Insight with Chris Van Vliet - AskCVV #11 - Edge in AEW, Jim Cornette, Will Cody Finish The Story, Marketing Your Podcast, Best Rocky Film

Episode Date: October 6, 2023

If you are a content creator looking to take things to the next level, be part of the Full Time Creator community at http://fulltimecreator.co We are back with another AskCVV episode! Chris is answering your questions from social media about wrestling, movies, content creation and everything in between! If you have one that you want answered next month, don't forget to send it in using the hashtag #AskCVV! Here are some of the questions on this episode: Your thoughts on Edge or I guess it's Adam Copeland now signing with AEW? So I'm trying to get my content out to reach more people but I feel I'm not marketing myself well enough. Any tips to help promote my stuff better? Given your own busy schedule which now includes Full Time Creator as well, what's the best approach for other podcasts to get YOU as a guest? When you look back on your career, is there anything you'd tell your younger self as you traveled into the world of content creation and media? Do you honestly think Cody will finish the story at WM40? Just want to know your personal feelings on this as of now! Who are the top 5 wrestling handshakers? How about a would you rather: Would you rather be able to speak to and communication with animals or be able to speak every language in the world? When will you interview Jim Cornette? What's your favorite Backstreet Boys song other than I Want It That Way? Any tips to get a newborn to sleep? Several podcasters are arguing over which is the best Rocky film in the series. Can you help settle this please? What kind of camera and mics do you use? Who was really better: Bret or Shawn? What is one lesson that your daughter Logan has taught you so far? Sponsors: GHOSTBED: Get 40% of your purchase with the code CVV at http://ghostbed.com/cvv MIRACLE MADE: Upgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! Go to http://TryMiracle.com/CVV and use the code CVV to claim your FREE 3 PIECE TOWEL SET and SAVE over 40% OFF BLUECHEW: Use the code CVV to get your first month of BlueChew for FREE at http://bluechew.com BONCHARGE: Go to http://boncharge.com/CVV and use coupon code CVV to save 15% MYBOOKIE: Get a 50% welcome bonus when you use the code CVV and sign up at http://mybookie.ag MUDWTR: To get 15% off go to http://mudwtr.com/cvv and use the code CVV15 PLUNGE: Get $150 off your Plunge with the coupon code CVV150 at http://plunge.com Quote I'm thinking about: What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you're doing now. - Buddha For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. Follow CVV on social media:  Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All systems are got. Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blele. Oh, baby, it is so good to see you. Welcome back to another one on Insight. I'm CVV, Chris Van Fleet. So good to see you here. And welcome. Welcome to Ask CVV number 11.

And if it's your first time here, take your coat off. Stay a while. Smash that subscribe button with a big old leg drop. So you don't miss out on any of the other episode. that we have coming up. And there's some big ones. First, let me go backwards here. I'm not trying to pat myself on the back,

but we've been on a run lately. There have been some big, big guests lately. And the hope, the plan moving forward is to only do big guests like this. So we've had Hulk Hogan. And I guess we could stop right there because that's pretty much the biggest name in the history of the business,

but Hulk Hogan was on the show. on yesterday's episode. Samantha Irvin, Becky Lynch, Rob Van Dam, Maven, Xbox, Kathy Kelly, Nick Aldous, Lance Storm, Kurt Angle,

the list goes on. And then as we look ahead, because now you are following the show, wherever you're listening to this, there's some big ones. So Rick Flair, I've already told you, that is Tuesday's episode.

That's our next interview, Rick Flair. And I did Rick Flair and Hulk Hogan on the same day. It was Rick Flair in the morning. morning in downtown Tampa. And then I drove to Clearwater where Hogan's hangout is. That's Hogan's bar right on Clearwater Beach. And we did the interview there. And then I did an interview later that

night with Mike Kyoto. So three huge interviews in one day. We've also got interviews with Kerry and Cross coming up, Jonathan Coachman, Baron Corbyn, Natalia, Tyson Kid, Tyler Breeze, Tomaso Champa. Oh, man. There's some big ones. And I haven't put that list out anywhere. So if you're listening to this right now, that's the first time that I've ever said that. So you better be subscribed for all these big interviews. You better be following the show for all these big interviews that we have coming up. If this is your first ever Ask CVV episode, I mean, it's pretty simple, right? You send in a question, and there have been a lot of questions here. You send it in on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Are we still calling it

