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0:00

Hello again friends and

0:03

you are our friends and welcome back to

0:05

another edition of Jim Cornett's drive through on

0:07

another cold winter's day here in 2024. A

0:10

very professional beginning so far. I'm your

0:13

host the great Brian Last. And I

0:15

got a new one of these back

0:17

after the kids broke the last one.

0:19

We're gonna talk reviews and questions and

0:23

retro figures and questions

0:26

and all sorts of stuff with

0:28

this man. The leader of the Cult of Cornett,

0:31

Mr. Jim Cornett. Show is

0:33

jam-packed. So many subjects running through your

0:35

mind Brian and brother you showed up

0:37

for work on your show. Thank

0:40

you very much. Thank you. It's the

0:42

nicest thing that anyone's ever done for

0:44

me. You can't miss

0:46

your show where you're the star but

0:49

where you're merely the supporting player. Over

0:52

across the street on the experience you have you

0:55

flaked off this past episode. Thank

0:57

you by the way Solomon Grundy

1:00

himself Brian R Solomon for

1:02

stepping in the dedicated and timely

1:05

person that he is stepping in to

1:08

take care of filling that void. He filled my cavity as well as

1:10

it can be filled. And

1:16

people have seen and heard by

1:18

now that experience and they

1:21

may have heard it as it was going on through

1:23

the windows. But nevertheless now

1:25

you're back because it's your show but

1:27

you had the flimsy

1:30

excuse Brian. You know I'm

1:32

married. I have a lovely wife and I

1:34

have children, small children. Actually you have small

1:37

and medium children. I

1:39

don't know do they come in large

1:41

grande. What is the next step up

1:43

on the description of the children sizes.

1:45

Trenta. Trenta. Well you

1:47

got you got a number of children

1:49

and you say you had the family

1:51

outing planned and I swear you know go

1:54

here. You deserve it. You're

1:56

a maniac. You work all the time. So

1:59

Brian I gotta add. you the question now in front

2:02

of the public and everybody, that big

2:04

family outing that you had planned that

2:07

was going to be so wonderful to commune

2:09

with the small and the

2:11

medium and the Trente family

2:14

and your lovely spouse.

2:17

How did that go, Brian, for you? For

2:20

me? Yeah, for you.

2:22

It did not go very well. You

2:25

already know a lot of this. Chase

2:27

doesn't. The listeners obviously don't. I

2:30

was going to go spend a few days with

2:32

my family. There was a lot of things going

2:34

on. One of my daughters was competing at gymnastics.

2:37

We were going to take a few days away. The

2:39

plan was they're going

2:41

there. It's not too far from where we

2:43

live. They're going there on Friday,

2:46

and I'm going to meet them there the next

2:48

day on Saturday. That's why

2:50

Brian Solomon, who's a wonderful guy, filled

2:53

in for me and

2:55

put up with your abuse. And

2:58

the next morning, he likes it. And

3:00

actually that night, that Friday night, when I was

3:02

getting ready to leave, I just started feeling hot,

3:05

just like I'm sweating and I'm

3:07

feeling down. I'm feeling sick. Am I

3:09

getting myself pumped up because I don't want to go? Is

3:12

it because I'm sick? So I ordered a bunch

3:14

of COVID tests, like a variety of them from the

3:16

CVS and DoorDash. They

3:18

brought them over. I was going to take them when we had

3:20

the house, but it expired. The liquid

3:22

was bad. No

3:25

COVID. So then I ordered a

3:27

bunch of thermometers from CVS also,

3:29

or actually that was from Walgreens. No

3:32

fever. And the worst thing

3:34

was they only had the fucking rectal ones available. They

3:36

didn't have rectal ones. It was one that you stick

3:38

in your ear, which sucks. And then it's one you

3:40

put under your tongue in your mouth and it takes

3:42

five seconds. And I don't trust that one either. And

3:45

then the ones you scan your forehead with, those are

3:47

bullshit. Remember the doctor says I'm 93 degrees. Yeah.

3:50

I mean, you could be laid out on

3:52

a slab, right? And that's the thing. When

3:55

my mother, Mama Cornette, used to take my

3:57

temperature, it used to

3:59

take probably... about a minute and a half to

4:01

three minutes and she said, sit there, don't move, keep your

4:03

mouth closed. And so I

4:05

don't trust anything but that, but go ahead. And

4:08

that was the rectal? No, that's

4:10

why she was telling me to keep my mouth closed. Don't

4:15

say anything to the authorities or anybody that

4:18

asks. Well

4:22

the next morning, Saturday morning, I'm feeling

4:24

sicker and sicker. I'm like,

4:26

I know I have to go there. I have to

4:28

get in the car. Eventually I'm like, I have to lay down.

4:31

Pretty soon after the vomiting started,

4:34

not sure what triggered it. My sister's here, she ate

4:36

the same stuff as me the night before. She's

4:38

fine. So I'm throwing up.

4:41

Now I feel bad. Maybe it was your sister that

4:43

triggered it. Now I have to let my family know

4:45

I'm not coming because there's no way I could jump

4:47

in the car and drive for an hour and a half

4:50

and I can't. You would need

4:52

a windshield wipers on

4:54

the inside of the windshield also from that

4:56

projectile vomiting. I was expecting to get some

4:58

shit from Suzanne and the kids. Instead what

5:01

I got was a picture sent back to

5:03

me of my son, who's two and

5:05

a half, covered an Oreo

5:07

vomit because he apparently

5:09

just vomited all the Oreos he ate, which are all the

5:11

Oreos he's ever had in his life. And

5:14

then while that happened, my daughter competing

5:18

hurt her knee and went down. So I

5:20

was getting now reports from the field. One

5:23

kid's down, one kid's throwing up, but all

5:25

the heat was off me. That's the big thing. And

5:28

then they came home the next day. I was still

5:30

sick. My son was sick. My daughter

5:32

was hurt. Then Suzanne got sick. It's

5:37

a great story. I'm

5:39

not laughing about your daughter getting hurt, but

5:41

I'm laughing about everything else. Because

5:44

I know you had such high

5:46

apple pie in the sky hopes

5:49

of this dream little getaway weekend

5:51

that you were about to have. And I

5:53

didn't know until after the fact when it

5:55

was already on, because I wasn't gonna bother

5:57

you. You're out there fro-

6:00

collicking with nature's

6:02

creatures and up in

6:04

the woods and you're watching the gymnastics and

6:06

you're visiting with your family, I'm not going

6:09

to bother you. And I'd say,

6:11

how was it the day you were supposed to be back?

6:13

And you said, well, I had

6:15

projectile vomiting and everybody in the family

6:17

is either injured or sick. But

6:21

how are you? Say, I have manners. But then I said,

6:23

how are you? But how are you?

6:25

Well, I'm good. I've been good. I'm

6:27

freezing our keisters off down here.

6:30

It's colder than a witch's tit in

6:33

Louisville, Kentucky. It has been. It's going

6:35

to snow again, sub-zero wind chills, all

6:38

that type of thing. But nothing

6:41

to complain about with the monumental

6:43

stature of your vacation

6:46

family weekend. So

6:49

take another show off. That's

6:51

what basically that amounts to, is you curse

6:53

yourself. I got Kippelman ready for this weekend.

6:56

We're going to try it again. Every

6:59

time you take off, something bad is going to

7:01

happen now. You've established a precedent. So

7:05

your only option is to be here with us.

7:07

And you can't take off because without you, there's

7:09

no Jim Cornuche. Well,

7:11

see how the pressure

7:13

lies. Heavy. Heavy

7:15

lies the pressure on the crown of the,

7:17

where's the thorns? I don't know what fucking.

7:19

Do we need the vacation together? Is that

7:21

what it is? Take the show

7:24

on the road, wherever we go. You're

7:26

going to get people started talking if we

7:28

start taking vacations together. Those are our entire

7:30

families, the whole clan. Well my clan and

7:32

my clan. I'd rather it just be you

7:35

and me. Well no. It's

7:37

me then people would talk. Yeah, you can get your own

7:39

room by the way. No, we have our people with us

7:41

and we all go out there. Go

7:45

out there. A caravan. Where are

7:47

we going out there? Across the country. We'll hit

7:49

all the big spots. What

7:51

are the big spots to you? You've

7:53

been to St. Louis, have you ever been in the arch? Um,

7:57

no it looks a little fucking flimsy to

7:59

me. So there I stand on the ground.

8:01

Jim Cornette's travelogue. There's the video. We can get

8:03

so much content out of this. I don't trust

8:06

your big spots. You don't know the good burgoo

8:08

places. You want to go to St. Louis. You

8:10

want to go to the arch instead of emos.

8:12

You're just, you're all fucked up. Jim

8:14

Cornette goes and eats pizza, I think, is a

8:16

good concept. And I think we can have fun

8:18

with that. Jim Cornette tries different restaurants. Jim Cornette

8:20

goes to one of the major

8:23

attractions in the country. There's

8:26

potential for payoffs. Especially

8:28

with something that's up in the air. There's

8:30

potential for all sorts of chaos. No, there's

8:33

not. Because I'll be standing on the ground

8:35

and pointing at it. I'll

8:38

not be up in the air

8:40

anymore. I've flown my limit

8:43

of aerial miles, whether it being flown,

8:46

propelled, hung, suspended, or

8:48

swung. What's the tallest building

8:50

you've been in? When

8:52

I was a kid and my

8:55

parents took me to New York City, we

8:59

did go in the Empire State Building. But I

9:01

don't remember. I don't know if we went. I

9:03

was fucking four, right? I don't know if we

9:05

went to the top of it or not. But

9:07

I remember that I was told we were there.

9:11

And otherwise than that, I've

9:14

been in tall buildings in Philadelphia or

9:16

in Manhattan or whatever at

9:19

some point or another. But I

9:21

don't tend to stand there and look

9:23

out the window. And I'm

9:26

trying to say, just as a, I

9:28

can't imagine what would have caused me to be 60

9:30

or 70 or

9:32

more floors up anywhere. So I don't

9:37

know the answer to your question now that I've brought

9:39

everybody down. They say the Empire

9:41

State Building, the line for, I

9:44

guess the line just to go up is the longest

9:46

wait for any attraction or

9:48

ride, I think, out there. Because you

9:50

have to go through two different elevator banks. You have

9:52

to go through different security checks. Well,

9:55

see, that would be, to me, like having a

9:57

standing line to get kicked in the balls. If

10:00

you, the only thing that can make

10:02

the experience any worse is you got

10:05

to wait and wait and wait to

10:07

fuck. The only thing that can make

10:09

the experience any worse is if I take off another week,

10:11

there, there you go. I'm

10:13

back. I'm back, ladies and gentlemen. All right.

10:15

He's back and we're glad I'm

10:17

glad to see your back, especially adversity in

10:19

your front, but I've got to bring you

10:22

up to date on something. Cause I've been,

10:24

I've been, while you've been frolicking around the

10:26

toilet bowl, bowing

10:28

before the porcelain God. I had a

10:30

bucket too. I had

10:32

a bucket. Mr. Chris. Oh, Suzanne, that's Suzanne bought

10:34

these. Like because of all this,

10:36

she had me buy this on Amazon, these

10:38

medical grade barf bags, and I'm

10:40

like, I'm not using this. I'm just going to use the

10:43

bucket. I'll rinse it out. If I throw up a lot

10:45

in there or if it's chunky or something, you

10:47

need to keep on hand. I

10:51

didn't think so. How often is somebody bucket worthy

10:53

in that household? And by the way, these bar,

10:55

it's not like you can get like a five

10:58

pack or anything. If you can get like 75

11:00

of them or whatever fucking times in the is, is everybody in

11:04

the house going to throw up in the next fucking

11:06

10 years, 75 times. I

11:08

don't know. I mean, we could use them as gifts and give them away

11:10

to people. I don't know

11:12

who or why. Full or empty.

11:15

Maybe we could use them for something. I don't know if it could be

11:17

used for. Hey, hold on here.

11:19

If I could get a cornet face

11:21

printed on them and

11:24

sell them to the people who are

11:26

AEW live event ticket holders in

11:29

advance of the event, we

11:31

might have money making opportunity here. Coronet

11:34

barf bag. The other thing is why don't we

11:36

make t-shirts and say Jim Cornette sucks. And we

11:38

should sell those to the AEW fans and then

11:40

they're actually paying you. Well,

11:43

but then see the reverse, that's

11:45

like the corny coin. That's what Brian Bosworth did. You

11:47

ever hear of him? Well, they, they not only, they

11:49

not only won't buy the shirts if they know that

11:51

I'm selling them, but they'll send some of the other

11:54

shirts that they didn't buy back and I'll have to

11:56

refund those. It'll cost me money. But

12:00

anyway, I was gonna bring something up

12:03

while you've been gone flittering about as

12:05

I mentioned I've been

12:07

trying to keep up what's going on not only in

12:09

the wrestling but in the world at large I've been

12:11

watching the news trying to keep up with the the

12:13

happenings. Did you see the The

12:16

latest story coming out of the state of Colorado

12:19

Somebody got arrested. Did you hear about

12:21

this? Uh, I don't know

12:23

specifically what you're talking about. No, I

12:25

don't follow Colorado's Colorado

12:28

police arrested a man

12:31

for murdering a hooker that he had hired

12:35

And He was

12:38

arrested after because it

12:40

was circumstantial evidence now just

12:43

because that he admitted to

12:46

hiring the hooker and Then

12:48

just because the guy's roommate said

12:51

that he owed this guy

12:53

a thousand dollars But the guy told him that

12:55

he'd call it even if the roommate would dig

12:57

him a 10-foot hole and

13:00

the roommate said no, I'm good so Apparently

13:03

he instead the the man that was

13:05

arrested through her in the river But

13:09

the circumstantial evidence also extends

13:11

to when they arrested him

13:15

He had a severed human hand

13:18

in his pocket He

13:21

had one hand in his pocket and the other was

13:23

swinging a machete Where

13:26

are you seeing these stories? I have not seen this was

13:28

on the news on the on the television news and

13:34

The guy had no criminal record. It shocked

13:36

everybody had no criminal record. He was

13:38

gainfully employed as a security guard And

13:43

so maybe that was maybe it was a pickpocket He stops a

13:46

pickpocket the hard way He

13:48

just forgot to pull it out. They just arrested

13:51

a guy here in New York yesterday After

13:54

they did a thing on the news saying I were looking for

13:56

him. I within a week or so he slashed five people stabbed

14:00

them not slashed them stabbed them on the subway

14:04

they arrest them he's a hospital greeter

14:09

jeez is that the reason he's

14:11

doing this or he was bored he

14:14

wanted more people to say hello to so

14:18

he's like hey take that okay

14:20

now you go over on 4th Street at

14:22

General Hospital I'll be the door I'll hold

14:24

open for you that'd be awful he's the

14:26

one who stabs you and then you get taken to the hospital he's

14:28

the one there well

14:31

good to see you again door-to-door

14:34

he's a full-service motherfucker

14:36

hey this is

14:38

crime watch and also here's another

14:41

thing it's an anniversary this past week if

14:43

you just a few days ago as we

14:45

sit here are you aware of the big

14:47

anniversary there

14:49

are several it's 40 years from 1984

14:51

and it's 30 years from 1994 and it's 20 years from 2004 there are

14:57

lots of anniversaries there are there are

14:59

no specifics contained therein I don't

15:02

know if I haven't told this story in

15:04

years maybe I have not told you this

15:06

story but in very brief did I tell

15:08

you the story of the one time over

15:11

the last 20 years or whatever the fuck it

15:13

was that I considered on a limited

15:16

basis attempting to fly

15:18

domestically I

15:21

can't imagine I don't remember anything

15:23

like that and I think I would

15:25

okay well you know I've gone to

15:27

merry old England twice heavily drugged and

15:29

sedated and you

15:31

know oblivious to my surroundings but

15:33

I've not seriously entertained

15:35

the thought of getting on an airplane to

15:38

go anywhere in the United States and for

15:40

many many years right but when

15:43

I was in TNA I remember

15:46

we've talked about the trip Orlando to

15:48

Louisville or my house to the impact

15:51

zone whichever way you want to phrase it 862

15:55

miles and

15:58

at first is as I've mentioned I'd

16:01

made the deal with Jeff Jared where, well, I'll come

16:03

down for the pay-per-view of the TV taping afterwards, maybe

16:05

that one or every other one. It was going to

16:07

be like eight times a year I was going to

16:09

go and that lasted about two months

16:11

and then he talked me into every

16:13

fucking taping, every pay-per-view. So

16:17

at one point twice a month,

16:20

I'm driving that 1700

16:22

mile round trip and

16:25

finally this was

16:28

right toward the end of my tenure there

16:30

in 2009. And

16:34

there was a time where I would get

16:37

so anxious to get home after two or

16:39

three days or maybe four days sometimes those

16:42

tapings and show went to two hours, etc.

16:45

I would leave at six o'clock in the morning

16:47

from the double tree over there at Universal and

16:51

I had it timed where I could get

16:53

through Atlanta before rush hour and I could

16:55

skirt through Chattanooga and the time zone changed

16:57

in the Nashville and I

16:59

could make the most of the traffic and I could

17:01

be home in 14 hours. Eight

17:04

o'clock that evening, 862 miles. It

17:09

was a challenge but it was doable. And

17:12

goddamn this one trip, everything

17:16

as I recall, there was construction

17:18

and there was

17:20

traffic schmazs and

17:22

there was the rain probably, inclement

17:24

weather and then it was January

17:27

so it was cold up here even if

17:29

it wasn't down there and I remember the

17:33

drive is being particularly

17:35

arduous and tedious

17:37

and or nerve-racking and or my god,

17:39

I want to get out of this

17:41

fucking vehicle. At

17:44

about the last hundred miles Brian, I'd said,

17:47

you know what I'm saying to myself? I'm saying

17:50

maybe I just I could

17:52

take this annex, I could I'm trying

17:54

to justify figure out how this might

17:56

logistically work and I wouldn't dread it

17:59

or hate myself. or whatever,

18:01

get on a plane and do this every

18:04

so often. I'm just

18:06

getting too old for this shit, right? And

18:09

I'd almost convinced myself that when I

18:11

pulled into the garage here at Castle

18:14

Cornet and I opened a

18:16

door to come in the house and there's Harley

18:19

Quinn wasn't there because she ain't that old, but

18:21

there's Stace to greet me. And

18:24

guess what's on the big screen TV in

18:26

the TV room? Was

18:28

it a plane crash? Captain Sully's

18:30

plane floating down the fucking

18:33

river. It

18:36

was the end of 15 years ago this past week. Yeah.

18:41

And that is the first thing I saw.

18:43

And I said, you know what? Nevermind.

18:48

There's a plane floating. It was a

18:50

sign. If there

18:52

is some kind of God, higher power,

18:55

Supreme being alien that inseminated the

18:57

planet earth with its cast offs,

18:59

whatever, that was

19:01

a sign from them to me, don't

19:05

think that anymore. Listen to what

19:07

you're saying. But he saved everyone. No, that's

19:09

a miracle on the Hudson. It landed. Saved

19:11

everyone. Sully got everyone out. He did everything

19:13

professionally. That's the pilot you want. He landed

19:15

the fucking river. Yes, that's the pilot I

19:17

want if I have to have a pilot,

19:19

but better off, I don't have a pilot

19:22

and everybody, if I had been on

19:24

that plane, everybody on that plane would

19:27

have perished because they would

19:29

have all been smothered in shit. Can

19:32

I read you something? Cause it's so funny you bring

19:34

this up. Someone just posted this the other day into

19:36

the Cosa Cornette Facebook group. I'll give him credit. Nicholas

19:39

Eduardo Lopez Torres. If

19:43

that, if those are indeed all his real

19:45

names, he posted this from the Gary Hart

19:47

book. Uh,

19:49

the actual title was my life in wrestling

19:51

with a little help from my friends by

19:53

Gary Hart and Philip Vario. Notoriously

19:56

out of print. Notoriously out

19:58

of print. inaccurate

20:00

in some cases, or at least

20:02

Gary Hart's worldview in some cases.

20:05

But here's what it says, I

20:07

always had a great deal of respect for Jim Cornette.

20:10

Because even though he had a tremendous fear of flying,

20:14

he would get on an airplane to go to every show.

20:17

I saw that kid fight his fear on

20:19

a daily basis, and he white-knuckled every flight.

20:23

One time, we were coming back from

20:25

El Paso, and we hit some

20:27

real turbulence. It was terrible.

20:30

We were bouncing around the sky, and Jim

20:33

was literally freaking out. It

20:35

got so bad that the plane landed

20:37

in Lubbock so the pilots could check and see

20:39

if anything had broken. It

20:42

was that bad. Jim,

20:45

Bobby Eaton, and Dennis Condrey got

20:47

off the plane, rented a car,

20:49

and drove to Dallas. Jim

20:51

was scared to death of flying, and I

20:53

always felt he was the bravest guy I

20:55

ever knew. I

20:59

remember because obviously I have a copy

21:01

of Gary's book, and I appreciated that.

