83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff - Wise Choices with special guests Nic and Ryan Nemeth

Episode Date: October 2, 2024

On this episode of Wise Choices, Eric welcomes Nic and Ryan Nemeth to discuss the brother's newest venture the "Nemeth Bros" podcast. Ryan and Nic share their stories working in professional wrestling and the success they are having outside of the squared circle. BLUECHEW - Try BlueChew FREE when you use our promo code WRESTLEBIZ at checkout--just pay $5 shipping. That’s https://bluechew.com/, promo code WRESTLEBIZ to receive your first month FREE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to 83 weeks.com with another special edition of Wise Choices joining me right now, The Man, the Myth, the Legend, Hall of Famer himself. Mr. Eric Bischoff, Eric, how you doing today? Just freaking outstanding, brother. And I love the fact that this show is called Wise Choices, which is really just a spontaneous idea. It was a reality. It was a reality. reaction to something someone else had said, but how appropriate is it? Because if you want to make wise choices, you're going to be in the cutting edge of what the fuck is going on. You need to be aware.

And today we get to talk about something you should be aware of. The Neymouth Brothers podcast started September 5th. It's out. It's rocking. It's well. It's got to be a blast. And we've got a couple special guests to talk about it today. I'm kind of excited about this.

Yes, same. Let's welcome Nick and Ryan to the show. Guys, how are you today? fantastic how you guys doing happy to be here thanks for having us so much fun what i'm sorry man i've been a i've been a big fan on the x-ry i don't take that personally because i've just been more familiar with your brother's work been a big fan for such a long time i used to compare him to kurt angle because he had that ability to be just like a comedian in the ring this was before i even knew he was a stand-up comic but he had that lighthearted kind

of fun frat boy kind of attitude but yet he could shift gears and tear you a fuck apart So I always like that kind of dimension in a character. This is fun for me, and I'm glad you guys are here. And, Ryan, I'm anxious to get to know you. I've gotten to know you a little bit more over the last couple of months. So, yeah, this is going to be a lot of fun. Looking forward to it, man. I want to find out about you, too, Ryan.

What's your deal? Why is Nicholas Cage behind you? Deep, dark secrets. I'm a brooding type, dark figure in the night. No, yeah, I've always thought the same thing about Kurt Engel and to apply that to Nick is kind of funny because it's all true. It is true. You know, we grew up, I think we grew up in a family in which laughter was the primary thing.

You know, everything we did was all up. We were obsessed with Saturday Live, but my favorite wrestling segments were funny ones also. So Kurt Engel resonated with me as well. But, yeah, you know, I will admit, Nick is good at wrestling and he's funny. I agree. By the way, first and foremost, Kurtz the man. hero of mine, and the reason, not just because he's good at wrestling, because when I was being looked at and trying to get a job with WWE, my height being 5-11, 190 pounds was not very great

to be on their radar. So what really helped me was Kurt Engle kicking so much ass in WWE so quickly, learning it so well, learning it fast, and being awesome at his job, gave people like me a chance to get a trial and say, well, maybe there's some other characters out there, even if they aren't the biggest or whatever. And by the way, I'm not saying Kurt's not the biggest. He's jacked. I was just 5-11-190, and I snuck in

about three months, maybe two months before there was an unofficial decree of nobody under 6-3, nobody under 250 pounds for the time being. And I go, hey, am I still allowed to stay? Yeah, your grandfathered in. So I made it just barely in there, but because Kurt was so great

at his job, and I look up to him so much, that's another reason I got a shot. So I owe him for that, and that's awesome. Jerry Briscoe threw in an assist on there as well. Oh, yeah. Of course. A lot of amateur wrestling. Yeah, Briscoe, I've talked to him for years, especially

through off and on, but through my St. Ed's wrestling coach, we had so many because St. Edwards in Lakewood, Ohio, it's, it wasn't a state power. It was a national power. So like two years of the four that I was there

between 94 and 98, we were national champions. I was okay. I was so-so, C-plus, you know, I was okay, but we had like MMA fighters, Olympians, multiple, multiple-time national champs on our team and this staff of coaches and Tadaki Hata, who is the women's Olympic coach and constantly helping me with stuff and us on the side. He said, you know, one day, one day we'll talk to Gerald Briscoe and we'll see what happens, no guarantees, you know, we'll never know. But he's, he likes giving amateurs a shot.

