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- 0:35Ladies and gentlemen, we are live on galentine's day and I
- 0:41episode 29, Alex Watt and the high-tension wrestling that
- 0:46work. Before we get into the podcast,
- 0:48we got some housekeeping to take care of please.
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- 2:00You know, they Uncle Massey's 40th birthday Bonanza in.
- 2:04On May 5th in the Throop Civic Center.
- 2:07I'm probably saying that right through troop, I don't know how
- 2:10I said, but anyway, you can come hang out, party starts at two
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- 2:16as well, and it will also benefit Adina, steel and Philly,
- 2:19Mike. And then again in March will be
- 2:22talking about it later on. They couldn't find a VJ, so they
- 2:26gotta be J. Anthony Blackwell jr.
- 2:28Will host spring break 93 for high-tension wrestling,
- 2:31Saturday, March, 18th doors, at 3:30 Bells, at four.
- 2:34Cool thing about this show is there will be show happening a
- 2:38few blocks away over in the 2300 Rena.
- 2:41Former ECW Arena will be having a con the Connell end.
- 2:45You can literally walk a couple blocks head over to the to
- 2:48Columbus Boulevard and see this show.
- 2:52We'll have you out by just enough time to get back across
- 2:56the street and to when the show starts over at the icons
- 2:59building. So make sure you come over, hang
- 3:01out to Great wrestling shows in one day.
- 3:03So come on out and support. Port next week's guest will be
- 3:07page. W t, fantastic, fantastic
- 3:10photographer. We're going to talk a lot of
- 3:11shit and have a great time. So that's kind of what's
- 3:14happening for this week and next week.
- 3:17So without further Ado, let me bring in my guest, the one, the
- 3:23only Jerry Springer Alex watt. What's going on?
- 3:27Well, that's a weird. He said I'm so tiny yeah because
- 3:31it's all about me. Nobody knows what's going on my
- 3:38guy, dude. So much stuff getting ready for
- 3:41spring break and ready for Uncle masses 40th.
- 3:44Birthday party, you know. Just hanging out playing
- 3:47Nintendo and building a little bit of an Empire.
- 3:50What do you plan on Nintendo? Actually, I
- 4:08bought it a few days ago and I turn it on.
- 4:11I got the, the new Pokemon, the wireless Scarlet.
- 4:15Whatever it is, nice. You haven't played it yet.
- 4:18Haven't even turned it on. Water.
- 4:25It's the water. It's a little cute duck.
- 4:27I usually always go fire. I don't even know what they are
- 4:30this year. I know nothing about the game.
- 4:33I'm usually water. Yeah.
- 4:35So I don't know if you've gotten yours over there but I have my I
- 4:39have my box of chocolates ready and I'm gonna go with, I'm not
- 4:44going to eat any right now because I don't know.
- 4:46I'm gonna if I'm afraid I'm gonna get like a coconut and I'm
- 4:48gonna puke on stream. Yeah, not not fun, but yeah,
- 4:54man, so it's gonna be a fucking crazy, crazy, couple months and
- 4:58a couple weeks especially with the spring break and stuff
- 5:01coming up, but Let people know who you are and exactly what is
- 5:06high tension wrestling. Oh wow.
- 5:09So who am I? I'm Alex in the wrestling world.
- 5:14I go way back. There are some crazy stories of
- 5:19my childhood and meeting and interacting with such great
- 5:24stars. As like King Kong Bundy, Tito
- 5:26Santana to be stuck. Whoo, most of those guys have
- 5:29eaten like a dinner at my house when I was growing up.
- 5:34To fast forward. Going to ppw and, and getting in
- 5:40there and doing some interviews and podcasts, and then getting
- 5:44This brilliant idea to start a wrestling company, which hit a
- 5:49barrier during the pandemic. Then I transitioned in this
- 5:53really cool Cinematic Universe called Camp LeapFrog.
- 5:56That's lasted a while and now we have high tension wrestling.
- 6:00We're doing live shows in front of fans and it's the coolest
- 6:03thing ever. That's who I am.
- 6:05That's what I do. I'm a a fan of movies and long
- 6:09walks on the beach except for the walking part.
- 6:11It's overrated. We took a long walks on the
- 6:15long. Walk on the boardwalk on time
- 6:17and I thought you were going to die.
- 6:19I found chairs. Periodically.
- 6:21And I'm good. Yeah, it was fun.
- 6:24That's when Travis, I could be like, wrestled on the same.
- 6:27Yeah. So I the can't believe frog.
- 6:33Let's start there. So you started the company.
- 6:36You're going to start high Tension pandemic happens, which
- 6:41was possibly for the idea of the company.
- 6:46A good thing. Because, yeah, you, yeah, we, we
- 6:52booked some people who would later be canceled as hell.
- 6:56Yeah. Some to really hardcore ones.
- 7:01Well, one of them did a spots with his junk where people would
- 7:05grab it and he would the strong He did like a strong style of it
- 7:09and the other one wasn't for you suspected.
- 7:11Yeah, that's like Marilyn Manson.
- 7:13Like who would I got? Who Would've Thought?
- 7:15And then the other one was a ring announcer and you're like
- 7:17and then the pandemic happen, it's like, who we we dodged a
- 7:21bullet. There ran can't believe frog
- 7:24comes and I will say, man, I don't think I love the live
- 7:30experience. I love the fans.
- 7:33I love everything about doing a live show.
- 7:37But there's something about what was done.
- 7:40I can't believe frog for me personally that will always
- 7:44always be a spot in my heart that will never avoid.
- 7:48That will never be filled that. That was so much fun.
- 7:53Yeah, it's unfortunate because it's something you can never
- 7:56really get back because of the situation.
- 7:59The pandemic led to this one. Nobody could do wrestling at
- 8:04this time, but we found a way to do it privately and to do it
- 8:08safely, found a private island that did not have rules and
- 8:12regulations it was on an Indian reserve somewhere.
- 8:16So it's, you know, but yeah. So like basically the vibe of
- 8:21Camp LeapFrog It was just a bunch of like theater kids
- 8:25getting together and putting on their own plays and everybody
- 8:28kind of had a say, everybody kind of had to vote.
- 8:30It truly was like a throwback to a camp atmosphere.
- 8:36I have only gone to camp for two days before I got kicked out.
- 8:39So like I really don't know but I kind of think it was a camp
- 8:43atmosphere. Yeah, I came in to LeapFrog for
- 8:49frog. Sport was my first choice.
- 8:52I believe. Why is that right?
- 8:55Is that, that how I think it was heavy weights or something the
- 8:59night before? Oh yeah, you're right.
- 9:00It was heavy weights. First.
- 9:01That it was then it was then, it was LeapFrog.
- 9:06It was two shows in one weekend that we end up doing heavy
- 9:10weights. No, no, no, no.
- 9:12There was something else before. Heavyweights, that, I was a part
- 9:14of make a choice. Black come before.
- 9:17Had that? Be that come before Baltimore
- 9:21sport. Yeah, because that was Because
- 9:26frog sport was the first magazine zero unmasked match.
- 9:31So, yeah, a choice. Yeah, I came in at campers
- 9:34choice and I walk in, and I, and, and you kind of show me
- 9:41everything in the production and my whole goal, there was just
- 9:44lay low, learn figure things out and I'm up, I'm at the show and
- 9:50I'm looking around and I go. How come you guys don't do
- 9:52commentary here and like all because we don't have the
- 9:53equipment to do it. And I was like, I felt like a
- 9:57drug dealers, like, won't check out my trunk.
- 9:59You like that. So, so like the entire
- 10:02production is given comes over to my trunk and opens my trunk,
- 10:06and I have like, four cameras. I have an entire audio board.
- 10:11I have I everything. And they're like, can we like
- 10:14Frankenstein all your shit into our shit?
- 10:16And I was like, fuck it. Let's do it and it was fun.
- 10:21It was awesome. Dude, it was such a good time.
- 10:24Got to got to do all that. That fun stuff, then
- 10:26heavyweights comes and the guy who was like the head of the
- 10:30production team couldn't make it that day, but they had them all
- 10:33these grandioso ideas of going live and doing all this stuff
- 10:37and then of course live never works the matter Rush.
- 10:41Yeah, so I remember this. So I literally shot heavyweight
- 10:47in one. Take everything had to be done
- 10:49in one. Take because if we would have
- 10:50had to do anything when it comes to editing our rendering the
- 10:54video, we would have never been able to get it out in time.
- 10:58For the deadline, That was supposed to happen that night
- 11:01and I was behind the gun. And I had to get this done, get
- 11:07it right and made sure it looked and sound perfect.
- 11:11And and I must say, I think I did a really good job.
