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Speaker 4: All right, Happy Monday, and welcome in. Hopefully you had
Speaker 4: yourselves a good week and a good Mother's Day weekend,
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Speaker 4: seven to ninety Nit coffee. That's me, Austin Montgomery, the
Speaker 4: travel Chief as I like to call him. He is
Speaker 4: alongside today and regardless if you're ready or not, we're gonna,
Speaker 4: we're gonna, we're gonna get it going. But I know
Speaker 4: you're probably ready, Austin, for the show to be over,
Speaker 4: like as soon as possible, because you want to get
Speaker 4: down to the Umps Center, right.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be there tonight.
Speaker 4: I mean so Monday Night will call Monday Night Raw
Speaker 4: in Town tonight. And I mean again, I I'm not
Speaker 4: I'm not someone who keeps up with with wrestling really
Speaker 4: much at all currently, But I mean, I don't think
Speaker 4: you have to to know that Monday Night Raw is
Speaker 4: a big deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, on Netflix premiere program.
Speaker 4: So it's only live on Netflix. Yeah, correct, Yes, how's
Speaker 4: that transition been.
Speaker 5: I think it's been pretty well. Netflix doesn't like release
Speaker 5: like numbers, and it's I guess it's hard to like
Speaker 5: ratings wise.
Speaker 4: I mean, this was a big deal when it was
Speaker 4: announced because it's just I mean, this is this is
Speaker 4: a television show. I mean, quite literally, that's what it is.
Speaker 4: It's a television show that has I mean, I don't
Speaker 4: I'm sure there are some some some specific details that
Speaker 4: you would know better than I. But it's one of
Speaker 4: the longest standing television shows as far as like how
Speaker 4: long it's run. Yeah, I mean it's it's the longest Yes, yeah, television.
Speaker 6: There you go.
Speaker 4: You had you had the right verbiage there, because I
Speaker 4: knew there was something that they do mention that is
Speaker 4: I mean, that is impressive. Yeah, obviously it's it is
Speaker 4: sports entertainment. But it's also a television show, and most
Speaker 4: television shows you know, don't stick around as long as
Speaker 4: Monday Night Raw has. But yeah, whenever it went off
Speaker 4: of your standard USA was that, I mean, they had
Speaker 4: it forever, right, I was on USA and it went
Speaker 4: from USA to Netflix, which you know a lot of
Speaker 4: people have Netflix, I would assume, but you know, you
Speaker 4: usually aren't going there to fire up a show that
Speaker 4: you know, you've probably watched on TV for you know,
Speaker 4: some people over twenty years, maybe longer than that, depending
Speaker 4: on how old you are. But I guess maybe the
Speaker 4: transition from linear television to a digital streaming platform, I
Speaker 4: would imagine the fact that the w you ease entire
Speaker 4: catalog being on Peacock for years had to have like
Speaker 4: it was like most people probably were used to being
Speaker 4: able to go to an app and fire it up
Speaker 4: rather than finding another TV right yep. So I h
Speaker 4: I'm excited for you. Uh yeah, thank you, and I
Speaker 4: can't wait and I hope that. I mean, you're gonna
Speaker 4: being a suite right.
Speaker 5: Life, It's gonna be. I've never been to the suites
Speaker 5: at the Young Center of you are they no, never been,
Speaker 5: never been. I mean it looks tell me what it's like. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it looks like we have like the nice padded seats
Speaker 5: and all that, and let me live through you. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 5: just be that. Just tell me what it's like live
Speaker 5: in me.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I don't know if i'd be able to
Speaker 4: get through. Uh, you know, I don't know how we'd
Speaker 4: make that happen. But you know, if it's Monday, it's
Speaker 4: Monday night raw, So you know, I'm sure. Uh, I'm
Speaker 4: sure there's others that are going to be you know,
Speaker 4: I could be wrong. And again I'm a little bit
Speaker 4: out of my element here, but like I didn't even
Speaker 4: realize we still like as a market, got events like this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they come about twice a year either once to Louisville,
Speaker 5: twice to Kentucky a year at least once a year
Speaker 5: to Louisville, once a year to Lexington, so they mix
Speaker 5: it up. Yeah, they like they're coming to Lexington's SmackDown.
Speaker 5: Friday Night. SmackDown is going to be in Lexington next
Speaker 5: month actually June thirteenth, And I was actually out at
Speaker 5: with w AMZ earlier. They had a activation for Wheatley
Speaker 5: Vodka and got to meet superstar Dominica Mysterio. And at
Speaker 5: Kroger Wine and Spirits, there's a lot of people there.
Speaker 5: The line was probably about like a mile long outside
Speaker 5: and there was still a bunch of people that got
Speaker 5: turned away at the door. It's pretty sad to see.
Speaker 5: But Dominique Mysterious, Dominick Dominick, Okay, he's Ray Mysterio son.
Speaker 4: Okay. I knew there was some kind of a something new.
Speaker 4: They were related in some way. And Ray Mysterio, he
Speaker 4: was like the coolest thing going whenever I was. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the time I was into wrestling, I think he was
Speaker 4: what it makes sense that he would have been WCW.
Speaker 4: Was at WCW at that time. Yeah, man, but he
Speaker 4: was a high flyer. He had the cool mask. I
Speaker 4: mean he was smaller guy, of course, but he was electric.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am.
Speaker 4: And now I feel old knowing that is that really
Speaker 4: his son or.
Speaker 3: Just really.
Speaker 2: It's a work, not a work, brother, Look at.
Speaker 4: You throwing out kfe work.
Speaker 2: I'm over.
Speaker 5: I'm taking the I used to be over a lot
Speaker 5: of people recognize the baby faces out.
Speaker 4: There too, which is very good. Of course, they do.
Speaker 5: Really awesome, But I am taking the fiance is tagging
Speaker 5: along at Sydney and Kentucky is tagging along. She's not
Speaker 5: the she's just doing it for support.
Speaker 4: So you're taking your fiancee to wrestling with you are
Speaker 4: and I'm assuming she's not a big wrestling fan. No,
Speaker 4: she's just going for support, but she knows that it's
Speaker 4: a real big, you know, passion of yours. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: obviously it's Oh yeah, it's part of what you do
Speaker 4: with your baby Faces podcast. And uh so that's good
Speaker 4: that she's supporting you. Now do you have like are
Speaker 4: you did you really kind of push her to say, hey,
Speaker 4: you should come and experience this with me? Or was
Speaker 4: it more so her idea? And there's reasons I have
Speaker 4: these questions, By the way, there airs a little bit
Speaker 4: of both.
Speaker 5: Because the last couple of times it's a television has
Speaker 5: come here, I kind of wanted her to go, and
Speaker 5: either something happened, she didn't make it, or she just
Speaker 5: said take one of your buddies. And then she was
Speaker 5: actually the one that brought it up last week. She said,
Speaker 5: if you get free tickets off, I'll go with you.
Speaker 5: So I'm like, uh, okay, if I could get two tickets,
Speaker 5: then you'll go. She said that she was down for that, and.
