The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Fee Fi Fo Fumming Through Life (feat. Braun Strowman)

Episode Date: November 4, 2025

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... yeah." Braun Strowman is our new best friend, and he's here to tell us all about his new show called 'Everything On the Menu,' give Chris Cote some lubricity advice, and answer Zaslow's sucka questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Now is a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Quervo. What are you doing here? Quervo. Anytime someone says quarevo, I show up. Well, I do know that to be true, but even during and reads, like... Quervo.

I think he could lay out, especially from one of our great partners. Sweet, delicious quervo. Since then, Cuervo is stayed true to its roots. The same family, the same land, the same passion. Quervo. So, enjoy the tequila that started it all. Quervo. Quervo.

The tequila. That invented tequila. Broximo.com. Please drink responsibly. Quervo. This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugats podcast. The start of the day, start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, start of the day.

Start of the day, start of the day. This year, start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, in this year, start of the day. Stat of the day is presented by Amazon Prime Video. Thursday night football is on. The Las Vegas Raiders take on the Denver Broncos. Coverage begins Thursday at 7 p.m. Eastern, only on Prime Video.

Jeremy, what do we got? Per Hunter Volpe. Travis Kelsey's first four games this season. 15 catches, 182 yards, and one touchdown. Travis Kelsey's last five games after a song about his penis was released. 30 catches, 258 yards, and two touchdowns. Nice. Better.

There you go. Nice. More Dick songs. That's what we need. Yeah, Uncle Dick. Is that what we need? Start of the day. Start of the day.

You guys wanted to call him, Edanus Haslam. All right. Disrespectful so-and-so. It's like every now and then, UD gets them playing time after seven games running the pond. Hits that baseline jumper. Hits that baseline jumper and you're like, wow. Aren't they building a statue of UD? He still has it.

Aren't you building a statue of yourself? I'm thinking about it. Yeah? In your lawn? Yeah. What would be the pose? I'm not sure yet. That's a good question.

What do you think the neighbors would say? I think they would be a guest. They would laugh because they would assume it's not there for a long period of time. Do the pose that stand up and do the pose that you've always done. You're famous, like, you know, if you were to flex and be a bodybuilder. I think this is what it should be. Famous Greg Cody. This is a famous Greg Cody.

I've seen him do this. You just mean the regular one or just? I don't know what that was, but I liked it. Yeah. Wow. Gizzy Sean Michael's vibes. That's not an action shot of what you've seen him do, though. No, that's not.

He screwed it up. It's not exactly. It looks like him. Rest in peace, Victor Conte. I screwed it up as my, it's my thing. You do it, it has like your front foot. and you're like well that's what I just did no but you were like crouched over oh you know oh that thank you I mean jeez I mean the one where you go like this there you go

like that he's been doing that my entire wow yeah is that like a conquering hero you put your foot on the carcass of the person you just I think so yeah you know that is the statue that is the set yeah but it's gonna cost me like 6k yeah but I mean you know money's you know you can't take it with you when you die exactly I could leave it to my kids but why bother Ingrates? Never. This guy called Eudanus Haslam.

That's a compliment. No, it's not. Christopher's laughing. He's going, he's kidding, right? We're going to get money, right? You act like you control your money? Well, I was about to say I control my wife, but that's not true either. Hold on.

So the last will and testament of Greg Cody, is it specific in there? Does it get the specifics of the... I can answer this, yes. Oh, it does? How do you know? Me and mom have talked about all this stuff. Really? You guys are getting old.

Wow. So, and it's like this much goes to charity and this much goes to charity. Charity. Who's that? Who's that? Charity. Does it go to you, Chris, or does it go straight to your kid? No, it goes, I am the, because my brother, I have a brother.

Yeah. And one of us had to be kind of put in the, and I'm the responsible one, believe it or not. I'm going to have to have a talk with my lawyer about that. What are we talking about here? Like a 50-50 kind of deal? I don't know. I didn't know there were any specifics. Telling you, he doesn't know guys.

Really? They're doing this behind your back tonight. You got to go. Speaking of Will. This is ridiculous. I should know all this. Power of attorney. Why is your mother working behind my back, Jack? It's called just planning for the future in case something horrific happened.

Are you sure that it's been planned? I have a folder. Gotcha. He's got a folder? How is he being left out of these decisions? I'm telling you he's aware of this. He just doesn't remember anything. Okay.

I don't know about that. Yeah. Thank you. I don't trust this. You may want to rehash some of this, Greg. You may disagree with some. Damn right, I will. You go home.

I'm going to review and... You should get a couple statues. Now that I think about it, you should get a couple statues, spend their inheritance on yourself in the last couple of years. You got five statues instead of one. Six K. One's fine. And then this is what you do.

