Insight with Chris Van Vliet - Enzo LIVE Q&A - Big Cass, thoughts on WrestleMania 36, The Revival, AEW, MJF, Tama Tonga

Episode Date: April 4, 2020

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talks about a lot here, including why he thinks WrestleMania should be canceled. He gives an update for us on Big Cass. Talks about his two runs as the cruiserweight champion. His run in at Madison Square Garden with Ring of Honor, New Japan, and everything that kind of happened after that. And so, so, so, so much more.

So here you go. Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together. It's Enzo. Well, what do we got over here, everyone? No. Thank you so much for joining us to live chat. Hanging out here with the real one, hanging out with Enzo Amore. I got to ask you first, how's everything going? My dog, Keelow.

Come here, Keith. Uh-oh. Oh, we got to look at this. Watch this. Sit, stay. No. Don't move. How long can he hold it there?

How do you tell me? How old is that all interview? No way. Yeah, he could, man. Good. So people are going to be sent of their questions in here. We'll put him up on the screen. You see me right now? You see me? Look at that. Wow. Rookie at a year right here. Brian Filman Jr. Now listen, Brian Pilman Jr., he had the luxury and meet my dog Kilo a couple times. He's my best friend. I've driven across the country with him, bro.

He's a good dude. He's a good man. He holds me down here. I'm glad I got to meet. The pandemic on hand, you know, it's a good thing to have. When people come knocking on your door for toilet paper, I think they think twice when a six-foot-tall white German Shepherd standing like to draw a barter, you know what I mean? I think this might be the best question to start off with here. It's from David Nagy. Hey, how you doing?

Oh, man. You know, listen, I got to say something. Okay, listen, I don't do any research. You know, I just know shit. Okay? All right? I just know shit. And how do I know things?

How? I'm going to tell you how. I'm the guy on this planet that when people recognize me, they instantly say one thing, how you don't. I'm that guy. So you couldn't imagine how often, you know, people see me in public and, you know, they see the hair or they recognize me.

And it's just how you don't from across the street. You know what I'm saying? Or, you know, what happens is the reason why I know so much shit is because I, never shy away from a conversation. So in life, I embrace all fans that come and approach me. I think it's still humbles me. It's mind-blowing that I'm a recognizable person like this. That's crazy.

Yeah. You know what I'm saying? You know what I mean? I don't have fast. And any opportunity to answer that question, how you do? And I do it genuinely. It also might be one of the greatest chance in wrestling. bro it's funny we just got off the phone um i sent you a private link to a match um now you'll get an

opportunity to see it whenever you do yeah i'm going to go ahead and say when you watch this match right you can you can listen to it and not even watch it okay and you're going to say this is the greatest live event tag team match i've ever seen now for the fans that aren't going to see this can you tell them who's in the match dash and dawson versus anzo and tasson NXT. Yeah. So I think there was a blood feud rivalry. And if you ask me honestly, when I watched the product on television, if ever, I do,

you know, I don't watch WWE product ever, ever. But Dash and Dawson, I can honestly say, are two of the greatest wrestlers as a tag team duo, ever. not not of old not you know road dog jessie james pats billy gone not the legion of i'm talking about ever i'm talking about ever like like ever now people can say what they want but they've never been in the ring with them and put their life in these guys hands and had these guys execute on a dime just the height of a crowd there's a there's a point in this match that i have right house i just watched this match because i got uh it's it's a private link that i have it's old

now i haven't watched wrestling in a long time like me just watching me wrestle but i i did last night alive on my instagram where i watched uh mind games 96 in your house 10 mankind versus sean michael so that was the first time ever did that where i allowed fans to hear my yeah you were like doing commentary on it yeah so to say but um i watched this match There was a point in the match, right? Now, it wasn't a lull. There wasn't a lull in this match. But we mean there was a dip because there wasn't much movement.

I was just on the cell, and we were just getting into the heat. And Dawson was, you know, it was a point in the match where we're in the opener, and these people are ape shitbook wild. And they are chanting like lunatics. And I'm down, and I'm not moving. I'm staying at bay. Okay, brother, I am. I might reach for the tag.

but that's it. I'm not going to get up on your ass and try to run or nothing. And rather than run a spot or hit me with a move or do anything, Dawson just stands over me, takes a look at the crowd 360 nearly with his neck and just wrenches my nose with a shit for. Right? But he didn't even touch me. But I just sold it like he ripped my nose off. And it got a reaction louder than the finish on most matches. Wow. And I was like, bro, how good is this dude? Right.

Like, how fucking good is this dude? Like, in that moment, he could have went a million different ways, ran a spot. If they could, they can say one word to me, those guys. And we have enough. I got five spots that we can run based off one word. You say, watch the elbow, and I'm going to fucking hit the ropes and duck three and do a baseball slide and jump over your head. And then you're going to fucking hit me with the elbow.

Like, I work these guys every single night on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, all over the world in a blood feud rivalry at a time where NXT was just on the come on. This was the first ever show in Chicago for NXT. It was the opening match.

So when you open the first ever show in NXT in Chicago, imagine how hot that crowd is. When I say this is the greatest live event tag team match, I don't necessarily have talked about the guys that are in the ring. I'm talking about the crowd, bro. Right. Well, let's get to some

questions here. We've got a whole bunch of them pouring in here for you, Enzo. We'll start off for Ben, let's go. Super chat from Stock Monkey, Mike. I have a question for Enzo, but my question is, during your Cruiserweight Championship runs, which run would you be most proud of and why? And thank you, Mike, for the super chat. My 205 run? What do you mean? Your two cruiserweight championship run over there. I mean, if we're talking about, like, in comparison to, you know, my whole career. You know, you had two championship runs as a cruiseway champion.

Oh, shoot. Yeah, which one did you prefer? I mean, runs starts and stops. Man, I'd have to say the work I was putting it at the end. My last day on the job was the first ever 205 live tour, the only one, to my knowledge. and to be able to, you know, headline a main event with a title around your waist, whether it was NXT or, you know, FCW or, you know, New Japan, AEW, I don't care what promotion it is.

You know, we were at a point in time where they were going to cancel 205 live, and I stepped in and told Vince that I wanted to work with Neville so that he can get the opportunity to get back onto the main roster and stop carrying this workload. He was my best friend and the hardest working man in pro wrestling for a year, you know, having working Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. You know, we all went home on Monday. But with that being said, you know, the second part of the run had me on tour with those 205 live guys that would normally be, you know, only flown into TV. Right. On Monday and Tuesday.

Now we're wrestling on Friday, Saturday, Sunday. and I'm in the headline match in the main event and I got a I got an opportunity for not not see when you're a wrestler I personally believe especially when you get to a level where you're on television that you have to prove it to yourself it's not about the fans it's not about Vince it's not about anyone and I never had that opportunity to be in a main event match with a title around my waist main eventing a tour that I was the headline of So when I did it, I proved it to me.

