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Zaga | The Christian Reeve Podcast #196 · The Christian Reeve Podcast

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Christian re
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podcast. Today's guest is a podcaster
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hailing all the way from the Bronx in the United States.
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His name is xaga. Welcome to the show.
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How you doing? I'm doing well man, I appreciate
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you getting me on the show. I was born and raised in the
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Bronx time that I don't matter. I don't reside in the Bronx
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anymore. Don't reside in the Bronx
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anymore. We moved on up.
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Yeah. So let's jump forward with that.
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So are you living in Salem Massachusetts?
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Now, No. I just go there a lot whole lot.
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Actually live in anything. You, okay, Connecticut, okay,
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cool. I never this big wrestling fan
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so I know all about that. Yeah.
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I'll be okay. Oh, mice massive, huge wrestling
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fan. So for those who don't know, the
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significance of Connecticut is that that is I believe the
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headquarters of WWE. The biggest wrestling company in
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the world used to be next door to ESPN.
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Oh man. Okay and Bristol.
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Bristol Connecticut. They move their headquarters to
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Stanford. Stanley kinetic is the
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headquarters of we now, it's a person in New York, who Bristol?
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That's interested. Bristol is a major city get to
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Stamford Connecticut. Yep, I only know this because
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there's a water park about a half, a mile down, the road from
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the to building. So you would drive by W
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headquarters and you would drive by ESPN headquarters to go to a
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water park. That explains why WWE was always
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so obsessed with ESPN that over them wanted to get main coverage
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like they will right next to them.
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Like, come on guys. Come on.
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Come on. Give us some literally next
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door. That's how they got caught.
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That's how they got the coach. That's how ESPN still coach.
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Yeah, and then he left when he came back again and again.
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Yes, listen is. This is Disney, man.
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They pay. I don't know what to say through
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the, which, what do you reckon ww and up like ownership wise?
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Because there was that big old rumor last year that they were
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going to be bought out by the Saudis, which seemed like it was
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legit. And then it turned out to be not
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legit and then there's talk of like maybe Disney acquiring
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them? NBC wait.
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Also not, um, I don't know really, I think, I think the
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whole Saudi thing is a bad decision because you're going to
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have a lot of superstars walk away.
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And a lot of big names Superstars, I think Becky Lynch
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was one of them that did not want to be part of it anymore.
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If the Saudis took over it and for good reason, I mean, they
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they kind of live no offense to any other culture out there but
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you know it's kind of predated culture where people aren't
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supposed to be keep covered up and stuff like that and it's
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offensive. Of like to monitor 23 of the
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world's different and especially we we don't watch the Divas.
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I'm not gonna be not trying to be offensive but let's be real.
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You know, the guys watch the Divas because well, we want to
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see some skin. I remember back in the
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aggressive area or what was aggressive or back in the day.
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You know, they had aggressive era across the crescents.
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What it was. But like this aggression.
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Yeah, they literally had pillow fights lingerie matches.
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Remember that? I do.
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It was kind of painful. Like, don't get me wrong.
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I was Frenchy. I was a young impressionable
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kid, so obviously I loved seeing quite easy to watch it, but I
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don't know. It's because I personally see it
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as like The Best of Both Worlds. You got these with awesome women
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who can perform well, absolutely retain and then also they are
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really hot. So it's like, you know, 241.
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It's great. That that leaders back makes
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makes it so much better. It's cook.
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Yeah, it's cool. I mean, like I was thinking as
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this past Royal Rumble happened. How awesome is that we get like
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To Royal Rumble matches. Now, yeah.
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Now, this is fucking awesome. It was, I remember back in the
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early 2000s, watching the female division wrestle, they weren't
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as physical as they were as they are today.
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They weren't doing some of the stuff, the guys were and to see,
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I mean let's be putting Stacy Keibler, you know, Trish Stratus
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Lita, they were the goats but everyone everyone in the world
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respected, Lita and obviously China as well because they would
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go into the men's division and do stuff with them as well and
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not just be I Candy. And now you see that, it's his
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own story lines, its own thing, I know they the problem though
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that I see that they were doing is having they have so many good
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story lines. They just don't know how to
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really approach it correctly, at least, recently, from what I'm
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saying. Yeah, I think with the video, be
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the problem has always been in more recent years that the, they
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pull the trigger on stories too quickly.
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There are some notable exceptions though.
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I mean, recently, they've had this storyline with Sami Zayn
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and the bloodline everything which has been excellent and
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it's played out. Let's never you mommy award
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winning. Oh yeah.
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Yeah, if you, if I ever wanted to kind of demonstrate the best
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of professional wrestling, I just showed them the end of
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Royal Rumble this year because it was, it was like devastating.
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I don't know. It's like something out of a
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movie. I was like, oh my God.
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No brilliant. Massive twist ending.
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Well speaking of which I think we go, you can see it coming but
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question for you think the rock is going to come out of
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retirement and wrestle Roman take down the bloodline show.
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For the True Blood Line is if ever there was a time to do it.
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Now is the time. I mean, come on WrestleMania in
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Hollywood. Like when L see going to do it,
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you could do it Wrestlemania, 40.
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I mean, I do know, like it's kind of a weird one because the
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rock is he's no longer a wrestler.
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He's an actor now and you know, it's like any of them, John Cena
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The Rock, whatever, like when they come out of retirement and
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they come to wrestle. It's it's a danger because you
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know, it's so easy to break a bone, you know, whatever get
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injured especially when you're older and you haven't been doing
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it like week in week out. Just see CM Punk.
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You know, he spent seven years away from The Ring came back.
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He gets inches all the time but you know, you can't really blame
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the guy. It's like you're not 20 years
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old anymore, you know, CM Punk. Also had a field UFC career.
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So there's that, I mean, just like the kind of the Incan that
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they're consistent day in day out, you know?
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Let take someone like Randy Orton same same age, right?
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And he's been doing it full-time since since his early 20s or
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whatever and you know he's getting injured more now and
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he's at the top of his game, you know, he's really healthy man
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but it's just like the body just gives out after a while and
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bring it back to the Rock. Like It's a money match.
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It's an obvious choice, it would make money, it would be easy
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because Roman is an excellent competitor.
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He could carry the rock through it.
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I'm not no disrespect to the Rock but like you need someone.
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You can trust and yeah Roman could make stuff look
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devastating and he's really good at her and he's it's and I mean
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come on. Imagine the promo.
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Is it be brilliant? Oh my God, the trash talk will
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be next. Yeah, and I think I think he's
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another thing as well. That No, not many people were
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talking about. I feel like I almost feel like
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it would be better to do a Wrestlemania 40, give people the
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the special moment with Cody make you know go off and do
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Roman doesn't need the title anymore.
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This is there's certain people that don't need the title
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anymore. Seth Rollins is one of them.
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But I saw an article earlier like oh it would suck if if
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every year re Roland's just Rollins just put someone else
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over and you know it's like he doesn't need the toll that the
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whole point of the tile. Generally speaking is to elevate
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a competitor, put them onto our main 11th event level, but not
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everyone needs the title. I mean Jake the Snake Roberts
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never needed for tile. There's plenty of other
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competitors that don't need it. I mean, it's I know it's a
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symbolic of like, you're the man, you're the Person, you
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know, you're the head of the company, whatever, but some
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people just don't eat it. I think.
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And I think that Reigns is now one of them and I feel like you
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could you could make more money by having the title off of him
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like get beaten with Cody, make it make it a very hard kind of
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hard-fought seeing you can throw another story line stuff like
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people getting involved whatever but still have Cody decisively
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win. And then you start Paving the
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way for Wrestlemania, 40, give Roman a ton of time off, you
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know, because absence makes the heart grow fonder and then you
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start Paving the way for the rock Roman Reigns and you don't
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have to have a title involved and there you go.
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There's a main event for you and you can start building.
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You can still have your title match and everything.
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They're sometimes like that they'll bring the title into a
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match that doesn't need to happen.
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Like like the rock can see. Now when The Rock beat CM Punk,
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I think at the Royal Rumble pussy was a 2012.
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I think 2011 someone yeah. I think it was something like
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that and it was it was just not necessary.
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Yeah. It was fun because obviously CM
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Punk has a heel is money. It was fun stuff with the rocky
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was good but it just didn't need to happen or more.
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Recent example, Kevin Owens getting squashed by Goldberg and
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like 30 seconds or whatever it was That didn't exactly say
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those don't call vs. Kevin Owens was probably one of
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the best things I've ever seen at a WrestleMania.
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Excellent. Yeah I mean I was very
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apprehensive about Austin coming out over time and he looked he
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looked like he could go he could be a regular again.
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He looked so good. Yeah, I like this kind of this
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old fact, this this like cowboy coming out of retirement and
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kicking some ass kind of kind of Vibes, you know, I dig that you
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know, like like Austin is looking to come back and
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wrestle. He'll come back and kick your
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ass and maybe it belongs. Then weíll just come here
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looking for. I mean, like oh Kevin Owens is
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just so hideously underrated. He's I mean there's a couple of
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guys in that they've got. Now that just deserve so much
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more credit than they get like, Kevin Owens.
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Sami Zayn is a few like these guys Wyatt.
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I think he deserves another put a big push again.
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I think he's getting it as as I don't know what they're doing
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with this whole, there's no story.
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Go. How do I ever did he?
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Did you see? By the way, he completely missed
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his Target. There's a, there's a shot.
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There's a video where he could actually just a little, like,
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four feet away. He just, he just jumped a just
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did a shame McMahon and just jump through the fucking floor,
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just like for no reasons. Sacrifice that, you know, it is
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what it is, I guess. But yeah, lots of exciting
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things happening in WWE right now.
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What would you make of aw? So I feel like they've slipped.
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I don't watch, ew, honestly. I know I'm missing out on great
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entertainment but never never got into it.
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Just never really WCW was the thing I did.
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I was like I'm WWF all day. That's okay.
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Steam Punk coming back or Bryan Danielson wrestling or they
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still have some big much stuff here and there.
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Yeah I guess I just never I don't have regular cables,
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what's up? It's like it's like I don't have
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to admit, like, I'm not annoying.
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I don't watch it as regular. As I'd like to no, I mean, watch
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a lot of highlight stuff on likely to report.
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I'll watch like the high watch. Just the one match or if I see a
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clip of Imagine them interested, I'll go watch that episode so I
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can watch the full match whatever they like because I
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don't get it twisted. I love Logan Paul.
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I think that guy. Yeah.
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Perfect for the wa I think he is the perfect face.
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I bet you. He buys the WWE at this point.
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I mean Jesus what what has that guy not done, right?
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Like he's the owns companies, he owns this.
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He does that she's just about Logan pool.
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I got an idea for you. I've been thinking about this.
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Like what about the idea of having like a celebrity
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Championship League. Something specific like, I don't
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know like a widow. I don't know how this would go
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but like there seems to be a few people coming back here and
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there buddy, Logan, Paul, whatever, and they want to have
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more matches and you could kind of have them going off against
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each other. And therefore, you don't have
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you. I mean, you sacrifice time on
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the, on the widget, McCall, it on the card, but at the same
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time, you don't risk anyone. Janome like you don't have like
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Logan pool job and someone else out kind of think so.
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No one gets damaged from it because as much as I love to see
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local pool fight and to be fair he has put over like rains and
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whoever else but like it's just I don't know.
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I feel like we're celebrity wrestling.
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It's it's fun. It's a spectacle and wrestling
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is and has always been like a kind of like a buffet but at the
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same time I don't like it when they build up a guy and they
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kill their momentum because of this new Gaijin only like
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sometimes but I thought this stuff was Sami Zayn and Johnny
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Knoxville like it was fun but I feel like what Sam he's doing
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right now is a better use of his talents because he's so
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entertaining. He's got, he can do it, all you
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can be seriously microphone, you can actually he can perform at a
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high level. Yeah, that's the thing.
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It's like you forget he's so fantastic wrestler because he
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spends so much time doing promos game stories.
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Yeah it's that. Oh yeah shit.
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Yeah. He's a really good rest, early.
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Yeah, and then there's some people that just should never
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touch a mic just perform and then but yeah, no, I mean I
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think that'd be a good idea to have like a celebrity spin-off
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type thing. Yeah, I don't know what that are
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you making a pay-per-view? Yeah, I mean, I think about, I
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think about it like this, right? There's a lot of celebrities
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right now that are doing like the exhibition boxing, right?
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We're like they got back that they talking trash on Twitter
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and then they settle it on there.
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Hmm, that's a perfect Avenue for WWE to just scoop up.
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Up and say, Hey, listen, I know that you you, you know, may not
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like each other, but let's make some money and let's put on a
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show and let's make it a real show.
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We'll rehearse it. There you go.
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I think it's a great idea. Yeah, object-ball Paul, Jay,
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Paul needs to get knocked out somewhere where Jake poo is
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money. He is money.
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Come on. You can't tell me.
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He wouldn't he be like the best heel of all time if you came and
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double oh my God, if he went to WWE.
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Oh, you know what? You know what?
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This should be number. One, number one, goal for we
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sign Conor McGregor and Son, Jake.
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Paul just sign the two of them, and let just give the
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microphones and let them do what they do best.
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We'll finally have KS o IJ pool because if it's not us, that's
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just dying to happen and I wish Happen.
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It's just driving me nuts. It hasn't happened yet.
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Big boss fight and soon, right. He's fighting that Tommy Fury.
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Finally. Yeah.
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But I don't know. I feel like that both docking
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each other. We're just making us wait on
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purpose but the fight was named for thing that I think it's next
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month. Or is it this month, the 24th
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25th? Something like that?
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That would be a good fight. But I think probably still
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fighting real boxers where he never will though because he
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would get knocked out. That's what he's fighting, this
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case UFC fighter, 40 year old guys.
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It realistically, if he would fight another Boxer, he would
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get knocked out or he will either.
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Okay? In fairness the Jake, I think he
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could maybe be competitive. He could maybe last a few rounds
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but it's one thing to to box against other people with like,
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you know similar experience to it's another thing to then go
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into like this whole Sport and start, you know, fighting Some
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of the you know the most successful people who've been
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training all their life doing it.
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It's a very different thing you know.
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I mean like if you take Logan Paul with wrestling mat, one of
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the reasons why he's good. There's a few reasons.
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One, he grew up as an amateur wrestler, not many people know
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this, but he trained as an amateur wrestler.
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Secondly, he's got some of the world's best wrestlers of all
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time, helping him choreograph and train for every single match
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and that match he had with was a Roman Reigns.
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I think, In Crowd Jewel, whatever he had like Shawn
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Michaels, helping him a few other people, and they would
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like, with him for a whole month.
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I'm not taking anything away from Logan, but smoking his
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first match though, where he busted out the Three Amigos and
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the five-star frog Splash and like some people were like
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that's that's offensive. He shouldn't have done that.
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I'm like seeing him like this is amazing.
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He's pulling it off just as good as Eddie would have but he's
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bringing excitement. You can't tell me that anytime
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this man doesn't go and go into that ring.
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Everyone in the stadium, everyone watching at home is
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just sitting there. Like, what crazy shit is he
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gonna do next? Okay he's got it like what he
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did in Royal Rumble that top rope thing just saying that just
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to time that is so hard a strict.
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No it I love what he does. I think I'm just more kind of
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concerned about the regular competitors because much the
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same as part-time wrestlers that come in be and go away.
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It's the same principle. You know you got you got to look
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at like for instance it's one thing.
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Oh here's a Royal Rumble spot. Let's have some fun.
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Oh, here's a mid-match card whatever.
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Great like when when Logan was challenging for the title was of
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what like you know, I mean okay they had fun they they made the
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best of it but like I think Treat it for what it is.
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It's a spectacle, you know, it's the same as like having the
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Undertaker matches at WrestleMania, you know, it
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didn't really matter. Like like you knew that he was
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always going to win, but it was always going to be fantastic as
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a spectacle today. I mean, it was always good
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because you can think of it as like when Pat Mac, if he comes
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back, are Kool on the show? Yeah.
