The Nateland Podcast - #46 Professional Wrestling

Episode Date: May 12, 2021

This episode, we're talking about professional wrestling. The guys look at some of the greatest moments in wrestling history, debate who the greatest professional wrestler of all time is, and look at some of the funniest unscripted moments in the history of the sport.   Co-hosts: Brian Bates ( https://www.instagram.com/brianbatescomic) & Aaron Weber ( https://www.instagram.com/realaaronweber)   Podcast produced by Nate & Laura Bargatze Recording & Editing by Genovations Media https://www.natebargatze.com https://www.allthingscomedy.com https://www.genovationsmedia.com Email - [e-mail]   For 20% off your first order, visit MACK WELDON.com/nate and enter promo code nate.    mackwedon.com/nate   solo Stove Go to SOLO STOVE.COM and enter promo code NATE for your FREE stand with purchase.    solostove.com 

Hello folks, welcome to Nate Land. I'm Nate Bargetzi, sitting here with Aaron Weber, Brian Bates. Welcome, everybody. It feels like, because we took a week off are we i mean we you know not really a week off but uh we were not here right uh i was somewhere i don't know where uh i had to go do what i have to go i went somewhere i had my high school golf tournament the monday donaldson christian. Yeah. There's the tournament. I don't know if I've told this story on here. It's one that it's now called the Nate Bargetti Golf Tournament. But it's for my high school.

And so I played in it this year. Last year I didn't play in it. I rode around and took pictures with everybody. And honestly, I just don't think anybody cares. It's truly, I go do it. And it was, you know, my dad was telling me that I should go sit at a hole and just meet everybody. But I mean, I was like, Dad, nobody wants this picture. Nobody.

I sit there. Last year I had, it was very funny. I had a kid come up and wanted to get a picture with me. He did want a picture. He was a big fan, and he said him and his mom listened to me all the time. He was nervous about taking a picture. And in that same group, a man comes up to me in that group and asked me if I was still doing comedy. They were in the cart together. They're like the same group of carts and that's it's funny it's like that's what's comedy that's comedy in a nutshell that's almost

how i would describe well what is it like being a professional comedian it is that it is the meeting one person that's very excited and you're like man this is, I can't believe that you're that excited to meet me. And then to meet another person that's golfing in a tournament that is named after me. And he asked if I still do – am I still doing it? Do you think it was a charity to raise money for you? Yeah, maybe. I mean, it could be. You're sick, buddy?

Where's this money going? You're like, just living costs, dude. I'm making nothing, dude. I'm still chasing this dumb dream. You know what I mean? Still getting after it. He knows I go fund me for you. Yeah, yeah.

You still bouncing around? Yeah, yeah, still. I mean, that's all you ever say. Yeah. Yeah, still getting at it. Just trying to plug along. Don't know what's really happening. Trying to stay busy.

Trying to stay, you know. Keep on keeping on. You know what I mean? Just going. Yeah, a couple Netflix specials. Not yet, but, you know. He goes, oh, Netflix still doing good? Yeah, they're still all right.

They're still all right. People are logging in, you know. They're getting in there. I mean, there's people. Because it is like if someone doesn't know what's going on. I mean, there's stuff. There's bands that I would not even know. Yeah.

And you would be, you know, One Direction was, like, the last kind of boy band that I remember. I was, like, kind of out of it with, like, boy bands or, like, knowing who they were. And One Direction was the last. And One Direction is, like, old now. Yeah. But they were, like, the one that I I was like, oh, is this like –

the first time I ever had the thought of like, oh, this is like the next boy band. And there's been a bunch since then. What's the ones – are they – All the K-pop bands that are – Yeah, the Korean. The Korean. Huge, yeah. Huge.

BTS, I think one of them is, yeah. They're so big. So big. People like cry and stuff. Oh, yeah. It's like the Beatles. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy them is, yeah. They're so big. So big. People, like, cry and stuff. It's like the Beatles. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. So, yeah.

And you'd walk up. You guys still doing music and stuff? How stupid you be. I was, like, a very nice – if you ever say something like that, someone said it once that didn't know me. I'm not saying you should know me, but I thought it was a very polite way to say it. They go, I mean, I am so ignorant to not know who you were like i thought that was like the

nicest way for them instead of going because you can be very insulting and go i'm sorry i don't like i don't know you like why would i know you yeah that like you say it in a very mean way but then for you to put it on you and go like, oh, I was ignorant. I'm ignorant not to have known who you were because I thought you were great. Yeah. Like if the BTS, you'd be like, oh, I'm sorry. I'm just not. I'm a loser.

You guys are amazing. Like that's a much nicer way to say, you're not in my world, dude. Like I don't do what you do. You know? Yeah. I don't know. No, that's totally true. I mean, and for you, that would be true. If they didn't do what you do. You know? Yeah. I don't know. No, that's totally true.

I mean, and for you, that would be true. If they didn't know who you are, they clearly aren't following comedy. But if someone said it to me, that would be a really nice thing to say, because how would they know me? Yeah. You could talk to them back. You go, no, no, you should be meaner about it. You would tell them that.

No, you definitely should not know who i i would actually if you came up and knew me i would be pretty skeptical about what's going on right now uh i'd be like what are you so what are you trying to get out of this man you know yeah uh yeah it's funny uh what y'all had stuff this weekend you had a uh did a bachelor party this weekend here we go yeah man got pretty crazy dude what happened uh do you even remember i do i do remember it wasn't while we uh friends my brothers went to cabin and mineral bluff georgia spent the weekend there all your brothers yeah even the one that graduated from purdue yeah both of them yeah that was nice oh look at that dropping some knowledge he knows my family yeah i thought you only had a sister so

i didn't know you had brothers yeah you had two yeah first i'm hearing about it might have been uh but it was fun i think we hearing about it. Yeah. Might have been. But it was fun, man. No, I think we talked about it on here. Yeah. A little bit. Everyone wants Notre Dame except one brother, right? That's right. My younger brother didn't go.

He went to Purdue. Yeah, right. It is funny when you talk to someone and they're like, oh, my brother came. You're like, oh, yeah. I don't think I've ever asked about your family. But you talk to like, there's people that, you know, John Crist has a bunch of brothers and sisters. He's a very big family.

He's one of six or seven or eight. And he could be someone that you're with for a while and you're like, you know, I don't want to ask you, do you have a brother or sister? There's like seven of them. You're like, seven? Yeah, dude. Wow. That's like, oh, man.

There's so many people I know just from comedy And then I've known them I've seen them like Five times a week For four years Yeah And then I'm like Where are you from?

Like I've never asked you Just about your life You don't do that Yeah Comedy is You know I mean It's

I don't know if it's a Man thing too Maybe Brian Regan had that great joke about getting a divorce. And you didn't ask him about it? Like, no. No, it didn't come up. It's on the golf course.

Yeah, on the golf course. It didn't come up. It didn't come up, their divorce. I asked him about his new driver. Yeah. Yeah. Where did you get that? Yeah, I do think there's probably a man thing in in it

but i there's a comic thing in it because there's female comics too that i don't think are asking anybody there's a very comedy i think is uh you're you're just kind of like you want to ask them about comedy if you're going to ask them something yeah so you're not going to then be like so what's your family like no yeah there's a uh yeah i think yeah i don't know it is a weird thing in comedy you don't really there's a lot of people i don't know do you know if i have siblings you do sister yeah i had no idea do you really have a sister yeah i had no idea he had a sister yeah yeah that's the same shot what is what are the odds? What is she doing? She's a little more successful comedian.

She's doing a little bit, yeah. She texted me the other day with a joke idea. Those are always just the worst. But she actually gave us something decent, and I tried it on stage this weekend. Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah.

We just thought I have a joke idea from my dad and sister yeah that uh i think can work first it's one of the first ones it's very hard to give a comic a joke it's very very hard and because you're not really give them because sometimes you give them it's almost like a weird how it gets presented it's got to just click with the person to be like, oh, yeah, I definitely could talk about that. Yeah. And like, that's funny. Right. Some of them are funny.

Maybe you're like, I'm just never going to be able to. It's not me. I don't. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it's because people do want to give jokes. Sometimes I think they do too much.

They try to give you the whole like, you know, and sometimes they get too little. They give you something you the whole, like, you know. And sometimes they get too little, or they give you something, and they go, but you do more with it. You know, just kind of a blank idea. That's like, you know what's funny? Like, airplanes landing, how are they landing all the time, right? Go ahead and go with that. And they send you off on, like, a research project. You should look into that.

There's something there. There's something there. You're like, yeah, there's something there. I had a joke about that. What's the etiquette of when a cat dies? What are you supposed to do when a cat dies? I said the word etiquette. And this woman comes up to me after the show and she goes,

I got something. And I go, what's that? She goes, would you talk about the etiquette of your cat? Etiquette? That would change the show right there wait what is this that we're at right i mean this guy comes on after you he's like hey man don't do that etiquette thing anymore like that's the the vibe of the room yes Shit. You know? You're a professional comedian. You're not that lady in the front row. Don't do that stuff.

And you're like, oh, I got that from that lady in the front row. That's who gave it to me. That would be... That's a totally different style of comedy. That would have been so different from everything else I was doing. I was just, etiquette, huh? Man.

And their response is, alright. I was doing that and I was just, etiquette, huh? Yeah. Man. Yeah. And their response is, all right. That's why I was like, oh, yeah, there's something. Yeah. I'll try it. Yeah. No, I never did. Yeah.

You ever had a headliner when you were coming up that gave you some lines you just didn't like, but you're working with him all weekend, so you feel- Like you have to try them? Yeah. Yeah. Because he's watching uh yeah i mean i had louis ck give me uh once after a show and he was he watched me uh he saw me at somewhere and i was running a tonight show and then he's like and i actually liked the way he was like breaking stuff down was like great but i was like yeah i'm doing the tonight show But I was like, yeah, I'm doing the Tonight Show tomorrow. Yeah, right.

Like it's, I'm not, this is not happening. I can't reconceptualize this bit right now. Yeah, it's like, I can't. It's like it is. But we were just talking, but it was like, it was nice to talk to him and like hear like his brain on like how he like thinks of a joke. But I mean, you know, that one, there was a moment of going like, I'm going to have to change this joke for the tonight show tomorrow. Like I've already had, you know, when you do a tonight show, people don't know you got to type your set out and they have to get approved by

standards and practices like the lawyers. So you have to type your set out basically word for word. And then, uh, sometimes you can later on be like, you kind of record the set and then maybe someone types it out for you. But, uh, but they, they, they have to see it approve it, to be like, you can't say this. You can't say, you know, I had, you know, I'd always have, like, I can't say Walmart, or I can't say. Jiffy Lube, or the place. Yeah, what was that?

Pet Boys. Pet Boys. I couldn't say Pet Boys, and that changed the joke of that. And so on this night show, I don't say pep boys and it's different it's not as good as you know it's you want to see this specific place uh and it's hard to like sell it's hard to like when you're you know you're you know it's like well just make up a different name that's not real and you're like it's not what this is though it's not it can't make it up yeah i mean you know.

Think about the comedian, the documentary where they made him change lupus to psoriasis for Letterman. And he was freaking out backstage about it. And I didn't understand at the time why that was such a big deal. Now it throws off a whole new rhythm. It's all. Yeah. Lupus is funnier than psoriasis. It is a funnier word.

Psoriasis is not that funny. It's a funny word. Lupus is a funny word. Psoriasis is not that funny. It's a funny word. Lupus is a funny word. Lupus sounds good, yeah. Yeah, it's crazy. You'd almost have to be like, well, I'm going to go a completely different – I'm going to have to change it completely. You start saying etiquette.

