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Episode 88: Slamboree Announcement, Adam Harris Interview, Mount Rushmore for Ring Announcers, and more! · WCHS Network Podcasts

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  Speaker 1: Are you ready what my son? Oh yeah, Jeff, deal boot.
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  Speaker 2: We are doing clean of the clock.
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  Speaker 3: I got one hundred and forty one and two thirstens
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  Speaker 3: of women.
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  Speaker 2: But brought up.
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  Speaker 1: I am bad and ain't a lot bad.
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  Speaker 3: Why I'm the man I am, but there with a
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  Speaker 3: dollar you speak me.
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  Speaker 4: Stop shouted.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the grill Out from the heart of Silliam,
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  Speaker 2: West Virginia. Here's your host, Hollywood Chef Petty.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome back, ladies, gentlemen, to the grill Mouth, episode eighty eight.
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  Speaker 5: I'm your host, Hollywood Jeff Petty.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm joined here with my illustrious co host, both
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  Speaker 4: of them the Reflection of Perfection, doctor Jason Linkins.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so, Jeff, here's something that you've been saying for
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  Speaker 2: how many episodes?
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  Speaker 5: Now what am I saying?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Okay, So what you keep saying is
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  Speaker 2: my illustrious co host co host? Yes, yes, but you
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  Speaker 2: see there should be an s after that because it's plural.
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  Speaker 2: There's more than one. I mean, unfairness. It's Josh so
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  Speaker 2: not really, but I have a doctorate. Now I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I have to correct you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh boy, now it's really going to your head.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm just saying, I'm not the kind of person
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  Speaker 2: who's going to constantly remind people that I have a doctorate. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I doctor Reflection of Perfection. Jason Likekins, am not the
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  Speaker 2: type of person to constantly remind people about my doctorate degree.
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  Speaker 4: Also, our current reigning and defending Grill opp Predictions champion.
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  Speaker 2: Josh who does not have a doctor.
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  Speaker 5: True, he sure doesn't.
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  Speaker 6: He is a master in punk anomics either.
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  Speaker 5: No, he does not.
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  Speaker 2: He does.
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  Speaker 5: Got to catch him on.
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  Speaker 6: I'm about to retain this title, though, maybe try to
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  Speaker 6: retain are you okay, we'll get We'll get to that
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  Speaker 6: in a second.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: We announced earlier this week that we had a special
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  Speaker 4: guest coming.
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  Speaker 2: On the show. Well, I'm usually here.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you're not that special.
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  Speaker 4: He was our first interview on this show early on.
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  Speaker 4: He's well known in this area for a variety of reasons.
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  Speaker 4: He's known mainly for his work ring announcing for All
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  Speaker 4: Star Wrestling in Boone County and regard of pro wrestling,
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  Speaker 4: among others. He is the not all oh he is
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  Speaker 4: not learned to read. He is not only the ring
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  Speaker 4: announcer but also a co organizer for RpW. Stern will
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  Speaker 4: Slambury on July fifth. Adam Harris is joining us here
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  Speaker 4: in the studio.
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  Speaker 3: How are you doing, Hey, Thanks thanks for having me back.
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  Speaker 3: Am I the first time return guest. Yes, you were
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  Speaker 3: actually hey too time, very nice, very nice.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, first return guest on the show, first guest we've
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  Speaker 4: had on the show. I actually looked back and that
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  Speaker 4: was March of last year, was twenty nine.
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  Speaker 3: And look at us now in the big studio, I know,
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  Speaker 3: and you're allowing Josh and I to be here for
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  Speaker 3: it as opposed to last time.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know what I had to do. What I
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  Speaker 5: had to do last night.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because so Adam, a little peak behind the curtain
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  Speaker 2: here last time. Jeff didn't want us on here because
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  Speaker 2: his name's on the show, so he didn't want anyone
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  Speaker 2: to take any kind of glory from him from being
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  Speaker 2: able to do a good interview.
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  Speaker 3: Some Jeff's defense, I mean, we only had a limited
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  Speaker 3: amount of time, and so I feel like that may
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  Speaker 3: have been his primary concern. That and we were also
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  Speaker 3: I think we were in a closet too, so I
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  Speaker 3: mean all four of us in there would have been
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  Speaker 3: a little tighter.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, we were kind of in a closet.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I liked the podcast. I don't know if I
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  Speaker 3: like you guys that much.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I also, yeah, you are a fan
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  Speaker 5: of the podcast. And honestly, outside of dal.
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  Speaker 4: Couver Allen a couple of people around here at the station,
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  Speaker 4: Adam has probably been one of our biggest supporters since
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  Speaker 4: the beginning. And he's also he's.
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  Speaker 5: Very well known around here for professional wrestling.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I want to say congratulations because the show's been
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  Speaker 3: going a long time and that is nothing to sneeze at.
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  Speaker 3: Putting a show on regularly every week is hard work
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  Speaker 3: and I know that. So congratulations, and that'll be me
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  Speaker 3: putting you guys over.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you. I take all the credit for that.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: We appreciate it. We very much appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: We will get to Regatta Pro in the next segment,
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  Speaker 4: but we're going to start off with Mount Rushmore.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Mount Rushmore is a segment we have not done in
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  Speaker 4: quite some time. Yes, it is where we pick a
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  Speaker 4: topic related to pro wrestling and give our input on
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  Speaker 4: who is our Mount Rushmore for that subject. So we
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  Speaker 4: have to pick four? Why do you always want me
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  Speaker 4: to prove it? The subject for this episode.
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  Speaker 5: Will be ring announcers.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, amongst us, I had to think about this. I'm
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  Speaker 3: glad you let me know we were going to do this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I hope.
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  Speaker 2: They did, did you? You guys know I'm just now finding out.
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  Speaker 3: All right, cool, this should be good, This should be good.
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  Speaker 4: So we do We just take turns on who is
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  Speaker 4: you know, one, and two and three until we get
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  Speaker 4: the four on everybody's mount rush. That's usually how counting works. Yeah, four,
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  Speaker 4: I know. Well, you know we all watch. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 4: three of us went to college together, so we should
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  Speaker 4: know how to count.
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  Speaker 2: Granted I wouldn't get my doctorate.
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  Speaker 4: Oh man, Okay, So actually, Adam, I'm gonna go ahead
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  Speaker 4: and start off with you.
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  Speaker 5: Who is number one or just a first on your
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  Speaker 5: mount rush?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm gonna say, man, are all kind of on
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  Speaker 3: the same level. You know, some of them are more
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  Speaker 3: sentimental to me than others. But I have to start
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  Speaker 3: with what I think of as being the first bring
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  Speaker 3: announcer that I heard probably was probably Mike McGirk, who
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  Speaker 3: was the daughter of the promoter Leroy McGirk. And just
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  Speaker 3: to name drop a little bit here, the last time
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  Speaker 3: when Ted de Biassi came for the bashing and beck
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  Speaker 3: I picked him up at the airport. He rode down
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  Speaker 3: to Beckley in the car with me, and he mentioned
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  Speaker 3: Mike McGirk and he said that Leroy McGirk wanted a
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  Speaker 3: son so badly that he named his daughter Mike. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know that part. I knew that she was
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  Speaker 3: named Mike McGirk, but you know, she had those flashy outfits,
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  Speaker 3: and to me, she's like the I associate her announcing
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  Speaker 3: with a lot of the stars of that early pre
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  Speaker 3: New generation stuff. Like to me, her undertaker introduction is
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  Speaker 3: one of the best, you know. And she always said
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  Speaker 3: weighing wang wang and hailing from and that's something I've
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  Speaker 3: definitely picked up on. I feel like that's something that
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  Speaker 3: just ingrained itself in me as a young man. And
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  Speaker 3: I also found out on that road trip that Mike
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  Speaker 3: McGirk and Ted Debiossi were an item for.
