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Jim Cornet Hello

1:00

again everybody and welcome to

1:03

another episode of the Jim

1:05

Cornet Experience The WWE just

1:07

had backlash AEW is suffering

1:09

from whiplash And I've come within

1:11

an eyelash of watching all the

1:14

wrestling that I can watch It's

1:17

the Please God Make It Stop

1:19

edition of the Jim

1:21

Cornet Experience And joining me on

1:23

this hysterical ride Hawaiian

1:25

Brian the Podcasting Lion The King

1:28

of the Arcadian Vanguard Podcast Network

1:30

Mr. Co-host to you The

1:33

man who says about our recording

1:35

schedule It will never be over

1:37

The great Brian Last everybody

1:40

Aloha Jim, a pleasure to be here once

1:42

again Thankfully I'm a little I

1:45

don't know, I'm tired today But it's your show so I

1:47

can just sit back and Enjoy

1:50

the good times and laugh along with the listeners

1:52

Yeah, if you try to sit back on this

1:54

one They'll be playing an organ over the top

1:56

of you And

1:59

it won't be at a ballpark either. It'll

2:02

be very, as Dream Machine

2:04

you say, they'll be ready to

2:06

lay you out and have some sad singing and

2:08

slow walking done over you. Oh

2:12

boy, you

2:14

know I was telling you this yesterday because ladies

2:16

and gentlemen, members of the Cult of Cornet, listeners

2:19

and concerned citizens out there

2:21

everywhere, whatever time

2:24

or day you are listening to this,

2:27

it could have been done almost 24

2:30

hours sooner had I

2:32

had the goddamn will to go

2:34

on. And

2:36

I said to you yesterday, I said,

2:40

we just recorded a show 36 hours ago, there's been

2:43

a smack down, there's been

2:45

a pay-per-view, there's been things

2:48

going on, but

2:51

how many times can we talk about

2:53

these things in quick succession and goddamn it,

2:55

we just need a break

2:59

every once in a while. I need to get

3:01

my thoughts together because people have real

3:04

lives and or other people have real

3:06

jobs instead of you and me. But

3:09

we've all got lives of some description

3:11

and how much wrestling

3:14

can you watch and here is

3:18

the big deep question in this Brian,

3:21

will the WWE benefit

3:24

from viewer fatigue because

3:27

when you don't have

3:29

time for everything, you just kind of pick the

3:33

top of the line stuff, right? The

3:36

number one show, the brand name. How

3:39

much more fucking wrestling can people, and

3:42

they're between AEW and WWE

3:46

just on television in a

3:48

seven day period every week,

3:51

plus the programs that are about

3:53

wrestling, whether it be the biographies,

3:55

the treasures, the rivals

3:58

with WWE at Dark Side. There's

4:01

20 hour and a paper, throw a

4:03

paper view in there because there's one of those

4:05

every two weeks, right? WWE once

4:07

a month, AEW is going once a month now.

4:11

Has 20 plus hours if you're just

4:13

watching it. That's half of people's work

4:15

week. So

4:18

much less for us it all blurring

4:21

together and looking the same after a

4:23

while. How do

4:25

people have the time to invest when they

4:27

have a 40 hour work week and they

4:29

might have a dog

4:31

that needs to walk or a sick

4:34

ant gladdus that needs chicken soup or whatever? Do

4:36

you see what I'm saying here? You

4:40

know, I think people can get burned out

4:42

on watching wrestling faster than they can get

4:44

burned out on talking or thinking about

4:46

wrestling. And I'm

4:49

a baseball fan and primarily

4:51

I like to watch my team and sometimes that's the

4:53

only teams games, or at least in the past I

4:55

was the only teams games that were available to you

4:58

before there were packages to get other out

5:00

of town games. And I

5:03

would listen to sports radio

5:06

all day until the game. I

5:09

didn't get sick of it. I didn't get sick of the

5:11

conversation. I didn't get sick of the callers. I got sick

5:14

of a few of the hosts. Russ

5:16

Salzberg sucked. But

5:18

he went away and the schmoozer stayed.

5:23

But I think that's the point. People can get

5:25

sick of the content maybe or get disappointed with

5:27

it and kind of hang on the

5:29

periphery and just wait for things to get better. But

5:32

no one ever gets tired of thinking or

5:35

talking or wanting to hear other people talk

5:37

about wrestling. Well, and or whatever

5:39

their interest is because that's kind of two

5:41

different sides of the potential coin

5:44

there in that you never get tired of

5:46

the concept of what you're interested in or

5:50

as you said, talking about it, which you can

5:52

kind of control if you're talking about it with

5:54

someone, you can end the conversation. Or if you

5:57

are listening to a program about it, you can

6:00

You can pick that time and you can more

6:02

listen to a conversation rather than wrestling. You have

6:04

to put your eyes

6:06

on it, right? You have to see what's going

6:08

on. It's a more immersive experience. And

6:12

unfortunately, today with

6:15

the airwaves dominated by the

6:18

top two companies, we're not trying to

6:20

just say WWE, but Jesus Christ, they're

6:23

everywhere. Check your home movies, folks. It

6:27

starts to look the same. And

6:30

it led the fan of the territory days,

6:32

but after video, home

6:35

video came in, VHS, whatever,

6:38

you could get the different tapes

6:40

and every promotion came from a

6:43

different place with different announcers, a

6:45

different crew of wrestlers,

6:49

the completely different presentations.

6:53

And also most of the shows were an hour. Some

6:56

were an hour and a half, Houston, Memphis,

7:00

TBS was two hours. But you get the

7:02

point is you could

7:04

watch it in smaller increments,

7:06

everything looked different. You didn't get tired

7:08

of it because it's the concept of

7:10

what you like. But

7:13

this is just fatigue at this point with

7:15

being able to keep up with different

7:20

programs containing the same general

7:23

fucking look, people and

7:25

presentation on

7:27

each company. I'm not saying AEW

7:29

looks anything like WWE in those

7:32

categories, but God

7:34

almighty, Jim Manelli

7:37

Shelley, we

7:40

need some shoot up here amongst

7:42

us because one of us needs some relief. Can't

7:46

do that without the noise. Wait a minute. Anyway,

7:56

I just thought, again, people have to go

7:58

out there and pay their bills. bills and

8:01

nurse their children and wean their

8:03

dogs and castrate their goats

8:05

and things. They have real lives. They

8:07

don't just have time

8:10

to sit glued to the goddamn screen

8:13

for the latest developments, do they? For

8:16

heaven's sake. I'm

8:20

just saying, we're getting so much of this now without

8:23

an appreciable

8:28

difference in

8:31

look or talent that

8:34

it just, you know, a few

8:36

people stand out. We'll talk about some of them

8:38

later on. Guess

8:40

what I got? Herpes.

8:45

Have you been in my

8:47

medical file over at Arcadian

8:49

Vanguard? I'm sorry, I'm sorry,

8:51

forgive me, this is a Terry Taylor file. Let me put

8:54

this on. Oh ho! I

8:57

can't, I don't know anything about anyone's

8:59

medical records. Bill Dundee one time in

9:01

1982 said, fucking Terry Taylor, I can't

9:03

do the accent, but you'd have fucking

9:05

Terry Taylor if you have cracked his

9:07

head open little pussies would fall out.

9:11

But anyway, so do

9:14

you know what I got? Now,

9:16

besides- Pomidia! No, god damn it,

9:18

I don't even know that lady.

9:24

I got in a package in the mail I'll

9:26

have you. See, this is gonna

9:29

be the show because we're just, we're burnt. We're

9:31

burnt from this. We're tired folks, we're burnt. Please,

9:33

please help us. Start a

9:36

GoFundMe to send us to fucking

9:39

Desert Island somewhere with no wrestling.

9:43

But I got a package in the mail

9:45

from a longtime listener, friend of mine and

9:47

a member of the cult, a friend of

9:49

yours too, by

9:51

association, Owen T.

9:53

Han from Ireland, Dublin.

9:56

Oh yeah, he's a nice guy.

9:58

Yes, well I'm glad. I

10:00

approve of him. He has my approval. I'm

10:02

glad he got your seal of owe and

10:04

you can continue on now. Don't

10:06

make any mistakes. Don't fuck

10:08

up. But anyway, he dropped

10:11

me a quick line and a small token

10:13

of appreciation. I love the way they're so

10:15

polite over there across the pond. But

10:18

it's some Nando seasonings where

10:21

you just put the chicken breast in the bag of seasoning

10:23

and shake it up and fold it up and put it

10:25

in the oven and there you go. And

10:28

also some chips, potato

10:31

chips is what we call them over here. I

10:33

think they're crisps over there. But

10:36

different flavors that we was of different

10:39

mature cheese. And

10:43

I think, well, goddamn, I've forgotten the combinations

10:45

now. I wish I'd kept the bags. I

10:47

eat them already. But mature cheese

10:49

and dill relish was one of them. And

10:51

I don't know. That fucking

10:53

cheese didn't look a day over goddamn 18 to

10:55

me. But who am I to say? But

10:58

anyway, oh, and thank you. There was seasoning.

11:01

There was a t-shirt, some food

11:04

stuffs from over there. And

11:06

a local Irish

11:08

seasoning. Or

11:11

local Irish seasoning. I

11:13

get, well, I don't know

11:15

if it's local or reasonable. McDonald's or something like that.

11:17

See, I don't have the bag in front of me.

11:19

We haven't tried that yet, but we're going to cook.

11:22

I don't know what. It

11:24

says seasoning, but that's

11:26

the only clue I got. There's no picture on

11:28

it to give me an idea.

11:31

Nobody with a flame coming out of their mouth or

11:33

anything. All right. Here,

11:37

it was a, got

11:39

an email from Frank Culbertson. And

11:42

by the way, he's another good guy. I've

11:44

proven him too. Oh, God, see, I'm on

11:46

a roll here today. Fuck. Wait,

11:49

will you hear the rest of these names? We can vet

11:51

this whole crowd. Frank.

11:54

And also I set him straight. I'll tell you here

11:56

on the air on your post office box because he's,

11:59

they have done. a,

12:01

or are in the process

12:04

of finishing up or about to print or

12:06

wherever it is in this, a book on

12:08

Hawaii. What? What

12:11

are you laughing about? Oh, I'll reveal the joke out

12:13

of the air. It's not that bad. Every time Frank

12:16

puts out a book, I buy that book. I'm not

12:18

ashamed to say it. And every

12:20

time he puts out a book, right

12:22

after I buy it, we get an email saying

12:24

that a book's in the mail for you and

12:26

Brian. And I never get

12:28

that book. Well, he had

12:30

your goddamn, how long has it

12:32

been since you've lived out in

12:34

Long Branch or Long Whistle? Long

12:36

Beach? Long Island. Long Beach? It's

12:39

been a long time since I've been in Long Beach,

12:41

New York. How the hell did I get that address?

12:43

There's a lot of books there waiting for you, pal.

12:46

Oh my God. That's what

12:48

the problem has been. So

12:51

anyway, you got one coming now. Um,

12:55

hopefully we'll see. Well, this is going to

12:57

be a big test. It's

12:59

a big one, 540 pages. But

13:02

he and Mike Rogers, who's amazing. They're

13:04

the Portland historians, but they've hopped over.

13:08

It's not even trans-pacific or whatever. It's

13:10

just out in the ocean there to

13:12

Hawaii. And they have done a Hawaii

13:14

history book that we're looking forward

13:16

to getting, especially now that you don't live in

13:19

Long Beach anymore and haven't for years and years

13:21

and years. I

13:23

assume there will be a large series

13:25

of chapters on the amazing work

13:27

of Leah Mivya as

13:30

a promoter in Hawaii. I believe

13:32

that's going to be

13:34

a post-it note in the middle between chapters

13:36

10 and 11. Yes,

13:38

a mugshot bookmark for

13:40

the first 50 buyers. What

13:43

a work for Mick Jagger and David Bowie and

13:45

Johnny Cash. We've got that coaster

13:48

set. Have you seen that? What, you're getting

13:50

arrested? A mugshot? No, no, no.

13:53

They're very marketable. They've

13:55

made a coaster set for your bar

13:57

or rec room or whatever

13:59

facility. that you entertain in of

14:01

drink coasters of all these people's

14:04

mug shots over the years. What

14:06

about Sinatra? Sinatra's on

14:08

there? You need that one. That's a big one.

14:10

You got to have that. Anyway, back to Frank.