Speaker 4: There was no hesitation on your end, right like you
Speaker 4: you were eager to take her if if in fact,
Speaker 4: you could get her a ticket, right yeah, absolutely, Okay,
Speaker 4: good because that actually tells me a lot about where
Speaker 4: you guys are in your relationship, because this seemed to
Speaker 4: be something that you kind of you know, you don't
Speaker 4: exclusively enjoy. It's not like it's your own thing, but
Speaker 4: between the two of you and your relationship, like you
Speaker 4: all don't meet in the middle and talk wrestling and
Speaker 4: enjoy it together. You know, it's just your thing. And
Speaker 4: I just worry that maybe you wouldn't want to invite
Speaker 4: her because then maybe you would feel like, okay, you know,
Speaker 4: then I got to worry about if she gonna have fun.
Speaker 4: But I'm glad that you're excited. And it's nice of
Speaker 4: her to say, look, I'll be there, and she probably will.
Speaker 4: You know, she can ask too many questions that might
Speaker 4: distract her. You think, are you? Are you more so
Speaker 4: somebody that hopes she has questions so you can educate
Speaker 4: her and get.
Speaker 5: Her more into it, a little bit of both, because
Speaker 5: she is a content creator that she is. She wants
Speaker 5: to go to go get content she's going to do
Speaker 5: some fun little going to you know, a real go
Speaker 5: into wrestling with my boyfriend, and that's going to be
Speaker 5: shots of me at a fool and it's gonna be
Speaker 5: funny because everything's completely out of context to her. So
Speaker 5: we'll like ask questions and make some fun content with it. However,
Speaker 5: flip side, we went to WrestleMania a couple of years ago.
Speaker 5: We actually bought tickets and went out to LA and
Speaker 5: she only went to one night. She can only we
Speaker 5: can handle them, that's all that she can handle. But
Speaker 5: she said that she actually enjoys, like it's not it's
Speaker 5: not her biggest thing, but like she'll sit down and
Speaker 5: watch it with me if it's at home. She doesn't
Speaker 5: like the live shows as much because they're like, you
Speaker 5: don't have the commentators, right, you don't have the people
Speaker 5: kind of telling you what's going on in the match, And.
Speaker 4: You know that might be a huge difference.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it's a little bit different when like when
Speaker 5: you respect the craft like I do, I love watching
Speaker 5: it live. But for someone that's not a fan, like
Speaker 5: you're you're just you're just kind of watching the wrestling
Speaker 5: rather than just kind of hearing the commentators like tell
Speaker 5: you why these guys are beefing with each other.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I'll tell you just in my brief
Speaker 4: time as a wrestling fan, which was mostly when I
Speaker 4: was a younger kid, I mean being there, the atmosphere,
Speaker 4: the overall, like what goes into the production that is
Speaker 4: a live televised WWE event, Like crazy the production team
Speaker 4: is is. I mean I wouldn't say that, I have
Speaker 4: no way to know how you compare them, but like
Speaker 4: consider the NFL. I'm not kidding, like when it comes
Speaker 4: to like the production value of what goes into it.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's that alone is like a thing
Speaker 4: to see. But I remember not even really thinking about,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, this is my first time watching it, and
Speaker 4: I don't have any announcers telling me anything, and I
Speaker 4: kind of feel like I know what's going on, but
Speaker 4: it's a totally totally different experience. So I understand it
Speaker 4: from from from that aspect. But yeah, I mean just
Speaker 4: the everything that goes into it. I mean, I know
Speaker 4: some people make their remarks about it's it's not real
Speaker 4: or it's not it's not real, uh, and it's you know, uh.
Speaker 2: Don't tell me it's scripted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's choreographed. I guess that's the best
Speaker 4: way to do is that the is that still the
Speaker 4: right way to describe it without like offending those that,
Speaker 4: of course are in it, because nobody will tell you
Speaker 4: that it's not a pre planned arrangement as far as
Speaker 4: what happens. But I do think when you mentioned the
Speaker 4: word fake like that that's that any Yeah, you don't
Speaker 4: say that, because they're actually out there legitimately, like you know,
Speaker 4: I've work, you know, working their tail off, and despite
Speaker 4: nobody out there trying to hurt one another. I mean,
Speaker 4: first of all, that could still happen even if everybody's
Speaker 4: trying to be safe. But also like it's it's it's
Speaker 4: very much real in that aspect. The only thing that's
Speaker 4: not is essentially you know, the outcome are Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's not like they're just out there and we'll see
Speaker 4: what happens. Who can who can whoop the other's ass first?
Speaker 4: But but you know, it's it is an art. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's the best way I can describe it. It is
Speaker 4: an art. And I would imagine, like to me, Monday
Speaker 4: night raw is the kind of thing that you can
Speaker 4: take someone who really knows what it is, but that
Speaker 4: that's the base level, like they just they don't keep
Speaker 4: up with the superstars. They've maybe never gone to an
Speaker 4: event before. If their first event is something like Monday
Speaker 4: Night Raw at the Young Center, I feel like they'll
Speaker 4: walk away not necessarily saying Okay, I'm locked in. I'm
Speaker 4: now going to be a big wrestling fan. But I
Speaker 4: think they'll say this. I get why it's such a
Speaker 4: big deal. I get why it's so popular. I get
Speaker 4: why when they bring this television show to different markets
Speaker 4: across the country, there's you know, sellouts all over the
Speaker 4: place because the experiences is some people want to be
Speaker 4: a part of.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So Sydney is amazed when we go and she says,
Speaker 5: I can't believe there are this many fans wrestling it is.
Speaker 4: You know, when I was helping out with with OVW
Speaker 4: with with Craig and Matt for a while and kind
Speaker 4: of just really getting and I don't want to I
Speaker 4: don't want to overstretch my you know what I was doing,
Speaker 4: but like just to kind of know that that world
Speaker 4: is as big as it is really blew me away,
Speaker 4: because you know, it's a niche thing, clearly wrestling is,
Speaker 4: but the but there's a lot of people to where
Speaker 4: that's their niche, you know what I mean, And you know,
Speaker 4: I think you'd be like, honestly, I'd be I'd be
Speaker 4: willing to bet that there's a lot of people who
Speaker 4: saw the figures as far as what was what was
Speaker 4: put out there for Netflix to get exclusive rights to
Speaker 4: Monday Night Raw, and I bet that number, whatever it was,
Speaker 4: probably was an eye opener that made people realize, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: I never watched, I'm not going to be looking for it,
Speaker 4: but man, clearly a lot of people do. Or Netflix
Speaker 4: wouldn't have backed up the Brinch trucks and unloaded that
Speaker 4: amount of money to make sure they have exclusive rights
Speaker 4: to that television show.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 4: So and by the way, this is Netflix's first like
Speaker 4: live regular program. Yeah, correctly, they've done one offs. Like
Speaker 4: I know, we probably talked about it at the time,
Speaker 4: but I the NFL on Christmas was was. I think
Speaker 4: it went off without any issues. Obviously they did have
Speaker 4: issues with the Jake Paul and Mike Tyson fight. And
Speaker 4: then I think there was another Netflix live event that
Speaker 4: I don't even think I watched, but I knew they
Speaker 4: were having one. I don't remember what it was. Was
Speaker 4: it Love is Blind?
Speaker 5: One that had some pretty bad they had the Love
Speaker 5: is Blind reunion, and I remember that being a thing
Speaker 5: like that.
Speaker 4: Was that would make sense. That would make sense, you
Speaker 4: know why, because that would be something that clearly there's
Speaker 4: enough people that like watch that. But it's not anything
Speaker 4: to the level as far as as far as watching
Speaker 4: it live. It's not nearly to the level that you
Speaker 4: would expect for the NFL or for Monday Night raw.
