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Club 520 - Booker T on WILD Hulk Hogan moment, Steve Austin supermarket brawl, WrestleMania · Club 520 Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The volume.
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  Speaker 2: WWE World. Please welcome to.
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  Speaker 3: The stage, your host Jeff TG, DJ Wells and Brandon Hendre.
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  Speaker 4: Yo yo, yo, what's going on? Are y'all doing?
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  Speaker 5: We go by the name of Club five twenty. We
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  Speaker 5: come from Indianapolis, Indiana. We are here in Vegas with
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  Speaker 5: it WWE World WrestleMania.
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  Speaker 4: Man, it's a blessing to be out here.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 4: I got my saying co host with me.
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  Speaker 5: To my far left, I got my dog Bishop be
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  Speaker 2: What's up baby?
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  Speaker 1: What's up?
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  Speaker 4: WrestleMania Las Vegas? Yes, sir, we got out there and
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  Speaker 4: what's up boy? But show we locked in to my
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  Speaker 5: Happy to be here, man, I'm excited, got a got
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  Speaker 5: a great show for you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Everything should be lit. Man, We're excited.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 5: Shout out to chime for providers as wonderful opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 5: But listen, man, it ain't just us. We got a
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  Speaker 5: wonderful guest for y'all. Man's the time. One of the
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  Speaker 5: best to ever do it. Hall of Fame, one of
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  Speaker 5: the best Booker t Man, bring them on out.
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  Speaker 2: Can you dig it, dig it, suck up, suck up.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, come on, man, you hear the chance five time,
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  Speaker 5: five time, five time.
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  Speaker 2: It was good. It was damn good.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir Man first and foremast who wanted to say
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  Speaker 5: thank you man. We are honored to have a legend
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  Speaker 5: in our presence. Man on our platform. We talk about
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  Speaker 5: you so much, especially young notch over here man. So
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  Speaker 5: for you to be up here with us as a
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  Speaker 5: blessing man, we appreciate you.
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  Speaker 1: Sliding on this man already, dog already, it's Russell happy
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  Speaker 1: media everybody.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yes, man, a consumer professional man. But listen, man,
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  Speaker 5: we go start the episode off right. Man, shout out
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  Speaker 5: to CHM. It's called making the milestones. Now listen. You
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  Speaker 5: know you're very successful man. You dot a lot of
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  Speaker 5: things in your career. I want to ask you, what's
• 2:43
  Speaker 5: that first time where you were just like, all right,
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  Speaker 5: I made it. Maybe nothing crazy, maybe not the home
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  Speaker 5: but the house, but it's just like, all right, I'm
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  Speaker 5: established now.
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  Speaker 1: I never really thought about it like that, but I remember,
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  Speaker 1: I think you know, it was like in nineteen ninety one.
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  Speaker 1: Actually it was when I first got started and I
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  Speaker 1: started in this company called the Global Wrestling Federation, and
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  Speaker 1: I was on the ESPN, you know, every every week
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  Speaker 1: on television. But I was only making like a hundred bucks,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to do the show. And I remember going
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  Speaker 1: to the Virgin Islands and everybody, all the brothers on
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  Speaker 1: the island knew me. I was like, oh shit, I'm here.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I think maybe I need to quit
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  Speaker 1: my job. You know, I was working at this warehouse,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, maybe I need to quit my
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  Speaker 1: job and really really pursue professional wrestling.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's when the light bulb really went off. Man.
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  Speaker 4: That is dope, man.
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  Speaker 2: The bills man book, I got a question.
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  Speaker 3: What's the question, duck man, where's your first name come
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  Speaker 3: from Black Snow.
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  Speaker 1: Bro.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Man, black come from Black Snow.
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  Speaker 1: Man. Actually, uh, I went to this hotel downtown, the
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  Speaker 1: W Hotel, I think it was downtown Houston, and I
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  Speaker 1: went to go see the Spoken Word and it was
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  Speaker 1: his brother and his name was Black Snow and he
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  Speaker 1: did this awesome, awesome poem and it was about Ms.
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  Speaker 2: Shackson and her three boys. And I was so.
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  Speaker 1: Enthralled with this dude, man, because he totally captured me.
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  Speaker 1: And I say, man, one day, I got to bring
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  Speaker 1: Black Snow to the big stage, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: So that's how it was. I was just paying hummits
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  Speaker 1: to a brother who inspired me.
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  Speaker 2: Man, okay, love hey.
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  Speaker 5: Man, that's fire bookt orders. You was walked early on mygaard.
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  Speaker 3: I also heard you as a drum major too. Man
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  Speaker 3: in high school. Bro, Yeah, Man, I was a dancer.
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  Speaker 3: Step I was a dancer.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: I never played sports or anything like that. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: but I used to be, you know, part of a crew.
