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Inside Bubba Army: Content House Secrets Revealed · Tigs Bits Podcast

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This is going to be a great podcast day boys.
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Gary Cantrell coming on to discuss the content house and
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the movie and all kinds of bubble world stuff.
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I got to see Gary a few months ago, so we got to catch up.
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So it'll be good. I haven't seen him since then,
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so it'd be good to talk to him about some of that and just
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catch up with him in general because he's he is doing a lot.
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He's a workhorse lately. I've seen him on all the behind
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the scenes stuff he's doing. He let him and hit that bunch of
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killing it and he's he's he's been had a lot going on.
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So this is going to be fun to catch up with him today.
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Let's test him out. Let's tell you how you sounding
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now, Gary. Now how are we doing?
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Unbelievable what you do different.
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I turned off this this piece of garbage.
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Rd. caster pro too. That's what I did.
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Disappointed in the fine folks at Road and and the road caster
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too to be honest with you. So this makes it 2 for two on
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tech problems. Remember the first time I was
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with you guys, I had a gimbal that like went crazy.
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Now we got the audio, but I think we got it fixed.
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I think we've we've been able to fix this thing.
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That's right. That's right.
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Look, the bottom line is it didn't take us long to get fixed
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and to get into this anyhow, man, we were just kind of
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reminiscing. Jr. was reminiscing on seeing
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you earlier or or not not long a few weeks back, couple months
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ago whenever he and Justin were on tour.
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When was that that when was that time is flying?
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That was in, man, that was a, that was an eventful one too,
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because that was in Richmond, VA.
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And I that was when I got to Charlotte and my flights get
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canceled and I couldn't get a rental car and I drove EU Haul
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or EU Haul box truck from Charlotte to Richmond to make
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the show that night. I remember that.
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Yeah. Remember Me telling that story?
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I won't forget that. Well, hey, what about this shirt
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I wore tonight, Gary, in your honor?
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How about that? Oh, I love that.
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The four. Hoffman, Baby 4 Hoffman.
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I mean, I was a AA guy when in the Horseman I was ARN Anderson
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and the Horseman. Me and my buddies imitated the
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horseman. We walked around.
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We had a Four Horsemen shirt. I was ARN.
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You look like you could be part of the Anderson family.
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Yeah. I mean then the best way
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possible. Yeah, I love it.
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I always thought he had a great look.
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Great worker, big fan. And you know, I've got a mutual,
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we've got a mutual friend, an in between guy that's going to put
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me together with him hopefully here soon.
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Oh, very nice. Yeah, so I'm looking forward to
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meeting him and his son because he's in the business now.
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I ain't got to watch him work yet, but I'm going to.
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Yeah, I think he's going to be. I think he's going to be really
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good. He's he was doing something with
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the AEWI don't. I don't know if he's still with
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them or not, but what I saw looked very promising.
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Yeah, good. That's what I've heard too.
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I heard he looks like 1,000,000 bucks and can actually work.
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And they say Orange is just cool as heck.
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So I can't wait to meet him. That'd be something fun to talk
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about at some point in the show. If we have time is catch us up
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to speed on the current state of wrestling.
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Because I know there's some controversy throughout both
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worlds. Obviously with the the Mr.
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McMahon documentary that came out recently, and then with the
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stuff, you know, AEW, you know, you see the stuff on the
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Internet wrestling community puts out on awi mean, you listen
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to some of them, you think it's going to close tomorrow?
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And some of them it's the greatest thing that since sliced
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bread. So I'd love to get your take on
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that at some point in the show. Absolutely.
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Good to have you on here, brother.
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And yeah, you sound good. Nobody's echoing.
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We got the whole gang in the house today to catch up with
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you. We were talking before you came
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on that you've been a busy, busy man lately in the world of in
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the Bubba Army, the content house, all that stuff.
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So we got to get caught up. So yeah, this is going to be
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good. So yeah, I texted, I texted you
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Tigs about it. I was like, man, we gotta we,
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you know, I suggest I said, hey, if you want somebody that was in
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the house, I would volunteering myself.
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I think it'd make great for content for you guys.
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I love it. I couldn't answer fast enough
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Like yeah like yes, yes. Do you want to do this show?
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Yes. This is what I believe.
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You guys that are out there listening to this, y'all want to
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hear a little bit more of inside info and kind of how everything
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went down as I know you've seen the movie it's fantastic, but
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the movie's great unbelievable. It's.
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Unbelievable. But shout out to Rhett, great
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job on that. But before we do dive into that,
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we want to take a moment and wish the entire Bubba Army a
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very, very happy Thanksgiving. Whenever you listen to this, it
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may most likely will be right after Thanksgiving.
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But look, you guys are the heart and soul of this community that
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we've been able to build over here at Tigs Bits.
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We can't express enough just how thankful we are for y'all's
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incredible support. Whether you tune into US live
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and catch up on our other podcasts, you listen to this
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exclusive Bubba Army podcast, or just interacting with us on
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social media, you guys keep it going.
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We're grateful for each and everyone of you, and I just
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wanted to get that out this week especially so, and we're
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thankful to have Mr. Gary Cantrell joining us in.
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To go over. Thank you guys.
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Stuff so yeah man yes this is going to be this is going to be
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a a fun one so let's just let's just RIP it open.
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Let's dive into the content house, Gary.
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Let's hear your initial thoughts on that whole process before we
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just because we're going to go in whatever direction with this.
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Where should I even start? Maybe the 2 1/2 hour drive there
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from Tampa with Bubba Rhett and Merch Creek.
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That was exciting, a lot of traffic.
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Like a good place to start? Yes.
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Lot. Of.
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There was so much. Traffic, right?
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No, no, Bubba. When you.
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Get to Ocala when you get to that Ocala exit every time.
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That's why I go the old way to Tampa when I go because that
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Ocala that that is always packed.
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Always. Yeah, the, well, we were going
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down the, this was the I going down I4 towards towards the
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Orlando area. Davenport to be specific.
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I've never even heard of Davenport other than Iowa, which
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is the home of Seth freaking Rollins.
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There's a wrestling reference. I know we'll get there later,
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but yeah, so the traffic was just like something else.
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I think we left the studio around like 2:00 and the traffic
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was just really nasty. And, and Bubba, it's fun because
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you're like riding in the truck with this guy and it's like
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riding with like your dad who loves to like scream and
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everybody driving by like so slow.
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And so that was exciting. But, but to have Lummy not too
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far ahead of us and he actually let somebody in front of us And
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that really that was, Bubba was not a fan of that particular
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move. And he was telling Lummy how he
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wanted to kick his ass for that one.
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Johnny BBQ is I think what he called the guy 'cause it was
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like a BBQ truck and the guy got in front of us.
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He was going just like, so like ridiculously slow.
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And I think Bubba was ready to kill Lummy.
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Oh my God, I'm just. Sitting there quiet, I'm just
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like, just so quiet, like looking out the window and just,
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you know, just enjoying the ride.
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What what fun that was? Oh my gosh, what is that?
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No, no things, no. That was what does Mark trick.
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Do does she just, what does she do?
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Just shake his head, shake her head at him?
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Or does she chime in? She was just chilling, man.
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She was just riding. Enjoying the ride.
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Yeah. She was just enjoying the ride.
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Just enjoy. We're just sitting there just
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enjoying the ride. And, you know, also, you know,
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piling on Mummy too, you know, we're all like, man, that damn
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Lummy, man. What?
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What? What do you think?
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And letting that Johnny BBQ get in the in front of us.
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Yeah. Dump on lummy.
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Yeah, so that was, it was about 2 1/2 hours there.
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And that was that was crazy. But when we get to the actual
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house, I'm just like, holy cow, this place, it was huge.
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I want to say it was like 5 or 6 bedrooms, something like that.
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Like so there was a lot of ground to cover there.
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So I need to let's first of all start there.
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We're at the at this house. So it's just like a Airbnb.
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What? What is this situation that's
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happening here? Like I put it on the.
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Yeah, there you go. It's it's, it's like an Airbnb
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or Verbo or something like that. And this place is like designed
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like if you have like a gigantic family that you're going to take
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to Disney and basically, like I said, 5 or 6 bedrooms.
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And so when we get there, we're, I think Macho had gotten there
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just before us and then maybe Tuttle was like the next one in.
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And so Macho had already like figured out the bedroom where
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we're going to run master control.
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So there they had like this like 50 inch TV in the bedroom.
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He's unhooking that thing, plugging up the computer to that
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thing. So we can see like the the
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streaming stuff and we're like throwing wires over the banister
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down to the first floor and just kind of just getting all the
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wiring going. Like there's a lot of wiring.
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There's at least an hour, hour and a half getting that all
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dialed. In well, it's paused.