Speaker 4: So I feel like a Love is Blind kind of
Speaker 4: live reunion thing, the Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight that
Speaker 4: they gave you for free if you had Netflix, right,
Speaker 4: you don't have to buy it. Those had to be
Speaker 4: trial runs for when they get to this. Yes, exactly,
Speaker 4: the NFL on Christmas Day and then of course now
Speaker 4: every week they have Monday Night rows.
Speaker 5: And they did a good job at when the NFL
Speaker 5: on Christmas they had those games on there, they did
Speaker 5: get a good job of sho showcasing the WWE Superstar. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so it's a big deal to Netflix too, which is
Speaker 5: really cool to see how far it's come.
Speaker 4: I tell you what, whenever I watched the NFL and
Speaker 4: I'm by the way going to tune in the night
Speaker 4: to Monday Night Raw, not to watch the entire thing,
Speaker 4: just well, I don't know. My son's got a baseball game,
Speaker 4: so I probably won't be able to see a ton
Speaker 4: of it. However, one my son is a super wrestling
Speaker 4: fan right now, which I didn't see that coming. But
Speaker 4: I've been sending Austin some clips of him. I mean,
Speaker 4: he he's not just like like a fan. My man's
Speaker 4: into it. Want you the way that he's screaming for
Speaker 4: John Cena. He's ready, there's no going on. I felt
Speaker 4: bad that I did send you. Probably think I'm a
Speaker 4: bad parent because I sent you a video that I
Speaker 4: didn't realize at the beginning of it. As the guy's
Speaker 4: walking he's playing his WWE wrestling game on on PlayStation
Speaker 4: and as he's walking out, the opponent whoever it was,
Speaker 4: he said he's gonna kill him. And I'm thinking, and
Speaker 4: I'm thinking, I didn't tell him to say that. But
Speaker 4: he's he's into it, you know, he's it's part of
Speaker 4: it to work, right, He's not really gonna hurt anybody,
Speaker 4: but that's just he's just playing his role. But exactly,
Speaker 4: But I will watch it on on Netflix, just because
Speaker 4: I like to see, you know, what it looks like
Speaker 4: with our you know, with the crowd at the Young Center.
Speaker 4: I mean that it'll be good energy, good vibes, no doubt.
Speaker 5: I'll show the skyline and the like across the river
Speaker 5: and stuff.
Speaker 4: And sometimes the talent, the wrestlers themselves, like they'll make
Speaker 4: remarks about the city, right, the baby faces will do
Speaker 4: something maybe to kind of, you know, kiss our ass
Speaker 4: a little bit. And then whoever's the bad heel, they
Speaker 4: might find a way to insult us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, UK Blue Colors or come out and.
Speaker 4: Say something Paula's Hillbillies, for sure, that'll be part of it.
Speaker 5: Right, there's gonna be buttooth or KFC related when the
Speaker 5: rock was.
Speaker 4: Was full heel it to be like Attitude era time,
Speaker 4: I guess when he was really just becoming such a star.
Speaker 4: He was really good at at talking crap about different
Speaker 4: cities that he was in and it's one of those
Speaker 4: things I remember watching when I was young. But anyways,
Speaker 4: back to the Netflix thing, and then we'll and then
Speaker 4: we'll kind of get the table set and get this
Speaker 4: thing rolling. But when it comes to the NFL games
Speaker 4: that you mentioned, how they were tying it like they
Speaker 4: knew they they here. Before too long, they'll start having
Speaker 4: Monday Night Raw every week. So why not use the
Speaker 4: platform they have where all the millions of people are
Speaker 4: watching the NFL on Christmas Day. Well, let's let them know, Hey,
Speaker 4: we've got some ww stars here because we're gonna start
Speaker 4: start to soon have Monday Night Raw. So I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's not like it's like something you can
Speaker 4: just snap your fingers and get done. I'm sure there's
Speaker 4: way more that goes into it than I would ever realize.
Speaker 4: And there may not be any interest on the side
Speaker 4: of Disney. But like, I don't feel like Disney prioritizes
Speaker 4: ESPN like in any way. I think it's a property
Speaker 4: that clearly has some value. I shouldn't act like they
Speaker 4: don't even realize they have it. But like their priority
Speaker 4: is Disney not ESPN. Right, they just own ESPN, And
Speaker 4: I think at times they've had too much of I
Speaker 4: guess they what they want their image and their like
Speaker 4: their brand to be Disney. It gets somehow like injected
Speaker 4: into ESPN and sports at times, and you know, I
Speaker 4: don't even I don't I don't know anything like I
Speaker 4: don't watch Disney movies. I've never been to Disney World,
Speaker 4: So like people like myself who don't really like you
Speaker 4: just wonder, okay, why like But but then you realize, Okay,
Speaker 4: ESPN is underneath the Disney umbrella. Therefore it's always gonna
Speaker 4: They're always gonna have the direction of of of Disney,
Speaker 4: and that's just that's just the way it is. But
Speaker 4: I'm thinking, like, why not sell ESPN to Netflix? Like? Sure,
Speaker 4: I mean, because I think Netflix would clearly have to
Speaker 4: boost their resources as far as you know, live sports
Speaker 4: every night, but like they're already putting stuff on ESPN
Speaker 4: three or whatever it is, and Netflix could easily do that.
Speaker 4: So again, I act like it's just some simple thing,
Speaker 4: but I feel like if there was a parent company
Speaker 4: over ESPN that wasn't Disney, I just think it could
Speaker 4: be so much better. But again, you know, I'm saying
Speaker 4: that as somebody who's never actually you know, been in
Speaker 4: that position, you know, and I'm an outsider, but I
Speaker 4: just feel like, at times, you know, ESPN is is
Speaker 4: not necessarily given the resources and the priority that you
Speaker 4: would think it would. But again, it's because Disney will
Speaker 4: always consider everything involved in the Disney aspect of it
Speaker 4: as a bigger priority.
Speaker 5: And you make a good point because the times where
Speaker 5: they do feature anything NBA or NFL on ESPN, they're
Speaker 5: just usually showing like where they're actually talking about it.
Speaker 5: It's like the Simpsons version of it, or they're making
Speaker 5: like whatever sort of Disney characters that they have. It's
Speaker 5: it's like that sort of simulation. And that's where you
Speaker 5: see you push it. They're not just pushing a regular
Speaker 5: Pacers versus a Celtics game unless they're planning on producing
Speaker 5: it that night and like Simpsons characters or a Lattin characters,
Speaker 5: or you know, some stuff like that.
Speaker 4: And I think, you know, I I hate this word
Speaker 4: because it's a trigger word, and I understand why it
Speaker 4: became a trigger word given the time that it became,
Speaker 4: you know, something you heard often. So I don't I
Speaker 4: don't like to use it because I think, you know,
Speaker 4: sometimes I don't even know for sure if if context,
Speaker 4: if my context is the same as others, but like
Speaker 4: I'll just use the word that a lot of people
Speaker 4: use when they complain about ESPN and the Disney influence, woke.
Speaker 4: Like there's a lot of woke stuff that you see
Speaker 4: on ESPN that like sure has to be led by Disney,
Speaker 4: and I'm not I'm not even taking a side on
Speaker 4: left right, Republican Democrat or whatever, but like, I think
Speaker 4: you have a better chance of like none of that
Speaker 4: being within any of ESPN's coverage if Disney's not involved.
