WrestleMagic: Wrestling Convention Review

<v Speaker 1>Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another episode of Wrestling Magic. Today,
<v Speaker 1>myself and maintenance Faverick are here talk about what it's
<v Speaker 1>like to actually go to a wrestling convention and meet
<v Speaker 1>wrestlers and see wrestlers and see what they have to
<v Speaker 1>say and give their feedback back to their fans as
<v Speaker 1>far as what they express and how they are actually
<v Speaker 1>as human beings and how they interact with everybody else. So, man,
<v Speaker 1>how you doing doing.
<v Speaker 2>Pretty good out here? Man?
<v Speaker 3>I mean, just got back from Italy. Ran a nice
<v Speaker 3>race out there. I had a lot of amazing food,
<v Speaker 3>and I kind of want to go back.
<v Speaker 2>I miss it already. What about you, man, how you doing?
<v Speaker 1>I'm doing fantastic. Let's talk about Italy for a second.
<v Speaker 1>First of all, tell me about this race.
<v Speaker 3>And it was another marathon twenty six miles, you know,
<v Speaker 3>but there. I guess it was named after some sort
<v Speaker 3>of opera composer. I don't know a whole lot about
<v Speaker 3>opera guys, so please don't at me on that.
<v Speaker 2>I guess his name was a Verdie.
<v Speaker 3>I don't really know a whole lot about him, but yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I guess he wrote a lot of operas and stuff
<v Speaker 3>and during the race, they actually had speakers in like
<v Speaker 3>random mile spots that were playing opera music, like blasting it.
<v Speaker 2>Because I could hear it through my headphones. I was like, holy.
<v Speaker 1>Sh I can't gotta be come on they did they
<v Speaker 1>really do that?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, they actually did that.
<v Speaker 3>But end of the race was very cool, just because
<v Speaker 3>they were like serving everybody pasta and stuff and really
<v Speaker 3>taking care of everybody. Annoying me was like there was
<v Speaker 3>no race shirts, no race hoodie. Is there any of
<v Speaker 3>that kind of merchandise for sale. Was just like, Okay,
<v Speaker 3>here's your metal.
<v Speaker 2>It's kind of it.
<v Speaker 3>Grab as much food as you want and then you know,
<v Speaker 3>hit the road, get back to your hotel or wherever
<v Speaker 3>you came from.
<v Speaker 1>Now as far as pasta goes, though, tell us about
<v Speaker 1>the food in Italy.
<v Speaker 2>My god, Austa was great.
<v Speaker 3>Pizza was incredible and I have not had that good
<v Speaker 3>of food since I've been in England, I'll tell you
<v Speaker 3>that much. And it felt like everywhere I went, like
<v Speaker 3>everywhere felt like a mom and pop shop where I
<v Speaker 3>was going, and I miss it already so much, just
<v Speaker 3>because it felt so nice being able to just walk
<v Speaker 3>into some of these places, even like the gelato places
<v Speaker 3>were incredible. It was just so much lighter and fluffier
<v Speaker 3>in the regular ice cream.
<v Speaker 2>And it was amazing. Terra masoo flavor over dark chocolate flavor.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, it killed. I highly recommend if you
<v Speaker 2>ever get a chance.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, yeah, one day, one day, Aero Plume France
<v Speaker 1>one day.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so yeah, so, I.
<v Speaker 1>Mean the food was awesome. So you had pasta, any
<v Speaker 1>any particular pastas like Alfredo's or just like a regular
<v Speaker 1>noodles in gravy or you know, was there anything that
<v Speaker 1>you highly just it blew your socks off on lasagnya.
<v Speaker 1>You know your mother and I a long time ago
<v Speaker 1>like that. That was one of our favorite things was
<v Speaker 1>to make lasagna. So I didn't know if you had
<v Speaker 1>lazagni or not. Tried to get lazangni.
<v Speaker 3>The one place that I went to, though, they were
<v Speaker 3>weren't serving it at that time.
<v Speaker 2>It was kind of weird.
<v Speaker 3>They different hours for different food schedules and stuff. They're like, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>that starts at seven or whatever. But the nocchi was
<v Speaker 3>incredible out there, just the raging pasta, oh man, it
<v Speaker 3>hit everything, just hit different out there. I'm not gonna
<v Speaker 3>lie to you, but don't want to bore the people
<v Speaker 3>too much with talking about pasta in Italy and everything.