You know what I mean? Because I didn't know I could do that. You know what I'm saying? Like, how do you know until you do something whether or not you can do it? And I never got that opportunity. And it just so happened that the last two matches of my career were those opportunities. And that's how you end a run. I'll take it.

Well, we got so many questions here. So let's just let's get to these. We'll fire them off here. This is a quick one from Ozzy. Thank you for the super. going to be a quick answer to any question with me. You're going to have to learn that as the interviewer broke. I'm aware of this.

I'm aware of this. You're great at your job. Good luck. Ozzy says, what was it like working the Hardee's at WrestleMania? I mean, cool as day of my life. Might be the shortest answer we get yet, too. Yeah. I've never watched that.

I've never seen it. I have never. I remember at the WrestleMania hotel. the night after that night at WrestleMania. We have a big party after in the hotel, but then everybody's gonna wake up and do raw the next day. So nobody's going too hard. They were replaying WrestleMania in the background.

And I remember like being with the people I loved, like my mom and my dad and a few people at somebody pointing out. Like, oh, Eric, look, look, look, look. And I turned and glanced and I just turned right back around. And I looked back at my mom and dad. And I was like, we don't need to watch that. Like, we're right. here. Wow. And I have never to this day seen my WrestleMania match. I know Cass has seen it a million

times. Man, it was the greatest feeling in the world to, I loved the Hardy Boys as a kid to a way. Like Jeff, particularly his action figure. He had, yeah, I was a big action figure, Mark. Hold on one second. Okay. You're getting a real answer here, Ozzy. Look at this. Wow. Oh, my God. Gowdy Piper's taking suplex. See, this is Brian Pilbman, Jr., meet Brian Pilman, you feel me? So I just felt like, yeah. Oh, what happened there? I was, yeah, I'm the director over here.

I'm like Steven Spielberg making it. Oh, you can make the big and small, you bought me out. I can do it all, so I want to show off the action figures. All right, that was lit. So, yeah, I love Jeff Hardy as a kid, you know, and then at that point in time, you know, you couldn't have anticipated the Hardy's making a comeback into the WWE. And timing is everything in life and it's proven true in my life. I've had incredible timing. Gotten extremely lucky.

But, yeah, that was the most surreal moment of my career, meeting the Hardy boys beforehand having the match with them. And then directly after that, I went on a two-week tour of Europe and wrestled those guys every single night. Wow. So, you know, bent my elbow with them boys and had a couple drinks on the bus and heard some incredible stories. It was surreal, man. It was cool. This is a quick one from Tim Traver. But Tim Traver that just says, Enzo, thank you for kicking me out of my darkest time.

Amen, brother. Hail Mary full of grace, you know. Thank you for that. That was amazing. You know, for anybody who's here, just know what I mean? Life's got highs and lows. Right now is a very extremely tough time for a lot of people. And I recently posted on my Instagram, I think it was yesterday morning.

You know, I lost my grandmother a year to the day two days ago. And I couldn't imagine being in a situation where the reason why she might die is because I touch her or be around her. that to me is so heart-wrenching and heart-breaking. So I've been getting on my knees and praying for the world. Literally, you know, I'm not ashamed to say I'm a man of God, but at the same time, dude, I'm not holy art now, you know what I mean? You know what I'm saying? But I believe in a good prayer, bro.

So said it my way, I'll keep saying it for the world. Thank you. Stu's wrestling podcast says, who in WWE did you not get a chance to work with You really wanted to work with. And thank you, too, for the super chat on here. One-on-one, like... It's up here.

It's your interview. That's a question that if I was there might be different than if I look at it in retrospect right now. Like, if I were to work a guy right now in the WWE, there's really... I look up and down the roster. I've worked every single one of those guys for the most part. You know what I'm saying? but if I had an opportunity to get in the ring and go one-on-one with somebody in front of a big crowd on TV, probably Roman.

Okay. Wow. It could still happen, right? I highly doubt it, buddy. You ain't getting me, you know, you want to work Roman on TV and be in a big spot. You're going to have to, you know, work, you know, that schedule of 200, 300, 300 days on the road. You know what I'm saying? Like, I just think the matchup would pop the fucking roof off a place.

Yeah. I just think the roof would blow off. And that's all I care about is, is reactions. You know, I don't think about a wrestling match and say, oh, like, I would, like, God, if it was like, work somebody one-on-one in front of a huge crowd, like, give me Dash or Dawson, tear the fucking roof off. Like, that would be amazing. But if you talk about, like, okay, you want to get that Hogan Rockfield, try to build this thing as big as you can. I have the poster right here. That's what I mean, man. There is.

That's the reaction. That's a reaction. And I think that that would be a fun build and a fucking huge, a huge payday. So that's why I would love to do it. Realist King official. Let's talk a little bit about your music. Says, Enzo, what's up? It's Vinny.

I met you in Baltimore. My question is, what's your favorite song you've dropped? And when are we getting more music? My favorite song I dropped is, is Phoenix or Grace. I think you get the heel and you get the baby face, but if you're really listening to the message, you're getting a baby face on both ends.

You know, so I think the amount of heart and work that I put into Phoenix, filming the music video, and timing up, dropping that song, and then those, you know, 5,000 people that came to Times Square that day to meet me, the night I dropped that music video was also, you know, that's right up there next to Russell video.

if not the greatest day of my life, you know? So Phoenix will always be all time. It's my first song that came out the gate with. And, you know, when people see me, sometimes they say lyrics from it that are fucking hilarious. No way. You know what I mean? Like, people, I can't even tell you, like, as many how you doings as I get meet and greets, I get as many people whisper it, like, not whispering in a weird way,

but they don't want to say it loud. I know the line you talk to me about. And so does everybody. Yeah, exactly. gripping my consensual penis. There it is. I'm glad you said it, I didn't have. The consensual penis line got people good, man,

Mountain Top people. I live for a pot, so that's it, man. Dead and Old wants to know if that sign behind you, does it say if money is in everything, go work in McDonald's? He says, where does that? Also, McDonald's are closed over here, so can you send over a big Mac?

Bro, Waffle Wall Street. You ever see the movie Wopal Wall Street? Of course. Yeah, man. These people are great. They're called Iconic. Oh, yeah. I see that on Gary Jr.

I'm going to give them a free plug. See, you've got the money net for sleeps, success. Benjamin Franklin. You got a lion over here. Say, how are you doing Kurt Russell? We got a bear. And we're going to make this big as well. There we go.

Oh, baby. Nice. Okay. I'm a huge Notre Dame fan. But, you know, I'm a huge Notre Dame fan. So we slap that out every day on the way out of the house. You know what I'm saying? You got it all there.

