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Episode 74 - Young Rock Season 3 Episode 1 and 2 · My Third Place Pod

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I tend to do everything at the last minute or minutes before
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the deadline. I procrastinate, I'm a big
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procrastinator. I got a summons for jury duty, a
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few months back, but couldn't make it because my jaw was in so
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much pain. And I went to that distant day
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before I'll schedule. So when I call the jury duty
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summons Place, whatever they're called told him about the my
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problem, they excuse me and told me to send him a doctor's note.
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I had The doctor's note in October, I mailed to note just
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last week all last week. I said I was going to decorate
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light up the house, put up the tree.
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I waited till the weekend, I don't do it when it's Dylan of
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Ember. Big procrastinator.
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Even when I podcast, I made mentioned that we would talk
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about young Rock when the debut three weeks later and a week off
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of it. And I'm now taking care of it.
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Yes, I know. I get it.
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It's a problem. There was a problem with it in
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high school and there's a problem with it now.
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Yeah. You're an adult.
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Whatever. Hell, even when I used to eat
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that I would have something at the last minute.
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Oh, buzz word be fed fantasy wrestling.
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I'm sure I'm going to get a new audience with that word or I'm
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going to trigger my old friends its role playing time.
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Did I lose you? I could never describe what I
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mean. Fred is do any of my closest
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friends for fear that I would be called a geek.
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That was before the whole MDG name came about.
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And that name came about when I watched this movie called
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Million Dollar Baby, the name million-dollar geek came about
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when I needed a name for my Twitter account 2009 it all
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comes full circle. It eventually becomes a screen
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made for my MySpace account. Other people that have done e,
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feds will just ask if you're a wrestling fan.
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And then described with any fed is kind of like fantasy
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football, kind of like sport fantasy sports, but the reason
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we're comfortable describing to other wrestling fans, with any
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Fighters would be the outcome of that.
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We're comfortable telling a wrestling fan that in effect is
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a fantasy based role-playing. The statistic based game, which
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is setting the professional wrestling world.
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And the only way to win is to convince three, judges, which by
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the way, are selected by the book.
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Our of the E fed. Yeah.
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That your promotes are better than the person you're facing.
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D&D fans. You see me, right?
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Yes, no, that is a whole segment.
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I want to come back to with possible people with that.
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I would love to interview on this subject on this show.
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I digress. Procrastinating.
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Again, let me just get on topic. If you're wondering, the lights
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are decorated. Tree is up right next to the TV
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and I have enough energy to record an episode.
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I talked about the two episodes that we missed on young Rock
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before the fourth episode airs, two, three, four.
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I know, I understand, I get it. Three, and four, we'll talk
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about it on the next podcast. The next time you hear about the
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Ending on when you hear this. Okay?
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This is the part where I drink the zoa and start.
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Welcome back wrestling Geeks. If this is your first time
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stumbling onto this show, welcome I'm your host.
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My name is Ernie me. Llamo Ernie, May Amo Bernie.
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Yeah, and you have made just in time for me to come out from
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under the apron, this is episode 74.
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And so, I decided to watch the first two episodes of young Rock
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because there was a lot of to discuss as well as the cameos
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and the actors playing those cameos.
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Well, the actors playing those cameras were, you know, there
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were wrestlers being played. By actors.
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It's a weird-ass world that we live in.
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Sure, young rocks. First episode of season 3, came
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back to NBC on the number forth. The description sip not says of
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that episode is after losing the 23 to presidential election.
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Dwayne Johnson is ready to withdraw from political life.
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When he gets a call from the newly appointed, president of
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the United States in 1985, Rocky learns, there are consequences
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to Convinced, he a petty bitch. In 1987 Dwayne finds fans hate
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him even when he's a winner, the heat rises.
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All right? So the episode 1 of season 3 is
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titled, the people need you and you'll understand why at towards
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the end of the show, I believe. Yeah, the show opens up on.
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Randall, Parks morning, talk, show chatterbox with Randall and
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Bebe. Bebe stores played by an
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authority. Spencer, you may have seen her
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on This Is Us tattoo or Sherman's showcase, they recap,
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what mostly happened last season.
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And I was a presidential election between Twain, jaws and
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then brand Taft, to which the latter one, but nobody has seen,
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or heard from Dwayne for a year. Now, since he lost the election,
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focusing more on his family and his production company.
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They play like a TMZ video, clip of Dwayne signing an autograph
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to a little kid who tells. Owls.
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Dwayne, he wishes, he won the presidency to which Dwayne
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replies with you and his mom boat.
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The kid didn't tell Dwayne, my mom says it must be hard,
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knowing America doesn't need you.
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Wow Dwayne blankly stairs right back at the camera which is the
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mom filming and cut that short after watching that clip and the
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talkshow going to commercial break.
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Randall takes out his phone and text Duane tell him.
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He needs to see him. We get along and uncomfortable
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hug from Randall. The Dwayne Randall tells him.