<v Speaker 2>Let's get into this conversation as it is.
<v Speaker 1>Man. Yeah, so when you're out and doing your travels,
<v Speaker 1>you got to go to a wrestling convention. So I'm
<v Speaker 1>kind of curious what was that experience? Like, First of all,
<v Speaker 1>how long was the lines? And how bad were the tickets?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, so the tickets for the convention itself, it was
<v Speaker 3>like twenty bucks for the weekend. So it's really not
<v Speaker 3>bad honestly being able to go in there, even if
<v Speaker 3>you just went with the free ticket and didn't like
<v Speaker 3>burn out the free ticket, but like the ticket it'sself
<v Speaker 3>just that twenty pounds, it wouldn't be that bad if
<v Speaker 3>you were to go for what I would call the
<v Speaker 3>free experience, because you get to sit in for all
<v Speaker 3>these Q and A sessions. You can see pretty much
<v Speaker 3>everybody go up and answer all these questions about their careers.
<v Speaker 2>And experiences that they've gone through.
<v Speaker 3>Plus there's so much merchandise and everything there that you
<v Speaker 3>can buy. But once again, even if you were just
<v Speaker 3>to go for the free atmosphere and everything, it's pretty
<v Speaker 3>awesome and just being able to chill out with other
<v Speaker 3>wrestling fans in very large setting like that. Honestly, it
<v Speaker 3>was an incredible experience. I highly recommend it for anybody,
<v Speaker 3>even if you just want to go cheap way out,
<v Speaker 3>you know, pay your twenty pounds to get in and
<v Speaker 3>just relax or you know, do like I didn't try
<v Speaker 3>to meet as many people as you can. I mean
<v Speaker 3>that gets a little bit pricey if you're going for
<v Speaker 3>like autographs and stuff, because in autographs, depending on who
<v Speaker 3>it was, it could be up to i'd say about
<v Speaker 3>fifty bucksish for their autograph, which depending on who it is,
<v Speaker 3>like if you're going up to Sting or like Lub
<v Speaker 3>or somebody's like, all right, this is a guy with
<v Speaker 3>seriously lega see it makes sense, or you know some
<v Speaker 3>people like god, who was there? The guy who was
<v Speaker 3>its later he was there and uh, you know, no
<v Speaker 3>disrespect to the guys, just he didn't have as big
<v Speaker 3>of a career obviously, and yeah he was charging I
<v Speaker 3>think like maybe twenty twenty five something like that for
<v Speaker 3>an autograph, which hey, I don't knock him for it.
<v Speaker 2>He's got more TV time than I do for sure.
<v Speaker 2>You know, I can't blame him.
<v Speaker 3>I don't remember how much selfies and stuff that was
<v Speaker 3>going for, but you could also do that raption.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so we're gonna ask you a couple of questions
<v Speaker 1>about some of the wrestlers that you'd see in there.
<v Speaker 1>First of all, who do you think who had the
<v Speaker 1>biggest line as far as wrestlers to get an autograph?
<v Speaker 3>Biggest line, I would say throughout the day it was
<v Speaker 3>probably between Well, that's kind of a harder question because
<v Speaker 3>Sting was only there one.
<v Speaker 2>Day, so it was for the event. But wait, what so.
<v Speaker 1>He's going to have a huge line. That makes sense?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, because and also Sting, I don't know if it
<v Speaker 3>was earlier this year. Sometime late last year he had announced, Hey,
<v Speaker 3>this is the last year that I'm going to wear
<v Speaker 3>the Stinger face paint for conventions and meet and greets
<v Speaker 3>and all this stuff.
<v Speaker 2>I'm done after twenty twenty five.
<v Speaker 3>So a lot of people were like, Hey, this is
<v Speaker 3>the last chance I'm gonna be able to get a
<v Speaker 3>picture with Sting in his full face.
<v Speaker 2>Paint and everything.
<v Speaker 3>So a lot of people were like, Hey, I have
<v Speaker 3>to do this now. So I kind of get it
<v Speaker 3>and him only being there that one day, that didn't
<v Speaker 3>really give an option for Sunday. So you know, it
<v Speaker 3>is what it is, schedules or whatever it's.