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You look, it's just fun. Just, you know, you're just
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getting pure entertainment and I think he's the best announcer
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I've ever heard. Yeah, it wa.
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But I love Jerry Lawler. I love, you know, what was it?
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Give him Rossman. Come on, I love them by Pat
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back. If he brings a realness, he
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makes it feel like it is reality.
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Like this is actually really happening.
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Well, I think it's always good to have that enthusiasm because
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he doesn't give a shit as much as the other guys.
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I think that will not to say, it doesn't they don't care but like
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they're very much in the system where his, he's like kind of the
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outside coming in. He's like and just having fun as
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you say. Yeah.
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And that's why it's more fun because He's like you just know
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like maybe they try and tell him what to do and he's just like oh
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yeah. Okay.
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Okay. And then just yeah, I'll do
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that. He was in a match to who did he
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fight in a match? Oh, God wrestle somebody. can't
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remember, um, Oh fuck. Oh my God it was a WrestleMania
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as well, wasn't it? Yeah.
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Austin mostly Theory. Austin Theory and he put on a
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great match. Yeah, I mean it's awesome Theory
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as well do like Austin makes everyone look amazing.
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Is this the kid that kid got that kids Got Talent and I
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understand why Vince love them so much and wanted to push him
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over so much because he could be the face.
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He will be. You just doesn't there's a few
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days a few people. Yeah they're not ready yet like
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just yesterday. Yet, but they're there might
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have been, okay, you got lost in theory, you got Bone Breaker
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right there. Those two.
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That's your WrestleMania Main Event in like, five years, girl,
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you know, because I don't why they're spending so much time
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with Brawn in that NXT. I guess they feel that he still
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needs more time but every time I see him I'm like this guy is
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just made for the main event, just put him on the fucking main
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roster. Already.
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What you doing? That's because Cody Cody no
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matter what, no matter what they want, Cody is pretty much the
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face right now. Yeah, butbut its Allure.
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They'll tell okay wrestling. As you know, as everyone else
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knows. It's all about storytelling.
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They'll tell the Cody story, right?
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And I think ideally it will end with him winning the
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championship then he'll have a rain.
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It doesn't really matter how long it lasts after that, you
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know, because the the it's always the chase.
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That's that's more exciting than the actual winning, you know,
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like when you want to have one, that's like, okay, whatever move
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on, but reality is because they don't really flip.
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Flop any more championships? He'll likely be Champion for at
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least the year, you know, and they'll have fun with it.
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And then I think probably the fans will turn on him at some
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point. And Cody I think by that point
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wouldn't mind because he's you know he's happy he's doing what
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he loves like he's more calm. He's more comfortable as a heel.
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I think like I know he wants to be a baby face but like he's
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more comfortable as a heel and that's just the reality of the
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situation. But yeah moving forward I mean
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it's he I think he could really help a lot of guys I think if
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you I mean, fuck. If we talk about Austin's doing
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maybe that's maybe that's the play Wrestlemania 40.
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There's a main event Cody or so dreary, that'd be a good
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storyline right there. The problem is, I can't take
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Cody seriously out of my, I'll come on, doesn't sound like a
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heel. He had the windows.
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I can't, I can't, I can't take him, seriously.
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It was terrifying because he could kill you.
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He didn't matter if he taught for the Lisbon didn't understand
21:17
what he was saying. Well, the holiday, the whole
21:20
thing with Cody is that like as a good guy, it's all emotion,
21:24
which is perfect as a bad guy. It's kind of got that Miss Vibe,
21:30
just acting like an arrogant prick.
21:32
He's not supposed to be an intimidating.
21:34
He'll he's supposed to be more of a can and annoying getting in
21:37
your crawl. Kind of I've been, but he's not
21:40
someone you would take lightly either, you know I mean where is
21:43
like his is better at playing the chicken shit here.
21:45
I feel like Cody's somewhere in the middle kind of like a.
21:48
Seth Rollins feel The Seth Rollins.
21:51
He was a good heel. I enjoyed him as a heel.
21:54
Yeah. But I tried to make him a hero
21:55
again but the fans just love him too much.
21:57
See the thing with Seth though is that my meaning day?
22:01
No disrespect to Cody but Seth is an amazing wrestler.
22:04
Like yes. No good that like him as a heel
22:10
and hit you by the fact that he could kick your ass.
22:12
Like let's say, you put Reigns up at Roland's Up Against rains,
22:16
right? Generally you'd think OK rains
22:20
are win this. You never 100% sure because it's
22:23
Rollins like he'll, he's a competitor which I think
22:26
changes. It was Cody, is more kind of
22:30
pasta words. You know, boat straight to
22:34
coming for the word like a basic wrestler, like a
22:38
straightforward. Like if you're gonna put the
22:40
Prototype of what a wrestler is, that's what it looks like.
22:43
During just straight forward. To the point, get the emotions,
22:46
get the crowd going, you know, all that we completely went off.
22:50
Off the rails on. No, I'll do it.
22:52
I could talk wrestling. All daddy, took me for a loop.
22:56
I was like, I have no idea what we're talking about on this.
22:58
This, when I get on the show here we just rolled them WWE.
23:02
Well, I mean, I've got research on you.
23:05
Oh, okay. So chain you.
23:07
All right? But, you know, I always do my
23:09
research on my guests, but I like to kind of just have a more
23:12
relaxed Vibe and approach to it. So, but it depends, it depends
23:17
on my guess, though. You know, they like some guests.
23:22
It kind of comes across more formal.
23:23
So I try to step up my game a little bit and try to be a bit
23:26
more formal. And you know, work with that
23:29
other guests are a bit more laid back.
23:30
And well, no, it's it's not every guest, kind of like
23:36
Portrays who they are and I do my, my role, I feel is to adapt
23:41
to that, you know, because I don't want to try and makes, I
23:45
want people to feel comfortable when they come on the show and
23:49
an often like you've got different options either.
23:52
You're telling the story of that person and who they are and what
23:55
they're about. And in that you advertise that
23:58
person or you, just talk about certain topics, you know,
24:03
whatever. And I I feel that's that's
24:06
always when podcast is at its best when it's natural when it
24:09
just flows naturally. Like I don't know, when I
24:12
decided to do this, I think it was probably within the first
24:14
year, like a lot of the tight. Like I always have notes, here's
24:19
a whole sheet of notes about you, right?
24:22
He's and sometimes I won't even look at that in all honesty.
24:25
It depends on how the show goes. Yeah.
24:29
Why not? I'm sure.
24:30
Is, what do you know about me? I'm curious have to say it
24:33
because our conversations prior to the show have been minimal.
24:36
So I'm curious to see what is the internet told you about me.
24:40
Okay, well, the first thing I found is that you have a show
24:44
called hip to the game. Do you still have the shades?
24:49
And so let's talk about why I got canceled so it's not
24:53
canceled, it just got rebranded. So hip to the game was a great
24:57
idea, it was hip hop and sports and I'm Avid hip-hop person.
25:03
I love all hip-hop except a lot of the new stuff so it gives me
25:07
a good counter argument to some of the newer stuff that has come
25:10
out. Mike.
25:12
I was trying to find a co-host for a while I said mister we've
25:16
actually met on Reddit. I think that's where I actually
25:18
found your post and I posted it on Facebook as well and my
25:23
buddy, a good friend of mine. Colin he goes, I would love to
25:26
be part of the show. I'm about to be here cause I'm
25:28
like, sweet. We have, I've had conversations
25:31
with him, he's through the bartender at a bowling alley.
25:33
I used to bowl at else who used to talk all the time.
25:36
I'm like, all right, our banter would be good.
25:38
That's what I want. I want some good back and forth.
25:41
Talk. I was like, how do you know what
25:43
do you think about, hip-hop? He goes, I love, I love wrap up.
25:46
Okay, we did two episodes. This man knows nothing about
25:51
rap, the history of rap. He knows nothing about classic
25:55
artists who knows nothing about the difference between beats
25:58
between trap beats and breakbeats.
26:00
And I'm just it turned into me teaching him every week and I'm
26:04
like I can't do this. I don't want to teach you.
26:07
Okay. Was it?
26:08
What was the first question when you when you were little?
26:10
Oh like what was it when you were like oh this is this is a
26:13
problem. He doesn't know jack shit like
26:15
first first Question that you ask well what was the name of
26:17
your top? The top 10 best rap artists of
26:20
all time. That's hip-hop artist of all
26:22
time and he put an F would entertain like, you know, you
26:26
know what enough is, right? Like he has like three songs
26:28
that ever got popular, the sad kid that raps about, oh, mme
26:32
nice, MF Doom is that they don't know and enough.
26:35
Okay? And F.
26:36
Yes, it seems sad because like, you don't even know like, you
26:38
know, I'm like I know who he is because I study hip hop and
26:41
like, here, I hear what his messages is great.
26:43
Its mental health awareness and I'll sweep off like that and I
26:46
respect it but as one of the greatest artists in history, I
26:50
was like, how do you, how do you not MF Doom made my list most
26:54
def Talib Lee frickin Rock him, like some of the best names, and
26:58
I'm like, yeah, dude, I can't, I can't talk.
27:00
We can't do this anymore and if you stay because like, you must
27:04
have like a basic like, no. I mean, I'm not, I'm not, I love
27:07
hip-hop and rap. I wouldn't call myself an
27:10
expert, but I could make, I could name ten quite
27:12
comfortably. I think, like some good hip-hop
27:14
like true lyricists. A Jurassic 5, maybe or fucking,
27:20
I don't know. I don't know that enough.
27:30
And there are like mainstream, you know, most laugh and Talib
27:35
Kweli not so much. I mean, they're there, right
27:37
there, Legends in the game. Like I say no.
27:40
I say most definite, our colleague because black star was
27:43
the name of their hip hop group. They came out with one album and
27:46
they were immediately nullified as one of the greatest CEO ever
27:50
do it in underground hip hop now Rakim.
27:53
Yes, because he's kind of the Is for every favorite rapper.
27:56
I through Big Pun in there, through Big L in there you know.
27:59
Mobb Deep was a notable mention for me and I'm like, you know
28:02
Moby Dick is any of these people?
28:04
He he picked Mac Miller to as like the best rapper of all
28:07
time. But yeah, dude, like mac was
28:09
great, don't get it twisted. But like, I love Mac Miller, I
28:13
listen to him every day but to say he's one of the greatest,
28:16
you're gonna put him over Wu-Tang, you're gonna put him
28:18
over, you know? It's a male melon, melon buries
28:21
him all the time. Yes.
28:25
What happened was? We ended up going to record
28:27
another episode and I sat here and I'm like, dude, I have
28:31
nothing to talk to you about about this.
28:33
He's like, well, what do you mean?
28:34
I'm like, I can't really have debates and discussions with you
28:37
on if this is a great album. If what was what did you think
28:40
about this bar, right? You know what did you take from
28:43
the message of this song? There's like cuz you're not
28:45
understanding it from this point of view, you're just listening
28:48
to it for the beat. That's right.
28:51
As I'm clearly stating because like I gay.
28:55
I asked him. Why was Mac Miller like your
28:57
favorite rapper? I was what was the best rap line
29:00
he ever ever did and he's did the something, you know, the
29:04
hipster, girl, I can make your hipster line.
29:07
I'm like, that's the worst line I've ever heard and Hip-Hop.
29:11
I was like little pump has said better things than that.
29:14
Oh that's that's it in so bad. That's a fucking it.
29:17
So right now, yeah, I love Mac but let's be honest is their
29:19
system wasn't talking pumps rapping about like fucking balls
29:22
off. So some Some random shit.
29:25
And so, I love Lisa instead of recording an episode, we sat
29:30
down and we were like, let's change the direction of this.
29:33
Let's let's chuckle show and now it's called.
29:37
NFA the NFA pop. This is this is the yeah.
29:41
Which what does it stand for. By the way, nobody fucking
29:44
asked. Yes.
29:47
And it's exactly what you think it is.
29:49
It's the podcast that nobody fucking asked like we just get
29:54
honestly, we get really stoned. And we just start having
29:57
discussions about random things like next week's or like one of
30:02
our episodes is going to be 90. We had a 90s episode that's
30:04
gonna be dropping Hollis on and we're just discussing like some
30:08
of our favorite things and just arguing like the last episode we
30:12
found out, he ate Plato as a kid.
30:14
He's like you didn't eat Play-Doh.
30:16
No, I didn't even place. What do you mean you, do you
30:18
play that next week? It's, you know, would you rather
30:22
questions? Like would you rather this or
30:24
that? And then I have debates are at
30:26
again when we're doing this, we're inebriated beyond belief.
30:29
Like I have this little pain here.
30:31
That's worth as 98%. A good.
30:34
Has it done? It is before we go on from food,
30:37
we go on, I feel like we're doing.
30:39
Would you rather zon a podcast is like the death of a podcast,
30:44
man? Come on.
30:46
For the podcast and death of a podcast.
30:48
I'm okay. Nobody people know this right?
30:49
But prior to me doing the Christian Reef podcast because
30:52
there's like a hundred ninety five episodes now.
30:54
Right? So I started it in summer of
30:58
2020 before that I did a show called it was always a cup of
31:03
tea TR Jets at some shit. It was with two friends that I
31:08
met online and we lost about seven episodes and two of those
31:12
episodes were, would you rather as and the final episode was a,
31:14
would you rather and it's Like I feel like that there's there's
31:17
like a there's a common and with a lot of podcasts that aren't
31:22
doing what I no offense. This is, this is just a friendly
31:25
bit of advice or its don't take this the wrong way, but it's
31:27
like when you see certain podcast like if they run out of
31:31
ideas or it's not going well, they start doing.
31:33
Would you rather as and don't get me wrong, I think I've seen
31:35
some good examples of it used so it's not like it's a bad idea
31:39
per se, but it's like I feel like it's always better when you
31:43
get to know the people on the show.
31:45
Like I feel like the more interesting stuff is about you
31:48
and your co-host and finding out about oh no, this is the
31:51
questions. So I didn't pick my generic,
31:55
would you rather? Okay, I pick stuff too, because
31:58
my idea of this episode and we haven't recorded yet.
32:01
I just came up with the idea yesterday when I was texting him
32:04
and I was coming up with these randomly while I was at work.
32:08
And We're going to get to know, well, I'm gonna get to know him
32:13
on a different level. Again, I already found out.
32:15
He ate Plato as a child, so, is that right?
32:18
Sheriff? There's so many questions, and
32:23
so we're going to be taking it and the following me.
32:25
So, the good news, the good thing about our show, there's no
32:28
real structure to it whatsoever. It's kind of just week, it's
32:33
stoned thoughts. That's what it is.
32:35
So, we come up with a topic, we get really baked and then we
32:39
just Talk about it and sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's not
32:43
so far, I mean like we've only done I think two or three
32:45
episodes, we're averaging like 30 listens to episode right off
32:50
the rip, that's weird to me, ever for him.
32:53
Never having a show for, you know, us do it.
32:56
And I've yelled at him about this is I told like for me, for
32:59
the show, little bit about me, I do all the producing, I do all
33:01
the video editing, I do all the sound sound engineering, I do
33:04
all that stuff and I do all the publishing of it.
33:06
I take care of all of it. I pay for all the stuff I pay
33:08
for zoom. Do all that crazy stuff.
33:11
All I asked for him, just make tick-tocks.
33:14
I don't care about anything else.
33:15
Just make, take that, ya know, he hasn't made a single one yet.
33:20
So I'm a little happy that we actually have and we're
33:22
averaging, you know, 30, right now, stay sanae.
33:24
So rich, that's right. Okay, credit, where credit's?
33:28
True. That's amazing.
33:29
Right off the bat like to only be a few episodes in.
33:31
You got 30 lessons but I've been doing the podcast in any three
33:34
years and I struggle to get that many like it's, it's and I get
33:38
it. I know how much Effort and time
33:40
goes into it. Like he bust you.