Etiquette, yeah. Yeah, what was your weekend? I've had a few but like I remember Mark Curry opening for him one weekend the very first night he watched my set and he came he gave me all these notes all these things oh you should do this this this it just wasn't something

I felt comfortable with but I'm like I gotta do it he's I'm gonna with him all weekend and then something happened like Lucy texted me the next day he had to cancel or something and I was so relieved because I'm like, I'm going to have to do all these jokes he gave me all weekend. I was so relieved to get out of that.

It's tough. It's tough when you give a comic a tag and stuff. The times it gets given to you the best is when someone's like, obviously, you don't have to do any of this stuff. I thought of it. I don't know. I don't know what i'm doing i heard early on i said do you mind if i give you a tag they're like as long as you don't mind if i don't do anything with it it's like okay that's fair yeah yeah take it or leave it yeah it's it's pretty tough i get tags god did i use uh i had justin smith with me in toledo i feel like he gave me something, and I might have used that.

Dustin Nickerson stopped by too. But I might have been – some of them I'd rather like an angle. Like if it's like people want to give you callbacks, that's the number one thing people want to give you, callbacks. And those are – like callbacks, I have a couple, but I don't love a lot of callbacks. I don't love any callbacks. So I will do some if they're naturally there,

but I'm not looking for – like they got to naturally feel like – You're not going to shoehorn them in for the sake of a callback. Yeah, there's a lot of times you could callback, but sometimes I won't do a callback even if – because if it's too obvious and I know the audience thinks, well, you could call that back. Yeah, I know. And you know I couldn't. And that's why I'm not doing it because you just called it back in your own head. Right. I don't need to call it back yeah i know and you know i could and that's why i'm not doing it because you just

called it back in your own head right i don't need to call it back too we're good we're good yeah like that's enough callbacking to go yeah we should have been i i shouldn't have done the joke so much that you think i should have called that back that's my fault on but there's uh that yeah brian regan had a joke like that where he was a callback that he'd never used the word In fact, that's my fault. But there's that. Yeah, Brian Regan had a joke like that where he was a callback that he'd never used the word. God, what was it? It was geese, moose. Yeah.

Like, it was like moose. Moosen. Flock of moosen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he says geese, goose is geese. And he says, but moose, you don't say moosen. And he didn't say meese. Yeah.

Because everybody thinks meese. And then he says moosen. So he gets two laughs out of one word. Because they're doing the callback in their head already. Meese is in your head. Meese is in my head. Meese is in everybody's head. So I'm laughing because I think you're about to say Mies.

Yeah. And then you say Moosen. Now I just got an extra laugh. Yeah. If he would have just said Mies, you would have, like, jokes over because I would have already laughed. I was already laughing at Mies. And then so I don't say it and I got it Moosen.

That's unbelievable. I remember seeing that. I was like, he got two jokes. He got two laughs out of one word. Yeah. That was one of my favorite. That's one of my, early in comedy, like, where you were like, you kind of start going like, okay.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Like, you're just like, you just see something. I loved it so much. He's playing 3D chess. That's what it feels like. This guy's, wow.

That's awesome. Yeah. Everybody's going to say Mies. Yeah. Pretty good. Brian Regan's a pretty good comic. He's still doing comedy? Still doing it.

Got a special out right now. Yeah. And what did you have? Did you say something about this weekend? Oh, I did Zany's this weekend. Good shows. Kid Rock was there one night hanging out. That was always fun.

Yeah. Yeah. Bobby. That's what they call him. Bobby. That was always fun. Yeah. Yeah. So. Bobby. That's what they call him. Bobby. That's his name. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I'll just call him Kid. Did you call him Kid to his face? No. But I didn't call him Bobby either. Mr. Kid Rock. Mr. Rock? Mr. Kid Rock. Mr. Rock.

Pleasure. True pleasure of meeting you. Yeah. And then he probably looked at you and he's like oh that's cool man you kids listen to me or something like that nah we're uh we're about the same age yeah he's in great shape for his age yeah yeah yeah he gets after it yeah uh shows were fun though yeah they're great they were packed out and tell people ready to get back out. Yeah. That's awesome.

Do some stuff. All right. So here we go. We'll start with some comments. That was a long before the comments. That was a long time. We still got to do a show. Yeah, we still got to do.

All right. All right. We got to get back and get it together. Here's the comments for the Canada show. Caitlin Blanchard. We talked about her. The Blanchard family.

The Blanchard family. I've definitely learned more during the episode than any other episode with 100% thanks to Graham Kay. He is so knowledgeable. I could listen to him spit out facts and give historical references all day. Is he married? Asking for a friend. In all seriousness, love the episode.

I love every episode. Don't ever stop. He is not married. I believe he has a girlfriend right now. But he's had many girlfriends. Caitlin Kaye, that's got a good ring to it. Yeah. Caitlin Kaye does sound good.

Is she saying, well, maybe for her. She's saying for a friend. I don't know if that's a joke or she's being serious. I took it as a joke. Yeah. Yeah, either way. Maybe Caitlin. Maybe it's you.

You know? Caitlin K. That is a good. Yeah. The Blanchard Ranch will be upset about it. You know? Ranch. They run a whole family.

The Blanchard Homestead is going to. The Blanchard Homestead's gonna The Blanchard Homestead The Blanchards are gonna be You can't just It's a family business Graham's gonna have to work the farm You gonna bring a foreigner in like that to work? That's what we call Canadians

Miriam Gregory Another French Canadian from Quebec here I have to put the subtitles from YouTube. Pause every 10 minutes to look up a word, and it takes me one hour to write a comment, but it's totally worth it. Oh, wow, because you're a French-Canadian. Yeah, that's a lot of work.

If you didn't, you know. She commented before, I think, when we were having weird names. I think we read it. I looked her up, some of her music, and you guys were like, you went a little too far. Yeah. Oh, yeah, you went too far.

I'm just glad she's still with us. Yes. She's still here. She's doing, yeah. Oh, yeah. Was she a singer? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And Bates, yeah, Bates is outside your house. Now I know you live in Canada. You're here. And she's like, what? And you go, hello. Yeah, now one more piece to the puzzle. Somewhere in Quebec.

French-Canadian from Quebec. That's a start. That's all I need. Kderfy33, I am a Newfie as well. And oddly enough, I used to live in Nolensville, Tennessee. Also a huge fan. I've been listening since episode one. Wednesdays are now my favorite day of the week.

Listening to your podcast is a great way to start the day. Keep them coming. He's in Newfie. Yeah, Newfoundland. And we lived in Nolensville. That's crazy. It's a big shock. Those two places.

Yeah. Just to be. Got to be the only person ever to live both of those. If I had to guess. Yeah, unless his family did it too. But yeah, you really could be. You are making history. And you're the only person.

If we ever have Nolensville and Newfoundland getting a war, you are going to, I mean, you're going to want to, you can write a book. We're going to want an interview from you to go. Which side are you picking? He's like, I don't know. One's a small town and one's a country. But I don't know. One's a small town and one's a country. But I don't know.

Nufi is saying I'm a Nufi is better than saying I'm a Nolan. Sam Weimer. I'm fully convinced that Aaron is secretly sneaking off to Planet Fitness all the time and working out. He's been looking slimmer by the episode. Gigs up, Aaron. You can't fool us. How about it? You got a sweat jacket on today. so how do you answer this, Aaron?

Is that your secret? You sweat it out? Yeah, I'll tell you. Aaron has been losing weight, losing a good bit of weight. Gained it a lot back this weekend. At the bachelor party. I kind of just went loose this weekend. Understandable.

Drinking, eating like an animal. You going to get back on the horse? I think I'm back on it now, man. Might as well. Might as well. You've lost how much weight? I was 50 pounds down before that. I put probably 10 or 12 on this weekend.

Down to 50 pounds. Yeah, 50. That's great. And you never announced it to the podcast. No, because I feel confident in it now that i can keep doing it but when you first start you're like yeah this could stop tomorrow and it wouldn't surprise me yeah i just read something on goals that i thought was kind of interesting most people if you're going to lose weight you tell people right so they'll hold you accountable but this said a lot

of people that backfires because they feel like they get that verification right out of the gate what they want and then they stop doing it whereas if you don't tell anyone you've got to earn it before they notice interesting yeah so if i were to post like the diet starts i'd get all the yes you can do it and that would make me feel good enough yeah i don't even need to lose yeah you're not motivated anymore you've already got the compliments yeah brad edwards comedian here in nashville he had a really funny bit and i and i did the same thing where like you have these moments where you you just take a picture of you with your shirt off on your phone and you're like this will be my before picture and then nothing happens and then you just scroll through your phone

like months later it's just all pictures of you just you know with no after picture. Yeah. I have a before and after picture. But I can... I've been told... I've been telling everybody. We did our max. Is this my max bench? No. What do you think my max bench was? 185. I'll say 220.

That's insane. That's you getting too far. It makes me sound like a loser. That's 350 pounds. Oh, God. I don't know. You seem very proud of it. I thought you were going to go high.

I'm very proud of it. 200 pounds. 200. That's great. 200 pounds. That's cool, man. 200's a lot. Yeah.

I've never done 200 in my life. I think in high school I might have done one. I did my weight. I probably was weighed 150 or 160. 185 would be my weight, which would be good. For me, it was getting the 45 on each side of the bar. That's all I wanted. That just looked cool.

Yeah, it looks good. How did the sugar give up go? It's going. Yeah. I mean, yeah, There's been some problems. We ran into some speed bumps along the way. Hit one last night right in the middle of the chocolate ice cream speed bump.

Just plopped in. It was Mother's Day. He's like, all right, all right. Celebrate. Honor the moms. Still, it hasn't been eating. It's not really going after main food, but the sweets have been gone. I have not had candy in a while.

And I really haven't eaten ice cream. It's been I'll reel it back down and just get off the sweets because it feels good with sweets. I can kind of control that, the sweet thing. I've been off sweets, which has been tough. I was eating a lot of sweets. Speaking of Planet Fitness, I was going to say, did I tell you your mom texted me about Planet Fitness? Yeah.

I got a text, hey, this is Nate's mom. Do you want me to go to Planet Fitness and cancel it for you? I was like, that feels like too much. I'll handle it. But that was so funny to get that out of the blue. Yeah. She said, I might need to call you to verify your information but i'll go down there and do it she'll go do it because i think she was in the area and got my numbers you should let her go do it yeah this is what

she does yeah she's the greatest at it okay all right do that and mail the letter yeah okay yeah i think i want to see what if she can do if she can do it this is a tough one because it's not unrelated can she this is a big test for mom can she go in and cancel it for someone else but if anybody can she yeah she if anybody can she can but they might not let her i mean they might say no but she's my mom's very good at this stuff. And she's – I mean, they live in Old Hickory, so you're down there. We're good to go do it. She'll call you. I might FaceTime you.

It'll be over. Uh-huh. Yeah. That'd be great. You start off the new marriage with no debt. All your debt is right now is $10 a month. You can go tell Lucy. I got rid of my debt. And she's like, oh, great. How much was it? It was about $10 a month. You can go tell Lucy. I got rid of my debt.

And she's like, oh, great. How much was it? It was about $120 a year. By the way, we're still paying Notre Dame off for the rest of our lives. But I got this jacket. Got this cool jacket. Not a lot of people have that jacket.

Did you buy that jacket? Yeah. Ha ha ha. You should at least... That's what college should do. Not a lot of people have that jacket. Did you buy that jacket? Yeah. You should at least, that's what college should do. If you go pay all that money, they should at least be like, and you get free gear. That would be, that would go a long way. Just to go, you know what? I go to Dick's Sporting Goods.