no matter their height or what they have going on. So, again, that is another huge part. Joe Briscoe, big time fan of his. And I like that sometimes those old school guys, you know, kind of let you in just a little bit more if they know you wrestled in the past. So it really helps me out. Absolutely.

Absolutely. Derek. Ryan, you got, you have a, and the reason why we're talking today is with the launch of your guys podcast, and I just got to listen to your latest episode. And Ryan, your story of running in the John Club, Van Dam has to be one of the funniest stories I've heard on a podcast, wrestling, entertainment, anything, and if you haven't heard it, please go out of your way to check it out.

But when you run into someone like that, it just, it's a different aura type of situation of just like the giganticness of him, right? Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up because I just posted that clip, and I tag, there's an Instagram account called Gold's Jim Gossip, and they, wait do you secretly run this account no but i think i know who runs i think i won't blow their cover but they like those things like who's dating who at gold's ven it like oh it really is massive but i don't know i don't think uh van dams still works out there but uh that was that's the kind of stories you're going to get on our podcast that uh separates us from other wrestling

podcast in a good way you know everyone's got their flavor but uh for example our first guest on the show the other week was Jeff Tremaine, the creator of Jackass and all those movies. We like to offer a different perspective, things that connect into wrestling. You know, he did a lot with WWE and wrestling, and so he's a great friend of ours. It was a great perspective I have. But, okay, specifically, Jean-Claude Van Damme, I really felt like I was being hypnotized. I was just exercising. And like I said on the podcast, he just asked, you know, how much longer do you have on this

machine? And I thought, oh, you know, five minutes or so. And he goes, okay, no problem. I'll wait, and they just stood there. And then I found myself just going, do you just want it right now? And then he just, yeah, cool, that's great. Thanks, man, see ya.

And I was like, what happened? It was all so fast. Yeah, don't ever look directly in Jean-Claude Van Damme's eyes. You'll be doing whatever he wants. Yeah, it's at martial arts mind control. It's one of the things you learn as a green belt. They don't show that shit to you right away as a white belt or a yellow belt because you may use that power incorrectly.

So they start sharing that stuff with you when you were at Greenville. And I got to just reiterate here like I did in the podcast. There were many open exercise bikes, but he wanted. This is the version of you go to the bathroom and there's 10 urinals and someone goes right next to you. Perhaps there was more to it, Ryan. Perhaps he really wanted to get to know you. Oh, yeah. I blew it.

He's going to mentor you, teach you how to do the splits, blood sport. prequel coming out now you blew it you two have been on the road doing some amazing stuff on the independence Nick you've also been in AEW and TNA

as you go through the New Japan surprise debut for yourself for example and you guys at the Tokyo from where you were at where you ended up there it's got to be an experience

for you right a big time and one I thought I was probably going to be in WWE forever because 10 years in, when I used to have conversations with Vince, he was like, one day, you know, you'll be working behind the scenes with us, helping us with the show, helping out other, you know, give back, you know, on the live events and then start helping on the team and coming into the meeting.

So I assumed that all these people that I had caught glimpses of clips online that didn't work with WWE and weren't going to that I would never get a chance to. And someone like Tanahashi, who I've seen for years and like, man, what a cool thing. Wouldn't that be neat to get in? And I go, well, I guess I'm probably with WWE forever. So I don't know that I'll ever get to do any kind of outside matches. And the fact that I was able to go, oh, my God, I get a match with Tanahashi. I wrestled Finley's kid.