33:41
Right? Like there's this is the thing
33:42
people don't always realize about podcasting is like so much
33:46
of your time is spent editing publishing.
33:49
Like all this this this right now is the fun part afterwards,
33:53
if a sit-down and fucking edit this shit and it's like, like
33:56
one thing I start to do now is I like queue it up and I get it
34:00
like processing and stuff and then I edit later Germans like
34:03
Monday is generally my podcast, drop date and I'm that's when
34:07
I'll do my editing. Like they can fucking wait for
34:09
now, but it's like, man, like that.
34:13
That is that made her get stuck in my craw, it really does.
34:16
I made the mistake my first time doing the podcast, my original
34:19
podcast was called, it is a pod. You guys won't find any videos
34:23
on it. You won't find it is.
34:26
Okay. We had a lot of stuff on there.
34:28
That was a We could get cancelled very quickly.
34:33
Just this stuff that was discussed.
34:36
I think to we were planning to get a hooker on the show at one
34:39
point in time. It was Howard Stern.
34:43
So Jesus ridiculous. But so like I made the mistake
34:48
last time that we were talking about current events tough
34:50
because we were like we want to jump on Like Trains.
34:54
Yeah. So like I forgot what movie came
34:55
out. A Spider-Man man, Spider-Man
34:56
came out. We came out with an episode.
34:59
The Very Next day, reviewing, the move with full spoilers.
35:03
So right as you let people, let's get the click bait.
35:07
That was our plan. But the problem is the stress of
35:10
put on me, was I'd be editing the moment I was done recording.
35:14
Yeah. And I don't know about you, but
35:15
after like an hour an hour and a half of doing an episode, your
35:18
kind of drain, you're just like, I don't want to do anymore, I
35:22
want to go over likes. The problem I find is is is like
35:28
ìokay I love Doing the show because I get to talk to all
35:32
these different people and go. You know?
35:35
I mean, I've been doing it. Yeah.
35:37
As I say, nearly three years now, I've got like a vibe that
35:40
way when you said about having no structure before, as I,
35:43
that's what I that's my idea of a nightmare.
35:45
I don't know if like the universe has sent you to me to
35:48
like, stress me the fuck out, but I have to have structure
35:53
after I've already here but yeah, no, you're right.
35:56
I mean, it's it, it's a slog. Once you get into it, it's fine.
36:00
But I think one of the things that kind of drains me is
36:03
because I'll sit back and watch the show and like I kind of try
36:06
to skip forward I try. And remember, you know, like
36:08
okay, here's something that was interesting.
36:10
Here's something that's not but sometimes like I'll leave
36:14
something like to give you an example.
36:16
I have another show that I do for my patreon - is basically a
36:19
podcast shut up. It's called life with Christian
36:22
wreath. So go check it out.
36:23
Patreon.com/crashcourse, we've got the plug-in.
36:26
I haven't edited yet, then the latest episode, I've Recorded
36:30
it, it's just sitting there. And I'm just like, because when
36:34
you leave it for a few days, you forget about what you spoke
36:37
about, right for the most part, and then you sit down, and then
36:40
you've really got sit and, and like, just go for it.
36:43
So I feel like it's always better to edit straight away
36:46
because you can kind of remember like, okay, here are the points
36:49
where I can clip up and stuff, but another problem with doing
36:53
it all yourself, which I'm sure you can appreciate.
36:55
Is that like You go over what you think is a good clip, what
37:00
you think, will ban, what will be interesting.
37:02
But it's your perspective, because there might be something
37:05
else in there, that would do way, better be really
37:07
interesting and it's like, it's, I mean, it's all a gamble.
37:12
Like, I've, I've had some clips in the past, get, you know, some
37:17
attention here and there. But for the most part, they get
37:19
like zero views and that's the kind of the, the real pain of it
37:23
is that your work and work and work and you're busting your
37:25
ass. And it's going Nowhere.
37:27
And it's tough sometimes it's brutal.
37:30
But then you have like the spikes.
37:32
If you go back and look at the views on my show.
37:34
You'll notice that certain episodes have like tons of views
37:37
and some episodes Have Nothing. Well, there'll always be some of
37:40
these but it'll be like noticeable drops.
37:44
Yep. And it's good.
37:45
It's a rough one. I really it's, it's funny
37:48
because I still have my my the podcast for What's it called?
37:57
It is a part. I still have all the stuff for
37:59
YouTube because we did video and we did, you know, audio as well.
38:04
And we had a guy that did all of our social media and he would
38:10
make toxin do all this stuff for us.
38:12
I'm looking at it here and I'm like, there was ones that I
38:14
made, and there were like 200 views, 300 views, and then the
38:18
ones he made 4,000 views by the thousands of years and I'm like,
38:23
Yeah, I don't realize so that's why I went into this thing
38:26
because what you said is like when you're doing this and you
38:30
you must've called you have your own perception and you have to
38:34
re-watch it yourself. And you try to remember the best
38:37
part about being so baked and stoned.
38:40
When you do this, is that when I go back to watch it, I don't
38:43
remember what the hell I said, because the next day I'll come
38:47
in. I'm like, holy shit.
38:48
We talked for 15 minutes about poop.
38:52
And it's like, okay well that's actually kind of funny.
38:55
And that'll bring my wife in here too and we'll sit down and
38:57
I'll have her. Listen, I can't.
38:59
I'm pretty sure did Factory really funny.
39:01
Does she just stand the judge and you go in like a you an
39:03
idiot or will the fuck you talkin of always this?
39:06
She always she like. Yeah, that's honestly how I got
39:09
my wife. I that's why I took it.
39:13
Do you good looking or being in great shape, having Rippling ABS
39:16
or anything? It was just, I was funny.
39:18
I had my pick up lines of the way I explain myself.
39:22
Off to my wife when I first met her was.
39:25
Because after you know, when you start talking with a girl, you
39:27
start talking about sex at some point, right?
39:29
You have to it's you have to know if you're compatible as we
39:33
were talking about it and she was like, well how would you
39:35
describe your sex? I'm like, mediocre dick, A1 A1
39:39
had game. That's where I'm at.
39:41
And she fell, read it, she bought it and now we're married
39:46
and you know, we've been together for how many years and
39:50
it's a worked out. Would you say is the secret?
39:54
It's set the bar really low because most guys are going to
39:57
go out there but I got a big dick.
39:59
Yeah, my dick huge my fucking shit out your ground like
40:02
listen, it's not I'm half asian. Let's not get too excited about
40:07
it. It's not I'm not going to sit
40:08
here but my tongue does wonderful things.
40:11
I'm from New York, we talk fast so the tongue that's quicker,
40:14
it's a cultural thing, good. This is definitely not PG,
40:18
episode. Sorry guys.
40:23
You're the one that asked me is anything off limits?
40:25
I'm like oh okay great your fault the best part is I'm not
40:31
even Stone so like when I'm Stone it's even worse.
40:35
So you've been with your wife if he is.
40:38
Now what would you say is like the secret to keep an interest
40:40
in keeping it together? Keeping it successful oh keeping
40:43
a relationship successful. We have a great base of
40:47
communication. We're our mentality, and it's
40:53
kind of a it's silly. But like, one thing that I
40:57
respect is she's actually had a couple of her friends come up to
41:00
her and say, Hey, you know, Zack is a great guy.
41:04
I love talking with him, but he's the kind of guy that you
41:07
don't want to fuck around and find out and he'll leave it out
41:09
there for you to find out if you want it.
41:12
And we both understand our mentality of, we know what was
41:17
it, like, we know our temper levels like Right?
41:20
We don't want to find out the bullshit.
41:22
So we just fucking get right to the nitty-gritty.
41:24
If there's a problem, we sit down, we talk about it.
41:27
But most of the time, we try to live in the moment.
41:29
We try to enjoy each other's time.
41:30
We try to have fun one thing actually, what probably help.
41:36
When I first met her. My best friend had just passed
41:38
away, one of my best friend's, he took his own life and I was
41:42
in a real dark place at that time.
41:46
Not really dark as I was a whore.
41:48
So okay, you know, we're going, we're ready off the PG level of
41:53
your podcast. You want to hear the Panic is
41:55
what led up to me. Meeting my wife because we were
41:59
not supposed to be together. This was not supposed to happen,
42:02
go through. My original plan was when my
42:06
best friend passed, I actually thought to myself.
42:08
What was the only reason why I wasn't because he lived in
42:10
Florida at the time was what was the reason why I haven't gone
42:12
down there to meet him, go to hang out with him or to just
42:15
talk to him to be there as a friend and I only do so much
42:18
work, so I was like, all right, you know what?
42:20
I'm moving down to Florida, I'm going to go back and hang out my
42:23
boys. I can't, you know, I don't want
42:25
this to happen to anyone at any one.
42:26
Again, especially my friends and I want to be there for them.
42:31
So we my plan was I was single. I was like, I'm going to fuck my
42:36
way through the entirety of New England.
42:39
I'm going to hook up with any girl.
42:41
Every girl, I, I want I'm gonna try it and tell you this was a
42:48
PG fucking disclaimer, at the beginning of this.
42:51
But, like, yes, ago, I listened to the recording this episode is
42:55
not meant for children. Please, if you are a child turn
42:58
this off right now but we, we, I'm into paying for Tender and I
43:06
went on a date with this African-American woman and I've
43:09
never been on a date with an afro american girl before it was
43:12
I've never dated a black biker before and I was excited.
43:15
I was like, you know, this is it's a whole I loved.
43:17
I loved by culture, I grew up in the Bronx like I grew up around
43:21
black culture and I was like I don't know go on a date with
43:23
this girl nothing to do with race to just dry piece of paper.
43:29
Like you left this piece of paper in the Sun for 13 weeks.
43:32
In the Sahara Desert, it was just dried toast.
43:35
And she was just not, she was so dumb.
43:38
And she was not entertaining. And he said, I couldn't have a
43:40
conversation with her. One of the question she asked
43:43
me, was what's the difference between a manual car, in an
43:46
automatic car? I'm like ones manual.
43:51
The other one does it automatically, but she's
43:55
trolling. She's trolling.
43:56
No, don't do this. That sincerity she--'cause.
43:58
She and she went for it. But what is it?
44:00
What what does it do? Automatically and I'm like,
44:03
howdy. And we went to a house party
44:17
which was terrible. It was just in the backyard and
44:19
all they have with sparklers. And I'm like, this is not a
44:22
house party on Fourth of July, this is atrocious and then, and
44:25
then she's like, oh, we're going to a bar afterwards.
44:27
You want to come with me? And I'm like, She goes, well, I
44:31
got my friends coming, and I'm thinking to myself, oh, who are
44:34
your friends? So she shows me a picture and I
44:36
see her friend. Her friends, really cute little
44:39
Hispanic girl. And I'm like, oh cool.
44:42
Yeah I'll go. So I called my roommate at the
44:46
time. Shout out to shout out to Xylo,
44:49
sounds a little plug in there for him, check him out on a
44:52
tick, tock Spotify and he's a music producer and he hit him up
44:58
and I'm like y'all. Do you want?
44:59
Mothers Club. There's a couple girls, you
45:01
know, whatever. When he gets there, the two
45:04
girls going to the bathroom. I tell him.
45:06
This is so terrible. I'm such a bad person.
45:08
I'm like, Hey, listen, I came to the bar with this girl.
45:11
I don't like her. If you think she's cute and want
45:13
to hook up with her, you should go talk to her.
45:14
I want to talk to the friend. Oh my God, had to do the old,
45:19
Switcheroo on them and it didn't work.
45:21
He ended up hooking up with a friend.
45:23
So I bring her home and she gives me all the cues that she
45:27
wants to sleep with me. She like you want to come
45:28
upstairs. Your brother.
45:30
She's like, oh, you know, I want to watch a scary movie and
45:33
cuddle and I'm like, I don't don't want to do that at all.
45:38
And literally she opens the door.
45:40
She does. He want to come up and I'm like,
45:42
nope, I grabbed the door and shut it on her.
45:44
She walks away the most literal. She hasn't even walked four feet
45:47
from my car and I open up tender, there's my wife, I use
45:50
my super like from Tinder on there because I paid for it and
45:54
then the next day meeting her started talking and now The
45:58
three years later and then apparently for her, she had just
46:01
got out of a relationship and she was trying to have a hot
46:03
girl summer and just fuck around with different guys.
46:06
And I was the only guy she hooked up with that summer.
46:08
I ruined it. I didn't even ask her out.
46:10
I told her I was like, you know, we're dating now, right?
46:12
Like this is, what's happening. How long does it take before you
46:16
allow your with dating, but we talked online for about two
46:21
weeks, like almost talked on like FaceTime and we talked to
46:25
stuff like that. And I planned a whole weekend to
46:28
come out because she wouldn't drive out to me.
46:30
This makes sense, if you're a female listening, don't drive
46:32
out to random strangers in random Town.
46:34
Yeah. That's of course, that's
46:35
dangerous. We don't do that.
46:37
What point, in case, 10? But Ted Bundy, just don't do
46:40
those things. Yeah, and so we I got a hotel
46:44
room. I went to the town.
46:46
She was in, put the whole weekend up there and it was the
46:49
first night Which doesn't really say much, because within five
46:53
minutes of us eating each other. We went to the hotel room.
46:55
Did the dirty? And then we went to dinner and I
46:57
told her were dating now, Just just laying down the law, I
47:03
guess. Yeah, I don't understand.
47:07
I was like, yeah, we're dating. I hope you're okay with that.
47:09
She was like, um, okay. Like yep.
47:11
No, it's happening. It's there.
47:13
And I just had four years later an hour.
47:16
Don't even get me started on my engagement.
47:18
Playing that guy completely destroyed, but I proposed to
47:20
her. Oh my god.
47:21
Dude was five planes. I got ruined back to back to
47:24
back. Okay, you have for know this,
47:26
you have to tell us know you put up, you have to go.
47:31
So we had planned. It was a.
47:35
What year was it? We got married last year so it's
47:38
2021 education. We had a plan to go to Montana
47:42
to look to go to go hiking and there's this beautiful.
47:45
Beautiful mountain with like these beautiful sunsets and
47:49
scenery and my wife very much, she loves like all the stones
47:53
like all. Like they do the Jade's and
47:55
courts and Moon Stones and all those kinds of things.
48:00
So I've made the idea in my head that we're going to Montana.
48:03
This is the perfect place to propose to somebody.
48:06
If you don't take advantage of this beautiful scenery that to
48:09
propose to somebody, you're dumb and I was like, she sent me
48:12
before we die. I proposed her, she would send
48:14
me engagement ring. So, I always had an idea of what
48:17
together was not to. Give her.
48:19
Give me the insinuation of I want to get married, but if
48:22
you're gonna do it, do it right? And get this kind of ring, is
48:25
that it? When I hate the ring, you get
48:26
me? Luckily for me, she's not a
48:29
diamond girl. She hates diamonds for good
48:31
cause they kill people. The people literally die in the
48:35
process of getting those. Yeah, so she sent me one.
48:38
That was a Montana Sapphire and I'm like, little light bulb went
48:43
off and I'm like Montana, Sapphire, Montana, good idea.
48:49
So I get the ring. I had this whole plan to do
48:51
like, you know, to go on a hike. I wasn't.
48:54
Let her friends know the day of I was in a do all these things.
48:58
And two weeks before we leave for Montana, there is wildfires
49:01
in America and Montana is on fire.
49:04
So the trip gets cancelled. Now she's all upset because one
49:08
it was our you know it was a it was a vacation that we had
49:10
planned and we were so excited and on the flip side there's me
49:13
panicking like what the fuck do I do now?
49:17
And yeah so I'm like All right. You know what?
49:19
I told us already took the time off from work.
49:21
Let's go to New York. Let's spend and, you know, day
49:23
in New York City, you know, and we'll go do all the sightseeing
49:26
stuff. Let's go to the World Trade
49:27
Center. Let's go to Central Park.
49:28
Let's go to this Museum, I'm thinking my head.
49:31
All right, I was, I was in New York kid.