Here's my Notre Dame. I went to Notre Dame four four years i graduated can i yeah dude get your notre dame stuff that should count in your money they gave us a water bottle when we were freshmen you know that's they give you that kind of stuff i mean come on you think of all state offered you a hoodie you'd have stuck around i wear it today yeah i need to go get some ball state stuff you should i should go get some Ball State stuff. You should. I should go get some Ball State stuff. Yeah. That and Western Kentucky.

Mm-hmm. I would have stuck around. All right. Jason Rimbert. Guests for the state episodes have been Ray, Slay, Shay, and Kay. Maybe Pennsylvania next with Big Jay. I think we found your Etiquette lady. We found her son.

He's keeping it going. That is kind of crazy, though. Ray, Slay, Shea, and Kay. That's pretty unbelievable. Yeah. I make fun of them, but I'm actually blown away by that. Yeah, I love that comment. Yeah.

BJ Maxwell. I think the street Nate thinks separates Arkansas from Tennessee is actually called the Mississippi River. It's a pretty big street yeah there is some street it's uh someone said you're talking about texas and arkansas texarkana man i swear i went on another street i mean there's a i-40 no i felt like there was a town yeah and i feel like i was on the you know but i don't know man maybe it's the Mississippi River. It's pretty big. It's pretty good.

That's like a nice, that's like a comedian comment. Yeah. They just come after you hard. Yeah. You sure? You might be thinking about the Mississippi River. Mississippi's a very funny word. Mississippi, that's a very, that's a good, you know, river. River's a funny word, too.

Yeah. Venmos. This is by far my favorite podcast that covers... Oh, this is about the Renaissance, comments. This is by far my favorite podcast that covers Barbra Streisand and Galileo back-to-back with literally no segue.

Baton killed the intense Wikipedia research as always. That's true. Jackie Woolrich, Nate A.A. Ron, and Bubble B. Tuna. My wife and I love listening to the podcast. We appreciate you giving us an opportunity to not have to be so serious all the time. The other day I was listening to the Renaissance episode. all the time the other day i was listening to the renaissance episode it was laughing so hard at nate's take on why mona lisa doesn't have eyebrows and eyelashes that i find that myself going 40 miles an hour in a 75 maybe i shouldn't listen while i'm driving that's good that it's

the opposite yeah he at least went the opposite i've done that where you you go you end up you're the you know you've done opposite where you're going – you're like – I think I'm hitting a – that's a Laura comment from the bleachers. You're going 95. I mean, that's a very spouse in the car. You're going – I'm not comfortable with you going 95. But you're like, I didn't realize I was going, but then – but you have done an opposite.

You're like, you're just, cars are just flying by. You're like, oh boy, I gotta, where am I? Aaron Olson. Aaron should give a Planet Fitness membership to all of his groomsmen. While he's there, he can cancel his. Not a bad gift. We got something else for your mom to do for him when she's there. If she can go in with that bargaining yeah

i will also sign up if five other guys that there's a great chance one of them's here might not cancel it he doesn't seem like someone he seems like someone your buddy he's a boxer james james your buddy james i don't i could see you having a Planet Fitness membership a little too long. You think you would cancel it? No, I'd keep it. He'd keep it. You'd use it, though. He's a fitness guy?

Yeah, yeah. So you would use it. Yeah. If you stopped going like him, would you get lazy and ever forget about it? Probably, yeah. Yeah, $10 a month. Yeah, TV just at that slot. It's yeah. Yeah, $10 a month. Yeah, it's easy to just set that slot. It's easy.

Yeah. $10 a month. You guys got so much money. $10 a month. You're like, dude, it doesn't even matter, dude. Do you have a groomsman's gift yet? No, but I've had some listeners reach out that do engraving for stuff, so I might hit one of them up.

Yeah. It's cool. Yeah, that's a fun you know we get to hear what it is when you decide yeah like it'll be the flask or something like that we'll figure it out don't do a flask now i think the flask is do something we talked about this the other day we had better ideas than that i liked your bobblehead idea i did like to buy i think the ship sailed on that that's a little too late to get that engraving our money clip a money clip that's right maybe a money clip is is good a flask is i mean i agree i agree flask like like people are boy alcoholics dude they give it to people where you go who

is your groomsman that is sneaking booze like this dude like maybe Like, maybe that's a good. Get some syringes engraved. Yeah. Some roach clips. Or like, let's do, you know what I got everybody? A dime bag. You're like, who is in your, are they even going to show up, dude? Because it seems like they have major problems. That flask idea is really kind of crazy. Yeah. I know it's very different. And someone goes, oh, wow, I don't problems that flask idea is really kind of crazy yeah i know it's

very different and someone goes oh wow i don't have a flask yeah but i mean for you to use this flask outside of like a party and you're like oh i got a flat you're it's not good flasker to hide yeah your alcohol problem right uh all right nicola nicholas's butcher yeah nicole's bad nicole's butcher yeah he's the a's there nicholas butcher nicole's butcher nate saying i don't get nightmares but i do have scary dreams he's like michael scott saying i'm notitious, but I am a little stitious. Stitious, yeah. I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious. Did he say that?

Yeah, Michael Scott said that, yeah. Yeah. I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious. I went back and found the clip of Nate saying that. About the dreams? I don't get nightmares, but I do have scary dreams. saying that about the dreams nightmares but i do have scary dreams uh deborah howard please please please do the roman empire as a former high school history teacher i do cringe the entire time i listen to a history themed nateland podcast but

it's a train wreck but it's like a train wreck i can't turn away love y'all please do it please do the roman empire uh steven cersei nate saying that's an old episode referring to seinfeld it's been off the air for 24 years that's uh all right uh i need should we do the other one yeah let's do the other one okay uh we're switching uh episodes uh mid switch so this week uh uh we are going to talk about uh wrestling right yeah professional wrestling professional wrestling which i mean there's got to be people that are like oh no yeah uh i have a video i can show you from a professional wrestler uh something that just happened this weekend

so this was uh at my dentist uh uh jody jones uh we it was funny i went to he went to our high school we kind of grew up with his family in Old Hickory. Great dentist. And so I'm sitting there last week, and I don't know this is filming at all, that he did this. And then so here's what happened. This is our new lead apron. Are we going to do a lead? That's the new apron, the lead apron, because they were going to do an X-ray,

and I was like, you know, I just was accepting it, like, all right, this is some weird dentist. A polar bear. Yeah, a polar bear.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.. So, do you know who he is? Is that Diamond Dallas Page?

All right. This is a guess. If you're at home, you could pause it right now, and you can try to guess who you think that is. I think it's The Undertaker. Somebody's very tall. he's got tattoos and then you mentioned recently that he lives here uh and it kind of sounded like him that's him it's the undertaker wow so just last week uh so he does live here. He does not live here. Oh.

He lives in Austin. Okay. But he was – so I think he used to live here. But then Jody – him and Jody are, like, really good friends. Jody, I think, went on the road with him a long time ago. I mean, years – you know, obviously when he was first kind of going. And so him and Jody are really good friends. And he was just hanging out up there with, he was in town and then went to see Jody and was just hanging out, which is very funny.

Yeah. To just be like, you know, I mean, Undertaker is still a dude. And he's just like, oh, my buddy, I'll go hang out with my buddy at the dentist's office. And so he just, there was an awesome, awesome dude. Very, very nice. Just enormous. Yeah. Just an enormous kind of guy yeah uh and then came in yeah it's very funny to have a prank played on you then you're like it's the undertaker what was the polar bear what was that all of it was just a joke uh just to mess with you funny yeah like it's uh they go this is our new lead apron uh so

my so when the lady that does do my teeth she was leaving and she goes uh and they but she said afterwards i was going to start laughing so someone else came in and then uh and so then i they said they were working on it like all morning and And so they had like this iPad thing set up that I never saw. And so I'm just sitting there. It is like you're just oblivious to like what's happening. And they said that polar bear thing. I was like, all right, I guess. I remember they were saying like, dude, they'll do x-rays.

And I was like, didn't we just do x-rays? You're like, do they always make us do x-rays? And then he came in and right when he comes in i mean obviously i know you just know who he is yeah it's very funny i gotta get back to the prison uh that's so awful uh that was this past a few weeks ago. That is crazy, man. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, that was last week. So, yeah, yeah. So there's my wrestler story. That's pretty good.

You don't get much better than that. Next up, next, Brian, your wrestler story. You got out of the gate. I've been to – I remember my dad and I went growing up to the National Guard Armory where you just see the minor league of the minor league wrestlers. But it's so much fun. I remember Sid Vicious was there.

He went on to do big things, but he was just coming up. And then I've been to a couple of Monday Night Raw's at Bridgestone Arena. The Rock was at the last one and so it was it's pretty fun yeah i've never met a wrestler though it's been uh uh yeah i love like when you go to these small places like this is off topic of that but like so nashville just had a corn fairy event and i went to this weekend at the grove this great golf course in nashville and there's the simmons Bank ran this whole tournament. But I was saying going to that event was awesome

because it was like you're watching our boy Augustine played. But you're watching the next kind of generation of like – it's like AAA baseball. That's what Corn Fairy means? Yeah, Corn Fairy is basically like AAA – it used to be web.com tour. And then it might have been the Hooters tour before that was so great uh but so you're watching like the next kind of guys that are all these they're all young they're like you know i mean some are not young uh but you go walk around you can walk i mean just groups where i mean you're

like walking with like the guy's dad and then just you and that kid's dead yeah and you're why and this kid's got uh I mean they win the purse I think they win a hundred some thousand dollars if they win but if they don't they make zero you know I think if you make the cut and you come in last place the cut you get twenty four hundred dollars so but you have to pay for your travel your You got to drive to that gig. You got to stay for a hotel. Yeah. And you got to make the cut

or you're going to make zero. And it's fun to go see it. But that's like going to these wrestling. I've been to one like that where it was just in a... I don't even know what the wrestling league was. Right, right. And you're watching just nothing, nothing dude like you're just watching these

people you never heard of but they put on a great show yeah and i remember this one they one of them they got out of the ring and they started fighting like in by the concession stands so then you like get up and go like stand there and i remember i mean they were from me to you and just this boom just hitting them yeah and you're just sitting there and there's like there's something always great about going to an event where there's kind of no rules there's no one going back up you can't go over here you can't like there's something great about it's kind of like yeah it's kind of a free it's almost a true love of the art of whatever they're doing right because i mean these guys are not making money.

They're putting on a show. And it's – you can go do – they come fight and you're like – you're just next to them, right there. There's no one – there's not a security guard going back up. It's those two guys and the ref. It's very funny that the ref would get out of the ring and still be like – He's still like – Stay back. Yeah, he's still like watching the fight,

and he's still like counting it like it's getting points. Yeah. Ref – In wrestling like this, the ref is – It's very funny. There's really no reason for him. No. There's no –

He's not – There's not points. It's just who wins. He's kind of being – He can't pull a chair out and hit him but then that just you know and it happens and he's got to be like no no no then he gets hit yeah now the wrestling the the ref gets knocked out yeah of uh and it's so funny about professional wrestling the ref gets knocked out and he doesn't come to and go, well, obviously this fight is suspended.

You're both disqualified. You can't hit me with the chair. He comes to and is like, oh, one, two, and just counts the guy out. The ref has to be like, I don't know, there's just something very funny about it. Obviously there's something very funny. One of my first jokes was about, I said my dad was a professional wrestling referee, so whenever we didn't want to eat our vegetables, I'd just get my sister to distract him over in the corner.

Yeah. Because that's what they always do. They always get distracted by somebody that doesn't matter. Yeah. And then they turn around, and you've hit somebody with something illegal. Street light. Yeah. you've hit somebody with, you know, something illegal.