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  Speaker 1: We used to be called the Remote Controls. We was bad, Man,
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  Speaker 1: We was bad. That's the hell of a name to
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  Speaker 1: the hell of a name. When the Remote Shoe first
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  Speaker 1: came out, what year was it? Hold on book.
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  Speaker 4: What year was it?
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  Speaker 2: We ain't gonna talk about what year was.
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  Speaker 4: Black Snow promote. I got some names, oh.
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  Speaker 2: Man, you know, but yeah, I was the trump major
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  Speaker 2: in school. Man, I was. I was kind of like
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  Speaker 2: a nerd. I used to make my.
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  Speaker 1: Own clothes and stuff like that, you know, but kind
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  Speaker 1: of like, uh, scope to me into the person I
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  Speaker 1: have today though.
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  Speaker 4: Ohka, that's where the spinner Rooney come from.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was break dancing on my auntie's
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  Speaker 1: front porch.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: We had the cardboard box. Man, it used to be
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  Speaker 1: cold out there, I remember. That's what I remember both about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the spinner rooty, those cold whole nights, you know,
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  Speaker 1: working trying to figure it out on the patio because
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  Speaker 1: we couldn't do it in the house, you know, on
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  Speaker 1: the patio man. But no, man, great memories. What music
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  Speaker 1: was y'all dancing too?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Craft Work Man, craft Work Numbers.
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  Speaker 1: That's the song called Numbers was one of the hottest
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  Speaker 1: songs back in the day. This group called craft Work
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  Speaker 1: I think they was from Japan and Bad Bad Man.
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  Speaker 1: So if y'all ever get a chance, check out some
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  Speaker 1: craft work you you, you millennials.
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  Speaker 5: Listen, We got a lot of questions about your origins.
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  Speaker 5: But I think for be hearing myself and Tigue and
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  Speaker 5: probably the fans as well, we had one question that
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  Speaker 5: we got to start off with.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, man, talk Hogan. We're coming from you man.
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  Speaker 4: What happened right to Conic moment and wrestling history? What
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  Speaker 4: happened right there?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 1: Hey man, I'm from the neighborhood. I'm from the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a word that you know, just to educate,
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  Speaker 1: just to get educate everybody. That's a word in my
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood that was used on a regular basis. Yess what,
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  Speaker 1: But I could tell you other than that one moment,
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  Speaker 1: that's the only time that any of my peers has
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: ever heard me say that word. And the reason why
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that was perhaps the most memorable moment
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  Speaker 1: in my career from a negative standpoint, because I got
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  Speaker 1: so many young black kids looking up to me, and
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: if they see Booker T, they say, if Booker T
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  Speaker 1: Can say that word, it's cool for them to say it.
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  Speaker 2: And my thing is with young.
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  Speaker 1: Black kids, I always try to teach them that you
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  Speaker 1: got to know how to change your levels.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: When you go in for a job interview, you got
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: to know how to conduct yourself when you're on television
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  Speaker 1: in front of millions of people, you got to know
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  Speaker 1: how to conduct yourself. And for me, that word, I
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: feel like should be eradicated from all of our our
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  Speaker 1: vocabularies as black folk, because we are the only ones
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  Speaker 1: that look at ourselves and look down on ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I feel like.
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  Speaker 1: That moment for me was one of the worst moments
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  Speaker 1: in my career because so many young Black kids as
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  Speaker 1: well as white kids, Mexican kids, Bad Bunny, Bad Bunny,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as a kid, looked.
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  Speaker 2: Up the booker t So I just want to make
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  Speaker 2: sure I represent properly.
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  Speaker 5: Most that's interesting that you say that, because you know
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  Speaker 5: what I'm saying, A lot of us love that moment obviously,
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  Speaker 5: just because we've all been there from a mental standpoint
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  Speaker 5: and just seeing it happen, it's like no doubt. But
• 9:42
  Speaker 5: then we look at other situations like with herk Angle
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  Speaker 5: and saying his preferred choice of a name, saying I
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  Speaker 5: know you guys revere that, but that's something that hurts me.
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  Speaker 5: So for here, you said that was like, you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you guys love that, but that's like not one.
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  Speaker 4: Of my product moments. That's just an interesting perspective from
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  Speaker 4: the situation for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, I'm from the neighborhood, yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: But like I say, I wouldn't have made it this
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  Speaker 1: far in this bitches. Thirty five years guys.
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  Speaker 2: I been.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I still look like I'm in my thirties.
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  Speaker 1: I can't he only thirty five half color.
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  Speaker 5: I'm thirty five lost kid exactually my boy, But you
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  Speaker 5: don't make it that far File's Moses.
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: You don't make it that far by slipping on a
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  Speaker 2: banana peel.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, preparation is the only luck you're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: in life. Let loan this business for.
• 10:34
  Speaker 4: Sure, but we gotta take it back. So I'm a
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  Speaker 4: fan fan.