Curse of Maynard says, tell us about your Jesus tattoo. What's about my Jesus tat? Tell us about your Jesus tattoo. I drew it myself with my hand when I was 19 years old. It's my third tattoo on my body. body. The first tattoo I got was Bridgy. My aunt, I had an aunt that I grew up with who went to church every single day of her life. And when she passed away, they put a gold plaque on the pew that had her day to birth and the day she passed away on it. My grandmother was a Eucharistic minister, so she would serve communion at church. I grew up and raise Catholic, stand up, sit down. And I was a really bad kid who grew up in the youth group. So, you know, when they said, band kids that ain't good in school to church you know what I'm saying and uh God has always been such a huge part of my life um I think that people probably wouldn't know this and and maybe some

of the wrestlers don't know this that I worked with but before every single match that Cass and I had uh we would say a Hail Mary or in our father uh you know um so you know i'll say one for y'all hell merry full the greatest Lord is with thee blessed our thousand one women blessed is the fruit of that Jesus, Holy Mary, Mother of God pray for our sinners now into the hour of our day, amen. That was for the world. Anyone that's a fan of mine, I appreciate it. I reciprocate that energy when I can get on my knees tonight, so thank you. I definitely didn't expect that to, you know, to hear that during our interview, but I guess anything can happen with Enzo.

Bridgy was mentally disabled, so she had the mind of like a 10-year-old child, the woman that, so my mother took care of her. And so I grew up with her. And when you're a person growing up with somebody with special needs, they're your best friend when you're a child. And then when you get to a point where you're like 11, 12, 13 years old, you start realizing, oh, wait. Like, we got to take care of her. Right. You know what I'm saying? So, you know, I was 17 years old and Bridgy passed away.

But that experience was all time for me to have this best friend as a child and then to grow up with that. and then to suffer that loss, before I have my opportunities to get into the WWE, as you know, they've worked with so many. We have so many fans that are mentally disabled in pro wrestling. And I take opportunities to meet and gauge, hug those people in my meet and greet lines, take pictures, and those are the best fans you've got.

And those are the best people. The reason why my aunt with the church every day is because she didn't know any better. But she didn't know what evil was. So who was winning? You or me? Like, I mean, what are we talking about? Right.

She was living a pure mental state that an eight-year-old or a 90-year-old child has without the insecurities, you know, the IRS, taxes, money, working for this, you know. She lived off food stamps and she got some help from the government. And at the same time, she got help from a huge family. So God is huge of my family. And it'll never stop being a part of me. I know Big Cass, I spoke with them yesterday. God is a huge influence in his life.

Now, last I heard he was building the church in Africa. So let's move to the next topic. Enough of me clunking Jesus as much as I love the guy. Well, I mean, there's been a lot of questions here about Big Cast, like this one from Sam Stational. Is Big Pass doing better? He's doing so good. He's killing it. He's killing it.

He's killing it. He's smart. Like, listen, Moses needed to walk away from the Pharaohs of Egypt for 40 days. face before he came back, all right? To get the pharaoh out of his brain. And what do I mean by the pharaoh out of his brain? We live in a world where you're manipulated by a tube and or a feeling, you know, where people are literally subscribing to the notion that they need to feel some type of way based on their

environment. And their environment is constantly thrown in their face. You know, those bright lights on the side of a highway that ask you to go, you know, eat this bad food. That McDonald's that we talked about. But don't worry. When you're feeling big, we got an anti-inflammatory at Walgreens

that will sell you right down the road. This is a synchronized endeavors of big business and corporations to make you feel pretty shitty. And I don't watch the news for that reason. If you want to hear it real, you can tune into my podcast, which will be launching very soon, Chris. I'll take the free opportunity.

Absolutely. Your platform. Yeah, man. So, you know, I just, and go on for a million days, you know. How was that, you know? How is Big Cass? Big Cass is defeating the nuances of a Western civilization,

a world that people walk around feeling inferior to the next man. I got news for you. I was calling myself a certified G and a bona fide stunting this to happen in the third. That was a character I played. But the real man who was on the other side of the curse. and was just as confident. Okay. Confidence is not a coincidence.

It's worked on. Okay? You need to feel and understand who you are and be okay with that. You know, it's just what Dusty Road said to me, man. What an inspiration, Dusty Roads. Just this big human being walking around in his underwear out in front of people, shaking his shit. Going like this, bro.

Just boom. And the crowd's going nuts. And all he's doing is this, right? and he's just talking with a lift. And people love it. Why? Because you can be good, you can be bad,

or you can be different. And that's what he said to me, the first day that I ever met him. And he told me I was different, and I'm going to keep dancing with the girl who brought me to the dance. And I'm never going to stop being me, all right? Different is the girl to the dance.

That's what I preached to Big Cass, you know, and it's easier said than done. And people that are dealing with, you know, mental, you know, disabilities as well in a different light. And, you know, having these diseases, I would call them, because that's what they are. They're a disease. I've witnessed it firsthand.

There's nothing else you can call it. Alcohol is a disease. It is made by man and put shelves on every corner of the country and elicited to you through a television and told that it's okay. you know this is this is not a ww we have people you know i'm not a drinker okay you know i'm a joker i'm a laper i'm a smoker okay but at the end of the day bro you know if you're not hard no harm no foul you know so you don't you hear stories about people get drunk driving and getting into accidents and you know vehicular manslaughter ended behind oh oh i i hope that enzo hasn't frozen on us here

Can you still hear us? All right. Enzo is back. I know. Now listen, there's a reason why I was using my other phone. It's because this screen, I have no idea what happened to it. But it happened two days ago, and you can't go to the Apple store to get you in fixed. Your screen looks like it is part of the DX Titan Tron.

Bro, yeah. Everything's green on your screen. You're back. It's all that matters. It is what it is at this point. I can't help it. I'm sorry, man. The other phone just died on me.

Well, I'm glad you're back. There was a question here that we had up on the screen that we started to ask, and now I'll put it back up on the screen so we can ask it. Man, I've got to scroll through. Man, a lot of questions here. Thank you to everyone who's been participating and asking these questions. It's really cool, bro. This is all of these.

Maybe you can come watch me doing it on my podcast. So Enzo's going to have a podcast soon. Yeah. If you guys have ever heard of an app called Triller, okay? Now listen, everybody knows about this Corona. It's Chinese virus. Okay. That's not racist.

I'm just letting you know it came from China. Just like if I went to go get Chinese food. All right? So with this being said, this virus is the Wuhan virus, right? It came from Wuhan, W-H-A-N, right? Well, TikTok is a Wuhan company. If you use the app TikTok, you are using a Chinese, you know, funded operation, which I don't have a problem with. That's fine.

If that's where you want to put your money. I want to put my money right here in America. Hey, don't. I'm a proud patriot, but I also love this world. And what's happening to this world right now is absolutely terrible. So I'll be using Triller and app. alongside Instagram to get my world out there in the open on my podcast. So if you don't follow Triller, follow Triller, download Triller, and get ready for the storm, baby.

And what's the name of the podcast? Have we announced it yet? How you doing, podcast? Virgil, Valentino. Thank you for the super chat. Please keep these coming in. Keep the questions coming in. Are you excited for any particular match at Mania? I have no idea who's on the card at Mania. I can tell you one match that I've been anticipating for a little while now.

