Podcast: The Ride - Wrestling Restaurants with Matt Cardona

Episode Date: February 18, 2022

Celebruary continues! Matt Cardona (Major Wrestling Figure Podcast, Deathmatch King) joins us to discuss WWF New York in Times Square. Plus, WCW Nitro Grill, Hulk Hogan's Pastamania and more! Fashion Cafe episode up at The Second Gate: Patreon.com/PodcastTheRide Listen to Podcast: The Ride Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus: http://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plus FOLLOW PODCAST: THE RIDE: https://twitter.com/PodcastTheRide https://www.instagram.com/podcasttheride BUY PODCAST: THE RIDE MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/podcast-the-ride PODCAST THE RIDE IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/podcast-the-ride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Forever Dog. rings. All items are seasoned with moonsault. That's a spice that gives the food a super kick. Matt Cardona joins us to talk pro wrestling themed restaurants on today's celebratory edition of podcast The Ride Presents Celebruary, a podcast that believes a meal is not deemed great by the ingredients, but by how embarrassing the name is to say to a waiter my name is michael carlson joining me as always jason sheridan uh that's right yeah either either how embarrassing or how regular it is those are the two options you mean like just saying hamburger like a like just yeah without a fun name because i'm talking about like rooty tooty fresh and fruity which is a great meal but it's a very embarrassing thing to say out loud to uh what are the wait staff yeah yeah it's it's

different than just saying all of the chicken sandwich versus all of the broken finger sandwich yeah that's a good point uh scott gerdner how do you feel on this topic well i mean what i feel that you you led exactly to what i was thinking at the top which is sometimes we talk for a while at the beginning and i was worried this time like boy if we do a lot of interest stuff we're not going to be able to read every single item on the menu of the wcw nitro grill yeah that's basically if there's an attraction obviously our guest is a big part of this attraction but also just reading the names on these menus is so exciting to us and it's going to be something that everyone should be excited about let's bring him in because we don't have a second to waste here uh this guy is a multi multi hyphenate he's a michael jordan of action figure collecting he's the death match king

he hosts the major wrestling figure podcast the major land podcast which is about theme parks you can see him wrestling gcwnwa impact wrestling he also sounds a lot like a ghost boy that haunts the american dream mall in new jersey and he's a very good friend of podcast the ride it's matt cardona folks what an intro thank you very much it's actually the michael jordan of wrestling puke oh i shoot i thought i had such... I was like, this is the best intro I've ever written, and now I screwed up. It was good. It was good. It just wasn't great.

Shit. It wasn't great. I know that. I listened to that podcast. Got up your game. I'm going to edit it out to make myself look smarter. Well, thanks for having me back on, guys. Of course.

Thank you for doing this. Before we start, real quick, there's a couple things I have to address. I just want to congratulate you on the release of a fantastic action figure. Oh, nice. Oh oh look at that i know uh this is an audio podcast only but of course we'll show a picture though oh okay where where does this go this doesn't go anywhere right does it go on your patreon the the video no video nobody gets it yeah we might do that though bare minimum okay he's holding up my my super seven matt cardona figure. That's right. I believe those are Michelangelo nunchucks.

Okay. Yeah. So these are the same scale as the Ninja Turtles made by Super 7. So your hand perfectly holds a nunchuck and many of the Ninja Turtles weapons, which is very exciting to me. And I have you displayed being interviewed by April O'Neil. I like that. Now, are you going to get the Disney Super 7s, which are also in the same universe? So I'm in the same universe as Donatello, Mickey Mouse, now Bart Simpson. I'm living my dream. Robin Hood. There's all sorts of hijinks you're going to be able to get up to on my display shelf. It's very exciting. I'm a little

scared. Am I going to make you fall in love with someone? Maybe. I'm already in love. I have a wife. I understand you have a great wife. That's true. And you're about to have a Pinocchio little puppet boy son. You're about to have a

fully articulated Super 7 Pinocchio. puppet boy son You're about to have a Fully articulated Super 7 Pinocchio I'm gonna have Matt and Pinocchio holding hands Doing something Cute I don't know what it is yet Yeah he's the first wave he's coming out in the first wave Does he have like interchangeable nose He has different heads

Multiple lengths You know what that's great I like that Yeah so say hello to your new son Pinocchio I don't like the equating of sons and pinocchio i'm against this either you gotta it's church and state it's too creepy we've talked about podcast the right toys and i now it feels like we need to get the same super seven scale if we ever land on like what type of toys so we can have scott holding hands with pinocchio as well no maybe a variant where scott is dressed as peter pan i don't know you guys aren't all action figure guys right just

mike i'm the only figure guy yeah but scott's got a lot of like collect i got a couple back there but it's nothing in comparison i have every iteration of rex that exists between the uh he's got the kids as you see he's got the contemporary behind him yeah that's true it's all like it's a it's a spare amount of disney related stuff yeah yeah wow no it's not trash i've been meaning to uh to to donate i see it to a wreckage yard uh yeah no it's a it's the awesome hotel you know it it's the cool and it lights up from the inside you can send a monorail through it it's my pride and joy but it's not an action figure so have you ever stayed at the contemporary never stayed no no it's it's not the best to stay in i don't think

it's very not disney you know i mean you can walk to the magic kingdom it has california grill but other than that there's this i want some some Disney theming if I'm at the hotels, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I agree. In a lot of those 70s hotels, you can feel the size. You can feel like,

boy, this is a little box. It might be a little like depressing to be here for a whole week. But then on the other hand, you get a lot of Disney theming at those like art of animation. Yes.

But I, to me, I'm like, oh, this is too much. I don't want, I'm sick of looking at this giant tramp. I've passed by this all week i want like the all-star movies you can swim in that outdated as fuck mighty ducks pool is that what they have there whoa yeah it's great of the team

or of the uh it must be of the team i guess or the movie it's got to be like the movie or maybe the cartoon either or it's outdated yeah yes none of this is around now yeah you're right right oh weird i mean that's where i go next time like right mix of it um but a real quick too i just want to mention how if the audience doesn't know how dedicated to theme parks you are matt you wrestled and i for the people who don't know you wrestle what is called a death match That's right I am the death match king You're the death match king you wrestled one And then you immediately became the king That's right and then I retired from death match wrestling

Which is perfect Honestly that's the way to do it Because I watched the match It stressed me out it was great But it stressed me out and if people don't know It's a violent match it's a little gory But you wrestled I believe on the east coast And immediately within hours You were on the west coast me on if people don't know it's a violent match it's a little gory uh but you wrestle i believe on the east coast and immediately within hours you were on the west coast at universal studios

that's really in banged up so you were like there's no way i'm canceling my trip absolutely not yeah no i flew cross country did not sleep uh at these shows, there's no real doctor. So I used the term loosely, a nurse stitched me up, barely cleaned me off. There were no bandages. I took a shower. I then taped towels to my back and arm. Because you were bleeding. Because I was bleeding. The blood would not stop.

The blood would not stop. Yes. But I had to make it to my Disneyland and Universal trip that I had planned. Yeah, this is dedication. The plan was I'll just fly there. I'll find like a gym, like an LA Fitness, use their shower, and then I'll go to Universal. But I could not move. I was still bleeding.

I said, I cannot. Hey, I cannot work out. I can't go to a gym. I need to find some sort of hotel and clean myself off. So I checked into that Universal Studios Hotel, which is is pretty expensive but i needed to be like right there um and i took a shower and i listen i try to be cautious i put towels over the comforter to take a nap i needed a little nap and i just bled out all the way through to the uh not quite the mattress but the mattress cover all the way through this yeah this is

insane it was pretty gory uh my fiancee met me she cleaned me up bandaged me up went to universal did all the rides then went to disneyland did all the right and it hurt it hurt doing these imagine the matahorn riding the matahorn with no injury yeah but you have to do it right everything bumps you around a time but you know i i held held up that GCW world title in front of the castle at Disneyland. It's an iconic photo. It had to be done. It had to be done. I mean, this is kind of a rite of passage.

If you go to Atlantic City, there's always a chance that that could happen. So you just kind of guaranteed uh uh that that happened right and i'm sure this this podcast is gonna be a couple week delay so i don't want to spoil anything and i don't want to predict the future but if i win the nwa world's heavyweight title this weekend i'm going right to france right to disneyland paris and i will take a picture of the me and the title in front of the castle wow hell yeah Hell yeah. Hell yeah. That is awesome. But if I lose, then this means nothing.

That's okay. It's a false promise. That's fair. But the intention is clear. That's right. So anytime, I mean, anytime you're holding a title

and you have a theme park trip, you were going to take a picture with the belt in front of the, what they call the weenie. The weenie? The weenie is what they call like the icon of the park that's a i didn't this is an insider i hate this phrase i hate uh anytime weenie comes up that's the lamest term like it's not just the castle but like spaceship earth or the chinese theater anything it's like the icon of the park it draws you down to the center of the park you know like a weenie like for jason a big hot dog

weenie would get him would pull him from wherever he is the first time i'm ever hearing this term now listen i know you guys are above me on the theme park psychoness but i'm pretty up there i've never heard the term weenie yeah i it was new i jason's the one who i think told me about it told us about it maybe not long ago maybe not long ago i feel like i probably just like what's the spell it's uh w-e-e-n-i-e like like weenie like uh yeah you know like weenie i have no idea too we i wish i should look into like the history like where does this come from who came up with this you know so hold on let's backtrack for a second you think the chinese theater is the weenie over tower of terror oh i will when it opened yeah maybe it's

not so much anymore but um but you see it i mean most of it usually it's like when you walk in you see it like straight away or yeah that's that's generally what it means but obviously spaceship earth is the front of the park right not the back like the other so the big tree at animal kingdom is the weenie the big tree is the weenie so you're getting used to it like it seems like you're taken to this weenie term better than me what's the weenie what's the weenie i didn't have one i think now it's the carthay circle restaurant but that's it's not the strong i guess it's not the strongest park in a weenie sense. Yeah, I don't know if there's a weenie there.

Maybe not. There's not a Ferris wheel? There's Ferris wheel, okay, yeah. That breaks your rules of it being as soon as you walk in the park. Yeah, right, exactly. That's true. I would say California Adventure has not one big weenie, but a few little weenies.

Okay. That's what I would say., but a few little weenies. Okay. That's what I would say. Yeah. They have little weenies. But they used to just have that tin can sun, which was truly not a weenie. So they got better. They're upping their weenie game. Yeah.

So yeah, feel free to use that. What a chat. If you want to call Chelsea right now and tell her about it, your wife. She does not care. She does not care at all. So much so that our podcast Majorland about theme parks has been canceled because she doesn't care enough. Oh, wow. It's done.

It's at a hiatus, if you will. Okay, yeah. It'll come back. If she hears about the term, though, she might be more intrigued. That's possible, yeah. That's really interesting so good who oh who are the cool guys that told you about it yeah wow unbelievable we're not talking about no we're not we're talking about other themed things but we're talking about you know it's kind of a grab bag episode of uh professional wrestling restaurants some owned

by companies some owned by you know specific wrestlers um and we wanted to have you want to get your take on this because you obviously you are a professional wrestler uh you've worked everywhere and you also shared with me that you have a person you went as a young man to WWF New York. I did. And without getting too much into it right now, before we really start, it didn't live up to the hype. It sucked. It was disappointment.

So I wish it was still there. Of course, I still go there, even though it's not there. It's a hard rock. But, you know, when I proposed to Chelsea Green,

he said, well, we got to go to New York to celebrate. And we went to the hard rock. So know when i proposed to chelsea green said well we got to go to new york to celebrate and we went to the hard rock so you're still calling it that yeah even though it's a hard rock because it looks identical inside right they didn't do much to it so yeah so if the audience doesn't know uh wwf when it was the wwf they they made a time square restaurant it was a club it was an arcade i believe there was an arcade in the basement or was it up in the main level so the main level was kind of like wb shop

dot com like some merch right you know so that was pretty cool but then you went down these stairs and it was this is when the theme restaurants were huge in new york city and i love that i'm in i'm in junior high um you know trading in my dad's beer cans and my soda cans to get money to take the train to sneak into the city. And I'm going to all these restaurants, and I'm like, you know, barely have enough money to get a hamburger. But I'm getting the shot glass for my collection. You know what I'm saying? Like Planet Hollywood, All-Star Cafe, WF New York. It's like, oh, my God.

So it was awesome in that sense when you got there um you know you go to you go to Planet Hollywood you see all the outfits you know of all your favorite movie stars you go to like Hard Rock Cafe and it's like you know all the musicians and stuff like that they went to WF New York you thought you think you'd see like Hogan's gear like on the wall like Gobbledygooker likes his outfit on the wall but it wasn't really like that uh the theming was horrible yeah because i remember watching it on tickets on tv they would always cut to it if you were watching raw or sunday night heat and it looked like the only thing that would be cool is that they would have like superstars there but you

never saw that on the wall yeah there was like nothing on the wall um once you're you know obviously when you're in the merchandise store the gift shop if you will you can tell okay this is wwf themed once you went downstairs not really a couple things here and there but it wasn't like i bet if they did it today they would know how to do it they would do it right like if you you ever go to their fan access, they dominate that. So I'm sure if they did it today, it would be awesome. But back then, not really. Well, hang on.

