Insight with Chris Van Vliet - AskCVV #38 - MITB Full Predictions, Paul Heyman Deserves An Emmy!, Best Theme Songs Ever & More!

Episode Date: July 5, 2024

Welcome to #AskCVV 38! On this one Chris gives his full predictions for the Money In The Bank card and answers questions about the Mount Rushmore of wrestling entrance themes, whether Paul Heyman's performance should earn him an Emmy nomination, thoughts on only having 5 matches on a WWE PLE, favorite dinosaur, furthest you've ever traveled for an interview, comparing wrestling now to the Attitude Era and much more! If you have a question that you want answered on the next one, send it in using the hashtag #AskCVV! Quote I'm thinking about: "Most already know what to do and simply don’t do it. It’s not ignorance. It’s fear." - Alex Hormozi Sponsors: PURE PLANK: The future of core fitness! Use the code CVV to save 10% on Pure Plank which was designed by Adam Copeland & Christian: https://gopureplank.com/ PRIZEPICKS: Download the app today and use code INSIGHT for a first deposit match up to $100! TIMELINE NUTRITION: Save 10% off your first order of Mitopure at http://timeline.com/INSIGHT BONCHARGE: Use the code CVV to save 15% off your infrared sauna blanket at https://boncharge.com/cvv BLUECHEW: Use the code INSIGHT to get your first month of BlueChew for FREE at http://bluechew.com ROCKET MONEY: Join Rocket Money today and experience financial freedom: https://rocketmoney.com/cvv BETTERHELP: Get 10% off your first month with the code INSIGHT at http://betterhelp.com/insight PLUNGE: Get $150 off your Plunge with the coupon code CVV150 at http://plunge.com 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

Here we go. Welcome back to another one. Here on Insight, I'm CVV, Chris Van Vleet. Hope that you're doing well. Hope you've had a great week. Thank you so much for being with us. And thank you for making insight the number one wrestling podcast on the planet. If by chance you're listening to this and you're one of the many thousands of people who just listen to this show, but you haven't followed the show. And I don't see how that could be possible because you're here on an Ask CVV episode. You're a real one. But if by chance you happened to forget to follow the show, let's change that right now. Take a second to hit that follow button on Apple Podcast or Spotify or wherever you're listening. I know it's just, it's such a small thing for you. It's really easy to

forget or to not get around to it. But my goodness, I can't even tell you how much that would mean to me. if you hit that follow button. And the bigger the show continues to get, the bigger the guests will continue to get. Although I don't know how we're going to top the run that we're on right now. Like, what a string of guests that we've had, right? Adam Copeland to Christian Cage to The Undertaker,

to Ray Mysterio for episode 619, to Billy Gunn. But we've got six months left in the years. So, yeah, there's a lot of possibilities. here. And with Money in the Bank this weekend in my hometown, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, I'm in Toronto as you're listening to this right now. I'm staying downtown. Of course, Money in the Bank is happening at the Scotia Bank Arena. So we're going to be downtown. So if you live in Toronto, or if you're traveling into Toronto for Money in the Bank, I hope we run into each other, either around Toronto, whether that's at Swiss chalet or Tim Hortons or pizza pizza,

oh my gosh. I mean, pizza pizza is just like, you know, it's a pizza chain in Canada. I think the pizzas, you know, it's pretty good. But there's something that's like very, I don't know, just tastes like home when I eat that pizza. So every time I'm back home, I get myself some pizza pizza piece. And I'm like, oh, yes, this tastes like 3 a.m. after coming home from the bars in Waterloo, Ontario, where I went to university. So maybe we run into each other around there, or maybe we run into each other at the actual venue.

I'm calling it the Scotia Bank Arena. But of course, I knew it as the ACC, the Air Canada Center. I saw so many Maple Leaf games in there. I've seen so many Raptors games in there. I've been to so many concerts inside that building. I've also been to a lot of wrestling shows in there, but I have never been to a money of the bank pay-per-view ever. So I'm excited for my first money in the bank to be in Toronto.

Hope to see you guys there. Welcome, my friends, to ask CVV number 38, the Kurt Schilling edition. Or I guess we could call this the Bloody Sock Edition. I mean, how good was that Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS? Kurt Schilling with the Bloody Sock to force a Game 7 that led to the Red Sox winning the World Series that year? Yeah, that's what this is. It's the bloody sock edition.

So welcome. And if this is your first time here on an Ask CVV episode, this is how I know that you're a real one. I appreciate you. You're likely already following the show. But it's simple. I answer your questions that you send in on social media using that hashtag Ask CVV or from the emails you send,

CVV at Chris VanFlead.com or, yeah, my new favorite one is all these comments. guys have been leaving on Spotify. And it was so fun on the last episode. I referenced that when I was on six feet under with Mark Calloway, and I said something towards the end of the episode, I'm like, you know, for people that are actually listening all the way through, just leave a word in the comments. Just some random, silly word. And Undertaker's like, Herpes. And then we landed on Scaliwag. And so there were a lot of comments about herpes and scallywag. If you look at that video on their channel on YouTube. So on the last episode, I was like, you know, if you're listening still on this episode, leave the word dinosaur in the comments on Spotify. And the amount of, and I said, you know,

let's just narrow down even more. Leave your favorite dinosaur in the comments. So the amount of people who left either the word dinosaur or a dinosaur emoji or your favorite dinosaur, thank you. You guys, you just make this so fun. I appreciate you so much. I also, you know, I called my wife in RVV, Rachel Van Vlid. I called her in for a question that somebody had asked of her. And then I said, man, if you have any other questions for RVV, RV double, ask them. And then we got a lot of RVV questions.

So we'll get to one or two of those later on. This is ask CVVV, not ask RVV, okay? honey, babe, beautiful. I love you. Let's dive into this. It's money in the bank weekend. My goodness, I'm so excited. Happy belated Canada Day to all my fellow Canadians. That was July 1st. Happy 4th of July, or I guess now belated 4th of July to all of my American friends. Let's dive into this. Paul DeMarco on Facebook says, congrats on being number one. Was it the Undertaker episode that pushed you to the top? I think it was, like I said, a string of just a lot of big guests that we've had recently. And I think a string of just good luck and good timing on those.

But I don't think you could narrow it down to one specific episode. At the risk of sounding completely cliche, this is episode number 624 right now. I mean, it really took 620 episodes to get to number one. So it was every single episode, I think. So it wasn't one specific episode. It was all 620 of those episodes building on one another that got us to number one. Because if it's not for episode number one, then we don't have episode number two. And if it's not for episode number two, then we don't have episode number three and so on and so on and so on.