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  Speaker 2: A little while.
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  Speaker 3: Oh oh wow, how about that. I don't think that's
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  Speaker 3: too far out of school. I think that's been put
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  Speaker 3: out there before, but Ted mentioned it. He brought it up,
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  Speaker 3: So there we go.
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  Speaker 6: We got some confirmation on Okay, Josh, I had to
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  Speaker 6: look up some names just because I couldn't remember all
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  Speaker 6: the names that since I've been watching wrestling, and that's
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  Speaker 6: so what I'm going off of. So, like Howard Finkel
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  Speaker 6: is not gonna be on here just for that reason.
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  Speaker 6: But I'm gonna start with Justin Roberts, like I feel
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  Speaker 6: like he puts a lot of passion into what he
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  Speaker 6: does and a lot of research and just he tries
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  Speaker 6: to add that little bit of extra character to each
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  Speaker 6: person he announces.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Justin Roberts, even though some people give him flack.
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  Speaker 4: I do like his introduction of John Moxley.
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  Speaker 5: Some people may not, some people may hate it. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know for some reason.
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  Speaker 3: Unlikely it's a little divisive. I would say, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: read Roberts's book. I don't know if anybody you guys have,
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  Speaker 3: but very interesting book, very interesting read. He's done a
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  Speaker 3: lot of cool charity work. But also like unfortunately got
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  Speaker 3: stretched by Crispin Wall.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's not.
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  Speaker 2: A position any of us would ever ever want to
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  Speaker 2: be in. No, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 3: And a ring announcer, I don't care how much they're
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  Speaker 3: getting paid, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he also got choked out by Daniel Bryan at.
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  Speaker 7: The time on the television.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, on television, all right, Jason, my.
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  Speaker 2: First one is going to be you know, I grew
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  Speaker 2: up listening to U. We're not listening to G. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't grow up in the radio times, grew up watching
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  Speaker 2: a lot of w c W. So I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 2: to go with Gary Michael Capetta. How you say his
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  Speaker 2: last name? He's the goat? You got it, g GMC.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, World's most Dangerous ring announcer.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, okay, watching Jeff Struggle the type it's it is.
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  Speaker 4: I like that you're keeping record though in case it's
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  Speaker 4: so on all of our shows we all have.
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  Speaker 5: We always keep a rundown, so like we always have.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, do you have the one pulled up right now?
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  Speaker 4: Josh of like, uh, last week's our picks? Do not
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  Speaker 4: have it on my phone? Oh well, okay, I was
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  Speaker 4: just wondering. All right, So my first ring announcer for
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  Speaker 4: my Mount Rushmore this is kind of cliche. I got
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  Speaker 4: to give it to the Fink. I have to give
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  Speaker 4: it to Howard Finkle. He's pretty much the voice of
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  Speaker 4: the WWF at the.
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  Speaker 5: Time, especially in the attitude. Are I know he did it?
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  Speaker 4: Was doing it before, like all the way back to uh,
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  Speaker 4: the first iteration of WrestleMania and such. But I just
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  Speaker 4: that that that, you know, his his inflection and everything,
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  Speaker 4: it just takes me back to the attitude era as
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  Speaker 4: a child and that nostalgia and everything.
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  Speaker 5: And it's the fink Like I feel like if we
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  Speaker 5: did not have him at least a.
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  Speaker 3: One of our ols on one, I agree, yeah that
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  Speaker 3: and I'll just I'll go ahead and take my next one,
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  Speaker 3: which was gonna be Howard Finkel anyway, I'll mention one
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  Speaker 3: more than I feel like he's so influential. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he's the reason we think of a new you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean. And that's like it's a it's a
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  Speaker 3: cliche at this point, but it was like Howard's inflection
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  Speaker 3: and everything on that that made it so memorable.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, It's it's kind of like with with Bruce Bruffer.
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  Speaker 5: Now and still or and now you know whatever it
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  Speaker 5: is that he does, Yeah, it is it.
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  Speaker 2: It reminds me of now the think is the man.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I will say it was pretty nice to you
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  Speaker 6: his voice when they did the Randy Orton Edge match
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  Speaker 6: back in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, yeah, very nice touch before very nice ever undisputed,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, come on, you can't.
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  Speaker 2: Argue with period. No, no, you can't.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Josh, our mind's a little bit more recent.
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  Speaker 6: Justin's kind of reason too, but I'll go with Samantha Irvin. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: so I'm just saying reasons supt for Justin. But also
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  Speaker 6: one thing I really liked about her she did not
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  Speaker 6: want to know the result of the match, so she
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  Speaker 6: could be surprised when it happened.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 3: I love that and in any case in my experience.
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  Speaker 2: Too, that's the best. Like I prefer it that way.
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  Speaker 3: Unless I need to know, Like, don't keep it from
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  Speaker 3: me if it's going to help, but that you know,
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  Speaker 3: the show if I need to know. But otherwise I
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  Speaker 3: would just rather not know. So oftentimes the fans I'm
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: reacting same way as them.
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  Speaker 5: You're just getting an organic reaction.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and I would prefer it that way. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I like the way she reacted to like Cody Roads winning,
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  Speaker 6: that's the best.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I get chills thinking about it. It's great and it's
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  Speaker 3: ingrained in history too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Also, like just on the show with the rundown, I
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  Speaker 4: like to do that with Jason, get his organic reaction
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  Speaker 4: on some.
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  Speaker 3: Of the time yeah, I never, like Jeff will send
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  Speaker 3: the rundown out.
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  Speaker 2: I have never looked at one never probably. Oh, I
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  Speaker 2: hate repeating ones that people have already said, but I
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  Speaker 2: have to on this one. It's Howard Finkel. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: Fink is the best. The fact that one. If you
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  Speaker 2: watch a lot of the mean gene Okerland outtakes, you'll
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  Speaker 2: see Howard Fink on there doing like Howard Coso. And
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: then just the people the story that people have about
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  Speaker 2: Howard Finkle about how he always used the Fink ring
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  Speaker 2: announce her voice. Yeah, it's Howard Finkel. However, yeah, watch
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  Speaker 2: out for that chokes.
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  Speaker 4: All right, So my second I will be repeating on
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  Speaker 4: this one as well. Josh already said her name Samantha Irvin,
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  Speaker 4: even though she seems like she does not want to
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  Speaker 4: be a ring announcer apparently not. Yeah, which kind of
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  Speaker 4: blows my mind because she was I thought phenomenal at
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  Speaker 4: the job.