I heard that they had black walls and a chain link fence. That sounds like pretty good theming to me. There you go. That's all you need. Yeah. So when you were a young man and you went like you remember going like boy this is not nearly as good a play as planet hollywood oh i was so bummed out the first time i went so bummed out um and i didn't keep going back

because it was there for a while uh i had my ninth grade birthday there um oh yeah and uh i now this is a weird story so i think i told you mike that i had chris jericho on my cake and then you asked me like did my parents like bring in the cake or was the cake there and then like i got to thinking is this a story that i've just told so many times where i think there was a jericho cake and there really wasn't because you can't like look up like did they sell cakes i tried right right like in my mind we ordered a chris jericho cake but now that i'm thinking about it maybe it's just like you know my imagination and i've told it enough times that i believe it to be true

they probably had a cake yeah was it like with the photo of chris it wasn't shaped like chris just a just a photo of chris jericho like one of those like a carvel i don't know if you guys have carvel in la but something like that well maybe it was that maybe your parents like went to a separate location and maybe it was no no no we took the train in from from long island we went and i we got the i feel like i definitely had chris jericho my cake because i know for a fact uh we bought Chris Jericho his first WWF action figure in the gift shop. That was my gift. Wow. So maybe those memories

have bled together over the years. That's what I'm thinking. Or, hey, listen, if someone's out there and has proved that there were cakes there, if my mom's listening and she sees a picture, you know, on her Kodak, who knows? Wow. In your memory, was it like somebody had drawn a picture of him on the cake

or was it one of those like an eight by ten like one of those like screen things yeah like a screen thing yeah because i remember being excited as a kid when it would be like my mom would never like do that because it was a little more expensive right because i would be like you can get i can pull a picture out of a magazine and we can put it on the cake like any picture like right and my entertainment weekly there's a picture of uh batman forever like we could do that and it was like well it was like probably 12 to 15 dollars more so it was like right we can just get the icing we'll write batman forever on the sure sure do it today you could do it i think you got it i think we got an idea for your birthday this year you know what jason found that that certain mcdonald's will sell you a sheet cake really

jason yeah yeah discover this jason texted me like it was i feel like it was late i feel like it was like one in the morning and he was like did you know mcdonald's certain mcdonald's will sell you like a birthday sheet cake and we can't I don't know how to tell which one which ones will yeah the art it was just one of those like listicle things of like things you might not know about McDonald's and it was like the bigger locations or the busier locations

maybe ones that have play places because they would do a lot of birthday parties have sheet cakes I'm sure you have to order them ahead of time but and it was also like nine or ten dollars it was an inexpensive cake too yeah it's like a cheap they'll sell and mcdonald's will sell you a cheap cake in certain locations so that's what i'm gunning for for my birthday that is coming up in a few weeks you want a mcdonald's cake specifically just to know

i want a nine dollar a nine dollar mc9 McDonald's cake. You should make all your friends go in on it so that everybody only pays like 30 cents. Oh, yeah. I don't want to pay for that. Let's make Matt chip in, even though you won't be there in person. We're going to Venmo request you for 30 cents. Okay.

I think you should say each friend, don't get any gifts. Just bring me a McDonald's sheet cake. So then you're stuck with a room full of them. Then the clock is ticking and you have to deal with a room full of sheet cakes. And then, of course, you're just setting this up so you take most of them home. I don't know what you're talking about, Michael. Yeah, so let's throw it to the listeners. I mean, there's a lot of like anyone who listens

to this podcast i would assume or most of them are in this in the zone where they would have been really excited about wwf new york or planet hollywood so there's got to be somebody else who had a birthday out there and if they had a birthday they obviously like they would have to have some kind of cake so maybe maybe we can find out the answer did they do character cakes at wwf but when you look at the menu here's the thing though that makes me think maybe no is when you look at the menu it doesn't look like it's very much fun the names are not much horrible no horrible names now matt do you agree with us that if it's going to be a theme place it has to have fun names 100 absolutely

yeah because because um let me pull this like even the body slam burger just something just add something to it it's pretty easy it's yeah it doesn't take any extra time and this is and we want to be employed naming shit like this there's a full-time job yeah yeah oh wait now i remember well yeah you feel free to read some boring ones but there's one that i like on here yeah no there's a there's there's a couple that at least suggest something. But, like, here, this is barbecue spare ribs. At WWF New York. Yeah, wild mushroom risotto.

Like, this is herb-roasted half chicken. Give us a fucking wrestler name. Come on. Like, it's crazy that they wouldn't do this because then as we've we've figured out a lot we talked a lot about these restaurants in the past they'll do one or two which is what's the confusing thing right so like it's got i don't know if you're talking about the desserts where we finally get something fun which is the people's sunday which the rock was the people's champion i like the

people's sunday and i like that it is it's a just a regular long description of what's in the sunday but then at the end that it is what about as well right yes scott you're right it says pinned with a cherry so you get a little fun thing with love that that's great rings of saturn though i think is weird that is a themed name but like it is that does that have anything to do with is that a wrestling reference yes perry saturn and his finishing move was called the rings of saturn yes okay so i do have a funny perry saturn wf new york story i would love i i'm a big saturn fan i was not there for this but i was a part of this okay so my friend's older brother was old enough so after if there was a wf event

let's say mass square garden there would be some sort of after party at wf new york where like the wrestlers would go stuff like that but i was not of age to go to these parties right because they had like a nightclub whatever you want to call it so one of my friends older brothers went and i'm not saying he stole perry saturn's cell cell phone, but Perry Saturn dropped his cell phone. Okay. Okay. Got it. So he picked it up and I'm not saying he just did not return it.

Right. Wow. So when, you know, he got home, he opened the phone, obviously, and has every wrestler's phone number in there. Wow. So like it was was this is like before we all had like computers and text messaging so he like wrote it out on pieces of paper and he would sell people the phone numbers you know whoa so then some of us we would take like obviously when you're calling like most of the time someone wouldn't pick up but we would put our phones

together so we would get their voicemail and make it our voicemail like yo this is triple h leave a message stuff like that wow and then we called uh taz from my friends like parents house and task like we prank called him like like uh you know he picked up we said something hung up he called back he must have star 69 us and he scared the out of us like screaming at us threatening us like we ran out of the house we were so scared you ran out you ran out of your own house what was my friend's house but yeah ran out of his house because you thought he was like coming he was coming yeah that's great not come he did not but it worked i mean he's an intimidating guy but like crazy for instance if i if i lost my now i have it passcode protected, obviously. But if my phone dropped out at a park,

fell off a ride, and it didn't chatter, and someone picked it up, they could have Vince McMahon's phone number. They could have... Dolph Ziggler, The Miz, John Morrison, you name it. John Cena, it's in the phone. It's crazy. That is crazy.

You have to put secret names to really protect it fully. Yeah. Let me ask though. Does that mean you could either you either have or you could get Chris Jericho's number and text like, hey, man, weird question. Do you remember the cake situation? I could text him him i don't think he would know the answer did you ever pose specifically for a cake photo

everybody every superstar at the time had to pose it on a day for a cake we're doing your cake vince is directing the cake shoot this Just look at this menu. Horrible. Like right away, this is not, you only have one chance to make a first impression. And as a young kid coming to New York, so excited. I opened this menu. First of all, look at the pricing for me. I'm looking at the hamburger. I definitely got a kid's menu because I remember getting the burger. I must have ordered the kid's menu in like eighth or ninth grade.

There's no way I was afforded that New York strip filet mignon. There's no way. Yeah. You'd have to order, order yeah like a kid's meal yeah i like that the kid's meal has a fruit roll up with it that's a good kid's side yeah that is funny that is like that's as good like i guess it's better than a happy meal but it really feels like it does feel it feels fun but also feels cheap as hell right like we just bought we just went out to the the kroger or wherever it was in new york we went out to the cvs uh yeah and bought a box of fruit roll-ups and we'll just throw it on a kid's plate who they don't give a shit they came here for to think that they were gonna meet

a wrestler uh and then they okay they're selling a freezer mug is that something you bought at the time i did not buy the freezer mug uh before we recorded this, I did steal, when I was there, the bar menu. And I was going to bring it and show it to you guys, but I can't find it. I still have it all these years later. Oh, wow. I thought that was cool. But I don't recall them being any cool drinks on there either. Yeah, I did see that too.

And it didn't feel like there was anything remarkable. I mean, it feels like the only thing that was cool was if you went on the right sunday they were doing something they were shooting something live and you could get it there and they did like events they did they did events there for instance the the finale that tough enough right was there where maven is crowned the tough enough season one winner maven good friend of mine uh we're actually as ridiculous as it sounds we're gonna the major rest of your podcast we're gonna have like a party in new york city in time square this upcoming may and we're gonna like maven as the uh like the guest of the night to celebrate the 20 years of him winning tough enough in time square obviously i'd love

to do it at dmf new york uh but's not there, and Hard Rock would be way too expensive. We'll probably do it at some no-name shitty bar off one of the side streets. But still, you get the idea. Yeah. Did you ever even just ask, like, how much would it be at Hard Rock? No.

The stage is there, right? Oh, yeah. There's no way we could afford something like that. No way. Yeah. Well, yeah, that's still really fun, regardless of the venue but maybe hard rock would want to be involved you know now you never know and at one point later on when it was still

you know they changed the name to like the world yeah but it was still wwe uh at one point there was a toys r us across the street in time square so if you're a big nerd like me it was like a dream to go into times square bounce back and forth between wf new york whatever it's called the time the world get some figures at toys r us uh it was incredible it's an incredible time to be a wrestling fan what a great day did you remember crazy sorry is that that crazy toys r us with the ferris wheel and all that that was right to man wow that's yes i met uh i met hulk hogan there and i i I cut class in 11th grade to meet Hulk Hogan there. And you know, in New York that day, or WWE, whatever it was called that day.

Wow. Can I ask, did you go to the Mars restaurant? I did. And there was an, bro, that was my thing, was to do all the theme restaurants. The Mars was ahead of its time, had one of those like elevators, almost like Sk Skipping Gringotts. You know what I'm saying? Like you're going out, you know, it was like a fake elevator. Right. Did you like take friends there and were you like, this shit is cool? And they were like

this is the weirdest, like... No, my friends were kind of into it. We would always pick, we would like take the train to the city, go to Chinatown get some like bootleg VHS's some bootleg Oakley sunglasses, you know stuff like that and then and then go to times square and walk around and always always pick a theme restaurant you know

whether it be the world or all-star cafe what else was there anything you know planet hollywood wow all-star cafe yeah what was all-star cafe like that came up a little bit last week but i don't really know what it was like inside or like what It was more of like a sports kind of setting. Would they have somebody's Ken Griffey's bat or whatever? Yeah, stuff like that, I believe. Okay. So would you rank WWF New York the lowest of all those places you would go? I would have to.

100%. I would have to. That's such a bummer. Just because of how cool it could have been. Right. Right? And even back then, though, they didn't take their uh their history their nostalgia they didn't like you know they didn't take it seriously really they you know it wasn't until the early 2000s where they really

uh you know paid homage to the legends and the classic superstars if you will in the history like now they can do so many fun things like imagine like what they could do now like just take some of the things they use at wrestlemania access the big fan fest and just yeah pop it up at a restaurant they yeah that i'm trying to think like right a little bit after this even closed i forget what wrestlemania in chicago i went to was 22 or something and they had you could call a match there yeah it was still low it was still smallish but you could tell i was figuring it out like what people might want. Let me real... Now, this, I would say, like, compared to...

And none of us went to the Nitro Grill in Las Vegas, but Nitro Grill seems like it's actually got the right idea here. But let me show a couple clips here from New York real quick that I do like. When did this close, by the way this opened like 99 was opening and when was it done uh it closed in uh april of 2003 okay oh geez that's a pretty short run but you fit in a few visits uh oh i did for sure wow um okay so this is they would do like fun this is one of my favorite uh i remember this i remember watching this live. This is just to describe what it is. There's a claw machine. So they seem to have a pretty good arcade.

Okay. I will say. I don't recall the arcade. Arcades are big in New York City. They probably did have one. I mean, obviously they did. I'm looking at it right here. Yeah, it's a pretty big arcade.