21:03

I remember reading that, but I got

21:05

to tell the straight thing is he

21:07

has two stories conflated. Can

21:10

I give details? Yeah, please. Because

21:15

the flight that he's talking about with

21:18

the turbulence was from El Paso, and

21:21

it was one of those southwest flights. They

21:24

had a flight in

21:26

southwest airlines in those days, would

21:29

have a flight from every one of

21:31

the major Texas cities at like 11

21:34

o'clock or 11.15. So

21:37

whoever had done business

21:39

or whatever that day could get on it

21:41

and be back in Dallas. They

21:43

didn't just go everywhere, but you could go to

21:45

Dallas. If

21:50

El Paso is 600 miles from Dallas, Texas,

21:52

even though it's in the same state, or

21:54

Lubbock and Amarillo were 350 miles respectively. Southwest

22:00

at the time like $39 or

22:02

whatever one way and you could just walk

22:04

up and buy the ticket is the You

22:07

know cattle car of the air So

22:10

everybody would try to get the last flight to

22:12

get back to Dallas after

22:14

the show and That's

22:17

why it's 11 o'clock at and so it's

22:19

pitch fucking black outside and we get up

22:21

and it's a Gary Hart one-man gang me

22:25

Bobby and Dennis Condrey the fantastic so

22:27

all the world-class guys are we're not

22:29

sitting Because there's obviously regular

22:31

people although not too many of them on

22:33

this flight So we're

22:35

not like sitting with the baby faces or whatever. We're

22:38

still in the groups, but we're all on this fucking

22:40

plane everybody's been on the show and this

22:43

thing starts bouncing up and down and

22:46

You can see the the wings And

22:49

you can hear them creaking and you can see

22:52

them moving in

22:54

greater fucking Space

22:56

and frequency than the actual cabin of

22:58

the plane is moving those wings are

23:00

fucking flapping right and sideways

23:02

and I think the

23:05

Tommy Rogers just he

23:07

was sitting with a bunch of girls in the

23:09

back and he pulls out a joint and just

23:11

start smoking a joint and Everybody's

23:14

holding on to shit and

23:16

I'd always I

23:19

laughed with Gary and later on when

23:21

we would be on Crockett's plane During

23:24

a period of time. He was there whatever the case I

23:27

Always joked that I liked flying with flair because

23:29

how many people you know been in two plane

23:32

crashes, right? So that I've got better odds Gary

23:36

had been in two plane crashes

23:39

too He had been in

23:41

the in the famous one and he had also gone

23:43

down in a private plane Um,

23:46

you know years before that so

23:49

I was especially happy

23:53

With him because I don't have

23:55

many people, you know been in three plane crashes, right? But

23:59

anyway So

24:04

that's the, but the renting

24:06

the car was

24:08

a different time. It

24:11

was from Amarillo, we

24:13

didn't land in Lubbock, it was Amarillo

24:15

to Dallas, where we were

24:17

trying to get out after a Lubbock-Amarillo

24:20

double shot and

24:23

the last we were there at the

24:25

airport, because only 10 minutes from the building,

24:27

but this thunderstorm came up and the fucking

24:29

lightning and

24:31

all this bullshit and

24:33

I'm looking at it as they're about to, I say

24:36

you know what folks, I'll

24:38

see y'all in Fort

24:40

Worth at the Will Rogers Coliseum tomorrow

24:42

and Bobby and Dennis got on the

24:44

plane but I went across the

24:46

street to the La Quinta and

24:49

got a room and rented the fucking

24:51

car the next morning and drove back

24:54

to it, took 300 miles

24:56

from West

24:58

Texas to Dallas as flat as the road was,

25:00

took about four, four and a half hours and

25:04

they said it was a miserable flight

25:06

with miserable fucking weather and it

25:09

fucking poured rain on them when they got back at

25:11

the airport trying to get in their car in the

25:13

whole nine yards and I just had

25:16

a pizza to fucking La Quinta and cruised

25:19

on down the road the next day in a relaxed

25:21

state. But

25:23

I would do things like that.

25:26

Crockett had run the

25:29

Cincinnati and

25:31

we were on a loop that we had flown to

25:33

the start of and the next day was Charleston,

25:35

West Virginia, right? And

25:39

we get the plane tickets and we've got

25:41

to fly from Cincinnati to Louisville which is

25:43

90 fucking miles and

25:46

then change planes that go to Charleston. And

25:49

I'm like what? All

25:51

right we're already on it right? And

25:54

the flight to Charleston would be another 45

25:57

minutes but two takeoffs and two landings. perturbed

26:00

me somewhat. So

26:02

we take off from Cincinnati and

26:06

always keep a watch and an eye on these things.

26:08

I know when we're supposed to be going up, when

26:10

we're supposed to be going down, what the fucking noise

26:12

is supposed to be going on? Is

26:15

anything unusual? Do the flight attendants look

26:17

nervous? These type of signals that

26:19

you look for. And

26:21

I see that we should have been descending about

26:24

five minutes ago for

26:26

this short of a flight. And

26:29

the pilot comes on and says,

26:31

ladies and gentlemen, there's weather in

26:33

the Louisville area. And so

26:36

we're gonna circle for it. And they circled

26:38

for, I don't know, but it seemed like

26:40

hours for me because now my assholes are

26:42

fucking tight. If you shoved a lump of

26:44

coal up, you'd get a 10-carat diamond out.

26:48

And they circled for 20 days. So we're gonna go

26:50

ahead and land now. And

26:52

as they go ahead to land, they

26:55

fly in these goddamn dark clouds.

26:58

And suddenly, even though it's the middle of the day,

27:00

everything you can't see a goddamn thing is pitch black

27:02

outside. And right

27:05

as you think, well, we should see something

27:07

eventually. A fucking

27:09

clap of thunder and a bolt

27:11

of lightning came right down next

27:13

to the fucking wing. And at

27:17

the same time, they gunned the engine and started

27:19

going back up again. Oh motherfucker!

27:24

And they go back up and now they're out

27:26

of the clouds again. And then the pilot comes

27:28

on and says, sorry, folks, we decided to take

27:30

another run at that one. What?

27:34

And they go back around and they

27:38

fucking land again. They're going into land

27:40

again. And the

27:42

same thing, only slightly lighter. They have

27:45

found a different place in the clouds.

27:47

And they go through the dark clouds.

27:49

And I've literally sucked. My asshole has

27:52

engorged every bit of the fucking

27:55

fabric of the seat cushion underneath

27:57

me into my fucking cavernous rectum.

28:00

And I'm fucking putting the brakes on with

28:02

both feet and I've got a hold of

28:04

both of the armrests. And

28:07

they finally land here in my hometown,

28:10

Louisville, Kentucky, where

28:13

as soon as we start taxiing, the

28:16

guys are like, well, shit, we've got

28:18

like 30 minutes to make this connection.

28:20

I said, fuck you on your connection.

28:23

I'm going to bid you people adieu

28:25

and I'll see you in Charleston. And

28:29

there's what? It's 240 miles

28:32

from this airport to Charleston, West Virginia.

28:35

I'm going to get right off this fucking plane

28:37

and rent a car and I bid I beat

28:39

you there at this rate. And

28:42

I did and I did. I beat

28:44

some of them to the building in Charleston. But

28:49

I wouldn't go back up in the air that day. Fuck that. That

28:52

was a lightning bolt was like, fuck you. Get

28:55

your ass on the ground. You

28:57

see that story the other day about the door? Was

28:59

it a door? I guess it wasn't a door. It

29:02

was just door, windows, side of the fucking wall, whatever.

29:04

Yes. Yes. I was

29:06

like, how did knowing get sucked out of the plane? That's

29:08

always my biggest fear, something like that happened. Everyone goes flying

29:10

out of the plane. Well, no, I know why. Do you

29:12

know why? I mean, they stabilized the pressure, right? No, I'll

29:14

tell you why. They were at 16,000 feet. If

29:20

they'd have been cruising at an altitude of 35,000

29:23

feet, some people would have been plummeting

29:25

downward at a fucking velocity of 120 miles an hour.

29:31

And the fuck is they? It just falls off. It

29:33

just falls off. They

29:35

just fell off. Where'd

29:38

Maud go? She was sitting

29:40

here a minute ago. Well, the hell

29:42

the seat's gone too. Maud? Maud?

29:49

Well, we'll see if we

29:52

can maybe do our vacation across the country via train. Yeah,

29:55

am-am-tram-ic. That's what

29:58

we need to get on the am-tram-ic and

30:00

do it. We'll do it like the old

30:02

burnstorming days, the Ballyhoo days. We'll do it

30:04

from the back of the train car. All

30:08

the bit, and we'll send telegrams to

30:10

the next fucking town with coded

30:12

words for who the finishes. You know what I'm saying?

30:14

You would be, if you died at a plane crash

30:16

because of TNA. Oh,

30:18

and that's the thing of all things. Yeah.

30:21

Well, what was I thinking? See some people,

30:24

you know, once in a while you

30:26

go mad. You're just thinking crazy

30:28

things. And then you

30:30

get assigned. Oh,

30:32

well, speaking of assigned Jim, uh, we

30:35

gotta get some, uh, talk. He wants to

30:37

know real quick. I just want to thank

30:39

a couple of people, ladies. I'd like to

30:41

thank the academy. Um,

30:44

I know I want to thank Theo

30:46

from Lachine, Quebec, who sent

30:49

me the entire Seinfeld

30:52

series on DVD for Christmas, but

30:54

it just arrived because he's from

30:56

fucking wherever Quebec and it was

30:58

international mail. And

31:00

if this thing is, it's, it's

31:02

thicker than goddamn Gorilla Monsoon's wallet. I

31:05

mean, it's got like 20 something

31:07

disc. It's 274 hours or whatever. It's

31:11

amazing. And Mike from

31:13

British Columbia over on

31:15

the other side of the Canadian

31:18

frontier sent me

31:20

the entire series of Sanford and

31:23

Son on DVD. I

31:26

don't, I don't know if we talked, we, I know we've talked

31:28

about Seinfeld. We mentioned Sanford and Son, but he sent it and

31:30

I like it. But

31:35

maybe it's just something that he, he felt compelled to do. But

31:37

thank you guys. You've referenced it a

31:39

number of times on the show. Have we on the

31:42

show? Well, I don't, I don't keep track and notebook

31:44

of all of the references that we make. I

31:48

tend to blurt these things out and forget about them momentarily

31:51

afterwards. Yes, you do. And

31:53

that's how things work here. But

31:55

Jim, I know we have to talk about raw, but before

31:57

we get to the end, Before

32:00

we do that, before we talk about anything else here on the

32:02

show, I want to play you

32:04

some audio because something happened in a lot of the listeners.

32:07

The wrestling world was talking about this, but a lot

32:09

of the listeners specifically. On

32:12

the show Sunrise, it

32:14

appears. I'm not familiar with it.

32:16

I'm not from Australia. On Australian TV, a morning

32:19

show. Apparently a morning show. There's

32:22

a clue in the title. LA

32:24

Knight and Grayson Waller.

32:27

Technically a baby facing a heel, so that does

32:29

break hayfabe a little bit there. Are

32:31

on the couch. They're talking to the man and woman

32:33

in hostry show. They're on the couch. You

32:36

didn't need to phrase it like that. They're

32:38

sitting on the couch. Engaging some kind of

32:41

passionate embrace. That

32:43

wasn't the way I was trying to make people think

32:45

about it. LA Knight and

32:47

Grayson Waller are clothed and sitting on

32:49

a couch talking to the hosts of

32:51

the morning show Sunrise in Australia. An

32:55

incident happened that reminded some people

32:57

of Vader, some

33:00

people of David Schultz. Different

33:03

things. Again, not to that extent, but

33:05

something you don't really see too often in 2024. I'm

33:07

going to play some audio. I don't

33:09

want to get your thoughts about this. I've seen

33:11

this clip also, but I'm more than willing to

33:14

listen again. It's one

33:16

of your signature finishing moves. Can

33:18

I give you one? Can you show

33:20

us one of the moves? I

33:25

think it's actually just showed on the screen there.

33:27

If I do that, it's not going to be

33:29

a good day for anybody. Like our floor manager,

33:31

maybe he seems viable. Our floor manager is leaving

33:33

this week. And he's sort

33:35

of, I don't know. That's

33:38

not for me. You want to go ahead and take this one? Look.

33:41

I'll take one. You. Uh-oh.

33:43

I don't think you understand. Let me stop this

33:45

for a second. So now this floor manager who's

33:47

wearing shorts and just a t-shirt comes out there

33:49

and he's kind of bobbing and weaving a

33:51

little bit. He's getting into this. He's

33:54

getting, he's getting into the act. Everybody's

33:57

got to get into the act. He's doing the bobbing

33:59

and weaving. like, oh, don't take it, mate. I'll

34:01

tell you, you know, they got the accents over there,

34:03

like the crocodile done D. Um,

34:06

and LA

34:08

Knight was, you know,

34:10

he was leaning back on the couch and he's

34:12

the one who said, Hey, if I give anybody

34:14

my, you know, my move,

34:16

it won't be a good night for anybody, et

34:18

cetera, like you would. And

34:21

of course, you know, the, in the booth,

34:24

you heard they play the crickets chirping because

34:26

they didn't expect anybody to answer the challenge.

34:28

But this guy, the floor director, whatever fairly,

34:30

he got, you

34:32

know, he got froggy, so he jumped and

34:34

he's going to play into this. I don't

34:36

believe he was seriously challenged. Like, give me

34:38

your best fucking hold. I think

34:40

he was thinking it was going to all be fun and games. And

34:43

of all people, there's Grayson Waller

34:47

and he stands up and cuts the promo on

34:49

the guy and, and that's,

34:51

that's the next part coming up here, I

34:53

believe from what I remember, but let's go

34:56

back to the, go back to the tape.

34:58

Let's go back to sunrise. I

35:25

know we love you. Hey,

35:27

you take that trash talk and you get out of here. You

35:30

get out of here. Hey, you take that trash talk and you get

35:32

out. I want to have these guests who are respected like that.

35:34

Make sure you get out. Oh, can you wrap this up? I

35:38

told you I can't thank you very

35:41

much, gentlemen, for coming in. It

35:44

stops there and we'll see how much of that we

35:46

could play on YouTube, do the music rights, but we'll

35:48

see what happens. But Grayson Waller, not

35:51

appreciating LA nights, sitting back. Grayson

35:53

Waller, clearly not appreciating

35:55

being mocked because he's a wrestler. And I think a lot

35:58

of guys today would just go with it. But

36:00

and that's why I got such a kick out of

36:02

this because it's like he had the. Yeah,

36:05

there's yeses and no's there shades of

36:07

gray in this. He had some of

36:10

the right material, but it comes from

36:12

that fucking voice. It sounds like the

36:14

lost chipmunk cousin, right? So

36:16

you guys made all drop you, I'll drop

36:19

you with a fucking punch, mate. And

36:22

also he

36:24

went from zero to 60. Really

36:28

quickly. And I think it's good

36:30

is Grayson Waller Australian was this

36:32

his native native land and native

36:34

tongue. We have failed so many

36:36

times with accents either from Australia

36:38

or New Zealand. Okay.

36:40

Or the other. He's probably, you know, he's

36:42

got a lot of it's his, his homeland, home

36:45

area, home region of the world. He's got,

36:47

you know, people watching. He thinks he has

36:49

to stand up. But when

36:51

Vader snatched the guy

36:54

in, in the

36:56

middle East, he had said,

36:58

well, this is all Fay, you know, he's

37:00

a, you know, rough stentorian guy. This is

37:02

all fake. You see, and

37:04

when she'll slap Stassel, we all know that

37:07

one. This is just some

37:09

fucking jack off probably with a hangover

37:11

that works there wearing a headset, you

37:13

know, who's on headset bill bills on

37:15

headset. And he's

37:17

just trying to play along. And

37:20

in the old days of the territories

37:22

and TV, I can tell you probably

37:24

how a heel may

37:26

have handled the situation without escalating

37:30

it to motherfucker. I'll knock you out. It's

37:33

just to do the old stew art there. Come here. We

37:36

can't give our finishing move on the floor in the

37:38

studio here, but come here. Let me just show you

37:40

a hold and put him in the fucking double

37:43

wrist lock or the front face like where you

37:45

can put a little bit of pressure on and

37:47

make a motherfucker squeal like a baby. Or

37:50

say here, just put the sugar hold on him

37:52

here and pop his fucking ears and his face

37:55

will turn red. And

37:57

you, you sucker him in that way here.

38:00

little innocuous, oh my God, please let go of

38:02

me. That's what Gene

38:04

Anderson may have done. I

38:06

understand he was trying to fight for the

38:09

honor of the business, but it hadn't really

38:11

been impugned that badly yet. The

38:14

hosts were obviously joking and the

38:18

fact that, you know, the

38:21

crickets chirped on

38:23

the challenge, the production

38:25

booth was trying to go along with

38:27

the wrestlers and then this

38:29

guy just goes into business for

38:31

himself. But it was a

38:33

nice effort on Waller's part, but my God,

38:35

of all the people on the roster, I

38:38

would have bet money on the fucking PA,

38:40

the production assistant, to kick

38:42

the shit out of Waller. Oh, come on. Okay.

38:45

Did you look at it? Because of his voice? Just because of

38:47

his voice? No, just because I looked at both

38:49

of them on camera. I said, I believe the guy on

38:51

the right can take him. But,

38:55

I mean, that's the thing that you

38:58

can't, the guys that did this a

39:00

lot with local media and shit that

39:02

most people alive today have never seen

39:04

or never heard of because

39:06

it didn't exist except live or whatever,

39:10

they wouldn't ever give a guy a move

39:12

unless there's a few clips like that clip

39:14

of giant haystacks, body slamming that poor, 150

39:16

pound fucking TV presenter in England in the

39:18

sixties where he just really

39:22

picked him up and flung him down hard

39:24

on the floor. That wasn't the sixties. That

39:27

was either the late seventies, early eighties, seventies,

39:29

whatever. But you know what I'm saying? That,

39:31

that clip exists. But a lot of times

39:33

when guys would be involved with press or

39:35

a news reporter, whatever, you

39:38

know, you do this and look, I'm a professional fighter. I'm

39:40

not getting paid to fight you. I'm not going to give

39:42

you a wrestling move

39:44

here, you know, and on the studio

39:47

floor, but let me just show you this little

39:49

hold and now in the knuckle, you know, or

39:51

just two fingers, they would have their things where

39:54

they just let the guy

39:56

know what they might could do if they wanted

39:58

to, and it'd be enough where that we

40:00

would back that shit off. But

40:03

I don't know if Grayson Waller knows a wrist

40:06

lock from a wristwatch, as they used to

40:08

say, but he was,

40:10

you know, does it, well, then

40:12

also is look, give

40:14

my best wrestling move or give you my

40:16

best wrestling move. Well, fuck if I

40:19

come over there, mate, I'm going to have to punch

40:21

you and knock you out. Is that your best wrestling

40:23

move? They weren't you a boxer. What that didn't, it

40:25

was just, he instantaneously leaped in

40:27

it. Maybe he was trying to get a

40:29

little fucking notoriety there. See

40:31

a lot of the finishing maneuvers, at least in

40:33

the days when they really became a thing,

40:35

everyone needed a finisher. A lot of them were things

40:37

you could apply in a real fight, or at least

40:39

if you had to do something on a show like

40:41

that, you know, even something like a front face

40:44

lock, like the Richard Belzer knocks

40:46

him out. Some of these guys, like if

40:49

someone said, Hey, Cody, do your finishing maneuver on

40:51

me. Could he do a crossroads

40:53

on like a set like that? It's such a,

40:55

yeah, no, or they give me a Cody cutter.

40:57

Okay. What about jumping off of the fucking lamp?

41:00

What? See, it's just,

41:02

it's preposterous anymore. It used to be a thing.

41:04

It would be a body slam or, you know,

41:07

whatever. But now it's like, yeah,

41:09

figure four. And by the way, you can fuck

41:11

somebody up with a figure four, if you want

41:13

to very easily. The

41:15

stuff that's been around for a while, as we've

41:17

mentioned many times, was rooted in something

41:20

that was legitimate. And

41:23

you just got to know how, how to either

41:26

make it legitimate or not make it legitimate, depending

41:28

on whether you want to hurt somebody or not,

41:32

but you know, the double wrist

41:34

lock will fuck a mother mother,

41:36

fuck a mother up mother fucker,

41:39

fucking mother mother Hubbard. Old

41:41

mother Hubbard sat in the cupboard thinking of how

41:44

she could fuck mother fuckers up with a double

41:46

wrist lock. Well, once again,

41:48

you're a little more down on him than everyone else

41:50

appears to be. WWE seems to be high on him.

41:52

He's growing on me a little bit. It is like

41:54

the shit heel hit shit heel heel.

41:57

I guess it's just a real. Kind

42:00

of a real shit heel. A real shit

42:02

heel. Him in theory has like these two

42:05

annoying kind of shit heels.

42:07

God damn it. But there's a difference

42:10

between the annoying and the annoying teenage

42:12

delinquent that lives down the street in

42:14

the subdivision. See I don't

42:16

see him that way. I see him as

42:18

the annoying guy at the fucking tiki bar.

42:20

Like in the keys. I

42:23

never been to the keys. Well, Montego,

42:26

Jamaica, ooh I wanna

42:29

take you to Bermuda,

42:31

Bahama, come on, Brian,

42:34

last time. Ladies

42:36

and gentlemen, where I was going- I'll just

42:38

sit over here in my sandbox. Yeah,

42:40

please do. Where I was going before we

42:42

went to Kokomo. And

42:47

now I'm trying to just keep it together. This

42:49

show's falling apart- I've been there, I've been to

42:51

Kokomo, Indiana. What a fucking shit

42:53

hole that is. We'll get there faster. We'll take it

42:56

to- It's a little better than Gary. What

42:58

I was gonna say is the key to success- Yes.

43:01

In WWE, traditionally, is making sure you look

43:03

the way Vince wants you to look. Yes.

43:07

And a lot of the time,

43:09

like a Scott Hall became

43:11

famous, well, in

43:13

the AWA-AWA famous with

43:16

a big mustache. But

43:18

by the time he got to Vince, he had gone

43:20

through a few things. He had been a diamond stud.

43:23

He had his greatest success, no

43:26

mustache. Just

43:28

got rid of it. Just got rid of it. There

43:30

are many, many other examples of Vince

43:32

saying, Get that shit off your face.

43:35

But where do you go to take care of that?

43:38

What do you do if you're on the road and

43:40

you need a good razor or you're at

43:42

home? Or you're at home? You could be at

43:44

home. Your hair grows at home too, Brian. Are

43:48

you going for the Guinness

43:50

Book of World Records for

43:52

the longest transition segue into

43:54

a particular subject? That's right.

43:56

The point on top of

43:58

my head is- pointing towards

44:00

our new friends Harry's. That

44:04

even sounds verbally unwieldy. Our new

44:06

friends Harry's. Our new friends Harry's.

44:10

How acquainted have you gotten with our new

44:12

friends Harry's? Well ladies and gentlemen

44:14

there are certain things we can't talk about here on

44:17

the air. I think you pluralized

44:19

something that you should have been

44:21

in there as a possessive preposition

44:23

in there. Are

44:25

our new friends at Harry's clearer?

44:30

Or are our new friends Harry's

44:32

as a collective group reference

44:35

when you're talking about

44:37

our new friends? The

44:40

Harry's. The

44:42

Harry's of the world unite. Look

44:45

at here. Here's the goddamn deal. A

44:48

lot of times because we have a

44:50

male audience out there and many of

44:53

our female listeners also grow hair in

44:55

various places. We've

44:58

taught you how you can smooth out the

45:00

nether regions and make things more pleasant for

45:02

your significant other. Now

45:05

we're going to talk about your people's faces

45:08

out there. The faces. The

45:10

things that you apparently don't look at in the mirror

45:12

sometimes. Because have you noticed that there are a lot

45:15

of people you will

45:17

see walking down the street these days, Brian?

