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that ass. Of course. We couldn't

2:09

do it without the hall of

2:11

famer the voice of your childhood Tony

2:15

Shivani Tony what's going on man?

2:17

How are you? So the hey?

2:19

I'm great Conrad. It was great

2:21

to see you in Huntsville Awesome

2:23

to see you. Yeah Had

2:25

a great crowd we really did I

2:28

Gonna tell you I was blown away. I'm

2:30

still kind of turned out for you

2:32

guys. Yeah, they sure did I mean, I

2:34

don't know. I don't see the attendance

2:36

figures. I don't know it But I had

2:38

an expectation walking in and when I

2:40

actually Watched steam come down from the rafters.

2:42

I was looking around. I'm like man.

2:44

There's people in the upper deck I didn't

2:46

expect that like I think that's probably

2:49

the AEW Huntsville record. I

2:52

Would think so I I know there

2:54

was a house show last time that

2:56

I did not attend And I'm sure

2:58

a house show was not attended as

3:00

well as a television show And I

3:02

do remember we had a television show

3:05

a few years back. Yeah pre pandemic

3:07

pre pandemic. That's right. Wow. Can you

3:09

pre pandemic Wow,

3:11

you believe that was almost five

3:13

years ago pre pandemic. I mean

3:15

it was four years ago this

3:17

month that the world changed forever

3:20

Yeah, so yeah, I was really

3:22

impressed with the crowd and How

3:24

people turned out and I had

3:26

heard Like Jeff Gero had said

3:28

to me. Well, Huntsville is a

3:31

walk -up town and I was

3:33

like Turns out Huntsville is a

3:35

walk -up town and uh, greatly appreciate

3:37

everybody I got to See and

3:39

say hello to and appreciate all

3:41

the hospitality from AW. It was

3:44

a great time And I'm sure

3:46

we'll be talking about it a

3:48

whole lot on our regular podcast

3:50

but today Is bonus action and

3:52

we've got not one but two

3:54

bonus episodes coming your way And

3:57

just in time for sting's last

3:59

match Wouldn't you know

4:01

it? We're watching a sting match from nitro

4:03

And this is going to be fun.

4:05

It felt a little nitro-ish when sting

4:07

came down from the rafters and

4:09

yeah, of course on the last

4:11

nitro We saw those bats hanging from

4:13

the ceiling and then on the

4:15

last dynamite we see those bats

4:17

hanging from the ceiling Really cool

4:19

moment, and I'm glad we're getting

4:22

to celebrate sting as you and our

4:24

recording this we're just a couple of

4:26

days away from Sting's last match.

4:28

You were fortunate enough to be

4:30

able to call Rick's last match

4:32

and now Sting's last match. I

4:34

mean, are those the two probably

4:37

most iconic characters you work with

4:39

when you really think about the

4:41

longevity of their career in yours? Yeah,

4:43

I, yes, I feel that, and again,

4:45

I feel very fortunate to be some

4:48

way tied to both those guys and

4:50

obviously I was there for a

4:52

lot of hoke Hogan's career. I say hook.

4:54

Yeah, Hoken's career as well.

4:56

Well, yeah, I do agree with

4:59

that. This is from Hutch

5:01

Bennet, a good buddy of ours,

5:03

Loki Big Hawk, is from

5:05

Gainesville, Georgia, and he said

5:08

he was nine years old when

5:10

he saw this. Wow. And he

5:12

also said that somewhere in

5:14

here, and I don't know where

5:16

it is, we haven't found it

5:19

yet, but Jeff Jared apparently

5:21

cracksu with a... A young

5:24

or somebody with a that's

5:26

on that's on another bonus.

5:28

Okay. All right. So anyway, so

5:30

a lot was going on and

5:33

Jeff Jared's right Huntsville is a

5:35

walk uptown Jeff really knows

5:37

what he's talking about He's

5:39

he's very smart and rusting

5:42

of course he's been his life,

5:44

right? Yeah, and So and of course

5:46

I have a lot of time for

5:48

him and as you know We have

5:50

a lot of good people backstage

5:53

got some knuckleheads backstage

5:55

and for but you know what every

5:58

business does right yes yes and

6:00

that's what we are. We had

6:02

a great time in Huntsville looking

6:04

forward so much to Greensboro coming

6:07

out on Sunday and looking forward

6:09

to being part of Stings last

6:11

match. I kind of low-key wish

6:13

I had made plans to be

6:15

there now. I mean I'm gonna

6:17

be watching actually doing a pre-show

6:20

and a post-show with Eric Bishaw.

6:22

Obviously he was a big part

6:24

of Sting's career and I'm pumped

6:26

man. I can't wait to see

6:28

the paper view and I was

6:30

actually telling. Some of your coworkers

6:33

will say office people. I think

6:35

this could actually be the paper

6:37

v record. I mean, I think,

6:39

I don't have any inside info

6:41

or inside track or trends or

6:43

anything like that. But just as

6:46

a gut feeling, it stands to

6:48

logic, tends to reason to me

6:50

that it is a logical conclusion

6:52

to think that boy, a whole

6:54

bunch of people are interested in

6:56

things last match. We might even

6:58

call them quote unquote lapsed fans.

7:01

I really do believe that there's

7:03

a he is a generational talent

7:05

and it's kind of weird that

7:07

a lot of people are sort

7:09

of just now coming around to

7:11

that idea I mean just a

7:14

handful of years ago as recent

7:16

as 2016 Dave Melzer was saying

7:18

hey nobody's ever made a logical

7:20

argument as to why things should

7:22

be in the Hall of Fame.

7:24

I just thought that at the

7:27

time and now it's a benefit

7:29

of hindsight it's like dude he

7:31

has removed all doubt. Me question

7:33

things all the famer and I'm

7:35

glad we get to watch a

7:37

special match of his from all

7:40

the way back in 1999 I

7:42

was 25 years ago Tony feeling

7:44

old yet. Yeah, well I felt

7:46

old long before you told me

7:48

that April 26th 1999 is season

7:50

five episode 17 that's the nomenclature

7:53

they use on so fire up

7:55

your peacock pull that peacock out

7:57

Get the season 5 episode 7.

7:59

or as us people in the real

8:01

world call it April 26th 1999

8:03

we watch it a little Monday

8:06

nitro and I think Tony you wanted

8:08

us to be a 40-50 is that

8:10

right? Yeah 40 minutes and 50 seconds

8:12

it'll be a wide shot and

8:14

that's where we start but I've

8:17

been looking up nomenclature because I've

8:19

never heard you use that word on

8:21

our podcast. I can drop a little

8:23

bit every now and again. The devising

8:26

or choosing of names for

8:28

things especially in a science

8:30

or other discipline. Good

8:33

job. I love you had to

8:35

check. He made that fucking word

8:37

up. I'm gonna call him out

8:39

on it. I know it. No, I've heard

8:42

it before, but I've never

8:44

looked up the definition. I

8:46

thought now would be a good

8:48

time to look it up and damn

8:50

if I could remember it. I

8:53

would use it in a in

8:55

a. in like collision or something

8:57

but I'll forget no you should do

8:59

it during a lucidore

9:01

match you could say what's the

9:04

nomenclature for that move caliber

9:06

and he'll know and and and

9:08

have look at all the source

9:11

Jones over here right and I'll

9:13

tell you his story that that

9:15

cocksucker used the word lot

9:17

to go one time he said and

9:20

a lot to go and I went

9:22

I just looked at him And

9:24

he just kept talking

9:26

and I looked at him kept

9:29

talking so I looked up a

9:31

lot to go and it's a Spanish

9:33

word for arm drag Oh,

9:35

and I went mother sucker.

9:37

He's just showing off now

9:39

is what? Oh, yeah, I love

9:42

I love when you guys are

9:44

bust balls. Let's let's do this

9:46

together man. Let's watch.

9:48

We've got a big crowd

9:51

here in Fargo, North Dakota

9:53

How? There's 11,482 fans

9:56

in the stands.

9:59

8,813. those jokers were paying

10:01

customers. Fargo don't. Yeah, the Fargo

10:03

don't. Man, I've never been the

10:05

North Dakota. You got any North

10:07

Dakota memories you can share with

10:09

us? It was like there's nothing

10:12

there, bud. No, you know, we

10:14

did a lot of those. We

10:16

did a lot of those during

10:18

these years. We like, we did

10:20

a, we did a W. C.

10:22

W. Saturday night taping. in Bismarck.

10:24

Okay. And I remember one time

10:27

that, that I flew into Minneapolis

10:29

and drove to either Bismarck or

10:31

maybe somewhere in Montana, I don't

10:33

know, and drove back like an

10:35

idiot all night and just put

10:37

right to the airport. But we

10:39

went, we went to some of

10:42

those. Now, of course, if you

10:44

live there, you're going to say,

10:46

hey, it's not a weird place,

10:48

it's my home. I get it.

10:50

But for us, it's the prairie.

10:52

Right. One of those states that

10:54

you just look at, oh, that's

10:57

shaped like a fucking square before

10:59

you get to Canada. But it

11:01

was, I remember this, I remember

11:03

driving up to the Fargo Dome,

11:05

and the reason I remember driving

11:07

up to the Fargo Dome, and

11:09

the reason I remember driving up

11:12

to the Fargo Dome, is because

11:14

once you get into Fargo, you

11:16

can see the Fargo Dome just

11:18

about anywhere. Oh, wow. Because it's

11:20

so big, and everything else is,

11:22

you know, kind of small. It

11:24

just kind of sits there like

11:27

a big. if I recall like

11:29

a big client salsa in the

11:31

middle of, and I remember thinking,

11:33

and we're not going to draw

11:35

anybody, then we had a hell

11:37

of a crowd. So yeah, this

11:39

is, and you know, we used

11:42

to go to Sturgis, obviously, and

11:44

we would drive from Sturgis like

11:46

down to Cheyenne, Wyoming. And I

11:48

remember one time, and I think

11:50

it was between Sturgis and Cheyenne

11:52

or Sturgis in Denver, because we

11:54

used to have the... Burgess was

11:57

on a Saturday night. We had

11:59

Sunday all. or Monday nitro. And so

12:01

I would get in a car and drive. Sometimes

12:03

the guys would be with me, sometimes

12:05

the drive by myself. I think we

12:08

did it like three years in a row

12:10

or something. And I remember driving,

12:12

thinking, I'll just cut through one of

12:14

these back roads. And I went driving on

12:16

one of the back roads and there

12:18

were deer, there weren't deer crossing the

12:20

road. They were laying in the fucking

12:22

road. Really? Yeah, just laying there like,

12:24

and I drove up slowly up slowly.