Speaker 4: But that's just that's just my opinion. So yeah, money
Speaker 4: that Raw in town tonight. I could tell just about
Speaker 4: getting off the exit. I mean, it wasn't like there's
Speaker 4: already traffic. But you know this as somebody who comes
Speaker 4: down here every day when there's an event at the
Speaker 4: UMP Center, you know there's a little bit more life
Speaker 4: to these downtown street.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I'm seeing it outside are feeling good, so we'll
Speaker 5: love to see it.
Speaker 4: We'll try to keep the momentum. I mean, consider this
Speaker 4: your pregame show for Monday Night Raw. I mean very unofficial.
Speaker 4: Clearly you know they wouldn't claim us, but hey, we've
Speaker 4: got one of the babyfaces here. He's part he's part
Speaker 4: of the show. He's going to be in the suite tonight, so.
Speaker 5: Hey there, just make sure to follow us at Babyfaces
Speaker 5: Pod on Instagram. I'll be posting reels showing stuff from
Speaker 5: the Sweet Life showing. Uh, if you guys are ever
Speaker 5: thinking about taking your significant other to wrestling show, and
Speaker 5: you'll be able to see how mine reacts and let
Speaker 5: that be a barometer.
Speaker 2: So if you guys want to do that in the future.
Speaker 4: Good stuff, good stuff. All right, So let's let's get
Speaker 4: a rundown real quickly here of what we're going to
Speaker 4: get into today. Derek Carr announcing his retirement. I mean,
Speaker 4: obviously that that's that's good for Tyler Shuck. However, kind
Speaker 4: of still shocking to me, it is, But I'm also
Speaker 4: I'm also now convinced that the Saints kind of had
Speaker 4: to know all along that this was likely what he
Speaker 4: was going to do, Like I didn't. I don't think
Speaker 4: that they're that surprised by it. I think when you
Speaker 4: look at the decisions made in the draft, if you
Speaker 4: even you know, maybe I'm reaching a little bit here,
Speaker 4: but if you just go listen to like Kellen Moore
Speaker 4: in the Times, he's talked about his job in the
Speaker 4: last i don't know, two and a half months. You know,
Speaker 4: he didn't say it out right, but you kind of
Speaker 4: get the sense that he never thought he was going
Speaker 4: to have Derek Carr at any point, because I think
Speaker 4: Derek Carr, you know, wasn't going to be able to play,
Speaker 4: and then the whole conversation about the surgery, he is
Speaker 4: leaving a lot of money on the table, which is
Speaker 4: a head scratcher. But I think when Tyler Shuck got
Speaker 4: drafted in the second round, I think even Tyler Shuck
Speaker 4: knew that Derek Carr was not going to be there.
Speaker 4: I mean, nobody's come out and said that, but it
Speaker 4: just you know, they took an offensive lineman in the
Speaker 4: first round, they took Tyler Shuck in the second round.
Speaker 4: They knew they would probably be They probably knew Shuck
Speaker 4: would be there waiting for them because I guess, you know,
Speaker 4: I mean, the only quarterbacks off the board at that
Speaker 4: point cam Ward and Jackson Dart. So I mean they're
Speaker 4: currently talking about basically a three man competition, which also
Speaker 4: makes me think that like this is they're acting like
Speaker 4: three guys are gonna get a chance to compete him. Look,
Speaker 4: they're gonna put the guy who has the best chance
Speaker 4: of winning. I think that's a no brainer. But I
Speaker 4: just I mean, I think they drafted Tyler Shuck because
Speaker 4: they like a lot about him, and he's not your
Speaker 4: typical rookie because he's twenty five years old, he's married,
Speaker 4: he's a grown up. He's already got the maturity and
Speaker 4: the seemingly the charisma to kind of lead a locker.
Speaker 4: Now he's gotta have to get results, and only time
Speaker 4: will tell if he's able to do that. But I'm
Speaker 4: fired up, Like I can't quit the Colts because I've
Speaker 4: already tried before and I just can't. I wanted to,
Speaker 4: couldn't do it. I just you know, when you emotionally
Speaker 4: invested into a team for so long decades, you know,
Speaker 4: nearly my whole life at least that I can remember,
Speaker 4: you can't just be like, yeah, I don't like them anymore.
Speaker 4: I don't really like them anymore. But I can't not
Speaker 4: love him, if that makes sense, right. Like I'm disappointed
Speaker 4: and I'm not a fan, but I'll always love him.
Speaker 4: That's the way I am with my Colts. But like
Speaker 4: I could see myself kind of kind of gravitating towards
Speaker 4: the Saints. Is my is one of my teams because
Speaker 4: of the Tyler Shuck situation. So and I never thought
Speaker 4: I would say that because the Saints stole a Super
Speaker 4: Bowl from my Colts and Peyton, and it's still bitter
Speaker 4: about that. Who the hell who on set kicks coming
Speaker 4: out of the halftime break Sean.
Speaker 2: Payton at Hank Basket.
Speaker 4: I mean, come on now. So also, NBA playoff updates.
Speaker 4: I mean, the playoffs have done a really good job
Speaker 4: for a variety of reasons, staying you know, relevant to
Speaker 4: where like people aren't forgetting they're going on no matter
Speaker 4: what happens. It seems like any day there's playoff action,
Speaker 4: which it's every day. The playoffs last way too long.
Speaker 4: That's one of the problems NBA has. But I mean,
Speaker 4: you've had some phenomenal upsets, some big time comebacks that
Speaker 4: you don't typically see, and then yesterday like it wasn't
Speaker 4: good for the product that is the NBA Playoffs. But
Speaker 4: the score at halftime between the Pacers and the Calves
Speaker 4: is quite literally like something you'll I mean, you've I mean,
Speaker 4: you've never seen it before. Eighty points. Pacers were on fire,
Speaker 4: and you know, I hate it for Donovan. It sounds
Speaker 4: like he's already done for the I mean, they got
Speaker 4: one game left, they got to win. Yeah it's three
Speaker 4: one right, Yeah, it's three one. So look, the Pacers
Speaker 4: need just one more win and maybe Cleveland gets it
Speaker 4: done when the game returns to Cleveland tomorrow. But like,
Speaker 4: if Donovan doesn't play, which it sounds like he's not
Speaker 4: going to, I mean, it's probably gonna be all she wrote.
Speaker 4: And I'm gonna be excited for for my Pacers, no doubt,
Speaker 4: But just really bad timing for Donovan because you know,
Speaker 4: they they've they had a lot of injuries throughout the
Speaker 4: early part of the playoffs and that impacted them. And
Speaker 4: then I mean they also have run into a Pacers
Speaker 4: team that's just playing really, really well. I mean they're
Speaker 4: really what you saw yesterday where they score eighty points
Speaker 4: and just seemingly can't miss a three point shot in
Speaker 4: the first half, and again eighty points in the first half.
Speaker 4: You didn't pay attention, you weren't watching, that's what happened.
Speaker 4: Maybe you were busy on Mother's Day. It was it
Speaker 4: was like something you've never seen before. But the way
Speaker 4: they got hot at the end of that half, like
Speaker 4: that's that's that's best case scenario for them, as far
Speaker 4: as how they're built, like they have peace is really
Speaker 4: their entire roster. I mean, it's it's built to where
Speaker 4: if you get you know, if you've got a good
Speaker 4: look in the in the space things there, let it rip.
