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This is the art of wrestling with
professional wrestler called Cabanta. All right,

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soul as the hearts of the lives
of the people involved in the world of

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professional wrestling. I'm your host.
My name is Cold Cabana. I'm an

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actor, I'm a stuntman, I'm
a podcaster, I'm a world traveler.

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Cabana today is in the series of
a celebration of me An NBC's The Young

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Rock, which you can watch right
now if you have Hulu, Episode eight,

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season two, from what I hear, the best episode of the show

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so far, A true throwback.
When I got the job to play Brooklyn

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Brawler, I had never seen the
show. I don't know why. For

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some reason, I was just like, yeah, I don't know. I

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don't I don't think I'm gonna watch
this show. I don't know why.

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I love wrestling, I love throwback
wrestling. I just didn't watch it.

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And I got a text from Peter
Rosenberg who was like telling me how great

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this show is, how we can't
believe every single mainstream wrestling fan doesn't watch

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this show. And I agreed with
Peter because I feel I was that person

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who loved wrestling and wasn't watching it, and then I watched it and I

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was like, holy shit, this
is the best random cameos from people playing

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Jeff Jarrett, Greg the Hammer,
Valentine, the wild Samoans Haku, Sergeant

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Slaughter, so on and so forth, and they do justice to these characters.

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That's the best part. Of course, it's not to the tea,

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but there is a great detail that
is put into by wrestling fanatics to make

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sure the little details are included.
And I recommend not only watching this episode,

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but watching season two and the whole
season. When I got the breakdown,

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I was looking at all the different
names being played Man Mountain, Mike,

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Haystacks, Calhoun, Jake, the
Snake, Roberts, just such a

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weird variety of people from our world, our community. And of course one

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of those people was the Brooklyn Brawler. He was the rocks very first match.

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I remember getting the audition they call
him sides in the business, getting

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it from my agency's Stuart Talent.
In my email, the call was for

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young Rock to play Brooklyn Brawler,
and I was just like, Wow,

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I was meant to play this role. I've had the Brooklyn Brawler on this

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show. This is a return by
the Brooklyn Brawler, which isn't something that

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happens a lot. Usually it's my
really really good friends Sunjay's return, Kevin

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Steen's returned, Jay Lethal's returned,
and now the Brooklyn Brawler has returned,

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And usually it's because there's a new
point in their career. But this was

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just so perfect that I did a
very specific thing that was one based around

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his very specific life. So I
thought it would be fun to just kind

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of really go through everything that I
was going through in this part and kind

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of seeing how he felt, who
he was, what it was like with

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that exact experience, and that's what
we do in the podcast today Truth be

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Told. I thought the episode was
coming out in June or July because when

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we filmed it it was named episode
eleven. So I was doing the math

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and I knew I could see the
Brawler in Jersey this past weekend, surprise

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him on air, and then bank
the episode and put it out when my

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episode came out. But I don't
really know how Hollywood works, and it

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ended up being episode eight instead of
Episode eleven, but it was very close

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to the episode. Last week,
Chabo was on who was the stunt coordinator.

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I did the show with him while
in Australia, and now I got

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to do the podcast instead of before
the show, I get to do it

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with him after the show to get
his reaction, and of course his reactions

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are fun. Brawler is a character, if you will, very lovable,

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very affable, and fun to sit
down with him. Now, some of

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you remember my experience with the Brooklyn
Brawler while in the WWE. Even a

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couple of people tweeted about the Happy
Bus. And for those of you who

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don't remember or are not going to
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I did with the Brooklyn Brawler.
When I got to the WWE, I

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wasn't pegged to be a giant superstar. I did not look like Sina,

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I did not look like Batista.
But the writers, the writers knew that

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I was fun and funny and quickwitted
and there was a hidden spot in WWE

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where people like that could go,
and that was AWWE dot com show.

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So a couple of the writers got
me a WWE dot com show. And

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in the WWE, the Brooklyn Brawler
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So we're crossing our fingers that in
season three, when the Rock does his

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promos, you will be seeing the
Brooklyn Brawler in that promo room directing him

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in the promos. But when I
got there, I was not a star

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at the time. I was coming
from developmental. Brooklyn Brawler wasn't sure who

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I was. I was just some
kid who happened to be in his late

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twenties and have been doing wrestling for
a long long time internationally all over the

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world at a very high level.
But Brooklyn Brawler didn't know who I was.