They're doing a little sketch. We'll post a clip of this. But Kane, the wrestler, is very tall, very scary with the mask on. He tries to win a claw machine for a little sketch. We'll post a clip of this. But Kane, the wrestler, is very tall, very scary with the mask on. He tries to win a claw machine for a little boy. And claw machines are very hard. I have one friend named Jeff who is an expert at a claw machine and no one else I know

is... He gets it every time. It's unbelievable. I don't know how he does it. Kane did not get it. Kane did not get it. So he's looking around and he breaks the glass. Jesus Christ! Puts his fist through the glass, picks out a bunch of the toys, and then starts throwing it, which is just real fun. And he gives the kid all the toys.

Very dangerous. I mean, he just, like, the glass could have hit the kid in the head, let's be honest. But it was the 90s. Or mean, he just like, the glass could have hit the kid in the head, let's be honest, but it was the 90s, or no, it was 2001, which is basically the 90s. Here's another quick clip I'd like to post here. They're just, this is sort of, they were showing clips of

it during Monday Night Raw. It's Terry! Terry and W.W. Reynolds is showing up. There you see the mayor of New York City. Matt Rudolph, W.W. Giuliani. There he is. The man of the day. W.W. New York. and then you know jerry luller's getting a little horny for mayor rudy's rudy giuliani's fiance so the mayor partied at WWF New York. Hell yeah. Wow.

The eventual star of the Masked Singer himself. Yeah, that's true. I really think Rudy should have

gotten a little bit more involved in the company and shown up at WrestleManias and Royal Rumbles. Now I think he'd be a great

manager for any of the companies. Jesus. Some people might think he was a little too over the top in how he comes off maybe um but i don't know he's a great actor as we saw in that sketch where he's in drag with trump he he he commits to personas i'm excited to see the mask that he's in and yeah how well he wears that character i think he's a fine performer he stole the show in borat too he's an excellent how well he wears that character. I think he's a fine performer. He stole the show in Borat too. It's an excellent performance in Borat. So yeah, so a lot

of stuff was going on there, but unfortunately, they're going to have to do something different. There's talk about a Hall of Fame in Orlando that's never happened. They're going to have to do something that's really on the level that we're imagining as far as showcasing the history like i think the

the restaurant just came a little too late you know you say it opens in 99 it's like almost the tail end of the attitude area but how could you open a restaurant as soon as things get hot of course it needs to be some planning that gets involved yeah and then that attitude era that that late 97 depending on when you consider the attitude era ending, like early 2001, it quickly dies. And everyone just trades in their DX and NWO shirts and doesn't like wrestling anymore. So who's going to this restaurant?

And you got to assume the rent for that place is astronomical. Yes. It's got to be. Millions and millions. Part of Times Square. I'm looking at literally a copy pastpasted thing that says exactly that. The rent is astronomical.

I don't know where I got this from, but something pointed out that nobody makes money in Times Square to the point where no business can actually be successful there. We've talked about this with CityWalk, how a lot of places, it's just like to have a big ad for your company for places where it actually makes money. So, yeah, I think it did horribly, probably. Yeah was i was reading too there was uh there was uh the former manager of the location uh scammed wwe out of four hundred thousand dollars jesus uh and that was yeah he uh

got arrested for this and that he used the allegedly ill-gotten gains to buy himself a $160,000 speedboat. He stole money and used it on a speedboat? You almost can't be mad at that. Expensive speedboat. I don't know how much boats cost, but $160,000 seems like a lot for a speedboat. But that's just, I don't know, maybe what I'm talking about. Extra speedy, I hope. It's a very fast boat you can buy for $160,000. Mike, did you see that?

Oh, go ahead. I was just going to say, also, I don't know, Scott, if you saw this, and I couldn't find any footage or pictures to confirm this, but according to Wikipedia. We're probably going for the same thing, yeah. Prince played WWF New York. Prince did like an after show. He did a regular concert at a regular venue

and then showed up at the WWF New new york at midnight and played till two and you see that guest list that's insane alicia keys quest love george clinton larry graham and doug e fresh like not even the main concert this is just like i'm tossing this shit off who cares right this unbelievable there could have been like a uh farouk and bradshaw were doing a bit there like hours before right and then prince is jamming out with quest love which i mean that sounds great did you guys find information about chris angel the mind freak he kind of like had a residency there if you will wait really there oh yeah you guys didn't find that when it was called the world so it switches its name right

to the world because i think they just want people to come in you know they don't want people people are scared yeah or not that they're scared of wrestling they just don't give a shit at that time like the attitude there is over so they're not coming to see wb so they want oh i'll go to the world and they kind of get tricked into wb you know i'm saying but chris angel was like the face of that place like doing shows and like yeah whoa whoa no yeah yeah find that geez that baby did you see him there i did not i did not see them no were you into chris angel though at that time i was not i'm not not into chris angel i just wasn't into chris angel okay i'm saying we're uh we're kind of into chris angel and maybe we'll be increasingly as as

time goes on just as a little chris angel content coming to the podcast very soon oh incredible so we will we'll look into that more and do a follow-up too if we can find some more information about this wow yeah he did mind freak in 2001 uh two months after 9-11, it was an off-Broadway thing. And then he, like, yeah, that was, it was the beginning of it being, like, a legitimate theater that did other stuff besides wrestling. Wow, crazy. A theater in the round, it was, apparently. Wow. Geez, wow.

I mean, he likes his close-up magic. So, you're allowed, the intimacy is maybe the appeal of this place. I talked to my friend Tommy Blotcha, who was an Attitude Era writer, and he worked on... Like, he did shows at this venue, and he said the thing that he liked about it was the intimacy,

that it was like a different vibe than a big arena. But, you know, it does sound like the theming leaves something to be desired so that that overrides the other i'd say yeah they had another they had a place called wwf for wwe niagara falls as well yes i did not go to that and i was going to ask because you overlap with when that closed i think in the company but it doesn't so was that in canada or like in that

it was in like the states or canada part of niagara falls that i never quite understood because i i went there like from toronto i went there so i was i i ended up in like a like a gastropub kind of place that i didn't know at the time is the space that was the uh this niagara falls restaurant now that wasn't a was it a restaurant or just a like a like a merch store oh you're right yes it was not a restaurant it was yeah they did away with that component they did have a ride called the pile drive exactly they had a ride yes a drop a tower ride wwe ride i don't think it was as themed as the tower of terror more like a dr doom i would

say one of those dr doom style ones i don't think it was even as yeah yeah so you got the logo wwe logo at the top of it and then yes it says pile driver in some of the ugliest font yes pile huge driver much smaller why uh and then there's a picture of john cena and batista now think about this theming-wise, that like a scary ride, and then there's a picture of John Cena crossing his arms, or maybe you'll see like the rock around the corner looking mean at you. What does that tell you about the ride? Like you're going to, when you get up here,

maybe those guys will be there, and maybe they'll rough you up a little bit before you get on there, or maybe they'll be up at the top of the tower. They'll swing down and knock you in the head a few times. What's the story of this ride? Yeah. I don't know if there's any theming. I don't know if like you can get immersed.

You know, you definitely drop it to a gift shop. You have to. Right. Well, yeah, that's a good choice. Yeah. Yeah. He's starting to give shop to him. If you're doing a giant drop and it's called the pile driver and the pile driver is a move

that where the person takes the move on their head. That's the way a move goes. So it's like, even if it was like lightly themed and like they flipped the chairs over. What if the ride car was like Jerry Lawler with his legs spread and you were upside down and he gave you a pile driver? Well, no, that's a better idea than I had. Or it could be like a tombstone pile driver that's Undertaker themed.

Yeah, it's like a giant sort of like he's on the side of the vehicle basically. I would like that. And then he's like his arms are the restraints. Oh, there you go. See, now you're talking. Yeah, he's hugging everybody basically. Upside down. That's what I like to

think of the Undertaker's tombstone pilot is he's giving you an upside down hug uh so yeah there's all the they could have done something i mean look these ideas are much better obviously but i think they were struggling to even open the place i watched a video about it i think it was expedition theme park that said that they opened it it wasn't it was like wasn't working on opening day, like where they did the big press event and all the wrestlers came. So that was screwed. And then some safety board shut it down immediately.

Like there were just permits they forgot to get. So it was just sitting there not operating for a long time. And then this facility closed entirely, but they didn't have the money to demolish the ride. Or to take the sign off. So you'd look up, whoa, the pile driver and there would be no way to get to it or to do it just rusting away for several years man wow because there's so look there would be an undertaker ride of some kind would be incredible it's obviously got to be a dark ride like a haunted mansion style yes and it's got to go through that yeah it's got to go through the

history the like you know fantastic for so many years i've heard there was going to do there's gonna be some sort of collaboration at halloween horror nights uh whether it be like an undertaker or something there was an undertaker uh maze really yeah there's a video there's a video of it i can look it up real quick but they did do a little something. It's a while ago. But that's, yeah, I don't know why they didn't do more of that. Let me see there. Yeah. I mean, they have the partnership, right? So why not do something? Very close

partners. Yeah. Yeah. And Bray Wyatt would have been perfect, too. Yeah. Yeah. They've got enough. Yeah, that's true. Well, yeah, they could do the character i guess uh so off topic but kind of on topics as we're talking about theme restaurants and wrestling when you guys went to japan a couple years ago did you guys go to ribera steakhouse this is a no but i should have i know i know i've heard of this. Because this is, in my opinion,

the best wrestling restaurant, best wrestling theme restaurant. It's really not even supposed to be a theme restaurant. It's a restaurant that all the wrestlers go to have been going to for years. But it's now like a tourist destination spot. So it would be right up your alley. You would love it, Mike. Outside, you see these photos. uh you know it says ribera steakhouse is all like john cena is out in front you know and

then when you get inside it's just literally the ceiling as well wall to wall just old eight by tens pictures of the guys in ribera steakhouse and what the gimmick is or so i've been told i've been there a couple times when you go in they'll like adjust the photos to make sure your photos on the wall like if they know you're coming wow like if i'm coming to put my photo on and i leave they take it down you know like the guys like the icons stay out hogan undertake they're always up but a guy like me oh he's coming oh they heard through the grapevine I'm coming. They'll put me up. So when I come, oh, look, I'm on the wall.

But then when I leave, they take me up. That's good, though. Yeah. Hey, we're not getting pictures. Did you see that when you went? Did you see your photo when you were there? Oh, of course. Yeah.

Wow. Was it prominently, like, was it by where you were eating? No, I wouldn't say it was prominent, but it was there. It's a very small, intimate setting. It's incredible. And their big, I guess, souvenir, we prominent, but it was there. It's a very small, intimate setting. It's incredible. And their big, I guess, souvenir, we're all into souvenirs, right? It's the Ribera Steakhouse Jacket. Because if you read like old wrestling magazines, like the 80s and 90s,

everyone would be wearing this Ribera Steakhouse Jacket. So when I went for the first time, like, you know, I needed to get that Ribera Steakhouse Jacket. So luckily I've been there three different times i have three different jackets and of all the junk i have whether it be things i've collected or things of myself those are like my pride and joy i couldn't get rid of those things because like i have the jacket i have three of them yeah that's yeah i look that's one of those things i was like why didn't we go there here's here's some of the pictures of the jack different jackets

here's look at the look at the Undertaker with that jacket can I say I got to send you a picture of me I seen a world I think I don't know if punks in the picture but there's a picture of all this wearing the jacket yeah here's under here's Undertaker on the jacket yeah this by the way

is very i was picturing sort of like steakhouse like uh coat fancy coat style oh it's here oh here yeah whoa wait who else is in here jericho justin roberts uh that was my first time that's when i popped my uh my chariot ribera. Wow. It's like a rite of passage. It's such a rad shiny 80s feeling jacket. That's a jacket you would wear, Scott. Yeah, it's like the jacket I like

that Carl Wilson wore in the Beach Boys. I think those jackets are back in style. That satin jacket. Chalk line and nerds clothing all bringing it back oh look at this photo this is a casual understripes that oh geez yeah this rules yeah this is on the this is next time we go this is the top of the list you gotta go now i don't know if you're able to buy a ribera like if you're just a fan oh interesting you know what i'm saying i

think it has to be given to you from the back wow so they have so so they might not just sell it they it's literally they may only make so many four now don't quote me on that don't quote me on that but like i don't know of any fans who have walked in and gotten one now maybe they bought one off like virgil who was selling it or something you know but sure yeah right uh why did this why did this connection form why did why did it become a wrestler uh hotspot it was just like a place that they went to when they were in japan they'd be over there and they just took to to it was like a mutual love and respect you know wow wow let's be honest it's no club 33 style steak you know it's not

it's not the best steak in the world but it's the environment the atmosphere and that's what we we love all that stuff right that's where we that's why we go to these theme parks for the atmosphere and to be immersed yeah yeah the food sucks the food sucks i'm not saying it sucks it's just not the best sure sure sure great. Well, maybe they'll make an exception if they're like a podcast. They like podcasts there. Because like, you know, maybe they like American podcasts. I found the clip of Undertaker at the press conference. This is the year 2000 when there was an Undertaker on at house.