Speaker 4: And they were letting rip yesterday and they didn't they
Speaker 4: didn't miss many early on. So, uh, we got some
Speaker 4: good games going on tonight. I think it's the Celtics
Speaker 4: and the Knicks tonight. We'll see, uh, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4: But obviously the Celtics did come back and get one
Speaker 4: one game, right, it's it's one two now, is that right? Two? Yep,
Speaker 4: So tonight the Celtics will have a chance in the
Speaker 4: garden to uh to to tie it up at two
Speaker 4: a piece. But this is like, this is huge. I mean,
Speaker 4: if the Celtics win tonight, I can see them winning
Speaker 4: this thing in six. If they lose tonight, interesting, I
Speaker 4: can see New York having Like I just don't think
Speaker 4: Boston's built to where like they'll go out because there
Speaker 4: are some teams that can't. I guess this. And by
Speaker 4: the way, the Celtics did do it. They were down
Speaker 4: three to one maybe or three to zero a couple
Speaker 4: of years ago and ended up making to the Eastern
Speaker 4: Conference finals. I think it was so I guess they
Speaker 4: have done this before, but I just feel like this series,
Speaker 4: just to me, it's all about who's got the most confidence.
Speaker 4: And that's what happened with Boston in the first two games.
Speaker 4: They were rolling, had big leads, and then it became
Speaker 4: like a mental thing to where New York got hot.
Speaker 4: They played with a lot of confidence, a lot of swagger.
Speaker 4: They let you know about it when they make some buckets.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's just kind of how they bounce around,
Speaker 4: That's how they carry themselves. And the Celtics, I think
Speaker 4: it just became a mental thing. And I feel like if,
Speaker 4: in fact, the series gets this out of hand where
Speaker 4: they're down three to one, then I think you got
Speaker 4: New York playing really confident, and I think Boston's gonna
Speaker 4: be tight, and that's a bad recipe, but we shall see. Also,
Speaker 4: I mean, to me, I feel like this is one
Speaker 4: of those things I made sure to include it on
Speaker 4: the list of things I wanted to get to today,
Speaker 4: and I feel like it's a big deal to everybody,
Speaker 4: but I really kind of don't know, just because of
Speaker 4: like I guess, like age rank, like Michael Jordan announcing
Speaker 4: that he is coming back to basketball, not to play,
Speaker 4: but to be a part of NBC's coverage as they
Speaker 4: now will once again broadcast NBA games. Like, to me,
Speaker 4: that's a huge piece of news. Oh that I'm just
Speaker 4: sitting here thinking, like from like a nostalgic standpoint, like
Speaker 4: Michael Jordan has never been in the public eye really well,
Speaker 4: I mean, he's always gonna be in the public guy,
Speaker 4: he's one of the most famous athletes of all time,
Speaker 4: but like he's been in the background, that's the best
Speaker 4: way to describe it. He's been in the background in
Speaker 4: really every aspect of his life since he stopped playing.
Speaker 4: And now he's gonna be on television commentating and being
Speaker 4: a part of the NBC coverage of the NBA. And
Speaker 4: I don't really know what to expect, but like it's
Speaker 4: Michael Jordan, So I'm excited as hell. Like I don't
Speaker 4: really know what he's gonna bring to the table. Because
Speaker 4: you could make the case that Jordan insanely successful basketball player,
Speaker 4: the best ever do it in my opinion, and I
Speaker 4: know I'm not alone with that opinion. But like a
Speaker 4: lot of other things he's gotten involved in, not exactly
Speaker 4: been good, not a great owner, not a great GM.
Speaker 4: I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure his
Speaker 4: stint in NASCAR has been less than stellar. So, like,
Speaker 4: I mean, I'd never once had thought about like the
Speaker 4: lasting impression that like all of us have of Jordan
Speaker 4: is just his playing days, because again, like he's made
Speaker 4: the news, he's done interviews, like he's been inducted into
Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame. It's not as if like he's
Speaker 4: been off the grid and nobody knows what he's up to. Hell,
Speaker 4: he still owns an NBA team, but he's been very
Speaker 4: much in the background and now he won't be and
Speaker 4: that excites me. But like, could Jordan do anything good
Speaker 4: or bad to make us feel differently about him, given
Speaker 4: the fact that, like again, he was beneficial to play
Speaker 4: in an era where there wasn't social media. There really
Speaker 4: wasn't even the Internet, to be honest with you, But
Speaker 4: I don't know, Jordan came back and played for the Wizards,
Speaker 4: and nobody ever talks about that or even really remembers
Speaker 4: it unless he gets brought up, Like it's not something
Speaker 4: that's been removed from your brain. But when you think,
Speaker 4: MJ I mean, how long does it take you, if ever,
Speaker 4: to like remember and think about the stint he had
Speaker 4: with the Wizards, Like, Jordan is such a one of
Speaker 4: one basketball player really athlete that I'm not sure any
Speaker 4: like he could come out and be the worst of
Speaker 4: the best broadcaster ever and it'll it'll be a distant,
Speaker 4: distant thing, because again we're talking about Michael freakin Jordan here,
Speaker 4: sneakers and hoops. That's Jordan, right, I mean, that's that's
Speaker 4: what it comes down to. That's right, that's right. So
Speaker 4: all right, let's get to a quick break. We'll come
Speaker 4: back on the other side. Keep it rolling along again.
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Speaker 4: So you may have already planned to do this anyway, Austin,
Speaker 4: but with the Monday Night Raw taking place tonight at
Speaker 4: the m Center, just just play us wrestling theme songs.
Speaker 4: I Got You, the rest of the way, I Got You,
Speaker 4: And you know, you can just pick your favorites or
Speaker 4: pick pick ones that you think might you know, fit
Speaker 4: the tone of whatever conversations we're having. That kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: So yeah, good stuff. That's Shane o'mack and in the
Speaker 4: the was there ten episodes of the Netflix series about
Speaker 4: Vince McMahon or something like that. It was one of
Speaker 4: the longest Was it ten episodes something like that? It
Speaker 4: was one of the longest documentary series I can think
Speaker 4: of ever watching. And it was I think if you're
Speaker 4: into wrestling, you probably watched a lot of it, and
Speaker 4: you know realize that you kind of already knew or
Speaker 4: at least had you know, sure, you were familiar with
Speaker 4: a lot of what was discussed throughout, you know, start
Speaker 4: to finish with Vince McMahon. But the one thing that
Speaker 4: maybe wrestling fans knew of and I just didn't because
Speaker 4: I wasn't keeping up with it for the like the past,
Speaker 4: you know, twenty years. But to see Shane McMahon, his
Speaker 4: son and kind of hear him and I don't know,
Speaker 4: maybe part of it was a work, but like you
Speaker 4: could tell like he will till his last like he
Speaker 4: has this desperation of wanting to make his dad proud
Speaker 4: that like has never been totally full filled, right, And
Speaker 4: it's kind of sad, you know what I mean, Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, of course, but but he's you know, he's
Speaker 4: uh is he still involved at all, not in w
Speaker 4: w E. Now were they trying to get him?
Speaker 2: I think they were trying to.
Speaker 5: We met with Tony Kahan, the president, but I don't
Speaker 5: think they got anywhere with it.
Speaker 4: He to me, he was always, you know, in the
Speaker 4: time I watched when he was part of the of
Speaker 4: the show itself, like he was it worked, you know,
Speaker 4: like I think he was. He was somebody that I
Speaker 4: wouldn't have expected to be able to kind of you know.