14:12

Can we be Frank for a minute? Let's be

14:15

Frank about this, yes. Well, Frank

14:18

wrote also an interesting antidote,

14:20

as the kids say, from

14:23

a time that, you

14:25

know, he's done a lot of television

14:28

interviews for the Portland and

14:30

Northwest programs, and they

14:32

were doing a Comcast, I believe, as

14:34

he said, the Comcast Studios. And

14:37

this may have been a studio taping because

14:39

Grappler had bled, and he

14:42

was all bandaged up, and they were going

14:44

to do the promo to talk

14:47

about his opponent, who was Moondog Moretti, and, you

14:49

know, I'm going to get even, and blah, blah,

14:51

blah. And they

14:54

had to do the fucking promo,

14:57

and they said, well, you could just, you know, because

15:00

this is after the match has happened, apparently. So, you

15:02

see, you could just put some

15:04

shit on your mask or whatever, a ketchup,

15:06

and he's, ah, he laughed, he

15:09

pulls the fucking band-aid off

15:11

his forehead, and he does the fucking

15:14

knuckle deal that

15:16

sometimes works and sometimes has a rib on

15:18

yourself, where if you got used to the

15:20

night before, and you don't want to

15:23

blade again, if

15:25

you hit it the right way with the point of

15:27

your fucking knuckle, it'll open up. And

15:30

the only time I ever tried to do it, it didn't

15:32

work worse yet. It was about a 50-50 deal. But

15:36

he, Lynn Denton the Grappler,

15:38

he just took the fucking band-aid off

15:40

and took his knuckle and bam, and

15:42

busted himself open again, and then

15:45

put the goddamn mask on so he

15:47

could bleed through the mask for the

15:49

promo. So that dedication to your

15:53

goddamn profession, because it, as I've said so

15:55

many times, it would

15:57

have been an insult To

15:59

most of the guys. guys in the. In

16:02

the inner back in a pioneer days.

16:04

If you insinuated the blood was faker,

16:06

ask them to use fake blood. As

16:09

a would say, people could see through it. Just.

16:13

An amusing antidote. Their. Brad.

16:16

Have you ever had success with open up

16:18

an old gig? Mark where your bug and

16:20

knuckle middle finger? no. Beds.

16:23

It's is not easy. It.

16:25

Might use. That's why a lot of guys look like

16:27

they've been run through fog and Gillette Factory to. They're

16:30

just easier to do it that way. Anyway,

16:34

Would. You like to have an

16:36

examination. From. A and on.

16:39

And. What know? I know, I'm a proper

16:41

tall adjust the know that's literally no.

16:45

Such. As some random brought all just not

16:47

even my own. Similar.

16:51

Take for you take a minute. some you accept.

16:54

That I was circuits know would

16:57

you like to have it examination

16:59

of. Have

17:01

a t W attendance figures

17:04

and or percentages from an

17:06

actual data scientists. Do the.

17:10

Quest. I was gonna ask before you. Put.

17:13

Your own period and on it may answered me

17:15

too quickly. All the wood type of examinations have

17:17

you had know are you up to date on

17:19

all your shots? Based.

17:22

On Osha rules on homes and I

17:24

have the answer that over your like

17:26

asking that either well as be his

17:28

supervisor. I'd. I have none

17:30

at Slaughterhouse. Wow. The lawsuit? Discover your

17:32

air while are you going to? And

17:35

by the way, those Osha. I.

17:37

Don't Or he didn't He didn't he fuck

17:39

an ice cube son to of stupid she

17:42

just causes trouble. Oh

17:45

shit son, oh sure is a girl's

17:47

name on a man's name? Oh I

17:49

thought it was Oshie Jackson who. Will.

17:52

Not. Change south with

17:54

so is your find out where your.

17:56

You. Threw me off. You.

17:58

keep changing years Anyway, from

18:02

James, I won't give his last name in

18:04

case he wants to seek

18:06

employment anywhere else in the future. In case

18:08

he has friends or family. Family,

18:11

people he cares about. But

18:14

he did say hello to you

18:16

and me. He's a long-time listener, member

18:18

of the cult, and

18:21

one of his favorite parts of the shows

18:23

are the discussions around the viewership for an

18:25

attendance of AEW programs with

18:29

the Wrestle-Tix quotes, reports,

18:31

etc. Because

18:34

he's a data scientist

18:36

and he has fun with

18:38

numbers. And he sent

18:40

me a sheet and, God damn it, I wish

18:43

there's no way I could even read this and

18:45

make sense. It's just lines and lines of the

18:47

shows and how much the

18:49

building holds, what they actually set it

18:51

up for when AEW was there, how

18:53

many tickets they distributed, how

18:55

many empty seats they had, percentage of

18:58

venue empty, it's God damn amazing. You

19:01

know, there's these people that have these ability to

19:03

do these things with these numbers. God

19:06

damn, they ought to charge more money for their work. I

19:09

got this for free. But anyway,

19:11

there's four statistics I would like to bring

19:13

up to you in this report

19:16

that's been done here. Would you like to hear

19:18

them, Brian? Yes,

19:20

and again, we don't know if James,

19:22

if we don't know if that's his real name, and we

19:24

also don't know if he has any

19:26

of the qualifications truly to be doing it.

19:28

No, no, he's just gone. He's

19:31

from public documentation,

19:33

from Wrestle-Tix, from things that we

19:35

have read and have been reported

19:37

in the buildings. He's done all

19:40

the adding and the subtracting and

19:42

the gazentas. You

19:45

know, two gazendas, six, three times,

19:48

two gazendas, eight, four times, and

19:51

he's figured all these things up. The

19:55

average building capacity

19:59

Of the arenas that we have in the building,

20:01

a W has run for Dynamite. In.

20:03

Twenty Twenty Four Just since January

20:05

first. Is twelve thousand

20:08

six hundred and eighty seats. That.

20:11

Means that there would be arenas that.

20:14

That. They've done or dynamite tapings

20:16

in. If. You open

20:18

the full seating capacity of that

20:20

arena forbidding event. Advil's it up!

20:23

And you average that out. Twelve

20:25

thousand, Six hundred, eighty. As

20:28

but. As brave big buildings you know I

20:30

actually thought of would have been bigger. As

20:32

she says you are running. On.

20:34

Average bigger buildings but that were that.

20:36

we aren't even as crazy as I

20:38

thought it was gonna be. See and

20:40

in the now I will show your

20:42

for example when they were at the

20:44

Coca Cola Coliseum in Toronto is a

20:46

whole seventy seven hundred the Coca Cola's

20:49

how will see him as and when

20:51

they were in Dailies Place in Jacksonville.

20:53

At. Only holes. Fifty five hundred to matter what

20:55

you do with. It. And.

20:57

There was the U and O Lakefront

21:00

Arena New Orleans, my old hometown. eighty

21:02

seven hundred as so. While.

21:04

They were in the Td Garden in

21:06

Boston at nineteen thousand and Five Eighty,

21:08

Or the Prudential Center at sixteen thousand,

21:10

or the Footprints Center in Phoenix. that

21:12

eighteen bows and. They

21:15

also have. The. Indiana Farmers Coliseum.

21:17

Remember we talked about that They were

21:19

in the ninety year old A be

21:21

a building. That's that. Sixty eight hundred.

21:24

Course Now honestly, these are the

21:27

listed capacities for arenas. But.

21:29

As you know, If. You

21:31

put seats on the floor for wrestling. You

21:33

get more in so for wrestling you couldn't.

21:36

Do. Over and Bruiser used to over

21:39

a thousand for wrestler so this the more

21:41

so we thought. But let's continue on. The.

21:45

Average building capacity. As

21:47

I mentioned, twelve thousand, six hundred a

21:50

seats. The. Average number

21:52

of empty seats for a

21:54

devotee Dynamite so far and

21:57

Twenty Twenty Four. Based.

21:59

on exp of the arenas they have run,

22:03

average number of empty seats 10,235 seats. This

22:10

translates to an average building being

22:12

72.47% empty. Now

22:19

you say, well how can that be? Because

22:21

it looks like there's people there. Well if

22:25

you opened up the entire building, that's what

22:27

we're talking about. But as we know AEW

22:30

shrinks it down a little bit to the sections

22:32

that they can shoot, it'll be on camera and

22:35

they tarp off things and blah blah

22:37

blah, right? So the

22:40

average setup, the average building capacity may

22:42

be 12,680 but the average

22:47

setup for these buildings is

22:50

3,350. That's

22:55

what they're actually... so

22:59

obviously they're setting up a 20,000 seat

23:02

building for a little bit more but

23:05

yes that's the average setup no

23:07

matter what size the building and

23:09

one more statistic and then

23:11

I will open the floor to your comments.

23:14

The average tickets distributed which

23:16

are sold or given away

23:19

for promotion according

23:21

to RussellTix is 24,45 which

23:23

means there's an average of

23:28

1,086 tickets

23:31

left unsold per show

23:34

even with the smaller setups. So

23:40

that means basically the average

23:42

then down here

23:45

on the chart here of percent

23:48

of venue empty is

23:51

almost 80% and

23:55

the worst one, hold on I'll give you one more

23:57

Brian because this is fun, when

23:59

they went to the BOK Center in

24:02

Tulsa, Oklahoma, I don't know who Bach

24:04

is or what he had to do

24:06

with it. The

24:08

building capacity was 19,199. They distributed 1,593 tickets. That

24:11

means the building was 91.70% empty.

24:25

Your thoughts? You

24:28

know, even if we ignore all the

24:30

booking problems, and it's

24:32

hard to completely ignore them because they're a big part of

24:34

why people aren't coming out. The

24:37

problems with the way

24:40

they've handled the scheduling of live events has been

24:42

going back for a long time. This

24:44

was a Raphael Morfi era problem

24:47

where they would run non-stop

24:50

in Texas, non-stop in California,

24:52

non-stop in Canada, non-stop

24:54

in the Northeast, and

24:56

then burn out every market. There

25:00

are very few markets, if

25:02

any, that AEW returns to when the

25:04

crowd goes up. WWE

25:07

right now is as hot as they get. They're

25:09

selling out shows with like no

25:11

lineup. You know, what are

25:13

the matches on Raw? You don't know. You don't care.

25:17

They can't get people in the door. The booking is one thing.

25:21

They burned out markets, I think is

25:23

another. Well,

25:27

what are they coming back with that

25:29

is in any way superior to whatever

25:31

they would have presented a year or

25:33

two years ago at a

25:35

live event or a TV taping, whatever? You

25:37

see, they had the wrestlers they had, but

25:39

they were also the fresh thing. They were

25:41

getting publicity for being the fresh thing. If

25:43

there was ever a time for someone

25:46

to check out something different, even

25:49

if they didn't have issues with WWE,

25:51

that was the time. That

25:53

was the publicity. Now

25:55

they are just there. Again,

26:00

this is two weeks AEW has

26:02

done what for them

26:04

are hot angles, the

26:06

attack of Tony Khan, the attack of Kenny Omega.

26:09

Is anyone talking about it? Is

26:11

anyone talking about it? No, instead we're talking about a

26:14

B-paper-view that took place in France before fans

26:17

that like to sing. That's

26:21

the story not Kenny Omega

26:23

potentially having his guts destroyed.

26:28

And the bookings a problem, the live event

26:30

strategy is a problem. I almost think and

26:33

there's no easy way to do it and I'm again

26:35

not a producer for them

26:37

at least. But I

26:39

always feel like you show in really small

26:41

places and make every place feel local so

26:44

that you're watching. You should make it almost like

26:47

that was one of the things with Nitro that

26:49

seems stupid but worked like the

26:51

Nitro parties where everyone wanted

26:53

to participate. Make

26:55

it more exclusive, make it smaller, make

26:58

it feel like each town that you're in and

27:01

then grow again because instead of running

27:04

these big buildings just

27:06

waiting to fill them up again ever? I

27:08

mean, right there again. I was about to

27:11

say, hold on there cowboy. Yes, they drew

27:13

80,000 people at Wembley or 70,000 or

27:15

85,000 or whatever the goddamn number. The

27:18

term style count you got to remember. Well,

27:23

they're going to just do a

27:25

little over half of that again

27:27

this year and they've drawn

27:29

some big crowds but let's face it, in

27:32

the last year, their

27:35

business, their live

27:38

ticket sales have not

27:41

dropped 75% or even if

27:43

they're not doing a half of what they did. They

27:48

were in big buildings last year and year

27:50

before that were too big because

27:55

Tony, I guess, is convinced and set down at

27:57

the start that they were going to fill them

27:59

up. So they

28:02

just, you know, except for the pandemic,

28:04

obviously, that's what they've been doing and

28:08

they've been filling them up. That's

28:11

what, like you said, are they just wishing? But

28:14

you could have made a course correction from

28:17

last year, Arena's book

28:19

in advance but not that far that

28:21

you can't fucking change something

28:23

you're gonna do a year from now.