Honoring the Undertaker's achievements in horror. After 10 years of being in the World Wrestling Federation and being The Undertaker, I'm quite proud of this. It lets me know that people outside of our business kind of appreciate what it is, The Undertaker. So there he is. He's getting an award from the Bride of Frankenstein.

Wow. And he is in his American badass phase. This is American badass. This is Roland phase. Exactly. He's in the biker outfit, but he's greeting the supernatural undertaker.

So then he goes through. This is the haunted house that they had at Universal in 2000. These are some of the things you would see. Like there's a guy dressed as a cat bearer. We are Universal Studios Hollywood for Halloween Horror Nights. And we're checking out the new Undertaker No Mercy maze. There's a guy dressed as Kane there.

A fright and fear that lets you know why it is that I'm such a dark, dark person, dark character. This is incredible. I had no idea about this. Yeah, I didn't know until a couple years ago. How are you doing? I don't remember this guy being here, but... So he's trying to play...

He's trying to play along like he goes, oh yeah, this is my life. This house is my life. He grew up like this. He grew up in a house with perpetual smoke and spider webs, and that's why he's the Undertaker. Exactly. That'll bleep ass, huh?

Yeah. I could say ass then. Sorry, he's talking to like a doppelganger of himself currently exactly yeah and the cameraman the cameraman tilted down to the purple gloves 94 style undertaker

yeah and undertaker is really this is a great performance by him he's just like yeah I've been there dead man walking and then I think there's a mcfoley here there's the hell so they have a hell in the cell spot that's awesome actually these look like the hell in the cell with me and sean michaels well there you have it so yeah so they i think it ended with a hell in a cell so yeah i don't know that that's the

last time they did something like that but it shouldn't be the last you know what i said about how i want a celebrity restaurant to feel like you're going inside their brain and like alan hale i think feels that way a little bit because there's this merchant it's the sea and he's there this feels like that i love a maze themed after one guy and like let's jumble up all his memories and like you're lit you're like all his whole life is flashing before your eyes that's really good yeah it's it's great i mean they're they're all anybody uh if you've been in wwf there's a wwe that you've had uh you know the history on screen so i feel like you could do that with so many different of the characters or

the performers over the years obviously undertaker was the one that leads itself to the horror maze the most sure um but i don't know there's probably like a steve austin one you know it could be done it could be done yeah it could be not everything has to be scary now you know now you can walk through just like the movies and they're not it's not super scary some of these houses yeah do a sting sting one that would be great a sting with oh a crow what about like a sting verse undertaking like freddy versus jason style i mean it's fantastic you could do a whole honestly let's say like you do eight houses just it's true i mean i don't know the audience for it i think is there but maybe I'm crazy What about Matt Cardona maze what are you doing if you get the shot

You know what let's do that Because we're a little low on time And I want to make sure we get to this spot I want you yeah talk about what If you could do a restaurant themed experience Just for you Oh wow Your history as a professional wrestler

Man That's a good question i would definitely have a lot of memorabilia on the wall way more than wf new york did uh a lot of action figures on the wall yeah you know what i went to uh i don't know if you guys are going to talk about it i went to jimmy hart's restaurant i forget the name it was in uh daytona beach yeah i went a couple years ago with ago with Chelsea and his restaurant is kind of like how my restaurant would be. I don't want to say restaurant. It's more like a bar.

But Chelsea and I were looking for dinner and we saw like we were at like waiting outside for this this restaurant to let us in. And we saw this shitty ass hotel and like on the sides at Jimmy Hart's bar, whatever, whatever the bar was like,

like Jimmy Hart, like the mouth of the South Jimmy Hart. Like no fucking way. We walk in and sure enough, it's Jimmy Hart's bar. I got to send you guys some pictures. And it was cool. There's a lot of memorabilia on the walls, a lot of action figures on the walls. Right. And then there's a cardboard cutout of Jimmy Hart.

So like, oh, Chelsea, you got to get a picture with this. So we take a picture. I shit you not. Chelsea with the cardboard cutout, Jimmymy hart and all of a sudden here oh yeah baby and then jimmy hart comes out the real jimmy hart and then chelsea take a picture with the real jimmy hart it was the cardboard cut out the real jimmy hart so he was always like hanging out there probably yeah and i think the the bar has since closed down i think now he does because now hogan has his own spot or hogan is has his own spot. Or Hogan has had his own spot for years.

But it's like, you know, it's a bar. In Tampa, is that right? In Tampa. And now I think Jimmy Hart does karaoke on Monday nights during Raw at Hogan's Bar. So I'm serious about that. No, I believe it. So you want like a low key spot is what you're saying with memorabilia. You don't want something like giant. I mean, realistically, I don't think I could open up a spot in City Walk.

Like, let's be realistic. Like Big Dreamer, sure. But Blue Sky, if we were Blue Sky in here. Like the major wrestling figure restaurant? Yes. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah. I would love something like that with action figures.

Then we'd have exclusive action figures. Because listen, you guys know that figment popcorn bucket. People want that exclusive item. Yeah. Not stuff you could just get on the website. Not stuff you get on Pro Wrestling Tees. You need some exclusive stuff. Yeah.

Exclusive action figures. Some meet and greets every once in a while. We have somebody in there. Yeah. Okay. What about the exclusive action figures would have you guys wearing the and greets every once in a while we have somebody in there you know yeah what okay what about like yeah the exclusive action figures would have like you're you guys but wearing the ribera jackets yeah or you know what we would do we would copy the ribera style and make major wrestling figure

podcast restaurant jackets but look like the ribera jackets we would sell those we make sure the fans are able to buy those yeah you know so uh and then you know we'd have cardboard cutouts of us like so like if we weren't really they could take pictures with like wwe wf didn't have cardboard cut like how easy would have been for a fucking rock cardboard cutout you take a picture next to the rock and it's not really the rock of course so easy yeah all those restaurants now have at least a step and repeat where you can like take the picture for instagram you know and and now with the technology like you know like what disney does like photopass they just photoshop it in after you know it's a it's a template it's already

there yeah it's a good point um so so let's say where would you want it to go in city walk ooh kick something out of city walk cowfish needs to go fuck you cowfish that's a big lol is there some hatred towards cowfish it's just kind of i had it once and it's kind of weird i will say this i moved to orlando five years ago a little over five years ago but the year prior i was coming down a lot like looking for housing and where i wanted to live so i would go to cowfish all the time and i fucking loved it i'm like like two of my favorite things burgers and sushi combined you know where i can have a burger and great sushi and over these past five years every time i go it gets worse and worse and worse i'm always hoping that this is the time where it's going to turn around. Yeah.

It never does. It never does. It's got to go. It's got to go. You're describing the arc of, I think, every restaurant we're covering this month. It happened every single time. They gear up for a big opening and then like, all right, well, the boss ain't showing up anymore. So maybe trim some of those expensive ingredients. We want to go home early right we're shutting down the kitchen 45 minutes early it all feels like this

happens with so many different places you go it all feels like a con it feels like truly like let's see how like we'll do a lot for the six months or something or a year and then let's just keep taking away and seeing how much we and seeing how much money we can make while making the customer still kind of think it's good to the point when it's just completely awful. And then they've made so much money off of just the first year, the idea of how good it was the first year.

I will say this. Hard Rock at CityWalk in Universal in Orlando, my favorite place to go to, always. That's my spot. Wow, really? It's very reliable. It's very reliable. Listen, you know what you're going to get, right?

Listen, is the food the absolute best? No. But you know what you're going to get. I think they have great chicken fingers. Great chicken fingers. But the vibe is cool. It's a cool vibe. It's always packed.

There's always music playing, right. There's guitars on the wall. You get some drinks before the park. I love it. CityWalk, that hard rock is my go-to 100%. I don't think I've actually been to that hard rock to eat. I'm a sucker for a hard rock. I'm a sucker for a hard rock. Do you have any hard rock shirts and merch sucker for a hard rock i am so you're hard do you have any

hard rock shirts and merch uh i do have a couple yeah i'll cut them up wearing the gym you know but nothing crazy okay nothing crazy no denim jacket or anything no no no no denim jacket no and then honestly i have not been to planet hollywood uh in disney spring so i can't even say if it's good or bad you know i know they redid it they renovated it right i know professional wrestler qt marshall his boots are hanging up in there because he used to work yeah he used to work there for years wow wow he used to work there for years and uh they just had a big ceremony a couple months ago where he went i think i don't know if it's his trunks too but definitely his boots are on display i think next next to like Dorothy from Wizard of Oz's like shoes. Wow.

QT's boots. That's living the dream, right? Yeah, that's, that's. There we go. They should put that on the menu where you can, you can get QT's boots full of a milkshake and cakes on top. Slurp out of QT's boots. Yeah.

I dig that. That's great. So, so I'm sure. So yeah, yeah you'll be across you'll be in the cowfish the major wrestling figure podcast restaurant well like i said we're gonna do a pop-up uh bar in new york city in may you guys should come down we'll go have a drink at that hard rock which was wf new york that could be our pregame we'll go oh man because we're gonna we're gonna hey spoiler alert we're gonna call it

major wrestling figure podcast New York that's great and we're gonna play off the same logo it's gonna be a pop-up they put a little

banner outside wow but we're gonna do some drink menus but we're gonna have some real menus like some real like

like what WWE WF should have had obviously we're gonna theme it towards ourselves of course at my wedding i fucking had the uh the major margarita wow yes okay and chelsea green had the the hot mess uh martini oh wow did you make is it a specific did you like taste it before and say like no i wish i did because listen here they fucked up the martini because we like vodka martinis they They made them gin.

Oh, that sucks. Listen, I'm all about the, I'm just like you guys, I'm all about the gimmicks. You're talking to the guy right now who had wedding exclusive action figures, okay? Wedding exclusive. I have seen these. Yes.

A mutual friend of ours had them and I saw them. Of you or What was it? It's of me and Chelsea Green. So they're called micro brawlers. I have them right here, actually. So I don't have them in the package here. But, you know, so they already made us. So I was able to get them repainted, right?

In like a nice traditional white and gold. So, for instance, my buttocks, my gear usually says always ready but it says just married on the back and hers usually says hot mess but it says guess what just married and in the package it says like wedding exclusive uh so the fans who might not necessarily be fans of us but collect this style of figure knew I was making these and was like sliding into my dms like trying to get them early so no they're not for sale these are for my friends and family at the wedding and they're like i'll pay anything i said okay thousand bucks listen a lot of people paid it a lot of people paid it so then at the wedding people were like so drunk or like didn't know

what's going on like in their gift bags they didn't that's where these wedding brawlers were they didn't take them so you know of course i took them all took them all home and i sold them afterwards i made so much money off these goddamn wedding brawlers i recommend everybody make wedding exclusive wrestling figures for their wedding wow i look i'm getting married and this is now shot to the top of the priority list. Right? And it's wedding exclusive something, right? Yes. It doesn't have to be a micro brawl. It could be anything, like something you like. Maybe wedding exclusive podcast to ride microphones.

Or microphone, you know, the mic box. You know, the square. Something. Puppets? Something. A puppet of me or something? A puppet of Lindsay and I? Maybe.

Yeah, something. All right. I think you should i'd like if you acknowledge my favorite thing in your collection which is the ninja turtle with the big tail that looks like a penis so i'd like i would like a mic in a wedding tux and hat but with no pants and whatever you want to do with that if you want you want me to have a turtle penis yeah i think so yeah that's where i'm heading yeah you learn that the turtle's tail is also its penis well that's right yeah yeah yeah if you had a giant one of those at your wedding that could be the weenie of the wedding that's right everyone and you gotta have a step and repeat so everyone can get you know a photo next to the weenie it's really driver is really drawn to that weenie to that giant the weenie. Everybody's really drawn to that weenie, to that giant turtle weenie.

Now, would you invite our friend John Morrison to your wedding? Yeah. Oh, yeah. He's in. Well, he invited you to his wedding. That's where we first met. That is true. We talked about this the first time we did the show.

Yeah. We met at our friend John's wedding, and we started arguing about theme parks. And you asked me what the best ride I believe in the Magic Kingdom was and I just wanted to clarify you meant Disney World and you said it's not called Magic Kingdom at Disneyland. I would say

there was a little bit of hostility it sounded like. And then I said... I was a little drunk. Sure, it was a wedding of course. I wasn't mad. I thought it was funny. And then I said i was a little drunk you sure it was a wedding of course i wasn't i wasn't mad i thought it was funny uh and then you and then i said well there are there's material that does refer to disneyland as waltz magic kingdom so i just wanted to make sure sure uh and then you think you just said space mountain like angrily right like space well john was at my wedding and he left for a period of time Like where did John go

He went to his hotel room Came back and he had elbow pads on And knee pads under his suit so he could break dance So if you invite him to the wedding He might steal the show He He danced a little bit At his wedding I think

And he does a lot of aerial tricks He does A lot of aerial tricks he does do like a lot of parkour a lot of parkour yeah so there could be a theme if you're if you're saying if at my wedding i could get john to do like a theme stunt show okay i think that's possible like someone tries to like steal lindsey like the rings or something right and then like john dressed as like a superhero comes in i dig that, we could do that. Wait, hold on a second. Hold on.

