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Interview with Dirty Dango aka Fandango - From The Vault · The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Well return after these messages.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, podcast about the show sucking the.
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  Speaker 1: Glenda March Job.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome everyone to the Major Recipe podcast. We are here
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  Speaker 3: with what should we call you these days?
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  Speaker 4: The artist formerly known as Fandango AK Johnny Curtis aka
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  Speaker 4: the Portuguese Sun Dragon AK. Don't laugh, I cut my
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  Speaker 4: promo aka Captain Midnight.
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  Speaker 1: That is all.
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  Speaker 5: You just told me downstairs, actually that I didn't know.
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  Speaker 5: This a lot of deep thought and uh you poured
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  Speaker 5: your heart out into your new current name.
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  Speaker 6: Can you tell everyone how that came about? Ship?
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, yeah, did you hear the story yet? Oh,
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  Speaker 4: mister ryder taker. So we're live here, guys, and beautiful downtime, Albany, beautiful, luxurious.
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  Speaker 5: Actually we did a live podcast in this very room,
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  Speaker 5: so if we were here in Albany at that fan
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  Speaker 5: fast that you were at actually too hardy but wrestled
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  Speaker 5: Betoire the house down with the Hardy Boys man event,
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  Speaker 5: no big deal. But we did a live podcast in
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  Speaker 5: this room.
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  Speaker 4: So haunted as can you curse on here? Haunted as
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  Speaker 4: f This arena is the Washington Armory. But anyways, back
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  Speaker 4: to my story. So I got released in June of
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty one, and of course the social media department
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  Speaker 4: will call you and you know you need to change
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  Speaker 4: your Twitter handle and which you don't, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: Yeah I don't.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a rye back. I don't want to get into.
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  Speaker 5: It's they which they would love for you to change.
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  Speaker 5: You don't have to, So IG go ahead to hornswoggle for
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  Speaker 5: sevent years.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm I don't want to. I don't want to
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  Speaker 4: heat with juniors. So I said, yeah, let me change.
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  Speaker 4: It's real quick for you. But they're like, what do
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  Speaker 4: you want to change it to? So I was doing
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  Speaker 4: flooring at the time, doing some Harvard flooring at a
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  Speaker 4: house I was building, Like, what's the name you want
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  Speaker 4: to change it to. I'm like dirty dangout. They're like,
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't think of anything. It's uh like all right,
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  Speaker 4: sounds good. So they changed all my dangled dirty Dango,
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  Speaker 4: Curdie whatever, and then I put a lot of put
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  Speaker 4: a lot of real I heard the tron in the
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  Speaker 4: bright lights last night at Bound for Gloria.
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  Speaker 6: That's a big music to switch that. I love the music.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want toot my own horn, but too toot.
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  Speaker 6: I love the music.
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  Speaker 5: Actually a lot it wasn't fandango music, But it was
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  Speaker 5: like I spun around and I saw the smiles on
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  Speaker 5: people's faces.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what's all about. You know, when you get
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  Speaker 4: into this businessman, it's all about putting smiles on faces.
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  Speaker 4: Trumperetta tweeted me, and you know, he said that the
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  Speaker 4: version of my new character looks like he smokes cigarettes,
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  Speaker 4: which yeah, because I had that DNIM jacket on.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But mister ryder Taker over here told me that I
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  Speaker 4: need to put some sort of lightning bolt or maybe
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  Speaker 4: maybe a star on the back or something, you know,
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  Speaker 4: kind of like Rory Fox needed some ship on his gear. Yah,
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  Speaker 4: what did they tell him that, Like you put something
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  Speaker 4: or no, shark boys like to fancy up his gear.
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  Speaker 4: To all you nineteen ninety eight ers out there that remember.
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  Speaker 6: Talking about true life a lot, actually that's good. You know,
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  Speaker 6: Roory Fox is a character who in our major universe.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, I know that it wasn't DMS me and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I see him at signings. He's one of you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Is him and Maven or connected?
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  Speaker 5: You got a lot of people that are under our
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  Speaker 5: tree actually wrestling Maven tomorrow in a top enough street fight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not on the show.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I think you guys are both having a fantasy conversation
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  Speaker 6: that I want to look through our text. I'm pretty
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  Speaker 6: sure you said you were booked.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I'm just not booked.
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  Speaker 4: Co Comana got first class from Chicago to LaGuardia. Pretty
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  Speaker 4: he probably flew right into Ever said the ispic whatever
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  Speaker 4: that what is that name of that airport?
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  Speaker 1: No, the Long Island.
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  Speaker 5: No one's going on from the only time I've ever never,
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  Speaker 5: I've never used that.
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  Speaker 4: My first loop at n w A was They're like,
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  Speaker 4: I connected an ice Slip to Nashville.
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  Speaker 6: Bro Oh my god. I'm like, how is that possible?
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  Speaker 1: It was Southwest.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, I didn't even I've been flying consistently at
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  Speaker 4: least twice a week for fifteen years. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't even know they had an airport and Iceland.
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  Speaker 4: I live in Long I've never used that airport.
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  Speaker 5: I got to it once actually to pick Caban it
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  Speaker 5: up because he came to town for like an indie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was like Maine to Ice Slip, Ice
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  Speaker 1: Slip to.
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  Speaker 5: I think it only I thought it like only goes
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  Speaker 5: to like Orlando, or something like so people can like.
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  Speaker 6: It might have been a especially used it though I'm
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  Speaker 6: looking for this text. It doesn't exist. You guys made
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  Speaker 6: this conversation. All the pictures that we do of horrible indies.