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  Speaker 5: She really brought a lot of light, a lot of
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  Speaker 5: life to her role.
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  Speaker 4: And like, and we've talked about this before on the
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  Speaker 4: show Adam about like ring announcers that sometimes it's unsung
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  Speaker 4: U it's an underappreciated job, definitely, And somebody like her
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  Speaker 4: or like yourself brings a lot of gravitas to that,
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  Speaker 4: so yeah, you hope.
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  Speaker 3: To you hope to add some personality to it, but
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  Speaker 3: also not take away from it. And I felt like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Samantha Irvin did a good job of balancing
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  Speaker 3: that for sure.
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  Speaker 2: She I think was.
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  Speaker 3: One of the I mean, do you guys think before her,
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  Speaker 3: who was the last ring announcer that you can like
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  Speaker 3: remember having personality or being like someone that was an attraction.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, because Samantha was.
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  Speaker 2: Over, Yeah, I mean before that, I would I would
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  Speaker 2: almost say Lily and Garcia.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think she must be the most
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  Speaker 3: the next one before that, which was you know, she
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: Lillian was so over. They just brought her back recently
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  Speaker 3: and is still doing Saturday Night's main event, So I
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  Speaker 3: mean shout out to her.
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  Speaker 4: Too, absolutely, And she was like, you want to talk
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  Speaker 4: about Howard Finkle be in the voice for like the
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  Speaker 4: Golden era, the New Generation era, and the Attitude era.
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  Speaker 4: Lillia and Garcia was sort of the voice for the
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: ruthless Aggression era into the PG era for WWE pretty
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  Speaker 4: much up until Yes Samantha Irvin came along, for sure,
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  Speaker 4: and this isn't a This is like a slight shout out.
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  Speaker 4: I thought Brandy Rhodes did do a decent job when
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  Speaker 4: she was doing a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I was gonna put her in my honorable mention
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  Speaker 3: because she has not got a good enough she hasn't
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  Speaker 3: got enough credit for her ring announceing. Absolutely like and
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  Speaker 3: if I brought her back in any way, it would
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  Speaker 3: have been as ring announcer. I thought when whenever she
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  Speaker 3: was on AW, I liked it more than Justin Roberts
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  Speaker 3: quite frankly, you know. I mean I always thought she
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  Speaker 3: was excellent at that. And maybe it's not a role
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  Speaker 3: that's important enough for her, but I mean I definitely
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  Speaker 3: had her on an honorable mention.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, all right, So we will actually go back to you, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: So who's your third?
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna do a quick repeat because I just think
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  Speaker 3: he's the greatest. But that's Gary Michael Copetta because he
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  Speaker 3: was the first ring announcer I ever saw live, and
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  Speaker 3: I will always bring up the first show I went
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  Speaker 3: to was in February of ninety two, and it was
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  Speaker 3: at the Charleston Coliseum and actually the first thing I
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: remember him having to announce was that Sting would not
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: be appearing and neither would Ellie Gante, and that they
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: would be offering refunds up until the intermission of the show.
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  Speaker 3: And that always stuck with me because I remember, first
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  Speaker 3: of all, as a kid, I thought.
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  Speaker 2: Who would ask for a refund? You know, this is
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: the greatest thing of all time being here, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And that also that.
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  Speaker 3: It would only go up until intermission, like if you
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: stuck around after that, they're like, sorry, kid.
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  Speaker 2: You're not gonna get your money back.
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  Speaker 3: But he was just like the voice of WCWWW. Saturday
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  Speaker 3: Night was like the free TV that you got to
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  Speaker 3: watch at six o'clock on Saturdays, and Gary Michael competit
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  Speaker 3: was on there, I mean, and it's ingrained in me
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: the same way. My announcing is similar very much to
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: Mike McGirk and to Gary Michael compettit because I'll say
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: wrestling fans like a hundred times during a show. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: And if you go back and listen to Gary Michael,
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: he says almost every time he'll say our next contest,
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  Speaker 3: wrestling fans is the one fault.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's always in there. He's working it in there so
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  Speaker 3: real quick.
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  Speaker 4: What is your do you like it when you say, okay,
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  Speaker 4: so you announce the match is just a quick little question,
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: all right, and you say one fall and the fans
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: repeat one fall. Do you is that like, okay, I've
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: I got the fans a little bit with me right now, or.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: I think at this point it's it's I try to
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: limit that. Like usually at the start of the show,
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: it's like a good thing to do because everybody's involved,
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: they're excited about it, and I usually try to give
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: them at least that first one at the top of
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: the show. To me, it kind of wears out after that,
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: like it's not as cool every time. It's almost like,
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: you know, like a loud chop or whatever, or you know,
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: an obvious leg slab.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Why.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: It's like the more you do it, the less it
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: kind of brings to the table, is my opinion on.
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: It waters it down a little bit.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: A little bit, yeah, a little bit. So I like
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: to do it, you know, for that first one. And
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: to me, it's also like a matter of keeping the
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: show rolling. But if the audio and the PA is
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: working good enough, and the sound person is good enough,
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: which is the tag team partner of the ring announcer.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Always.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: I'd like to just hit the music because that's kind
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: of how they do on the pros, you know. And
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: so I'm doing this contest to schedule for one fall
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: and it just for the whatever whatever over top of
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: the music, you know, just because so they can get
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: started to coming to the ring, you know, and that
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: helps the pace a little bit, okay, and then usually
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: again around the main event, they're going to work it
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: in anyway.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: So well, yeah, always all right, Josh, who's your number three?
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: We kind of talked about her a little bit, but
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: I would say Lily and Garcia nice perhaps probably the
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: biggest female voice ring announcer ever, probably.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: The most recognizable, certainly before Samantha obviously.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, those of us of a.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Certain age where we'll remember Mike McGirk, though she was
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: the pioneer.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I've got to touch back on your on
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: your story really quick, Adam. I think it's really funny
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: that it was you know, I'm sorry Sting will not
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: be here if you want to refund.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry Ellie.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Gante won't be here if you want to and we
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: were like, eh, yeah, those two are definitely on the
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: same same level.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Then I'm sure they have been advertised man and as
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: like whatever. I was ten years old at that time,
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: like Ellie Gante, I didn't know about work rate. No,
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: he was just a seven foot monster. Yeah, he was
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: just tall.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Who could stop him?
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Turns out almost everybody, yes, most importantly himself.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, uh maybe some steps maybe. Okay, so some individuals
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: who may not know Ellie Gante it is eight foot
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: tall giant Gonzalez. Yes, yeah yeah, and uh before the
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: first suit, like he hadn't done the Furst suit yet. Yes, no,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: at this point he was just kind of wearing like
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: black tights.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Black shorts, yeah, sometimes a headband.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: And somehow, somehow they managed to make it even worse
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: with the first suit.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: It was like he had the worst year until.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, oh my gosh.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Wasn't he in the that like Halloween cage match where
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Abdullah the butcher?
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: The electric electric chair?