And it used to be one episode a week. Then it was two. Now we're consistently doing three. So I appreciate you being with us on Friday. And of course, we'll have two episodes, two interviews next week, Tuesday, Thursday, Thursday like we always do. But it's, I think it's all of those building upon themselves. And it never ceases to amaze me. How many people will send me messages or I'll bump into them out and about somewhere. Now that I'm in Canada, maybe I say Oat in a boat somewhere.

I, and to answer the question that you're thinking of right now, yeah, I had a pretty strong Canadian accent before I moved to the U.S. And in order to get more jobs in the U.S., I just focused on a few of those very Canadian-sounding words, so I would maybe sound less Canadian. But when I bump into people out and about, Utenaboot, they'll be like, man, I just found your show a month ago, or I just found your show this year.

And it's like, yes, this is amazing. Like, we're reaching more people. And that's what's so fun. It's crazy because the YouTube channel started 13 years ago. The podcast is now five years old. it's awesome to me that people are able to find the show now, 620-something episodes in. And then if you want, and a lot of people are doing this, which I love, they're going back to episode one and they're listening all the way through and kind of like following that entire

journey. But I think it's been, there's been a few big interviews along the way that I think of, you know, kind of leveled up, you know, like it allows you to jump up from, you know, level five to level seven. I don't know. I'm just making up numbers here, but the Chris Jericho interview in the backseat of the car, 2019. That was the first interview that he did after signing with AEW, and he hadn't really explained why he was leaving WWE, and he had been there for at that point, 20 years and was leaving and going to this new upstart. That was a big one. The Tony Con interview that I did in 2019, one of the very first interviews that he did when he was starting AEW before they'd even had

their first show. That was a big one. If we rewind a little bit before that, I did that interview with big show in front of the water. That was actually like the parking lot of the TV station that I worked at in Miami. That was a big one to kind of level things up as well. I think there were a bunch, like Matt Cardona's first interview when he first got released from WWE. That was with me. I don't know. There were a lot of them along the way, but almost two hours with The Undertaker is certainly a big one. And that's one that I know I'm going to look back on in years to come. The way I'm looking back on these other interviews I just listed off. The John Sina won this year.

I think that one really, I mean, that's just such a good guy. I feel like I was on a high just off that conversation for a while because there's something about talking to John Sina and just the way that he, I didn't mean to do this, but the way that he sees you because he can't see him. You get it? But the way that he sees you and the way that he speaks to you and the way that he's just so present, it makes you want to be all of those things in all of the interactions that you have with everybody in your life. So the Undertaker interview was a big one, getting Ray Mysterio and setting that up and scheduling that

and driving out for a super quick day trip to Las Vegas to make sure that that was episode 619. I think that was also a big one as well. So I think it's a lot of these all being put together. But what it really comes down to is it's you guys. If you guys don't consistently keep showing up, then we don't want to have a show at all. So I owe all of this to you guys. You are the best.

Thank you for listening to the show. Thank you for following the show. Thank you for sharing the show with your friends. And I just appreciate you so much for allowing this to even be a thing. So let's keep going, right? We got 300 and change more to go till episode 1000. Then we'll, I mean, look, every episode to me is a fun one and it's an important one.

So let's just keep this going, baby. Let's just keep this going. I've got some big names on tap for the rest of the year. I don't want to give anything away, but look, when you see the tomorrow announcement, when you see on Monday or Wednesday that week, like tomorrow, tomorrow's guest on Insight is so-and-so, you're going to be like, oh, my God, CVV got that person? Yeah, yeah, CVV got that person. And we got them in person because we haven't, I think we've done only one virtual interview this entire year. there's just something so much better about doing these interviews in person and being able to shake their hand and look them in the eye and give them a hug and like not do that weird Zoom thing

where it's like no no no you no no so I saw I don't no no you go no so I'm sorry yeah no you you go I love that you don't have to do that in person so keep an eye out follow the show and don't be surprised when you see the massive guests that we have coming up. They're big. Levi underscore 13 underscore hi on Instagram. Well, it's underscore H.I. But underscore hi. What match are you most excited about for money in the bank? I, Levi, I love the money in the bank ladder matches, men's and women's.

Because what I love about them is it throws a wrinkle into the championship plans at any point in time. So as of right now, you can only challenge for the championship if you, you know, if you earn that spot or if you get granted that match. But after the Money in the Bank match, it throws a wrinkle into everything that happens after this. And more importantly, and perhaps it will play out on Saturday at Money in the Bank, it throws a wrinkle into the championship matches that happened that night. And we've seen that happen before, right? Someone earlier in the night wins the Money in the Bank. Later on that same night, they cash in, they become the champion. And who knows, that could happen this Saturday. So I'm always focused on those matches. They also have the

ability to elevate a talent quite a bit. And so those are the matches I'm most excited about. I love ladder matches to begin with. I think when you put that many people inside a ladder match, you get some really interesting spots. And I feel like they're always trying to outdo what happened in the ladder matches that came before this one. So both of those ladder matches are the ones that I'm most excited about. Who do you think is going to win CVV? Well, that leads us to the next question here from Future is Fontaine, also on Instagram. What are your predictions for the entire Money in the Bank Pelley? So let's run down this. We'll start with the men's. Money in the Bank Ladermas J. Uso, Carmelo Hayes versus Andrade versus Chad Gable versus L.A. Knight versus

Drew McIntyre. When I say all of those names, to me, two of them stand. out as like the main heavy favorites here, the real potential. And of course, when we're talking about favorites, you can bet on WWPLA's at MyBooky. Use my code. CVV. You'll get a 50% welcome bonus. And I know it's crazy. You've heard me talk about this a bunch, but yes, you can bet on on WWEPLEs at my bookie. The odds aren't out. I think they're out, they just came out right now as you're listening to this, but I recorded this before I flew to Toronto. go there, check out the odds, and you can be like me at Clash of the Castle, where you put some money in your pocket for predicting these correctly. When you look at this, I think two names stand out here. I think it's Jay Uso or Drew McIntyre.

Two very different stories if either of them win. But if it's Drew McIntyre, then you've got a nice little wrinkle here with perhaps CM Punk. and that, you know, when they, when Sam Punk's healed up and they have another match, that becomes for the World Heavyweight Championship. When I look at this right now, as it stands right now before Smackdown has aired, because who knows, something on SmackDown could change up our entire thoughts on the whole card and everything going on there. I like Jay Uso here. And then it becomes money in the yeat, right?

or yeat in the bank. I guess yeet in the bank's the thing they're going with. Money in the yeet, yee, eat, I don't know, something, one of those things.

I'm going to go with Jay Uso on this one. But I also like, like the underdog story or like the, the idea of Carmelo Hayes getting this and like that boosting up his career. Maybe it's not his time just yet. But Carmelo Hayes is going to steal the show in this match.