You're not the hero at your own wedding? No. We need some realism here. Come on. Well, I would, you know, I'll like, I'll shout directions. Okay. Sure. Okay.

So you're at the very least, you're the guy on the train going like, you don't mess with Spider-Man. Well, I'd like to think it's like, you know, Ving Rhames is in the van in Mission Impossible and he's helping Ethan Hunt. He's helping Tom Cruise. Right. He's not on the front line, but he is on the team. So I'll be on the team.

I'll be shouting. I'll be like, get him. Stop him. Stop that thief. And then Tom will do- From a van. From a van parked at the side of your wedding. Yes, exactly. It's going to be a whole thing. We're going completely off the rails here.

Yeah, it's true. But guys, don't hate me. I actually have to go win a championship at the pack and then hopefully bring it to Disneyland in Paris. Do you know it's like 30 degrees there? Jesus. I thought it was going to be like nice weather in Paris, which do you know it's like 30 degrees there? Jesus. I thought it was going to be like nice weather in Paris. It's fucking cold.

That was a lot of why I didn't like it. It was so bitter cold. Just the most frosty field. I was not, I didn't have the best feelings about it, but I, maybe the magic will still poke through, especially if you show up with that belt.

I don't know. I'm staying at that Marvel hotel. So I'm not necessarily a Marvel guy, but the Disneyland hotel is closed for renovation. So I was like, I might as well stay at this Marvel one, I guess. It's got some theming at least.

So you hopefully. I'm not a big Marvel guy though. Not that I'm not a Marvel guy. I'm just not a Marvel guy. You know what I'm saying? But it's only kind of Marvel. So it's like the hotel, New York presents the art of Marvel marvel it's the most boring confusing yeah

the most confusing several themes at once um okay it's weird so yeah i don't think it'll matter but they do have a planet hollywood that looks like the old orlando one it's the kind of like yeah that might be where i had to eat then okay Okay. Old school. I dig that. Yeah, that'll be fun. I walked into some door there a long enough time to see the mask from the mask and then be yelled at in French to get out of wherever I was. I was scolded at Planet Hollywood.

I fucking love it. But you can take them on. You can take any French Planet Hollywood. Well, if I have my championship i'll smash them with it and if i don't i'll then i'm screwed then i'll have to run out um uh sounds like a plan hey matt cardona you survived podcast the ride thanks for joining us uh let's let's exit through the gift shop is there anything other than all the stuff mike said at the top that you would like to plug oh man listen uh just at the matt cardona follow me on social media the major

recipe for a podcast sorry i couldn't stay too long guys you know i got championships to win plug oh man listen uh just at the matt cardona follow me on social media the major wrestler podcast sorry i couldn't stay too long guys you know i got championships to win you know i'm saying you're everywhere pretty good excuse i guess well you're yeah yeah you're tapping out but we're we got a little more to come so we'll continue so i'm gonna have to listen though which is cool i you know i already did my part but i have to listen to it. Yeah, sure. So then we have to make sure to not shit talk during part two. Well, if you do that, I'm coming after you. That's for sure. Okay, never mind.

We'll see. We'll see if it's worth it. If the shit talk's really good. But anyway, thanks for doing the show. Thanks, guys. Talk to you soon. Thanks, Matt. Good luck.

Peace out. Well, guys, Matt is gone. And we are, of of course now recording this A few days after we had the interview with him And I want to announce In case people don't know on social media He has won The NWA world title

National Wrestling Alliance world title And he is currently In Disneyland Paris Yes! Dreams achieved! Wow, Matt! And has taken a photo with the title in front of the castle.

Yeah! That is available. Wow, he called it in the episode and it happened. That's incredible. So I am glad we waited a few days

to do this so we could have confirmation that that happened. Well, look at this. Maybe, like, we've been talking about the PTR curse, but maybe,

I mean, as has been said on Twitter, maybe it is the PTR blessing, is look at this. Maybe like we've been talking about the PTR curse, but maybe, I mean, as has been said on Twitter, maybe it is the PTR blessing. Because look at this. We give Matt a little magic, goes and wins the title. We give Planet Hollywood a little magic. And within the week of our episode, they are coming back in Times Square. And Matt has sent you photos in the Paris, the only remaining old school, tacky, insane Planet Hollywood on the planet. Yes,

it is. Everything is coming together. Everything is connected. Everything is coming together. It's quite beautiful during this. Simulation, buzz buzz. Yeah, and also the Planet Hollywood coming to New York, three or four stories, stories two and three are the Planet Hollywood coming to New York, three or four stories, stories two and three

are the Planet Hollywood. First story, 100-seat chicken guy. Yeah. Boy. Saw Squad will have representation at the new Planet Hollywood. It is wild. Yeah. This is overwhelming, you guys.

Because, yeah, it's been a roller coaster. We heard, like, we kind of learned for the first time that it was defunct. The Planet Hollywood, the current one in New York, is defunct. Jason, I think, maybe knew before. But it was a shock at first. Kind of figured it out during the episode, I feel. Because they had been doing takeout and delivery. Yum, yum.

Oh, yes, that's what you want. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and, I mean, I don't know if you guys saw this, but Dive is coming back on an actual submarine oh wow it's the 300 feet below the surface yeah um yeah you have to like you have to enlist you have to oh you have to be a navy man yeah yeah you gotta be in the navy wow to experience well but was this uh diplomatic negotiations that caused like russian troop drawdown it's like just bring back dive if we can get dive going we can uh yeah push back some of these i uh when you said when you said that uh when you said that you had a list i looked at jason i looked away back to

you and i looked at him and then jason has turned like he's put a full sailor suit on and he's ready for fleet week i guess reporting for duty so i mean it's a little sailor suit i don't know if that's regulation oh with little shorts it it is a sailor suit with little shorts yeah so it's uh and is the big lolly regulation are you given that uh oh yeah when you typically when you if you if if they assign you to the good ship lollipop, that is what happens. Jason is admiral of the good ship lollipop. Welcome to the good ship lollipop. It is a sweet trip to the candy shop.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Oh, boogie woogie bugle boys will fall in line. By the way, to also keep tying things together and you know like okay matt he left our episode yeah uh to go win this title and that's cool but something that he missed out on was hearing one last piece of crucial info about uh wwe times square which is that it used to be the paramount theater which is around from the 20s to the 60s, where they hosted a lot of concerts from prominent acts, including the Dorsey Brothers.

There we go. Jason's favorite band. Dorsey Brothers play were in the building. So, Matt, you didn't get to react to, you didn't get that Dorsey Brothers news. Oh, man. Which is the real title I feel

Man Jason has changed into A different sailor suit Now hearing that news It's more of a It's double breasted Yeah It's like a dress sailor suit

It's a dress Yeah It's formal dress Yeah And he's ready for a big band So congratulations Matt I You know

I feel like we gave you some fun before we were able to help you take your mind off of things and you're welcome uh you know for for what we did for you um but now we keep plowing ahead because we can't miss these other wrestling restaurants uh there's incredible ones especially because we switched to in person which allows jason now to show us this incredible artifact that he has in reality yeah this is the uh full menu for the wcw nitro grill las vegas that was located in the excalibur hotel and i just want to shout out uh listener jason query sent this to us a while ago february 2020 i remember driving to the forever dog office to pick up some mail and i believe picking it up then in a balmy day in march 2020 and little did i know what awaited me after that from w sent it from Wuhan. You started coughing as soon as you opened the package.

Yeah, I mean, I have to think that was just coincidence. But yeah, WCW Nitro Grill, where the big boys eat. Where the big boys eat. Incredible. Wait, Jason was his name? Yeah. Okay, well, thanks, Jason, for that. It's wonderful seeing it in person and seeing a big thing.

The menu itself is a big boy. That's tall. That is a way. This is not like some of these other that that wwe times square one looked a little chintzy and we've seen other ones that like that's just a piece of paper that's a mighty menu it's great this is here i'll hand it to you and thanks again to jason query for sending that um the only thing that i'd say it's lacking i like hearing that that um big boys uh tagline and maybe the picture's in the

menu somewhere because there's there are photos uh of the wcw stars at the time the only thing that it's missing is as far as i'm concerned is this great maybe you guys ran into it i think accompanied with that big boys tagline was i mean you tell me the wrestler it's a it's a bald guy and he's look he's making this face like ah and he's got a knife and a fork he is ready to eat this is a big boy who's ready to get eaten that big boy is bill goldberg goldberg goldberg like a very uh big star from the wcw day he's still in wwe wrestling yeah gearing up for a big match in saudi arabia this weekend that is true that is where he's going um so yeah he's he's prominently displayed and he is the big boy i think they're showing off um which is very i don't want to bury the lead there's also a hologram there's a

hologram sticker on the front of the cover like uh you would find from wcw to nwo it's like like if you switch back and forth you're seeing both logos it looks like that's cool because yeah so yeah the big the big angle in the old days was the nwo the new world order um which was a group event i mean the core was like hall nash and hogan when hogan turned from a good guy to bad guy um so there was a war going on and they were representing it in a hologram on the menu yeah uh just some background of this restaurant this opened in may 1999 and closed in september of 2000 uh it was located at the excalibur hotel which which, look, I love all the fine MGM resorts, MGM casino resort hotels in Las Vegas,

but the Excalibur Hotel has some fucked vibes. Like, there is a dark energy in the Excalibur. I don't disagree with you, but I also really like the Excalibur. Yeah, I always stopped by, for sure. Yeah, we always stopped by. And it was something in the early 90ur. Yeah, I always stopped by, for sure. Yeah, we always stopped by. And it was something in early 90s. Oh, yeah.

I mean, we'll do a whole episode about it someday, I'd imagine, but like, my favorite thing is that there's a weird little, like, so it's a castle, if you've never been, obviously, and there's a big moat or lagoon in front of it, and I always like to point out to people that there's a little, like,

thatch hut that implies that some little, like, hobbit guy would come out of it and lives there and i found out that that was part of the lagoon show like a phantasmic type thing in early 90s vegas family friendly days that they don't do anymore so i'd love to know more about that show and what happened out of that hut yeah i mean that whole area that that and new york new york like a lot and luxor especially a lot of good themed entertainment at their at the height of their powers new york new york i think of the budget ones is the one that i like to go walk around and hang out at sure they've updated it okay it's not so set in time the the ways that the excalibur has updated have all been pretty trashy.

I mean, no offense to the Nitro Grill, but I would, I mean, I think trashy, they would proudly say it is trashy. And that might also be how they describe its eventual replacement, Dick's Last Resort. Which is listed as open on the Excalibur website currently. Is it? We were concerned that like, yeah, all the Dick's Last Resorts were going. Because Dick's closed in San Diego, which was a spot we would go once

in a while during Comic-Con over the years. And I don't know, have I ever said this piece of information that we learned when we were last at Dick's a few years ago? The name of the dog? Oh, you told me, but I don't remember it now. Maybe I haven't said this before so dick's last resort

is a place where they would they go they insult you basically you put on it's like ed de bevix or other places like that where they put a big like paper kind of hat on you and they write something and probably as of a couple years ago most of the jokes were just like this guy's gay that was mostly the joke probably oh you say as of a few years ago a few hours ago someone at the vegas waiter at the vegas scrawled that on somebody's hat right so there is still free speech somewhere yeah that's the last place for free speech in the country is dick's last resort uh where you can just call people gay and hope to get a big laugh from it um but so there's like the character of like

dick and he has like a dog and it's a very like you know fritzy the cat fritz the cat style art and the dog's name from dick's last resort is ass bite there's some original like that's original i think there's i think i have a tweet it might be five years or six years ago i think i had a tweet trying to get dicks on board with jason to play ass bite in a movie or something yeah um but i don't they didn't respond films presents yeah the least gay movie you've ever seen maybe that's not a good thing for jason to be associated with now yeah the homophobic restaurant um but this thing though i mean the nitro grill vibe is so i mean this this you guys

could tell this must be in line with the vibe of the the league in general but it's such like it is intense shaky fonts like oh yeah how shaky can a still font on a menu be? And then it's all the food and items are revealed by, it looks like they carved out of steel to make, and, like, not well and symmetrically. Somebody took a chainsaw to reveal the menu items. It's really funny. It's really funny, and it's better.