Twitter? I mean, it's X, right? It just feels weird to be calling it just X. But you send it in using the hashtag, Ask CVV, on any of those. But look, I have a tremendous respect for a domain like X.com. You know how rare that is? I mean, if you look it up, there's only like a handful of one single letter.com. They actually stopped it after there was only, I think there was like six or eight of them bought. So my wife, Rachel, will tell you that I have a slight obsession. with domain names. It's weird, but I have this real interest in like branding and just like something.com or something, something, something.com. And I go down rabbit holes far too often seeing like, oh my gosh, is that phrase.com taken? Ooh, is that word.com taken? And spoiler alert, yes,

every word.com is taken. Like literally every single word.com is taken. But I'm like, okay, if it is available, how much are they selling it for? Ooh, wow, that word is worth that much? That's crazy. So without going off on too much of a tangent here, I find domain names really, really interesting. But all these questions came in using the hashtag Ask CVV on Twitter slash X, Instagram, Facebook, and we're going to get to as many of them as possible here. For the fellow creators out there, we've got a lot of creator questions.

here. I know obviously a ton of wrestling questions and then some kind of off the wall questions thrown in. But for all my creator friends out there, I'm going to, I'm going to like speak right into your ear right now. Don't sleep on Facebook. I know you've been paying a lot of attention to putting stuff on Instagram. Maybe you're doing really well on TikTok. Do not sleep on Facebook. Facebook right now has the potential to reach a larger audience with those posts than any other social media platform. I think I've gained 200,000 followers on Facebook in the last three or four months. It's crazy. And if your page is monetized, and I know we're going deep into the weeds here, but if your page is monetized, Facebook pays you so much more than any

other social media platform. And that's YouTube included. The CPMs on Facebook are way higher. And I know that if you're not into this, this is all gibberish to you. So we will get back to our regularly scheduled programming here, but just keep that in mind. We'll get back to some of the other full-time creator stuff in just a second. But let's get to the big one at hand here. Paul M.M. On Instagram says, your thoughts on Edge, or I guess it's Adam Copeland now, signing with AEW. It's big. It's a big one. And I've seen the debates of like, is this the biggest signing that AEW's ever had? I think objectively, the answer is no. I mean, it's big. it's top two or three, but the biggest one has got to be CM Punk.

Because when CM Punk walked out of WWE in 2014, it sure sounded like he was never going to wrestle ever again. So him coming back, and I've talked about this before, but him coming back at the time that he came back, it was one of the very first shows with a full audience in his hometown, that crazy Chicago crowd. I don't know if AEW will ever beat a return. or I guess it's technically a debut,

but a wrestling return like that. That's one of the biggest wrestling returns slash debuts, really ever. I think that Adam Copeland is a close second, and I'm surprised. I mean, if I'm being honest about it, I'm really surprised. We all saw the rumors. We all saw the reports that his contract was going to be up.

Oh, my gosh, I can't believe. Russell Dream happens to be the next. day, what are the odds? Wow, that that lines up too perfectly. I didn't think it was going to happen. I really thought that the way that things wrapped up in Toronto and his hometown, 25 years of edge, they made that entire Smackdown episode around him. It just felt like, it felt like a family type of thing. It felt like you're, you're one of us. And I guess from the sounds of it, It sounds like Edge. I'll keep calling him Edge.

I don't know. I guess we'll call him Adam. I don't know. I guess Adam wanted to do more. And WWE didn't really have that plan for him. So he's open to doing those matches in AEW. And now he's with his best friend, his new rival, but his longtime tag team partner, Christian Cage,

who is on fire right now. The work that Christian Cage is doing is incredible. So it's surprising. But I'm sorry. so excited to see what's possible here. And what was so interesting was we all thought, yeah, maybe he'll be there. And then when Christian was in the main event at Russell Dream, it felt like, okay, this could be like possible that they're setting something up here. But then when you heard like that you think you know him, and it was you think you know him,

not you think you know me. And then they paid for, you know, Edge's theme song. Like, it was good. It was magical. It was a, it was a great moment. And I will say, whether you are an AEW fan, WW fan, impact wrestling fan, whatever it happens to be. You can't deny that that was a great moment. That was such a great moment.