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Pause the video at times because I'm like, how do they even have
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this set up? I saw Mike some like where are
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the wires that they're not going to be tripping over?
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I know they've got to get them out.
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Then I could see in a couple of other shots I could see it was
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like OK, and it looked like everything was running upstairs
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to somewhere. And kudos the tunnel for his Rd.
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caster that he brought because that we ended up using that for
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the the hot mic. So have we not had that?
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We might have run into a couple of issues.
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So kudos to him. That's awesome.
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That's awesome. Steam effort over there it
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sounds like for. Sure, 100%, yeah, we're just
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running around everybody's, you know, just kind of just freaking
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out because we never, we've never done this before.
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So it's like, you know, we know how to hook the stuff up, but to
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like, make it look good, make it sound good.
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And there was, you know, obviously some technical snafus
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here and there. But for the most part, I think
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it ran pretty smoothly the entire weekend.
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It seemed to, I didn't realize, I don't know how I didn't
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realize that this whole deal was just going to go for 1214 hours
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or whatever, because I chimed in, checked in at one point.
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You're singing, you were doing, you're doing karaoke, whatever,
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in the dark or whatever. What's that song?
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You This was Friday night. Yeah.
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Fall out, boy. Yeah.
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Yeah, that one help you and Seth were doing that.
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That's when I just initially jumped in live and then went off
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and did something else, came back live and watching the
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fight. That's how I was watching The
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fight for a while because it was so janked up on Netflix and I
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think y'all had the same feed that another buddy of mine had
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given me. Because when it would go out,
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y'all were of course a little bit delayed with me to begin
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with. Like a minute or so.
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But I would go out and then it'd be like a minute and then you
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would go out. It's like I think they're on the
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same feed as me and then what a just a disaster.
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I'd never seen anything like that because you think Netflix
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like you think that like it's rock solid that it and they get
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enough. Traffic anyway that it should if
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everybody's watching it anyway, but I guess not the same thing
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maybe. Maybe, and not all at one time
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and. Yeah, true.
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Not a good look, not a good look for them especially.
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They do have NFL football on Christmas Day now and.
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Monday Night Raw, January 6th. Oh, wow.
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Yeah, yeah. But they've got time to figure
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it out. I think whatever.
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It seemed like it got better as the evening went on.
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And I know there were more viewers as the evening went on,
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so it got a little better. Or did on my end, you know what
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I mean? As as we got into I.
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Was able to watch the main I was able to.
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Get the main event was much better than that, like that, you
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know, the car just underneath the main event.
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They figured something out and made it a little bit better, so
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hopefully they'll figure it out. You know how many people tuned
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in? That's still I hadn't heard that
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number of y'all. I heard it's some astronomical.
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Yeah, I heard something like that.
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That's. Crazy.
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That's a lot of people. That's a lot of people.
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And the, the people are still talking about it.
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Look, we made a video that that they were talking some guy on
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like Twitter or something had some kind of video like breaking
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down how the fight was fake. And we had talked about it on
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the main show. And I cut it up and that thing's
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at like 5 million across 3 platforms.
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Like people are still interested, very invested in
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this. Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, it's, it was an event. It is it really and truly was an
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event and everybody had their eyes on it or at least knew
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about it was one of those true water cooler moments that we
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haven't had a lot of. Yeah, in recent, you know,
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outside of Super Bowls and stuff like that, you, you know, your
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normal stuff. But that's been a minute since
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there's been something like that.
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Yeah, since he bit Evander Holyfield's ear or Buster
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Douglas took him down over the last two times that happened.
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Hey, real quick group question here.
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Yes or no? Do you think the fight was
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fixed, Brantley? Yes, 100%.
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Gary. Yes, 100%.
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Blasey. Absolutely.
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Wow. All the way around.
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We all think it was fixed. Wow.
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They all would make some money, dude.
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It was a, it was a quasi wrestling match, you know what I
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mean? But in boxing, you know.
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We'll never it's, it's like the JFK thing.
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We'll never know exact. We know who did it, but we'll
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never know exactly who did. It you know, we'll never know.
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Exactly how they laid it out, how they who told who what how
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it was scoped out because but boy they sold the crap out of
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it. I can tell you that they played.
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It did they. Is that the video that you made
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Gary, where you see that he just held back Tyson when he got in?
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And yeah, that's, that's a video, isn't it?
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That's having all these views. Flying, it's going crazy.
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Yeah. You got back four years ago when
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he when he fought Roy Jones. They fought the exact same way.
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They did the same thing. They got in there, they inspired
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each other. And it was an exhibition and
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they made three or $4 million each back then.
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You know what I mean? It was like, OK, I don't know
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why we expected this to be different.
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You know, because it was in a bigger, you know, arena and
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because it was on Netflix and 70 million people are watching.
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It's the same thing. It's Mike Tyson.
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Yeah, for the last. Time.
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Probably because Jake Paul's a better promoter than the last
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guy. Yeah.
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He is. I mean, he's a better promoter I
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would argue than UFC. He's killing it.
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And Dana White's a great promoter too.
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But I, I think, yeah, I think Jake Paul, I mean, people give
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him a lot of crap, but I really strongly believe that he he
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knows how to promote fights. And I got at least give him
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that. Right.
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Well, he only had to do. It's like, it's like running
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WrestleMania. You're only doing 1A year
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because he's not doing every, he's not doing one a month like
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Dana is. So it's a little different, but
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yes. For sure.
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I'm telling you what. And he has a big great and he
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has put together a great company over there too, that Jake Paul
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entertain or production. That's a yeah.
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But but he may have, he may have hurt his brand a little bit
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because up to now it looked like every fight that he had been
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involved in was a real shoot. You know, it was different.
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It was different guys, you know, coming up from wasn't Nate Diaz
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last time, different guys that Anderson Silva that that maybe
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weren't pure boxers and all this, but still they were real
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fights or seemed to be real. It's the first we got to fix
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fights. Are people going to pay next
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time you fight a big name that's kind of retired or whatever?
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Sounds like he's just he's scripting another thing to get
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just to get a payday. So we'll see how that plays out
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or. You can just fight somebody for
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real and let's see if he gets his ass.
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Kicked. That's the only thing he can do.
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There is no there's no one else you can fight that's not a
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professional that on the level that makes any sense.
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It makes you near as much money just made with Tyson.
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There's no other celebrity like that, so he's got to go legit.
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Yeah, not not even close. And I was just going to add that
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the the very last fight he had before this was Mike Perry,
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which was actually in Tampa the same week I was there.
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And Rhett and I were embedded at the media and I got to give
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those guys props because those those fight media events, like
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it's just nuts. It's non-stop.
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Go, go, go. We got an event here.
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We got one there. Like I really throw my hat to
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those members of the the men and women of the combat media.
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I mean, they are. They're really on their stuff.
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Yeah, got to be. Yeah, I remember, I remember you
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showing or making some videos. We talked about that.
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I think the last time we had you on a little bit too.
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Yeah, you asked Jake Paul the question.
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Oh my God, yeah, that was crazy. That's right.
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What did you ask him? What was that question?
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Why he's dodging What's his? Name Matt Riddle.
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Yeah. That was awesome.
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Little did we know that Riddle was on his way to Tampa that the
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very next day. Like we legit did not know that.
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We only thing we knew was we were going to reach out to him
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to see if we can get him on the phone.
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And he was like, dude, I'm actually in Tampa that next
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morning. I'll see you guys then.
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I was like, holy cow, this is crazy.
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Oh, that's awesome. See, I did not know that.
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I thought the whole thing was planned, you know?
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No Kelsey was coming on the show.
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No, that's cool. That's crazy.
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It all came together. Comes together exactly came
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together, just like the content house.
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Came together as well. So the fight disappointed, but
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the content house did not disappoint.
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Was that the low point? Was that the low point for the
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for the night when y'all were trying to get into the fight?
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I'm sure y'all were shitting on everybody anyway, but still
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having to go through. I mean, you still have the same
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emotion as the rest of America did.
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Oh yeah, I'm watching the fight. And so it's kind of that was
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probably the low point of the whole experience probably.
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From a creator perspective, like I'm, I'm like, as everything's
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happening, I'm trying to plan out like what kind of videos I'm
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going to make from this. Like we, we already knew we're
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going to make like the big video that Red did that red did an
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incredible job on. But I'm also thinking like, you
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know, little, little vertical short form content.
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I'm like, man, the reaction to this Jake Paul, Mike Tyson
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fights going to be great. And there was just nothing
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there. I mean, if you go back and watch
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any point of that, we're just sitting around like #1 we're
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either, we're either trying to figure out how to get the damn
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thing playing or two, we're watching the fight saying, man,
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nothing's happening here. So we actually got a better
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video out of the, the women's fight.
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The, the reaction to that. Then we did the.