Like, the WWF New York menu looks like a menu. Like, it doesn't look. the menu items it's uh it's really funny it's really funny and it's better like the wwf new york menu looks like a menu like it doesn't look that at least gives you the vibe of like the graphics you would have seen in the late 90s on retro there's a very funny image of hulk hogan like doing a bicep curl but he's just he's got a very tiny shrimp like he's bicep curling to get a shrimp to his mouth well tiny in the like compared to him right but that shrimp is huge for like imagine if that shrimp was in front of you that's a mammoth shrimp that would be as big as his mustache it wouldn't be wouldn't give him a workout but like my god that's that's really wild and then he's wearing pants that are, he's wearing Terminator pants and boot, like it is lightning shooting up the pants

and then his boots have like Arnold robot skeleton face on. That's, geez, this is crazy. That's Hollywood Hulk, boy. I wrote down some of my favorite menu items because they went all out with it. They did name the menu items, what you would think they would be named. So like the onion rings are called wrestling rings.

That's great. That's so much better than everything else. Yeah. This is of all the things we're talking about this month. This is the only one that did it right. Yeah. I think every single thing has a stupid name. It's so great.

Chicken fingers are called broken fingers. And if you would like them on a roll, that's called a broken finger sandwich. I'll have the broken finger sandwich. It's such a funny thing to say out loud to another person. Slapacino instead of cappuccino. The violent act of si person uh slappuccino instead of cappuccino violent act of sipping a cappuccino yeah ring side salad pretty good pretty good t-bone steak after uh booker t what's the booker t-bone booker t-bone steak Yeah Penne pileup

Penne pileup On the list of power plant pasta Power Yes The power plant is where like guys would train Guys and girls would train Yeah Like

They go from the range of specific Like names of wrestlers To just general stuff like You know they have the Booker T-bone But then they also just have Big boy brownie Which is That's wear the big boy seat yeah of course we're all big boys uh heavyweight hot fudge sundae cheesecake uncensored uncensored was one of their pay-per-views some of them are paper some of them are named after pay-per-views some of them yeah spring

stampede sirloin some of them named after wrestlers and some just named after violent acts they're they're not all home runs uh the chokehold chili i thought was an interesting choice usually a restaurant you want to avoid just the like uh bringing up the idea of choking the specter that hangs over but it's pretty good still it's pretty good yeah i like the one that requires capitalization to make it work which is a that's a diamond cut kind of where the steaks are and that's a uh broken rib black eye that feels like reverse like shouldn't you capitalize the crazy broken rib black eye not vice versa i think that's's right. But I love that they got to amend it to make it work. They have on the burgers, the burgers are all funny, but I think my favorite, well, I'll say the other ones.

They have like Sting burger. Well, that's like in the way of Sting's career, the waiter just lingers in the rafters above the restaurant looking at you for a long time and then finally brings the burger at the end of the meal.

Sting, I think we've said, I think I've said this on the podcast before, Scott. So Sting was a wrestler. He had a little face paint. He was almost kind of like a surfer-y kind of guy.

Like a real baby face as they say. And then all of a sudden the crow came out and I believe Dusty Rhodes was just like, we should just do that. And he just put the crow makeup on

Wow And Sting became the crow Sting Which everyone Sting is great he's still around He's still wrestling He's in AEW now Just did the crow That's some of the great wrestling stuff Of all time

Just one of the bookers was like hey you know we should just do that thing in the movie I just saw I think Dusty Rhodes is the biggest culprit of that Where is where just one of the bookers was like hey you know we should just do that that thing in the movie i just saw i think dusty roads is the biggest culprit of that where it was just like i was watching a movie i was watching a movie last night and then like here's what we should do uh do austin powers yeah uh so oh man did dusty ever do an austin powers game i'm not sure uh so so they have yeah sting burger hing Burger, Hogan Burger, Thunder Burger, which was the name of one of the shows, Thunder. But then they have the DDB.

Oh, baby. The Diamond Dallas Burger. Smothered in Cajun spices. Which I just keep saying, like, they hit all of the things. Some of them are, like, kind of clever. Some of them don't really make sense. And some of them are, like, clunky of them don't really make sense and some of them are like clunky like this yeah diamond dallas burger ddb there's got to be a different thing that could be diamond out like diamond dallas page is the name of the guy

the wrestler uh ddp so sure but ddps like a dish of peas that could be that you know these peas yeah i hate to give notes on a perfect menu no david arquette entree like no david arquette nods well when was it opened 99 so it was 99 to september 2000 and then all of the all of the uh you know intellectual property and shows and stuff for wcw of course in 2001 was sold to wwe right but the the arquette so so i maybe i've said this before on the show uh so scott there's a movie called ready to rumble that came out in the year 2000 with oliver platt and david arquette uh-huh classic and it's promotion for the movie david arquette won the world title in wcw which a very controversial moment fans very upset about it it's like an honorary college degree yeah that's not the same thing

he's of course he's made a documentary recently about trying to earn back the respect of the fans uh for it uh from it i should say and pretty brutal documentary parts well i was there he he wrestled a match against the guy that cardona wrestled a death match against and almost died uh because he got cut on the neck and had to go luke barry drove him to the hospital what uh because his son was wrestling on the show this is all in highland park or like oh wow the high hat that's in highland park right yeah it's all the high hat we're watching this go down and we're like god david our cats really taking a lot of abuse in this and they're like oh is he bleeding badly from the neck so i'm just saying the point is i don't

think there was enough our cat wasn't there long enough to make the menu but yeah he should be on the menu he's part of history now yeah something's like's like charbreads, charquette. Oh, perfect. Charquette broiled. Yeah. So we could maybe make an insert and add some stuff we think should have been on here. So the charquette, I think for sure. Goldburger, too. Goldburger, great.

And crippler crust-faced cheese steak. that is that is a very dark uh one that that move has been used by a lot of people but uh look that up folks if you want uh yeah so it's a it's a cheese steak sandwich that could cripple you uh yeah i mean there's such a weird like just this picture of kevin nash on the menu with this awful looking cheeseburger in general that he's not holding. That he's not holding, and there's no way it's that big. Yes. I don't think it's that big. No, it can't be that big.

It's the same thing with the Hogan and the shrimp. Like, the food is not mutant size, I don't think, seeing pictures of this. It's from big boys. Everything's 30% bigger. Yeah. So, man man springboard shakes which is like springboard is like when you jump off the top rope basically like you spring off the apron on the top rope um it's really like it's so it's so the opposite of what wwf new york did and like whoever was in charge and like for some reason this stuff isn't well documented.

I'd love to know who was in charge. Who got to do this? Yeah. Who got to think of all these? The luckiest man on earth. The thing, because I read a book by this writer Bill Hanstock

about the history of WWE, WWF last year, two years ago. And I feel like the McMahons had a complex about wanting to be, not even wanting to be old money, they just wanted to be new money. So that's why the headquarters are in Stanford, Connecticut. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They wanted the respectability.

They were making so much money, they were like, we should yeah, yeah. They wanted the respectability. They were making so much money. They were like, we should be respected. We should have the respectability. And there is a sense of the WWE menu. It looks like a steakhouse menu, even though the contents are like Ruby Tuesdays. What Tommy Blunch has said is that the food was actually not bad. Oh, that's good.

And the vibe in there was all right. He said he found it to be like on the wrestling scale kind of a classy affair as opposed to nitro grill which was like trash but the trap but i think trash is what they're aiming for well proudly and hitting vince has always supposedly been a len anything you can see evidence of it has always been a little bit embarrassed by wrestling pro wrestling that's why he changed the name to sports entertainment

as far as WWE is concerned and everyone's got to wear suits a lot behind the scenes yeah and it's all like there's a one of my most quoted

there's a movie called Beyond the Mat which is a documentary that Barry Blaustein made where he follows like Terry Funk and Mick Foley and there's a scene

with Vince in the office and where Vince just and it's one of my i say this maybe every couple weeks i go oh we make movies which is something vince says to the camera which i think gives you his feeling i think he always wanted to be more of like uh i think ted turner and guys did a lot of different things not just a wrestling guy sure sure uh with if you know the football league and the other thing, like his other endeavors. So I could see that maybe even being part of it, but maybe that's just totally a fluke that he was just like,

because they eventually took the WWF off of it, and it was just the world. Yes. You could see like Vince maybe he's just like, we're in the nightclub. We make nightclubs. We don't do wrestling anymore. Yeah. Prince can play.

And even restoring that paramount like archway like does add like new york old society yeah right respectability i i was trying to find i couldn't find any clips but i swore king kong either climbs that or walks by it and the peter jackson one like yeah i don't know there was just a million i mean there was a million of those kinds of arts ways let's be frank of new york in the 30s so they may have well cgi'd something like that not just that one is recreated in various theme parks i forget if that's the one i don't know if it is at universal florida i think one of the entryway maybe into the arcade or right around that new york the mummy area yeah unless. Unless I'm wrong and it's the paradise, but it's one of those old school.

And I think you see that paramount in Race Through New York with Jimmy Fallon. I'm fairly certain. Yeah. I was thinking, too, this is something that, you know, AEW has right now, the wrestling company has a lot of like WCW influence in it. They've got some of the announcers, some of the old school feelings. Sting is there. He's still in the crow makeup.

Feels like something that a Tony Khan who runs the league could put somewhere. An AEW restaurant with this type of menu. He wants to destroy the league with a single restaurant location. Yes. That drags down the entire operation. His father owns a Jacksonville Jaguars. So they have money. Okay.

Well, then they should. If you got money, then please waste it on a restaurant. Yeah. At least a pop-up. That might be the modern equivalent. It's less, you know, rent on a themed entertainment venue. And it's more like a weekend long pop-up food thing, like the Saved by the Bell restaurant.

And I said recently that the Doughboys had the AEW announcer Excalibur on, who also does PWG out here. And Mitch tried to get, you know, get the Doughboys into AEW. I think he went about it the wrong way, saying they should be managers, because Excalibur seemed not interested in that at all. But what I would say right now to Tony Khan is three guys who do a podcast and have done a month about chain restaurants,

we're the guys to help make the new menu for your eventual theme restaurant. Yeah, for sure. That's how we could insert ourselves into AEW. We're the restaurant guys. This is practical. This is realistic. Yes, and we're stealing it from Doughboys,

who obviously are food associated. So we have a feud going too all right that's good we're coming in with a business plan and a few yes so anyone who knows tony out there or tony if you're listening we're the guys we'll put together a menu for you and let's make this happen i think uh real quick too um that we forgot to talk about the drink menu. Yes. Yeah. Which I like this. First of all, one of the different headers here says fans with a period after each letter because it stands for frozen all natural smoothies.

Fans. Fans. That's a lot of flip. But even that, they could have just said smoothies and they went the extra mile to try to make it something else the categories they do everything they find you're right they're finding the the possibilities in every part of the menu exactly damn it there's a bam bam blitz named after bam bam bigelow uh there's the nitro chino which is a slappuccino and ice cream so it's referencing a different part of the menu, which you have to appreciate.

Callbacks. Callbacks to the menu. Sharpshooters, which are shots. Sharpshooter is Bret Hart's submission finisher. Okay. Brain freezers. Fear the Spear. Fear the Spear.

That's Goldberg's Finishing move It was the spear It would be Basically a tackle Jägermeister Parrot bay Coconut rum

And pineapple juice No We should make Fear the spear We should try Fear the spear We should do that Yeah

Why Jäger Look if we have If I have the bachelor party We should all at least recreate Fear the spear in Vegas At Dix When we go to Dix in Vegas for the bachelor party

We're gonna make the waiter In between him Waiter I need a shot of Jager A shot of coconut rum A shot of pineapple juice And an empty rocks glass please And be like okay Hey were you sucking each other's

dicks in the bathroom? You got us. Yes, it's the bachelor party. We're having fun. Now give us a fear of the spears. You homophobic waiter. I'll yell. On the ropes, yeah, so all this stuff, the drink menu. Scott, let me ask,

what do you think of the wine list at WCW Nitro Grill? Well, I don't what do you think of the wine list at wcw nitro grill well i don't appreciate that they called it the whine list with an h as if by by having some of the wine that you offer that i am being some kind of whiner right to spend which you know granted what was i doing about fear the spear just now but whining sure that's true sounds awful i would rather have even these i don't know you might be looking at a generation i was gonna say yeah what does because this doesn't have that yeah that doesn't oh this is different they changed it they turned it into the wine the wine oh interesting well that's

probably like leftover misogyny from the nineties or something. Yeah. Right. Nothing wrong with having some mum, extra dry, sparkling wine. My nice visit to the WCW nitro grill. Now, if you ordered wine and a Dick's last resort,

they might say you're a whiner or something. They might still keep up that tradition, but that's interesting. Yeah. They did. They either changed it or like they changed it at some point. So, wow. Well, then I like your menu and I thank Jason for sending us the menu that was not insulting to my favorite beverage.