<v Speaker 2>You know, it's cool. But I would say Sting probably
<v Speaker 2>had the longest and most consistent line.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so what about Mick Foley did anything? How is
<v Speaker 1>his line? Tell me about that?
<v Speaker 3>So his line, I was actually kind of impressed because
<v Speaker 3>his had a system to it. I noticed where it
<v Speaker 3>was like they had like a number system of some sort.
<v Speaker 2>I think he was close to selling out or.
<v Speaker 3>Something for like the pre orders for uh being able
<v Speaker 3>to get autographs and pictures with him and everything. I
<v Speaker 3>believe Sting did sell out completely on that. But Mick
<v Speaker 3>his line, it was like, okay, numbers one through ten,
<v Speaker 3>and there was still a lot of people coming through
<v Speaker 3>for that. Just the whole time, it felt like, and
<v Speaker 3>he had a long line that was like a snaked
<v Speaker 3>around and everything. Everybody else was pretty much just straight
<v Speaker 3>to the person. And Mick himself, I gotta say meeting him,
<v Speaker 3>he was one cool freaking dude.
<v Speaker 2>I can't lie about that man.
<v Speaker 3>And Uh, something that I really respected about him When
<v Speaker 3>I was in line waiting to get his autograph, I
<v Speaker 3>actually saw if you bought a selfie with him. He
<v Speaker 3>would take four with you or three or four.
<v Speaker 2>He would take your phone and everything.
<v Speaker 3>He'd take the selfie with you normal. Then he would
<v Speaker 3>take a bunch of this dude love gear. Put it on,
<v Speaker 3>take a picture with you. Take that off, put on
<v Speaker 3>the mankind mask. Take that picture with you as well,
<v Speaker 3>just to show like.
<v Speaker 2>Hey, I have many faces. Here you go, I'm gonna
<v Speaker 2>give you all of them. I really respect that about Mick,
<v Speaker 2>you know.
<v Speaker 1>It's pretty awesome. So anything special happened to you in mine.
<v Speaker 2>When you were doing that, all right?
<v Speaker 3>So with the way that the line was snaked around
<v Speaker 3>and everything, I was waiting in line, and uh there's
<v Speaker 3>a point where I was like five feet away from him,
<v Speaker 3>but still far back in the line from the way
<v Speaker 3>it was snaked.
<v Speaker 2>And uh, I remember like they're playing different.
<v Speaker 3>Wrestling music throughout the arena, you know, keeping everybody just
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if i'd say at Bay or whatever,
<v Speaker 3>but everybody was kind of getting into it a little bit.
<v Speaker 3>And I remember they started playing Shawn Michael's theme, Sexy Boy,
<v Speaker 3>And I'm not thinking about it, nobody's really thinking about it.
<v Speaker 3>We're all just kind of like bombing our heads, maybe
<v Speaker 3>mouthing the words or whatever.
<v Speaker 2>That's exactly what I was doing.
<v Speaker 3>And then I look over Mick starts doing like a little
<v Speaker 3>dance in his seat.
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, what the hell?
<v Speaker 3>And then all of a sudden, like he looks over,
<v Speaker 3>He's like, yeah, yeah, sing it, and I'm like, okay,
<v Speaker 3>I guess I have to sing this now. So I
<v Speaker 3>start saying it out loud and he joins in and
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, my god, I am singing with mc foley
<v Speaker 3>in the middle of a random public setting. This is
<v Speaker 3>the strangest experience I could have ever imagined to happen
<v Speaker 3>to me. I don't know what to do now besides
<v Speaker 3>continue for this moment, I gota say. Mick is just
<v Speaker 3>such a genuine person. He's one of the coolest people ever.
<v Speaker 3>And I was able to go up and talk to
<v Speaker 3>him about all kinds of stuff honestly for a minute.
<v Speaker 3>He gave me just that time, and even afterwards, I
<v Speaker 3>was like, man, I feel like he's one of the
<v Speaker 3>nicest people that I met potentially in life, not just
<v Speaker 3>celebrities or wrestlers.
<v Speaker 2>You know, he seems like the realist dude.
<v Speaker 1>Ever. Did you bring up to him the cameo he
<v Speaker 1>did for you years ago, that your friend get an
<v Speaker 1>augur for him.