All right, and that's Shooter Stevens versus Zicky Dice. Well, Zicki Dice is going to be on the live chat tomorrow. Zicki Dice just followed me on Instagram. I noticed it and I followed him back and we started liking each other's pictures. Maybe I'll have a conversation with that boy. Maybe you should join our live on a chat tomorrow. He's buddies with my comedian brother. You know, one of the store horsemen, Matt Edgar at the comedy store in Los Angeles, he was the one who put me on to him.

So if it wasn't for the fact that we didn't have a mutual friend, I don't really know about wrestlers coming up and out of the, you know, woodwork. But I do watch NWA power. So Matt Edgar put me on. He's like, yo, I got a buddy. He was in a punk rock band. He was a guitarist. Now he's in an NWA. And I was like, all right, I'll look out for him.

When I saw him come out, I was like, yeah, that's your boy, bro. This guy's awesome. He's a little charisma, too. Well, he's got like, dude, he's just, he's got the 80s vibe going. It meets 2020 with all the tattoos, and I just love Hokie wrestling. So I'm sold, bro. King Bling Blah says, what are your thoughts on WWE not postponing WrestleMania 36? It's going to be an empty WrestleMania.

Horrendous. You asked for my honest opinion. I have had more wrestling matches in an empty performance. that oh my god i couldn't imagine being told i'm going back there to do wrestle mania i i mean i feel for the baileys and the charlots uh the saches of the world the corbans and the elias sampson's that have had these countless matches uh under that same umbrella literally just like fuck Yeah, I can't wait to pop Michael Cole sit in ringside. If I can get a fucking, you know, a pop out of Jerry Lawler, my day will be made here at

WrestleMania. I know you're not watching a lot of wrestling these days. Will you be watching WrestleMania? I couldn't sit through that, man. I couldn't sit through a performance center of WrestleMania. I might just, you know what, the reason why I say that is because I watched a quarter inch of, that fucking, you know, footlong bullshit they served you guys the other day.

Like, I mean, I saw that last week, whatever it was, Smackdown, I believe, that they were airing, right? Smackdown was there, Raw was there live? Before the 316 Raw, okay? Okay. So I, the smack, I said, I couldn't bring myself, I love Stone Cold

more than maybe any wrestler that ever existed. I couldn't bring myself to watch a 316 in the performance center, just because I know how painful it probably was for him. Because it was just a payday. Let's just be fucking honest with each other, okay? Like, I'm in this biz, I'm gonna call it how I see it. A spade's a

spade, motherfucker. Like, that's a paydown. All right, who the fuck wants to get on an airplane from coronavirus season? From fucking L.A., I don't care if it's a private jet or not, to Orlando, Florida, to go to the Performance Center to fucking drink a beer with Jerry Luller and get back on that motherfucker like, give me a break.

You wouldn't go to break? So I said it was a paycheck. I would do, what are you talking money? Now we're talking money. I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about watching it. Yeah. Dude, do it for the money.

Fuck yeah. I don't hate it for you. Stone cold, go get paid, brother. I'm not talking about, I'm talking about as a fan. Do I want to sit back and watch this? You know,

like, it's like, you know, the reason why AEW is so striking right now to so many fans is because of the passion put behind it. It's not a payday. What I thought is interesting is

AEW did their empty arena show, and their focus was on what was going on in the ring. The seats were blacked out, where WWE lit up the seats, basically showing everyone, hey, we're doing this in front of nobody. Wouldn't it be great if it was in front of a studio audience? You can't have to be six feet away from each other. I know the goddamn fact that there's a bunch of jerkoffs walking around in suits and ties in the back. You call them writers and not a goddamn person in the world knows who these people are. So if you got enough extras running around backstage going over promos and she put them in the first few rows, I don't know, like give me a few fans, right?

That's what AEW did. They put the wrestling. I heard. I heard. I heard. I know. I heard. I saw, I follow some guys on Twitter.

So I see some of it, you know, popping up. And I've been on social media during this quarantine more than I've ever been in my life. Right. You know what I'm saying? So. Yeah. We all are. When I saw the thing that was happening on.

TV with Smackdown. I tuned in for a half a second and I turned it off. The AEW thing I didn't get to see on TV, but I saw snippets of it. And it didn't sound half bad. It sounded like marks in the crowd that were at a fucking FCW show in 2011. This is 60 people, 30 people in the crowd at those shows before we got to Chicago and NXT. Give me a break.

I mean, those shows that we started off at had about as many fans as AEW. you put in those you rose just a quick comment from rye levy from canada thanks for all you do brother greetings from toronto which is my hometown so i will say thank you rye thanks for hanging out with us today during our corona quarantine q and a i got one for you for toronto right boys okay you all remember when i wore this if you're reading this it's too late look at this man so what happened here you'll get this you'll get this you'll get this you This is Survivor Series gear. I had the OVO Jordans on.

You see those? Wow. OVO Jordans, man, for Drake. Yeah, it's Drake's coming. All right, had the sixes. And then I took my straps down and got a huge pop. Now, you got to understand that's a planned pop. That's what we call it, is a cheap pop.

I'm in Toronto. I'm a baby face. Let's get the fucking home crowd here. Yeah. Starboy was an album that was dropping that week. That's right. And I was buddies with the weekend. Cash is manager and I introduced them to the WWE literally and we put Survivor Series soundtrack

that song was Starboy off the album. Now the weekend is doing WWE again, right? He's the premier song for WrestleMania. Oh, is it? Yeah, he's the weekend song off of his new album is the lead song for WrestleMania. Oh wow, I didn't know that. I'm sorry. How you doing? You're welcome, Gus. This is an interesting one here. Good at a six, boy, I'm good in the six, I. Abused Lungs 420. Wow, what a username. Who are Enzo's favorite Yankee players?

Oh, Derek Teter. Hands down. Yeah, Paul O'Neill, Derek Jeter, Tino Martinez, Bernie Williams, David Cohn, David Wells is probably my all-time favorite Yanke. I mean, come on. And I'm madzo, bro. like, David Wells played for my Toronto Blue Jays, too, so I'm with you.

Savage man. He's a savage man. Virgil Valentino. I respect y'all's hustle in these times. Enzo, where did you meet Miss Emily? And how did y'all hook up? Oh, shit. What an oddball question.

You would ask that, Chris. I didn't ask it. Let's just say this. You know, when we get hashtag Me Too, do you walk out of that situation with PTSD? All right? You're going to need an NBA every time you meet a girl. Mike, I have that situation plays weary in your mind when you're a celebrity with a target on your back.

So I don't meet women on the internet. I don't do the Tinder game. I don't, you know, you know, and a lot of celebrities are on these Tinder apps now that have like, you know, celebrity driven Tinder apps. I was running with my dog down the street on Boulevard East, which is in New Jersey, overlooking New York City. It is one of the greatest views in the world, and I've been around the world five times. Can't tell me nothing.