28:27

And that's it, they've had this warning for a while

28:29

and now they're pissholes in a

28:31

snowbank. So I don't know what the fuck

28:33

they're thinking. Or

28:36

are they thinking? I

28:38

think they're thinking but maybe it's the

28:40

wrong thinkers. Maybe it's

28:43

the wrong thinkers. You mean they're thinkers

28:45

or stinkers? They're thinkers

28:47

could be stinkers. And they come up with

28:49

clinkers? And they come up

28:51

with clinkers. Well. Like Claude Cooper.

28:54

Hey, hey, hey! Don't you

28:56

say a word about Claude Cooper? Because

28:58

that goddamn cleaning woman, Clara Clifford, she's

29:01

the one that started that whole thing

29:03

making those accusations that kleptomaniac

29:06

Claude Cooper from Cleveland is the one who

29:08

copped the clean copper clappers kept in the

29:11

closet. See, that's

29:13

something the listeners may not know. It's kind of like

29:15

if you say Beetlejuice. If you just say the name and

29:17

I won't say it again, Jim goes into the whole

29:19

routine. Well, I'll tell you one thing. If I

29:22

ever find kleptomaniac Claude Cooper from

29:24

Cleveland and copped my clean copper clappers

29:27

that were kept in the closet, I'll

29:29

clobber him. Amazing.

29:33

Alright, another email. Bonjour,

29:35

Jim, and Monsieur Brian

29:37

Last. What

29:40

now? Why are you laughing

29:42

already? You know, I have

29:44

no good reason. I think

29:46

it was just the French. I think it was the French. Well,

29:49

is it cuz this man's French? Monsieur Brian.

29:51

How come you're not Monsieur Jim? Um,

29:56

well, because I'm Bonjour Jim.

29:58

Bonjour Jim comes before... Monsour

30:00

Brian Lass? Isn't Bonjour hello? Well...

30:05

Hello Jimin. What's Monsieur? Is it... Is

30:07

it Master? Or is it Monster? Is

30:09

it... M-Mister? What is... I think it...

30:12

You're his masseuse. Oh. Hello.

30:16

But you rubbed him the wrong way

30:18

so he had to fire you.

30:20

Anyway, nevertheless... Hey. This gentleman... Whose

30:23

name is Marty, so he sounds about

30:25

as French as I do. But

30:28

maybe that's a fucking Americanization of his

30:30

name. But anyway,

30:33

he does say I am a fan from

30:35

France and listen to the podcast for a

30:37

couple of years now. I

30:39

write you today for your next review

30:41

of SmackDown and Backlash France and give

30:44

you unpetite

30:47

resume of what the

30:49

fuck the crowd in Lyon was

30:51

saying. Okay,

30:54

remember they were singing and they were chanting.

30:56

We're going to get to it later on

30:58

in the program when we talk about the

31:00

shows. But this is your Rosetta Stone here.

31:02

This is the key to the translation. So

31:06

now you'll be able to understand, right Brian?

31:08

Are you going to follow along with this?

31:10

Well, you'll be able to understand too. This

31:12

will be your Rosetta Stone as well, wouldn't

31:14

it? Well, I'm going to teach a fine

31:16

to you and all the listeners out there.

31:19

Teach a fine. Okay. Teach a fine. Marty,

31:23

our Frenchman in residence goes on

31:25

to say after every count, like

31:27

the referees count, they

31:30

were saying undo, simplement

31:34

do, which

31:36

means one, two, only two,

31:38

or simply two. It's

31:41

a catchphrase used

31:43

by Mansour Philippe

31:45

Chiraud and Mansour Christopher

31:48

Agis, the

31:50

two French commentators. Do you remember then they

31:52

saw you, they were at the French announce

31:54

table. They didn't have the Spanish announce table.

31:57

They had the French announce table and those were the.

32:00

Monsieur Philippe and Monsieur

32:02

Christopher. Well that's interesting.

32:04

So that crowd was actually chanting

32:06

what the commentators say on their

32:08

local feed of whatever they see.

32:11

Yeah, because

32:13

he goes on to say Marty here,

32:18

they commentate everything WWE

32:21

here in France for the past 25 years. This

32:25

chant was a big tribute for

32:27

them from the French fans because they

32:29

barely get acknowledged by the office and

32:32

the WWE for their work. And

32:34

if we the French fans are this passionate

32:36

it's because of them. So

32:39

apparently they're music teachers also. But

32:42

he says they do an amazing job to

32:44

keep the fans interested even when it's boring.

32:48

And then there was a big chant for AJ. And

32:51

Corey you know but you're super hearing you

32:53

probably just pick it right out of

32:56

the air. You know Matt, I can't tell

32:58

what they're saying when it's in English. But

33:00

apparently said the second big chant for

33:03

AJ was, it list

33:06

veramant, it list

33:08

veramant, it list veramant

33:10

phenomenal la la la la la. That

33:13

sounds exactly like what it was, yeah. Well

33:17

that means he truly is. He

33:19

truly is. He truly is phenomenal

33:21

la la la la la la. Apparently

33:25

la la la la la la is

33:29

the same in both ways. Maybe it's an

33:31

international or just a global language, the language

33:33

of la la la la la. But

33:36

you can't really translate la la la

33:38

la la from

33:40

French to English. It sounds the

33:43

same. But

33:45

did I pronounce all that right? I

33:48

mean right enough. Well

33:50

the backstory of this apparently, according to

33:53

Marty, is that it's

33:55

an old song, a one hit wonder

33:58

in France back in summer of 19- 1997,

34:00

that's an old song to Marty. My socks

34:03

are from 1997 I'm wearing right now. Anyway,

34:08

other chants, when

34:10

a heel was taking over they would say

34:15

Say it tight See

34:17

apostrophe. How do you do see apostrophe E

34:19

with a drop over it? I don't know,

34:22

say it tight? Say

34:24

you say? Is it just your

34:27

say so? Say

34:30

say what you want.

34:32

Don't play games with

34:35

my emotion. Say

34:37

it tight, which

34:39

means it was mean or

34:42

the variation Sayest

34:44

past gentle that was not

34:46

nice or that was nasty

34:50

So can you imagine people in

34:52

English chanting that was

34:55

not nice? And in

35:00

the French are so much more musical because

35:02

ours is just barked out like fucking marching

35:05

orders like we're a goddamn bunch of

35:07

Gestapo's But they're just singing

35:09

to singing their way to work. See

35:12

what scares me is wrestling fans sometimes copy

35:14

other wrestling fans I kind of like when

35:16

it's something unique to a specific area. You

35:18

know when you go to France The fans will

35:21

be singing and dancing at the second And

35:24

you know when you go to England they can all be chanting and

35:26

you know have a beer in the other hand and You

35:29

know if you go to America, they're gonna you know sit there

35:31

and intently watch Yes, and

35:33

and take pictures and send

35:35

notes with their phones And

35:39

fuck you JD apparently does not need

35:41

a translation and

35:44

then And

35:46

then also when the table was broken

35:48

they chanted AGS and chiraud for the

35:50

French announcers And

35:53

also for the street profits

35:56

on SmackDown They

35:58

chanted Les

36:00

Les Blues, which

36:02

apparently means, let's go the

36:05

blue ones. Les Blues, that was

36:07

Misty Blues Stables name in France.

36:09

The Les Blues, yes. It

36:12

had a big tour of all of the finer video

36:16

stores. But

36:19

apparently, that's a football reference,

36:22

let's go the blue ones. It's not

36:24

racial against the blue people. That's

36:27

a football reference because the French team

36:29

plays in blue. So

36:31

they say, Les Les Blues, let's go

36:33

the blue ones. You

36:37

know there were certain people in the mountains

36:39

of Eastern Kentucky and East Tennessee at one

36:41

time that their skin

36:44

turned blue because of inbreeding over

36:46

the generations. One

36:48

time in the locker room, I blew myself. Thank

36:52

you, Lanny, but we're not talking now about

36:54

your skin tone. I'm a genius, so glory

36:56

and renown. Woe myself. But

37:05

anyway, those are the translations of some

37:07

of these things that on

37:10

the shows we'll talk about later on. Good

37:13

heavens. Did you ever take any French

37:15

or give any French? No,

37:17

but my Spanish teacher for the two years before I

37:19

dropped it in high school was a Frenchman. Well,

37:23

that doesn't seem like that would be allowed.

37:26

Aren't they violating some kind of gimmick infringement

37:28

rules there? I really didn't like him. He

37:30

was a bad teacher. I don't know, he

37:32

was hard to get along with. And then

37:34

once I left his class, I really saw

37:36

him as a sympathetic sad character. And

37:38

I really started to feel bad for him. Well,

37:40

you're ashamed the way you treated him, huh? I

37:43

didn't treat him bad. I laughed the way other

37:45

people did. I laughed. I laughed

37:47

very well. I got kicked out for laughing a few times.

37:49

See? That's even worse, laughing

37:51

at the other man's misfortune. I'll tell

37:53

you, I always gave my teachers

37:56

respect. And I'll have you know that

37:59

every single one. of my teachers all

38:01

through school, they said it was amazing. I

38:03

was the only student they'd ever had. They

38:05

could not, they could not

38:07

teach me anything. Did

38:10

you take French? Oh,

38:13

I've taken a little French every time it

38:15

was offered. As part of a school, as

38:17

part of a curriculum. Well, now it was

38:19

in school too. It just depends on now.

38:22

It wasn't official. There was

38:24

no paperwork on this. Maybe

38:27

we better change the subject entirely.

38:31

Have

38:33

you been over to jimcoronet.com

38:35

lately, Brian, to see

38:37

the plethora and the amazing array of fine

38:40

collectibles and merchandise that we have for sale?

38:42

I always tell Suzanne, I'm like, you should

38:44

go there and check it out. It's just

38:46

such a plethora. It's a

38:49

plethora. It's all over the floor. And

38:51

I mean, there's action figures, not only

38:54

of my own lovely and personal self,

38:56

but also the Midnight Express,

38:58

the 4-pack, the individual Lane and Eaton

39:00

and Lane and Condries, the heavenly bodies

39:02

of Lane and Dr. Tom Pritchard, as

39:04

well as the Cornhead Face t-shirts, which

39:07

are iconic. You love that word, iconic.

39:10

Well, they're iconic. They can be coming to

39:12

you in an iconic fashion.

39:14

The United States Postal Service, if

39:16

you purchase one right now, the cheapest

39:18

daggard, I won't say cheap. That

39:21

implies a level

39:23

of fucking shoddy workmanship,

39:25

inexpensive, affordable, quality

39:28

merchandise, the DVDs, the books, the

39:30

magazines, the fingerprints,

39:32

so much more. Go

39:35

now to jimcoronet.com and send some money

39:37

and you will be rewarded soon with

39:40

things to hold and squeeze and

39:42

call George. However, I'm

39:45

also going to have some big news next week on

39:47

something that I've recently found out that is winging

39:49

its way to me that's going to be offered

39:51

to the fine folks this

39:55

summer for amazingly

39:57

low prices. More news on that next

39:59

week. have the bird flu. Oh,

40:02

come on now. I'll

40:04

have you know that my deal with Bernie Sanders

40:06

is I've let him have that nest if he

40:08

doesn't bother and he has not pooped on my

40:10

desk or any of my shelves one time. He's

40:14

a very neat bird. And

40:17

for those of you who don't know what I'm talking

40:19

about, I've had a bird move into a nest that

40:21

had built on top of my garage door opener in

40:23

the garage. And I'm thinking,

40:25

cause now I just, I go out there and talk to

40:27

it several times a day and we

40:29

look each other in the eye. I'm two feet from it,

40:32

faced a beak. And

40:35

he doesn't bother him at all. He

40:37

knows he's cool here. And

40:40

we have a casual conversation

40:43

and he's in there first thing in the morning. And then

40:46

I tell him good night. Good night, birdie. Good

40:49

night, Jim. He talks back to me.