12:26

It's almost as if to say,

12:28

what the fuck are you doing in the

12:31

middle of the night driving through here?

12:33

And I kind of beeped the horn.

12:35

It was like four of them just

12:37

laying in the road. And they got up

12:39

and mosey on the way. Wow. So I've

12:41

had a lot of interesting trips and

12:43

this part of the country

12:46

is very interesting. I really

12:48

think it's worth your time to go

12:50

to these places. I've been very lucky

12:52

that I've traveled to every

12:55

state except Alaska. And

12:57

we got to check that one

12:59

off the box if you've been

13:02

everywhere else. Yeah, I know

13:04

I do. Shout out to Brandy.

13:06

Brandy Wagner would love to host

13:08

you. Yeah, I know. And I would go

13:10

up to Alaska to see

13:12

if Janine Turner of Northern

13:14

Exposure lived up. So you

13:17

never watched Northern Exposure.

13:19

Well, of course, you were in. She's

13:21

61, bro. I know she looks good

13:24

for 61, but back in the day.

13:26

Okay. Okay, I just saw back. Oh

13:28

you were sure here Joan. Yeah, I

13:30

got you I didn't know you

13:32

were sure here have you always

13:34

been short here Joan?

13:36

Not necessarily but man she

13:39

wore it well. Oh I and are

13:41

again. Yeah It's a very lovely

13:43

woman. Yep. It's Lois and

13:45

I have at times and

13:47

times been trying to catch up

13:49

with that show. It's all on

13:51

prime video right now. Oh, wow.

13:54

Okay. Yeah. It's, it's, I like

13:56

it. Anyway, and it

13:58

was a big. big Emmy

14:00

winning show back today. But that

14:03

is May. I would like to

14:05

go to Alaska. I really would

14:07

like to go to Alaska. And

14:10

so maybe I'll make it happen.

14:12

I finally got to go to

14:14

Vermont. Last year. Because I flew

14:17

into Vermont and drove across the

14:19

border. Go to Montreal. And drove

14:21

back. And I'm going to be

14:24

going to Vermont. Wow. Later this

14:26

month of March. You're going to

14:29

say hello, say what's up to

14:31

Jeff Jewett, friend of the show,

14:33

do do trucking.com. What part of

14:36

Vermont does he live in? Arlington?

14:38

Does he really? Yeah. Burlington's got

14:40

a pretty good, a pretty cool

14:43

airport. Really? Yeah, yeah. It's, I

14:45

like it's a very small but

14:47

very accessible, very modern airport. I

14:50

like, yeah, if, maybe he'll come

14:52

by one of his shit trucks,

14:54

pick me up. Take me across

14:57

the border. You know what? I

14:59

think I can arrange that. Do

15:01

you want to shoot? Do you

15:04

want to ship truck transfer? I

15:06

know just the guy. Think we

15:09

can set you up. By the

15:11

way, we want you to set

15:13

up with us to pull that

15:16

little peacock out for us. I

15:18

did. Take a look at. Oh,

15:20

not you, Tony. Season 5. Episode

15:23

17. April 26, 1999. 1999. You'll

15:25

see a wide crowd shot. As

15:27

we said, a lot of folks

15:30

in the building, 11,482, they sat

15:32

through Conan and Brian Adams. Conan

15:34

won by DQ. We saw Scott

15:37

and Steve Armstrong beat Raven in

15:39

a handicap match. Yeah, that's Steve

15:42

Armstrong. I don't hear about him

15:44

doing anything anymore. He's doing well.

15:46

But we're about to watch Sting

15:49

and the W World Champion Diamond

15:51

Dallas page. Later in

15:53

this show there would be

15:56

rapisterio and psychosis, bam bigelow,

15:58

and Eric Watts. The

16:00

W CW TV champion

16:02

Booker T wrestling Ming

16:04

who's still laughing about

16:07

the shockmaster Brian Knobs

16:09

is going to be in

16:11

there with hack horse Hogan

16:13

and Mikey Wipwreck. U.S.

16:16

champion Scott Steiner will be

16:18

wrestling Randy Savage.

16:20

And we're also going to have

16:22

a remand. I'm in Dallas

16:24

page sting Goldberg and

16:26

Kevin Nash in a no DQ match.

16:29

Randy Savage is going to

16:32

be involved. Boy, there's a lot

16:34

of moving parts here. April

16:36

26, 1999. The C-sting and

16:39

DDP people and double duty

16:41

like. And I assume the reason

16:43

they went on so early in

16:45

the show, Tony, is because we

16:48

wanted to have a cliffhanger

16:50

for raw. You want to have something

16:52

at the top of the

16:55

hour that's riveting and compelling

16:57

and all that jazz. That's the

16:59

only thing I can think of because this

17:01

is the three hour nitro era. You have

17:04

one hour of all sort of unopposed

17:06

and then it'd be head to head with

17:08

two hours of nitro. And as we know, the

17:10

money night war started to really get

17:12

hot in April of 98 with Vince

17:15

and Austin sort of headlining or all

17:17

where they were going to wrestle with

17:19

one armed high behind Austin back.

17:21

Here comes dude love, but that's what

17:24

tips gales in WW's favor. So here we

17:26

are a year later. W.E. is doing very

17:28

very well in the ratings and now

17:30

we got to make sure people who

17:32

watch that first hour on nitro stick

17:35

the hell around. Right. What a great

17:37

idea to say listics thing and

17:39

DDP out there for the world

17:41

title not in the last segment

17:43

on the show but in the last segment

17:45

of the first hour pretty balls

17:47

he moved. Yeah it's called trying to keep

17:49

fans around for the crossover and not

17:51

only that you're looking at. because the

17:53

ratings meters, and I don't know if

17:55

they still do this, I don't know

17:57

how they do ratings, but the ratings.

18:00

So in radio people would walk

18:02

around with a gimmick and it

18:04

would pick up what they were

18:06

listening to. At the top, the

18:08

quarter, the bottom, quarter is up.

18:10

So that was another. So to

18:13

expand on what Tony said there,

18:15

there were some markets that were

18:17

known as quote unquote metered market.

18:19

So in radio people would walk

18:21

around with a gimmick and it

18:24

would pick up what they were

18:26

listening to. In television you would

18:28

agree to have them put something

18:30

on your actual set. Right other

18:32

places of course they'd have you

18:34

fill out a funky ass diary

18:37

by hand and hope that you

18:39

remembered everything So it was a

18:41

flawed system not the best system,

18:43

but it's what we had at

18:45

the time But I didn't realize

18:47

it happened right at the top

18:50

of the hour, but I guess

18:52

that makes sense Yeah, that's the

18:54

way it happened at the top

18:56

of the hour and that's why

18:58

we and that's why you know

19:01

we started going early you'll recall

19:03

Oh, yeah those wanted to get

19:05

momentum we wanted people to just

19:07

tune in and be there at

19:09

and be there at the top

19:11

of the top of the top

19:14

of the hour for us And

19:16

we wanted to start before them.

19:18

A silly question. But how did

19:20

TBS starting all their programs five

19:22

minutes after the hour? How did

19:25

that affect the rating? You know?

19:27

You know, I don't know how

19:29

that affected the rating. I really

19:31

don't. Only thing I can think

19:33

of is that the cable ratings

19:35

back then. There's someone out there

19:38

a lot smarter than me. We're

19:40

not the same as network rating.

19:42

They took their samples maybe a

19:44

different way. Okay. I don't know,

19:46

but that was kind of a

19:49

Ted Turner, right? Yeah, I turned

19:51

everything at 05. And I liked

19:53

it. Oh man, 605 on Saturday.

19:55

When you say 605 on Saturday,

19:57

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19:59

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21:59

Well, we know what we're talking

22:02

about or we think we do

22:04

April 26th 1999, 40 minutes and

22:06

50 seconds. Tony, you want to

22:08

do a little razzle on a

22:10

count down? Okay, razzle, you're ready.

22:13

Ready. It's time for the countdown

22:15

of WMCW Monday Metro, Sting, and

22:17

Diamond Dallas. at 40 minutes and

22:19

50 seconds in three two one.

22:21

Hey. Oh no you called the

22:23

exploding vagina. The exploding vagina logo.

22:26

Yeah. And I think this is

22:28

where we debuted. Yeah. Oh way.

22:30

Are you serious? It's it's around

22:32

this time that we debuted that

22:34

logo. And what a cool look

22:37

for sting still rocking the crow

22:39

look. But if you saw he's

22:41

not coming down from the ceiling,

22:43

he's coming down from the back.

22:45

He's got this adult onesie on

22:47

with scorpions on both sides and

22:50

like what looks like football pads

22:52

on his thighs and knees. But

22:54

he's got his boots taped up

22:56

white. He only did this for

22:58

a little while in W.C.W. but

23:01

I've seen some people on Twitter

23:03

say boy that man's thing had

23:05

his working boots on that day.