New York City skyline. I've seen it. A beautiful view from Enzo's place. Yeah, so I'm running, and I tie up my dog, and I'm sitting there where I write my music on a park bench looking at New York City. All right? And while I'm doing that, the next thing I know, I'm on Instagram, and I post that I'm there, the police roll up, the Department of Public Works roll up, all these. cars just come out, it turns into a meet and greet. I'm on the side of the road. I'm in New Jersey,

and there's like four cops surrounding me and a few department of public's works, workers. And a girl walks by, curious to know why a guy with tattoos and a sleeveless shirt is surrounded by police. She was kind of just curious. And I had my dog tied up to a park bench. And she went, hey, that's a beautiful dog. Well, coming out of this, you know, me too thing, You know, I don't, I don't, I was at that point in time not hollering at women. But when you're standing around five police who are eyewitnesses, you can kind of say something.

So, hey, that's a beautiful dog. And I said, hey, that's a beautiful face. The rest is history. Wow. How it happened. A week later, I was on a jet to L.A. with her, with Ryan Seacrest's, you know, people on Adam Levine's people. She works for a gym called Dog Pound where she trains celebrities like Justin Bieber and Haley Bieber. She's a big time celebrity trainer.

You can follow her at Emily with 2WIS underscore fitness. And I aspire anybody who's out there, you know, there was no depths to my shallowness. I was out there in the world, diving headfirst into things that, you know, I didn't have a taste, boy. So I had the time of my life being single. But sometimes you need to slow down. You need to smell the roses. And sometimes you need to do what is best for you. And when you have a girl that can hold handpads for you in a boxing gym,

you know what I'm saying? Put your workouts and introduce you to great people looking out for your best interests. And you meet her on the side of the road with, hey, that's a beautiful dog. Hey, that's a beautiful face. I don't believe in coincidences. So I just go with the flow. And that was the flow of my life at that time.

And this is where I'm at today. So yeah. Anybody watching this now knows the new pickup line. That's good, dog. It's good face. Yeah. That was beautiful. It was beautiful.

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Oh, yeah, yeah. Not him, but his people up there. I was going to do an autograph signing, but it just, it didn't work out. F-R-G-N says, what's your thoughts on the revival, possibly going to A-E-W, and who do you look forward to seeing them face? Young bucks? Everybody's going to want to see that match? Why wouldn't I want to see that match? I love Dash and Dawson, and I think that they're two of the best workers in the world,

so you could put them in there with two paper bags and they're going to have a fucking great match. What I'm saying? So, you know, at the end of the day, the Young Bucks, they're a different flavor of ice cream, okay, than Dash and Dawson. And Enzo and Cass were a different flavor of ice cream than Dash and Dawson. You watch Johnny Gargano and Tomaso Champa work Dash and Dawson. That's a different flavor of ice cream. You just get different matchups, and that's what makes wrestling fun.

I think that just the visual of the Young Bucks in the ring with Dash and Dawson is enough to sell out a pay-per-view card. And that's what we pray for. And you know that if you're the other wrestlers on the card, that that's the match that is going to sell the house and put people's asses in seats. So everybody should be, you know, wanting to see that as well. I would imagine that the whole roster wants to see those guys go. You're great on the mic. So is MJF.

Cardona Rules wants to know. What are your thoughts about MJF? I will tell you one thing. I saw MJF and Cody Rhodes, right, run a spot. And this is another thing that I didn't see the match, okay? But I saw the spot. And MJF is a savage man. He took a fucking, he took a vertical suplex from Cody from the inside to the outside, right?

Or gave it to him. And, like, and Cody, as he dropped him, like, landed two feet on the ground. If somebody ever tried that or suggested it in the match, good luck dude like what a savage man just doing that alone if i was like a one of the boys in the back watching the monitor when that happened you just won me over right there that's it you know what i mean that was fucking crazy but i mean yeah dude he's got he's he's he's got it in spades so hopefully you know uh he makes a ton of money in that business over there and they need guys in that spot as well that can hold that uh caliber of mic work hopefully he

finds himself a storyline where shit sticks because you know like i can never sit here and tell you like i could talk you know until i'm blue in the face out there on a fucking microphone okay like that's not the point of what it is that we did to a certain degree there was days and times where i went out there on the microphone and it was a cold match so it was a cold promo and you don't want to see cold promos every week you don't want to see a guy that just pops the crowd every week you don't want to go for the cheap pop of like, oh, you know, like, you know, you're one of those marks in the basement. Bo! You know what I'm saying?

Like, yeah, you get that cheap pop by saying something like that. You use the word bitch and you get a huge pop from it because WWE implanted that in your brain when they entered into a PG era and they only use the word five times a year. So I think that, you know, if the kid finds an opportunity to really like, uh, you know, Go to that next level with promos of like blood feud rivalry shit where he's selling out a match with this. He's selling a match with just this. Because I know he can take a vertical suplex from the inside to the fucking outside. You know what I'm saying? So like, shit, this guy's probably the limit for him, you know?

You're going to like this one. This is from L. Lane. You're from Freehood, New Jersey. What do you say? That's it. Just you're, yeah. freehood you're no no no you said it wrong it's you're you're how work freehood do you're i don't know that one too well though i got one uh man we got so money in dude this is so amazing please keep he's

coming in uh and ninja kid 64 said you showed off your action figures earlier so what's your favorite wwee action figure of yourself oh bro i don't have it there's only one man in the world that has it and i was supposed to get it at wrestle con this year from his And he's in Germany. What is it? And he's kidnapped the rarest wrestling action figure in the history of action figures. I don't know if people are aware of this, but I'm literally the holy grail of wrestling action figures.

Now, when I say that, I'll explain it to you because this shit goes deep and you could ask Zach Ryder and Kurt Hawkins about it. They release the retro figures of these, okay? There you go. Yep. All right. They made a WWE line of these guys, okay? they made an Enzo one.

The guy who created it had one. The mold of the toy was painted and brought to ComicCon. That was the only one that was ever made. Oh. All of the parts are gray, and someone that works at Mattel smuggled the gray body parts out of my toy

to sell on the black market, because let's just be real. There needs to be a television. show about the action figure underworld bro these people get big money man and i went out of my way to try to find that action figure and found out who had it and the only guy that has the carbon copy that was brought to wrestle con not the one on the guy's desk is in germany and i don't know how the fuck he got it but he was going to give it to me should i agree to go to germany to do an autograph signing and something else probably like blah blah blah

And, you know, I was, I felt like I was getting blackmailed in this situation of sorts. You know what I mean? Like, what the fuck are we talking about, bro? You know, like, I got to hop on a fucking 25-hour flight. Just go get this goddamn toy. Like, come on, man. Let's work out. Let's find some common ground.

You come to WrestleMania? He said, yeah. It's all right. I'll be there for you. You know, a game worn pair of Jordans, you know, autograph with your name on him, bro. You know, action figures out the wazoo. I'll sign. I want that toy.

So that is my goal, bro. I want that toy more than a lot. Well, this person seems to like your elite 49 figure of that. I don't even know what that is. I don't care about the toys. I care about this one. The one I played with as a kid. The one they made is a kid.

