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We were not here. I was somewhere. I don't know where. I had to go do, what did I have to go? I went somewhere. I had my high school golf tournament Monday, Donaldson Christian Academy. Yeah. Yeah. There was the tournament. I don't know if I've told this story on here. It's one that it's now called the Nate Borghese Golf Tournament. Yeah.

But it's just for my high school. And so I played in it this year. Last year, I didn't play in it. I, like, 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, they were in the cart together. They're like the same group of carts. And that's, it's funny. He's like, that's what's,

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, 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 like sick buddy. Where's this money going? You're like just living costs, dude. I'm not 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. You still bouncing around? Yeah, yeah, still. I mean, that's all you ever say. Yeah. Yeah, still getting at it, you know, 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 alright. They're still alright. People are logging in. They're getting in there. Because it is like

If someone doesn't know what's going on, and there's stuff, there's bands that I would not even know. 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 the one that I was like, oh, is this like... The first time I ever had the thought of like, oh, this is 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. And 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 are you being...

I was like a very nice, if you ever say something like that, someone said it once that didn't know me. And 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'm 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 know you. Why would I know you? You can say it in a very mean way. But then for you to put it on you and go, oh, I was ignorant. I'm ignorant not to have known who you were because I thought you were great. Like if the BTS, you'd be like, oh, I'm sorry. I'm just not. I'm a loser. You guys are amazing. That's a much nicer way to say it.

I, you're not in my world, dude. Like I don't, I don't do what you do, you know? Yeah. I don't know. No, that's, that's totally true. I mean, and for you, that would be true that if they didn't know who you are, they clearly aren't following comedy. But if someone said it to me, that'd 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 am. 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. What happened? Do you even remember? I do. I do remember. It wasn't wild. We, uh,

Friends, my brothers, we 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. No. That was a joke. I didn't know you had...

Yeah, me too. Yeah, first I'm hearing about it. Yeah. Might have been. But it was fun. No, I think we talked about it on here. 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 know how to ask you. Do you have a brother or sister? He's like, there's like seven of them. You're like, seven? Yeah, dude. Wow. That's like, oh, man. There are so many people I know just from comedy. And then 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. Uh, Brian Regan had that great joke about, uh, getting a divorce. Uh-huh. And, uh, you know, you didn't ask him about it? Like, no. Nah, it didn't come up. It didn't come up. Yeah, on the golf course. It didn't come up. It didn't come up. Their divorce. Uh, I asked him about it, about his new driver. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Where'd you get that? Uh,

Yeah, it's... I do think there's probably a man thing in it. But 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 you're just kind of like you want to ask them about comedy. If you're going to ask them something, so you're not going to then be like, so what's your family like? No, yeah. There's a...

Yeah, I don't know. It is a weird thing, comedy. There's a lot of people I don't know. Do you know if I have siblings? You do. Sister. I had no idea. Do you really have a sister? Yeah. I had no idea you had a sister. Yeah. 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 for my dad and sister that I think can work. It's one of the first ones. It's very hard to give a comic a joke. It's very, very hard. Because you're not really giving 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. And like, that's funny. Right. Some of them are funny. Maybe you're like, I'm just never going to be there. It's not me. I don't. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it's, it's, it's day. Cause people do want to give jokes.

sometimes I think they do too much. They try to give you the whole, like, you know, and then 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 tell you 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 yeah there's something there all right i had a joke about that what's the etiquette of like when a cat dies what are you supposed to do when a cat dies so like 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

Etta cat. That would change the show right there. Wait, what is this that we're at right now? I mean, this guy comes on after you. He's like, Hey man, don't do that. Like that's the, the vibe of the room. Yeah.

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... Yeah, that's a totally different style of comedy. That would have been so different from everything else I was doing. I would have just...

Etta cat, huh? Yeah. Man. Yeah. And their response is, all right. That's what I did. 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. Because he's watching. Yeah. I mean, I had Louis C.K. give me once after a show...

And he was, he watched me, he saw me at somewhere, but 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 a 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, but and like hear like his brain on like how he like thinks of a joke.

But I mean that, 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 they have to see it to 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, 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 Pet Boys.

And it's different. It's not as good as, you know, you want to see this specific place. And it's hard to like sell...

It's hard to like when 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. I 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. Yeah.

now it throws off a whole new rhythm it's all yeah lupus is funnier than it is a funnier word psoriasis is not that funny funny word lupus lupus sounds good yeah yeah like it's yeah it's crazy like you would you'd almost have to be well i'm gonna go a completely different i'm about to change it completely different you start saying etiquette etiquette yeah uh

Yeah. What was your weekend? I've had a few, but I remember Mark Curry opening for him one weekend. The very first night he watched my set and 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 got to do it. I'm going 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 gonna have to do all these jokes he gave me all weekend i was so relieved to get out of that yeah it's tough it's tough when you gotta be like when you give a comic a tag and stuff you gotta the one the times it gets given to you the best is when someone's like obviously you don't have to do any of this right like you know i just i thought of it i

I don't know what I'm doing. I heard early on, 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, oh, okay, that's fair. Take it or leave it. Yeah, it's pretty tough. I get tags. God, did I use... I had Justin Smith with me in Toledo. I feel like he gave me something, and I might have used that. Dustin Ickerson stopped by. 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. I have a couple, but I don't love a lot of callbacks. I don't love any callbacks. 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 call back, 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 back too. We're good. Like that's enough callbacking to go, yeah, we should have been...