45:20

They got their mush all fucking hairy

45:22

and stubbled and unkempt.

45:25

It looks like their face was put together like

45:27

a ransom note. And that's

45:30

what you're presenting to the whole world. Not just

45:33

people that are rooting and scooting with you and

45:35

doing the tooting on your fluting, but

45:38

the people that are just idly walking down the

45:40

street past you, minding their own business and they

45:42

got to look at that fucking face. So

45:45

you don't need to look like a caveman or like

45:47

somebody that's been in some kind of medically

45:49

induced coma for years. You got

45:52

to keep your face reasonably coherent,

45:55

consistent and groomed appropriately.

45:57

Wouldn't you say, Brian, that that is a...

46:00

a reasonable thing to ask to be

46:02

able to go out in public that you

46:04

not frighten the passers-by. That's right. A coherent

46:06

face is a good idea. Yes,

46:08

don't scare people. So folks, now we're

46:11

not talking about down

46:13

south at the plantation, we're talking about

46:15

up north on your chinny chin chin,

46:18

our friends at Harry's Shaving

46:20

have got a remarkable deal for you

46:22

where it'll cost you almost nothing to be

46:25

presentable and not be asked to not look

46:27

at other people's children. And

46:30

look at this, it comes in a bag. Can

46:33

you hear this bag? It

46:35

is a heavy duty polyethylene bag

46:38

with everything you need for

46:41

a smooth shave and it's got a cute

46:43

little caricature on it of a guy shaving

46:45

with shaving cream on and he's holding Harry's

46:47

razor which Harry's razor unlike

46:50

Occam's will actually do you some good

46:53

because this bad boy I'm holding my

46:55

hand it's got an orange

46:57

handle so this thing is like it's like

46:59

you can find it like you can find

47:01

a hunter in the woods during deer season

47:04

so nobody gets shot the

47:06

orange handle if you drop

47:08

it in the bathtub in the sun you'll be able

47:10

to pick it out and it's

47:12

got a nice it's a pivoting head

47:14

it goes to and fro to and fro

47:17

you can actually if

47:19

you use your index finger while you're

47:21

holding this ergonomically designed handle in your

47:23

hand you can kind of make

47:25

it look like it's winking at you it's to and fro

47:27

to and fro and

47:29

it has well there's

47:32

a cover on this because it comes with

47:34

a travel cover so you can't cut yourself

47:36

inadvertently or accidentally and

47:38

it I'm trying to count now believe this is

47:41

five blades is it four or five it's got

47:43

the cover on it and I can't so I

47:45

believe it's five can't figure out how to get

47:47

the cover oh my god I've cut myself no

47:49

you have not will you stop that you have

47:51

not got yourself to say please it I'm squeezing

47:53

it now just see if it's bad oh it's

47:55

spurting oh it's spurting

47:58

it's on my on my Is there

48:00

an artery in your finger? No, actually I

48:02

took the cover off easily. And

48:05

there's one, two, three. See

48:07

the blades are so small. I need

48:10

glasses. There's five blades and a lubricating

48:13

strip. But

48:16

once again, this is not for the nether

48:19

region. So don't try to lubricate anything down

48:21

there with the strip, but this is for

48:23

your face and it will make you slicker

48:25

and come on a gold tooth. I opened this thing

48:27

up and I was like, well, I've got to see

48:29

this in action. And it did not disappoint. So

48:32

I can't get the fucking lid back on it

48:34

now though. We're going to work on

48:37

that. It also comes with Harry's

48:39

foaming shave gel, which

48:42

lathers richly to soothe and

48:44

cushion. And it's

48:46

got Alo in it. Alo Leilani,

48:49

who used to wrestle in the South Seas.

48:52

Alo? You

48:56

rub a small amount of this in

48:58

circular motions until you're foamy. And

49:01

then the razor just takes it right

49:03

off. You got the box. Add a

49:05

card that says hello from Harry's. But

49:08

wait, there's more. We

49:11

offer a wide range of everyday grooming

49:13

essentials from shower to skin care. Every

49:16

product thoughtfully designed and crafted.

49:19

And you can sign up for the shave plan and

49:22

they keep you stocked

49:24

up with all of the five blade.

49:26

Good Lord, you could probably, you could do

49:28

your lawn with this thing though. It looks

49:30

like a sturdy piece of business. But

49:34

don't shave your crotch with this because

49:36

then you're bringing it back up to

49:39

your face. Ladies and gentlemen, we're talking

49:41

about razors for your face. We're specifically

49:43

talking about razors for your face. Well,

49:45

you know, some of these degenerates out

49:47

there, they take any product that's designed

49:49

for another part of the body and

49:51

they instantly go to the genitalia. You

49:54

just did that. You're the degenerate that just did

49:56

that. I'm trying to talk people out of it.

50:00

But anyway folks, again, it's Harry's and

50:02

where is Harry's? Well Harry's is

50:04

at harrys.com and right now if

50:08

you go to harrys.com JCE

50:12

That's where you save the big money because you can

50:14

get the razor that I just talked about with

50:17

the weighted and ergonomically designed

50:19

handle You get

50:21

the foaming shave gel and the travel

50:24

cover three dollars three

50:26

dollars this five

50:28

blade Implement

50:31

cartridge at the top here This is one

50:33

of those things that they have

50:35

FBI agents standing ready to take you

50:37

down if you walk out of Kroger

50:39

without paying for one of these things

50:42

and bells and whistles go off These

50:44

things are so highly prized and such

50:46

in demand that they chain them

50:48

to the shelves Over

50:51

at the local grocery store, but you're getting this

50:54

not only the razor that it goes on

50:56

but also the cartridge and the shaving

50:58

gel and the travel cover three

51:01

dollars harrys.com/JCE

51:04

and You

51:06

talk about things to make your money's worth German

51:09

engineered blades and We

51:13

know those Germans are some sadistic son

51:15

of a bitches. They make blades sharper

51:17

than a serpent's tooth and you

51:20

can sign up for the delivery

51:22

options the scheduled refills as low

51:24

as a couple of dollars and

51:27

All the other things that they Provide

51:30

here to make your face look

51:32

somewhat palatable to the general public

51:34

go to harrys.com Slash

51:37

JCE. It's a 13 dollar

51:40

normal price on this trial set

51:42

you get for three dollars For

51:45

heaven's sake it's a great deal. This

51:47

is good stuff and

51:49

it's living breathing proof

51:52

Of the old adage that if I had a face

51:54

like that I'd take a donkey and shave its ass

51:56

and teach it to walk backwards. It has nothing to

51:58

do with that. It's perfect But for you, you shave

52:00

all the time. No one gets to see you with a

52:03

beard or a mustache. Well, Jeff,

52:05

that one's referring to 91. Yes.

52:08

Only it was a rib on me, but

52:10

it's because I need to keep myself in,

52:12

in, in perfect, uh, working order

52:14

in case I need to be called upon

52:16

to speak to the general public. But

52:19

you know what? This, this razor is so good.

52:21

Tony Atlas had to give up using this razor

52:24

because when he shaved with it, his face

52:27

was so soft and slick that

52:29

when women would try to walk on it, they'd

52:31

slip off and hurt themselves. He got sued three

52:33

times. Well,

52:36

I don't know about that, but I know about Harry's

52:39

and that whether you're Harry or just

52:41

don't want to be Harry, you can

52:43

go to Harry's one more time. What's

52:46

that promo code? It's Harry's.com. H a

52:48

R R Y S Harry's.com/J C E

52:50

to save these big bucks. And,

52:53

uh, I want to, did Harry invent this?

52:57

Is this the Harry that used to be with Harry

52:59

and David? They did fruit.

53:01

Now he's gone into shaving. We have not yet

53:03

been able to determine if there is an actual

53:05

Harry or if Harry is supposed

53:08

to be because it's a play on the

53:10

word Harry apocryphal. We don't

53:12

know. So we, uh, we

53:15

are determined to find out in this ongoing

53:17

series, the search for Harry's the search for

53:19

Harry right

53:21

here, right here. Well, we got to go off from

53:23

here. We did the promo code. So, uh, yes, we

53:26

did. I think we did. We did. I got to

53:28

get all this stuff back in the box now. Well,

53:30

let's get back in the box. And speaking of

53:33

in the box and interesting box this week for

53:35

Monday night raw, because of the weather affecting

53:38

everyone is smaller crowd than I guess

53:41

they've become accustomed to lately in

53:43

Little Rock, I believe for

53:45

Monday night. Yes. And

53:47

it was Little Rock that the

53:49

WWF at the time crew was

53:52

trapped in when I had my big sellout

53:54

at Christmas chaos in December of 2000 and

53:57

nobody could, they couldn't even charter a plane to get out

53:59

of there. there and

54:01

it wasn't great weather here, but you know,

54:04

we had a lot of tickets. So, so anyway, we

54:06

told that story before, but little rock is

54:09

not a place you want to be in bad

54:11

winter weather, apparently. Um,

54:14

and I, I gotta

54:16

be honest with you. If

54:18

they had to rewrite this one, I think

54:21

I liked it better that way. This

54:24

way. I mean, again,

54:26

you wanted to hear the people that were

54:28

talking to each other and to you talk

54:30

to each other and to you. It wasn't

54:32

like there was, you

54:35

know, it was star Kate 86 in terms of

54:37

the wrestling, but you

54:39

know, the people that, that mattered

54:41

were pretty much there. Were they not? I

54:45

mean, no punk, but that works right now, not having

54:47

them on every show and blowing that out because there's,

54:49

well, yeah, there are certain shows. You don't need them

54:51

on. I don't think he was needed on this episode.

54:53

What was he supposed to be there? Not

54:56

that I recall. Yeah. So I

54:58

mean, it's not like that. Y'all

55:00

gosh, punk couldn't make it. It

55:02

was not, you know, they've got

55:04

so many stars now and

55:07

so many soliloquies to

55:10

soliloquies. And they all get

55:12

to the town early. Oh

55:14

boy. I'll tell you, that

55:17

was one thing Vince was a stickler

55:19

on. If he would sit and

55:21

watch or he wouldn't sit and watch, but he'd

55:23

have the agent sit and watch, that was a

55:25

strong bow for a long time, just at the

55:27

back door. I like to sit and watch. And

55:29

all the guys quit now. Down

55:33

boy, down boy. But

55:35

strong bow would have a list if they, if you were

55:37

supposed to be there at two o'clock and you weren't checked

55:39

off and you got 15 minutes and then they find you

55:41

in that hole. Yeah. I don't know

55:44

now what time that the guys are supposed to

55:46

get the, the production has gotten so much bigger

55:48

and more complex. If we had to get there

55:50

at two o'clock for

55:53

talent and noon for writers

55:55

and production staff back in the day, what do

55:57

they do now? Five, six o'clock in the morning.

56:00

Fergie. Go over this thing. It's like put

56:03

not a broadway play. Any.

56:06

Know. It deserved a some business. Well.

56:09

Into a druid knit and it

56:11

never closes. But.

56:13

They open the show with this is wrong

56:15

for what January fifteenth I believe it was

56:17

on Met my God it's been so long

56:19

now. I've slept since then. But.

56:22

Are they were actually in North Little

56:24

Rock? Because here's. North.

56:27

Little Rock is as cat have taken over

56:29

because that's the part of Little Rock that

56:31

most people want to live in. We.

56:33

Used to go to the regular Little Rock. And.

56:36

And one lot of things write home about. Was.

56:39

One a lot. the furthest. East.

56:42

Town from itself, wrestling. Oh

56:44

No. No. Furthest east

56:47

would have been. Greenwood.

56:49

In Greenville, Mississippi. But.

56:52

It was the furthest. It

56:55

technically we didn't go any really farther north

56:57

out. Oh no, Green wouldn't Greenville on a

56:59

fucking liar and may be a little bit

57:02

farther north, but it might not be. But

57:04

that was as far north as mid South

57:06

when and Tulsa. Up there. But you know

57:08

what? I'm so. Yeah. I.

57:10

Type it. And if you

57:13

went dead any farther north east outside

57:15

of Little Rock, you were and impinging

57:17

on Memphis. But.

57:19

Anyway, nevertheless, I'm.

57:21

Here comes Cody. And. He gets

57:24

the chance in the woes and the

57:26

whole nine yards. and again I. I

57:29

hear this. I don't know whether I'm just crazy

57:31

or whether anybody else can hear it, but. His.

57:34

Cadence, the attitude, It's

57:37

dusty without the job and

57:39

bigger words. But. A

57:42

way that he's talkies. As I can see

57:44

it, I can hear it. And.

57:48

A he practices. it was a short little deal

57:50

after what he all want to talk about which

57:52

I think he could retire at this point. Is

57:55

the baby's face? Maybe.

57:58

In business doubt have been on one side of it. The

58:00

and Broncos on. A But

58:02

it they don't. They don't just come under

58:04

plans to hear that line, Do they. Know.

58:09

But. I guess he. You know, old habits die

58:12

hard. But. Anyway, he prefaced is that

58:14

this whole thing with the you know the

58:16

thing he came back for finish the story.

58:18

The. Royal Rumbles around the corner and

58:20

in. Boom! Drew.

58:23

Mcintyre Music and out he

58:25

comes and. Not.

58:27

Only is he actually interesting Now.

58:30

Instead of what was it two years

58:33

ago he's waving at fog and sword

58:35

curtain a goddamn fake ropes in his

58:37

him. Finish with this was the sound

58:39

effects rights. For. Glove

58:43

would he comes out. Now he's got

58:45

different facials, He's got a more Healy's

58:47

demeanor, but he's not drawn back and.

58:49

Threatened. To slap people are custom out

58:52

buddies. East changing

58:54

his attitude visually. As.

58:58

Well as is, you know the material

59:00

and what he's doing. Any good? Some

59:02

booze, but. He. Still, you

59:04

know he's in the middle layer, but. This.

59:07

Is A is a not just a

59:09

slow gradual change but also as he

59:12

change and. The. Promos: Now

59:14

he wrestles. he's changing his. As.

59:17

Howard Franco you say his demeanor

59:19

also. Instead of a

59:21

like the indie guys they got their okay now I

59:23

can. Cheat and yell at the

59:26

fans and change nothing else. He's. He's

59:29

a changing. A. Lot

59:31

a simple things that people can get and

59:33

pick up on subliminally. And.

59:35

East East talk and better than ever. Is

59:37

a you believe him now with this shit

59:40

Don't? Yes. I.

59:42

Do have been is the best stuff he's done.

59:45

Some. Stuff I've enjoyed the most that he's done

59:47

in Ww Ii. Just the last few

59:49

weeks the problem is at a certain point a

59:51

catches be. One. By one

59:53

he goes. everyone he have a grievance was. Very.

59:56

intensely states it is having said

59:58

that could happen And then the

1:00:00

other person just disrespects him and leaves. Well,

1:00:03

I'm not saying it's not got its

1:00:06

loopholes, but when

1:00:08

he was doing the promo, he

1:00:10

brought up that he and Cody, we

1:00:13

grew up in WWE together. They were

1:00:15

once the WWE Tag Team Champions, the

1:00:17

dashing ones. And

1:00:20

he said, yeah, Google it. And mercifully,

1:00:22

a lot of that stuff's been forgotten, but

1:00:25

when it fits like this, when

1:00:27

he's telling, they're telling the story. They

1:00:29

both left to go make

1:00:31

themselves bigger commodities

1:00:33

and came back because the WWE

1:00:35

called them. And

1:00:38

that's the point. So

1:00:41

this is history that's not only on the

1:00:43

WWE website, publicly acknowledged, if you want to

1:00:46

look for it, it's not

1:00:48

just insider website shit.

1:00:50

It means something for this story and

1:00:52

the way these people fit

1:00:55

together. And then he said

1:00:58

the last match that he had before he

1:01:01

came back to the WWE was with

1:01:03

Cody. Now

1:01:05

that may be the last match they want to

1:01:07

talk about, but you might know this.

1:01:09

This, when did

1:01:11

we start doing this fiasco together?

1:01:14

Probably the, before

1:01:16

I did the hall of fame in 2017, right?

1:01:20

Right. We started doing this together. I

1:01:22

started podcasting November, 2015. I

1:01:25

started doing your show, I think February, 2016. So,

1:01:29

but a point being, then

1:01:31

you remember this probably,

1:01:33

you know, put the memory buried

1:01:36

it with the other PTSD things in

1:01:38

your life. But I, when

1:01:40

I did that hall of fame deal, I was

1:01:43

already going to be in Orlando and the people

1:01:45

at what culture pro wrestling, the

1:01:47

big promotion over at England that was spending all that

1:01:49

money had brought me and Jim Ross over to do.

1:01:53

Uh, internet pay-per-view commentary in 2016. My,

1:01:57

My, my friend, the young Kenny

1:01:59

McIntosh and. Dixon of Your. Those

1:02:01

guys were working for them at the time. And.

1:02:05

A they did It is a couple

1:02:08

of good shows with major names of.

1:02:11

That. A Cody was over there

1:02:13

an oblique angle was there are

1:02:15

same kinda blah blah blah. So

1:02:18

they were going to do a house show. In.

1:02:21

Orlando, Wrestlemania Weekend.

1:02:24

And. Asked me if I would do commentary on

1:02:26

the tape. Long. Story short,

1:02:28

I did. It turned out I think they ran the

1:02:31

show because a lot of their. Feet.

1:02:33

Over our say local gas but a lot

1:02:36

of their home grown talent and themselves wanted

1:02:38

to just say they ran a show in

1:02:40

America. Gives is it like this fucking rec

1:02:42

center Gym. Sit out of for

1:02:45

maybe four hundred people in or two hundred there.

1:02:48

And they did have a the names they'd had on

1:02:50

these big shows that they didn't in England it was.

1:02:52

You see, I think it was a. Is

1:02:55

one those reasons why the company is not

1:02:57

currently promoting professional wrestling these days? Bizarre.

1:03:00

The one guy that was on

1:03:02

the show. That. Was worth it because

1:03:04

I saw. This. Local

1:03:06

Uk wrestler and that local Uk

1:03:09

wrestler and some guys from Florida

1:03:11

you know, and and. He

1:03:13

know it was fairly. Sad.

1:03:17

As it all of sudden ding ding

1:03:19

I'm doing announcing and outcomes. Drew Mcintyre

1:03:21

Etti Spoken Six foot. Whatever he's like

1:03:23

and build that he's got, The Amity

1:03:25

can work. And. Them and acts

1:03:27

How God damn it I came member who he.

1:03:30

Worked. With but I think that guy's gone on to

1:03:32

be and. Uk.

1:03:34

Nxt and maybe even in the

1:03:36

regular Nxt. But nevertheless, I

1:03:39

was was where the fuck is this guy

1:03:41

here Word wrestle at ease, work in this

1:03:43

fucking rec center. And. That was

1:03:45

the day he. Made. His

1:03:48

return debut if I'm not mistaken.

1:03:51

He. Went right across plug in. Town

1:03:53

and. Debut.

1:03:55

That night. So.

1:03:58

That would be the last mass anyone with. Cody.

1:04:00

But nevertheless, I'm picking it nits. Anyway,

1:04:05

So. Bad to the interview too late. Cody.

1:04:09

Said the Drew Mcintyre He had told him

1:04:11

all along he was a future champion and

1:04:13

he has been a couple of times and.

1:04:16

You. Know so Drew return the favor he said.

1:04:19

Cody. Keep doing what you're doin and you're

1:04:21

going to be the first member of your family

1:04:23

to hold that. Built.

1:04:25

Over your head or whatever. You.

1:04:28

Will finish your story. But.

1:04:30

Not before I finish my. So.

1:04:33

Here we go that we got

1:04:35

more conflict with this royal rumble.

1:04:38

There is this is like it Agatha Christie novel

1:04:40

At this point. And

1:04:43

Cody said we both declared for the

1:04:45

rumble. And. You could win

1:04:47

or jail so could win. Or

1:04:49

Cm Punk could win. But.

1:04:52

I don't plan on let that happen and

1:04:54

we both one the royal Rumble see can't

1:04:57

count anybody at is great. Andrew.

1:05:00

Gives him the advice be himself, don't proud

1:05:02

of smile all the time and use the

1:05:05

big words And. Be. The

1:05:07

real Cody. And.

1:05:09

Cody far as up and says I'm not an

1:05:11

act. Am. Grateful Bar for

1:05:13

my second chance at. All you do

1:05:16

is complain about years. It

1:05:19

again it's adults can have halfway arguing

1:05:21

with each other about something that. You.

1:05:24

Might believe if you are so

1:05:26

predispose. And

1:05:28

anyway, I'm. Drew.

1:05:31

As go through more gripes again with. Priest.

1:05:34

Because that's more of his making

1:05:36

excuses. Other people caused him things.

1:05:40

But. Baby A Baby. Basically.

1:05:44

Made. The baby out of

1:05:46

ab negative side: Dusty. Maybe

1:05:51

and toadies in said. With

1:05:56

basically. Oh

1:05:58

Drew goes Drew! There's

1:06:00

a media. The story

1:06:02

belongs to Drew Mcintyre.

1:06:05

And Cody says well enough if

1:06:07

it's going to be excuses and

1:06:09

grievances. And and finally he says.

1:06:12

And. By the way, our last

1:06:14

match who won Cody did aim

1:06:16

Boom! And again,

1:06:19

you've got Cody. You've got

1:06:21

Drew. You've got punked. You've

1:06:23

got Orton. You've. Got to.

1:06:26

You've. Got a variety of people.

1:06:29

At. The top of this card now

1:06:32

and they've all. even

1:06:34

though summer firmly baby faces.

1:06:37

They. Been set up to where they've got.

1:06:40

A legitimate reason to want to be territorial

1:06:42

about this thing. Other, they're doing a great

1:06:44

job. Pat Patterson would love this. What you

1:06:46

think I really like this or that is

1:06:48

a good opening. Another great segment where Drew

1:06:50

Mcintyre the punk one was really good. This

1:06:53

one I guess the Seth Rollins one to. Cody

1:06:57

hot I forgot about Franklin. Riga

1:06:59

Franklin in there to Cody is

1:07:01

better when he interacts with someone

1:07:03

and there's some. Tension. Between

1:07:06

them. Then. When he's just giving speeches

1:07:08

on his own, he does that well. My.