Him coming out through the smoke, the look on Christian Cage's face, and then we saw the payoff, or at least the setup for a feud between Christian and Edge on Dynamo, to go F yourself. So good. Moments. That's what pro wrestling is all,

about is creating moments. That's what we got at Russell Dream. That's what we got on dynamite. And I'm sure with two veterans like Adam Copeland and Christian Cage together, they're going to make magic in the match when they end up having that. So I'm excited to see what's possible here, but I'm surprised. Like if you had asked me last week, is Adam Copeland going to sign with AEW? I'd say, No. No, I don't think so. Like I feel like if things ended really well in WWE, spent 25 years there, lifelong WWE guy. And look, I was wrong. I was wrong. But I'm glad I was wrong. Because as the fans, we win here. So thank you for that one, Paul. This one's from a pro wrestling podcast with Matt and friends on Twitter. So I'm trying to get my content out to reach more people. But I feel like I'm

not marketing myself well enough. Any tips to help promote my stuff better? Well, look, Matt and friends, I like that you use the word marketing here because that's a really key part to putting out, whether it's a podcast or it's a content on YouTube, you really can't just put it out and hope that people find it, especially when you're starting out. And of course, everybody starts at zero. So you've got to remember that. So stop comparing yourself to people who have. have thousands of followers, tens of thousands of followers, hundreds of thousands, millions, whatever, everybody starts at zero. So when you put your stuff out there, I think you got to do whatever you can with whatever channels you have to promote it in the best way that you can.

So if you're putting out a podcast, put it out on Twitter slash X, whatever we're calling it, put it out on Facebook, put it out on LinkedIn. If you have an email list, send them an email, put it on Instagram. And I think the biggest thing, and if you guys follow me, you know that I capitalize on this as much as I possibly can. Put out as many reels slash shorts

slash TikToks as you can. They're like these little advertisements for the whole show. Because if you have a podcast, and I know this full well, here we are 520 episodes in, if you have a podcast, asking someone who doesn't know who you are

and has never heard your show, show before, asking them to invest an hour of their time or even five minutes of their time to see if they like the first five minutes. That's a huge investment. Like if someone were to text you a link and said, oh, this podcast was so great, you've got to listen to it. And they send you like a Spotify link or an Apple podcast link. You're going, yeah, I don't think I'll be getting to that anytime soon. Maybe on a long drive, like two weeks from now, maybe that I'll find its way into my rotation, but if that same person sent you a 43 second clip of a really interesting moment of that podcast, yeah, I'd say 10 out of 10. They're going to be clicking on that clip. And if they're not

watching all the way through, they're watching most of the way through. So I like to think of these clips, these shorts as breadcrumbs. These are the little breadcrumbs to give people just a little taste, just a little taste test of what your show's all about, what your channel's all about. Then hopefully that leads them to the slice of bread, which is the longer clips. You know, maybe that's a two to five to eight minute clip. And that could be on Facebook. That could be on Twitter. That could be on YouTube. And then hopefully if they like that slice of bread, they want to go find the full loaf of bread. And that full loaf of bread, obviously being the main piece of content. So I really don't think you can put out enough content. I get that, you know, you're at the mercy of how much time you have

and how much time you're able to spend on that. But if you have the time to do that, that I think is a huge, huge technique. And look, know that you're not alone in this. And this is the whole reason that I set up full-time creator. You've probably heard me talking about it on social media. The website's full-time creator.com. This is the whole reason we set it up because I've been doing this now for 12 years.

I've been doing it full-time as my entire job for four years. and my buddy Travis Chappell has been doing it full-time for almost his whole career. We've made a ton of mistakes and we don't want you to make them too. And we've also got a lot of things right. So we built out full-time creator as a mastermind for people who were in the same situation that we were in years ago to be able to learn from that and grow in a community of people who are also going through the same stuff. So we started like two weeks ago and I'm just jacked.

I'm so excited with how it's going. We've got a huge expert guest joining us, a private conversation for just the people that are part of full-time creator. That's happening on Tuesday. So if you're just even like on the fence about it, not even on the fence about it, if you're just even thinking about it, if it's a thought that has entered your mind, go to full-time creator.com. And just sign up. It's a dollar to sign up. If you don't like it after a week, that's it. Cancel.

You don't need to be part of the group at all. But all you've got to lose is a dollar. And if you're not willing to invest in the content that you're making and you're not willing to invest both time and money into your future as a creator, then you're probably going to keep spinning your wheels here. So that's why we built this out. Go take a look. I think you'll like it.