You leave the statues to them. Yeah. You want here's a great hold of value. Sell that. Sell it. It's a tangible. You keep it. It's an heirloom.

Put it in your front yard. And like any good statues can be slightly larger. than life. Oh, yeah. Maybe. I'll be like 6'1. Wait, your height, you mean? Not counting the pedestal.

Oh, okay. I saw some graphic on social media where it was just every president and their height and weight, and I was just playing the game of like, who am I? Who am I, and I'm, Theodore Roosevelt. Wow. Look at you. Get you some glasses. He was like 510, around 220.

Slick your hair back real good. 220, huh? Teddy. On a good day. Spelled. Just the closest one I could find. How about a bad day? Let's talk about the bad days.

Go 20. A night of bowling A little Miller lights in you Only 96 calories That gets the 3.2 carbs How about that Flanagan's? Miller Light just got me Going back to Kendall

I want to go back to Kendall. This right here, that should be the Greg Cody statue Performing in Vegas as the front man of the heath three Look at holding up the hand, got the microphone at the mic stand Fake singing back there I'm actually singing

I can't believe as a white man You look so much like Ray Charles there It's incredible It's the last time I've dressed up It's almost like Camie It looks If I didn't know that it happened for real I would say this is Photoshop

It's Sora, yeah Sorry it would Have someone else singing for some reason Are you in the Hall of Fame? Not your band But are you going to watch the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction? I think I will

When is that aired? I think this weekend It's on Disney Plus So not on YouTube TV. Rock and Roll All of Fame is like on somewhere every year different. Like it's a different platform. Can I say something I discovered for the first time just how many people have YouTube TV because they won't stop whining about.

I'm like, oh my God. I finally found. Get Hulu. I finally found where I'm not crossing. And it's this ESPN unlimited stuff. And I'm in WWE fans as you know this. I love WWE. I'm punting on the product and like this whole thing.

that they're doing with YouTube TV, getting the ACC coaches to be like, wow, YouTube is so bad. Get out of here with that. What's happening? I'm not understanding. It's a power play to get you to get ESPN, what is it, unlimited? That's the new ESPN app right. That's their direct-to-consumer service.

You know what I realize is I don't get the channels that I pay for with the ESPN app anymore. Like I have a cable package and through a different carrier. I also have YouTube TV because I like to spoil myself during the full. football season. Okay? So I get it. Like, all right, my YouTube carrier. I don't get ESPN that way. But I have Xfinity. That's what my login is. And I can't watch like ESPN 2 live. I was trying to watch a rambling wreck over the weekend. And the app, number one, it sucks. Terrible app. Bad app. Laggy. Sound is all bad. Multi-view is super behind. I don't like the app right now. They got work to do on the app. But I try to watch the rambling wreck because I don't have a cable outlet

directly into my TV in my bedroom and something that I was able to do before, I can't do anymore. No, you need ESPN Unlimited to watch a cable channel you pay for because that's ESPN unlimited now. I don't like this. I'm not supporting this. It got me picking between Disney and Google. That's how bad this is going. I'm not going to watch. Look, WWE's got to give me a reason to watch too. That product is flat out. Are you just a sucker? I enjoy. Don't ever call me a sucks. Are you a sucker? Because Mike says he's out. And you're in. I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that.

It's bad stuff right now. I watched Raw last night. Raw was good. You see this attendance? The attendance is cratering because the TKO was a purse. They specifically did not show the upper deck last night. Upper deck was definitely tarped off. Yeah, not a good crowd.

They overplayed their hand, man. They overplayed their hand. Why are the people turning away girls? Very expensive. It's always been expensive. All the public comments, they're overtly political now. They have really capitalist prices that don't make sense. It's outrageously expensive.

The prices are going one way while the economy's going the other way, and they expect people to just keep buying this stuff, which is, by the way, the product totally diminished. Predictable, the cards aren't good anymore. They're not giving you a reason to watch. I don't like it. And if it's at the crux of this whole ESPN unlimited thing, I don't think the product's had a place where I should pay for it.

Speaking of Raw, by the way. That's the hardest one to hold. I mean, you heard me yesterday complaining about the prices for John Cena's last match. It'll be in serious, there. I thought that was for tickets to, get in place. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's for tickets, but all these other shows have tickets, and you purchase them to go. They've gone from sold out arenas. It was not a good crowd last night. 25,000 for their, their flagship shows, Smackdown and Raw. Like,

not even their PLEs, to get in like 5,000, maybe if you're lucky? Only the lower level was filled last night. I feel like this would be a much bigger story if it were a mainstream sport or even, or even like a concert series, right? Like, whenever so-and-so has to cancel tour because they couldn't sell enough tickets. But that's never possible for wrestling. They're never going to cancel the show. Yeah, because they have a weekly because of the TV. Commitment to Netflix and USA Network. But we've been sounding the alarm bells.

