Insight with Chris Van Vliet - Batista on AEW vs. WWE and retirement

Episode Date: June 20, 2019

Dave Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani sit down with Chris Van Vliet to chat about their new comedy STUBER. While this is a shorter interview than usual, it really “gives you what you want!!” Dave explains the accidental origins of that phrase, talks about how he would rather go broke than wrestle again and says AEW is not “legitimate competition” to WWE. Audio equipment provided by Samson Technologies: bit.ly/CVVSamson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So we saw Batiste to wrestle his retirement match at WrestleMania 35. There's a lost to Triple H. we also saw Batista trip on his way into the ring. He says that was actually a really helpful part to his match. I'm not even joking. We chat about all that and get his thoughts on AEW and the origins of his now infamous, give me what I want, promo.

It was actually an accident. Here you go. It's my chat with the Stars of Stuber, Kumail Nanjiani, and Dave Batista. You basically cut a promo on me on Twitter. Not really, not like a horrible one, but like a fun one. Yeah, it was great. And I was like, they gave me what I want!

Yeah. Did you have any idea when you cut that, gave me what I want promo, that it was going to turn into like kind of a meme? No. No, it's weird. Like sometimes when I look for, like when I tweets, a lot of the tweets are kind of generic and kind of the same, but sometimes there's tweets that will just catch your attention

because, I don't know, they're out of the norm or they're interesting or they give you something to, you know, kind of, talk about but yeah and the years was I liked it so I appreciate what about the actual promo that you cut on triple A's you think that would become like which one give me what I want oh it's weird because we got somewhere in that thing it was supposed to be that and but we didn't really figure it out we didn't talk about it wasn't written out so it was certain things we were looking for in that promo and there was something that I hadn't said so he kept dragging it out and I didn't I was I wasn't sure what it was.

So I had to keep escalating because once I went there, I couldn't go back. So that's why he kept screaming it louder and louder. I'm like waiting for his cue. He's waiting for my cue. And we just weren't getting there. And then finally I dawned to me,

I needed to say something in that promo. I can't remember exactly what it was. But yeah, that's why it got like bigger and bigger and bigger. It wasn't intentional. When was this? This year? This year? A couple weeks before WrestleMania.

Oh, for the rest of the meeting. Since so much of this movie takes place in an Uber, what's the worst thing that an Uber passenger could do? Oh. Any body function is not good. Any of them, puke, pee, poop, poop. Yeah. Or just be kind of generally rude. Yeah, don't be a nice person.

Yeah. Yeah, I think people forget that this is just another human being who's trying to make some money. Well, but that's true. I mean, all around, like people who are rude to waiters or anybody, you know. Or don't start having a personal discussion. Don't get in and start talking politics to your Uber driver. I mean, they don't just there to, you know, they want to work. They're providing a good day.

Yeah, I want to have a good day, pleasant conversation. We'll talk about the weather. You know, let's not make this a deep personal debate. People go for it sometimes. I love that in the Uber review talking about you in the film, there's an Andre the Giant reference. Was that in the script originally? No, no. I don't know where that came about.

Did it come from you? I don't remember who it came from, but that was one of the things that we did talk about a lot because we were like we can have, because it's on the screen so you can rewrite it, you know, any different ways. The fat Freddie Mercury thing came from me. That was your idea? That's so funny. Calling yourself Fat Freddie Mercury. There was a bunch of different alt-there, but I thought a fat Freddie Mercury. That's very funny.

That's perfect. Well, what was your first impression when you met Dave? just that he was just a very, very lovely, normal guy. You know, I mean, if you see Dave on screen, obviously if you're a wrestling fan, the Batista you see is very different from the Dave. What's your, the beast? That's what they call you?

The animal. The animal. Yeah, it took some joy in explaining that to people because I was kind of really stuck with that stigma. And some people were disappointed to find out that I wasn't that guy. I'm sure. Yeah, but yeah. Well, that's why it was hard for me.

to really get in to get auditions and meet with people because they just thought I was that guy from wrestling. I was at WrestleMania this year. What happened as you were going into the ring there? I tripped. Did you trip on something? The rope. No, I tripped on.