Speaker 4: Also though, like Vince himself is like the best villain
Speaker 4: of all time in the w w E w w F, so.
Speaker 5: Just being his on I mean real life and shoot
Speaker 5: and on screen like son like they did a good
Speaker 5: job of making him like this, uh silver suit spoon
Speaker 5: fed like he was always he always got his ass kick.
Speaker 5: The Greenwich Posse, Oh the what was it called? The Yeah,
Speaker 5: the mean street posse, And I said Greenwich.
Speaker 4: I mean that's of Greenwich, Connecticut, right, good stuff, very
Speaker 4: rich community from one I understand, no doubt. All right,
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Speaker 4: So it was Saturday morning when Derek Carr announced that
Speaker 4: he was going to be retiring from the NFL, and
Speaker 4: I mean it it is, but isn't surprising I think?
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know if Derek Carr can look
Speaker 4: at himself in the mirror and say that his best
Speaker 4: football days are ahead of him, even if he does
Speaker 4: get healthy, just because he's played in the NFL a
Speaker 4: lot longer than I even realized. But he's been dealing
Speaker 4: with that shoulder injury and it's going to require surgery
Speaker 4: that would knock him out for I believe, the entire season.
Speaker 4: And that's what got out last week. I don't know
Speaker 4: if it was an interview he did or what it was,
Speaker 4: but it became news that he confirmed I guess the
Speaker 4: rumors or maybe even the reports that he may have
Speaker 4: to have surgery and if he does, he will be
Speaker 4: out for the whole year. Well, he just decided to
Speaker 4: I guess let the Saints know. Hey, let's get it,
Speaker 4: let's make this official. I'm going to go ahead and
Speaker 4: call it a career. So he tried, I guess, like
Speaker 4: injections to deal with the pain and do some rehab,
Speaker 4: but it wouldn't allow him to be one hundred percent
Speaker 4: until after surgery, which again we're talking about a whole season.
Speaker 4: So he's retiring leaving a lot of money on the table.
Speaker 4: He's a four time Pro bowler. Had no clue that
Speaker 4: he was third in MVP voting in twenty sixteen. Is
Speaker 4: that a stat fact that you were aware of, Austin
Speaker 4: And did it surprise you as much as it did me? No,
Speaker 4: I don't really remember him being viewed as a guy
Speaker 4: that people thought was very good.
Speaker 2: I know he made that one.
Speaker 5: They had that one good playoff run and had to
Speaker 5: be that year right playoff run, but they also that's
Speaker 5: when they got it. They also got eliminate the last
Speaker 5: time they went to the playoffs. I think that's when
Speaker 5: they got eliminated by the Bengals, and the Bengals went
Speaker 5: all the way to the super Bowl. That was a
Speaker 5: Derek Carr team. Yes, so I know we had a
Speaker 5: good year that season, but I didn't think you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he played, I mean he played in the league
Speaker 4: for what let's see, I mean, was it twelve thirteen years?
Speaker 2: He got drafted the same draft Teddy Bridgewater.
Speaker 4: Did, Okay, twenty thirteen. Yeah, I mean he's I mean,
Speaker 4: he's a veteran and you know, his best year again,
Speaker 4: as I mentioned, it was in twenty sixteen. And you know,
Speaker 4: he seems like somebody that is clearly you know, I
Speaker 4: don't know what his hobbies are, but he's really outspoken
Speaker 4: about his faith, which maybe outspoken isn't the right way
Speaker 4: to describe it, but you know, I think he's someone
Speaker 4: that does appear to and I think it's pretty clear
Speaker 4: given the fact that he's walking away now at you know,
Speaker 4: such a young age thirty four. That's not super young,
Speaker 4: but that's young to just say, yeah, you know what,
Speaker 4: instead of just having surgery and rehabing, I'm gonna go
Speaker 4: ahead and call it a career. What I'm getting at
Speaker 4: is I think he probably has thought about life after
Speaker 4: football for probably a few years now, and he's ready
Speaker 4: to go ahead and get that life started. And I,
Speaker 4: as someone can tell you that you know, you should
Speaker 4: always as an NFL fan, Maybe remind yourself of that,
Speaker 4: because maybe one day, randomly, like right before the season starts,
Speaker 4: you find out that you're a young quarterback who is
Speaker 4: the franchise just decides, yeah, I'm kind of done with football,
Speaker 4: been banged up a lot. Andrew Luck just yea, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna go I'm gonna go ski and just you know,
Speaker 4: get off the grid for a little while and really
Speaker 4: ruin everything. I've totally shifted. I used to be so
Speaker 4: just you know, sad about it, to where like I
Speaker 4: couldn't be mad because I'm thinking, Okay, well, you know,
Speaker 4: he is thinking about life after football, and that makes
Speaker 4: total sense, and by the way, that's totally what people
Speaker 4: should do. But it's just not something you typically see, right,
Speaker 4: a guy that just yeah, you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: call it a career. And since he did that, things
Speaker 4: have not been the same for my cults. But yeah,
Speaker 4: to me, they can tell us all they want about
Speaker 4: Spencer Rattler, whoever the other guy is who I keep
Speaker 4: seeing pictures of him. It looks like a looks like
Speaker 4: a guy who what's the guy's name? The other quarterback.
Speaker 4: I have to find this because I want you all to.
Speaker 4: I want you all to look this, to look this
Speaker 4: guy up, because to me, he he absolutely looking Spencer Ratler. No,
Speaker 4: the other guy rat there's rat like Shane something or
Speaker 4: maybe his last names. It's gonna drive me crazy, and
Speaker 4: I've got to look it up because I do want
Speaker 4: people to to I'm not even sure where this guy is,
Speaker 4: like from like where he played college. But they are
Speaker 4: three quarterbacks now in New Orleans. It is Shuck Rattler
Speaker 4: and some other dude who I I don't know. And
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about the guy who they just you know,
Speaker 4: always said could play quarterback in New Orleans. Who was
Speaker 4: you know, Taysom I'm not talking about Taysom Hill. But anyways,
Speaker 4: are they talking about the guy he had? He was
Speaker 4: like a meme last year yause he had like the
Speaker 4: pretty boy photos. Jay Jake Hayneer is his name. He
Speaker 4: he looks like somebody he's an act. He looks like
Speaker 4: an actor cast to play a football player in a
Speaker 4: bad movie, doesn't he?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: Because he photos are yeah, like if you're gonna do
Speaker 4: like a teeny bopper sitcom and they're showing like a
Speaker 4: quarterback for a pro team. He's it is? He not
Speaker 4: I mean, and I don't know anything about this guy.
Speaker 4: Where do you go to college? I mean, oh, he's
Speaker 4: a Fresno State guy, just like just like car.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I mean the Saints know what they have in Rattler.
Speaker 4: And I mean again, if he comes out and really
Speaker 4: impresses at training camp that kind of stuff, then maybe
Speaker 4: he will get the nod over Tyler Shuck. But I
Speaker 4: just you know, Kellen Moore is the is the new
Speaker 4: head coach. You know, he inherited the others, he drafted,
Speaker 4: he wanted Tyler Shuck. So I just feel like that's
Speaker 4: gonna give Shuck the obvious, the obvious boost as far
Speaker 4: as just getting the opportunity, and I think he's I mean,
Speaker 4: part of me says, maybe I'm just getting a little
Speaker 4: too excited for Tyler Shuck because you know, the thought
Speaker 4: of him leading an NFL offense in his rookie season
Speaker 4: just kind of seems a little far fetched. But again,
Speaker 4: a lot of a lot in pro sports other than
Speaker 4: you know, just having God give in talent and ability
Speaker 4: that the vast majority of society doesn't have. You know,
Speaker 4: outside of that, it's about timing an opportunity, just like
Speaker 4: you know, it is for a lot of folks in life,
Speaker 4: right timing, opportunity can can really be a factor in
Speaker 4: great things or really bad things happening. And with Shuck,
Speaker 4: I mean, I think he's got the ability to help them.