Streetlight. Yeah. And even at WWE, I saw a video of wrestlers come in through the crowd sometimes, like in big arenas. They'll come down. Like I saw one sting. There was a lot of fake stings. They were wearing the skin up.

And a guy just reached over and grabbed his wig and pulled it off before he ever got into the – Stings? It was a fake sting. The storyline was there's a bunch of fake stings. They're trying to find the real one. Yeah. And so he just grabbed his wig and yanked it off from the crowd. Yeah.

But yeah, they did it on purpose? Yeah, because sometimes they'll come down the aisle, but there's still people on either side everywhere. Yeah. And somebody just, you know, it's kind of crazy that you let the wrestlers go through the audience yeah is it crazy or offensive to say that it's almost like a really fully immersive play that's just so much fun yeah i mean kind of it is i mean the the yeah it's it's like when someone if someone got mad and goes it but it's not real you're like then you're not getting it yeah like then you're not getting it yeah like

then you're not you know you almost want that person you go like i don't think we should be having this conversation like you're you're the delusion right right right by yelling at me going it's not real uh-huh like you're the one that's got a problem yeah because you are arguing as if we all accept that it's real exactly right like Like maybe a long time ago, people thought, but it's like, A, they do get hurt. I mean, they get hurt. Right. It's a crazy thing, but it's like the storylines of it all are what's,

you know, it's like a real lie. It is, I guess, a praise. You would never go to a Broadway play and stand up. Y'all know this isn't real, right? Yeah, that's essentially what... Come on. You know, hey, everybody. Yeah.

It's entertainment. He's not knocked out. Yeah. Yeah. That's the biggest difference. When I was a kid, I think there were people who really thought wrestling was real. Yeah. And now there's not.

Unless you're a small child, nobody really thinks it's real. Yeah. But they've done so much better. The storylines, there's still some ridiculous stuff. But when I was a kid kid the good guys were very you know the faces were good the heels were very bad but now they've blended so much more of fake story with real background story because fans are so much more educated now they've got the internet they've got access to so much stuff so you can't like i don't even know if the undertaker's character now would even work if it started um because he was a bad guy well he was a guy who

rose from the dead and you know that kind of thing now it's much more i mean there's still some crazy wrestling gimmicks but it's more blended in reality it's almost like like john cena you become just your name now yeah Yeah, there's more of that. I mean, the guys now, Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins, those guys, they just got – It's all real names. For the most part, there's still some fake ones. What's like the – who's like – is there an Undertaker type name or – I was trying to think of some guys now.

I don't watch as much now as I used to, but like Braun Strowman's a big guy. And when he first started, I forgot their names. There was a, it was a, it was a group similar to Undertaker. Yeah. They were like scary from the dark and, you know, but then their characters change and. Yeah, I guess it was like The Rock came and like Stone Cold. And like they were, yeah, The Undertaker is, yeah,

it was like you had to be, well, I'm an Undertaker. And now The Rock, you're like, no, I'm The Rock. Or I'm Stone Cold Steve Austin. I'm just a guy from Texas that drinks beers. Right. And so you're just, that's all you need to be. And then you got your wrestling move. You don't really have to have, I guess that's true.

You don't have to be Goldust or whatever. Right. You know, like where it's this guy. Yeah. It's like, he's almost like you got a superpower or something like it yeah you're now just like no you can just be yeah you know what i've never thought about that actually that's what they are now yeah because i think that's what even i kind of stopped watching wrestling after the rock stone cold that's what about so that's late 90s early 2000s early 2000s

that's probably when I was kind of done it was right before I started comedy it was like when I was my brief stint of college and we used to watch Raw

and we loved it and it was watched it every week and it was you know but it's like you just couldn't look everything up

like you can I mean you weren't on the internet like you just no one had a computer it's so crazy 2000 it's not like you had you were just sitting on my i could sit on my computer and watch i had to watch it on we had to be home to watch it and at the dorm room and we

came on at whatever nine o'clock at night eight o'clock at night and it was but it was amazing and then ordering pay-per-view just felt like a mystery like you just order pay-per-view now is a lot easier like you it's you know whatever it is it's still 100 bucks or whatever it costs but you can just order it on your phone like i didn't even know how to do that like you have to call somebody and you yeah you were like the idea of it was just yeah i can't and it's a hundred i gotta give someone like you it was just it didn't make sense i mean now stuff's gonna be on pay-per-view people gonna get pay-per-view like it's like hey y'all wanna watch this fight like right now all of us in this room wanted to do it and like all right we're all everybody throwing five bucks ten bucks whatever

uh let's we can order this pay-per-view right now just vinmo me ten bucks within three minutes i'm i'm not out of any money yeah yeah like and i don't have to chase anybody down or you have to ask your buddies hey man you didn't give me that ten bucks i don't really have that money right now right that's crazy so like in college i mean instant like at the moment you could just be like hey uh that's all throwing five bucks yeah yeah and then go buy this thing and then we can do that and then go buy this thing that's pretty wild yeah versus then you were you know i don't think i had a credit card like yeah we watched the canelo fight this weekend like 10 seconds set it up on the tv

and just bought it and Yeah, it was great. Everybody been mowing some money? Yeah, you just chip in that way. It's crazy. I know. Crazy. The convenience. Your college days, that was kind of like the peak of professional wrestling.

Yeah. Because that's when the Monday Night Wars was going on, when WWE wasn't the only thing. There was WCW. And WCW was beating WWE for quite a while. It was almost like Leno Letterman.

WWE, well, it used to be WWF. And then it was just dominating everything. Vince McMahon just took over all of it. And then Ted Turner, who didn't like Vince McMahon, he had his own network tnt tbs so he started wrestling on tnt and he had the money to buy these wrestlers and then eric bischoff you remember eric bischoff he came on as the general manager and he's like if we're gonna beat

wwe we gotta get these guys so they just started paying everybody to come to wcw so for a long time, they were beating WWE. I didn't know they were beating them. Like they had Sting and they – Well, the thing that really took off was the NWO. Yeah. That's Hulk Hogan. Yeah, and Kevin Nash.

He went to WCO. WCW, yeah. WCW. And that was a big deal. And Eric Bischoff was so creative and he was so smart. They were doing it live and Monday night raw was doing it a lot of times taped yeah ahead of time he'd find out the results of their matches and they would read it on wcw nitro wow to make people like i'm not gonna go over there now or you know who won

yeah wow so he was doing all these tactics that was messing with vince so much. Wow. That's so crazy. Spoiling the fights on it. Yeah. Yeah. That's so crazy. That's kind of, yeah. You're like, oh, that's kind of, you don't know if it's mean. I mean, it's mean, but it's such a, wow, I never knew that. Yeah.

I never liked WCW because it was like I couldn't do it. It's funny that they changed the name for wwf's wwe i remember that and i remember going well i'm never gonna say wwe right it's wwf and i don't think anybody will ever accept it and it's been the only name change that i've been like i was completely wrong and everybody's fine with it yeah i mean nobody cared no they immediately switched it and then no one cares at all yeah and i thought it was like wwf i loved it right you know and they go we're doing wwe's like yeah good luck with that and i mean it worked so good it stuck pretty good it stuck so good and nobody cares yeah and everybody's moved on and i don't think i think i was i felt and i

mean i was young when that happened. Yeah. I think it was early 2000s. Was it that late? I think so. I looked it up, and I mean, I just remember the lawsuit, and I thought, well, they're going to win. They're so powerful.

It was the World Wildlife Federation or something. Yeah. And they won. Yeah. For the copyright of it. Yeah. But Nitro had – so Eric Bischoff was so creative and and then ted turner just gave him a blank check to get all these guys over there yeah and then they were dominated but

then they went too far like they had goldberg yes goldberg was the last wrestler that i was really into and he was great yeah he was great he beat hogan one night on you know monday night raw it was a big deal but then they finally just kept going too far. Well, here's how bad it got first. There was a match called, they call it the Montreal Screwjob. Bret Hart was the WWF, at that time, champion. But he was leaving to go to WCW. And it was going to be his last match in Montreal, where he's from.

He's from Canada. Yeah. And he was wrestling Shawn Michaels. And Vince McMahon was so mad that he was leaving that he changed the match on him and didn't tell him. Yeah. He was supposed to go out as the winner, but Vince McMahon told the- I remember this. Told the ref, there's what happened.

So this is not supposed to happen. Bret Hart was supposed to win, but then they pretend like he tapped out and gave sean michaels the victory yeah and it's one of the few times ever that they've they changed it on the wrestler and he got furious he spit on vince mcmahon he punched him in the locker room yeah but none of that was supposed to happen so just for some context here i'm a i'm a very entry level uh i think i was watching a ton of clips with my buddy last night this all is hilarious to me so these wwe fights they're they're almost scripted i mean they are scripted in a way they're written so for for it to change like this last minute is like crazy right this is yeah this is the ceo the owner of the organization

going behind the back of one of the yeah the fighters changing the script yeah so this is this is uh very genuine frustration and oh this is the most yeah this is like if you want to see real i've seen this before yeah and like uh if uh if you want to see like a real like i mean we're showing this clip now so you can watch it here if you're listening you can go look up the montreal screw job and but if you want to see a real moment it's this i mean you watch him like with them realizing sean michaels is like no no i'm gonna lose like so he's got him in a hold and so the only person in on is vincent man and the ref but i mean he realizes what he does and i mean and uh bret hart just

immediately he just spits on him yeah and then like just kind of crazy yeah just spits on him and walks over and then like i mean sean michaels is like yeah dude i'm not in on and i think they even was like he was like are you in on this yeah he accused sean michaels yeah and he goes dude i'm not in on and i think they even was like he was like are you in on this yeah he accused sean michaels yeah and he goes dude i had no idea yeah because he's going to put him in a move to tap out yeah that's the point and then you get out of that and so they just you know they got back together right yeah they've made up since then uh brett hart even came back to wwe years later it actually helped vince helped Vince McMahon in the long run I mean at first wrestlers were so furious

That they wanted to leave because they're like We can't trust you but his persona Became he went from Vince McMahon To Mr. McMahon Over time and more his persona Is more now the multi Billionaire who will screw you over you know So he

In some ways it helped him in the long run as far as his persona as to the fans yeah and just he plays now up until then i don't think he played as much as a ruthless businessman until then but then everyone got so mad at him yeah that he played to that and but he did uh but what the way he did it was uh i was trying to say like but him like the the wrestlers though if they don't trust you right then it's out like so but they they had to gain all the trust or they knew that wwf or he was the bigger one to be on yeah although that at that time wc that's when it was blowing up and a lot of guys were going over there just for more money stops on me didn't you know i think it's like when you when you start buying people for more money i mean it's like ufc and like bellator bellator or whatever like ufc still it's like one's mainstream

and the other one's kind of like even though it is it it feels like it's like you go to comedy club yeah you go to comedy club that you're always like there's there you know there's the one and then there's the other one and then a lot of times you're like well i'm at the other one and you know you're at the other one even though you're like it's a great club we love it whatever as a comic you go but that's the main one and they know they're the other one too yeah everybody knows everybody knows that so even if they to flip it would be pretty crazy to be able to if you were wcw to go, like, we are now bigger than,

which I guess they probably came close because they ended up buying them, right? They did. I mean, they were in it for a long time, but then that NWO storyline got old to people, and they finally just like, this is getting to be too much, and they broke those up in factions,

the Hollywood faction and the Wolfpack. Weren't those guys kind of past their prime, too? on the maybe it was late who was in nwo it's kevin nash um yeah i'm raising a remote way i wouldn't yeah i forgot his scott hall so this would be like the canadian football league making a play to get tom brady yeah over and it just even if you start watching cfl a little bit you're like well it's still not the nfl yeah right is that a fair comparison yeah i mean but for a while it was they were winning they were winning okay it'd be xfl okay like an nfl like that i think that's more of a comparison like x, XFL was an actual, I guess, made the NFL nervous. Like, Canada football, like, the NFL's not nervous about that.