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The reason for the visit is Is to make sure he's okay but Duane
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tell him he is. He's been enjoying life without
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politics. He doesn't have to be perfect or
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polished, and can find Lee be himself again.
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He then proceeded to tell Randall, a dirty joke about a
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Catholic Pig, which is bleeped out.
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And you can tell by Randall's facial expression.
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That is probably groans an offensive to even be told, kind
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of like the aristocrats. Cricket.
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All right, cool. We never heard the joke don't
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even bother. Okay?
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Dwayne says, do the public loss that he just had, he spent a
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lifetime as the man in the arena like that President Teddy,
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Roosevelt quote. And here it is.
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It is not the critic. Who counts, not the man who
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points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of
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Deeds could have done them better.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena
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whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives
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valiantly who errs who comes short again and again because
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there is no effort without error and shortcoming.
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Ying. But, who does actually strive to
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do? The Deeds, who knows, great
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enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in
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a worthy? Cause who at the best knows in
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the end, the Triumph of high achievement and who at the worst
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if he fails at least fails, while daring greatly so that his
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place shall never be with those cold and timid Souls, who
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neither know Victory nor defeat Duane told Randall, he has won
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and lost a big Arenas and entire life.
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But he also grew up with men and women in the Arenas and the ups
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and downs that come with all that cue the flashback scene and
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the continuation of season 2 finale in 1985.
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When Twain's father Rocky Johnson is in Saudi Arabia
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wrestling for the WF. Basically leaving him off of the
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March 31st 1985 WrestleMania card altogether.
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Also pulling double duty by possibly working for Dwayne's.
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Uncle Hoffa played here by John Dewey who's had a breakout role
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in the hit children's television series Power Rangers.
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S.p.d. as Commander, anubias doggie, Kruger.
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The SPD Shadow Ranger Alpha was one half of the legendary tag
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team the wild Samoans. Along with his tag team partner,
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and brother Sica, operate and trained wrestlers at the Samoan
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Wild, Samoan training center in Florida.
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He was Ricky Works wrestling. Trainer in the 2008, Darren
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aronofsky's, critically acclaimed drama the wrestler,
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which won three, Oscars and won Grammy.
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He's also acknowledged as the father of the tribal, chief head
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of the table and current, the disputed world champion, Roman
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Reigns, Rocky Alpha and Dewey are walking the alleys of Saudi
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Arabia and looking at the vendors and what they're selling
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rock is enthusiastic about fruits.
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Being sold next to gold chains at the same time you'd being
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treated as a celebrity, a man asked for rocking rock sinks.
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He wants an autograph instead there's a phone call for him
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from Pat Patterson again played by kif been Deauville who tells
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the Rock Rocky that him and Vince.
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No Rocky booked a show with another promoter even though
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he's under clues of contract with the E.
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So a lot of hot water here last season.
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We're all wondering why Vince McMahon has it out for Rocky and
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now we know that he was playing two sides, so you can't feel,
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you can't feel bad about Rocky anymore, you just got to be
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like, oh, so that's what you did.
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You fucked up. Here's the here's what you did
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Rocky tells patterns. Under he booked himself, a few
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shows and Saudi Arabia since they're.
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So busy. Looking WrestleMania,
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Patterson's until dracky that Vince wants to open up a market
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in Saudi Arabia because there's a lot of Market over there.
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Those nothing new with the Saudi Arabia, blood money, as people
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call it, and people have been complaining about mainly, the
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wrestling fans they've had this deal with them for decades.
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Just now, people are becoming fast in the product and an hour.
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Realizing how toxic it is when people should have said
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something back then, as well in the 80s.
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So, I guess we're blaming our parents, right?
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Sure why not Patterson. Makes it clear that Rocky has to
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wrestle lucidly for WF in Saudi Arabia and not for another
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promoter, which, at a time Rocky, realizes he fucked up
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because he's been doing this on the side for Ava.
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And now he has to tell off of that.
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He can't work for him and yeah, they hang up.
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Phone and Rocky tries to sneak away from Ava who if he finds
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out Rocky's trying to leave and go back on his word, well there
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was a reason they were called The Wild Samoans.
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Fast-forward to Rocky, taking his wife Dewey and Grandma Leah
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to the world premiere party of Cyndi Lauper's.
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Good enough music video. Y'all know the goodies are good
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enough. This song.
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They arrived at the party and do we ask his dad to introduce him
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to Hulk Hogan. They walk around and we see mr.
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T played by Jen's Jason Jenkins. Talking to a young Jeff Cohen.
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Otherwise known as Chunk in The Goonies movie.
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Yeah. I remember those days.
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I've never seen that guy and doing the Truffle Shuffle.
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What's the Truffle Shuffle? You say?
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Say oh, you got to look that one up.
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But here's a clip of the Truffle Shuffle.
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First, you gotta do the Truffle Shuffle.
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Come on, do it? Come on, do it
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coincidentally? Sean.
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Austin. Who also starred in The Goonies.
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Had a role in the young Rock serious last season.