I shouldn't have done the joke so much that you think I should have called that back. That's my fault. But there's...

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. 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. You need to say meese. Yeah. Because everybody thinks meese. And then he says moosen. So he gets two laughs. Right, right.

out of one word. Because they're doing the callback in their head already. Mies is in your head. Mies is in my head. Mies 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. Mm-hmm. And then so I don't say it and I got it Moosen. Mm-hmm. That's unbelievable. I remember seeing that. I was like, he got two jokes. He got two laughs out of one word.

One word. That was one of my favorite. That's one of my early in comedy 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. This dude's playing 3D chess. That's what it feels like. This guy's, wow. That's awesome. Yeah. Everybody's going to say me. 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? Didn't 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's his name. 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. 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 yeah that's awesome do some stuff all right uh

So here we go. We'll start with some comments. That was a long before the comments. That was a long time. We've still got to do a show. Yeah, we've still got to do... All right. All right. We've got to get it together. Here's the comments for the Canada show.

Caitlin Blanchard. We talked about her. The Blanchard family, yeah. The Blanchard family. I've definitely learned more during the episode than any other episode with 100% thanks to Graham K. 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. So...

Caitlin K. That's got a good ring to it. Yeah. Caitlin K. Well, is she saying, well, it's maybe for her, but she's saying for a friend. I don't know if that's a joke or she's, I took it as a joke. Yeah. Yeah. Either way. Maybe Caitlin, maybe it's you, you know, Caitlin K. That is a good, uh,

The Blanchard Ranch will be upset about it. They run a whole family. The Blanchard Homestead is going to. The Blanchards are going to be. You can't just. It's a family business. Graham's going to have to work the farm. You're going to 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. 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. Yeah. She's still here. She's doing, yeah. Oh, yeah. Was she a singer? Yeah. Yeah. And Bates, yeah, Bates is outside your house. Now I know you live in Canada. You hear? Yeah.

And she's like, what? And you go, hello. Yeah, now one more piece to the puzzle. Somewhere in Quebec. She's 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... Gotta 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. Nufi is saying I'm a Nufi is better than saying I'm a Nolan. Yeah.

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 a lot.

Not back this weekend. 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. 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, this could stop tomorrow and it wouldn't surprise me. I just read something on goals that...

I thought it 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 it. 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. Yeah. But I can, I've been, I told, I've been telling everybody, we did our max, I tell you this, my max bench. No. No. What do you think my max bench was? 185. I'll say 220. That's insane. Yeah.

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 is a lot. One bench, 200 pounds. That's cool, man. 200 is 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. That was a very, for me, it was getting the 45 on each side of the bar. Yeah. That's all I wanted. Yeah. That just looked cool. Yeah. It looks good. Do you get how the sugar give up? Go.

It's going. Yeah. I mean, it's, yeah, there's been some, there's been some problems. We ran some speed bumps along the way. It went last night right in the middle of the chocolate ice cream speed bump. Just plopped in. It was Mother's Day. Celebrate. Honor the moms. Still, it hasn't been eating. It's like not really going after main food, but it's, the sweets have been gone. I've not had candy.

in a while. And I really haven't eaten ice cream. Like, you know, it's been, I'll reel it back down and just get off the sweets because it feels good with sweets. That's like, 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. You should let her go try. 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. This is what she does. She's the greatest at it. Do that and mail the letter. I want to see if she can do it. This is a tough one. It's not unrelated. This is a big test for mom. Can she go in and cancel it for someone else? If anybody can, she can. If anybody can, she can. They might not let her. 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, make 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 $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, ha, ha, ha.

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 years. You get all the Notre Dame stuff. I graduated. Yeah, dude, get your Notre Dame stuff. That should count in your money that you pay. They gave us a water bottle when we were freshmen. They give you that kind of stuff. I mean, come on. You think if Vol 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. Yeah. That and Western Kentucky. Mm-hmm. Yeah, 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, Shay, 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. There is some street. Someone said you're talking about Texas and Arkansas, Texarkana. Man, I swear I went on another street. I mean, there's an I-40.

No, but I felt like there was a town, 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. The Mississippi is a very funny word.

Mississippi. That's a very good 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. Yeah.

That's true.

That I find 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 go, you end up, you're the, you know, you've done the opposite where you're going, you're like, you're like, I think I'm hitting a, that's a, you know, Laura comment from the bleachers. Are you going a 95? That's, I mean, that's.

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,

I will also sign up 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. Your buddy James. I could see you having a plan to finish membership a little too long. You think he 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? Yeah. Yeah, $10 a month. Yeah. It's easy. Yeah. $10 a month. You guys got so much money. Yeah.

$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, do we get to hear what it is when you decide? Yeah, it'll be the flask or something like that. We'll figure it out. Don't do a flask. Don't do a flask?

Now, I think the flask is due to something. We talked about this the other day. We had better ideas than that. I liked your bobblehead idea. I did like the bobblehead. I think the ship sailed on that. It's a little too late to get that going. Engraving, a money clip. A money clip. That's right. Maybe we have. A money clip is good. A flask is, I mean. I agree. I agree. People get flasks like people are alcoholics, dude. They give it to people where you go, who is your groomsman? Right.

