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INTERVIEW: Cody Rhodes Talks WrestleMania 42, 'STREET FIGHTER,' & Return To WWE After AEW Departure +More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Every day a week ago up the Breakfast Club. You
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  Speaker 1: don't finish the.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all done morning. Everybody is dj n V just hilarious.
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  Speaker 3: Charlamagne the guy. We are to Breakfast Club Lawnla Roses
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  Speaker 3: here as well. We got a special guest in the buildings.
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  Speaker 1: We do Cody Rolls. Welcome, sir, Thank you. I clapped
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  Speaker 1: for myself, you guys for having me. How you feeling
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  Speaker 1: I'm good from w W E Yeah, no, I brought
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  Speaker 1: the w W title.
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  Speaker 3: I see, I saw the big one. It's not like
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  Speaker 3: the stuff from the beginning. So what got you into wrestling?
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  Speaker 3: And I know you're gonna say your dad, But besides
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  Speaker 3: your dad, what got you interested with? You said I
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  Speaker 3: can do this and I want to do this.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean there's obviously the osmosis in terms of,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, the familial connection to it, but really
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  Speaker 1: what got me into it? Because he was my dad
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  Speaker 1: was much older. I didn't see him in wrestling. His
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  Speaker 1: prime was going to those shows, the w CW shows
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  Speaker 1: when I was a kid. And this is these are
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  Speaker 1: markets like Savannah, Georgia, and you know, making Chattanooga, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and those crowds there's a wrestling Brad Armstrong. He used
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  Speaker 1: to just do a move, an arm drag, basic wrestling move,
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  Speaker 1: but I remember watching it and hearing the reaction and
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  Speaker 1: there was just this like deafening pop for this physical, simple,
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  Speaker 1: basic stuff, and that's where I fell in love with
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  Speaker 1: it. It was more almost hearing it than seeing it, just
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  Speaker 1: because the interaction. That's the cool thing about pro wrestling
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  Speaker 1: is a very reliant on our audience, and it's fun
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  Speaker 1: to be in New York because the audience in New
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  Speaker 1: York is can be tricky. Yeah. So yeah, no, that
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  Speaker 1: was the moment that that arm drag is actually the
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  Speaker 1: one where I thought I could do this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and did you know you wanted to be a
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  Speaker 4: professional wrestler.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so this is funny. My dad he played
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  Speaker 1: like baseball. He was one of those classics sixty seventies
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  Speaker 1: where they played every sport somehow were great at all
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  Speaker 1: of them, you know all that, But none of them
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  Speaker 1: in my family actually did real folk style, greco freestyle,
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  Speaker 1: what you would see in the Olympics, that type of wrestling.
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  Speaker 1: So I plugged into that really early in my career.
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  Speaker 1: Is this is gonna sound silly now, but I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want if anyone ever thought that my dad was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like this phony TV wrestler. I always wanted to have
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  Speaker 1: this little edge like, well, you know, I got this
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  Speaker 1: and that that was the thing I loved the most.
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  Speaker 1: But I knew that I wanted to go into pro
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  Speaker 1: wrestling more the storytelling at a very very young age.
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  Speaker 1: My fear when I was seventeen eighteen, I'm getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to pop out and go go for it because I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't big enough, right.
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  Speaker 3: You watch this say that I was gonna say, most
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  Speaker 3: wrestless when you see him, they a gigantic Yeah, it
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  Speaker 3: looks like they're roided up, very big, huge next poise,
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  Speaker 3: very strong next.
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  Speaker 2: But I didn't see that from you boys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah no, I today, I'm lucky. It's a light heavyweight game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm one of them, just pretty two degrees sometimes
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  Speaker 1: one of the bigger guys now, which is not the
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  Speaker 1: case with my WrestleMania opponent, which is Randy Orton, which
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  Speaker 1: is one of the more old school types. Yes, yeah, six',
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  Speaker 1: six two hundred and eighty legitimate, pounds giant neck giant
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  Speaker 1: like yeah, No but that was my, fear and it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't UNTIL i saw you, know macho. Man Randy savage
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  Speaker 1: is a great example of somebody who wasn't, big but
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  Speaker 1: he made himself. Big it's the outly you, know the the,
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  Speaker 1: outfits the, pageantry but also how he moved in the.
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  Speaker 1: Ring he gave himself this larger than life. Approaching, again
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  Speaker 1: this is. Storytelling it can be whatever we. Want SO,
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  Speaker 1: i AFTER i got over that, FEAR i was able
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  Speaker 1: to just jump right.
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  Speaker 3: In how difficult was it to make it? Professional what
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  Speaker 3: would the steps to actually get into? Professional? Rest and
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  Speaker 3: opposed sure those, markets because we hear all the time
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  Speaker 3: that it was like it's just a lucky. Star one
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  Speaker 3: day somebody put you on in the crowd to scream your.
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  Speaker 3: Name how difficult was it for you to get it
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  Speaker 3: to get to?
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  Speaker 1: That, well so for, me getting in is not difficult at.
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  Speaker 1: All is the easiest thing. Ever AND i have the
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  Speaker 1: absolute respect and love for guys who are out on
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  Speaker 1: the independent scene hustling and hustling and hustling because for
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  Speaker 1: me it was the last name and it was out
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  Speaker 1: of respect for my. Dad will give, Them we'll give
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  Speaker 1: them a. Job the issue then becomes that's easy getting
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  Speaker 1: in the, door but if you're filling those boots or
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  Speaker 1: people think you're filling those boots or you're in that
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  Speaker 1: shadow on my brother. Too this is two generations now
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  Speaker 1: who have made a big impact IN. Wwe that's where
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  Speaker 1: it became, very very. Difficult so it's a trade. Off
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  Speaker 1: you get in the, door but also you're you, know
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  Speaker 1: living up to an incredibly well revered professional wrestler whose
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  Speaker 1: contributions still are happening in the. Industry that's where it
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  Speaker 1: became very. Hard AND i would Say i'm a fairly slow.
