Insight with Chris Van Vliet - AskCVV #48 - Batista's Weight Loss, Best WWE Debut Ever, Hell In A Cell, Favorite Horror Movie

Episode Date: September 13, 2024

Welcome to AskCVV #48! On this episode, Chris answers questions about Dave Bautista's recent weight loss, his favorite wrestling debut ever, best MLB stadium, the Hell In A Cell match between Drew McIntyre and CM Punk at Bad Blood, getting mentioned on this week's episode of Monday Night Raw, favorite horror movie, whether The Undertaker should have had more WWE Championship reigns and more. If you have a question for the next AskCVV episode, leave a comment on Spotify or send it in on social media using the hashtag #AskCVV. Quote I'm thinking about: "First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare." - Walt Disney Complete this survey for your chance to win $500: https://bluewirepods.com/survey Sponsors: FACTOR MEALS: Get 50% off your first box and 20% off your next month at http://factormeals.com/Insight50 ZOCDOC: Instantly book a top-rated doctor today at http://zocdoc.com/insight BONCHARGE: Use the code CVV to save 15% off your infrared sauna blanket at https://boncharge.com/cvv MAREK HEALTH: Get a 10% discount on Marek Health's Optimization Package with code CVV: https://marekhealth.com/cvv BLUECHEW: Use the code CVV 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 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/ 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

Baby, welcome back to another one here on Inside. I'm CVV. Chris Van Fleet, thank you so much for being with us. And thank you, as always, for helping to make Insight the number one wrestling podcast on the entire planet. If you're listening right now and you're just listening, you're not following the show. I mean, let's write that wrong right now. Hit that follow button on Spotify or Apple Podcast. So we can just continue to keep growing the show.

I mean, look at the lineup of guests that we've had over the last few weeks. Stephen Amel, Drew McIntyre, Dave Battista. The list goes on and on and on. And we get some big ones coming up here in the next few weeks. Actually, as I sit here right now, I'm not at home. I usually record these at home in my office. My beautiful, lovely, incredible, glowing wife RVV. Rachel is next to me for the occasional RVV question that pops in,

which is always so fun, always so fun. hearing her take on things. I'm in Orlando right now. I don't want to give too much away, but earlier today, I recorded some episodes at the WWPC. And let me just say, the performance setter is,

well, what I saw of it, at least, is unbelievable. These look so good. If you watch them on YouTube, they're obviously going to sound great, as always when you listen to them on the podcast, but we have the whole set there. Like, this was one of their, like,

backstage interview sets and they let us do three interviews there. Should I tell you what these three interviews are? A few weeks ago, we had a plan. I was supposed to, I didn't say exactly who it was, but my goodness, this is one of those situations where I really shouldn't say who's coming up on the show until it's confirmed and done and actually recorded as well. Like this was confirmed, but plans change. This happens all the time. I had, hinted that we would be speaking to someone who, um, who is not your boy toy. And that did not happen. Plans change. That will happen at some point in time. But it wasn't today. But we got three interviews there. We got my good friend and the current NXT champion, Ethan Page. We got my other good

a Canadian friend, Sean Spears. Lots to talk about with both of those guys. And for the first time ever on the show, we got Trick Williams. So keep an eye out for those interviews between now and when NXT heads to the CW on October 2nd. We've got a ton of stuff to get to with all of them. But I am in Orlando as I record this right now. And the list of guests that we have coming up in the next two to three to four weeks. It's a lot. So make sure to hit that follow button wherever you're listening to this one.

And welcome, my friends, to ask CVV number 48, the Jimmy Johnson and Tori Hunter edition. Who's going to be Ask CVV number 49? You will have to send in your questions and send in your suggestions like you always do by emailing CVV at chrisfamily.com.

leaving a comment on Spotify. Those are always so fun to see. And I really feel like the more comments that we get on Spotify, the more like really continues to drive the growth of the show and like climb up the charts. So if you're listening on Spotify and you were thinking about asking a question or just thinking of leaving some kind words, a comment on Spotify would be just great. Or you can email it in CVV at Chris Vanfleet.com. Tom's of stuff to get to. We'll start this one off with a question from James Colin on Facebook. Hey, CVV, you have the best wrestling podcast.

I really enjoyed your interview with Dave Batista. What do you think of his new look? He looks so skinny to me. This is a comment I saw from a lot of different people on that interview. Let me tell you, when you saw the photo of us standing together, the man is a beast. Like he is still a beast, and I get that we're used to seeing him close to that 300 pound absolutely just jacked and shredded and huge. And the thing that I'm most happy about when he talks about how he's slimmed down is that he feels good. Like that I think that's the big thing that people are overlooking here, that he feels really healthy.

And he's doing this for longevity. like to carry around that much muscle mass, especially into your 50s and then eventually your 60s and onward, it's just not good. It's just not good all around. And I love the fact that he's listening to his body and he's trying to do whatever he can to feel his best every single day. Another thing that seemed to be overlooked from our interview is he's 6'4 and 240 pounds.

I said it before, but I'll repeat it again here. if I was describing to you my friend and I said, oh yeah, my buddy Dave's coming over. He's 6.4.2.40. You wouldn't go, oh, wow. Well, that's really skinny. You'd be like 6, 424. That's huge. You know who else is 6 foot 4 and 240? Trick Williams is 6 foot 4 and 240. Would you ever describe Trick Williams as looking skinny? You know who else? D.K. Metcalfe. is 64 and 236 pounds as his official weight,

but about the same, 6.4 and 240. Would you ever consider the Seattle Seahawks wide receiver, D.K. Metcalfe to be skinny. And that's the thing I don't understand. And maybe it's just when you see the pictures of him 300 plus pounds, you know, in WWE or 300 plus pounds, especially when he did knock at the cabin. And you look at him now, yeah,

as a big before and after. But he's lean. and he is really watching what he eats. He's doing a ton of cardio. He's rolling around, doing a lot of jujitsu. The man is in fantastic shape. And at the end of the day, if Dave Batista is happy,

and this is the weight that he wants to walk around at, and this is the weight that he feels that he'll be able to better portray the characters that he's playing in these movies, then, man, more power to him. He's doing a great job. And I'm sure you listen to him. of the episode if you didn't and when this one's done i that's one of the episodes i would highly

recommend you go check out he's just such a good man like such a good guy just a man what a great conversation we had open honest incredibly self-aware about his career before and where he's currently at i really really enjoyed that and after i interviewed him on two separate days i interviewed him Monday. That's the shorter one. He was paired with Sophia Boutelah, his co-star from The Killers Game, which comes out today, by the way. So if you are looking for something to see in theaters this weekend, The Killers game, go check out Drew McIntyre's film debut alongside Dave Batista. I don't want to I don't want to give too much away. But there's something special in the scene where they fight. That's all I'll say. There's just...