- 11:16I couldn't use stream yard, which was the goal because it
- 11:19was the only thing I knew how to run because I didn't have
- 11:21internet connection. So I on the Fly, I downloaded
- 11:24OBS and just winged it. And we got a one-take wrestling
- 11:29show and was able to upload. It wasn't stream yard.
- 11:33How we got it to me? What is it?
- 11:35How we got to play to everybody? Yeah because basic face.
- 11:41Look that day did an update and we couldn't get it onto
- 11:44Facebook. It was, dude, everything that
- 11:48could have went wrong, was throwing itself out.
- 11:51Us that day, but heavyweights came out.
- 11:54Everyone enjoyed it. And that was the first time
- 11:57where I started feeling the confidence of like commentary,
- 12:01his campers choice. I sat next to Edith and Samuel
- 12:04Eterna, and listen to them on commentary, a little headphones
- 12:08in and I remember going up to you and I was like Well, listen
- 12:13to them on commentary. Then the next day I listen to
- 12:14saber and fill and the whole time.
- 12:16I was feeding saber lines on commentary and he kept putting
- 12:19them in and they were making people laugh.
- 12:22And I was like, I think I can do this like right?
- 12:27I think I, I remember pulling you aside.
- 12:28I was like, yo, remember how like, I didn't want to do
- 12:31anything? I said I was I said this
- 12:33commentary thing seemed like a lot of fun and then that's kind
- 12:36of what it was. Like for a while before that
- 12:38I've been telling, wouldn't you be doing commentary?
- 12:40Yeah, you were. I'm so hard to do it.
- 12:42I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it.
- 12:43I wouldn't do it and because I think, because I did backstage
- 12:47interviews, and I don't think it was for me at that time and this
- 12:51is not no shot at wrestlers or anything.
- 12:53But like, I don't I'm not one who like, I don't want to walk
- 12:56into a room and immediately be like, hey everybody, I have a
- 12:58disorder and that's me, you know what I mean?
- 13:02But I saw some wrestlers get really into their backstage
- 13:04interviews and I like to, like, rip up the guy.
- 13:06So see if it's a guy they want to get physical and they want to
- 13:09grip them up and they want to be Iraq.
- 13:11And then I every I don't want to every single time be that
- 13:14awkward guy who's like hey I have a joint Disorder so don't
- 13:17grab me because if my fall and I dislocated my knee I will have
- 13:20to hit you with a real chair, right?
- 13:24But yeah, so I always kind of sit like that commentary be the
- 13:28same boat and I was like I don't want to do it and then LeapFrog
- 13:32kind of like gave me that confidence that I want to.
- 13:35I wanted to give it a shot and then I got into sanctuary and I
- 13:39got in the ppw and then I kind of did stuff here and there for
- 13:42commentary for Leapfrog and then I did two shows and it was just
- 13:45it was a it was a great experience.
- 13:47And I gotta say I did a show for Camp LeapFrog that people can
- 13:51hear a lot. I was a live show and I did it
- 13:54with a now established. Oh yeah Jerry guy.
- 13:59Yeah, I'm actually yeah. What's his name?
- 14:07Now is Blake Harwood now or something.
- 14:11Oh they it might be I thought they changed it a little bit but
- 14:13yeah they but you know he's awesome and I going back and if
- 14:15you listen to the old back log of can't believe rug 90% of it
- 14:19is him doing a lot of the old whole Camp LeapFrog stuff.
- 14:22Well yeah we want Ceramics and you level up Dombrowski.
- 14:26Their did Ring of Honor stuff I think.
- 14:28Yeah he he was also a part of that and he did a lot of ring
- 14:31announcing in the early day just to it's especially that first
- 14:36and the second. Yeah absolutely.
- 14:41He was Brotherly Love. Yeah, and I think you might have
- 14:45also been kimchi. Maybe I'll catch.
- 14:49You might might have shown up a frog.
- 14:52There's only one way to find that out though.
- 14:53Is, if you go watch it. Oh, we're how can you do that?
- 14:57Well, listen. This is the, the entire camp Lee
- 14:59frog and high tension. Library is available forever to
- 15:02watch under subscription under IW TV.
- 15:06Or or oh, huge announcement. This coming Sunday as our little
- 15:13Valentine's gift to the public for the first time forever, and
- 15:18always from now free on our YouTube, the H CW, Network
- 15:23YouTube coming. This coming Sunday, you'll be
- 15:26able to watch the entire Camp LeapFrog, library for free.
- 15:31That is after, of course, Sunday. 7 p.m. we will do a live
- 15:37tweet watch through of the original first Camp LeapFrog and
- 15:41after that, everything will be live.
- 15:43So the entire Camp LeapFrog back library, is coming for free on
- 15:49YouTube. So, head over to the YouTube
- 15:51channel. Subscribe, now, I will tell you
- 15:55this, I don't know how much we're a lot of talk about it.
- 15:57But I will say this right now that high-tension YouTube
- 16:00channel just just in general, just high-tension, smash master.
- 16:05So they are going to change the way you consume content for for
- 16:11independent wrestling. I don't lie.
- 16:15I don't know how much we're going to have to put it over
- 16:18once. This goes live, the entire new
- 16:22aesthetic of hdw, social media and content presentation goes
- 16:29live, which is mainly brought up.
- 16:34Brought to you them by you. So Blackwell behind the scenes
- 16:40has been chopping up all of our old content into matches and
- 16:46entire events getting them on YouTube.
- 16:49Chopping them up into reels that will be able to you know put out
- 16:53constantly just to remind you like hey you know what we're
- 16:56here check this out. There's a whole section of this
- 16:58match you should go check out. So I kind of brought I brought a
- 17:01thing to Alex's head and I was like Hey man, I think this would
- 17:05be a good idea to do and I got I got a lot of the inspiration
- 17:08from Roch because he's doing the same thing over on the smash
- 17:11Master where he's putting up the show, but he's also putting up
- 17:15the matches separated and I was like, yo, can't believe frog had
- 17:18good matches ahead. Good skits.
- 17:20I think if we separated everything that would be great.
- 17:23And and there's also he made the J bougie playlist, where it was
- 17:27like, if we urge a bougie, everything that's J.
- 17:29Bougie related is on that playlist.
- 17:32So and then Jay Bouche, you could be like, hey here's a
- 17:33highlight reel. All my stuff.
- 17:35If you want to send you a promoter and put it out there
- 17:37and I said, listen, I will undertake that and do the same
- 17:40thing. So it's kind of cross brand
- 17:42across the brand of high tension that we have that as well.
- 17:45So I went through and I separated every match and what's
- 17:50going to happen also is every single person who's ever worked
- 17:53for the company. Kinda almost everyone who works
- 18:00in the who's were allowed to mention, we'll do that.
- 18:03We'll have Their own playlists, and that will go from if you
- 18:08were a backstage person, if you were a talented roster, if you
- 18:11were in a tag team and also we're going to break things down
- 18:14by storyline. So it's going to take some time,
- 18:17so be a bear with us. But if say if you are like man,
- 18:20I really like CC boost. There will be an entire playlist
- 18:24of all CC boost matches. There will be an entire playlist
- 18:26of all if you if you want to see the CC Boost Max 20 storyline,
- 18:30all will be there, just give us time to get it all prepared, but
- 18:33that's all. Into the channels.
- 18:35Like I said, I don't think there's anything anyone really
- 18:38out there until now until people hear it.
- 18:39And then every other YouTube channel to do that, which is
- 18:42good too, because good, it's good for talent, it's good for
- 18:45tangibly. Like a, here's a, here's my mash
- 18:47and you don't have to watch a two-hour show and sift through
- 18:49it and find the time stamp. This is.
- 18:51Yeah this is like I love the idea of like oh today is Travis
- 18:55Huckabee's, birthday post his entire playlist on social
- 18:59mediums and and honestly it's going to help show us of what
- 19:03the fans. Like in the company, it's going
- 19:06to be like, wow it is. Surreal is the most watched
- 19:12wrestler on the network, her matches, although most watched
- 19:15so as a company you're like, hmm, that's somebody, I should
- 19:18probably look more. There's like it shows the value
- 19:21because if that wrestler, our talent is being showcased in
- 19:24there, being shown the muck. It's just, it's helpful for the
- 19:27company. Standpoint, it's helpful for the
- 19:29talent standpoint, and that showing as a company that you're
- 19:33more than just walking. And in doing the work for the
- 19:35company, we're going to actually put the work back into the
- 19:38talent so they can be showcased on a proper level and not just
- 19:41get buried on. The network are buried on the
- 19:43YouTube channel are buried and where ever you would be and it
- 19:45just disappears, right? Yeah.
- 19:47The YouTube is going to be a lot more kind of like easier to
- 19:50navigate than most because like, it's not just going to be video
- 19:54upon video upon video. Didn't just like shit getting
- 19:57buried, everything will have a playlist.