That is sneaking booze like this, dude. Like, maybe that's a good... Get some syringes engraved. Yeah, 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. I know it's very different. And someone goes, oh, wow, I don't have a flask. But I mean...

For you to use this flask outside of like a party and you're like, oh, I got a flask. You're, it's not good. Flask or to hide. Yeah. Your alcohol problem. Right.

All right. Nicholas's Butcher. Yeah. Nicole's Butcher. Nicole's Butcher. Yeah. Because the A's there. That's right. Nicholas Butcher. Nicole's Butcher. Nate's saying, I don't get nightmares, but I do have scary dreams. It's like Michael Scott saying, I'm not super stitches, but I am a little stitches. Stitches. Stitches. I'm not super stitches, but I am a little stitches. Did he say that? Yeah.

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.

Uh, Deborah Howard, please, please, please do the Roman empire as a former high school history teacher. I do cringe the entire time. I listened to a history theme, Nate land 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. Steven Searcy, Nate saying that's an old episode referring to sign to Seinfeld. It's been off the air for 24 years. That's, uh,

All right. Should we do the other one? Yeah, let's do the other one. Okay. We're switching episodes. Mid-switch. So this week, we are going to talk about wrestling, right? Yep, professional wrestling. Professional wrestling, which I mean, there's got to be people that are like, oh, no. Yeah. I have a video I can show you from a professional wrestler, something that just happened this weekend. So this was...

At my dentist, Jody Jones, it was funny. 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. I don't know this is filming, that he did this. And then so here's what happened. That's the new apron, the lead apron, because they were doing 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. Yeah.

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 very tall. He's got tattoos. And then you mentioned recently that he lives here, and it kind of sounded like him. That's him. It's The Undertaker. Wow. So just last week.

So he does live here. He does not live here. Oh. He, uh...

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 – 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. Yeah.

to just be like, like, you know, I mean, the undertaker is still 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, it was an awesome, awesome dude. Uh, very, very nice. Uh, 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,

What was that about? All of it was just a joke. Just to mess with you. Being funny. They go, this is our new lead apron. So when the lady that does do my teeth, she was leaving. But she said afterwards I was going to start laughing. So someone else came in. And so then they said they were working on it all morning. And so they had this...

things 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

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? Yeah. 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. It's very funny. He's like, I got to get back to the prison. That's awful. That was this past few weeks ago. That is crazy, man. Yeah.

Wow. Yeah, that was last week. So, yeah. Yeah. So there's my...

My wrestler's story. That's pretty good. You don't get much better than that. So next up, next, Brian, your wrestler's story. You got to get 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. Yeah. The Rock was at the last one. Oh. So, it was, it's pretty fun. Yeah, yeah. I've never met a wrestler though. It's been, 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 it's like, I was saying like going to that event was like awesome. Cause it was like, you're watching, uh, our boy Augustine played, uh,

And then you're watching the next kind of generation of like, it's like AAA baseball. That's what Korn Ferry means? Yeah. Korn Ferry is basically like AAA. It used to be web.com tour. And then it might have been the Hooters tour before that. It was so great. Mm-hmm.

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, but you go walk around, you can walk. I mean, there's groups where, I mean, you're like walking with like the guy's dad and then just you and that kid's dad. Yeah. And you're watching this kid's got, 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 of the cut, you get $2,400. But you have to pay for your travel. You got to drive to that gig. You got to stay for that 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, dude. Like you're just watching these people you never heard of. But they put on a great show. And I remember this one, 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. 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 the 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. Like, it's... And it's... You can go do... You know, they come fight and you're like... You're just...

next to them, right there. 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 watching the fight and he's still counting it like it's getting points. In wrestling like this, the ref is very funny. There's really no reason for him. There's not points.

It's just who wins. He's kind of being like, you can't pull a chair out and hit him. But then it happens and he's got to be like, no, no, no, no. Then he gets hit. Now the ref gets knocked out. 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. Yes.

He comes to you and is like, oh, one, two, and just counts the guy out. It's very, like it's, you know, the ref has to be like, there's, you know, there's, I don't know, there's just something very funny about it. Yeah. 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, you know, something illegal. Streetlight. Yeah. And those, even at WWE, I saw a video of wrestlers come in through the crowd sometimes, like in big arenas. Yeah. They'll come down and like, I saw one, there's one sting was, there's a lot of fake stings. They were wearing the skin up and a guy just reached over and grabbed his wig and

and pulled it off before we ever got into the stings. It wasn't, it was a fake sting, but it was a storyline was there's a bunch of fake stings. They're trying to find the real one. Yeah. And so I just grabbed his wig and yanked it off from the crowd. Yeah.