So, also the entrance to this place, like you have a photo of it somewhere? I don't have the entrance now. It looks like, it's not a large photo, but it looks like this is kind of the set of the show another good another slam against another body slam against wwf new york because it was like just like a chain link fence and then in the actual dining area there's a circle like the entranceway of the show like it's just so much so easy like so much easy stuff they did so smart it didn't help them survive but also the company went under so i don't know maybe i don't know what i'm talking about this is like but the legend lives on as with a tv show yeah canceled before its time

this is the freaks and geeks of you know they didn't reap the rewards then, but now we speak of it in glowing terms. Yeah. Also, the server aprons were world titles. Cool. I mean. Look, there's like a black apron, but then they had like a picture of the WCW world title on them. Geez, all the trouble that Cardona had to go to to get a belt. He could have just gotten a job at this restaurant.

Uh-huh. Here, some of the bars. Some of the bars were themed around pay-per-view events to the bash at the beach bar had booths that were made to look like shark teeth. I found a picture of that. That looks pretty awful. It's a bunch of like, you know, like the,

the rings on boats, whatever the, the, the rescue ring. I don't know what that word is. It's pretty dead. That room is pretty chintzy yeah but at least they tried yeah yeah yeah themed rooms that's something yeah and um well also

i don't know if you guys watched the video promoting this place i think i did but there is one element to it that really puts it over in terms and this was only i guess on opening night this wasn't a regular feature of the place, but there is a cooler person who was present at Nitro Grill than I'd say I've heard at any of these other wrestling restaurants. Let me give you a taste of this. Welcome to the Nitro Grill, and let's get ready to party! so much zooming in and out and djs and stuff and then like sting and goldberg there um but somebody else off the beaten path here we go i didn't know yeah oh yeah because you know kevin wrestled in wcw oh okay i didn't know right he did a run-in during the jay leno you have to have seen this okay so

everything is connected i guess so jay Jay, okay, with Jay's appearance. Hold on one second here. I just want to make sure I'm right because it's confusing. Like Rodman wrestled, Karl Malone wrestled. Oh, that was all WCW. Okay. Jay Leno wrestled Hogan. It was a tag match.

I think, I believe it was Jay Leno and DDP. Oh, great. Is that right, Jason? I think that sounds right yeah it was jay leno and ddp um versus hogan and someone else at bischoff i believe eric bischoff who was the guy in charge of the league um and then kevin did a run and kevin has like white like cut off sleeve kind of shirt and kevin was like in good shape and i think kevin threw a cutter like a diamond cutter also in the ring too i think kevin got more involved than jay did jazz guitarist and there was new pinks yes everyone cheering for

him in the wrestling yes uh and jay wrestled and i think hogan and jay did an angle on the tonight show as well i think there's a clip of them hyping up the match. Oh, great. Yeah, here's Kevin. I don't know if you can see this. Kevin's kind of got like a sleeveless white shirt. Wow, wow. And he's jacked.

Looks cool. He looks cool. Yeah. But you almost could tell like, you could kind of tell Jay was not fully into this idea, but maybe Kevin was like, this is my shot. Kevin seemed like he was a real fan. Wow. So, yes a i mean look no offense to these other restaurants but uh hey you know uh matt wasn't so high i feel like on this time square i think nitro grills

by far yeah i mean we don't nobody was there on the ground, but it sounds pretty awesome. Yeah, Eubanks being there is really exciting. I'm surprised no one has done anything with Eubanks again because it seems like he's a big fan. I mean, maybe he's a little too old to get involved now, but that would be a fantastic callback to something because there's a lot of sort of retro-y stuff going on. Even in like JCWw i feel like you

could do a kevin eubanks run-in still with the white same exact sleeveless shirt action figures of wrestling mode kevin eubanks scott what is that where is the eubanks clip what is the name of that video that's called wcw nitro grill commercial in 1899 great okay so i'm getting watches watches on my own time over and over on a big tv but there is another competitor i would say for potentially greatest wrestling affiliated restaurant of all time i think we have to give at least a little bit of time uh how could we not nod to in the celebrity celebrity-owned restaurant month, to the great, the mythic, the legend, Hulk Hogan's pasta mania? One of the dumbest things of all time. I feel like there's a degree of happiness I've had in my life ever since I...

Whenever the first time I learned of Hulk Hogan's pasta mania was that phrase and knowing it was in the Mall of America. That's just a fact you can carry with you the rest of your life. Yes. Makes me happy every time I think about it. It's so it is so fun. Like Hogan, like from the pictures, like the badly drawn picture on the front of the worst menu, the worst artwork for sure and and you know there i mean well this isn't the last time that we'll see one of our chosen celebrities holding up a big plate of pasta but it's it's it's a pretty funny one right a funny guy to see holding up god it's funny

looking at y'all intense uh some of this well and just just some of the details they chose to emphasize. One, I just remember seeing years and years ago, like one of the print ads or something. It's like, pasta, healthy for kids. And it's like, well, it's not totally bad in reasonable quantities, but healthy? That was his whole angle, I feel like, promoting all of it. It's like, like you gotta eat your pasta brother eat your pasta strong yeah and uh the mix and match pastas i mean i have one of the

menu pages here or it might be the menu page i don't think there was a lot of options but just a list in bright so badly printed just like not straight printing seemingly on bright hulk yellow paper it's really something like this would be a cool independent local wrestling show not the menu for one of the most famous people in america's restaurant in a really prominent location in a really prominent location he looks like on the front of the menu, the little drawing of it, it looks like his hands have, he doesn't have hands, and they're just permanently plates of pasta. He's like a boumier. Or like, yeah, Edward Pasta Hands or something.

But something else is off about this menu that really stuck out to me. Under mix and match, your options for pasta, angel hair shells, fettuccine penne nuggets nuggets pasta nuggets excuse me is that me pasta nuggets jason you've never had pasta nuggets i can't i don't know unless that's like no does he mean chicken no chi or something like no key no key what am i saying here i'm trying to think of like the bigger pieces of pasta i mean that's a like is it a kiddified way to bring up gnocchi yeah maybe pasta nuggets pasta nuggets i don't know i mean it does say you know it's these are some of hulk's favorite international pastas which i'm sure he really consulted the countries of the world travels abroad you know i'm getting white clam pasta

nuggets brother pasta i i travel far and wide brother to find the best pasta nuggets you can eat as much pasta as you want don't eat too much sushi oh too much sushi oh the greatest is how lazy this whole thing is. It's so great how lazy it is. Yeah, there's too many things. It didn't last a year at the Mall of America. It wasn't even a year? It wasn't even a year.

I think there was another one. It was in the food court, too. This might be the smallest location we're talking about this month. Yeah. Hulkaroni and cheese for little pasta maniacs little pasta maniacs and then would you consider yourself a little pasta maniac as a child oh or now i i mean spaghetti and meat sauce and sausage was a once a week affair at my house so yeah so yeah you were a little pasta maniac sure um sorry scott you gotta put your pasta maniac money where your mouth is

brother coming to the ball of america show me how much pasta you could eat i'll stuff you full of hulk hulkios hulkios is on the pasta maniacs menu but who knows if i'm saying that right maybe only hulk himself could tell me hulkio and what is that what's the hulkio that has to be like they bought like bulk quantities of spaghettios that are just calling it hulkios oh yeah okay yeah well i don't know if hulk himself even knows how to say some of this stuff because this is look it's a longer clip i'm tempted to play the entire thing because this i think is one of the greatest things a camera has ever been pointed at which is uh this is from wcw monday nitro september 4th 1995 and this is this is the

hulkster himself in the mall of america um promoting as aggressively as only he knows how here's uh hulk trying to get the little pasta maniacs to the mall of america all right michael jordan's got his restaurant in chicago coach don shuler the miami dolphins he's got a steakhouse but wcw zone world heavyweight champion hulk hogan's children just like surrounding yeah like just a mob of children. Hulk, Hulk, Hulk. In the tiny, clearly there is no room to order in this little location. So Hulk's being mobbed, but this guy's going to fight through the mob. He's got pasta mania in the Mall of America. I want to try to get a word with him.

If I can squeeze in there, Hulk Hogan coming up. Debut edition of Monday Nitro. You've got Big Bubba in the main event. Who's the greatest wrestler in the world? Hulk Hogan. You know something, Eric Bischoff? Tonight on Monday Nitro, Pasta Mania has got all my Hulkamaniacs running wild. And I've eaten so many Hulkaroos and Hulkie-oos, I feel sorry for Big Bubba, brother, because tonight, brother, first time on TNT, I'm putting

the WCW heavyweight title on the line. And with pasta mania running through my brain, who's going to beat Big Bubba tonight, Hulkamaniacs? This is the debut episode. Wait, really? Right? Of Nitro. Yeah. What?

It's the debut episode on TNT coming to you from mall of america and there is a essentially a local food court restaurant commercial in the it is yeah yes it is so crazy because like wcw crosses over like wrestling and theme parks and all these rest it's like it's the mall of america they did shows there and then you could also see it in universal studios like there's a long tradition of wrestling at universal city walk and the early days of disney mgm studios which we haven't barely even gone down that road at all yeah yeah so in mall it's all our favorite places so i guess that's like that was the idea maybe partly for having pasta mania there well and there was there was a whole big separate event which you can watch uh in pretty camcorder quality so it's not really worth playing but it's worth you can look that up on youtube

and it's and just to say the official name of that event that is the hulk hogan's pasta mania grand opening pasta challenge you can see in this flyer macho man is part of it as well but that i've thought about that so often over the hulkaroos and hulk i don't think i don't know if hulka you is anything can we spell anyone picture the spelling of hulka you hulk hulkios which we just found i think that's what he thinks he's saying yeah but maybe that if maybe he's it's his restaurant he's telling us that's spelled like ios at the end but hulka you would be h-u-l-k-a-y-o-u or hulk or or o-, like you-who? Hulk-a-you. Hulk-a-you. Yeah, I don't... It's all so unclear.

This is one of my favorite things about wrestling is that people learn how to do a promo, which is like they're cutting a promo like that. He's doing the same energy as if he was... He's trying to weave in the angle with the Big Bubba. As if he's going up against like, this is all a challenge to his opponent, but the opponent is the notion that children would not come eat as much

pasta as possible from him. So like there's been, that's happened. I feel like in recent times there was, there was a clip, there's a wrestler in AEW, Eddie Kingston, who's so good as far as being like a talker and on the mic and there was a clip

where somebody is like hey cut a promo on this chocolate chip cookie now that's like a self-aware version of this too when he did it he does like a really intense promo uh talking about the chocolate chip cookie um or i saw a wrestling legend slash home shopping legend Don West cut a promo a couple years ago at a convention. Do you guys remember this guy Don West? It was not home shopping. It was like a different thing, a different network, and they would sell Beanie Babies. They parodied it on SNL. Was it on QVC?

No, it was something. It was like a less good QVC. There was a sketch. Do you remember the Mark Hamill home shopping sketch? Yeah. Where they sold. So this was a parody of a guy named Don West who eventually went on to announce wrestling. And he was a guy who would talk like this.

Can you believe? It's like my Taffer impression, but he would be like, we have the glory bear. We have Tabasco the bull. I can't believe this deal. He's like only only $999. These are all on YouTube. Watch them. They're amazing.

We have 50 retired Beanie Babies. How are we doing this? And he would go nuts. And we watched it all the time as kids. And then he became a wrestling announcer. And I saw him do a promo like this a couple years ago, live in person in schaumburg when there was a wrestling convention before aew but it's one of my favorite things is having like seeing people just go into their shtick like this with any sort of topic real good really fun uh just the other day the super bowl started with the rock cutting the promo yes on the super like selling us on the idea of the super bowl on the field at sofi stadium uh it's

probably a massively planned market because it's like wrestlemania is there next year yes he'll probably be in a match nbc universal was broadcasting the super bowl like it's it all just kind of like ties together in the background um so yeah hogan doing this with pasta is very funny yeah and he kind of like half looked he had no time to prep this just like kind of like he just like check out the menu and maybe shout out a couple of things we have yeah okay he looks at hulkio just yeah mixes up in his brain all right okay you exactly we got so many okay use like right before like they're like he's like what am i doing okay what is it pasta tell me some of the dishes and then

they're like here it is and he goes all right i got it and he just does the thing he does all the time and it's fantastic you gotta be stuffing your face full of hokazania brother that's not we don't have hokazania that's not a thing. It doesn't matter. Just let them go. This could immediately generate some goodwill for Disney. If Bob Chapek or Josh DeMauro recorded a video where it's like, we heard your cries and they're back at Disneyland Resort. The parking trams are back. You've waited years. You want Bob Chapek to cut one of his trademark promos.