1:07:10

By the way, the you know. Sweaty. Guys

1:07:12

want to talk about He knows it's dead now he

1:07:15

can't drop. and he stopped because even now when he

1:07:17

delivers it is like. Saudi. My

1:07:19

part of our i did it ever do I used

1:07:21

to because. It'll. Just be silence. Now

1:07:23

he's gonna. Lose. Pick people up

1:07:26

and tone I don't know what. Was.

1:07:28

Rouge been good. You're.

1:07:30

Waiting for the big yield town

1:07:32

the big deal moment. I'm just.

1:07:35

Being. The big. Heal. The.

1:07:38

Veil Now Drew I'm not true, but

1:07:40

our Damien priests distal after. I'm obviously

1:07:42

on the show and that's the biggest

1:07:44

feel group on this program. Well, but

1:07:46

it's same point how long a priest

1:07:48

be in that group because there's tension

1:07:50

there and one would think that. He.

1:07:53

Wouldn't be the only heal and arrest them would

1:07:55

be the baby face if they if there's a

1:07:57

split so. It.

1:08:01

In the L they've they've somehow managed

1:08:03

to create all this tension among people

1:08:05

were There's a few things with the

1:08:07

Judge Monday I'm not a fan of

1:08:09

interacting with some of the silliness and

1:08:12

whatever. But. You

1:08:15

know sooner or later Priest will be the

1:08:17

one that they will get grumpy with or

1:08:19

something will happen. You can tell they're doing

1:08:21

this for a reason, but until then. You.

1:08:24

Know it's to their own benefit to be

1:08:27

together. And their self

1:08:29

serving. He also.

1:08:31

There's. A lot of things they can do and a lot of.

1:08:34

Moving. Parts and they've managed to make it

1:08:36

all can a half way make sense. And.

1:08:39

Is so many intriguing things in the Rumble?

1:08:42

Now. He did start think of a who's going

1:08:44

to make your grown when they come out. I

1:08:46

don't know. It's this person, not one of these

1:08:48

other people that are all in some kind of

1:08:50

weird conflict as never explore things. But.

1:08:53

There's a lot of inserted now Andrew. Has.

1:08:55

Multiple interactions, people punk promise to

1:08:58

eliminate him last. Last.

1:09:00

Week. Yeah. This.

1:09:02

The best I say supposed to imagine there's

1:09:04

but inevitably way to me. It's.

1:09:06

Just been weeks. And. It was the

1:09:08

former world champ you to be doesn't Brock Lesnar. Yeah.

1:09:12

But. He's interesting right now but

1:09:14

at he's been able to bring that into

1:09:16

because yeah was the tampered with no people.

1:09:20

So. He wants to to do it right this

1:09:22

time. And. You can read our. You

1:09:24

have to agree with that. And

1:09:26

and then right now there's no reason

1:09:29

to rush the he'll turn because if.

1:09:31

You can a know that you can't really trust

1:09:34

him, but you don't really know for sure what

1:09:36

it is. So. Fucked. Just don't let

1:09:38

it get old. But it's not old. Yes, He.

1:09:41

Just got to have been on to something like Classic W W

1:09:43

in stupid I go over some in the midst of this thought,

1:09:45

You know what? Just. Go feud with Seamus

1:09:47

for six months. But

1:09:49

you know what? This. ain't classic

1:09:51

debbie dvd more and i'm not talking about

1:09:54

the classic davita of eve the eighties and

1:09:56

nineties i'm talking about classic debbie to be

1:09:58

the past ten years and You

1:10:00

know, Vince has been

1:10:02

relieved. And

1:10:05

Triple H is obviously trying to make

1:10:07

at least some of this shit, not

1:10:09

all of it, unfortunately, to Zawa,

1:10:12

but most of it or some of it, more

1:10:15

adult and more like wrestling

1:10:18

and the personalities instead of just,

1:10:22

you know, Vince's weird bodily

1:10:24

function fetish gimmicks and things.

1:10:27

My

1:10:29

weird bodily function. Shit,

1:10:32

was that your bodily function noise?

1:10:36

I just relieved myself. I'm

1:10:38

going to sign myself to an MDA. You

1:10:41

know, I guarantee you if

1:10:44

somebody had told him the

1:10:46

idea that that woman had when she drove

1:10:48

cross country to fuck up

1:10:50

her astronaut boyfriend to make time she wore

1:10:53

the adult diaper, so she wouldn't have stopped

1:10:55

and pissed. If somebody had told Vince that

1:10:57

on pay-per-views, I bet he would have had

1:10:59

the announcers wearing them.

1:11:01

What is this story? You didn't hear

1:11:03

that? About the astronaut? Several

1:11:06

years ago, there was a goddamn, no,

1:11:10

I'm not swerving you. There

1:11:13

was an astronaut and there were two

1:11:15

of them. The woman was an astronaut

1:11:17

in training and they

1:11:19

had been in the space program and they

1:11:21

had an affair and I

1:11:24

can't remember the detail, it didn't end

1:11:26

well or whatever. And she went to

1:11:28

kill him and drove from some

1:11:30

ridiculous distance like Colorado or

1:11:32

Texas, nonstop to Florida, so

1:11:35

that she could try to establish an alibi and

1:11:37

get there and kill him and come back or

1:11:40

whatever. And she wore, eventually

1:11:42

confessed that she wore adult diapers,

1:11:44

so she didn't have to stop

1:11:47

to piss on the drive on the

1:11:50

way over there to kill the fellow astronaut. And

1:11:55

that's been the news. Yeah, again, another news

1:11:57

story that we missed here. I

1:12:01

don't know how you live without stayed

1:12:03

informed on the major news story hands

1:12:05

and pockets and astronauts and Handed

1:12:09

my pocket and the other one

1:12:11

is on the remote control What

1:12:15

was that so what was the voice?

1:12:17

I mean that's a lannis morassetti.

1:12:19

There was nothing Is

1:12:23

that her song I guess

1:12:25

maybe a song it's mine now I've taken

1:12:27

it over you sure have So

1:12:30

back to raw are we getting back

1:12:33

to raw so Damien priest confronts our

1:12:35

truth because he's been selling Judgment Day

1:12:38

t-shirts in the parking lot And

1:12:41

he's pissed about that until our truth

1:12:44

hands him a huge ridiculous wad of

1:12:46

stack of a hundred dollar bills like

1:12:48

you know had to Have

1:12:50

a sold-out super dome to make that much money

1:12:53

to parking lot if everybody bought one, right? and

1:12:58

So then priests is alright,

1:13:00

then just keep it quiet and don't

1:13:02

tag in tonight when it's miss and

1:13:04

you against me and Finn Because

1:13:08

our truth thinks since he beat

1:13:11

JD funco he's in the Judgment Day,

1:13:13

but the Judgment Day don't want him

1:13:15

around and Blah

1:13:18

blah blah sis boom by you get

1:13:21

Have I explained it to the people enough? This is

1:13:23

what I'm not Yes,

1:13:26

our truth is very funny gentlemen But

1:13:29

if they're supposed to be the top heel group This

1:13:32

is a little fucking silly isn't it a

1:13:35

little and they take it a little too

1:13:37

far later on do they not You

1:13:41

know It's so weird because

1:13:43

they're in the middle of serious stuff and then they always

1:13:45

go back to this Our truth

1:13:47

thing and I don't mind him messing around with JD

1:13:49

Funko and now you got me calling him that Shady

1:13:52

McDonough and Dom

1:13:55

Dom and Nick Mysterio, I guess those are

1:13:57

Dom and Nick those two guys. Yes Yes.

1:14:00

Is Nick okay? I haven't seen him around.

1:14:02

See, some of that I find funny, but...

1:14:04

Yeah. The idea that... Priest

1:14:07

hates him and he's like, here's some merch

1:14:09

money. He's like, oh shit, merch money. I've never

1:14:11

sold a t-shirt. Like, what the fuck? What was

1:14:13

that reaction? By the

1:14:15

way, the IRS is gonna see this video of

1:14:17

all this cash. Yeah. You can hand it out.

1:14:19

That defeats the whole purpose of a cash business.

1:14:23

So I don't know... Well, let's jump ahead

1:14:25

in the chronology of this, because we've

1:14:27

got to go to later on the

1:14:30

tag team match. There's more money being

1:14:32

bandied about. They almost did

1:14:34

the fucking match of me and Jimmy Hart and Bobby

1:14:36

Eaton. We had $200 and crumpled up ones. And

1:14:41

I got knocked out for it and the ring

1:14:43

filled up of 40 fucking people. They were throwing

1:14:45

thousands of dollars in what looked like legitimate

1:14:48

money. Might have been stage money,

1:14:50

but how are the fucking people gonna know? I'm

1:14:54

surprised they didn't have a few dive in there

1:14:56

to get a few stray ones. But the tag

1:14:59

team match that they had

1:15:01

was the Miz and R-Truth against

1:15:03

Damien Priest and Finn Balor. And

1:15:07

before the match

1:15:09

even starts, R-Truth pulls out... Again,

1:15:13

if there are hundreds, which they're

1:15:15

clearly on camera, it's

1:15:17

tens of thousands of dollars. And he's dropping

1:15:19

bills everywhere and he's pulling it out. And

1:15:22

he just hands some of it

1:15:24

to Balor. And then he

1:15:26

gives Dominic a wad of it. And

1:15:29

J.D. said, well, what about me? And he

1:15:31

said, your name ain't on the shirt. And

1:15:34

the Miz, who's supposed to be R-Truth's partner,

1:15:37

is standing there dumbfounded. So

1:15:40

then R-Truth

1:15:42

starts the match to fight the group

1:15:44

that he thinks he's in. And

1:15:47

Finn, who doesn't like him, attacks him. But

1:15:50

when R-Truth fights back, he apologizes.

1:15:52

And he says, wait, I'm

1:15:54

sorry. So then Finn will take over on him again. And

1:15:57

R-Truth will ask Priest, well, what's up with...

1:16:00

Finn, doesn't he know, I'm on your

1:16:02

side. Remember, Priest said to him in

1:16:04

that promo, don't tag in. Well,

1:16:07

he didn't tag in. He started the match. Right.

1:16:09

He never tagged out. So he never tagged in,

1:16:11

but that was the instruction. And,

1:16:13

and that's, that's what I'm saying. They go through

1:16:15

a break with this and they come out. They

1:16:17

beat up our truth for a while. Finally, he

1:16:20

tags Ms. Ms. Makes the comeback and

1:16:23

throws Priest over the announce desk. And

1:16:25

then as he's kicking

1:16:28

a shit out of baller, our

1:16:30

truth tags himself back in.

1:16:33

There's where he tagged in. And

1:16:36

then he hit the, uh, a big kick

1:16:38

on baller and then the, oh shit. And

1:16:41

it starts apologizing. And so

1:16:44

Ms. nails Dominic, our

1:16:47

truth nails JD off the apron. Priest

1:16:49

hits a knee lift on Ms. Our

1:16:52

truth goes to hit priest, but priest

1:16:54

turns around and says, whoa, I

1:16:57

thought we were friends. And

1:17:00

while they're interacting, Finn schoolboys, our

1:17:02

truth from behind, but our truth

1:17:04

kicks out and kicks Finn. And

1:17:07

then priest choke slams our truth and Finn

1:17:09

covers him. One, two, three. Yeah.

1:17:17

That's what this was. It

1:17:20

was, I'm just, this was, I, I

1:17:23

wish they'd elevate the judgment day out of

1:17:25

folder. All like this is what I'm saying.

1:17:28

There are fans who believe this is

1:17:30

WWE's attempt to make our truth. This

1:17:32

year, Sammy Zane with the bloodline with

1:17:35

his attempts to be involved with and

1:17:37

the segments that evolved from his involvement with

1:17:39

the judgment day. Sammy

1:17:42

wasn't an idiot. Sammy

1:17:44

wasn't a comedy goofball. He was in

1:17:46

that mouse trap match, but I don't

1:17:48

think he would have booked

1:17:51

that for himself. Sammy was the,

1:17:54

the little weasily hanger on that

1:17:56

ended up being kind of a.

1:18:00

A nice guy at heart with that hang

1:18:02

dog expression you couldn't help but think was

1:18:04

cute and wanted to pat him on the

1:18:06

head. None

1:18:08

of that, I don't think applies to our

1:18:11

truth here in this scenario. Well,

1:18:15

we shall. It's going to be funny when they, when

1:18:18

it turns out like, wait a minute, someone does the math. How

1:18:20

did he get all this money? And it turns out he

1:18:22

just emptied his savings because he wanted to be in their

1:18:24

group, so he just started handing him cash claiming they were

1:18:26

t-shirt sales, but there were no shirt sales. No

1:18:29

one bought any shirts. No

1:18:31

one bought the shirts, Jerry. Wouldn't

1:18:34

WWE legal shut him down if he

1:18:36

was in the parking lot selling bootleg

1:18:39

shirts? Well, isn't that the whole idea

1:18:41

is that it's preposterous on the face

1:18:43

of it and potentially

1:18:45

some racial overtones because he's

1:18:48

an African-American man hustling something out of the

1:18:50

back of his car in a parking lot.

1:18:54

I mean,

1:18:57

so you don't think he'll be Sami Zayn. He'll

1:18:59

be the breakout. There'll be the big thing where

1:19:01

he gets the title shot at the end and

1:19:04

he's serious. He'll, the only way that he's going

1:19:06

to break out is if he's sentenced first. All

1:19:09

right. Well, there was more to the

1:19:12

sentence that was what did I roll this week. Yes.

1:19:14

Um, well, they had Dominick

1:19:16

and JD Funco, all three of

1:19:18

them against, uh, Tommaso Ciampa and

1:19:21

Johnny same face. And I

1:19:24

love Tommaso, but life is

1:19:26

short. And if

1:19:28

they ever dumped Gargano, I would watch

1:19:30

Tommaso, but they went through two

1:19:32

breaks with this match and still only aired about

1:19:34

seven or eight minutes of it. But

1:19:37

they beat the baby faces

1:19:39

beat JD with the, he's on his knees in

1:19:41

the middle of the ring and they run and

1:19:43

give him a double knee lift from both sides.

1:19:46

That is a shit finish. The guy

1:19:48

has no bump to take. It

1:19:51

shows no tag

1:19:54

team continuity. We're

1:19:56

not talking about the fucking rocket launcher,

1:19:58

the double goozler, the. day device

1:20:00

and fucking whatever the fuck. We're talking

1:20:03

about running and knee lifting

1:20:05

the guy while he's already on his knees

1:20:07

and it... Anyway,

1:20:11

that was followed by a girls tag

1:20:13

team match, Playa. Would

1:20:17

you like to know what followed that? What followed

1:20:19

that? Well, there's still

1:20:21

tension back there with Priest, as I mentioned,

1:20:23

in the Judgment Day because Priest

1:20:26

is telling the Judgment Day that he had

1:20:28

talked to Adam Pearce about Drew McIntyre running

1:20:31

his mouth, blaming

1:20:33

him for all his problems. And

1:20:35

that's when old JD asked, why aren't

1:20:38

we beating up our truth? And Priest

1:20:40

blew him off and pulled out the

1:20:42

shirt money and said they should find him

1:20:44

and get their cut. And that's when they got their

1:20:46

cut later on in their match. But there

1:20:49

is... And Rhea is starting to get short,

1:20:53

temper, snippy if you will, with Priest.

1:20:55

Have you noticed? I

1:20:58

think she's the closest to breaking out of being

1:21:00

a babyface than anyone else in that group right

1:21:02

now. I don't

1:21:04

know because she's already accomplished it.

1:21:08

When she's on her own, she's a

1:21:10

babyface. When she's with the group, they

1:21:13

still love her but they will work with her

1:21:16

instead of hijacking the match. But

1:21:19

you know where we were then, Brian? No.

1:21:23

The nine o'clock hour, the all-important

1:21:25

nine o'clock hour where

1:21:27

you attempt to put a star

1:21:29

on and here comes our

1:21:32

friend Kaiser Wilhelm to

1:21:35

introduce Gunther. And

1:21:38

you can tell again they got confidence in this guy

1:21:40

and they see him at a certain level because they

1:21:43

put a live interview with him in the ring at

1:21:46

the nine o'clock hour and they're starting

1:21:49

to use Kaiser

1:21:51

more and better as a

1:21:53

little more serious threat on

1:21:56

his own in the wrestling ring. They

1:22:00

also make it a big deal when Guthar returns

1:22:02

to the show after what, a couple weeks off?

1:22:04

A few weeks off? Yeah. Yeah,

1:22:06

and Viola have been gone. All these things have

1:22:08

gone on. And

1:22:11

also he's the longest reigning

1:22:13

Intercontinental Champion. He's got the great

1:22:15

heel face, Dick York on steroids. We've

1:22:18

talked about it. He's

1:22:20

got comfortable now where he milks the

1:22:22

booze. And

1:22:25

his story is he's seen everybody argue who's

1:22:27

going to win the Royal Rumble. Well

1:22:30

last year I entered number one and

1:22:32

I was one elimination away from winning

1:22:34

and the crowd started chanting Cody. So

1:22:39

they've got people to point now where they're calling

1:22:41

for the matches they'd like to see. And

1:22:45

he said I lasted longer than anybody else

1:22:47

ever has last year and this year I'm

1:22:49

going to win and I'm going to main

1:22:51

event WrestleMania. That's what everybody wants to do.

1:22:53

There's another big star that we didn't mention

1:22:55

with Seth and fucking

1:22:59

Punk and Orton and blah blah blah blah blah

1:23:01

blah. And we have

1:23:03

even talked about Logan Paul and or

1:23:05

Pat McAfee and or

1:23:08

goddamn Taylor Swift. Who else they're going to

1:23:10

put in a ring this year? Ron Gronkowski.

1:23:14

Ron Gronkowski could show back up. And

1:23:18

then once that he'd said to Guthar and

1:23:20

said that that's his thing,

1:23:22

he's going to main event WrestleMania. Then

1:23:25

they recapped with a video the

1:23:27

event since Guthar's been away where

1:23:29

Kizer hurt Kingston and

1:23:32

hurt, yes hurt

1:23:34

Kingston last week. And

1:23:36

remember I said that fight had a little more room

1:23:39

to it. Kizer's trying to step up. He looks like

1:23:41

a fresh faced young

1:23:43

boy but he has a heart of

1:23:45

cold steel. And

1:23:48

so Guthar loved it and it showed

1:23:50

grit and confidence and courage well done

1:23:52

and he hugged. He

1:23:55

hugged our boy Kizer. And

1:23:58

I'm thinking well this is really going to end suddenly. Italy

1:24:00

New Day music. Ah shit.

1:24:03

And it's Woods, Corley here, Kofi,

1:24:05

so Kofi's out, but

1:24:07

Woods is pissed at Kaiser because he'd gone

1:24:10

too far. And

1:24:12

he challenged him for a match if

1:24:14

your daddy will let you. And

1:24:17

of course the crowd starts, who's your daddy, who's your daddy?

1:24:20

And Kaiser looked at him with that snooty

1:24:23

lee, you dead to challenge me, and he

1:24:25

accepted. But

1:24:27

then the only thing, did you

1:24:29

notice what immediately happened then? I'm

1:24:33

trying to, did they go to commercial first or did

1:24:35

he start beating up Kaiser first and then they went

1:24:37

to commercial and then started the match? Well

1:24:39

they fought and went to commercial, but

1:24:42

it was Gunther's interview. And

1:24:45

Gunther and Kaiser

1:24:47

are standing side by side. And

1:24:50

as soon as Woods comes out and makes the challenge. And

1:24:54

Kaiser except Gunther disappeared, you

1:24:56

didn't seem leave. He was

1:24:58

never referred to again. He

1:25:00

vaporized, vanished. How

1:25:04

would it have hurt this fucking match

1:25:07

if Gunther would

1:25:10

have stayed at ringside and at least gotten

1:25:12

kicked out by the referee or had a

1:25:14

reason to just, if he's so

1:25:16

proud of the guy, wouldn't he want to watch him beat the

1:25:18

other member of the team? You

1:25:21

would think so. There's no logic there. They

1:25:23

just set it up for that to happen. So

1:25:27

anyway, Woods

1:25:29

and Kaiser start fighting and go to the

1:25:32

floor and the referee tells Woods get in

1:25:34

the ring and they go

1:25:36

to the break and Gunther, as I said, was

1:25:38

gone. So they come

1:25:40

back and they have like a five minute

1:25:43

match or whatever and then go through another

1:25:45

break. And finally

1:25:47

they end up in a fight on the floor and it's a

1:25:49

double count out because this isn't supposed to be a, you know,

1:25:52

main event pay-per-view match. It's on free TV

1:25:54

and it's an angle and

1:25:58

Woods throws the stairs at Kaiser. And

1:26:00

Kaiser ducks and bails out over the

1:26:02

rail and the referee holds Woods back.

1:26:06

And that was kind of a, you know, the flat finish.

1:26:08

I would have preferred to see a little bit more rough

1:26:11

brawling like we got last week, but they

1:26:13

just got out of it with a double

1:26:15

countout and let the heel run off. And

1:26:17

then after

1:26:20

they come back from the break, they're

1:26:22

in the back and there's Woods and

1:26:24

Kaiser jumps him again. And

1:26:27

then Jey Uso pulls him off. So

1:26:30

they, they had me up to the,

1:26:34

the finish didn't have to be, as I

1:26:38

said, a main event, goddamn finish with 47

1:26:41

false finishes and whatever.

1:26:44

They were doing an angle, but it was flat

1:26:46

when they got to it. The double countout I

1:26:48

wouldn't, I didn't have a problem with if it

1:26:50

was as violent and chaotic as

1:26:52

it was last week, but instead it was like,

1:26:55

the heel's going to run. And that,

1:26:57

that was what I was disappointed with. Yeah,

1:27:00

I thought it was the perfect opportunity to

1:27:02

give Kaiser a really strong quick win over

1:27:05

someone after the incident last week with Kofi.

1:27:08

Unfortunately, if he does it to both members of the New

1:27:10

Day, unless it's setting up Big E coming back to defeat

1:27:12

him, you're not really setting up anything other than killing

1:27:14

the New Day. I don't know if that's what they

1:27:17

want to do right now. When

1:27:19

you saw the highlight clips of just the, I

1:27:21

guess, post-match stuff with him and Kofi

1:27:24

last week, man, he really did look strong. But...

1:27:29

Eh. Yeah, I don't know about this. Well,

1:27:33

Jim, well, go ahead. Well,

1:27:35

I'm just baby steps, baby steps.

1:27:37

Maybe sooner or later he'll actually

1:27:39

beat somebody. Well, Jim, perhaps

1:27:41

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1:27:44

very logical. Maybe he went in the back

1:27:46

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1:27:48

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1:27:53

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1:27:55

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1:27:57

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not heard that one before.