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And he was doing the web shows
of people like John Cena, The

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Mizzen Morrison and Crime Time. And
then here's this guy, Scotty Goldman,

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who the hell is Scotty Goldman?
And Brawler was very protective and that was

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his job. He was protective over
that room. To him, the room

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was sacred, and here was this
nobody coming in and trying to do jokes

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and making a little show. And
he had a lot of negative energy towards

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me because this was out of his
element. This was different. This wasn't

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a superstar. This was some no
name in the WWE world, And I

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think to a lesser person it could
have really hurt their confidence and I'll be

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honest, it probably did hurt my
confidence. I didn't have this guy on

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my side, not necessarily berating,
but close to it. And a couple

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of weeks later, after a couple
of weeks of negative energy towards myself,

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I went to Brawler and I said
to him, I'm a human. I'm

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trying to make my bark in this
company. This is my one shot.

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I have a mortgage payment, I
have a family, which I mean I

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did have a family, but I
didn't have like a real family. But

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I did that for dramatic purposes.
And I said you could either jump on

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the happy bus or the sad bus, a speech told by Red Basteen told

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to Landi Pafo that I was told. And then the next week Brooklyn Brawler

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came to me and he apologized.
He said I hit him in the heart.

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And in this podcast I do with
the Brawler, he makes a statement

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that people only see the wrestlers,
not the person. And I think I

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got him to see the person me
instead of the wrestler, some random guy

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coming up from developmental And ever since
then we've had a very nice relationship and

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I invite him on my show today. This is not an hour long episode,

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but it is a fun talk.
We go over basically everything that happened

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in my episode, and you can
hear the excitement and the Brooklyn Brawler for

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me gold Cabana playing him on NBC's
The Young Rock. We're gonna take a

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quick little break and we'll be back
with the Brooklyn Brawler. Really we watch

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the Lawyer ye grow, yeah,
of course, and uh and some other

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seven bucks. I said, well, what's your reason for this call?

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He said, it's a courtesy.
What's for a while? Yeah? Yeah,

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for the last five y five years
or so? How many would you

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take a lot of cakes to the
wat ship we can talking about on the

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show. Yeah, ask me all
the questions on the shows here, all

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right, this is good, Okay, all right, Steve ask away,

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you have a lot of questions.
Yeah. I think it was really cool

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for the fact that you played me
in Young Rock. You do a tremendous

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job. You looked more like me
than me. I've made every so everybody

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on the set, there's so much. It was such a fun experience for

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me. It was seven weeks in
Australia. I was out there with all

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these people that you wrestled with and
worked with. I was there with actors

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my age playing them at you know, in their youth, and so everyone

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was like trying to call and talk
to the person that they played, right,

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all these actors wondering while well,
I was thinking to myself, I

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was like, I could call him, and you know, these actors are

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are like, hey, I want
to just get your mannerisms. I want

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to know who you know, how
you would speak. And it's like I've

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worked with Brawler. I did podcast
with Brawler. I know Brawl, I

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know how he worked, I know
how how he acts, who he is

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is he tried a little cocky.
I like when I like when you pulled

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over in a car and you said, and you said, uh, sold

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out fifteen thousand people. Real good, first try out match, fifteen thousand

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people. It's true. It was
true. Everything that happened was almost verbatim.

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Well that's what I want to get
into, but I did. I

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wanted to make it a surprise.
I wanted I almost in my head because

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I assumed you thought that just an
actor would be playing That's what I thought

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originally, Yeah, which I am. Don't don't get me wrong, now

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you are, so I thought it
would be so funny if you turned on

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the TV and you're like, no, it never happened, because I would

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have known it. I wouldn't know. I have connections with Universal, and

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I have connections with Brian. I
call Rock personally, right. I didn't

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do it, but I never knew
what fandango to me fan dango, I

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stooge out, I stooge out.
He was sitting next to me, one

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of those signs. He just says, you know, cults playing you young

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Rock. I said, really,
okay, I didn't think nothing of it.

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I was trying to take a resemblance
because I always remember you clean shade,

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you know, more of a haha
guy. Yes, I was a

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serious, fucking hard nose hooking.
First impression you saw me on the screen,

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Yeah, what do you think?
I thought, that's a fucking close

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likeness. My wife said, wow, what great casting. My sister textually,

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that is good casting, you know
what I mean? It was it

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resemblance because of a hat. You
know, in the shirt, you hide,

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your body, you hide you know
all this shit. It's easier to

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portray someone. And I think my
what I wanted to do with like my

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face was to always kind of like
scrunch up. That was my way of

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scrunch of getting in brawler mode.
I think when you because you were you

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were a hard nosed, mean heel, so like the idea of like squshing

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your face and be like ask hear
you you all suck. But even I'm

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yes, yeah, but not in
real life, right, But I feel

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that that show The Young Rock and
I don't know if you've seen any of

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the other episode, you know,
it's like Sergeant Slaughter when he's having lunch.

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She's dressed like Sergeant Slaughter. It's
kind of you're playing the cartoon character.