That's my prediction here. I think Chad Gable is a few, champion at some point in time. I just don't think it's quite here yet, but what an interesting story he has going on. It's funny. A year ago, L.A. Knight was the heavy favorite in this money in the bank match. He's going to have a great showing here. But where does this lead with him? Does Logan Paul screw him in this match? Is that what leads to something at SummerSlam with Logan Paul L.A. Knight? That's what I'm still feeling here. I'm still feeling it's going to be Logan Paul, L.A. Knight, Cleveland Brown Stadium. That's going to be so big. If you're going to

Summer Slam, I will see you there as well. But go with Jay Uso in this one. Then we look at the women's winning the bank ladder match. Eoskeye versus Chelsea Green versus Lyra of Algeria versus Tiffany Straten versus Naomi versus Zoe Stark. The two names here that stand out. And if you've been listening to Ask CVVs for a while, I've been talking about these two names in this match for a while. Chelsea Green, Tiffany Stratton, both of them, I think holding that briefcase adds a lot to their character and their career. My pick right now is Tiffany Stratton. We all can agree here that she is a future women's champion. Maybe it's this year, I mean, like the next six months, maybe it's within the next 12, which would make sense with the money in the bank contract. I'm going with Tiffany Stratton on this one. She's a star. She has every single, she ticks every single box.

We're going with Tiffany Stratton on this. That match is going to be insane. Let's move on now to Damien Priest versus Seth Rawlins. Sorry. Seth freaking Rawlins. Have you seen these TikToks? Where they're like when Raw moves to Netflix, he's going to be Seth, like actual F word Rollins.

Like, whoa, yeah, because, you know, it's going to be uncensored and it's not a PG show anymore. I don't think that'll be his name, but man, raw Netflix. Who, buckle up. This match is for the World Heavyweight Championship. And if Priest wins, Rollins will never challenge for the title as long as Priest is champion. If Rawlins wins, Priest must leave the Judgment Day. Ooh. This one's actually really hard for me to call because I think that the winner of this match has major implications for whatever the main event happens to be at SummerSlam, which is going to be Gunther versus the winner of this match.

I feel like Gunther versus Seth Rollins is a much bigger match to happen in the stadium, to happen at SummerSlam in Cleveland. So for that reason, I'm going to go with Seth Freakin' Rollins to win this. I also think that Fries leaving Judgment Day and allowing him to go off and do his own thing would be really good for him. So that's my thoughts on this one. I really think that this one's kind of a coin toss here. It really could go either way, but I'm going to go Seth Freak and Rollins on this.

And I don't know if Seth Rollins gets enough credit for how good he is at putting other people over. Like how good he's been at like, yeah, maybe he'll be the champion for a little while here. But I mean, come on. It's got to be Gunther walking out of SummerSlam as the World Heavyweight Champion. It just did the build up to that, him being king of the ring. Everything just seems to line up for that one. So Seth Rollins, maybe he's the champ for, wow, that would only be less than a month.

But that's the kind of guy Seth Rollins is. And that's why I could see him being the champion after this weekend. But we'll see. Sammy Zane, who is defending his intercontinental championship against Brom Breaker. I just don't see any sort of scenario where Brom Breaker gets pinned.

Like, Brom Brewerker is on this 2024-esque run. I just see him running through Sammy Zane in an amazing match, but I just don't see any sort of situation where he gets pinned. So if somehow he, I think Bronbreaker wins this match, but if somehow there's some screwy stuff that happens here, maybe it's a Bronbreaker just, you know, loses it and I don't know, gets counted out or intentionally gets disqualified. like there could be something like that that continues to fuel his story and make him even more

of a badass than we already see him as. But I see Braun Breaker winning this match and then holding the Intercontinental Championship for a while and just being an absolutely dominant champion. Like this could turn into something where almost like the Ryback run, where Ryback comes out and like squashes one local hero. And then now he squashes two local heroes. And now he squashing three. Like I could see brawn breaker as the champion like being a fighting champion and like every single week he's coming out and he's taking on a local competitor or he's taking on anybody and he's just like rotting through them that's where i see this going braum breaker when we talk about future stars he is one when we talk about future champions he is one and i think that this is just one more building block in that

Where was I going? Where was I going with that analogy? You know what I'm saying, though. This is just one more brick that he's laying in the foundation for his massive career that he's already had and it's going to continue to have. That was halfway through that analogy. And I'm like, I don't know where that sentence ends. Yeah. Didn't know where I was going with that one.

Then to the six-man tag team match, Cody Rhodes, Randy Orden and Kevin Owens versus the bloodline. it's any three members, it could be Solo Sacoa, Tomatanga, Tonga Loa, and Jacob Fatu. Man, this is going to be great. I don't see any situation where the bloodline doesn't win. This continues to pour gasoline on the fire that is the bloodline 2.0, that is the mega heels that they are, that after already power bombing, Paul Heyman through the announced table, now Paul Heyman's a baby face, which means when Roman Raines comes, back, he is inevitably going to be a baby face. This version of the bloodline super heels.

I see no other situation here other than the bloodline winning. That to me, if you're going to be placing any sort of bets on my bookie, that one sure seems like an obvious one to me. But I'm excited about this. I'm excited to be back home in Canada. I usually get back home like twice a year. and now I'm going to be back twice in like three weeks because we were just back, if you remember, I was there with Logan and Rachel a few weeks ago for one of my best friends' weddings. Now we're back a few weeks later and I can't wait. It's going to be a good one. 12 to 6 elbow drop on Instagram says, hey, CVV, you are the best.

Congrats on being number one. Thank you so much. I know you're a UFC fan too. Do you think Connor will actually fight again? Boy, I had June 29th on my calendar for UFC 303 and Connor McGregor returning to the Octagon against Michael Chandler. I had that on my calendar for so long. And I think we were all collectively disappointed when Connor pulled out of the fight. Like, I understand it was because of an injury and I'm certainly not expecting him to fight when he's injured.

but it was just kind of like, ah, man. And I feel for all the people who paid top dollar to be there in Las Vegas, to be there at UFC 303. Like I was looking at tickets because I was like, I kind of want to go. It's like a four hour drive. We can make that happen, 45 minute flight. Let's do it. And I was looking at tickets and it's like, just lower bowl, like just decent seats,

like lower bowl, 2550 plus fees. that was face value and there were a lot of them available. This felt a lot like Clash of the Castle where it's like, yeah, people will want to go to this. This is a big event. We can charge whatever we damn well, please. That's what this felt like. And I think they were sold out.