You'll see. You'll see what I mean. But I did two interviews. I did the one with Dave and Sophia paired together. And then the next day, I did the longer episode that you heard here on the podcast and you saw on YouTube. Man, just what a nice, kind man. And I look forward to being able to do another one with him whenever that happens to be. Hopefully it's sooner rather than later. Lloyd Harris on Spotify says, hey, CVV, will Brian Danielson actually show up to wrestle the great Nigel McGinnis? Well, I say absolutely. I don't think that they're throwing out a challenge like that, especially with a date attached to it, the date being A.W. Grand Slam, Arthur Rosh Stadium, September 25th.

They're not just doing that to have Daniel Bryan not show up. This is a match that has, man, this has been in the works for guys, I'm, I'm, just going to guess on this, but it's 15-ish years, maybe a little bit more, since they wrestled in Ring of Honor. They had a series of matches. It was 08, 09, and they haven't wrestled again since. And Nigel has an amazing story of everything that happened in his career and all of the things that he's doing now. Go check out the episode that I had with him. The interview I had with him, the episode that we did, I guess I'd be about a month or so ago. Go check that. out. He dropped some real hints there about possibly working with Brian Danielson also dropped

hints about doing stuff at all in. And it sure seems like these weren't hints. It just kind of seems like he was going, you know, kind of planting some seeds here. Maybe some Easter eggs for us to be able to go back and look at and go, oh, yeah, he knew a little bit more than he was letting on. So I'm so excited. Go back and watch any of their matches together. They're all bangers. They're all so good. And then I'll give you just a taste of what we're going to see here when this match does happen.

Because I firmly believe this match is going to happen. And did you see the shape that Nigel McGuinness was in? Oh, man, 48 years old and I think in the best shape of his career. I mean, we know he's a magician. If you watch that episode, you clearly know he's a magician. or a sorcerer of some sort with, geez, the stuff that he was doing there. But the magic that he's worked on his body.

Incredible. So I look forward very, very much to seeing that one. That's one of those matches that I think that a lot of us thought could never happen again. And we've had quite a few of those. I mean, there was a point in time there for a while and we didn't even think Brian Danielson would wrestle anyone ever again,

let alone Nigel McGinnis. So, man, what a cool time. What a cool time to be a wrestling fan. Here's one from Spotify. This is from T Spring 329. Ask CVV48 the Jimmy Johnson episode. I really enjoy how you refer to these episodes and you name them after athletes.

I also look forward to the quote that you share at the end of each one. Currently training for a marathon and mixing in part of your style, counting down the days until the race, starting from 99, by using a quote from the athlete that shares that jersey number. Wayne Gretzky, of course, 99 days out.

Are we thinking the quote is, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take? Because that is a great, great, Wayne Gretzky quote, also quoted by Michael Scott, attributed to Wayne Gretzky for all my office fans out there. T-Spring 329 says, is there a quote that you've shared or came across that stands out to you as a favorite,

athlete or not? really every quote that I read off at the end of every episode means something to me in some sort of way or it's it's some words that have encouraged me or it's some words that have allowed me to think about things in a different way but there's a few that like immediately come to mind like when someone's like what's a quote you live by or what's a quote that's changed your life come back to control the controllable a lot that is such a very very powerful one there was another quote it doesn't take talent to show up on time and work hard i think about that one so often hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard a lot of these you know

these are just ones that i've i've always kind of thought about in my life but at the end of every episode i read a quote not just because i like randomly grabbed some words and tossed it in there but it's something that like truly means a lot to me. Like there was the one that I shared just on the last episode with was it the it was the Batista one I think, right? It was a quote that I saw Sean Spears had shared it on his Instagram story. Time is the only currency you spend without ever knowing your balance. It's like, oh man, feels like a line out of a Christopher Nolan movie or something like that,

the way that Nolan has always played with time in his movies. and I will say that I did bring that quote up in the interview with Sean Spears that we recorded today. You'll be seeing it in the next probably two weeks. But it was interesting hearing his perspective on that. Now is a father of two. That's a, you know, changes your whole perspective of everything, which I'm on the cusp of that. Father of one right now. Another one on the way here real soon.

But what a, what a week this has been. Just to take a quick little pause here from the questions. So I always take this trip with my dad. We go to a different baseball stadium every year. If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you saw that we went to stadium number 25 this week, which was T. Bumble Park in Seattle. We have just five more stadiums to go.

What are the five stadiums, CVV? Well, we still got to do Oakland A's, which will be tough because they're only playing there for another few weeks, and then they moved to Sacramento before building the new stadium in Las Vegas. So I think that one's going to have to wait until they moved to Las Vegas. Cardinals, Royals, Mets, and Rangers. So those are the five that we have left. I took a red-eye flight from Seattle.