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  Speaker 1: LEARNER i didn't pop off in a way WHERE i
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  Speaker 1: could feel, like, hey they're into. This there these are
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  Speaker 1: my people like ah That LIKE i didn't get that
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  Speaker 1: until mid, thirties AND i now it's the elusive connection
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  Speaker 1: That John cena always taught us about and preached to
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  Speaker 1: me BECAUSE i Drove john around for a few. Years
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  Speaker 1: it just came a little later for, me but it's
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  Speaker 1: still still.
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  Speaker 5: There so hanging, on how did you keep yourself together like,
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  Speaker 5: mentally like you, know motivating yourself when things didn't pop
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  Speaker 5: off right away because you have like the shadow of
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  Speaker 5: like your family and you're you, know expecting all this.
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  Speaker 1: STUFF i WISH i could SAY i handle things really
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  Speaker 1: maturely and. Diplomatically but IF i started AT ww WHEN
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  Speaker 1: i was twenty years, old SO i was a baby
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  Speaker 1: WHEN i started, there and up until, thirty they treated
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  Speaker 1: me LIKE i was a baby, still even Though i'd
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  Speaker 1: grown And i'd Wrestled triple h And i'd been in
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  Speaker 1: the ring with The, Undertaker i'd taken, THIS i Drove john,
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  Speaker 1: AROUND i Drove randy. Around i'd, learned BUT i was
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  Speaker 1: still treated a little bit as a. Kid SO i.
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  Speaker 1: WALKED i walked and did what we would say is
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  Speaker 1: like reverse. ORDER i went did independent. WRESTLING i went
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  Speaker 1: To New Japan Pro, wrestling and me and my buddy
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  Speaker 1: started our own alternative wrestling promotion that's actually made it
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  Speaker 1: to Linear. Cable and then it was time to come.
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  Speaker 1: Home and then coming HOME i got treated very. Differently
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  Speaker 1: SO i don't know if that's the ADVICE i would,
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  Speaker 1: give BECAUSE i think most of the TIMES i, say,
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  Speaker 1: hey you stand in, there you weather the. Storm but
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  Speaker 1: this was a case WHERE i just took my ball
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else but was able to really sharpen my skills
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  Speaker 1: and see what's out there and bring it. Back OH i.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't you got to find, yourself SO i can't really
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  Speaker 1: hate on them for bad booking or bad there was, that,
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  Speaker 1: sure BUT i hadn't found WHO i, Was AND i
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  Speaker 1: think WHEN i came, BACK i at least had an.
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  Speaker 1: IDEA i think this is. Me, YEAH i think you'll like.
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  Speaker 3: This you, know you, KNOW i was going to, ask you,
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  Speaker 3: KNOW i was reading an Article it, Said WWE's rosta
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  Speaker 3: is older than.
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  Speaker 1: Ever, right this is the oldest.
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  Speaker 3: Scene right seasoned they say Season, yeah they said most
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  Speaker 3: of them are over thirty five in indie, forties but
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  Speaker 3: usually it's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Younger why do you think that?
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  Speaker 1: Is, well it goes in, phases so in like the golden,
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  Speaker 1: eighties it was we used to joke wrestler prime for
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  Speaker 1: the man was thirty five to forty. Two that's in
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  Speaker 1: the golden. Eighties and that's because they needed all that.
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  Speaker 1: Experience psychologically they. Worked they did this town to. Town
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  Speaker 1: live crowds are. Everything how do you work with a live?
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  Speaker 1: Crowd how do you involve them with? This we're not
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  Speaker 1: doing this just for each, other and we're not doing
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  Speaker 1: this just for the. Camera how are they? Involved that
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  Speaker 1: now has cycled back because a few years ago they
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  Speaker 1: brought in it was What i'd, say is like all
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  Speaker 1: freshmen on a varsity. Team there's this famous picture of
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  Speaker 1: me and Seeing punk And Matt, cardona and we're all,
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  Speaker 1: babies and we had won the big, titles but we
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a clue really at that, point we didn't
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  Speaker 1: have that. Experience so NOW i think you're getting back
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  Speaker 1: into where you've GOT i know exactly who we're talking about, Here, Roman, Me, Punk,
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  Speaker 1: randy the main events Of. WrestleMania i just like to
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  Speaker 1: say it's a very experienced, crew AND i do Feel
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  Speaker 1: i'm in my. PRIME i really. Do it could be
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  Speaker 1: over tomorrow Because i've been doing this in fall and
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  Speaker 1: now SINCE i was, Twenty BUT i feel Like i'm,
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  Speaker 1: there AND i THINK Ww Shawn michaels, particular shout out To.
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  Speaker 1: Sean what they're doing IN nxt is making it so
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  Speaker 1: that when it's, time you, know IF i take a
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  Speaker 1: bad bump tonight and all of a, SUDDEN i do feel.
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  Speaker 1: IT i feel my age and the older deeps. IN
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  Speaker 1: i can tell you can step. In he already visited.