<v Speaker 3>I definitely did, and he was I didn't show him
<v Speaker 3>the video or anything, but I just explained the whole
<v Speaker 3>situationation and he didn't remember the moment it happened or anything, obviously,
<v Speaker 3>I mean probably done a hundred times. But he was
<v Speaker 3>like asking me questions about it, like I was telling them, like, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>a friend of mine asked you to make a video
<v Speaker 3>for me on their phone, and hemmialately like I did
<v Speaker 3>it right. I was like, yeah, of course, and he's like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>thank god, like holding himself accountable for the past. I'm thinking, like, man,
<v Speaker 3>do you think I was gonna come up here and
<v Speaker 3>confront him about this or something? But no, great guy,
<v Speaker 3>and I did get to bring it up, and he
<v Speaker 3>was really excited even just hearing about the past parts
<v Speaker 3>of that, and talked a little bit about things are
<v Speaker 3>going on in my life, like I've started becoming a volunteer,
<v Speaker 3>victim's advocate and all kinds of other things, and you know,
<v Speaker 3>him having his help with certain helplines and everything that
<v Speaker 3>he has done over the years, He's put in a
<v Speaker 3>lot of hours to that kind of stuff, and it's
<v Speaker 3>amazing that he and I could connect in that kind
<v Speaker 3>of way.
<v Speaker 1>You know, that's that's an amazing thing that is. And folks,
<v Speaker 1>if you don't know what that is, please look it
<v Speaker 1>up because honestly, this is something that is genuine that
<v Speaker 1>helps people every day, and there are people out there
<v Speaker 1>who need help. You have to help those who need help.
<v Speaker 1>You know, if it's not help, it's suffering. So going forward,
<v Speaker 1>So tell me who else you saw you knows as
<v Speaker 1>you're walking through. Navigate us through this this wrestling convention.
<v Speaker 2>All right, So let me think back a little bit.
<v Speaker 2>So that Saturday, I remember I came.
<v Speaker 3>In and that was the day that I had a
<v Speaker 3>photo with Lex Lugrin sting schedule. So I'm kind of
<v Speaker 3>like waiting around checking out the shops real quick, and
<v Speaker 3>there's a guy with a I think it was like
<v Speaker 3>almost every belt that you could think of, like in
<v Speaker 3>any of the main shows and products. He had the
<v Speaker 3>old LYCW belt, he had New Japan's IWGP belts, he
<v Speaker 3>had TNA belts, he had like everything that I could
<v Speaker 3>really think of that was any major promotion.
<v Speaker 2>It felt like then I.
<v Speaker 3>Remember some I'm waiting around for the picture to come
<v Speaker 3>up because they had time slots for that kind of stuff.
<v Speaker 2>And as I'm waiting around, they started doing these Q
<v Speaker 2>and A sessions. One of the first.
<v Speaker 3>One was a Mike Kyota I believe, and honestly, listening
<v Speaker 3>to some of these guys' experiences, it's pretty awesome. And
<v Speaker 3>I really liked hearing what Mike Yota had to say
<v Speaker 3>and them talking about like referee just as so much
<v Speaker 3>a part of the match. You don't really realize it
<v Speaker 3>because they're kind of just in the way or doing
<v Speaker 3>whatever it feels like sometimes, but they are just as
<v Speaker 3>much there. And he didn't really say that, but that's
<v Speaker 3>all I was thinking, was like you were just as
<v Speaker 3>much part of the show and nobody really realized it
<v Speaker 3>until there's somebody who doesn't know how to do it
<v Speaker 3>as well as you, you know what I mean.
<v Speaker 2>Like he even talked.
<v Speaker 3>About Sean Michaels apparently used to give a lot of
<v Speaker 3>referees a lot of issues when they didn't do something
<v Speaker 3>right in the match. He would like call him out
<v Speaker 3>in front of fans and everything. Said he never had
<v Speaker 3>that issue with him because he always did his best
<v Speaker 3>with Sean, and Sean expected him for it.
<v Speaker 1>You know, I don't respect Sean as much as most
<v Speaker 1>people do. He was a great performer, and however, I
<v Speaker 1>still think he was a cry baby. And it's this
<v Speaker 1>guy to watch shower. So like Kyota, though, I think
<v Speaker 1>I would love to talk to him for hours. I'd
<v Speaker 1>love to sit down with him and just what did
<v Speaker 1>you see? What wasn't supposed to happen? What did happen?