40:53

And I'm hoping that there's some eggs

40:55

in the nest and we'll get the chirp, chirp, chirping,

40:57

and I'll be able to up close it. He doesn't

40:59

seem to be picking at his seed. I

41:02

guess he's going out to get the worms. We've had all

41:04

the rain. Would

41:06

you think if you were a bird, you'd

41:09

prefer dry seed or wet worms? I

41:13

think wet worms would be kind of

41:15

a delicacy, right? Well, and as

41:17

if, especially if he or she indeed is eating

41:20

for two or three or four or however many

41:22

there's going to be, then

41:25

maybe that's why they are

41:27

going out for the birds or for the worms for the

41:30

bird. Do they enjoy, do they have, I

41:33

don't know too much about birds and I know you're a bird

41:35

lawyer, so I'm asking you, do they really

41:37

enjoy what they eat? Do they enjoy taste? They just

41:39

throw shit in their mouth and gulp it down. Do

41:43

they have taste buds? Do they enjoy what

41:45

they're ingesting? Well, first

41:47

of all, I just defend them. I don't pass

41:50

judgment on their eating habits. So

41:54

just because I'm a small town bird

41:56

lawyer doesn't mean that I I'm a

41:58

bird nutritionist. However, would assume that it's

42:02

kind of a genetic thing that you

42:04

would enjoy the thing that you

42:06

need to consume

42:10

in order to remain alive, whatever that

42:12

food is. So they may not like

42:15

cheeseburgers and Reese's Peanut Butter

42:17

Cups like normal humans

42:19

do, but at

42:22

the same point, we wouldn't want to eat a

42:24

worm, but it works for them because

42:26

they probably don't have the

42:28

facilities, especially with all the modern

42:30

building codes related to these nests to put

42:32

a full kitchen in where they can be

42:35

frying burgers or,

42:37

you know, and then, if, where would you toast the

42:39

buns at a bird's nest? Over

42:43

a fire. Well, then why are

42:45

you, did you realize how much trouble that

42:47

would cause if you set a fire in

42:50

a bird's nest in order to

42:52

toast the buns to go on

42:54

their burgers that they don't eat because that's why

42:56

they eat worms because they don't have a

42:58

kitchen in their fucking nest? See,

43:01

why would you, why would you want me to feed

43:03

my bird a cheeseburger? Why would

43:05

you even bring that up and suggest that?

43:08

I remind you, we're talking about jimcoronet.com.

43:12

Well, we were, but I was done till you fucking

43:16

insinuated that I would be sending

43:18

people out bird feces somehow in

43:21

the, I'm not

43:23

insinuating anyway. And

43:25

besides that, I just signed the stuff here.

43:27

The feather bottoms are the ones that's shipping

43:29

it out. There's no birds at the feather

43:32

bottoms. Amazingly enough. Always

43:34

passing blame. Pass,

43:37

always passing gas. Speaking

43:41

of, see folks, it's this kind of shit

43:43

you're going to get when they work us

43:45

too hard. Um, what

43:48

was I gonna, oh, I was going to

43:50

mention, mention. Oh yeah. Yeah.

43:53

It's time for Jim's benchings here on

43:55

the show. Well,

43:58

I'm on a bench and. I

44:01

was going to mention this

44:04

past week's episode of

44:06

Dark Side of the Ring featuring

44:08

the Sandman because

44:11

I was going to bring up because we you

44:13

know last week I believe it was we talked

44:15

about the episode on Sherry Martell and they've

44:17

done episodes on Harley Race this season, Chris

44:20

Cold. By the way

44:22

the season finale coming up this

44:25

week probably Tuesday night, goddamn

44:28

maybe tomorrow maybe by the time you

44:30

hear this it will have aired. It's

44:32

gonna be Black Saturday but it's gonna be

44:34

rerun so jump in and catch it many

44:36

times I'm on it. Is that a one-part

44:39

or a two-part episode? That is I believe

44:41

it's just a one-part unfortunate. Oh okay for

44:43

some reason I thought it was gonna be

44:45

a two-parter. Well don't

44:48

take my word for it then now you've made

44:50

me doubt myself as mama cornet

44:52

would say but just continue and folks

44:55

continue watching Vice TV 10

44:57

o'clock Eastern time every

45:00

Tuesday night and until the

45:02

next season starts just to make sure you don't miss

45:04

anything. But nevertheless

45:06

the point is this last week

45:08

was Sandman and I'm

45:12

gonna in interest of full disclosure

45:14

I have met Sandman but do

45:16

not know Sandman. In

45:18

all honesty I was in the locker

45:21

room with him a few

45:23

times when he worked for Dennis Corluso in the

45:25

early 90s but when he was still

45:27

with the surfboard and then I've

45:29

been in a couple of the same places but

45:31

we've never sat down

45:33

and had any substantial

45:36

conversation and I

45:40

obviously I would think it would be a secret

45:42

no one I've never been a fan of his

45:45

work because it was what it was.

45:48

I don't like that

45:51

style of matches in general

45:53

and I'm not gonna come out here

45:55

and fucking nag it all this motherfucker because

45:57

I'm not mad at him personally or anything.

46:01

But I think this

46:03

episode kind of illustrated

46:05

what I

46:08

didn't like about ECW and what

46:10

I thought was wrong with ECW.

46:14

And not only from a business perspective

46:16

of what they were showing the fans

46:18

and the product that

46:21

they were presenting, but

46:23

the fun, what do the kids call it? The culture?

46:27

The operation of the business and

46:29

what was allowed, what was tolerated,

46:31

what was encouraged, what was that

46:33

then unfortunately

46:36

non-creative copycat

46:38

weak-minded people would simulate

46:40

and inseminate and copycat

46:43

and karaoke

46:45

and tribute act to death to

46:48

this day. And

46:51

I know a lot

46:53

of people are going, oh Paul presented, I'm

46:55

not saying Paulie in the genius, look at

46:58

that ragtag bunch of misfits that he mostly

47:00

had to work with and that he made

47:02

that much noise and didn't end

47:04

up more broke at the

47:06

end in bankruptcy court. It was amazing. And

47:08

I've always said Paul's a genius, had

47:11

creative, getting most out of the least

47:13

verbal fucking, he's

47:16

the fucking promo god right now.

47:20

But especially at that point in time

47:23

when he was that much younger, he had

47:25

no fucking restraint or

47:27

patience. It's why complete

47:32

dipshits like Russo who couldn't

47:35

swing on Paul's fucking

47:37

chin or either one

47:39

of them, but copied

47:41

his shit because it appealed to

47:45

shallow-minded people who wanted to see folks

47:47

bashing each other with shopping carts. Brian

47:51

is that an oversimplification or is that

47:53

kind of actually what

47:55

happened? Every mark that got into

47:57

business after Paul created this phenomenon

48:01

for basically a specific Northeastern

48:03

market, they

48:05

tried to copy it without understanding that

48:07

they weren't as good as he was

48:09

and it didn't even work

48:11

for him in the long run and

48:13

they couldn't fucking get off of it. Am

48:16

I overstating that?

48:18

Well for the record you've

48:21

never been a big ECW fan and I say that

48:23

as the person who in the 90s was sending you

48:25

ECW tapes. You were never a big ECW fan but

48:27

you always tried to keep up with it so you

48:29

understood what was happening. And you

48:32

know early on it

48:34

was a mesh of a lot of different

48:36

stuff. You

48:38

had Terry Funk, you had Shane Douglas

48:40

who when he first started doing those

48:43

promos people talked about him, you had Sabu

48:45

who was the Superman of

48:47

the Indies at that time. And

48:49

then you had different people that would come in for shows

48:51

but Paul started filling in with

48:54

the locals and the guys that he previously worked with

48:56

when he briefly worked with

48:58

the Sabaldys like Tommy Dreamer, like

49:00

Taz started getting these guys in

49:02

there figuring out a way to get

49:04

them who will all be local. Localish,

49:07

I mean if you're from New York I'm considering that

49:09

local for Philadelphia. Cheaper than

49:12

other talent. I mean ECW at that time under

49:14

Eddie Gilbert right before Paul took over,

49:16

they were using nothing against

49:19

these wrestlers but just if you try to think about

49:21

how much Todd Gordon was

49:23

spending, if it's Tommy

49:25

Dreamer, the Sandman, Taz,

49:27

Tommy Cairo, guys like that or

49:30

Don Morocco, Tito Santana, Jimmy

49:34

Snooka even. Guys that are gonna work a

49:36

half to 25% as hard

49:38

for twice as much plus a plane ticket.

49:41

Plus a plane ticket. And

49:43

I'm not gonna get into the quality of the work but it

49:46

was definitely time to do something different and the

49:48

Sandman was there, the surfer things lame and

49:51

he was really the first one. Him and

49:53

Public Enemy I would say were the first

49:55

two things under Paul Heyman that really took,

49:57

that were his creations. And

50:00

see, that's the thing is that

50:03

people who ECW

50:05

obviously still has its fans and I'm

50:07

not saying that all of it was

50:09

bad and I'm saying that Paul did

50:11

most of it better than anybody else

50:14

could have. What I am

50:16

saying is that while the people

50:18

who really want to defend it will

50:20

pull, well, Eddie Guerrero and Ray Mysterio

50:22

and Chris Benoit and Dean Malenkey, yes,

50:24

those were great

50:26

talents and he brought those guys and

50:28

exposed them to the modern audience or

50:32

to the United States audience. And

50:35

he used Terry Funk exceptionally

50:38

well and understood how to make

50:40

him a legend and his

50:43

work with that was impeccable. But

50:46

the problem is that

50:49

dim-witted dipshits superficial takeaway

50:51

from this one-of-a-kind

50:55

promotion that couldn't have worked

50:57

at that time anywhere else

50:59

but Philadelphia, New York, the

51:01

Northeast and actually

51:03

couldn't work anywhere on a mainstream

51:06

basis. The

51:09

takeaway from all of those people

51:11

is furniture and chairs and violence

51:13

and blood and barbed wire and

51:15

broken glass and set shit on

51:18

fire and cussing and pile-driving

51:20

women. Yeah, it was the stuff that you would

51:22

never have seen on any other wrestling show ever.

51:24

If you were trying to sell ECW to someone,

51:26

you're not going to show them respectfully. You're probably

51:28

not going to show them a Terry Funk match

51:31

with Shane Douglas. You're probably going to show them

51:33

a brawl around the arena with

51:35

tables and chairs and all sorts of stuff.

51:37

They're probably going to taboo to breaking tables.

51:40

Yes, and that's

51:42

why they couldn't get it on TV because

51:44

the TV stations didn't want that shit because

51:47

it was not only low-budget but it was

51:49

fucking iffy as far as are we going

51:51

to get complaints or in trouble. That's why

51:54

they were on sports channel Philadelphia or whatever

51:56

the fuck. What

51:58

Paul was doing was He

52:01

was, yes, it was an

52:03

underground thing and the grunge and the blah, blah,

52:05

blah. And

52:08

you got to admit, Paul, 30 years ago, it

52:10

was a little bit more excitable

52:13

and less reliable

52:15

in terms of his scheduling and where he was

52:18

going to be at what time and when than

52:21

he is now. But

52:23

he was trying to smoke and mirror the

52:26

thing until or if he could get either

52:28

the big pay-per-view deal that they would take

52:30

off from or whatever he was thinking. But

52:34

that's why he was paying six figures

52:36

to wrestlers when his

52:38

gate receipts for goddamn the

52:41

month were six figures. But

52:46

the point is, getting back to

52:48

the point I was trying to

52:50

make that Sandman's dark side of the ring drove

52:52

home was that

52:55

that's what everybody's taken away from when they chant

52:57

the ACW. It's because of tables, it's because of

53:00

furniture, it's because of all that shit. And

53:03

the people who were

53:07

fans of that type of thing in the 90s are

53:10

unfortunately the ones

53:14

that became wrestlers 10 and 15 years

53:16

later and think that

53:18

that's what the business has to have, which is

53:21

why we've never been able to fucking get rid

53:23

of it. And

53:25

I don't know now if we ever can get rid of

53:27

it and it will never

53:29

mean anything ever again but

53:32

at the same time it won't go away. And

53:36

go ahead. You know another thing too is

53:38

Paul Heyman, I'm not taking anything away from

53:40

him being a wrestling genius on multiple levels

53:42

he is. But

53:45

specifically during that period

53:47

with ECW, he had

53:49

revolutionary ideas, not

53:52

necessarily revolutionary arcs with conclusions.

53:56

And I think he's much

53:59

more of a genius now with what he's

54:02

doing than he was

54:04

then with ECW and that's not to take

54:06

away from again revolutionary. Well yeah

54:08

but it was 30 years ago and he's 30 years we

54:10

were all smarter now. I don't know

54:12

about you. Paul had great ideas things that people

54:14

would talk about but there was never like an

54:16

ending there was never anything that was a reasonable

54:19

conclusion to anything.

54:21

Well plus the thing is

54:23

with planning and or execute

54:27

it was all in his head

54:30

and he still did this 20 years

54:33

ago with with OVW when they banished

54:35

him and sent him down here after they banished me because

54:38

I wanted to be here so they didn't want me to

54:40

be and he didn't want to be here so they were

54:42

trying to run him off. But

54:44

he'd drive Danny Davis crazy because he'd just

54:47

come in with a

54:49

sheet with a list of the fucking matches. He

54:51

said we'll just shoot everything and we'll fucking put it

54:53

together like he used to with ECW and

54:56

he said motherfucker number

54:58

one we don't have that kind of fucking equipment number

55:00

two I'm not gonna stay here fucking seven o'clock. He

55:02

was Danny Davis was staying till seven

55:04

o'clock in the morning when I was booking we had

55:06

a finished TV show at 10.45 p.m. so there was

55:11

no prep if he had a good idea oh

55:13

yeah do that but there was no planning of

55:15

it so there was no paperwork

55:18

and there was no plan of where to

55:20

go from there and the dates of when

55:22

to meet such and such milestones and whatever.