• 10:38
  Speaker 5: I've always watching wrestling since I was a little kid,
• 10:41
  Speaker 5: and I remember you back in the WCW days and
• 10:44
  Speaker 5: I fell in love with you with Harlem Heat and
• 10:45
  Speaker 5: Stevie Ray, You and your brother y'all came out with
• 10:49
  Speaker 5: that theme song and that music, and like you said,
• 10:51
  Speaker 5: as a young black kid, I seen y'all on TV
• 10:53
  Speaker 5: and I'm like, oh shit, Like they wrestled, like yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: that moment right there. It made me fall in love
• 11:01
  Speaker 5: with wrestling. So when they said we had a booker
• 11:03
  Speaker 5: t on the show.
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: I'm like he was.
• 11:05
  Speaker 5: I was fanned out and they make fun of me
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  Speaker 5: because I live weights and he called me book.
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  Speaker 1: No man. Representation, man, is very very important.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: When I was coming up, I got a chance to
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: watch j Y D the Junkyard Dog.
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: He was.
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  Speaker 1: He was my guy that I looked at and say, man,
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: I want to be like that dude. Man, I want
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: to represent like that dude. And for me and my brother,
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: we got that chance. You know, we say, let's just
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: get out footing the door. That's the only thing we need.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: Just let us get out foot in the door and
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: we'll do the rest. And man, we had a hell
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: of a run ten times w c W Tag Team
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: Champions along with our sister Sherry mortail Man, and we
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: beat the hell out of buff Bagwell in the Patriot,
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: the Nasty Boys, the Steiners, Well, we beat the hell
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: out of all those guys, man, And it felt damn
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: good being able to go out there and you know,
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: put ourselves in position. Were like young people like yourself
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: was watching us, with so many others around the world,
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  Speaker 1: to inspire, to be able to inspire, to be able
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  Speaker 1: to be the best that you possibly could be in
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  Speaker 1: this world.
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  Speaker 2: Man, But now I appreciate that.
• 12:12
  Speaker 3: Did you introduce your brother to wrestler or no?
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  Speaker 1: No, my brother introduced me to wrestling. Actually, I came home.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody know my story. I came home from prison and
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: but my brother, uh, he always wanted to be a wrestler,
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: and and he knew this guy opening a wrestling school,
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: guy by the name of Ivan Putsky, who was a
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  Speaker 1: w w.
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  Speaker 2: E Hall of Famer as well.
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  Speaker 1: And he was like, hey, man, you want to go
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: to this wrestling school, and and I was like, man,
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: I you know, I love you. But it was three
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars and I didn't have the money to go
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: to the school.
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: And my boss that I was working.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: For sponsored me to go to the school, and U
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  Speaker 1: my brother and I we went at the same times.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: But I always say that I'm living my brother's dream.
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  Speaker 1: This is something my brother wanted to do. And then
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  Speaker 1: our brother had a tryout and I just followed my
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: brother to the tryout and one of the guys by
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  Speaker 1: the name of Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert was there and
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: he tells who's this guy? And he goes, that's my brother.
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  Speaker 1: Is he a worker? He goes, yes, well we're looking
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  Speaker 1: for a tag team.
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  Speaker 2: Boom.
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  Speaker 1: That is the beginning of the empity experience, which game
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  Speaker 1: later to become the Harlem Heat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah man, great, great time. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What's sore man?
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  Speaker 1: You here?
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  Speaker 4: You gotta know their first name? Though? What Ebby experience man?
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  Speaker 2: What Epony experience? Bad book? Book? It to U? Stevie Ray?
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  Speaker 1: They experience that's a that's just like the remote control
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  Speaker 1: that's innovated. You know why we were the Epeny experience.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: It was this black wrestler back in the day. He
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: used to wear a mask and his day was mister Ebony,
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  Speaker 1: and he used to get his ass whopped every time
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  Speaker 1: we say we go represent for mister Abity. Became the
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  Speaker 5: So we wanted to say, all right, definitely, so it
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  Speaker 5: might be two different programs. Definitely to word was definitely
• 15:20
  Speaker 5: listen man. So many questions about historic career. I know
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: we talked about this when you kind of have first
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: transition over from ww to WWE.
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  Speaker 4: Now you are probably one of the most historic matches.
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: And we see a lot of these people on Instagram
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  Speaker 5: now they doing like the independent wrestling type situation where
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: they out in the airport with it, they out in
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: the streets with it. But y'all was one of the
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  Speaker 5: first to go to the supermarket with it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Lee's talked about that historic mass situation.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Man, nah man, the grocery store fight with Steve Austin,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's iconic moment. I never I never imagine that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, weather in the storm and you know, lasting
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  Speaker 1: more than twenty twenty years.
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  Speaker 2: I never bad in that or anything.