The Itch Rock Radio and podcast at Itch Rocks on Twitter says, given your own busy schedule, which now includes full-time creator as well. Wow, I don't even put that at it. Yes. What's the best approach for other podcasts to get you as a guest? I really haven't been a guest on a lot of other podcasts. And the few that I have been on, they've just been friends of mine and they happen to live in town. And I think you guys know, I've talked about it enough that I'm trying to do as many of my

own interviews as I can in person, because nothing beats in person if it's a possibility. Like, if you have the ability to do an interview in person with someone, shake their hand, look them in the eye, feel their energy, nothing beats it. So I've been trying to do as many of my own interviews in person as possible. And if I ever am a guest on someone's show, like I was recently a guest on my friend Kia's show, it's just like, well, let's do it in person. You know, you live not far from me. I was a guest on Denise Salcedo's show. She lives not far from me in person. I guess in short, the answer is I'm just not doing a lot of podcasts because I'm focusing on the content

that I'm creating and also really trying to balance my time with a baby at home. Logan's four months old and I'm trying to put out as many podcasts as possible, as many clips as possible, working on full-time creator like you mentioned and building out that amazing community and it's just like I only have so many hours to do so many things. So I'm really just trying to focus on telling other people's stories. I've done a lot of interviews. So if someone's listening to this and just wants to hear like, oh, how'd you get to where you're at? There's a lot of interviews out there that you can go check out. The recent one with Denise, really good. Kean Albandy is the one I was just talking about. That's another great one.

Sean Ross Sapp had me on. And we had a great conversation about how all of this came together. So if you're just curious about like, what's the journey been? And I haven't heard enough of it from your own podcast episodes or from these Ask CVV episodes. Go check those out. But I'm sure they'll come a point where our paths will cross and we're in person together. And I'm able and have the time to do more of these. But I'm really just trying to focus my efforts on like, how many more episodes can we put out here? Like, how many more episodes can we record?

Whether that's flying to Tampa like we did to do six. interviews there, Rick Flair and Hulk Hogan, of course, but then four other ones there, whether that's flying to Chicago for Survivor Series. If you're going to Survivor Series, I will see you in Chicago, whether that's flying back to Tampa for the Royal Rumble. I'm trying to maximize that time. That's a Cody Rhodes quote, isn't it? Maximize your minutes. He said that was the best advice he got from Dusty. Maximize your minutes. So I'm trying to maximize my minutes. This episode is brought to you by Ghostbed, and there's one thing that all top performers have in common. They all focus on getting a good

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going to like one of these select few colleges to be invited to be part of Facebook. MySpace was like really just starting to take off. So it was really just like traditional broadcasting. And it's changed so, so much. I think the biggest piece of advice twofold. The biggest number one would be just enjoy it. Like there's been some really cool moments. And it's been fun seeing some tweets lately of people being like, man, I love seeing these big things happen to you. And I love seeing these big things happen to like you interviewed Hogan, you interviewed Flair. Yeah, that's my fourth interview with both of those guys. It's been a heck of a run. It's been a heck of a, you know, a career thus far. And I mean, in the last 12 months, you've seen some of the wrestling interviews, but I've also interviewed

Christian Bale, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Julia Roberts. It's been some big ones. So I would say, enjoy the moments, like the moments like being on the red carpet at the Oscars, I was able to do that a few times reporting live from the Oscars. Biggest night in entertainment. Enjoy the moments like when you're at the Grammys. Enjoy the moments like, you know, WrestleMania. And I've been starting to do that more often.

Like really take it in. Look around. Look for small details. Commit them to memory, the sights, the smells, the sounds. I mean, if you're drinking something or eating something to tastes. Yeah. And I think that's number of. one. I think number two is if I had had the foresight to do this, start earlier in terms of like

creating content, start earlier. And that's kind of like saying like, oh, you should have invested in Apple 30 years ago or you should have invested in Tesla 10 years ago. Like, you know, I always come back to that Chinese proverb of the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best times today. But I was, I guess on the, I was one of the first at the time like broadcasters, in local media who was doing a little bit more social media stuff. So I'm grateful for that. But if I could have been like giving this the commitment that I'm giving it now 10 years ago, I don't know. Who knows? But I don't ever live in that idea of like, oh, what if or I have regrets about this. Not at all. No regrets. I don't ever go. What if? What if? I just think to myself,

if I could go back in a back to the future, DeLorean, I would just say to myself like, yeah, and I know that right now in 2014, you think that posting twice on Instagrams a lot, maybe try up in that. That's all. It's Sengupta. It's underscore San Gupta on Twitter. Do you honestly think Cody will finish the story at WrestleMania 40? Just want to know your personal feelings on this as of now.

And this is always such an interesting one to answer because, As of right now, as of October 20, 23, I think yes. I think they find a way to bring the story back around. It's Cody and Roman. Cody couldn't do it last year. He does it here. And I know that there's been this wrench thrown into the plans of, is the Rock going to be at WrestleMania?