55:26

But I guess that's the thing is that in

55:29

trying to make this underground

55:31

counterculture thing that could never

55:33

be on mainstream TV then

55:36

what you did was you inspired a bunch

55:38

of what Paul did was

55:41

inspire a bunch of mark-minded dumb

55:43

fucks whether wrestlers or potential bookers

55:45

writers whatever with

55:47

half or less of his ability to think

55:50

that well we'll just dumb this down and clean it

55:52

up and put it on national TV which is where

55:55

we got the

55:57

sanitized and homogenized WWF style

56:01

hardcore. And

56:03

ECW fans didn't like that because they didn't

56:05

go far enough, but it ruined the WWF

56:07

fans' expectations because now they think you got

56:10

to break a table in every big fucking

56:12

match. So

56:14

it didn't... It

56:16

was something that because with the

56:18

stars and personalities involved in the bigger

56:20

companies, yes, there

56:22

was some... The

56:25

taz's and the talent

56:28

that could legitimately

56:30

go somewhere else and did,

56:34

they were primarily the wrestling guys.

56:37

Sandman, the WWF

56:40

never wanted him except for the reunion

56:42

and he didn't fit there anyway because

56:44

that's another thing that this dark side

56:47

made me kind

56:49

of squeamish about is it

56:52

presented the idea that before

56:54

with Sherry, yes, she

56:56

was on pain

56:58

medication and had her demons

57:00

and everybody else had their demons, but they

57:02

were stars, they were on national television, they

57:04

made money at one point, whatever they did

57:06

with it up to them, they were someone.

57:09

Here you've got a guy that the whole

57:12

show was basically, well,

57:14

this fucking drunk guy that wasn't very responsible

57:16

in his private life decided he wanted to

57:18

be a wrestler and he ran

57:20

into a goddamn promotion where the promoter would let

57:23

him do any fucking thing he wanted and

57:26

that's how he got over, but he

57:28

could never work anywhere else because he

57:30

wasn't really a fucking wrestler, he had a great entrance

57:32

and he bashed people over the head with shit while

57:34

he was drunk. Was

57:37

that the summation of this goddamn show

57:39

in an hour? In

57:42

not as many words, but yes. Yes,

57:46

and that, you

57:48

know, and I'm just

57:51

saying, doesn't that make the wrestling business

57:53

look kind of sketchy?

57:57

And Todd Gordon, what is dark side of

57:59

the ring? if there was ever a show

58:01

to make wrestling look sketchy. Well, no, but

58:03

I mean the whole business or at least

58:06

these people's business, that's what the whole ECW

58:08

thing and the culture that it fostered or

58:10

the backstage thing. They,

58:12

and Paul was not taking any of them

58:14

bumps through the fucking furniture. I've

58:17

taken a few bumps through fucking furniture,

58:21

but only when necessary

58:24

and not off the fucking roof. And

58:28

I tried to never ask anybody to do anything

58:30

that I wouldn't do or couldn't do if I

58:32

could do it. I can't do a standing drop

58:34

kick, blow me. But

58:38

he was telling these guys to fucking do

58:40

this shit and the scaffolds and the barbed

58:43

wire and the hanging shit and

58:45

everybody in the locker rooms on paint

58:47

pills, everybody's on fucking drugs and

58:50

Todd Gordon, the money

58:52

man, the fat jowled senior citizen that

58:54

he is now said,

58:57

if you passed a piss test, you

58:59

couldn't work for us because

59:01

we were all doing it. I

59:05

didn't think that ECW was particularly that good

59:07

for the fucking appearance of goddamn wrestling when

59:09

it was happening because all this shit was

59:12

happening. And in

59:14

hindsight, with all the people

59:16

that have had body parts replaced or need

59:20

something replaced or

59:23

they've had substance abuse issues

59:25

of some kind or their careers

59:27

came to premature

59:29

ends or they faded

59:33

into obscurity because of cognitive issues

59:35

or combinations of all those things,

59:39

was it fucking worth it for that? What

59:42

the fuck? Everybody, when Smoky

59:44

Bad Wrestling went out of business, I paid

59:46

the boys, stiffed a

59:49

couple of radio stations and a TV

59:51

station, and nobody had

59:53

brain damage or a goddamn substance abuse

59:55

issue that they didn't have when they

59:57

started working there. That's

1:00:01

all I'm saying. That

1:00:04

is what you're saying. This is the review of the

1:00:06

same. Any thoughts on his career or any of the

1:00:08

interviews? This is it, yes. No, that's my thoughts on

1:00:10

all. I'm not anything personal

1:00:12

with this guy, but he's

1:00:14

fucking irresponsible, fucking drunk that got into wrestling

1:00:16

business. And Paul said, I don't give a

1:00:18

fuck what you do. And

1:00:21

he gets over with a great entrance with music that

1:00:23

they didn't pay for by going

1:00:26

out there drunk and bashing himself over

1:00:29

the head with a beer

1:00:31

can until he bleeds and then having

1:00:33

garbage indie matches, bashing people with shit

1:00:35

and getting bashed with shit. There's

1:00:37

no talent to that and that's what so

1:00:40

many of these fucking dipshits have

1:00:42

goddamn taken away

1:00:44

that think that that's what wrestling is,

1:00:46

that it insults me on a

1:00:49

deeply personal basis. So

1:00:52

that's my view on the

1:00:54

Sandman's career. Wrestling is

1:00:56

bad taste and good taste and ECW

1:00:58

was bad taste and bad taste. Remember

1:01:02

you might have seen some of the OVW

1:01:04

shows for about six months. I had, I

1:01:06

think between 2000 and 2001, I had an OVW

1:01:08

hardcore title because everybody else was

1:01:13

doing it. All right.

1:01:17

So we'll do the cause Flash Flanagan. He

1:01:20

was wonderful at those kind of matches and I

1:01:22

was trying to give him

1:01:24

something at first and then later I'll BJ paint

1:01:26

a few guys. But

1:01:30

to be honest, yes, you could flip the table

1:01:32

in and nobody was

1:01:34

going crazy with barbed wire and it was

1:01:37

still Kentucky with the commission. We couldn't do

1:01:40

blood but

1:01:42

we'd break a table every once in a while or

1:01:44

the guy would get hit with a chair, we'd do

1:01:46

the garbage can or whatever. And

1:01:49

they could do the fire extinguisher spot.

1:01:53

But then after a while I was looking

1:01:55

at the TV one night and there's garbage laying

1:01:58

in the ring like on every other one.

1:02:00

of these horseshit wrestling shows

1:02:02

that were on national

1:02:05

television that I was trying to not

1:02:07

be like. And I say,

1:02:09

you know what? I don't want to see that picture of

1:02:11

a bunch of garbage laying in my fucking ring on my

1:02:13

TV. And I sent

1:02:15

out a memo to the boys saying we're

1:02:17

abolishing the hardcore title because I don't

1:02:19

want to see a bunch of garbage laying in my ring on

1:02:22

my TV. So

1:02:24

everybody's got to go back to learning how to not

1:02:26

break the rules. And

1:02:29

every once in a while we'd still book a gimmick

1:02:31

match or whatever the fuck, but it

1:02:33

just, it's too much. It's too much.

1:02:38

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1:02:41

too much for me. Maybe I should start a store.

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You know, Brian, that is very true

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because if some of these hardcore wrestlers

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had just thought ahead, instead of damaging

1:02:52

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1:02:54

brain cells and breaking their body

1:02:56

parts until they look like slinkies

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they should have opened a store. They should have

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1:07:03

per day, except in February where it'd be

1:07:05

a little more expensive, but then again, I still

1:07:08

don't think it's going to break your fucking

1:07:10

budget. So once you're going to make

1:07:12

a ton of money, you get, you're

1:07:14

going to make, if you are going

1:07:16

to make more money than people selling pussy

1:07:18

on a troop train. If you go right

1:07:20

now to shopify.com, they're going to make you

1:07:23

big bucks.

1:07:28

That's right. Big bucks from

1:07:30

Shopify. And those

1:07:32

aren't the counterfeit bucks either. All

1:07:35

right. Well, Brian, before we go any further, I

1:07:37

know that you have been, uh, you've

1:07:40

been on the social media and

1:07:42

antisocial media beat for Arcadian

1:07:45

Vanguard and the programs here, we we've

1:07:47

got. Wrestling related

1:07:49

personalities in the news, giving

1:07:51

their views. Uh,

1:07:53

making some stirring comments about

1:07:56

things. Uh, let's, let's gather

1:07:58

those up into one segment here. Well,

1:08:01

let's talk about some of the things happening on social

1:08:03

media because a lot of the listeners have been sending

1:08:05

these in and of course trying to post them on

1:08:08

the official Cult of Cornette Facebook page. If

1:08:10

we don't approve your post but

1:08:12

the post is up that

1:08:15

you wanted to talk about, don't

1:08:17

argue about why we didn't approve your posts

1:08:20

or I was there first. We approved

1:08:22

one that covered the issue so that

1:08:24

the conversation could start. Talk about

1:08:27

it. Start

1:08:29

again, right? It's not about you. That's

1:08:31

the point. But now a

1:08:33

lot of people are going to say, when are we going

1:08:35

to get into the fucking Facebook page? We're still doing that,

1:08:37

right? Oh yeah, a lot more people have gotten in. We're

1:08:40

now at 13.6 thousand members and... How

1:08:44

many is waiting? Several tens of thousands.

1:08:49

Well, yeah. I mean, but

1:08:51

we're going through it and today could

1:08:53

be your lucky day. Jim, on

1:08:56

social media things are happening. People are letting us

1:08:58

know about it. I guess

1:09:00

they're doing a match between Seamus and Gunther

1:09:03

coming up. Have you seen this? I'm

1:09:05

looking forward to that. That should be

1:09:07

a banger or a burger or a

1:09:09

burgermeister. See, that way

1:09:12

Seamus is kind of meeting in the middle there

1:09:14

because he was known for the bangers and then

1:09:16

Drew said he was known for burgers and now

1:09:19

he's fighting a man who in another

1:09:21

life could have been a burgermeister. Well

1:09:24

Seamus apparently tweeted out and then immediately,

1:09:26

or I say immediately 10 minutes later

1:09:28

or so deleted it. Uh-oh.

1:09:31

1247 PM on the 5th of May, 2024. Sounds

1:09:34

classy when you say it like that. The 5th of May, 2024.

1:09:39

Seamus tweeted out at WWE Seamus,

1:09:42

Hmmmm. An

1:09:45

Austrian man with a funny

1:09:47

haircut has a thing from

1:09:49

military style coats proclaims

1:09:51

superiority over others, hangs

1:09:54

out with Germans, and

1:09:56

betrays his Italian ally. with

1:10:01

an emoji that's kind of disgruntled with one eyebrow up.

1:10:03

I don't know what you call it here, but... Now,

1:10:07

the real Gunther has not commented, although

1:10:09

a fake Gunther Twitter account did comment.

1:10:11

Wait a minute, there's a fake Gunther?

1:10:13

Well, apparently, because a lot of people

1:10:15

thought it was real, not realizing... I

1:10:18

might have been going to say the name, but it's

1:10:20

not the real Gunther, but they replied, what the fuck?

1:10:27

So, an interesting tweet

1:10:29

that was up and then down from Seamus,

1:10:31

what are your thoughts? Yeah, well, I mean,

1:10:34

where is he? He's from... is he Scottish

1:10:36

or is he Irish? Irish.

1:10:39

He's Irish. Well, they've had their

1:10:42

own... I think, right? ...shet-toes and

1:10:44

conflicts or whatever over there, he's

1:10:46

not that old. He...

1:10:49

so maybe he doesn't realize that, well, you

1:10:51

know, it's probably... I don't

1:10:53

know, is it different when you compare people

1:10:55

to Hitler in foreign countries than the

1:10:58

way it's taken over here in

1:11:00

the United States or potentially in Germany? Well,

1:11:03

let's not forget that when Gunther was first called

1:11:05

up, when Walter was first called up to the

1:11:07

main roster, the name

1:11:09

Gunther was only part of it.