So you had a lot of people that were paying, I think floor seats were $6 to $10,000. And then like I said, lower bowl, $2,500. Upper bowl was something like $500 to $1,000. You had people that were spending all of that money. Plus, if they were coming in, and a lot of people, I'm sure, were planning to come in from Ireland because of Connor McGregor's massive following. So this is flight.

This is hotel. This is food and drink and spending money and the thousands of dollars on tickets. And then Connor McGregor is not in the fight. I just felt for those people. I had a buddy of mine who went, he bought these tickets months ago. And it's like, well, I bought the tickets. Still going to have a great weekend in Vegas. but it's just not the same without Connor McGregor.

To answer your question, yes, I think he will fight again. I think he'll fight at least one more time in the UFC, if not two more. I believe I'd have to look this up. I don't know how long it would take me to look this up, but I believe he has two fights left in his UFC contract. So for sure he does one more, but he needs a win so badly. And so does Michael Chandler. like both of them pointed this out before they've lost three of their last four i think connor

mcgregor has one win in six years so i think that connor would need to go back in and win this to go yeah i'm still that guy yes i haven't lost a step at all and that fight with dustin pori where i broke my leg what what can you do you know it's just bad luck i think that yeah he fights again i think i think i think it was michael chanley yeah michael chanler posted on instagram yesterday, UFC 306 in the sphere. So we're looking at September for that one. Let me pull up the exact date. September 14th, UFC 306 in the sphere. I know it's not official, but Michael Chandler had kind of hinted at that. So yeah, I think he fights again. And also, I think that a lot of eyes will be on UFC 306 in the sphere as they're going to try to figure out with WWE and WrestleMania.

Being in Las Vegas next year for WrestleMania 41, you better believe they're doing something in the sphere. So they're going to be looking at UFC 306 and looking at just the way that the fans are situated in there and looking at everything that's going to be going on on the LED wall and they're going to be going. Okay. Yeah, if our sister company under the same TKL umbrella here, UFC is able to make this look that good, what could we do with Raw or Smackdown or maybe. Maybe NXT? It's a big venue, though. People seem to think that the sphere is a small venue. I don't know why there's this perception that this is like just a few thousand people. It's 18,600 people, I believe, is full capacity inside the sphere. So that's the same size as any basketball or hockey arena that you're going to see Raw or Smackdown.

And so it's the perfect fit for one of those shows. But back to the question, yes, he fights again at some point in time. And my goodness, he's got to win. Notorious three showcase on Instagram says, Hey, Chris, two-parter, and it doesn't have to be on Ask CVV, but what would be your current day CVV theme song? You can't use your inters song.

And what was Chris Sharps? Oh, wow. I can't use my current one? I can't use my downstate theme song? I mean, come on. Why can't I use it? I think I would just, this might be cheating,

but, I think I would just ask downstate to make me a new song. I would just say, hey, guys, could you write me a new song because you write the best entrance themes like the one for Cody Rhodes or The Miz or Alex Ryder or Alex Riley? What was I doing? Zach Ryder, combining the two names there. I think I would just ask them. I would say, hey, guys, could you make me a song?

And they would. And it would be amazing. What was Chris Sharp's entrance theme? I'm actually going to pull this up right now. It was a Rage Against the Machine song. And I think I posted like my, call it TitanTron, if you will. And it was this song. It's called New Millennium Homes, New Millennium Homes by Rage Against the Machine.

And I'll play it for you. This was Chris Sharp's entrance theme. Hold on. We're going to mute it because we're, I'm pulling this up on YouTube. I'm muting this so you don't have to hear the ad that's playing here right now. So a little baseline. This is the baseline where, oh my gosh, he's here? Could he, could it be?

Oh, Chris Sharp is here. What a turn of the millennium rock song, right? Like that's such a, that's such a rage against the machine song. That's such a early 2000 song right there. So that was the Chris Sharp entrance theme. New Millennium Homes by Rage Against the Machine, off the album, The Battle of Los Angeles. I believe that was track 10?

We have all the world's information in front of us. So was that track 10? Yes, it was track 10 on that album. So that song just gets me so excited whenever I hear that. So thank you for the question. Timothy Connor on Facebook says, I saw that you posted something on here, asking who was the best wrestler turned actor?

Is it Sina, Batista, or The Rock? But CVV, who's your pick? That's tough, right? Because acting is so subjective. It's not like you're looking at numbers and sports and you're going, well, this person won the most rings or this person through the most touchdowns or whatever. This is why you can make a strong argument for this person.

Although then you get into these arguments of like Jordan versus LeBron and it's like even though the numbers may say, one or the other, people just still very much like, ah, man, Jordan's my guy or LeBron's my guy. I think when you look at all three of them, I mean, I think that any actor here in Los Angeles would trade their career, any, not any actor, any up-and-coming actor, any working actor, anybody who's like going through the audition process and getting turned down, any working actor, any aspiring actor, would trade their career for any three of those guys, Dave Batista, John Cena, or Dwayne Johnson.

When you look at Batista, he, I think, has the most range. He has the ability to be funny in something like Gardens of the Galaxy. He has the ability to be really serious slash menacing at knock at the cabin. I think that in terms of just range, it's probably Batista. I think when you look at Sina, a real strong argument could be made that he's the funniest of the bunch. Like the stuff he did recently in Ricky Stenicki, or when we look at like train wreck or vacation friends, like he goes there. This isn't the John Sina that we saw in WWE for decades. This is the John Sina who's like making like X-rated jokes and dropping a lot of F bombs and like pulling it off.

And then when you look at the rock, he's the highest paid star for almost a decade. He's the biggest box office draw for almost a decade. So it's just so subjective. And I think it comes down to what's your cup of tea? And tea isn't even everybody's cup of tea. So I can understand that as well. But I think that all three of them are so successful in their own way. and if you were to say, yeah, Sina's my favorite.

Sure, yeah, could totally see that. Rock's my favorite. Yeah, yeah, could definitely see that as well. Batista's my favorite. Yep, sure. That one makes sense too. I think when the Rock's new movie, the one that he's filming right now,

Smashing Machine, when that one comes out, I think we're going to have a whole new perspective on the Rock and who he is as an actor. It's the biopic about Mark Kerr, former UFC fighter and a hell of a story there, I think that we're going to look at the rock in a totally different way.

I think that the rock has obviously done some very funny stuff. Like I think Central Intelligence was brilliant. I think he's done some, I love the rock in the Fast and the Furious franchise. And I think that if it wasn't for the Rock coming into the Fast and Furious franchise, fast and furious franchise may not still be around.