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  Speaker 1: Here Trick. Williams, oh that's a, bit that's a that's
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  Speaker 1: a that's a, baby, Right Trick Williams. Oba Kit wilson's
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  Speaker 1: out there doing an incredible. Job i'm not giving nothing
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  Speaker 1: up For BUT i know THEY'RE i know they're there
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  Speaker 1: and they're they're such great like young guys that we
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  Speaker 1: have on the show right. Now And sean got them
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  Speaker 1: already in xt Ethan, Page Ricky, Saints they're all gonna
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  Speaker 1: make their way up. Here it'll it'll cycle back to
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  Speaker 1: where it's too, young so let it, be let it
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  Speaker 1: be a little.
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  Speaker 4: OLDER i he, said you're. NOT i, said you're not
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  Speaker 4: giving nothing up right.
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  Speaker 5: Now but you, know with your relationship With John cena
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  Speaker 5: right and watching how he decided to like step away
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  Speaker 5: and doing other, things how have you begin thinking about
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  Speaker 5: like once you do decide like all, RIGHT i want
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  Speaker 5: to do other things and not be in the.
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: Ring, well he he's been really good about basically knowing,
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  Speaker 1: when BECAUSE i think he had told. Me the number
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  Speaker 1: he gave me was he thinks he did his retirement
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  Speaker 1: three years too. Late like he. Was he was really feeling,
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  Speaker 1: it you, know BECAUSE i had gotten in the ring
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: with him in MetLife AND i he felt like the
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: best he'd ever. Been BUT i imagine that was wasn't
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  Speaker 1: able to do it as consistently as he used to do,
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  Speaker 1: Right so he had just given me the iggy to
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  Speaker 1: be honest with myself when it's time to let W w, Know,
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  Speaker 1: HEY i think this next Year i'm gonna wind, down
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  Speaker 1: Or i'll do less dates or this day and then
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  Speaker 1: plug into some other ways to tell, stories LIKE i
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: just got the opportunity to do the Movie Street, fighter
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  Speaker 1: so excited about. That it felt very similar to. Me
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  Speaker 1: it's just a different way of telling a. Story AND
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  Speaker 1: i plugged into, that AND i Think i'll do more
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  Speaker 1: of that in the next five years and and then
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's a transition that just naturally takes. PLACE i
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  Speaker 1: don't feel it yet, though And i'm not lying to
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  Speaker 1: you LIKE i. DON'T i. DON'T i don't feel. Yet
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: BUT i will be honest because again doing this since
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  Speaker 1: twenty and actually watching my dad and brother where they're
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  Speaker 1: my dad had his legs were black and, blue is beat,
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  Speaker 1: up and that's. TOUGH i got two little girls, ones, four, one,
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  Speaker 1: Seven thank you so, much thank. You, YEAH i don't
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  Speaker 1: want them to BE i don't want TO i won't
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  Speaker 1: be able to pick them. Up so IF i get
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  Speaker 1: the sense we're near, that Like i'm A i'm an
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  Speaker 1: old man all of a. Sudden then Then i'll know.
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  Speaker 5: He, said you're not ready. Yet but then you put
• 10:14
  Speaker 5: five years on. It so you've kind of been closely thinking, about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah i'm Giving i'm giving scoops without Realizing i'm giving.
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  Speaker 1: SCOOPS i probably have five years left on, paper you,
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  Speaker 1: know so that but by, then IF i get, THERE
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  Speaker 1: i could, SAY i, KNOW i could keep. Going, uh
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  Speaker 1: it's really all a matter of the MODERN ww schedule
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  Speaker 1: isn't what it used to. Be the grind is. Different
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  Speaker 1: the grinds still, there but it's not up, down bump
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  Speaker 1: every night a. Town it's not not the. Same so
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  Speaker 1: with everything we do, today and like the modern W,
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  Speaker 1: w which is far, HEALTHIER i really don't know what
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  Speaker 1: the what the what the spot, is BUT i bet
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  Speaker 1: you it's right around.
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  Speaker 3: There the wife is was a wrestler. Too, yeah so
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  Speaker 3: how was that when y'all get in an. Argument, no
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  Speaker 3: but my wife.
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  Speaker 1: Is just, uh my my. Wife she trained at n X,
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  Speaker 1: t which was the Performed it's you, know where we
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: were developing. Wrestlers and then they at the time they
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: were down a ring announcer and they, hey can you
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: it's one of those can you do? THIS i, Could
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  Speaker 1: and she came up and she was the ring announcer
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  Speaker 1: and and that's where we, met and then she she
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  Speaker 1: went over To. JAPAN i, remember poor, girl she wrestled
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  Speaker 1: three matches with her collarbone totally. BROKEN i never need
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  Speaker 1: TO i never needed to see my wife wrestle or
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: know that she's a wrestler to know she's just a
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: very tough woman From. Detroit she's a very Heard just
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: the way she looks at people when she's in a bad,
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: Mood brandy's got a different spirit THAN i. Have you
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  Speaker 1: know how people are, confrontational non. Confrontational i'm a non confrontational.
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  Speaker 1: Person my wife's a. Confrontational you, Run So i'm there
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  Speaker 1: To i'm on the. Side i'm A.
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  Speaker 6: Jason and let me say she she's a black, woman
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  Speaker 6: SO i know she'd be, like get the hell up
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  Speaker 6: out of.
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  Speaker 1: Here she's the thing she's done in her her career
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  Speaker 1: and in her life where she has said basically where
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  Speaker 1: up we're leaving or IF i was, Down, nope we're
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  Speaker 1: not having. That just, REALLY i tell people all the,
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  Speaker 1: time like it's all. HERS i don't want to get
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  Speaker 1: like super emotional about. It but like it's so every
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  Speaker 1: everything we have is oh damn got? Me it is
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  Speaker 1: hers because she's she put a lot over here SO
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  Speaker 1: i could go and make these moves THAT i.