1:11:11

He was given the name of an actual U-boat

1:11:14

captain or something. Yeah, well, they gave him... there

1:11:17

was plausible deniability. They gave him

1:11:19

a real German sounding name and

1:11:21

then some intrepid researcher

1:11:23

found out that was the name

1:11:25

of a legitimate real-life German Nazi

1:11:27

U-boat captain, but with Vince, you

1:11:29

never know. They gave him some

1:11:31

name and then they found out

1:11:33

by coincidence, it was Vince's favorite

1:11:35

Nazi. Yeah, that's the thing with

1:11:38

Vince, you never know, depending

1:11:42

on what he's been watching on television. So,

1:11:46

but again, I'm just... I'm trying to give

1:11:48

this guy an old Seamus. I'm trying to

1:11:50

give him an out. Here is it. Did

1:11:53

Hitler not have as much heat

1:11:56

in fucking Ireland? I don't know,

1:11:58

but otherwise that's probably... something

1:12:00

the office said, yeah, don't do this

1:12:02

anymore and take that down right now,

1:12:04

please. See, I like the fake Gunther's

1:12:07

reply because I think that's what the real

1:12:09

Gunther would probably say to him. What the

1:12:11

fuck? No, he would have said, what the

1:12:14

ficca? What the ficca?

1:12:16

You're not helping either. You see, you're not helping at

1:12:18

all either. Or is it fic-ish? I'm

1:12:21

saying, is it German I have an

1:12:23

affinity for? Are we going

1:12:26

to see that other guy from Imperium again,

1:12:28

you think? I forget what you, Vinci? I

1:12:30

guess the Italian one. Leonardo da Vinci. Um,

1:12:33

I mean, I think he still works there.

1:12:35

I would assume that he'll be doing a

1:12:37

plethora of jobs on the way out. Oh,

1:12:40

he's never done a promo. He just stands there when the

1:12:42

other guy does some promo. Now he's on his own. Why

1:12:46

was the Italian guy in the German

1:12:49

group anyway? Couldn't

1:12:51

they have given him a German name and

1:12:53

say you're German now. I can be German.

1:12:55

I can be Russian. I can, whatever. I

1:12:58

don't know. Maybe Seamus has a point. Is that what you're saying?

1:13:01

Well, if he combs his hair right,

1:13:03

nobody will notice, but I'm

1:13:06

just saying that he was

1:13:08

probably ill-advised to tweet that.

1:13:11

But at the same time, you know,

1:13:13

you've got the guy named Vinci and the crew

1:13:16

with the Germans, you would have to think it's

1:13:18

sooner or later he was going to get turned

1:13:20

on. Well, there it is.

1:13:22

That's the social media activity of social

1:13:25

studies major Seamus. And

1:13:28

then Fay Gunther who says, what

1:13:30

the fuck? Jim,

1:13:33

also on social media right

1:13:35

now, well, this is an interesting one. Remember

1:13:38

Harley Cameron from AEW, the

1:13:40

blonde who was, well, I

1:13:42

dropped my pen and I don't know

1:13:45

why, the blonde who was a member of

1:13:47

QTV. Oh, the

1:13:49

QTV girl that did nothing and stood

1:13:51

around a lot. Well, she posted

1:13:53

a photo on social media, her in

1:13:56

a very revealing, outfit,

1:13:58

a very short. tank top

1:14:02

Lots of under boob What

1:14:04

a way to admit it now Is

1:14:07

that is that something you can

1:14:09

just say just right here on the on

1:14:11

the broadcast without being censored under boob? Isn't

1:14:13

that suggestive if she can show the under

1:14:16

boob I could say the under boob, but

1:14:18

she tweeted out thinking about How

1:14:21

I'm actually the better

1:14:23

representation for hashtag hot

1:14:26

girl grasps Simp

1:14:28

for me Mariah May and

1:14:31

a few emojis there. So she sent this to

1:14:33

Mariah. Okay Maybe

1:14:36

you're gonna have to read it slower Maybe

1:14:39

I'd need to be younger What

1:14:42

the flying french-frad titty fuck under

1:14:44

boob is she talking about? Thinking

1:14:48

about how I'm the better representation for hot

1:14:50

girl grasps. That's a hashtag. I guess maybe

1:14:52

that was a movement for

1:14:56

Hot girls who grapple. I'm not

1:14:58

exactly sure. Hey, my first guess

1:15:00

simp for me at

1:15:04

Mariah May so she wants either

1:15:07

she tagging Mariah made a simp for her or

1:15:11

She's telling the fans to simp for her once Mariah

1:15:13

made a C or she's a fan of

1:15:15

Mike Simp or Vivi I don't I don't know Well,

1:15:18

or where she got sympathy One way

1:15:21

or the other for the devil. Um, well

1:15:24

Mariah May responded by retweeting Mariah actually understood

1:15:26

that enough to where she could come back

1:15:28

at it Mariah May responded

1:15:30

to the tweet with the image saying

1:15:32

that Harley Cameron is the better representation

1:15:34

for hot girl grasps You

1:15:39

your look is more hot girl So

1:15:53

wrestling's on fire on social media Jimmy

1:15:55

asking people ever get tired of wrestling

1:15:57

with this kind of activity on social

1:16:01

So,

1:16:05

Maria May wouldn't have been playing around

1:16:08

there with that. So are we to

1:16:10

be led to believe that it is

1:16:12

a well-known situation

1:16:15

in the locker room that if the

1:16:17

Lincoln Tunnel has ever been closed for

1:16:19

repairs, they can use Harley as a

1:16:22

replacement? I

1:16:24

don't know. I mean, this is a very interesting way

1:16:26

to build up to what

1:16:29

may one day be quarter

1:16:31

four on Rampage. I'm not

1:16:34

exactly sure what they're working for here.

1:16:37

They can aspire to be the

1:16:41

main event on

1:16:43

Friday Night Rampage. Well, they're

1:16:46

gaping and they're grappling over there in

1:16:48

the AEW women's roster. What else is

1:16:51

going on? Well,

1:16:53

Jim, there's a few other things going on.

1:16:55

Also on social media, we heard

1:16:57

from Powerhouse Hobbs. It

1:17:00

says here, the Monstar Powerhouse

1:17:03

Hobbs at

1:17:05

True Willy Hobbs on Twitter. Okay,

1:17:08

there's a lot of branding going on

1:17:10

all over the place. We

1:17:14

like Powerhouse Hobbs. Yes. That

1:17:17

sounds good. What about the Monstar

1:17:19

instead of Monster Monstar? I'm not

1:17:21

sure about the Monstar Powerhouse Hobbs

1:17:23

because Powerhouse is already kind of

1:17:25

a nom de plume. So

1:17:28

one would think that that might be putting a hat

1:17:30

on a hat and then True Willy

1:17:32

Hobbs. Even Willy is

1:17:34

named as Willy Powerhouse Hobbs but why does

1:17:36

True have to be in there? He's

1:17:40

true to himself. That's all it counts. A

1:17:42

lot of branding. He likes Spandau Ballet maybe.

1:17:45

Well, this thing is true. Alright,

1:17:48

well here's what he tweeted out. Not

1:17:52

sure what to say. Injuries

1:17:54

happen and we deal with them. We

1:17:57

recalibrate. We rebuild.

1:18:00

We reinvent. The

1:18:02

real test is to come back. I've

1:18:05

been told I'll come back like nothing ever

1:18:07

happened. So? Why

1:18:10

do I feel so angry right now? Why

1:18:13

do I feel so disappointed? Because

1:18:15

I had to hurt myself in

1:18:17

a match with a fucking balding

1:18:19

buggy whip-armed sunken-chested drunken white boy

1:18:21

that couldn't fucking shine my shoes.

1:18:24

It's because that's all bullshit. Nobody

1:18:27

comes back the same after any

1:18:29

injury. The only choice is

1:18:32

to come back better. As

1:18:34

I sit here on this island of darkness, I

1:18:37

have thousands of questions running through

1:18:39

my mind non-stop. The

1:18:42

doctors tell me not to worry. Just

1:18:44

heal and recover. They

1:18:48

have no idea that this is nothing

1:18:50

compared to the hell I've been through.

1:18:53

Just rest assured, when I come

1:18:56

back, that I'm bringing

1:18:58

hell with me. Signed,

1:19:01

Will Hobson. Well,

1:19:03

where in the hell? He's got another name! That's the

1:19:05

fourth name. That's the fourth

1:19:08

name! God damn it! Well,

1:19:13

you can call him Will, or you can

1:19:15

call him Bill. Okay.

1:19:20

I feel so bad and now he's hurt. I

1:19:22

mean, it's not like we're going to be

1:19:24

deprived of a lot of great

1:19:27

powerhouse Hobbs matches because we never get

1:19:29

seen on TV. And

1:19:33

when we do, he's getting the shit kicked out

1:19:35

of him most of the time, and he's one

1:19:37

of the flunkies in his group instead

1:19:40

of being featured. But I hate that

1:19:42

he's hurt, but that's

1:19:44

dramatic, but he's psyching himself up.

1:19:49

But remember back in the days when

1:19:51

a guy got hurt and he just went

1:19:53

home and had his surgery or recuperated and

1:19:56

got better and then came back and got

1:19:58

a big introduction? Instead

1:20:00

of the, the Sayonara scenario where

1:20:02

you've got to make a statement

1:20:04

about, well, I'm

1:20:07

hurt. I don't know. What do

1:20:09

you think? Well, I guess that's the question is, do

1:20:12

you have an issue with him doing it again, different

1:20:14

times, different technology and everything, but also the fact that

1:20:16

other people do it, does that take away? I

1:20:19

guess it doesn't, I mean, it's this real emotion obviously

1:20:21

coming through here. We signed his real name. He had

1:20:24

four options. Again,

1:20:30

you know, it depends

1:20:33

on, it depends

1:20:36

on what your spot is, how you're being

1:20:38

used. He probably wanted to say

1:20:41

something because we don't hear anything about it

1:20:43

on TV. Traditionally in not

1:20:46

only the territories, but in WWF

1:20:48

and WWE and modern times, if

1:20:51

somebody that was being featured on

1:20:54

a regular basis got hurt, you'd hear about it,

1:20:56

you would be informed of it on the television

1:20:58

program. Of course,

1:21:00

since nobody has regularly featured in AEW

1:21:02

and so many people get hurt, they'd

1:21:05

have to have a goddamn, you

1:21:07

know, 10 minute segment in the middle of the

1:21:09

show to bring everybody up to date. But so

1:21:12

I guess they have to make their statements now.

1:21:14

But if I

1:21:17

was a talent when wrestling made sense

1:21:20

and I got hurt before

1:21:23

I said anything in public, I would talk to

1:21:25

the Booker and find out, Hey, you're going to

1:21:27

bring me back when I'm ready. B,

1:21:31

so and so I may have been hurt in a match

1:21:33

with them, but who do you want to blame? Do we

1:21:35

need to do an angle with somebody I might be able

1:21:37

to draw money better with and blame them, that type of

1:21:39

thing. And then,

1:21:41

and then go from there and know what to say and

1:21:43

know what we're going to do when we come back. But

1:21:45

that doesn't happen

1:21:47

these days because nobody

1:21:50

thinks that far ahead. Nobody cares

1:21:53

whether they can draw money with a different person

1:21:55

because they're all getting paid guaranteed money and big.

1:22:00

biggest problem of all is,

1:22:04

you know, nobody's going to be able to

1:22:06

figure out by the time you come back

1:22:08

and you pass all the protocols and all

1:22:10

the medical examinations and everything, it's twice as

1:22:12

long as an injury recuperation used to be,

1:22:15

unless they're rushing you back for the main event

1:22:17

at WrestleMania. So

1:22:20

it's one of those things. Well,

1:22:23

get well soon, Powerhouse Hobbs,

1:22:25

Will Hobbs, Monstar. He's

1:22:28

true. Will Hobson, true Willy

1:22:30

Hobbs. We'll see what he comes

1:22:32

back as and where. Maybe they'll be on true TV

1:22:35

when he comes back. You never know. Jim,

1:22:37

a few more things

1:22:39

happening. Some WWE comings and

1:22:41

goings that are being reported on social

1:22:44

media. This

1:22:46

one's getting a lot of buzz to the point

1:22:48

where Kevin Steen is trending. Please,

1:22:51

they let him go? WrestleTalk

1:22:54

has a tweet here. Kevin Owens has revealed

1:22:56

he has nine months left on his current

1:22:58

WWE contract, but has no

1:23:01

plans to leave WWE on his

1:23:03

own accord. That's a quote. Here's

1:23:05

another one. This has been

1:23:08

my home for 10 years and it's

1:23:10

beyond the locker room. There are

1:23:12

some very, very, very special people that

1:23:14

work behind the scenes that I've

1:23:16

become close with and I really

1:23:19

can't imagine not seeing them as

1:23:21

part of my life. And

1:23:23

I really can't imagine anywhere else in the world

1:23:25

it would pay me even a remotely fraction of

1:23:27

the money that they're paying me right now besides

1:23:29

AEW where in I might be able to play

1:23:32

with more of my friends, but I would be

1:23:34

at the mercy of the fucking lunatic running the

1:23:36

asylum. Well, it's interesting too.