49:33
When 9/11 happened World Trade Center was very important to me.
49:35
I had a lot of emotional things. I have an immense fear of
49:39
heights. I don't like heights.
49:41
I was like, let's go to the Top of the World Trade Center and
49:44
I'll do it up there. Overlooking.
49:45
New York City. It will be a beautiful scenery,
49:48
it's awesome. So we go to New York or walking
49:51
around were having a good time. Finally.
49:52
Get to the point where like I let's go to the World Trade
49:54
Center now my heart's racing, I'm getting all nervous, I know
49:57
what's coming, we get out of the cab and she looked right up.
50:00
Oh this is where my friend got proposed to by that asshole.
50:05
Now, the ass, I'm not saying names for reasons, but her
50:08
friend got proposed to by a guy, they weren't they were engaged,
50:12
he cheated on her. I couldn't even think I think
50:15
there was I think he cheated on her more times and there are
50:18
u.s. presidents. She is.
50:20
So yeah, and I'm like I can't be associated with this man and
50:25
propose her in the same place, he did this.
50:28
So we get up to the top. My legs are shaking my.
50:30
I'm feeling light on my I'm afraid of heights.
50:33
She goes in the bathroom. I call her best friend up and
50:35
I'm like, she ruined it. She says, like this person got
50:38
proposed to here, I don't know what to do and she was like, I'm
50:41
sure you'll figure it out. All right, I'm kind of thinking
50:44
my brain. I'm in New York, it's happening
50:46
today. I'm not taking this chance.
50:48
We're going to go to Bryant Park.
50:49
Bryant Park is a beautiful Park in New York City, beautiful
50:52
again, nice Greenery buildings around whatever we take a cab to
50:56
there and I play it off like oh, I want to It's out of haven't
50:58
been to Bryant Park in years. Let's just stop off there and
51:00
walk around a little more. She was fine.
51:02
We go there. I'm sorry.
51:04
Before that I was not doing at dinner or trying to find a nice
51:07
Italian restaurant. No one nice.
51:08
Italian restaurant had any seedings.
51:10
We sat at a shitty Italian restaurant.
51:11
Like that one's out the window. So now, I'm like, Bryant Park,
51:14
we get to Bryant Park. We walk up the stairs, over the
51:17
hill and boom. There's a fucking concert with,
51:19
like, 60,000 people there, right?
51:22
And I'm like, dude, like fuck. I was like art.
51:25
We're going to go to Times Square.
51:27
I'll do it. It's so corny.
51:29
It's so played out, but fuck it. I'm just gonna do it there now
51:32
and trying to walk to Time Square and I was like, let's go
51:36
to Times Square. When I hit one shop, whatever I
51:37
think the MLB shop was that you some excuse?
51:40
So we start walking towards there and she's like, you know
51:42
what? My feet really hurt.
51:44
I'm getting really tired. Can we just head home?
51:46
now, Grand Central was the opposite direction, I'm like,
51:51
And I have nowhere to do this. If I did, I can't do it in
51:54
Grant. I'm not gonna Grand Central
51:55
because it's dirty Grand, Central Station is disgusting.
51:59
I was like, if I go to New York we can't go two times
52:01
Corrections when I walk that way.
52:02
So she's like, can we just sit down?
52:04
We're literally outside of a Shake Shack, in some side street
52:08
and I just get down on my knee. And I'm just like, I want to do
52:10
this all day. Here it is.
52:12
And I get down and her first response is not the typical.
52:15
Oh my God. It's what the fuck are you
52:17
doing? I had, I'm just like sitting
52:21
there with this, in my head. I'm like, trying to ask you to
52:23
marry me, I guess, but I handed to her, then, she started
52:27
crying. And then said, yes.
52:28
And I was like that when I fought when I, as we're walking
52:32
back to the train station. Now, I told her my original
52:34
plans for everything, And so she calls the friend that she
52:39
referenced earlier about. Oh, this is where my friend got
52:43
proposed to by that asshole, she calls her and she goes, oh, it
52:47
wasn't the World Trade Center. That was in Chicago at the Sears
52:51
Tower. Dude, my face, the LIE almost
52:57
took the ring back. I was like, wait, what are you
52:59
kidding me? Are you serious right now?
53:02
That you didn't even have the right building?
53:06
Not the right City, not the right State, not the right time
53:09
zone. Looks like, ya know, like that's
53:18
it, I'm not planning anything ever again.
53:21
Because clearly it's just gonna get squashed we speaking.
53:25
Speaking of planning, you should you sent this to me and the
53:30
original messages. You said that you're getting
53:32
married in Salem Massachusetts on Friday the 13th.
53:35
But then you said earlier that you got married last year or so
53:38
to in 2021. So we so what happened?
53:42
So we're still doing that one at that wedding is still happening
53:45
in Salem. Massachusetts on Friday, the
53:47
13th. If y'all listen and come by come
53:49
by for a party. Oh.
53:51
Before we go on, why would you get married on Friday the 13th,
53:55
bro, but what's come on? You know, I mean so Salem is
54:00
known single match. I don't know if you know much
54:01
about 2nd Massachusetts. Yeah, but for those who don't
54:04
know, it's, you know, it's Salem, Witch Trials.
54:07
It's you know, a lot of ghosts, it's like Halloween Town City of
54:12
Love, really? I mean, I have a tombstone
54:16
tattooed on me over here, I have Michael Myers and pumpkins and I
54:20
already have Ouija boards and gravestones all the time we
54:23
love, you know, witches and ghosts, and all that fun stuff.
54:28
I've always loved that kind of stuff.
54:29
And so does she so Salem was our first vacation we ever took
54:35
together. So we decided to book it there
54:38
because we got everything, we found, we go multiple times a
54:40
year. It's our favorite place to go
54:44
and it's a, it's not a haunted hotel and then, okay, Friday,
54:47
the 13th was, we're in a spooky town, why wouldn't we just Take
54:51
advantage of this, the scariest date that people are afraid of.
54:56
But back on I was saying like reason we didn't want to wait
54:59
two years for the tax breaks, we would get for being married.
55:06
So, like a little bag, like, I run a car dealership.
55:08
I'm the sales manager of the sales department at a car
55:11
dealership, and I make decent money.
55:14
But last year I pay, I would like six thousand dollars in
55:17
taxes and I'm like, this sucks. The house is in her name and
55:20
everything. She gets all the tax breaks,
55:22
she's prior military, so more tax breaks and I'm like like why
55:25
don't we just do a court wedding, take advantage of the
55:27
tax break tax credits and then you know, we'll do our actual
55:31
wedding in front of all our friends and family and do all
55:32
that stuff as well. Yeah.
55:36
Does there's a logical reason behind it all, so you can use
55:40
the media but you still, you're still not selling me again.
55:43
He didn't like a super scary place on a super scary day.
55:46
Like, I hate, I guess you just this composer.
55:49
Still, that's good. I mean, a little more personal
55:52
about me is like, so like I'm, I guess I'll say that.
55:57
I'm part of the, there's a, there's a religion here, must
56:01
have religion because it's not necessarily religion.
56:03
They don't believe in God's and stuff like that, but But I'm
56:05
part of the satanic temple and there I know I just I just
56:09
believe you back your brain just went what?
56:13
It's not necessarily. I don't believe in Satan.
56:16
Nobody in the church, quote-unquote believes in Satan.
56:22
They're, they're, they're seen by the government as a church
56:25
because they, you know, they don't pay taxes whatever and
56:27
they're a non-profit, essentially it's more of an
56:29
activist group. So, I don't know if you're
56:31
familiar with some of the politics stuff that's going on
56:33
in America right now. But they were trying to.
56:36
Yeah, nobody. I live here and I don't even
56:38
care enough about it but they're trying to ban abortions.
56:41
Yeah, a lot of State fucking crazy.
56:43
It's ridiculous. Yeah, like it's asinine, but the
56:48
satanic temple. If you are a member you can seek
56:51
religious freedom to do that because it's against a religion
56:54
to ban that. So, when I saw what they were
56:59
doing for people, And using somebody like Satan as a mascot
57:04
to kind of Stick it to the Man. I was like, I'm interested in
57:07
this and I watch the whole documentary on it.
57:09
I visited the actual headquarters.
57:11
I asked a lot of questions and I became a member and I learned
57:16
that majority 99% of the people. There are actually atheists
57:19
that, we don't believe in God. And I don't know, your religious
57:23
beliefs, but most atheists, we don't get around and hang out
57:26
together and be like, yeah, we don't believe in God together.
57:28
Sweet. You know, like you think about
57:30
it. There's Church.
57:31
Everyone gets together to say, oh yeah, we all believe in god.
57:33
Let's celebrate. Help us with me.
57:34
Woo, there's not. Don't get together.
57:39
It's like, you know, talk about being an atheist.
57:41
So it was kind of a cool group. And to know everyone's all
57:44
different, all different parts of the lgbtq all different kinds
57:48
of backgrounds. And one of the guys, I was
57:50
talking to an account, another person I was talking to was a
57:53
doctor and I'm like, wow, it's just the broadness of this was
57:57
really cool and to see people want to do things.
58:00
The right way for people and to kind of challenge the
58:04
establishment of that is the US government had on, because
58:08
there's so many people in the United States that just say, oh,
58:11
we're a God-fearing god-loving country, or whatever that is,
58:15
mmm. No, we're not.
58:16
We're a poly. Poly religious Nation, where you
58:21
have Muslim Judaism Buddhism Islam, Catholicism,
58:26
Christianity. There's so many different kinds.
58:28
Here we are. America is the melting point.
58:30
Pot. Right, there's so many
58:31
different. There's so much diversity about
58:33
America to say that we are a Christian Nation and always
58:37
bothered me. And if I ever saw like the Ten
58:40
Commandments on government property, I'm pissed.
58:42
Because you're pushing burley's beliefs, that I don't personally
58:45
believe in unto me. And that was one of the things
58:47
that I love about the satanic temple is, they'll put, they'll
58:49
call you right out on that, you know, the pet, the higher-ups,
58:52
the people that are important, they'll do stuff like they tried
58:55
to put a 7 foot bath Baphomet statue next to the Ten
58:59
Commandments. And in time, that was placed on
59:02
government property. And when they're, their argument
59:05
was weird, you know, where a poly roly poly religious country
59:11
or state or city, or whatever it is.
59:14
There's no reason why Christianity should be put on
59:17
government property and shown as the right rules or the right
59:20
things to believe in. Yeah, but me being that be be
59:26
following that a lot of these guys, we go like horror movies
59:29
and stuff like that because that's our Mo, so being in this
59:32
spooky stuff and I used to be a ghost hunter as well.
59:35
I'm still kind of a ghost hunter Beacon of which one of the.
59:39
One of the things that you said to me, you know, and I know the
59:42
original show knows is that you've been haunted by a ghost
59:45
for most of your life. Yeah.
59:47
Um, about that, right? It's fun.
59:50
Um, there was an episode of A to Z pod.
59:53
Again, I it's unfortunate, I deleted it but in the middle of
59:56
the video, I might have a book. I just have books and stuff
59:59
behind me back here and randomly.
1:00:02
I was talking about something on the show and a book just flew
1:00:05
off the shelf towards me and I'm still talking.
1:00:08
I just paid no mind to. I was like, you know, don't it
1:00:12
stage face, right? I'm trying not to break
1:00:14
character and stay focused when I'm talking my co-host just goes
1:00:17
what the fuck. What was that?
1:00:19
I'm like, I don't know. And I'm afraid to look around
1:00:22
and see what it was. He was like, dude, a book just
1:00:24
flew off your shelf. I'm like, yeah, um, when I was a
1:00:27
kid, I apparently apparent my house.
1:00:30
The house I grew up in was haunted.
1:00:32
Well, my father came down and so I grabbed me for dinner, one
1:00:36
time, and he heard me just like four years old.
1:00:39
Three years old son, like that. I was running around laughing
1:00:41
and playing my dad's like, you know, hey, come on.
1:00:43
It's time for dinner and I wasn't listening and he came
1:00:46
down. And I'll use like, you know,
1:00:48
it's time for dinner. Come on, we gotta come up.
1:00:49
And I'm like, where's the dog? You go, my dad's.
1:00:51
Like, what what? We don't, we don't have a dog.
1:00:55
And I'm like, well, no, there's the doggy in the old man, and my
1:00:58
dad like God, take a cool. Go upstairs, please please, go
1:01:01
upstairs. And then like, yeah, so I had
1:01:06
that experience as a kid. I've had, there's just so many
1:01:09
things. I mean there was a time just
1:01:13
recently, my wife and I were on the couch we're watching TV.
1:01:16
And she like, I might use the bathroom so I pause the show.
1:01:18
She goes in the bathroom and she has a bathroom door closed and I
1:01:23
am on my phone, you know, just like you do it, just scrolling
1:01:25
on Facebook, whatever. And I hear her.
1:01:28
Blatantly say, hey babe. And my two dogs were on the
1:01:32
couch, their heads turned off and looked I looked she was she
1:01:37
didn't say anything. Something mimicked, her voice.
1:01:41
And like, when she opened the door and came out of bathrooms
1:01:43
like you say something she's like no I was, I was pooping.
1:01:47
I'm like, choking I would I talk to you while I'm pooping and I'm
1:01:50
like, we heard your voice like me, and the dogs heard your
1:01:55
voice. Yeah, but the dogs.
1:01:56
That's why I knew, I wasn't crazy because the dogs had one
1:02:00
like that. Like they heard their mom.
1:02:02
And yeah, I have books. I have like, like I'm a big
1:02:06
logic. Fans will have logic books and
1:02:07
pop, figurines the little push stuff off of there all the time.
1:02:11
I got Spider-Man pops over here and stuff stuff.
1:02:13
Will just fall off randomly this at my, I'm definitely haunted my
1:02:18
house isn't haunted. Um, I've had sleep paralysis
1:02:21
where I've opened my eyes and there was something in my face
1:02:23
and I couldn't see what it was like.
1:02:25
I didn't know what it was, and I just couldn't move.
1:02:27
And yeah, I suffer from that twos fucking terrifying.
1:02:31
Have you ever seen something like it looked like it was
1:02:33
holding you down? Yeah.
1:02:35
One time I was in Estonia, like I was living there from fears
1:02:39
and How is it was weird? Like a normally when I have
1:02:43
sleep paralysis, I just dreamed that of seeing myself kind of
1:02:48
thing on the bed or whatever, trying to wake up and then I go
1:02:51
through like stages of bike. Jolting trying to normally it
1:02:55
will be a sense of like weird. Wait because you know, in dreams
1:02:59
like everything is weird. Like if you try to run you can't
1:03:02
run properly. If you know sometimes you feel
1:03:04
like your head is like slipping down.
1:03:07
You can't move your head, you trying to like frost it out and
1:03:09
I'll have stuff like that. But there's one time a dream.
1:03:13
There was a woman Haggard woman black hair.
1:03:17
They sometimes they call it the night hag, but this woman kind
1:03:20
of resembled, like if you've seen the ring, it was like that.
1:03:23
And she basically was like, on me choking me.
1:03:28
And I was just like that. And then I woke up and it was
1:03:32
like, you know, typical like out of a horror movie.
1:03:34
Like they just sweating everything and that's the only
1:03:37
time that's ever happened. But yeah, I suffer from it too,
1:03:40
man. Fucking sucks.
1:03:42
Get yourself. Some are some Sage, some Palo
1:03:44
Santo some salt, but I gotta push you a little bit more.
1:03:49
Like, what why do you think you're being followed?
1:03:51
Like, do you have any logic behind this?
1:03:53
You know why? This might be the case like
1:03:55
angry song or like maybe like a family thing?
1:03:59
Like know, I kind of, I mean, when I was a kid, I was.
1:04:03
So when I was a kid, the old man in the Dead, the the old man on
1:04:06
the dog, so the previous owner that lived there actually died
1:04:09
in the house. He was peeling it, he was
1:04:12
peeling an apple or something like that.