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  Speaker 4: Made so, yeah go, AHEAD i yea talk about. That
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  Speaker 4: how did that even come?
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: About you were in the?
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  Speaker 4: Trailer everybody was excited about.
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  Speaker 1: It CAN i tell you a crazy story about GETTING
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: i didn't think. So Roman reigns has denounced as a,
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: kuma AND i, thought, oh, man dang man' that's. Awesome
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  Speaker 1: good for, him but also like dang, man LIKE i
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: was really happy for, him. RIGHT i didn't think they'd
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  Speaker 1: be interested in anybody else from the wrestling. Space BUT
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: i got a call saying would you come to a
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  Speaker 1: legendary and meet the producer and meet and talk with the.
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  Speaker 1: PRODUCER i thought it was just a general. Meeting really sincerely.
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  Speaker 1: Tho it was a general, meeting AND i, thought best case.
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  Speaker 1: Scenario they're, like could you consult BECAUSE i played this
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  Speaker 1: game AND i love this game AND i had a
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  Speaker 1: buddy who played competitively In. Japan i'm, like, MAN i know,
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  Speaker 1: enough maybe it'll have me as a. Consultant if, not great,
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  Speaker 1: meeting happy to. GO i get there and the director's on.
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  Speaker 1: Zoom he's In. Australia producers across from. Me i'm just, thinking, okay,
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  Speaker 1: cool we're gonna talk Street Fighter talk nineteen ninety, four you.
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  Speaker 1: Know and then they, said give us a. Second the
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  Speaker 1: head of the studio wants to come down. Here, okay that's.
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  Speaker 1: COOL i like meeting, people you, know this is no
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  Speaker 1: pressure meeting for. Me and she comes in and just
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  Speaker 1: like all the aura and swagger you could imagine or
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  Speaker 1: just and she kind of the whole room is there
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  Speaker 1: and she just hits. It she's, like, hey you, KNOW
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  Speaker 1: i know your schedule is what it, is but we
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  Speaker 1: really like you for the role Of gyle and we
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  Speaker 1: think you'd be. Incredible the dates are going to be
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  Speaker 1: what the dates. Are these guys are going to give
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  Speaker 1: you the. Information But i'm just happy to meet. You
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna be. Awesome. Wow So i'm, like, what,
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  Speaker 1: like what are we doing? Here like is this? Real
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  Speaker 1: And i'm you, Know i'm also like lying through my
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  Speaker 1: teeth a little bit because the guys asked. Me he's,
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  Speaker 1: like do you think W w will be okay with? That,
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  Speaker 1: yeah they're gonna. Be, Yeah, Champ champ's gonna leave for
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  Speaker 1: him and they're gonna be, great and, uh thank. Gosh
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  Speaker 1: you know ww's President nick con knew he knew the
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  Speaker 1: power Of understands movie and he knows he knows he.
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  Speaker 1: Understands so it wasn't In TRIPLE H understood it. Was
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  Speaker 1: it was an easy. Sell but AFTER i, left there
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  Speaker 1: was a it was like it was all set. Up
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  Speaker 1: there's another wrestler In. Hollywood i'll just leave him. Nameless.
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  Speaker 1: Uh who called me, like As i'm leaving and he, goes,
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  Speaker 1: hey how'd that meeting? Go he knew he knew was
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  Speaker 1: going about to go, down SO i told him for the,
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  Speaker 1: FUTURE i, go you can tell me Like i'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna blow, it you can tell. Me but it was
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  Speaker 1: so much fun and that's uh that Set Katao, sakrai the,
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  Speaker 1: director incredible. Story uh he's telling so much fan service
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  Speaker 1: towards the. Game Uh, noah you AND, kg the three,
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  Speaker 1: leads you got your Your, reu Your, ken and your Chun.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: Ley they're just they're the hard and soul of this.
• 15:05
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• 15:09
  Speaker 1: uh you Know Andrew schultz and it's just this like
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: wild collection around. Them it. Really they gave us a
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: lot of room to play and have fun and find,
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: out you, know in my, case like Who's? Guyle where
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Is gal fitting all? This, Yeah i'm very very excited about. It,
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: yeah it's. Uh WHEN i put the WHEN i put
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: it on the flat tops my, costumes you, know it's not.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Much it's the the tank, top it's the, fatigues it's the,
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: boots the tattoo and. That and WHEN i put that,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: ON i felt if it's a good performance BECAUSE i
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: felt LIKE i was. HIM i didn't even like seeing
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: the double with. It i'm, like, nah just, Me i'm
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: the only one with a stew, here you. Know, yeah
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: it's cool, though the movie's uh gonna be. Great and
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: THEN i, think, uh in probably the next few weeks
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: was probably some more about the movie coming.
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: Out so, congratulations thank, you thank.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: YOU i was gonna ask, you you, know With, ring
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: we had tricklepay and he talked about his craziest time
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: in the, ring right mean things went.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Left what was your craziest time in.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: The ring when something was, LEFT i mean went. Left,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah i've had so much, stuff go, les what's the worst?