1:23:38

The first quote was no plans to leave

1:23:40

on my own accord. Well,

1:23:43

that's just a kind of

1:23:45

a flowery way of saying, ah, they're going to

1:23:47

have to run me off or kick me out

1:23:49

or whatever. No, it's not like I

1:23:52

don't think they are trying to run

1:23:54

him off nor do I think that he would

1:23:56

think about leaving to go anywhere with the position

1:23:58

he's got in the. biggest company in the

1:24:00

world. But I think that's

1:24:03

just a matter of semantics. I don't think

1:24:05

he's trying to insinuate there's some

1:24:07

kind of conspiracy theory to get him out

1:24:09

of there. And the other thing too, is

1:24:11

if he was going to jump to AEW, he would have done it

1:24:13

a couple of years ago when Vince had to resign him and

1:24:16

things were a lot more rosy in AEW

1:24:18

than they are now. Yeah. And

1:24:20

things were a lot more fucking

1:24:23

prolapsed in the WWE than they are

1:24:25

now. If he,

1:24:27

if he resigned to work for Vince McMahon,

1:24:29

he'll, I'm sure be happy to work for

1:24:32

the variety of people that are there now.

1:24:36

Jim, this next one is getting a lot

1:24:38

of buzz and specifically listeners are asking for

1:24:40

your thoughts on this because

1:24:43

of the connection. I have an article

1:24:45

here in the New York Post by Ryan

1:24:47

Glassbeagle. Jerry,

1:24:50

the King Lawler out as

1:24:53

WWE commentator after three decades.

1:24:56

Jerry, the King Lawler's reign

1:24:59

has come to an end.

1:25:01

What the fuck? The Post has

1:25:03

confirmed that WWE did not renew

1:25:05

Lawler's broadcasting contract. However,

1:25:09

contrary to the tenor of reports

1:25:11

in the wrestling space, a

1:25:14

source said that Lawler 74

1:25:17

remains on a legends deal with the

1:25:19

company. Lawler first

1:25:21

joined WWE as a color commentator on superstars

1:25:24

in 1992 and would

1:25:27

mostly remain in that role working

1:25:30

the flagship shows, Raw or Smackdown, as

1:25:32

well as pay-per-views until 2016. His

1:25:37

partnership with play-by-play broadcaster Jim Ross

1:25:40

during the fabled Attitude Era

1:25:43

formed the soundtrack of countless memorable

1:25:45

moments in pro-wrestling

1:25:47

lore. It

1:25:50

goes into a little bit of his medical history there, but

1:25:52

let me stop there, get your thoughts on this, Jim. Well,

1:25:55

it's insane that, like

1:25:58

the end of an era. I

1:26:01

love Lawler. I was a Lawler fan

1:26:03

from the time I started watching wrestling. I'm

1:26:05

not saying anything detrimental

1:26:07

to him, but

1:26:09

why are people thinking this is the

1:26:11

end? How long has it been since

1:26:13

he regularly did color commentary on any

1:26:16

of the major programs to begin with?

1:26:20

Do you know off the top of your head? It says here

1:26:22

in the article he's away from the company for about nine months

1:26:24

in 2001, of course, but he

1:26:26

also returned for a stretch between

1:26:28

2019 and 2020, right before the pandemic. Yeah,

1:26:34

so that's been four years and we're

1:26:36

talking about a 74-year-old man and I'm

1:26:39

62, so I'm

1:26:41

not like being ageist. He's

1:26:44

had a stroke. He's

1:26:47

recovering from that

1:26:49

and I read somewhere he

1:26:51

just had I think a knee replacement. So

1:26:54

the point is he's still under a

1:26:56

legends deal because he is a legend

1:26:59

and also you're not going to see Jerry Lawler

1:27:01

on a dark

1:27:03

side of the ring for lack of funds,

1:27:06

for not saving his money. He's got more

1:27:08

money in the federal government. He

1:27:11

enjoys being Jerry Lawler and

1:27:13

being a personality, being a wrestler and being

1:27:16

an artist of whatever, but at

1:27:18

this point, people

1:27:21

are treating it like they've kicked him out

1:27:23

in the street. He has no place to

1:27:25

go and nobody to support him and help

1:27:27

him. What the fuck? He's a

1:27:31

rich man in his middle 70s

1:27:33

who because of his health

1:27:35

has had to slow down. So why would

1:27:38

they resign him to another

1:27:40

announcing deal? And

1:27:43

instead of, okay, Jerry, you're in a

1:27:46

legends deal. They've done DVDs. I'm sure

1:27:48

he'll guest on something.

1:27:52

And he feels like at the time is right. He

1:27:54

was back, I think they're live at least for the

1:27:56

crowd the last time they were in Memphis. they've

1:28:00

not like the new ownership has

1:28:02

not said, well let's get rid of

1:28:04

this motherfucker, kick him out in the street. We

1:28:07

don't care he's got nowhere to go, it's just you're

1:28:09

not renewing a

1:28:11

contract of a band that's as

1:28:14

close to fucking 80 practically as

1:28:16

he is to 70 and probably doesn't have

1:28:18

any plans to do announcing in the near

1:28:20

future. How is that newsworthy?

1:28:27

Well again, people see it as Jerry Law or

1:28:29

fired or something but again he can't

1:28:31

do the modern commentary

1:28:34

style. Most people can't. You have to yell a lot.

1:28:36

He's an older guy, he may not

1:28:38

have the vocal strength that he used

1:28:40

to and if you're not going to use

1:28:42

him in that role then he's not a commentator.

1:28:44

If he's not a commentator doesn't need a

1:28:46

commentator's contract, doesn't mean the relationship ends. A

1:28:50

Legends deal, we hear different things about them. What

1:28:52

would that exactly include? That means

1:28:55

like they would make action figures or t-shirts with

1:28:57

them? Well with some

1:29:00

guys and I don't have one

1:29:02

because I've never

1:29:04

intended to sign one. Remember I've been on that

1:29:07

no contract thing for about the last 10 years.

1:29:09

You would have lost money if you signed one.

1:29:11

Well and that's another thing because if

1:29:13

guys are not set up to

1:29:16

do their own merchandise, exploit their

1:29:18

own intellectual property and

1:29:20

they're retired, the Legends contracts, they

1:29:22

are eligible to get action

1:29:25

figures or have merchandise done or whatever.

1:29:28

With Lawler I would think it might even

1:29:30

be more extensive in terms of appearances

1:29:33

if and when he does

1:29:36

them or feels like it or some

1:29:39

appearances on some of these pregame shows

1:29:42

or whatever or I

1:29:44

don't know. But the

1:29:46

point is it's not like and he's still going

1:29:48

to have whatever royalties he's

1:29:50

been receiving from what he's done in

1:29:52

the past that's been eligible for royalties

1:29:55

for. So it's not like they're just

1:29:57

cutting him off, fired him, kicking him

1:29:59

out. you, we don't want you around anymore.

1:30:02

But ever, there comes a point in everybody's,

1:30:04

this is what I've been talking about with

1:30:07

when I say I'm amazed that Paul Heyman wants

1:30:09

to go to France and fucking Saudi Arabia and

1:30:11

all that shit at his age or anybody my

1:30:13

age wants to go anywhere at

1:30:16

some point, any business

1:30:19

is not going to renew even

1:30:21

their CEO, if

1:30:23

he's fucking 74 and

1:30:27

you know, he's on oatmeal or whatever.

1:30:29

I don't know. So

1:30:31

it's not like that this is a guy who was just

1:30:35

very recently on regularly featured

1:30:37

on television, still intends to

1:30:39

be in the business and on a full

1:30:42

or even part-time basis and needs it as

1:30:45

a form of to make a living. You

1:30:49

know, King deserves put his

1:30:51

feet up at this point and watch the

1:30:53

Browns or whatever. Would you

1:30:55

hear this line in a classic newspaper?

1:30:58

Lawler made his bones as a wrestler

1:31:00

in the Memphis territory. That's

1:31:03

right. That's right out of the

1:31:05

classic 40s sports writer playbook. Well,

1:31:08

that's the comings and goings news or whatever

1:31:10

you want to call that. But Jim, there

1:31:13

are a couple of things here that a lot of

1:31:15

listeners have been sending in both having to deal with

1:31:17

Rick flair. I don't

1:31:19

know how much of this you've seen. I

1:31:23

got up this morning and I've been out

1:31:25

twice before we started recording, but in the

1:31:28

middle of that, I saw that he's had

1:31:30

an issue with pizza people. That's pretty much

1:31:32

what I know so far. Well,

1:31:36

Jim, yesterday, as we are recording May 5th, 2024, 4 43

1:31:38

p.m., Rick Flair tweeted

1:31:41

out every word

1:31:43

beginning with a capitalization.

1:31:46

Is that something you have to do on

1:31:48

purpose to make it do that? Or is

1:31:50

that something that pops up accidentally because it

1:31:53

doesn't make sense that you would do that

1:31:56

on purpose? That is absolutely

1:31:58

not the default. You

1:32:00

have to choose that. See, I don't know how to

1:32:02

text but I wouldn't text like

1:32:04

that. Why is that done? Does

1:32:06

that have some meaning with the young folks?

1:32:08

I'm not sure why it's done and well,

1:32:10

maybe this will explain some of it. Let's

1:32:12

go to this tweet here from Rick Flair

1:32:15

at Rick Flair, N-A-T-R boy

1:32:17

on Twitter. I

1:32:20

spent $1,500 at Paisanos. Wow!

1:32:27

I was at pizza with goddamn

1:32:29

filet mignon topping. How

1:32:31

much pizza? I

1:32:34

eat a lot of pizza. I'd

1:32:38

have spent $1,500 at the pizza place. That's

1:32:42

a shitload of pizza. I

1:32:46

don't know if me, Joey Chestnut

1:32:48

and fucking... You

1:32:51

both could... All three of us could eat

1:32:53

that much pizza. I spent $1,500 at

1:32:56

Paisanos to be

1:32:58

disrespected more than I

1:33:00

ever have in my entire life. Jesus

1:33:04

Christ. After taking 20

1:33:06

pictures with customers and

1:33:08

staff, I was asked to

1:33:11

leave because of an issue I had.

1:33:13

What? Wait, what? Hold

1:33:16

on, wait a minute. 20 people

1:33:18

came up and said, please take your picture with us, please.

1:33:20

And then they... Now please get the fuck out

1:33:22

of here. What? What? What

1:33:26

are you... I

1:33:29

just find this so funny. I was asked to

1:33:32

leave because of an issue I

1:33:34

had with the kitchen manager taking too long

1:33:36

in the bathroom. What? Wait, taking

1:33:38

too long in the bathroom? I was laughing, taking

1:33:41

too long with his order. Taking too

1:33:43

long in the... What is a

1:33:45

one-holer over there at Paisanos? He

1:33:48

couldn't get... Was the kitchen manager? What was

1:33:50

he fucking shooting up in the goddamn stall

1:33:53

and he couldn't get in any bathroom? But

1:33:55

hold on, there's another way to read

1:33:57

that. I was asked to leave because of an issue.

1:34:00

I had with the kitchen manager

1:34:02

taking too long in the bathroom. Maybe

1:34:05

he left out a word or two, it's Twitter, was

1:34:08

Rick taking too long in the bathroom and the

1:34:11

kitchen manager was like, yo, come on already. We're

1:34:13

out of there. It seems like that

1:34:15

the kitchen manager would have access to his own

1:34:18

bathroom that he wouldn't have to go out there

1:34:20

and clog it up where the customers couldn't get

1:34:22

in. So

1:34:24

I don't know if you're correct

1:34:26

there. Well then what's

1:34:29

the kitchen manager coming to get the guy out of

1:34:31

the bathroom for? Come out of

1:34:33

the closet. Why is that the kitchen manager's job?

1:34:35

Wouldn't that be the maitre d' or do they

1:34:37

have a maitre d' at Paisano's? So then Rick

1:34:40

Flair was upset that the kitchen manager was taking

1:34:42

too long in the bathroom. It

1:34:45

sounds like it to me but either way. It

1:34:49

sounds... They'll be finished this? Yeah.