David Finley, who's killing it in New Japan. But really, I didn't come from the independence. And I openly, because I was frustrated sometimes with creatively what I was doing, I would openly start saying, I don't know, I don't watch. So I famously didn't watch. And it was kind of just like leaning into like a tongue-in-cheek, kind of a joke. but also I not only I didn't watch

I said I didn't do independence I didn't have a ton of people outside of WWE that I was open to or talked to or texted and one of someone I game pretty close with in WWE was

sorry excuse me it's an emotional relationship sorry every time you think about Sanisdine I'm so sorry

Sorry, somebody I got really close to to was Shinske Nakamura and he's an absolute sweetheart to me from day one. We really didn't know each other. And at this time, I was doing somewhat of a, when someone came up from NXT, I was the first guy. And I didn't love it, but it got to have some fun

and do some things. But I didn't know him that well. I didn't watch NXT and we didn't really know each other. But we were doing this after WrestleMania, we'd do like a tour overseas. and we were doing the dark match because he was the hot new thing that had come up and the crowd was singing his song

and everybody from the tour went on on the tour bus to the next town and the two of us were just going to be in the backseat of a car for three hours because we were staying after to do the main event dark to give the people who came live a little extra show to see him and we didn't really say too much

except for talking over some matches and things like that and we had basically a three hour car ride with like our knees almost touching in the back seat of a car And I go, well, one way or another, you know, we're going to either become friends or something here. And I had requested a bottle of Jack Fire for the ride. And I held it up, and he gave me a little nod.

And we passed it back and forth a few times. And then we just started telling stories, and we knew a few of the same people. We started laughing. And he was, he's awesome. I'm a fan of his. He's a sweetheart, but he also, like, kicks ass in the ring and is so cool and a family guy and all that other stuff. But knowing him, long term, he said, he goes, if you're really getting out of here one of these days, this is years ago, let me know i got so i could put you in contact with some people and i and i and i would vouch for

you and things like that i go wow that's that means a lot and uh years later i was like hey can i still hold you to that and he said oh yeah let's go and he put me in touch with rocky and we got off and running new japan and it was a once in a lifetime experience for me which is pretty awesome like uh just to be outside the doors of wbd and just see if i can still go and what i can do and just seeing how every other place works and it was like every day started running with New Japan, off and running, and independence and all over the place, and Mexico and AAA, and just every weekend, it was like I was a new kid in a new school halfway through the semester in fourth grade. I'm like, hi, I'm Nick. I don't know what you heard or if you know me or hi,

I'm here to do something. And everybody, almost everybody was like ridiculously embracing. And Zach Saber Jr. and a couple other guys were just so sweet and nice to me and helpful. and it couldn't have been more fun and better. It was really fun. We brought Ryan into the mix. Ryan whistled his way in, right to be in the mix at their biggest show of the year, and it was pretty funny. Now, you said most people welcome you.

Give us the dirt. Who was mean to you? Nobody was made. I mean, not to my face. I mean, I can't say for sure who was. But no, almost ridiculously was everybody really, really nice. And I wasn't ready for that, but it was great. It really helps out.

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Nick, I remember since childhood, just saying, I want to be a wrestler, you know. And the whole family just kind of be like, yeah, okay, sure, man, great. You know, I was more into, like, performing and writing and, you know, I followed this path of moving to Chicago and doing improv at Second City and I.O. that kind of thing you know when I wrestled in high school I played rugby in college I had the athletics going but I always wanted to have something else happening like in high school I was involved in the art department and making things and writing things in college I got involved in live comedy performing more sketch comedy plays all that kind of stuff I always liked having this balance of doing athletics but also that kind of thing and it was in college that I went to

start going to watch Nick on Wednesday nights at OBW because that was like an hour and a half drive. So I would just say to my rugby friends on the team, I go, hey, anybody want to go to Louisville for the night to go see Nick Russell? And sometimes you'd go and he wouldn't have a match and then we just watch the show and drive back. But I started to see that environment, which if anyone doesn't know what that environment looked like at the time, I don't know what OVWs like now, I don't keep up, but I know that back then it was a ring in a industrial warehouse that held a couple hundred people maybe. And I was mystified by this because previously I'd only seen gigantic wrestling shows like WCW, you know, even ECW, WW,