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: One go? Let? Uh, okay So Arn anderson, right super
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: important in my. Career. Legend he helped develop Rock, lesbry
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: helped Develop John, Cena Randy. Ordon he became my manager
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: for a brief, time right brief. Time and really it
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: was all about just having that rub, up that synergy
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: with the old. School and since my dad's not with me,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: ANYMORE i always liked having people in his life near,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: me kind of like surrogate uncles and. Dads but he's, older,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Right So arn is up there and he's standing. There
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: he's got his slacks on AND i made him wear
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: This Mike ditka vest with my logo on. It he
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: hated that he's up on the top of the ramp
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: and there's two guys who are running to fight. Us
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: and it was very clear he's gonna throw a, punch
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: and you block this. PUNCH i mean it is like
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: you just do. This this is a clear, thing and
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: then just start punching him and his, name you, know
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: He'll i'll fight the other guy and we'll fight to
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: the ring and it'll be. Exciting people love a fight
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: that spills out all over the. Arena, Well i'm standing
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: there and here they come. Running they're coming with full.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Intent i'll look over and he's just. Gone he just
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: fell into the pyro grap so he's just falling under the.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Production BUT i don't know how he. Fell so multiple
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: times with THIS, og these incidents would, happen so that
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: one he fell AND i could see the young guys
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: like trying to pull him up so you don't get
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: it blown up by the, pyro but also fight you
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: back down the. Ramp another time In Arthur Ash, stadium
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: he's supposed to be waiting on the back side of
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: the ring And i'm being ready to shoot the guy
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: off towards. Him he's nowhere to be, found AND i just,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: said screw. IT i shot the guy. Off, anyways there's no,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: like no like he because he went around the post
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and he just. FELL i think the END i was
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: asking too much and he was of the thought like,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: YEAH i can do.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: It.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah but a lot of great memories happened with my
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: really brief. ROM i miss him because things like that
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: will go SO i don't know if those are always
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: great FOR, tv but they they always went left with DOUBLE,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: a which is great because he's a master and it
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: had done this game he SO i appreciated that time
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: we had together where we could have these full.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: Moments you, know Gotch WrestleMania forty two was coming Up april. Eighteen,
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: yeah all, right so what should the people?
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Expect oh my, gosh It's Allegian. Stadium have you been
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: To Allegiant? Stadium?
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: NO i. Haven't, Now i've been in To vegas so many.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Times haven't been?
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: There go they called the Death star really? Wow, yeah
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: because it's just a giant black out in the middle
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: of the. DESERT i guess it gives like the doom
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: and gloom of The Death star From Star. Wars but really,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: cool great place to watch. Anything but this, year if
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: you went to last year it Was John cena Versus
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: me In Las, vegas you had a triple threat With
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Seth roman And. Punk this year you've got the main,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: event which is first Time punk see, Him punk Versus roman,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: rains and the main event on the other, night myself
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Versus Randy, jordan which is twenty almost twenty years of
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: real equity between each. Other AND i think wrestling is
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: always best when it's. REAL i know that sounds, silly
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: but that's a hard. One it's very real for me
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: because this is the guy who brought me into the
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: fold to be part of his. Faction this is a
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: guy WHO i drove from town to, town WHO i
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: watched him in A WrestleMania main event Against TRIPLE h
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: in two thousand and. Nine he was genuinely my mentor
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: in the. Industry so to stand across the ring from
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: each other in the biggest match that we do of the,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: year knowing, like, HEY i need you to see me
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Like i'm not a kid. Anymore it's back to that's
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: that makes for GREAT tv and great great, matches AND
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: i THINK i look forward to that. Moment But WrestleMania in,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: general you're gonna see because you mentioned the old the
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: good thing about is you get to see the new.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Two you get to see the young. Two we're. Reloading
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: it's very clear we're, reloading and that's. Great it puts
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: the fire on me AND i like. That but it's
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: the biggest thing we, do the best thing we. Do
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: if you're ever gonna step, in if you don't like,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: wrestling if you kind of used to like, it going
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: to A WrestleMania can tell you if this is going
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: to be for, you AND i think it's for.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Everybody how often do you know because of COURSE ww
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: writes to. Scripts how often can arrested change that?
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Script it. Depends so you, know people say like script a,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: lot which is PROBABLY i think we've called it that
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: every now and. Then it's almost more of just a
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: format because now one of the beautiful things about having
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: these guys who have seasoning is you're not going to
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: write for. Them no one's gonna write unless it's an ad.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Read you don't have to write it for. ME i
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: just need to know where where this is supposed to.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: GO i don't want to go off book in a
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: sense of our, book my own, angle or go into
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: business for. Myself but the really the great ones are
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: always a bit, off and you got to, have LIKE
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: i always, say in the. Pockets you got to have
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: three or four things in the, pockets because if you're
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: in there with a, rock if you're in there with
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: A John, cena if you're in there with any of
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: the guys who we've talked about, here you got to
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: have some stuff in the pockets in case they go.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Left it's not always. Great it's a, collaboration, sure but
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: going left is fun if the person can keep up
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: and go left with. You another really great scribe for
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: it in terms of the scripting of it all is
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the fact That Paul, Hayman hall Of, famer Mister hayman
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: sits there and he's just got the, gift silver, tongue
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: just the son of a, Lawyer New York, city just the,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: gift and he's very good if you can't put the words.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Together but for, ME i don't Think i've had a
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: written promo SINCE i came back again unless it's, hey
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: a specific he ad, read, yes be an unlimited plan ww,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: rustlemania you know WHAT i, Mean, like it's that specific for,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: me but it's it goes wild each, night which is
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: great because the AUDIENCE i think smart, fans and you
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: get a lot of the smarter fans in The New york.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Area they know when it's, like, hmm this is becoming
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: its own. Thing. Huh AND i love that because that's
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the beauty and the best can keep up with each.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Other so you tell him that's why they comes see
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: the seasoned people.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: DAY i didn't even get mad at the old, thing
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: but that is the that's the. Deal and and the
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: moment we, mentioned you, know, kid we mentioned. Trick the
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: moment you're in there with one of those guys and
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: they can take it with you and they can make
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: that move with. You that's that's seeing. Them that's all
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: we're gonna be, okay we're gonna be all right, here
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: and that that's trust because you want to you, know for,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: me like currently being champion and how much this means to,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: ME i want to trust when it's when it's When
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: i'm gone and watching ON, tv that it's good that
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: people are still. Coming you, know how do you keep
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: your sanity?
