2: I don't think you're gonna see him in ae W.
Speaker 2: I don't think that that's what that is.
Speaker 1: Tell me. I don't know.
Speaker 2: If I had a guess, I would say that he might.
Speaker 2: He just kind of seeing what his options are, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, like just kind of seeing where
Speaker 2: he can land and like like what he wants to do.
Speaker 2: That's what I think. If he wants to go to
Speaker 2: a w you know, they'd have him. Tony Kahan will
Speaker 2: buy him up like a like a wrestling toy, like
Speaker 2: collect his little wrestling.
Speaker 1: He doesn't need the money. He doesn't need the money
Speaker 1: him getting bought up like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he wants to be in WWE, but
Speaker 2: there's just too much stuff still there as far as
Speaker 2: baggage and all those things. Too many opinions floating around there.
Speaker 2: That's that's this is. These are all just my guesses.
Speaker 2: I haven't asked him about it or anything like that.
Speaker 2: I think that he's just kind of seeing where he
Speaker 2: can be what like what like what what are the
Speaker 2: options out there for him? Does is this is WB
Speaker 2: gonna get all interested now that they know Tony Khan
Speaker 2: and him met is Is Tony gon going to offer
Speaker 2: him some crazy, you know, offer that he would that
Speaker 2: he would entertain. I think he's just kind of seeing
Speaker 2: where or if he wants to do this still. I
Speaker 2: wonder when I worked there, Shane stepped away and I
Speaker 2: think didn't start maybe purchased a Chinese cable company or
Speaker 2: something like that, like distribution, like television distribution. So I
Speaker 2: wonder if they were talking about maybe it's more like
Speaker 2: international distribution and things like that, and and his thoughts
Speaker 2: on how they could sort of build their brand and
Speaker 2: expand more more globally or something like that.
Speaker 1: I wonder it's all speculating. He's also such like he's
Speaker 1: got thought it was a fake photo.
Speaker 2: He's got so many things going on, you know, he's
Speaker 2: like he's he's got like you know, all the things
Speaker 2: with his kids, like he's very active and all of
Speaker 2: his interests and things like that. So I imagine being
Speaker 2: away from wrestling for the small amount of time he's
Speaker 2: been away has been nice for him, like you know,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, I'm like enjoying life.
Speaker 1: I'm getting to like, you know, go do stuff. He
Speaker 1: went to a Yankees game. You know. Funny he lived
Speaker 1: the life that his dad always wanted. Like Vince's dad
Speaker 1: would never let him get in the ring. So when
Speaker 1: Shane asked, Vince was like, yeah, hell, yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1: And Shane had some of the most memorable matches of
Speaker 1: his generation, like the ambulance match with Kelly and things
Speaker 1: like that. I mean, he got to do some wild shit.
Speaker 1: And I remember when he retired from wrestling so to speak,
Speaker 1: and said, thank you, it was a privilege you guys
Speaker 1: letting me share the ring with you. Like he was
Speaker 1: so respectful to all the men that he wrestled with.
Speaker 1: So I know he doesn't want to go back to wrestling.
Speaker 1: He blew out both his friggin's the last time he
Speaker 1: got in. But I wonder if there's not bad blood,
Speaker 1: but if there's not room for him at WWE, and
Speaker 1: he still has a passion for wrestling, like that's the
Speaker 1: only other show in town. Last shit ain't off the
Speaker 1: ground yet, you know what I mean, Like, Yeah, why
Speaker 1: wouldn't you go there and just see if there's something
Speaker 1: that they're lacking that's one of your strengths that you
Speaker 1: could help, you know, bring to the table. I don't
Speaker 1: know Shane is a booker or anything like that, because
Speaker 1: he wasn't working there in that capacity when I was there.
Speaker 1: But there's got to be a lot of ways he
Speaker 1: can help him.
Speaker 2: And he's got so much value, Like I mean, the
Speaker 2: fact that like he's been in every corner of the
Speaker 2: business his entire life.
Speaker 1: There's just like at some capacity for sure, I think.
Speaker 2: So Yeah, I just can't imagine that he wouldn't be
Speaker 2: valuable to anyone any kind.
Speaker 1: Of wrestling group, is what I would think. But also
Speaker 1: who knows. He was always mad cool man. I remember
Speaker 1: some of Shane helms. The Hurricane came up with this
Speaker 1: idea to get Funaki back on TV, and he was
Speaker 1: going to be kung Fu Naki and he wrote the
Speaker 1: song to Kung Fu Fighting. He was like everybody loves
Speaker 1: Kung Fu Naki and we got like our truth to
Speaker 1: sing it, and he gave him the crane kick, the
Speaker 1: Daniel LaRusso Crane kicks his finisher and MVP took it
Speaker 1: because MVP was a straight up g and generous like
Speaker 1: that and took a goofy finisher and took a loss
Speaker 1: to a goofy finisher. It takes a lot of heart
Speaker 1: to do that. So I remember they were pitching the
Speaker 1: idea and I don't remember who it was, but Shane
Speaker 1: was just walking by and he's like, what are you
Speaker 1: guys working on? And someone just goes, oh, just bringing
Speaker 1: Funaki back on TV? What do you think about Kung Funaki?
Speaker 1: And Shane just looks at him, shakes his head and goes,
Speaker 1: that's pretty fucking good. Just walked away and we were
Speaker 1: all like, yeah, Kung Fuki. We ended up getting them
Speaker 1: on TV. It worked for like a month. It was
Speaker 1: like a little month four week storyline for him. Dude
Speaker 1: as cool as hell. I love that.
Speaker 2: Do you think the guy who snapped the picture of
Speaker 2: Tony Khan talking to Shane is fired?
Speaker 1: I wonder I.
Speaker 2: Because do you see their face? They looked at them,
Speaker 2: looked at him like he just like like they weren't
Speaker 2: happy about it, or like that they were just confused
Speaker 2: why he was in the room, like they might even
Speaker 2: not known he was taking a picture or her her
Speaker 2: or him.
Speaker 1: But maybe it still looks fake to me the photos.
Speaker 2: I know, it's not like they're like they both look
Speaker 2: at it like you know when you walk in on
Speaker 2: a meeting or something, and they both like they're not offended,
Speaker 2: but they're surprised, like, hey, we were talking, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah it looked like that. No, I agree. I wonder.
Speaker 1: I wonder or maybe they meant to do it and
Speaker 1: maybe that was the plan all along. Maybe they got
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