So the game ended, went straight to the airport, flight was at 1135, landed in Orlando at eight, got to the hotel, quickly showered and changed, got in the rental car, which I guess I just missed that step. I got the rental car when I was at the airport, then went and did these interviews. It has been a whirlwind. And I think I'm in Orlando for a total of 18 hours or something. I would certainly not trade it for anything. Absolutely. I'm so grateful for all of the opportunities that I have gotten and just the conversations that I've been so fortunate to be able to have. Corey Sibolsky on Spotify. First Spotify comment, Corey says, thanks for being such an entertaining show. I want to ask CVV, what made you think about getting

into wrestling podcast before it became such a big thing? I'm sorry if you've answered this before. I might have answered this way, way back. But in a nutshell, I've been so fortunate my whole career to be able to interview all kinds of different celebrities. So actors and athletes and comedians and directors all across, you know, all of them. And then every once in a while, wrestling would come to town. WWE or TNA would come to town. And I remember asking my boss the first time, like, do you think we can interview a wrestler? And she was like, yeah, we've done it before, sure. And that was where I was like, oh my gosh, this is amazing. I get to combine my two things that I love, my two passions, broadcasting, and my fandom of wrestling and put it together.

And I can ask some of these wrestlers the questions I've always wanted to know the answer to. And even if we don't air that part on TV, at least I will know what the answer is. At least I, you know, I'll be able to get that, like, that itch scratched and that question answered. And then I started taking these interviews. I'm like, man, we did a 10-minute interview, a 15-minute interview. And we only aired just a few clips of that, just a few sound bites on TV.

What about the rest? There's got to be somebody out there who would enjoy this. So I started uploading those raw interviews to my YouTube channel, just as kind of like a digital library, a place for them to live. I started that YouTube channel in 2011, and I was just uploading these for just other fans to be able to see these interviews. Because, you know, the way the television works, if you're not watching Channel 19 at 5.13 p.m. on that Thursday and you live in Cleveland,

because that's where I was living and working at that time, you'd never see these interviews. So I was like, well, what if someone that was outside of the city or the state or the country wanted to see this? Let's share it online. There's a global fan base for not just wrestlers, but any of these actors that I'm interviewing. So I uploaded that to my YouTube channel starting in 2011, the interviews were always 10 to 20-ish minutes. And in 2019, I had been, and a lot of people that were like, why don't you start a podcast?

My YouTube channel had started to grow a little bit, and a lot of people going, why don't you start a podcast? And I truly thought that having a podcast was going to cannibalize my YouTube views. And YouTube was monetized. And the podcast would have just strictly been me taking the audio for my interviews,

and putting them on the podcast. And I really thought that there were going to be a lot of people that would go, oh, why would I watch this on YouTube now when I can listen to it in the car? And what I don't think I realized

is that's a good thing. That's something I should have actually been leaning into quite a bit. Because with the way it was set up, if I just had this as a YouTube video, you know, you can't do much else unless you have YouTube premium. You can't do much else

when you have YouTube open. Like you have to stay on you, YouTube while the video is playing. So you can't be sending emails or texting or really doing anything else. Can't even close your phone out. So I just started in 2019, I was just like, you know what, this would be a good place for people to be able to listen to the interviews if they're doing other things in their life. You know, like whatever you're doing right now. I know a lot of people are driving to work or you're working out or maybe you're working or whatever you happen to be doing. you're doing something else like that's the thing about podcast listening it's a it's a passive thing you're

not just sitting there and just listening you're likely doing something else and with youtube yeah you can be doing something else as well if it's like on your tv or it's playing in the background of your computer but when it's on your phone like it's really hard to do other things so i just started uploading the audio that's what created the podcast and that was truly the only intention that i had for it. Let's just give people another way to be able to consume the content. That's it. And then it just started to grow into something more. And the interviews started to get a little bit longer. And actually, we just had the longest interview ever with the Scott DeMore episode, well over two hours. And I think that, you know, there might be some more of those

around the corner. The Undertaker interview was also almost two hours. And then you get other situations where it's like, all right, this person only has, like the Dave Batista one, only has half an hour. When I had someone off camera, like giving me the rap sign at 25 minutes, all right, four minutes left, 26 minutes, 27 minutes, three minutes left, you know, that whole thing. But when we have the opportunity to just continue to keep the conversation going, those are some of my favorite ones. So that's why I started the wrestling podcast. It was I just love having these conversations.

I love being able to talk to someone who has done something. extraordinary, who has, who had a dream chased after it and now has accomplished it. I love that. And I love being able to look at the choices that happened in their life, the things that maybe didn't go quite the way they wanted them to that actually ended up turning into a better thing. I'm fascinated by that stuff. That was the whole idea for the podcast. And here we are now, 654 episodes in. And I really feel like we're just getting started here. Like I, so look forward, well, I look forward to every episode, but I so look forward to like a thousand episodes. Like, where is the show going to be at a thousand episodes? How much more dialed in could

this be? How much better could the conversations be? I look forward to that because I'm hoping that with every single one of these that we do, it's getting even just 0.1% better. That's the goal is to continue to get just a little bit better every single time and hopefully to provide you with a little bit of entertainment throughout your day and maybe even a little bit of inspiration, maybe a little bit of knowledge. It's one of my favorite things when someone goes, I'm not really a big fan of so-and-so.

But you know what? I'll listen to the episode anyway while I drive to work or I'll listen to the episode anyway while I walk the dog, whatever. And then the episode ends and that person will shoot a message or leave a comment on Spotify and go, I wasn't that big of a fan of that person, but now I am. And those are just the coolest things,

to be able to tap into the human side of someone. Podcasting is a very special medium. It's one of the rare one-to-one mediums. And by that, I mean, you and me are just talking right now. You and me are just hanging out right now. When you're watching TV, that's something you can watch with a group of people. Sure, you can watch it one-on-one,

but you could watch TV with two, three, four, five, you know, or more people. Same with the movie. You're sitting in a movie theater with sometimes hundreds of people. With a podcast, you're not usually putting it on and then sitting around in a circle and going, all right, let's listen to the latest episode of Insight with Chris Van Fleet. That's not usually the case. It's like usually me and you hanging out in your car in the car speakers and that's it. or my voice right now is coming to you in your earbuds or your headphones.