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Who made a fight? Yeah, because that was a real
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fight. There, but that was a real
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fight. Her forehead was hanging off her
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skull. Man, Jesus.
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Christ, insane, they did that. That's the second time they've
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done that to each other went the distance and just I mean just.
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Bloodied each other. Up, good Lord.
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Just wouldn't. We got to say that at the.
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Very end, still flurries, just giving it everything they had.
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Yeah, it was amazing. That's one of the best fights
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I've ever seen in my life. It was really like, I mean, I
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would go up there. I mean, I'm putting it up there
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and the. Fight just before it was a great
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fight too. Those those two fights were
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phenomenal. And then yeah, big old dud.
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And I made it through an entire content house without consuming
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any kind of party favour. So like, I remember all that
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stuff. Like I, I'm just like, I need to
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be on my game for that. I think me and Tuttle were like
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the only two sober people in the entire house.
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Well, it takes somebody. It does.
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It takes somebody to be able to do it just so you can keep
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things, keep things going. I don't know if the bubble army,
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I'm sure that they do. I don't know if I realize just
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macho man's unbelievable with the with the all of the behind
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the scenes that showed watching it live because you know, he
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wasn't as hidden away as he always is with everything else
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and he had to be out there a little bit and and doing some of
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that stuff. So it was it was cool to see him
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involved and that dude really does look like macho Man He.
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Really does. I mean, holy cow.
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Although with his tattoos you can throw him in the bloodline
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tomorrow if you wanted to so. Yeah, for sure.
19:03
He looks like he could just whip anybody's ass.
19:06
And I love the comments in the chat whenever, whenever they're
19:10
talking to the to the lady that had done the yoga, sitting at
19:14
the table, doing the the readings.
19:16
Addie. Yeah, she was cool.
19:18
She was cool. What was her name?
19:20
Addie. Addie, addie, Addie.
19:24
Yeah, she was, bless her heart. Do you think she had any idea
19:27
that what she was getting herself into when she showed up
19:30
to that place? Maybe.
19:33
Maybe Tuttle smartened her up. I don't know.
19:35
I know that was, that's his friend.
19:37
But. OK.
19:38
Yeah, I mean, especially. And then you got Bubba falling
19:41
down and that was really exciting.
19:43
And that was great. Babyface lady's OK.
19:46
Babyface, she should have seen him man.
19:48
His his yoga game was actually strong.
19:49
He was, he was like one of the people who was like really
19:51
taking it seriously. And it's in it's in the video.
19:53
But he he did a really good, good job.
19:56
That's awesome. That's awesome.
19:58
I was like, I'm like, they got a camera in my hand.
19:59
So I. Don't think that was the first
20:03
time Babyface had done yoga number one.
20:06
Yeah, No, no way, no way #2 we need to get Bubba on DDP.
20:12
Why? I love that We need to introduce
20:14
DDP Yoga to Bubba and get him a little more flexible.
20:18
It was a, it was a bad deal. I saw it, but I mean, I saw it
20:21
coming from a mile away. Like, I know the move too.
20:25
And I would make the move. You know what?
20:27
I'm not making fun. I think a lot of people thought
20:29
he was just going to be like, you know, do it for like a
20:31
minute and then just give up. But he, like, committed to the
20:33
whole thing, man. I got to give him props for
20:35
that. Hell yeah.
20:37
No, Bubba's an Bubba's an athlete, man.
20:40
I mean, there's no doubt he's got the Bubba gem and you've
20:43
seen what he can do in the ring. Absolutely, absolutely.
20:47
He can do it. He can do it all.
20:48
He can do it all. He can talk.
20:49
He can talk. He can do the yoga, he can, he
20:52
can you know, choke out tunnel which we got on camera.
20:55
That was exciting too get. The choke out tunnel.
21:00
Poor tunnel man. Yeah, he he just takes it
21:04
though. Bless his heart.
21:05
He's he's good. He's good.
21:07
Man. Where was the choking out point?
21:11
Was that during the the the dodgeball?
21:16
That was after that. Yeah, yeah, the dodgeball got
21:20
heated like it got pretty serious.
21:23
It did, it did. Bubble would get hit.
21:24
Just keep rolling, wouldn't he? That's what it looked like on.
21:27
Seth, Seth took a hell of a bump on that tent.
21:30
That's that's my main thing I remember was Seth taking a bump.
21:33
I'm like, man, he took that bump.
21:34
Pretty clean, man. Tucked your chin.
21:36
Wow, it's good to go. I had the tent fair.
21:39
I heard the, I heard Bubba was getting upset.
21:42
I heard that it's a $400.00 tent.
21:44
Number one, I don't think that was a $400.00 tent.
21:46
He got ripped off. If it was, it was probably
21:48
$400.00 with the two little air mattress things that were in it
21:51
there. Though hey, it held up nicely
21:53
though. Good.
21:54
Did you? Get your security deposit back.
21:57
I, I, I, I, I I didn't, I listened to what was it, Loner
22:02
and Stoner? And, and they were talking about
22:04
the tent and they were like, yeah, that thing held up.
22:06
And that's true. Like even after Seth took a bump
22:08
on it, that thing still held up. Like that thing was like rock
22:12
solid. And we, we got Bubba and Merch
22:14
Creek in there. And Bubba actually went to sleep
22:16
in the tent. He thought it was so nice in
22:17
there. Yeah, I saw that.
22:20
I think he realized that there were two of them.
22:22
It was going to, it was, I think he even referenced it was going
22:25
to be be a little difficult for him to bang on that.
22:28
So he was like, I'm out of here. It makes sense.
22:33
And as far as the security deposit, you know, there was a
22:37
whole thing on the, the podcast, I don't know if you guys heard
22:39
about it, how I was the one that got Seth's boxers out of the
22:42
closet. I, I had to do what I had to do,
22:46
man, because I was just like, you know, if I'm one of the last
22:49
people out of the house and Bubba knows that I'm one of the
22:51
last people of the house. And that those pair of boxers
22:54
that are sitting on the floor in this closet, like I, I couldn't
22:58
live with myself if I left them in there.
23:01
And I grabbed like a piece of toilet paper.
23:03
I just kind of like wrapped it around my hand and.
23:06
Just. You know, just just try to grab
23:08
it from like the the spot of the boxers, like where the leg would
23:12
be that's like the least furthest from the main area and
23:15
just try to like carry them all the way down to the trash bag on
23:18
the set on the 1st floor. Why the hell were they in the
23:22
top of the closet to begin with? How did they get there?
23:25
Did he RIP them off and throw them?
23:27
I miss this story. Seth was, I think he explained
23:30
it on well, it might have been yesterday's podcast because I,
23:34
I'm thinking of Clement Kusha was on today.
23:36
I think it was yesterday, but basically he was, he was taking
23:39
care of something and he he finished whatever it is he was
23:44
taken care of and he just threw the boxers on the floor into the
23:48
closet. They landed in the closet.
23:50
Wow. And he just decided I'm just
23:53
going to leave these here. Good Lord, yeah.
23:56
Wow. Whichever way they go.
24:00
Way to go, Seth, but great job, Gary.
24:04
That was Friday night, right? Yeah, that was Friday.
24:07
Yeah. So yeah, Friday, I mean, Seth,
24:08
like he was, had got offended a little bit too you.
24:11
Know man, he was partying for sure.
24:13
Yeah, I can tell, man, that's just having a good time.
24:16
That Friday night back porch scene was awesome, too.
24:19
I really enjoyed that. Just just all that, the mic
24:23
going around and everybody talking and jumping in and it
24:26
was super loose. I thought.
24:27
I thought it was great. I believe Tuttle was the one
24:29
that came up with that idea. He's like, hey, let's just go
24:32
out back and hang out. And it just turned into like AQ
24:35
and A with Seth. And then it got off into like
24:37
Colton and Rhett and Babyface. This is jumping in and Lummy's
24:40
jumping in and big Reds in there.
24:43
And I just got the camera and I'm just like, man, this is this
24:45
is really awesome. I'm like this.
24:47
This itself could be its own video if we really wanted it to
24:49
be. Oh yeah, for.
24:51
Sure. I for sure.
24:53
It was fantastic. I mean, babyface, I, I got to
24:58
give credit where credit's due. Babyface can bring it.
25:01
Like I'm proud of it. Like that dude brings it.
25:05
It's impressive. He does.
25:08
He's so. Entertaining.
25:09
And he and he brings it back, you know what I mean?
25:11
He'll say yes, as hard as you come at him, he's going to come
25:14
as hard at you. So you better be ready, you
25:16
know? Yeah.
25:17
Let me give me a bunch of crap on the on the the weekly recap
25:21
show. I was in studio for that about
25:23
being like such a a baby face mark.