23:07

So I can't wait to see

23:09

this. This is actually what I

23:11

recall like a 20 minute match

23:14

for the world title. And I

23:16

guess that makes sense because I

23:18

know as we're watching we told

23:20

you to go to 40 minutes

23:22

and 50 seconds and that is

23:25

correct. But remember gang this was

23:27

a three hour show but when

23:29

you watch it on peacock it

23:31

says it's got like a two

23:33

hour and 17 minute runtime. That's

23:35

because we got some commercials and

23:38

some bumpers and things like that.

23:40

So when this says it's starting

23:42

at 40 minutes I don't want

23:44

you to think it's 20 minutes

23:46

until raw. This match is going

23:49

to be happening. We're going to

23:51

be in the middle of this

23:53

match during the crossover. Right. And

23:55

here comes DDP. Who held the

23:57

big go bell on multiple occasions.

24:00

But never for a long any

24:02

time the more he was super proud

24:04

to be champ was he not?

24:06

Yeah, he was I'm very

24:09

interested as to why he had

24:11

it on backwards and then turned

24:13

it around Come in he wanted to

24:16

do a little razzle-dazzle

24:18

there that said he wanted

24:20

to be his own man. I love

24:23

I love that he reaches for fanning

24:25

as the thumbs up get out

24:27

of here As a reminder, he

24:29

won that title just

24:31

15 days prior to this.

24:33

It's spring stampede in

24:36

Tacoma, Washington. And what a

24:38

big time match that was. It's

24:40

a four corners match. The

24:42

GDP comes up victorious

24:44

in a match with Sting, Holkogan,

24:47

Rick Flair, and Randy Savage

24:50

is the special guest referee.

24:52

I mean, that's about as

24:54

loaded as you can get. anointing

24:57

for DDP. Yeah. And you see there, it's

24:59

still on the brown leather.

25:01

They're going to re-leather that

25:04

belt to 99 when the Holkogan

25:06

goes back to the red and

25:08

yellow right before fall, brawl. But

25:10

it's pretty crazy to think

25:12

that DDP is wearing the same

25:15

belt that Dusty roads and Ricky

25:17

steamboat, Ron Garvin, and

25:19

that's the best shaped DDP may

25:21

have ever been in right there.

25:23

Both of them look great. Thanks

25:25

to him as fuck. He's ready

25:28

to win. I know I I look

25:30

at first of all you freaking

25:32

belt nerds. Yeah, sorry.

25:34

That's okay. Biggest one

25:36

is Jeff freaking Jones. Oh,

25:38

I never see anything like it.

25:41

I know he'll start talking

25:43

about Bell's not good

25:45

Jeff. Don't give a fuck. I'll

25:48

tell you something. I don't

25:50

know. We're behind the

25:52

paywall. So whatever. Yeah.

25:54

Things tag bell.

25:56

Freaking replica.

25:58

Isn't? Is it really?

26:01

Your replicas of those tag belts

26:03

are thick and heavy. Most most

26:05

normal belts like a Dave Milliken

26:07

or Reggie Parks or a Joe

26:09

Marshall, those are those measuring a

26:12

four millimeters thick. Your replicas are

26:14

five millimeters. So they're actually heavier

26:16

and bigger than the real thing.

26:18

And and and it's on. So

26:20

it's a replica on real leather

26:22

and he goes, hey, come look

26:24

at this. And I look at

26:27

it and I'm like, God damn,

26:29

the thing's got some weight because

26:31

it's a rep. Like what? He

26:33

goes, our replicas are so good.

26:35

Like the UFC's been doing this

26:37

for years. They're world champions. They're

26:40

wearing replica belts because they've just

26:42

figured out a way to mass

26:44

produce a belt that legitimately, if

26:46

you put it on real leather

26:48

and not mass produced leather, but

26:50

hand-toed leather, it's as nice as

26:53

what you could get anywhere else,

26:55

but instead of it costing... I

26:57

don't know. five, six, seven, eight,

26:59

nine thousand dollars to get made.

27:01

It's like a few hundred bucks.

27:03

Oh, so I get it. I

27:06

get it. Cost cutting measures and

27:08

getting the, getting the old time

27:10

belt makers out of business. Fluck

27:12

the little guy. Let's go to

27:14

China and produce something that can

27:16

be done very quickly and very

27:19

effectively, but I want to, I

27:21

guess I didn't end around there

27:23

to say, if you've been on

27:25

the fence about getting... An AEW

27:27

replica belt and you're a belt

27:29

guy and you wonder how close

27:32

is it? Let me just tell

27:34

you it's fucking on the money.

27:36

You have one of those you

27:38

will not know that it is

27:40

a ref. Like sometimes you hold

27:42

a boy belt and you know

27:45

well this isn't the real thing.

27:47

This is a. I could not

27:49

tell. Things world title or things

27:51

tag title. Unbelievably. A replica. Pull

27:53

the shit out of me. Well

27:55

and when you say replica you

27:58

mean it was not the original

28:00

one that was built. are made

28:02

for that champion. Yeah, so it

28:04

has it has like real leather.

28:06

on it but I'm saying instead

28:08

of the real belt yeah instead

28:10

of there being a one-off set

28:13

of plates made where it's like

28:15

getting an acid bath and all

28:17

that it just made in a

28:19

freaking factory and they just bang

28:21

bang them out and I mean

28:23

there's not like there's thousands of

28:26

them made there's probably hundreds of

28:28

them made but still I was

28:30

so impressed with it and I

28:32

don't collect replica belts but I've

28:34

obviously been around a lot and

28:36

held a lot but goodness gracious

28:39

really a remarkable job that The

28:41

technology is caught up. Stinging Page

28:43

have started out very quickly, lugging

28:45

it away. It's a fight right

28:47

now. Yes, it really is. Fans

28:49

just loving it. I love the

28:52

fact that the signs are still

28:54

out there and around. That means

28:56

that we still have some sort

28:58

of excitement. But of course, when

29:00

you go to Fargo for like

29:02

the only time, you know, there's

29:05

a sting or splash. We sting

29:07

a really athletic here, isn't it?

29:09

I mean, yeah. Oh, everybody's on

29:11

their feet. Oh, they're loving this

29:13

man. It's always supporting death like

29:15

on the feet. And that tells

29:18

you right there. Just the tease

29:20

of the scorpion death clock and

29:22

everybody's on their feet. When you

29:24

can tease a submission move, you're

29:26

over boys and girls. getting water.

29:28

Let's talk, look, I know, I

29:31

think I know where you're going.

29:33

I'd like to talk about him

29:35

on the main feeder. Yeah, we

29:37

were. It's funny me. You thought

29:39

about that at the same time.

29:41

Yeah. I'm just amazed that I

29:43

look at all footage now and

29:46

how many. Right. By the ways.

29:48

One of these days, you'll be

29:50

around and doing Cassio was a

29:52

that old Shivani, he was a

29:54

good guy, man. Oh, we won't.

29:56

You'll be here with the damn

29:59

cockers. By the way, as Paige

30:01

goes, a camera away from the

30:03

guys, I was spotted. I was

30:05

great seeing Castio. I was really

30:07

surprised that he tried this

30:10

smuggle of watermelon under his

30:12

sweatshirt, but it was great

30:15

to see him. He made it happen. Yeah,

30:17

he sure did. He and I did

30:19

a little video together and

30:21

Cassio like, he goes, he wears

30:24

the belt low, I wear the belt

30:26

low, I wear the belt low, I wear

30:28

the belt high. Yeah,

30:30

he does wear it. You gotta make

30:32

a decision as a fat guy. You're

30:35

going over, you're going under.

30:37

Right. It's always good to

30:39

go over. Everybody knows always

30:41

going. Gotta go over. Don't let

30:44

that. I've seen guys. Have you seen

30:46

guys with jeans on going low

30:48

and tucking their shirt in? Yeah,

30:50

Cassia does. Is that not the

30:53

dumbest fucking thing you've ever seen

30:55

in the world? I prefer going

30:57

over? Yeah, but I mean, the guys

30:59

that go under and tuck their shirt in.

31:01

So not only are they under, but the

31:04

lap, the done lap is evident

31:06

because you just tuck your fucking

31:08

shirt in. You know, what's funny is we're

31:10

watching this? I just realized that,

31:12

but two days prior to this, you guys

31:15

ran a house show in Huntsville,

31:17

Alabama. Holy smokes. How about that?

31:19

What are the odds of that? Six

31:21

thousand, one hundred and twenty eight

31:23

people showed up to see sting

31:26

and bam, bam, biggalo. There's

31:29

a guy in the fans in the

31:31

stands popping a bird just for no

31:33

reason as he shared Yeah, I like some

31:35

of these signs you just can't see

31:37

and there's a high Tony that sign

31:40

up that wasn't meant for But by

31:42

the way I want to mention that

31:44

Meltser said this this match had

31:46

a ton of great near falls

31:48

super heat just an excellent four

31:51

star match Can you believe that

31:53

like Meltser was complementary

31:55

of a W CW? For

31:57

a guy that has no idea what

31:59

they did. definition of each means

32:02

in wrestling. I think it was

32:04

very well said. By the way,

32:06

I know where, you know, we

32:08

won't get to talk about this

32:10

on the main feed because things

32:12

last match will be in the

32:14

rear view mirror. But I did

32:16

find it hilarious. And I had

32:18

a conversation with some people back

32:20

stage. They were talking about things

32:22

last match and you know, the

32:24

criticism. He shouldn't be wrestling in

32:26

the young bucks. And when I

32:28

would ask on Twitter, hey, well,

32:30

who did you, what would you

32:32

have preferred for his last man?

32:34

And almost every one of them

32:36

was a singles match. And I

32:38

would reply, okay, if you don't

32:40

mind, could you make me a

32:42

list of all the singles matches

32:44

that things had in AW? Fucking

32:46

none. Yeah. So if we know

32:48

it's going to be a tag

32:50

match. And we know that in

32:52

order for Sting to do all

32:54

the cool stuff that's thing is

32:56

done during this run it needs

32:58

to be a tornado tag. AKA,

33:00

he needs to be able to

33:02

do what he's doing in this

33:04

match we're watching right now. Let's

33:06

walk and talk and fight through

33:08

the crowd and have a spectacle.