<v Speaker 1>I would love for hours just to talk to him.
<v Speaker 1>I'm very jealous, honestly, I'm very jealous of your experience here.
<v Speaker 1>So so from Kyota, who else did you see you?
<v Speaker 1>Did anybody surprise you'd like? Did you actually accidentally like
<v Speaker 1>bump into anybody or anything like that?
<v Speaker 3>Let me think here, So that Saturday, I don't remember
<v Speaker 3>running into anybody really. Besides, was it so sure with
<v Speaker 3>Sting and Luger came up. I remember I went up
<v Speaker 3>and everything, and I was kind of shocked with how
<v Speaker 3>I'm not trying to talk bad about anybody, but it's
<v Speaker 3>just what I saw, what I experienced. Everyone, Please don't
<v Speaker 3>take it as like me talking bad about somebody. But uh,
<v Speaker 3>Luger didn't seem too interested interacting with those coming up
<v Speaker 3>to him, unless like there was a kid involved. Like
<v Speaker 3>the people that were in front of me, real nice people.
<v Speaker 3>They were talking to me in the line and everything.
<v Speaker 3>It was just a guy and his daughter who was
<v Speaker 3>maybe like seven or eight or something like that. Like
<v Speaker 3>she walked up to Lex Luner immediately like he's like
<v Speaker 3>shaking her hand, smiling, saying hi and everything.
<v Speaker 2>The dad walks over to like shake his hand obviously, you.
<v Speaker 3>Know, he paid for the picture and everything, and uh,
<v Speaker 3>I don't even think Lex looked at him or anything,
<v Speaker 3>and like just stared at the camera.
<v Speaker 2>I was like, what is this dude doing. Sting however
<v Speaker 2>friendly enough, but they were kind of.
<v Speaker 3>Rushing everybody through the photo session because I remember I
<v Speaker 3>walked up Shucksting's hand, went over to shake Les Luger's hand,
<v Speaker 3>didn't even look at me, And I'm thinking, like, man,
<v Speaker 3>maybe he's got something going on.
<v Speaker 2>Maybe you didn't like traveling me. He was jedil laged
<v Speaker 2>or whatever.
<v Speaker 3>I don't care, but you know, just kind of felt
<v Speaker 3>a little rude, but you know, it's whatever.
<v Speaker 2>I get it.
<v Speaker 3>But however friendly as he could be, I was gonna say,
<v Speaker 3>I just told him the last name is Brodie, and
<v Speaker 3>he would took your hand and then ran away.
<v Speaker 2>In this wheelchair. Absolutely yea.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, Sting was friendly as he could be for
<v Speaker 3>those like twenty seconds or whatever that walk up, got
<v Speaker 3>the picture, shook his hand, told him, hey, thank you
<v Speaker 3>for your contributions to wrestling, and you know, stepped away
<v Speaker 3>from him. But uh, yeah, it felt like they were
<v Speaker 3>kind of rushing you through when you were doing the
<v Speaker 3>official pictures that way. But yeah, then going through Saturday,
<v Speaker 3>listening to jacquesru Joe's Q and A was actually pretty cool.
<v Speaker 3>I enjoyed listening to all of his stories and you know,
<v Speaker 3>there's been a lot of history about him and the
<v Speaker 3>uh the British Bulldogs and everything. But he did end
<v Speaker 3>up talking kind of positively more about Davy boy Smith
<v Speaker 3>and everything, and explained how they actually buried the hatchet
<v Speaker 3>after all the incidents that went on with Dynamite Kid,
<v Speaker 3>and they actually talked it out and said like, hey,
<v Speaker 3>we don't need to be at odds because of what
<v Speaker 3>happened with that. We can move forward after Davy boy
<v Speaker 3>Smith return to the company. But uh yeah, ended up
<v Speaker 3>in his autograph.
<v Speaker 2>I gotta say Jacquer Joe was actually a pretty nice guy.
<v Speaker 3>I really liked, uh speaking with him for a minute,
<v Speaker 3>and uh, I kind of hope I can speak with
<v Speaker 3>him again at some point, just because he was very cool.
<v Speaker 2>Uh as Jacqueline.
<v Speaker 3>Very interacted with females. So tell me about Jacqueline, please, Jacqueline,
<v Speaker 3>so if I remember her Q and A. H The
<v Speaker 3>one thing that I really remember that stuck out to
<v Speaker 3>me was at the very great end I can't really
<v Speaker 3>swear to say it, you know, PG thing on the show.