The Rock was very close to being at WrestleMania 39. And for whatever reason, that didn't happen. I don't know. I think my personal opinion right now is, the Rock came back on Smackdown because he happened to be in town. Or I guess you could look at it from the flip side that he happened to be in town because he was going to be on Smackdown. But I really think it's the other way around.

I feel like he was in town for like college game day and everything that was going on there. And then it was like, all right, well, if you're in town, we just had this really big merger with the UFC and WWE and this endeavor deal. If you're in town, Rock, could you show up? could you make an appearance? I think that's what happened. I really do.

I could be totally wrong here, but I think that's what happened. Obviously, we'll find out in the next few months if the Rock is part of programming, if he shows up at the Royal Rumble or something like that. But I just think as of right now, if the Rock is part of WrestleMania 40, it doesn't feel like it could be for a match.

Because if it is Rock Roman, I mean, Roman wins, right? There's no point for the Rock to win. actually could be the Rock's retirement match. If it's Rock Roman, Roman wins, and then what does Roman do? Does Roman hang on to it until WrestleMania 41? I just don't think that makes sense. And it doesn't make sense for Cody to go for the World Heavyweight Championship.

That doesn't feel like the WrestleMania match that everyone's talking about. So I think, and we're months away now, right? We're seven months away from WrestleMania. It just still feels like, yes, Cody will finish the story. but hey, I'm sure this will be the topic of almost every Ask CVV until we get there. Lucio Godoy at So Dak Gator on Twitter. Who are the top five wrestling handshakers? That might be one of the best questions I've ever been asked.

A lot of good wrestling handshakes. A lot of not so good wrestling handshakes. And not because we just talked about him, but Cody Rhodes has a shockingly large handshakes. hand. Like, he's a pretty big guy, right? He's like maybe six foot, six one. But when he shakes your hand, he has the handshick of someone who's like six inches taller than that. And I'll never forget that. He shakes your hand and it's just big, meaty, like wrestler hand. And when I say that, I mean like an amateur wrestler hand. It's a big, meaty hand. I don't know if I can give you

a top five, but almost every wrestler whose hand I've ever shook has been a very firm, great handshake or a handshake followed by a hug. But yeah, like Cody Rhodes one, that one like kind of threw me off of like, oh, that's a big hand. And Kurt Angle. Kurt Angle, obviously great handshake. Also makes you like, it's one of those handshakes that when you shake his hand and him and Ken Shamrock, I'll throw Ken Shamrock into this too. It's one of those handshakes where you're like, oh, this man could literally kill me. That's the kind of handshake that it is. So I don't have five, but there's three right off the top of my head. Now every time you see Cody on TV, you're going to be like, oh, yeah, his hands are really large.

Good for him. At Smiley Girl 814 on Twitter. How about a would you rather? Would you rather be able to speak to and communicate with animals or be able to speak every language in the world? What a would you rather? I'm going to go with the animals because lots of people can speak not every language in the world. Lots of people can speak many languages. Nobody can speak to animals.

I mean, not at least communicate with them. So I'm going to go. I'm like, can I speak with, can I communicate with all animals? Like you saying, like, I could have a conversation with my dog, Luna, and know what she's thinking, doing? Incredible. Cats just walk down the street and talk to a cat. Birds flying in the sky, dolphin, jumping in the ocean? Could I go to the zoo and just be hearing voices everywhere?

The tiger's saying something. The elephant's saying something. What's that, Mr. Monkey? Sign me up for that. Although, if you had the ability to speak to and communicate with all animals, you'd be the only person in the world that would be able to do that. And I feel like people would think you're crazy. Because you'd only be the only person that'd be able to hear that.

And you'd be telling people like, oh, yeah, that leopard over there says this. And people would be like, oh, yeah, sure, buddy. So I would choose the animals at the risk of sounding crazy. What kind of username is this? At BQ ZVMT-S-Q-X-T-GG-G-X. And you have a blue checkmark on Twitter. That's such an interesting thing. You could have a username like that.

You got a blue check mark. If there's a pronunciation for that, I am so sorry, but I don't think there is a seven in the middle of that. When will you interview Jim Cornett? I would love to have Jim Cornett on the show. I would, I just, he's such a fascinating figure in wrestling. And I think it'd be just such a great conversation.

So whether you love Jim Cornett or you hate Jim Cornett, you feel something about Jim Cornett. And that's what's important. That's the essence of pro wrestling. So I would love to be able to talk to Jim Cornett and just figure out who he is. I would just love to like learn a little bit more about him. I think that he's wildly entertaining. Whether you agree with him or not, he is wildly entertaining.