All right. Jay Lane says, how hyped were you to come out in open SummerSlam in New York or in Brooklyn? Oh, I wish I could have been more prepared for it, bro. The story goes, we were going out at seven, apparently, and I thought it was going to be 7.30, and I was just standing around, like, smoking my vape, talking to somebody at that time.

And Big Cass and Jericho and are like, yo, you ready? I'm like, what do you mean? They're like, we go out in two minutes. What? So I sprint through the Barclays Center, get to the locker room, throw my jacket on, nearly like four three times getting in and out of there. Didn't get my hair braided, which was always the plan, but I went out there with the hair that just fell. And when we got to the ring Me and Cass went ahead and got the company Find all sorts of money for copyright infringements Singing Biggie Smalls and Franks and Hotchrist

I thought I was getting fired After that shit I got ripped such a new asshole dude We get out of the ring after opening Somerslam Probably the career highlight of my life Wrestling Jericho and the opener of Somerslam Come through the carton and get Merk. He's got killed.

And Cass was really, really bent out of shape about it. He was mentally broken from the thrashing we took that night when we came through guerrilla. The next day, Big Cass and I are in the opening of Monday Night Raw

with Stephanie McMahon, Kevin Owens, like Roman Raines, Seth Rollins, because Finn Baller tore his shoulder and had to forfeit the title and plans change on a drop Vodan. And the guys that they made feel like they were getting fired are now in the opener and Cass is in this fatal four way for the title. I was like, I don't know what's going on here, bro. I'm just going to ride this here a roller coaster. Oh, man.

It was crazy. But, yeah, I was in the ring with those people that day, that day. and they were going fucking apeshit book wild for that segment and i was just like beside myself this is a fascinating question here from curse of maynard any stories from your days as a piano mover oh wow yeah here's the thing about as a piano mover one time i was in new york city moving a piano uh with morristown movers oh mms morristown moving system still got some piano mover t-shirts laying around here with a bulldog what a piano on his back that's great See, the thing about piano moving is you're going to get paid like $40, $50 an hour to do it.

That's why people do it. But who is dumb enough to stand under a piano on a set of stairs? Not me, but my best friends were, I'm on the front of it. I got the crank straps and I'm at the top. This thing's falling down. I'm letting it go, I'm sorry. You can't walk out of here. I'm never underneath.

I got this psycho best friend who puts a shoulder underneath of it, but his legs under it and climbs upstairs. While we have crank straps on the sides, it's like four people on each side. We had to take them up flights of stairs in Brooklyn,

45 steps, 60 steps, insane shit, right? Well, one time we were moving this piano, okay, it was glass. It was Alicia Keys piano. Or at least she played on it. I don't fucking know. I wasn't paying attention.

I didn't care. It was a big, heavy piano, how to get moved. And this, like, millionaire at this point in time, I remember like, you know, I haven't,

dude, I'm on moving trucks. Like, I haven't been hanging out with Drake yet. So, like, you know,

like life's a little different. And I haven't pursued my dreams yet. So I'm just in a mental state where I'm like, oh, you know what? Fuck you.

You know? Like, like, think you better than me. You know what I'm saying. And, uh, this millionaire was,

was this like snooty woman who was into orchestras. You know, like, imagine the people that are, building out orchestras. Yeah.

They got to get their piano moved. This is where we win. Now, if you're the people that are moving the piano, they are at your mercy. And we lived for it. Meaning, you got this millionaire who wants this piano move. They talk to you some type of way. I've seen it done so many times by my friends,

and I have been a part of it. You want to give us an attitude. My boy will be like, Hey, listen, bitch, I'm picking up this piano and I'm putting it down one time. So pick where you fucking want it. Wow. You know what I mean? Yeah.

What are they going to do? They're at your mercy. Sure. You want it over here or you want it over there, lady? Because if you don't tell me where you want it, it ain't going nowhere. And I'm not moving it twice. And I would see my crazy-ass best friends, like smoking cigarettes, dude. Like, you know, all juiced up at the Jersey Shore, like 2000 and like.

fucking three and two and four, five, six, seven, eight. These kids were wearing like guinea teas with the fucking jersey blowout hair, you know what I mean? Chain smoking cigarettes all juiced up, not for any other reason than to go down the shore and get laid. You know what I'm saying? And work and moving pianos. So like, I came from that world. That's so much of what I bet based my character off of Enzo Omore was this real-life person named Mark Vishner. one of my best friends vishner he is nuts and i have quoted him on television more times than i can count

on four hands i swear to god and this guy is just a piano mover that's all he does and he lives for it because he lives for those moments where he could stop a millionaire dead in his tracks and they're at his mercy you know what they're sucking his dick by the time he gets to piano you know All right, we got less than 10 minutes here. Enzo, I want to thank you for joining us. This has been a lot of fun hanging out with you. Hanging out with everyone here. Funny Chitra from my home country of Canada.

It's not really a question. It says, hey, Enzo, hope you're doing well, bud, sending positive vibes your way. Can we just acknowledge how good of an interviewer CVV is? Well, that's just very nice. Well, thank you. Oh, you just wanted to put himself over here. I'm just reading the comments here. Be couple more of those people.

Come on. But I do want to thank you. So thank you. Match with Tomatanga is a question a lot of people are asking. I highly doubt it. You know, there's the thing about when you look at the scene of all these pro wrestlers, I am truly my own boss. I don't work for anyone.

It's hard to come to agreements with, you know, like look at Tomatanga and say, okay, he works for New Japan. look at AEW Say okay Cody works for AEW Look at WW You say Seth works for WWE None of those three guys are wrestling Enzo Amore anywhere

You know what I'm saying? Like as it stands right now Not to say that you know Things couldn't have changed Or we weren't working towards something Or maybe plans changed or something Or maybe you know he wanted to fucking have a real fight You know what I'm saying?

Like I'll let you all be the judge of that and time will tell uh if you know i ever cross paths with the guy um what kind of energy is there let's see what else we got here are you into any band that might surprise people that's from michael vaskas for sure uh kill switch engaged very nice uh people would be surprised to find out that uh i don't listen to any new rep wow i think that's yeah it's super surprising i don't listen at you not a goddamn thing and i'm not hating on it but when you are writing music constantly or writing television treatments um you know and say i'm a writer that's what i do you know so if you ask me like how i'm making money and stuff like you know i'm a writer i pitch

things i put things in i try to get work and uh and and and that's what i enjoy doing so i enjoyed writing the promos that I delivered on TV. But I think it'll be more enjoyable to see an idea that I create in my mind put on paper, become a vision, become a reality. And if those opportunities lie around the corner, I had a major hiccup as we all did.

I'm quarantined in New Jersey because my parents live here, my sister lives here. My goddaughter meant a lot to me to be in this place when this situation is going on. But you were in Los Angeles up until recently. I've been in Los Angeles the past three months working on some projects. And, you know, shout out.