That's true. Even arena football, like, they're not – No. They don't make you nervous. XFL with Vince McMahon and, like, them, when it first came out, I think they tried to do it again. And maybe they are still going to try to do it. Maybe. But it was, like, that one I think they tried to do it again. Maybe they are still going to try to do it. But it was like that one I think made

the NFL like it was kind of like, well, what was the AFL? Yeah, well, I was drawing a blank on what was the league back in the 80s for a short time? Wasn't it the AFL? Is that what it was? I can't even remember now, but Herschel Walker went there. A lot of big guys were going to... I mean, John Elway

said he was going to... He wanted to get traded. He did.way said he was going to... Didn't he want to get... He wanted to get traded, and he... He did. I think he might have... He was going to play baseball. Yeah. But I think they were going to draft him or something.

No, the USFL. USFL. The United States Football League. Yeah. Yeah. It's crazy to think, because you just think professional football now, you're like, it's the NFL.

But it's like, they don't have a monopoly on the... No. They don't have the game copyrighted. Especially back then. Right. Right. So the thing that kind of flipped WCW or back in favor of WWE, they drug out this Monday night, I mean, NWO storyline too long.

People were getting sick of it. And then there was Goldberg, who was pretty great. They had some weird storyline where he wasn't there. So Hogan and Kevin Nash got in the ring for a championship. It was called the Fingerpoint of Doom. And it supposedly flipped it that night because it was just a ridiculous storyline where Hogan just taps Kevin Nash and he falls down on the ground and pins him to show they're all getting back together.

And people were like, no, we're sick of this. we want you guys to break up instead of getting back together and then that exact same night tony shivani the announcer announced the results of wwe that mcfoley was going to win the championship and people love mcfoley so it backfired and everybody flipped over to wwe because they wanted to see it yeah ratings just, you could just see it in the numbers. 600,000 people turned the channel almost immediately. Wow. So it backfired on them. Wow.

So this is the point. Can you hear this? I can't. Do they announce the, do you hear them announce the thing? The Tony Schiavone part? It's later in the broadcast. But he's like, oh, mankind's going to win. That's going to put some butts in the seats.

And, well, it did. So this is when Hogan does the finger-pointer do. We'll back it up a little bit. Hulk Hogan. We got Hulk Hogan with part of his goatee's blonde. The other part's blonde. Look at his shoes. You're right. That's the least ridiculous thing about it.

He just touched them with his finger. And it meant that they were getting back together. Yeah, like they were in on it together. Because up until then, people thought... Yeah. So they're like, oh, we're back together. But the fans were like, we're sick of this. Yeah.

Yeah, the storyline just didn't work. Did the announcer just say, this stinks? That's Razor Ramon, right? Yeah. And Scott Hall and Scott Steiner. Yeah. And then they just got more and more desperate. They made David Arquette the WCW championw champion for a while yeah you remember him yeah yeah and they're like this is getting so

dumb because wrestling fans want guys who can really wrestle yeah and show athleticism not some actor that's playing a part yeah yeah you buy into it more when it's the real thing and then uh yeah mick foley was then was probably a. Mankind was probably a big part to make back to WWE. Because it was like his fights were. So that's where I like because he was willing to do so much. Like he would. His fights are wild, dude. The hell in the cell with Undertaker?

Yeah. Yeah. Like he gets thrown off the cell with Undertaker? Yeah. Like, dude, yeah. He gets thrown. Thrown off the cage. Thrown off the cage and lands through a table with razors and stuff. Of packs and stuff. Yeah. And then through the cage.

That wasn't supposed to happen. He fell through the cage and landed in the ring. Yeah, that was not supposed to happen. It just gave way. Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, 280-pound guy. And yet it's going to give way. Like, I can't believe that fence didn't hold way. Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, 280-pound guy, yet it's going to give way. Like, I can't believe that fence didn't hold up.

Yeah. You're like, yeah, can you? He does stand-up comedy now. Mick Foley. Yeah. Does he do stand-up or does he do shows at comedy clubs? I mean, he tells funny stories. Okay.

But I think he's done spots, like, you know, Okay. But I think he's done spots. Mm-hmm. Outside of just not going to a stand-up show and doing a headlining thing, he's done spots. Mm-hmm. Yeah. This is a clip I saw last night.

It was a 1998 Royal Rumble match. Mick Foley, who shows up, all his different characters, he shows up one at a time and runs into the ring. And then runs back out. In succession. Oh. Yeah, this clip cracked me up. So he comes out as just Mick Foley, right? Just straight up Mick Foley.

That's Cactus Jack. Is that Cactus Jack? Okay. And then he gets thrown off, eliminated. He goes off. Then he comes back as Mankind. Oh, that's great. And the place is going nuts. Yeah. And then he, eliminated. He goes off. Then he comes back as mankind. The place is going nuts. Then he gets eliminated. This dude, I had never heard of this other character.

Dude Love. Dude Love. So he just keeps coming back as a different character. At this point, you're like, this is just so absurd and over the top. It's just fun, dude. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I've watched him perform at Zany's. is just so absurd and over the top that you just gotta it's just fun dude yeah yeah yeah yeah i've

watched him perform at zany's and hacksaw hacksaw jim dogan's been there and a few others my i would love to open for them yeah and be a heel and like tell the crowd how this is all fake and get them all riled up and i'm like he's not even here yet i don't care and then they play his music i've had this whole thing in my head i run off the zany stage he chases me or maybe he catches me i don't care. And then they play his music. I've had this whole thing in my head. I run off the Zany stage. He chases me or maybe catches me. I don't know. I mean, these guys are, I don't know how much they want to run anymore. Wouldn't it be so much more fun though to be a heel than a face, be the bad guy? No, I think, I mean, you want the cheers.

When they walk out, when you hear Stone Cold's music start, and it was, you know, when you hear his music start, and then everybody goes nuts, dude. It's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. I mean, I get like hearing the boos, but. Now it's so blended together, though. People love the bad guys often more than.

Yeah, yeah yeah and they uh it's even if you're getting booed and stuff it's still like love in a way they're buying into the story yeah yeah yeah no it's you'd be a great heel brian you should go full heel one day on the podcast somebody commented that already i was the heel yeah yeah uh You're the least liked. Is that what you mean? I think that's what they meant. That's what I thought. I did one of my first jokes. I have an old video of it, too.

If I could ever find it, I would be embarrassed to show it. But I did a Stone Cold thing. It was at Chicago at the Lions Den. it's one of the oldest open mics and it was the oldest open mic in uh chicago and so i was like you know the typical joke which is you realize you don't realize like how when you first start comedy every joke idea that you have i promise, is not really original. Maybe you could have one original one, but most have been done multiple times. And you don't realize that until later on. But it's just how your brain works the first time you think,

well, this is funny, and you think no one's done anything. And then you're like, no, no, dude, everybody's done everything. And I was like, what if you had a regular job and you came to Stone Cold Music? And it was the only time I ever made the DJ cut some music on. And I was like, oh, you walk into some regular job, I think. I think this is what it was. And then they cut Stone Cold Music on. And I had someone throw me two beers.

And I drank them on stage. I mean, that seems so unbelievably out of character now for you to do that it is yeah yeah very very uncomfortable i don't know why i had someone film it dude it's i have the tape well you're just starting right was it your closer at that point like it's gotta be you gotta close to follow that then i go all right everybody so i was driving the other day and you're like god, God, he just started his set. Like, he's, you know. You guys ever, we live in an apartment downstairs,

and we have these rats. I always had, like, some rat joke. Yeah. Yeah, it was. What walkout music do you think's the best of? I think Stone Cold's glass breaking. I love Triple H's. Yeah.

The game. Yeah. I don't know if I know. You know if you heard it. This is Stone Cold's entrance. Yeah. So it's a glass breaking. Everybody knows right away.

Everybody knows exactly. And they do. Yeah. so it's a glass breaking everybody knows right away everybody knows exactly and they're just the dude yeah he's just uh he's he's the he's the best it's like stone cold just like i mean him and the rock like have to be over hulk hogan i mean like i looked up rankings of the best wrestlers of all time. There's a million polls out there. I did one of the most recent ones and it ranked them.

I liked it because it ranked them on... It tells you what they're going on, not just their guests. So, based it on career, their look, their in-ring ability,

their mic skills, and their markability. Okay. Stone Cold was number one. Yeah. Wow. They said that... I mean, he had

such a good career. His markability was off the charts.. Wow. They said that, I mean, he had such a good career. His marketability was off the charts. Hold on. So would The Rock be number two? I mean, I don't know how long The Rock wrestled, though. You're right. Oh, he is number two? No, but you're right.

That's what you should question. Yeah, because he did. I don't think The Rock was kind of in and out. I think he was in it for a long time, but he wasn't The Rock for that long. Right. Okay, because by all those metrics you just named, he's by far the biggest. I mean, has to be. He's going to be president one day.

I know, but he's a more movie star. There's probably a lot of people right now that don't even know he was a wrestler. Like, I mean, could not... You gotta think, dude, it was very brief. And then he became just the biggest movie... He's been the biggest movie star on the planet. So would Hulk Hogan be our ultimate warrior? I mean, they're all...

I've got the top six. Yeah. And then number 16 on here, because those are guys that stood out to me. Okay. Yeah. The Rock is number six. Number six. Wow.

That seems so low to me. I would think so too, but in ring, which means his overall skills in the ring. I mean, he's a great physical specimen, a great athlete. Right. But he didn't have like, he wasn't like the best wrestler. he was more personality yeah you know it's things like that yeah yeah so his marketability was off the charts but um mike skills all that that was off the charts but he didn't have a really long career so that hurt him okay i mean he was only there a few short years yeah if you smell what the rock is cooking, does he ever finish that sentence?

What does that mean? Do you smell? Does he say, do you smell what the rock is cooking? Yeah. Or if you smell? No, do you smell? Okay. He's not asking a question.

What is he cooking? What are you supposed to be? What is it? The people's elbow. It's a mess for you. I don't think you want to smell what the rock's cooking. I think if you're the one that can smell it, it's not good.

I think, do you smell what the rock's cooking? I don't. I hope not. I hope I never do. If you ever go, God, I think I can. I smell something. And you go, he's right behind me. And that's the deal. That he's... You don't want to smell what he's cooking.

It's not – you could go, I have an idea of what he's – He might be cooking. I think I know what he's going to go in the kitchen to make. I think I guess what's for dinner tonight. Do you smell it? You're like, no, I don't want to get that close. You don't want to be – you don't want to smell it. Yeah.

And if you smell it it that's not good yeah it's too late then too late people's elbow people's elbow was a great move though yeah what is the people's elbow for people that don't know it's uh it's this was this was his like finishing move yeah yeah he would have you on the ground he would put your arms close to your side and then he would run over you like twice. And then he would like – and then like it was like a great like where his hand would come up and just be – and he would like look at his hand and just like he could – and just be – and then drop – and then just drop. Elbow to the face.

Yeah, it was like a very simple – and that's what you could say. It's a very simple kind of move. The other guys just stand there. But it was a it's very uh charismatic yeah like he could add a little bit like he could add a little something to the looking at the hand like you could like talk to it yeah like have you look at it and there's like it was but it was it's it fits him perfectly i mean so he really milked it every time oh yeah yeah yeah he does that extra little. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. You're right. On paper, like a really unoriginal, boring move, but he really dresses it up. Yeah.