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, what was it?
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: The hell Chamber of Chamber, Chamber of Classic was that
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Stuff's like comfort food to me?
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, Dub's going to Dupsy Dub Chamber of Doom.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: All right, Okay, Oh, I hate to do it again,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: but Lily and Garcia, you know, I I'll be honest,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: I don't care for the way Justin Roberts announces. I
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: feel like a lot of times he's trying to get
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: himself over with it. And it shouldn't be taking emphasis
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: away from the show. It should be adding into And
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: if you're not adding, then you're taking away. And I
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: just don't care for Justin Roberts announcing okay, especially anytime
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: he says John Motty. So it's like a Vince McMain impression.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: A little bit real quick. I remember which one. I
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: think it was Revolution twenty twenty. The three of us
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: were watching it. Uh, we were somewhere, I can't remember.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: We're watching it. John Moxley comes out and Justin Roberts
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: does the Moxley and that's the first thing that came
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: out of your mouth.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Jason. Yeah, that's part of the reason why I said that.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: Also, not to copy you two.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: But your own idea is I got I have one
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: more after this.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: But I was just going to say Lilian Garcia to me,
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: I have to say Lily and Garcia because yes, I
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: remember Howard Finkel. You go back and you watch all
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: the old WCW not wcw WWF attitude era stuff, the
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: new generation, the Golden age, Howard Finkel was.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: The man totally.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: But when I was really you're talking about like Adam
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: around ten years old, like going and seeing all that
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: around ten years old, that was what was it. That
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: was when Stone Cold had just finished up, So it
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: was after two thousand and three, two thousand and five,
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: that was during Triple H's Reign of Terror. Looking back
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: at it, not the best stuff.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: It's comfort food, yeah, definitely.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah at that time you were like loving it though, right.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, So Lily and Garcia is like that,
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Like she was the voice of a lot of that, definitely,
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: and not all of it was bad, but there was
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: some bad stuff in there.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: So I have to give it the Lily and Garcia.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, she's pretty much she pretty much picked up
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: the torch after the faint, you know, started phasing out.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and she became the voice after that definitely.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: So before we give our last one, can can we
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: each give an honorable mention? Yeah, that's a good idea.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I already did mine.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree with you on that. With Brandy Rhodes,
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: I very underappreciated.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: I don't know who contribution.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: And I think I think that's one of the reasons
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: we're going to see some overlap, is that? I mean,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: you can't even name that many ring announcers. You know,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: we're the biggest wrestling fans there are, unless and somebody
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: if you, if you said like Boyd Pierce, I would
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: know you were just trying to be you know, an
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: old school mark or something, you know, like from World
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Class or whatever, which he did have awesome suits.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so Josh you have one, Yeah, Boyd Pierce. Well,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: since no one.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Mentioned Oya ahead, that's why we're all looking at you, Josh.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: So I wasn't gonna put them on the Mount Rushmore,
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: but I will put Finkel on there. Like the reason
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: I put didn't put on Mount Rushmore because I wasn't
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: watching when he was announcing. I didn't watch Attitude. I
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: was watching W'SW at the time.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: So makes sense.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: But from what I've heard from recording stuff, yeah, he's great.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: However, so you were you were watching w c W.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: But I I notice there's no Gary Michael Capeto. Where's GMC?
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: I don't remember? You don't remember him.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: I remember another person who's going to be my next
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: pH Okay, okay.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Okay, well you see my honorable mention, I'm going to
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: count him as a wrestling announcer because he did the
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: big events for WCW. Michael Buffer.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay, okay, okay, all.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Right, Well you knew it was a big match whenever
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: they spent the money for Let's get ready to Rumble, Yeah,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: and would bring in Michael Buffer.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, Adam, who's your final one?
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go out here and say, Bobby Cruz
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: the Ring of Honor ring announcer, even though I did
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: not watch a ton of Ring of Honor, and admittedly,
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: and I think one day in my life I will
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: revert and just start watching Ring of Honor from the
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: beginning maybe, and I'll just do that for my retirement.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: But still to this day he's on Collision, I think
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: at least regularly or semi regular and on the Ring
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: of Honor program. He started in nineteen ninety four, so
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: he's already over thirty years as a ring announcer. And
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: I think the thing that I like the most about him,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: and here's where I picked up on it was during
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: the pandemic when they did the Return of the Pure
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Tournament and Bobby Cruz was like announcing the rules and
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: all that because those are different matches kind of you know,
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: you kind of have to know what's happening for that,
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: and I thought, I was like, wow, he just gave
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: this all an air of legitimacy, like it sounds legitimately.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: It sounds legitimate to me when Bobby Cruz does the
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: ring announcing. And I'll also just say when the first
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: all in happened, I'm nanty nine percent sure that was
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Bobby Cruz, you know, because it was basically a Ring
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: of honor show, a glorified Ring of honor show.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: I'm almost positive it was him.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Brandy Rose may have done some on that show. I'm
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: not sure if they mix it up or not, but
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: I just went back and looked. I know he announced
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Cody versus Aldus, and so again, I just think he
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: adds an air of credibility, like it sounds like a
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: legit contest.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: When Bobby Cruise is in there, that's awesome, all right.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: So Jason had him as the Honora mentioned but Michael
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: Buffer like, that's the one guy I couldn't remember his
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: name until I looked it up. That's the one guy
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: I remember as a kid. It's like, yeah, this is
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: a big match. Is an important match, something serious about
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: to happen, So it's gotta be Michael Buffer.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: And they would even bring him in for certain nitrosy. Yeah,
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: it wasn't even like pay per views like sometimes there's
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: like a nitro main event, and that made Nitro seem
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: even Yeah.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: All right, Jason, Well you say I have too.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to you know, I'm not going to
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: give you both, but I'm going to say no, I
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: think Tony Chimmel was underappreciation, you know, especially with his
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: rated rs. Oh good one, but okay, that's not who
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I'm picking. That's not who I'm honorable mentioned to. Yes,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I have a doctorate, so it's okay, I'm going to
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: go with I'm going to go a little old school
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: on this and go with Larry Shipley, the ring announcer
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: for the AWA from nineteen eighty three to nineteen eighty nine. Okay.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: He also wrote a book called Stranglehold about his life
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: and career. And I didn't read that off of his wiki.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: That was all from memory. It was I.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: So is Larry Shippley your final one?
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm picking him over Tony chimmele well, and.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: So he probably would have announced some of the early
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Hull cogan then right like before he was you know
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: what we think of his whole cogan, It was probably
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Larry Shipley.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: My final one is actually gonna be Tony chimbl.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: There you go, all right, all right, very cool.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: I was one I wanted to say Tony Chimble before,
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: but you both of you were already saying Lily and Garcia.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: So I was like, all right, I'll just throw that
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: one out there, because it because you're there, you fall
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: under peer pressure.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: I do sometimes Shimmel deserves credit for the era though too,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: as much as Lily and I think he has some
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: distinct uh distinct announcers.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, like that era of s back down was insane
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: and to put the Tony Chimble and really anybody on
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: this list has such a recognizable voice that you can
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: equate them to.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Whatever era that they were announcing in.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Like you can even see like that from that era
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: of velocity and main event and like the pre shows
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: or the Saturday morning shows, like that's him all over
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: the place.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Oh. Absolutely.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: Also there was a video online the man turned very
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Italian very quick. He actually got he accidentally got hit
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: with like a shirt t shirt gun and he didn't.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: There was no accident to that. They aimed the gun
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: at it.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Are you talking about this? You're you've seen the same video?