- 19:59Everything will be easy to find by simply just type in what
- 20:02you're looking for. So, So yeah, we're very excited
- 20:06a lot a lot, a lot, a lot of times going into this, I
- 20:08literally been hounding Alex for months for the videos and and
- 20:12like, hey, make sure you put the descriptions in, and it's going
- 20:15to be really, really good. And I'm excited for people not
- 20:17only to see how this channel turns out.
- 20:20But to go back and be able to watch the can't believe frog
- 20:23stuff because I love high tension, but that LeapFrog is
- 20:27just, I loved it. I loved so much.
- 20:29I actually, it made it made it shaped me a lot of who I am as a
- 20:34There and and not a wrestler, but in the business and the
- 20:37wrestling business and I just think the work that people put
- 20:40into that was was unbelievable. If it looks like we had fun
- 20:45filming it. It's because we did.
- 20:47It's everyone just had a good time filming that content and I
- 20:51think everyone should be watching it and you can now do
- 20:54that for free. Starting this, this is really
- 20:57exciting to be able to bring that to everyone for free
- 21:01without a pay wall. One to grow our YouTube but also
- 21:07to like just expose everybody to because not everybody was gonna
- 21:10pay for that. Not everybody knew about IW TV
- 21:13and not everybody does know about these platforms that are
- 21:17very exclusive to wrestling fans and I think sometimes more than
- 21:21wrestling fans that the audience for some things like this are
- 21:26other wrestlers and it's well that's great.
- 21:29I I want to reach more people, you know?
- 21:34Just Like it's a lot of fun and a lot of the people we work with
- 21:38and I don't really want to section people out, but we all
- 21:42know either, surreal is great. We know, Mike's Kairos is
- 21:45amazing. We know the goons are talented
- 21:47as hell, and these are people that I personally believe should
- 21:51already be on the next level and we got to do our part to make
- 21:56sure that their see. I'm just going to I'm going to
- 21:58say real quick just because this is what I doing commentaries
- 22:00come I stay first off. How dare you, you said all that
- 22:03amazing talent back there and And you didn't say Mary Mary,
- 22:05Mary Elizabeth. Well yeah.
- 22:08Or she has somewhere. And then
- 22:31they are so fucking entertainment.
- 22:33They were once again. Let's head for form this
- 22:35weekend, as well. It was, it was a small room.
- 22:39So, Mary traveled very well and they're like, her voice and just
- 22:43her talking shit, was just as clear as a bell.
- 22:45It was it was, she's had, she's a joy and Tommy just sells like,
- 22:51an animal. Like that's no one.
- 22:53Who can take a beating better than top?
- 22:54He thinks it around like, this is sure.
- 22:57Nobody Falls like Tommy. Yeah, so unless there's no, like
- 23:03I WT V, still A great value for what it is and it's still
- 23:07amazing place to consume independent wrestling.
- 23:10But it is also sometimes very hard to find stuff because there
- 23:14is so much constantly being put on there that sometimes a
- 23:18YouTube channel is good as well because you can kind of just
- 23:20direct your fan base directly to one place, but still also please
- 23:24support iwt be there, a great service and they're very, very
- 23:28kind putting and we're amazing to us for such a long time.
- 23:33Thank you. Yeah.
- 23:35So that's that's the first little announcement.
- 23:38Let's go into the war. Yeah, let's get into the next
- 23:41little thing here. Let's talk about the the event
- 23:46coming up in Philadelphia. Yeah, that's right.
- 23:51March 18th at Penn's Landing caterers in Philadelphia baby.
- 23:58Check it out. We're gonna have really cool Mt.
- 24:03Just kidding HT W spring break down event.
- 24:08It's going to be 0 spring break down 93.
- 24:10So it is a retro spring break party in Philly.
- 24:15So come dressed, like you're going to the beach.
- 24:17It's going to be awesome. It's going to be a good time.
- 24:19We're going to also as this part dress like you're going to be
- 24:22the 90s. Yeah.
- 24:23Dress. Like it's grunge dress.
- 24:26You know. However you want to dress.
- 24:27I don't know what was popular in the 90s.
- 24:29Backstreet Boys and NSYNC Spice Girls.
- 24:33Spice up your life. What up is that 90s?
- 24:37Yes, was it? I mean I was definitely not 93.
- 24:40It was more late and he's but yeah, I'm loaded.
- 24:45Is it nine? It wasn't anything we're doing
- 24:46it. What is it 93?
- 24:47Right? It's 93 but like let's enjoy the
- 24:51entire 90s Spectrum. Yeah, well I'm so I just want to
- 24:56look up real quick, 93 trivia, fun facts, and history.
- 25:03We got 32 bit microprocessors from Intel 32-bit love that.
- 25:13The top song was Dream Lover by Mariah Carey.
- 25:17Some of the best movies to watch at that time.
- 25:19And that year was Jurassic Park, Schindler's List Sleepless in
- 25:23Seattle. And we love that Tom Hanks, we
- 25:26love that Dad. Oh, Free Willy, really nice.
- 25:34If we don't have a freely reference at some point in the
- 25:36show, you now the most famous people in America were Denzel,
- 25:42Washington, and Julia, Roberts Noble books.
- 25:46Nobody reads the Sony Walkman was huge for NOS the 2998.
- 25:52The price of a Domino's large pizza.
- 25:54With two toppings was 999. The funniest guy in America was
- 25:59noted to be Jeff Foxworthy. Yeah, oh that's horrible.
- 26:02They're funny guys built so Bill Hicks was the actual funny guy
- 26:05but Jeff Foxworthy was the one that would cater to the the
- 26:07masses, I guess. We'll Jay Leno was the funny
- 26:10late-night guy and tender Ted, Danson wore black face and use
- 26:16the n-word at his girlfriend. Will be Goldbergs roast at the
- 26:19Friars Club so and he's still around, just look at it.
- 26:23Yeah, he did that movie together to I forget it was called, you
- 26:27don't have any of that. Swear.
- 26:28I didn't know they were really dating.
- 26:29That's why I said that they go. There's, there's something
- 26:32there. Some 90s 93 trivia for you.
- 26:36He's got to figure out how to I guess I just gotta be like
- 26:39hosting just be like, I'm gonna host, but I definitely won't be,
- 26:42like, Ted Danson tonight and I was gonna get the job.
- 26:44No, don't do that. Lets a person spice roses 97.
- 26:52Stephen Jameson accept a BJ. I am going to the chat real
- 26:55quick. Eric pin has says, yo Free Willy
- 26:57whirls. It was reared in for sure.
- 27:00Peter Delong, I don't know if he's still here, he was here.
- 27:02Diggs was here. Alex was here.
- 27:05Page was here Billy trays, ask the team.
- 27:08Just a Kiss. Yeah, that happened right in the
- 27:09beginning. Everyone missed it.
- 27:11Paige said talion, talented. Brilliant, incredible amazing
- 27:14show-stopping spectacular. Never been done before.
- 27:20I guess is inside thing that's that's just all me.
- 27:22I love that song and you're doing amazing sweetie.
- 27:26What a what a what a sweetheart she is and Alex is main is
- 27:31Flowing. Yeah, I have I put my hair up
- 27:33because I didn't want gimmick infringement, you know what I
- 27:35mean? I had a haircut mishap today, so
- 27:40that's why I'm letting it down by your sides.
- 27:44No, well, they're not shave. So I do want it down but I trim
- 27:48the beard up by accident today as kind of mothers about, as I
- 27:52said in the past, fuck you. It's true that it's here.
- 27:58I really will help you fix your like something happened and you
- 28:02showed me your beard and I was like, Yeah.
- 28:06Yeah. It was rough.
- 28:09Yeah. So we were saying before this
- 28:12show is going to kind of coincide with what's going to be
- 28:16happening in Philly that day. So icons we run in the same day
- 28:20I believe their concerts like 10 a.m. yeah and it goes till about
- 28:2512 or 1. It's perfectly set up so they're
- 28:29con I believe actually goes to maybe three typically I'm Josh.
- 28:34That's like on twice by 3:00. You you're done, nobody's here.
- 28:38Yeah so like we respectfully once we realize we're running
- 28:44the same day, moved our show to doors at 3:30 show it for and
- 28:49then hopefully we're out between 6:00 6:30 so you can walk three
- 28:53blocks right back to their show and catch their iconic show.
- 28:56So what I did there. Yeah so here's a pro tip.
- 29:01If you want to just do the walking thing, Leave your car at
- 29:05icons and walk. Walk a couple blocks before you
- 29:09leave icons eat, they serve food icons.
- 29:13They serve food. While you're on like, Tony links
- 29:15is right down the road to. Yeah, we'll get your food to is
- 29:22John's John's Roast Pork, which I think is the best cheesesteak
- 29:25in Philly. I've had so far.