Like he really invigorated that franchise and let's change the way that that whole dynamic was there. It was kind of floundering there for a little while. And then Hobbs came in and just breathed new life into what they were doing with Fast and Furious. So I think you can make a strong case for all of them being the best wrestler turned actor. It just depends what angle you want to look at this from. Sean Jankowski, which is Sean underscore Janko. Hey, Chris, this is for Ask CVV 38, the Eriganya edition. What's your Mount Rushmore of wrestling theme socks?

Thanks in advance, and I appreciate you. P.S. My three things I'm grateful for are my wife, my three-year-old son, and my health. Well, those are three great things to be grateful for. I love that. Mount Rushmore of wrestling theme songs. Rushmore's are always so tough because you're just narrowing it down to four. The thing that's cool about Mount Rushmore's though, which I like is you're not ranking them. You're not going, all number one is this. Then number two, you just sang four answers. So that's cool. Like all four carry the same amount of weight, which I appreciate. On my Mount Rushmore, you got to put Triple H on there. All of his theme songs. Just Triple H's theme songs from one to, like I love that one. My time. So good. the game, King of Kings, and I'm going to be sneaky here and also throw evolution in there, so it's going to include evolution. Evolution is a mystery. So good. All of those songs are the type of

songs that you could put on when you're in the gym. And you're just like, hell yeah, I am going to abuse these weights today. Stone cold. There's just something about the cadence of and as I'm singing that to you right now, you're picturing just the way that Stone Cold would walk to the ring, like jaw jack in at the crowd and jaw jacking at the person at the ring. I don't know. I've often many times have in my mind played that song and kind of walked with a purpose into the living room or something like that.

So Stone Cole on there. The Undertaker, because you associate the epic entrances that he's had, to that theme song. There's something about the gong hitting, the lights going out that just sets the tone for what's going to happen next. So that one for sure. And then it's always so hard. It's always so hard to pick that fourth spot. So for the fourth spot, I just think there's something really special about CM Punk's entrance theme. Him picking an actual song that is played on the radio called the personality and then the little static at the start there's just something about that combination and i also love how he goes this is my song and when he goes to a e w it's like no no

this is my song and you're going to pay in living color like you're going to pay them for this song every single time it plays so if i win that means it plays twice sorry in living color living color you know what i mean every time i say in living color it's that tv show Remember that? In Living Color. Remember that? Keenan Ivory Wayans? But I just love the progression of that, the static to his song. Even the words in that song, I think, really speak to who CM Punk is as a character.

So those are my four. Triple H. Stone Cold. The Undertaker, CM Punk. And I think that we just have to give a tip of the hat to Jim John. who is the absolute goat. So good. And of course I understand he didn't create all the songs of Motorhead and Living Color. But just as a whole, the thousands of songs that Jim Johnston wrote,

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honey, another, another Ask RVV for you. I swear, Rachel's becoming far more popular than I am here. Oh, here she is. Hi, my love. Hi. Hi. You realize how popular you become? I think we got to rename this. This goes from Ask CVV to Ask RVV. Ask the VVs. Ooh, ask the VVs. Ask the VVs.

So this one's from a Brady on Spotify. And people, so cool that people can leave these on Spotify. Question for RVV. How have your feelings about professional wrestling change since you met CVV? My significant other can't seem to get over the quote, fake viewpoint. Yeah, what do you think? Wrestling's fake? It's crazy, right?

Wow. Wow. It's not fake. It's predetermined like everything on TV. I don't think I really had an opinion one way or another on wrestling before we met. I didn't love it. I didn't hate it by any means. I don't really think I had anyone in my life that was a super fan that made me watch it all the time.

So you were aware of it? Just like indifferent, though. Indifferent. New, you know, some of the famous names. Like who? You're so good at naming wrestlers. You know, like the rock. But I think what really kind of flipped a switch for me to, for this could help with your significant other, take her to a show.

That's really where I saw like the entertainment value and like how the fans just get so hyped up and how into it they are. And that really kind of made me go, oh, this is pretty awesome. It's pretty great. So I think going to my first My first couple shows was like just really eye-opening with how fun it is. Yeah, people are going to now say, what was your first show?

It was AEW in Ontario. Yeah, Ontario, California. So that's been 2020? I think so. Yeah, and then we went to Smackdown not long after that. Right, yeah, and that was in Anaheim. No, no, we went to the one at Crypto.com Arena. Oh, that's right. That's right. But we saw one in Anaheim, too. We did see one in Anaheim. And then we tried to take Logan to one in Anaheim.

I did not go over. We lasted about three minutes there. Yeah, I agree that like if you go to a show, it's almost like seeing your favorite band or like seeing a band. I feel like there's this nickelback documentary on Netflix right now. And like, you know, people can say what they want about nickelback. But then you look at their album sales and you're like, oh, well, yeah, I guess they are pretty successful. I think it's kind of like that with wrestling.

We're like, hey, the band's okay. Then you see them in concert and you're like, oh, wow. Oh, man, I have a new respect for them. When you see wrestling in person, it's just a whole different thing. So there's actually two questions for you. Ask RV double. Excluding you, some guess me. Oh, sorry, this is from AZ to the Rescue also on Spotify.

So thank you for that. Excluding you. So I guess it's me. What are three things that she is grateful for? What are three things that you're grateful for? Excluding you. I can't be grateful for you. That was my number one.

our daughter, Logan, and our soon-to-be son, very grateful for those two. I'm grateful for our health. I'm grateful for all these listeners that actually care what I have to say for some reason. It's mind-boggling. Isn't this crazy? Thank you. Thank you. Yeah.

There were a lot more. I was like, well, we can only ask a few here. But there were probably, we could have done a whole episode just asking you questions. Absolutely. We can do that one day. You want to do a whole Ask RVV. Ask RVV number one. And then we just keep going with that. We'll see. We'll see. Before the next baby, at least, when we have a little more time on our hands. We should do another one of these. I'm allowed to be grateful for you. So I'm grateful for you. And I love that we do that every night before we go to sleep. We say out loud three things we're grateful for.

Even when you're really tired. No matter how tired I am, he makes me list. Three things I'm grateful for. And some nights, they're very quick and to the point. Or some nights you just go, yeah, yeah, same as you. Okay, good night. But it's good. We practice gratitude as much as we can.

Would you say you're a wrestling fan now? I think so. I think I'm, you know, low on the totem pole as far as hardcore wrestling fans go. Yeah. But I very much enjoy it. I enjoy watching it. I enjoy the storylines. Could you?