And it's like it's a one-to-one thing. I just, something about that I love. My very first job in broadcasting was in radio. And I've always had such a passion for radio and the way that stories are told in an audio-first medium. So I know it was going to be a short story. I ended up being a much longer story. but if you couldn't tell, you're very passionate about this stuff.

Corey Brunk on Facebook, I got a, I got a 2020 Kia Sorrento with almost 65,000 miles, approaching the need for new tires. Should I trade it in on a new car or just get new tires? Corey,

what a fascinating question here. But Corey, your car is four years old. And don't Kia have like crazy warranties? Doesn't Kia have like a 10-year, 100,000 mile warranty? If you're currently a 65,000 miles, Corey, go grab yourself four new tires. All right?

Your car still has a lot more to give you here. I would, I'd be driving your car at least to that 100,000 miles, just at least till the warranty's not good anymore. I don't know if you need new tires for it should be what pushes you over the edge to go, it's time for a new car. If I was you, I would just keep driving that Kia Sorrento for a few more years.

That's where I'm at with that one. I'm no car expert, but that just feels right to me. Andrew Galing also on Facebook, and feel free to send in more questions like that. We had one pop punk Mount Rushmore last week, and I do have to apologize. I had a lot of people point out, I got so excited talking about my pop punk Mount Rushmore, and I'll run it down here real quick if you didn't listen to last week's episode. And if you want to hear my reasoning for why I selected all these bands and go listen to it. But I love, I'll listen to all kinds of different music.

These days, it's a lot of country, pop punk, certainly pop, hip pop, a lot of different things. Rock, but pop punk is a very special place in my heart, especially because I started listening to it during my high school years. The Mount Rushmore was Blinkwintery to Newfound. Sound glory, Sum 41, and Hawthorne Heights. Go listen to the episode for my breakdown of why. But then I was getting so excited talking about Sum 41, the fact that they were from Ajax, Ontario, and I was from Pickering, Ontario, and it's like 10 minutes away from me.

Renee Paquette is from Ajax, Ontario. Like, it was all these tie-ins, and I was talking about how great the riff. And it's in my excitement of talking about that riff, which is clearly fat-lipped by Sum-Fourty-1. I called it in too deep. Quite a few of you pointed that out. What a silly mistake that I made. So thank you for pointing that out, and I apologize.

Clearly, I don't think that song is in too deep. It's obviously fat-lip. I just got very excited. Okay? I seemed to point that out. Andrew Galing says, Who has had the best jump from one company to another? I think personally it's Chris Jericho,

going from WCW to WWF at the time. the Y2J countdowns playing for months and everyone trying to figure out who it was. And then the debut interrupting the rock. Who in the blue hell is? Are you? It doesn't matter what's your name. You don't even have to, you know, courtesy to introduce yourself. What is your name?

It doesn't matter what your name is. It's one of the greatest debuts in history. But when you think about the jump that Chris Jericho made from what he would, was considered in WCW, the type of character that he had, the perception of Chris Jericho and WCW to going to WWF and then in less than two years becoming a main eventer, first ever undisputed champion, everything that went along with that, it's an incredible jump up. He was very much pegged as just a mid-card guy in WCW. And then he goes to WWF and it just changes his entire career. So that's it for me. And I think that, like I pointed out, it's one of the best

debuts in history. So you've got not just one of the best debuts, but also this just leveling up that happened there. It was a big thing. And I think that there's obviously been a lot of really good jumps from one company to another, but that's the one that stands out for me the most. I mean, you could look at people like, oh, man, Mark Calloway. He was in WCW and He became one of the most iconic characters of all time. Yeah, but the jump wasn't a direct, like, he went over to WWF, had a massive character change, built that character, and then it became iconic. This was Chris Jericho taking a lot of the same stuff.

You know, it went from Monday Night Jericho to Roz Jericho, like a lot of the same stuff, but it just kind of got that WWF effect. on it. So that's the one for me. There's definitely some other ones, but that is the one that stands out the most for me. Grant Danger Shultz on Facebook. How do you deal with people that are so negative in the wrestling community? Like, I'm a wrestling fan. It's a good time to be a fan, but I hate when people badmouth one company over the other. Look, at the end of the day, it's a great time to be a wrestling fan, but it does bother me. How do you deal with it? I think I'll revert back to that quote that I was saying earlier on.

Control the controllable. You can't control what other people say. You can't control what other people do. All you can do is control how you react to that stuff. I do think it's unfortunate that there is a loud minority of people who like one company and hate the other or just really hate one company and maybe they don't even like another company, just trying to always find things that they don't like about one company or another. And I just think that at the end of the day, it's wrestling that brings us all together.

And maybe you like one style of wrestling more than another style of wrestling. But that's what's so cool about the fact that wrestling's on pretty much every single day of the week. So if there's something that you don't like, just don't watch it. It's simple as it gets. Like if you're not into horror movies and you really like action movies, you're probably not going to watch a lot of horror movies. And that'll just be it.

You'll just watch the movies that you like watching. But you probably won't sit there going, oh, man, another awful horror movie. I can't believe it. Why just lean into the things that you do like? If you like a certain style of movie, if you like a certain style of wrestling, if there's a day of the week that you prefer to watch wrestling on,

I would think that that's the thing you should stick to. I don't understand why there's such a focus that people have on the things that they don't like. I would much rather focus on the things that I do like. And if you don't like something when you're watching it, if you're watching it live, you always have the option to change the channel. That's totally okay. And here's the other crazy thing about it. It's okay to like one company and not bash another company.