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  Speaker 4: Jungle out there, man, Oh my gos real jungle out
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  Speaker 4: there boys.
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  Speaker 3: So we go all the way back to the Deep
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  Speaker 3: South days. Mcdonna, Georgia. You know, like McDonough is now
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  Speaker 3: like the hotspot for wrestling again. Cody opened to school there,
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  Speaker 3: lives there.
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  Speaker 1: Tremperetta's got a condo there, and he lives in McDonald's.
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  Speaker 5: He lives like right there. Yeah, Billy God, you didn't
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  Speaker 5: even know that. Billy Billy good movies, his whole family. Mcdona, Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know that.
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  Speaker 5: I know Jordan Grace lives there. Well, I mean, I
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  Speaker 5: think think about gard Gill lives there.
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  Speaker 6: Oh my god, if you.
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  Speaker 4: Think about it, it's what thirty minutes to the airport.
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  Speaker 4: And obviously Atlanta is the best.
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  Speaker 5: But we're talking fifteen years ago. How much more development
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  Speaker 5: Gonna town? Yeah, you know what I mean, we it
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  Speaker 5: changed so much. Three years ago. We went to find
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  Speaker 5: our house, like Inferno's house that we like lived in
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  Speaker 5: We couldn't find it, really, and then that's so much
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  Speaker 5: that sounds super embarrassing, but like we legit couldn't find
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  Speaker 5: it because like the whole landscape had just changed so much, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, yeah, so developed Mike Knox and Ryan O'Reilly and
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  Speaker 4: like that house.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the party house. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I just found another text from when I got hurt.
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  Speaker 3: It says rider Taker. I hope you heal up, sir.
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  Speaker 4: You know what, man, you just gotta be nice to
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  Speaker 4: mister thirteen over here, because you know, he's at the
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  Speaker 4: top of the p w I five hundred food chain.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't even you know, I think Joe Rules beat
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  Speaker 4: me out this year. I didn't even make it. I hope,
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  Speaker 4: I hope some of these uh these p w I
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  Speaker 4: p w I guys are listening.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even make the five hundred. I had a
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  Speaker 1: pretty hot, hot year last year. You know.
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  Speaker 3: It turns out we didn't try to book you, but
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  Speaker 3: we tried to book him for Live fourteen.
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  Speaker 6: That's what he was. Oh that definitely happened. Okay, Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: double shot, double shot, double shot in calhoons. Man, it's
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  Speaker 6: August bro.
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  Speaker 4: I did that's exact I did that exact same upstairs
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  Speaker 4: venue as Calhoun's and like you guys sold it out.
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  Speaker 1: I had like five people show up from my autographed signing.
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  Speaker 5: Here is that recording again, that's recording Jack's recording. We
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  Speaker 5: went the year before we saw that sign like come
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  Speaker 5: beat dango.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, five people showed up.
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  Speaker 1: Five five people showed up.
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  Speaker 5: I like to like, dang, all right, we should probably
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  Speaker 5: wrap this back around. So you know, major wrestling figure
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  Speaker 5: of podcast.
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  Speaker 6: You were the main event of FW applying three just
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  Speaker 6: screwed you, pal?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean who is that referee? Like he just
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  Speaker 1: screwed me? Like yeah, yeah, so I'm not I'm not
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  Speaker 1: even himself. So I get screwed on your show.
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  Speaker 4: I don't get called back to get my come up,
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  Speaker 4: and so it's just you bring me into job me out,
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  Speaker 4: the ref blows me out, the water Bed's.
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  Speaker 1: Playoff season, boys softball season?
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  Speaker 5: Bro. What I was trying to get at and I
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  Speaker 5: don't even know if the answer to this, what did
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  Speaker 5: you play with wrestling figures as a kid?
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  Speaker 1: I did? Yeah, the original ones.
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  Speaker 4: My dad had the remember like Hillbilly Jim, that series
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  Speaker 4: where the paint would scrape off.
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  Speaker 5: Hall of Fame for two hours and I hate him
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  Speaker 5: to this day. Yeah, so that was probably yeah, Ship.
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  Speaker 1: You're talking about rubber l Jan figures. Yeah, so probably
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  Speaker 1: late eighties, right, Yeah, that makes sense. So late eighties.
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  Speaker 1: I was probably six ish.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if they came out that year, but
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  Speaker 4: so those are the figures we had. Were the ones
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  Speaker 4: that didn't really move. They were like rubber.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So Hibbilly Jim Hogan. My dad always had.
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  Speaker 4: A Hillbilly Jim toy in the center of his truck
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  Speaker 4: for some reason, No, for real, it was like a
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  Speaker 4: good luck thing for him, and for some reason, I
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  Speaker 4: always remember having that Hillbilly Jim doll. But it must
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  Speaker 4: have been late eighties because I was five or six
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  Speaker 4: and I was born in eighty three.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys remember the Wheelhouse.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, But besides that, the only I had Marvel figures,
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  Speaker 4: but never you wrestling.
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  Speaker 6: Strike me as like an action figure.
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  Speaker 4: I only had one one figure outside Yeah, yeah, that
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  Speaker 4: kind of kid was building treehouses.
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  Speaker 1: I had a big Ninja Turtle guy.
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  Speaker 4: All the figures in Ninja Turtles die Hard Ninja Turtle fan.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But the only any wrestling figure that I've had over
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  Speaker 4: the years is the Doc Gallos Straight Edge Society figure.
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  Speaker 4: Why that's the only one I've had. I don't even
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  Speaker 4: know it's been.