But yeah, they do that on purpose? Yeah, because sometimes they'll come down the aisle, but there's still people on either side everywhere. And somebody just, you know, it's kind of crazy that they 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, yeah, it's like when someone, if someone got mad and goes, but it's not real, you're like, then you're not getting it. Like, then you're not...

you know, you almost want that person to 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. Like you're the one that's got a problem. Yeah. Cause you are arguing as if we all accept that it's real. Exactly. Right. Like maybe a long time ago, they, people thought that it's,

It's like, A, they do get hurt. I mean, they get hurt. It's a crazy thing, but it's like the storylines of it all are what's, you know, it's like a real life. It is, I guess, a real life. You would never go to a Broadway play and stand up. Y'all know this isn't real, right? Yeah, that's essentially what I'm on. You know, hey, everybody. 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, the good guys were very, you know, the faces were good. The heels were very bad. Yeah.

But now they've blended so much more 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.

Because he was a bad guy. Well, he was a guy who rose from the dead and 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 John Cena, you become just your name now.

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 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's...

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. 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 gold dust or whatever, you know, like where it's.

Some mystery. Yeah, it's like he's almost like you got a superpower or something. 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. Early 2000s. It was 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...

But it's like you just couldn't look everything up like you can. I mean, you weren't on the internet. You just don't have a computer. It's so crazy thing. 2000, it's not like you had – you were just sitting on – I could sit on my computer and watch. I had to watch it on – we had to be home to watch it at the dorm room when we came on at whatever, 9 o'clock at night, 8 o'clock at night. But it was amazing. And then ordering pay-per-view just felt –

like a mystery. Like you just... Ordering a paper for now is a lot easier. Like you... It's, you know, whatever it is, it's still a hundred 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... Yeah, you were like... The idea of it was just... Yeah, I can't. And it's a hundred dollars. I got to give someone... Like it was just... It didn't make sense. I mean, now...

stuff's going to be on pay-per-view. People are going to get pay-per-view. It's like, hey, y'all want to watch this fight? Right now, all of us in this room wanted to do it. And like, all right, we're all, everybody throwing five bucks, 10 bucks, whatever. We can order this pay-per-view right now. Just Venmo me 10 bucks. Within three minutes, I'm not out of any money. Yeah. And I don't have to chase anybody down.

Or you have to ask your buddies, hey, man, you didn't give me that 10 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 everybody's been most 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. Yeah. And WCW was beating WWE for quite a while. It was almost like Leno Letterman. Yeah. So...

WWE, well, we used to be WWF, and 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 going to beat WWE, we got to 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. Uh, like,

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. WCO. WCW, yeah. 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 ahead of time. He'd find out the results of their matches, and they would read it on WCW Nitro to make people like, I'm not going to go over there now. I already know who won. Yeah. Wow. So he was doing all these tactics that was messing with Vince McMahon so much. Wow. That's so crazy. Spoiling the fights on it. Yeah. 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...

It was like, I couldn't do it. It's funny. You know, they changed the name for WWF to WWE. I remember that. And I remember going, well, I'm never going to 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. Nobody cares. They immediately switched it. And then no one cares at all. Yeah. And I thought,

It was like WWF, I loved it. And they go, we're doing WWE. He'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. And everybody's moved on. And I don't think... I think I was...

I mean, I was young when that happened. I think it was early 2000s. Was it that late? I think so. I looked it up. 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. And they won. Yeah. For the copyright of it. Yeah. But Nitro had...

Eric Bischoff was so creative, 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. He was great. Yeah, he was great. He beat Hogan one night on 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 right there is what happened. Yeah.

So this is not supposed to happen. Bret Hart was supposed to win, but then they pretend like he tapped out and gave Shawn Michaels the victory. Yeah. And it's one of the few times ever that they changed it on the wrestler. 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 very entry-level... I think I was watching a ton of clips with my buddy last night. This is all hilarious to me. So...

These WWE fights, they're almost scripted. I mean, they are scripted in a way. They're written. So for it to change like this last minute is like crazy, right? Yeah, it never happens. This is the CEO, the owner of the organization, going behind the back of one of the fighters, changing the script.

So this is very genuine frustration and betrayal here. Oh, this is the most... Yeah, this is like... If you want to see real... I've seen this before. Yeah. And like... If you...

If you want to see a real... 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 Screwjob. But if you want to see a real moment, it's this. I mean, you watch them realizing... Shawn Michaels is like, no, no, I'm going to lose. So he's got him in a hold.

And so the only person in on it is Vince McMahon and the ref. But I mean, he realizes what he does. And I mean, Bret Hart just immediately, he just spits on him. Yeah. And then like, just kind of crazy. Yeah. And he just spits on him and walks over. And then like, I mean, Shawn 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 Shawn 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, Bret Hart even came back to WWE years later. It actually helped Vince McMahon in the long run. I mean, at first wrestlers were so furious that they wanted to leave. Cause they're like, we can't trust you. But his persona became, he went from Vince McMahon to Mr. McMahon, uh,

over time and more, his persona is more now the multi-billionaire who will screw you over, you know? Yeah. 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 that he played to that. But he did, but what, the way he did it was,

I was just trying to say. The wrestlers, though, if they don't trust you, then it's out. But they had to gain all the trust. They knew that WWE F or E was the bigger one to be on. Yeah, although at that time, WCW, that's when it was blowing up and a lot of guys were going over there just for more money. But he stopped them. He didn't, you know.

I think it's like when you start buying people for more money, I mean, it's like UFC and like Bellator or whatever. Like UFC still, it's like one's mainstream, right?