Bob Chapek cuts a promo going like the food and wine festival back the parking trams are back there that's more of an eisner energy though what you're giving me is like uh not that eisner yelled a lot but he had definitely had that like manic quality sometimes you feel but not aggressive like chapek looks like we know that he when he speaks he's very soft-spoken but he's also you know like big bald dude he could like if you looked at him you might think that he could speak like that that's true and everybody's only making him angrier and angrier like he should just be a heel he should be a heel yeah that is true he's he's right on the line right now because this happens in wrestling where you know people are gettinged, but they don't quite want to go to the dark side.

So he's a tween. He's like a tweener, they call him, or they're in between being a... But to the audience, a lot of the audience, he's getting booed. So he really should just embrace it. I've seen your petitions. You can shove them up your ass. Did you know that the Star Wars Hotel cruise ship Han and Leia spent some of their honeymoon on it? But you'll never see them walking around in the park, you scumbags.

J.J. characters only. It's JPEC rules. Understand? Yeah, you don't like Lightning Lane? Well, everything is Lightning Lane now. Pay for each ride and the entrance ticket. It's a lightning lane to get here on the freeway

because JPEG says so. Oh, Kathleen? Kathleen comes, she comes on screen with a garbage can and drops like DVDs of like, this is the uncut

original trilogy and just throws it in a garbage can? Like they, oh man. JPEG should also start wearing the sting face paint as well. Oh yeah. Dun, dun, they, oh, man. JPEG should also start wearing the Sting face paint as well. Oh, yeah.

Statistically, it is likely that Disney owns the Crow, and we just have missed it. That's true, yeah. Somewhere in there. It ended up at Fox 2000's portfolio at some point. Of course, they probably own that. The Crow, he's in Star Wars now. The JPEGxter says so oh what's this the last copy without mcclunky oops mcclunky this crack

and like cuts his own forehead with it yeah yeah shape it just blades on stage. I love this JPEG. I think that's good. The JPEGster, I think, is the way to, you know, because you don't have to like him. He's just got to get the job done. Yeah, that's true.

Well, then, okay, then DeMauro has to run in with a chair. Yeah, but the big twist is that he just turns heel, too. Oh, no. Everyone thought he was the good guy, but no, he's bad. Maybe he's worse. Tomorrow, you're not going to be so pretty when I'm done with you. And the big, yeah, it's like the NWO reveal was that Hogan was the bad guy. He was the mystery man.

Oh, sure, yeah. So it could do a similar thing where tomorrow, everybody, they thought tomorrow was daddy, but he's bad daddy ndo new disney order yeah exactly and i'm your new disney daddy and you're gonna like it and you know like there's a wrestling faction called the bullet club uh that generally they end up kicking out their leader a lot so like it's always kind of a turn on them when they're not expecting it so like eiger's like doing his final wave goodbye and then tomorrow and chapek attack him oh yeah yeah and uh he puts him kenny omegas finishes the one winged angel puts him on his shoulders and like drops him real hard aggressively and that's what chapek does to eiger through

maybe jumps off the stage at a D23 through some tables. Well, yeah, everyone notices it's like, oh, there's very elaborate like three-story scaffolding, two-story scaffolding. Wonder what that's for. You wanted your Yeti back so bad on Everest? Well, guess what we have a new Yeti.

It's Iger's dead body. We glued some fur on it. Boy, isn't that scary. And he's not going anywhere because JPEG says so. Man, he really should. This is the way. This is the future for him.

One thing before I go past P past pastamania which is that the i found picture oh wait two things uh what so yeah immediate decay it's gone so fast and then the inexplicable uh uh eventual like fate of the pastamania sign have you guys seen this that yeah what that the marquee was just sitting in like a vacant Minneapolis, St. Paul lot. Just like, and not over a door, just over a regular wall with a bunch of trash in the parking lot. Depending on, there's a lot of photos of this and you can get real sad with them if you want, because there's real bitter snow around there. Yeah. because there's real bitter snow around there. I don't know. I'm obsessed with how did the pasta mania sign

end up on some random like auto parts wall. It's so miserable, but I love it. It seems like someone bought it and then was told, get that out of the garage. I want to park my car in there. Somebody's wife. Yeah, somebody's wife is like, it was enough. Do you undersold how big it was

i thought it would hang on the wall okay we could we could buy a new car for the cost of this yeah instead it's taking up space put it somewhere go call your friend at the junk parts place you know there's more there's so much i mean hogan has it now like a real seemingly like kind of trashy place called hogan's beach which i believe is in tampa it's a new play like we don't have time on the show right now to even get i'm sure there's more funny pasta mania shit out there too but like yeah where did all the pieces go like all five pieces all five pieces i don't know there's that i mean i guess you're right there's not that much but it's acknowledged still to this day because did you guys see

that the mall of america has a log flume ride oh yes and they there is a paul bunyan and a babe the blue ox and i found photos of paul bunyan wearing a pasta mania torn shirt with a yellow chef's hat. His big axe. There's pasta dripping off of it. I don't have the photo, but there's pasta coming out of the ox's mouth. And he's got a big belt that says he's like the pasta champion of the world. And I saw these photos and I was like, that's so funny and cool that they promoted the opening of pasta mania by dressing up paul bunion no no no i kept digging this was for halloween 2019

wow that is so much cooler than what so many theme parks do acknowledging the weird history right of your place that is awesome that is like a knott's berry farm type of we know what the fans of the place want to say we're nodding to the history we don't hide from it yeah it doesn't cost a lot of money you know it's there for the people who want it you know yeah yeah geez awesome awesome yeah that is great yeah if you were yeah just didn't like you have to pay like a disney like two a couple hundred bucks to get like a retroney like two a couple hundred bucks to get like a retro night like that that might get close to acknowledging some dumb shit briefly they do it but like yeah they don't want to you could tell right um well what do you do you want to name

check anything else before before we wind it down well i mean i we didn't even get to the scott steiner shoney's restaurant which is sadly closed now scott steiner is one of the the beefiest men in wrestling i would say uh big papa pump is his nickname okay he only scott let me let you know he only cares about two things his freaks and his peaks uh and what are his peaks his peaks are his muscles a peak yeah like they like it's a mountain you know like when he's showing the bicep off and he says his peak okay uh and he uh that's what shapex says about but he means the disney means he means the mountain disney mountain yeah he really shouldn't call the fans a freak so that seems like counterintuitive well he's a heel now though yeah uh so uhoney's, though? Big Bad Booty Daddy is another nickname. Okay.

Yeah, so he, I forget if he actually owned it. I think he was a franchisee, basically. Uh-huh. And he had a big opening. I guess we could put some pictures up, but he had a big opening in Hall and Nash, Kevin Nash, Super Shredder. They were there, some other friends of the WCW days. And they're all posing with Shoney Bear. Scott is, you know, Scott usually.

What's Shoney Bear? Shoney Bear is a mascot of Shoney's. I've never been, or if I've ever, like, there's no Shoney's around me growing up, so I don't know anything about Shoney's. There was one Shoney's around us as a kid, and it was only there for a brief moment. And we went once. And as a kid, I it was only there for a brief moment and we went once and it as a kid i was like this sucks this is like it's a kind of a breakfasty place but the toast was burnt the meal wasn't very good again for a kid to notice it means it's probably pretty bad yeah but did you ever go

to shoney's no i used to confuse with perkins there were perkins here and there growing up but shoney bear yeah was just basically like kind of a generic teddy bear uh that was the man is it probably still the mascot of shoney's so scott had uh yeah franchised this location and and it's great because where was where was this guy's oh shoot my phone is now uh dead so could you look up yeah yeah and specifically for the listener he is usually wears like a chainmail headpiece yes combined with oakley sunglasses or at least one of those two things often both at the same time so imagine that next to the shonies logo ackworth georgia there you go interesting and this is only a started in 2016 yes And the pandemic killed it? It's recent.

And yeah, he usually, my phone is here. Usually Scott looks like this. Okay. But then he had like the shirt on, like the shirt and tie. He did wear a shirt for his Shoney's. Yes. And he had a little like a memorabilia case of all Scott Steiner related, you know, title belts and pictures and stuff.

But yeah, Nash Hall, Scott Steiner with Shoney Bear. Wow. steiner related um you know title belts and pictures and stuff um but yeah nash hall scott steiner with shoney bear wow right there is one of my favorite photos great um and there's a really scary looking picture with this is now accepting applications of like scott steiner with both of his uh peaks out oh yeah he's flexing uh and it looks really scary, like you're applying to a haunted house or something. Yeah. Are you man enough to work at my Shoney's? Yeah. Are you man enough to clean my restroom?

Yeah. Yeah, can I have off to go to prom on Friday? What do you think? Maybe the peaks can answer to that one, freak. He was also, Jeff Jarrett was there at the opening in Buff Bagwell to WCW Legends. And just fantastic. It's closed now, sadly, I think during the pandemic. But I never got to go to the Scott Steiner Shonies.

What do we give the belt to of everything we talked about? Today? Now that we've thrown in Scott Steiner Shonies. Well, let me throw one more menu item I forgot to shout out. I't think we said it uh crush rooms we didn't say crush rooms the episode almost ended and we didn't crush room crush rooms is so good what a failing that would have been thank you mike yeah that's the best one yeah crush room rush room bringing violence into the act of eating yeah rooms okay well there's no question with that if there was any question i think so mushrooms i think the the the world's heavyweight wrestling related

restaurant title to the championship of the world obviously goes to the wcw nitro grill i think so until cardonas can get up and running off the ground which i think i should pitch him that it should go in the giant indoor water park that the showboat hotel that he has wrestled at a couple times now i feel like is building as they wait for their gaming license to come back online seems like a good place to invest your money yeah yeah for it matt um and yeah until until tony khan uh reaches out to us and we help him make the first aw restaurant yeah yeah which yeah um well again we got luck on our side we helped matt we brought back planet hollywood and i think this is one of these endeavors is going to happen by virtue of us talking about it uh in this uh in

this big boy of an episode very big are you big boys at home happy with your content did you chow it down like a bunch of big plate of hoky youth then if so you survive podcast the ride wrestling restaurants edition boy that was fun that was great Hey, more Celebruary to come on both the second gate and the main feed. So much fun to come. Yeah. Did we save the best for last? We maybe saved the weirdest for last. The weirdest, for sure.

Yeah. That seems right. Do I have the plug things in front of me? Hey, thanks, Aaron, for the Celebruary logo. Follow all the celebrity happenings on our twitter at podcast the ride merch available in our t public store uh and for one last celebrity celebrity episode this month and the one that just dropped about uh fashion cafe and mariah's cookies go to patreon.com slash podcast the ride yeah uh should we make

jason cut a promo as we leave on one of his favorite foods or like or like oscaring the concept of oscaring yeah like the challenge it like that it's something that he that thinks it won't be devoured by jason but it will right uh maybe oscar like yeah i'm gonna ask you so yeah you're a wrestler and like that's one of your things is you're not gonna beat somebody but you're going to Oscar them up. So you're right. Okay. Let's see. You're having a feud with like another,

like you're feuding with Nick Weiger. It's a podcast feud. Okay. Uh, dough boys host Nick Weiger. And you're basically saying you're going to beat him up, but you don't see you talk on only food terms. Okay. So that's the prompt here.

All right, Nick, Nick, listen to to me i know you're hearing this i want you to listen to me right now you're weak right now you've been a fit guy in the past but you're coming off a year of not eating meat and so i i feel pretty comfortable in saying that i am going to oscar the hell out of you and i have a leg up and the nutrients and the delicious tangy flavor of crab mixed with a savory egg-based sauce a mother sauce if you will oh yeah he's gonna be a real motherfucker for you son oh wow i like the methodical character you have yeah you know he's not putting the voice on he's he's confident in his abilities and he's just a stone cold killer but he's crazy and he's got a

vast supply of bernays sauce yeah he's gonna make all other podcasts like steve i drive a beer truck but the hose sprays bernays sauce in the ring or just that to them like like there was a match where orange cassidy pushed chris jericho into a giant vat of orange juice but it's it's warm sauce it's congealing that sauce also is very difficult to make and like you got to eat it fast before it congeals oh my god oh my god is that that's a dorsey brothers song jason sheridan is in the arena oh my god what's that yeah what's that it's a big band song my god he's clinking clanking crab legs together we know what's about to come oh yeah and it's not it's like the um the warriors but instead of coke bottles it's

stone crab legs on my fingies a wiger crab shall you eat in the year 2022. There's a crab and there's a, there's a gimmick called the, uh, the brood. They were like vampires. They would do a blood bath and maybe there's like a crab bath. So there's a wrestler in the ring and crab just falls from the ceiling. Crab and old base.

Just stinging the eyes. I know you're a heat seeker Weiger, which is great. Cause you're going right to hell. He's just like, you know, actually not bad. Three forks. Okay, buddy. Hey, that was fun.

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