25:26
But I'm just like, dude, this guy, whenever he's on the show,
25:29
I know like, you know, because I cut up the damn clips.
25:31
I'm like, this is going to be super easy because it's just
25:34
taking my pick of which the babyface high spot I want to cut
25:38
up because. Yes.
25:39
He can comment on literally almost anything and it's either
25:42
really informative, which makes for a good clip, or it's going
25:45
to be really funny, which makes for a good clip.
25:47
Yeah, exactly right. Yeah, that is exactly right.
25:50
That's how we like to do it here too at Tigs Bits.
25:53
And let Blasey comment on something.
25:54
Let his glorious voice just come over when he and it just rips.
25:58
How's that voice of war coming, Blasey?
26:01
The what now? Oh yeah, yeah.
26:02
How's that voice of war coming, man?
26:04
Yeah, I got to. I got, I got to work on that a
26:06
little bit, you know, So I got a ways to go, Yeah.
26:10
Got more compliments on your voice this weekend, Blasey.
26:12
Somebody was at, I was talking at the tailgate.
26:15
They were like, who's that guy that's with you, man?
26:17
That guy's voice, It's like he's made for radio.
26:20
And I was like, yeah, he's made. He's made for Tigs.
26:23
Bits made for Tigs bits, yeah. You really do get it.
26:27
You need to get on that fiver and sell that silky smooth voice
26:31
of yours man. I was like, I was like mildly
26:34
disappointed. I was in Virginia Beach shooting
26:37
a Post Malone show last month and I was listening to one of
26:40
y'all's podcast, whatever the one was where you guys were like
26:43
counting down like the top radio host.
26:45
So I'm like, I think it was the one that Blazy was not on.
26:46
I'm like, where is this voice? I don't hear this voice.
26:49
I just hear the other guys who I like very lot, a lot.
26:52
But I'm like, man, where's that sweet that that nice voice?
26:56
It's too much damn treble in the room.
26:58
There isn't enough bass. We need bass in here.
27:01
There you go. Oh, that's great.
27:05
Yeah, man, Yeah. Tell us what was your.
27:10
Tigs, I got to ask one thing. I got to ask one thing because I
27:12
was thinking about this earlier when I was watching when I was
27:15
going through social media, and it reminded me of listening to
27:18
one of the podcasts last week from Bubba, talking about the
27:21
budget and how they overspent on food.
27:23
Then I saw some of the clips of the food.
27:26
Yeah. How stupid was the food at the
27:28
house? I mean, from those clips I'm
27:29
saying they're bringing out trays of cracked crab claws.
27:32
And I mean it. Just it.
27:33
Don't like to crack all kind of stuff.
27:35
Yeah, man, that looked phenomenal.
27:36
Well, and here's the thing too, I'm going to get clowned no
27:39
matter who listens to this. I actually don't even eat
27:41
seafood but I heard it was. Amazing.
27:43
Wow. Wow.
27:45
It looked amazing, Damn. The steaks were nice though I
27:48
did eat the steak. I did eat a baked potato, but
27:51
no, no seafood. I just, I'm not into it, but
27:53
from what I heard from everybody, the highest marks you
27:57
can imagine. Shout out to Lock Lockhart
27:59
Seafood. They were, they were really good
28:01
to us. Yeah, it looks crazy.
28:03
And we we love food on here. And I saw that and I was like, I
28:06
got to ask about the food because I saw the trays.
28:08
Yeah, I saw the steaks. I'm just like, and I remember
28:11
Bubba talking about they had spent a lot of money on food and
28:13
then I saw the videos. I said, oh, it makes sense.
28:15
Y'all went all it went full tilt boogie on that one.
28:18
All out man. Full tilt boogie.
28:21
That was big Red that. Was Big red OK?
28:23
Yeah, man. I've see him some and look, I'm
28:26
just I'm there's so many characters in the BRN and I'm
28:32
still just a little newbie and I'm not afraid to to admit it.
28:35
I see some of these folks. I've seen him in other things.
28:39
And then I mean, of course he's Big Red.
28:41
He brought his A game to this whole.
28:44
Event you see, you see that chef's jacket he was wearing?
28:47
That thing was looking sharp, man.
28:48
Thing was, pimp ladies that thing was.
28:50
It was. I loved it.
28:52
I love retting them dressed up a little bit.
28:54
Nice to be servers or whatever it looked like.
28:57
Oh, Tuttle and Colton. Tuttle and Colton.
29:00
They have the whole, they have the whole get up and everything.
29:02
White shirt, I think black pants, something like that.
29:05
Fantastic. So good, so good.
29:08
It's just crisp. I love it, man.
29:11
So what was your favorite? What was your favorite part of
29:14
that whole night or or that whole experience?
29:19
I actually, well, there's there's so many, but the one I
29:21
remember the most was Bubba talking to Addie when she was
29:24
giving him his tarot readings and just him like this coming
29:29
back at her because I don't think, you know, she's expecting
29:31
that. She's just expecting, I'm going
29:32
to I'm going to read this, I'm going to ask a few questions and
29:34
blah, blah, blah, and he's just giving it back to her.
29:38
And I thought that was I thought that was really cool.
29:40
And then of course, the dodgeball is the other one that
29:42
really sticks out to me because of just kind of the fun
29:47
sportsmanship and everybody kind of like giving crap to each
29:50
other, you know, Hey, you know, you, I got you out.
29:52
No, no, no. You know, I, I was, you know, I,
29:55
I wasn't out and just a lot of the back and forth that was
29:58
really interesting to me. Yeah, for sure.
30:01
Dude, that tarot card reading, one thing that I, I love because
30:05
they're going back and forth. He's kind of giving her crap,
30:07
you know? You know, interrupting her just
30:08
as he normally does. And she's getting comfortable.
30:11
She's saying kind of the same stuff, you know, and he's just
30:13
kind of rolling with it. Well, you know, I'm not going to
30:15
have a job if I become that guy over and over.
30:17
And then she finally says, you know, all the people around you
30:21
are a reflection of you. And then you see him kind of
30:23
stop. She gets him.
30:24
He's like, that's exactly oh. My God, and there's actually the
30:28
one of Merch Creek that we haven't put out yet.
30:30
It was on the live stream, but I have the the crispy 4K version
30:34
that I'm going to talk with red. I'm sure we're going to get that
30:36
cut up as well. But that one was actually really
30:39
good because, you know, they, they, they hit like a really
30:41
nice deep, I don't want to give it away, but they hit like a
30:43
really nice deep connection on that one.
30:46
Oh, cool. Cool.
30:47
Yeah, yeah. Wow.
30:48
Yeah, I watched that whole thing.
30:50
It was fantastic. Yeah, I know what you're talking
30:53
about. Yeah, that's that could be a
30:55
whole thing itself too. Just going through that, who who
30:58
was the most hungover? Probably macho man.
31:02
He, I mean, he went so hard that, you know, the next morning
31:05
just like, hey, man, you good? You know, he's like, oh, yeah,
31:07
I'm good, you know, but he's like, he's like just out of it,
31:10
you know, and he's just trying to get up, trying to, trying to
31:13
get some coffee, trying to wake up.
31:14
And, you know, he was, everybody else was kind of just up and
31:18
real snappy with it. The next day, apparently I
31:22
snored on the couch in the middle of the night.
31:23
Apparently I, my wife was technically she's like, I'm
31:25
watching you snore on the stream.
31:26
I'm like, oh, that's good. But he's probably he probably
31:31
wins the award for the most the most hungover though.
31:34
So if you guess he. He also had to be the most
31:37
drunk. Yeah, yeah.
31:39
But I think he also went to bed kind of early too.
31:41
I think he was like out. So that's pretty crazy.
31:45
Well, if you were snoring during the during the live stream while
31:48
everybody else was asleep, at least you were still giving
31:50
content. You were constantly created,
31:52
Gary. That's what you tell everybody.
31:53
You're just a constant. That picture that we're looking
31:56
at, this is an actual live picture, you know, so it's
31:58
scary. It's snoring on the couch.
32:01
I. Found out that I made 3 bucks
32:02
for karaoke. Bubba told me that personally,
32:05
we were sitting at the the dinner table late Saturday
32:08
afternoon before we shut it down and he's like, Gary Cantrell
32:11
made 3 bucks for his karaoke. I'm like, woo, let's go.
32:14
I was like, wow, I paid 3 bucks for the for the company.
32:16
That's great. Dude, that's awesome.
32:19
Well, in your way exactly. Right, Yeah, Whose idea was it
32:22
to live stream the whole night with people sleeping and
32:25
everything? When did that tape I?
32:28
I, I want to say that was in the early stages as far as just
32:31
like, hey, we're just going to, we're just going to run it, you
32:33
know, and just, yeah, unless it cuts out on its own, which
32:36
thankfully it did not. And I know Rhett was really good
32:39
about, you know, periodically going in there and just checking
32:42
to make sure that we're still on and everything.