I think one of my boots got stuck on the rope. But I also had to do with, and that was a lot of different factors. And at the end of the day, I just tripped. I thought it was awesome. I loved that love him, too. You know, what's funny is because I was so worked up before that and after I tripped, I just had fun.

I thought it was funny. I had fun. I went out and I just started really just living in that moment because I knew it was just, that was the last time I was gonna be there. And as I looked around, I saw like, I saw AAA's parents. And as soon as the lights went out, I went over and hugged them. Oh, you know them? Oh, yeah, I've known it for years.

You know, 20 years, I know. So no, it was just, I actually, that put me at ease, believe it or not, that tripping. But it really, because I was in that car a lot longer than people think that I was in that. car just sitting there getting cold. I also, I warned up like three times before I actually went out because it was a long resume. So I was cooped up in that car, got out, it was all, I was terrified, it was nervous, I was cold again, I was worried about that. I was concerned about way too much other

than our match. And then after I tripped, it just went away. So you say this is the last time we'll see you out there, but we know how wrestling retirements usually work. No, no, my, this is a real wrestling retirement. I'm done. My entering career is over. I would love to go back on the show because I I love the company. I believe in the product. So I won't go back and I'll go to the show. If they ask me to go on the Hall of Fame, I will. Sorry, I'm not blasted in this. No, no, no. This is interesting. But I will not have another wrestling match. I will go broke before I have another wrestling match, and I will not go and wrestle for another promotion.

Wow. It's not going to happen. What do you think about the fact that there now is another promotion? There is legitimate competition for the first time in 20 years. What do you mean another promotion? There's another. AEW just started up. And it's huge? Yeah. I don't. see it as legitimate competition. I see it as competition, which is great.

There should always be competition. But until they actually produce one of their own major stars, until they actually have a production as big as WWN until they start. I mean, WWs already got, they've got the next three generations of superstars because they have like NXT camps all over the world now. They're so far ahead of the game that I don't see any, like real competition, not even close. Well, I mean, they've only had one show as of right now. perhaps if we had the same conversation a year or two

be different. But I believe that competition is always good, especially in the sports entertainment industry. I really support them. Kumail, the Uber rating obviously meant so much to you in this film. If you guys were to give each other a rating on their performance, an Uber rating of each other,

how would you rate Dave? How would you rate Kumil? Sure. Or just as a human. I mean, you know. Five. Yeah, for sure. This is too easy.

You're going to get a lot of love. You're going to get a lot of All right. All right. Well, Camel, and you drove a lot in the film, how did you rate Camel's driving?

No, he's a great driver. No, I'm in real... Well, I get into frequent accidents. Yeah, well, I did have to actually drive sometimes. And sometimes we couldn't get this damn car to start.

There was always an issue of me. Well, yeah. But Nissan Leaf is a wonderful thing. It wasn't because there was mechanical problems. It was because we couldn't find a key. Yes, yes. We had the wrong key

because we had multiple cars. Right, we had multiple cars, multiple keys. You get in the car with the wrong keys. It's not going to work. It wasn't because the leaf was dying on this or it wasn't working. No, not at all.

I mean, they were great. Yeah. Thank you guys so much. Thank you. I'm a pleasure to see you again. Great to meet you. Well, there you go. Dave Batista, Kumail Nangiani.

I really wish that could have been longer. But I am super grateful to even just have the opportunity to talk to them. So thank you to 20th Century Fox for inviting me to Los Angeles to do that interview. And the movie is amazing. Batista is a hell of an actor. Unfortunately, sometimes a lot of wrestlers. still act like wrestlers. Batista, though, is a wrestler who acts like an actor.

And he shows off his soft side in this movie in a scene where he cries. I don't want to give too much away, but yeah, he cries. Stuber, in theaters on July 12th. So, big thanks to Greenroads. Use the code Chris 15 at Greenroadsworld.com to save 15%. Also, big thanks to Samson Technologies. And you can head to samsonTech.com to see their bad-ass microphone.

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