Like, wrestling fans have been sounding the alarm bells for months and months and months. Like, you guys aren't fan-friendly right now. Your prices don't make sense. It's good, though. I'm glad to see there wasn't a lot of people there because maybe they'll adjust the prices sometimes. They're doing things like ripping WrestleMania is away from towns that they already announced. They announced New Orleans. No, it gets to go to Vegas for back-to-back years. No one likes that.

January, Royal Rumble, which is probably their second biggest show of the year. It's in Saudi Arabia. Yeah, which next year, Saudi Arabia is also getting WrestleMania. Terrible. They're making bad decision after bad decision, and they're wondering why their crowds are thinner. And they look in the mirror. They had a terrible WrestleMania season. They wasted all the buyer buy-in that they had from their biggest fans after

WrestleMania 40, which was a great event. They botched his whole John Cena. I mean, I think it really does ball down to ticket prices are outrageous. They're outrageous. I think that's by far. They're outrageous. Not in this context of John Cena's last show. No, no, but the product also fell off.

It was a red-hot product. Well, if only we could talk to an expert about this. Because I do think that there are certain things plaguing the fan base at Braun Strowman, who worked at that company for a very long time. It is aware of TKO's business practices. Maybe he can shine some line on them. Let me ask this, though. Like, in the content, you're saying the ticket prices out of whack.

Yesterday we talked about John Cena's life. last fight, $500, well, $500. Right now, because I'm going, I just don't know the tickets yet, cheapest ticket in the lower level is $500. But what it would be a typical, a typical, a typical WrestleMania or a typical Smackdown or a typical Raw. Like if this was a few years ago, like before all of this. If this event was a few years ago, like essentially before TKO bought WWE, let's do it like

that, the cheapest ticket to get in the lower level, I'd say, me, I don't know, $125 maybe. Quick time out here. Talk to you about the official ticketing partner of the Dan Leibon. Tart Show, speaking of course, about game time. The Game Time app gives the advantage back to you fans. It's the hack for unlocking amazing tickets and experiences in just a few taps. It's incredibly easy to use, and the Game Time Guarantee means you'll trust that you'll get 100% authentic tickets on time and at the best price.

Plus, fees are always included, so what you see is what you pay. They got favorites, they got zone deals, they get panoramic seat views, my favorite feature, the low-price guarantee, and GameTime's unparalleled ticket coverage, which means your purchase is covered with the most flexible customer service policy in the ticketing industry. Take the guesswork out of buying NFL tickets with GameTime. Download the GameTime app, creating an account, and use code Dan for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Again, create an account and redeem code D-A-N for $20 off.

Swipe, tap, ticket, go. Download the GameTime app today. Thursday night football is on, and it's only. Only on Prime Video. This week, it's an old-school rivalry as the Las Vegas Raiders collide with the Denver Broncos. Coverage begins at 7 p.m. Eastern with football's best party, TNF Tonight. Not a prime member, not a problem. Simply sign up for a 30-day free trial.

It's the Raiders and the Broncos on Thursday at 7 p.m. Eastern only on Prime Video. Restrictions apply. See Amazon.com slash Amazon Prime for details. Get no frills delivered. Shop the same in-store prices online and enjoy unlimited delivery with PC Express Pass. Get your first year for $2.50 a month. Learn more at pceexpress.ca. Dan Lebatard.

My algorithm on Instagram is dance all boobs. Stugats. It's a good algorithm. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. Well, I'd like to welcome Braun Strowman on. He's got a cool show to promote a mean. Can you lob that up for a guess? Absolutely.

It's called Everything on the menu, and it airs Friday. It's at 10 Eastern on the USA Network. It is a travel and eating show. Braun Strowman's here with us. W.W.E. Wrestler and was once a W.W.E. Universal Champion. Before we get into what we've been arguing about right here, Ron, The premise of your show is you go to a restaurant and you order everything on the menu, not to taste, but to eat it all? Oh, my God.

Well, to try. Some of the restaurants, it's impossible to. Some of the restaurants, I have no problem crushing their entire menu. The premise behind the show is I do two restaurants every episode. The first restaurant is kind of the nostalgic signature dish for the city. All those restaurants I did were open 50, 60 years. So you're getting in there, you're hearing the backstory of what's gone into keeping their restaurant going, why the customers come back. I've talked to customers that have been eating there their entire lives.