33:10

I mean even Meltzer said this

33:12

was a great match. This is

33:14

25 years ago, but this is

33:16

the type of thing that Sting

33:18

wants to do in the last

33:20

match without me even having any

33:22

inside knowledge. It's a tornado. So

33:25

I'm saying all that to say

33:27

if we know it's a tag

33:29

match and we know it's a

33:31

tornado tag and we want to

33:33

have some cool spectacles and visuals

33:35

in the match to overcome some

33:37

I mean my man's almost 65.

33:39

Goodness gracious, who better than the

33:41

freaking young buck? Exactly. I mean

33:43

like I couldn't imagine like respectfully

33:45

Darby Allen in the young bugs

33:47

can have a great entertaining match

33:49

with great visuals and blah blah

33:51

blah blah blah blah. They can

33:53

just kind of be there. It

33:55

lightens the load for him, which

33:57

is why when I was looking

33:59

to do Ricks last match, guess

34:01

what? I wanted to do a

34:03

tag. Exactly. Capable people around him

34:05

to support him and make... special

34:07

and look awesome because we're not

34:09

going to get staying from 1991

34:11

on Sunday and that that that

34:13

thing doesn't exist anymore. I'd like

34:15

to pick every online Twitter hooker

34:17

yeah cut their dick off ticket

34:19

in their ear and have them

34:21

walk home. Oh well what would

34:23

we call that when you have

34:25

a dick in your ear? What

34:27

would that be called? Hano service?

34:31

We've got to come up with

34:33

something that's good as anything else.

34:36

And it's got to be a

34:38

t-shirt at lowest rules dot com.

34:40

Look at page man. Pages. You

34:42

know what? For all of pages

34:45

bravado and what he made up

34:47

himself because he worked hard at

34:49

it. He worked so hard that

34:52

he became to hell, became a

34:54

hell of a worker. There is

34:56

no doubt. I mean, I think.

34:59

when you really take a look

35:01

at what's possible in wrestling. Yeah.

35:03

Diamond Dallas page might be the

35:06

shining example because when he first

35:08

showed up as a friend of

35:10

ours would say he'd have to

35:12

improve quite a bit to just

35:15

be the ship. Mm-hmm. And he

35:17

did. Yeah, he persevered and he

35:19

became more than capable. He became

35:22

good. Yeah. And he got over

35:24

and like he's transformed his whole

35:26

look. his body his presentation his

35:29

style of matches like I'm just

35:31

saying all that to say I

35:33

know sometimes people get the Twitter

35:36

fingers busy and they're shitting on

35:38

young talent and it's like guys

35:40

person you're dumping on right now

35:42

is 25 they've been doing it

35:45

13 months let's give him a

35:47

little time before we start comparing

35:49

him to well they're not as

35:52

good as Sean Michael's was okay

35:54

if that I mean how do

35:56

you watch anything on television? I

35:59

do watch college football. or pro

36:01

football. This guy is as good

36:03

as Joe Montana. Turn it

36:06

off. What? Again, Dick,

36:08

the canal of the

36:10

year. Canal service. Canal

36:12

service. And you know

36:14

what? I want the bloody

36:17

end to be showing. Well.

36:19

Not the knob. Bloody

36:21

end. Speaking of knobs.

36:23

Have you seen the new

36:26

video that DDP put out?

36:28

about Scotty Riggs. No.

36:30

Yeah, well they got our friend,

36:33

we used to have a lot

36:35

of fun with here on

36:37

the program, Buff Bagwell. Yeah.

36:39

And man together, Buff

36:41

reached out to Scotty, Buff

36:43

gave the hot tag to

36:46

Diamond Dall's page. Scotty Riggs

36:48

is another great DDP

36:50

success story. Oh, okay.

36:52

And he's got a... He had

36:55

some some dental issues, he

36:57

had some physical issues, he

36:59

had some confidence issues, some

37:01

financial issues. He's doing it again,

37:03

man. And this time with the help

37:05

of Marcus Alexander Bagwell,

37:08

I'm just happy to see all of

37:10

their success. I know that he just posted

37:12

not long ago the results of

37:15

Butterbean and that same similar

37:17

circumstance and to think that...

37:20

He's been able to do it

37:22

for Scotty Riggs, too. That's pretty

37:24

cool man I look forward to

37:27

seeing the American males making

37:29

more appearances together That's

37:31

great. That is great. You know it

37:33

goes it goes back to And I

37:36

think life goes back to this Conrad

37:38

and any walk of life in

37:40

any scenario But in the work, you're

37:42

going to be successful at

37:44

it. No, the DDP knows that that's

37:47

one of his mantra, but in

37:49

the work There you know we were

37:51

watching this match and how I

37:53

knew that DDP was a great

37:55

worker just one small thing Was

37:57

staying hit the near side rope?

38:00

came through and ducked the closed

38:02

line, right? Yep. Page did not,

38:04

he threw the closed line and

38:07

made, he threw the closed line

38:09

and knew that Sting was going

38:11

to be ducking. So he didn't

38:13

throw it high as if, okay,

38:16

I'll make sure he missed it.

38:18

He threw it the right way.

38:20

Yes. In other words, Sting, if

38:22

you don't duck this, you're going

38:25

to get nailed. Yes. That's sign

38:27

of a good work. Just trusting

38:29

your opponent. As opposed to throwing

38:31

the arm way up high like

38:34

you never gonna hit anybody with

38:36

the eggs exactly because I mean

38:38

I hate when I see that

38:40

because that's like and we you

38:42

know we we've told young talent

38:45

throw the freaking closed line if

38:47

they don't duck it's their fault

38:49

because when they fill that closed

38:51

line high you know they're called

38:54

spotted no they were it just

38:56

makes the duck just stupid. Page

38:58

knew how to do that. I

39:00

was doing a great job of

39:03

being a heel here too. I

39:05

just saw DDP flip those stairs

39:07

in the corner over. Right. And

39:09

I guess I knew this, but

39:12

I kind of forgot. And that

39:14

was served as a reminder. W

39:16

used wooden stairs. I kind of

39:18

forgot about. So did I. What

39:20

did you think about the difference

39:23

between wooden stairs and metal stairs?

39:25

Like. We've seen those heavy WWF

39:27

ones. Man, what a great way

39:29

to counter a diamond cutter. Hold

39:32

on to the top rope. That

39:34

was excellent. I love that. The

39:36

wooden stairs though, if you were

39:38

a talent, would you prefer the

39:41

heavy ass metal stairs or the

39:43

easier to maneuver, but might also

39:45

break and splinter, wooden stairs? Well,

39:47

I would prefer as a talent

39:50

the wooden stairs. I would too.

39:52

Yeah, those steel stairs. Oh. cumbersome.

39:54

Yeah and have an albatross and

39:56

they're just an injury waiting to

39:59

happen. But there's

40:01

so many things kids

40:03

do these days. Why

40:05

not? Why not have

40:07

a, why not have

40:09

a steel stairs with

40:11

spikes on them and

40:13

fill Darby into it.

40:15

Look at the fans

40:17

get up for this

40:19

singer. Splash. Yeah, that's

40:21

right. The fans are

40:23

hot as shit for

40:26

that. Yeah, a lot

40:28

of heat. Brother. You

40:30

know what's wild is,

40:32

I don't want to

40:34

give you a spoiler,

40:36

but things about to

40:38

win the world title

40:40

here. Yeah, oh no,

40:42

really? He's going to

40:44

lose it two hours

40:46

later. Oh, yeah, this

40:48

is the, this is

40:51

the one, right? Yeah.

40:53

That four ways where

40:55

he loses it back.

40:57

Right. Yeah, Goldberg's involved

40:59

in that one too. So by

41:01

the way, again, it's a season

41:04

five episode 17 April 26 and

41:06

99 at the Fargo Dome and

41:08

Hey, who does the sting? We're

41:10

wrestling this match, which is a

41:13

kickass match and then coming back

41:15

later. And I think you mentioned

41:17

that earlier on this podcast. Yeah,

41:19

be able to do that. Yeah,

41:22

DDP came back later and so

41:24

did sting. They're both in the

41:26

main event. but with two other

41:28

competitors and then a little interference.

41:31

But it's interesting that this is

41:33

day 15 of DDP's reign. He's

41:35

going to lose the title in

41:38

two hours later in it back.

41:40

Yeah. So when he talks about

41:42

being a three time three time

41:44

three time where you're seeing time

41:47

two on this match or this

41:49

show later in the day. Page.

41:51

Page took that whip into the

41:53

corner which has now been. known

41:56

as the Thanks Excalibur, a hammer

41:58

throw into the corner. or he

42:00

took it, he took it hard and

42:02

not only that whip just made

42:04

it even harder by hitting it

42:06

and he hit it so hard, so

42:08

well you couldn't tell that he did

42:11

a lot of that. That's again, kind

42:13

of a good worker. And a lot of

42:15

the fans are into themselves and their

42:17

signs here too, I get that,

42:19

but still the fans are into

42:21

the match. And I really thought you

42:24

didn't give a fuck about DDP, but

42:26

look at you just putting them

42:28

over left and right. No,

42:30

listen, I appreciate good workers.

42:32

I mean, we knew we knew

42:35

that sting was yes, but

42:37

I appreciate what Dallas came.

42:39

I really. I mean, you know,

42:41

like all the guys that I

42:44

knew throughout my years, you know,

42:46

I mean, could be a pain in

42:48

the ass, Rick Blair's pain in

42:50

the ass, and that was

42:52

on full display backstage

42:54

backstage backstage backstage.