Shout out to Lorenzo Antonucci and Ash Adelson and Rob Weiss. Rob Weiss, the executive producer of Ballers and Entourage. I've had unique conversations with these guys about some incredible projects that hopefully we see come to life. Lorenzo's an awesome dude he's been in a bunch of stuff and the crazy thing about him is why I bring this up is because in 2011

Ash Adelson whose dad is the director of Rocky Walker and stand by me and these movies big wrestling fan Ash own Sumerian records I'm a fan of Kill Switch

another band that if you're in that realm of world you talk about sworn enemy the lead guitarist for Sworn Enemy was Lorenzo Antonucci from Queens, New York. In 2011, Ash financed him to go learn how to be a pro wrestler at Rikishi School. And his gimmick was Bing Bang Boom. Now, imagine being Ash who financed this gimmick and turning on the TV and seeing Enzo Amore on TV. So that was one of the most surreal run-ins I've had, and I've had an opportunity to link with these people and become friends with them.

And I just think that story with Lorenzo is just outweighing to think that like you're the real Enzo and you're like in Queens, New York, where Cass is from. You know what I'm saying? What do you think of your rivalry with big cast? That's from Cloud Kid 120. Had the potential to make millions of dollars

for years and years. Had things worked out differently, but everything works out for a reason. This is God's plan. So I don't ever question it, ever. I live and work and breathe in blind faith, just moving and letting life take its course, manifesting my own destiny in essence, you know? So the rivalry with Cass, I don't think it's over.

In pro wrestling, whenever you see two great tag teams, listen, we don't want to, I'm not Marty and he's not Sean, and I'm not Sean, he's not Marty. And you could draw those comparisons when the two break up and go their separate. ways and I've heard it so many times. You know, we don't draw comparisons because the business has never seen anything like us to. There was a dynamic there where two men are out there on the microphone with these tag lines and having these matches where the big guy's seven foot tall in the corner and the little guy's getting his ass kick and telling that story as tag team.

Real storytelling. It's not about the wrestling moves. It's just Enzo's down and he needs to get to that guy, you know? That's the easiest story ever. So don't reinvent the wheel. It was a dynamic and a dichotomy that can't be matched again. I think just like anything, you know, they appreciate you when you're gone. And the longer you're God, the more they'll learn to appreciate what it is that you were able to accomplish.

Rather than look at the downfall, you know, do we ever give the people an opportunity to see a comeback again, to see us reunite? We did. and if you're a mark you didn't appreciate it. Ring of honor. Ring of honor in New Japan. One of the greatest heel, one of the greatest heel moves in the history of a wrestling world. I mean,

you sold out Madison Square Garden for the first time as a non-McMan, non-McMan in 60 years. Enzone cast got booked. We have not been together in two years. You haven't seen. us in two years. So when we do reunite in front of your very eyes and the TVs are not filming it for television because we understand that we are in a new world creating a literal movement that's never been done before. You're going to go viral. Viral is more important.

Trending is more important than any of the numbers and buys on this pay-per-view right now to get them talking about everything that's in this, the marketing mechanism behind that. You can't pay enough money to trend number one in the world. You can't get that. So when I do Survivor Series, and it leads to the reuniting of Enzo and Cass in Madison Square Garden,

and you hear, fuck you, Enzo, fuck you, Cass, in front of 30,000 people that have never, we've never wrestled in front of in our lives. This isn't New Japan. This isn't New Japan. This isn't Ring of Honor. We've never wrestled for you. But everyone in this arena knows who we are.

And 30,000 people have us trending number one in the world over March madness, over all, you know, Brett Hart getting attacked at the Hall of Fame, over the Hall of Fame in general, over WWE, over the G1 Classic itself, over New Japan, over all of these things. We literally executed a master plan that had us walk in the side of Madison Square Garden at 830 and out of the building by 845. Wow. All right. Out the side building.

Every one of the boys got worked in the back. Every single person on camera, every single person that was on commentary, people legitimately hated me for it. I got booked to do a job and it was a reuniting. That's what it was. That's why it trended number one because Enzo and Cass just got back together. and for the first time in two years, you see it. And, you know, we never got sawed a picture together at, you know,

we were hanging out for months trying to get cast upright on his feet, clean, sober living. And we were working towards that goal behind closed doors and curtains, trying to get him in a position and me in a position to make this monumental comeback and do this good business. And unfortunately, you know, the plans went off the rails. due to, you know, you can put, you can point fingers in every direction. But for me, I got whatever, everything and more I wanted out of that moment. You don't do those things.

Listen, I was watching the match last night with Mankind and Sean Michaels. There's a point in the match where mankind gets shot into the buckle, reverses it. Sean runs into the second rope, gets onto the second rope to do a cross body, jump off of it, right? McFoldy just walks back to the other buckle. He's not there to catch him. So what does Sean do? He walks back over to Mick Foley, and they start shooting on each other hitting what looked like stiff shots.

Right. All the boys in the back are up off their ass. Like, oh, shit. You know what I mean? Yeah. They plan that out in the back before the men. No way. Let me pretend to blow a spot so that we work the boys.

That's the level of thinking I'm on them, not even thinking about the, fucking fans at all because I know if you fool Vince if you fool the boys if you fool then you fool the world then you fool Dave Meltzer no problem you understand I got you so that was a reuniting that was booked by two guys that that came in collaborated on a plan and to me that you know had it not been for cast you know having hiccups thereafter and dealing with those nuances of life, I could have really sat back and enjoyed that as the greatest moment of my career.

I mean, this is our hour. Do you want to answer one more question before we wrap things up? Yeah. Okay. Well, this is actually just a nice comment from somebody you'll appreciate. Angel Rojas. Anzo, what's up? I still got that bandana you gave me with your grandmother's lips.

When I met you, you gave it to me off your leg. Much love. Do you remember that? was that in new york city i don't know this is angel rojas oh man i think so man you know i i i have a thing you know where i when i meet fans if i don't have something on me you know what i mean like i'll just give them the shoes off my feet no way i mean i did uh i literally man i did a charity last year for a shoe drive in Philadelphia with suplex Philadelphia, a sneaker store, shop them out. And on that suplex Philadelphia thing, I ended up at the boys and girls club

at the end of it, giving out these shoes. And right as I'm walking out the door, man, this kid stops me. He's like, hey, man, like those shoes on your feet. He was like eight or nine, you know. I'm like, looking at my feet, bro, and it's Christmas time. So I got like these these, these Christmas sneakers that have Santa Claus all over them. They're so cool. And I wore them in New Jersey at the Prudential Center when we had Raw there one night. Like, God, damn. I took them off and I drove home from Philadelphia to New Jersey, barefooted, you know.

Oh, my God. But he was with his brother. So I gave him one shoe and I gave the other one. I was going to have to share this. And I had already lost my Yeezies that day that I had in my car that were just in my car, because a shit had hit me on the way out. He was like, hey, bro, you got to. any more shoes i didn't get any i'm like let me see if i got some in my car man easies and i was like

fuck here you go kid you know thank you like dude i have hundreds of pairs of shoes and by the time i was done wrestling bro i was throwing one in one side of the aisle or one of the other because i didn't want to see him pop up on e-bay jeez thank you for being the realist guy it's not just a gimmick but thank you for being as real as you are got to be ma'am i don't understand uh you know How you can be any other way, man? See, it's easy. Actually, I do. It's easy.