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Nothing. They're just not formation.
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Rocky Jones, the group, chatter of his family conversing with
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the Iron, Sheik played by returning.
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Brett has our whose career highlight is being the motion
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capture model 4800 Cyborg, and both Terminator Genisys, and
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Terminator dark fate. I believe, I already said that
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in the last episode that we did. For our young Rock, we talked
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about it briefly Lee and episode 30, when we did the episode 8 of
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the show from last season, where he meets his best friend's
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everybody, the locker room, and then again, in episode 10 of
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young Rock, but our episode 33, Rockies code.
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So if you want to go back and listen to those episode, 30 and
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episode 33 of young Rock, and we are back to this episode.
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Now, as for ee, Hall of Famer, the Iron Sheik.
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Peak or as fans like to call him Shiki baby, he is the only
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Iranian champion in the W having only 1 to W World Heavyweight
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Championship. Once in 1983, we need to feed it
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Bob Backlund and then having one of the most memorable for use
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with Hulk Hogan watch out. He has a mean camel clutch and
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it will make you humble. Next up is Captain Lou Albano
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played by Joseph, right? Men Joseph is the acts of
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channel is about if you remember him as such if you don't and you
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seen him in before, he's the guy that you always see in movies
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and the background or side character that you end up doing
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the Leonardo DiCaprio point at the TV means like, hey, I know
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that guy, whoo. You know it's like you know,
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that guy but you don't know his face or his name, you know that
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guy but you don't know his name. Mmmmm.
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But, you know, his face. He has a massive array of movies
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which includes clueless American Pie 2, Jay and Silent Bob
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Strike. Back, you getting your getting
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there now. Okay.
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And TV shows like CSI, CNC is Charmed and most recently on the
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Netflix, The Punisher Netflix series.
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Yeah, the captain is a legendary manager.
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He was a big part of the Rock and wrestling.
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In the 80s, he played Cyndi Lauper's father, and the Girls
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Just Want to Have Fun music video.
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He played Mario, Nintendo's mascot in both the live-action
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and animated segments of the Super Mario, Brothers Super
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Show. Wait a minute.
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Hold on my notes, say he Italian American wrestler, / manager.
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What do you know, an Italian playing the voice of a cartoon
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was also an Italian plumber. Yeah.
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What are the odds? His wrestling accolades include
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forward wwww WWF. How many W United wwwf?
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United States, stacking Champion.
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That's part of the Sicilians. That's a lot of dough to use,
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but it's really three W's. That's because it was called the
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World Wide Wrestling Federation before Vince McMahon took over a
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shortened it to WWF. Then getting the F out in 2002
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and adding to e for entertainment more on that on
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episode, 22. And then right next to Shiki,
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baby in the captain is Benjamin. Bander met playing the number
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one bad guy. Rowdy Roddy, Piper Van de maiz
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credits, include being in a part of the lookeetv.
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Ashanti plus a part in the Spider-Man.
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No way home movie and the movie to Thriller.
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The moment you wake up dead. Piper is wrestling.
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Memories include busting a coconut on.
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Jimmy shook his head. I'd watch that over and over and
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over and over and over again. Okay, I'm sorry.
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His Feud with Hulk, Hogan and mr.
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T, at the inaugural WrestleMania hosing, down Morton Downey jr.
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With a fire extinguisher at WrestleMania, 5, his Feud with
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bad news Brown at WrestleMania 6, where he infamously wore
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black face on one half of his body more on that in episode 10.
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When and more importantly holding just one major title in
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the WTF and that is the inter college championship for four
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months before he leaves. We're good.
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Do we leave with his dad, in search of Hulk Hogan Leah?
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And I gotta stay behind and spot, Liberace drinking his
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champagne and playing on the piano, which is being played by
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Pete. Gardner has appeared on crazy
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ex-girlfriend and Sam Wiki's. And the Transformers movie.
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Speaking of which just saw the trailer, the new trailer, the
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child in me just kind of were Beast Wars, if you saw me on
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Twitter, yeah, that was me my inner child coming out.
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Cool. All right, a small speech from
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Vince McMahon played by the returning comedian.
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Adam Ray, he announces that WrestleMania was a phenomenal
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success. And one of the big reason is
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because a Cyndi Lauper who comes out with Hulk.
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Hogan. The hulkster is played by
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American model of rock or Hearn ladies.
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Once again his name is Brock, O'Hearn Instagram.
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You're welcome. I honestly don't know what he
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did to make his hair. Seemed like it, had a ball spot
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but he played Hogan well. Another actor who will be
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playing Hogan in the near future if that movie where he has made
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is Chris Hemsworth. Cyndi Lauper is being played by
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the man herself. Yeah, you heard me the man
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herself. Becky Lynch, who would press
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just about everybody in the world with that.
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Cyndi Lauper accent Miss La / stage that rock and wrestling
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feel like they belong together. So she's proud to introduce to
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her song Good Enough. It's in leopard and grabs
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Hogan's headband. Throws it out into the crowd.