I don't know. Yeah, his hand might not even be up his mouth. But only the sixth best. Yeah. Number two, your buddy, The Undertaker. The Undertaker. Oh, yeah. Wow. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Number two, your buddy, The Undertaker. The Undertaker.

Oh, yeah. Wow. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Undertaker's been around for so long. Yeah. It was, I mean, just did some pretty amazing, they brought him back to life. Multiple times. Multiple, yeah.

Like he died and then he's dead. That's when Paul Bearer, remember him? Yeah. I think that guy actually did die. Yeah, he did. Yeah. He'll be back. He'll be back. He'll be back.

Yeah. I'll just finish this. Hulk Hogan was three. Yeah. Ric Flair, four. Macho Man, Randy Savage, five. Ric Flair, four. Yeah.

Man. Ultimate Warrior. He was on there. I just didn't put it on there. Andre the Giant was 16. I just wanted to. Ultimate Warrior, how high was he? I think he was like 25 or something. I just didn't put it on there. Andre the Giant was 16. I just wanted it. Ultimate Warrior, how high was he? I think he was like 25 or something.

I loved the Ultimate Warrior. He was my favorite. Never heard of him. You never heard of the Ultimate Warrior? I've heard of the Ultimate Ninja Warrior on TV. You never heard of the Ultimate Warrior? No, I'm going to pull him up, though. What was this guy back in the 60s, 70s?

Yeah. Bozo the Clown? Yeah, Bozo the in the 60s 70s yeah Bozo the Clown yeah Bozo the Clown you never heard of Bozo the Clown you get heard it's when you could watch YouTube without ads I looked up

well that's the Ultimate Warrior yeah I looked up the highest this is the this is the biggest one where the Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan fall yeah

they're just it's yeah they're just crazy they're just running yeah yeah oh they close line each other how great is that that it's like yeah they it's well the move was to just run back and forth it's like chicken i guess yeah and you're like who's gonna stop and then hulk hogan and then he dodged it uh you can fast forward a little bit but this was this was this was his this was the biggest thing in the world at the time dude like uh just to go toe-to-toe no well i don't know i don't know if this is it somebody else but when he goes he wins the belt yeah from hulk hogan and that was what he just went and beat everybody uh is this him right here? Who?

No. Yeah, I don't. The Ultimate Warrior. Ultimate Warrior is the. Right here. That's him. Yeah. He was in there earlier.

Okay. He's got some fringe on his. Is that what it's called? Oh, my God, dude. How do you just get without ads? Is this mine? Yes. I have it logged in because you're on.

It doesn't matter. I have a private browsing session going. So, the Ultimate Warrior. The biggest thing, this is 1990. But he beats Hulk Hogan. And he cries. His makeup's all off. And it was like the craziest thing in the world. And this is WrestleMania.

This is the way he wins. He was like, I want to wins and he was like I wanna say he was like Randy Savage but I wanna say he was like for my age it was he got up out of the way

he was gonna he was gonna drop a leg on him and he got up out of the way I don't think Aaron believes this stuff and then he and he wins and then he just pinned him

he just pinned Hulk Hogan and then he would yeah I mean it was like you know the the battle to finally get good enough that you can you know what's wrong you know it's so absurd what is going on in this dude dude he won the belt he pinned i understand that i mean this is like one of the saddest i mean not saddest it's one of the you

make you cry just happiest moments that could make you he's been waiting forever to finally get to win the belt and he got it wow and i mean hulk hogan was hulk i mean yeah he was the biggest thing he's the biggest thing in the world dude and like so he for him to beat you know at wrestlemania 3 one of the biggest moments was when hulk hogan body slammed andre the giant oh yeah and that was uh i think i sent you that video but i mean that's so it's wrestlemania like the super bowl yeah pretty much you know nothing about wrestling well i'm trying well you know i'm trying to catch up yeah yeah you know today but i mean yeah yeah but you i didn't i just figured everybody kind of i'm not to catch up yeah yeah you know today but i mean yeah yeah but i didn't i just figured

everybody kind of i'm not look i know there's people listening to this and all that are like oh this is awful but they don't know anything about wrestling but it's you know but i but if you don't know anything about wrestling this is why you should be introduced to something to go all right let me hear why these people are way exactly and we're such novices compared to the diehards they're listening like, you guys are idiots. I know, nothing. Yeah. But I mean, I know more than to go, is WrestleMania like the Super Bowl?

I know a little bit. You don't think that was maybe a useful comparison for the listeners? I mean, I think if someone just got off a UFO and landed in Canada at the UFO Center. They're walking down those steps and they go, have you heard about WrestleMania? They're like, that's why we're here.

Yeah. And they might go, is it, now I don't know, I just got here, but is it like the NFL? They've heard of the NFL, I think.

The NFL is so big that they've obviously heard about the Super Bowl. I've been trying to make analogies the whole podcast. I feel like I thought that might be helpful in some way, but I guess not. No, it is.

It is. I guess it's, you know, for – I mean, but I think it's for – For the ladies listening. I don't even think it's for the ladies. I think the ladies know. I would think someone at home – and, look, this will be hard for you to hear at home, but if you listen to that analogy and you go, well, thanks, Aaron. I think that's about the – you might be the dumbest person.

You and Aaron are the same. I bet you'll be surprised. That they're going to like – I think some people – I don't think everyone just knows what Brian means when he says at WrestleMania III. But if you're like, well, that's like Super Bowl. You think it's the big – it's the main event. The fact that there's a number behind it, I would think,

would show you significance. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know, man. Royal Rumble, I don't think they keep them numbered. Maybe they do. That's like the NFC Championship game.

Royal Rumble. Yeah. Rumble. Yeah. Royal Rumble. Yeah, they're all different. I don't know all of them. I just know WrestleMania.

Just in living life, I think you just learn WrestleMania is like this. You're probably right. It was more for my benefit if I think of it in that way. There was a big period in my life where if I didn't understand something, I would just tell myself it was stupid, and I'm trying to revert. Well, I do agree that there's no question that's you should always ask the question it's just very you know it's like you know it's like but you're asking it for all the people you go hey i got some friends here uh no i'll ask him is is wrestlemania like the super bowl you know of the nfl yeah are

they the same uh-huh it's the nba championship Is it the Stanley Cup? It's the Stanley Cup final of? We have a lot of Canadian listeners, so maybe you want to. Yes, everybody. WrestleMania is like the Stanley Cup of hockey. Right. But what about people that are not into sports at all? Oh, interesting. What would that be?

This is like the White House Correspondents Dinner of wrestling. It would be the election night. Yeah. Oh, the election night. Yeah. This is like the white house correspondence dinner of wrestling it would be the the uh election night yeah oh the election night yeah this is like their prom right i mean it's been compared to it's as important as an election in the white house but also to your senior prom uh aaron wasn't dating much at that time so i get it all right i looked up what wrestlers make and it makes me realize they have a lot coming with comedians yeah because well what's the the you have like a beginning of like of wrestling yeah i mean there's just so much to take in i didn't want to get us too bogged down in that. But basically, it started in early 1900s, early 20th century.

Yeah. And one of the legendary old school wrestlers said back in like the 30s, Babe Ruth was just hitting all these home runs. Jack Johnson was just a great boxer. And real professional wrestling matches lasted six hours. Wow. Because it was like legit then. Yeah. And then they were like, we got to do something to get people interested. wrestling matches lasted six hours. Wow. Because it was like legit then.

Yeah. And then they were like, we got to do something to get people interested. So they started gradually changing the storyline. There was one guy who was so good, he really never could lose. So he lost on purpose just to make it more interesting. Yeah.

And then it just evolved over the years into what it is today. And it was just like, they would just travel around. Yeah. I mean, back in, you know, years into what it is today and it was just like they they would just travel around yeah i mean back in um you know the even 70s and probably early 80s there was all these regional like mid-south wrestling and mid uh middle america wrestling i don't know stuff like that and they all had their own circuits and then vince mcmahon just when he took over his dad's company he

realized a way to just get everybody yeah so he just took over that's why so many people hated that's why ted turner hated him yeah because he just took over yeah i mean he's very very down they always say buy wwe stock or something like that like yeah it's like just as it always goes up like it's just it's such a good i mean it's so crazy too because he's so old he's got he's in his mitsubishi man yeah it's probably 70s it's not sold i guess but they feel so old because they've been he's older than you think he's 75 75 yeah which i mean you you got you know you do you see much how many guys do you see in their 80s? I feel like 70s you see people really going, but then their 80s,

you're like, where is he going to be in five years? I feel like 80s when it's like you haven't seen a lot of, I don't know. Well, I don't know. There might be a bunch of 80-year-olds that I'm not thinking of. I mean, Warren Buffett or somebody like that. Yeah. But he's actively still doing it. He's very in shape.

Bernie Sanders. Yeah. I don't think he does his – I mean, he's very in shape. Bernie Sanders. Yeah. I don't think he does his – I mean, I think his daughter Stephanie runs majority of it. Yeah. And Triple H, who she's married to. Yeah. I don't think he does no ways as much. Well, Shane too, his son.

Oh, yeah. And Shane McMahon. Yeah. I think his kids do a lot more of it now. But he's still involved. Yeah. But he's rarely on there, I think. Yeah. I think he's – I mean, his kids do a lot more of it now. But he's still involved, but he's rarely on there, I think. Yeah. I mean, his kids are my age.

Yeah. I think they're in their 40s. Yeah. I've been on Triple H's bus. Oh, really? There's – just when I was like – so I went and looked at buses for when our tour starts back up which you should be announcing uh for tickets on sale soon uh I think um but so I was like looking at some buses and one of them was triple h's because it's like it was a bus that was made uh you know like some

of them are like they're straight up like eight bunk beds or 12 bunk beds, and they get a lounge and a little front area of a tour bus. And so they're very basic. And then some of them are made specifically like, oh, I'm, you know, I want this design, this special way. And, yeah, and I went on his, and he had like, his was in the back. It was a very big bed, like that. And then it was a triple, like they slide out. So this one had triple H, triple slide.

And it slid. So the front was very big when it was slid out. But they had to sit on their bus, I think, a little bit more than... I'm kind of riding it to the next yeah stop when we do these drive-in dates as y'all know you would you were on the bus a little bit more yeah uh and but when you're on theaters you're kind of you kind of get there and go you know you might have a couple that you stay on the bus and don't have a hotel or something but overall we're

traveling through the night mostly and it's mainly you're kind of yeah it's like you but you do you after the show you kind of just stay on the bus and like uh yeah yeah you don't stay as much but yeah yeah maybe you are on it more but i've never like parked so much to be pulling it out like i don't think i'm like living on it where i think some of these arena tours and stuff like that like you're straight up living on this bus yeah like bands right and stuff like where you're like yeah you gotta have your you have they all travel with their own bus like a lot of artists like we'll get you know you're an aerosmith uh they're dan and shay they have their They each have their own bus.

That's always, I think, a big moment for those guys is you get to a point where then you get your own bus. First, you're going out together. Yeah. And then you just want your own little space. It's not like they don't get along. Right, right. Yeah, you just want your –

Yeah, who gets the bedroom back there? Is this a big adjustment? That was a big drop in your there? Is this a big adjustment? Big drop in your chair. That's a big drop. Aaron, you seem much more powerful now. Yeah, I know. WrestleMania, that was a good question.

My apologies. I like being low. So Vince McMahon is like Roger Goodell, right? Yeah, he is like Roger Goodell. But he owns it. He owns WWE. Yeah, so these small-level beginner wrestlers, He is like Roger Goodell. But he owns it. He owns WWE. Yeah. So these small-level beginner wrestlers, they may make $25 a show. Really?