42:58

What did I have fun

43:00

with him on in Huntsville

43:03

on Wednesday? Giving

43:05

each other shit? Telling

43:07

stories that I've told

43:10

a million times a

43:12

million times him laughing

43:14

that they were stories

43:16

like first time we heard

43:19

a lot of fun. It was

43:21

a lot of fun. It was

43:23

cool to see Mark Henry.

43:25

Yes. Mark

43:28

has a lot of talent.

43:30

People don't realize this, but

43:32

he's a he's a chef. He

43:35

yes, he's a chef He studied

43:37

He studied food prep

43:40

During his years and

43:42

his mom was a great

43:44

cook and he he he

43:46

talks about cooking all the

43:48

time. My god. They're with

43:50

it man. They're there with

43:53

him. Hang on here. Kyle

43:55

driver Alice quit holding

43:57

on for the pile driver.

44:00

I don't remember seeing Sting do

44:02

that. Well, it's like, it's almost

44:04

like when he let go of

44:07

his, of Sting's legs, I thought,

44:09

well, is he gonna try to

44:11

flip him up and do a

44:14

power bomb here? And he did

44:16

not. How about a gut-raged tombstone

44:18

here? Tombstone him this time! Oh,

44:21

the hell of a spot, guys.

44:23

to stop the day and Dallas

44:26

was talking about. One, two, two,

44:28

no, and a false finish. That's

44:30

a spot some of the guys

44:33

in this era should look at

44:35

and try to do. Reversal of

44:37

a reversal, reverse of a pile

44:40

drive and then kick out into

44:42

a DDD. I thought for sure

44:45

he was gonna try to find

44:47

a way to get a diamond

44:49

cutter in of that. Yeah, that's

44:52

all right. Yeah, these these, these,

44:54

I agree with Dave Meltzer, four

44:56

star match every bit. Oh,

45:01

damn it. Dirty ass.

45:03

Timentels, page, cheater. Yeah,

45:05

now, yeah. Look at

45:07

that, though. Hmm? Oh,

45:09

man. I don't know

45:12

where. Oh, look at

45:14

that. Oh. What a

45:16

fucking finish. Look at

45:18

the fans. My God.

45:20

I'm telling, that's one

45:23

of these things best

45:25

matches. I have use

45:27

bombs. That is one

45:29

of the students best matches. This

45:31

was a real surprise. Yeah, sometimes

45:33

when you and I watch a

45:35

bonus episode, it's just whatever. You

45:37

know, listen, it's whatever. But I

45:39

really appreciate this being chosen. This

45:41

is one of the forgotten great

45:43

sting matches. Yeah. Damn that. Forgotten

45:45

great nitro match. Forgotten great W.

45:47

C. W. matches. And I think

45:49

maybe the reason is forgotten is

45:51

because it was. the middle of

45:53

the show and they're going to

45:55

undo you know this new world

45:57

title win and just a couple

45:59

hours and I get that but

46:01

that doesn't make what we just

46:03

watched any less special right and

46:05

that was awesome yeah a hutch

46:08

good choice buddy you were nine

46:10

years old at the time you

46:12

watch it on television and again

46:14

I'm when I see staying on

46:16

Sunday I'm going to talk to

46:18

him about this match yeah much

46:20

you're members of it. Tell him.

46:22

You've got to remember it and

46:24

if you don't go back and

46:26

watch it again my man. This

46:28

is great sting stuff. Look at

46:30

that, scorpion death drop out of

46:32

the attempt of a diamond cutter.

46:34

He would wind up winning the

46:36

title just one more time. That's

46:38

his next to last W. C.

46:40

W. World title. A win. He

46:42

would win it from Hulk Hogan.

46:44

September 12th. 1999. But this is

46:46

the last time he held. The

46:48

big gold belt with the brown

46:50

leather, black leather later in the

46:52

year. And what a great shot,

46:54

what a great visual. We got

46:56

to let people know about this

46:58

match. Tony, this is one of

47:00

those forgot. I mean, people talk

47:02

about him and Flaring Greensboro, and

47:04

I get that, and they talk

47:06

about him and Flaring Baltimore, and

47:08

I get that, and they talk

47:10

about, you know, I really enjoyed

47:12

the tag match with him and

47:15

Lex against the Steiners at the

47:17

Super Brawl, that was fun. And

47:19

another talk about him and Vader,

47:21

king of the cable and all

47:23

that, but goodness gracious, dude, that.

47:25

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47:27

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49:50

going on man? How are you?

49:52

Conrad, what is up buddy? It is a

49:54

great time to be a wrestling fan with

49:56

a lot going on and it's a great

49:58

time to be able to... to talk to

50:00

you as always. We really do

50:03

have fun doing these. We

50:05

have a great time going back,

50:07

as fans know, great time

50:09

going back and watching old

50:11

W-W-E or W-W-F stuff, great

50:14

time going back in the

50:16

archives of the N-W-A and W-C-W

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and watching some of the

50:20

stuff and making fun at

50:22

me. And it's great to go

50:25

back and watch the old EC-W

50:27

stuff and see that when...

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when a skinny Paul Hayman

50:31

was only 400 pounds back.

50:34

Oh my gosh, listen. So, so

50:36

there, it's really a good time.

50:38

And this one, this one

50:41

is very interesting and

50:43

it's very interesting and

50:46

it's very interesting

50:48

and our thanks to Jim

50:50

Pizzinsky. Jim. Jim

50:52

and Buffalo, right? Yeah, he

50:55

gave us this match because this

50:57

match because this was. from Jim

50:59

here. Yeah, let's do it. Okay, Jim

51:01

says and it's it's in the it's

51:04

obviously in the description most of it.

51:06

He said this show is best known

51:08

for W. E. Having to call a

51:11

significant audible the day of the

51:13

show because just one day after

51:15

the infamous incident in Saudi Arabia

51:17

where the official line is that

51:19

the W. W. E. E.

51:21

Charter had mechanical issues and

51:23

couldn't leave the country. Most

51:26

however believe there was a

51:28

financial dispute blah blah blah so

51:30

they had to put this show together on

51:32

the fly. This was not the

51:34

original plan they had just done

51:36

the crown jewel paper view which

51:39

was obviously a big opportunity for

51:41

the company but as the story

51:43

goes they were behind in paying

51:46

Vince McMahon's WWV I think they were

51:48

50 million dollar shows and I guess

51:50

they still owed for the prior show

51:52

they hadn't paid for that one or

51:54

this one. So as the story

51:56

goes, Vince McMahon is

51:59

a way to... show everybody who's boss, cut

52:01

the feed to the Saudi Arabian people.

52:03

So they weren't able to see this.

52:05

And when they cut the feed, apparently

52:07

that pissed off the royal family and

52:10

they said, okay, you can cut off

52:12

the TV feed, we can cut off

52:14

the pipeline for the airport. So you're

52:16

not going anywhere, bud. Huge delay, a

52:18

lot of panic with all the talent.

52:20

And of course, the official line was.

52:23

There was a mechanical issue with the

52:25

plane, no one bought that. And as

52:27

a result, we have to shuffle some

52:29

things. And Melzer would say, this ended

52:31

up being a blessing in disguise in

52:33

a number of ways. The main event

52:35

where Adam Cole retained the next title

52:38

over Ryan was a classic match, wrestled

52:40

in a very different style than normally

52:42

seen in WWE. It was very technical,

52:44

but also strongly physical, more like a

52:46

new Japan main event. Brian as a

52:48

wrestler/worker in this match put on the

52:50

best individual performance in a match in

52:53

a main roster ring in a long

52:55

time With the new characters being pushed

52:57

so hard the show came across as

52:59

fresh We should also mention that this

53:01

match between Adam Cole and Daniel Bryan

53:03

Gained 12.4% of the audience back and

53:06

it's actually the high point of the

53:08

show The result is the show winds

53:10

up winning the night in men 18

53:12

49 and 18 to 34 or just

53:14

people rather, but men in both of

53:16

those groups are a big part of

53:18

course. It's third overall to an NBA

53:21

game on ESBN and sports center, but

53:23

still it's a it's a big opportunity

53:25

for Daniel Bryan and a big opportunity

53:27

for Adam Cole. They're teasing that Sean

53:29

Michaels would actually wrestle Daniel Bryan, but

53:31

Triple H then calls in Adam Cole.

53:34

And also would say it's weird because

53:36

on NXT, Cole is part of the

53:38

anti-authority heel group. And here

53:40

he was like

53:42

the top baby face

53:44

gun of the

53:46

authority, which are not

53:49

going to get

53:51

consistency in WWE angles,

53:53

especially when there's

53:55

no adverse situations. So

53:57

you can't expect

53:59

it here. But what

54:02

we're about to

54:04

watch is a 20

54:06

minute and 48

54:08

second match that was

54:10

far more physical

54:12

than the usual WWE

54:14

match. Peltzer said

54:17

to the point, it

54:19

almost seemed out

54:21

of place. Brian's

54:23

going to work as a

54:25

face. Cole's not really working as

54:28

a heel, but it's going

54:30

to show that Brian is one

54:32

of the elite wrestlers in

54:34

the entire world. And the result

54:36

is a four and a

54:39

quarter star match on WWE television

54:41

in 2019. So we want

54:43

you to watch along with us,

54:45

get your peacock out and

54:47

pull up the WWE Friday Night

54:49

Smackdown. We want you to

54:52

go to season 21 episode 44.

54:54

That season 21 episode 44.

54:56

This went down the day after

54:58

Halloween. It's November 1st, 2019. So

55:01

we're right around the same time

55:03

that AEW was launching on television.