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mommy chance going and

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she just, she warns whoever wins the Royal

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me, if you want to, if

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thing, pick me because else wise mommy's

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always on top and

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for refrigerator jacks, you're going to

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the refrigerator, the ice maker is going to be

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dropping the ice. You're going to hear the clink,

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clink, clink, clink. And then the forklift bringing in

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the sides of beef, but

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instead it's Becky music for Becky

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Lynch, the man. And

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she does her entrance with her. Whoa,

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music, whoa. And

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she's a pretty strong talker also, and Rhea,

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of course, is the best at everything in

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the world of women's wrestling. So this

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was worth listening to. And Becky

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told the story, we've both gone

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from afterthoughts to the

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faces of the industry. One of us even

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main evented at WrestleMania, the other did

1:38:25

not. One has the

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strength of a bear, the other the heart of a

1:38:29

lion. And

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potentially maybe there's somebody out there with the smell

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of a skunk, we don't know. And

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Becky's story is part of her thinks

1:38:40

that Rhea may be better than her,

1:38:43

so she's got to beat her and

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prove that she's not. And

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she needs to win the Rumble so it

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can be Mommy versus the man. When

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Rhea fires back up, I want you to win

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too. Because

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I want to beat you. I'll see you at

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WrestleMania. They're even making

1:39:02

the women shit interesting. I

1:39:05

know that's a ridiculous

1:39:08

statement for me to make, but

1:39:11

Rhea Ripley, Becky Lynch, the promos, who's going

1:39:13

to win the Rumble, who's going to challenge

1:39:15

for whatever the fuck? I'll go for that.

1:39:17

Will you not go for that? I

1:39:20

know it's an interesting and new matchup, Becky

1:39:23

and her. It would be

1:39:25

very interesting to see how the crowd's going to

1:39:27

react to both of them doing stuff together and

1:39:29

again, more intrigue for the Royal Rumble, even if

1:39:31

it's the women. I bet you that the crowd

1:39:33

would react heavily to the two of them doing

1:39:35

stuff together. I'm talking about it. We're

1:39:37

trying to keep professional here. Yeah we are, Mr. Hefner.

1:39:40

I don't know why you have to always drag everything into the toilet.

1:39:44

I've got a big bathroom. There's plenty of room in

1:39:46

there to move around. Thank

1:39:50

you. Thank you very much. The

1:40:02

end of the Civil War was

1:40:04

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1:40:07

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1:40:25

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a boom. Alright,

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well we are back here with the uh...

1:40:50

You gave me the intro, so

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I had to do it. We certainly handled the

1:40:55

outro too. Were we done

1:40:57

with Rhea vs. Becky? I'm not

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even sure. Yes, we were very

1:41:01

interesting. Very interesting. Was there more?

1:41:04

Yes, we talked about the Miz

1:41:06

and R-Truth situation earlier when we

1:41:08

were to keep the continuity

1:41:10

of that and after

1:41:13

that they had another girls tag

1:41:15

team match playa and

1:41:17

then it was time for our main event, the

1:41:20

match that Tony

1:41:22

Khan did more to promote

1:41:24

than any match that

1:41:27

he's actually presented in the past several years.

1:41:30

Gender Mayhall and Seth

1:41:32

Franklin Rollins for the whatever

1:41:35

world title they call this one that

1:41:37

Roman doesn't have. Mahal? No,

1:41:41

the world title. No, not Mayhall, it's Mahal.

1:41:43

You call them Mayhall. It's Mahal. I

1:41:45

thought you said world Mahal instead of world title. That's

1:41:48

actually when Nia Jax was yelling when she heard her hole. She

1:41:50

was actually calling for her friend. Mahal! Oh,

1:41:53

that's what it was. We just missed that. Well,

1:41:55

she's from South Samoa, so she pronounces it like

1:41:57

I do. Anyway,

1:42:01

so, and by the way, gender

1:42:04

May Hall's entrance with Indus Sheer,

1:42:06

the industry, uh, uh,

1:42:10

his stooges, the

1:42:12

only thing worse than rap music is

1:42:14

rap music in Punjabi, I believe that

1:42:16

is the language. That

1:42:19

was some loud, annoying music

1:42:21

that they played for this gentleman. And

1:42:24

they sped it up this week

1:42:27

because the, the, the

1:42:29

first entrance started at 10

1:42:31

38 PM and the bell rang for the match at only 10

1:42:33

46. They got the thing

1:42:35

in the ring in eight minutes. Unbelievable. And

1:42:39

here that we know why that this match

1:42:42

got all the attention. And

1:42:46

not only did gender come out and do a good

1:42:48

job with the rock in that thing. And then he

1:42:50

came out and did a lesser job with

1:42:52

Seth cause they white washed some of

1:42:55

his material, but then

1:42:57

Tony made it a big deal. And of course

1:42:59

over on in his

1:43:02

bodega over on the other side of the

1:43:04

town square, he decided to have hook challenge

1:43:08

Samoa Joe for the

1:43:10

their version of the world title. More on that later,

1:43:14

but the only

1:43:16

thing I was thinking, cause I don't remember us

1:43:18

paying a lot of attention to gender and he

1:43:20

hadn't been around in a while on a regular

1:43:23

basis and are used in a

1:43:25

prominent position, whatever. But

1:43:27

I thought with all this attention and the

1:43:29

way they're obviously giving him another chance at

1:43:31

this, if he can

1:43:33

just work, well, this'll

1:43:35

be just swell. Right.

1:43:41

It didn't stink. But

1:43:45

as mama Cornette used to say, it wasn't

1:43:47

nothing to write home from summer camp about

1:43:50

he kind of does the, the

1:43:53

basic kind of shit that you could do and get

1:43:55

by with it. Doesn't he? He's

1:43:59

no. especially flashy

1:44:01

in the ring and he doesn't do any of

1:44:04

the basics in such a way that stands

1:44:07

out. Yeah, he got the size, he's got

1:44:09

the look, he looks like a mean old

1:44:12

fella. He's got the promo. And he's got

1:44:14

the promo. But

1:44:16

if this was what Seth can get, I'm

1:44:19

not sure that maybe they didn't make the

1:44:21

right decision a while back. But we will

1:44:23

see. Nevertheless, they

1:44:26

opened and this is this long-awaited Made of It

1:44:28

world title match. They open up hot with a

1:44:30

flurry, they go to the floor. Seth

1:44:33

yells at the heel stooges, priest starts coming

1:44:35

down with the briefcase and they go to

1:44:37

break in two minutes. And

1:44:41

they came back, they had eight minutes left on

1:44:43

the air. So obviously they didn't

1:44:46

think that they needed to leave him out there

1:44:49

all night. And

1:44:51

Jinder was working an abdominal stretch.

1:44:54

And that's, you know, they

1:44:56

had a stagey forearm exchange.

1:44:58

Seth hit a big crossbody off

1:45:01

the top, big centaur

1:45:03

and moonsault, sold

1:45:05

his legs so when he hit the pedigree his

1:45:07

bad knee went out. The

1:45:10

heels got a rope break for Jinder and

1:45:13

Seth dove on a stooge. And

1:45:18

that was pretty much it. They're both selling.

1:45:20

Seth misses a splash off the top and

1:45:22

they're both selling. And

1:45:25

priest stands up like he's going to cash

1:45:28

in something. But there's Drew at ringside suddenly

1:45:30

and they get the fight. So now we

1:45:32

got something going on. And

1:45:36

at that point, Jinder nutshot Seth and hits

1:45:38

a finish on him, gets a two count.

1:45:41

And then one of his stooges draws the referee

1:45:43

and the other one slides a chair in, but

1:45:45

already their timing is off and I don't know

1:45:47

what the fucks. One forgot

1:45:50

to draw the ref before the other was looking

1:45:52

for the chair. I don't know. But

1:45:55

basically Seth knocked Jinder down when

1:45:57

he had the chair. other

1:46:00

stooge hit Seth with the briefcase

1:46:02

that Priest had left behind

1:46:04

when he and Drew fought off and

1:46:08

then gender hit his finish but only got a

1:46:10

two count. So

1:46:12

then by the

1:46:14

way they've now got like a minute on the air, the

1:46:17

referee kicks the heels out of

1:46:19

ringside but before

1:46:21

they can even leave and that can settle

1:46:23

in Seth hit a curb stomp one, two,

1:46:25

three. So

1:46:29

the build of this thing from both

1:46:32

the WWE and AEW was very

1:46:34

good but

1:46:36

the match was eeee and the timing

1:46:39

of the finish and

1:46:41

the execution of same looked like a mess

1:46:43

to me. They got the

1:46:45

three count in about 10 seconds before they went off

1:46:47

the air but it was

1:46:49

just shit was just happening it the

1:46:53

execution looked a little odd

1:46:55

to me and

1:46:57

there was that. Yeah

1:47:00

there was that. I mean there was that. You

1:47:02

know they did the thing with him in the rock, got

1:47:05

a lot of attention. He did such a good

1:47:07

job that even though the rock just squashed him,

1:47:09

treated him like a jobber after everything, you kind

1:47:13

of got past it to see what's next. What are they gonna

1:47:15

do? The

1:47:17

Rowan stuff, the talking part

1:47:19

was good but then it's turned

1:47:22

into this and then the bell rang. Well

1:47:25

the other problem is now that he's lost to Rollins

1:47:27

after this to really, you know,

1:47:29

it's like you went to the WWF and you worked your way

1:47:31

up and then you got to work with Bruno and then you

1:47:33

lost and you worked your way down. Like where the hell? You've

1:47:36

seen him lose now. He's even treated like a jobber by the

1:47:38

rock and now Rollins

1:47:40

just beat him. He's got his

1:47:42

tag team which everyone forgot about and

1:47:45

they helped him here and he still couldn't win. I mean

1:47:49

do you think he should have won? No

1:47:51

but what I'm saying is that not

1:47:54

only did they illustrate that he didn't win but

1:47:56

that he had extra help and

1:47:58

still couldn't win. I mean how one

1:48:01

sided do you want to make it? And

1:48:04

no, he shouldn't, especially after this match, he

1:48:06

should not have beat Seth Rollins for the

1:48:08

title, but he was again,

1:48:11

his stooges were foiled,

1:48:13

Seth survived and a foreign

1:48:15

object fucking blow and

1:48:17

then came back and hit his finish one

1:48:19

time, one, two, three, you know, it wasn't

1:48:23

real close here for too long. All

1:48:27

right. Well, that was WWE raw. And

1:48:30

boy, was it. But

1:48:32

again, stars, unfortunately,

1:48:35

gender may not, you

1:48:38

know, join the pantheon of immortals like

1:48:40

the Ortons and the punks

1:48:42

and the fucking Romans is and all

1:48:45

this stuff, but they've still got stars,

1:48:48

stars, stars, stars, stars. And,

1:48:50

and we just want them to talk to us. That's all

1:48:52

we want them to do. Well,

1:48:54

Jim, something that a lot of

1:48:57

the listeners sent in and they want to get

1:48:59

your opinion on, let's go to it now. The

1:49:02

website cage match has received a lot of

1:49:04

attention over the last

1:49:06

little while, not from anything they've done. I

1:49:08

mean, it's just, yeah, it's a fan website

1:49:11

just doing their thing. It's that Tony Khan

1:49:14

and Dave Meltzer, Dave Meltzer has used cage

1:49:16

match to justify his match ratings when people

1:49:18

have questioned them saying, well, we'll get everyone

1:49:20

else's did just like mine. And

1:49:23

Tony Khan has used it to justify his booking

1:49:26

and the quality of his shows. They've

1:49:29

received a lot of attention. Like I said, they didn't do anything.

1:49:31

They're just fans. You know,

1:49:33

some are with it. Some aren't, but there are fans

1:49:35

on a website, keeping track

1:49:38

of things. They released this

1:49:40

this past week. I

1:49:42

don't know the actual person. Oh, Matt Max

1:49:44

is the author. You

1:49:47

know who this is aimed at. I

1:49:50

do not believe I have to do this, but

1:49:52

with the unnecessary amount of news and attention

1:49:54

that we have received over the last few

1:49:56

weeks, the amount of tribalism

1:49:59

between WWE. and AEW trolls

1:50:01

has re-intensified. I

1:50:04

wish all of you idiots step on

1:50:06

the Legos for the rest of your days.

1:50:10

Here's the new rule. No

1:50:12

mention of AEW or Tony

1:50:14

Khan or similar topics in

1:50:17

comments about WWE promotion, shows,

1:50:19

titles, matches, or

1:50:21

contracted wrestlers, neither directly

1:50:24

or indirectly. B,

1:50:27

no mention of WWE

1:50:29

or Triple H or Vince

1:50:32

McMahon or Nick Khan or

1:50:34

Shawn Michaels in comments about

1:50:36

AEW promotion, shows, titles,

1:50:39

matches, or contracted wrestlers, again,

1:50:41

neither directly

1:50:43

or indirectly. I

1:50:46

will leave it at my discretion to

1:50:49

extend this list of, and this

1:50:51

is in quotes, contextually banned words

1:50:55

without further announcement. The

1:50:58

vast majority of the community gets it and

1:51:00

I will protect this community and our

1:51:03

ideals. Non-compliance

1:51:05

with the new rule may

1:51:07

lead to one-time warnings or

1:51:10

direct bans, depending on

1:51:12

the severity and comment

1:51:14

history. I

1:51:16

am sick and tired of you people. Again,

1:51:21

you know who this is aimed at. Stop

1:51:24

dragging us into a painfully

1:51:26

unnecessary and embarrassing flame war

1:51:29

between two fucking

1:51:31

world-sized companies. The

1:51:35

next step is to lock down WWE and

1:51:37

AEW ratings to long-term registered

1:51:39

users and I don't fucking

1:51:41

care if half of you leave at that point. The

1:51:45

stage match was a lot of fun when

1:51:47

we were small and unknown and

1:51:49

I much prefer fun and small

1:51:52

over big and hateful any day. No

1:51:55

money is made with this website off

1:51:57

of any of you clowns and more people.

1:52:00

people just cost me more

1:52:02

each month for maintenance and hosting

1:52:05

so I don't give a shit

1:52:08

about the pay kit.

1:52:10

Personal note, I

1:52:13

just gave out warnings for the gender

1:52:15

wrongons match where people were not commenting

1:52:17

about the match but making

1:52:19

it about WWE vs AEW

1:52:21

or themselves. I

1:52:23

genuinely do not understand how these

1:52:26

people can call themselves

1:52:28

wrestling fans. I genuinely

1:52:30

don't. So

1:52:32

one of the people I guess who either runs

1:52:35

it or sounds like he runs it, Matt Max. Here's

1:52:38

the thing we never said, to

1:52:41

my knowledge, nobody's ever said there shouldn't

1:52:43

be a cage match website and these

1:52:45

fans shouldn't do these

1:52:47

things. We

1:52:49

were talking about the preposterosity

1:52:53

of Tony Khan

1:52:56

and or Uncle Dave citing

1:52:58

a small, as the guy said, we

1:53:00

liked it better, we were small, small

1:53:04

fan website of

1:53:06

fans who like

1:53:08

a particularly niche

1:53:10

product of wrestling. And they've

1:53:13

got every right to have their

1:53:15

website and rate their matches that they like

1:53:17

the way they like it. But when you

1:53:19

have the heads of, as

1:53:22

he said, world-size fucking companies,

1:53:26

markish enough to believe that

1:53:28

that makes a difference

1:53:30

which even this guy obviously knows doesn't

1:53:32

and doesn't want it to. It doesn't

1:53:34

make a difference in the business overall.

1:53:36

It's just the

1:53:41

people that are most predisposed to say

1:53:43

good things about Tony Khan, that's why

1:53:45

he cites it. That's why Uncle Dave

1:53:47

cites it. But

1:53:50

this guy is like, leave us out

1:53:52

of this. What the fuck? Because now

1:53:55

they do have people who have fuck cage

1:53:57

match. Well, cage match is a

1:54:00

website and you can say, fuck some

1:54:02

of these people individually, but they're just

1:54:04

rating matches. It's not their fault that

1:54:07

one of their ilk had

1:54:10

a father who was a multi-billionaire and decided

1:54:12

to give him all the money he'd ever

1:54:14

want to do his fantasy wrestling thing. That's

1:54:17

what, what has brought

1:54:19

their style of wrestling that

1:54:21

they like to the national television

1:54:24

audience, which is basically

1:54:26

fucking rejected it. And

1:54:30

that's why that those fans

1:54:32

that are most likely to go to cage match

1:54:34

like that stuff, so they're going to be mad

1:54:36

because their company is getting the shit kicked out

1:54:38

of them by the WWE, which does the kind

1:54:41

of wrestling they don't like. So

1:54:43

now they're all arguing with each other

1:54:45

on this guy's fucking website. Who,

1:54:48

as he said, just wanted to be left alone.

1:54:55

That's now the fans

1:54:57

arguing about this stupid

1:54:59

shit because of Tony are

1:55:02

driving the fucking guy that owns the

1:55:04

website or runs the website out of

1:55:06

his mind. The

1:55:09

fuck is it? Again, what happened was Tony

1:55:11

started citing it publicly because even though Dave

1:55:13

was that's different. Tony's the head of a

1:55:15

company. He's doing media scrums. Yeah.

1:55:18

If Vince McMahon had said, well, I know that

1:55:20

the buy rate for the Royal Rumble was

1:55:22

down this year, but the folks at cage match

1:55:24

said the matches were great. Vince

1:55:27

would have fired himself. I

1:55:29

don't know. One bought the pay-per-view, but Steve Beverly said we

1:55:32

did a good job. And

1:55:35

that was Jim heard back in the day. Yeah.

1:55:37

I see Beverly actually knew something as opposed to

1:55:39

a lot of people out there, but

1:55:42

Tony Khan brought it up. It became

1:55:44

a thing that people like the USA network use

1:55:46

to troll him. We'll

1:55:49

see where it goes from here, but you almost feel like

1:55:51

that's an open letter to Tony. God, leave us the fuck

1:55:53

alone. Stop mentioning. Yeah. I did

1:55:55

send the guy once again, the guy

1:55:57

with poor old cage match there. He's his. The

1:56:01

website is being bandied around in

1:56:03

a mocking way by the fucking

1:56:05

USA Network. He's

1:56:07

like, what the fuck? Leave me alone. All

1:56:09

right, Jim. Well,

1:56:11

on that topic, why don't we talk

1:56:13

a little bit about some recent retro

1:56:15

action figures, retro wrestling action figures.

1:56:17

I have a whole bunch of new ones here

1:56:19

at Last Manner in

1:56:21

the office. These are getting to be quite

1:56:24

popular. They couldn't make a retro cornet figure

1:56:26

because everybody agrees that my appearance has not

1:56:28

changed in 40 years. They

1:56:32

can dust my hair a little bit with

1:56:34

gray. You are the retro cornet figure. I'm

1:56:36

the retro figure, baby. Well,

1:56:38

first ones we have here, I have a

1:56:41

couple of new figures from the Hastel toy

1:56:43

gimmicks and grapplers line. This

1:56:46

one here is one I was particularly excited about.

1:56:49

I just put a picture of it on Instagram.

1:56:52

It is the new Greg Gerard figure,

1:56:55

AKA the artist formerly known as Oscar

1:56:58

from Men on a Mission. I didn't

1:57:00

know that was his name. Greg Gerard,

1:57:03

I guess, G-A-R-A-R-D. Well,

1:57:07

there should be like a phonetic

1:57:09

signal or a pronunciation guide on

1:57:11

the, you know, that's a sign

1:57:14

that maybe you're going really deep in the well

1:57:16

on the action figures when you have to have

1:57:18

a pronunciation guide for the fucking guy's name that

1:57:20

you're selling the figure at. Well,

1:57:22

you see the thing is, and again, Hastel toy

1:57:24

formally put out or formally, they're recently put out,

1:57:26

I think it's sold out though. The again,

1:57:29

I can't call them Men on a Mission, the Nelson

1:57:32

Fraser Jr. and Bobby Horne action

1:57:34

figures, fellas with a purpose. You

1:57:37

have those, you need an Oscar, you can't call

1:57:39

them Oscar. So it's Greg

1:57:41

Gerard. What do you think his finishing

1:57:43

maneuver is? Well, he

1:57:45

was a manager and a rapper. He never wrestled. He

1:57:47

didn't have one. And it comes with an accessory if

1:57:49

that's a clue. Oh boy. Um, the

1:57:51

mic drop. Son of a bitch.

1:57:54

He's finished his movement. No, that's not. microphone.

1:58:02

That's the first time on the first one you

1:58:04

got it. Wow. Do I have, where's, is

1:58:07

that a thing of what could possibly be even

1:58:09

stupider than the last round that we talked about?

1:58:14

It's a rowdy bunch of applause there. All right. Well,

1:58:16

put this, this doesn't stop. Yes.

1:58:18

It's a very small crowd.

1:58:21

So the mic drop was

1:58:23

Greg Girard, Girard's formerly Oscar.

1:58:27

His finish that he never wrestled. Do you

1:58:29

agree that if you're going to make a

1:58:32

Mo and Mabel, although under different names, action

1:58:34

figure set, you kind of need him? Well,

1:58:37

yeah. And see, that's the, the unwieldy

1:58:39

thing of not owning

1:58:42

your own name and or intellectual property

1:58:45

or whatever. When you try to capitalize

1:58:47

on fame that you had at one

1:58:49

point, if you

1:58:51

can't use the name, it's because a lot

1:58:53

of people, you know, they might remember, oh,

1:58:55

they're Oscar men on a mission, but Greg

1:58:58

Girard and he's got a microphone. We don't

1:59:00

know what the fuck. I

1:59:02

feel bad for Oscar. I

1:59:05

can still call him Oscar. Well, you can

1:59:07

call him whatever you want. You're not going to get

1:59:09

sued over it. I can call him Ray or I

1:59:11

can call him Jay or I can call him Raymond

1:59:13

or I could call him Raymond Jay, but I didn't

1:59:15

got to call him Oscar. Well, speaking of people who

1:59:17

don't have their names, I have the next figure here

1:59:19

from Hasseltoy. This is the

1:59:21

new Mike Drosse action figure. Ooh.

1:59:25

We can't call him Duke. So it's just Mike Drosse.