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  Speaker 1: Steve and I we were just going out and creating,
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  Speaker 1: you know, work, creating some magic and doing what we
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: do best.
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  Speaker 2: And that's entertained the fans at that point in time.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was that was that's that was called
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  Speaker 1: the payoff, which you know, it was time for me
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  Speaker 1: to put Steve Austin in the in the proper position
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: and uh and for me to do it to the
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: best of my ability.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: I watched that video literally six months ago.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: For the first time, all right six months ago, the
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: first time I watched the stole Coach Steve Austin and
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Booker t in the grocery store, and I swear to god,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: I cried real tears from the beginning of it to
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: the end because it was that damn funny. I did
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: some of my best work because I was crying. I
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: was begging, I was bargaining, I was pleading, I was
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: doing everything to get out of that ass whooping. But
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: at the end of it, man, it was some really,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: really beautiful work in one of the WWE's most iconic moments
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: to where they played every year around this time.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: I know we skipped over to WWE, but I like
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: to take it back to WCW and when you actually
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: won the championship. And I know it was in a
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: controversial way with Vince Russo and Hong Kongan when they
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: did what they did, but Jeff Jerry came out and
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: lay down, But then you fought later that night and
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: won a championship, Like what was that moment for you?
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: You know that that night when I won the championship.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: You know, the stuff went down with Hokgan and Vince
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Russo I really feel like if that wouldn't have happened,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: by championship win wouldn't have been as big. I think
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: I've really needed all of that chaos in order for
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: people to really understand what was really really going on
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: when I finally won the championship.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: But it was a great moment. It was a great moment.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I had about about literally five to ten minutes to
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: prepare for winning the World Everyweight Championship my first time.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: But I think Jeff Jarrett more than anything.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I think Jeff Jarrett because man, he was such a
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: professional anyone out there made me feel so comfortable and
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: put me in a perfect position to go out there
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: and become the World Everyweight champion for the first time.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: If it wasn't for Jeff Jarrett, I don't know if
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: it would have ever happened, you know. So I really
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: think that dude, man. But what was going through my
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: mind was I tell you, it was a surreal moment
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: because winning the World Everyweight Championship was a moment that
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: I never thought about. I never put myself in that position.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I always just wanted to be the best damn wrestler
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: in that locker room. I always used to tell the
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: guys go follow that. You know what I mean, you know,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I'm top five in the world.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: That's what I used to say.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: And then when it came time for me to actually
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: win it, I questioned myself because I wondered if the
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: fan would actually, you know, take me being in that
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: position as world heavyweight champion. And I remember winning that
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: night and I went to my hotel room and I
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: sat on the edge of my bed for I don't know,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: maybe an hour, and I didn't even go out, and
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I didn't party or anything. I didn't have one drink
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: that night, and I went to sleep and I woke
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: up the next morning I had TV for night tro
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: and man, I realized everybody at party for me that night.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Everybody was so freaking glad I won the world everyweight championship.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: And man, that really put a stamp of approval on
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: that moment for me.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: It really did.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: You talk about it being one of the most celebrated
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: wrestlers around, not even from the fans who obviously love you,
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: but from your peers, because what people don't know is
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: that's a grind if you could, could you tell us
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: what a day in a life as a professional wrestler's life,
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: What, Actually it's a it's a grind a day. It's
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: really hard to explain. Maybe say years. I never, like
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: throughout my whole wrestling career. Every time I was watching
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: football on Sunday, it was in an arena. It was
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: never at home, all right, So I was on the
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: road constantly. I remember when I when I joined and
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: signed with WWE. I used to have a boat in
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: WCW and I used to go on my boat every weekend.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I'd be out fishing, hanging out, trinking a beer, having fun.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: And then I signed with WWE, and I was I
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: worked Gride Gride and one day I went to go
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: fishing on my boat, all right, So I had to
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: go get a new sticker put on my boat.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: And I realized.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: It was two thousand and five, four years later, that's
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: how much I had been working. I had been out
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: on my boat in four years. So it's a grind.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: It's a constant grind. You gotta have blinders old. It's
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: it's one of those when you hear no days off,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: that's a true statement. I remember watching the documentary with
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Shake to Sneak Roberts Beyond the Mat and he said,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: you know, when you signed that WWE contract he was
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: talking to his daughter, said, when you signed that WWE contract, baby,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: you're obligated to work every day.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: That's the grind.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: So for me, I never took any vacations or anything
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: like that throughout my career. My wife and I we
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: got married. I didn't take a honeymoon. All of that
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: stuff came later. It was all about getting through this thing,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: finishing it properly and getting to the other side, and
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: then enjoying the fruits of the labor like I'm doing
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: I'm living my best life. Just turned sixty, brother, looking good.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: That's something you can relate to. Jeff obviously would have
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: been a professional athlete.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: I'm saying yourll schedules are so crazy. People don't understand
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: the sacrifice that goes into that for your craft. Yeah,
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: you definitely sacrifice a lot, especially your family time, but
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: it's nowhere near being a wrestler. I mean, like you said,
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: it's every single day. We get almost six five or
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: six months off in the summer that had that time
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: to spend with your family and stuff like that. But
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: for him to do it all year around, and for
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: the fans. We really appreciate it because we're fans. We
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: love it. But man, that's unbelievable. No way in here
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: I could do it.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: It's you know, it's about bandishing down that time too,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: because you know, it's not a matter of if you're
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: going to get hurt.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: It's just a matter of win, you know.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: So for me, I always thought about, you know, working
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: a certain way on the house show, working a certain
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: way on TV overseas, you know what i mean, pay
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: per view.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Everything was different.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Structuring, you know, the workouts, you know, like on the road,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I would just do push ups and the rubber bed,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of baby all.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Go on down.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Why are climbing from bucket?