32:43
And of course we had our phones. So we're just kind of like
32:46
looking as well just to make sure that everything is coming
32:48
through crystal clear. And yeah, it didn't cut off once
32:51
because you know how it is sometimes with these live
32:53
streams, if you go like really long, they can get kind of iffy.
32:56
But we were hard wired in and and I think we had to gig up and
33:00
down so we didn't run into any problems.
33:03
Yeah, that's great. That's.
33:05
Great. If you had to come, if you had
33:06
to come up with two tag teams to wrestle and wrestle Mania in the
33:10
headline from the Bubba Army, who would they be?
33:13
Oh my God, man. Well, I mean, you got to have
33:15
Bubba there. He's he's on one side.
33:17
I'm just trying to get who I'd put him with.
33:19
Lummy Lummy's a big guy, so Lummy looks like he could be a
33:22
good wrestler. Yeah, probably, probably Lummy
33:25
or or Macho Man with with Bubba and then on the other side, just
33:29
for the comedy of it, just put Seth and and babyface together
33:32
with. Colton and tunnel being.
33:34
A close second. Yes, and and and have Colton as
33:38
as one of the valets, the managers to do some sneaky
33:42
stuff. Oh my God, that'd be so good
33:44
when we were touring Bubba and Lummy, because Bubba would want
33:47
to be that. We would have to play like the
33:48
chicken shit heel and Lummy would have to be as big
33:51
enforcer, you know? True, I have to throw this in
33:55
here before I forget. I remember we were touring the
33:57
tent and Colton is like showing off to Bubba the the the cooler.
34:03
Tuttle brought this cooler and he opens it up.
34:05
He's like, and he's like, you like the ice?
34:06
And I was like, yeah, what is that Chick-fil-A ice?
34:09
And he's like, yeah. And he's like, yeah, I paid for
34:10
it with the Chick-fil-A points. I popped big for that one
34:13
because, you know, he's always about being very frugal and all
34:17
these things. And when I found out that he
34:18
paid for his ice and Chick-fil-A points, I just lost it.
34:21
I was like this is. Great.
34:26
It really got using your points just being what a guy, one of
34:30
the best guys. It's a great guy, great guy.
34:33
Great, great. A good guy.
34:36
That's a great question. JRI think Pet Pet should be
34:39
explored even further and we may have to explore.
34:43
We might have to make it a Survivor Series.
34:45
Two sides. Survivor.
34:47
Series team Team bubble versus team Seth Team Team fuck boy
34:51
versus team loves funds. Now you're talking should be fun
34:55
that. Would be good stuff.
34:57
Yeah, you have to even because I was, I was watching some, you
34:59
know, I love those things, Gary, and I'm sure you do too.
35:01
When it sends you a page and it says pick one off each row to.
35:05
Be. Oh yeah.
35:07
You know, it was 1 today and I, I came up with a good one.
35:09
I was like, because I'm always like, you got to have your pigs,
35:12
You got to have your hot flyer. You also got to have your
35:14
technician. You got to have your mouth.
35:15
You got to have if, if I'm, if I'm, I'm, what I'm playing is
35:18
that I'm the manager, I'm the promoter.
35:20
I'm the one trying to put this team together, you know?
35:22
Right. I always get killed on those
35:24
when it's like the, it's like, here's all the top movies of 94.
35:29
And it's like the pictures of the VHS box.
35:31
They're like, you can only pick three.
35:32
I'm like, Jesus Christ. Yeah, right.
35:34
And then I actually sit there for like the next 25 minutes
35:38
staring at this stupid meme, trying to figure this thing out.
35:40
Like there's no consequence to it.
35:43
It's not going anywhere. I'm I'm not going to share it,
35:45
but I'm just like I'm sitting here for 2025 minutes trying to
35:49
figure this thing. Out.
35:50
Yeah, exactly. And you can't believe it.
35:52
You just frustrate yourself. They're made for that.
35:54
It's like it's like they spent so much of time with that.
35:57
We did a podcast before we talked to you a while back for
36:01
and we discussed the top ten 80s and 90s action movies.
36:06
Off the top of your head, what would be 3 you know or a couple
36:09
of your top that you would think are the top action movies from
36:12
the 80s and 90s? OK, first die hard Commando with
36:17
Schwarzenegger and speed Keanu Reeves.
36:20
Wow. Yeah, wow.
36:22
Holy. See, thank you Gary, thank you.
36:24
So Diehard was #1 speed was number 9 and commando was not on
36:29
the list and I was appalled as your.
36:31
That's unbelievable. Thank.
36:33
You it's a great movie. It didn't even make honorable
36:38
mentions and they. Put, they put and they put
36:41
predator on the list and left off commando.
36:43
Jesus, Yeah, remember. Remember when I said I was going
36:46
to kill you last? I lied.
36:49
Yeah, it just drops the guy off the side of a.
36:52
Fucking clip. It's so good, it's so good.
36:55
It's so. Good.
36:56
I gotta watch that movie soon. Yeah, it's no, it's no Shoot to
37:00
Kill starring Steve Austin, but it's pretty good, you know?
37:04
Well, Speaking of of Fabulous Steve Austin and Stone Cold
37:10
Steve and all of them, we said we were gonna talk a little
37:13
wrestling. We're talking a little
37:14
wrestling. Let's keep talking a little
37:16
wrestling. We love lists.
37:18
I prepared us a list, and I'm going to run through it quickly
37:21
and we'll see if you agree, if we've left anybody off top 10
37:28
wrestlers as given to us by ChatGPT.
37:32
And I think, yeah. So here, here we go.
37:35
Coming in at #10 is Triple H #9 Macho Man Randy savage #8, Brett
37:46
The Hitman, Hart #7 John Cena #6 Shawn Michaels #5 The rock #4
38:00
Stone Cold Steve Austin #3 The undertaker #2 Hollywood, Hulk
38:09
Hogan and #1 Ric Flair. Whoo that's the top 10 GPT.
38:19
Wow. Thought scary.
38:20
Wow. What's their criteria though?
38:22
That's what I want to know. Are we talking about guys that
38:24
drew the most business guys? That's what I always say.
38:27
Ring like. What was the question?
38:29
What was what did you ask it? I asked it who are the top 10
38:34
wrestlers of all time? OK, just that simple.
38:36
OK, this that broad. And I wonder if that goes by by
38:40
Pro Wrestling Magazine and just take their list and just does
38:44
the and it you know, takes I'm sure it takes all those lists in
38:47
consideration, but hard for me. I'm I'm not hating on that list
38:50
because all of those I mean, Triple H probably would have to
38:53
get knocked off for right now. Maybe he'll make it one day.
38:56
To me, Cena, maybe even 2, even though he was huge, but I'd have
39:01
to replace one of those with Andre the giant.
39:03
In my world. I have to have Andre on.
39:06
Andres got to be in. There they don't have, they
39:09
don't have the big expansion. You know, Vince, Vince Junior as
39:12
they called him back then. They don't have that big
39:14
national expansion. They always talk about Hogan
39:16
being responsible for that. But I think Andre maybe not
39:21
equal like 1A1B, but he's definitely right up there in
39:24
that mix. Piper, you could say the same
39:26
for him as well. Exactly.
39:28
Piper. Huge Piper not in the list.
39:30
Piper was, you know, because because of the crossover.
39:33
Like a lot of these lists, when you do them, a crossover appeal
39:36
magnifies and multiplies all of that, you know, being in the
39:41
being in movies and being in commercials and being on
39:43
television, Saturday Night Live or whatever it may be.
39:47
Same with Andre, you know, he was already a huge attraction.
39:51
And then being on like Princess Bride, I mean, that puts you in
39:55
front of everyone. You know, it's like, I'll take
39:58
it like this, like Blake Shelton being a a big country star and
40:01
then going on a a national TV show every week.
40:04
Then you're then you're, then you're might as well be, you
40:07
know. You're in everybody's household.
40:09
You're not moving crossed over. You're right.
40:11
You've crossed over once you go into mainstream big three
40:15
channels, that whole old school stuff.
40:17
So yeah, I would say that. But Andre, like you said, Gary,
40:21
yeah, he he helped build it to the credibility what it was.
40:24
I mean, he was that guy. I mean, he because he was such a
40:25
spectacle walking in. I mean, they when they'd film
40:28
him on something, it was it was just incredible.
40:30
And he could hold it up. And then Hogan and then, you
40:33
know, all those other ones. Those are probably the biggest
40:35
money drawers of all time. Close.
40:38
I mean, and Andre, WrestleMania 3, I mean that to me in that
40:43
era, there's nothing bigger. And when you look at the success
40:47
that WrestleMania became early on, that to me is bigger than
40:50
WrestleMania one. That one is huge, that one.