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, he Where are you saying he accident? No?
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Like someone was in that guy's here and said, hey,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: you know, would be really funny shoot timble.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: And then he did. And Tony Chimmell. Yeah what Tony Chimmell.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: I didn't think he could do.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: I gotta look this video up.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: It's an interesting one. It's only about a minute and
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: a half, two minutes. Oh wow, Yeah it's out there though.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: All right, we're gonna shift gears real quick to On
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: this day in wrestling history. June twenty ninth, nineteen eighty six,
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Nick Bockwinkle was awarded the AWA World Championship in Denver,
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Colorado with a four foot win over Stan Hanson. The
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: reality was that Hanson had walked out on the AWA
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: over his loyalty to All Japan Pro Wrestling. As a
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: response to the perceived slight, Hanson, who was still in
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: possession of the title belt, laid it on his driveway,
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: ran it over with his truck, and mailed the remains
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: back to AWA owner Vern Ganya.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Wouldn't you know, love to know what happened to that belt,
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: like what they did with it, you know. Yeah, the
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: package for you Vern, Oh, thank you.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: It's just I can't give this to my son.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: June twenty ninth, nineteen ninety eight, the day after losing
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: the WWF Championship to Caine at King of the Ring
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: in a first Blood match, Stone Cold Steve Austin won
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: the title back on Rawa's War from Cleveland, Ohio. And
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: then finally June twenty ninth, twenty thirteen, at a TNA
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: Impact taping in Las Vegas, Nevada, Chris Saban defeated Austin,
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Airis and Manic in a triple threat match.
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: To win the X Division Championship.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: And we will take a quick break and when we
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: come back, we're gonna talk to Adam about Sternwhell Slambury.
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: On July fifth, stay tuned, good.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Time for more of the drill Out. Here's Mollywood Jeff.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: Pager, Welcome back, ladies, gentlemen, to the Grill Out.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: I'm your host, tomley Wood, Jeff Betty, and I'm joined
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: here with I can't say I illustrious co host doctor
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: Jason Likens.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: The reflection of perfection.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, that is your illustrious co host, and then there's
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Josh hostess.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: And our reigning and depending and he will he retained,
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: that's right, Josh called Babey.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: We'll talk about that later on.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: We're also joined by Adam Harris, ring announcer and co
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: organizer for rpw's stern Will Slamboree this Saturday, July fifth,
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: at three o'clock.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: You guys are gonna be at Hadad Riverfront.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Park, that's right, Yeah, big deal.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: When we saw that you were you guys are going
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: to do it, there was like, oh okay, we we
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: we don't have to go to slack Plausa.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: That's right because the past couple of years, the last.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Two years, yeah, the first two Slambre's and then we've
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: been doing slam Plaza. The Bishop did one before before
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: we did the Sternal Slammery, and then we've done two
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: since then. I think so this year it'll be slam
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Plaza four if I'm not mistaken, but this is our
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: third sterminal Slambury and yeah, we're moving it down to
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Hadad Riverfront Park.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: We're going to put the ring right there.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: In front of the stage, and so I hope the
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: bowl seating is going to work out really cool for
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: this atmosphere, you know. And I think part of the
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: idea was to you know, help drive some traffic to
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: the vendors during the day. I loved slack Plaza and
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: there was no hard feelings there at all. I think
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: the idea was to maybe just to try to concentrate
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: that as the kids area for a few reasons that
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: we don't have to go into on the Wrestling podcast,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: but I think that was the main idea, is that
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: the kids environment. We had to kind of move a
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: few things to set the ring up on that one day,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: you know, and that.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Makes things difficult.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: And this way it'll be parent friendly and kid friendly
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: up there at slack Plaza. And we had so much
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: cool support from the vendors there on slack Plaza too.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: You know, we had our slack Plaza beer, you know,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: the Slambury shandy. So shout out to all of those
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: organizations that helped us out. But again thanks to Gino's,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: who I should mention our sponsor. This year, we're going
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: to do it down by the Levee and try it
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: out down there this year. I think so yeah, especially
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: if the canopy is closed during that time of day,
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: it's actually the maximum amount of shade that's going to
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: be down there. And then people will be able to
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: meet and greet with Buff Bagwell, our special guests. Everybody
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: knows Buff the stuff, the multi time tag team champion.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: A lot of people don't even remember, but he was
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: a tag champion along with Shane Douglass there on the
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: tail end of the WCW days. I'm sure a lot
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: of people have forgotten that, and maybe rightfully so, but
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: the records still show it. So Buff Bagwell is going
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: to be in the house at the Stern will Slambury
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: July fifth and three pm bell time. We're gonna do
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: a meet and greet with Buff probably around five thirty
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: after the last match is where we're going to do
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: our photo ops with Buff Bagwell, and then six o'clock
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: is when the live music starts up on the boulevard.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: I'll be honest, I feel like I have to get
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: my picture with Buff Bagwell because of what happened when
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I was a kid. Let's go, let's hear it. Okay,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: So most everyone has a Buff Bagwell story.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: He's like universally. Yeah, so they Charleston would always do
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: like a kid's classic show or something, I don't remember
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: what it was called Fox Kids Expo, that's it, Fox
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Kids Expo. And my brother and I we were huge
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Patriot fans and Patriot was teaming with Buff Bagwell the wrestler,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: not the football team or anything, but the wrestler, the wrestler,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: and so we went up to Buff Bagwell, who was
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Marcus Alexander Bagwell at the time, and we asked him,
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: were like, hey, is the Patriot going to be here?
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: And he was like no no. It was like, but
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: do you do you want a picture with me? And
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: we were like no, no. We just turned around and
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: walked away. Hey tell the Patriots.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Hey, you really want to meet the Patriot stars and stripes.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Man that was right there for me to was Harlem
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Heat at that too. Have you ever heard about that.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: I feel like somebody met Harlem Heat one year at
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: that Fox Kids.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: Expo or something.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: I know. Uh, Dustin Rhodes and Johnny b. Bad were okay, cool,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: cool and very cool. Alex Wright was I remember that.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: That was the German guy right there dancing kid.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely definitely who later became burder Lynn and there
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: we go.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Sorry to go off topic there, but no anyway, Yeah,
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: so I hope, well I'll get a buff Bagwell story
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: in before the end of the show.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I hope.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: I don't have any buff Bagwell st Well, then you
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: have to come to Sturwall Slammery.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Now you can get one.
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: Yes, mine, buff bug Wall stores that.