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It's like I always I'm always dressed. You're always always You know what's

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funny is we had a because people
would tweet me and they're like, oh,

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well the shirt needs to be dirty
year. But we had a shirt

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going to the ring, and if
you noticed, when I wrestled, it

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was a sweatshirt that was the same
thing. No one should b b browlo

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right. I once said that was
my casual gear going to the show,

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and the other one was the wrestling. Yes, yeah, this was about

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the Rocks first match. I think
we might have talked about your first match

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in the podcast that we did years
ago, but maybe a reminder as we

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started, I kind of want to
get into the dissection of the show and

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then just the parallels that go with
the show and what happens in your life.

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So what was your first match and
your first was Your first match was

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a WWF match, right, No, my first match ever was Enough Salem,

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Oregon against Curdhanding. Curred Handing had
come into WWF and Vince said he

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had to leave and come back because
he didn't look like he looked when we

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knew mister perfect. He looked cutting
from the happy day. People don't even

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know that no more. But he
told me, fly down here. He

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goes and challenge I'll challenge anybody of
the audience. You stand up. I

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flew down here and went to his
house. He said to me. I

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said, I'd never been in the
ring of my life. He says,

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just grab a headlock and hang on. That's all you gotta do is hang

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on. That was a fact that
was hard to do. Just like that,

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the way he's foot flopping, foot
flipping around. He dragged his body

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outside, he grabbed the barricade,
he started bringing them into the ring.

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Just holding on. Didn't give me
a bell a belly the back and then

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for the rest of my my life, he's making fun of me. I

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give you a simple belly to back
beaches like nothing. I mean, now,

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this wasn't WWF No, no,
just an indie show. Wasn't indie

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then? Damn? My first match
was with what the hell was his name?

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The guy with the change hercules?
No, no, no, no,

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no, uh, I can't remember
a Russian? Yeah, kind of

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a riving coal that's it. Yep. First, right, so your first

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match in WWF Ivan Ivan Cola.
Did anybody pick you up from the airport

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and take it to the show?
No, I didn't have me. I

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just got there. Yeah, I
just got there. No. St.

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Jones was before, I haven't that
was That was WF house match. I

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froze in a ring. But you
know what it's like your first time.

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But your first match was SD Jones
and show No first pritch was Kurt in

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Oregon WF show. Yes, was
s G Jones then first. So this

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is a line that was cut out
from the show. They did a lot

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of editing, right, Yeah,
they did entertain one about me and my

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first match. Well, he there
was a line we got cut out.

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So if you noticed when we're driving
up and it says like Steve Lombardi and

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it shows the things. Uh I
was talking. Well, that was dialogue

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for the show, and the line
was my first match was against an Albanian

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strongman and his farm horse, which
it's shit line just for I'm glad to

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cut that one done for comedic purposes. The next line was that also got

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cut which Rock ended up doing the
voiceover for, was you know I broke

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your father into the WWF two And
then I would say I'm kind of like

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the Johnson Whisperer, which I thought
was a great lone. Yeah, got

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that got cut out. Rock did
the voice over for it. So you

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had rockies Johnson's that's correct. Yeah. I had his first w he was

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he was eight years ago. Then
he came back to him another chance and

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he I had his first WWF match
back as a single, and I wasn't

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is there anything memorable or just a
match? No, it was memorable,

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but Rock scared of shit out of
me because I knew him since he was

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young. I knew him was a
little kid like in a dressing room when

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Rock he was in his first time
a long time ago, and you never

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would have guessed the skinny kid would
like a like a little bit of an

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Afro type thing, and I never
would have guessed in a million years.

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Even when I wrestled him, I
thought it was a jock. You know,

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I wrestled a million bodybuillers, a
million football players. I liked him,

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I knew him, but I just
didn't feel it. You know,

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I did the actual match itself.
I didn't feel that a guy could go

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in at his first match his whole
career in front of an audience, in

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front of fifteen thousand people. I
thought that that was I would making me

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look bad. That's that's what I
thought. Interesting, And okay, I

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want to get into the match.
In a second, I did have a

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question about other kids wrestlers, so
it's kind of which is based up on

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the question I was about to ask. You kind of said like I wrestled

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all the body billards and all the
jocks. But when I was thinking about

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it was just like because I did
a podcast with UM last week with Chavo,

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and he was talking about Gene Kaninski's
kid, who I'm sure got to

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try out in WWF, And there
I'm sure Greg Ganya got to try out

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in the w and even David Sam
Martino like, were you did you did

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you wrestle these guys? Yeah,
well, David, I wrestled the tag

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with Bruno. That was Bruno's last
match. Yeah, because Vincent he was

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doing a commentating with commentation with Bruno
and Bruno want you to have one more?