WrestleMania, Monday Night Raw, all that stuff. And to see that same thing happening and captivating people on a tremendously smaller scale with some of the people I knew from Raw and Smackdown in the mix and then Nick who's just learning and then you know whoever else coming coming and going there I was like really mesmerized by that and I thought man is this something that I could want to or somehow pursue doing you know and I kind of always knew Nick's route into it was through amateur wrestling college wrestling Olympic style wrestling and there's some kind of a connection I didn't have that at the time you know but I thought well let's just keep it on the back burner, you know, and focus on what you're focused on. You have a pass, stay on your

path. And then, to be honest, the more that I would visit Nick, and the name was an FCW in Tampa, I visited him there. I was kind of thinking, man, this seems even more accessible now, you know? And I started to get, like, real obsessed with it. And then I think, I don't know if we were in Chicago when I was living there, and Nick, you were there for Smackdown or something. We were, like, eating dinner at a diner after the show. And I don't know if you ever remember this, but I thought, Hey, what should I do? Should I go to Rip Rogers class or should I go to Landstorm's class? I really want to take this seriously.

And then you said, well, you're in Chicago. I think Ace Steel has a school here. So I started going around Chicago independent shows and looking for schools there. And it all seemed kind of impractical. And this is a long way of saying that I just went to OVW, the place I first saw you wrestle at. And just I said, I'm going to try it. We'll see you. See how it goes, you know?

And I did the beginners class. I got into Rips advanced class. I won like a scholarship, which was great. Scholarship just, man, I didn't have to pay on Saturdays, you know, for school. But I was instantly involved in wrestling six days a week, four days training, two shows, sometimes three, building ring, tearing down, driving. And I was just immersed in this, like, world of kooky characters from all over here, people from Samoa, every state, Iran, anyone who would all there move to Louisville to try to be a big time wrestling. and I felt very at home. I felt like, you know, I never really fit in with the theater people.

I never really fit in with sports people. But in this bizarre, eclectic mix of show business, carnival world, and athletics, I, like, really feel at home, and I love my life right now. And so that is, that's the true story, yeah. That's a really cool story. And, Derek, I don't mean to bogey this, but I find this kind of thing. It's like an origin story, and I always find those fascinating. But for Ryan, especially,

You know, there's a lot of parallels. I would imagine, I don't know fuck all about stand-up comedy other than I've been to small clubs and had a blast and that small, intimate, gritty environment where you get to go out there and try some shit. Yeah. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. It's kind of like being on a cliff in your underwear. It's just a lot like professional wrestling, right? I can see the parallels there and why you were attracted to it. It's terrifying, too.

I mean, I remember the first, I mean, a few weeks ago, I had bombs. somewhere and that's just like scary but it's still a thrill it's like well i'm not going to quit forever i still love this you know it might work it might not but it's still fun there's some ridiculous parallels because my very first set was not at a like dz and friend show or w w is in town and we're doing a big show and everyone's around it was a legitimate half open mic half california like back uh a silver lake city uh the back room of a coffee shop and it was mostly open mic guys sitting in the crowd and there's maybe two or three people

who went through probably for a free show and everyone else was just kind of going over their stuff on their phone and I had practiced and practiced I was just gonna do, I had five minutes and I think I was gonna do it in about four and it was just one story and I just like made some jokes

about going to Chipotle and I ran by it with my friend I'm going over it all day long, all day long and I'm so nervous and I do it and I probably run through it in two and a half minutes because I'm scared to death and you don't know what the hell's gonna happen and you're like oh that's over and anytime I was like

I say the first punchline and it seems like an hour goes by with like crickets and silence but it was like two or three seconds but that feels like an hour and I happened to be on the show

they said you don't deserve to be here but the guy was a wrestling fan who was booking like this the card of it and he goes but we're going to put you on after a headliner because everyone else here is just open mic guys

but since you don't really don't deserve to be on the show you're going to follow Andy Kindler and I don't know if you know Andy Kendler but if you've known comedy he's been around 50 years of doing stand-up He gives like, he gives like his state of the union at just for laughs because he's like a respected guy.