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: Like when w W used to come town, we would
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: get backstage and get autographs. I was a kid and
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: still believed in the k fabe. He dissed Charleston. I
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: did not get his autograph.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Perfect, that's perfect. No, I don't want to. Did you
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: hear what he said about Charleston? I lived here. Perfect,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: That's where I'm from. Jerk. I'll make him apologize to
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: you in person.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so we already have two like buff back will things.
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: It's like twenty thirty years in the making over.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, definitely.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: Well, Hey, listen, he did an appearance that a lot
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: of people might remember at the Charlestontown Center mall, and
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: that was sponsored by the West Virginia Lottery And they
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: actually did a WCW lottery ticket back then, and so
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: the lottery was in brought in Buff Bagwell, Rick Flair
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: and then also Lex Luger and Miss Elizabeth and they
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: did a signing at the West Virginia Lottery Offices over
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: on the top floor at that time. It was on
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: the top floor I think of the of the Charlestontown
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: Center mall. So I do have some photos, including a
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: friend of my friend, Dustin from ASW there's a photo
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: of him with like Buff Bagwell and I guess this
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: was ninety nine, I think because Buff and Live were
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: a thing at that time, so it was in that
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: area whenever he was like the total package and whatever
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: time period that was.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: See talking about all these stories of professional wrestling here
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: in Charleston. I've heard you say this before, adding, yeah, yeah,
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: Charleston is.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: A wrestling town.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Is it not completely? Yeah, for sure it is.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: It has slept on quite a bit with people.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: And that leads me to like another question, And I've
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: asked you this before off the air when we've seen
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: each other at events, But I want to know how
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: healthy do you think wrestling is in our area in
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: the state in general?
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Man, I think it's very healthy, and I think that's
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: part of one of the reasons we were asked to
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: do sternwill Slamboree during such a high profile event like
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: the Regatta. You know, I meant everybody knows about the concerts,
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: you know, and the fair food and the circus rides
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: and everything, and so it's a very high profile thing
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: for the city of Charleston to say, Wow, we need
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: to be highlighting professional wrestling.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: There's this really exciting.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Scene that happens all throughout the state, not just in
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Charleston obviously, and in fact, most of the wrestling that
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: happens besides Conquest. You know, they're the ones who run
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: most locally for the most part, but you've got Ac
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Dub who runs throughout the state. They've been doing all
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: the B Dubs shows that I've become immensely popular. I've
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: a told news the other day, Dude, B Dubs.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Season is over.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: The crowd is reacting to this. They talk about it.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: They're like, it's B Dubs, you know, we just kicked
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: that off last week. And then you've got Gary who
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: runs ASW largely out of Boone County in Madison area,
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: but then also runs the BASHI in Beckley, which has
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: become this huge you know, WrestleMania style event that.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Happens one day in June every year.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: And then we also work with Powerslam Academy, who have
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: helped train some of the talent that are coming up
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: now and making a lot of waves in.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: The wrestling business.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: You guys have done a great job of talking about Grappalacha,
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: which was produced by Troy Rank and another guest on
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: your show, But three of the stars from that are
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: going to be featured heavily. At least three or more
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: are going to be featured heavily at Sternwell Slamboree. So
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: I would say it's as strong as it's ever been.
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, I think. Like so, it was actually at one
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: of your shows.
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: I think it was slam Pausa may have been. Wait
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: was at the slack pause.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: I know that I went up to the vendor and
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: she was from Florida and we're talking and everything.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: I'm just started to get some drinks and she's like,
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: I've never never been around this before. She's like, this
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: is crazy.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Is this Does this happen around here on a regular
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: Rasism like, oh yeah, yeah, it's it's all over the
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: place here. She's like, yeah, I don't experience this in
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: Florida at all, and then talking with Troy for the
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: Grapple Action interview, which you know, go back and watch it.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: Also watch Grapple at.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: You definitely check it out.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: It's a it's an amazing a good prepper for the
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: storm will Slambourrie and it's on YouTube.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: You can find it right there.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: I saw y'all post that on your Facebook page, yeah,
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: to tell people like, hey, watch this to get it
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: and I and I think it's a great introduction, yeah,
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: to the independent wrestling scene around here. So with with
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: that being said, like talking with Troy, he's from Colorado,
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: same thing.
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: We don't have this out in Colorado.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: I've never really seen it like this, So it's it's
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: it's interesting that in the state of West Virginia it's
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: so healthy. And I'm going to pass off the question
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: to the doctor of Ultimo dragonology.
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: Is micah RpW Women's Champion that's right, among others?
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: Among others, is she Ultimo Dragon or is Ultimate Dragon
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: inspiration for her?
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: He's a power Slam person right too.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely she had Yeah, she definitely came through the
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Power Slam Academy with Chance Prophet.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: I can without a shadow of a doubt. Tell you
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: she is not Ultimo Dragon, but she is very good. Absolutely,
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: But there's really still only one old Listen, you can
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: be cool, but you will never be Ultimo Dragon holding
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: twelve titles at one time cool. That's something I've had
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: to come to terms with in my own life. But Adam,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: I I want to ask you what you know since
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: mentioned grap Lasha, what what did you think about grap Palacha. Well,
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: I was in it, so my mom would have loved it,
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: no doubt. I thought. I thought it came across very well.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: And like I said, I think it is a good primer,
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: like if anybody's like curious about it. And as a fact,
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: I said, had someone come up to me at the
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: Conquest show afterwards, a professional in Charleston came to me
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: and said, Hey, I saw you.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: On grapple Atch. I thought that was really well done.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: That's what made us come here, you know, they were
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: they saw enough in that documentary to think I'm going
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: to buy tickets to a local show, go to Quantum
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: Sports in Kanasas City and hang out and drink some
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: beer and watch an awesome wrestling show. And believe me,
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: it won't be their last time. You know, after the show,
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: they were just thrilled with how fun it was. And
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: you know, I went to wrestling as a kid for
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: the first time, but to this day, like there's plenty
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: of adults who are going to come to their first
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: wrestling show at one of these public outdoor events, you know,
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: and say what you want.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: About a free show or whatever it's like. To me,
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: that's a key entry point for fans. You have no
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: excuse then exactly, yes, it can't be a well I
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: really need that extra twenty dollars a month. It's a
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: free show, exactly exactly.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: And even if even if it's at BWS, you may
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: be able to you can afford dinner that way and
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: go and sit on the patio and enjoy the wrestling
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: and still get dinner. And as you guys have talked
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: about on the show, there's a lot's been said about
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: the demise of house shows. Yeah, you know, there was
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: a time when Charleston would have a couple at least
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: house shows every year or every two years.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: It seemed like they were coming all the time. And
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: when was the last time they were here?
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: Exactly? I mean the last honestly with WW I couldn't remember.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: It was definitely when Cody was here. Was twenty one
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: or twenty two, but that was the last time, and
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: I remember because I had to work, so I wasn't
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: even able to go.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think the last like house show that
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: I actually went to in person, What's with Josh?
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: It was SmackDown.
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: Because Josh and I both were amer Corps members at
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: the time, we were doing our service project around Charleston.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: We were going around cleaning up the streets and stuff,
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: and we just so happened playing it to where we
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: could go by the box office.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Smart fans in the right way.