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You could be the Babe Ruth of
the company. He goes, I

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would only do a match if I
could be with Stephen Buddy because he's not

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really he's not greedy, and he
takes Sherry in the ring. He's convincing.

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That's what he said. What a
compliment he told me every time I

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want to wear an autograph thing with
him, Yeah, always always boarded up.

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And then I mean that kind of
goes with the show. Is Michael

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Hayes goes, you know Brawler will
take carrying general in general. Yeah,

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ring General, which again another they
would would he would never say, I

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realized, but Hunter was on on
on the nose as far as you know

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when he came in except for the
nose for except for these, but he

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was he was over confident, and
you see the jealousy between him and Allston

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about Rock. They didn't pop until
I had him. You had him in

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the headlock. I see me,
me and you are a shape person.

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We hadn't been a headline. You
said, just give a shit about you,

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you know what I mean, just
lay here. He took his eyes

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and I did shit like that.
If the people come up with you like

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that, you're getting they're believing you. And that's what he's fallen toward him

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in the show, you know what
I mean. It's not the move,

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it's making them believe it. You
know, I watched a bunch of brawler

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matches before I did it. But
it's like, I know, I don't

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know. I've been watching you since
I was a kid. It's I felt

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I was like born to play this
role. It's it's crazy who calls you

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up? Who who got you the
gig? So I have an agent,

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I'm a working actor. They put
it out there. You know. I

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did the audition, and after I
did the audition, I'm just like,

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I mean, if ever there was
a role for me, an actor,

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an eighties wrestler, you know,
the guy I know like actually doing the

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wrestling. So I sent my audition
and through my agents, and then after

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it went through, I called up
Chavo and I said, hey, man,

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I'm auditioning for this show, you
know, wrestling phone book, like

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you know any you know, like
if there's anything you could say, I

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would appreciate it. And he knew
that this first match he needed a wrestler

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for this part. And so that's
kind of, you know, they launched

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my audition. I think my audition
was very good. Yeah, and so

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you know, same as the acting
on the show, which I think is

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passable, if not good. And
so yeah, I got the part and

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I got to play you, and
I think it's important that I was a

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wrestler. And I was like,
well, I'm gonna be the only rescue

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I would have been. I would
look like shit, you would have looked

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because I don't know if you've seen
some of the other Yeah, but they

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do a great job of like,
okay, cut quick, because it's not

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I think I put a sequence together. I'd like the beginning when you came

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in and you kicked him into the
stomach and then you fucking zac move I

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would do, which is the overhand
club. Yeah, and I was kind

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of like it was gonna look stiff. I was barking a little bit like

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Iron Mike Sharp in my head,
but I feel you would do the same

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kind of barking, like making the
noise, and I would do like you

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did too, and turn around and
say, oh the man, Yeah,

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the man. You know. So
let's take let's take it through. Did

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you pick him up from the airport? No? Did you drive him to

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the show? Yes? And turned
How did that work? How did that

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day work? Do you remember Corpus
Chrispy Corpus, Chrispy Christie Christie Christie Corpus

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Christy. Uh, I knew I
was wrestling him like a week before,

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and uh Bruno Harvey Wooferman, we
were traveling together and they were close friends

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because you see a new episode instead
of coming out and he drove he came

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picking me up on that land and
drove me to Dwayne's room. And I

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seen him. He was impressive looking, but it was he looked big.

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He looked like he would be clumsy
like Clidale. You know. He just

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don't look like he would have the
agility that he had, you know.

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And then when I when I gave
him, gave him all the spots.

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So yeah, yeah, then if
you read his first book, he says,

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yeah, what Steve Lebardi gave me
my first my first match. I

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wrote all the spots down on a
napkin. I went in the corner and

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I memorized him. He says,
because he over confident, over scared.

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You know what I mean when you
say I gave him all the spots.

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I said, you knew it,
did drive it in the addressement, Okay,

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can you do this? Can you
do that? Can you do this?

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Can you do that? So you
did drive? You picked him up

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from his hotel, and you guys
just drove and you don't remember anything about

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that? There, no, no, but what I didn't drive him because

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I hate driving. Oh Bruno drove, Bruno drove. Oh no, Bruno

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picked me up and then he drove
me in Rock to the Okay, there

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you go information. We didn't know
it's Hollywood, but it's ninety eight percent

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accurate. Ninety eight percent accurate.
Okay. So then you guys get to

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the arena in the show, I
introduced the Rock to Michael Hayes. I'm

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assuming maybe that's not accurate. You
do you remember if you as you come

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Michael Hayes knew he was coming in. They well, everyone knew he was

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coming in, and uh, basically
They made it sound like it was my

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decision to put him over. It
was their decision had over. Yeah,

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because you know how it works.
Yeah, and if I would have walked

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in the room and slaps a Bundy
chest said good work, he goes,

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how do you know? Because the
butcher get the fuck out, you know

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what I mean? He didn't.
I didn't get the respect like like they

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gave me in the series. Maybe
look like, what's calling me a ring

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general? You know what? To
ring general? That's a big statement.