And the other one's kind of like... Even though it is, it feels like... It's like you go to a comedy club. Yeah. You go to a comedy club that you're always like, 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. Right. 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 what's up. Everybody knows that. So even if they...

To flip it would be pretty crazy. If you were WCW to go, 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 running 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. And then... Weren't those guys kind of past their prime too? They're on the... Well, Hogan was. Yeah, so it was like, Hulk Hogan was late. Who was in NWO? It's Kevin Nash. Yeah.

I'm raising a remote way. I forgot his name. Scott Hall. So this would be like the Canadian Football League making a play to get Tom Brady over. And 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.

Yeah. But for a while, they were winning. They were winning. It would be XFL like an NFL. I think that's more of a comparison. XFL was an actual, I guess, made the NFL nervous. Canada football, the NFL's not nervous about that. That's true. Even arena football, 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 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 think so. 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.

Didn't he want to get traded? He did. I think he might have was going to play baseball. Yeah, but I think they were going to draft him or something. The USFL, the United States Football League. 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 – they don't have the game copyrighted. Especially back then.

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 Schiavone, the announcer, announced the results of WWE, that Mick Foley was going to win the championship. And people loved Mick Foley. So it backfired and everybody flipped over to WWE. Because they wanted to see it. Yeah, the ratings just, you could just see it in the numbers. 600,000 people watched.

turned the channel almost immediately. Wow. So it backfired on him. 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 even... 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-pointed doom. Ha ha ha!

We'll back it up a little bit. Hulk Hogan. We got Hulk Hogan with part of his goatee is blonde. The other part is 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're in on it together. Because up until then, people thought...

Yeah. Okay. 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. That's Scott Hall and Scott Steiner. Yeah.

And then they just got more and more desperate. They made David Arquette the WCW champion for a while. Yeah. You remember him? Yeah. And they were 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, yeah. You buy into it more when it's the real thing. And then Mick Foley was probably a big part. Mankind was probably a big part to make –

Back to WWE. Because it was...

Like his fights were... So that's where... Because he was so... 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... Yeah. He gets thrown... Thrown off the cage. Thrown off the cage and lands through a table of razors and stuff. Of tacks 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 it's 280 pound guy and yet it's going to give way like i can't believe that gave i can't believe that fence didn't hold up yeah you're like yeah can you he does stand-up comedy now mcfoley yeah yeah he does does he do in stand-up or does it do shows at i think comedy clubs i mean he tells funny he tells funny stories okay

But I think he's done spots like, you know, outside of just not going to a standup show and doing like a headlining thing. He's done like 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. The place is going nuts. And 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 that you just gotta, it's just fun, dude. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I've watched him perform at Zany's and Hacksaw Jim Dogen's been there and a few others. I would love to open for them and be a heel and 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. Yeah.

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, you know, to be a heel than a face, be the bad guy.

Uh, no, I think, I mean, you, you, you want the, the cheers when they walk out. Yeah. When you're Stone Cold's music start and it was, uh, you know, when you hear his, when you hear his music start and then everybody goes nuts, dude, that's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. I mean, I get like hearing the booze, but now it's so blended together though. People love the, the bad guys often more than. Yeah. Yeah. And they, uh,

Even if you're getting booed and stuff, it's still like love in a way. They're buying into the story. Yeah, they're buying into the story. Yeah, yeah. 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. You're the least liked. Is that what you mean? I think that's what they meant. That's what I thought. Yeah.

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 joke.

It was at Chicago at the Lions Den. It's one of the oldest open mics. It was the oldest open mic in Chicago. And so I was like, you know, the typical joke, which is you don't realize how when you first start comedy, every joke idea that you have, I promise you, 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 I'd

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's music on. 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 uncomfortable. I don't know why. I had someone film it, dude. I have the tape. Well, you were just starting, right? Was it your closer at that point? Like, it's got to be. Obviously, you got to close. It's tough to follow that. Then I go, all right, everybody. So I was driving the other day, and you're like, God, he's going to – 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 some rat joke. Yeah, it was... What walkout music do you think is the best of... I think Stone Cold's glass breaking. I love Triple H's. Yeah. The game just... Yeah. I don't know if I know... You know if you heard it. This is Stone Cold's entrance. That's... Yeah.

So it's a glass breaking, everybody knows right away. Everybody knows exactly. And they're just, dude. Yeah. He's just, he's the best. It's like Stone Cold's like, I mean, him and The Rock 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 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. Like...

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...

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. The Rock is number six. Number six. Wow, that seems...

so low to me i would think so too but his um in ring which means um his overall skills in the ring i mean he's a great physical specimen a great athlete right but he didn't have like the he wasn't like the best wrestler yeah 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? 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? The people's elbow.

some not some a mess for you i don't think you want to smell what the rocks i think if you're the one that can smell it it's not good i think do you smell what the rocks cooking i don't hope not yeah i hope i never do i don't if you ever go god i think i can't i smell something and you go he's right behind me and that's the that's the deal that he's okay you don't want to smell what he's doing it's not

You know, 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. Yeah. You know, 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, that's not good. Yeah. It's too late then. Too late. People's elbow. People's elbow is a great move though.

Yeah. What is the people's elbow for people that don't know? This was his 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 twice. And then he would like... And then it was like a great... Where his hand would come up and just be... And he would look at his hand and just be...