- 29:28Yeah. I think Brian said it's really
- 29:29high up on the list too. But yeah.
- 29:32So you grab some food. Over enjoy some amazing
- 29:35wrestling from high tension. And like I said, he'll have you
- 29:38out by 6:30 7:00 and then you can literally walk three blocks
- 29:41again, and catch more wrestling at icons.
- 29:43It's it's literally going to be the most fun.
- 29:45If you're a wrestling fan in the city of Philadelphia that day
- 29:49because they're both amazing shows.
- 29:50Icon has a lot of fun. They bring a lot of good names
- 29:53are II. Don't have the least little.
- 29:57We have pro wrestling from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
- 30:00Yes. Is a killer day for a wrestling
- 30:02fan. Yeah.
- 30:04It's almost like Mania weekend before Mania weekend.
- 30:07You can have a little taste of that because you're kind of
- 30:09bouncing from show to show that supporting just to kind of
- 30:12pulled over the icons event for 4, Min Greed for their Saturday,
- 30:17the 18th. I'll kind of put some names up
- 30:19there, team 3D Bubba and Devon Jake the Snake Roberts Camille
- 30:23Brickhouse, the mountie The Nasty Boys, Shane Douglas.
- 30:27And Francine Dre, who cares PG-13?
- 30:32The referee from Of yui. I got like a Sarah Blake cheek,
- 30:37not sure who that is Steiner. Brothers, John Morrison, Jerry,
- 30:40Lawler. Jimmy, Jimmy Hart.
- 30:41That's that's, you're worth of admission right there Lexington,
- 30:44her to Sweet. Had it long Virgil Tony knees.
- 30:47The Brian Kendrick, Harry Smith and Shawn Spears with more names
- 30:52to be added later. I did think they just announced
- 30:54the million dollar man as well just recently.
- 30:58But, yeah, tons of great things and just go support to events
- 31:01that are happening in the same day.
- 31:03So happening at high tension, that day will be some live
- 31:07music. Yeah, how about it.
- 31:11So when you talk a little bit about these guys this is all day
- 31:15special who we got to see at the Edina benefit at Clashers.
- 31:20Well Shout Out My Boy George yeah there's band freaking
- 31:26killed it and they did some 90s or backs right?
- 31:28They did like Santeria, they did some Bulls on Parade which is
- 31:32badass. These guys frickin Rock everyone
- 31:36in a rock, the high-tension show.
- 31:38So Make once immediately, when we wrap up high tension
- 31:42wrestling right? When the main events over, we're
- 31:44going to check out some great live music by all day.
- 31:47Special, and the band is sponsored by slithering into the
- 31:52abyss. What is that, what is that?
- 31:55That is coming to the H, CW Network.
- 31:59It is independent yet, also. So talents is a new heavy metal
- 32:04band. He's going to be scream, singing
- 32:07page will be playing. The keytar, as well as a
- 32:11triangle. Yeah, she plays the cowbell
- 32:14actually and we consistently need more cowbell.
- 32:18Yeah. Rhonda will be on the Cajon,
- 32:20which is essentially just a box drum.
- 32:23Which Rhonda fun fact Paige's mom, is named Rhonda to.
- 32:28All right? Well, then we'll have will have
- 32:30will have not. So Ronda Rousey on the cone and
- 32:34then we'll have the other Rhonda on was another obscure
- 32:37instrument. You bloom is able to Maracas
- 32:42Yeah it's all right. This is already shaping up to be
- 32:45the best dental death metal band of all time.
- 32:48It is it's like Norwegian death metal is what it is.
- 32:51You know when you think of Death Metal you think of cowbells
- 32:54cajon's and maracas no but legitimately what this will be
- 33:00is it's going to be like a little bit of a production
- 33:04company. It's going to be like our
- 33:06non-wrestling involved cinematic short films.
- 33:11It's going to be Vlogs blogs articles podcasts about like
- 33:17just her and I chat and talking about if film cinema music
- 33:23spooky shit probably going to check out some like on
- 33:27attractions and see if we can reply go through some of those.
- 33:31Just going to be a well-rounded fun.
- 33:34Content that kind of just sums up what we're really into.
- 33:40Can't can I if you do spooky stuff, I never had a chance to
- 33:44do it on my end for my spooky stuff, but I would love, there's
- 33:49two things that I would love to do and if you guys are bringing
- 33:52that back, I'd love to pitch an idea and then beyond two
- 33:55episodes and they both revolve around New Jersey.
- 34:01Actually there's three episodes over the pinch.
- 34:03So wait, are you going to pitch that road?
- 34:06Yes, Clinton Road. I want down and want to do
- 34:10Clinton Road. I want to, I want to put a
- 34:12GoPro, like I said, my goal is to have GoPros by then at least
- 34:16three of them. So would literally, we can just
- 34:18drive Clinton Road and put GoPros on the front and back of
- 34:21the car, and see if you get chased by spooky ghost.
- 34:24If you don't know, the wrote The Clinton Road story, go.
- 34:26Look it up to it. Look into it.
- 34:28It's too. Craziest thing you'll ever see.
- 34:30And then, as well as that, we have to go look for the Jersey
- 34:33Devil. Yeah, yeah, we have to go for
- 34:37the homes, we have the hunt, the Jersey Devil.
- 34:38Do you mean? Then?
- 34:43Because he lives in the jungles, and we'll just have to help
- 34:45point us in the right direction, and then we have to take a trip
- 34:51to Salem, right? I've never been to Salem.
- 34:54Never been a Massachusetts. I've never been either.
- 34:56It's one of my like goals. I really wanted to do that on
- 34:59the way home from Salem. There's a house that's pretty
- 35:03Fabius that you can stop at the way something.
- 35:05Evil horror house. You can technically do that but
- 35:08you're not allowed inside of this one.
- 35:09You can actually rent a room for the night.
- 35:12Let's go and stay the night in this room.
- 35:15It's a little house where a allegedly, a girl murdered her
- 35:20for her father, and stepmother with an axe, the Lizzie Borden
- 35:25house. Oh yeah, let's do that.
- 35:27Yeah, so let's let's, let's that that they're the episodes.
- 35:31I want a book and do with your gas.
- 35:33Let me know. Our goal was to book bring a
- 35:36group of us and book. Each room for the night of the
- 35:39Lizzie Borden house because you're allowed to like
- 35:40ghost-hunting do stuff throughout the whole night.
- 35:42But it is ask you to be quiet because other guests will be
- 35:45there. But if you book, if you have
- 35:46enough people in a everyone books its own room.
- 35:49You have the entire place to yourself.
- 35:53Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I want to sleep on the
- 35:56floor. They found the mom.
- 35:57I don't know why that's a weird but that's what I want to do.
- 36:01There's no, I'm So Into the into this the Duncan fight girls.
- 36:06Only Bambino with take on some ghosts.
- 36:09Okay. Ghost of what is his name?
- 36:16Tony Soprano. Yeah.
- 36:18He just took on your high tension wrestling champion over
- 36:21the weekend. Well, I already know I turned
- 36:26Yeah, I will say this though. Yeah, it was a really good
- 36:29match. I'm very proud of them.
- 36:31Just just the real fast going into that show.
- 36:34A lot of that show is showcasing new Talent versus old older
- 36:38Talent are established Talent. Will say not even just older
- 36:41just established or people who were at the top of their game or
- 36:44have been in the business, a long time, and every single
- 36:48young Talent who was on that show that night.
- 36:51Killed it man. Donnie had a great showcase
- 36:55Nathaniel had a great match. Shelby had a great match to
- 36:57Damon. Dante had a great match.
- 37:00I thought the match of the night went to Diamond City and and
- 37:03Ricky price and m.j. stacks. Great match MJ Stacks man.
- 37:10He had a really really good night.
- 37:11They Diamond City made him look like a million bucks, Ricky
- 37:15price. Obviously super talented, even
- 37:16though he's a dirt Ball but great, the word night, he's
- 37:20absolutely. Just a little video, I made.
- 37:24Yeah, usually, but he's upset about it, man.
- 37:29They were top quality nice. But no, it was a great event and
- 37:34a lot of money was raised for Edina and Mike, which is you
- 37:37can't ask for anything more, you know, we learned that but also
- 37:43the big thing for us, We're next to the whisper are harsh that
- 37:56there's a Mach 10. He's razor Wings partner in the
- 37:59air show. Why do I don't remember seeing
- 38:02his gear look like that. You know.
- 38:05He wasn't wearing the mask. I'll tell you.
- 38:06He doesn't wear. The masseter was he was unmasked
- 38:09when he wrestled? Yeah.
- 38:11I look at Brian there. Brian Ace.