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Right you you were talking about your, family your wife
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: and your, kids but you need some family time as,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: well and wrestling fans sometimes are. CRAZY i remember the
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: one STORY i can't remember the wrestler they chased, him
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: followed him and you had to pull over and and
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: just sign an. AUTOGRAPH i was, just, so how do
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: you deal with that with with crazy fans when you're
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: just trying to get some family?
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: TIME i Remember TRIPLE h, said you, know there really
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: isn't a work life balance with, this AND i think
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: maybe the answer to that, is and this probably won't
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: sound the WAY i mean it to, sound BUT i
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: bring them into the work. Right my daughter's got two
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: trips coming. Up she's going to the, beach and then
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: she's going To. WrestleMania the one she's most excited, about,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: shockingly is going To. WrestleMania she's, four but she was
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: there WHEN i picked her up in so far the
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: first stadium SHOW i ever re, made, invented and NOW
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: i said hi to her At allegiance that last, year
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: and she's looking forward to what are we going to
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: do this? Year i'm gonna be in the front. Row
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: what are we doing this? YEAR i try to bring
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: them around, it and with my, CHILDREN i try to
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: explain the importance of the. Fan that also means every
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: type of. Fan so there's the diehard fans who you
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: know you've touched and you're lucky as all can be to.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Have there's also the, collectors and there's there's some who
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: maybe they're the, haters the. Critics they're all really really,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: important and to, me it's always a. Yes it's always you,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: KNOW i can't do it While i'm holding a, baby,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: no but it's always a. Yes now here's where there's
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: a little bit of the, Balance So i'm all about.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: It the fans are the most important thing we, have
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: AND i try to explain that to the children that
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: they provide, this this house that they're part of.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: That.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Right my, wife, though is the other side of, that
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: you know What i'm. Saying AND i think sometimes she
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: just provides a look that helps us a little bit
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: of a deflection a little, bit And i'm, like all,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: right that's, GOOD i got.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Her so what have you learned about showing up for your? Wife?
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: Brandy right while doing and sustaining all of. THAT i
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: remember her talking about like postpartum depression at one and you,
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: know she's had a very successful, career like she's first
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: black woman in the ring announcer Of WrestleMania twenty. Fifteen,
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: yeah first black woman executive In North america wrestling. Operations,
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: right and then she becomes a mom and she's very
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: open about how things change for. Her how do you
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: step out of your character and just as a husband
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: support her in those type of.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: SITUATIONS i think.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: What i've tried to do is everything is, is there's
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: not A i don't want there to be value weight
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: on WHAT i do that's not equal to what she.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Does so this is the biggest season of my, Life.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: WrestleMania It's i'm everything IS I i, sleep, training, diet,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Everything this is. It but in the same vein she's
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: doing a huge porch tale at her kid's, store which
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: is In roswell Called. Pinkerton's they're the. SAME i need
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: like AND i don't know if she believes me WHEN
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: i tell her. That so the only WAY i can
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: do that is just show it that there is no,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: like there's no weight to. This i'm there's there's no
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: bread winner in our house or anything like, that because
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: we did this. Together so that's been the. THING i
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: DON'T i don't know if it's always always, translates but
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: that's WHAT i always try to, do to make it
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: very clear that what you do is is just as
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: important as WHAT i, do and support to support. Those
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: but the big thing, too and we learned this from,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: wrestling is that's yours, right like they're cool, this this is,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: great like let me this is my. Thing but WHEN
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: i came to W, b a lot of people Thought
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: brandy would come with and the big part of this
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: was let's do let's do our own. Things let's do
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: our own. Things sometimes when you're a couple and you
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: beat each other over the head with, it that's you,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: know like, no, no and it's and it's also you,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: know if you're a, fan, LIKE i don't know How
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: i'm a baby face in the first, place bleach blonde hair, wear,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: suits The american flag on the side of my. NECK
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: i don't know why the why haven't gone the other?
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Way Why i'm not a vicious. Heel BUT i can
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: tell you that when you add in this beautiful woman
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: to the that less likely that the grown men coming
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: those shows want to cheer for, you now you know
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: WHAT i? Mean, like it's really. Not, yeah so we
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: we've gone to put spotlights in our own places and
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: separated that, way which has been really. Good but it's.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Daily it's. Daily you, know you gotta you gotta be.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: There when you came back into THE, wwe you said
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: that she a decision is she made was the only
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: reason why you were even able to come, Back and
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: like what was?
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: That like what happened of?