55:05

It's exciting time to be a

55:08

wrestling fan here in November of

55:10

2019. Right? Sure is. All Saints

55:12

Day for you, Catholics. And

55:14

I don't know why I brought

55:16

that up, but every time I think

55:19

of November 1st, I think of

55:21

that. And it is. It is really

55:23

a great time to be a

55:25

wrestling fan Friday Night Smackdown. And

55:28

just let me say

55:30

this before we start. Say

55:32

it. When I was

55:34

younger and when I went

55:36

up through the ranks

55:38

in WCW, NWA. To

55:41

me, the greatest wrestler was Ric

55:43

Flair, and he is still one of

55:45

the greatest. And as I moved

55:47

on and started watching matches with you,

55:50

I thought Shawn Michaels was the greatest ever. And he

55:52

is one of the greatest. And

55:55

I'm going to be a homer here, but I know

55:57

I'm right. The greatest wrestler of all time is Brian. Man,

56:00

I can't argue that. I've been saying

56:02

that for a while. I know that

56:04

when you and I first started recording,

56:06

I started to talk about how much I

56:08

loved his matches and his stuff. I know

56:10

he wasn't really on your radar. And if

56:12

I'm honest with you, as much as I love

56:15

the stuff he's doing now, I was maybe an

56:17

even bigger fan of his back in like 2004.

56:19

I was just convinced that he

56:21

was the greatest wrestler. And what I

56:23

really like about Brian is his approach

56:26

to wrestling is so different. I saw

56:28

an interview with him. more than 10

56:30

years ago now, maybe 15 years ago

56:32

at this point. He'd already started to

56:34

win the Wrestling Observer Wrestler the Year

56:36

Award, the Rick Clear Award it's often

56:39

called, and he would win it over and

56:41

over and over. I mean back to back to

56:43

back, but I read a great interview

56:45

with him that I've actually referenced and

56:47

sales meetings and my mortgage life,

56:50

where he would talk about the fact

56:52

that he couldn't watch matches of his in

56:54

the past, because if he watched a match

56:56

from five years ago. or five months ago.

56:58

He felt like he wouldn't be

57:00

happy with the match. He knew he wouldn't

57:02

be happy with the match because he would

57:05

see things he did and he had evolved

57:07

in his thinking and he would say, oh,

57:09

I wish I would have done that. I

57:11

should have done this instead. He couldn't

57:13

just watch the match and enjoy it.

57:15

He felt like he was continually

57:18

evolving and getting better and watching

57:20

his old stuff was kind of depressing.

57:22

And the idea that a guy who

57:25

was... voted on and considered by all

57:27

of his peers to be the best wrestler

57:29

in the world over and over for

57:31

him to go back and watch the

57:34

matches that earned him those awards

57:36

and him be disappointed in him

57:38

talked about a standard of excellence

57:40

that exists in his pride of

57:43

his profession that's really

57:45

rare and I thought I think

57:47

that's what separates him from almost

57:50

everyone else in wrestling. There's

57:52

so many things. being

57:54

able to work with him

57:56

has been just one

57:58

of the joys. and being able

58:01

to not only work with

58:03

him, but as you know,

58:05

I've watched his matches with

58:07

Nigel and being able to

58:09

work with Nigel now for

58:11

me has been just absolute

58:13

joy as well. I'm not

58:15

comparing myself to Brian Danielson

58:17

by any means, but I

58:19

get it when he says

58:21

that because I cannot go

58:23

back and watch myself. I

58:25

can't. I, they, I'm asked

58:27

many times. Like

58:29

as you and I are recording

58:32

this we had recorded a collision

58:34

and It played last night. Of

58:37

course, I was I was at

58:39

a funeral I was driving back,

58:41

but If people ask me did

58:44

you do you watch those tape

58:46

shows? I go. No, I can't

58:49

I said I will watch clips

58:51

of the the angles With the

58:53

sound down I just I just

58:56

don't like my voice. I've never

58:58

liked it I'm disappointed. I'll say

59:01

things and I'll go, God, I

59:03

shouldn't have said that. And I'm

59:05

just difficult on myself. That way.

59:08

So I get it how he

59:10

is. It's just, I've always thought

59:13

that as an announcer and I

59:15

know he thinks this way as

59:17

a, as a wrestler, you just

59:20

got to move forward. Don't look

59:22

back, move forward. And I've always

59:25

done that to move forward and

59:27

just being able to work with

59:29

him and I'm glad we're able

59:32

to see this. And I was

59:34

so glad we were able to

59:37

watch the Ring of Honor stuff

59:39

because Brian Danielson is admittedly he's

59:41

talked about this on the on

59:44

on TV is at the end

59:46

of his career. And he's just

59:49

right now he's just pushing himself.

59:51

And it's remarkable to watch. I

59:53

know he's not 100% and so

59:56

we're going to watch a match

59:58

from what five years ago. Yeah.

1:00:01

almost five years ago yeah yeah

1:00:03

where he was a little bit

1:00:05

healthier than he is now so

1:00:08

I'm excited man I'm excited and

1:00:10

you know what props to Adam

1:00:13

cold too as well so we're

1:00:15

about to watch a great match

1:00:17

hope you'll watch along with us

1:00:20

get your peacock out it's season

1:00:22

21 episode 44 we're going to

1:00:25

one hour four minutes and 41

1:00:27

seconds you'll see Pat McAfee and

1:00:29

Rene Pickett and our buddy Tom,

1:00:32

they're all behind the announced desk

1:00:34

clapping. And then right in front,

1:00:36

you'll see two desk chairs with

1:00:39

a triple H on your right.

1:00:41

Sean Michaels, who got dressed up

1:00:44

for the occasion on your left.

1:00:46

And we're ready to go. You

1:00:48

want to do the countdown this

1:00:51

time? We do the honors. A

1:00:55

lot of applauding going on. There was

1:00:57

a Saudi Arabia sign. I don't know

1:00:59

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1:02:36

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1:02:40

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wrestled in the Tokyo dome or

1:02:47

right around the corner from

1:02:49

Wembley Stadium. There's a lot of

1:02:51

people who are circling Russell Dream

1:02:53

and think hey that might be One

1:02:55

of Brian's last matches, if

1:02:58

you were a betting man, do

1:03:00

you believe that to be the

1:03:02

case? No. Well, thank you for

1:03:04

that. Well, I don't because I

1:03:06

just know how he is. Right.

1:03:08

Now, it may be his

1:03:10

last full-time match. Brian

1:03:13

Danielson is going to be

1:03:15

a big part of AW for

1:03:17

the remainder of his life. I

1:03:20

do believe. You don't think he

1:03:22

ever goes back to W.

1:03:24

No. He's

1:03:27

he's too he's too valuable

1:03:29

to. I like seeing Roderick Shron

1:03:31

come out to there. He is too

1:03:34

valuable to Tony Khan. He's

1:03:36

a valuable member of the

1:03:38

front office, but it that way.

1:03:40

Even Tony Khan had said, isn't

1:03:43

it public? Yeah, that if something

1:03:45

were to happen to him, he'd

1:03:48

want to give the reins to

1:03:50

Brian Anderson. Yeah. Yeah. Which is

1:03:52

bullshit, because we all know it should

1:03:54

go to you. Yeah, you know what

1:03:56

it should go to me, but

1:03:59

I'm having I'm happy with where I

1:04:01

am in life. I

1:04:03

mean, I'm happy to the point to where

1:04:05

I say, yeah, fuck it. You know, once

1:04:07

upon a time that nothing happened in motherfucking

1:04:09

Eric Bischoff leapfrogs you and now you're going

1:04:11

to let that nothing happened in Brian Danielson

1:04:13

leapfrog. Yeah. But you know what? Here's the

1:04:15

good news. If Brian Danielson takes over the

1:04:17

company, I'll be a big part of it.

1:04:20

Well, there you go. Yeah. Because he and

1:04:22

I have become very good friends. I check

1:04:24

on Brian all the time. And

1:04:26

because of his health and

1:04:28

because the crazy fucking always talk,

1:04:30

I see this. Slow

1:04:34

the fuck down sometimes and he said, I don't

1:04:36

know how to. Oh,

1:04:38

what an amazing performer. And I here's

1:04:40

another thing. I'll text, I'll text him all

1:04:42

the time to see how he's doing because

1:04:46

I'm always concerned about all the bumps he

1:04:48

takes. And of course, you know, he's had

1:04:50

his injuries. He's had major injuries. And

1:04:54

he never answers those texts because

1:04:56

he's always out hiking somewhere like

1:04:59

a fucking goof. Thank you. OK,

1:05:01

yeah, like a fucking goof, Brian

1:05:03

Danielson. You can rest between going

1:05:05

out and bumping. What are you

1:05:07

going to do? You're going to

1:05:09

hike up a fucking mountain like

1:05:11

a fucking goof. Like a fucking

1:05:14

goof. If I took those bumps,

1:05:16

I'd lay around until the next.

1:05:21

by the way, I don't take those

1:05:23

bumps and I lay around until the

1:05:25

next TV. Yeah, me too. Me

1:05:28

too. He's wrestling Adam Cole

1:05:31

here, who. Looks

1:05:33

like a bit of a bit moji. That's

1:05:38

always been the criticism of of Adam

1:05:40

Cole, that he lacks size. I think

1:05:42

a lot of people once by the

1:05:44

time felt like you know, he would

1:05:46

never make it in WWE because he

1:05:48

wasn't quote unquote big enough. They said

1:05:50

that about both of these guys. Well,

1:05:52

they both made it in WWE and

1:05:54

outside of WWE. Did

1:05:56

you ever think that Adam Cole

1:05:59

was undersized? No. Right. Mysterio

1:06:01

approved all that incorrect. Yes.

1:06:03

Size does not matter in

1:06:05

wrestling. Look at Darby Allen. Look

1:06:08

how thin he looks. Size does

1:06:10

not matter wrestling at all. Now back

1:06:12

in Vince's day, always one of

1:06:15

the big guys, right? The heavy

1:06:17

weights. And it just doesn't matter

1:06:19

to me. If you're a good

1:06:21

reformer, if you're a great

1:06:23

performer, you're a great performer.