And then just drop off. Elbow to the face. It was 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's very charismatic. Yeah. He could add a little bit. He could add a little something to the looking at the hand. You could talk to it. Yeah. Have you look at it. But it fits him perfectly. Yeah.

So he really milked it every time. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He does that extra little. 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.

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. Yeah.

I'll just finish this. Hulk Hogan was three. 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 it. Ultimate Warrior, how high was he? I think he was like 25 or something. I love 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.

I'm being, I'm, where is this? Was this guy back in the 60s, 70s? Yeah. Bozo the Clown? Yeah, Bozo the Clown. You never heard of Bozo the Clown? You get heard? Uh, it's when you could watch YouTube without ads. Uh,

I looked up, well, that's the Ultimate Warrior. Yeah. I looked up the highest. This is the biggest one where the Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan fall. Yeah. It's crazy. They're just running around. Yeah. They clothesline each other. Clothesline each other. How great is that? That it's like, yeah, the move was to just run back and forth. It's like chicken, I guess. Yeah. And you're like, who's going to stop? And then Hulk Hogan, and then he dodged it.

You can fast forward a little bit. But this was his... This was the biggest thing in the world at the time, dude. Just to go toe-to-toe with Hulk Hogan. No, I don't know if this is it. And somebody else. But when he goes, he wins the belt from Hulk Hogan. And that was... Well, he just went and beat everybody. Is this him right here? This...

Who? The Ultimate Warrior. Ultimate Warrior is the... That's him. 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. 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 like, this is wrestling. This is the way he wins. And he was like, I want to say, he was like Randy Savage, but I want to say he was like, for my age, it was... He got up out of the way. He was going to drop a leg on him, and he got up out of the way. I don't think Aaron believes this stuff. And then he wins. And then...

He just pinned Hulk Hogan. Yeah. I mean, it was like the battle to finally get good enough that you can... What's wrong? It's so absurd, dude. What is going on in this, dude? Dude, he won the belt. He pinned Hulk Hogan. I understand that, but it's just... 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 can 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, I mean. Yeah, he was the biggest thing in the world. He's the biggest thing in the world, dude. And, like, so for him to beat, you know. At WrestleMania III, one of the biggest moments was when Hulk Hogan body slammed Andre the Giant. Oh, yeah. And that was, I think I sent you that video, but, I mean, that's. So is WrestleMania like the Super Bowl? Yeah. Pretty much. You know nothing about wrestling. Well, I'm trying to, well, you know.

I'm trying to catch up. Yeah. Yeah. Today. But I mean, yeah. But I just figured everybody kind of... Look, I know there's people listening to this at home that are like, oh, this is awful.

But they don't know anything about wrestling. 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 into wrestling. 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? Yeah.

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. We flew in for it. They might go, is it?

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 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 I 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. You'll be surprised that they're going to, they're going to like some people. I don't think everyone just knows what it Brian means when he says at WrestleMania three,

But if you're like, well, that's like Super Bowl. 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. 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 –

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 you should always ask the question. It's just very funny. But you're asking it for all the people. You go, hey, I got some friends here. No, I'll ask them. Is...

Is WrestleMania like the Super Bowl of the NFL? Are they the same? It's the NBA championship. Is it the Stanley Cup? It's the Stanley Cup final. We have a lot of Canadian listeners, so maybe you want to...

Yes, everybody. WrestleMania is like the Stanley Cup of hockey. 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. Oh, the election night, yeah. This is like their prom, right? I mean, it's being compared to... It's as important as an election in the White House, but also to your senior prom. Yeah.

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 in common with comedians. Yeah. Because... Well, what's 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, you know, it started in early 1900s, early 20th century. Yeah. And some... 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. So they started gradually changing the storyline. There's 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...

Even in the 70s and probably early 80s, there was all these regional, like Mid-South Wrestling and Middle America Wrestling, I don't know, stuff like that. And they all had their own circuits. And then Vince McMahon, when he took over his dad's company, he realized a way to just get everybody. So he just took over. That's why so many people hated him. That's why Ted Turner hated him. Yeah. Because he just took over. Yeah, I mean, he's very, very dominant. They always say buy...

WWE stock or something like that. 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. Cause he's so old. He's got it. He's in his. Yeah. It's probably seventies. 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 eighties?

I feel like 70s, you see people really going. But then they're 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. But he's actively still doing it. I mean, he's very in shape. Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders.

Yeah. I don't think he does his... I mean, I think his daughter Stephanie runs majority of it. And Triple H, who she's married to. Yeah. I don't think he does in no way as much. But 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 mean, his kids are...

my age yeah i think they're in their 40s yeah so i've been on a triple h's bus oh really there's uh just when i was like for so i went and looked at buses for when our tour starts back up but you should be announcing uh for tickets on sale soon uh i think uh 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

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 is a 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 stop. When we did these drive-in dates, as y'all know, we were on the bus a little bit more. But when you're on theaters, 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. It's mainly you're kind of, yeah. It's like you, but you do, after the show, you kind of just stay on the bus and like,

Yeah, you don't stay as much. But yeah, maybe you are on it more. But I've never parked so much to be pulling it out. I don't think I'm living on it. Where I think some of these arena tours and stuff like that, you're straight up living on this bus. Yeah. Like bands and stuff where you're like, yeah, you got to have your... They all travel with their own bus. A lot of artists will get... You're an Aerosmith. Yeah.