1:59:27

It comes with a garbage pail. And,

1:59:30

uh, what do you think his finishing

1:59:32

maneuver is? Well,

1:59:34

now wait a minute. Um, well,

1:59:37

the Dumpster Drosse, the slop drop

1:59:39

was the Godwinds. That's right. Uh,

1:59:41

the, the, the, I'm

1:59:44

trying to think, didn't he have a,

1:59:46

uh, some kind of garbage related finish

1:59:48

that he did anyway, but, uh, and

1:59:51

boy, again, what a rib, the guy gets

1:59:54

on national television and forever, the most famous

1:59:56

gimmick he'll have is that, you know, when

1:59:58

he gets an action figure. it comes with

2:00:00

its own garbage can. That's

2:00:03

a disheartening type of thing.

2:00:05

What, I can't remember what his finish

2:00:08

was. Well, the finish here

2:00:10

is the trash bash. No,

2:00:13

wasn't it the trash comp, but no, that was

2:00:15

trailer park trash that used the trash compactor. Was

2:00:17

the leg drop off the top rope? So

2:00:20

we're talking about this era of WWE and now

2:00:22

a lot of these wrestlers are being revisited for

2:00:24

people who, you know, it's really for

2:00:26

people my age who had the Hasbro's that WWE

2:00:28

Hasbro figures when they were kids, they're trying to,

2:00:31

everyone that wasn't made from that era, they're trying

2:00:33

to get in there and some other people. And

2:00:35

there was a reason why some of these people

2:00:38

weren't made. And I like Duke Drosi. He was

2:00:40

a very nice, nice guy and wish

2:00:42

he would have had chances as someone

2:00:44

else, somewhere else, but the gimmick was

2:00:47

not, uh, not cosmetically

2:00:49

pleasing. If someone approaches Tony Anthony

2:00:51

about a TL Hopper figure, should

2:00:53

he insist on also having a

2:00:55

dirty white boy variant? Boy,

2:00:58

how? Should it be an insistence? I

2:01:01

think it should be the dirty white boy

2:01:04

figure and the TL Hopper should be the

2:01:06

variant coming with its own fucking toilet plunger

2:01:08

for anybody to unstop their fucking brain if

2:01:10

they think anybody wants a fucking action figure

2:01:12

of TL Hopper. So

2:01:14

you say there's a chance? Just a

2:01:17

chance. All right, Jim. Well,

2:01:19

on the topic of these Hasbro style retro

2:01:21

figures, the company figure collections

2:01:25

has a line of figures

2:01:27

called wrestle something and

2:01:29

they have put out something and the question really becomes,

2:01:31

should you be getting a royalty on this? What? It

2:01:34

is Mosh and Thrasher, the headbangers.

2:01:38

Oh. And they come here, they're wearing skirts

2:01:41

and they have their t-shirts and it's a very good

2:01:43

job they did of getting their

2:01:45

face on here. It looks like them. Looks like Glenn

2:01:47

Ruth and... But now what names

2:01:50

are they using there? On

2:01:53

the packaging itself, Mosh and Thrasher.

2:01:55

Oh, because they were there before

2:01:58

the WWE or they... weren't

2:02:00

there before. That doesn't make any sense. They

2:02:02

were them instead

2:02:04

of they were there. They were them before the

2:02:06

WWE because I gave them the gimmick and smoke

2:02:08

him out. I have actually a little bit of

2:02:10

a description here and maybe this will answer something.

2:02:12

Mosh and Thresher have their first action figures in

2:02:14

over 20 years with Wrestle Something

2:02:16

Wrestler Series 1 by FC Toys.

2:02:19

Can you believe the headbangers have

2:02:21

been without action figures since the late 90s? These

2:02:25

figures have been in the works since 2021

2:02:28

when FC helped Chaz and Glenn

2:02:30

get the trademarks to

2:02:32

the headbangers Mosh and Thresher names.

2:02:35

So apparently they just didn't have it and

2:02:38

WWE didn't have it. Well, you

2:02:40

know what? I bet that WWE didn't

2:02:42

renew if they did at

2:02:44

one point trademark it because I signed

2:02:48

papers signing the rights or any

2:02:50

rights or the intellectual property or the gimmick. Over

2:02:55

to the WWE so that they could employ

2:02:57

those guys under those names. Because it was

2:02:59

the same thing with D-Lo Brown. Because it

2:03:02

was your intellectual property or Smokey Mountains? Well,

2:03:04

we were just calling it mine since it was

2:03:07

my idea and I just

2:03:09

was signing anything that would get them guys a job. So

2:03:13

basically I remember for Mosh and Thresher

2:03:15

and D-Lo I did sign something that

2:03:17

yes, you can have the

2:03:19

rights to this thing or whatever. So what do

2:03:21

you think? Should the creator of the gimmick be cut

2:03:23

into these figures? No, because

2:03:26

then you have to

2:03:28

determine the level of participation

2:03:31

that the creator may have had

2:03:34

because did he take

2:03:36

an instrumental and just write some words or did

2:03:38

he create a song from whole cloth or did

2:03:40

he just adapt something that

2:03:43

already existed and changed the tempo

2:03:45

or did he just fucking erase the

2:03:47

writer's name and put his own name on it? There's

2:03:50

all kinds of stages

2:03:52

of – so just ideas,

2:03:54

concepts, where do you draw the line? No, once –

2:03:56

as a booker I always – thought

2:04:00

if I can give a guy a gimmick that he can

2:04:02

make money with then he'll, if he gets

2:04:04

to be a big star, he'll come back and do me a

2:04:06

favor. Jim

2:04:08

another of the Hasbro style retro

2:04:10

toys, the zombie sailor official wrestling

2:04:13

heels and faces figure line, just

2:04:15

put out a one man gang figure. This

2:04:18

has the tattoos on the side of the head as

2:04:21

well as, and I opened one of them here, a

2:04:24

denim jacket or denim vest with

2:04:26

one man gang 747 on the back. Once

2:04:30

again zombie sailor did a great job with this. When

2:04:33

it comes to the one man gang as someone who saw

2:04:35

him as Crusher Broomfield, were you

2:04:38

surprised when he

2:04:40

became not the one man gang but when he actually

2:04:42

got the one man gang look because he had the

2:04:44

name, yes, before the look but he was just a

2:04:46

big guy with long hair with like a

2:04:48

sea monster. And then all of

2:04:50

a sudden Gary Hart I guess got

2:04:53

him the look. Well

2:04:55

yeah, gang originally, he

2:04:57

was one man gang for

2:04:59

ICW, let me

2:05:02

try that again. He was, Ronnie

2:05:04

Garvin was the one man gang

2:05:07

for ICW, that's what his nickname

2:05:09

was and Crusher Broomfield was Crusher

2:05:11

Broomfield for ICW and in Memphis

2:05:14

briefly. Then when he went to Mid-South,

2:05:16

he got the one man gang

2:05:19

name but he kept the Crusher Broomfield look.

2:05:23

And then when he went to

2:05:25

Dallas and Gary Hart got a hold of him, that's when

2:05:27

he became the more modern

2:05:29

version of the one man gang that we remember.

2:05:32

And that was with the mohawk haircut and

2:05:35

the tattooed head and the fucking, the gang

2:05:38

clothing because

2:05:40

he was supposedly from Halstead

2:05:42

Street on the south side of Chicago.

2:05:46

And that's what Gary loved to take

2:05:50

guys that had talent,

2:05:52

natural talent and were capable of having

2:05:54

a look even if they didn't have

2:05:56

it at that point, he could see

2:05:58

what it was. Whereas,

2:06:01

you know, they were Crusher Broomfield and

2:06:03

when gang first got into business, he

2:06:06

looked like if a member of the Allman Brothers from

2:06:08

the early 70s was 6'6 and 350 pounds or

2:06:12

whatever. He'd just long hair

2:06:14

and beard and he was a country boy. But

2:06:18

Gary made him

2:06:20

a fearsome gang member from the

2:06:22

wrong side of Chicago and gave

2:06:24

him a backstory and get little

2:06:26

things like a moon, the one-man

2:06:28

gang. He'd

2:06:31

give the guys first names

2:06:33

or the proper hometown or

2:06:37

whatever to fit the

2:06:39

nationality or whatever they were trying to

2:06:41

get across with the gimmick. So

2:06:44

Gary liked to do that because it made it

2:06:46

more, it

2:06:48

made a bigger draw if the

2:06:50

guy was talented and it made it

2:06:52

more legitimate, more credible if

2:06:55

there were little details that were filled in instead of

2:06:57

this guy just looks like this and where the fuck

2:06:59

did he come from. So

2:07:02

that was when gang really got the...and he was still

2:07:04

a country

2:07:06

boy named George but he looked

2:07:09

like a goddamn monster, like he'd

2:07:11

kill you. At

2:07:13

his work at that point before inevitably

2:07:17

like Blackwell and like a lot

2:07:19

of the guys, Bambam Bigelow, that

2:07:22

size catches up with you quicker, age

2:07:24

catches up with you quicker than regular

2:07:27

size guys but at one point gang was

2:07:29

one of the most athletic workers in the

2:07:32

business even at that size.

2:07:35

You know it's a match I really like and I'm afraid

2:07:37

you're going to hate it because you weren't there and what

2:07:39

it meant and everything. But Big

2:07:41

Bubba versus one-man gang when Big Bubba

2:07:43

won the UWF title when Dustin took

2:07:45

over. Oh yes, yes. No, they

2:07:47

worked so well together. And

2:07:51

gang was like a five-year earlier version

2:07:53

of Bubba. They were both that size

2:07:55

but both moved like much smaller guys

2:07:58

and really understood working having

2:08:00

an exciting match. And

2:08:03

that's what that match was and of course they became a

2:08:05

tag team later on as Big Boss

2:08:07

Man and Aqim, the Twin

2:08:09

Towers. But

2:08:11

Jim, next here I have

2:08:13

some interesting figures. These are from the

2:08:16

WWE line of superstars. They're

2:08:18

kind of modeled after the, in

2:08:20

a lot of ways, the Remco figures the AWA

2:08:22

had in the 80s or even He-Man but with

2:08:25

more joints and stuff. But

2:08:27

I have here a Hulk Hogan figure. But wait a minute,

2:08:29

I thought this stuff is going to

2:08:31

be sold to kids too. Are they putting

2:08:34

drugs in the packaging? Oh no, I said it's like the

2:08:36

80s. So they have different joints

2:08:38

and different things. No. Joints in

2:08:40

the elbows and stuff but I have- Vials of white

2:08:42

powder in their trunks. Well here's something you probably never

2:08:44

thought they would make but it appears to be a

2:08:46

1979 Memphis Hulk

2:08:48

Hogan figure. Ha ha, I've heard about this.

2:08:50

It's Hulk Hogan, he has hair on his

2:08:52

head, he has blue boots

2:08:55

on and he has a black

2:08:58

jump suit of sorts. The only

2:09:00

time I've ever seen him wear this outfit was

2:09:02

that Memphis promo he did with Ed Leslie or

2:09:05

what was he at the time? Dizzy Hogan? No,

2:09:08

he was Eddie Boulder. Eddie Bouldy wasn't even Dizzy

2:09:10

Hogan, he was Eddie Boulder. They

2:09:13

were still brothers, they were the Boulder brothers. What do you think

2:09:15

of 79 Memphis action figures?

2:09:18

And well, I should maybe get something off

2:09:20

of that because that was obviously taken off

2:09:23

of the photos that I took. The only

2:09:25

pictures of Hogan in the Memphis studio, as

2:09:28

far as I know, I took them and

2:09:31

I've taken the various

2:09:33

rookie year pictures that you see with the blue

2:09:36

background and etc. But also you

2:09:38

missed one thing, the 79 Hulk

2:09:40

fit. Doesn't he have the

2:09:42

mushroom cloud? If I peel off

2:09:46

the little Velcro, hold on. They

2:09:49

put his chest hair on with Velcro? No, the Velcro

2:09:51

is for the shirt because you can't have it in

2:09:53

a real shirty, you have to find a way to

2:09:55

get it on and off these figures. He has a

2:09:59

very shoddy paint. job of what is

2:10:01

supposed to be mushroom cloud chest hair. Hey,

2:10:03

Fred, for those who don't remember and

2:10:05

never saw it, when his rookie year,

2:10:07

he had his chest hair

2:10:09

and stomach hair shaved in the shape of

2:10:12

a mushroom cloud to go up his chest.

2:10:15

So that's how you can tell the early year. So

2:10:18

yeah, gonna be a lot of demand

2:10:20

for that one. Where did

2:10:23

you think Hulk Hogan was gonna go, career-wise? I

2:10:25

mean, you didn't know where the business was gonna go,

2:10:27

but did you think there's gonna be a top guy or

2:10:29

this is just a flash in the pan? He

2:10:31

wasn't exactly stellar, but he had that look. Yeah,

2:10:37

but he

2:10:40

was so not natural and

2:10:43

the personality was not developed.

2:10:45

And I don't

2:10:48

know if I gave it a ton of thought one

2:10:50

way or another, but I knew he was never gonna get over here.

2:10:53

Because what he was doing was not getting

2:10:55

over with anybody, because they were both the shits,

2:10:58

they were green. I

2:11:00

don't know that I ever thought he would be the biggest star in

2:11:03

the history of the business. I thought, yes,

2:11:05

you can do something with a guy like this, but

2:11:07

boy, he needs to do it somewhere else because he's

2:11:09

killing this fucking show. But

2:11:13

then a year later when he kind of figured

2:11:16

out the personality and you can

2:11:18

look back now and Hogan's

2:11:21

work with today's eyes didn't look

2:11:23

that bad for a guy that size and a lot

2:11:25

of stuff he did from what,

2:11:27

81 through maybe 84, 85

2:11:30

and then he started really coasting. But

2:11:33

this was a... This

2:11:36

was Hulk Hogan where the promo

2:11:38

really wasn't very good and

2:11:41

his work not only was not good, but it

2:11:43

was awkward because he was green. So

2:11:46

there was nothing... You

2:11:48

know, a lot of people say, well, Hogan's matches were

2:11:50

always rotten, but the promos were great. He talked to

2:11:53

him in the building. These promos

2:11:55

weren't good and the matches were worse because

2:11:57

he was green. So that's

2:11:59

why it didn't work. in Memphis

2:12:01

and he was

2:12:03

helped in continental

2:12:06

because he had the run

2:12:08

with Andre or the matches with Andre, a couple

2:12:10

of them. And

2:12:12

he was used more because you know...

2:12:15

Didn't Billy Spears manage him too? Yes,

2:12:17

I believe for a time and also

2:12:20

he'd learned a little bit more about what he was doing because

2:12:23

pretty much after working under a mask

2:12:25

in Florida, Tennessee was the first place

2:12:28

he came. So

2:12:30

every then continental in that Georgia was

2:12:32

Sterling Golden in Georgia

2:12:36

and you know

2:12:38

it wasn't great but he was getting better

2:12:40

and getting trying out

2:12:42

gimmicks and establishing his

2:12:44

personality. So by the time... Well,

2:12:47

they brought him back here in 81 for that

2:12:49

match with Lawler but he'd already

2:12:51

started going to Japan and he'd already

2:12:54

started establishing a

2:12:56

national presence and had the heel run or

2:12:59

was having it at

2:13:01

the time in the WWF. So

2:13:05

it only took a couple of years because a

2:13:07

guy that looks like that but boy you couldn't

2:13:10

really tell he was going to be a good promo

2:13:12

or any kind of good worker during

2:13:15

his run here in Memphis. And the bad

2:13:17

thing was he was the one that stood

2:13:19

out more than his brother Eddie. Well,

2:13:22

on that topic Jim, I have here from

2:13:24

the WWE, I believe this is the

2:13:26

Legends line from Mattel, a brand

2:13:28

new Jimmy Hart action figure. Now

2:13:30

unfortunately this is Jimmy

2:13:32

Hart when Hulk Hogan first went

2:13:35

to WCW, babyface, wearing

2:13:37

orange and red with a giant

2:13:39

picture of Hulk Hogan on his back but

2:13:41

he's got the megaphone. So

2:13:44

Jimmy Hart action figure, what do you

2:13:46

think was Jimmy Hart's coolest? Well,

2:13:48

let me rephrase that. When

2:13:51

did he dress best? When

2:13:53

was he cool? Because it's almost like a Paul Shafer

2:13:55

thing. Paul Shafer was

2:13:58

like that nerd that... was kind of

2:14:00

cool. And then all of a sudden

2:14:02

he's wearing like sparkly jackets and he shaved his head

2:14:04

and he's, you know, he's very flamboyant, but he wasn't

2:14:06

like that when he was younger and you first started

2:14:09

to like him, Jimmy Hart, I

2:14:11

always thought look cool. And then he didn't, when do you think

2:14:13

he looked his coolest? Uh, well,

2:14:15

like you said, when the nineties, when he was

2:14:17

more of the hype man for Hogan and, and,

2:14:20

you know, the, the whole

2:14:22

suit was centered around Hogan's face

2:14:24

or whatever there, Jimmy

2:14:26

was more Jimmy himself

2:14:29

in Memphis. Because that was what he

2:14:31

was, he was putting together his clothes

2:14:33

based on what he could buy at

2:14:37

the rock and roll stores in Memphis and

2:14:39

the secondhand shops and being

2:14:41

more punk rock about it. When he got to

2:14:45

the WWF, he was making more money. He had

2:14:47

a budget he could have shit made, but

2:14:50

then it, you know, he had an

2:14:52

outfit to match everybody that he, uh, that

2:14:56

he managed or was, you know, associated

2:14:58

with, and at that

2:15:00

point it was all over the place. I

2:15:02

liked Jimmy Hart in Memphis when he was

2:15:05

dressing kind of like Jimmy Hart would fucking

2:15:07

dress. And I mean,

2:15:09

it was still the piano key, skinny

2:15:11

ties and the top hats

2:15:13

and the canes and the, you

2:15:15

know, the sequined La May

2:15:18

lapels and pocket flaps on a tuxedo

2:15:21

jacket with tails and shit like that.

2:15:23

But it was Jimmy and

2:15:25

he was getting all that shit around Memphis. Now

2:15:28

I would say either 81 82 or 84 85. Jimmy

2:15:32

Hart may be the coolest Jimmy Hart, but what

2:15:34

happened to fucking 83? Yeah,

2:15:37

he's good there too, but I didn't want to say what happened to 83 and 83

2:15:41

is the year when they were working him to fucking

2:15:43

death and he just started wearing it like a goddamn,

2:15:46

you know, prison orange jumpsuit out there every

2:15:48

night because he was working five times a

2:15:50

night and getting juice. Well, this

2:15:53

action figure here has a megaphone. Vince

2:15:55

McMahon was the one who gave him the megaphone. How do

2:15:58

you think the megaphone would have worked? territory

2:16:00

like Mid-South for a heel I

2:16:05

don't know whether Vince gave him the megaphone

2:16:07

or just allowed him to use it because

2:16:09

somebody had to bring up Wakamatsu, didn't they?

2:16:13

Remember OK, why Wakamatsu

2:16:15

in Calgary? Didn't he

2:16:17

do the megaphone before

2:16:19

Jimmy? Now I've stunned you. No,

2:16:23

I was on mute. I wasn't stunned. No, that is

2:16:25

a good point. The question would be how did it

2:16:27

get from him to Jimmy Hart so that it would

2:16:29

have been an idea that he used right

2:16:31

when he got to the WWF? Well,

2:16:34

very possibly Danny Davis. Danny

2:16:37

Davis and Ken Wayne spent a long

2:16:39

time in Calgary and also they were

2:16:42

nightmare and speed in the original incarnation

2:16:44

of the first family and Danny Davis

2:16:47

is one I got a ton of VHS tapes from

2:16:49

because he used to take his video

2:16:51

recorder and record everything. He

2:16:54

was an early wrestling tape

2:16:56

watcher. So

2:16:58

that could have been the pipeline. The point is

2:17:00

these things travel. That was

2:17:03

the perfect gimmick for Jimmy. How

2:17:05

would it have translated in Mid-South? It would

2:17:08

have been harder in the bigger buildings because

2:17:10

those things are not goddamn the PA

2:17:13

system for the myriad arena in

2:17:15

Oklahoma City but

2:17:18

visually it still works but

2:17:21

those crowds were fucking loud though. But

2:17:26

it would have actually

2:17:28

probably gotten just as much heat

2:17:30

as Jimmy did with it even more heat in

2:17:32

Mid-South and it would have also been handy because

2:17:34

those things are fairly sturdy so when you needed

2:17:36

to whack some motherfucker in the head, I've started

2:17:40

going through a number of rackets between

2:17:43

working with big guys like the Road Warriors and

2:17:46

Duggan, Dr. Death, those guys and then hitting

2:17:48

the fans all the time. I was spending

2:17:50

a lot of money on rackets. Megaphones may

2:17:53

have been more durable. Do

2:17:56

you think you would have had more heat if you were running

2:17:58

around ringside with a Megaphone? phone yelling? I don't

2:18:02

think we could have had more heat but it would have

2:18:06

been interesting. Well. And

2:18:08

I was yelling anyway that's what happened to my voice I

2:18:10

was trying to be heard naked,

2:18:12

naked-throated in the top row of the balcony. Well we've

2:18:14

talked a lot about it and we'll talk a lot

2:18:16

more about it in the future weeks. 40 years ago

2:18:19

you guys had a ton of heat and of course

2:18:21

we're talking retro figures what better way to wrap this

2:18:23

up and talk about the latest, the greatest, the

2:18:26

biggest announcement in the world of

2:18:28

retro figures and of course it's your announcement

2:18:30

to make. The retro kings because

2:18:32

we are retro and and boy as a

2:18:34

matter of fact the

2:18:37

big announcement, the major announcement, I made

2:18:39

it when Brian Solomon was on the

2:18:41

air instead of you. Did you miss

2:18:43

the part where I mentioned that

2:18:45

I talked to Stan Lane last week and

2:18:48

his mother Jean will turn 104 years

2:18:51

old this year? Wow! And

2:18:54

I mentioned to Brian Solomon that you

2:18:57

know she still lives independently

2:19:00

and she

2:19:02

had to give up driving I believe it was

2:19:04

a few years ago when she had a shoulder

2:19:06

injury and she was not happy about that and

2:19:09

if Stan ever mentions well you know mom you're

2:19:11

103 or anything that starts

2:19:14

like that she'll get mad. I'm

2:19:17

just as surprised I ever was but

2:19:20

I mentioned that I said here we are we've

2:19:23

talked about the action figures that have

2:19:25

been done for the 40th anniversary of

2:19:27

the Midnight Express and the four-pack that

2:19:29

was big hit with collectors a few

2:19:31

hundred still available at jimcornette.com but

2:19:34

I said when we

2:19:36

talked about the money going

2:19:38

to the talent we eliminated

2:19:40

the middleman and this is a

2:19:43

project from jimcornette.com and Cornette's collectibles to the

2:19:45

fans out there and so the boys are

2:19:47

able to share in the proceeds you

2:19:50

know Dennis and Teresa are happy

2:19:52

because you know Dennis has survived cancer

2:19:55

a couple times he's mostly retired now from

2:19:57

any kind of appearances

2:19:59

except... occasionally and this will help

2:20:01

them out especially with all the medical

2:20:03

bills that they've gone through and I

2:20:06

say obviously Bobby is gone but his

2:20:09

kids and grandkids who he's just had

2:20:11

a couple more grandkids show

2:20:13

up. You know it's

2:20:15

gonna help them but I said now Stan I'm talking about

2:20:17

a 70 year old man and he's

2:20:19

thanking the fans for purchasing the

2:20:22

figures because it's helping him plan

2:20:24

the rest of his mother's retirement.