And he's on Bob's Berger's his voice. But he's a killer. He's awesome. He's so funny. So I say my first joke. I don't hear anything or anyone. And I go, oh my God. And I accidentally look to the side.

And he, Andy Kiddler had like, at least had like, huh, like a little chuckle, not knowing I was looking. I go, oh, my God, he just laughed at my joke. Anyway, I run through the 90 seconds. I'm done. Nobody cares. And I come to the back. And it is, it's a bunch of young guys. open micers and he's holding court like he's the undertaker and in the back of a locker I'm like what are we supposed to do to you know how can you help us whatever and I go not only are there parallels of like constantly traveling on the road it's on you to make it happen you're out there and everyone's looking at you and you've got to fight or flight genuinely in the back people were complaining about some young comic getting a push who didn't deserve it and we should really do this and I go this is exactly a wrestling locker room like we have so

There's so many parallels between the two. And it's like, it's ridiculous. That was my first day. And I go, all right, here we go. We're off and running. And, Ryan, you ended up in, I mean, you are an actor. You ended up in Iron Claw. What was that experience like?

Oh, the Iron Claw was awesome. That was a really, really, really great chance to combine two things I love so much and spend three weeks doing it. And, you know, if you watch the movie, it doesn't look like I was there for three weeks. I know. But it was really, really, really. And I felt every day when I woke up, like, I couldn't sleep. I woke up at five. Like, I want to get to set. Let's go. I was texting Chabbo. Like, hey, I'm not working today. Are you guys in the ring? Can I go help? And any day, I wasn't booked to work, I would just get there anyway. I just wanted to be around it all the time. And it was so, uh, I did that so much. I got a little extra stunts credit, I think. Um, but it was cool to show up on the first day, not knowing really what to expect and to see, I walked into a gym to see Zach Ephron standing like this, washing a big, monitor and it was Old Von Eric's tag matches. And I thought, okay, that's reassuring. This isn't

like some guy trying to big league people and go, yeah, wrestling sucks. This is my movie. Like, he wanted to ask Chabot and me and whoever else, everything about wrestling, how can we make this real? What would it be like, you know? Even that little scene where we're like talking about David's first tag match, we'd be run it a few times, a shoot a few times. And then Zach and Sean, the director, come over and go, Ryan, in a locker room, how would you guys talk. What would this be like? And I was kind of like, do I really give an answer, you know? I don't know.

I don't want to like speak out of turn here, but they really, I thought, well, I'll just tell them, here's how I would go, but it's your movie, you know? They said, no, let's try it like that. And then that's how the scene went. And I felt like, yeah, dude, sweet. Hope they don't cut that. So that one stayed in. That was great. Did you, did you learn

anything? Did you take anything away from that movie, what you learned in that movie that applies to perhaps comedy? I don't know. I've never done that, but to you're I mean, did it help? Did it give you any ideas? Applied that to my wrestling. That's tricky. I don't know. It definitely taught me a lot more about, you know, it was a great experience that I could apply to future. Well, I'll tell you a great lesson I learned.

I sent the audition tape off, didn't hear back for two weeks, and thought, ah, that's okay. A wrestling movie will happen. I won't be part of it. That's fine. Months and months later, I got, I was flying to an AEW taping, and I thought, let's get the Wi-Fi, see if I missed anything. There's like 10 emails, all these phone calls, all these texts. Confirm, we need you to confirm. Can you do this movie or not? And I was like, what?

And the iron clause, but it was. And I thought, damn, good thing I, so I guess the lesson, one lesson would be, check your email. I'm going to write that down because that's one of my fatal flaws. Always be on your phone. That is the key. Well, my man, he was like, where have you been? I've been trying to confirm. We need to confirm.