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Yeah, of course, old statement. I believe it though. Yeah,

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I gotta be a ring general tonight
mostly tonight. Yeah, general will not

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get hurt. But back then,
Steve will do that. Steve will do

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it, Steve will do anything.
Of course. I had everybody's first had

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Mark Henry's first match. I had
a huge Steambo's first match. I had

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Bret Hodts first match in ww F. I had Owen Haughts first match in

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WWF. I mean there's so many
I leave I leave some out. The

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shows are add free over on Patreon. Let's take a quick break. We'll

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be right back. So when you're
ready to go to the ring for this

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match with the Rock, do you
remember his nerves. Are you nervous?

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He's he was nervous. He walked
out. You could drop a pin.

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You would have heard it. Didn't
know who he was. It was very

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accurate what he said, Who the
hell are you go back to my alley?

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That was accurate. Yeah, they
were. They were really giving it

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to him, and you can can
you remember when they dropped the pin?

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What do you say to yourself?
Like, fuck, I'm gonna have to

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work hard tonight. What do you
say to yourself? I say to yourself.

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I know I want to get booed. Okay, as soon as I

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came out, I got a boo
boo because I was established, right,

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And that was the fun part of
the show too, is the director.

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That was like, as the director
was saying, like, listen, Brawler

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is going to get a reaction because
he's an established person. They know who

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he is, and Rocky's gonna get
absolutely nothing right Yeah right he didn't,

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Yeah he didn't. And then after
that, after you started hitting the moves,

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I knew he wasn't ready, but
I knew he had it. I

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knew he had it, and you
called that whole match the leap frog was

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a double leap frog. Right.
What I'm saying when you sat down the

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locker room and you were talking about
your matches, you called the whole thing.

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Yeah, and he wrote it all
down and he didn't tell me you

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wrote it down but not but like
an agent wasn't like, hey do this.

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This wasn't like that. Business was
different six minutes whatever sport, whatever

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it was. And he uh,
I told him, I says, and

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if the first spot doesn't work,
we're not going into second. You're like,

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in other words, you'll do spot
a spot, be spot spots.

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Grabbed the whole one. I grabbed
the hold. That's what That's what built

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them, you know what I mean. And him convincing the people that it's

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really hurt. The only thing that
it was a little air between your arm,

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your your you know, you know
what I mean. Yes, but

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you you were told that No I
could see as a wrestler, Yeah I

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could see it. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm gonna tell you is we

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we I did that chin lock for
about a half hour. A wrestler isn't

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the editor, so they're just grabbing
it one so they don't know they're grabbing

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two. And I'm looking at that
right, they're great, right, we

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look at that because we obsess about
that. So you missed the other twenty

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nine minutes and forty seconds, you
know, but you get it. You

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totally get it. I saw it
right away. Of course. I was

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like, that was the one second
I let go with my arm with my

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hand to probably be like shut up
or something. Yeah, yeah, I

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said the same thing. I said
the same thing. Yeah, And uh,

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how was the kid to work with? Great? Really? He's I

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mean, he's a natural. I
say this like if you're gonna put stock

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in somebody, like if you could
buy stock uli stock. Yeah, he's

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going to be a star. He's
giant, he's athletic, He's maybe the

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nicest person I've ever met in my
life, so humble, so great,

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treats everybody so well, which is
so fun because he's portraying the rock who

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has that reputation also right right,
yeah, so he could launch his career.

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Of course. Of course we're hoping, we're hoping. You finished the

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match. Did you lose? Did
you lose? By said Philip, No,

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I lost my small package. Afterwards
you come to the back, well

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afterwards, are you like, no, what are your reactions of that match?

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As it was good? It was
actually good mechanical match. People popped

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at the end, People got with
him a little bit at the end.

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We went to dinner. Where'd you
go? We went to I fear it

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was out back or something like that, but we went to dinner and he's

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he goes, I was not happy. I'm not happy. He got a

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contract two days later, a big
well, big for then. But he

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goes, I'm not happy. I
said, shut your fucking mouth. I

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says, you're not happy. You
don't know who you are, No one

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knows who you are. You get
it's a good contract. So what was

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his main unhappiness? He wanted to
be great right away, right away,

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right away. He wanted to be
great. So it wasn't It wasn't that

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he didn't think his moves did well. Or was it that the crowd wasn't

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with him. He thought the crowd
was gonna go crazy when he walked out.