It's easy to lie. It's easy to lie. But if you ask people about me backstage or in the past, you know, I got a lot of heat for the person I was on stage with that microphone. Now, you've got to remember, when we're in NXT, I had to do promos two, three days a week. If not once a week guaranteed. to other people that I work with in front of no fans just like WrestleMania

okay and no one ever saw those promos but you want to talk about burying people I buried every motherfucker I mean bro me and big cast would go last in promo class and wait for everybody else to be done so that we can do our promo

based on theirs. No. Oh, wow. And we went last every week. Dusty Rhodes was my mentor, and he loved it. And that's what I lived for, was doing those things. I got a lot of heat for that shit. I got a lot of people to genuinely dislike me because of the things I was saying.

You know what I mean? If you're a dude with bitch tits and I'd straight up go, you know, you got a little fucking, you know, a little heavy nipple hanging out of it. I can see the bitch in your heart. You know what I mean? You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, you just calling people out, and everybody in a room turns and looks at him, and they see that heavy nipple hanging out of his shirt or over his fucking, you know,

bra strap, and you're like, oh, shit, everybody in the room laughs. That guy hates you for life. All right. All right. All right. I was a roast comedian who got under people's skin in promo class on the microphone on television. But if you, if you ask Dash and Dawson about working Enzoa Moray, you ask Calisto, you asked Cedric Alexander.

One of the easiest guys you can ever work in pro wrestling. Ask your boy, Brian Thelman, Jr. I will. You have nothing but great things to say about you. When I get in that ring, I love to have a good time, and I have no problem laying down for anybody, given whatever business I do on the microphone back tenfold. I think people need to remember that this is pro wrestling,

and it's not real life, okay? Right. I'm cutting promos, and I can make you think this is real in Madison Square Garden. If I can cut a promo talking about Tama on the internet and brew up a river of shit, you know, you got to remember. Like, damn, boy, I'm good at this shit. You are, and this has been fun. This has been a fun hour hanging out with you, the quarantine Q&A.

As we wrap things up, what do you want to plug? What do you want to tell people about? Triller, how you doing, podcast, coming at you soon. Whenever I get to L.A. again,

it'll be in studio. I'll be moving to L.A. as soon as you get out there, too. This is, to see, things line up for a reason. You know, I got a wrestling show

at the comedy store. Okay? Now, if the world loves comedy, which I know they do, and they love roast comedians, and they ever laughed at one line I used on television, I assure you,

The card that I put together with the store horseman, Tony Hinchcliff and Chris Burns and Matt Edgar, and these guys at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles, California, the first ever wrestling ring in a fucking comedy store. That's crazy. I don't think people understand the history of this place. You're talking about every comedian that you ever watched and loved, every sitcom actor that you ever watched in love.

This is where they had to learn the ropes of comedy. Joe Rogan talks about it all the time on his podcast. Joe Rogan has a stake in the comedy story. He owns it. So I had to get the okay from Joe Rogan to put a wrestling ring in the comedy store. Oh, no. Yes, this is real life. So me and Brian Pilvin, Jr., you know, young buck, you know, that was the second stab.

He took up the pie, but, you know, he walked away with nothing that day. You know, he took a third stab at it in Qatar for QPW that fights on Fight TV. you know, he did hit me with a one hit or quitter, but I popped back up as resilient as I am. You know, I'm as quick as cat in the fast, the feline, and I in line, all right. So, you know, we got wrestling show at the world famous comedy store. Whenever we launched that second one, please just pay attention to, you know, social media by following me at Real One, real one on YouTube, get ready for the launch of more content as we're all under quarantine. You know, my people at the podcast recently hit me up.

We'll be working in collaboration with the world famous comedy store. People like Tony Hinchcliff and, you know, Triller. And there's exciting prospects of becoming a superhero in the near future for myself as well. And if you know me, that is Spider-Man, Spider-Man. You know what I'm saying? Okay. I am thrilled at the prospect of getting back into. live action on screen, but not having to break my back.

You know, so will you ever see me wrestle again? I'll answer that question now. I have no fucking idea. You know, if Pilbore Jr. calls me up because he's got some hot shop promoter on the other side of the world. And nobody's in quarantine. I say, brother, I got a good payday, you know, great opportunity to meet some new kids and inspire some people. You've got to remember when you go to Katois. there has never been a pro wrestler from Qatar.

So if you offer me an opportunity, you have to phrase it correctly, I am the realest guy in the room. If you tell me I have an opportunity to get in a wrestling ring and meet a bunch of children that are one of those people in that crowd is going to be the first wrestler from Qatar. Why? Because of that wrestling show that was put on that day.

And if I get an opportunity to do that and getting the ring with the likes of a rookie of the year who uh you know uh can learn from a grizzled young veteran like myself i'm always gang thank you again for joining us hope you stay well be well be healthy anzo uh i appreciate your time i know everybody else that's watching this appreciates it as well yeah how did you see all them comments and things i have them up on my screen you don't have them on your screen man i'm on the phone bro that's great dude i don't fucking see me i haven't seen a single comment i've been i've been picking them and putting them on the screen but there's been hundreds of them so we'll have to do this again sometime we'll do it on your

podcast bad ass man i would love to thank you so much brother take it easy dog be well thank you well thank you well there it is my friend thanks for joining me and enzo for that live q and a this was one of six q and a's that we did we also did them with kelly kelly kelly which has already been uploaded here rye back zicki dice lillian garcia and Ken Shamrock. All of those will be uploaded here on the podcast at some point over the next week or so. I just didn't want to dump them all out at the same time because then you wouldn't listen to them. So we spread them out, you know, then you actually have a chance to listen to them and to catch up. And we're still doing the interviews at least once a week.

Yes, they're virtual interviews right now because, you know, how else can we do these interviews with all the measures that are in place? But they're virtual interviews. But yes, the interviews do not stop because wrestling. does not stop. And with that said, can you believe WrestleMania starts tonight?

Yeah, crazy, right? It just doesn't feel like WrestleMania season. There was, you know, the buildup just isn't there with the empty arena shows. But I'm glad it's continuing. I know there, you know,

I know the people sit on either side of the aisle with this opinion, but I'm glad it's continuing. It's the tiny little glimmer of normalness in our lives while everything else in the world is being canceled. I was actually supposed to be in Tampa right now,

doing some interviews, doing some stuff at RussellCon, as well as ring announcing for Ethan Page's Body Guy extravaganza show and hosting at Sammy Callahan's Pancakes and Pile Drivers. Obviously, none of that's happening. But this is going to go down in history, not just this WrestleMania, but just this time in general is going to go down in history. And as Bob Goff says, embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title. Until much later.

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