1:04:14
And when he fell, he fell down the stairs, he broke his neck
1:04:17
and the knife that he was peeling the apple with stabbed
1:04:19
the dog and killed in the basement, which I why I saw him
1:04:22
in the basement as my father and I, my room was my father was.
1:04:25
So that's, that's how I first got into it now as an adult me.
1:04:30
Because obviously having that experience as a child, it always
1:04:33
intrigued me and it's funny because I get this conversation.
1:04:36
I get this question a lot and I'm sure any listener out.
1:04:39
There is probably don't think Howard He not believe in God and
1:04:43
hell and all this stuff, but believes in ghosts.
1:04:47
There's a scientific reasoning behind my thought process.
1:04:49
Is that in science? Energy, never disappears.
1:04:53
It just transfers, energy does not dissipate it transfers.
1:04:56
Now, the thing scientists have found out that when you die,
1:04:59
there's a piece of energy that's lingers for a little bit and it
1:05:03
just disappeared. It just goes away and they don't
1:05:06
understand where it goes. Because it has to go somewhere
1:05:09
because its energy and that's the spirit, right?
1:05:12
That people talk about quote unquote, the spirit being.
1:05:14
So my thought process is that energy that you Carry with you
1:05:17
is your spirit what are your life Source?
1:05:21
Or energy, which I believe is just another form of being like
1:05:26
a fourth dimension being that we don't understand yet.
1:05:31
Again, my thought process is aliens, I get it, I get it, I
1:05:35
get it speaking of which hopefully this show will Air at
1:05:39
some point in time because u.s. is shooting down aliens.
1:05:43
The last two days shut down three UFOs in the last two days.
1:05:46
So where was this one? But yeah, I had this happened in
1:05:48
the UK was on the on the BBC news guy.
1:05:52
Nude Hurley. Yo, okay.
1:05:54
Completely off topic here. But yeah, Alien 3 UFO, sightings
1:06:00
in the United States and the government has shot all three of
1:06:02
them down. Don't know if their spy balloons
1:06:05
from China or what they are. But could be the fact that the
1:06:09
government is not saying what it was.
1:06:10
They were so quick to say yes, this is a Chinese spy balloon.
1:06:14
And not saying, what these are makes me believe it's alien.
1:06:17
And so Intergalactic War, here we go.
1:06:21
Okay? If you are an alien race, like
1:06:23
what would be the benefit of invading Earth?
1:06:27
I mean, we're such a primitive Planet.
1:06:29
Well, okay, yeah, water is water.
1:06:33
Is a scarce resource in the universe in the universe, right?
1:06:35
We only have found maybe 20 planets that could resemble
1:06:38
Earth's atmosphere and have Waters.
1:06:42
And then the other thing would be obviously our precious
1:06:44
metals. Gold, silver stuff like that,
1:06:49
radiological stuff, you know, plutonium uranium.
1:06:56
Okay. Granted, there's so many things
1:06:59
on this planet, that could be resource and you see it in what
1:07:03
was it Independence Day. So we've established the, why,
1:07:07
and the, how? Okay, I have a bit of a question
1:07:11
for you here. What's up, do you think that the
1:07:15
introduction of aliens into our kind of collective
1:07:19
Consciousness? Or just just the existence of
1:07:22
aliens? Do you think that could be the
1:07:23
thing that finally pulls the human race together?
1:07:26
Er, no, absolutely not. No I still fit will be fighting
1:07:29
each other, it would be so divided, so divided, 100%, the
1:07:34
whole world will crumble in. Okay, why?
1:07:37
This is your religion would be the reason why the world will
1:07:40
crumble. Okay, but if it was proved that
1:07:44
aliens exist, we would have for the most part, most of us would
1:07:47
have to accept that. I get what you're saying,
1:07:48
religion would it would it would some people would be in denial.
1:07:52
I get I get that. I understand I'm sure this never
1:07:54
this is Dad's doing so again, I lived in Florida.
1:07:58
Lot of crazy religious people down there like radical.
1:08:02
I'm not saying people who are religious or crazy but like
1:08:04
radicalized like I Feel Jesus running through my body, you
1:08:08
know, that kind of yeah, right I guess.
1:08:12
They're all out the door throughout the world and again,
1:08:13
because we're so separated as a culture as a, as a race, as a
1:08:19
human race that were so separated by these religious
1:08:22
beliefs, we forget core values and we let these archaic
1:08:27
Supernatural depictions be represented in a different way.
1:08:32
And people are going to stick to their convictions of that.
1:08:35
This is what is true. And what's not, there'll be
1:08:37
massive fall of government because you're going to have
1:08:42
Every you know, all the super powers in the world are going to
1:08:45
argue of who's going to have the the say in one, right?
1:08:49
What's going to stop? North Korea from shooting at
1:08:51
them versus the u.s. from u.s. to be like no don't do that.
1:08:54
North reason why we want to do that then Jana might do that.
1:08:56
Then Russia could say no we are going to press the button and
1:08:59
then you know, like it's everyone's going to its again.
1:09:03
We said Collective unified thought.
1:09:04
Mmm, I get what you're saying but I feel like they would have
1:09:07
to come together. You would hit think Janet with
1:09:10
Jeremy now. But like I try to give the
1:09:14
benefit of the doubt but it's proven that human life is not
1:09:19
valued in all government of course.
1:09:23
Of course, I guess that's a true statement is that human life
1:09:27
itself. Day-to-day living is not valued
1:09:32
to the mat, to the superpowers, that run the world, that money
1:09:37
power. decision making is that Is the thing that makes these
1:09:45
people tick and go? And I don't think because we've
1:09:48
had, I mean, you can just look at look at a nuclear war, right?
1:09:54
It's consistently threatened, consistently feared because we
1:09:57
know that it would not if it's when it will happen, right?
1:10:02
Do you think it's when you don't think it's a question - no?
1:10:07
It's when it will happen. Why else have it?
1:10:10
If you don't have it, if everyone just agreed to destroy
1:10:13
all of it, and we had proof that all of nuclear weapons were
1:10:17
decommissioned destroyed, Don done never happening again.
1:10:22
Yeah. I believe that it would never
1:10:24
work a hypothetical, what would be the point?
1:10:27
Because obviously, if we do would bomb each other, then
1:10:30
that's the end of the human race like that, for the most part, it
1:10:33
would mean there's been so many studies ran on these things.
1:10:37
And so many simulations, Actions have been ran and when you when
1:10:45
you do this yes there's a majority of the populations
1:10:47
would be destroyed. Now one if that does happen it's
1:10:53
Last Man Standing. Whoever's Last Man Standing runs
1:10:58
the world of course. That's why that's why it will
1:11:02
happen because somebody in their crazy brain.
1:11:06
And again, I said it takes a crazy leader to decide that this
1:11:08
is going to happen that we can run the world if we just do
1:11:11
this. I have little faith in
1:11:15
governments and I don't, I don't trust them for anything.
1:11:20
They there's propaganda. There's they tried to control us
1:11:24
and keep us in the dark with something like, we should be
1:11:26
honest. We all know there's aliens out
1:11:27
there, like we all know that it's true, like, there's more
1:11:30
stars than there are grains of sand on the earth.
1:11:32
He can't sit here and tell me that the probability of it
1:11:35
happened. Not hot not being out there,
1:11:36
it's You know. Well, here's another question.
1:11:40
You've seen UFOs? Do I can I will never to my, to
1:11:44
the end to the day. I die.
1:11:45
I will never sit here and say that it like, it was false.
1:11:48
It was a lie. I saw it.
1:11:49
I saw three different occasions where I could not explain it.
1:11:53
It didn't make sense. And now seeing a lot of this
1:11:56
stuff on Tick-Tock, it's scares the hell out of me because it
1:11:59
it's a very similar to what I saw with my own eyes.
1:12:02
Okay? Paint me a picture of run me
1:12:03
through one of the one of the sightings that stands out the
1:12:07
The most blatant one I ever saw was ice but I lived in Florida.
1:12:11
I used to volunteer at an aquarium that she made a movie
1:12:14
about the aquarium called the dolphin.
1:12:15
Tale about a dolphin that lost her tail winter, so, Winter's,
1:12:18
Tale and adult Dolphin, Tales the movie and they we had to do
1:12:25
turtle turtle nesting is what it was called.
1:12:28
So we'd walk on the beach. Late at night, some somewhere
1:12:31
between ten till like 2:00 in the morning.
1:12:33
Like about four hours would hang out on the beach, walk up and
1:12:34
down because the turtles would do they would go up on the be
1:12:37
sad. Dig a hole that lay their Seas,
1:12:38
they bury it up and they go back in the water.
1:12:40
Our job was to re dig the hole up count the eggs, put a fence
1:12:44
around it. So when the eggs hatch, we can
1:12:46
make sure they get to the ocean and not going to a street or get
1:12:48
picked off by a Peloton or a raccoon, right?
1:12:52
Do am I good here? It was me and my two other
1:12:55
people and because we're always teams because walking around on
1:12:59
a beach at late at night, little dangerous.
1:13:01
So you know me and two other people.
1:13:03
I'm a walking down the beach and we heard this weird.
1:13:07
Humming noise. And we didn't know what it was,
1:13:10
and we turned around and look back on the shoreline.
1:13:13
And we saw this light and it was spinning like this spinning in a
1:13:17
circle, and it was coming towards us.
1:13:20
I'm like, what the fuck it? No joke, flew over our heads,
1:13:23
kicked up the sand, and I remembered the same.
1:13:25
Kicked up, a hit, my back, the back of my head and it hurt like
1:13:28
hell, because the thing was flying fast.
1:13:29
It was flying low, and it just flew and no joke.
1:13:33
We're sitting there were like what the fuck was that 10
1:13:36
seconds later? Two f-16s are fought, wicked
1:13:40
fast flying behind it. No reports in the news.
1:13:44
No reports from any police government.
1:13:47
Not like, it was dead silent about it and that was it.
1:13:51
That was that was I saw my own eyes, it didn't make sense.
1:13:55
It was, I can't say it was a disc shape it, but it was a
1:13:58
circle that had a like going around.
1:14:00
It like that could have been part of a bigger thing.
1:14:02
It was nighttime but why? It was spinning and going like
1:14:06
that and it made humming noise, didn't sound like a plane,
1:14:09
didn't sound like a jet and yeah, that scared the shit out
1:14:13
of me. Why do you think the government
1:14:15
chooses not to acknowledge that? It's aliens and admit it to the
1:14:18
public eye mass panic That's what I would say as well.
1:14:22
But like, do you think really that we would just lose our
1:14:25
fucking minds that beer? I mean, at this point I mean, I
1:14:28
know Max. I know you're you're overseas.
1:14:31
So u.s. here they just they released last year a bunch of
1:14:36
CIA documents that. Yeah, we're about UFOs and stuff
1:14:40
like that. And now all of a sudden there's
1:14:42
been more UFO sightings in the last six months than there has
1:14:44
been in the last 10-15 years, doing part social media I think
1:14:51
at this point if they just told us, we'd be, like, it's about
1:14:53
time. I don't think it'd be so shocked
1:14:56
anymore. Yeah.
1:14:57
I think it's just the initial fear of, you know, immediate
1:15:01
cultural collapse because people would Panic, they would start
1:15:04
looting, they would build your Doomsday Bunkers.
1:15:08
I'm pretty sure you would see stuff like that.
1:15:10
Okay. Let's suppose ideas are real and
1:15:13
because there's been documented sightings since the 60s
1:15:18
officially. But then of course we've seen
1:15:20
like Paintings and stuff. Where I remember I've there's
1:15:22
that famous painting for that sixteen Seventeen, hundreds and
1:15:24
is quite clearly. Something that resembles like a
1:15:26
UFO in the far right corner and then.
1:15:30
Yeah. So realistically we're probably
1:15:32
looking at maybe hundreds, maybe even thousands of years.
1:15:35
Why do you think aliens have not?
1:15:37
I don't know. Blown us up.
1:15:39
Invaded made contact. You want my honest opinion?
1:15:44
Yeah, of course, man. This is my, this is my belief
1:15:46
systems. I don't believe in, you know,
1:15:48
God and all that stuff. Okay, and I grew up Catholic,
1:15:50
just so everyone knows just so we're clear.
1:15:52
I grew up went to Catholic school.
1:15:54
I learned the whole thing. I found out, I didn't something
1:15:57
didn't sit right with me and I went and learned all these other
1:15:59
religious. I learned, you know, Judaism
1:16:00
Buddhism, all those things too and I studied them.
1:16:02
I read the Quran, I read the Torah and one thing that I
1:16:07
realized Was that yeah it's all core beliefs and I think the
1:16:10
Bible was just a collection of historical documents but I'm
1:16:15
also a believer that there's no way that the Egyptians built
1:16:18
that shit with logs and sticks and hammer and chisel and when
1:16:24
we see someone said the other day to me just just interject
1:16:27
for one second. Someone said to me the other
1:16:29
day. Oh, the pyramids.
1:16:31
Yeah. No.
1:16:31
That was for recharging people. Think it's a tomb but no, it's
1:16:35
actually An energy source. Yep.
1:16:39
So there is a weird thing that scientists don't understand our
1:16:43
gouged understand, it emits energy and they don't know why
1:16:45
the pyramids just emits energy. They don't understand why.
1:16:50
Interesting because you realize the, the top of it was capped
1:16:53
with Goal. I think was Diamond, diamonds
1:16:57
and gold. It was it was gold plated and
1:16:59
stuff. I'd stuff like that.
1:17:01
And you look at Egyptians to and you see the importance of gold,
1:17:05
right? Right now.
1:17:06
What is the importance of gold in today's society?
1:17:10
Well, money is measured against gold, isn't it?
1:17:12
So technically but because money doesn't trickle conduction.
1:17:16
Fire is the best thing for electrical conduction.
1:17:18
It's light, its malleable, it's in every computer chip, it's in
1:17:22
our microphones. It's in our keyboards or laptop.
1:17:25
Okay. Did its small miniscule, Mounds
1:17:29
there's actually a guy on Tick Tock that takes old computers,
1:17:32
melts everything down, and collects, all the gold from it
1:17:35
and sells it obvious. So it's really crazy to think
1:17:38
how much gold is in everyday stuff.
1:17:41
I'm your cell phone, you know, it's batteries or not batteries,
1:17:44
but like, wires and stuff like that.
1:17:45
And we use Copper because it's cheaper to get, but gold is a
1:17:48
better conductor so you see the history of Egyptians and the
1:17:52
importance of gold? Well why?
1:17:54
Because it was my opinion is it was clearly state.
1:17:57
It was clearly made important to them by these beings.
1:18:00
Now the reason why I think they haven't come back So you look at
1:18:06
history, right? People talk about Evolution
1:18:07
right? I'm sure you've heard this term,
1:18:10
the missing link right? The missing link where men went
1:18:13
from caveman Neanderthal. Shoumaine that we are today they
1:18:17
have every skull leading up to and every school leading after
1:18:21
they don't know where that makes it is.
1:18:22
My thought process is that higher being that creator of man
1:18:27
we're just no different than a science experiment in my opinion
1:18:31
maybe these ain't this this this extraterrestrial Some people
1:18:36
they used us to mine gold that to mind these things, and when
1:18:43
it came down to it, they realize, maybe we're kind of
1:18:46
just too dumb to do what they need us to do.
1:18:48
So they you mean, you here you here in ancient Greek mythology,
1:18:54
ancient Roman mythology Egyptian mythology Sumerian mythology of
1:19:00
d'Ivoire demigods right rods came down from the sky to fuck
1:19:04
you. Mins.
1:19:05
And then, there was this little half, half human half God, baby.
1:19:09
Well, as we've learned, is that a lot of these writings do
1:19:12
recollect, some a lot of history.
1:19:14
But we just pick and choose what we want to believe is true
1:19:16
history. Not right?
1:19:18
Like we saw the homers tale of the Odyssey.