And then you have the realization that you're taking a bite out of American history when you're eating this. And then the other restaurant that I do on everything on the menu, think about how many times you've gone out to eat and you're sitting down, you're seeing people's food come out. You're like, man, that looks good. Whatever they're having, that looks good. Well, that looks good. Now you're looking at the menu. You're like, man, everything looks good on here. And I can't make up my mind what I want to eat.

Well, neither can I have. So I order everything on the menu. man so so what is what is a typical meal for bronze like how many calories are you in taking at these restaurants in a sit down oh man so they've been doing some calorie counting and stuff like that it's a lot of preparation that goes into this because i don't eat like this on a day-to-day basis i would love to but i wouldn't look like i look so you know there's a lot of prep that goes into filming an episode of this with you know i do like fasting beforehand i'll do an hour of cardio in the before I go to eat.

And then I'll do the big pig out on everything on the menu. And then I won't eat again for 24 to 36 hours again after that. And then I make myself before I break my fast, I'd make sure I work out, I do cardio, and then I earn that meal again. So everything just doesn't go to my love handles is I still gotta take my shirt off on TV eventually. I got a bunch of cool stuff coming down the pipeline in 2026,

more big screen stuff that we'll talk about when I'm allowed to talk about and things like that. So trying to stay in shape while I'll stop getting out here doing this. And it was absolutely, it was so much fun because like I said, I've always been a big food guy. I mean, I don't get 350 pounds by accident, you know. And for me, with working with WWE and the blessings that came along with that, getting to travel around the world and try literally pretty much every walk of life cuisine that you could think of, really open my eyes to how much I like trying new things and experiencing things. And one of my favorite things to do

now is taking people out to eat and getting them to step outside of their normal comfort zone and trying new foods. And that's kind of the premise behind everything on the menu. It's the ultimate cheat meal show for the bodybuilders and the people that are dieting and doing stuff out there when you need a relief. It's the show for people that, you know, can't make up their mind what they want to go out to eat or people that are afraid to try new things. And, you know, I'm not this overly educated human when it comes to the culinary space.

I learn food by trying it and traveling and, you know, doing all this stuff. And when I watch these food shows that are out there that I love and all these chefs, and stuff that are amazing and what they do. There's times when I get like, I don't know what you're talking about. So for me, I like to think this is a blue-collar approach to not necessarily fine dining because it wasn't all about fine dining. It was from Greasy spoon mom-and-pop kitchens to soul food to roast beef sandwich shops to three-star Michelin restaurants and everything else in between.

But for me, everybody has taken a bite of something in their life and it makes you close your eyes and just go, mm-hmm. So there's a lot of grunt. and there's a lot of groaning and, you know, explaining it and kind of like, I don't know, layman's terms or whatever. I'd like to think that I'm just, you know, I'm larger than nature intended. I'm a redneck that's had so many amazing jobs. And, you know, now it's my opportunity to do more stuff that I love, which is putting smiles

on people's faces, man. At the end of the day, food is an opportunity to bring people together for a conversation to sit down to catch up, to Kendall new relationships, to fall in love, to talk about life. And that's what it's all about. And a lot of that shines through on everything on the menu with my interactions with the customers, the owners, the chefs, getting back in the kitchen, getting my hands dirty. And, you know, breaking the proverbial stereotypes when you see human beings like me and you think, oh, this guy's just Fifi Fofo Fong. Well, don't get me wrong, I fee FI foe on my way through

life for a good while. It was pretty damn good at it. But now I have this opportunity to be a little more articulate, getting out here, breaking these stereotypes, showing that I'm compassionate caring. And I have one hell of a educated palate, at least what these chefs have been telling me. And, you know, James Beard Award winning, Michelin, Michelin certified I'll take their opinions. Ron, what's been one thing on the menu that you've confronted that's been the biggest challenge to eat, something that you really never, ever would have ordered

and didn't particularly like? I don't know about never ordered. I mean, one of the things, crazy things, we shot the pilot episode to get all this stuff going at a place in Kiwaskan, Wisconsin, called Great Outdoor Supper Club, and they had a 96-ounce prime rib on the menu. Side-e-old.

To the Great Outdoors with John Candy and stuff like that. It was pretty funny in that. You literally pick it up like a loaf of bread and just start taking bites out of it. For me, it's a lot of experience and new things. Edison Food Laboratory and Kitchen in Tampa changed my whole perspective on lamb and peas. Like, I've hated lamb and I hate peens my entire life.

But whatever they did with that braised lamb shank and they paraded the peas and put it completely changed my mind. And the same thing with so many things. Like I think back in my childhood that I hated and my parents used to force me to eat. and I'm like, ugh. And now, like, as, you know, you mature and your palate changes, or maybe the fact, like, my parents make steamed Brussels sprouts,

and I hated them, and now all the Brussels sprouts are, like, deep-fried with bacon and stuff in it like that. So maybe that's what it is, but I don't know it. The show is everything on the menu. It airs Friday's 10 Eastern on USA Network. He's Braun Strowman, former WW Superstar. Braun, you're recognized everywhere you go. I mean, you're too big, all right?