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You know, you know what we
got him over? This is what

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got him over. Yeah, it
would hating him the whole time. They

407
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,119
turned the people turn them hell as
soon as he came out there. Rocky

408
00:27:06,319 --> 00:27:10,720
sucks. Rocky sucks. Rocky sucks. But he would go through his match

409
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,839
have his match, and it would
affect the reaction because the people you feed,

410
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,920
all the people he come back,
he goes, why do you keep

411
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:22,599
saying Rocky sucks? Rocky sucks.
The thing that did it is when he

412
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,279
walked out one day, he goes, you know, all your people you

413
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,400
keep, all you say is Rocky
sucks. Rocky sucks. You know.

414
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:32,160
All I can say to you is
it doesn't matter what you people think.

415
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:36,240
We love you. We love you. They insulting us. We love you.

416
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:41,000
Always had to give the game,
you know when you said you said

417
00:27:41,039 --> 00:27:42,680
that one line to Hunter, you
said, I had to turn. I

418
00:27:42,799 --> 00:27:47,079
came sideways, just stick it up
here and in mankind comes and fucks with

419
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:51,119
your head, you know what I
mean. He had It's like telling the

420
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,960
people he has it in him because
he always said, I'll turn the sideways

421
00:27:55,079 --> 00:27:56,680
and shove it up your candy ass, you know what I mean. And

422
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:02,240
that was his line. But he
had it before you had it, you

423
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,799
know. So, but it was
a trip to watch. My wife was

424
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:10,200
going, Oh my god, so
many memories, so many memories, like

425
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:12,319
you know, because she was there
for all that is that right? Yeah?

426
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,839
It was. It was early in
my career. Yeah, well that's

427
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:18,680
I mean, what a fun I
mean, any other last takes of the

428
00:28:18,759 --> 00:28:22,400
show, or how I did or
did you did good? How was the

429
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:27,119
accent? The accent was good?
You you look more like me than me

430
00:28:30,039 --> 00:28:33,480
because I haven't had the beard in
years and years you didn't didn't have a

431
00:28:33,559 --> 00:28:37,559
beard. Now we've switched. We
switched. Yes, so I think you

432
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:42,119
vicariously a living through me now,
exactly for sure. I tried to get

433
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,920
the cigar, but for some reason, they like, I never never live

434
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,480
it. I know, I wanted
as a prop to break in my audition.

435
00:28:48,559 --> 00:28:52,519
I had a cigar. They never
had one. And then I did

436
00:28:52,599 --> 00:28:53,720
try to get them to dirty up
the stuff a little bit, but they

437
00:28:53,759 --> 00:28:56,960
didn't seem to care about that.
And I was like, all right,

438
00:28:56,039 --> 00:29:03,640
but oh h here's something with um
with wardrobe, and there in their mind

439
00:29:03,759 --> 00:29:07,160
and in a Hollywood wardrobe mind,
they're like, someone made these outfits for

440
00:29:07,279 --> 00:29:11,160
you when you were in the eighties
that bore them and fucking stores in Brooklyn,

441
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,960
sh that's what I imagine. And
was it, yeah, tell me

442
00:29:15,039 --> 00:29:17,519
it was a little. Was it
a different shirt every town or was it

443
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,720
just like whenever you need my shirt? Three? It was most say,

444
00:29:19,799 --> 00:29:22,839
well, that white one, that
white one that's in a lot of bumbo

445
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,200
pictures. And the once you war
came a little bit later. You were

446
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:33,160
after You were after Bobby Heening.
Yes, yeah, you were after him

447
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,200
because they would have never let him
beat me. The wardrobe was just bought.

448
00:29:37,599 --> 00:29:38,839
I would something that I would buy
them, and I would. Actually

449
00:29:40,119 --> 00:29:44,680
the way I got dirty was we
were in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Bobby Heenon

450
00:29:44,799 --> 00:29:47,880
was I just first became book.
Bobby Heena took me in the back.

451
00:29:48,119 --> 00:29:51,319
He made me roll around dirt,
He made me rolling around the mud,

452
00:29:51,519 --> 00:29:52,440
and I said to Bobby, Bobby, what the hell are you doing?

453
00:29:52,559 --> 00:29:57,279
He goes, was it be a
grungy wrestler from Brooklyn? And my mom

454
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:02,039
mother goes, you made me look
like a really bad mother. I like,

455
00:30:02,599 --> 00:30:04,400
I don't clean you clothe? Losing
it? Oh yeah, who do

456
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:08,960
you get a nice clean haircut?
And going like accountant, the brook accountant.