1:19:21
People didn't believe in the city of Troy, until they fucking
1:19:23
found it. Like, it's all fake.
1:19:26
Then they find Troy. That's the only part of the book
1:19:28
that's real. So right, when you look at
1:19:32
ancient history to and it's like well there's a reason they
1:19:34
Documented these things and said these things.
1:19:36
And I don't think it was just by mere coincidence.
1:19:39
So my thought process is aliens came down.
1:19:43
They saw what we had, they realized we could use these
1:19:47
fuckers to do work for us. Just like why wouldn't we take
1:19:50
advantage of people to do stuff? Sure for us now, right?
1:19:53
That's why there's child labor laws in place in most, you know,
1:19:56
regular countries by because you could use children to do work
1:19:58
for you, at, for a little dime, like, oh, if we just give them
1:20:01
food and water, they'll they'll build us these giant candy.
1:20:04
Doctors sure. But then I feel like they
1:20:07
thought we were kind of dumb. They slept with us, they created
1:20:10
a whole, what's called new race of humanity, right?
1:20:16
And because there is instances and scientists are scientists
1:20:20
said that, you know, there are theories that the end of dolls
1:20:23
and normal humans, nowadays lived side by side together.
1:20:27
How did, yeah? Yeah.
1:20:28
This is the thing that interests me is how the Neanderthals just
1:20:30
completely disappeared. Even though, arguably, they were
1:20:33
the superior race. Like It clearly.
1:20:35
And at the time, yeah. There's if you think about it,
1:20:38
you know, I'm gonna ask you a straight-up question.
1:20:41
Do you think you can beat a monkey one-on-one in a fight?
1:20:44
No campaigns. It would just destroy me a tape.
1:20:47
Sorry, not a monkey. It would it would kill me.
1:20:49
Yeah, exactly. No wonder the Halls were pretty
1:20:51
much Apes. Yeah, they were built.
1:20:54
They had longer arms. They had long hands like how did
1:20:58
we shrink our hands? And you know change the way our
1:21:01
Dynamic was set of why we go from hunched over to just all of
1:21:04
a sudden were handing straight up just my thought and then You
1:21:09
know, there's more thoughts that I don't think we are race.
1:21:13
Of people are actually from this planet or whoo, back up a
1:21:19
second. You think we're from another
1:21:21
planet? So I actually think we're from
1:21:24
Mars and there's a reason why so think about it, right?
1:21:28
So you so I saw this, I saw a Tick-Tock on this and this made
1:21:31
my brain. Go just explode because I was
1:21:34
extremely Stone on the washi tape back.
1:21:37
That's usually how this happened.
1:21:38
But Actually, Joe Rogan and I think was not Joe Rogan's
1:21:42
pocket. Here we go.
1:21:43
If it wants to enjoy them all to think about this, all right, so
1:21:48
when we get older or what as we just grow and we get older, we
1:21:52
have knee pain, we have back pains naturally.
1:21:54
Like this is natural like when you get older as I call your
1:21:56
backs Gonna Hurt No Matter What. Why is that?
1:21:59
Well, if you look at Mars, the gravity is a little bit less
1:22:03
than it is on Earth that would eliminate that would eliminate
1:22:07
all back pains and Knee pains and all that shit, right?
1:22:11
Because our body should evolve to human data rate.
1:22:14
The our species should have evolved to withstand.
1:22:17
You don't see these kinds of things happen in random animals,
1:22:21
right? Where they just actually in
1:22:24
pain. Because it just happens that way
1:22:27
most because gravity creates pressure on our backs.
1:22:30
Well, in Mars, the the gravity's less that releases your back
1:22:34
pain, we go out in the sun too long.
1:22:36
We got to worry about getting sunburned.
1:22:38
On Cancer, all these things. Well guess what?
1:22:41
In Mars, the sun, the sun quality isn't as powerful.
1:22:44
You're not going to burn when you go out into the sun.
1:22:48
There was there's a couple other things too and I forgot what
1:22:50
they were but just those two as main examples there's that he
1:22:52
had a whole list of them. Like if you just put a human on
1:22:56
Mars from birth, that humans going to live and extent a very
1:23:02
strong healthy life, not a problem.
1:23:04
And that's where I think that you know, you kind of see those
1:23:07
kinds of things, you know. Yeah, you know, when I was
1:23:12
getting ready for this podcast today, I was not expecting to
1:23:17
the different directions that it's gone, but I think this is,
1:23:21
this is why I love fucking doing podcasts mode because you only
1:23:24
Ever Knows Satan. Fucking crazy, man.
1:23:29
Jeez, I've got so many questions for you.
1:23:32
I told you I had a number. I talk about anything.
1:23:35
I have I have so many goddamn stories.
1:23:38
I think I said that to you in the thing you have to come back
1:23:41
on the show in the future. Manned?
1:23:43
Yeah absolutely I'd love to I'd love to come on your show as
1:23:45
well. I must absolutely.
1:23:47
I just had a smoke first. That's a prerequisite.
1:23:50
It's my clan. I'm clean living.
1:23:52
That's fine. As long as you're inebriated in
1:23:54
any sense. Get yourself.
1:23:55
A nice paint will go. Let's go.
1:23:56
I don't drink Eve. I'm clean living at Choice.
1:23:59
It that wasn't forgotten. I don't drink out that just
1:24:02
smoke. Oh yeah.
1:24:04
But same as my dad. Really?
1:24:05
He's not as well. I think it's, I think it's good.
1:24:08
But, you know, to each their own.
1:24:09
I know I never begrudge and yeah, but I think as long as
1:24:11
you're in control is shit. That's that's the main thing
1:24:13
though. This is small because I have add
1:24:17
that helps oh really. Okay.
1:24:18
Interesting. Can you call you expand on that
1:24:20
a little bit like how it helps you?
1:24:24
Everything moves a little slower and I can actually folk a just
1:24:28
drunk. Homes in my focusing, I mean,
1:24:30
you've seen it with video Gamers for years, right?
1:24:33
Hmm. Like you smoke pot and you play
1:24:34
video games, right? That's that's in the mo with
1:24:37
video games. That's because you'll dive into
1:24:41
something for 67 hours and you won't even pay mine to it.
1:24:44
So, I took that mindset and I was just like, well, if I smoke
1:24:47
as I used to never smoked pot, it was never my thing and then
1:24:49
it became legal. And I was like, wow, why don't
1:24:53
they, when you're a kid? You don't mean me, I'm sure
1:24:55
you've drank before in the past right?
1:24:57
Yeah, exactly. And I used to hate the way I
1:24:59
felt being drunk because if I drink ice was blackout, you
1:25:04
puke, whatever it was and I just couldn't take it anymore.
1:25:09
I also had stomach ulcers. So like I had a stomach ulcer
1:25:11
rupture and I had to go to the hospital.
1:25:13
I had internal bleeding greater than all from drinking so I was
1:25:16
like, you know what, we're going to stop that and then I smoke
1:25:20
one of these little pain things and I realized like wow I'm a
1:25:26
normal. Like this is me Sober, by the
1:25:28
way. This whole conversation is me
1:25:31
sober. And that's the scary part where
1:25:34
it Mellows me out a little bit more, right?
1:25:37
I talked at a normal rate of speech lightning fast, and yeah,
1:25:44
no, it just calms, it keeps me focused, and he's me, chill, and
1:25:48
Plus, it makes life way more enjoyable in my opinion because
1:25:53
I gotta, I don't begrudge you don't play.
1:25:55
So, no, I feel you, Man, II caught.
1:25:58
I don't have anything bad setup weed.
1:26:00
I mean, I spoke to a lot when I was a teenager.
1:26:02
The only reason to be honest I really ever stopped was that I
1:26:06
took a break from it and then my tolerance stopped, which happens
1:26:10
naturally bit, like, alcohol consumption as well and then I
1:26:13
just I would get high too quickly and I just didn't like
1:26:16
how I fell. It wasn't.
1:26:17
It wasn't like the The fun moaning Sensation that I'd felt
1:26:23
weren't years prior where I was able to still do stuff.
1:26:26
This was like this was like too much so I was okay and I kept
1:26:30
drinking and then there was various reasons for me.
1:26:34
Quitting drinking is very recently like her but she's been
1:26:37
like two months sober now. So school grounds.
1:26:40
Thanks man, I wasn't an alcoholic or anything but I got
1:26:45
to about point and you know, I chose to To fire that was my
1:26:49
decision to do that but you know then ask that sitting down and
1:26:52
actually just do research about it like because I thought
1:26:54
everyone knows that alcohol is worse than we'd like it's just
1:26:57
it's just science man. Like fuck's your liver up it.
1:27:01
As you say like you know the worst thing I ever had with weed
1:27:05
as I sometimes felt like I was going to pass out as worst
1:27:07
thing. Yeah.
1:27:08
It doesn't really well against which to each their own.
1:27:12
Like I never, I never actually did but that's really the worst
1:27:15
thing that could ever really happen.
1:27:17
You know. Yes, it's natural.
1:27:18
Oh it's you know as long as you don't consume too much of a
1:27:21
right obviously there are issues, sometimes it has been
1:27:25
linked to things like psychosis and stuff but I think that's
1:27:28
more to do with like excessive consumption as opposed to Janome
1:27:32
if you're like, keeping it here kind of moderate level.
1:27:35
It's okay. Whereas alcohol, it doesn't
1:27:37
matter. It doesn't matter if you're
1:27:39
drinking a lot or a little, it still fucks you up either way.
1:27:42
Yeah, and that was one thing I loved about readers that, you
1:27:44
know, I treat it. Like it's, you know, a lot of
1:27:47
people at the end of a Day at work, they come home and they
1:27:49
have a beer, right? I hit my pen once or twice and
1:27:53
then I'm just chill. My food.
1:27:55
My I'm going to be hungry and like, 25 minutes.
1:27:57
The food is going to taste phenomenal, whatever.
1:28:00
Movie I'm watching, is going to be way better than what I
1:28:03
thought it was. Like, it's so funny because
1:28:06
before I smoke pot because that'll give me a minute.
1:28:08
That'll give you like an inaccurate view of things though
1:28:11
that when someone goes, oh, did you watch move in?
1:28:12
You're like, yeah, it's fucking amazing.
1:28:14
And they watch it a little bit of soap and you're like, oh no,
1:28:16
this isn't good. I guess I was just, yeah.
1:28:20
I mean that's mean McDonald's is immediately better when you open
1:28:23
your stone. So my thought was like it's good
1:28:25
food. But like, I mean, when I was
1:28:28
younger, I used to watch the stoner movies, like, you know,
1:28:29
stepbrother, Superbad, all those kind of movies.
1:28:31
I came out back then and I love them.
1:28:33
I thought they were great but I realized how much better they
1:28:36
were when you were stoned. I was like, wow, it's an aid for
1:28:39
people in this predicament and it's like, wow, it became that
1:28:43
much better be and y'all my labs were more genuine and heartfelt
1:28:47
labs and You don't seem to have music like I like when I listen
1:28:52
to music and I'm stoned, I don't hear the music, feel the music,
1:28:55
man, you know, like, I don't know, it's, I don't know, I just
1:28:59
feel like it opens. There's so much the human brain
1:29:02
that we don't understand. And if this was put on this
1:29:04
Earth for this reason and we can consume it and we can eat it and
1:29:07
we can smoke it and it doesn't kill us.
1:29:10
There's a reason why right? Yeah, no, I agree.
1:29:14
I agree. I agree.
1:29:15
I just still puzzles. Me.
1:29:16
That alcohol was The main thing that's paralysis legal.
1:29:20
Yeah. They should totally be illegal.
1:29:23
Like its, how was cigarettes legal?
1:29:27
Yeah. There's literal tar in it.
1:29:30
This rat poison. They're really rat poison in it.
1:29:34
Yeah. Well, arsenic or not, it's a
1:29:36
tiny amount. Yeah.
1:29:38
Yeah, but there's, but there's shit in there.
1:29:40
That's killed literally kills you.
1:29:43
What do you thought some Brewing?
1:29:44
What you folks in vape pens paper, like maybe because it's
1:29:47
more? The shit that nicotine doesn't
1:29:50
kill you. That's my nicotine gum isn't
1:29:53
going. You can be true, nicotine gum
1:29:54
for the entire life. It's not going to kill you, Mom.
1:29:57
I think it's better. I think obviously the additives
1:29:58
like I have watermelon ice right now, the flavoring and all the
1:30:03
shit. That's probably bad for me, but
1:30:06
I think the overall idea of it of just smoking, nicotine, it's
1:30:09
way better than having tar in my lungs.
1:30:12
It was a smoker for 11 years. So I remember when I had that
1:30:16
whole thing happened in my stomach, When I had the ulcer,
1:30:19
they took x-rays and MRIs and stuff like that.
1:30:22
My lungs, look terrible. I was 24 years old, 25 years
1:30:26
old, something like that, and my lungs.
1:30:27
So terrible, and I was like, well, that's not good.
1:30:31
I remember, I had to go back, right?
1:30:32
Or had a knee injury. I took x-rays.
1:30:35
And I also had like bronchitis sometimes.
1:30:37
I didn't I shave my chest at the same time.
1:30:38
Just killed two birds, one stone and When I looked at my chest
1:30:44
x-rays, they're like, oh yeah, your lungs look fine.
1:30:45
I was like, I was vaping for two years after that.
1:30:48
I'm like, well, I'm not going back to cigarettes.
1:30:51
So you buddy, hield in two years so you say something like that.
1:30:55
Yeah. What did I say?
1:30:57
Just look better, right? I'm not saying vaping is healthy
1:31:03
but it's a better alternative than cigarettes for sure.
1:31:06
Yeah, and I gotta say it sucks because I was a smoker for so
1:31:09
long. Nothing beats a cigarette still.
1:31:11
I saw streamin, I miss, I miss it.
1:31:14
Sometimes like people in like I don't miss how it made me feel
1:31:18
and it's expensive and all that. But like man, sometimes I'll be
1:31:21
walking down the street and someone smoking a cigarette, I'm
1:31:23
out. Mmm like that.
1:31:26
You know what it was it was that first cigarette of the day.
1:31:29
I mean that little light-headed miss you get smoked hitting the
1:31:35
back of your throat is like there's no there's no better
1:31:38
feeling that's why I don't care what they say.
1:31:40
Spend smoking is good, like it's bad for you don't do it, but
1:31:43
it's it's good. I was the best stress relief of
1:31:46
all time. When you were stressed out, you
1:31:47
just smoked a cigarette, everything was fine.
1:31:50
But I read somewhere that it does actually it stresses you
1:31:52
more, so like it causes more stress.
1:31:55
So, like, whoa. I get what you're saying, but,
1:31:57
right? But the same time it like Causes
1:32:01
more stress in the long run like especially not having a
1:32:03
cigarette like it that for instance I was a smoker during
1:32:06
my during my exams and I remember I had to smoke before I
1:32:09
go in or was I just like, get a really unfocused won't be able
1:32:12
to do the do the exams, you know.
1:32:16
Yep, the last the last the last time I had a cigarette, I was I
1:32:27
should was when I got the news. My best friend, took his life.
1:32:30
That's the last time I had a cigarette.
1:32:32
Well, now before that was two years prior, but like that,
1:32:34
like, that was such bad news and such a hit to me that I was
1:32:37
like, I went to my co-workers. I need a cigarette dude.
1:32:41
And I was last time I smoked I remember I smoked it I was
1:32:42
coughing up a long and it tasted disgusting and I was like I
1:32:45
can't believe I did this for as long as I did was like, but I
1:32:48
need this one right now. I need this one right now.
1:32:51
Yeah. No.
1:32:52
I'd stick to my vape and I literally have 33 Vapes just
1:32:55
sitting here for my head. This device I have this.
1:32:59
The worst thing is like I have so many devices now though, you
1:33:02
do the CBD oil stuff you try that.
1:33:06
I do I smoke th see my friend. Okay, have you ever tried it?
1:33:15
You write it, you think it's a different?