So people recognize you everywhere. Do you, are you open to people coming up to you wherever you are? Is there a time where you don't like fans bothering you? What's that like? I mean, for the most part, it's always a blessing. There's times where it can be a little taxing, like hanging around a baggage claim at the airports and stuff like that. Or mid like eating, like I'm literally rifling food down my gulla and get tapped on the shoulder while. Like I appreciate it.

There's a time and a place for everything. Like at the end of the day, we're still all human beings. But, you know, the day that stuff like that stops happening, the day that I need to worry that people are forgetting about it. So while at times it could be like, you can see me be a little, in the back of my mind, I still am appreciative of it, even though like I get grumpy because there's only so many minutes in a day and I try to be as welcoming as I can,

but there's times when I'm in a damn hurry and sorry, get out of my way. Braun, our resident monster among men, Chris Cody, is doing a food challenge tomorrow. He has to eat 99 chicken nuggets. Now you gave some tips, do some cardio, fast a little bit. I don't think that's in my boy's locker. or any other tips for tomorrow's big day. But you've got to give him the time span. He's got to do it in basically a little over three hours.

Should I get stoned? Oh, yeah. It probably would help, at least allegedly, that's what I've heard. I don't know. So for me, I've never been like this, like, challenge, like, try to be competitively eating. I just eat a lot naturally. I mean, I've eaten, like, 90-something chicken wings in a sitting before. And things like that.

The only thing I think I was like maybe drink a bunch of water and try to stretch your stomach out beforehand or get really stoned. I don't know. What about sauce? Like I shouldn't go sauce, right? If I'm trying to eat a bunch of them? So you always think like, think about like Joey Chestnut and these guys and gals that wolf down a hundred hot dogs and whatever 12 minutes.

They're dipping in water. You need lubrication. You can't just dry, you know, water through life. So dip it in water? I should dip the chicken nuggets in water. I don't know. I feel like ranch has a little bit more lubricity, is that one? I think lubrication is what we're looking for?

I'll allow it. Lubricity. Lubricity. Let's ask you one wrestling-related question because we were talking about, like, wrestling aggregate sites have been making a lot of attendance dipping in the WWE. You were around the product. You've seen highs and lows. Around the time of your departure, it was towards this tail end of a red-hot resurgence.

having been having parted ways with WWE, we know you can get a call at any moment so we don't want to put you in a bad spot but TKO has kind of moved away from going to these smaller markets places at WWE would reportedly take a loss because Vince McMahon

thought it was important to be running shows there. I'm not trying to go to Saudi, Braun. And you got these big ticket prices and it's starting to catch up with the product. Do you think TKO is making a misstep here? I mean, I'm not sure. I mean, all that stuff is so over my pay grade when I was with there.

While for me as a talent, business to the side, I think all these little house shows and little shows that they don't do anymore is hurting the talent. Because the talent doesn't have an opportunity to go out and really refine their craft and find their niche and how to connect with the audience. When you're literally just plugging away every day at the performance center and you're being told what to do

while they have great coaches to set you up or everything, it don't work like that. This is live, like, and so many people, and I think that's why they rely on so many of the older talents still and call guys back and stuff just because people haven't polished their skills, I guess, enough, by doing these smaller shows. That's how I learned how to do it all. I had had four wrestling matches in my life when I debuted on TV. And the reason I picked it up and got so good at it so fast was because the dancing partners that I had with doing all these little ho-dunk talents is what I like to call. them is where I learned how to do this. I've wrestled Kane every night for, like, a year on all these house shows and stuff

like that. And it was, that's where I getting my reps. That's what I learned what worked. That's where I learned what didn't work. And as far as like the business side of things, I get it. You've got to make money. I mean, I'm sure they still owe a ton of money on this, you know, loan or whatever it took to, to purchase the company and stuff like that.

So, I mean, I can't even imagine what's going on and, you know, the minds of that side of the tracks. But like I said, that was so far out of side of mind for me. All I cared about was, you know, give me the script. I'm going to go out there to do the best I can with it, and I'll see you next week. Braun, do you have a great or memorable personal or travel story on the road with John Sina? I never could see John. He did a too.

That was a sucker question by you. Yo, don't ever call me a sucker. That was a sucker question by you. You said yourself, I'm going to be a sucker. Braun, what's the best food town you've been to on the road? So not for the show, but when you were wrestling, the town that you look forward to, like, oh, we eat good here. I always have a great time over in the Boston area.