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: No doubt?
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: What what hobbies you got now though? Post retirement? Man,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: once you pick up what you're doing, like you know,
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: entertain yourself.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Now retire it retire it talking about retire talking about
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: from the ring though, I'm sure you got a little
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: bit more. Damn. I just had a match like two
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: months ago. I just beat the hell out of Zelopha.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: To the next big star. Are you restaurant I'm busy
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: with my wrestling school, Reality of Wrestling. If you guys
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: have it tapped in the Reality of Wrestling, make sure
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: you subscribe, you know what I mean, you know, and click,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: you know all that stuff. We're trying to get up
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: to a million YouTube subscribers right now. We're in eight
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand subscribers now. But I'm working with
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: my own television show, working with my shooters. I've had
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: my school now for twenty years. I love playing golf,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, getting out on the golf course,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: you know, hitting the links, you know, just to you know,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: stay stress free. More than anything, staying in the gym.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: That's one of my all time hobbies that I hope
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: to have as long as I live. I ask God,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: you know, just give me my give me my health
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: more than anything. I don't ask for money, you know, Man,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: make the money, you know what I mean. Just give
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: me my health and I'll get the work that I
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: ask God. You know, Just let me finish my work,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: you know, and then we'll meet in the middle, you
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: know what I mean.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: So but now, man, I'm all about you.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Know, Retirement is not something I think about, you know,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: when I retire, I think I'll be six feet under.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: It's about, you know, staying staying on the grind. It's
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: about what's next. It's not about the past.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: It's truly about the future and what's next, you know.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: So I'm thinking about my ten year playing. Man, I'm
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: working on my ten year player. What's gonna happen over
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: these next ten years? What can I create over these
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: next ten years? More than anything?
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: Now, who does Booker team model his golf game after?
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Probably, uh, definitely not a Tiger Woods or anything like that.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I'm way on the time.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I'm way down allege. I wouldn't say, Charles, are you
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: that far? I'm in the middle, in the middle somewhere.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Charles and Tiger.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: So now I wanted to ask, I'm a like I said,
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: I'm a huge fan. Your first WrestleMania moment when you
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: came over from w WCW and you had your chance
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: to be at WrestleMania. We hear WrestleMania Weekend. What was
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: your first moment? Like, man, it was it was surreal
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: being in Canada.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, going against Edge.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: I remember walking out the curtain, and I mean before
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I walked out the Kurtin. I remember an undertaker he
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: was sitting at what we called the gorilla position, and
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: he said, make sure you take it all in. And
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I really didn't think about that before he said that.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: And then I walked out on stage and I stopped
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: and I just looked around. It was like seventy thousand people,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: and I was like, wow, man, this is fricking this
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: is awesome because you got to think about it. Seventy
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: thousand people coming to see that twenty by twenty square
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: foot that's all. That's it. That's it, you know what
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I mean. It's not a football field or anything like that,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: twenty by twenty and for them to come to see you,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the ones that had those sides up, you know what
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: You know, it's awesome. It's the most you know, adrenaline rush.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: You're ever gonna have nothing, nothing, it's ever gonna top
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: that moment, you know, So get that out of your head,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: you know, when it's all over with, take it and
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: savor that moment, and hopefully you'll get a few more
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: of those moments, you know. And for me, you know,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I definitely got a chance to have many more of those.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania moments. But uh, for for young people that's getting
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: into this business, that's you know.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: That that think about it and wonder about it.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I say, man, go out there and work your ass
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: off to to really make it happen to have that
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania moment at least just one time. Trust me, man,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: something you'll remember for the rest of your life.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: I ain't gonna lie. I'm still mad. I know you
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: want to chip before here. You came champion one time,
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: but at WrestleMania when you fought Triple h you were
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: so over like you were supposed to be the champion
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: that night.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: You know what.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: A lot of so many people, a lot of office
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: guys told.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Me, man, you should have won that night. I thought,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: you know what I.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Mean, And with the angle, yeah, perhaps I should have
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: won that night. Sure, you know, but honestly, I never
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: really I never really I never really lost any sleep
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: over it or anything like that. I always looked at
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: wrestling a certain way. I always looked at it as
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: a performance. And I always say, guys, I always say,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: if they give me that damn check every time, I take.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: The hell because because that was a most.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: Check, you feel me, Sunglasses, not that Chicken.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: I definitely feel that, all right, But you did win
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: a championship, y'ah.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: But but I tell you what, I left everything in
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the ring that night, Now you did. I went out
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: of performed my ass off. I didn't win, but I
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: still won. I still won because I'm a kid. I'm
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: a kid from South Park, Texas who dropped out of
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: school in the tenth grade with the prison all right,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: got locked up, came out and found myself in the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: main event of WrestleMania.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: All right. Yeah, that's that's a wind. That's a win
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: for any way you look at it. Anyway you look
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: at it, that's a win.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: That's definitely a win.