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Thing WHAT i meant or IF i meant SOMETHING i shouldn't.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Say you said story that everyone's going to.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: Know BUT i wasn't even able to been able to
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: come back if she didn't make a very selfless decision
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: that changed my.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Life, yeah SO i think WHAT i our departure from
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: when we left the company we were with and helped,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: create and that was Aw. Uh it came down to
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: her her deciding to to not talk about it right that, departure,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: like let's we're not going to talk About we're moving.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: On did bad stuff? Happen good stuff happened, too, Right
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: i'm not going to talk about. It and one of
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the sad things about not talking about why we left
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: in the, departure one of the difficult thing was narratives gets,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: created so stories get, told podcasts. Happened fans literally think
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: they know what, happened where no one's been even. Close
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: and WHAT i would say is the selfless part she
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: she lives with, that she owns, that that she respects
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: not just, here but the place we left enough To
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: i'm not gonna talk about. That and that made it
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: so that they're. Good they're out of Here Scott. Ford
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: that that was, very very helpful for. Us and, again
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: good stuff happened there. Too but that's WHAT i mean by,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: selfless because she lives with. That and one of the
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: things about that is wrestling FANS i, mentioned they create a,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: narrative they think they. KNOW i had to remind, Her
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: i'm Like, hey it's not all the, fans And WrestleMania
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: forty was the prime example of. THAT i, said you're
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: gonna come out with me At WrestleMania, forty AND i
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: was so happy because the fans reacted like big, pop big,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: excitement AND i just needed her to like kind of
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: nudge or like see like they're the real. Ones they get,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: it you know What i'm. Saying like they they they
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: aren't mad at. You and that was very important that
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: she felt it because a lot of a lot of
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: wrestling take a step, off they go, away or they do,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: something or they screw, up make a, mistake, whatever then
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: they come back and the fans like they always cradle
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: you back. In they're really special even, Tonight Like i'm.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Not i'll probably go out in the garden and get
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: boot out of the. Area, wow that's, okay that's okay
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Because i've been cheered to the heavens that in that
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: place before, too so that if that's what you need,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Tonight i'm here for.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: It what's your relationship with your?
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: BROTHER i love my. Brother, YEAH i love my. Brother.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah why, YEAH i think he uh you, know he's
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: sixteen years older than, me so we didn't get as
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: much brother time as we should have WHEN i was growing.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Up but he does this thing now which blows my
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: mind because it was never a thing in our. Family
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: was he shows his. Dog he's got his, dog so
• 29:50
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• 29:52
  Speaker 1: garden my, dad, me my, wife my brother and his Dog.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Beasts his dog was a was The Kennel, Club like
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: he went From javits to the Garden gate it one
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• 30:09
  Speaker 1: up SO i don't know where it came. From so
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: he's got these three. Dogs he took it To england
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: the other. Day so it's just funny because this Is.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Dustin this is Like killbilly brother From, Austin, texas who's
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: got this, pristine perfect dog show dog and that's his.
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  Speaker 1: Thing right, now he's still wrestling the last MATCH i saw.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Him he's still moving at an incredible. RATE i always tell,
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  Speaker 1: PEOPLE i, Know hall Of fame is, tricky you, know
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  Speaker 1: because there's a lot Of hall Of famers who are
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  Speaker 1: deserving of, it but we can only put so many
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  Speaker 1: in each. YEAR i think that's hopefully a step for
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  Speaker 1: him in the, future BECAUSE i think he definitely deserves
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: it for more reasons than just what he put in
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: in the. Ring he's really done a great job of
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: surviving that era of you, know where it was a
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: lot more, crazy a lot more rock, star and like
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  Speaker 1: to become such a good father and father now showing.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: DOGS i love my. Brother he was one of my favorite,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: wrestlers if not my favorite. WRESTLER i just because my.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Brother don't. TELL i always, say, Oh Sean michaels is
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: my favorite, wrestler but my brother's up there.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Too, now who is on Your Mount rushmore Of? Restless
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  Speaker 2: in Your Mount rushmore wrestling?
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Family? First oh, Man so you usually lie about this
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: question because we get asked it a lot And i'm
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: waiting for some fan to, go, hey he said he
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: he said that guy last. Week the reason is because
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: there's so many correct and fans get really like Sports.
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  Speaker 1: Kida there's like these aggregate. Sites they're gonna pick this
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  Speaker 1: up and it's the only piece of this. Interview so
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  Speaker 1: we had this awesome chat and they're gonna Go cody
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  Speaker 1: Says Terry funk On Mount Rushmo and then like eighty
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  Speaker 1: people are gonna get mad or get. Excited some. Families
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  Speaker 1: you're saying.
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  Speaker 2: Families, families Mount rushmore.
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  Speaker 1: Family mc, Mahon's, okay, hearts probably man's. HEARTS i put the.
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  Speaker 1: ROADS i put the roads because we really finished the, loop,
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  Speaker 1: right it's all you, like there's not as much an.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Imbalance he did all that, stuff And i'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: catch you. Up you know WHAT i. Mean. Roads, now
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  Speaker 1: this is where it gets. Tricky so you got the,
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  Speaker 1: hearts you get the, roads you get the. Mcmn's you
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  Speaker 1: could put the guerreros for, sure my, gosh and in
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  Speaker 1: credit you could put them stereos, now ray out, there
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  Speaker 1: dom out. There this is why these they need more
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  Speaker 1: heads on the. Mountain Dog, okay but. Guerreros i'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to pick though between guerreros. Stereos and then there's other families. Too,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: well then what AM i? Saying, Though i'm ignoring a,
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  Speaker 1: giant massive family here because it's so massive you almost
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: forget the Entire High chief. Family That's, peter My, villa
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  Speaker 1: that's The, rock That's Roman, reigns that's The, usso's That's Jaika,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: fatu That's, naya that's That's. Trinity that, like it's the Run,
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  Speaker 1: run it's a big So i'm gonna Go Makeman's i'm
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  Speaker 1: going to. Go i'm going to go the, bloodline will
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  Speaker 1: just call, them which is High Chief peter And roman
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  Speaker 1: and all. That i'll go roads And i'll go hearts o.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Period last question for, me we see a lot of times.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Wrestlers put their.