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  Speaker 1: I had it at the top of my Christmas tree
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  Speaker 1: for years. Bro. Yeah, and there's some other stuff.
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  Speaker 4: We used it for photo shoots and stuff, but I
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  Speaker 4: can't talk about it. The only doll and I was
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  Speaker 4: like at my dad's I was cleaning out storage like
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  Speaker 4: a few months ago, and there's like that doll has
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  Speaker 4: followed me in the last like six moves in my
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  Speaker 4: life a doc you know.
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  Speaker 1: The straight Edge one.
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  Speaker 4: I know, but yeah, the straight Edge Society probably twenty
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  Speaker 4: eleven is twelve when he was with the Punk and Serena.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know why I have that.
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  Speaker 4: I was probably at Target and probably like buying beer
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  Speaker 4: or something. I'm like, yeah, I need and yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's the only figure that I've had. And then obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, can they hear me sitting this far back again,
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  Speaker 1: you get to come closer, like Joe Rogan, I want
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  Speaker 1: to close it up.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, when you get a new figure
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  Speaker 4: in WW they would send you a box of like
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  Speaker 4: fifteen or twenty and I would give them to my
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  Speaker 4: like the neighborhood kids and ship and I wish I
• 10:09
  Speaker 4: had I have some of the fashion police ones, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: the last one, the cop one. Yeah, But dude, I
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  Speaker 4: wish I hung on to the ones with the colorful tights.
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  Speaker 1: I guess they sell for like two or three hundred bucks.
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  Speaker 1: The elites.
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  Speaker 4: They sent me like a box of like fifteen of
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  Speaker 4: them back in the day. My little carniass you have one?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh so he's got one right here.
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  Speaker 6: Look at that.
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  Speaker 1: So those are worth some money, right, I mean, that's.
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  Speaker 6: A whole nother story here.
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  Speaker 5: But legendary visit from the fandangoic creator pro.
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  Speaker 6: I had him sign this.
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  Speaker 1: For me, but it was in like blos reading my eyes.
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  Speaker 5: Sharp and it was terrible. You have to sign and
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  Speaker 5: redo it professionally.
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  Speaker 1: And that jaw line man beautiful.
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  Speaker 6: Figure also and like this is the jaw line.
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  Speaker 4: This is very sure that we had a video here,
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  Speaker 4: mister p w I five on one, probably not even five.
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  Speaker 6: What's really blind bloking?
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  Speaker 5: Like what we know about toy making To get that
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  Speaker 5: much like color into one figure, it is very out
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  Speaker 5: of the deco.
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  Speaker 6: It's very difficult to do, so, like.
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  Speaker 4: Is that why it's such a collectible something?
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  Speaker 5: And then like well a lot of things help in here,
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  Speaker 5: like that takers like all black. So like the offset
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  Speaker 5: that he doesn't have that much to you, Like that's
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  Speaker 5: how they even out the lineup kind of thing.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, pretty incredible job by Mattel.
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  Speaker 5: But anyway, it was signing like this terrible blue sharpe
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  Speaker 5: that since faded, and they saying, you know, you're one
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  Speaker 5: of my best friends in the business, and this hangs
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  Speaker 5: in my gym. So I used hand sanitizer took it off.
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  Speaker 1: I took it off.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but that's fine. You can redo it, write something funny,
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  Speaker 5: don't wake the snake.
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  Speaker 6: Or whatever you want like that, don't.
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  Speaker 1: Wake the snake?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, you know what that means?
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  Speaker 1: Can I write fanday? Yeah? I don't want to. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want your call.
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  Speaker 5: But if you put a Kurt Hawkins in front of me,
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  Speaker 5: I'm writing I signed hockey. Put Brian myerste in my right,
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  Speaker 5: give me like two Brian. That could be that I
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  Speaker 5: could flip this on the on the black market. That's
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  Speaker 5: gonna be worth a while.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I like this Nike. There we go.
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  Speaker 5: Now it's professionally by Oh yeah, oh right, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: We're back in business. Folks.
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  Speaker 3: So you don't like I know you don't collect figures currently.
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  Speaker 3: Do you need to have one on the beach at yours?
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  Speaker 3: Especially this? This is this is your rookie, right, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: first time in the line, right.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't.
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  Speaker 5: I don't. So what are you like, thirteen years in
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  Speaker 5: the business when this comes out. Yeah, it wasn't like
• 12:43
  Speaker 5: a big bucket list thing.
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  Speaker 1: I never watched any of my matches. I don't. I'm
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  Speaker 1: so critical of everything I do that I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I just.
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  Speaker 6: I wish.
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  Speaker 4: Now you know, I've got a little Carnie deal going
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  Speaker 4: on in Pakistan where I get custom belts made.
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  Speaker 1: So I got a hold to like they made my.
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  Speaker 5: Well, actually, I mean someone had digital last night and
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  Speaker 5: my meet and greet it.
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  Speaker 1: Was so I've got the the NXC Tag Team Championship.
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  Speaker 4: It looks I have the real one they gave me,
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  Speaker 4: and then the the the replica one that was made
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  Speaker 4: looks exactly the same.
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  Speaker 6: Can't tell difference.
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  Speaker 4: So I had like a the the guy that made
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  Speaker 4: him for me is he's in the business. He made
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  Speaker 4: a custom Brody Lee one for me. I've got a
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  Speaker 4: few of them made up. He just said he just
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  Speaker 4: gave them.
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  Speaker 6: Hang these up.
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  Speaker 4: So my buddy like Joe Gomez in Tampa. The guys
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  Speaker 4: that own businesses, I just get him made for them
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: and put their like business logo on them.