Speaker 4: I don't know how good they can be, but I
Speaker 4: don't think he's the type of quarterback that, as a rookie,
Speaker 4: will be thrown out there and they'll struggle, and it'll
Speaker 4: be because they've got a rookie quarterback, if that makes
Speaker 4: any sense. Like in fact, I think there's a chance
Speaker 4: that you know, maybe he could, you know, be somebody
Speaker 4: that helps them succeed this year. Now, I think they're
Speaker 4: expected to be one of the worst teams in the
Speaker 4: NFL as far as wins and losses. Maybe I can
Speaker 4: maybe I'll go look that up. Maybe they're not expected
Speaker 4: to be worse. But when it comes to like the
Speaker 4: win totals for NFL teams, theirs were pretty low. But
Speaker 4: just some other signs that to me made it kind
Speaker 4: of clear that they probably were expecting. And look, they
Speaker 4: think about this, they probably knew the situation with with
Speaker 4: with with Car's arm, with his shoulder, right, they knew
Speaker 4: he's gonna probably need surgery at some point or he
Speaker 4: can do rehab and take injections to deal with it.
Speaker 4: And I just think the longer it played out in
Speaker 4: him not getting said surgery, they probably saw the writing
Speaker 4: on the wall. So I mean, it also doesn't hurt
Speaker 4: that Drew Brees, Archie Manning, those guys have endorsed Tyler
Speaker 4: Shuck's potential. Like, since getting drafted, what are you gonna do. Obviously,
Speaker 4: you're gonna talk up the guy you picked. You're gonna
Speaker 4: want to express excitement and you want you want it
Speaker 4: to work out, right, You mean, that's a big investment.
Speaker 4: A second round pick on a quarterback is a big
Speaker 4: investment in the National Football League. So again, it's all
Speaker 4: just talk, it's all hype. But I think the Saints,
Speaker 4: the more I look back on this whole timeline here,
Speaker 4: I think they they drafted Tyler Shuck a few weeks ago,
Speaker 4: probably knowing he was gonna be their starting quarterback this year.
Speaker 4: And that doesn't mean it's gonna work out, but I'm
Speaker 4: certainly hoping that that it does. All Right, So the
Speaker 4: Saints put out this video real quick, I'll play for
Speaker 4: you guys. They put this out there earlier today, right
Speaker 4: around noon. Uh, and they it's basically giving him a
Speaker 4: little microphone to tell five things that Saints fans should
Speaker 4: know about Tyler Shuck that maybe maybe they don't know.
Speaker 6: Tyler Shuck quarterback. Five things to know. First one, I
Speaker 6: can back a boat down at Lachramp with my eyes closed.
Speaker 6: That was my job as a kid.
Speaker 4: Impressive.
Speaker 6: Second one, not that unknown, but the first Neil here
Speaker 6: was Chargoro Oysters choir. Number three. I can throw the
Speaker 6: football left handed pretty good, So I might try that
Speaker 6: in a game, just kidding, Gonna try and practice probably first.
Speaker 6: Number four. Favorite movie which correlized with my dog is Interstellar,
Speaker 6: named for Resuman character Murphy, so Murky dog number five
Speaker 6: close with her as well. She's actually not that good
Speaker 6: of a dog. Sometimes she will get into anything, will
Speaker 6: buy it, any stick, We'll try and eat it. So
Speaker 6: she is. She's a good girl. She won't she won't
Speaker 6: get tot lys, but she will literally sleep on me
Speaker 6: for the whole night. She's a peopled person, but she uh,
Speaker 6: she's a little she's a little devil.
Speaker 4: So I forgot about his dog kind of stealing the
Speaker 4: show when he was drafted, which I think probably softened
Speaker 4: the blow a little. Bit because I mean, he was
Speaker 4: getting crushed by Saints fans right after the pick, and look,
Speaker 4: I mean I can't say that I'm like totally surprised
Speaker 4: by that, but I hope it all works out and
Speaker 4: it's nobody's fault. It's just a real reminder of sort
Speaker 4: of how much things have changed in college sports. But
Speaker 4: like only having this guy one year, I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: it's got me thinking what could have been had he
Speaker 4: been here for you know, like what if he was
Speaker 4: the guy who showed up when Jeff arrived, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean, like, and you didn't have Plumber for
Speaker 4: the one year and Jeff's only been here two years now, right,
Speaker 4: some reason I was thinking of was three. But anyways, quick,
Speaker 4: yeah we are, and your three should be should be
Speaker 4: exciting for sure. Let's take a quick break. We'll come
Speaker 4: back on the other side. Wrap up a three o'clock hour,
Speaker 4: keep it rolling along. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 4: have been keeping up with the g Lee combine, which
Speaker 4: of course is like right below the NBA Draft combine.
Speaker 4: Chucky eh Burton sounds like he played well but didn't
Speaker 4: get the call up to the actual NBA Draft combine.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think Chucky all he needs is a team to
Speaker 4: you know, need a guy like him, right, a guard
Speaker 4: that can it cannot hurt, you can be a defensive presence.
Speaker 4: And I'm hoping it works out for him in the NBA.
Speaker 4: But we shall see a lot more to comes. Keep
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Speaker 4: Oh now, this one's a classic, this one as well
Speaker 4: as check bah HBK the Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels. This
Speaker 4: song and the other one I'm about to mention here
Speaker 4: is not in any way as memorable as as Shawn
Speaker 4: Michael's theme song. But Billy Gunn I'm an ass man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just like fantastic.
Speaker 4: I sometimes think, like imagine being in the lab as
Speaker 4: they say, when when the creative minds are putting that together.
Speaker 4: I mean, because again that that fits perfect for Shawn
Speaker 4: Michael's that theme song. Oh yeah, and it's great. I
Speaker 4: love it, one of my favorites. But just like how
Speaker 4: it all came together, That's one of those things that
Speaker 4: I would be curious about because it just you know,
Speaker 4: when you're when you're writing in a writing session. If
Speaker 4: they do that for these kind of things and it's
Speaker 4: all coming together, like the first one to kind of
Speaker 4: belt it out like this is what I'm thinking. I'm
Speaker 4: just sexy. Like I mean, it wouldn't be I mean,
Speaker 4: I would be fear. I would have fear of people
Speaker 4: being like, I get this guy out here. That's the
Speaker 4: worst thing ever. But it worked.
Speaker 5: It was Jimmy Jimmy Hart, the Mouth of the South.
Speaker 5: He's the one that came up with that. Actually, he's
Speaker 5: the one. Him and a much your boy toy Sherry Martell.
Speaker 5: They're the ones that do the sex.
Speaker 2: And make that. That was a Jimmy Hart and jim Johnston.
Speaker 2: He was the one that made me.
Speaker 4: That's the name.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all of them. He led a composer and he's
Speaker 5: not with them anymore. They have it's something else. It
Speaker 5: sucks because they got to bring him back. He's still around. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he's still cut.