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: But you did win a championship, and you want it
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: in my hometown Indianapolis, Indiana. I happened to be watching,
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: but I was sick. I couldn't be there, but shout
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: out to Chime. I'm able to be at wrestle AIA now,
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: but I was mad. I couldn't be there for the
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: Great American Bass. But I'm glad you won that championship.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: We was an overdue for us at ww fans, Booker
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: t fans. I was excited you had that moment.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: What was that, like you said, you just said something
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: earlier to you said when I when I at WrestleMania
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: in nineteen against Hunter, you said I was over I
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: should have won.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: It was show I was way more over there.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, come on, I mean the greatest King of
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the man almost revered key of them all.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Oh you know what, man, that was h That was.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Like some of the best time, the best time in
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: my wrestling career with my lovely Queen Charmel at my
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: side where she actually won Miss Black America in India Indianapolis,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Indiana as well. That was a moment for us man
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Raymond Sterio. I gave him big props, man, because what
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: a worker, What a worker man. I couldn't have did
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: it without him. But that moment that was that was
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: my crowning moment. That was the moment for me that
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: really put the icing on the cake as far as
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: my career goes. You know, I don't know if you
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: guys know the stats or anything like that, but out
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: of the history and the annals of times, as far
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: as the King of the Ring tournament, I'm the only
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Key to have a win the heavyweight championship. I'm the
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: only one and that wasn't by accident or anything like that.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: That was by design.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I said after Key Booker, they're going to have to
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: break the damn mood because there'll never be another key
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: like me ever a kid. And I proved that. I
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: proved that. I proved that. So Na, Man, it was
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: a great time in my career. I wouldn't change you
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: for anything. Was definitely.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: I want to ask you this question because you know,
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: as a fan, we see everybody about to come out first,
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: and we do, we hear that music.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: How did you settle on your theme music?
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: Because we all know obviously when you came out, you
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, We got the flares going, everybody
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: gigged about it. What's that moment You're just like, Nah,
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: this is it? This why I'm about to pull up
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: to work every day.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Went I remember back in ninety one, late ninety one
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: when they first oh Dad is right that too, when
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: they first approached us with this sound right here. It
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: was just out of an abundance of music that we
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: just had to pick from. And as soon as we
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: heard it, man, I was like, man, that's it, that's
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the song.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Just because I wouldn't It's very, very important.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: As far as the music you have, you do your
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: name like such as Booker T and Stevie Ray championship names,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: championship names. We want a championship music as well. And
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: I wanted everybody, all of the fans to have an
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: experience when they heard that music. And that music was
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: so unique. It wasn't rap, you know what I mean.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: It had its own feel, its own flavor.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: And when you.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Heard it, you go, oh, man to come to boys,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: and they about to come out here and do some work,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: So no, man, that music still to this day and
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: it hypes me up. Man.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: My wife got that on her phone, so I got
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: to hear it every day, you know. But it's awesome,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: it really is.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: Every time. That's what you hear.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Yes, I hear my house.
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: What was it like though, when you changed it when
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: you came King Booker, Well, no.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: The royal music it was. It was majestic. Man.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: You know, I couldn't even call myself Booker T.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: I had to be king, but go.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Roy It had to be majestic. I became Booker. I
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: had to believe it. I had to believe it. In
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: one I had to believe that like somebody hit me
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: on the head, and I, you know, had amnesia and
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: really woke up believing that I was a key for
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: two years. For two years after I was King Booker,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I could go to a restaurant and.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: I would never pay for a meal.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: I would I haven't pay for a drink because somebody
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: would say, King Booker, please let me get that for you.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: You know, every time. I still to this day, I'm.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: About to change my name.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Right, that's far. That's far, you know. So no, man,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: it was so cool playing that role.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Plus, I was thinking about Hollywood at that time, and
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: I was thinking about that some director, some producer, they
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: got to be watching this.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: They gotta be seeing, Oh man, you know, do some
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: great work.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: You know, what's your most memorable moment in the ring
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: with your brother man?