There's Calloons up there that's been a huge focal point, and the wrestlers going and eating it. You know, the excitement of getting to eat at Rivera's Steakhouse when we're in Japan, the nostalgia behind that. I mean, for me, it's always exciting because every city has a different walk of life and culture when it comes to food. And, you know, getting to get in there and eat it,

it's just said, look at it. It's everywhere. I said, when we go to New York, or Buffalo, I'm looking forward to chicken wings, but I'm on the West Coast of sushi and Hawaiian barbecue and stuff like that, and everywhere else in between Texas, Bricke and North Carolina, hog, barbecue,

Florida, all the dang seafood. I just look forward to it. And I mean, at the end of the day, less life. Life's about experiences. It ain't about what you got. When you're laying in bed, dying, all you're going to have is your experiences.

And damn, I'm going to have as many of them as I can. Braun, what do you miss about wrestling, if anything? I miss being in the ring and being in the locker room with the boys. The rest of it, I need a break. From Searchlight Pictures comes Rental Family only in theaters November 21st. Earning rave reviews at Tiff, rental family is emotional, funny, and the feel-good movie of the year. Academy Award winner Brendan Fraser stars as a lonely American actor living in Tokyo who struggles to find purpose until he starts working for a Japanese rental family agency.

Along the way, he forges some surprising human connections and discovers unexpected joys within his built-in family. Experienced rental family, only in theaters November 21st. Don Lebatard. Is there back in my day? There is, actually. Are you not going to tell anyone? Wait a minute.

You guys, it's a Tuesday. It's a Tuesday. Stugats. Here's your guide. Greg Cody, with Back in My Day. Okay, here it is. Sorry. Adultery.

We are back. We are waiting for this one. This is the Dan Levitar show with these two gods. Like, can you give, I always like whenever I talk to pro wrestlers, I like asking about what. Now, I know the travel schedule is a little different these days for the active wrestlers, but like 10 years ago when you first started in WWE, can you describe what the travel schedule was like? Oh, my God. When I first got called for the main roster,

I said, one, yeah, not knowing the difference to when the headlocked in the hole in my ass. You get thrown in the... It didn't see in it. Getting the proverbial, you know, kicking the butt and getting out there and learning along the way the boss Vince at the time said, look, I know you don't know much about this,

but we're going to figure it out. I see something in you. He believed him, he gave me an opportunity, you know. And it was awesome. I mean, it was such a... Like probably some of the most fun was those early days of learning this and being terrified, you know, going out there. I mean, the 11th or 12th wrestling match I ever had was me and Restless Soul Brody Lee versus the Brothers of Destruction in Merit of Mexico in front of 12,000 people. And Kane and Undertaker refused to speak to me all day.

They said, we'll see you out there, kid. So that mortifying on that. And then, you know, being on the road, we would fly out Friday morning, do a house show, drive up to 300 miles. Saturday, do a house show, drive up to 300 miles. Sunday, either a pay-per-view or a house show, drive another up to 300 miles. Monday Night Raw, another 300 miles Smackdown, get home one or two o'clock on Wednesday,

have Thursday I'll back out again Friday. I did that for four and a half, three or four and a half years straight. And while it was amazing, it also was very, you know, taxing, you miss out on a lot of stuff. And that's what I'm, you know, kind of trying to catch up on right now is the things in life that I didn't have. opportunities for for being on the road you know for a decade working so hard and then the big thing for me now is with this show and stuff like that this is the first time in my life i've ever had a massive platform where i get to be adam shared it's unscripted it is me ad living everything i wrote this show i helped produce this show with my agent and a close friend of mine kevin um that did all this we did the pilot episode we got it all out and for me to have a chance to be Adam Scherer because the whole world knows that Bronzhroman is.

They've seen Braun. They know what he's capable, but he played a character on a show. This is the first time that I get to be me. And I keep telling everybody, watch this show. And if you don't believe me when I say this, if WWE would have ever just let me be Adam Scher, I would have ruled the world. Wow. Wow. Important update.

Lubricity, noun. Plural lubricities. The property or state of being lubricious. Also, the capacity for reducing. Guy, yes, sir. Look at that big brain on Braun. Martyr than the average bear. Just a little less hairy.

And bigger. Braun, what's the most scared you've been in a WW ring and why was it when Brock Lesnar punched you in the face? It definitely wasn't that. You ate a shot, though. Another sucker question. We tried to kill each other in that match and then we both had a realization. Like, this is a work, brother.

You want to just work? The poor cane sitting in the corner going, yeah, I'm not getting in between those two bulls. They didn't have that. Great learning experience and what awesome TV, right? For me, scariest moment. It didn't actually happen during a match or any of the match. It was after a match. It was when Bray Wyatt and I did the swamp fight together.