40:54
And then I think of like, you know, the one with Warrior that
40:58
was probably the next, like, biggest one, even though the one
41:01
with Savage was like a better, like, match per SE.
41:03
But yeah, Andre the Giant definitely deserves far more
41:06
credit than he gets on that. Yeah, Yeah, they did.
41:10
I did ask him for some honorable mentions.
41:12
OK. And Andre the Giant made that.
41:16
Here's a couple more. Kurt Angle.
41:19
I don't think you he's a top ten.
41:21
No. Chris Jericho, love.
41:23
I love Kurt Angle. Chris.
41:25
Jericho not top ten and Eddie Guerrero great but not not top
41:31
ten. The.
41:31
The only way you can. Make an argument for Jericho.
41:34
Sorry, not even mentioned. I was just going to say this.
41:36
The only the only way you make an argument for Jericho anywhere
41:39
near that top 10 is the fact that if if he doesn't have that
41:41
match with Kenny Omega, we don't have AW.
41:43
And if we don't have AW, we don't have a company that kind
41:47
of pushed WWE to start, you know, putting in effort again,
41:50
because before 2019, like they were just paint by numbers going
41:53
through the motions and now they are, you know, white hot.
41:58
So and I think you can credit them in many ways for that.
42:01
And that does not happen without the Chris Jericho.
42:03
So I will give him his flowers on that.
42:06
That's a good point. Yeah, 100% and create and, and,
42:08
and competitive, you know, competition breeds creativity
42:11
and makes them get better in that.
42:13
But you know, and again, like I mentioned, Sting I think would
42:16
have to, I mean, Sting's hard to leave off that list because I
42:19
mean, in the Golden it when WCW was competing and we got on
42:22
there, it would not have been near the level it was without
42:25
having a Sting being the comparable to Hulk Hogan over in
42:28
WWF at the time. And Flair, I mean, Flair's
42:33
definitely. I'm glad that list gave Flair
42:34
the one spot because it it's not about, you know, because he he
42:38
gets left off those a lot of times they lean WW, yeah,
42:42
instead of WC. Yeah.
42:44
And and also you have to, if we're talking business and and
42:47
business exclusively, if they're not top 10, they're knocking.
42:51
I mean they're banging on the door and that's that's all.
42:53
And Nash, you know, making that jump to WCW, right?
42:56
Getting that thing white hot for the time.
43:00
I, I, I. Even with all that considered, I
43:02
don't know that they're quite top ten, but they're definitely
43:04
banging on the door for sure. I would say, I would say like a
43:06
Jake the snake would it would have to be close, even though he
43:09
would never had a title, didn't have the money thing.
43:11
Just for the, just for the, you know, recognition alone,
43:17
whatever you mentioned, really. Yeah, about 11 years ago.
43:22
And I remember asking him like, who was somebody in his opinion
43:25
that, you know, we should all be watching out for?
43:28
And Jon Moxley was the man that he spoke up about.
43:31
So I need to find that clip actually.
43:33
Was this when he after he'd gotten straight gotten with
43:35
Dallas? Yep, Yep.
43:37
Let's see, I met him at Dallas's house.
43:39
It's probably about nine years ago.
43:40
We had dinner at Dallas house. There's me, Jake and Dallas.
43:43
That was pretty cool. And he was straight then and he
43:46
was great conversation. Yeah, but Moxley interesting.
43:50
So I would say something like him.
43:52
And also if you want to go old school, you got to put, I would
43:54
say like the generation before us would all say Bruno because
43:57
he was, you know, I mean, he held the title for so long in
44:00
the biggest territory. Also, you'd have to put people
44:02
like gorgeous, Gorgeous George, yes, because when you think
44:08
about back in the day, they would show, they would show
44:10
Muhammad Ali, Babe Ruth or whoever the big Star Wars and
44:13
gorgeous, Gorgeous George was standing there with him and he
44:16
was considered that level as like the big one of the best
44:19
athletes. In the world, my mom still talks
44:21
about Gorgeous George and how somebody in the family got a
44:25
lock of his hair or someone. And it was just like, still to
44:30
this day, that's still impressive, you know?
44:33
Movies he was in movies he was. I mean, that was a big, big
44:36
deal. So 100%.
44:39
That's crazy. Crazy how that started back then
44:44
and somebody like him and that's still going on and these guys
44:48
and girls now a lot, you know, I mean there's there's just as
44:51
many amazing women wrestlers out there and their storylines are
44:54
are a lot of fun. They seem to be dominating
44:58
really more so that it's it's almost like half and half it
45:02
seems at times, which is great. You know, that's something that
45:07
hasn't been traditionally in the past that I think you'll, you'll
45:11
start seeing more and more females start to become action
45:15
wrestlers or action movie stars and stuff like that because
45:19
they're getting their start in the in the WWE.
45:23
Yeah, and you and you look back to Trish and Lita for that.
45:26
I mean, they really got the whole ball rolling.
45:28
Well, when they got it to where they were, they were, they look
45:31
like 1,000,000 bucks and can actually go in the whole
45:33
package. And it wasn't just Barbie dolls
45:35
and it wasn't just bruisers. They had a they had the combo of
45:38
athletes and then could could be the movie stars and and work and
45:42
all that because yeah, they and then they kept the next
45:46
generation with Natalia and that bunch.
45:48
And then one I just thought of when you talked about movies,
45:50
Becky Lynch, I don't know how she's not already a movie star.
45:53
I'm sure they've done some WWE movies, but you know.
45:57
I don't, I don't want, I don't want to forget Medusa AKA
45:59
Alundra. Blade.
46:00
Oh, absolutely. The problem though, was in her
46:03
time, you know, they really didn't have a lot of focus on
46:06
it. They didn't have a lot of people
46:07
that could compete with her. Famously, they'd go to usually
46:11
Japan and bring people over to. Work with Bull.
46:14
She worked with Bull all those years and then they would bring
46:16
in some young girls from Japan, many because there was no
46:19
stable, it didn't seem like in the in either of the, you know,
46:23
back then, but she was really good.
46:24
She could go. Yeah, I wanted to make sure we
46:26
we got her in because for sure she definitely was.
46:29
Was awesome for her time. What is up with Becky Lynch?
46:32
We mentioned her. She's I know, I've I've heard
46:35
rumors, seen rumors, I guess you could say on online that that
46:40
she's no longer going to be with WWE or whatever they are now and
46:45
that what's up? What's up Gary?
46:46
What's? Well, I think legitimately, I
46:49
think legitimately her contract was up.
46:51
I don't think that it's actually been formally renewed.
46:55
This is all, you know, speculation, of course, not
46:58
looked at her contract. But I will say that that was the
47:02
word that was going around and that she was not necessarily
47:06
going to rush off and go to some other promotion, but maybe she
47:08
wanted to focus on being a mom and and, and maybe focus on some
47:12
of that Hollywood stuff. But the, the idea of her going
47:16
anywhere, I would never say never because you know, it's
47:18
just pro wrestling. I mean, we, we just saw what was
47:21
it yesterday was the one year anniversary of the return of CM
47:24
Punk that nobody ever thought they were going to see.
47:26
So I would never rule anything out.
47:28
But I believe that she will be back with WWE.
47:31
It's just a matter of time. I think, yeah.
47:34
Taking some family time. While the contract expiring
47:37
anyway, yeah. Absolutely.
47:39
I'll tell you what's interesting Right now, though.
47:41
We're about to have an invasion into the White House with the
47:45
wrestling background. First we got Linda McMahon, you
47:47
know, so she's the, you know, the education secretary.
47:50
That's, that's the pick for that.
47:51
Then I hear Hulk Hogan may have a position, too.
47:54
Really. God.
47:55
Coming. Yeah, I heard that.
47:56
I know that today. Yeah, I think it may.
47:59
He may be bringing Hogan in in some capacity.
48:01
I'm not sure. Well, let's go I.
48:03
Never thought Hogan would have made a return to that level.
48:07
American beer, or whatever it's called.
48:09
He's at the he's at the Rouses right now trying to hawk.
48:11
Some leading Trump rallies and now about to be somehow part of,
48:15
you know, the White House. What a wild timeline that would
48:18
be. By the way, if he actually was
48:20
had like an official role, that would be nuts.
48:23
It's going to do nothing but help the Bubba documentary
48:25
whenever that comes out. So I mean, I think it's a win
48:29
for everybody it it trickles down to even to Tigs bit.
48:33
So I'm all for it. Yeah.
48:35
We're all, we're all part of it. In some way, shape or form,
48:37
Yeah. That's it, right?
48:38
That's exactly right, brother. Yeah.
48:42
So what do you what do you see is happening right now?