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  Speaker 1: And it's the coolest gift you can give someone.
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: So if your dad owns a sandwich shop, you get
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: like Myers Sandwiches and you but you can get any style.
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  Speaker 4: So I got like the Florida Championship Wrestling design, you
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  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, the shape of the belt with
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  Speaker 4: the plates with their logos on it, their business name,
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  Speaker 4: and then they put it.
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  Speaker 1: In their office exactly. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So just just recently, I've got a couple of the
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  Speaker 4: old Dango figures and those titles. I'm starting to collect
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  Speaker 4: more stuff because of my nephew. My nephew thinks it's
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: super cool. He's nine privilege, what we do, you know?
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  Speaker 1: But I was.
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  Speaker 4: I was in the grind for so long, bro that
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  Speaker 4: when I got home, it wasn't it was literally just
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  Speaker 4: do your laundry and fly back out. It wasn't really
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  Speaker 4: a home life for me, you know. It was just
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  Speaker 4: get ready to go and then head back out. So
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  Speaker 4: only to more domesticated I'm waiting. I mean, you knew
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  Speaker 4: me ten years ago, so I.
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  Speaker 5: Wasn't really actually did an impromptu seminar a credit bro
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  Speaker 5: when he signed that figure the first time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were it was yeah, so that was.
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  Speaker 4: But before that, we went to the Guns and Roses concerto.
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  Speaker 4: Was that years before, years before I got kicked off
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  Speaker 4: the Guns n' ros.
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  Speaker 6: You're coming off the high of the things promo.
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  Speaker 5: He wouldn't stop playing, playing and talking about it for
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: forty I'm still.
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  Speaker 1: Buzzing, man, man, I was so fired up. That was
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: the best birthday gift that anyone could get.
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  Speaker 6: What's doing?
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: He texts me today? Yeah, DM me today.
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  Speaker 6: Just think just thinking of you.
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  Speaker 1: Good look all the time.
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  Speaker 6: He's a nice guy. He's a good neighbor.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: Before we bury him for his promo, congratulations, you look
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  Speaker 4: good too, good for wrestling, good boy.
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  Speaker 6: So maybe he thinks I've been an impact wrestler, fierce.
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  Speaker 6: He's never a DM ME. Good job.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Well, you don't have a Denhim jacket a little bit.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: You don't have a Denham jacket with a lightning bult
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: on the back.
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: I won't to see if we have any questions fired
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: up here?
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's see, dude, How haunted by the way is
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: this fucking arena? This is an old just to kill
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: the dead air here, guys, is this is an old
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: w w w F arena back if you google it,
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: thee in.
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: Armory and the height of NXT ran here like the
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: cool nxt Yeah.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: We I think we wrestled the Forgotten Sons here, breeze
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: and I wow, I'm blown away this this question is
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: here and you too, I would love for you too
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: to address it.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: Is molt Ta? How is it taking the limo to
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: the limo? That's possible?
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Who is that who talked?
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: You just did that?
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: It's not right there? How does melt tata? When did
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: we talk about this? Yeah? I must have us. I
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: mean there's no other way to know that, right.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: So, yeah, we'd have promo class back in Deep South Wrestling,
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: and I was a little young boy bitch and I
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: got nervous and messed up a promo and said, I'm
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: gonna take my limo. I don't know what to say
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: to my limo and rider taker over here, sir.
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: Has brought it up every time you've seen you consistently.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, you're so luxurious, so you know, so wealthy
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: you take two limo?
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, a limo to me being a famous schlumbler. Now
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: I can actually take my limo to my girlfriend's car.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: Eating the rice cakes is great for Is that good?
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: What did you expect when you brought me on it? Honestly,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: you knew this ship was gonna go off the rails.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: Daniel Brewer, who's your favorite guy to travel with and
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: what's your go to music choice?
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Favorite guy to travel with.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Probably Joe Henning, just because we're just on a shoot.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Because when you travel with someone, sorry, I'm spinning rice
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: cakes all over the place, when you travel with someone,
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: you don't want them to you want them to just
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: be laid back and just actually, you know what, Heath,
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, sorry, Joe all day, Heath don't get more
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: laid back.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go into super.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: Detail with that, stopping it like an Applebee's is like
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: fine dining though.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: So he's based in but he just you know, when
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: he's home during the week, he's a dad, and then
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: he flies on on Friday or Saturday for the live
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: and he's genuinely excited to be on the rail, you know,
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: and you'll meet him in the airport and he's like,
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: my where are we going, were going to the gym
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: or were going to all of them going?
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: Like, he's just excited to be out. You know, Brosky,
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: you can inconvenience very easily. You can't inconvenience heat Like.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: Heath, I got to go to my uncle Jim's house
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: in Columbia. It's going to be a three hour excursion.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Oh my sounds all right cool?
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: This was dropping my head.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: I think it's like when Mojo first gets on the
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: road and you try to get a free car for Mojo,
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: so you're like, hey, you all to ride together.
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: Sorry, I don't like ride with people. You remember that?
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Wait? What I think you wanted to ride to me
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: and Mojo?