1:33:17
It's a different feeling. It's more of a body, chill than
1:33:19
a Head Rush. Okay.
1:33:21
I like the head rush because I love cooking and so like when I
1:33:25
get stoned, I come up with amazing recipes.
1:33:27
So this crowbar, a by your partner.
1:33:31
Would she agree? Oh yeah, she loves me.
1:33:33
She loves my cooking. Like, I'm, I've taken such I
1:33:36
have I have an apron. I've literally have five
1:33:38
cookbooks down here. Rather talk.
1:33:41
It's the Avatar cookbook because Avatar is one of my favorite TV
1:33:44
shows, cool. So, this whole wall is its
1:33:47
avatar The Last Airbender Nomad. All right, what 32 year old,
1:33:50
man? Child, not a good for you, man.
1:33:53
I think it's good man. Long as a man's responsible and
1:33:55
on top of things like fuck, yeah, Joy of my enjoy it, why
1:33:58
not? I know is that as an adult, my
1:34:01
toys just get more expensive. It's true.
1:34:14
Why $500? And fucking Nikes and never get
1:34:17
this. Okay, so there's some like I
1:34:19
have real ones and I have fake ones like once it's like, I'm
1:34:22
like, I can't bring myself to wear them but like the real
1:34:24
ones, like, I'm an avid Wu-Tang fan.
1:34:27
Yeah, I have Wu-Tang Wu-Tang logos tattooed on me and it says
1:34:30
protect your neck right there, right?
1:34:32
So, I actually have the real pair of the only shoe that Nike
1:34:35
has collaborated with Wu-Tang Clan on called the Nike.
1:34:37
Boo tangs own posits the worth. Hundred dollars I bought, I
1:34:42
needed them because I have, I have the album, I have my big
1:34:45
Wu-Tang thing. So there's some stuff that has
1:34:47
meaning that I yeah, like I have the lost and found Nikes they're
1:34:52
fake. I held them up to a real pair.
1:34:54
They don't look any different, but they match my colors.
1:34:57
How much he's fanned the red and white.
1:34:58
So I'm like, I got a rocket. So like some of them.
1:35:01
Yes. And some of them I'll keep just
1:35:03
because I know the collectors. Like I have a, I'm big on Funko
1:35:06
Pops. I love the Funko Pops.
1:35:08
I have ones that were 200. $300. Hours and they just sit in the
1:35:11
Box on a shelf, but I know if I'm ever in a jam, just sell it.
1:35:16
Actually, just by looking at it. Yeah, that's good.
1:35:18
Way to look at it. Oh, dude.
1:35:19
Like, I look at everything in my office right now that I have, I
1:35:22
have some, I've assigned shirt from logic, I have a signed book
1:35:24
from him. I have comic books from the
1:35:27
1970s 60s, I have, you know, an action figure that's worth $400.
1:35:32
Like if I Justice, if I knew I was in a jam, I lost my job.
1:35:35
I needed money. I just sell it.
1:35:39
Hmm, it will hurt emotionally to get rid of it, but I know I, if
1:35:44
I ever caught in a pickle, my piggy bank, some people put it
1:35:47
in, you know, stocks and stuff like that.
1:35:49
I was like, I'd rather look at the stuff that I invested in.
1:35:53
Forget it, man. I miss the sense of I've never
1:35:55
really thought about it. Like that is this a really
1:35:56
sensible way to look at it. It's the reason why I mean, it's
1:36:02
the reasoning. I give my life to why why'd you
1:36:06
spend $70 on a toy? It's going to be worth $150.
1:36:10
One day like myself in the ass because dude as a kid I had
1:36:16
freaking Pokemon cards now. Look at them now and it's like
1:36:18
yeah, million dollars. It's worth 500,000 motherfucker.
1:36:23
That's frustrating. I really is, I still have a
1:36:26
PlayStation 2 ever written. I was second Dreamcast.
1:36:30
It's all in my closet because I know one day it'll be worth like
1:36:33
right now is only worth 60 bucks.
1:36:34
But I know one day, it'll be worth the 200.
1:36:36
I bought it for and I first bought it to Xbox 360s of a
1:36:41
freaking original Nintendo Wii worth money.
1:36:45
One day eventually hopefully one day, okay, a couple of final
1:36:50
questions for you. What's the best advice you've
1:36:52
ever received? Hey man.
1:36:55
You hit me with a hard one. Boo.
1:36:57
Um, That's advice. It's cliche.
1:37:02
It's a total cliché thing because it's been said in movies
1:37:05
a thousand times too, but never take life too.
1:37:08
Seriously, Never Get Out Alive. I only heard it, I forgot what
1:37:13
movie is it? What I think it was?
1:37:14
I think it was actually what's his name, Ryan Reynolds said
1:37:17
that. But no, I've had people older
1:37:20
older. People tell me that I work in
1:37:21
sales. So I meet a lot of people and I
1:37:24
network with them and talk with them and ask them about their
1:37:26
lives. And remember, I've had a 90 year
1:37:29
old guy. He had stomach cancer and he
1:37:33
bought. He had just bought like a forty
1:37:35
thousand dollars like sports car and he said he always dreamed of
1:37:39
just having something fast and fun.
1:37:42
And wanted to drive. And I'm like, listen, man.
1:37:44
Like, you know, I'm not trying to pry on your personal life,
1:37:46
but you know, you're fighting cancer, like, don't you think
1:37:48
you should like, not get a race car and he goes no, because when
1:37:52
I'm gonna die eventually, there's no fighting it.
1:37:54
So, why not enjoy all the time I have left and take it too
1:37:57
seriously. And I was like, damn and I
1:37:59
really changed my my thought, process on the way I operate.
1:38:02
Because I remember when I was younger and my no early to
1:38:05
mid-20s, I was all about, you know, shooting tie and
1:38:08
comb-overs and looking professional.
1:38:10
And and you know, Gotta do be so serious all the time and people
1:38:14
are going to think of me differently and then I got to
1:38:15
the point in my life where I'm like, I don't give a fuck what
1:38:18
anybody thinks about. That's why I have a mustache
1:38:21
like a thick porno mustache and why I get tattoos and why I have
1:38:27
toys at 30 32 33 this year, and why, you know, I just, I enjoy
1:38:32
every ounce of life. Like I enjoy, I enjoy food.
1:38:35
Like I make learn how to cook something, just to learn a new
1:38:39
thing. And, you know, It's never one
1:38:43
thing to, it's never too late to chase your dream.
1:38:46
It's never too late. That's probably the best that
1:38:49
they don't hand in hand because I mean Christian I don't know
1:38:52
how old you are, man. I don't know your life story.
1:38:54
I don't know much about you and obviously when you come on my
1:38:56
show, I'm gonna interview the same way and as you some deep
1:38:58
ask questions, But I'm excited. I started doing this at 31 years
1:39:05
old and started doing the podcasting, and I never thought
1:39:10
it would lead me to a life that I'm, I feel fulfilled and I'm
1:39:13
having so much fun doing chasing this thing.
1:39:17
I know the odds are not in my favor to become big to be the
1:39:20
next, you know, impulsive Joe, Rogan, Howard, Stern, Pat McAfee
1:39:26
show guy. But you know what?
1:39:28
Man, and I test it to my wife. Honestly, I give it to her, it's
1:39:33
she's my massive support behind it.
1:39:35
I originally got into all this because of video game streaming
1:39:38
and that's honest, that's the honest truth.
1:39:40
During quarantine, we talked about, I always talk about I
1:39:43
watch dreamers and I would talk about want to do at Audubon
1:39:46
doing in 2021. She surprised me I think was my
1:39:48
birthday or Valentine's Day or something like that.
1:39:50
She bought me a desk, she bought me a chair, she bought me a
1:39:53
camera and she's like, just go do play, go do it.
1:39:56
And I end up meeting my first, my first podcast partner from
1:40:01
streaming. He hopped in my stream, we talk
1:40:03
ended up at legally streaming it as an MMA fight and or a boxing
1:40:08
match or something like that. And we were talking and we made
1:40:11
commentary and people listened and they loved.
1:40:13
And then we started the show week, two weeks later and then I
1:40:16
met more people from doing that. I got, there's a contestant
1:40:18
that's gonna be on the new Survivor Series.
1:40:20
I met him, I'm friends with him now and like it opened up our
1:40:24
doorways, both of us simultaneously to like he works
1:40:27
in Hollywood. Now, my body, he works for movie
1:40:30
sets and then there's me like, yeah.
1:40:31
We'll sell cars, but now I've learned a whole I got and I've
1:40:35
learned, I've gotten into photography video, editing,
1:40:37
Sound Engineering, even just being comfortable on a camera
1:40:42
and talking on a microphone. I'm sure you've had a number of
1:40:46
guests who just aren't comfortable on a mic or in this
1:40:49
setting. Sometimes I said, almost 200
1:40:52
episodes pretty buddy. He had to meet a couple of them
1:40:54
where they're just like they're awkward and you feel like you're
1:40:57
just dragging sometimes to get the people to talk.
1:41:01
Yeah. I've had that I definitely had
1:41:02
instances like that, but I think, for the most part, if
1:41:04
you, if you agree to be on a podcast, You, you will want to
1:41:09
talk, you know what I mean? If you've agreed to sign up for
1:41:12
generally speaking, you will a but you're right about the few.
1:41:16
I've come across enough where they're just like like so what
1:41:18
do you do for work? Man, I work on cars.
1:41:22
Yeah I had one show and I've spoken about this a few times.
1:41:27
There's one shot I will I will not say which one because I
1:41:30
think it's bit unprofessional to single it out, but there was one
1:41:33
show where literally, I cut two clips from it.
1:41:38
And those two clips about five minutes are the only five
1:41:41
minutes worth watching because the rest of it, Matt always
1:41:46
trying, you know, I was really trying.
1:41:48
I was I was, you know, just trying to get conversation going
1:41:51
and just every aren't every year be like, oh, so I don't give it
1:41:55
away but like The project, you know, like how did you get into
1:42:00
working on this? Oh, well, you know, I just
1:42:03
started working in this and then they led to this.
1:42:06
Okay. What do you think you're gonna
1:42:09
do in the future with it? Well, yeah, probably just do
1:42:12
another one and then. Yeah.
1:42:15
I always at one point, I almost got pissed at the guys like,
1:42:19
fucking give me something. Yeah, you gotta fake it or
1:42:22
anything but like, come on. You're killing me here and part
1:42:25
of me wondered afterwards. Like should I publish this?
1:42:28
Maybe I shouldn't have. It was a Learning lesson and if
1:42:31
I ever do encounter that in the future, I will just stop calling
1:42:34
be like that. This that waiver not we doing
1:42:35
this or not. We're not doing it that, that
1:42:37
will be my future approach. But yeah, like I mean, I think
1:42:43
it's a two-way street. You have someone on your show
1:42:47
you can't expect them to just do everything like you as the host
1:42:50
have a responsibility but you've got a kind of like fit into your
1:42:54
role. I did it right control it right
1:42:57
on path. Yeah exactly what we did a
1:43:00
terrible job this episode doing we have both see you say, we say
1:43:04
none but that's why I like to do.
1:43:07
That's what that to me is. That's what my show is General
1:43:11
because we've gone from from topic to topic, but you'll
1:43:14
notice that Like I ask questions to guide it here and there I
1:43:17
never interrupted you say, I do the same thing man, right?
1:43:20
And that's then created the show.
1:43:22
That's what it is. That's I mean it's it might not
1:43:25
be everyone's cup of tea, but the way I Market is, this is a
1:43:28
show where every time you listen, it'll be something
1:43:31
different, but that structure will always be the same.
1:43:34
Yeah, I always approach it that way, even if it's a topic where
1:43:38
I'm just ad-lib, a lot of questions which is what I did
1:43:41
today as well. I will still in my head be
1:43:44
trying To kind of move it to a logical sort of Point like and
1:43:47
once I feel like okay this is kind of done that we can move to
1:43:49
the next thing then I'll do that.
1:43:51
Yep. You know but it's more yeah it's
1:43:52
more like a feeling or it doesn't even necessarily have to
1:43:55
be a fit a Segway. It's just kind of like knowing
1:43:58
when to kind of let someone go off on tangents and talk and
1:44:03
knowing when to rein it back and move to the next thing or you
1:44:05
know, and I think that comes with time and experience
1:44:08
practice. Exactly.
1:44:09
Inevitably that's my whole point of that is I would have never
1:44:16
have been in sales, my whole life man, I've been in sales,
1:44:19
whether I was a server, bartender working door-to-door
1:44:22
sales. Now working in the car industry,
1:44:24
I have a natural gift of just talking and I can talk for hours
1:44:28
on end. It's a gift.
1:44:29
And a curse trick is getting me to shut the fuck up.
1:44:33
But looking at the way I approach it now and utilizing it
1:44:37
in a podcast setting because I mean I don't like, I don't want
1:44:42
to say I'm fine. I know I'm funny but I've been
1:44:43
told by people Now that I'm comical, I have good.
1:44:47
Bring good reactions and I'd like this one.
1:44:49
I will say I'm a good-looking ass, man.
1:44:51
Beautiful, mustache, beautiful hair.
1:44:52
A lot of confidence, I love the company, good.
1:44:55
I'm a good-looking man. So I was like, you know what?
1:44:57
I never had that confidence. So I stepped in front of the
1:44:59
camera, put a microphone in front of my face and just owned
1:45:02
it. And now like it's helped me in
1:45:04
my personal life, like I'm not afraid to go up to people and
1:45:08
just talk to them. I think the biggest fear people
1:45:10
have is rejection and you know getting shot down and I'll ask
1:45:14
Any person to be on my show to be on their show?
1:45:18
Like please I just randomly message you on Reddit, I don't
1:45:20
have 101 messages on Reddit that I just shot out because you know
1:45:23
what? You don't somebody show could be
1:45:26
worth, it could be fun. I meet new people.
1:45:27
I have a good time. Have a good laugh.
1:45:30
I have a million and one stories and I'm actually going to be
1:45:33
doing this and take. Like I said don't just not here
1:45:36
until Chase your dream like I'm going to be filming a
1:45:38
docu-series in the next year. That's my mud.
1:45:42
Okay. And instead be similar to kind
1:45:44
of what You're doing not to jack your style here, but I want to
1:45:47
meet I'm gonna be interviewing rent different people.
1:45:50
Like I got my barber, my tattoo artist.
1:45:52
I want to do a fireman and I want them to tell their stories
1:45:56
and obviously I'll guide the interview hired needed to but I
1:45:58
that's where I'm that's where I'm at right now.
1:45:59
My planning is trying to figure out how I'm gonna approach the
1:46:04
questioning and to make it all fit together, but the whole
1:46:06
point is that we all have different stories.
1:46:07
We all come from different places, but when it comes down
1:46:10
to it, we can all relate to one each one, each other each other,
1:46:12
no matter where we are who we are.
1:46:13
What? Do whether it's being a tattoo
1:46:17
artist, being a barber, being a fireman, being a surgeon,
1:46:20
whoever it is, and I have this whole plan just need a need the
1:46:26
funds to get the camera equipment, because that shit is
1:46:28
expensive, where it always comes down to that.
1:46:31
There's so many things, I would be doing.
1:46:33
Now, if I had the money, but right now I'm just trying to
1:46:35
find work, like, I gotta lose the weight to because I'm not,
1:46:38
I'm not camera ready? I got a belly, bro.
1:46:39
They still haven't put off that. Quarantine lie, I'm saying, so
1:46:43
how are you? Go ahead, the gym.
1:46:45
Uh, no skis. That's Jay.
1:46:46
Listen, my I just found out my health insurance will pay for my
1:46:49
gym membership. I'm like, down there is really
1:46:51
no excuse. Now, go go.
1:46:53
My church has begun to Jimmy be the best thing you ever did.
1:46:56
I would suggest drinking. I've stopped drinking sodas as I
1:46:58
drink water. Congratulations, episode my
1:47:01
circle water. Get it now.