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  Speaker 3: Views into the things that they, say like we've seen
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: you a whole cold and when they put their political.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Views what are your thoughts on wrestless talking about their political,
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  Speaker 3: views how they feel and all.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: That what is your thoughts on?
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: THAT i, MEAN i would probably classified as a terrible,
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  Speaker 1: idea but MAYBE i say. This of, course when there's
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  Speaker 1: an issue that needs attention that the whole world is,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: going what are we doing? Here somebody say. Something there's
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of times if you're about to go out
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: there with a hot, mic you feel LIKE i should touch.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: THIS i should and maybe you, should, right maybe you,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: should Because i've hear people say, like, well why would
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: you want half your? AUDIENCE i don't really think that.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: WAY i Think i'm reactionary AND i think HOW i
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: think in that. Moment maybe maybe it's helpful to think
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  Speaker 1: more strategic and more help. POLITICAL i think there's certain
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: things that are views and politics and they probably aren't
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  Speaker 1: great to bring into the narrative because you're telling a
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: story ON, tv maybe you don't need. That but THEN
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: i think there are things that aren't political that we
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: should stop, acting like why is this a big? Deal
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Like Pride month is that's not a political. Thing that's
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: that's that's. Love we can't can't do An american nightmare
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  Speaker 1: scull with the like what are we doing?
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  Speaker 5: Here?
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  Speaker 1: Guys you know like those THINGS i think you can move.
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  Speaker 1: Into that's we're growing up with all that we're we're.
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  Speaker 1: Learning BUT i would, say from my experience ever having
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  Speaker 1: dropped anything in there that was probably that it's not
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  Speaker 1: a GREAT i WOULDN'T i wouldn't. Say i'd, say if,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: anything it becomes a, distraction like If i'm trying to
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: sell this ladder match with you AND i and THEN
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: i went on something about the modern political, climate that
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: is what they're going to remember from that promo versus
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: that we're trying to climb that ladder and bring down the.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: Title you, Know so, yeah you still thinking about runificent?
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: It? AH I george is, funny right because There's georgia
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  Speaker 1: and There's, atlanta, right And i'm more in The atlanta orbit,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: north like the metro area in terms of like the
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  Speaker 1: energy that Is georgia because Like valdosta is very different From.
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  Speaker 1: North because the governor spot In georgia has always very
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: much intrigued. Me BUT i will be very honest in this,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: MOMENT i am incredibly unqualified to do so IF i
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: did anything like, THAT i would do the best to
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: bring the people around me who are qualified and to help.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Help if you've got a modicum of fame AND i
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  Speaker 1: can help somebody and that can help put, it put
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  Speaker 1: us somewhere we need to, go Then i'm all for.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: IT i love that. SEAT i love that, spot especially
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: If i'm surrounded by the right. People and a big
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: thing IF i had to get into like a political,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: platform is you got to have a green. Initiative with
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: all the crazy stuff we still talk about like from our,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: childhood that shouldn't be an issue. Anymore why are we
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: not talking green? Initiative we are burning this thing as we,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Go and that's a big one for. Me IF i
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: had to start with, Anything i'd start. There maybe the
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: one AREA i might be qualified BUT i don't know who.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: KNOWS i still this is this is WHAT i do.
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: Now, so, yeah that is the coolest wedding ring like
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: you've never. Seen it looks like like the, chain like a. Chain,
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: yeah does your wife have the same type of?
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: One? No, no she didn't like the ONE i got.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Her she didn't like it and just went and got
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: a giant you, know like the four seas of the.
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  Speaker 1: DIAMONDS i Thought i'd get like a very nice qualify
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  Speaker 1: under all the four, seas LIKE i didn't realize she
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: just wanted like a just a really big. Rock so
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: she she after a few years of making it CLEAR
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: i had made the wrong call WHEN i, said just get,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: it just get your, thing get your, thing and she
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: went and got a giant rock and she picked for. You,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: no this ONE i picked. OUT i needed a little retail.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Therapy Before russellmania forty In, PHILLY i had gotten taken
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: out of the, match SO i won the right to
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: may have Been, WrestleMania and then because of some other,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: FACTORS i wasn't in the match. Anymore SO i went
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: on a shopping spree in The bellaggio and this was
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: at The tiffany's there and that is. Dope it started
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: as tie pins and it turned INTO i cleaned up
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: and THEN i got the MATCH i wanted in the first,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: place SO i had. IT i was, like, well at
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: LEAST i was calm for a few. Hours. Yeah.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Well WrestleMania forty two takes Place Saturday april eighteenth And
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Saturday april nineteenth In. Vegas if you haven't got your,
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  Speaker 2: Espn and we appreciate you for joining. Us, Man thank
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  Speaker 2: you guys for having.
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  Speaker 1: Me that's the right. Run thank.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: YOU i Wish charlemagne was here so you could slap
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: them with the bell one good, time yet one good,
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: TIME i.
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  Speaker 2: DON'T i don't like them too.
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  Speaker 4: Much up and just smack them with the ring the
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  Speaker 4: heel of the.
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  Speaker 1: Room, yes oh, okay you need that though.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Only three days a. Week not all ladies and.
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  Speaker 3: Gentlemen It's Cody, Roads it's the Breakfast. Club good, morning
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: thank you so.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Much hold up every DAY.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I wake, up pake your ass up the Breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: Club you, finish y'all?
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  Speaker 4: Done