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: And I said to you, like, sorry, I don't like riding.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Oh you big league me? No, I don't.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: It's like I hate riding with people.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hate.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: So I always drove with someone because I was cheap,
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: But towards the last year or two, it was worth
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: the money for me just just to be on my
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: mount because when I was partying, you're you're hanging out
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: with everybody.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: You're getting up at fucking noon.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: But when I stop partying, I was getting up at
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: like seven to go work out, you know, and it's
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: nice to have that peace of mind of just kind
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: of like solid, just being quiet and being on your
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: own schedule career.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: I think I did two loops by myself, maybe three
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: absolute and I enjoyed it, but I.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: Didn't want to do it all the time.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: I started to do it towards the end just to
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: just to have my own schedule.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: I don't like remove people. I don't want to compromise
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: with anybody. Yeah, because when we were on the road
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: more than we're home, it's like our life.
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, so I want to live how I
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: want to live.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: I think when you first get called up and you're
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: not making that money yet you're.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Going like four to a room.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: Horn couldn't be enough.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: You got horns, couldn't be enough, guys. You just put
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: everyone everywhere.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Man, Because back then, when you guys were like tag champs,
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: you know, six or oh seven, the downsides were a lot.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: The pay structure was a lot different than it is now.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: So you guys are tag team champions probably making like
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: one hundred grand.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: A year, like what we did on every show, every
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: live event, every tour.
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: It's like probably a year what we got for that
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: one year.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: To what people get today is like probably a fifth
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: or a sixth of what a mid card of a
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: mid card person.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: Now you know our downside when we were tagging just
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: seventy five.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you probably crushed two.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: Didn't get the seventy five bump that.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Was years later, but you probably made way more than
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: that though.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: Our original WB contros fifty two and that's minus all
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: your hotels and your cars.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do your favor, crush. Don't tell anybody.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Bro, that was a two even I'm gonna give
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: you one hundred thousand.
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah said that twenty eleven. I was your YouTube show
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: kids really great. I don't At the same time, I
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: was training with training with the Rock and he's like,
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: we're gonna find something for you doing great, Dwayne Love.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: I'm like, I know you're getting be one hundred and
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: so good. And I'm sitting in the locker room. I've
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: never forgot this thing.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: I'm like, Dann, that was a great talk and this
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: this is amazing. And then Heath walks and goes.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Hi, everybody trying to get by your wives.
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: And then like bro, and then like everyone's looking at
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: you like.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Wait YouTube meet, Yeah, like of connect from the dots,
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: like something's up.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: So that's you know what totally off subject is when
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Bruno used to call everybody handsome, So I thought he
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: only called me handsome for like a year, and then
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: he called like fucking.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Sandau or Cody Rhodes handsome.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: I'm like, wait a minute, he calls everybody handsome and
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: it really fucking hurt my feelings.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: But yeah, so that's that's my story with that.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: Frozen I would loved from Chris. Evan Hayner would love
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: to hear about his role in the early seasons of
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Total Divas. Watching the show now and it's like he's
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: the exposition guy.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Exposition.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that means I gave me.
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: I don't even remember being an adult.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so like Summer you went on a date with
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Summer Ray the first season, I was on there with.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: My wife watched it.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: The first season, I was on there with Evan Marie
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: as a love interest. The second season, Summer was on it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: So I was always like that go to like piece
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: of meat guy. Russell was a producer.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: He liked me. He was a cool guy.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: But we always would film at like gom as Is
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: condo on the beach in Florida, so very easy.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was, it was, It was.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: We had the location lined up already, and I think
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: I was always dating one of the girls like on TV,
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: like they were my dancer, you know, so I kind
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: of like was the sidekick of whoever I was the.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Only one sitting at the stable has never been managed
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: by Rosa Mendez.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yeah, yes, Ryan y Bosh is the cool one.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: What was it like the night after Mania?
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: I was there and we were singing your theme on
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: the bus all the way back to Manhattan.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: That's the video that went viral, correct right where?
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah it was cool. It was cool, man, But I
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: was yeah, I mean I was supposed to.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: I was supposed to be the big heel there and
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: obviously it kind of yeah, but you know, it's like
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: the Margarinian ship. You when when something gets really as
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: quick as it gets really cool, is usually as quick
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: as it kind of goes away.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: But I'm like so proud of I got, you know,
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Max Caster and they claimed and all the scissoring stuff.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: But literally watching this week on this is amazing, But man,
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: how this could be so fleeting?