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Do he catches it? And is a nah like he just won
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the lottery. Another group, chatter, Rocky
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tells the boys, the music video would have been great.
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Had he been in it along with them is legendary manager.
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Classy Freddie. Blassie being played by Eddie
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Clinton. That would have been great.
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If you had said his catchphrase Pencil, Neck Geeks, Good Times
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Shiki, baby tells everyone that this is the best music video
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he's ever seen. Because he's in it, we see do
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eating some snacks and Hulk Hogan walks up behind him to
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meet him again. This kid feels like he just won
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the lottery. Who knew that decades later?
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These two would be a main event at Wrestlemania.
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Wait. my notes say they weren't the main event and to other
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mattress out of follow that, Shame, Hulk Hogan, ask for his
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head bent back, not 3 Min or anything.
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He just wanted the headband because it's a prototype.
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He just testing out the wearability before the mass
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produce. So he needs a back and we
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gladly, send him a new one in a few weeks Dewey agrees,
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handsome, the headband and Hogan flexes on him and tells him to
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eat his vitamins, Hogan leaves. And do we ask wait, which
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vitamins Good question. Doing good question, which
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vitamins were you referring to Hogan the adult vitamins that
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you all right? Anyway, Cyndi Lauper checks and
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andouille and give them one of her many wrist bracelets that
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she's wearing ATS, what the time the fashion, I counted seven big
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bangle wristbands and about 50 or so, smaller, wrist bands,
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going From her wrist to her elbows.
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Possibly about 10 necklace. Beads around her neck three hoop
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earrings on each of her ears. As soon as lappers a legend,
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should we play that song again? Vince walks up to Rocky while
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he's enjoying the mini movie / music video with the rest of the
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boys who each have now. Said they were the best part of
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that video with Sheikh Rocky's hand and tells him to get that
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knife out of his back. They both laugh and think it's
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funny and so did the rest of the boys Dewey who was nearby,
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didn't understand what that meant, but still sought, it
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wasn't good. Back from commercial, break,
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Dwayne, and 23 to tell us where and all the rest of the story
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and how his dad broke his contract.
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If WrestleMania have flopped and Rocky Johnson in their
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international marketplace, with have been a priority, but it
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wasn't WrestleMania, came out with a bang.
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Dwayne tells Randall. That moment at the party was a
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rough patch where his father and there's a moment that he
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experienced himself in 1986, when he first started wrestling
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for the week he started to tell Randall, dad, Iraq.
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He died Story, how he was booed at WrestleMania, 13, when he was
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supposed to be a good guy, and the Intercontinental Champion,
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the fans booed him because he was in the being real, he wasn't
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authentic. He has a Moment of clarity in
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the locker room, when he told him the title in his lap, but
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felt like he was one of the biggest losers in the world at
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this appointment. He felt a bit lonely at the man
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in the arena as bad as it sounded.
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But even his colleagues tried To help him out of his head and
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cheer him up. We get a montage of wrestlers
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try and have a talk with Dwayne to cheer him up.
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Mankind, played by Brock Dunston.
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Again, asking Rocky Maivia, if you wants to wear his mask,
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don't go, Steve Austin played by NWA wrestler.
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Lou Cox telling you my idea that he has 36 beers in his locker
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room. Help yourself to all of them.
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And then Bret Hart played by Nicholas, Bernardi making him a
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drawing of Dwayne on jet skis and being pushed.
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By a fart. It's better if you saw the
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drawing. I posted on Instagram.
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Yeah, I'll post it on Instagram, not.
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None of that mattered though. Vince all we need to see and he
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saw him being booed by the fans so he told Patterson to take the
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belt off of the kid and in doing.
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So he lost it, the tweens good friend, legendary wrestler Owen
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Hart, which you don't see yet. Hopefully soon.
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But don't count on it. His widow Martha would have to
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approve of that and seeing that it had to do with him being a
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Wei. Don't think he's too fond of the
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company that killed her husband. Dad is a touchy subject, even
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for me and I still don't want to get into that.
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Yeah, back in Miami still in 97, Dwayne moves right back in with
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his ex-girlfriend and soon-to-be wife and life, business partner,
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Danny Garcia. Garcia.
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At the same time at a is trying to organize and clean the house
28:48
by putting the food spices in order on a spinner and Grandma,
28:52
Leah, puts up a shrine with his grandfather.
28:55
The high Chief, Peter, Maivia next to the door.
28:58
So Dwayne remembers when he come from.
29:02
The next shot is of Danny going to Duane's matches and hanging
29:05
out in the front row with the wrestlers girlfriends or wives
29:09
just supporting them. But now that Dwayne doesn't have
29:13
the belt, he felt like he was being treated just the same way
29:16
his father was treated and I was enhancement talent for the next
29:20
best thing. This included a shot at Wayne's
29:22
father losing his magic as well. Dwayne himself losing to the
29:25
lower enhancement Talent as well, stick or as they call it
29:30
in the business. Back then, jobbers back in 1988.