I was like, I just was on an airplane for an hour. I don't know. I'm sorry, but, you know, it's a good practical. You guys have made the transition into podcasting in that medium, and Nick, you've been doing a lot busted open. How did the progression of where you guys were on the road doing shows and now getting into this medium happen? It's cool because for years we've talked about it,

and we've done skits together. Ryan and I constantly making little videos. Ryan, usually doing all the heavy lifting of me just kind of strolling on to set and making jokes with them. But we do all these fun things and constantly talked about this on a YouTube channel and a podcast, having it all work out together

and having it maybe turn into like the hunkomania show, which is us, the comedy show and bringing in special guests and all this stuff. And then slowly, long term, we'd be doing that in a live show of that podcast for the shows

and figuring everything out. And for years, it was like I was with WWE and that you could, towards my last year or two, they started going, like being more open with ideas, but most,

Mostly, they would say, yeah, sure, you can do this thing. But while you're here, we own your name, and we could always own a piece of the show, or we can maybe tell you you can't talk about this guy or this subject. And I was like, I don't want to force this. When the time is right, and I'm out, I go, then, Ryan, we'll have all put all the pieces together, make everything happen. And if it works, it works, it's cool. Like, we don't want to just sit and talk wrestling because I, we love wrestling,

but there's so many other things out there that we love also talking about, and they all tie in together, and it's usually fun anyway. And I was like, I go, and the same thing happened. with Bustin Open when I left W.E. They said, hey, we'd love to have you on here. We talk wrestling. I go, I go, I quite famously do not like watching wrestling. And they go, well, we'll work around it or something.

I go, okay. But eventually not being there so much and enjoying just a little bit more what I'm doing. Now I enjoy watching wrestling and knowing what's going on and knowing what's happening on Tuesday and Wednesday and Monday and Thursday and Friday and knowing everything that's going on to like just to know who I'm going to bump into the next weekend at a show. Because sometimes I'm at TNA and sometimes I'm at AAA and sometimes you're at any independent around the world. And I wanted to be up on it.

I wanted to get back into it. And I'm excited to be back into it because it's fun. And, you know, it's my thing that I fell in love with when I was five years old. So it's my favorite thing to do. And now I can have a little more information, know some more people. And now we got together. I'm on Busted Open talking about what happened on Smackdown the week before or Monday Night Raw or Dynamite or something and going through that. and actually not just applying ideas that Vince put into my brain,

but also what actually what happened and what it relates to in the thing from 20 years ago and how it ties in and the story and all these different things. So now that it's a little more free to do some things, we put together a podcast, got it around, made it very casual and fun. We mentioned wrestling and a lot of stories about wrestling, but we're not watching wrestling and, like, grading it or anything like that because, you know, there's plenty of people who can do that professionally. Right, exactly.

Yes. Yes. It's more like, yeah, in the background, like it was really funny because when we were putting this match together, Ryan fell down and didn't know he had lipstick on his face and then the bell rang and we went like that kind of stuff. Like the fun, interesting stories that go into it that usually can't talk about on TV. That's the aspect of the wrestling that we bring into it. I think that makes us stand out. Both of us being in the business, both of us doing multiple jobs and Ryan constantly being in commercials and comedy shows. And like, I'm mad. He gets to be in much more, many more comedy shows. He's, He's in L.A. and he, I think he just announced something like, hey, I'm going to be on the show on Wednesday. Come see it. And you're like, I'm jealous. I'm jealous. Yes. If this airs in time, Wednesday night, Irvine Improv. I'll be with Marcus Monroe. Come see me. Is it, you guys are great? Is it Morn Drovo be out of that bubble now that you're not on the road for WWE as often as you are and explore more things? I accidentally booked myself way too much when I left. because I go, hey, I'm going to do, you know, I'm going to probably take this busted open job. I'm going to go to Mexico.