Also, this is a crazy idea. here. It's okay to like more than one wrestling company. Wow, wild thought, right? It's insane to even think that that's a possibility. But it's just a funny thing to me. How many people will say negative things about one company or another? And oftentimes they're not even watching it. Like, they're just taking shots at this television show they don't even watch. And I think it's important to point out. And I always appreciate that Adam Pierce does this. He has a great follow on Facebook. If you spend any time on Facebook,

Adam Pierce is so great about talking about this being a television show. He'll even say, like, thank you for watching our television program. And I don't know why that stands out to me so much, but people seem to forget that Monday Night Raw or Dynamite or Rampage or Smackdown or whatever it happens to be, it's a television show. it's a television show that is that is written and performed for our entertainment and in a three-hour show like raw or a two-hour show like dynamite yeah you might not like everything well that's okay in a two-hour movie you might not like everything but i think it's important to just take it for

what it is, which is a television program. Like, that's a, I just appreciate when Adam Pierce points that out. There's a television program. And I'm grateful that we have the opportunity to be entertained by it. But Grant's Danger, Shultz, if this is something that really does bother you, just know that this says so much more about the people who are making those comments than it does about you. You don't have control over what they say or what they're typing or what they're putting out there. And that's just something that if it really does bother you that much, those are just something that you can ignore and move on with your life because those type of things really aren't that important.

Here's another one from Spotify. Brandon McCabe, hey Chris, happy almost spooky season. Just wanted to know what is your favorite horror movie of all time. Mine is American Psycho. have an awesome day. I feel like it is spooky season. Like Costco has the Halloween decorations already out. Pumpkin spice lattes are plenty everywhere I go. I feel like it is, in fact, spooky season. I keep pointing out to Rachel that it is technically still summer.

She's not even technically. It is factually still summer. Right. It's still summer for like almost another two weeks. So it's so weird seeing fall stuff everywhere and Halloween stuff everywhere. I just find it funny. But I'm here for it. I'm here for it. We love a good pumpkin patch. We love decorating the house for Halloween. We had so much fun the last few years.

Handing out candy to trick-or-treaters. Love it all. So favorite horror movies, I've got so many. I'm, man, let's narrow it down to a few here. Scream is an all-time classic for me. I just love the mix of, it's just such a smart story

because it takes all the tropes of a traditional horror movie and kind of flips it on its head and there's so much comedy that's thrown into like some really gruesome moments there and I remember hearing ghost face's voice

for the first time and there's just something that's so unsettling about like, especially that first phone call. Hello, hello Sydney. I don't know. There's something that I really appreciate about scream Not all of the screen movies have been great, but some of the more recent ones

have really kind of gone back to the roots of what makes the screen movie special. And I love that. When I first saw the movie saw, it's, that one stuck with me for a while. I did not see that coming. And I don't want to ruin it for anybody who hasn't seen it.

But what a twist. What a twist. And I'm assuming that a lot of people have seen it. But you want to talk about a voice. Jigsaw. Hello, Chris. I want to play a game. Oh, man. So saw is another one. And just like Scream, not all the saw movies have been so good. But I think a through line in all of these movies is Tobin Bell is one hell of an actor. And just the concept of the movie, he's never killing anybody. He's always being fair and giving them a chance to get out. you know, maybe it takes a lot of skill or thinking or sacrifice in a lot of cases to figure a way

out. But, you know, he's not the one who's actually killing them. So that's another one. Texas Chainsaw Massacre just for like straight up just scares and like needing to sleep with the lights on. That one got me for sure. So there's a handful there. But I've always enjoyed horror movies and there there is something that just feels like it's an extra layer like when it's this time of year and depending on where you live the air starts to get a little bit cooler at night the leaves start to change colors you know that fall is here and the Halloween's around the corner yeah nothing like a horror movie and like this is also chilly season i love chili i love a love a good spicy chili and I feel like there's a lot of fall things that I enjoy of course football as well

man those browns did not look good in week one I think my prediction of oh man my prediction of them being what did I said seven and nine no I said seven and ten now now I did I said eight and nine yeah I said my prediction of them being eight and nine or nine and eight oh that's still not I don't No, this did not play well. But what I'm saying is, these are the fall things I like, spooky movies, horror movies, being one of them. Mike Candelary on Instagram, Hey, Chris, I was surprised to learn that The Undertaker

only won seven championships in his 30-plus year career for WWE and three world. Doesn't it feel like it should have been more? I think when you're someone like The Undertaker and you have such an iconic, larger-than-life gimmick, you don't need a championship to get over. The Undertaker was always over, whether he was the phenom

or whether he was the American badass. He was over. And he was often in spots where he was elevating people and making them look good. I don't think he needed a championship. And there's a lot of people when you think about that

that didn't need a championship to get over. Jake the St. Robbers didn't win any sort of championship at all in WWE. But you would never go, oh man, what a terrible. career he had. He didn't want any championships. No, he's an iconic character. And he didn't need the bell to get over. And that's how I feel about The Undertaker.

And when you look at like Stone Cold Steve Austin was only the champion six times. And when you look at the list of other people, like you would think that, man, Stonecoil, he got to have won it more than six times. No, he won it six times between 1998 and 2001, like a pretty short period of time where he racked up those championships. But when you think of the attitude era, it's hard to even envision Stone Cold or the Rock, not having the title. Rock, 10-time champ, Lesnar, 10-time champ, Edge, 11, Hogan 12, Orton, Triple H, 14. And I think, of course, everybody knows. Sina and Flair, tied at 16, but I don't think that's going to be for too much longer.

Anyway, Tina's got to get number 17. I've mentioned that many times on a lot of different episodes, but yeah, it's just a matter of time. They're not calling John Cena the greatest of all time because it's a nice moniker. They're not saying it because it's fun to say that he's the goat. They're trying to plant this seed and let us know that they think, not think, that John Cena is the greatest of all time. So we're going to call him that because at some point in 2025, he will win the 17th championship. I don't think it'll be more than that. I think he'll win 17 and it will likely be a short run a few months long, but, man, I'm excited.

I am so excited to see how John's seen his retirement tour just all plays out. But no, seven championship reigns for the Undertaker feels like it's totally, like, Undertaker could win two. And you'd go, yep, he's one of the greatest. He could win, he could have won 16 and we'd go, yep, he's one of the greatest. He could have won just, yeah, it doesn't matter what the number is. It doesn't matter. No, it doesn't matter what the number is because the character, it's just bigger than all of that. It supersedes all of that.