Yeah. It's just like comedy when you start. On WWE. I'm talking about when you're first trying to get into it. It's a good bar show pay. This feels very – I'm very low. Yeah, you look a little low. Huh? Makes you look younger

Yeah You should do it Brian Whoa Wrestling promo here Yeah Here you go dude Now we're going Did you think that went too far?

It doesn't matter what you think dude He's got enough Next show There's no chair there Probably lay on the ground it is being low it's kind of funny it feels funny it feels like we're trying to talk about

we're trying to make we're talking about wrestling seriously go ahead Brian go through how much they make you look like Jimmy Carter in that picture with how much they make you look like jimmy carter in that picture with the bidens you look so much smaller yeah so wrestlers make 25 a show starting out if they're lucky they carpool together and they sell merch after the shows to try to make more money and then that's straight up comedy yeah then they're hoping to get noticed by a

promoter or somebody like that and then probably have agents to get a tryout for the big circuit but the top guys in wwe again i don't know how accurate this is or up to date brock lesnar's number one right now he makes twice as much as second guy roman reigns brock lesnar makes 10 million a year that's not counting um i don't think merchandise and other yeah promos that's just straight from WWE okay so the top guys

I'll make in the millions so Brock is back wrestling right now full time he's back in WWE I think so

I can't keep up so Brock Lesnar was a professional wrestler and then he became a UFC fighter and then he went back I think he's done it

a couple times hasn't he I think he's gone back and forth a couple times he's so big that I think he's gone back and forth a couple times. He's so big. That'll tell you how athletic and how strong these guys are, that you're like, this is fake.

But that guy went over and fought the UFC and obliterated people. Well, he also got beat. For his first fight, right? His first fight he lost. But I think he got beat. He lost a few more times. Yeah, yeah. fighter lost but i think he got beat it he lost a few more times yeah yeah uh which shows you too how like a mix of how serious the ufc fighters like to go there's this there's still a very

he's like i don't know how great of a fighter was and the fact that he was just so big and then knew how to fight like it's just so much power. He was NCAA champion in wrestling in college. So he knew how to wrestle. He knew how to wrestle. He's such a big guy. He wrestled Kurt Angle for real. Yeah. Because Kurt Angle was a gold medal Olympic wrestler.

Yeah, and he wore it around his neck. Yeah, and they wrestled for real, and Kurt Angle beat him. Yeah. Wow. And everybody thought Brock would win, but Kurt just knew the moves. He said there's a big difference. I saw an interview with him. He said there's a big difference between an NCAA college champion

and an Olympic gold medal champion. Yeah. The training and stuff, even though Brock Lesnar's so much bigger. Yeah. Yeah. And he doesn't look like a real person. He doesn't. I mean, he looks like a cartoon.

Yeah, it's something else. I mean, it's like, you know, like seeing, I mean, the picture of the Undertaker. Seeing the Undertaker, you're just. You look like a kid. It's just, yeah, it's just so, he's just so big. Just so big. Yeah. Even referees, WWE referees make between $150,000 to $500,000 a year.

That's good. But that's a very important job. They have an earpiece. The producer's talking to them in their ear, telling them when to finish the match and stuff like that. Oh, okay. They're kind of going like, all right, this is enough.

And then he's got to tell them. Yeah. So they're probably going like, we'll tell you when to finish it. And they know. Do you have stuff on how they plan a fight yeah they don't uh rehearse it beforehand it's mostly i mean they may talk it out a little bit but it's mostly improvised and then when they get in those locks where they're just kind of locking each other they're either resting or

talking or both yeah and sometimes you can pick it up on the mic, like do this or do that. Hulk Hogan said that when the body slam on Andre the Giant, Andre said slam, and he knew to slam him. And then he said leg drop. And so Andre is basically telling him, do this. I'm done. Yeah. Because he was done.

Andre was kind of retiring. His body was just wore out by then so was he uh was andre and hulk hogan was andre before hulk hogan they're about the same time andre's a little bit before yeah before him yeah but he was they would go back and forth is that the first time the hulk beat him i don't know yeah but it's the first time andre john had been body slammed yeah i mean he's over 500 pounds. Yeah, I'm almost going to go watch this documentary. I didn't watch one.

I wanted to watch the Andre the Giant documentary. Yeah, they talk about it. Everybody says it's so great. It makes you feel sorry for him. Yeah. Because he was so big, the world was just really hard for him. Yeah, have we talked about that or no? Did he have actual gigantism, like the medical disorder?

He was a giant. Yeah. Right? How many, what would he drink? Beers? Oh, Hulk Hogan said that he's seen him drink 120 beers. On a flight, right? On a flight.

Like from Japan or something. Yeah. And he would have to sit in boat he'd have sit in the front with both seats and then they'd have to put a shower curtain around him to go to the bathroom go to the bathroom yeah like pee in a because he couldn't get it i mean he can't walk around yeah so he just he's sitting there i mean i mean flying to japan like that just a shower curtain around like they have to build it and he's just in there peeing and just drinking i mean all the beers yeah you know yeah that's so crazy you seven seven foot one yeah well that was when he was that age that's what him as a younger man he grew to

like seven four handsome guy five hundred something i. The big show, you guys know him? Yeah. When he first started, they called him the Giant, and the storyline was he was Andre the Giant's son. Oh, yeah. And then it just – I think he left and went to another – they changed that. It's so funny at the end of it. They go, no, he's Andre the Giant's son.

You're like, wow, that's crazy. Eventually, so he's not? You're like, nah, he's not. He's not anymore. You go, oh, okay. He's not you're like nah he's not anymore oh okay he's not anymore uh yeah he's so big andre john's so big it's so crazy uh you know wow so let me give you a little uh there's a few good things here i want to get to yeah some of the worst gimmicks they were so politically incorrect watch the big show flip a jeep why is there a jeep next to the ring i don't know someone drove in there hiding i

think is there somebody inside of it yeah i think it's funny to jump into these clips without the context leading up to you're like what what is happening but i'm on board yeah um some of these i'll just tell you a couple the gobbledygooker that's a wrestler for a short time it was yeah this guy he comes out of an egg as a chicken yeah and this is something like the most ridiculous ones. I hope, if that's not buffering, it's okay. Okay. Glenn Jacobs, who's now the mayor of Knox County, who was Kane. Yeah. Originally, he was a deranged dentist called Isaac Yankum.

Yeah. He would come out in the ring as a deranged dentist, but people hate it. I mean, wrestling fans have gotten so much more particular about they're not going to go for some stupid gimmick. He's Undertaker's brother in real life. That's not true. I'm pretty positive that's true. You said that on the Tennessee episode.

That was just the storyline. No, I thought they're brothers in real life. Yeah, maybe they're not. I might have even said that to his face. Tell Cain and Hallowick, you see him for Mother's Day? Yeah. However, in real life, Glenn Jacobs, Cain, and Mark Calloway are not related by blood. But it's not like it's crazy.

It was believed for a long time. Oh, everybody believes it. Okay, the brothers of destruction, they were called. I don't think anyone believed it for crazy. It was believed for a long time. Oh, everybody believes it. Okay. The Brothers of Destruction, they were called. I don't think anyone believed it for real. Oh, yeah. I think everybody thought they were brothers. I think everybody did. Okay.

Let me just tell you a couple. Just ridiculous ones. Mike Awesome, the fat chick thriller. Oh, dude. His storyline was he was into fat chicks all the other ones would come down the ring with these beautiful women he'd come in with two large women on either side of him that was like his thing i hate that this isn't so that's who he's in there with yeah

but that quickly he's bringing the ring he's pulling the rope up for the women. And he's like, it's very hard for him to pull it wide enough for them to get in. I mean, that's unbelievable. Yeah. I got one more of those. We'll show you.

But why would it be? So it's like, so, you know, there's three ropes. So he's grabbing the middle rope. If you listen to me, you'll see it. He's pulling that one up to get them in. But then you're like, I mean, they immediately have to go right back out. Why didn't they come on in the first place? So we can hug them.

Yeah, they come on. What's very funny is then when they go out, they go out alone in a much more respectable way where you want to go like, yeah, dude, can we just do that? And they're like, nah, nah. But the front is like, I have to do it that way. All right, so let me give you one more.

You might remember this one, Nate, because it lasted for a while. Eugene. Do you remember Eugene? Maybe. He was on WWE. He was Eric Bischoff's mentally challenged nephew.

Oh, my God. I don't know. This wasn't that long. This was 2004. So this is less than 20 years ago. I don't know if I remember. You said, I said I remember Eric Bischoff earlier

and I don't know if I do. Know who that is. Well, he was, you would know him if you saw him. Oh, well. Oh, my God. um know who that is uh well he was you would know him if you saw him oh well i mean that's crazy i mean that went on for a while yeah it's not like somebody shot that out of me that was like a four-year run yeah wow and i mean i saw a clip where he and The Rock were tag team partners. But maybe, it could be good. Maybe a lot of special people are watching that.

And it could be they loved it. They could have loved it. They may have, but other people didn't. But I mean, it's not about the other people. If they loved it, then I bet that's why it could have lasted longer than it did because it was

like, you know, yeah. I know we got to wrap it up pretty quick, so I want to get to a few more. We don't have to

show this. You remember Jake the Snake Roberts? Yeah. He fought Macho Man and he had a cobra in the

ring and it bit Macho Man on the arm and he couldn't get it off. Yeah. It was de-venomized but still

there's a snake for a long time there's video of it him just gnawing at his arm yeah it was real like and you see jake trying to like get it off of him and uh i mean it's on his arm for like a minute yeah just gnawing at it you golly it's pretty it was pretty gross when i yeah when i watched it i mean it's not like there's a ton of blood. You don't have to show it. It's okay. So let me just do

some of the worst debuts. Is it? This video is so funny. Yeah. Okay. It's gonna be, just, I mean,

just, yeah. Do the, which one? Which one? Wrestler, we'll do that one first wrestler falls out of ring okay and we'll post these clips yeah so people can see it this is just so great this is we also might not all right uh look at this so the big guy is coming in because well this looks like it's in a high school gym or something. This is like...

He just flipped. That's why Mike Awesome was being so careful about pulling those away from his women. I mean, the ref is a... Or is that a wrestler? Or is that the ref? There wrestler or is that the ref there's another guy in the ring that's got a black t-shirt on jeez and wearing uh looks like possible uh just i mean regular sneakers and i don't know if he's i don't know what he is who's that guy like he's like there's a he looks like just a guy for the crowd yeah there they go we need

actually one more to make it four and he goes all right i'll do it and then he gets in there but i mean yeah yeah i guess he's a wrestler it looks like he's getting back into it i think that's his partner that just fell out of the ring there yeah he's like oh no the uh well every other person is in like the typical you know with the spandex or the bell this guy just looks like me it looks like when if like he got called and goes yo dude this guy's sick do you mind coming he's like dude i'm out i'm like at the mall with my family and he goes i know but the match is starting right now so just he goes all right dude but i'm not i don't have like my stuff he goes that's fine dude he goes just it doesn't like you know we're just making it like whatever we can make it anything it doesn't really matter we just have to have someone

in the ring with us and he goes all right yeah all right i'll go and then he tells his wife and she's like are you kidding again like she's mad and he goes i'm yeah all right i'll go and then he tells his wife and she's like are you kidding again like she's mad and he goes i'm just doing like two seconds i'm gonna go in this might be five minutes we're gonna make a hundred bucks keep the car running yeah a hundred bucks i go in there and run out what does it matter why do you you know where's it and she's like where's this going because, I'm the guy that they think to call. That's where it's going. And that's how that guy's dressed.