2:20:28

You don't get to say that often.

2:20:30

Yeah that's that's crazy. So

2:20:33

I think of his genetics. Yeah how

2:20:35

long is he gonna live? His

2:20:38

father was 90-something when

2:20:41

he passed away so yeah so Stan's

2:20:43

retired from two different careers already he's

2:20:45

trying it now he's looking for a

2:20:47

third so he thanks you as well

2:20:49

but here's the big deal and I

2:20:52

know everybody's been waiting for me to get to the point. The

2:20:55

second part, the part two,

2:20:57

the final chapter of the

2:20:59

Midnight Express 40th anniversary celebration,

2:21:02

the only negative feedback we heard on the

2:21:04

four packs was I just

2:21:06

can't afford it because there's four of

2:21:09

them and boy we had the whole deluxe

2:21:11

package so tag team

2:21:13

sets are now going to be available. You

2:21:15

can get your favorite combination eaten in Lane

2:21:17

or eaten in Condrey or both and

2:21:21

these are the

2:21:23

same deal as from figures toy

2:21:25

company they come in display boxes

2:21:27

illustrated with photos and

2:21:30

they come with an autographed

2:21:32

photo along with the

2:21:34

action figure set personalized by

2:21:36

me to your specifications and signed

2:21:39

by Dennis and or Stan whichever

2:21:41

combination you're picking. I'm

2:21:43

gonna tease people more details next week but

2:21:45

there is again a very

2:21:48

limited number less than 50 of

2:21:51

pictures with the eaten and Condrey

2:21:53

set that Bobby signed before he

2:21:55

passed away and those are going to be

2:21:57

available and they'll go quick like the last ones did.

2:22:01

And also while we're at it, since

2:22:03

Tom had a contract with Figures Toy Company when

2:22:05

we were doing this particular

2:22:08

project, there'll be less

2:22:10

than a thousand of the Eaton

2:22:12

and Condrey and Eaton and Lane action figure sets.

2:22:15

As you'll recall, there were 2,000 of the four

2:22:18

packs and we've sold about 1,500 of those. So these I

2:22:22

expect to go quick but there will also be

2:22:24

a limited edition

2:22:27

500 sets of Stan Lane

2:22:30

and Tom Pritchard, the Heavenly Bodies, the

2:22:32

original Smoky Mountain Wrestling Tag Team Champions,

2:22:35

the picture on the back with the Smoky

2:22:37

Mountain Tag Team title belts, and

2:22:39

that comes with an autographed picture of

2:22:41

all three of us. And the

2:22:44

tag team sets start at only $99.95.

2:22:47

So it's for everybody's budget and

2:22:51

once these are done folks, and I'm going to have

2:22:53

more details next week on my future

2:22:56

plans but once these are done,

2:22:58

we're not redoing midnight figures.

2:23:02

I don't have another two-year project

2:23:04

in me. This is

2:23:06

the only place you can get

2:23:08

them. They'll not be available anywhere

2:23:10

else but jimcornett.com. And all

2:23:13

I can say is get them while they

2:23:15

last because this will be the final chapter

2:23:17

as I mentioned on the four packs in

2:23:20

our Midnight Express celebration. This is going to

2:23:22

be the last anniversary we do because this

2:23:24

is the last one that we started planning when Bobby

2:23:26

was still around. So we're trying

2:23:28

to go out with a bang and by

2:23:31

next week, the week of what? The 20... What is Monday?

2:23:33

22nd? 23rd? Something

2:23:38

around there. You

2:23:40

should be able to go to jimcornett.com and

2:23:42

there will be banners with pictures and complete

2:23:44

descriptions of what you get and what everything

2:23:47

looks like and everything

2:23:49

will go on sale Saturday

2:23:51

February 10th at noon Eastern

2:23:54

time and be standing by and

2:23:56

we're gonna try to organize with Hotchkiss where

2:23:58

everything goes up right at noon. Because

2:24:01

last time, I think he hit

2:24:03

the button a minute too early and people got upset.

2:24:06

But anyway, the Midnight Express eating in

2:24:08

Condrey, eating in Lane and the Heavenly

2:24:10

Body's Lane and Tom Prichard with

2:24:13

autographed photos and there's still going to

2:24:15

be some packages with the Milestones Midnight

2:24:17

Express book also. So

2:24:20

February 10th, they'll go on sale next

2:24:22

week. Check in at jimcornett.com and you'll

2:24:25

be able to see everything there. And the same

2:24:27

thing again as I mentioned, all

2:24:30

the proceeds will be split evenly

2:24:32

amongst the surviving Midnight Members

2:24:34

and Bobby's kids and grandkids.

2:24:39

All right, there it is, the Midnight Express action

2:24:41

figures. Will the Stanley figure come with a little

2:24:44

wig that you can put on the figure for

2:24:46

that? No, no, but we

2:24:48

were thinking about including several very tiny

2:24:50

bottles of baby oil, but we thought,

2:24:52

well, no, we thought better of that.

2:24:55

Well, Jim, of course, you are in

2:24:58

a wonderful position because the members of

2:25:00

the Cult of Cornet can go right to you, right

2:25:02

to your website, right to jimcornet.com and get those figures.

2:25:05

Bam, right there, right there. But a lot

2:25:07

of people may be thinking, you know, this is

2:25:09

a lot of good ideas. Maybe I can create

2:25:11

action figures of me and my friends or something.

2:25:13

Yes. You would need a website, you need a

2:25:16

store. I mean, they should look at what you've

2:25:18

done and kind of mimic that business model, right?

2:25:20

Well, this is complicated. I mean, it's complicated. You

2:25:23

know, you got to have the store, you got to

2:25:25

have the platform. You can't have the thing

2:25:27

crashing on you has happened to me in the

2:25:29

past. You can't have, you know,

2:25:31

just all this chaos going on. You need

2:25:34

people that know what they're doing with this

2:25:36

thing and not some fly by night operation.

2:25:39

It's very complicated. It should not be left in

2:25:41

the hands of amateurs. You need to go

2:25:43

to professionals on this thing. And that's why, that

2:25:46

we've said many times before, no matter what

2:25:48

you're selling, even if you're selling

2:25:50

like you're going to the electric chair, you

2:25:53

need our friends at Shopify because

2:25:55

shop us no matter what you're selling at

2:25:57

this time of year, it's

2:26:00

snow shovels, maybe it's

2:26:02

furry collars to go around your neck,

2:26:04

maybe it's those giant

2:26:07

Russian Cossack hats like Tony Khan wears

2:26:09

at media scrums to keep you warm

2:26:11

in this cold

2:26:13

environment this time. No matter what you're

2:26:16

selling, if it's pencils in a

2:26:18

tin cup or if it's Broadway

2:26:20

tickets or if it's, who

2:26:22

knows, giant automobiles. Build

2:26:24

your own cars and sell them

2:26:26

online, whatever you want to sell,

2:26:29

our friends at Shopify can help you do it

2:26:31

because they are the global

2:26:34

commerce platform that

2:26:36

helps you sell at every stage of your business.

2:26:39

No matter what stage of your business you're in,

2:26:41

whether you're in the oh my god we're going

2:26:43

broke stage or the oh my god we're making

2:26:45

so much money, we got to figure out a

2:26:48

way to cheat on our taxes stage. No matter

2:26:50

what, Shopify can help you

2:26:52

from start to finish because as I

2:26:54

mentioned they are the global leader. They're

2:26:56

a no excuses business partner. It

2:26:59

says that right here. No matter

2:27:01

what goes wrong they got no excuses for

2:27:03

it. That's

2:27:05

not what it means. What

2:27:08

does it mean? What? There's no

2:27:10

excuses. I got nothing. Sell

2:27:13

without needing to code. Shut

2:27:16

up now. Because we got

2:27:18

to do this. Sell without needing to

2:27:20

code or design. Just

2:27:22

sell the shit. People will run up and

2:27:24

throw money at you when you get one

2:27:26

of these platform stores here on Shopify. Just

2:27:29

bring your best ideas, even your

2:27:31

worst ideas. They can make anything

2:27:33

happen. If you want

2:27:36

to sell ostriches, they can figure

2:27:38

out a way to make them son of bitches fly. Listen,

2:27:40

that's not how it works and first of all I don't

2:27:42

think it's legal to sell ostriches

2:27:44

online on the web. Secondly,

2:27:46

they're not going to do it in person. If

2:27:49

you have a lot of door-to-door

2:27:51

ostrich salesman. If you have a product that

2:27:53

you have created or have the rights to

2:27:55

sell, you can create an

2:27:57

online store and they can help your

2:28:00

commerce. run freely or

2:28:02

run well. No,

2:28:05

they're not gonna make you give your shit

2:28:07

away. They'll actually charge for it. With Shopify

2:28:09

magic, you can whip up

2:28:11

captivating content that... It

2:28:14

never sounds real when you

2:28:16

transition to Shopify magic. With

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Shopify magic, you can whip

2:28:23

up captivating content that converts

2:28:26

from blog post to product description.

2:28:29

You can make shit and suddenly

2:28:31

it'll just change into something else.

2:28:33

Completely converting a completely

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different thing. Magic. You

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can generate instant fact

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You can pick the perfect email send

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time. Apparently if there's a time that's

2:28:52

better than others for someone to receive

2:28:54

your email and they'll just Bring

2:28:56

it then and shop

2:28:58

if i make getting paid simple

2:29:01

by instantly accepting every type of

2:29:04

payment every legal currency coin of

2:29:06

the realm anywhere in the globe.

2:29:09

Will be accepted instantly. Legal

2:29:12

tender. Any legal tender. Yes. And

2:29:14

they'll give you the rubles and

2:29:16

the rupees and

2:29:18

the sharpies and the coins

2:29:20

of various realms. And then good luck

2:29:23

taking that down to Walmart though. Those fucking

2:29:25

rupees, they can't figure out a way to

2:29:27

convert. But anyway, Shopify grows

2:29:29

with your business no matter how far

2:29:31

or big you grow. So no

2:29:34

matter how fat and corpulent

2:29:36

you get, they will still service

2:29:38

you until the inevitable

2:29:41

incomes and your arteries are all

2:29:43

clogged up. So marketing is made

2:29:45

simple by Shopify removing the guesswork

2:29:48

with built-in tools. They

2:29:50

send you an entire belt. You click it

2:29:52

on and the tools are all built in

2:29:54

right there where you can create, execute and

2:29:57

analyze. There's no bolts. You're

2:29:59

online marketing. campaigns. If you

2:30:01

execute something and it's dead, I

2:30:03

guess it's a post-mortem, you can

2:30:06

create, execute and post-mortem your online

2:30:08

marketing campaigns with Shopify and I'll

2:30:11

tell you what, Brian, it's cheap. It's

2:30:14

almost free like you said a minute

2:30:16

ago but they won't make you give

2:30:19

your merchandise away for free. They'll just

2:30:21

almost give this away for free because you

2:30:23

can sign up for a $1 a month

2:30:26

trial period, a dollar a month. That's

2:30:28

3.3 cents per

2:30:30

day but good

2:30:34

luck trying to cut that penny in thirds,

2:30:37

a dollar a month trial

2:30:39

period at shopify.com/JCE. Now this

2:30:41

is very important, the JCE

2:30:43

must be entered in lower

2:30:45

case because they put that

2:30:48

in capitals here, that's why I know it's important. If

2:30:50

you want to get this dollar a month trial period

2:30:53

shopify.com slash

2:30:56

lowercase JCE, if

2:30:58

you type it in capitals, not only will you

2:31:00

not get the deal but also something happens to

2:31:03

your computer, I'm not sure what. Screen

2:31:05

goes flat. You're not sure what because nothing happens

2:31:07

to the computer based on

2:31:09

anything you just said. Well just

2:31:11

follow my instructions if you want

2:31:13

to be safe. Error on the

2:31:15

side of caution, shopify.com/JCE to

2:31:17

grow your business no matter what state

2:31:19

you're in or stage you're in or

2:31:22

county country, I guess

2:31:25

they're all over the world. Well

2:31:27

shopify.com slash JCE,

2:31:30

see that's what's

2:31:32

gonna happen. Every time and

2:31:35

you'll hear this in your sleep folks because

2:31:37

they come and they install a loudspeaker in

2:31:39

your home so every time somebody buys something

2:31:41

from you, you get

2:31:43

the trademark cash register symbol and you know

2:31:45

you've made some money but goddamn

2:31:48

24 hours a day at the fucking

2:31:50

volume of a who concert, that'll

2:31:53

start driving you to distraction. Shopify.

2:31:57

That's right and who are

2:31:59

you? Who the fuck are you?

2:32:05

That's right. Well, I'm the host of the show,

2:32:07

actually. Yes, you are. I'm getting a

2:32:09

text message. From the sponsor already? Yeah,

2:32:12

no. Usually it takes them a

2:32:14

day or two to quit. Well, Jim,

2:32:17

moving on from this, I did

2:32:19

want to ask you a question before we get back

2:32:22

to a couple of wrestling things and AEW Dynamite. You

2:32:25

are right now living in an era where you don't have

2:32:27

a phone to hang up. Like if

2:32:29

you wanted to get into an argument with someone over the phone, you

2:32:31

don't have the

2:32:35

satisfaction of the hang up. No,

2:32:37

because now you just hit the button and it makes no noise.

2:32:40

You can't slam it. You

2:32:42

can't – you know, the Super

2:32:44

70 Sports Twitter account tweeted a picture

2:32:47

of this the other day. So,

2:32:49

boy, you got satisfaction when you hung up on a

2:32:51

motherfucker in the old days because you

2:32:54

had the big heavy handset and the big heavy

2:32:56

desk base. And when you got the good even

2:32:59

slam on it where you'd

2:33:01

get into the middle of the cradle there

2:33:04

without hitting the edges, then the phone would

2:33:06

actually go ding. And

2:33:10

that was some sense of satisfaction that, you know,

2:33:12

you'd hung up on a motherfucker. Now

2:33:15

it's just like, gee. If

2:33:17

you had a heavy phone, it was a

2:33:19

satisfactory hang that you got. That's why I

2:33:21

scream louder before I hang up now because

2:33:23

I can't make the point with

2:33:26

the slam. Well,

2:33:36

I actually had a – I didn't have

2:33:38

a smartphone, but I had a slammable cell

2:33:40

phone when

2:33:42

I was with Ring of Honor because

2:33:45

I would take that thing every

2:33:47

time we were at TV and somebody would

2:33:49

call from the office or somebody would –

2:33:51

I was on location and

2:33:54

somebody would call with some goddamn news

2:33:56

that – I remember the

2:33:58

big one in Charleston, West Virginia, was that

2:34:00

the legal department of Sinclair Broadcasting, who we've

2:34:02

now found out are a bunch of right

2:34:04

wing pieces of shit. So fuck you, David

2:34:07

Smith. I always wanted to say that your

2:34:09

smarmy looking face. He's the boss. Anyway,

2:34:13

the legal department from Baltimore,

2:34:15

Sinclair Broadcasting called me at

2:34:17

the building in Charleston, West

2:34:19

Virginia, to

2:34:21

say that one of the integral parts of

2:34:24

the like five or $6,000

2:34:26

sponsorship we had sold to Hooters Restaurant as one

2:34:28

of the sponsor packages that I'd gone over

2:34:32

and helped the sales department at

2:34:34

the TV station put together for this live event. We did

2:34:37

more in sponsorships. They did it to gate. So

2:34:41

you can't have the chicken eat a chicken

2:34:43

wing eating contest tonight. Why?

2:34:46

What is the legal

2:34:48

department? Is there's a liability? What? What

2:34:51

is, I never even got the goddamn word.

2:34:53

He said, well, we can

2:34:55

call them back and they could, I said, that's the

2:34:58

last thing I need is one of these fucking lawyers

2:35:00

calling me today at a TV taping when

2:35:03

all this other shit's going on. And

2:35:05

I said, what did you think? Somebody's going to

2:35:08

get a chicken bone stuck in their neck and

2:35:10

sue us because the wrestlers are eating the goddamn

2:35:12

chicken wings with them. Well,

2:35:15

we're not, it is a fuck you. So I

2:35:17

threw, it

2:35:21

was a flip phone. The same thing I

2:35:23

got now only a little bit smaller, but

2:35:25

boy, was this thing durable. I

2:35:27

threw at the length of the Charleston

2:35:30

Civic Center ballroom that we were doing

2:35:33

the TV taping in and I

2:35:36

figured, okay, that's in a million pieces and I'll be a some

2:35:38

bitch. One of the crew guys went over and picked it up

2:35:40

and brought it back to me. There

2:35:42

wasn't a goddamn mark on it. So

2:35:45

I fucking, Kevin Kelly

2:35:47

was sitting there and I, they, Nigel, I can't

2:35:49

remember, whoever we were doing commentary at the time,

2:35:52

I said, it's still in one piece. So I threw it down

2:35:54

on the floor and started jumping up and down on it, stomping

2:35:56

it still couldn't break

2:35:59

the fucking thing. So

2:36:02

that was one of the many times that I

2:36:04

tried. But that was happenstance.

2:36:07

It wasn't a selling point to the phone that

2:36:09

you could buy this one and slam it down

2:36:11

and get the satisfaction of hanging up on someone.

2:36:13

No, I was actually very... It was the other

2:36:15

direction. I was very upset that I couldn't break

2:36:17

the thing into a million pieces. So

2:36:20

maybe you would like a smartphone. If we can get some kind of deal

2:36:22

where you can get ten, get them in

2:36:24

bulk and you could just throw them and you break

2:36:26

those. You can break those very easily. Because

2:36:29

now I'm all these years older. If I

2:36:31

throw something at heart, I'm going to hurt

2:36:33

my shoulder. It's bad anyway. If

2:36:35

I stomp on something, I'm going to hurt either my

2:36:38

knees or my fucking hip. If

2:36:40

I take a club or a blunt instrument of

2:36:42

some kind and go to town on something in

2:36:44

the garage like I've done in the past to

2:36:46

relieve my minor

2:36:49

frustrations, then I'm either going

2:36:51

to have a hernia or I'm going to hurt my fucking

2:36:53

back. So I

2:36:55

can't get mad anymore. That's why I avoid people. Let

2:36:58

me ask you a question maybe the way Bill Watts would. Because

2:37:01

you look like you were hiding during gym class, do

2:37:04

you think people are surprised that you have a good arm? That

2:37:07

you could throw things far? No, I'm surprised

2:37:09

I have a good arm now because most of

2:37:11

everything else I've got is the shit. Well,

2:37:16

it just depends on the state of mind I'm

2:37:18

in. I can throw things a lot farther and

2:37:20

hit things a lot harder when I'm fucking mad.

2:37:24

Otherwise, I would

2:37:27

fall into the middle range. You could have been

2:37:29

a sensation on the mound. On

2:37:33

the... Oh, the baseball.

2:37:35

On the Pigeon mound? Yes, I was on the

2:37:37

mound. What are you, an Indian burial mound? What

2:37:39

are you trying to put me into here? Well,

2:37:43

speaking of... Speaking of Indian burial mounds...

2:37:45

Yeah, this has no transition there, but

2:37:47

I want to get your take on

2:37:50

a couple of things happening. Let me

2:37:52

pull this up. I

2:37:55

had it pulled up. There it is. News

2:37:57

broken by TMZ. Hogan

2:38:00

apparently rescued a woman from a burning

2:38:02

car. Wanted

2:38:05

to get your thoughts on this. Did you see this? And also,

2:38:08

how amazing is it that Hulk

2:38:10

Hogan in an NWO shirt

2:38:15

rescued someone during an accident? Do you

2:38:17

remember other instances? I remember one in

2:38:19

UWF of wrestlers saving other people from

2:38:21

car accidents. Well, yeah. That was somebody

2:38:23

on Twitter said, could you imagine you're

2:38:25

in a fucking upside down burning car?

2:38:27

And all of a sudden you see

2:38:29

Hulk Hogan in an NWO t-shirt coming running

2:38:31

to your rescue. But actually,

2:38:34

um, um, I

2:38:36

saw the pictures and everything in the TMZ

2:38:38

story and blah, blah, blah. But it apparently

2:38:40

was Hulk Hogan, his new wife,

2:38:42

they'd been out to dinner with a friend of

2:38:44

theirs. And it, the

2:38:46

pictures looked to me, every picture I saw was

2:38:49

Hulk Hogan was standing there with his hands on

2:38:51

his hips staring at everything.

2:38:53

And the friend was the one that

2:38:55

was running and or pulling

2:38:57

and or whatever. But

2:38:59

apparently the, the woman

2:39:02

got clipped on the interstate right in front of

2:39:04

them and flipped up, upside down in the ditch

2:39:06

and they went up there and,

2:39:08

Oh, it wasn't burning at all. It was just flipped

2:39:10

over. No, I don't

2:39:12

know. I don't know whether it was

2:39:14

a goddamn five alarm fire. I

2:39:17

think there may have been a picture of

2:39:19

some something burning. I don't know what. Um,

2:39:23

but yeah, but he

2:39:25

had a parent. What I saw was

2:39:27

there was no like video of running and

2:39:29

panic and the still pictures

2:39:32

I saw where Hogan was standing there

2:39:34

looking at this shit. And the other

2:39:36

guy was had been running around doing

2:39:38

some things. Let me read it to you

2:39:40

the way TMZ wrote it here. Hulk and

2:39:43

company, our sources explained, pulled over immediately with

2:39:45

Hulk Hogan and his pal Jake rushing

2:39:47

over to render aid.