29:37
Again, Dwayne says his dad went from wrestling for wf2
29:41
wrestling, for car, dealerships Rockies, working the match, and
29:45
trying to get the few crowd. That is there to be hiked about
29:49
his match, but the car dealership owner is fighting
29:52
with a customer about a used car and is distracting over to the
29:56
actual fight in the ring, the customer.
29:58
He tells him all he wants to do is test the radio And to get
30:01
into a big show, we match, people are now turning around to
30:05
watch that fight instead of what's going on in the ring.
30:08
Even rocking seems annoyed hours later.
30:11
Rocky's, getting his bag ready to leave and Dwayne walks up to
30:14
have another heart-to-heart at this time.
30:17
Dwayne was leaving to Florida to play, D1 football, and Rocky
30:21
gave him his fatherly advice. He says, just remember, it's a
30:26
rare opportunity for Natalie to compete on a stage that big
30:32
We've come full circle with what the episode meant, the man in
30:36
the arena metaphorically speaking as the state Rocky
30:39
continues is hard, work getting there and it's hard work.
30:42
Staying there that is Duane and 23 to tells Randall that his dad
30:48
was giving him advice, but it felt like a pep talk for
30:51
himself. He was going to take that advice
30:53
in 1987 and give it everything he's got.
30:56
Do to him, working, the non-televised.
30:58
How show? We see the footage of what broke
31:00
the man and God I'm out of action.
31:02
He hits a cross body from the top rope onto mankind.
31:06
I move he's done. Countless times without missing
31:09
a beat this time. However he lands badly honestly
31:16
and gets injured. He is an agonizing pain.
31:18
His scream sounded like the kid won the lottery and then
31:21
suddenly ripped that lottery ticket and half.
31:25
You would scream the same way to sorry Dewey.
31:29
Your dream ends here. Back in 2032 Dwayne served
31:35
Randall eyeglass dark alcohol. While he served himself a clear
31:39
glass, I'm just going to safely assume Randall got the Han
31:42
Dynasty and Dwayne starve himself.
31:45
Some of his own brand, there a Mana.
31:49
It still sells 10 years later, great.
31:54
Randall asked what was harder going down with that injury or
31:57
losing the presidential election?
31:59
Dwayne answers that both were real old points but it also part
32:03
of being the man in the arena, if I fail at least, I fail while
32:07
daring greatly. In other words, take your shot.
32:12
He tells Randall's that he thinks he stepped in the wrong
32:15
Arena when trying to run for the presidency.
32:18
At the same time, his phone buzzes and you see on the caller
32:23
ID is Barack Obama. But we as it is the new
32:27
president United States Britain Taft wondering how he knew it
32:31
was him because he answered with hello, mr.
32:34
President So like at the time, you know there's that Obama been
32:40
out of office and 2016. He still hasn't deleted that
32:46
phone number who knows how many presidents have had since then,
32:49
and not one of them had Dwayne's number to tell him that.
32:55
Hey, you can delete this phone number now, which you came from
33:00
the White House, Of Course, Taft tells Dwayne.
33:03
It's a national emergency, the people need him.
33:07
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Episode 2 is titled, Rocky sucks.
36:33
The synopsis of the show description, whatever you want
36:35
to call it Miami. 1987 as Dwayne recovers from an injury.
36:40
He makes a life-changing decision Upon returning to the
36:44
WF. Dwayne takes a major risk on the
36:47
mic and with his character in 2033 President Taft turns
36:52
between for help in a crisis. Can't wait to hear what this
36:58
crisis is. Episode 2, opens up on a
37:03
FaceTime between President Taft and Dwayne Johnson and Randall
37:10
Park who was just sitting in the corner, watching this whole
37:14
thing unfold. President Taft tells Dwayne is a
37:16
matter of National Emergency. The global coffee shortage is
37:21
getting short. The people want a scapegoat but
37:26
Taps approval rating is plummeting, President Taft asked
37:29
Wayne if he's familiar. earlier, with the country of Joe geum,
37:34
And that's a lot of G's in J's, but all right.
37:37
Small country fairly insular tends to keep itself out of
37:41
news, but they have the perfect coffee growing climate.
37:47
Oh, boy, this man is asking Dwayne to save us from coffee
37:52
shortage? Oh my goodness.
37:57
Not Hobbs. Not doctor, smolder Rave Stone.
38:01
Not the Scorpion King. Coffee shortage.
38:10
I thought he wanted Dwayne Johnson to assemble a group of
38:12
men so that they could fly them to a meteor and drill it and
38:15
save the world from Devastation coffee.
38:21
I rather have a fast 10. I'd rather have a tooth fairy to
38:28
Coffee. What the fucking hell coffee.
38:34
I'd rather watch Dwayne wear that silly black turtleneck with
38:37
the fanny pack at post for another picture.
38:40
At least that would be needed to see coffee or tea.
38:43
Oh my God. Okay.