J7 Adams on Instagram. I have a slightly different question for you. How do you feel about the majority of the talent now turning up to raw slash smackdown and even PLEs in suits, cutting promos in suits, signing autographs and suits. Do you think they should all be wearing their own gear? Not necessarily full in ring gear, but some type of merch. So, WWE's been taking a lot from pro sports over the last few years, but especially over the last year or so with the TKO merger and everything that happened there. like these arrival shots to the arena,

that is a page right out of the NBA or the NHL. And I think that this is being done to give it that big sport feel, to make it feel like, you know, it's important to say, okay, they're coming to the ring. Here's the story that's being told. Oh, now here's his opponent.

He's coming to the arena. Oh, wow. And this is going to be such a big thing that's going on here later on. It's trying to give that big fight feel, trying to give that big energy, that big event feel. I love it. And when you watch any sports, there's a dress code.

And WWE has had a dress code for many years. I've talked to a lot of wrestlers who reference the fact that it's like, all right, anytime you're going to be traveling, you're going to be seen on camera that you're wearing, I think it's business casual. I don't know the exact dress code. So don't quote me on that. But I think it adds a level.

That adds a layer to this. Also, it's hard to not give respect to somebody who's wearing a suit. So when you see someone who's dressed up like that, it sends a message of like this person is put together. This person cares about their appearance. So I appreciate it. I like it. And it's actually interesting because when someone is just wearing like,

sweatpants in a t-shirt or jeans in a t-shirt. And the opponent who's cutting the promo on the other side of the ring is wearing a suit. It's almost like there's an imbalance there. It's interesting to see. So I'm a fan of this. I'm also a fan of suiting up. If you follow me on social media, you've seen me wearing suits on red carpets,

or you've seen me wearing suits during some of these Hollywood interviews. Those shirts from Rhone? R-H-O-N-E. They are so comfortable and, like, made of the stretchy material. Rone.com slash CVV if you want to save 20% on those. If nothing else, it's worth a look just to see these shirts. They are so comfortable. But I'm a big fan of dressing up and I have throughout my entire television career.

So I'm all for this. And I hope that it continues. I don't see why it wouldn't. Kyan Lynch, 13 on Spotify. Quick note, I just want to say thank you, Chris, for your clips and shorts. I found them through TikTok and Instagram, but thank you for getting me back into the WWE through your podcast, seeing you interview my childhood heroes and also keeping fans

up to date on what's going on in the world of wrestling, so I just quickly want to say thank you. Question, what's your favorite WWE debut of all time? Mine is Carlito. It was funny. It was a shock beating Sina and not a bad match. Thank you, CVV, and best wishes in the future. Carlito's a good one.

One that immediately pops to mind is Santino's. It just felt so authentic. It felt like he was truly just being plucked out of the crowd in Milan, like this is just some random person goes in there and wins. Yeah, like out of nowhere. B2Maga wins the Intercontinental Championship. That's like an impactful debut. But, I mean, there's so many.

That's got to be Kane. Kane's a great debut. Undertaker, fantastic debut. Brock Lesnar's debut and the way he just manhandled, there was a hardcore match going on and he just jumps in the ring, man handles Al Snow

and puts him through a garbage can, huge F5 to Maven who just sold the crap out of it, amazing. And then Spike Dudley, I don't know if you remember this, he picks Spike Dudley up, just like ragdalls him up into this, just threw him around like it was nothing.

there was something about that debut where it's like we've never seen anyone built like this before and we've never seen anyone just run through people like this before and it was a really impactful debut that made you go I need to see more of what this guy can do and obviously I mentioned it earlier but Chris Jericho's WWE debut and everything that went on around that that was another great one So lots of them to choose from there. I don't know if I can pick just one, but one of the, there's two cool things in wrestling. I mean, there's lots of cool things in wrestling,

but two of my favorite things in wrestling are debuts and returns. Returns especially. Like nothing can beat that pop, right? Like CM Punk's return. John Cena returning after, returning the 2008 Royal Rumble, Triple H after returning after he tore his quad. Nothing beats that big return pop.

Roman rains at SummerSlam this year. I love it. Nothing beats that crowd reaction, that visceral reaction. Man. McFlip 75 on Spotify. Whoever is dressing this guy deserves a raise. That dude looks sharp. We're talking about Dave Batiste's a comment on the Dave Batiste episode.

Yeah, he looks sharp. His wardrobe is unbelievable. And kudos to you, CVV, batting a thousand. on guests for the past year. For Ask CVV, with heels going to Netflix, do you think that it'll get enough views for a third season? Especially considering Raw will bring

a larger pro wrestling audience to the service. The writing and acting in season two was superb. Be a shame to not get another season. Stephen Amel said that that's like the big factor here. Is will enough people show up and it starts debuting this Sunday on Netflix. So go check it out. If you haven't checked it out,

not everybody was able to see it on stars. So now that it's on Netflix, a lot of people have Netflix, so now you have the ability to go check it out. So he said that one of the biggest factors determining whether Netflix will green light a third season is how many people watch it when it debuts. And what do the numbers look like on that first week of release?

So if you're a wrestling fan and you've never seen heels before, go check out heels. tells an amazing story, great in-depth characters, really good in-ring wrestling, story you can really sink your teeth into outside of the wrestling. You don't even have to be a wrestling fan, no appreciate it. But if you are a wrestling fan, you'll like it that much more. If you did see it and you want to support the show, go check it out when it starts streaming on Netflix this Sunday. And go check out my episode with Stephen Amel. He talks about the

ins and the outs of creating it in a time when, you know, things were kind of difficult with the world shut down. really difficult to be able to do anything in terms of production. CM Punk makes an appearance on the show. That was the first time that we saw him in a ring. It was before he debuted in AEW. AJ Lee also on the show. So there's a lot of just fun stuff going on there.