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: You see as fast as it gets cool, it's a
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: it's a lightning storm. So but that's the thing, guys
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: like Chris Jericho, Well, you can keep coming up with
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: something that gets catchy. So it's your whole body of work.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Do you want to like, do you want to just
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: be remembered for that one song? Or can you are
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: you good enough to come up with a new stick. Luckily,
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Breeze and I ended up tagging we came up with
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: another little bit of a stick. So those are the guys,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: the Christians, the edges that you guys that have enough,
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: they put enough thought into the business.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Where what's my next stick? Because if you know, a lot.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Of people can have that one night after mania, but
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: usually you know, you can't just lie on those that
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: one thing.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: You know, you can never take that away from you, Like, yeah,
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: that phenomenon that you did have it that one Yeah
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: you know.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: But you know what if Seth Rowins or someone played
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: that character, I feel like, yeah, they would have had
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: the same reaction.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: I'll never forget showed up. There was like structure.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: For you that would lower Yeah, I remember Randy org
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: and like whoa Johnny Kurt's like top guy.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Randy Org looks at me right in the eyes. He goes,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: fucking Mark.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: I'm like, what so, I didn't even Vince never told
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: me any of that shit. I just showed up for rehearsal,
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: you know what, Actually true story, I was checking into
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: the hotel, the TV hotel, because at the time when
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: I first started becoming Fandango, I was still you remember
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: how you're still on like NXT roster, you're not quite
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: full main So if you're not quite full main roster talent,
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: you still get your hotels and cars paid.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: For you for a little bit of your duration of
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the country or whatever.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: So at that time, I was still getting the TV
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: hotel deal, so I would check in super late. You know,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: you drive three hours to Green Bay wherever, and you're
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: checking in at three in the morning. Vince's in the elevator,
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: of course, going to work out in a snowstorm, and
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: I'm checking in and he's like, big day tomorrow.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I guess I had no idea what he's
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: talking about.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Then I show up at TV and there's all this
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: fucking like the you know, like the curtain gimmick that
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: would come down, and then the fucking the sparkle gimmick,
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: but it cost him like ten grand a week to
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: ship that with trucking. And then I'm like, I didn't
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: even know any of this shit was for me, And
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: I walk out of the bowl and Randy's like, fucking Mark, it's.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: Vignettes first, and then that.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: So originally we did vignettes at the Highland Ballroom in
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: New York.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: He rented out the Highland Ballroom. Vince din directed.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: There was a guy, that bald guy, remember the bald
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: guy that got fired. He was kind of head of
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: creative you remember for a while, Pankowski.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: So he kind of was in charge.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: I guess, yeah, so actually this this might have been
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: let's let's email. So this is the true story, is
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: this might have been one of the catalysts of why
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: he got fired, because I think he got fired around
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: this time. So he was kind of supposed to spearhead
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: a lot of the production on those those shoots original
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: and Vince didn't like the way I said fandango. I
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: just looked into the camera and said fandango. But in
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: his mind he wanted me to say fundamgo, which is
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: weird because he life imitates art. So that's how I
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: kind of introduced the character I would come out and
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: then Lilli and Garcia whoever wasn't pronouncing my name correctly.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: So he took a real life situation and made it
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: into a gimmick.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: So he didn't like the way those were shot. He
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: canned him.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: One day, I'm working out at the Georgia Tech gym
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: right before TV in Atlanta, and I like put my
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: phone down. I was training with like some of the boys,
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: and like fifteen misscalls text messages from Mark Carano like oh.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: Fuck, it's a good feeling.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: So he's like, where the fuck are you? Where the
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: fuck are you? Where the fuck are you? Pankowsk is
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: that his name? Pankowski never told me that that day,
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: prior to TV, there was a whole like the tron
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: set up up in the rafters of the arena, up
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: in the you know, like the skybox or wherever Vince
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: was producing my new vignettes, but no one told me.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: So I show up like all dirt, like chalk and
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: like dirty fingernails and shit, and I didn't have time.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: So if you watched those fucking vignettes, I remember Vince
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: just had hip surgery and he produced them all. He's like,
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: I'm like, listen, sir, I'm sorry, man, I know clueka
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Pankowski was supposed to tell me to be there.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: He's like, it's not on you. I'm like, all right, man.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: So we filmed them, and then Pankowski was gone after that.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah wow, okay, because he didn't like the ones that
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: he paid like one one hundred thousand dollars ones.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Oh god. And then he hired Usher's stylist.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: To send me out in New York and he gave
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: me like ten thousand or twenty thousand dollars to go
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: buy all these suits and stuff. I spent five thousand
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: on a Forsachi jacket that I ended up leaving over
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: in Europe party and yeah, yeah, but anyways, so I
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: filmed the vignettes and then I remember Johnny as we're
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: flying after one of the vignettes airs, He's like, could
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: in your vignette you could see your fingernails are dirty?
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: And then that was like a big deal. Then they
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: sent me to go get manicures and shit, I'm like, listen,
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: you fucking guys never told me we're filming this.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Tell me to get the fuck over to the arena.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: I'm late.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: I'm like, what the fuck I didn't have time to
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: shower anything, and you want to film these you know
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: what I'm saying.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: So like I was, I was deadlifting like five minutes.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: I was deadlifting five minutes before we filmed those fucking vignettes.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Then Johnny, I didn't say anything back, but it's like,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: you know, your fucking fingernails are all dirty. You're supposed
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: to be a ballroom dancer. And I wanted to be like, well, no,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: one don't have dirty finger lis you.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: But if you watch the vignettes, I'm like and like
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: I have you know, I'm like, ohh and back you know,
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: even back then, like ten years ago, it's like the
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: talent you almost felt like you couldn't say anything back.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: The talent had no leverage. You know, you're kind of
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the eggshell. I'm like, you're about to push me on
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: to wrestle Mania match and.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: You're treating me like a fucking young boy, you know,
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: and that's just you know, it's like that's the ship
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: that just.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: I don't you know, hopefully it's changed a lot now,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: but yeah, just that that like test Bullyeve bullshit.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: I'm like, you're literally getting ready to push me for
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: a main a fucking WrestleMania fucking match, and you're busting
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: my balls because you know, and I'm.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: Just like, that's a great story. I've never heard that.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a true story.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Man, was like, well, is your fucking you know, you're
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: you're you're a you're a fucking pretty boy ball bancer
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: and your fucking fingers are all dirty. And then Kroto's like,
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: you know, go to Tampa or wherever you're at, go
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: get pedicures. I'm like, dude, I'm not getting fucking petticures.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: I'll take a shower. I go listen, next.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Time we do fucking mignettes, give me like a half
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: an hour heads up and I'll take a shower.
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: Dude.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Isn't that funny?
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: Though?
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah? The fallow up to that makes for sense will
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: be Clinton Johnson, how is your experience in ring with.
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: Chris Jericho wrestle Mania?
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: It was good?
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: Mania absolutely sucks.
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: I hate that video like from a punkin Taker on
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: that show, but being that we are such good friends,
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: I was so proud of you.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, punkin Taker.