- 38:15He had a good heart and a good match to man.
- 38:17Do, I didn't realize how luxurious his hair is.
- 38:20It's nice. It's nice.
- 38:21Amazing. You got some good locks on them.
- 38:23He had a good man, so he looked really good dude.
- 38:25That kid's gonna come. He's coming away as man.
- 38:29You know what you can tell that he's trained by crumbles and
- 38:31defarge. Like, when he assholes dude, he
- 38:34pushes a really fast pace for his size, like he Smothers you.
- 38:38And he's, he has grit and he's, he's He's very agile for his
- 38:43like, so he's doing, he's going to be something.
- 38:45He's someone to keep an eye on, dude, Brian Brian Aces, because
- 38:49he'll work is really impressive. I don't want to see that night
- 38:54late a little heel II, it was real, it was really good, just
- 38:59real quick, with the high tension as well, sponsorships
- 39:02will be available as well for a local businesses content.
- 39:04Creators podcasters are welcome. I will be a show, a show match a
- 39:09show, a match, or a custom sponsor.
- 39:11So I guess you can sponsor Talent, right?
- 39:15Yeah, please. Well we don't we don't have
- 39:18anything set up for that but I mean we're not going to stop
- 39:21you. Yeah.
- 39:22If you want to sponsor a BJ Outlaw will take it visit the
- 39:25website for more information for sponsorships once again, just
- 39:28another great. Great event to go show some love
- 39:31and support. So what else is on the horizons
- 39:36for just high tension? As a whole, I know you talked a
- 39:38lot about the new we're going to dive into pop culture and spooky
- 39:41stuff that's not wrestling related but will be on the
- 39:43network. But just like that's just kind
- 39:46of like something that kind of page and I want to do, you know
- 39:51while we love wrestling it's just like sometimes when you're
- 39:54soaking consumed by one thing, it becomes a lie ago that Eric
- 40:00pin hat, really impressed by Brian said, told he told in the
- 40:03van We'll find a partner so we could have a batch be.
- 40:06That'd be great. I'd love to see that.
- 40:11So what's next? I probably shouldn't say yet,
- 40:15but I'm going to love our next show.
- 40:19We have not quite Locked In the Venue yet, but the idea and the
- 40:23theme Is kind of like a prom. So we have like a wrestling prom
- 40:33and it's you know what? I'm just going to say the name
- 40:37of it because why not? It's going to be king crabs
- 40:40enchantment under the sea. so, If something if someone doesn't
- 40:46get a bucket of blood dumped on them, I'm not coming.
- 40:52Maybe it might be on the ruin it.
- 41:25And then and then you kind of looked a little hard on some
- 41:29people. I don't think that shit there.
- 41:32Never, yeah, I get you a little too comfortable sometimes.
- 41:37Just ask my eighth grade teacher.
- 41:39Yeah, fisting story happened once on the podcast, it did
- 41:44happen. So yeah, just so you don't have
- 41:48a venue for that dude. But it's, you know, the month
- 41:50that you're trying to shoot for. Yeah, it's gonna be in.
- 41:53May we kind of have a tentative date.
- 41:56I just don't really say. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're looking
- 42:01to do some pretty cool stuff. Hopefully stay in the Philly
- 42:04area or somewhere and Pa that that works.
- 42:08The plan after that is to probably travel to Jersey and
- 42:14get our hardcore on at some point during the summer.
- 42:18So that's a wild west brother. Yeah, it's the way to go.
- 42:22If you want to get some color if you know what I'm saying, just
- 42:26listen. You know, that Jersey venue that
- 42:29we've worked before. Is I love I love the guy to
- 42:31death and I love that building but please God don't book that
- 42:34but William the middle of the summer.
- 42:36Now there we wouldn't be able to it's just it just doesn't work,
- 42:43it doesn't work for what we do and we've learned that by trying
- 42:46to what run two or three shows there.
- 42:49It's just it's not a fan base for us.
- 42:53Yeah, unfortunately. So yeah.
- 42:55We'll say what we did that one show in Atlantic City like right
- 43:01off the boardwalk at that. One bar for pro wrestling after
- 43:04dark. That was a dope time.
- 43:07Oh, nice. Atlantic City.
- 43:08Wrestling is a good time except just don't park your car at the
- 43:12wrong casino and then try to find your friends and then get
- 43:15threatened to get beat up by a guy high on drugs.
- 43:18Even though you weren't with us, dude, that wasn't that wasn't.
- 43:21When I was you were there. So you and Andrew took an
- 43:25elevator, and thought you were going into a casino and me and
- 43:28your brother took the stairs and went down to the street level.
- 43:32And when we mean your brother hit the street level, this guy,
- 43:35literally looked at us. And then said to nobody that he
- 43:39was talking to that. He's going to murder us.
- 43:43Yeah. Yeah.
- 43:44And he didn't whisper it. He literally said it to his
- 43:47imaginary friend who wasn't There he goes.
- 43:49Look at these two guys. I'm going to murder them and I
- 43:52want one Sharon, I go, we're going to be fighting and then he
- 43:56said something to Jared about his pink shirt and and then I
- 44:00think I grabbed Jared's. But and we just walked away,
- 44:03right? We me and Andrew were actually
- 44:08going into a hospital. Not a casino.
- 44:10He did not know that. Yeah.
- 44:13And I'm texting you like, please come so we can leave here and
- 44:17then we had to walk. Passed him again to meet you
- 44:20guys. Back at the car boy, was that a
- 44:22nightmare that was right? You had your heavy with you?
- 44:26I was crazy. Yeah.
- 44:28That's a good day. He literally to nobody.
- 44:30I'm gonna murder these two people and we're just like,
- 44:34we're the only two people because he's talking to nobody.
- 44:40It's awesome. Atlantic City Vegas.
- 44:44If you can't afford Vegas but not as nearly as safe.
- 44:48Sure. Yeah, even on the boardwalk.
- 44:51You could probably die. There's no there's no anybody
- 44:56around to stop it from happening and nobody's going to stop it.
- 44:59Yeah. No one's if they're going to
- 45:00cheer it on. It's like a gcw event.
- 45:03They're just gonna be like. Yeah.
- 45:06Okay, all fucking day bro. Did I tell you that?
- 45:10I tell you about how we me and Mike what happened?
- 45:15Yeah, well me and the podcast but me and Mike went to physical
- 45:20therapy and we're sitting in the gas station.
- 45:22This state trooper walks in And he like looks over at Michael
- 45:25looks at me. And then just let us MDK all day
- 45:27motherfucker because he was wearing the gcw hoodie.
- 45:29And I was like, this cop is gang affiliated, it was really funny.
- 45:34But yeah, man. Well, if anyone has any
- 45:36questions in the chat, we are hitting the 45-minute Mark.
- 45:38We do try to wrap this up or around the hour, but if anyone
- 45:41has any questions, please put them in there.
- 45:45Also is there any talent that you're looking at in the area
- 45:50that might be joining? The high-tension Ross.
- 45:54Stir our, I mean you don't have to say exact names but I mean
- 45:57sure we have well so it's not necessarily in the area.
- 46:00There is some Rockets going to come debut for us.
- 46:04The spring break down all the way from Pittsburgh.
- 46:09We got Ziggy Haim Haines. I probably butchered that but
- 46:13she is awesome. She's also desperate heard
- 46:16right? She does she does do the
- 46:18Deathmatch stuff. Sometimes.
- 46:20I get H2O, you'll see her a lot at enjoy.
- 46:24In the Pittsburgh area, she rocks.
- 46:26And she also has a good relationship with a lot of our
- 46:29roster. So, I'm excited because he is
- 46:31really close with Schatzi to write, probably won't.
- 46:35She was a Pittsburgh Courier? Ohio, it wasn't wasn't shot.
- 46:37See there to support her at that.
- 46:38No peace underground show probably, I don't know.
- 46:42Remember, we will see each watching.
- 46:44No, peace undergo. We love that.
- 46:47So much fun. We bought.
- 46:48We bought shirts from that. Yeah, we did what I was actually
- 46:51just talking to Angel Metro about that promotion, because I
- 46:53guess, They just came back or they're going to start coming
- 46:55back again and I was like yeah I watch one show and I was like
- 46:58this is a cool promotion dude. The Fe versus Paro match is just
- 47:03it's still such a great story and Deathmatch.
- 47:06No ring wrestling. So cool.
- 47:09The last last last one on the throne or whatever or yeah.
- 47:14So good so good. I was awesome.
- 47:17Before you go into your more Talent, we do have a question,
- 47:21do you have any advice for young Talent like myself?
- 47:24Self-honesty. Very very they're saying Jerry
- 47:27Jeff Jarrett has passed away. That's unfortunate, dude.