Uptmost respect for the type of athletes. they are too. It's like really impressive. Could you name one current champion right now? I don't even know what that means. A current champion. You know, one of the people with the, with the championship. Doesn't it change? It does. But the people that have it right now. Right now. Cody Rhodes. Hey! Look at that. Wow. I didn't think she was going to get that. Okay. I love you, honey. Okay. Thank you. Another, another successful Ask RVV there. She's the best. If you have more questions for the next one, put them in Spotify and the comments there, Ask RVV or send them in via the hashtag Ask CVV or send them to me on email CVV at chrisfanbley.com.

She's so fun. And I appreciate her growing knowledge of wrestling. Gregory Rothstein sent this one in on Spotify. Chris, what's your friend? favorite dinosaur. Personally, I'm a triceratops guy. I love that this dinosaur theme is just continuing. This is great. I think the T-Rex is the goat of dinosaurs. Like when you think about dinosaurs, it's usually the T-Rex, like that's the, you know, it's the emoji. When you type in dinosaur and you get an emoji, it's the T-Rex or it's the like the Bronosaurus, like the long-neck dinosaur. So I think the T-Rex is like the, that's the goat dinosaur. But I did a project in I think it was fifth grade where I did a project about the ankleosaurus.

I know this is a deep cut here. The ankyosaurus kind of looks like a, kind of like a turtle in a way. It has a hard shell and it has this tail with almost like this club on the back of it. And I just, I learned so much about this armored dinosaur, the ankyosaurus, that it made me a big fan of the ancliosaurus for a long time. So I think I'm going to go Ankleosaurus on that one, Gregory. But I still, you know, you can definitely catch me wearing a T-Rex shirt or using T-Rex emojis. T-Rex is always going to be the goat dinosaur. I mean, that's the one when you walk into a museum, the big dinosaur fossil statue that's on display, it's always a T-Rex.

Jake Rite Nauer on Twitter says, been the most difficult interview in terms of booking. Maybe it took a six-hour drive or something like that. I think, I mean, the one that immediately comes to mind is the interview I did with Tony Con in 2019, where I was still working at WSVN, the Fox affiliate in Miami. And this was like a random Thursday that we set up this interview. And we did it at the stadium where the Jaguars play. We did it in the owner's suite there. I took the day off work. drove from Miami all the way to Jacksonville, did the interview, and then got in my car and then turned around and drove home. And it's like a five-ish hour drive. So that was like 10 plus hours in the

car for a 30-minute interview. That's one of them. I think the other one, like in recent memory, was the interview I did with Adam Copeland. So I was already at a UFL event, United Fight League event, in Mesa, Arizona. And then I had the interview, that was on a Saturday. I had the interview with Adam Copeland that Monday morning. So I needed to go from, well, the Phoenix airport, but you needed to go from Mesa to where he lived in Asheville, North Carolina. And it was just, it's not an easy place to get to.

It's a super small airport. It's a pretty small town. So it was like a matter of figuring out, all right, how do I get to from Phoenix to Asheville and also bring all of my gear to UFL. So it was kind of like it was like a two-stop journey, right? It was leave home to go to this one thing, UFL, to then also go to this other thing, the interview with Adam Copeland and then go home.

So that was a really long travel day because there was no direct way to get from Phoenix to Asheville. So it was Phoenix to Charlotte, layover in Charlotte, then get to Asheville and then stay in the hotel in Asheville, then take an Uber to his house to do the interview. It was just there were a lot of moving parts in that one. And also my buddy Jamil, he flew in from South Florida.

He flew in from Fort Lauderdale. He was helping out behind the scenes with that one. So it was a matter of like getting his flights to line up with my flights. And shout out to Bob, the shuttle driver at the Clarion Inn at the Asheville airport. He was fantastic. Like, I called a random number. Like, I called the, called the hotel when I landed. I'm like, hey, how do I get the shuttle to the, to the hotel? And they're like, oh, call this other number. Bob will answer and he'll pick you right up. Okay. I called this random number. Bob's like, hey, yeah, be right there. I'm three minutes away.

And sure enough, like, the hotel is that close. And he came over. It was just all these different elements that went into that one. So I think that was like a 10-hour travel day of just like going from my hotel and mesa to the airport in Phoenix to then flying from Phoenix to Charlotte, waiting for the layover from Charlotte to Asheville, landing in Asheville, Bob the shuttle driver to take us to the hotel, then the next morning Uber from the hotel to Adam and Beth's house to do the interview. So a lot of moving parts there. So I think that was one of them. And I will be back there soon.

I will be back there soon to do an interview with Beth Phoenix. We're staying at the same hotel. So Bob, the shuttle driver, can't wait to see you again there. The random recruiter on Twitter says, what are your thoughts on Dom in the long game? And how epic do you think him and Eddie would have been in this storyline with Ray? personally, I think he's killing it and is a future world champ. I totally agree with you.

Dirty Dom is a future world champ for sure. I love the storyline. I love him coming into his own. And Ray talked about it during our interview of like, yeah, Dom was fine as a baby face. But Dom as a heel, it just feels right. Like, he's such a nice guy. Like Dominic, the person is so nice.

And I love that when he turns it on and he goes from Dominic, the, you know, person to dirty dom the character. There's just something there that clicks. If Eddie was still with us, oh, man, the impact that he would have on just wrestling as a whole. It'd be incredible to think Eddie would be 58 right now. You know, we would have had almost 20 more years

with Eddie just adding his expertise and his knowledge. And, you know, he still obviously had several more years that he could have wrestled in the ring. I say it all the time. Like Eddie was taken from us way too soon, and there was just so much more potential there. So I think that interject a retired Eddie Guerrero into the storyline with Dom and Ray.

Oh, man, that would have just added another beautiful layer to that story. LGO 618 on Twitter says, how does watching this era live compared to watching the ruthless aggression or the attitude era live back in the day? I'll speak directly to the attitude era because that's the era that really got me into wrestling. And I think that it was, you know, the era before the internet really existed. I mean, the internet existed, but not the way that we have it now.

So when you watched during the attitude era, for the most part, you were waiting until the next day to be able to talk about it. You were waiting till Tuesday morning at school to run into your friend or friends to be like, oh my gosh, did you see that thing that happened on Raw last night? I think that was what was really special about it, was you didn't have this instant reaction and interaction as things were happening, like quite literally on Twitter. Like as things are happening, people are responding to it or, you know, people that are live on Twitch or live on YouTube.

And I just love that it's evolved into what it is now. But there was something really special about watching it and calling your friend You know, that was a big thing too. Like something big would happen, you know, and you're 15 or 16 years old and like the phone's ringing and it's right after the main event on Raw. It's 11 p.m. Eastern time and your parents might be asleep or certainly getting ready to go to sleep. And the phone, the house phones ringing because this is before cell phones. Like there was something special about it. And if it would have to be a big thing to be calling your friend at 11 p.m. on a school night to say,

did you see that thing that happened on raw? So that's why so often you were waiting until the next morning. And sometimes you would get the call the next morning. You know, if school started at, I'm just making up a time here, 9 a.m., you might get a call at 8.15 a.m. as you're eating breakfast and getting ready to leave for school, you might get a call from your friend at 815 going, oh, dude, that thing last night with Stone Cold, or did you hear what the Rock said, or something like along those lines, that was really special. there was something really cool about it. It was also something cool about sharing it with just your people.