38:49
I just hope there would be an explosion at the end because
38:52
yeah, Taft. Well, tough tell Dwayne no
38:58
matter what, in the eyes of the American people.
39:01
He can't do anything, right? Dwayne tells them.
39:05
He understands he can't please the people no matter how hard he
39:08
tries. That is such a segue for a story
39:14
time. From Duane Randall, gets
39:18
excited, and Duane starts. The story off in 1987 where you
39:22
left off during it in. He just wrestled Mankind and he
39:26
was being helped to the back by his best friend downtown Bruno.
39:31
When they noticed the die. Rocky die Signs by three fans.
39:36
Okay! Reality, only one person was
39:39
holding the die. Rocky die sign and he was
39:42
visible to the hard camera. He was right on somewhere.
39:46
I saw him Dwayne side as he soon as he got in the ring and he
39:51
ignored it but he still felt kind of some Kind of way like,
39:55
damn you, you want me to die? Then what the hell?
40:01
So he knew how the fans felt about him also reality.
40:05
It took him a while to get back to work.
40:07
After rehabbing his knee back at home with aleeya and Rocky are
40:14
checking in on injured. Dwayne who is icing and knee.
40:18
Rocky told Wayne that this is bad news with a wrestlers and
40:22
you're like this, it Qwe the opportunity to cut him loose.
40:26
He knows all about that. A beat, this was a be storyline,
40:32
which basically it's like, yeah, let's throw away store line in
40:36
this episode Rocky. Trying to get, Danny Dwayne's
40:40
girlfriend at the time to check out his new gym, t-shirt
40:43
designs, he wants to sell the neckline seem like they're all
40:46
the same but really they're not they go from Deep neckline to
40:50
deeper to then and over Exaggerated deepest neckline,
40:55
which Leah told Rocky to go deep rest.
41:00
How does she put it again? Oh yeah, popped packs pay.
41:04
Rent checks popped pecks pay rent checks.
41:09
Remember that guy's popped, pecs pay rent check.
41:16
Oh man. Okay, later on in another scene,
41:21
Dwayne is talking to Pat Patterson up.
41:23
About when he should come back to wrestling.
41:25
He feeling better now and he wants to come back now.
41:29
Patterson tells him not to worry, let them handle it.
41:33
They'll keep in touch with him will tell you when it's the
41:36
right time just for Dwayne to keep living his life.
41:43
After the phone call, he talks to Danny.
41:46
She's very supportive of his dreams of becoming a wrestler
41:49
but also sure some about a possible plan.
41:51
Be arresting, doesn't work out. He has that criminology minor
41:55
from the University of Miami. Can you imagine Dwayne DJ as a
42:02
CSI agent? Not only that which amount with
42:07
David Caruso since we're in Miami.
42:09
We're gonna do this. We're gonna.
42:10
Yeah, you know, the pun intended punchline before the start of
42:14
every episode of CSI, Miami, followed by the very loud yell
42:18
of Roger, Daltrey, which sorta sounds like this.
42:25
Looks like Dwayne. Just got a little taste of why
42:29
paper can do to The Rock. We Don't Get Fooled Again.
43:12
No too much. I'm here all week.
43:16
Let's continue Danny. Reminds Dwayne, he has great
43:18
options in his life no matter what happens.
43:21
Dwayne reminds Danny that is not always about options and is
43:25
about knowing what you want, Danny as Twain.
43:29
If he knows what he wants, Dwayne says I do and we are
43:33
Flash Forward to their wedding. When they say I do.
43:37
Dwayne and Danny got married on. May 3rd, 1997, they have one
43:41
daughter together. Simone Johnson, born, August,
43:46
14, 2001 who now goes by Ava, rain and is currently making her
43:52
own mark on NXT. The marriage does not last you
43:59
know just thought I should tell you.
44:00
Now before you make your own Google search and realize I may
44:04
have forgotten a few tiny tidbits of information.
44:08
I didn't I just They announced on June 1st 2007 that they are
44:15
separating amicably and the divorce is finalized in May of
44:19
2008. Both of them continue to be
44:21
briskness partners. She becomes his Global strategic
44:24
advisor because they were best friends before they got
44:27
together. Hey, did been with each other
44:29
since the start in 2014, Danny married bodybuilder and the
44:36
Garcia company's Chief health and fitness brand officer, Dave
44:39
Ramsey, Garcia is a bodybuilder and often credits the sport for
44:44
shaping her Relentless nature in business.
44:46
She first competed in 2011 and went on to earn her ifbb Pro
44:50
card in 2014. She was the first ever women's
44:53
physique division at leat to be side to the wider roster
44:58
Johnson, subsequently began, dating Lauren hush and the
45:03
daughter of busting drummer civilization, they first met in
45:08
2006 while Johnson will filming The game plan, they're married
45:14
on August, 18th, 2019 and Hawaii.
45:17
The couple have two daughters Jasmine born, December 17, 2015
45:22
and Tiana, born April 17th, 2018.