I'm going to go to Japan. I'm going to bounce around to some other countries. And I just said, yeah, it'll be cool, but I'll kind of treat it as like a part-time with some other jobs. And I accidentally had so many people reach out that I was like, yep, let's do it. Yep, let's do it. And then I found this calendar and I go, I have two weekends off in 10 months. I go, oops, I accidentally overdid it. It was the funniest thing in the world to me, but I go, screw it, let's go.

let's jump in and I go even though you know I'm not the youngest guy I go I have done 20 plus years where I believe three or four TVs not even full weeks three or four TVs where I was unavailable medically or for some other reason and I don't think that will ever be touched by anyone in any sport for any reason maybe darts or something but no one in real life or pro wrestling no matter who their hero is there's no Cal Ripkin that I was very fortunate to do that so I go okay I'll tone it down a little bit and I just did the last 11 months of non-stop stuff and since COVID we had a much different schedule than we used to because in the old days of WWE the more you worked the more you got paid period you had this downside and you know some attitude air guys had some good ones but guys like me had tiny one but like tiny downside but also you go I want to work and the more I do it the more money I'm going to get paid and the more it's going to work and that was in the old days of like oh man my best friend's getting married and they're like can you take that saturday off like you know we're going to have to tell vins that you want to take off you're

okay never mind never mind i'll be there i'll be there for it and it was all those times where like there was uh five days a week or weeks in a row where i just stayed on the road and because i was one of the it's like miss cofi shamis myself were constantly the PR guys too to bounce around so sometimes i didn't go home and just went to do PR for the next town and i loved it and it was fun, but then after COVID, it became like three days a week. And I go, this is very reasonable. And then, so I kind of left a three day a week job to go to like five days a week, if you count all my jobs. So, you know, I'm going to, after this new year, I'll tone it down a little bit. But I'm revitalized and feel great and feel indestructible. So I will

keep going and doing everything I possibly can because I love it. Wow. Impressive, man. Very impressive what's your what's the next goal for you to in terms of enjoying yourselves is it in a movie together is it your own comedy show what's the next step for both you it's brian can answer that beautifully yeah i'll just be very honest about one specific part of that i'm uh developing a movie for us both to star in right now and i have uh i got to be a little vague and stuff but it's uh it's right along the lines of the wanted man short that we released when Nick appeared for the first time in New Japan. So trying to set that up and get that taken care of,

I think that would be a great project for us to do with our talents, athletically, stunt-wise, and in acting and comedy. I think that would be a great combination of all those things. Otherwise, keep Hunkomania live shows going, make them bigger and bigger and bigger, and get the Nemeth Bros. Podcast, a big giant audience that deserves. We're just in the stage of getting the word out right now. So it's kind of exciting. That's what we're here to help you do.

And I know I'm going to promote the hell out of it because you guys are great. You're really, and Ryan, this is the first time I've ever had a chance to really riff with you. And I can see why you're successful in doing what you're doing. And Nick, I always admire your work inside of the ring. But I'm probably more interested in seeing where you go outside of the ring. As much as I enjoyed you for the last 20 years or whatever it's been at WW. You've been there forever. But, man, good luck to you both.

continue to pump the hell out of your podcast. I'm going to check it out. I'll reference it because I'm sure I'm going to enjoy it. So thank you guys very, very much for me. Thank you so much for having a sign. You got you. Thanks for having us. Appreciate it.

Make sure. Hunk of Media Live, October 25th, 9.30, a go comedy in Eric's old, Nick of the Woods, Ferndale, Michigan. Details are available at both men's, Twitters, X's, whatever you want to call it. Other than that, find the Nemeth Brothers podcast. It is

available to be subscribed to. Guys, thank you so much for joining us today on Wise Choices. Thank you. And also, as the TNA World Champ, I would be remiss if I didn't say that Hunkomania is the night before bound for glory that I believe it's going to be maybe our fifth straight sellout. So we are crushing it. The people behind the scenes are Gail, Tommy, Ariel, the infrastructure is there. I love this place and I love the roster and they are absolutely killing it. And I'm so thankful to be a part of it.

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