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Most memorable moment with my brother love with sister Sherry
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: would be Sturgis, South Dakota, hog while against the against
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the Steiner brothers and the reason why we was the
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: only black guys in Sturge of South Dakota. It was crazy,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: it was. It was a stupidest thing in the world.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I kept asking myself did I get here? It was
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: like freaking being in the Wizard of Oz. I'm serious.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: It was that crazy because, like I said, we was
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the only brothers there who was going to give the
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Sinner Brothers and circle around the ring. Everybody was on
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: motorcycle and they rode out on their harleys and we
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: beat the hell out the Stidner. We almost started a riot. Man,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: they started throwing rocks in us, man and everything. Security
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: had to get us out of there. I remember telling
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the fans, like I say, it was nothing but bikers,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: and I remember getting the microphone and I said, listen,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I don't like Red Knicks, did you? People are Red Nicks?
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: You out of pocket what you was asking for? But
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I had to act tough just to see if it
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: would work. That's what my god. I don't know what
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: I was thinking. I really don't, but but it worked.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I got those guys that was so riled up. Then
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: it made that match so freaking awesome. Just getting out
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: of that was the problem.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: I can't imagine the real match after, so I'm sure
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: they ain't pick up the tag in here.
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: I would ask you this question, obviously with the wonderful progression.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: Listen, we live at WWE World.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: What's it like as you see the progression with the company,
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: and then you start seeing yourself getting branded so many
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: different places, especially like with video games. I know, for
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: all us going up playing video games, like it's some
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: classic wrestling games. What's that like when you were a
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: part of that? Now, because now you got a whole
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: different market.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: No, man, it's awesome, you know, seeing out before we've come,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: especially from a video game perspective. You know, I was
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: I read it too a guy last night. It was
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: like then I used to play you in the video game. Man,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: you know what that was you It's just so cool
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: of seeing that. I just got a email just last week,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: you know about Brad being a voice you know, from
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: a cover of Tating's perspective, you know, so never the
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: million years, just like from an action figure, you know
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: what I mean. I remember my first action figure. It
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: was like a cutout, you know, just like a plastic cutout.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: I thought it was so freaking awesome they have something
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: like that. And now I got maybe you know, forty
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: action figures, forty different action figures, you know. So no, man,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: to see the progression of WWE, you know, just from
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: a talent perspective, it's been like so freaking awesome for
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: me having a handed you know, working with a lot
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: of that talent and you know, trying to put a
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: little bit a bit of light like on Trick Williams.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: You know, working with Trick Williams, like you know, get
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: a little beat, you know, you know ad libs, you
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: know when he come out.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: You know they add a little bit. You know.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Steffan of a Cure, she's doing so awesome with a
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: little ad libo on some of her stuff. But now
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: seeing the growth, man of these young guys and the talent,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: you know, it's been awesome, especially in NXT with Sean
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Michaels in here team working with that next generation of stars. Man,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I'm so living my best life right now because I
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: think teaching is like my wheelhouse.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: You know, coaching is like my wheelhouse.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: I love, you know, being able to work with the
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: young guys and trying to get their full potential out
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: of them, you know what I mean. So for me, Man,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: awesome awt some time right now woul't change for anything.