45:26
Okay so we're at their wedding reception now everyone's having
45:30
fun, they're partnering wildin out dancing, the guests include
45:35
Macho Man, Randy Savage. The wild Samoans off of Sica,
45:40
downtown Bruno or wrestling fans come to know him ass Harvey.
45:45
Wippleman and what he's doing there is he's as he coming that
45:51
it he said he said it this way cutting a rug And Hulk.
45:58
Wait no, I have notes Here. Ya here, Mi note, this a this is
46:05
97. Sporting a black beard this time
46:09
and being all about the NWO for Life Hollywood, Hulk Hogan.
46:14
Vince was invited here as BP but he didn't show instead.
46:19
He sent the John's of the microwave, TP looking gift or
46:22
whatever. It's a weird gift, some TV
46:28
there's a micro it looks like a microwave it?
46:31
Okay sure their bins. There is an interaction later on
46:36
in the party between Hogan and Dwayne.
46:39
Kayfabe the fans, think these two are at war with the
46:42
respective companies but these two, I Those are having the most
46:45
at this wedding night. Hogan tells Dwayne that he has
46:49
more personality than what he is showing currently on Raw.
46:54
Those w wrestlers watch Rod, vice versa, they were going back
46:57
and forth. They need to watch their
46:58
competition and see what they can do.
47:00
Better, I do believe this was discussed in the Monday night,
47:04
Wars, documentary exclusively on the peacock Network and could be
47:09
the current situation between Saudi and aw.
47:12
They watch each other shows, don't lie.
47:15
Hogan tells Dwayne he wishes, he could see more of Dwayne now
47:18
into the movie, he's good with words, he should use them.
47:23
There wasn't enough of Dwayne and Rocky Maivia.
47:25
So we're going by this, then I guess you could say The Rock was
47:29
inspired by what Hogan told Duane.
47:35
Can't wait for them to Main Event at WrestleMania on March
47:37
17 2008. Oh shit, it's not a main event.
47:40
I keep forgetting. It's not a main event they
47:43
should have made it a main event Duane and Danny get ready to
47:48
leave on their honeymoon but he gets a phone call from Vince to
47:51
tell him to come back in August of 97 and he wants them as a
47:56
heel Dwayne tells means he's been wanting to shake things up
48:01
and to show Vince what he can do.
48:05
Vince agrees and group them together with the nation of
48:07
domination, stable comprised of, D'Lo Brown and Farouk Marcus
48:13
Lewis who played the ladder has been countless movies as a stunt
48:17
performer, such as Black, Panther the faith of the Furious
48:21
and most recently on Black Adam Dwayne explains the president
48:26
asked how he felt when he turned heel.
48:28
The thing, I love about the scenes that they created, just
48:31
the same way. It was seen on TV, Farooq the
48:34
leader of the nation of domination.
48:36
A group of militant black badasses described by Dwayne is
48:41
facing chains. A member of of the DOA Disciples
48:44
of Apocalypse a group of biker, badasses, right?
48:50
They bumped the ref. He falls down for rucas down, as
48:53
well. Out from the crowd comes Duane
48:57
slides, in the ring, checks on the rough.
49:02
Chains gets up, looks over a Dwayne and trapped into a sambo
49:07
suplex which he later called The Rock Bottom.
49:12
Dwayne rakes up the ref for root coverage chains and he wins and
49:18
just like in real life, the way Dwayne describes, the Bible
49:22
feels like nobody cared for ruk. Does the closed fist salute?
49:26
And some of the Dwayne, but nobody still cared, everybody
49:30
just staring doing their own saying laughing, drinking their
49:34
beer, kissing their significant other.
49:38
They don't care what's going on in the ring.
49:41
Later the locker room Dwayne a square root, what his angle is
49:45
for tells him, he's the fourth member and a four-man group,
49:48
just like every other group that they've been feuding with, it's
49:52
August. So it's nearly that time when
49:54
they start doing survivors serious mattress to get ready
49:56
for the member so pretty much they're doing the four-man
49:59
group. Pretty early Farooq.
50:02
Then tells Dwayne people ain't going to give a damn, unless you
50:06
give them a reason to give a damn Farooq real name, Ron
50:12
Simmons. Not a man of word is only catch
50:15
phrase for the past. Decade has been, but one word,
50:18
and he just said it in death sentence.
50:21
Here, I'll let him tell you what that is.
50:37
Ron Simmons Hall of Famer and wrestling and football has
50:41
performed for the big three back in the 90s, the ocw ECW and then
50:45
the his career in WWE with that one word and the summer of 92,
50:51
he was the first ever African-American to win the WWE
50:54
World. Heavyweight Championship that
50:56
very same year. Pro wrestling Illustrated voted
50:58
him as the inspirational wrestler of the year and number
51:01
20 in the top 500 Dwayne take those words.
51:07
Words that Ron Simmons tells them to heart and he goes to
51:10
Vince and he tells them that he wants some time on the mic.