1:06:26

You're a great performer. I

1:06:29

think we were, and you

1:06:31

know, Brit, of course, his

1:06:33

girlfriend was working, it still

1:06:35

is working for us, and we

1:06:37

all thought that we would never

1:06:40

see Adam Cole here, because

1:06:42

I think the word was

1:06:44

that Triple H loved him.

1:06:46

Yes, he does. Yeah. So, no, size

1:06:48

does not matter. Not at all.

1:06:51

Even to the point to where,

1:06:53

and here's the... Here's the

1:06:55

thing we call the the

1:06:57

a-w world championship the a-w

1:07:00

world championship right Some of the

1:07:02

rest are sometime will still call

1:07:04

the a-w world heavyweight

1:07:06

championship And that is

1:07:08

such a misnomer because you

1:07:10

don't have to be a heavyweight to

1:07:13

be the world champion

1:07:15

anymore There's not a weight

1:07:17

class right? for a force of

1:07:19

habit. Right Watching

1:07:26

a pretty good match here.

1:07:28

Hope you're watching along with

1:07:30

us. This is season 21

1:07:32

episode 44. It's the day

1:07:34

after Halloween November 1st 2019.

1:07:36

Oh that visual Something else

1:07:39

isn't it is When they do that

1:07:41

move they still do it today.

1:07:43

I'm wondering how in the hell can

1:07:46

they work that? It just doesn't

1:07:48

go down any further, but still

1:07:50

I mean the timing the placement

1:07:52

It's like it reminds me of

1:07:55

like when Harley race would or

1:07:57

even Harley race would do the

1:07:59

knee drop. But I'm saying we

1:08:01

would even see like, and this

1:08:03

is pretty crazy when you think

1:08:06

about it in hindsight, as impressive

1:08:08

as a need drop from Harley

1:08:10

race was when he was just

1:08:13

running the ropes. Mm-hmm. I'd be

1:08:15

even would get on the top

1:08:17

or up and do a knee

1:08:20

drop. Like what? Yeah. How was

1:08:22

that possible? Yeah, so the storyline

1:08:24

here is, you know, we had

1:08:27

to put something together, but it's

1:08:29

a W.W.E. versus N.X.T. sort of

1:08:31

thing. And so it was Brian

1:08:34

Anderson, a lot of people thought

1:08:36

we're going to wrestle Sean Michaels

1:08:38

this day instead of becomes Sean

1:08:41

Michael's protege, if you will, the

1:08:43

pride of NXT, the NXT champion,

1:08:45

because of course, AAA's representing the

1:08:47

WDB main roster. and Sean Michael's

1:08:50

is representing Nx-T. So we've got

1:08:52

one of the top guys from

1:08:54

the main roster taking on one

1:08:57

of the top guys from N-X-T

1:08:59

and it's not this wasn't the

1:09:01

original storyline this wasn't the original

1:09:04

plan this wasn't the original plan

1:09:06

it's all just sort of thrown

1:09:08

together because we can't get people

1:09:11

out of Australia out of Saudi

1:09:13

Arabia. So as you said it

1:09:15

worked out for the best really

1:09:18

yeah absolutely and Adam Cole was

1:09:20

the Nx-C champion at this time

1:09:22

with the belt and look at

1:09:24

this. The suplex over the top

1:09:27

row, my God. And of course,

1:09:29

go to commercial, because it's the

1:09:31

Kevin Dunn era. Every time somebody

1:09:34

spilled out, man, that was one

1:09:36

of my frustrating things about being

1:09:38

a W&E fan. It felt like

1:09:41

it was paint by numbers. Everything

1:09:43

felt so familiar. And without Kevin

1:09:45

done there, they've started to switch

1:09:48

up the way things are shot.

1:09:50

The way things are presented and

1:09:52

it feels a lot different. Yeah,

1:09:55

don't you think they had to?

1:09:57

They had to. It was boring.

1:10:00

Right, well they... had to they

1:10:02

had to make their mark production

1:10:04

wise yes and I get that

1:10:06

I'm watching this match I'm thinking

1:10:08

how how great a kid Adam

1:10:11

Cole really is nice young man

1:10:13

now really room and innuendo is

1:10:15

he standing between you and your

1:10:17

true love Brit Baker do you

1:10:19

care to comment he's not standing

1:10:22

between it because I can always

1:10:24

walk around him anytime I want

1:10:26

oh okay that's good to hear

1:10:28

yeah he he He could try

1:10:30

to stand him away, but he

1:10:33

knows better. Okay, he just turned

1:10:35

a blind eye. You give it

1:10:37

in the old Candido. Is that

1:10:39

what? Yeah, I guess, really? Yeah,

1:10:42

I guess you can call it

1:10:44

that. I mean, if I could

1:10:46

call Brit right now, get her

1:10:48

here on the phone and ask

1:10:50

her, say, you're busy today? And

1:10:53

she would say no. And I

1:10:55

could call on a plane right

1:10:57

now and go down and have

1:10:59

dinner with her. And he can't

1:11:01

say her do shit about it

1:11:04

about it. No, nothing can do

1:11:06

about him, right? Because he and

1:11:08

I, he and I get along

1:11:10

and she loves me and I

1:11:12

know it. Okay, that's what you

1:11:15

call unconditional love. Oh. Yeah, that's

1:11:17

what you call true love. Is

1:11:19

she going to be at your

1:11:21

Hall of Fame ceremony? No. I

1:11:23

should have invited her. She should

1:11:26

have introduced you. Yeah. I thought

1:11:28

about that. Thought about that, but

1:11:30

I thought about, no, I need

1:11:32

you and I need my kids.

1:11:35

I ain't doing it. What about

1:11:37

the kids doing? No, you're introducing

1:11:39

the kids some of a bitch.

1:11:41

Nah. I wasn't my fat ass

1:11:43

on the crowd, but the kids

1:11:46

do it. This is Chevani family

1:11:48

thing. Well, I know how you

1:11:50

are. Once you get something in

1:11:52

your brain. Who the fuck that

1:11:54

I go into wrestling hall of

1:11:57

fame before you did? Doesn't make

1:11:59

any sense. So as soon as

1:12:01

I was fortunate enough to be

1:12:03

on the board. They were like,

1:12:05

hey, any nominations? I was like

1:12:08

Tom Richard Arn Anderson. Tony Shawnani,

1:12:10

not in that order. Tony's never

1:12:12

been in a Hall of Fame,

1:12:14

God damn it. So, how is,

1:12:16

how am I going into a

1:12:19

Hall of Fame before Bob Coddle?

1:12:21

Someone else? No, no, Bob Coddles

1:12:23

in a ton of Hall of

1:12:25

Fame. Oh, yeah. You're thinking of

1:12:28

the W. Okay. So many. But

1:12:32

yeah, he's he's definitely deserving.

1:12:35

Yeah. Yeah, I guess I

1:12:37

am thinking about the W

1:12:39

W Hall of Fame. You

1:12:42

know, you're right about this

1:12:44

match and Melcher was right

1:12:46

about this match. It was

1:12:49

technically sound, but it was

1:12:51

physical. Yes. Yeah. And why?

1:12:53

Why aren't the fans just

1:12:56

into this? Well, because they

1:12:58

don't know Adam Cole. But

1:13:01

they know Brian Danielson, Daniel Bryan, they

1:13:03

thought he'd never wrestle again. So the

1:13:05

idea that he's back, this is a

1:13:07

big deal. But there is a definite

1:13:09

separation of church and state between the

1:13:12

main roster and in next. There's a

1:13:14

lot of fans who can't get enough

1:13:16

of everything in XT. But there's even

1:13:18

more fans, a multiple, who watch the

1:13:20

main shows, either raw or smack down

1:13:22

or both, but don't ever watch a

1:13:24

minute of NX. for whatever reason and

1:13:26

I'm almost embarrassed to say I'm one

1:13:28

of them. I don't watch any in

1:13:30

XT. Yeah, like a few years ago

1:13:32

when they had Cody on the show

1:13:34

I watch just to see what that

1:13:36

was going to be but outside of

1:13:38

that I've not watched a lot of

1:13:40

NXT and I've got friends down there

1:13:42

you and I both think a lot

1:13:45

of Jeremy Borash and he's down there

1:13:47

and I'm just not watching I'm a

1:13:49

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who's watching what just I

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mean everything? Conrad

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in 10 years everything is

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going to be streaming. Oh

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for sure everything I

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would agree I mean even W.W.E.

1:16:58

they're moving to Netflix, right?

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I mean, by the way, that's

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going to look totally different. You

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know, there's not going to be

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any commercials. There's no, I mean,

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they're not going to have to

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censor themselves. It'll be uncensored. So

1:17:12

if a guy wants to come

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out and say, I'm going to beat your

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fucking ass, he can. Yeah. Isn't crazy

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to think W. W.E.E. is going to

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be, if they want to have a live

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sex show with Edge and Leda. Yeah,

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I was interesting. But

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you know, something you have to

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be, I think you have to

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be very careful with. Let me

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tell you why. Let me tell you

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why. Let me tell you why,

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because it gets old. To me right

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now, popping, flipping the fans

1:17:44

off with the bird. Yeah. Does not

1:17:46

have the impact it used

1:17:48

to. No, we agree. Yeah. So

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if everybody comes out and

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says, fuck you and fuck you

1:17:55

and fuck this. It's not

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going to have the impact. So

1:18:00

they have to be careful with it.

1:18:02

Yeah, I forgot to tell you

1:18:05

that, um, recently showed a

1:18:07

friend of ours, Eric

1:18:09

Rockincroach, remember him,

1:18:11

my buddy Eric Rockincroach. Yeah,

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well, he, uh, he came

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down to visit me not too

1:18:18

long ago, and somehow it

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came up when Cassio was

1:18:23

over, that documentary about

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the people from your state,

1:18:28

but you know, that you know, The

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Wild and Wonderful Whites

1:18:32

of West Virginia. Was last

1:18:34

time you watched that? I've never

1:18:37

watched it and just once again.