But if the reaction is good, how could Netflix possibly deny that? If the show is popular, if it gets a lot of viewers, they can't deny that. Now, it sounds like Stephen Amel just signed on for suits LA. So it's a spinoff of suits based in LA. His schedule sounds like he doesn't have a lot of free time. But it sure sounds like he has a lot more story to tell with Jack Spade. That's his character in heels. So yes, I think that season three, there's a big fan base that is hungry for this. And there's a lot more story to be told there. So I would be shocked if when you go to the Netflix home screen next week.

I would be shocked if Heels isn't the number one show. And I think that with enough people who already know this show and love this show, we're just aware of the show, and we'll be clicking on it, yeah, I think it'll be number one. Again, I'll be shocked if it's not. Clay the J 95 on Spotify. Some of these usernames are great. Some of them are like Ryan, like Trevor. And then some of them are Clay the J 95.

With the announcement of Hell and a S.L's return to bad blood, do you think we are going to eventually see the end of PLEs named after match stipulations? It was neat at first because you knew exactly what you were going to see, but I personally think Hell and a Selle and other stipulations should be reserved for special rivalries, and not just because it's that time of year. I agree. I think that Hell and a Cell is something where it's like a last ditch effort. Like they couldn't settle this in a normal match.

Then they couldn't settle in a strap match. Okay, well, you know what? It's got to be hell and a cell. And I totally agree with you that just calling the event hell in a cell and going, who should we make the hell in a cell match? This guy and this guy or this woman and this woman. I agree with you that it shouldn't just be a hell in a cell match because, yeah, it's that time of year again.

I love how they're doing it with bad blood. And this feels the most fitting we've had for a true hell in a cell, just grudge match. Like just two guys that just hate each other in the storyline. This feels like the best payoff we could have. I feel like there's been a lot of hell in a cell matches where it's like, yeah, that was good. It didn't really need to be in hell and a cell.

And when it's inside hell in a cell, or not even inside, they always find a way to get out or they almost always find a way to get out, you have to do something special. You have to find a way to use the cage or get on top or find a way to get out. I always think that that's interesting. And there's been some hell in a cell matches in the past where it's just like, that was just kind of a normal match that was taking place inside this cage. because it didn't even really do anything. And I've never enjoyed those.

I don't think that's going to be the case with Drew McIntyre and CM Punk. This rivalry is boiling over with anger. And just when we thought it was over, it got even more personal. And I love that. So I think that Helena Selle is the perfect place to kind of cap off this rivalry.

And we'll get into predictions for bad blood as we get a little bit closer of the event, but I'm pumped about this. And I think that Helen Assel just as a pay-per-view, as a PLE name, yeah, that's got to go. I'm okay with Elimination Chamber. As that being a match stipulation and that being the event, totally cool with that. And obviously the Royal Rumble and Money in the Bank, like those stipulation-centered PLEs, totally fine with that.

But yeah, I was never a fan of just, well, it's Helen O'S L's L. and you and you go see what happens step sigifoos i hope i'm saying that right on spotify what's your favorite baseball stadium that you visited so far so like i said we were in seattle jes yesterday as i record this i record ask cvv on thursday so that it can come out right at midnight on friday Pacific time, 3 a.m. East Coast time, wherever else you live in the world, whatever time zone that is for you. So we record these on Thursday night. So yeah, I was in Seattle last night. Favorite baseball stadium that my dad and I have ever been to. If you were to ask my dad, DVV, Dirk Van Fleet, he will always say it's one of two. I think he has them like one A and

one B. It's Wrigley and Fenway. And there's nothing that beats the historic feel of being in there. they're really special. And sometimes the modern baseball parks just get a little bit too modern and concrete. They don't have any personality to them. That's not all of them, but that is some of them. But Regley and Fenway, yeah, great. We had the opportunity to go to old Yankee Stadium together. I've also been to New Yankee Stadium, not with my dad, actually.

I went with some friends, but I've been to both of them. they're both great, but old Yankee Stadium had that same kind of feel to it. Dodger Stadium, same thing, like the classic feel of like, it's just a, I don't know, it's the way a baseball park should feel. There are some great modern baseball parks as well. I love PNC Park in Pittsburgh. The fact that it's right on the water. That's like a smaller stadium as well.

It just something felt really intimate about being at, at the stadium. I'm actually curious. I want to look this up. Like it just, what the attendance is there, because it's so much like, oh, capacity is 38,000. Like, that's a, compared to like, off the top of my head, Rogers Center in Toronto is close to 50,000. It just feels a little bit bigger. Camden Yards is a great one. Petco Park in San Diego. You guys are going to be so upset with me. I went to the one in San Francisco when it was Pack Bell, when it was Pacific Bell Park. I actually saw Barry Bond's play.

That's how long ago we went there. It's now called Oracle Park. That's really cool when lefties, well, I guess it could be anybody, but mostly lefties hitting home runs that could possibly go into the bay in right field. Really, really cool. So those are, the two favorites are always going to be Wrigley and Fenway.

And then I think there's some others that really like. Now, I know that the question is going to come, which one didn't you like? What's your least favorite stadium? It doesn't exist anymore, but when we went to the Metro Dome in Minneapolis, the new stadium, is it still called Target? The names of these parks change so frequently.

Is it still called Target Park? It's great. Target Field. Sorry, Target Field. But the Metro Dome, oh. And I know that Tropicana Field in Tampa has a lot of mean things said about it. And if I'm being honest, those are all warranted. That is not a good stadium.

Even people in Tampa will tell you, yeah, our stadium's not so good. And then they're getting a new stadium soon, right? Yeah. So when that happens, things will change. That's also going to be, I think the smallest stadium. I believe I remember reading. It was like capacity of just 30,000. And that's changing a lot too.

That's a whole other conversation. But there was a long stretch of time there, 80s and 90s, even before when it was like, all right, let's build stadiums that can fit about 50,000 people, give or take. And they've been getting just increasingly more intimate and just inviting for the sport. I love going to minor league games as well. That's always been something we've done as a family. when I was growing up as a kid. We would go down to see the Blue Jays had an affiliate,

AAA team, Syracuse, Syracuse Chiefs. We would go to a lot of different games, though, in various different cities. And there's just something that's really cool about being in a stadium where it's just a more intimate feel with less fans. And that's going to be the case in whatever the new field is.