We filmed for 36 hours straight in Florida heat. Humidity with that and when I got home was taking a shower. I collapsed in my shower. Full body cramps had to have EMS hauled my big ass out of my house. It took six people to get me down the stairs on the gurney to get me out. Double line plumbed up. Four liters of sailing. So basically a gallon of fluid put back into my body to get me to stop cramping,

all kinds of my electrolytes and all this other stuff. And was that Monday Night Rawling next day? Ah, come on, man. That's right. Brian, I just saw the one-two combo you got from Brock Lesnar. Damn, buddy, you're a horse. I think I'm the only human being that's ever gotten hit by Brock like that and didn't go to the nether realm.

You ate that shit, and you were like, what's up? I'm still back here. Everything on the menu, the two-piece and the biscuit. Braun, I'm curious. I'm a huge Star Wars fan. It always fascinates me when I find out famous people are also Star Wars fans. I would imagine it's the same thing with wrestling. you find out, they're like, oh, this guy loves wrestling,

so who's the most famous person that it surprised you is a huge fan of yours and the W.E. George W. Bush. Whoa. It's a good one. How did you find out? I've been very blessed. I've formed a pretty good relationship with him.

I was up at their family estate earlier this year playing in their big charity golf tournament and stuff like that. It was really cool. Got to cook for the president, former president of the United States, grilling out, lobsters and stuff in Maine and getting out there, having fun. I haven't played golf in like 20 years,

so I did like three cool things. There was one hole. It was a $100 buying. It was a par three hole, and you got to use one of HW's old woods. And if you got it on the green, you got a George HW, like, gold token medallion,

and I weren't burned one, skipped it across the pond, and put it 20 feet from the pen, and got me a little gold coin. Braun, when I hear that your father is like the Babe Ruth of softball, what does that mean? So he's in four or five hall fames for slow-pitched sawball. He's the player of the decade for the 80s and U-Tripples-A ball. He holds single-season home run records.

He hit 491 home runs and 192 games with a lifetime batting average of 685. He was with, I didn't say that. That's funny that's sitting right next to me here. So this is the old loom little slugger poster, Blastin's old pop's right there. Wow. The apple hit every branch on the way out of the tree. But just a big burly man, like it was really cool

because he was with Easton and stuff like that. So I got to meet John Elway when I was a kid. I got like an autographed football. So it was really cool because like when my dad was playing slow pitch softball when baseball was really struggling, they would send him around to all these baseball stadiums and having put on hitting demonstrations in between the doubleheaders of the games. And my dad got really close with Pete Rose while doing all that

because Pete had seen him do it before. And all the guys were going back into the dugout in the locker room and stuff like that. And Pete was like, no, no, no, y'all need to stay out here and watch this. And they're like, this dude's not going to hit softballs out of here. I can't remember what field was, but they had a temporary fence up at the time because the baseball players weren't even hitting balls out. My dad hit 12 out of 15 pitches in the upper deck of the stadium. He's one of the only humans to ever hit a ball in the upper deck of the Astrodome.

He hit balls on the roofs of the apartments on the other side of Waverly Avenue at Wrigley Stadium or Wrigley Field. So, yeah, I always wanted to play softball. I did play softball for a while, but, you know, I was never getting out of that shadow. So in my mind, I was like, I got to go out and cast my own shadow. And, boy, I think this back sure has put a decent one on the planet. You've got to give Brony that same advice. Get out of your dad's shadow. Try something different.

It's not a 6-8-3-80, though. Bronny James, not a pet nickname that you have on Troman. I can see where that might have confused him. I love that. Again, the show is called Everything on the menu. It airs Friday at 10 Eastern on USA Network. Bronz, Trollman, thanks for joining us, man. Thanks, all so much for the time.

Great chat, fellas. Yes, sir. That was fun, man. I want to be best friends with it. What do you think, Braun, it's amazing. I want to go, you know what I want, I want to go out to a restaurant with them because I'm one of those people I've always dreamt up being the guys

at everything on the menu and then I taste it and like take it all the way. It's a dream. But like that, to have the opportunity to do that like on a weekly basis. Get them down to Miami. Oh,

that's what we should have to ask them. He'll take them down in the Cuban spots. You'll have 8,000. He's still here. If you guys want to talk to him. Ron. Ron, yeah. He's there?

Oh, yeah. All right. So first of all, let me ask you. Have you done anything in Miami yet? Not Miami. We did Orlando and Tampa for Florida in season one. I heard you talking about Cuban sandwiches.

I went to the mecca of Cuban sandwiches. No, buddy, no, no, no, no, no. They do it wrong. They do it wrong up there. Disrespectfully disagree. Okay. Braun, I like you. I like you, Bron.