So I don't have a direct line of communication to him. I'm not even sure how to reach out to him. So if you're listening to this right now and you know which email I should send an email to, please let me know. But if Jim Cornett would be up for it and we can find a path of communication so that I can reach out to him and we can set this up, I'm in. I would love that. I think they'd be one of the best episodes.

of the year. So yeah. Remember when I said there'd be some weird off the wall questions here. Let me just take a sip of my F3 energy drink here. Go to F3Energy.com. By the way, they're a big sponsor of the show. And their stuff's so good. Viper Assassin YT on Twitter. What's your favorite Backstreet Boys song other than I want it that way? I frequently sing around the house Backstreet's back. All right. Maybe Backstreet's back? That whole Millennium album was really good. Yeah.

I think Backstreet's back. Although I'll give you a deep cut here. Perfect fan. I remember hearing Perfect Fan for the first time. And for those of you who aren't Backstreet Boys fans, it's a song about Brian's mom. He's just talking about, like, Mom, you always were the perfect fan. I remember hearing that for the first time and like tearing up.

The song's just so sweet. and made me think about my mom. And so I think that that'll be a deep cut there. If you ever want to like, you know, get real sentimental, real mushy, put on perfect fan by the backstreet boys. Carrie Jack on Instagram, my buddy Carrie Jack. Any tips to get a newborn to sleep? Congrats to you, Carrie.

I know you got a brand new baby boy, Kaysen. Congrats to you. We now have a four-month-old, Logan, and I wish I had a tip because. we're not getting much sleep around here. And that is not a complaint at all. That is simply just the delivery of some information. I'm never going to be one of those people that's like, oh, man, I didn't get enough sleep last night.

I need my mudwater. I'm never going to be one of those people. I'm so incredibly grateful to have this beautiful, smart, healthy little baby girl. But the truth of the matter is she wakes up like three or four times a night. So we put her down at like 715, 7.30. If we're lucky, she sleeps until like 11 to 12, somewhere around there, wakes up once. And then wakes up like every two-ish hours after that. So then wakes up again around two, maybe four. So it's like three, four wake-ups tonight. So I wish I had some advice for you. I certainly do not. And if you figure this out before me, I know that Kaizen's like one month old. And so we've got like a three-month head start on you. if somehow you figure this out before we do, please, please send me a message and let me know. Be so good to know. Good cop, bad cop wrestling podcast at Good Bad Wrestling on Twitter.

Several podcasters are arguing over which is the best Rocky film in the series. Can you help settle this, please? Man, that is such a good question. I think objectively, this isn't even like opinions. I think objectively, Rocky is the best film in the series. Is Rocky the best Rocky film in the series? Because when you think about Rocky, you think about like the training montages and the big fight sequences. Rocky just has the one fight, really.

So is Rocky the best Rocky movie? Probably not. That's probably Rocky 3. Yeah, you got Clubber Lang in there and Thunderlips, aka Mr. T. Hulk Hogan. I think the storyline of number three is really good. Yeah. So I'm going to go with number three is like the best like fighting movie. But when it comes to like films, I think you can't be Rocky. Like it just as a film, like as an Academy Award winning film, I think that Rocky's the best film in the franchise. But Rocky really at its core is a love story. And I don't know

if a lot of people talk about that. Like, oh, Rocky, the, da-da-da-da-da. Yeah, it's a great, you know, it's a, it is a boxing story, but it's a love story. It's a love story between Rocky and Adrian, and that blossoms into what we see after that. But I mean, and look at all the Oscars that it won. Like, if you want to just talk objectively,

like what is the best film, best picture, best actor in a leading role, That's Sylvester Stallone. Best actress in a leading role. Like all the, the amount of the wins and nominations, I could keep going. I don't know why I didn't. Bert Young got nominated.

Best director, best writing, best soundtrack, best film editing, best music. Yeah. It's a lot of nominations. So I think that that,

I hope that settles a score. I get where the arguments come in. I think a lot of people also say Rocky 4. I mean, I don't know if there's a better fight than Rocky versus Drago. You will lose. It's really good. I'd love to hear what you think. Tag me.