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: Only like positive takeaway against so.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: Vince's whole vision of that which I see was he
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: didn't my whole thing in FCW, and you guys were,
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: you were more there Hawkins than writer. But Johnny, you're
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: a good wrestler, good look, no character, no personality. So
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: the fandango thing, he goes, I know you're a good wrestler.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: I've got a locker room full of good wrestlers. I
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: don't want you to be a wrestler. I don't want
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: to fucking Chris Jericho great match, which I know you
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: guys can have. I want this to be the biggest
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: upset in WrestleMania history. I want everyone channing fucking bullshit
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: because you're a ballroom dancer.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I don't want you to wrestle, you know what I'm saying.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: So in in Vince's in Vince's eyes, I think he
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: wanted to be a five or six minute match. Chris
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: beats the ship out of me all around the ring.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: He finally gets his hands on me, slips on a
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: banana peel.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I roll him up. But Chris, Chris wanted to prove
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: a point, which I understand.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: I think he was supposed to work Rye back going
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: into that, and they kind of they changed it up
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: on him last minute and go, Hey, listen, you're wrestling
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: an evil fucking ballroom dancer. So I'm in the crossfire.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: So I'm the guy playing this character. You know, out
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: of all the characters of the lists of characters, I
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: wouldn't have picked ballroom dancer.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I'd rather be in the fucking shield. You know. But
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: what are you gonna say? Now? So now I'm I mean, honestly,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I'm playing.
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: So I'm in I'm in the middle of a political
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: a guy that I've looked up to my whole fucking life,
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: who obviously isn't too stoked about doing this, but realizes
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: he's gonna do it, so he's gonna make the best.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: So he goes, fuck that, Let's have a good match.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: We went out and had a good match. Vince didn't
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: like it as much. He wanted the bullshit. Vince's Vince's
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: he's producing a marquee card. You know, he's he's a promoter,
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: and in our eyes, we wanted to more Chris. I understand,
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: He's like, this is a fucking shitty situation. Let's go
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: out and steal the show. But in Vince's eyes, Vince
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: wanted the character to move on. Obviously, Chris was going
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: to move on to something else. Yeah, so I could
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: see both both points of view, you know, but I
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: think it would have been better if he just beat
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: the shit out of me and I rolled him up
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: and then.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think I think there was.
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: Like a lessons more situation. I think I think there
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: was some hindsight.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: I think there was a lot more that went into
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: it backstage between you know, Chris and Vince.
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: And like that you're just caught in them.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, what the fuck? Man?
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: Like, I mean, you know, actually, figure wise, you have
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: that basic that comes out.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: I've got a weird sorry to cut you off, a
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: couple of weird basic ones where I'm in blue right.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm thinking of the one that's like where you
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: have like the shirt and then like the different haircut
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: and stuff.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: That's the Rosa Mendes days.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: So I was I'm fired at this point. So, like
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: what happened there, they tried to reach start the whole thing.
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: You got a figure out of it, but not much
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: of a TV run.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: So when you debut at Wrestle Media, long story short,
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: we got to go film promos and wrestle today.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna go too long. But I was
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: supposed to win the icy title.
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I got can cuss out for that rider
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: Taker knocked me out.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Completely detailed my career.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: I was injury prone after that. Mister rider Taker over
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: here really fucked me. But now you guys water under
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: the bridge, colum. Anyways, so I think that they had
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: a little stick mommy. I was maybe a little injury
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: prone or something, or maybe I didn't tell them I
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: had a concussion, so they were a little sour on
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: that put me on the shelf.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: The character got stale.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Vince pulls me in the office says, We're gonna fucking
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: repackage you.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, cool, go to.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: Go to fillmore ballroom dancing class, go to flamenco class.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: So like, oh great.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: So every time I got repackaged, it was still a dancer,
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: but just a different type of dancing. When I was
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: the dick dancer, I had to go to like private
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: yeah yeah yeah for a while. And so they put
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: me with Rosa and it was more of a flamenco Latino.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Vince thought I was Spanish, I think, or something I don't.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so the black body suit was the creative department's
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: idea and it didn't get over.
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: We didn't even like it wasn't even give me a chance.
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: I feel I didn't left.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I debuted and like I was fired.
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: I wasn't there.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: But I wrestled justin Gabriel and like a pre show
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: at the Survivor series, and then worked.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Like a beat up.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: I was like a setup guy for Roman, so like
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: you know, like a heel that would I wrestled Roman
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: a couple of times and maybe like russif you know,
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: like a mid card heel, and then it just didn't
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: go anywhere. Then it was like love angle bullshit. And
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: then I think they put me with another dancer or something.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: I don't remember. I got a basic out of it.
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's one of your more unique figures, I feel
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: like because it's so different.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of an obscure one.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a really short little run there, you
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: know what it was too. I think I went in
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: and pitched a different idea and I think it kind
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: of pissed Vince off that you know, he's repackaging me and.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Just you know, I don't know, but.
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: The had the team with Breeze coming out.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: They were doing cuts in twenty sixteen.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: I think Reason and I were both kind of get
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: cut and Vince Goes put him together, kind of like
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: road Dog and Billy gunn.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Do.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: They initially wanted to do. The writers called me, I
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: remember Rate around that time. It was like spring of
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: twenty sixteen. I think they cut like sand down a
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: bunch of guys around that time.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Swag. Yeah, so around that time, and I think we
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: were supposed to get released.