48:45
Let's talk a little bit about what's going on in the world of
48:48
wrestling currently. Lot of storylines I'm a little
48:52
bit behind get us caught up where we going leading into the
48:57
Road to WrestleMania cause getting that far away before
49:00
we're on that road. Well, they threw me for a loop
49:03
when that when Punk had come back and and they were announced
49:06
that he was going to be joining the bloodline of all people.
49:09
That's OG. Bloodline.
49:10
That's right. I was not expecting that.
49:12
I thought Cody would just be the other guy because we've already
49:15
seen him so intermingled with the new bloodline, the old
49:19
bloodline. So the Punk thing is interesting
49:21
to me. I still think his end goal for
49:24
Mandy is going to be Seth because they they wanted to do
49:27
that last year and they didn't get to do it because Punk had
49:30
gotten injured. So I'm hoping that we're going
49:33
to finally get to pay that off because there's a lot of just
49:35
history there and I think it's going to be a great story when
49:38
they finally unravel that. And it'll be a great match.
49:41
Yes, yes. Those two I think are going to
49:43
put on a great match. So that's something I'm very
49:46
excited for. And then Cody ending up with
49:49
whomever at WrestleMania, which I really still believe that does
49:53
a solid chance it's going to be The Rock.
49:54
And which it sounds interesting to say because that's just going
49:57
to be a crazy timeline if those two actually lock up because
50:01
it's the biggest match that you can do.
50:03
Assuming that you're going to hold off Solo and Roman for
50:06
Mania, then that's something for Roman to do.
50:09
That's kind of the the top, the tippy top of the card as as I
50:12
see it right now. Yeah, yeah.
50:17
I mean, I I've been, I've been watching enough to be able to
50:20
keep up with it. I'm just trying to figure out
50:23
what happens with Cody Rhodes, what happens with the Rock, what
50:26
happens with the OG Bloodline and the new bloodline and how
50:31
does it how it does. It's not very clear right now
50:35
where they're going with it. I don't know if they know.
50:38
I'm sure they do know. I'm sure that they have this
50:40
scripted out a year in advance or or longer some of these
50:45
storylines. But just curious to see if if
50:49
Cody gets to retain the belt really and if he's going to be
50:53
continue to be the face of of the WWEI think he probably will
50:58
be. I mean.
50:59
Think he should be? I think he should be too.
51:02
He deserves a multi year, a multi year run.
51:04
He's been a great leader for the company as far as you know, PR
51:08
standpoint, charities, all that stuff.
51:10
Like he's really just, I met him back in, I think it was August,
51:15
He was doing a, a liquor. He was at the liquor store with
51:18
the, the Wheatley vodka or whatever.
51:20
Oh. Yeah, that's right.
51:21
Yeah, and he, you know, he's just so cool, so, so smooth, so
51:24
nice, you know, taking time with everybody.
51:26
It's not just like 5 seconds. How you doing?
51:28
Here's a picture and off you go. You know, he's taking at least
51:31
30 seconds to a minute, which a note, whenever you meet somebody
51:34
famous like that, it seems like it's 10 minutes when it goes
51:36
that long. But you really feel like you get
51:38
something of value out of it. That's.
51:40
Great, that's great to hear. And I know that I know that DDP
51:44
is that he of course his best friend was Dusty Rhodes and and
51:50
he's he's helped Cody along the way and trained him and stuff
51:54
like that too. He he speaks very highly of him.
51:57
So it's it's good to know that what you see is kind of what you
52:00
get. I was impressed with him when I
52:03
went to a house show in Lafayette last summer or
52:06
whenever it was, it was no, it was earlier this year because it
52:09
was the road to WrestleMania. Impressed with a couple of
52:12
things. Seth Rollins was there and Becky
52:15
Lynch was there and they interacted with the crowd after
52:19
the after the show was over because they were our Becky did
52:23
didn't, but Seth did because Seth and Cody wrestled together.
52:27
I don't remember who they faced that night, but they they
52:31
wrestled together and Cody Rhodes was the last dude out of
52:34
the arena. Yeah.
52:35
He was the last guy out. I mean, we were leaving like go
52:40
to the bathroom, Riley, Tammy went to the bathroom and you
52:44
know, I went, came back out. He was still out there signing
52:48
autographs and they were still playing it.
52:50
They just kept looping, looping his his intro music.
52:54
I saw that. Thank you.
52:55
Stayed out there. Yeah.
52:57
In fact, I think in one of in in the in the WrestleMania and one
53:01
of the little clips they showed Lafayette, LA, that house show,
53:06
there was a clip of him doing that.
53:09
But I think he does that everywhere.
53:11
I don't think he was just doing that because there was a camera.
53:13
There's a camera there every night even.
53:15
Yeah, I saw him at Smackdown. That was last year and, and the
53:19
literally I could see the handler trying to get him at the
53:23
hell out of there and he's like, no, no, no, I got, you know,
53:24
just a few more, a few more. And I just thought that was so
53:28
cool because he was just like, you know, there's people here
53:30
and I'm not going to get to all of them, but if I can get to
53:33
three or four more than than not, I'm, I'm going to do it.
53:36
And so I, I really, I really can appreciate that.
53:39
If you think about. Love it.
53:42
Yeah. And if you think about to him,
53:44
you talking about what he's done, he in the in the in the
53:48
grand scheme of wrestling, he pulled up an amazing feat,
53:52
actually left the company. The biggest company helped
53:57
create or helped didn't create, but helped bring up and
54:00
legitimize built a #2 as a competitor to bring it up,
54:05
killing off his character in WWE, creating this whole new
54:08
American nightmare persona, the whole beautiful gimmick too.
54:14
You got to go with the red, white and blue.
54:15
I mean, what a great gimmick. And then bringing the company up
54:19
to a level where he could leave there, go back to the original,
54:22
the big company again and only bring it up another notch.
54:25
He just brought the whole wrestling world up a couple of
54:28
notches and killed off his old character.
54:31
Don't have to live that gimmick. Got a new one he's making the
54:33
money off of now because it's his he's bringing it.
54:35
He got his rights wrote out right.
54:36
I mean, yes, what and he's at the tip top.
54:39
He's in his prime of his life to be the be the champion and be
54:42
the star. Kudos to Cody Rhodes.
54:45
Yeah, I think it's I think that's exactly what needs to
54:47
happen and I agree he needs a multi year contract.
54:49
They give him his flowers now and when he when he's tired and
54:53
wants to take a break and doesn't want to do the the work
54:55
anymore, give him a good role. Let him go out once a year and
54:58
bump with somebody like they do these guys, but keep them
55:01
around. I hate that they they let some
55:03
good ones go and I'm sure it's backstage politics just like it
55:06
is when they're in the ring, but that'd be cool.
55:09
Yeah, no, I, I, I agree with you.
55:11
You know, the one thing I do want to know, though, is when
55:13
that cat at the house, do you think he rolls around the house
55:17
with that hair, that hair done like that dude, That's that's
55:19
amazing. And it looks like a comic book
55:21
character, you know? Dallas always does the the dusty
55:27
impersonation of him saying Dusty my boy looks like Clark
55:30
Gable. Look, My boy looks like Clark
55:32
Gable. He got tear in his eyes like my
55:37
boy looks like Clark Gable. What I can say is when I used to
55:41
cover wrestling on a weekly basis around 10-15 years ago,
55:46
you'd always read like the interviews and the speculation
55:49
of people like, you know, we're so sick of John Cena.
55:52
We're so sick of him. We got to get him out of here.
55:54
We got to get a new top guy. And the question or the, the
55:57
question always would be, well, who's going to be that guy who's
56:00
going to be able to be anywhere near the level, you know, doing
56:04
all the PR, the media, the, the charities and everything else.
56:07
Even seen it himself. People would like a gotcha
56:10
moment. They'd ask him in interviews,
56:11
like, man, when is somebody else going to come in and, and be
56:14
you? And he's like, well, you know,
56:16
look around who, who's that guy going to be?
56:18
We finally have that guy in Cody who can be that successor to
56:23
that or, or as closely as possible because they're
56:25
obviously different people, but he's the closest guy we've had
56:29
that can match John Cena's energy from PR and media and all
56:34
that stuff standpoint. You think Cody can ever make it
56:37
into that top ten list? I think he should, yeah.
56:42
Yeah, He could be the next generation.
56:44
He could be that new star and and encompass several of those
56:47
guys that we like back then and one and be that guy.
56:51
I mean, what's more inspirational than saying, man,
56:54
I have this really nice job making a lot of money, but fuck
56:57
this, I'm out of here. I'm going.
56:58
I'm going to go wrestle in a high school gym for five people.
57:01
And then, and then on the way back, I'm going to wrestle my
57:03
brother to a bloody death match. Finished my father, who was a
57:07
legend. Oh, my gosh, so good.