2:39:50

Not the one you might think. Rushing

2:39:53

over to render aid to the driver, a

2:39:56

woman whom we're told was rattled. Since

2:39:59

they were friends. on the scene, we're

2:40:01

told Hulk and Jake actually helped to get her out

2:40:03

of the car. Our

2:40:06

sources say Jake popped the woman's

2:40:08

airbag with some tools that Hulk

2:40:10

had on hand. And

2:40:13

they both unbuckled her seat belt. Hey,

2:40:15

see, he had the tools from Shopify. And

2:40:18

they both unbuckled her seat belt. It was

2:40:20

a two-man job to unbuckle her seat belt.

2:40:22

Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, those things can

2:40:24

be tricky in the newer models. And assisted

2:40:26

her in safely leaving the vehicle. We're told

2:40:28

paramedics eventually arrived on the scene and Hulk

2:40:30

and his crew looked on. In

2:40:33

the end, that's where they took the

2:40:35

pictures of Hulk looking on. In the

2:40:37

end, our sources say the woman appeared

2:40:39

to be okay and Hulk Hogan

2:40:41

was happy to help. Who

2:40:44

were their sources that were on the scene

2:40:46

at the side of the road there? It

2:40:48

could have been Hulk's wife that posted the

2:40:50

pictures on her Facebook account or whatever. They

2:40:52

looked at what my husband just did. Our

2:40:55

source, where we can't give his real name, he

2:40:57

calls himself Terry B. Told

2:40:59

us this is what happened. And he

2:41:02

called his brother 80 times. So

2:41:04

Hulk Hogan's saving the day. Any thoughts on this? Um,

2:41:07

here he comes to save the day.

2:41:09

Well, you asked about or mentioned other

2:41:12

instances. That's right. Other

2:41:14

instances. Was that Doc

2:41:17

and Duggan? I think it was

2:41:19

Doc and Steiner. Doc and Steiner,

2:41:21

that's right. Dr. Death, Steve Williams

2:41:23

and Rick Steiner. And

2:41:25

I'm surprised more guys didn't not

2:41:27

only get involved in but come upon accidents

2:41:30

in the Mid-South territory with those fucking roads.

2:41:32

But yeah, there was a time

2:41:34

that I think was what 86 ish, I guess

2:41:37

Steiner would probably just started. That's right. That

2:41:40

they came upon a flaming wreck and had to

2:41:42

pull up. It wasn't a story that... And

2:41:45

this I can kind of believe that Doc yanked

2:41:47

the fucking door off of something or other. I

2:41:49

always heard that Dr. Death yanked the door off the hinges.

2:41:51

Yeah. Do you call him hinges

2:41:54

on the car? I don't know. But he yanked the

2:41:56

door off. Yeah. It... And

2:41:59

you can see that. happening when

2:42:01

Doc got mad or fucking

2:42:04

what's the adrenaline going.

2:42:07

But the backup

2:42:09

was Steiner's so what the fuck? I don't

2:42:11

think the car door stood a chance. There's

2:42:14

been times over the years in the territories

2:42:18

that guys came upon Rex

2:42:20

and I don't know whether

2:42:22

anything ever made national news like

2:42:25

when Duggan and Sheik got stopped

2:42:27

on the turnpike. There was obviously

2:42:31

unfortunately the

2:42:33

wreck that killed Sam

2:42:35

Bass and and Frank Hester and Pepe Lopez.

2:42:37

Some of the guys came upon that one

2:42:40

because they were on the

2:42:42

way back from Memphis but it was obviously too

2:42:44

late to do anything. And

2:42:46

in the territory days putting in

2:42:49

almost any territory, guys would

2:42:52

do 2,000 miles a week in the

2:42:54

car every week and then

2:42:57

something like Mid-South or a fucking place

2:42:59

like Calgary where everything was so far

2:43:01

apart was even more. So there was

2:43:03

a great accident

2:43:06

stories and hitting mooses

2:43:09

and things and such in

2:43:11

the Calgary Stampede territory. I

2:43:14

don't know how more of those guys

2:43:16

didn't end up at the

2:43:18

bottom of a frozen lake with the

2:43:20

stories and they would drive on those

2:43:22

roads like they were driving on normal

2:43:26

roads in normal weather to just

2:43:28

get to the towns and everybody

2:43:30

that ever worked there that didn't like live there

2:43:33

and just homestead there and when used to it

2:43:35

said they'd never been scared for their fucking life.

2:43:38

But where were we? I don't know why we

2:43:41

ended up in Calgary on snow covered roads.

2:43:43

That's right. And you

2:43:45

know that when Dr. Death and Rick Steiner

2:43:47

drove down the road they weren't like listening

2:43:49

to Christian music in the car or anything.

2:43:51

They're probably pretty amped up.

2:43:56

Hey, Doc was fucking amped up all

2:43:58

the time. And

2:44:01

naturally and sometimes, you know, he had

2:44:03

assistance, but he was, fuck, he could

2:44:05

go from zero to 60 in about

2:44:08

one second. Yeah,

2:44:10

from like 84 till the end, like every story

2:44:12

at a mid south contains one giant guy who

2:44:14

may be on one thing or another, either ripping

2:44:17

a door off something, holding onto a door or

2:44:19

just something. Well

2:44:21

remember, I told you a story about Hercules Hernandez.

2:44:23

That's what I'm thinking of, yeah. For the newer

2:44:26

listeners, I'm coming back from Jackson, Mississippi. I happen

2:44:28

to be driving by myself. I think I'd come

2:44:30

from interviews and boys didn't have to go whatever.

2:44:33

And I see on the side

2:44:35

of the road in like one

2:44:37

o'clock in the morning, this two

2:44:39

lane state highway, this big car and

2:44:42

it's driving down the shoulder, not the right

2:44:44

lane, but the shoulder of the road. It's

2:44:46

not an interstate. It's just, you know, a

2:44:48

two lane state highway. He's on the shoulder.

2:44:50

He's doing about 25, 30 miles an hour.

2:44:53

And the driver's door is at

2:44:55

a 90 degree

2:44:58

perpendicular angle sticking straight

2:45:00

out. And

2:45:03

what the fuck it is? I slow down. I'm

2:45:05

going to go around. I see it's Hercules Hernandez

2:45:08

and his girlfriend that he had at the

2:45:10

time that got him in a world of

2:45:13

trouble in Louisiana and I

2:45:15

think the two or three cats that lived

2:45:17

in their back seat when

2:45:20

they made the towns. And

2:45:22

I pulled alongside him and it's like 35, 40 degrees. It's

2:45:27

late fall, right? In the middle of

2:45:29

the night, I just said,

2:45:32

what, what, her, what? Oh

2:45:35

brother, he had stopped to take

2:45:37

a piss. And

2:45:39

as he was getting out of the car on the

2:45:42

side of the road, he said

2:45:44

a big truck or 18 wheeler, whatever

2:45:46

came along and hit his

2:45:48

fucking door. Boom. And he got

2:45:50

stuck and he couldn't close it. And

2:45:53

I said, my God, I'm surprised that it

2:45:55

didn't take the whole door completely off. He

2:45:57

said, well, the lucky thing was I was

2:45:59

holding all to it. God damn

2:46:01

it. It's

2:46:04

amazing. So he drove

2:46:07

another hundred something miles to

2:46:09

Alexandria, Louisiana with

2:46:12

that fucking door at a

2:46:14

perpendicular goddamn angle. Hey, it's

2:46:16

40 years ago and Herc has been gone for

2:46:18

a while. I don't know where

2:46:20

his girlfriend at the time was or if he ended

2:46:22

up marrying her or anything. No, no, no, no. There

2:46:24

was a breakup not shortly thereafter. I was going to

2:46:26

say you said she got him into a lot of

2:46:29

trouble. What kind of trouble was he getting into? Well,

2:46:32

no, she got him in trouble. Whatever

2:46:34

the fuck. It's been 40 years

2:46:37

that I wasn't present on the scene and

2:46:40

Herc didn't tell the most detailed stories, but

2:46:43

they had a fight or whatever because she was

2:46:45

kind of weird. I don't know. She just gave

2:46:47

the cats and the whole thing. She

2:46:49

wasn't fucking around with the other guys. Who's

2:46:51

going to touch her with Hercules, right? But

2:46:54

she was just a strange person. And

2:46:57

then they broke up and

2:46:59

apparently she called the cops on him

2:47:01

for something or other. And

2:47:04

I don't remember that anybody alleged that he beat

2:47:06

her up or anything like that, but she called

2:47:09

the cops on him, where they came beating on

2:47:11

his fucking door. Maybe she

2:47:13

turned him in for the gas. I don't know.

2:47:16

And when he opened the door and saw

2:47:19

the cops, he

2:47:21

was not the most welcoming of persons

2:47:24

in that fucking instance. And they were

2:47:26

scared shitless because they seen him on

2:47:28

TV. So there

2:47:30

was about six or seven of them. And

2:47:33

it was a fucking even match for a while,

2:47:35

but they got him down with the night

2:47:37

sticks. And they

2:47:40

choked him with a thing where his blood vessels

2:47:42

burst in his eyes and all that shit. And

2:47:45

of course, now there was only six of them and they only

2:47:47

had the night sticks. They didn't have tasers then. So he didn't

2:47:49

have to take a day off of work. I'm

2:47:53

serious. They barely

2:47:55

got him to fucking jail. And then

2:47:57

they, besides resist.

2:48:00

arrest and I think they were kind of

2:48:02

overzealous when they came in. I don't remember

2:48:05

anything bad happening to him about it and

2:48:07

he was in the territory for a while

2:48:09

longer. But yeah,

2:48:12

so one

2:48:14

Hercules Hernandez, six Alexandria

2:48:17

City police officers with nightsticks,

2:48:20

it was about even but it was... if

2:48:22

he'd had more room in the apartment, I believe he

2:48:24

could have come out better. Wow,

2:48:27

you never get tired of Hercules Hernandez stories but once

2:48:29

again let's end on the big note. Thank you Hulk

2:48:31

Hogan. Yes, for rescuing

2:48:33

the... here he

2:48:35

comes to save the day. Oh yes

2:48:38

it's Hogan on the way.

2:48:42

With his pal Ed Leslie.

2:48:46

Okay, you ain't pulling that off either.

2:48:48

I'm trying to do your stupid voice.

2:48:50

I wasn't doing a real good voice.

2:48:52

I don't know if it's as endearing

2:48:54

as mine. I don't

2:48:57

know the friendship or the voice. The

2:48:59

voice. Well Jim, let's

2:49:02

go to some other news that is breaking

2:49:04

as we are recording. This is pretty significant

2:49:06

news on an international scale. Kazushka

2:49:09

Okada, by far the

2:49:11

biggest star in New Japan Pro Wrestling, their number one

2:49:13

guy, has announced he's

2:49:16

leaving New Japan Pro Wrestling. Here's

2:49:19

a statement from New

2:49:21

Japan Pro Wrestling. Thank

2:49:23

you for supporting New Japan Pro Wrestling. Kazushka

2:49:26

Okada will be leaving New Japan Pro Wrestling

2:49:28

after the conclusion of his contract on

2:49:31

January 31st, 2024. We apologize

2:49:34

to fans for the abrupt nature of

2:49:36

this announcement. But

2:49:38

join them in wishing... Two weeks. Two

2:49:41

weeks notice. There you go. But

2:49:43

join them in wishing Okada the very

2:49:45

best in his future. As

2:49:48

the new beginning series begins this

2:49:50

weekend, Okada will appear

2:49:53

on February dates on

2:49:55

February 11 in Osaka and

2:49:57

February 23rd and 24th in Seoul.

2:50:00

Poro. Changes will be

2:50:02

made to forthcoming cards with an

2:50:04

announcement to follow. We appreciate

2:50:07

your understanding and

2:50:09

continued support. We

2:50:11

also have a statement from Okada. When

2:50:13

I hold on here, the Japanese are

2:50:15

so polite with their official statements. Part

2:50:17

of it may be the the automatic

2:50:19

translator or whatever. So

2:50:22

his contract is up January 31st.

2:50:25

They have obviously made some

2:50:27

kind of arrangement where you can make those what two

2:50:29

or three dates that you... Three dates.

2:50:32

Just three dates in February but they're

2:50:34

gonna change some of the other cards.

2:50:36

So it sounds like, oh god please

2:50:38

make these, right? And

2:50:41

apparently they didn't have... because

2:50:43

the way the Japanese obsessively

2:50:46

pre-plan, this is

2:50:48

apparently new news to them. Well

2:50:50

the other thing too is when

2:50:52

in Japanese wrestling history did the number

2:50:55

one star just leave. But

2:50:58

let's... Never. Go ahead. Let's

2:51:00

go to Okada's statement here. I have

2:51:02

nothing but gratitude for having been a part of New

2:51:04

Japan Pro Wrestling since 2007 and for New Japan Pro

2:51:08

Wrestling bringing me from a 19 year old kid

2:51:11

off the plane in Mexico to the Rainmaker

2:51:14

I am today. Thank

2:51:16

you to the best of companies

2:51:19

in New Japan Pro Wrestling, to the

2:51:21

best of opponents that I've been able to face here, and to

2:51:25

the best of fans that have cheered

2:51:27

and booed over the years. I

2:51:29

promise to make it rain every match I have left.

2:51:33

So keep watching. And

2:51:35

with that, New Japan's biggest

2:51:37

star, the biggest star in Japanese wrestling, the

2:51:40

guy who's been groomed to be the biggest star with

2:51:42

big victories at the Tokyo Dome and everything else, the

2:51:45

guy who put Kenny Omega on the map, the

2:51:48

guy... Oh well now I don't like him already.

2:51:50

No but I mean it was those matches where

2:51:52

you first started hearing about Omega and it was

2:51:54

his matches with Tana Hashi that

2:51:57

were the ones that kind of revitalized talk about

2:51:59

New Japan. pro wrestling, at

2:52:01

least amongst excited fans. So

2:52:04

this is a big deal. And Tanahashi

2:52:07

is the gentleman they just made the

2:52:09

president of the company now, right? That

2:52:12

is correct. And I think a lot of people thought that would

2:52:14

be something that would cause Okada to want to stay. Well,

2:52:17

but I guess it

2:52:19

may be if they're best friends and boozing buddies,

2:52:21

but at the same time, is

2:52:25

this an example of,

2:52:27

you know, the biggest star

2:52:29

in Japanese wrestling, as you said, has never

2:52:31

left. And Noki never, you know,

2:52:35

left his company, but he did leave.

2:52:37

And so did Baba, the JWA,

2:52:41

to start their own companies. Yeah.

2:52:44

So... But they were never gone from Japan. I mean,

2:52:46

I know they were... But they were never gone from

2:52:49

Japan. You know, Baba toured America several times, but that

2:52:51

was before he had all Japan pro wrestling. And I

2:52:53

know he was always trying to do anything just to

2:52:55

get his face out there on an international scale. So

2:52:57

he went everywhere, but they were

2:52:59

always... But I guess what I'm saying is, is

2:53:02

does Okada think, well, why not me? Why

2:53:06

wasn't I? I'm the big deal

2:53:08

now. He's younger than Tanahashi, right?

2:53:11

And he's the star, even

2:53:13

though Tanahashi was big. So is

2:53:16

there something there? Or is it you

2:53:21

know, if the WWE

2:53:23

is interested at all in Okada

2:53:26

and your sources say Magic 8

2:53:28

Ball says they are, then

2:53:32

naturally also it's a Japanese superstar.

2:53:34

Tony is going to open his

2:53:36

father's checkbook and

2:53:38

back up the Brinks truck because, oh my

2:53:40

God, this is one of the rarest collectibles

2:53:43

in wrestling. The biggest star

2:53:45

in Japan. My ever

2:53:48

dwindling fan base will cream their jeans

2:53:50

over this. And

2:53:53

then if he does that, well,

2:53:55

there you go. But if he

2:53:58

does that, then the WWE... that's

2:54:00

running a business will say, well, it would have been

2:54:02

nice if we could have got this guy for a

2:54:04

reasonable rate, but we're not gonna fucking

2:54:07

get in a bidding war with this

2:54:09

goof over an unproven talent

2:54:12

in this country, in

2:54:14

this style. Let

2:54:16

the Japanese wrestling collector collect

2:54:18

the Japanese wrestlers. Because

2:54:21

Okada is great in the ring,

2:54:25

but how would the WWE market

2:54:27

him? Are they gonna do another

2:54:30

deal where they make it

2:54:32

like the Nakamura videos and do

2:54:34

subtitles and he's an evil Japanese

2:54:37

fellow? Or would

2:54:39

they try to make him a babyface

2:54:41

but with a limited ability to communicate

2:54:45

in promos? How would that work in

2:54:47

a company that is literally monologuing

2:54:50

and soliloquing us to death on

2:54:53

a regular basis? You gave

2:54:55

him a Paul Hammond. Treat him

2:54:57

serious. Well, but then he's a

2:54:59

heel, okay? I can see it, but

2:55:01

then can he be an

2:55:03

American heel? Does

2:55:05

he understand that? So

2:55:10

Tony will take him no matter what. The

2:55:14

WWE would have to

2:55:16

have some idea of how they would fit

2:55:18

him into their system and if they did make any kind

2:55:20

of legitimate offer, they'd have to figure out a way for

2:55:22

it to be at the top of the cards. Which

2:55:25

in that company, Okada to

2:55:29

me, his strengths might play

2:55:33

more to AEW where

2:55:36

he'd make more money probably because

2:55:38

of Tony but he would be in front of

2:55:41

much fewer people and would not

2:55:44

honestly be established as a star in

2:55:48

this country past anybody he's already a star

2:55:50

to because that's what they do.

2:55:53

So where should he go? Yeah that's the thing, what

2:55:55

does he want? If he's leaving New Japan for a

2:55:58

wrestling that's significant. He's a big star

2:56:00

over there, he's married to an actress, he's

2:56:04

on mainstream shows, like he's known. He's

2:56:07

a big commodity over there for New Japan.

2:56:09

If you're married to a talented actress, how

2:56:11

would you ever know whether she's faking? But

2:56:14

he's a big star over there and he's choosing to

2:56:16

leave, and I think that's significant for a number of

2:56:18

reasons. One, before we even talk about the decision to

2:56:20

make where to go, what does

2:56:22

that say about what he sees as the future

2:56:25

right now of New Japan Pro Wrestling and Japanese

2:56:27

Wrestling in general? And when

2:56:30

AEW signed someone like Takeshita, who

2:56:33

we all agree is talented and has size and

2:56:35

is young, and he

2:56:38

needs seasoning, but when he's over here,

2:56:40

someone like that isn't over there. And

2:56:43

there aren't a lot of Takeshita's. That's one of the reasons

2:56:45

he stands out. There

2:56:47

aren't a lot of... I don't know,

2:56:49

to me right now you worry about the

2:56:51

next generation of Japanese Wrestling more than ever before.

2:56:54

There aren't strong leaders like Inoki and

2:56:56

Baba who ran their

2:56:59

own companies. There are guys

2:57:01

that get put in nice positions for New Japan, which

2:57:03

is owned by someone else, owned

2:57:05

by a big corporate conglomerate,

2:57:08

but why would you stay there if

2:57:10

you know that it's

2:57:12

gonna be a rough road ahead? If

2:57:14

you have any aspirations of doing anything in Wrestling,

2:57:18

why would you stay there right now if you're Okada, unless

2:57:20

you're just happy being home, unless you want that AWA lifestyle.

2:57:22

I don't know what you would call it, but

2:57:24

America, you have two options

2:57:26

here. Tony Khan will offer

2:57:28

you the most money. I'm certain of

2:57:31

that. You

2:57:33

will have kind of

2:57:35

the ability to just wrestle an easier schedule.

2:57:38

And I have to wrestle that

2:57:40

often. You may have to fly into TVs

2:57:42

every week. It'll be a very loose, backstage

2:57:44

environment. I don't know

2:57:46

if he wants a structured environment or a very loose, a

2:57:49

loose environment where fights or drama break

2:57:52

out everywhere you turn. Or,

2:57:55

you know, again, just on

2:57:57

a more, on a basis

2:57:59

of looking at the... product, there's obviously

2:58:01

changes and or last minute

2:58:03

and or haphazard booking and

2:58:05

or no

2:58:08

structure on what each match is supposed

2:58:10

to do or deliver or those

2:58:13

type of things which again may

2:58:15

not be a good introduction to a guy

2:58:17

like that to American Wrestling who is going

2:58:19

to he's on a learning curve to figure

2:58:22

out how to get over here which is...

2:58:24

If that's what he wants you that right

2:58:26

there is the issue because if he

2:58:28

just wants to get paid a lot of money and wrestle

2:58:30

over here with some guys that he likes AEW

2:58:33

would afford him a very leisurely

2:58:35

lifestyle. Yes. He will be happy

2:58:37

and there'll be no pressure on him. He's

2:58:40

36 years old so

2:58:42

whatever he's going to do this at the time because what are they going to

2:58:44

sign him to a three-year or a five-year deal? 36. He

2:58:47

has to do it now. So if he ever wanted

2:58:49

to be even

2:58:51

in the talk for a WrestleMania main

2:58:53

event you

2:58:55

have to do that. Well no but I'm saying but

2:58:58

you know what you haven't really watched him. I'm telling

2:59:00

you he's really good. It depends on how they would

2:59:02

use him. It depends how he adapts to America. It

2:59:04

depends how he's used on TV. As

2:59:07

a heel with Heyman in his corner I

2:59:09

could see a WrestleMania main event I can't

2:59:11

really see under any other. Okay well let's

2:59:13

say he could see it though. The

2:59:15

point is can he see it and if he sees that

2:59:17

a WrestleMania main event is the kind of thing he could

2:59:19

do he's 36 years old. It's

2:59:22

now. It's not going to be okay I'm

2:59:24

39, I'm 41, my

2:59:27

contract's up. Do you still want me? If

2:59:30

there was ever a time for him to do something take

2:59:33

advantage of his position in the

2:59:35

wrestling world with

2:59:37

WWE would be now. His

2:59:40

value wouldn't be as high coming out of AEW. Does

2:59:43

he know these things I wonder or

2:59:45

does he listen to some

2:59:47

of the younger guys that he's probably

2:59:49

associating with more often? Oh it's great

2:59:51

in AEW. Tony all the checks are

2:59:54

good and you can do whatever you

2:59:56

want. Does he understand how

2:59:58

he would need to apply himself?

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