I mean, straight up like the regular. Came from the mall. Well, you remember the old wrestlers when they used to wrestle the big ones, it would be just regular guys. Yeah. Like when you first watch like Hulk Hogan, Hulk Hogan would wrestleogan wrestle you know Scott Stevens yeah and like it would just be this guy that comes in I knew someone exude those

is when you'd always be I feel like we had someone that knew someone knew one of them you always you'd always know someone that's like I know a guy that's a wrestler you're like one you're like not one of the one of the regular guys that goes in you're like you're still like oh yeah it's cool yeah it would be just a regular person and he'd come in never win yeah zero chance and i do remember thinking they can't win right there so you are going like it doesn't what's the point of this? I guess it was like the hope that they could win, but. A lot of times they'll do a thing where they pull someone out of the crowd and pretend like it's just, I'll wrestle this guy,

but then the guy's really a wrestler. Yeah. I feel like John Cena's first match, I remember watching, he was just some up-and-comer guy that got challenged, and he took the challenge. John Cena was the one, that's about when I was out. out yeah he was like a guy in long jean shorts yeah yeah and i was like okay like this like it was like almost like you're like i want you to be something yeah he was like stunk old wear jorts too but he had more of a what's funny is you i'd rather i'd rather my

i'd rather rest of have tight things on. It's very funny. It's a very opposite way. I would like all my men dressed in pretty tight undies. Tight fitting stuff. All my tight fitting stuff. That's how you want your wrestlers. If you can take your shirt off, that'd be great.

You want to go like, all right, John Cena, let's strip it down. I don't need you wearing uh you know jeans out there but john cena was that was i was like kind of pat like that was my thing that i was like all right i'm kind of out like i he was he wore regular jean shorts like like you know like a little loose-fitting jean shorts. And you're like, and all I've seen is wrestlers wear the spandex. And so you're kind of like, okay. I think he was supposed to be like a white rapper at the beginning. It was a little bit like playing off Mark Wahlberg.

Yeah. Oh, interesting. Yeah. So I didn't get the storyline. Yeah. But it was like, it felt like a regular, you're like well it's ridiculous yeah and it you know and that is that's tough to say to people you can't say that a bunch of other guys let's see we have those tighter pants on you know like and then what's that nothing john cena's great you just go with it you gotta think i can see his wallet in his back pocket is that the guy

you want to watch you know you got john you forgot your keys are in your oh sorry he's got he's got a like he's going through a metal detector before every fight he's gonna just start he's gonna pat everything down then go do i? And you see a mint fall out during the fight because he just left it in there. He has to have somebody watch his stuff. Yeah. He needs a manager. You're playing like a – it's like you go play like basketball. You're like, no, I'll give it a try.

Do you mind? Can I set my phone and wallet and keys and can I set everything right there? That's what John Cena does. He's keeping an eye on it. Yeah. The corner. Yeah. I mean, it does look silly. That's what they should have. Just keep an eye on it. The corner. I mean, it does look silly.

That's what they should have done. How funny would that have been? Right before every wrestling match, he's got to go. He just pulls everything out. I don't know about it. He goes, can I give...

You just give it to a stranger. Can I hand you this and then well when they and then you can hold my stuff all my belongings I'm sorry

I have to wrestle when they have a belt they take it off to give it to someone to take out he just starts pulling out his keys and his wallet the whole

here take all this yeah you mentioned the just the everyday guys. So back in the day, pull up that Worst Wrestling promo. Oh, man. And if you've got the audio. This one was great, yeah.

This guy's name's Jeff Farmer. Jeff Farmer? I knew a Bradley Farmer. Earlier we talked to Jumpin' Jeff Farmer. Let's go now to that interview. Oh, there's Jumpin' Jeff Farmer. Jeff, a while back that interview. Folks, here's jumping Jeff Farmer. Jeff, a while back, what a match you had with Motley. Yep.

Probably the hardest match I ever had in my life. But I don't like it when things aren't going my way. My crew, you turned the tables on me. You turned the tables in a wrong way You got me mad now I'm listening to everything you had to say I did everything necessary But when you turn around

And you backstab me one way or another And you critique me out of what's rightfully mine That's when I get angry You know I had to play the whole thing I'm the one doing the challenges. I'm issuing a challenge to you, Motley Crue. Get in the ring with me. This time, I'm going for four.

Wow. That's generally considered the worst wrestling promo ever. Because jumping Jack Farmer. That sounded like... That poor guy. I felt bad for him. I mean like harper when she was five and like she's trying to get mad at you and she's like you made me mad things didn't go my way and i didn't like that and you go you didn't like that and that's how you would talk you would talk

to her like so why didn't you like that well i just did it it hurt my feelings and they shouldn't have happened and i don't like that you did that. Like there's a, we have a video of Harper, like when she was with, we're not going to, you know, but there's an old video, like a video Laura has with Harper. She goes, yeah, well, if you don't, you know, like she's trying to get, she's like, if you don't let me watch some movie, some, you know, she's like, and she's like four., she's like, if you don't let me watch some movie, some,

you know, she's like, and she's like four. And she's like, if you don't, then I'm not going to let you, telling Laura, I'm not going to let you,

you're not going to get to go eat any of your food. I'm going to throw all your stuff away. She's saying all the stuff that we would maybe say to her. Like, yeah, I'm going to throw all your,

you're not going to play with these toys and I'm going to get rid of all your toys. And she's like, if you don't let me go play with my toys, then I'm going to, I'm going to get all your, you're not going to play these toys and I'm going to get rid of all your toys. And she's like, if you don't let me go play with my toys, then I'm going to, I'm going to get rid of your stuff. I'll throw your purse and I'll put it in the trash.

Like it was like, that sounded like that. Yeah, exactly. Exactly like that. I'll just tell you about a couple more. So this is my favorite, the Shockmaster. This is his very first entrance in WCW.

So it was a televised event where they were going to introduce their new three-on-three match. And Sting and somebody else against Sid Vicious. But they don't know who their next, their secret wrestler is going to be. So they're building this up. It's generally regarded as the worst debut in wrestling history. He falls through a wall and his helmet comes off. Cue it up to the one one minute mark and turn on the audio

and they broke character laughing because give me a second oh my god we need Brian to get back on the camera maybe here we go the big reveal it's gonna be all I have to say reveal All I have to say is

Our partner is going to Shock the world because He is none other than The Shock Monster That's it That's it He said he couldn't see out of the helmet And he tried to bust through the wall

And only the top part went So he just fell He had to grab his helmet He's wearing a Darth Vader glitter helmet And did he wrestle? yeah for a short time he's just known as that

I mean I mean this outfit looks like you're just grabbing random stuff from backstage like I guess we'll get the Star Wars helmet

I've completely forgot I wrote in a character and I haven't told anybody like that's when it feels like the guy he goes he goes what did he just say yeah he goes he said he's introducing the new next wrestler and the guy's like i don't have another rest like it's that guy that he's like he goes what's that

grab he just sits there he's like kind of just hanging out he's like the writer because you know they have writers they write yeah there's a lot of comedians that have written for uh wwe like you can get it as a job like you actually go work there and you write the storylines and they're really good at it and uh uh but it would be like they sit there and like he just finds out and he goes what's that what did he say he goes he said he's about to introduce a new guy yeah where did he get that idea from he goes i don't know but he's introducing a new wrestler and he goes there's not another guy though like there is 90 and he goes oh god he goes grab something he goes grab something he goes what's he what's he gonna say he goes i don't i don't even know he goes so i don't even know what

i don't even know i don't know the vibe to goes, so I don't even know what the vibe to go with. He doesn't even know. He goes, give me a theory. Is he like a lumberjack? What is he going to say? And he goes, I don't know what he's going to say. And he goes, well, I want to get a little bit of everything. It's almost what he has on.

And he just grabs that jacket. He goes, I don't know where this hat is. And then he goes, he's going to shock everybody. He goes, maybe he's going to shock me. The shock master of the shock. He's wearing jeans. So them laughing. You didn't hear them.

I couldn't find one. But they said they broke character and were dying laughing. That's why they keep it on it for so long, until they can get their composure, the camera shot. Yeah. And I'll show you one more that just happened a couple years ago. The Titus O'Neil. Yeah.

2018 Royal Rumble, which the Royal Rumble, this is a 50-man Royal Rumble, so they come in one at a time. Royal Rumble is always great. Yeah. This is Titus O'Neil. Royal Rumble would be like an all-star game. Pro Bowl. Yeah.

It's kind of everybody. If you have audio. All right, so number 39, here comes Titus O'Neil. And the leader of Titus Worldwide, Titus O'Neal. Titus had a very busy week here in Saudi Arabia. He's been in the middle of many briefings. He slides underneath the ring. Underneath the ring.

Hard to come back from that. He slides underneath the ring Underneath the ring Hard to come back from that After running 200 yards From the top of the stage That's pretty amazing Yeah, so as they see it Yeah, so what was your wrestling name?

Not PP pronoun Nate the Baker The Baker's Dozen Oh, the Baker's Dozen That was your move, right? The Baker's Dozen And you were the gout? I think i'd be the fry cook or something and i'd have a spatula oh yeah yeah flip people so you're just going with basically the same idea that i have what do you

mean i'm i'm nate the baker so obviously i'm in the kitchen like you can make anything up in the world right now and you go i'll probably be like a fry cook. You go, yeah, you haven't left the kitchen. You're just staying with the general idea that. We could team up. You know what I mean? Yeah. Baker and a fry cook. Yeah.

Fry cook. I don't know. Well, your spatula, that was your go-to toy as a kid. A spatula. I like to pick up somebody and flip them over like that. That would be pretty cool it's a pretty big it'd be a big well look hulk hogan picked up andre the giant i feel like i could flip somebody on you have to do it with a i think it'd be a big spatula it wouldn't be a

normal size spatula that'd be insane come on i think i just have to be a manager or something yeah you know i had one brad i think it'd be music to be a manager or something. Yeah. She'd be, you know. I had one. Brad Hinderwater. I think it'd be music of whatever, a sound of fun being sucked out of the room. And then you pop up. And that's how they, everybody goes, oh, no. Here comes Toby from the office.

Yeah. And then he walks down, you know, he walks down the way, the ramp, but like on the side holding the rail like it's slick he won't get in the middle just hold on to the hair yeah and the royal rumble would be you start oh no and then it's you would start because the first guy goes out and then they just keep going but it's it would be by the you would you'd actually be the first and then the last guy to get in the ring because you by the time it took you to get to the ring the whole match they've all passed you and so you're just sitting there and then it goes to the last one first one out last one in I'm the only one that walks up the stairs

everybody else just jumps in safety first alright that's it I hope you enjoyed wrestling that's what a lot of people might be like I don't know anything about wrestling it's fun alright thank you everybody

we will see you next week we're recording next week's actually today uh because i will be out of town next week uh i'll be on uh ridiculousness really yeah that's awesome yeah it was on the tonight show too i guess i didn't see that uh yeah all right you talked about the podcast on there actually i didn't see that yeah yeah thanks talk to nate land got some Tonight Show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Thanks for appreciating it. All right. See y'all next week. Bye. Bye. Bye. Thank you. What's up everybody? We are out showing you this solo stove. It's pretty unbelievable.

Unbelievable. It's got, there's no smoke. You know, it'll smell like smoke afterwards. We come outside and sit by a fire. This fire is unbelievable too. Super hot. This is pretty wild. It's pretty crazy. Very pretty. Farber, put your hand in there, it's so pretty. Alright.

And like typical fashion, the producer, Laura, made this fire. So, everybody go get a solo stone.