Like, you were sharing this just with your tight-knit group of friends. And then sometimes you would find out like, oh, man, my buddy so-and-so plays hockey with this other guy who's also a wrestling fan. Well, we should invite him to the next paper view at our house. And then you built out this like inner circle of just your wrestling fans based on like the one thing you guys had in common. which was loving wrestling, that was what was especially different about it back then. What's cool about it now is you could have that same inner circle of people who love wrestling, but they could live on the other side of the planet from you. And you may have never met them before.

They are just your friends on X or they're just your friends on Instagram or they're just your friends on Twitch. And that's a really cool thing too. Like I love seeing names that consistently pop up on my Instagram or on my YouTube channel where I know you guys have been commenting on my videos or on my podcast for years. And I feel like I know you, even though we've never met. And that's also what's really cool about what we have right now. C-D-E-L-C-E-L-C-E-L-C-E-L-C-L.

How else could that be pronounced? This is an email that you sent in. Hey, Chris, I like the interviews that are close to an hour and a half or two hours more, because it allows you to really get to know more about the guests. Do you think this will become the norm, or is this just dependent on the guest's time? I'd love to meet you one day if you ever get the chance. Keep up the great work. Kind regards, Cadell Quay. I think that it's, I've been very fortunate to be with some people who just have that kind of time. Like when I sat down with The Undertaker or I sat down with Billy Gunn recently and I was like, hey, do you have a certain time you got to get out of here?

like do we need to wrap up by a certain time? And they're like, no, yeah, talk as long as you want. And I don't ever want to turn that into like a four-hour conversation, but talk as long as you want, you know, with The Undertaker, you could have lasted a long time. I would love that to become the norm. I feel like there's a sweet spot with interviews and it's really dependent on the guest, like you said. Like some of them, I don't know, if you were to continue an interview on and you're, it just feels like you're digging for things that aren't there, or you're trying to stretch out a conversation that maybe doesn't need stretching out. Some of those exist.

Other ones like two hours flies by and you could have gone on much longer. But I think I'd like to aim for an hour to two hours, depending on who the guest is and depending how much of a back catalog of stuff we can go into. Also, you might have noticed this. It's how playful is the guest? How willing are they to have a real conversation? I think that, especially if they don't know who I am and I have, I never expect anybody to be aware of who I am or do have ever watched any of my videos or listen to any of these

podcasts. But I feel like sometimes when someone's coming into a situation and they're, you know, an hour's blocked off for this interview. You've got from 11 to 12 for this interview. And sometimes there's handlers in there or a publicist in there or someone that's overseeing the interview, those ones I feel like need to be like strict to the time. Then there's times where like someone brings their rental car and they come to the studio or you just go to their hotel room and you've got all afternoon or all evening with them.

Sometimes when they're under those strict parameters of like this has been set up by a publicist and you have from this time to this time and that person isn't aware of your work, sometimes those interviews are just much more like straightened to the point. And whenever possible, I try to have these interviews that just feel a bit more like a conversation. Like if you, when you're listening in one of these episodes, it's almost like you're eavesdropping in on us sitting next to us at a restaurant or sitting next to us at a coffee shop. That's what I'm always aiming for with these. So I agree with you. The longer these interviews go, the more freedom we seem to have to open up to those situations.

The wrestle cream on Twitter. Boy, that could mean a lot of different things. Does Paul Heyman deserve an Emmy and an Oscar and a medal of honor? When when we'll you sit down with him, I need it. Boy, his performances are so good. And I think what makes them so good is the same thing that makes an actor in a movie or a TV shows performance is so good. It's the nuance that happens there.

like wrestling is so often big and over the top and grand right so the person that's in the front row is able to get it and see your emotions in the same way that the person in the last row of the arena is able to see it as well. Paul Heyman just has these subtleties to his performances and the nuance and man what he did on raw and that whole segment with Solo Sokoa and the Bloodline was brilliant. And I don't know how wrestling performers are not considered for Emmys, but boy, they should be. Because the performances they've had are absolutely amazing. Paul Heyman should certainly, certainly change that.

And I hope that one day that becomes a thing. I guess we'll see if that ever happens. WWE as a whole has been nominated for an Emmy. It was, let me look this up here real quick. They were nominated for outstanding long documentary for who, becoming Rick Flair. So at least they're, you know, the Emmy people are aware of what WWE is doing.

And I wouldn't be surprised if WWE was submitting for the Emmys. But yeah, Paul Heyman's special. And we need to appreciate what he's doing now because he's not going to be around forever. I mean, he's going to be around, hopefully for many, many, many years to come. But we're going to be looking back at these performances now in the same way that we look back at some of the greats from 30 and 40 years ago and go, wow, how good was mean, how good was mean, Gene or how good was Howard Finner. We have that right now with Paul Heyman. And I know they say it's an honor just to be nominated. And I say this is someone who has been nominated myself for many Emmys and I've lost.

Yes, I have won four and I'm super grateful to have won those local Emmys. But I've also lost like nine times. Just to see a nomination for Paul Heyman would be great. And I think it would help to, I don't know, really continue to WW. WWE is already mainstream and pro wrestling is, is mainstream with everything that's been going on in the last year or two. But I think it would continue to add credibility to what wrestling is as a whole and what WWE does to give someone like Paul Heyman an Emmy.

So I bet that so it's not just like the behind the scenes look here. It's not just the Emmy people, the, the Emmy organization. doesn't just like watch every TV show and pick things out. Each network submits or each show submits shows and performances that they want to be considered for Emmys. So I would have to think that WWE is submitting for the Emmys or maybe its USA Network is submitting for the Emmys. I would have to think that. I would have to think that Paul Heyman is part of that conversation. Celine M. McDade on Instagram.