457
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:12,920
You know you have mothers are yeah? You know? I mean mine

458
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,880
wanted me to be like, yeah, it'd be like the Hebrew hunk she

459
00:30:17,039 --> 00:30:22,279
was. Yet they don't, they
don't get it. You'll tell them what

460
00:30:22,319 --> 00:30:23,680
you're gonna be, right, they
tell you what you be. And then

461
00:30:23,759 --> 00:30:27,279
you told me that the Yeah,
the Rock you heard from him before you

462
00:30:27,359 --> 00:30:30,839
were on this show, before you
were portrayed. Rock always kept in touch,

463
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:36,279
like through tweets and shit like that. And and I knew two other

464
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:41,319
actors on the show that you were
leaked, but not me because the idea

465
00:30:41,359 --> 00:30:45,200
that the idea that brotherer was on
the show written into the show. They

466
00:30:45,319 --> 00:30:48,960
told me that. They told me
not to say nothing. But then when

467
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,200
you when Van Nagel told me,
yeah, I'm like, what the fuck?

468
00:30:52,839 --> 00:30:56,119
So and so you've been anticipating that
because I know that Ryan who played

469
00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:00,720
Bruno, was like, you know, Bruno so excited and he's loving it.

470
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,519
Yeah, and so I know you
talked to Bruno's absolutely wrong. The

471
00:31:03,599 --> 00:31:07,319
real story where Bruno bought him the
car, not the pizza guy. Yeah,

472
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,440
yeah, it's so much better than
the pizza guy. It's so much

473
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:15,759
And Brutal never cooked dames on the
toilet, He never cooked days for a

474
00:31:15,839 --> 00:31:18,480
comedy. It's a guy. But
he's gonna get He's gonna get a lot

475
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:22,440
of rub now because Ulic she had
to end of it, welcome home.

476
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,440
Yeah, yeah, he he only
last a day or two brutal lives in

477
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:30,480
a trailer and it was all run
down, filthy, fucking, dirty,

478
00:31:30,559 --> 00:31:37,480
fucking and Rock had like a millionaires
a mine in a poor man's body,

479
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,680
you know what I mean. I
said to him, if you've got only

480
00:31:40,759 --> 00:31:42,680
seven analogies so poor, how do
you have a five hundred dollars shirt on.

481
00:31:44,119 --> 00:31:47,119
I didn't know he was stealing all
this shit, you know, Yeah,

482
00:31:47,119 --> 00:31:48,920
that comes out in the show.
It comes out in the show,

483
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,400
and he admits it all. But
he was always always trying to shop,

484
00:31:52,599 --> 00:31:55,759
always did and he and it all
caught up to him because he's there now,

485
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,839
right. Every single person was so
jealous when he started getting over.

486
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,920
It's like one day, like this
is a funny story. I was sitting

487
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:07,119
on one of the boxes in the
back with razors going rest of Soul and

488
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:12,400
uh, ten guys will hint ten
new wrestlers and it will all powerdoid anybody

489
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,880
those little boys running around the powerdoids
in the spot the Booklyn Bowl turned to

490
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:20,839
me and said, just wore guys
for me to put over. You know,

491
00:32:21,279 --> 00:32:23,599
he goes, he gets it.
You know, that's a true story.

492
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:28,480
Always he always brought it up.
But longevity in the job just an

493
00:32:28,519 --> 00:32:31,480
analogy of both the way things work. People see the wrestler, they will

494
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:36,559
see the person. You know.
Of course that's the thing. Now today

495
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,599
today I'm wrestling again. Yeah,
which I said I'll never wrestle again.

496
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,480
Well, I hate to tell you, a buddy, but we're gonna be

497
00:32:43,599 --> 00:32:47,279
on the road. We're tagging up
as the Brooklyn Brawlers. I'm gonna hold

498
00:32:47,359 --> 00:32:51,720
you me. It just turned forty
two yesterday. Okay, when I wrestled

499
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:53,920
Rocker was thirty seven. I believe. There you go, so it was

500
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:58,839
closer. Yeah, they did the
sheet did call for a wrestler in their

501
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,839
thirties. Yeah, but I made
I made the cut. Yeah, thirty

502
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,799
seven, I was. But I
can't see. I listen. We're we'll

503
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,279
ride it for a little bit.
The Brooklyn Brawlers will run, and then

504
00:33:08,759 --> 00:33:12,720
our run will be over. You
know what if we did do we draw?

505
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,599
I think so we should do some
conventions together. It's only meant to

506
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:21,960
be. But problems like I don't
know what white original stuff boots choose.

507
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,880
Did you sell those old shirts or
just throw them out? Hold them?

508
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,400
Yeah? I sold them. It's
part of being a wrestler. Yeah,

509
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,720
I know. But then you regret
it later, right, I didn't need

510
00:33:30,799 --> 00:33:35,319
that two hundred bucks that much,
all the baseball cards and I just kid

511
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,440
mom total, we don't need to
junk around it. Probably wrote so much

512
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:44,079
money, all this stuff that wrestling
magazine of course, well stuff. You

513
00:33:44,119 --> 00:33:47,240
can't think about that kind of stuff. Brawler, thanks so much. Thank

514
00:33:47,279 --> 00:33:52,559
you for portraying me in such a
positive matter and doing a good job at

515
00:33:52,599 --> 00:33:54,240
it. And you really did.
You shocked the shit out of me.