It's Miami, buddy. We could come down. We'll take care of you. Let's go. I'll actually be down Jupiter area probably in December and stuff or some business. So let's see if we can catch out. That's perfect. Also, shit, I didn't even forget.

I got to get you guys some of my tequila. So this is my retirement project. Kinteliza reprisato tequila that I've been working on with a close friend of mine here in Florida and stuff like that. So if you guys like tequila and you want to show me around Miami and change my opinion on Cuban sandwiches. We'll throw a couple back and go munch some Sammy's down. You can drink your tequila. We'll drink our very favorite corporate partner-sponsored tequila and we'll just have a nice big party. But the Cuban sandwich is, though.

The food, though. The food, though. We got a row of tequila. It's a tequila, that I meant the tequila. Thanks, Brod. All right, he said December, right? Yeah, so we're done. We'll set it all up.

Sing it down. You bring it in the studio. Get him on the bright line. I took the bright line today for the first time. Not bad. Not bad. Did you get a little morning pop there? No, man.

I'm an alcoholic? How about on the way back? You got it like... Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Drinkwell for the suck of questions.

You asked Braun-Stra. Yo, I know what's going on there? I thought you were a wrestling guy. What do you mean? What was a sucker question? You asked a bunch of sucker question. John Cena memory and you played yourself right into a you can't see me joke. Yeah, I didn't understand that.

Hey, bro, what's like to be famous? It's like, you remember when you were in the Beatles? You Chris Farley did, man. I never thought I'd see the day. Jonathan Zaslow, sucker. Wow. Yo, I'm going to tell you something right now. Y'all can go fuck yourself.

Oh! aggressive I think for the first time in your life you may have to identify the time you were a sucker he's eating it he knows it just 100 minutes some bullshit drinking it with some soda too he was involved in a wrestling mania program but you weren't getting that answer

because got a lot balls try to make me look stupid with a wrestler on dad you did it yourself my wheelhouse dad you ever been a sucker all the time all the time why I did that turn up in front of me Okay. Oh, okay.

What do you think of that? Kick saving a beep. Yeah, one of my favorite things, let me just say. I know it's not postgame yet, but I'm going to do something. Because sitting in this chair, I get a different perspective on the shipping container. Every time Greg starts to ask a question, Chris gets this look on his face like, what hell are you trying to say? Like, he just cocked the head.

I don't do that to me. You absolutely do. You kind of squint and you stare at your dad like, what the hell are you saying? Right. Sometimes I just want to make sure, like, where are we going with this? It does. Yeah, there is, like, a concern of literally where is this going. Right.

But also sometimes, just like, when you ask Diana Rusini about the dolphins. Chris is like, oh, Jesus. When I did. We had asked them, like, we asked her six questions. And my dad's like, one more. Well, she hadn't been asked, but I wanted to ask. But at least you're better than Levertard, who always rephrases what I just said. I believe that was a two-part follow-up, too.

Oh, yeah. Two questions. Dan would have lost his mind. Why do we do that to guess? Ask him one question. question. You can ask you two questions. Number one, and number two.

They teach you not to ask two-part questions. That's what. They didn't teach me that. I wrote the book. I write the rules on asking questions. Nobody teaches me that. This isn't a journalism thing? That's when I got to ESPN.

They told me, hey, by the way, never ask a two-part question. You never get two good answers. That would be the argument. No, it's not a good argument, though. Okay. It's not a good argument. Never ask a yes or no question. That one, too.

Open any questions. Yeah. Where is the best place? Not is this the best place, right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I learned something. Okay, what else? What are the other rules? There aren't that many rules. Well, like, there are no bad questions, only bad answers. Yeah, but some questions breed bad answers. That's true. And so the two-part question, the argument is, right? If you give a two-part question, you're going to get a bad answer to one of them. Well, the question I always hate hearing from other reporters is when you ask a question that isn't really a question. When someone has just had a great game and you go, Great game today. What's the question? What's the worst question you've ever heard? Ever heard? Oh, man. There used to be a radio guy.

This is a new and an improved down-lebatar show with the Stugas. Gamble on by Drafkins. Now is a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented Tequila. Quervo. What are you doing here? Quervo. Anytime someone says, Cuervo, I show up.

Well, I do know that to be true, but even during... And reads like... Quervo. I think you could lay out, especially for one of our great partners. Sweet, delicious quervo. Since then, Quervo is stayed true to its roots. The same family, the same land, the same passion. Quervo.

So, enjoy the tequila that started it all. Quervo. Quervo. The tequila. That invented tequila. Broximo.com. Please drink responsibly. Cuervo.