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: Most definite, especially when you talk about the RW working
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: like you said, using all your experience of me and
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: better poured back into the next generation. It's definitely dope
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: to see because like you got a lot of people
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: who get older in the situation, they're like, I don't care.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: You can tell your energy it's really still there for
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: those people.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: You know what, when I started my rest in school
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: twenty years ago, I wouldn't hire nothing but young kids.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm the oldest guy on my crew by
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: design because they give me a lot of energy. I
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: got a lot of young kids, and like just say,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: for us to get some bad apple or some old
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: head in there and want to tell some stories from
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: back in the day, that's just bitter from the bitch,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: just the way they treated had treated them. We creating
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: our new We created new stories. This is a different journey.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: This is the way you guys are gonna remember it.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: So for me, I'm having a part in that is
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: so freaking awesome. My right hand man at Reality ar
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Wrestling started with me when he was eighteen years old
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: and now he runs Reality of Wrestling. My partner, Brad
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Gilmore on my Hall of Fame show my podcast, started
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: with me when he was eighteen years old. Now he's
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: thirty three years old. To grown man, you know, graduated
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: from college. You know what, I mean, these guys are
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: gonna take over reality or wrestling one day, you know,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: when I'm when, long after I'm gone, Reality of wrestling
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: is still gonna be here, all due to the way
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: you know, we've created it.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: The young guy. The young guy gonna learn from this guy,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: and he's gonna keep passing it on and keep passing
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: it on and forever more. Reality of Wrestling is gonna
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: be a staple here, hope on this search just because Man,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: for me, it's all about the young guys. I've had
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: my I've had my time to shine. Yeah, But the
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: thing is, I'm still having fun. I'm still having fun.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: One of my kids, he went to Japan last year.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: It was it was his first trip to Japan, and
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: I was able to help facilitate that.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: And it's just to.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Think from my perspective, Man, he's gonna be running around
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: with Punky, you know what I mean.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: He's gonna be at the Kio Plaza.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: He's gonna go to the hard Rock you know what
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I mean. He's gonna get on that bus and go
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: around to just like I did, and see the same
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: things I did back This life don't stop, man, it
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: don't stop. He keeps going and for me to be
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: able to, you know, pass it on, man, sauce.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: You know what's so dope about this because life even
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: now we got my man be here, he now tap
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: into the rest and say heavy man.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: When he saw you with sexy red man, oh.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: Man, that's what That's what got me back into it.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: I had said it to Jeriff. I'm like, nah, he
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: got sexy after Booker clowned. That's why I thought you
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: retired after fool was sexy.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: I was that man, Oh man, I'm telling you, man,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: I told my wife, I'm just acting.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: So that's my boy right there. Like I literally called
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: Jeff Booker to you all the time. So to see
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: you do that, bro, that really turned me off for real.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: That showed me that you still tapped into the youth.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Oh man.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: If you don't know how to change with the times,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: the times would truly pass you by, you know what
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: So for me, it's all about it.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: I quoted, I quoted little Baby last week.
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: What you saying.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: I don't call myself a goat.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: I leave that up to the people after some more.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: But I'm scared.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: My boy, My boy, he was like, he was like,
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: you just quoted little Baby. That's hard, man, that's hard.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: And I know the kids that show around in the
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: youth like I appreciate that though that you can still
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: be relatable to them too.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: You know why, man, it ain't about me, it really is.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: That's why I love what I do, I love who
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: I am, I love you know everything about what's going on.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: But it ain't about me. Man. I've had my time,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: you know, and for me to see the young guys
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: doing it, but for me to still be here, I
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: did not expect to still be doing this thirty five
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: years later.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: I did.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: I thought, you know, fifteen years ago this thing would
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: have been over with and I would have been doing
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: something else.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: But for some reason, I'm still here.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: God put me in this position for some reason, and
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna just keep doing it and keep doing it
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: to the best of my ability.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: But it's just like working working in the NXT with
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Vic Joseph.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Vic Joseph, I'm his right right hand man, I'm his
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: oh Polly, he's the guy that's that that that's running
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: running the whole whole board, you know what I mean.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: And I'm gonna try to make.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: That dude look as best as I possibly can. That's
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: my job, you know what I mean. And I appreciate
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: the young guys man that that that know you know
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: why I'm here and know what I'm doing, and and
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: know that I'm here for them one percent, know that
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: they can come to me for anything. I'm gonna be
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: there for him. So now, man, like I say this,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: this is a great time in my life. Seriously, I
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: wouldn't changeing for nothing.
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: No, I'm tapped in. But I've been watching LFG. Yeah, yeah,
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: Legends and Future Great. It's the heck of a show.
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: But like you said, you tapped in with the youth,
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: and you know, seeing you on that show and how
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: you relate to the wrestlers, and how the guys really
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: embrace you.
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: Uh, you can tell that you was meant for this.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: You know what that those shows? Man, I love doing LFG.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: I bet a perfect for shows like that.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Working with Bubba A and working with Biggy James Undertaker,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: it's been really really cool. But being able to tap
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: into the to the young guys and really get into
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: the head to let them understand what this thing is about,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: how how big this opportunity really really is, and the
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: opportunity like this don't come around to offen few and
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: far between, So take it as serious as you possibly can.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Look at this like it's a job, like you're waking
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: up in the morning and you're going do your your
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: nine to five. Because if you're not looking at it
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: like that, you're slipping, you know what I mean, Because
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: you know, if you're not preparing, trust me, somebody else
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: is preparing a little bit harder than you.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: So for me to really tap in on screen as
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: well as off screen, you know, because those guys they
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: call me, you know, we do film study, you know
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: when when nobody's around, you know, because I'm about winning,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: I want my team to win another date, you know
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: what I mean.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: So no, man, lfg uh is something that has been
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: you know, Solis to be a part of, and I
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: can't wait to season two.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: Most definitely listen. Book We appreciate your time and make
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: some more. It's a booking Tell you one.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: More time, five times, baby, five times. Listen.
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: We appreciate y'all for coming out. Shout out to Chime
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: for making this wonderful event happen. It's Club five to
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: twenty we'll see y'all next time.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: The volume