57:10
Well, hey, I want to steer back before we forget or run out of
57:13
time here because I know you got stuff to do because you're busy,
57:15
Busy man these days helping the bubble army conquer all.
57:20
But we talked about the content house earlier.
57:21
What's next for that? I heard on one of the on the
57:23
shows this past week that there was talks of doing it again.
57:27
Think what would you like to see done different?
57:31
You know, it tells anything again about what, what we can
57:33
expect from the next one, when, where and what you might what,
57:37
what would you like to do different?
57:38
Well, here's what I can say without potentially getting
57:41
myself in trouble. I I know that there is no date
57:45
or specific place as a lock. I think I can say that
57:48
confidently without getting in trouble.
57:49
But the the two places that I've heard floated is doing one
57:53
locally in Tampa and then potentially one in Charleston.
57:58
These are both probably the best candidates for cities.
58:01
Tampa being the local place, we don't have to travel 2 1/2 hours
58:05
with all of our gear and then have to go and set it up.
58:08
Charleston being a city that is a really great city for the
58:13
Bubba Army. It's a place that you know, they
58:15
were heard on the radio for years and years and years and
58:18
has a dedicated audience there. I selfishly would love to see it
58:23
in Charleston. I have family there and I'm
58:25
looking for any excuse in the world to go down there.
58:28
Which Speaking of which, if, if JRF you and Justin find yourself
58:32
in Charleston, you better believe I'm going to be hitting
58:34
you up. Say, hey, man, let's hang out.
58:37
But Tampa is is really attractive just in the sense
58:40
that it's so close, you know, and yeah, you got to carry all
58:43
the all the equipment. But, you know, maybe we can set
58:46
it up a day early, get it all dialed in so that by the time we
58:49
turn that thing on, it's already ready to go.
58:52
And those are really honestly the two cities that I've heard
58:54
that have the best chance of being for the second content
58:57
house. Better weather probably in Tampa
59:00
too. Plenty of rental properties for
59:02
for big setups like that that people bring down there for
59:05
events and. Maybe on the beach.
59:06
Yeah, that'd. Be yeah, exactly.
59:08
That would be great at night on the beach with some lights.
59:11
You guys make a wrestling ring or a do some Oklahoma drills or
59:15
something. Oh man.
59:16
I'm in, I'm down. What, what as far as as far as
59:24
things you did great because I mean, it came out great.
59:26
Doesn't sound like you had a bunch of hiccups because you
59:28
didn't do the oh boy, that was a pain in the butt, but it came
59:31
out great. But what would you, what would
59:33
you like to see done a little different or or expand on?
59:36
Maybe would be a better word next time?
59:38
I would say definitely if we can get in there a day early to pre
59:41
wire so that way when we advertise the time we can just
59:44
be ready to go. That's number one.
59:46
And then maybe getting another camera like mine that we can
59:50
throw on a tripod or have Rhett when he has time run around just
59:53
so we have, you know, multicam of like the really high quality
59:56
4K stuff. I'm a stickler on that kind of
59:59
stuff. Like I'm like the rare person
1:00:01
that watches YouTube on his TV and so I can pixel peep the
1:00:05
average person's watching on the phone.
1:00:07
They don't give a shit. But I I give a shit and I want
1:00:10
it to look as perfect as possible in any scenario.
1:00:13
And so if having a second camera like mine, even if we just rent
1:00:17
it, that would be a really cool I think in my opinion.
1:00:21
I agree. You can't have too many.
1:00:23
Yeah. Your camera looks great
1:00:24
especially with on that back porch and they kept showing
1:00:26
different camera then you would come in with your camera that
1:00:29
that was so Chris dude, it looks so good.
1:00:31
That was the best nice, that was the best, most irresponsible
1:00:34
financial decision in my life right there.
1:00:37
And I would do it again. And we talked about we talked
1:00:40
about that on a podcast a while back.
1:00:42
So if anybody hadn't heard that, go back and check out the
1:00:44
podcast we did with Gary a while back.
1:00:46
That was we talked gear talk on there.
1:00:49
And but what about a number of people?
1:00:52
Would you would you have more people, less people?
1:00:54
Where? Where do you think y'all had to?
1:00:55
Y'all were at the sweet spot with the amount you had there.
1:00:58
I think we had a good amount there, but I, I, I want to give
1:01:01
the right credit. I'm just not remember who said
1:01:03
it. Maybe it was Seth that threw it
1:01:04
in. Like, hey, do we throw the
1:01:05
pigmentation guys in there? I think they would be a blast.
1:01:08
I've hung out with them one time when they were recording a pod
1:01:13
at the studio and I was there back in July and super nice
1:01:16
guys, very funny. So if you throw that element in
1:01:19
there or you throw a couple of other people that could get, you
1:01:22
know, maybe like a Lasker or an Alex Stein, I think having one
1:01:26
of those characters would definitely be next level.
1:01:29
It's like turning into that fish tank show, you know?
1:01:31
G don't kill someone. I don't know if she don't have a
1:01:33
couple more felonies after that one.
1:01:37
So that would be on my wish list.
1:01:38
If we can get an Alex Stein or we can get a Gene Lasker in
1:01:43
there just as you know, as as an extra character.
1:01:46
That would be a lot of fun too. It would be.
1:01:47
Great. God, sign me up for watching
1:01:50
that man. Yeah.
1:01:51
The pig, the pigmentation guys are going to be smoking a blunt,
1:01:55
shaking their head at half the crap.
1:01:56
You can be like you white boys are crazy.
1:01:58
Exactly what they're going. To say.
1:02:00
Yes, like who is that fat white guy that's singing?
1:02:03
What was it? What did they have me singing?
1:02:05
It's raining men. Shout out to group Lips he
1:02:07
donated. Take a look.
1:02:09
At him sitting over in the corner kinda like there's 2 old
1:02:11
guys used to watch The Muppets back in the day.
1:02:13
You know what I mean? Him just watching now in the
1:02:16
hell. I got, I got the name Belly
1:02:17
Roll. I remember they, I think it was
1:02:19
Babyface who came out with that name.
1:02:21
I'm like, that's fun. But there you go.
1:02:24
That's fun. You're.
1:02:24
Good, that's all. Look, if you enjoy getting some
1:02:26
kind of shit from in a in a situation like that, then then
1:02:31
you're that's not good. You you need to be getting
1:02:34
ridiculed a little bit, almost just to a point of where you
1:02:38
damn near want to cry. If you're not going that far,
1:02:41
then I don't really feel in these type of environments like
1:02:44
I'm really getting enough love. So, you know, that's the way
1:02:48
it's just supposed to be. Babyface seems to embrace these
1:02:52
moments, and he really plays it well.
1:02:55
He's so good. He's just his great.
1:02:57
I'm a mark for Babyface, dammit. He's.
1:03:00
Got crapped on it by Lummy so. Yeah, babyface is great.
1:03:03
I love Seth. You know, all the zingers that
1:03:05
he brings in, Like he's so good at him.
1:03:08
He's so great at him, and he just sits back in the weights
1:03:10
and just. Yeah.
1:03:12
He's. Good.
1:03:14
He's good. I love Lummy.
1:03:15
He lummy's like the oak. Lummy's just an oak.
1:03:17
He's just like, Oh yeah, take care of it.
1:03:18
That's always. Absolutely a.
1:03:20
Great, great description. Yeah.
1:03:23
Well, this been a, this been a good show.
1:03:25
And hey, we, we told them, Gary, I don't know if you've heard,
1:03:28
we've got a, a voicemail line now where a listeners can call
1:03:32
in and leave a voicemail for the show.
1:03:35
So that's been a lot of fun. We've got some interesting on
1:03:37
that. So we will make sure we get that
1:03:38
number out there again, 225-800-3058, Make sure if
1:03:43
you've got anything on wrestling, make sure to leave
1:03:46
those. And when we have Gary back on in
1:03:48
a few weeks, we'll we'll get back in a little more wrestling.
1:03:51
Oh yeah, let me know man, I'm down for that.
1:03:53
Yeah, this is becoming a reoccurring occurrence by the
1:03:56
way, Gary. And and as Jr. just alluded to,
1:03:59
we're having you back so. I'm game.
1:04:02
I'll I'll plug in the right thing next time.
1:04:04
So. You doing just fine.
1:04:05
It sounds, sounds wonderful. Technical issues.
1:04:09
It wouldn't be any fun if there wasn't a little bit of
1:04:13
something, you know, he's got to keep us all on our toes.
1:04:16
That's just the way it is, man. That's just the way it is with
1:04:19
Gary. Thanks so much for joining us.
1:04:22
Thank you guys. Next time we'll see you.
1:04:25
Later.