- 47:34My my best advice as a promoter to Young Talent is to be aware
- 47:41of the ever-growing. He go and stay humble.
- 47:48It's probably the most important advice I would give anybody,
- 47:51because as soon as I see somebody with an ego or that's
- 47:55really putting themselves over not in character, it's a it's a
- 48:00major Turn off. Same goes with not realizing
- 48:06that the business that we're in is entertainment and not an
- 48:10actual Sports competition. So when you start to believe
- 48:14your own hype and start to politic and try to, you know,
- 48:19you can collaborate with me all day long.
- 48:21But when you're politicking for spots that are part of a story
- 48:27that I'm creating it's like it doesn't doesn't jive well with
- 48:30me. I need I like people to know or
- 48:34to be aware that this is an art. This is a story that were
- 48:37telling together your character and I've enlarged chosen you for
- 48:43the character that you've created.
- 48:45And that's, that's a really cool thing because I remember when I
- 48:49was a kid, sometimes on the Indies, a promoter would just
- 48:54give you a gimmick. You look, I don't know what's
- 48:57crazy thing about in today's time, could you imagine you
- 49:00book? Anyone on that poster behind you
- 49:03and be like, hey, I'm going to change who you are, and make you
- 49:07something different. Like, there's not one person,
- 49:09that's proposed her, I would change.
- 49:12No, no. They all do a really great job
- 49:14of developing their character growing, it putting themselves
- 49:18in, good position to tell good stories.
- 49:20And yeah, dude, I wouldn't change a thing.
- 49:24I, we booked for what they're promoting as themselves, and
- 49:29it's really cool. And that's why it's so actually
- 49:33easy in a sense when Andrew are the Maestro and I are booking a
- 49:37show, the characters putting two characters together, kind of
- 49:43creates a story like it's just logically like what would happen
- 49:46if CC boosted and Max met like what is their history have they
- 49:50met before? Okay, well what would logically
- 49:53happen in this scenario, the story start to tell themselves.
- 49:57So it's like we're not necessarily putting ourselves in
- 50:00the store. Freeze or putting yourselves
- 50:02over, it's just these characters, these people have
- 50:05done a great job of developing a character that the stories just
- 50:08kind of come naturally. And it's a lot of fun to do,
- 50:11just from my experience of working at different promotions
- 50:14and working. For high-tension /.
- 50:16Can't believe frog, and smash and see if you.
- 50:19There's a reason why the roster cup, keep coming back, I'm not,
- 50:25I'm not shy to say it, but if you look at the top pwi, 500
- 50:29list a good Chunk of the ones that are showcased on the pwi.
- 50:34500 on the independent side of things, a lot of them are in
- 50:38this company, you know? I mean and and and they keep
- 50:42coming back and it's not it's not for any other reason.
- 50:47That is that you are you are flexible with your stories and
- 50:51and you let them have input in the stories as well.
- 50:55And to the point where they take pride in their stories and they
- 50:59take pride in the events and And it's I hope awesome.
- 51:04I hope that they feel respected, I really do.
- 51:07And I hope that they feel that they own a piece of this company
- 51:13in a sense. Like I really I really hope that
- 51:16they feel like they can wear it as a badge of honor something
- 51:20that they want to carry with them because like we're all
- 51:24creating it together, like I know that, you know.
- 51:26Sure it's Maestro and my money that go.
- 51:31Into it. But like, dude, all these people
- 51:33create it. Yeah, absolutely.
- 51:37Thank you for the vice also. Just stay away from Russ.
- 51:40Bitter, wrestling fucks. That's that that would be my
- 51:42advice if someone's in a locker I'm telling you how much they
- 51:45hate that there there are they hate the business so they can't
- 51:48wait to just get away from them. Yeah it's not somebody want to
- 51:51listen to It's not don't fall into that trap.
- 51:55Yeah. If I can just put over the
- 51:59Maestro a little bit. Yes.
- 52:00Please do is it says, co-owner down there.
- 52:04There he is. The other owner of high-tension
- 52:06wrestling. Would be a dope to see him on
- 52:08the podcast. Actually, he is just this
- 52:13awesome mind when it comes to like, you know, obviously
- 52:18telling the stories and just being able to, like, call back
- 52:21to, you know, things that sometimes, I don't, I don't pay
- 52:25attention, he has a great business sense, he's a great and
- 52:30talented musician. He's one of the reasons.
- 52:34I can't believe frog had such a great, like feel to it because I
- 52:38like some of the custom music was like the highlight of it and
- 52:42our last show, the Goon Buster and I thinking Buster's, the pre
- 52:45prod, it Ghostbusters parodies, just probably my favorite Love.
- 52:49Shack is still high on my list for a frog, for her lost, love
- 52:53frog. Hello frog.
- 52:55Baby love frog. Honestly, like for me, love
- 52:57frog, is this show? I loved all of them but love
- 53:01frog is the one that made me really fall.
- 53:04In love like like we were close and I never really liked said to
- 53:08you like, hey, can I come in and then love frog, happen.
- 53:11I go, dude! I'll fucking I'll wash windows.
- 53:15I just want to be a part of this.
- 53:16Yeah, it's funny Maestro. This came from my sister telling
- 53:22me how much he hated The Love Shack song and then when we
- 53:26decided to do love frog, I'm like love frog is a little old
- 53:30but he was just like did not have to do that now.
- 53:32Yeah, so we there's Ben the camp LeapFrog theme song.
- 53:36There's been the Monster Mash dirty.
- 53:41The I believe he did all the all the Christmas carols for the
- 53:47first. Yeah, yes I love the love frog.
- 53:53The Frog sport where it was like the pair, it wasn't like a
- 53:57parody music. Our parody lyrics but it was
- 53:59essentially parodied LeapFrog meets Mortal Kombat.
- 54:03Yeah man and the Blood Sport theme song kind of?
- 54:06Yeah yeah and then obviously creep frog.
- 54:12Was there anything else? Probably he's really good.
- 54:16Great Ring announcer. I think he's one of the better
- 54:18ones to do it and he doesn't do it nearly as much as I think he
- 54:21should because he's really good at it.
- 54:23Yes, he's awesome at. He's good at commentary.
- 54:25He's a commentary guy. Now, even Noah kind of been the
- 54:28main guys. Listen to him.
- 54:29Yeah, they don't really well. Yeah, yeah, I really enjoy it.
- 54:32I enjoy my sister's. Dad comedy.
- 54:37Yeah, dad jokes are. There's tickle me in a way like
- 54:41nobody understands he gets it. He really does.
- 54:46If I could also put over the other brands in the hdw network,
- 54:52there is cfu. You which I love the, I would
- 54:54love that Pia. I love that much.
- 54:57I have my Masha versus Janai signed poster back here.
- 55:02Yeah, there's there's gonna be some more.
- 55:03See if you coming out probably like a next couple months.
- 55:07Pretty excited about. I said, I remember being
- 55:10backstage for the cfu show. We first worked with them and I
- 55:14remember just being backstage in the, in the production area with
- 55:16you I just look at the monitor then I was like because that's
- 55:20when we that's when we finally dialed in the cameras that's
- 55:23what we finally dial. Like I felt like because we had
- 55:26our hiccup with AB. Was it Abby's birthday?
- 55:32Happy birthday. We're production-wise.
- 55:34We just we dropped the ball when it came to audio and cameras and
- 55:37sodium was rough because we were still use, we're figuring out
- 55:40our, we are figuring stuff out. But the next show when we did
- 55:43see a few and he has a real mixture Trail mixer, bro, I
- 55:50remember look at the camera and just seeing, like how it looked
- 55:52through the cage, and how just how it looked shot wise.
- 55:56I was like, this is good, like this is guys on point.
- 55:59Yeah, it see if he's a Fun promotion, man, like, I love
- 56:03mixed martial arts and they do it really well but also
- 56:07showcasing female Talent. Speaking of that, one of the
- 56:10talents that I met at CF you who I thought were super, super
- 56:13entertaining have been killing it all over the place now and
- 56:17now they are now the new NWA women's Tag Team Champions, the
- 56:21Renegade sisters, oh I saw they want a championship, I didn't
- 56:26know what it was, that's the only.
- 56:27And if they are the NWA women's tag, team champions, That's
- 56:32that's the end so deserve. I love to see if you and they
- 56:35pulled the Twin Magic gimmick that well you'd one you know
- 56:39that that was done like a shoot. Sheila Jared one sister.
- 56:44Legit hurt herself. She hurt her shoulder.
- 56:48Oh, what I didn't, ya, they were, she legit hurt her
- 56:51shoulder and they called the, I think they were going to do it
- 56:54at another point in the match or another point in the show and
- 56:57she told her sister, like, I can't lift my arm.
- 57:00I think I hurt my shoulder so they did it right then and there
- 57:02like they call that. That's awesome.