Speaker 4: The check he was. I mean, maybe it's just a
Speaker 4: nostalgic aspect for us, but man, that was some good
Speaker 4: stuff back in that time.
Speaker 5: You have a favorite finishing move because there is something
Speaker 5: about Sean Michael's sweetch and music that I do a
Speaker 5: special place in mind.
Speaker 4: I do, but you may not even know, like who
Speaker 4: the wrestler is. Okay, try me, because it was whenever
Speaker 4: I was so my era. And if you're wonder why
Speaker 4: we'realking about wrestling Mondy Night Rosen toown tonight at the
Speaker 4: UMP Center, So if you're just randomly joining us, that's
Speaker 4: why this has come up. And uh, my time when
Speaker 4: I really was into it was honestly, you know, the
Speaker 4: peak of the attitude are like when like put it
Speaker 4: this way, when Goldberg started his streak of being undefeated.
Speaker 4: He's around the time that I realized that there was
Speaker 4: both w CW and WW and I watched both of them,
Speaker 4: and I felt like it was for many years. It
Speaker 4: really wasn't It wasn't that long whenever I whenever I
Speaker 4: was really into it. But there was a guy who
Speaker 4: was on WCW that I don't even think was considered
Speaker 4: like a big big name within the promotion at the time.
Speaker 4: Like I don't think he was over like one of
Speaker 4: the big stars because really it was just about Hulk
Speaker 4: and nWo and that kind of stuff, right, But Billy Kidman,
Speaker 4: do you remember him?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Of course I do.
Speaker 4: Do you remember like that little frontwards backwards flip he
Speaker 4: would do, like the shooting star press. Is that what
Speaker 4: it's called? Yeah, you know I'm talking about right. Of
Speaker 4: course that was my favorite move because on the trampoline
Speaker 4: with the other neighborhood kids like I could do it
Speaker 4: pretty effectively. So I was like, all right, this is
Speaker 4: gonna be my finisher. And thankfully I didn't break my
Speaker 4: neck or kill myself or kill somebody else. I mean
Speaker 4: I didn't actually do it in athletic move to pull off.
Speaker 4: I didn't actually do it on somebody, but you know
Speaker 4: I could. I could do it as if you know,
Speaker 4: some we just pretended that there was somebody laying there
Speaker 4: when I whenever, I would you know, splash down on
Speaker 4: that trampoline. So yeah, the only and that is a
Speaker 4: cool looking move too, by the way, like of course,
Speaker 4: you know it's not just because I was able to
Speaker 4: pull off that that kind of a flip, but also
Speaker 4: like he looked cool as hell. He was never I
Speaker 4: mean he's not still is he? No?
Speaker 2: I don't think he is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, been a minute since I thought about him. But
Speaker 4: what about you? You mentioned the Heartbreak kid? Is your
Speaker 4: is you know one of your favorite finishers with the
Speaker 4: sweet Chin music. I mean, is there. I mean the
Speaker 4: Stunner's got to be up there lives. I mean, it's
Speaker 4: in a world of its own.
Speaker 5: I feel like, right, it can be hit on anybody.
Speaker 5: It could be out of nowhere, just a couple. I've
Speaker 5: always liked the Diamond Dallas page, the hellyutter You kidding me?
Speaker 4: Did he did he yell bang when he would do it?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, okay, I thought.
Speaker 2: He may have, but I know that that was that
Speaker 2: was his thing bang.
Speaker 4: I met him once, really really nice guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's uh, he's changed lives of a lot of wrestlers,
Speaker 5: that's oh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he seems very genuine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And even when you were watching him when he was
Speaker 5: like that was his prime, he was like forty five,
Speaker 5: notion fifty.
Speaker 4: Who was it that like kind of just looked out
Speaker 4: for him like at the time to get him his run.
Speaker 2: And there's because I don't think it was probably Scott Hall.
Speaker 4: Okay, that makes sense because I remember seeing I remember
Speaker 4: seeing something on like maybe the Dark Side of the Room.
Speaker 4: No it was no, here's what it was. It was
Speaker 4: a really good I don't remember which platform it was on.
Speaker 4: But who killed WCW. That was the three part It
Speaker 4: might have been vice. There was a three part documentary
Speaker 4: about it. It had a lot to do with Eric Bischoff,
Speaker 4: which was he was great in the in front of
Speaker 4: the show, in the in the documentary as well. But yeah,
Speaker 4: DDP was old and everybody liked him seemingly like he
Speaker 4: didn't have any heat. However, you know, I think it
Speaker 4: was pretty obvious that he just timing and networking, like
Speaker 4: he got a push at the time when I guess
Speaker 4: a lot of people were wanting to push and yeah,
Speaker 4: and he got. He was even really over the top
Speaker 4: about how he didn't he join with the nWo s.
Speaker 2: I don't think he ever joined in WO. I think
Speaker 2: he did. He he may.
Speaker 5: Have, but it was like during the time where they
Speaker 5: were like, oh they were swerves and oh.
Speaker 4: And they were they were falling apart.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they were just doing stuff every week for shock value.
Speaker 5: But for the longest time after Sting, it was its
Speaker 5: Sting versus nWo. It was DDP was mixed in there
Speaker 5: as the heroes to the villain. But Brackleasner's F five
Speaker 5: is pretty cool to see.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't even know that if you can't if you
Speaker 4: if you came in here and you delivered an F
Speaker 4: five to me, I would just I would just impress it.
Speaker 4: I would just assume that it's it's a special move.
Speaker 4: But I wouldn't like I missed that era like right
Speaker 4: after that, like uh, John Cena, who of course is
Speaker 4: still to this day one of the most known wrestlers ever. Right,
Speaker 4: I never watched him on TV never, like so Joe
Speaker 4: right before then is whenever I kind of and here's
Speaker 4: what happened. I started playing. I made the middle school
Speaker 4: basketball team, and it just took up so much of
Speaker 4: my time that I would miss Monday Night Raw. And
Speaker 4: then I just I kind of it kind of faded
Speaker 4: away a little bit. Yeah, it's uh, but it was fun.
Speaker 4: It was a lot of fun, that's for sure. I mean,
Speaker 4: I you might not even know about this. Whenever I
Speaker 4: was probably just getting into it, like when we would
Speaker 4: go to not Blockbuster, but like Video Vault.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: And then also there was a movie there was you
Speaker 4: could rip. You could rip vhs at a Kroger near
Speaker 4: me too. I don't know what the video store was called.
Speaker 4: It might have been Kroger's own version of where you
Speaker 4: could rent movies, but I would rent old paper reviews
Speaker 4: and take them home and watch and like that was
Speaker 4: when I mean I was I was ate up with
Speaker 4: it and then yeah, and then you know, kind of
Speaker 4: phased out of it.
Speaker 2: But it happens.
Speaker 4: There'll be a lot of people there tonight, Monday night
Speaker 4: raw at the um Center, which it's cool to have
Speaker 4: events like that, and uh, you know, I'm looking here
Speaker 4: it tickets just to kind of see what the what
Speaker 4: the market looks like.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm assuming they're expensive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well what's available. I mean it's it's the high
Speaker 4: dollar stuff that's super close. But uh yeah, it should be.
Speaker 4: It should be a good time. We got to get
Speaker 4: to a break. We got one hour in the books,
Speaker 4: two more to go and a lot more to get into.
Speaker 4: So make sure you stick around. It's coffee and company.
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