The pavilion, I believe it's called. The pavilion in Tampa. But yeah, one, two, are those classics. Paul Hargrove on Spotify. Hey, Chris, first time questioner. I was just watching the recent September 9th episode of Raw, and they mentioned you in the podcast. What was your reaction to that?

I think it's really cool to see WWE do things like this to grow wrestling as a whole. That was so surreal. And that blew my mind when Joe Testator dropped my name. And he said it like everybody. should know what he's talking about, which was so incredibly cool. Drew told CVV on the podcast, what? And here's the thing. I wasn't watching Raw. I was at the world premiere of Dave Batista's new movie, The Killers Game. So I was in downtown L.A. We did the red carpet thing. I saw Mercedes,

Monet there, saw Bailey there. I also saw Kathy Kelly on the red carpet. Chuck Liddell was on the red carpet. Terry Cruz, of course, Dave Batista. I was sitting in the theater, and I just started getting all these messages. Like, first it was on Instagram, then it was on Facebook Messenger,

then I started getting all these texts, and people were like, you just got shouted out on Raw. Yo, they said CVV on Raw. Like, what? What do you? Why would they say my name on Raw? That's so weird. and then someone showed me the clip and then when I went home that night, I watched it and I was like,

I can't believe this is real. And that was so kind of Joe to name drop me. He didn't have to do that. He could have just said, Drew said earlier this week and then said the quote. He could have totally said that. But I've shared some messages with Joe and I just said, hey, thank you for doing that. He goes, look, I'm approaching Raw, no different than I would approach ABC or I would approach any other sport. Like we are approaching this like it's a real sport. And that is something that I would say on a broadcast for a football game or a broadcast for any other sport.

So it totally makes sense and it fits here. So thank you to everyone who sent a message or sent a tweet about that. It was an incredibly surreal thing. I saw Ethan Page earlier today. first thing he said to me. Like, look at you, man. You made your raw debut. And it was just a really cool thing.

So grateful that that, grateful that we live in a world where something like that could, could even exist. So I appreciate you guys. None of this is possible without you guys supporting the show and continuing to allow me to even get to do this. So thank you. Philip Servos.

And this is on Instagram. Your username is swervass. Ask CVV48 the Jacob deGrom additional. That's a good one too. With knocking Seattle off the list, which stadiums have been your favorite, I'm a little biased being from KC, but Kaufman is gorgeous.

Camden Yards, definitely a close second. Also, I popped when I heard Joe Tessator mentioned the podcast with Drew. I hope to see you on a kickoff panel or somehow involved in a show. Hey, never say never. And can't wait. Casey, I think might be next year.

Like I said, we got five stadiums left. I actually think it's probably going to be, it's probably going to be the Rangers next year. Because the airport that I fly out of, which is Orange County, SNA is the airport coat, there's a lot of American, I fly on American Airlines. A lot of American airline flight. to Dallas every single day.

So likely going to be Dallas next year. And then I think probably KC. St. Louis, or maybe both of them, the year after. And I like that you're echoing what I'm saying here about Camden Yards. So cool. So cool to walk around the outfield. And they've got the little bronze,

tiny little baseball-sized bronze plaques on the ground of everybody who's hit a home run that left the stadium. and it doesn't have to be a Baltimore Orioles player. Anybody who hit a home run that left the stadium, it's like a little just commemorative thing of like, hey, this home run was 474 feet or whatever it is, and it was hit on this date by this person.

I think that stuff's so cool. Alv21 underscore 42 on Instagram. This is Alex Varela. Ask CBV48 the Tori Hunter, Jacob de Grom, and Lee Smith edition. Hey, CVV, with your interview with Stephen Amel. Will we be seeing any other interviews with celebrities involved with wrestling? Maybe a certain people's tight end, George Kittle?

I've done quite a few interviews over the past year or so with what I've been calling wrestling adjacent people. Freddie Prince Jr., O'Shea Jackson Jr., Paul Walter Houser, and now we got Stephen Amel. And it's always so interesting hearing their story. what got them into wrestling, what made them like Paul Walter Houser have a match? What made them like Freddie Prince Jr. want to work for the WWE. So, yes, there will be, you know, I think every once in a while, we'll kind of pepper these in. George Kittle would be a great one.

I don't think that's likely while the season's going on, but maybe February, March, April, offseason. Yeah, I think that's certainly a possibility. I would love to have him on talk about, you know, his little WrestleMania moment. Gronk would be another good one. Gronk feels like, I don't know, maybe we just did something with Mojo. Mojo's good friends with Gronk. I feel like we might have just made something happen here. Might have just connected something together.

Hmm. I don't know. Did you guys want to see Gronk on the show? I think I would want to see Gronk on the show. That is it. that does it for Ask CVV number 48. I mean, we just listed off, Tori Hunter, Jacob deGrom, Lee Smith, and of course, the Jimmy Johnson edition.

Thank you guys so much for being with me and hanging out with me here in Orlando, flying back real early tomorrow. I think my flight's like 5.30. So this could be a thing, a story, a question for another Ask CVV episode, but I try to get to the airport with the least amount of time possible. Nothing. It just seems like a waste of time for me to just be sitting around the airport waiting. And I know that security lines can be, you never know, hit or miss.

Sometimes there's no one in line. Sometimes there's 60 people in line and it takes half an hour. I feel like with a 530 flight, hopefully it should be. really no line. But I usually leave for the airport like two hours before the flight. So 5.30 tomorrow. Oh my gosh. I'm waking up at three-ish, three something to leave it like 3.30? Boy, I'm just talking out loud here and realizing, milk was a bad choice to quote Ron Burgundy. I will leave you with a quote from Walt Disney.

A lot of great quotes from Walt Disney. First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare. Be great. Be grateful, my friends. We will see you on the next one.

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