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: Hey, QUI down, we're doing a podcast, so they call
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: us up.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: They go fabulous ones promos you and Breeze. That's where
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: we want to Nick.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: Remember nick Uh, I'm like, cool, this is right up
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: my alley. But we never ended up doing like a
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: fabulous one, saying it was more of I guess like
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: mism uh eminem so like Joey Mercury and who was
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: it Night? It was more of like a pretty boy,
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: I guess thing you know, seemed kind of hot at
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: you know, out the gate. Then it didn't really go anywhere.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Road Dog produced a lot of that stuff, and then
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: I got injured. I hurt my knee and then we
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: just started filming doc. I'm like, bro, if we're gonna
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: get released at least, let's just do And this was
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: mostly Breeze because he was proactivective, very proactive. Currently no,
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: but he was super proactive, and he's like, dude, if
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: we're gonna get fired, let's just do as many promos
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: so that way, you know, like you know, there are
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: is like they have nothing for you. They're like, well,
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: you gotta pitch something, but which is just busy where
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: for most of the time, you know, if you're a
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: top guy in WWE and you pitch something, there's a
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: good chance they might go with it, But if you're
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: fucking barely on TV, you know. But we switched to
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: be with Edge, like that's a good idea, but you
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: can't just be happen exactly like okay, and then we
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: had to write that. So Breeze and I just started
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: doing dot COM's with Dustin and the Fashion Police Ship,
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: which was all Breeze's idea, and it got some good
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: traction on like YouTube or Twitter or whatever it was playing,
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: and then eventually the writer a couple of the writers
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: got behind it and they're like, let's put a segment
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: on SmackDown, And that was the birth of the Fashion
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: and Files gimmick a lot of TV.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So it was a year and Vince did not
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: like or understand one.
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: It might be around the time I was a producer,
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: and there was something that he said, something like I
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: don't personally get it you're a producer.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: No shit wow, probably some of your shit wow. He
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: literally hated.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: But he said something along the lines of like I
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: don't get it, but I know you guys do some
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: trusting you that, like.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it got a lot of like, it got
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: a lot of good traction on like their social media
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: and something.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: But I mean honestly, like Vince probably hasn't seen a
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: you know, a movie and since the seventies, and wonder
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: what you know what I'm saying though, like just so
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: little pop culture.
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: To day, right, Like let me shadow him for one
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: day in real life.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: So if we're like doing little inside tongue in cheek
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: pop culture jokes, you know, like obviously he's not getting
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: oh she can understand, you know.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: So But yeah, so that was the birth of the.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: Whole Fashion Files and then we had our little run there.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: But when you're a comedy actor's only so far you
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: can go with that.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: And then.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: Then I ended up having lay room surgery, and you
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: didn't really ask me my full career shoot interviews, so
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna stop here.
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, Joe Hirsky, how was EC three is
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: a tag team partner back of the FCW days. Any
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: cool stories out of that time beyond winning the fc taking.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: Of all the people I've ever had to work with,
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: EC three has been the most difficult.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: He's he's the most difficult. No, I'm just kidding, No,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: he's cool.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: Him and I had the same or we did the
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: same personality and that kind of dry humor. He's a
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: real funny guy, and so we shared kind of the
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: same the humor and it was just a case of
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: two guys that didn't I think Dusty didn't really have
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: anything for We were kind of in limbo of getting
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: called up.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: It was around the NXT time where there.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: The top f CW guys were kind of on deck
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: to get called up to either NXT season one, two
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: or three or whatever.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: So Dusty just kind of threw us together and yeah,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: he was he was great man. We did we did.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: We did better promos I think than matches, you know,
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: I think because he's he's a really good entertainer.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's not a good worker, but it was.
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: Really like showing that side of himself.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: I feel like the humor.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a super funny guy and x T Yeah
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: that's it feels like. Yeah, but I think just the
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: business has beaten him down, getting released a couple of times.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: It's hard. It's hard to be a comedy guy after
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: all that, you know, the business.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so now yeah, so now he's controlling narratives.
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: A couple more questions. I'm trying to load him up here.
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: Brian Lyons, what is Dirty Dango's go to Karaoke song ship?
• 40:33
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• 40:41
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• 40:45
  Speaker 4: This this armory gets horrible. It's these brick building. It's
• 40:49
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• 40:53
  Speaker 4: at all the ghosts in here blocking the uh, the verizon.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: We've gone the full time. So the fun little chat
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: five your book.
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: He's a drive.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know, because I got it live. I don't
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: know if I could figure my schedule. Yeah, I got
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff coming up.
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: I want you to ref me and Brett.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: All right, I had to move a few things around.
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: You know, I'd rather ref you guys and live. But
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: then Terry walks away and trips over a rock. Yeah, man,
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: you know what, I'm gonna leave it on this. I
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: want to go see Terry funk Man.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: You know I want.
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna talk to you. I've been thinking about that.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: I want to go sit down and I've never really
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: got to meet him really. I mean and TNA briefly,
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: but I love that.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: He's one of my idols.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: Man. You know, I want to go out and spend
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: talk on the phone. Yeah, that was his health. I
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: know you want to wrap this up.
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: He's pretty old.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: He's old now. Yeah, I'd like to fly out there.
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: Tommy mcfully keep in touch with.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: I like to fly out there randomly. We're gonna end
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: the podcast on me one to go to see Terry Fox.
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: Your picture taking on Tommy and a Raven because I'm
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: not a Mark Bro' well.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Trivia fact he took the pictures. Yeah, alright, thanks guys.
• 42:11
  Speaker 8: Thanks, all right, we got some new tag team champions
• 42:22
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• 42:51
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