Tag me on Twitter slash X. One day I'll call it one or the other. I don't know. Richard Jones on Instagram. What kind of gear do you use? I get this one a lot. I'm going to put it out here. And hopefully, you know, if this is where you're at right now in your content creation

journey, you'll, you know, grab all. on to this right now. I'll tell you what I use and then I'm going to tell you it doesn't really matter what you use. That doesn't matter what you use. I use a Sony A74 as my main camera. That's the one that I think looks so, so crispy when you're looking at it on the webcam or when you're looking at it like I used it for a lot of any of my recent interviews that look extra juicy. and the lens on there is a Tamron 28 to 75 millimeter F2.8, you'll figure it out. If you, that's the only Tamron like that. It's the D.I.3. Yeah. It's a great lens. It's a very juicy lens. That's set up with that body and that lens is like $3,500. All of that is to say you do not

need that lens. I shot the most, most of my interviews for the first 10, years, 12 years, was shot on an iPhone. And I think that the reason I say that you don't need to buy great gear is because I think that too many aspiring creators use gear as a crutch. They go, I'll be a great creator when I buy that camera. Oh, by the way, the mic is the sure SM7B. It is the gold standard of podcast mics. It's the black cylindrical mic. You see Joe Rogan using. it's the mic that every top podcaster uses. But I think that a lot of people use gear as like a crutch. They go, I'll be a great creator when I get that mic

or when I get that camera. Use the gear you have right now. Use what you have in front of you and then continue to grow from there. Don't go break in the bank on a $3,500 camera and lens and a $400 microphone. If you have the money to do it and you have the means to do it

and that's something that you want to do, I completely recommend it for sure. And I would definitely recommend buying a good mic, especially if you're a podcaster, over a good camera first. Because if your podcast sounds like crap, like if you're recording it like this and it sounds like you're across the room, everyone's going to think that your podcast is crap. Like perception is reality when it comes to content creation. So if you are going to spend some money on something, I would say buy the sure SM7B. I'm sure there's other mics that are good. I can't speak to them personally because I haven't used them, but I do know that Tony Robbins always says success leaves clues.

There's a reason all the top podcasters are using the mic that I'm speaking into right now because it's the best. It is. So if you want to have crispy audio like this and you have the ability to pay for that or buy a used one, actually. I have a second one here sitting right in front of me. I bought a used one. It's a $400 microphone. I bought it used on eBay for like $220. So if you have the ability to do it,

that's where you should be spending your money. And then find an audio interface, plug it into your computer with a USB port. Bada bang, bada boom. Your Zoom interviews, your Zoom meetings, they're all going to sound so much better now. K underscore put 77 on Instagram. Who was really better?

Brett or Sean? It really comes down to are you a Brett person or are you a Sean person. Both are so good, both arguably the greatest in-ring workers in the history of the business. I just feel like Brett got shortchanged a little bit. If the screw job hadn't happened

and he hadn't gone to WCW, I just think that we would be talking about Brett without question being the greatest of all time. But that's what life's all about, right? It's like these what-ifs. Because he had great matches in WCW, but I don't really think a lot of people talk about them. I mean, everyone talks about, and that's not to say they didn't exist.

I just feel like everyone goes back to like the matches that he had in WWF. You know, just off the top of your head, it obviously matches with like Mr. Perfect and matches with Owen. Like there's so many, so many. And I'm going to, if I start listing them off, you're going to be like, oh, I can't believe you forgot about that one. Yeah. Look, Brett versus anybody is a great match. Sean Michaels versus anybody is a great match. I just think that if you look at their careers as a whole,

Brett's kind of went on a real decline when he went to WCW. And you could just tell he wasn't happy being there. And then Sean Michaels had his own demons and had his own issues. And we saw him come back. And I mean, one of the greatest matches ever is him and the Undertaker. Really, both of them. I mean, we'll never get a better retirement moment than the super kick or the sweet chim music.

The I'm sorry. I love you with Rick Flay. I think they're both good. Who is really better? You can't go wrong. You can't go wrong. It's really like flavors of ice cream. You know, I think if you like mint chocolate chip and I like Rocky Road, I was going to go

like chocolate or vanilla, but those are too plain, strawberry Neapolitan, I think it's just choosing ice cream flavors. You can't go wrong with ice cream. It's all good. being a Canadian, I think I'm a little biased to Brett. Although I've talked about this a lot, I've never been a huge fan of the pro Canada gimmicks because it's just,

it's the cheapest of cheap heat. And it's cool. Like it was cool growing up and seeing them wave the Canadian flag because as a kid growing up in Canada, you didn't see that a lot in pro sports in general, especially not in pro wrestling. So it was cool to see that. And I think in pro wrestling,