What did you think of Ronda Rousey in WWE and the aftermath talking so poorly of them? I don't know if Ronda Rousey gets enough credit for what she did in WWE. It's very similar to what Logan Paul has done and is currently doing in WWE, where she took to this so quickly and she didn't have a lot of experience when she was being thrown into these huge storylines. and these big matches, and she was able to hang. And she was able to hang with people who had decades of experience. And while you may not like her or you may not like her wrestling, I think you've got to give her credit for what she was able to do. And also, you know, main eventing and WrestleMania, amazing. Maybe you don't like what she said about WWE, but I guess the thing

I can say about that is this is her truth. And if that's the way that she feels about her time in WW, and that's the way that she feels about it, she's entitled to feel that way and she's entitled to say those things. And if she doesn't want to go back, then that's okay. And perhaps you listening, maybe you don't want to see her back. And that's also okay as well. She was also in WWE in a different time. Like there were some storylines and there were some dark times in 2018, 2019, 2020 with the way things were going with Vince McMahon in charge and changing things at the last minutes. So you've got to make the best of what you have with the storylines you're being written into and the scriptures being given. And I think she did that. And I think that she did it for the most part with a smile on her face.

Like, I think that when you were watching in that time, it wasn't a lot that was bad to say about her and what she was doing. And again, maybe you don't agree with what she's saying now. But that's what she's, lived through. And that's what she experienced. And I'd be really curious to be able to sit down with her and just talk, just talk a little wrestling and talk about what was it specifically about her time in WW. So I'm not saying this is going to happen, but I'm saying that you may see Ronda Rousey on the show at some point soon. And we'll see. I will also say this. Whether you love her or you hate her, she has a place in WWE history. And the things that she did for the handful of years that she was there

are pretty important to especially the rise of everything that was going on in the women's division and the mainstream attention that she was able to bring to WWE during that time. That was absolutely something that she had a big say in and a big role in. Pikachu, Pikachu, you got three whys on the end of chewy. This is from Instagram. Hey, Chris, what is your opinion of the current five match card on PLAs? I'm a big fan of the five match card for a few different reasons. I've talked about this before, but I'll reiterate. One, it gives those five matches time to breathe and time to really tell a story.

You're not getting these two-minute squash matches. You're getting 15 to 20 to 30 or longer matches that are able to tell a real story and get you invested into them. I don't feel like anything ever feels like it's rushed. And I also love that nobody's matches are getting cut. We've heard stories again, you know, dark time, you know, 2018, 2019, and before that, where you would just fill up a pay-per-view or PLE with so many matches. And then last minute, oh, sorry, this match ran over. Your match doesn't exist anymore. And it's like, what?

Like, this was supposed to be my, in some cases, my WrestleMania moment. Now I don't have a match at all. Oh, geez. I love that that's not happening with the five match card on PLEs. So big fan of this. I hope that it continues. I also appreciate that it makes the show relatively short, relatively speaking. Like it's a three-ish hour, action-packed, every single thing you see on the screen means something.

And I like that. So big fan. Troy Mville. Troy Mvill on a. Instagram. No more famous CVV dress socks? No, I'm still wearing them. I still wear very fun socks. Every single day, I'm actually wearing some pizza socks right now as I look down at my feet. Yeah, they're always there. Maybe I don't post about them as often on Instagram. I don't know. You guys really want to see my socks? You guys really want to see my feet on Instagram stories? They're still there.

Just know that I am still a big fan of wearing fun socks. I love that even it's kind of like a mullet. business is a front party in the back. Even if I'm wearing a suit and everything's all put together and it looks real nice, I love that the socks can still show off my personality. And I've always loved that. So wherever you catch me out and about, if I'm wearing a suit or I'm wearing, except for the gym, I wear pretty plain socks at the gym, just like fork out socks. But if you catch me wearing a suit or wearing something casual, just know.

that I will always have fun socks on. And that brings us to our last question here. Man, well, appreciate you guys for being with us. Thank you for staying all the way to the end, dinosaur. You guys are the best. I don't know. I was thinking maybe should we throw another word in here? Should we throw another fun word in?

Yeah, pizza. If you're still listening right now, comment the word pizza on Spotify. Or maybe your favorite pizza topping. See, we're going like one layer deeper here. You can just comment pizza or pizza emoji. But I just, you guys are the best. And these episodes are so fun to be able to just hang out with you one on one,

whatever you're doing right now in your life, whether you're walking the dog or you're working out or you're working or you're driving or whatever it is. I just love that we're both hanging out here right now and just having a blast. I love that RVV joined us. And by the way, I never call my wife RVV, like ever. but it's fun for Ask RVV to say that. The final question here comes from Mickey underscore B underscore at.

Chris, what is your favorite storyline? The bloodline is going very well, but Stone Cold getting run over was also good. But my favorite is the McMahon family rivalry. Linda getting up out of the wheelchair, the WCW, ECW, ECW, ECW, takeover, six-man match at WrestleMania, and so many more great moments.

P.S. Love the podcast. that's a really good one. And that one could be really hard to argue against. Linda McMahon, standing up in the wheelchair, is an all-time great moment. It really is. I got a bit of a little bit of a bone to pick with you. And when it comes to the Stone Cold getting run over, that was a great storyline until the end.

Like, Rikishi being the payoff, I don't think what really anybody at that time was looking for or what anybody that time wanted. I think the storyline every, you know, all the way up until then was really good. But my favorite storyline just as a whole and there were a lot of different things going on in it was Vince McMahon and Stone Cold. And there was something about that in that time, late 90s, where like standing up to your boss, like giving a middle finger to your boss and then just like smashing a few beers together and chugging them. that to me. That was the storyline that got me, like really got me into wrestling. That was the big storyline when I started watching. So that's the one for me, for nostalgic value, of course, but also just because that was what elevated Stone Cold to that next level, that's also right after the screw job,

what elevated Mr. McMahon to become the character that he was, like to go from Vince McMahon to become now this heel character of Mr. McMahon and really leaning into like, yeah, yeah, Brett screwed Brett. Yeah, and then everything around that. So that's the storyline for me. You guys are awesome. Thank you for hanging out with us on Ask CVV number 38, the Kurt Schilling edition, the Bloody Sock Edition.

If you have questions for the next one, send them in. that hashtag ask CVV or if you have a question for my beautiful lovely wife, Rachel, ask RVV, but still use the hashtag ask CVV so it's all collected in one spot. Send me an email, CVV at chrisvainly.com or leave it pizza in the comments there on Spotify. Who are we going to do for Ask CVV number 39? I can't right now think of anybody. Huge who wore number 39. So, oh, man, no disrespect to somebody.

I'm sure there's somebody. Maybe it's popping into your mind, but I can't think of anyone right now. But in the next seven days, you better believe I will think of somebody. I'll leave you with this quote from Alex from Ozzy. And I know this is going to speak to someone directly. Most people already know what to do and simply don't do it. It's not ignorance. It's fear.

Be great. Be grateful, my friends. We will see you. on the next one for some more insight. Enjoy money in the bank. And who do we have coming up on Tuesday? We've got the return of Shelton Benjamin. We will see you on Tuesday for that one.

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