1:18:39

No, no, we don't need any

1:18:41

notes. Here's a note. For you

1:18:44

and all your fellow people from

1:18:46

Mississippi. Oh, I know that's where

1:18:48

you're from. Right. Well, I was.

1:18:51

Right. That I'm not from West

1:18:53

Virginia. I've only been there

1:18:55

a couple of times. Charleston.

1:18:58

Wheeling. That's about

1:19:00

it. Hey, this is this is the

1:19:03

referee that Yeah, that's Drake

1:19:05

Drake. I was yeah, I should have

1:19:07

said his name because that's

1:19:10

what I was thinking Yeah,

1:19:12

he's the one coming into

1:19:14

an index T show. He's

1:19:17

no longer in raslin.

1:19:19

I believe he certainly

1:19:21

deleted all of his social

1:19:23

media. I think he was

1:19:25

in the roofing business now

1:19:27

and I think wrestling's in the

1:19:30

review. I know he did he

1:19:32

got back in the ring and

1:19:35

did some hard course tough but

1:19:37

from what I understand he

1:19:39

left W. W. E. Because

1:19:41

he refused to take the

1:19:44

vaccine. When they were mandating

1:19:46

that everybody get

1:19:48

vaccinated. So he got shown the

1:19:50

door. So he said okay and started

1:19:53

thinking about a second act.

1:19:55

Good. I think he's had some.

1:19:57

Substance abuse challenges in his life.

1:19:59

and he's got all those under control

1:20:02

now so he's a real success story

1:20:04

and I'm happy for him. What a

1:20:06

freaking bump that just was no doubt.

1:20:09

Wasn't a hell of a match and

1:20:11

listen we know we love to make

1:20:13

fun of bad matches but this is

1:20:16

not gonna be one of them. Four

1:20:18

and a quarter stars on free TV

1:20:20

go out of your way to watch

1:20:23

it. Daniel Bryan, Adam Cole in the

1:20:25

main event Smackdown November 1st 2019 season

1:20:27

21 episode 44 I love this. This

1:20:30

is one of my favorite things. Vintage

1:20:32

Brian Danielson. That was where Adam Cole

1:20:34

love you right there. Yeah. Vintage Brandy

1:20:37

Horton. See how he's got the he

1:20:39

has got Danielson locked up right there?

1:20:41

Yep. I mean how he's got Adam

1:20:44

Cole. Adam Cole locked up. That's how

1:20:46

I would lock up Adam Cole if

1:20:48

he would say no you can't go

1:20:51

see Brit. Yeah, fuck him. Once he

1:20:53

going to. Yeah. Can't stand in the

1:20:55

way of true love. Yep. I

1:20:58

think it's smart that you didn't

1:21:01

bring her. It would be uncomfortable

1:21:03

for you in Lois. No, Lois

1:21:05

Lozier. Yeah, but if she got

1:21:07

up there and started espousing how

1:21:10

she feels. Yeah, yeah, I get

1:21:12

that. Let me ask you this.

1:21:14

You know, last time we got

1:21:16

Lois out to an event. It

1:21:19

was your birthday party and she

1:21:21

was a surprise that Jimmy's famous

1:21:23

seafood. And if I recall correctly,

1:21:26

that's the last time you got

1:21:28

some stank on your hanglow. Do

1:21:30

I have that right? Yeah. I

1:21:32

mean you're going to be a

1:21:35

Hall of Famer and I don't

1:21:37

think Lois has ever had Hall

1:21:39

of Fame Wiener before. You think,

1:21:41

I'm thinking what you're thinking and

1:21:44

you're thinking what I'm thinking this

1:21:46

Friday night. We're thinking differently. We're

1:21:48

thinking differently. Yeah, I think I'm

1:21:50

going to have sex with the

1:21:53

senior citizen. Shit. I'm a Hall

1:21:55

of Famer. I love it. Heh.

1:22:00

But I do want to tell

1:22:02

you this and I was thinking

1:22:05

about this yesterday because With the

1:22:07

exception of Going to Jackie's funeral

1:22:09

which was it was uplifting, but

1:22:11

you know sad at the same

1:22:14

time of course Lois and I

1:22:16

stopped Lois said Let's stop somewhere

1:22:18

because I'm hungry. I said okay,

1:22:20

so we saw this place called

1:22:23

the Bristol poor house. Yo you

1:22:25

are House, okay? And this was

1:22:27

really great. And this, this is,

1:22:29

oh, there it is, the Panama

1:22:32

Sunrise. I want to see how

1:22:34

this match ends first, and I'll

1:22:36

tell you this story. Because it's

1:22:38

pretty freaking cool. Look at that

1:22:41

man. Adam Cole is a made

1:22:43

man, he just beat Daniel Bryan,

1:22:45

clean in the middle. And everyone

1:22:47

is shocked. Yeah, nobody can believe

1:22:50

that an absolute top guy just

1:22:52

put over the NxT champ. Of

1:22:54

course, we know. No big deal

1:22:56

for Brian Anderson. There's Roger Strong

1:22:59

and the rest of the undisputed

1:23:01

era. I know they've been anti

1:23:03

authority and heels and look who's

1:23:05

out there too as part of

1:23:08

Nx T Rhea Ripley. Wow. It's

1:23:10

amazing to see how much wrestling

1:23:12

has changed in five years. There's

1:23:14

Keith Lee climbing in the ring.

1:23:17

Is that Leo Rush right there?

1:23:19

Am I so chompa? Man, five

1:23:21

years. Where does the time go?

1:23:24

Is that's where Strickland out front?

1:23:26

I have to look again. Yeah,

1:23:28

I swear, bro. Yeah, that is

1:23:30

where. Think about this, man. Look

1:23:33

at what we're watching right now.

1:23:35

This is amazing, is it not?

1:23:37

That is. Rhea and Swerve and

1:23:39

Leo and Adam Cole. Heathley, Bianca

1:23:42

Belair. Man, this was just five

1:23:44

years ago you blank and it

1:23:46

changes so much, doesn't it? Just

1:23:48

like life brother. Yeah, just like

1:23:51

life Well listen you were going

1:23:53

to tell us a story about

1:23:55

you and Lois. Let's hear it.

1:23:57

Stopped at the poorhouse. We walked

1:24:00

in and we immediately realized this

1:24:02

is not a place to have

1:24:04

lunch. This is a pool. This

1:24:06

is a pool hall to have

1:24:09

a beer. Got it. So we

1:24:11

sat down at the bar. I

1:24:13

had a Michelob ultra. What? Yeah

1:24:15

because of my diet. Lois had,

1:24:18

she said I need a micro.

1:24:20

Something. Lois is like a beer

1:24:22

snob. We sit there and there

1:24:24

were these four guys and they

1:24:27

were all older gentlemen and they're

1:24:29

all army veterans, okay? And we

1:24:31

struck up one of the greatest

1:24:33

conversations ever about military and stuff

1:24:36

like that. And it was just,

1:24:38

we had a great time. It

1:24:40

was a dive and we had

1:24:42

a wonderful time. I'm glad to

1:24:45

hear it. So we go to

1:24:47

the Texas Road, this is a

1:24:49

long way to get to where

1:24:51

I'm going. Go to Texas Roadhouse,

1:24:54

we had lunch. We meet a

1:24:56

family. I recognized him, he met

1:24:58

him and his kids and Lois

1:25:00

said, man, I've had a wonderful

1:25:03

time with you today. And I

1:25:05

told those, I said, well, we

1:25:07

need to get out more, which

1:25:09

we do need to get out

1:25:12

more, because we can afford to

1:25:14

get out more now for crying

1:25:16

out loud. So I was

1:25:18

thinking about bringing her over to your

1:25:21

place to see by some time. Oh

1:25:23

my god. What? Oh yeah, yeah, I

1:25:25

think that would be cool. Don't you

1:25:27

let her see the lake and do

1:25:29

that would be awesome. Let her see

1:25:32

the geese chase you around the house.

1:25:34

Hell yeah. So anyway, so that's in

1:25:36

the plants. I'm gonna talk to you

1:25:38

about it. Maybe a beach person. No,

1:25:41

not at all. Yeah, we'll do the

1:25:43

lake then. Man, that's exciting. Yeah, she's

1:25:45

she doesn't like the beach at all.

1:25:48

So anyway, we're going to start

1:25:50

doing some more things and who

1:25:52

knows? I mean, she's going to

1:25:54

have to, I'm a Hall of

1:25:56

Famer damage, you've got to do

1:25:58

what I say. That's it. And

1:26:00

if she don't, you know. got

1:26:02

somebody who will in a little

1:26:04

DMD you know I'm saying. All

1:26:07

right boys and girls that'll do

1:26:09

it for us. These are your

1:26:11

June bonus episodes and I know

1:26:13

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1:26:15

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1:26:17

days away from two more bonus

1:26:19

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1:26:21

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1:26:23

mentioned. He's been busier than a

1:26:25

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1:26:27

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1:26:29

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1:26:32

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1:26:38

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1:26:40

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1:26:42

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1:26:44

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1:26:48

it looks like it's about that

1:26:50

time. Ryan Danielson going up against

1:26:52

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1:26:54

Giovanni is your referee and ladies

1:26:57

and gentlemen it looks like the

1:26:59

shoulders of Brian Danielson are down.

1:27:01

One, two, oh, Tom got a

1:27:03

cramp in his arm. Oh, God,

1:27:05

he's got a cramp in his

1:27:07

arm. And now he's calling for

1:27:09

someone in the back. Oh, here

1:27:11

does be out of time. We'll

1:27:13

see it next week on what

1:27:15

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1:27:19

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