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, get our tickets and then come back later that night.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: For the Yeah, I love that. That's great.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: But yeah, like it is, uh Grapple actcha is such?
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: Is such a great introduction and just go support local wrestling.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Definitely, Yeah, definitely.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: And again kind of back to the Regatta thing is
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: it's like people that may not know where to look
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: for to find a wrestling show, or maybe people that
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: will see this because it's been shared by the Regatta
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: page or but because they see it on the schedule.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: To me, that offers Okay, well, I know what Regatta
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: is so this is going to be I'll understand the atmosphere.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: I've been to the Levee before. I know what goes
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: on there. I understand the environment where maybe you don't
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: know what it's going to be like at some other location.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: At least this is like a comfortable entry point for
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: a casual fan, which gets talked about a lot. Also,
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: you know that casual fan that I'm not sure if
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: they actually exist or not. But if there are casual fans,
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: they're going to show up at Live on the Levee
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: for Sternwill Slamberrey, and even if they only stay for
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: one match, that might be more live wrestling than they've
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: seen in their entire lives. And I think even with
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: that right exposure, and even if they don't become lifelong
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: fans or anything, I mean, I could hope to make
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: you know, the next Jason Likens fan, you know, But
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: and that may happen. You know, we don't know what
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: kid is out there that's been to a slam Plaza
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: or a Sternwall Slamboery, and so I hope that, you know,
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: ultimately they'll find something to fall in love with.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: So how how did regard to pro Wrestling begin.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: It was it's kind of an umbrella organization, and I
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: use that word very loosely organization. I mean, we just
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: kind of wanted to put an umbrella over top of
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: what we were trying to do, which was highlight those
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: four organizations that I mentioned earlier. You know, it's it's
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: kind of like an acronym soup a little bit, but
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: asw ACW and then Power Slam and Conquest because really
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: we just want to feature the talent that works in
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: those groups and sort of you know, trickle down the
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: attendance into those shows that happened all year round, you know.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: And so our goal was not to run ten shows
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: a year or start running monthly or anything like that.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Our goal, if there is one, is to basically provide
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: some some high level, hopefully high quality, free professional wrestling
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: at what has turned in to be like festival adjacent events,
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: you know. So we've also added the Market Mayhem, which
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: happens after the Green Chili shoot out at the Capitol Market,
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: which again is an awesome thing because that's for charity.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: There's a built in audience and guess what, they're gonna
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: be curious. There's some beer sales going on. You know,
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: it happens in March around Saint Patrick's so a cool location.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: It's such a cool location. And to me, that's like
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: the most charming part of doing these shows.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: I love it, you know.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: I was in Logan last night for the Freedom Fest.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: I did a beat up show on Thursday night down
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: in Mount Hope, Man. But Mount Hope, you're up on
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: top of the hill up here. There's literally mountain sides
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: over there, you know, and you can see the Interstate
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: going by and the sun starts setting down over the hill,
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: Like give me a break. It's cinematic, you know, and
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: I love that. I love outdoor shows for that reason.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: And again it's more so it's welcoming.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: It's an outdoor people are gonna wander by, They're gonna
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: hear like, what what is that going on? You know,
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: and then you hear what people hit the ring and
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: it goes throughout.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: You know, it's gonna be great.
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: I do think that, like.
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: Special venues is one thing that like some wrestling promotions
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: are staying away from it, and I think it's such
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: a unique thing to do that. Like for example, you
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: had it was Madman Pondo, it was the main event
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: for I think it was slam pause. I keep going
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: back to that same time I had had the conversation
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: with that lady.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: That was last September.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so last September and the sun had went
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: down and then the lights came on, and I remember
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: sending pictures to both jos and Jason and saying, oh
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: my god, like this looks so cool right now, Like
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: it was such a cool atmosphere, cool visual going on.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and just like with concerts, like people loosen up
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: as the sun goes down right darker it gets the
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: more people feel free and they get more involved with it.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: And yeah, that Pondo match was insane.
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so you kind of touched on a little bit.
• 44:40
  Speaker 6: So you guys currently do three shows per year roughly, Yeah,
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: do you want to do any more than that?
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Are you're pretty good with this?
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Free Me personally, I don't know if I have the
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: time or capacity to do anymore. And that is in
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: respect to all promoters who do this year round, you know,
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: the Gary Dammern's of the world and the Mooses of
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: the world, and the Derek Sours and Chance Profits.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: Because it's a lot of work. Man.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: People will have no idea and you guys work in radio,
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: you guys have been in promotions. You know what it's
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: like because it's a crew, it's a team. You know,
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: no one person can do it themselves. And so yeah,
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: it's it's it's about all I can I could possibly
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: withstand myself personally, especially with a full time job.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: As long as I still have one.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: I think I would love to do more if I
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: had the time, but like I try to, like, I
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: really want what we to do to have a certain
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: level of quality, and I feel like if we try
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: to do more, then that'll immediately go down, or at
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: least eventually we'll go down. And so I like the
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: festival adjacent things, like we have a couple of cool
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: partners that'll keep driving in some new traffic. And if
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: all those people, like if fifty people show up and
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: two of them go to a show or you know that,
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: that to me is a win, you know, and they
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: may never come again, but if they see it the
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: next year, they go, Man, we were at that last year.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: That was really fun, and a lot of people showed
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: up this year at the Market Mayhem show for that reason.
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: So again, go back to y'all's Facebook page is Troy
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: Parker going to receive rematch.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: Baylor. Do you think we should get into it? We can.
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: I promised to announce our first match on the grill
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: Out exclusive exclusive.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Content here there you go.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we kind of have been teasing it on our
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: Facebook page because again we want to do shows for
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: the casual fan, but also there's been some story here.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: You know, this all dates back to the very first
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: Sternwell Slambourrie because at our first event, we wanted to
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: crown the first ever Regatta Pro Wrestling champion. And if
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: you guys were there or anybody that was there, you
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: remember in the finals of that match it was Josh
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: Williams and Troy Parker, and Troy Parker actually won that match,
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: but it's the current Regatta Pro Champion, Bishop Baylor, who
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: executed some questionable contractual clause that gave him an immediate
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: match against Troy to follow. And so Troy, you know,
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: as the brave fighter that he is, accepted that challenge
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: and unfortunately was basically you know, screwed out of the
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: title and Bishop Baylor became the second ever Regatta Pro
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: Wrestling chance.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: How can you say questionable though, I mean, if it's
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: in the Fine Prime. Well, you're right, right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look, the city manager, Ben ben Mischo was there.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: He looked at the contract and he verified. I mean
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: he was like, yeah, I mean it's in.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: There, so anything the better, main one.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, he was looking out for himself for sure,
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: and since then Bishop's had somewhat of a change of heart.
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: You know, a lot of cheers for him now when
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: he comes out. However, I will say he's always been
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: the kind of guy who's going to do what it
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: takes to get the job done, and at this point
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: he's held the Regatta Pro title for over seven hundred days. Meanwhile,
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: we had a match at Market Mayhem. It was a
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: six way scramble or actually it was a four way
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: scramble for a chance to challenge for the Regatta Pro title,
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: and that match was won by Troy Parker. So Troy
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: elected to cash in, if you will, he elected to
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: sign his match for the Sternwell Slambury in a rematch.