51:13
He is dead set on putting himself over and selling himself
51:17
to someone who doesn't really see him as potential when he got
51:21
injured. Dwayne convinces bends to give
51:25
him my time. He tells him, the fans deserve
51:27
to know why he turned heel. He wants to fans to care for.
51:31
He'll just as much as if he was a face.
51:36
All he needs is 12 minutes. Vince agrees but only gives him
51:41
two minutes that's all he needs. He had one shot to do it.
51:45
He didn't know what he was going to say.
51:47
All he knew was that he wanted to be honest and authentic And
51:53
the promo was exactly that two minutes actually.
51:56
It was a minute and 32 seconds. Here it is in its entirety I got
52:05
three words die. Rocky die.
52:10
That's the Gratitude. I get from you pieces of crap
52:14
for all my blood, my sweat and my tears.
52:18
You know. Hey this isn't about the color
52:20
of my skin. This is about respect.
52:28
I became the youngest Intercontinental Champion in WWF
52:32
history, and what did it? Get me in arenas across the
52:37
country. I heard chance of Rocky sucks,
52:49
but sucks is in one of them, you know, hey, that's not a black
52:53
thing. It's not a white thing.
52:55
And, hey, let's talk about a racist.
52:58
This faction you want to talk about a group that's Prejudice.
53:01
Let's talk about the DOA. The deal divisors racism but hey
53:08
you know what the hell was the DOA?
53:10
I want to make one point. All you jackass fans out there.
53:16
Rocky Maivia and the new nation of domination lives, breathes
53:21
and dies respect and we will earn respect by any means
53:28
necessary. At that moment. 20:32 Twain says
53:36
he felt incredible the way he expressed himself, but he didn't
53:40
know his promo registered with the fans are not.
53:44
He described it as there wasn't an instant reaction on social
53:47
media at a time. But they did.
53:50
There was there were two ways that you could have felt a
53:56
reaction one being Word of Mouth.
53:59
Everyone was talking about the next day at school.
54:02
I wasn't a fan of his at first. It was 1987 and I stopped
54:05
watching for a bit. We all know that I kept in key,
54:08
I've said it so many times, but I kept hearing how he'll Rocky
54:13
Maivia or as he was becoming known as The Rock.
54:19
Wasn't awesome. Heal, everyone started saying
54:21
his quote and I didn't know anything about it until the end
54:26
of the year towards that towards the end of the year.
54:32
You know, around the time, when I heard Bret Hart and Montreal
54:36
that, when I started watching again, the other way was the
54:41
tape, distribution, friends sharing tapes of wrestling.
54:44
It's how we rate our shows on this podcast, is it worth it
54:48
taking the school, too? Next day or not.
54:50
Should we tell our friends? They, yo, this fucking match was
54:56
bomb, you should check it out, it's awesome.
55:01
It was a shit that he's lingo everybody.
55:07
There you have it. I Got a tape of things that
55:11
we're going on and late 97, some of these friends had taped with
55:18
what happened that entire year with you know pay-per-view.
55:22
Some of them gave me recap from SummerSlam all the way through
55:25
to Montreal when I finally watched it.
55:28
It was when Rick Rude showed up on both raw and Nitro at the
55:32
same time, all right? Back to the story backstage,
55:37
Dwayne asked Patterson how it went Person tells him he was
55:41
interesting in the last two minutes than he's ever been in
55:44
the last six months. Wow, that hurts.
55:49
What matters now is what the people at home think of the new
55:52
Rocky Maivia. Well according to my friends who
55:57
quoted him every chance they got by telling me it doesn't matter.
56:01
Or other ridiculous. Catchphrases, I say it went
56:05
pretty well and we all think it's the best thing ever, right?
56:10
He became himself and controlled his narrative and that's what
56:14
President Taft me to do. Wait, what?
56:18
Sorry, we're still on this story line about the damn coffee.
56:24
Oh shit. All right, President Taft tells
56:27
Dwayne, he's right. Thanks him for his insight and
56:30
tells him. He is a gifted Storyteller and
56:32
is the reason why he needs to go to Belgium with the president
56:38
and bring his magic to help the coffee crisis.
56:40
She's a big fan up, Dwayne The Rock Johnson, he tells Dwayne
56:45
that America needs him for coffee.
56:48
It's not like the world is ending its fucking coffee, but I
56:53
guess the Sending for a coffee President Taft as Dwayne if he
56:56
would go on a coffee run for America.
57:02
Dwayne tells for the tap, he's honored.
57:04
Thanks him and answered him with a simple.
57:08
No, I'm good. No, he just says no.
57:11
And I'm just like, yeah, he's good.
57:14
Don't now look that he lost President Taft needs to handle
57:20
this but sure why not? What a cliffhanger It ends right
57:28
there, and that's it, just like nothing.
57:33
We don't get anything at all. I guess you have to watch
57:37
episode 3. What a cliffhanger?
57:40
I'm sure we'll get to know more about his answer in the next
57:43
episode when I watch it as well as episode for you.
57:48
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