1:47:03
Excitement? I need a sponsorship badly,
1:47:06
dude. Is this water bottle?
1:47:08
I got I mentioned it. Every episode every day,
1:47:10
everywhere, I go. And I don't, I'm not sponsored
1:47:12
by them, but I did, they need to sponsor me because I talk about
1:47:14
it all the time. It's the greatest thing ever.
1:47:15
It's what we will do to. Have you ever have you ever had
1:47:18
meals like the stuff you squirting?
1:47:20
Her water, and it makes it taste differently?
1:47:22
No. Because why would you do that?
1:47:24
Well, like what would you ruin water?
1:47:26
Does he have like flavored water?
1:47:27
So like this. But now is strawberry kiwi.
1:47:30
This tastes like juice, this does not taste like water, but
1:47:32
it's Water, zero calories, zero sugar, what?
1:47:37
And then you have Gatorade flavor.
1:47:39
They have have lemonade, they have iced tea, even have coffee,
1:47:44
which was weird. Look at the orange juice.
1:47:47
Like it tastes like, what do they taste?
1:47:49
Just like it. And it's mind-blowing at since
1:47:53
I've been through. I feel so great because I'm
1:47:54
hydrated. My pee is clear now.
1:47:57
Not yellow anymore right? I'm trying to Jake will will too
1:48:00
as well. I'm trying to slowly give up the
1:48:02
bag. Dude, so does so delicious.
1:48:06
Yeah, it's so great. It's the sugar.
1:48:09
The sugar gets you on the sugars.
1:48:11
Bad bad. That makes it taste so good.
1:48:15
Yes fried chicken is bad for you but goddamn it.
1:48:17
It's delicious. Final question.
1:48:21
For you want to be healthy and then turned down a pizza.
1:48:25
Oh burn. Oh let listen I'll I'm on.
1:48:27
I'm on a health kick and I work hard at the gym and shit but I
1:48:29
still eat like takeaways and pizza and ship it because I
1:48:33
don't believe in that whole cheat day thing.
1:48:34
I think that's stupid as fuck what I think is the majority of
1:48:37
the food that you consume should be healthy and should work for
1:48:41
you. But still have the things you
1:48:42
want to have just is this is this her In moderation.
1:48:45
Yeah, it's not the whole, the whole thing that a lot of people
1:48:49
say in Fitness is it all comes down to how many calories you
1:48:53
burn versus how many you intake if like every single day I'm
1:48:57
like, dude, went during the pandemic.
1:48:58
I let myself go like badly. I was and you know, there was
1:49:02
many times when I didn't move out of the house, I ate
1:49:04
takeaways every single day, you know, it was my own fault, you
1:49:07
know, and I let it happen and then one day I was like, fuck
1:49:11
this. I want to be back in shape and
1:49:13
this time, I'm going to Do it right?
1:49:15
And I've been doing it now about 10 months and there was progress
1:49:19
it took a lot of time and discipline and hard work, but it
1:49:23
got there but I understood certain things weren't true that
1:49:26
I've been told but this whole thing of like calorie counting
1:49:28
and dislike refusing not to eat certain things or having a cheat
1:49:32
day like, okay, that might work for certain people and everyone
1:49:35
has a different approach. So I'm not saying it's
1:49:37
necessarily right or wrong. But for me, it works better to
1:49:41
just make sure that most of the time I'm eating something
1:49:43
healthy. I have Treats here and there and
1:49:46
yeah sometimes, yeah, we'll eat a fucking whole pizza and a
1:49:49
bunch of other shit because fuck it, why not man, got ya little
1:49:52
self-control. So no, I got a limit myself to
1:49:56
one cheat day a month. That's that's been my goal here.
1:49:58
Just one. That's all that's good.
1:50:00
That's good discipline man. I think that's brilliant.
1:50:02
I'm trying to because I'm a bit weaker.
1:50:03
Don't, if I'm just giving a free reign to, I'm just gonna eat
1:50:07
whatever. The problem is, is, like, I do
1:50:10
take up cooking taking very seriously.
1:50:12
So I gotta sit there and And I can make sure I get fresh
1:50:16
ingredients and fresh meats and fresh produce when I cook, but
1:50:20
when I'm lazy my god, dude Burger King, sounds fantastic,
1:50:25
amazing Chinese. Food is just always so good.
1:50:28
No, I want Chinese. God damn it.
1:50:30
Oh man, I'm going to a Super Bowl party right after we're
1:50:33
done with this. So I got Wings waiting for me in
1:50:36
about one hour. So lucky guy, I'm just, I'm
1:50:40
dropping it off at breakfast, I'm waiting, I'm saving.
1:50:43
Oh, you are you made those? You don't you like it's like
1:50:46
Olympic dedicating. You get easy to put balls on my
1:50:49
team is in the Super Bowl. So I'm going to eat like a king
1:50:52
today. Congratulations man, bullshit on
1:50:55
this episode releases. Either look really smart for
1:50:57
being a Chiefs fan are looking really dumb.
1:51:00
You'll see who wins but Thomas for those tomorrow, it's Lisa's
1:51:05
tomorrow job. Miss tomorrow, I'm jumping this
1:51:07
device. What's the best advice you've
1:51:10
ever know? So not the best advice.
1:51:12
What is the biggest life lesson? You've learned?
1:51:14
So far. Biggest life lesson.
1:51:17
Yeah. Don't identify with a job.
1:51:24
Hmm. Don't identify your life with
1:51:27
your job and I see a lot of people do that as like, you
1:51:30
know. Oh, you know, first question
1:51:32
people ask you in an interview and I've done this enough times
1:51:35
like what do you do or who, you know, so who are you?
1:51:38
Who are you? What makes you you?
1:51:40
I'll I'm you know, I'm a, I'm a car salesman or or no, you know,
1:51:44
I'm a nurse or I'm a people identify with that work and they
1:51:47
make it part of their everyday life because we're so,
1:51:49
Accustomed to doing that. 925 that we lose sight of who we
1:51:55
actually are when I worked in car sales, I realized that.
1:52:00
I was just becoming that car guy and it wouldn't I would never
1:52:04
separate the two and I changed who I was and I didn't like
1:52:07
that. And it's because identified with
1:52:10
my job and Only until that I start realizing an appreciating
1:52:15
who I was as a person and what I do as a person and the way I
1:52:20
act, and what I want to do, it changed the whole dynamic of my
1:52:24
life and then add that trickled into my work life.
1:52:28
And then I was given more respect among that because I've
1:52:32
never once pretended to be someone, I'm not so stay true to
1:52:38
yourself. Like I know like I made the
1:52:41
joke, I'm a 38. And and it's so funny because
1:52:43
that's how I met my wife, right? Like, I've mediocre dick, a one
1:52:46
had game, right? Like, I know me being half
1:52:48
asian, I'm going to have a stereotype, right?
1:52:50
I know that, you know, if I go into something, like, if I try
1:52:55
to put on a show and pretend to be someone, I'm not people read
1:52:58
right through that shit. And I read through that shit
1:53:01
immediately on people like, I'm a stockbroker, you're a prick.
1:53:08
I know what you are. So like, you know, like I always
1:53:12
make the joke. Because like I'm an asshole.
1:53:13
I know I'm an asshole. I don't pretend to be anything
1:53:15
other than that, but I'm not a scumbag and there's a difference
1:53:18
and that's the way I that's way I approach my life.
1:53:20
You know I'm saying, like I don't sugarcoat it.
1:53:23
I know point in this time during this show that I feel like I had
1:53:26
to pretend to be actor act, a certain way, pretend to be a
1:53:30
certain thing. I, you know, you get me for its
1:53:33
authenticity and I people appreciate that more than people
1:53:37
realize. That's one thing.
1:53:41
I that's a life lesson that I've learned is that stay true to
1:53:44
yourself, man. It's it's it's not worth it to
1:53:46
pretend to be something else or someone else.
1:53:49
Completely agree. You have any upcoming projects
1:53:52
or some final thoughts you'd like to share with our
1:53:54
listeners. Ah, yes.
1:53:56
Check out the end of a pod. It is a ridiculous show.
1:54:01
If you hopefully, you find it, amusing, whatever reason, 50% of
1:54:04
our listeners are female, I don't know why they like us.
1:54:07
We talk stupid, it works. And I also have another show
1:54:11
called stream it. We started it.
1:54:13
We had to take a little break for a re for personal reasons,
1:54:15
but now we're going to be coming back.
1:54:17
We're starting recording in a couple weeks and xiumin is a
1:54:21
podcast where we break down movies that are on streaming
1:54:23
services, we give you recommendations, we review it,
1:54:26
we break it down, we would be great it and we let you know, do
1:54:29
we stream it or delete it? I have another show that I'm
1:54:33
going to be working on, don't know anything about it yet.
1:54:35
I meet with the guy tomorrow to talk about our plan so that keep
1:54:38
an eye out for mysterious project.
1:54:40
And in the next two years, let's be a long time.
1:54:44
But I have that docu-series. I'm gonna be filming it, editing
1:54:47
it doing 100% myself. No outside funding.
1:54:50
No outside editors, no nothing. I am talking this project 100%
1:54:55
up to me. I hope it's good enough to enter
1:54:56
into a Sunday and thing. I don't know but I'm taking
1:55:00
this. So seriously I think this is my
1:55:02
calling and it's going to be a fun time but stuff should be.
1:55:05
I'm going to start recording that probably in the next year.
1:55:10
It's like I lose the weight first be camera-ready, make a
1:55:13
make a plan for the interviews. Get the people for the
1:55:15
interviews, interview travel. Then I'm going to spend like
1:55:19
eight months for editing because that's going to be your
1:55:21
nightmare but something fun. Something interesting,
1:55:25
hopefully, Netflix picks me up and I'm the next face of Netflix
1:55:27
and everyone loves me. That's the plan.
1:55:31
I wish you luck, man. The best like I think you're too
1:55:33
entertaining not to be picked up if I'm on.
1:55:36
I appreciate that. You don't eat.
1:55:37
You know it's disheartening is that Been told that before and I
1:55:41
never really took it to heart and so like there was one person
1:55:44
a customer of mine that I work. They were at my dealership every
1:55:47
day for like two weeks and they told me the same thing to like
1:55:51
you're meant for so much bigger than just working at a car
1:55:53
dealership. And that's it's, it's stuff.
1:55:56
Like people sell me stuff like that.
1:55:57
It makes me feel good because I was always so afraid.
1:56:02
As a kid to join the drama club to audition for a role in, like,
1:56:07
I'm like acting thing or And I'm like I said, it's never too late
1:56:12
to chase your dreams, he just keep fucking pushing, man.
1:56:15
It's all about. What you put into the world is
1:56:16
what you get out of it and I'm trying I'm trying, I don't know,
1:56:20
like, I feel like I'm destined to watch other people be
1:56:22
successful and not achieve it myself.
1:56:24
Like, it's all about the grind, and that's the best part.
1:56:27
Listen. Realize, this people don't care
1:56:30
about where you at, where you're at, they care about how you got
1:56:33
them. And that's the one thing that
1:56:35
I'll always remember the when you, when you watch any
1:56:38
celebrity Take the rock, for example, right?
1:56:41
Hmm. Number one guy in Hollywood.
1:56:44
Number one guy in WWE loved by Americans everywhere.
1:56:48
Yes, we know him for wrestling, you know, him for that.
1:56:49
But when he interviews he talks about it, what does he talk
1:56:51
about? I had a dollar to my name.
1:56:53
As a guide, seven dollars to my name is a kid, right?
1:56:56
We remember their stories, how they got there, remember the
1:56:59
stuff that they went through to get to where that?
1:57:01
Yes, I as a whole TV show about the struggles, he had growing up
1:57:07
And that's the one thing that I love is hearing people's
1:57:10
struggles to get to where they're at, where they became,
1:57:14
because you're not going to get anywhere in life without
1:57:16
struggle and struggle to me is just a moment of growth.
1:57:20
It's a period that you're going to learn and that you're going
1:57:22
to become better because people who come out of struggle achieve
1:57:25
greatness. And the people who don't they
1:57:27
stay in that same hole, they're the same kids that still live.
1:57:29
In the same small town that says oh if only if this, if that if
1:57:34
that That and I will never, ever, ever be a person of, if
1:57:37
that's my, that's my mentality. I cannot, I don't know if I
1:57:41
chalk it up to sports or what not, but I am, I'm determined
1:57:46
and I am driven. I'm the kind of person that you
1:57:50
tell me. I can't watch me do it
1:57:52
motherfucker because I promise you, I'll do it way better than
1:57:55
you could have ever expected it and I want you to be blown back
1:57:57
by it. And that's just the way that I
1:58:00
push myself daily. I try to get my friends under
1:58:02
the same mentality, some of them don't get it and you know, some
1:58:05
of my friends I mean I was I won't name any but there's some
1:58:07
of my friends who still live in the same small town and still
1:58:11
complain while all men. If I was just so lucky.
1:58:13
If I was this everything I've accomplished in my life has not
1:58:16
been lucky. It has been straight, hustle,
1:58:19
and grind, and I earned the respect from people that way.
1:58:22
I don't, I don't people who come to me and like, respect me
1:58:25
because I'm good on a microphone or I have really cool things.
1:58:28
That I want you to respect me because I had no point in time
1:58:32
ever said I'm giving up on this. I'm just not going to stop.
1:58:38
No, I respect that, man. I knew I needed to hear this
1:58:41
today. Thank you so much for just
1:58:43
everything for fuel. Wisdom for your crazy stories,
1:58:47
for Just Being Human. It's been a real pleasure.
1:58:50
I have a lot more so you let me know when you want me back to
1:58:52
hell to the fuck. Yeah I know my own have a whole
1:58:55
series just me just talking about this show.
1:58:58
You are always welcome on and I've had certain guests come
1:59:02
back and stuff. I would say this now for decide
1:59:05
to my audience because I know there will be people who want to
1:59:07
ask questions. If you have questions for xaga
1:59:10
and you would like to see him on the show, again, please send
1:59:12
them in to me, Christian Reef podcast at gmail.com or
1:59:16
Instagram. And we will get as I go back on
1:59:17
the show and we will have another round two round three
1:59:20
round, four, who knows, but send in your questions because it
1:59:23
would be fucking awesome. And I would like I really want
1:59:25
to go on your show. Now, I'm excited for his for the
1:59:30
listeners at home. Listen to his podcast.
1:59:31
Here I have day, I have weekly poles and shit and questions on
1:59:36
my podcast on Spotify. Pop in leave a comment this, but
1:59:40
leave something on there because we're always looking for shit to
1:59:42
talk about, and we want people like my most recent one that's
1:59:46
coming out next week or this way, or no.
1:59:48
Last week, it was, did you eat Play-Doh as a child?
1:59:52
I need to know there's, this is a scientific scientific study.
1:59:55
Please go to my go to my Spotify, look for end of the NFA
1:59:58
pod and just let me, I don't even care if you comment review.
2:00:01
Listen, nothing, just let me know if you ate Plato as a kid
2:00:03
because my co-host is 100% believing that people did do
2:00:07
this as a child and I'm like, nobody ate Plato as kids, you're
2:00:10
just weird. So I need you all to back me up
2:00:13
on this. Yeah.
2:00:14
Or if you really don't like me, I stood you just hate me for
2:00:17
being who I am. Just agree that you ate Play-Doh
2:00:20
because clearly you did taste it.
2:00:22
Maybe eight, no new texture alone is disgusting.
2:00:28
It is, that's why I was like, thank you.
2:00:30
Thank you, thank you. I had a lot of fun, and thank
2:00:33
you. I will stay in contact with you.
2:00:35
I know we got different time zone stuff going on, but we'll
2:00:37
play in. To get you on my show and I
2:00:40
promise you you're going to have a hell of a laugh.
2:00:43
I'll call away. But I couldn't wait, thank you
2:00:45
so much and to all the listeners of the Christian re podcast, as
2:00:48
always be safe. Be well, and I'll see you in the
2:00:50
next one.