Brett was so proud to be Canadian that it made me, even more proud to be Canadian as well. But I've just never been a big fan of like the, he did it, you know, with waving the flag. And then there was Team Canada and TNA. And then there was the un-Americans. I've just never been a big fan of like the cheapest of the cheap heat. And I know the pro wrestling is all about this. But I've never been a fan of like the, I'm better than you because I'm from a different country. And then you go to America and like, it's just boo. You saw the same thing with La Reistance, like they were so French that you were supposed to boo them because they were French. I don't know. I've just never been a fan of that type of stuff. But again,

all that to say is Brett and Sean, two great flavors of ice cream. You can't go wrong. Oh, and here's our final question here. This has been so much fun. Kristen N. on Instagram says, what is one lesson your daughter Logan has taught you so far? She's taught me a lot. Just one lesson? If it's just one lesson, I think the lesson has been patience. And I think the lesson has also been like, be flexible because you've got a plan to do a certain thing at a certain time. And if that baby isn't sleeping well or isn't eating well, you could throw those plans out the window because Logan's at a stage right now where she doesn't enjoy going in the car seat. So the second we put her in the car seat, and a lot of babies fall asleep when

they go in the car. Not our little girl, at least not yet. We put her in the car seat and she screams her head off. And then we put her in the car or in the truck. And it takes a good five, 10, 15 minutes and she will calm down. Although we drove home from the airport the other day. And it was a 52 minute drive from LAX. And she cried for all 52 minutes. Again, the lesson here is patience. And I think another lesson, and I know I was only asked for one, but you got me thinking here, Kristen. Another lesson is just like wonderment. She looks at everything with such wonder. And there's a real magic in that.

Because she is quite literally seeing everything for the first time. And I love that she's seeing it with these new eyes, these fresh eyes, and then it allows me to then see things through new eyes. eyes through fresh eyes. And it makes you realize how much wonder exists in the smallest of things. The things that we see all the time that we take for granted. And she looks at them and she's like, whoa. So that's been a big one for me is a little bit of a sense of wonder. And that's going to be a thing for a while. And I love that. That's the real thing. Like the patience, and the making the plans thing. Yeah, sure, that's definitely there.

And I think we could all use a little bit more patience. But I think we could also all use a little bit more wonder in our lives, especially in pro wrestling. Guys, it's not all negative. And that's why I'm trying to be a tiny little glimmer of positivity in this often very negative landscape. Think about if you were watching wrestling for like the first time, not even the first time, like first six months, a first year or something, there was a real wonder seeing stuff for the

first time or hearing an entrance song. And I feel like sometimes because we've been fans for so long, we forget. We forget like, yes, I get that the Canadian Destroyer is completely overused. I'm with you on that. But the first time I saw Pedy Williams do a Canadian Destroyer. I literally couldn't understand what he was doing. I remember watching the clip back in slow motion like pause, play, pause, play, pause, play, like frame by frame, trying to figure out exactly what was going on. There's a real wonder in that. And those moments are so rare. And wrestling also has so few surprises now, which is why the moment, like the Rock coming out on Smackdown, completely unannounced because he happened to be in Colorado.

are such big moments. Sure, they could have popped the rating and they could have said, the rock's going to be on Smackdown, tune in this week, and then you just tune in and every single segment, you'd be going,

is the rock coming out yet? Is the rock coming out yet? And the crowd would be chanting, Rocky, Rocky, and literally every single segment. The rating might have been better, but now you get the like wonderment, the surprise of the rock coming.

Oh my gosh, he's here? This wasn't even rumor. this wasn't even talked about. He came out of nowhere. And another one of those really big moments was the start of WrestleMania 30. How good was that? Like, Hogan, surprise.

Stone Cold, surprise. The Rock's here too? Surprise. Oh my gosh. Like, that was so cool to be able to see that moment. The greatest intro to WrestleMania ever, the greatest opening segment ever.

So, wonderment. maybe that can be the word that we like think about here another weekend. Wonderment. There's literally wonder and magic and everything. So I hope that you enjoyed this one. And if you are a creator and you're thinking about taking things to the next level or you're frustrated because you're putting stuff out and you've never, ever made any money from this or you would love to make a living from it and you're just not

quite there yet, check out fulltimecreator.co. And if you have any questions about the program specifically about our mastermind, shoot me a DM or an email CVV at chris fanfleet.com. I'll be happy to answer them. But I would love to be able to work with you in our group because we're doing some big things in there. I'll leave you with this quote from the Buddha. This is such a good one. What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you're doing right now. Be great. Be grateful. We will see you on the next one for some more. Insight with Rick Flair, baby.

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