1:34:51

I would highly recommend that anyone who wants

1:34:53

to enjoy a relaxing time in

1:34:56

Gainesville and a nice restaurant to

1:34:58

never visit this place. I

1:35:03

would like to recommend that anyone who

1:35:05

wants to take a relaxing dump in

1:35:08

the Gainesville area, they'll rush you after

1:35:10

you've been in there two minutes. They'll

1:35:12

be shoving toilet paper under the fucking

1:35:14

stall door. So get the

1:35:16

fuck out of here. Well

1:35:19

Jim, we have an article. You

1:35:21

can't take them anywhere. I'm

1:35:24

gonna be spending all this money in a pizza

1:35:26

place. By the way, that's just stupid money in

1:35:28

a pizza place. I've always heard Rick Flair is

1:35:30

loosing his money. Now I get it. He's just

1:35:32

going crazy in chucky cheese. What

1:35:34

is the goddamn most expensive pizza

1:35:37

that you can buy? Is there a $50 fucking pizza?

1:35:42

And that would be 10, 20, 30 of them. What's

1:35:46

your most expensive pizza? It's like $12. I'll

1:35:49

take 10,000 of them right now. Do

1:35:52

you deliver? Do they

1:35:54

have the capacity to make $1,500 worth

1:35:57

of pizza in such a short period of time? an

1:36:00

article here, Jim. From

1:36:02

the Gainesville Sun, this is a serious matter,

1:36:04

from the Gainesville Sun by

1:36:08

Alan Festo. Paisano's

1:36:12

owner says, and is a

1:36:14

quote, evidence clear after

1:36:17

Ric Flair asked to leave Gainesville

1:36:19

Restaurant, WWE legend

1:36:21

and Hall of Famer Ric Flair created quite

1:36:24

a stir on social media over the weekend.

1:36:26

Okay, now, and also, wait a minute, how

1:36:28

much stir do you have to make to

1:36:31

get in the newspaper over a fucking

1:36:34

disagreement at a pizza place? The

1:36:37

sad thing is, I'm pretty sure with all

1:36:39

of these stories, it always starts off great.

1:36:41

Hey, Ric Flair is here, he's also taking

1:36:43

pictures with everyone. I love this guy. Hey,

1:36:46

who's knocking on the bathroom door? Get out

1:36:48

of the bathroom! Woo! Out of the

1:36:50

bathroom! All of a sudden, he's there trying to

1:36:52

get him out of the bathroom? So,

1:36:55

what did they say in the newspaper? He

1:36:58

bashed a Gainesville restaurant while in town to attend a

1:37:01

University of Florida graduation

1:37:03

ceremony. Flair, 75, and family

1:37:06

members were dining at the Paisano Stone

1:37:10

Fired Pizza restaurant, 1250 West

1:37:12

University Avenue. Flair must have a big

1:37:15

family by that, didn't know he was a Mormon

1:37:17

when the professional wrestler apparently was

1:37:19

asked to leave. He

1:37:22

advises more than two million followers to avoid the

1:37:24

restaurant on their next visit to Gainesville.

1:37:29

They have the tweet here. Paisano's

1:37:31

co-owner Jerry Roberts, when

1:37:33

reached Monday by the sun, said the evidence

1:37:36

was clear, but declined to offer

1:37:38

an explanation as to why Flair was asked

1:37:43

to leave the restaurant. The evidence of what was

1:37:45

clear to who? He then sent a prepared

1:37:48

statement via text message,

1:37:50

and here's the statement, team

1:38:00

worked in a professional manner to

1:38:02

ensure the safety of guests and

1:38:04

staff. What the fuck? We

1:38:07

have been here! We have been... What?

1:38:09

We have been here! We

1:38:12

have thanked our team for their

1:38:14

professionalism. We are

1:38:17

proud of how they responded to this situation,

1:38:21

using and displaying our

1:38:23

team values. What was the

1:38:25

situation? What are your values

1:38:27

as it applies to this

1:38:29

situation? Robert says they have

1:38:31

no intention on releasing the video. I

1:38:34

don't even need to see the video! I just like

1:38:37

some motherfuckers to tell me what the fuck happened. Who

1:38:40

was locked in the bathroom? Who

1:38:42

wouldn't come out of the closet? How is

1:38:45

it $1,500 worth of pizzas

1:38:47

can be consumed by one family? And

1:38:50

how did taking pictures and signing autographs

1:38:53

go to, you must leave

1:38:55

the premises and never return? There

1:39:00

are all kinds of stories here that are being

1:39:02

left out. Yeah, there is something going on and

1:39:04

I'm not exactly sure what. Again,

1:39:06

$1,500 at a pizza place. I've

1:39:11

never goddamn made the news for

1:39:14

being asked to leave a restaurant

1:39:16

or establishment such as that. And

1:39:19

one would think that I'm one of the more

1:39:21

disagreeable people if you listen to the rumors and

1:39:23

the casual conversation. But I

1:39:25

don't make the news for these things. You

1:39:27

don't make the news for these things. And

1:39:30

by the way, no one wants to kick out the guy

1:39:32

spending all the money. No

1:39:35

restaurant business model is like, hey, we're having a

1:39:37

problem. We're too busy. We got to get rid

1:39:39

of the guy spending all the money over there.

1:39:44

Leave the guy that's tips the servers on

1:39:46

their tip and get rid of that guy

1:39:48

that's throwing hundreds around. How

1:39:53

can that go so far south

1:39:55

so quickly, I wonder? It

1:39:58

is families there? And

1:40:03

we need, you know what, bar rescue, John

1:40:05

Taffer needs to get in on this. He

1:40:08

needs to follow Flair around the different

1:40:10

bars and call it Flair's Rescue from

1:40:12

Bars. And

1:40:15

we'll get to this one-hour television program.

1:40:18

Wouldn't it be funny if it was Austin Idol's Pizza Place? Hey,

1:40:24

I think you could live there for a year and a half and not spend

1:40:26

$1,500. Well,

1:40:29

there's the Rick Flair story. There's

1:40:32

a rumor about another part

1:40:35

of the story, but it's unconfirmed as of

1:40:37

this moment. Are

1:40:39

we allowed to spread clearly

1:40:43

labeled as such unconfirmed

1:40:45

rumors? Well,

1:40:47

Jim, there was another part of the story

1:40:49

that's kind of unconfirmed, but if

1:40:52

in any way true, paints a very

1:40:54

interesting picture of these proceedings. There's

1:40:57

a tweet that was sent out. The name

1:40:59

seems odd. Freddie

1:41:01

Schnurz? Is

1:41:04

the at at Freddie Schnurz? Fred,

1:41:08

Fredrich von Schnurz is his name right

1:41:10

here. What the- I don't

1:41:13

know. People do interesting things.

1:41:15

Well, how in the world do you expect a

1:41:17

guy named Schnurz to be a liar? I'm

1:41:19

the manager of Paisano's sister location

1:41:22

off Archer. Mr.

1:41:24

Flair was being drunk and disorderly. He

1:41:27

wooed directly into a blind

1:41:29

grandmother's face. Let

1:41:33

me try that again. Wait.

1:41:41

He wooed directly into a

1:41:43

blind grandmother's face. After

1:41:46

being confronted, he picked up furniture

1:41:48

and swung it menacingly. What? We

1:41:51

love Rick, but he was boogered. He

1:41:56

wooed into a blind

1:41:58

grandmother's face. Maybe

1:42:01

she wanted a picture. But

1:42:07

how would that do her any good if she

1:42:09

got a picture? How

1:42:13

would she have known to ask? Maybe she

1:42:15

said, I've never been able to see you. Can I at least

1:42:17

feel your breath? Can you?

1:42:20

Well, no wonder she probably snookered now,

1:42:22

but can you imagine

1:42:24

if you

1:42:26

were some blind person and suddenly,

1:42:29

without warning, Ric Flair wooed an

1:42:31

inch from your face? Well,

1:42:36

again, this may or may not have

1:42:38

happened, but something happened in Paisano's. That

1:42:40

was so bad they won't release the

1:42:42

video, but they're proud of their team

1:42:44

for standing up for themselves. How

1:42:47

can you dispute the word of

1:42:49

Frederick von Schniklegruber? You

1:42:52

can't take Flair anywhere. Well, that's the first

1:42:54

Ric Flair story, the second one. There's

1:42:56

more? I'm just seeing this a little

1:42:58

while ago, but I've not read it yet. Ric

1:43:02

Flair appeared on the

1:43:05

Jackson podcast, if that's how

1:43:07

you say it, J-A-X-X-O-N. And

1:43:11

Flair, during that interview, said that doctors informed him

1:43:13

in late 2023 that he had

1:43:15

a heart attack at some point within the last two

1:43:18

years. And what? And he

1:43:20

believes it happened during his last match. Oh,

1:43:22

for God's sake. There's a quote, I

1:43:25

went to get what's called a calcium scan,

1:43:28

which I've never had before, because

1:43:30

a couple of guys died in our business of heart issues,

1:43:32

so it kind of scared me. They

1:43:35

give you the nuclear stress test, shoot

1:43:37

you up with the dye, put you

1:43:39

on the treadmill, everything. It's

1:43:41

two days of three hours of tests. Holy

1:43:44

shit! This is six months ago.

1:43:47

The guy takes me in, and if

1:43:49

you look at your heart like a round pie, there's

1:43:52

a piece of my heart right here, this

1:43:54

big, it's black. It's

1:43:56

gone. The guy said, you've

1:43:58

had a heart attack. had a heart attack in

1:44:00

the last two years. He said,

1:44:03

have you passed out in the last two

1:44:05

years? And during my

1:44:07

last match I passed out three times. Oh,

1:44:10

Christ. And I thought it was because I

1:44:12

was dehydrated. Oh, well, that happens to me

1:44:14

all the time. So I went into the

1:44:16

locker room with Kid Rock and Taker and

1:44:19

just drank two bottles of Gatorade and

1:44:22

went back out to Kid Rock's place

1:44:24

all night long. But I had

1:44:26

a heart attack. Which

1:44:28

really makes what was a pathetic

1:44:30

and awful idea and event look even

1:44:32

worse in retrospect. Well,

1:44:34

everybody thought when they were looking at it that

1:44:36

they were watching him have

1:44:39

some type of attack

1:44:41

and or die. And

1:44:45

that's why I remember we chose

1:44:47

not to talk about that event because,

1:44:49

you know, I

1:44:51

did not want to have to look at

1:44:54

that and give my honest opinion on someone

1:44:56

that I cared about. But

1:45:00

everybody has to quit doing pretty

1:45:03

much everything at some point, including

1:45:06

breathing. Why

1:45:08

rush the shit? Quit

1:45:10

doing some

1:45:12

of the superficial shit so you can just stick

1:45:15

to contributing your energy to

1:45:17

the more important shit like

1:45:19

breathing. If

1:45:25

part of his heart is black, that

1:45:28

kind of indicates that his heart's not doing

1:45:31

as well as it could be doing at

1:45:33

this current time, even though he didn't die

1:45:35

of the heart attack, doesn't it? Maybe this

1:45:37

is some kind of new way to promote

1:45:39

woo energy. Oh, come on. You

1:45:42

mean to say- Make your heart go

1:45:44

black! Woo! Well, no, woo energy will

1:45:47

bring your heart back from the dark

1:45:49

side. Bring your heart back from black!

1:45:51

Woo! You could

1:45:53

get Flair, Amy Winehouse, and...

1:45:58

Well, you never know. And... And

1:46:00

fucking ACDC. They

1:46:03

could be back from black in red from

1:46:05

the black of the back. All

1:46:08

right. Well, that's the Rick Flair heart attack news.

1:46:10

So, uh, we almost did see him die. And

1:46:15

again, with the same comment I made

1:46:17

with the, the

1:46:20

Lawler news is that I thought everybody

1:46:22

was making a big

1:46:24

deal over, you know, not renewing

1:46:26

an announcer contract for who is

1:46:29

in effect a retired announcer, but

1:46:32

at the same point, you know,

1:46:34

maybe with at some

1:46:37

point people are going to have

1:46:39

to refuse to let

1:46:41

Rick damage himself on

1:46:43

their dime. I'm

1:46:46

not talking about appearances or, you know, he

1:46:48

can pitch wings or drinks or whatever, but

1:46:51

he can pitch a little woo, whatever, but

1:46:54

not getting the ring, not be physical,

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not have another fucking heart attack or

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somebody's got to prime out of the bathroom sooner

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or later. Well,

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maybe it was the kitchen manager. Where

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was the other? Where's the house manager? It

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was the kitchen. Yeah. Where, where, where's

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the maître d at a prestigious place

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like Paisanos? Where is the, the all

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the other people besides the kitchen manager that ought to

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be dragging somebody out of the bathroom. So we don't

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even know. Unwieldily worded.

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That's the thing. It's either flair locked

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himself in the bathroom and they

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couldn't get him out and it became an issue or

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the manager was in the bathroom too

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long and flair was either waiting to use

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the bathroom or was so offended by

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this while sitting down that he got up and said, Hey,

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I spent $1,500 here. Now

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for you to use the shitter. Get

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