- 57:05Yeah, they were super entertaining, but see if you is
- 57:07a really fun promotion. I got to play a corner Man
- 57:10twice. That was fun.
- 57:12Yeah, I was I was Christina's cornerman and then I was marshes
- 57:15cornerman and and Masha is the most sweet human being ever.
- 57:22But also the most terrifying, she scares the absolute shit out
- 57:26of me but she's my favorite female Talent on the planet
- 57:29right now but she her hair got stuck in a ponytail and her
- 57:35hair's very clearly and very thick and I'm like, Masha, I
- 57:38can't get it out. She goes, rip it the fuck out.
- 57:40I go not doing that. Doing that.
- 57:43Like I'm not ripping your hair out and she just in her.
- 57:45You have MMA gloves, grabs her own hair and just Mankind's it
- 57:49and rips the hair tie out and goes to hand, it to me and it's
- 57:52shredded, I go can't use it. So I'm like I look over at Sam
- 57:55would turn on like I need a hair tie cause I didn't have one.
- 58:00So intimate so Marshall goes out fights.
- 58:02Her fight comes back and I put a hair.
- 58:05I put her hair up and right and your mom yells.
- 58:08What are you doing with my hair? I go.
- 58:09You got next Heat. I mean what it was like It was
- 58:12so much fun. It's funny.
- 58:15I recently was watching the back.
- 58:16I'm like, yeah, yeah. But you know, how hard it is to
- 58:23play it, straight straight Corner, man?
- 58:27When Julius smokes is in your presence, he is fucking insane.
- 58:33Donald Trump or dogs you You he is the most entertaining.
- 58:41Honestly, that's another moment for Leapfrog.
- 58:43That is my hands-down favorite is, when you assigned me to do
- 58:47the Friday bit, when we're going to shoot the Friday skit with CC
- 58:50boost and and Julia smokes, and I think the who Julia smokes was
- 58:55and you're just like, you know, you're going to shoot this bit
- 58:57with this guy. And I remember, like I said, I
- 58:59believe I'm doing a fried a bit. I need a bicycle, I need this, I
- 59:02need that. And you guys were like, well,
- 59:03there's a bicycle there. But we don't want to ask Julia
- 59:07smokes. If you will write it.
- 59:08Like we're like, everyone was like, I'm not asking them and I
- 59:10was like, oh, ask them and then I went up to him.
- 59:12I seen, Julia smokes, I was like, oh, you don't ride a bike
- 59:15and goes hell yeah, give me that shit.
- 59:16He just start riding it around. The hole is right
- 59:29for that show. Yeah, so it was the first time
- 59:32Brian ever done music, so when Masha came Out Julia.
- 59:36Smokes told Brian to play one of his songs.
- 59:40So Masha standing and gorillas. And she's in full Masha mode
- 59:45like like Russian Dynamite gonna kill somebody and Brian hits the
- 59:50music and mustard just looks over and goes that's not my
- 59:53music and and Julia smokes goes, yo what the fuck?
- 59:58My God that's not her music and then the end he was fucking
- 1:00:01let's go monster and they walk through the curtains.
- 1:00:03Yeah. Yeah.
- 1:00:10Yeah, my goodness, great good stuff.
- 1:00:13But man did I cannot wait II first off?
- 1:00:16I want to thank, I want to thank you.
- 1:00:18I know behind the scenes. We had a small hiccup man, and I
- 1:00:23want to say, dude, like at all the people I've met in this
- 1:00:26business, dude. Like there's friendships and
- 1:00:29there's family. But I fucking love like, do I
- 1:00:31love you to death? And we had our when we had our
- 1:00:34little moment, dude. It It sucked.
- 1:00:37It had it bothered me a lot and I'm glad we were able to talk
- 1:00:41and fix things and get back on track.
- 1:00:43I'm honored to be part of not just the company behind the
- 1:00:47scenes, but I'm hosting a show, which I never would have ever
- 1:00:51expected. Because if you look back at the
- 1:00:53history of high tension and can't believe frog and for how
- 1:00:55much I love the history of this company, do people like you've
- 1:01:00people who hosted shows like we're big fucking deals, like
- 1:01:04Alex had his own show Killian had his own show like they
- 1:01:06Essentially, the host of the show.
- 1:01:08So the fact that I'm kind of getting that badge.
- 1:01:11Like, it's not mine, it's not spring break, 92, a BJ, but
- 1:01:14like, I don't want it to be, but just step in that hosting role
- 1:01:18is something that I don't take lightly because the people who
- 1:01:21have done it before me in this company is dope.
- 1:01:25So I'm very, very honored, we bypass back, I love this banner,
- 1:01:30I fly as high as I possibly can and I just hope I do a good job,
- 1:01:34make everybody proud and I really, really, Really hope
- 1:01:36people enjoy that YouTube channel and and what we're doing
- 1:01:39there as well. Yeah, absolutely.
- 1:01:42So yeah. Again this Sunday 7:00 p.m.
- 1:01:46watch, the very first Camp LeapFrog along with us live,
- 1:01:50tweet hashtag LeapFrog and then once that's over it's all going
- 1:01:55live. You can check it out.
- 1:01:57And then after that, we'll start dropping reels and we'll just
- 1:02:00remind you that we exist. High-tension wrestling combat
- 1:02:05fights Unlimited, Smash Master rasslin can't Leap Frog htw
- 1:02:11Network and who knows? Maybe there's new stuff popping
- 1:02:14up along the way as well. Always be on the lookout for new
- 1:02:18content coming, so they're into the abyss.
- 1:02:22Hopefully, we bring back Wellness.
- 1:02:25H TW Rollins. Let's do it.
- 1:02:28Yeah, I like that. That was that was really fun.
- 1:02:30Essentially, Wellness was us talking about surviving your own
- 1:02:33mental health, in the wrestling business and I think it's
- 1:02:36something that we should bring back because I think a lot of
- 1:02:40people hit that wall man. People hit that wall and it's
- 1:02:43tough. Yeah, and we were, we were
- 1:02:46hitting it from this aspect of content, creating and wrestling
- 1:02:50business, which is a whole nother Beast, you know.
- 1:02:54Yeah. But But anything in closing you
- 1:02:56want to get out there, let people know about say, where can
- 1:02:59they find you all that fun stuff.
- 1:03:02I want to say that I absolutely love my team.
- 1:03:09I love the high-tension wrestling production crew.
- 1:03:14I love you. It's Valentine's Day.
- 1:03:16So like it's nothing. We love Paige, watchi
- 1:03:21photography. I don't know if you seem all of
- 1:03:24This. But she's probably one of the
- 1:03:27top five at least, probably top three realistically wrestling
- 1:03:32photographers out there so Booker and a no, no shame not
- 1:03:40trying to get heat, but if I have a wrestling photographer,
- 1:03:44if I like gun to my head, I have to book one or two.
- 1:03:50A generic that's her as her never pin head.
- 1:03:53All day long on the percent. Yeah.
- 1:03:56Yeah. He's like, no question wants to
- 1:03:58wrestle them. Can you just retire?
- 1:04:01Because you're just as good as that to, like, your hair up, it
- 1:04:04had and I've said this numerous times, man, he is someone that
- 1:04:09I've seen shows, not should have not happened and then Eric pin
- 1:04:14hat finds a way to fix something, or make something
- 1:04:17work shifts watching. I watch them.
- 1:04:19It's a ring. Yeah.
- 1:04:21Under his bed. He's so him.
- 1:04:23And brought her to so invaluable and and yeah, Pages Pages
- 1:04:26brilliant. When it comes to everything.
- 1:04:29Everything. Yeah, I want to while I have you
- 1:04:32because you announce a lot of stuff, I'm booked obviously the
- 1:04:36rest of this month and everybody knows this month's guest.
- 1:04:39But I'm also booked all for March March is completely full
- 1:04:43and I'm going to run through real quick, so it's still going
- 1:04:45to be Tuesdays and Thursdays for March.
- 1:04:47I think an April I'm gonna dial it back.
- 1:04:49To just one day a week, I don't think I'm doing two a week
- 1:04:52anymore in April, which is going to be harder because every
- 1:04:56single person is like, you know, when you gonna have me on what
- 1:04:58the hell, here's my list of people that are book that I have
- 1:05:00that, I have to book. That's why it's, yeah, that's
- 1:05:04why it's, I was doing two a week because I was feeling bad.
- 1:05:07That people feel like they're waiting forever.
- 1:05:09And when I tell them that, like, you're on the list or like,
- 1:05:11yeah, right. Yeah, right.
- 1:05:12But, um, yeah. So March, we'll just start.
- 1:05:16It starts with a Thursday and then will be Thursday, Tuesday,
- 1:05:18Thursday, Tuesday. Day boom Harden on the podcast,
- 1:05:21which I'm really excited to talk to him.