They're Dan and Shay. 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 versus you're going out together. And then, you know, you just want your own little space. It's not like they don't get along. They do, but it's, yeah, you just want your,

Yeah, who gets the bedroom back there? Is this a big adjustment? That was a big drop in your chair. That was a big drop. Aaron, you seem much more powerful now. Yeah, I know. Russell Money, 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, 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 low. Yeah, you look a little low. It makes you look younger. Yeah.

You should do it, Brian. Whoa! Wrestling promo here. Now we're going. Did you think that went too far? It doesn't matter what you think, dude. Next show, there's no chair there. Brian, 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...

You look like... We're talking about wrestling. Seriously. Okay, go ahead. Brian, go through how much they make. You look like Jimmy Carter in that picture with the Bidens. You look so much smaller. 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 and

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 the second guy, Roman Reigns. Brock Lesnar makes $10 million a year. That's not counting, I don't think, merchandise and other promos. That's just straight from WWE. Okay. So the top...

Guys all 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'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. His first fight, right? His first fight he lost. But I think he got beat. He lost a few more times. Yeah, yeah. Which shows you, too, how, like a mix of how serious the UFC fighters are. Like to go, there's still a very, he's like, I don't know how great of a fighter he 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. 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 is so much bigger. Yeah. Yeah. 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. Yeah, it's just so...

He's just so big, dude. 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. So they...

Do you have stuff on how they play in a fight? Yeah, they don't 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 did, said, leg drop. And so Andre was 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, was Andre and Hulk Hogan, was Andre before Hulk Hogan? They're about the same time. But Andre's a little bit before him. Yeah. But he was, they would go back and forth. Was that the first time the Hulk beat him?

I don't know. Yeah. But it's the first time Andre the Giant had been body slammed. Yeah. I mean, he's over 500 pounds. Yeah. I'm just 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? Yeah.

How many, what would he drink? Beers? Oh, they said, 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 they would put, he would have to take the both, he'd have to sit in the front with both seats, and then they'd have to put a shower curtain around him. To go to the bathroom? To go to the bathroom. Yeah. Because he couldn't get a... I mean, he can't walk around. Yeah. So he'd just be sitting there. I mean...

I mean, flying to Japan, just a shower curtain around. They have to build it, and he's just been there peeing and just drinking all the beers. Yeah. You know? Yeah. That's so crazy. He was 7'1"? Yeah. Well, that was when he was that age. That's him as a younger man. He grew to like 7'4", 500-something, I think. The big show, you guys know him? Yeah. Yeah.

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 anymore. Yeah, he's so big. Andre the Giant's so big. It's so crazy. Yeah.

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, uh,

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 it in. There's someone in there hiding, I think. Is there somebody inside of it? Yeah, I think so. It's funny to jump into these clips without the context leading up to it. You're like, what is happening? But I'm on board. Yeah. Yeah.

Some of these. I'll just tell you a couple. The gobbledygooker. That's a wrestler? For a short time, it was. Yeah. It's this guy.

comes out of an egg as a chicken. Yeah. And this is some of like the most ridiculous ones. Yeah. 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. Yeah.

He would come out in the ring as an arranged 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 real brothers in real life. Yeah, maybe they're not. I might have even said that to his face. Tell Kane, hello, you see him for Mother's Day? Yeah.

However, in real life, Glenn Jacobs, Kane, 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 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. 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 buffering. Oh, he's pulling up. Okay. Yeah.

So that's who he's in there with. But that quickly. I mean, look at him. He's bringing the ring. He's bringing the ring. And I mean, he's pulling the rope up for the women. And he's like, like, it's very hard for them 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 over you see he's pulling that one up and to get to get them in but then you're like i mean they immediately have to go right back out like it's and then why did they come on in the first well it's very 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 respectful 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 may 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. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, that's crazy. I mean, that went on for a while. Yeah. That'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. Yeah. And 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. I don't know. 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, 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. And it was real. Like, and you,

You see Jake trying to get it off of him. And I mean, it's on his arm for like a minute. Yeah. Just gnawing at it. Golly. It's pretty... It was pretty gross when I watched it. I mean, it's not like there's a ton of blood. You don't have to show it. Yeah. It's okay. So let me just do some of the worst debuts. This video is so funny. Yeah. Okay. It's going to be... I mean, just...

Do the... Which one? Which one? We'll do that one first. Wrestler Falls Out of Ring. Okay. We'll post these clips so people can see it. This is just so great. We also might not. All right. Look at this. So the big guy is coming in the ring. Because, well, this looks like it's in a high school gym or something. This is like...

He just flips. 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's another guy in the ring that's got a black t-shirt on and jeans and wearing looks like possible regular sneakers. And I don't know if he's...

I don't know what he is. Who's that guy? 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. 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. He's like, oh, no.

Well, every other person is in the typical, with the spandex and the belt. This guy just looks like me. It looks like when he got called

He 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. That's fine, dude. He goes, just, it doesn't like, you know, we're just making it like, 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, which is 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 may 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 she's like where's this going because where i'm the guy that they think to call that's where it's going uh

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 Hulk Hogan, Hulk Hogan would wrestle Scott Stevens. Yeah. And it would just be this guy that comes in. I knew someone. You'd always be. I feel like we had someone that knew. Someone knew one of them.