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: However, call back to our first segment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right to the great fink.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: However, at that same match at Market Mayhem, Troy kind
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: of snuck the win out from under no Array, who
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: had just delivered his famous spinebuster and was due to
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: pick up that win. And actually Troy was able to
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: get Noah out of the ring and distract him fast
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: enough to actually get the pin, and so no Array
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: had a justifiable gripe after the match, you know, compounded
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: by the fact that Bishop is the one who took
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: the Boone County Championship away from no Array. And there's
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: some questionable if you ask Noah under some questionable standards
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: there as well of scenario.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: Rather, so.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: It's been signed and confirmed that the actual title match
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: is going to be on the line.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Bishop Baylor will.
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: Defend against Troy Parker and against no Array in a
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: triple threat mane of o match.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: Okay, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: Guys featured prominently in Grappaalacha as we mentioned earlier, and
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: three of the hottest stars on the West Virginia independent
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: scene and beyond. And so we're gonna see who comes
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: out on top for the Regatta Championship.
• 49:11
  Speaker 6: Fun fact, Nolla Ray is my third cousin.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: Whoa, I've never met him, but are you from Big
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: Ugly no.
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: Okay, oh, there you go, Ladies and gentlemen, Sternwell Slambury
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: July fifth, at three o'clock at Hatted Riverfront Park. It's
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: going to be a great time, great venue. After the show,
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: they're gonna be able to get pictures. That's right with
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: buff bags Bagwell, he's the stuff yeap just can't get enough.
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: And then a triple threat match for the Regatta Pro Championship.
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: All right, let's go ahead and shift gears.
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: We're talking about independent wrestling as it is, and we're
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: going to the main event.
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: It looks like all of.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: Top has been done. It's time for the main event.
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: Welcome to the main event, ladies and gentlemen, where we
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: go ahead and let you know what's your upcoming week
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: of professional wrestling is going to the Little Claike internationally,
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: nationally and of course locally Monday, June thirtieth.
• 50:05
  Speaker 5: WWE Raw will have a special.
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: Start time of six pm Eastern Time, so it won't
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: be eight o'clock as what everybody's used to.
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: It will be at six.
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: O'clock because they're taping SmackDown that same night.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: Okay, is that in Pittsburgh? I saw Raw? It was
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh.
• 50:19
  Speaker 6: I read they're stilling.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: Oh oh right, I've heard of it. Yeah, that's right.
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: And then Wednesday, wait, where are they Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia?
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, why are they in Saudi Arabia.
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: They're doing Night of Champions there, Champion, Yeah, don't, They're
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: doing the whole thing.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: Wednesday, July second, AW Dynamite three hundred, a special episode
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: celebrating the show's three hundredth episode, and then Friday, July fourth,
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: WWE SmackDown returns to two hours, and it has been
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: airing for three hours since January third, So we're gonna
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: go down two one hundred and twenty minutes Friday July
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: fourth and Saturday, July fifth. Game Changer Wrestling has two
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: nights of shows. From Fridays is Backyard Wrestling seven, while
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: Saturdays is the Top Play. Also on Saturday, AW Collision
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: one hundred, a special episode celebrating the show's one hundredth episode,
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: and also on Saturday Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling at Resurrection
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: and then the rest of these are of course locally,
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: only three shows this weekend, and they are all on Saturday,
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: July fifth. Real Shoot Wrestling will be at the Harrison
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: County Parks and Recreation Complex in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: Fourth America's Pro Wrestling Home Videos.
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: This is a free event with a belltime of seven o'clock.
• 51:38
  Speaker 6: Shout out. We were just there at their show last week.
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: It was a pretty good show.
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, had fun. You had a chance to talk to
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: Tim Cross afterwards. It was a good, good time, good time.
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: Top Notch Wrestling Alliance will be at the Walmart in Mason, West, Virginia.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: Four strictly business.
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: Bell time is six o'clock and admission is ten dollars.
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: While it's free for kids five and under, All proceeds.
• 52:01
  Speaker 5: Go towards the Children's Miracle Network.
• 52:04
  Speaker 8: If you're a kid five and under, you get in
• 52:07
  Speaker 8: for free. Admission is ten dollars. That's two five dollars
• 52:11
  Speaker 8: bills or one twenty and they'll give you a ten back.
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: And as we talked about in our interview with their
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: promoter Adam Harris, Forgot to Pro Wrestling will present.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: Stern Will Slamburye.
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: As part of Charleston, West, Virginia stern Will Regatta, which
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: will be held at the Hadad Riverfront Park. This is
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: a free event and will feature wrestlers from Apple Acchian
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: Championship Wrestling, All Star Wrestling, Power Slam Pro and Pro
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: Wrestling Conquest. This event will also feature wrestling legends Buff
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: Bagwell and Shane Douglas and more to come.
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna take a quick
• 52:46
  Speaker 5: break and when we return, we're just gonna wrap it
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: all up.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: Stay tuned once again.
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: Here, Hollywood, Jeff Petty, Welcome back, ladies, gentlemen, to the
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: Grill Out Dre.
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: I'm your host, Hollywood, Jeff Petty, I'm here.
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: That's Jason like likeings, Doctor Jason like likens, the reflection
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: of perfection sometimes most of the time deflection.
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: And also Josh, Yes and still.
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: Josh Colt Babe, still our Grill Out Predictions Champion.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, successful defense.
• 53:31
  Speaker 5: Thanks Josh.
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: Have you ever had one of those chiefs? No?
• 53:35
  Speaker 7: Not yet.
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 53:37
  Speaker 5: Thanks Adam for coming.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: On to the show.
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: Adam, thank you so fun anytime. I can't wait to
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: be the first three Pete guests.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: Story. We'll come back next week.
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: Okay, cool, you know I'm getting fired. That's what we said. Yeah,
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: Josh is our.
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: He retained the Grill Up Predictions Championship. Cuddy Roads and
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: Jade Cargill won their respective King and Queen of the
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: Ring Tournaments. Also on this past week's episode of NXT,
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: Channing Stacks and Lorenzo defeated Tony D'Angelo to win the
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: vacant NXT Heritage Cup. Previous champion No M dharr had
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: to relinquish the title just a few days prior due
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: to injury. And then on SmackDown, Julia defeated Zelena Vega
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: to win the Women's United States Championship.
• 54:21
  Speaker 5: And that's going to do it for us. Ladies and gentlemen.
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: Make sure you go out to the Sternwheel Slambury at
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: Hadad Riverfront Park July fifth at three o'clock. It's a
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: free show. Go support local wrestling. They do a great job. Again, Adam,
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: thank you for joining us.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: Thanks so hope everybody will be there. Great job, guys.
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: You can message us to grill out and I had
• 54:39
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• 54:42
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• 54:45
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• 54:48
  Speaker 4: Forward Slash, the grill Out and the Until next time,
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: fellow wrestling fans, have a good one.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: Sons stops, spots, spots, spots, spots, Scotch steps scops
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