- 1:05:23He is now in a tag team with the Sean Pratt who I would love to
- 1:05:26have on the podcast as well. Are they working czw together?
- 1:05:29Yes, and boom is really really good.
- 1:05:30And I think I would love to pick his brain about to Sean.
- 1:05:34Because the Sean, I think it's just one of the bright spots in
- 1:05:37this wrestling business, and fun fact.
- 1:05:39He is in the very first Camp LeapFrog match, which he could
- 1:05:43watch this Sunday. So, yes, versus Devante switch
- 1:05:47is who probably the Two coolest people in this business.
- 1:05:51Then after that, we'll be MIT, which I think is going to be a
- 1:05:54Megastar in this business isn't common factors.
- 1:05:58This is for March. Oh yeah, I'm stupid.
- 1:06:01Yeah. Tommy Vex in March.
- 1:06:03Jaden steel. Mike's Kairos.
- 1:06:07Oh, I know that guy. Yeah, Eric pin hat, Brad demaio
- 1:06:13separately. I'm getting them both separately
- 1:06:15Nathaniel Cunningham and I'm ending the month.
- 1:06:19With the queen. You know who the queen is?
- 1:06:22We talked about it earlier. Who's the queen?
- 1:06:26Who's the queen of the wrestling business?
- 1:06:29I don't want to say, say it is it the ephemeral quick and then
- 1:06:34I'll, she's just the absolute queen of this business.
- 1:06:37The queen of life, if you want a manager, you pick her.
- 1:06:41So it's Mary Beth very fucking death.
- 1:06:43Baby listen, right? Very fucking bad, the queen but
- 1:06:48not the ephemeral Queen. Yes, you should also be on the
- 1:06:51bus, get i'll because I would love to interview you.
- 1:06:54Right? Absolute sweetheart Duty either
- 1:06:57is another one that went every time you have her book.
- 1:06:59Card and it's that's like wait, what are they going to do?
- 1:07:04Heard Masha and do what? You just throw herself into the
- 1:07:14cage and try to get her leg. Stuck is going to do what?
- 1:07:18Yeah, she's a Edith and Max the Impaler are going to do.
- 1:07:24Wha? That is my I don't know I don't
- 1:07:27want to say it but I think that's my My favorite match,
- 1:07:30just artfully the music composed, by the Maestro, to the
- 1:07:36movements of the match, Edith, and Max the Impaler creep, frog,
- 1:07:43this Sunday, check it out. Honestly, I think the Soviet
- 1:07:48Deathmatch is very, very, very high for me.
- 1:07:51But the match that put that made me really fall in love with
- 1:07:57Edith and then the match that made me.
- 1:07:59Find my probably my favorite independent wrestler as of right
- 1:08:03now was love frog, Edith versus Effy, Effy.
- 1:08:08Oh my God, I don't know watching that I was like, you know, I was
- 1:08:11like, how did I never hear it? Because I like, I was still new
- 1:08:14to the Indie scene. And I was like, how did I never
- 1:08:16hear of Fe? And why is this guy everywhere?
- 1:08:19And then he became everywhere. Like, f, one of the best
- 1:08:23wrestling podcast. I loved.
- 1:08:24I loved it. Just insanely entertaining.
- 1:08:27I'm a huge, FB Mark. I Love everything that I don't
- 1:08:30know. Wait, I'll get on Cass.
- 1:08:32I would love to interview. But yes, so that's going to do
- 1:08:36it for Valentine's. I don't know what chocolate I
- 1:08:38ate. I don't it wasn't anything bad.
- 1:08:41I'm not eating chocolate anymore.
- 1:08:43So I'm literally just eating beets and greens because I'm a
- 1:08:47fat ass but um, I got myself a treat of my bloody Valentine's
- 1:08:52hotter. Love that I know.
- 1:08:55So we're starting we're starting something very similar as well
- 1:08:58to when it comes to like Movie music reviews, like just pop
- 1:09:01culture reviews. So essentially, I'm going to
- 1:09:03start bringing back the other Annals of the I WEP Network and
- 1:09:06morphing them in the a BJ but they won't be podcast.
- 1:09:09I'll just be YouTube content. So I'm bringing back movies and
- 1:09:12I'm bringing back the horror movie with Heidi.
- 1:09:13So anytime you ever want to want, you want to jump in on
- 1:09:16that. Let me know, dude.
- 1:09:18Absolutely. What did she think about Pearl?
- 1:09:21She's had to have seen it. What's one Pearl?
- 1:09:26She might have seen, I'm not sure yet.
- 1:09:28The last one she went to go see in theaters by herself was
- 1:09:33Skidamarink and No. And she loves all horror movies.
- 1:09:37She hated it. Yeah, I've not heard good
- 1:09:40things. Oh my gosh.
- 1:09:42So, I spent the entire Saturday at the movies and Batista's and
- 1:09:47night shyamalan's knock at the cabin is like so far my movie of
- 1:09:52the year, really? I think I got bad reviews.
- 1:09:56Oh, no. Beginning to end is just tense
- 1:10:00as hell. It's really good.
- 1:10:02It's so good. Hell, yeah.
- 1:10:05I I watched on Disney plus the beginning of the month.
- 1:10:09I watch Black Panther and I cried like a Baby.
- 1:10:12Dude. I could do it.
- 1:10:13I would do the beginning. Cried, the End Mill, cries.
- 1:10:18And then the end. Yeah, Africa does, like you
- 1:10:21motherfuckers. Yeah, I wanted black panther to
- 1:10:30be somebody else and I feel like it It's still a possibility.
- 1:10:36I didn't realize kill Monger died.
- 1:10:38Mmm. He refused it.
- 1:10:40He refused to take the flower like he's like we can save you
- 1:10:43is like, nope. I don't want to be saying,
- 1:10:44that's right. But at the very end she started
- 1:10:47planting new ones. Yeah.
- 1:10:50And he was buried at Sea Because I'd be down.
- 1:10:56I'm a fan of the character. That'd be awesome.
- 1:11:01He was he's my he's probably my favorite Marvel.
- 1:11:03Marvel villain. I love to kill Monger.
- 1:11:05He's so good. Hell, yeah.
- 1:11:07Because you're like, you're rooting for him.
- 1:11:09You know. I mean you're like I kind of see
- 1:11:10his point. He is probably the best Marvel
- 1:11:14villain yet until we see dr. Doom.
- 1:11:18And hopefully they kill like character.
- 1:11:20I love doctor. I actually thought to do with
- 1:11:22showing up in what kind of forever that's I thought he was
- 1:11:26supposed to be an actor credit, but it wasn't.
- 1:11:28Yeah, I thought he would have been part of the team that was
- 1:11:31going in for the vibranium because that's essentially what
- 1:11:33Doom did, and then became Doom, right?
- 1:11:36That was like that, something like that.
- 1:11:39Yeah. But, all right man, what a
- 1:11:42Valentine's Day I couldn't have asked to spend it with anyone
- 1:11:45better. I love you that's my Valentine's
- 1:11:47date I've ever had and just did a lot of great stuff coming.
- 1:11:52We can't wait for you to consume it all follow.
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- 1:12:01can check it out. There are currently at 335
- 1:12:06subscribers. Let's get them to 500 and
- 1:12:08onward. Hell yeah, but yeah, let's have
- 1:12:11some fun. My guy, that'll do it for this
- 1:12:12episode. We'll see you on Thursday with
- 1:12:15page. And we're going to talk about
- 1:12:16photography. We're going to talk about
- 1:12:18editing wieners out of photos. It's gonna be a great time.
- 1:12:21Ha ha. I'm gonna blow up the chat.
- 1:12:24Hell yeah. That was my favorite photography
- 1:12:27conversation and I never thought it was a real thing.
- 1:12:29I like really annoying. Yeah it'll don't actually that
- 1:12:31one praying for us photo of grow cal.
- 1:12:34It's a thing that needs to happen.
- 1:12:37I'll just leave it in. If you're if you're if you got
- 1:12:39it if you got it going on Let It Rock.
- 1:12:41Yeah. If you got it, flaunt it there.
- 1:12:42Hell yeah I do but isn't it was me.
- 1:12:45I have to add more to me. Actually cannot be my promo.
- 1:12:51Photo just make me unrealistically have this
- 1:12:55Insight not will get cancelled. Also.
- 1:12:58Also, page actually won't junk next fucking show.
- 1:13:01Please get pulled me aside and remind me to.
- 1:13:04I need a new promo photo. I like in the worst way, put you
- 1:13:08on the list. Yeah, oh yeah.
- 1:13:11But all right, that's gonna do it.
- 1:13:12Here's some Billy tray. Thank you guys for having a
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