You'd always know someone that's like, oh, I know a guy that's a wrestler. You're like, oh, which one? You're like, not one of the regular guys that goes in. You're still like, oh, that's cool. It would be just a regular person, and he'd come in, never win. Zero chance. And I do remember thinking, they can't win. Right. 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. Yeah. He was like a guy in long jean shorts. Yeah. And I was like, okay.

It was almost like you're like, I want you to be something. Yeah. Didn't Stone Cold wear jorts too? But he had more of a... What's funny is I'd rather wrestlers have tight things on. It's very funny. It's a very opposite play. I would like all my men dressed in...

pretty tight tight fitting stuff like that's how you want your wrestlers like you go if you can take your shirt off it'd be great you want to go like all right John Cena let's let's strip it down this is I need you I don't need you wearing 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 he wore regular jean shorts, like, like, you know, like a little loose fitting jean shorts. And you're like, and I've seen, 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, that's ridiculous. And that's tough to say to people. You can't say that to a bunch of other guys. Let's see, we had those tighter pants on. What's that? Nothing. John Cena's great. You just go with it. You got a thing, I can see his wallet in his back pocket. Is that the guy you want to watch? You know? John, you forgot your keys are in your...

Oh, sorry. He's got to, he's got to, like he's going through a metal detector before every fight. He's got to just start, he's got to pat everything down and go, do I have, 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 is. Just keep an eye on it. Yeah. 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. He goes, who do I, can I give, can I, you just give it to, I mean, a stranger. Can I hand you this?

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. Here, take all this. You mentioned just the everyday guys. So back in the day, pull up that Worst Wrestling promo. Oh, man. And if he's got the audio. This one was great, yeah. This guy's name is Jeff Farmer. Yeah.

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, what a match you had with Motley. Probably the hardest match I ever had in my life. But I don't like it when things aren't my way. Motley Crue, you turned the tables on me. You turned the tables in a wrong way. You got me mad now. I'm coming around.

You don't have to play the whole thing. Wow. That's generally considered the worst wrestling promo ever. He keeps jumping, Jack. That's...

That sounded like... I felt bad for him. I mean, like Harper when she was five. Yeah. 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, when I go, 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. 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 a go on,

eating 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, I'm going to throw all your, you're not going to play with these toys? Then 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 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 would get 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-minute mark and turn on the audio. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

And they broke character laughing because... Give me a second. Oh my god. We need Brian to get back on the show. Maybe. Alright, here we go. The big reveal. All I have to say is Parker is going to shock the world because he is none other than the Shrunk Shrunk. Laughter Laughter

That's it. He said he couldn't see out of the helmet. 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, this outfit looks like you're just grabbing random stuff from backstage. Yeah.

I guess we'll get this Star Wars. I've completely forgot. I wrote in a character and I haven't told anybody. Like, that's what it feels like. The guy, he goes, he goes, what did he just say? He goes, he said he's introducing the new next wrestler. And the guy's like, I don't have another. Like, it's that guy that he's like, he goes, what's that? He just sits there.

He's like kind of just hanging out. He's like the writer. Because, you know, they have writers. There's a lot of comedians that have written for 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. 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 isn't any...

And he goes, oh, God. He goes, grab something. He goes, what's he going to say? He goes, I don't even know. He goes, so I don't even know what. I don't even know. I don't even know the vibe to go with. Like, he doesn't even know the, you know. He goes, like, give me a theory. Like, 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'm going to get a little bit of everything. Like, 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 them. He's wearing jeans. Is it 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. And I'll show you one more that just happened a couple years ago.

The Titus O'Neill. 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'Neill. 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'Neill. Okay.

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 great. That's pretty amazing. All right.

Yeah, so that's basically 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? Yeah, yeah. 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. Flip people. So you're just going with basically the same idea that...

I have. What do you mean? I'm Nate the Baker, so obviously I'm in the kitchen. 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. Yeah.

I don't know. Well, your spatula, that was your go-to toy as a kid. I like to pick up somebody and flip them over like that. That'd be pretty cool. That'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 a spatula. You have to do it with a... It'd be a big spatula. It wouldn't be a normal-sized spatula. That'd be insane. Come on, dude. Yeah.

I think I'd just have 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! And then...

Here comes Toby from the office. And then he walks down, you know, he walks down the way, the ramp, but like on the side holding the rail. Or he can slick. He won't get in the middle. Just hold on to the rail. The Royal Rumble would be you start...

Oh, no. And then it's you at start because the first guy goes out and then they just keep going. But it would be – you'd actually be the first and then the last guy to get in the ring because 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. Yeah. All right. 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. It's fun. Yeah. So, all right. Thank you, everybody. We will see you next week. We're recording next week's actually today because I will be out of town next week.

I'll be on Ridiculousness. Really? Yeah. That's awesome, man. Yeah, it was on the Tonight Show too. I didn't see that. Yeah. All right. You talked about the podcast on there, actually. I did see that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Thanks. Talked to Nate Land, got some Tonight Show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for appreciating it. All right. See y'all next week. 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.