516
00:33:55,039 --> 00:33:58,720
You really did. You really did. It was my play. I would

517
00:33:58,799 --> 00:34:02,720
give you a total thumb up for
that defence. Would asked me how I

518
00:34:02,839 --> 00:34:06,119
thought you did. And that means
the world to me. Everybody. So

519
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,559
I got like fifty two texts all
saying what did your good job? You

520
00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:15,199
did? It's insane. That makes
me feel happy that I that I did

521
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:20,280
do some justice. Well the writers
did be justice. Yeah. They made

522
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,159
me sound a lot more important than
I was. You're You're very important.

523
00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:28,360
I'm important to the right people,
people like know the business. You're important

524
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,920
to me because you got me paid
very well. Good. I appreciate it.

525
00:34:30,519 --> 00:34:38,480
Good. The Brooklyn Brawler is on
Twitter and Instagram at brawler Reel.

526
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:43,440
I found the audio book that the
Brawler was talking about on Amazon, and

527
00:34:43,559 --> 00:34:46,599
it looked like the audio version was
actually free with my Amazon Prime through Audible

528
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:51,920
Pro Wrestling tes dot com slash Brooklyn
Brawler for T shirts, including his iconic

529
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,199
T shirt that he wore to the
ring. He also knows cameos and celeb

530
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,960
dms if you want a video shout
out. If you book him for a

531
00:34:58,079 --> 00:35:02,719
convention or a tag match with me
as the Brooklyn Brawlers. His booking email

532
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:07,760
is on his Twitter It's ny s
l sixty one at Yahoo dot com.

533
00:35:08,639 --> 00:35:13,239
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I'm Coldcabanta. Thanks. Oh yeah,

569
00:37:53,440 --> 00:38:00,480
yeah, yeah yeah, thanks And
you know the last way tonight, right

570
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:09,760
you got right. Yeah, you
call that right must in the eleven experience,

571
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:14,440
I love the whole match and building
any night was the flying person of

572
00:38:14,559 --> 00:38:17,400
the second rod breach too. He
hits you. Well, yeah that was

573
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,639
your only all that time? Me
then I didn't step up to it right.

574
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:34,440
Well, at least they cutting three
no two. I'm sorry to Cocaban

575
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:39,440
playing me, dude. But he
was pretty a funny, wasn't he.

576
00:38:39,519 --> 00:38:43,960
He's great. I thought it was
pretty funny that ha manatar. Yeah,

577
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,079
like that's great. You know,
maybe we look really good night. Everybody

578
00:38:47,119 --> 00:38:57,880
looks good a man o shit here, everybody coming through. I was looking

579
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:05,480
at Hine really good, pretty good
left the wrestling campus were so loose.

580
00:39:06,599 --> 00:39:15,000
He didn't make is that right?
He was? He was expensive? I'm

581
00:39:15,079 --> 00:39:19,159
sure. Oh okay, so how
do you want to do? You want

582
00:39:19,199 --> 00:39:22,119
to just uh just leave me all
in? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,

583
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:27,719
is there a little tough you've got
the hand to from the bathroom. I

584
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:34,400
left a little puddle shot in my
full water here wrestling in my mind you

585
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:40,000
call up wrestling with Luke. That's
fucking like a high. This is my

586
00:39:40,119 --> 00:39:44,760
second podcast with you. Well,
I figured we had to do it.

587
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:51,320
I know, Well, any whether
you became an actor and one day all

588
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,760
shows been listen, Steve, I'm
I'm sag eligible, bro, I mean

589
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:59,039
I'm saying, I mean, ye, eligible for one year. I'm sorry,

590
00:39:59,079 --> 00:40:02,119
I'm sag after we only got one
episode, right, we don't got

591
00:40:02,199 --> 00:40:07,920
fourteen. I got pig, I
got I had a colleague guy behind me,

592
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:13,800
nice rocks. People don't pay.
He'd been pit you right, yeah,

593
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:16,559
I mean yeah through the production.
Okay, it was Universal page you

594
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:23,079
or seven seven buck production. I
think Universal your might was poke about a

595
00:40:23,199 --> 00:40:29,800
fucking uh calla peg, but it
was HS I get it. They p

596
00:40:30,079 --> 00:40:35,480
a three week hold from Australia.
This happened up the pay chest chet for

597
00:40:35,599 --> 00:40:36,599
this call. Yeah,