<v Speaker 3>But so one of the fans walked up and asked, like,
<v Speaker 3>can you please call me a psycho?
<v Speaker 2>Oh B word? And she it was like the very
<v Speaker 2>end of her Q and A.
<v Speaker 3>She shrugged and got over the rope like stared at
<v Speaker 3>this dude so intently and called him exactly what he
<v Speaker 3>asked her to remember. I kind of laughed a little bit,
<v Speaker 3>and then uh, after she was done, I walked over
<v Speaker 3>to her stand got an autograph from her. She was
<v Speaker 3>the nicest lady that I could have met there and uh,
<v Speaker 3>she gave me an autograph, you know, and uh, I
<v Speaker 3>spelled my name wrong on it, and I was asking
<v Speaker 3>her for a couple of questions and stuff, and we
<v Speaker 3>talked her a little bit and then she looked at
<v Speaker 3>the paper again, She's like, I need to give you
<v Speaker 3>a new one. I put a T in your name
<v Speaker 3>for some reason, threw that out, grabb me a new one,
<v Speaker 3>and I was like, man, she didn't have to do that,
<v Speaker 3>just handed to me and just not cared, but nice
<v Speaker 3>enough to really pay attention and really try to help
<v Speaker 3>me out.
<v Speaker 2>I really like that.
<v Speaker 3>And uh yeah, miss Jacqueline very nice person.
<v Speaker 2>I will give her absolute credit. I'd like to speak
<v Speaker 2>with her as well one day.
<v Speaker 3>But I think here Mark Henry got his ACUMA was
<v Speaker 3>like I was glued to it.
<v Speaker 2>He just listening to me.
<v Speaker 3>Honestly, the way that I kind of want to describe him,
<v Speaker 3>he's like the Shack of wrestling, Like just a giant,
<v Speaker 3>lovable character almost and you're just like, okay, whatever he's
<v Speaker 3>got saying, he's got experiences galore. And he talked a
<v Speaker 3>little about his kids and his family life and everything
<v Speaker 3>that he had to say. I just wanted to keep
<v Speaker 3>listening and going over and then waiting for his autographer
<v Speaker 3>a little bit once he ends. Seeing how he interacts
<v Speaker 3>with different fans. There's a kid that walked up or
<v Speaker 3>was in the front of the line to his table,
<v Speaker 3>and I remember he was sitting there, his agent is
<v Speaker 3>like getting certain things ready, like the eight x tens
<v Speaker 3>or whatever he was going to sign and stuff. He
<v Speaker 3>called the kid overs like, hey, man, who want to
<v Speaker 3>show you pictures? Like what my son's doing and stuff,
<v Speaker 3>and like just talking with them and just being a
<v Speaker 3>cool guy. And I really can appreciate that kind of thing,
<v Speaker 3>you know, just having that moment to be like, hey,
<v Speaker 3>you're a fan. You guys paid for your time, Just
<v Speaker 3>come on up. Let's just talk for a minute, even
<v Speaker 3>though you know my stuff's not ready yet.
<v Speaker 2>He's just that kind of a guy.
<v Speaker 3>And he was actually late coming over back to the
<v Speaker 3>signing booth because I think he was held up just
<v Speaker 3>taking pictures and everything with different fans and.
<v Speaker 2>How I respect him for that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, as far as Mark Hendrick goes, as far as
<v Speaker 1>it's entering, I was never a fan. There's nothing that
<v Speaker 1>he ever did that impressed me. It was punch, slab, kick,
<v Speaker 1>body slam. That's that's all he had. However, as a
<v Speaker 1>locker room leader, and what they said and what he
<v Speaker 1>said to get went, I respect that. I respect him
<v Speaker 1>as a human being. I respect him as strong as
<v Speaker 1>he is. When the other taker said he moved a
<v Speaker 1>bus by himself. I mean, I you know, I respect
<v Speaker 1>a lot. When he was brought into aw and from
<v Speaker 1>somebody that we both know who talks to somebody who
<v Speaker 1>works there, he said, you know, it's hard to work
<v Speaker 1>with these kids because they don't respect anything. But they
<v Speaker 1>would cower in fear when he walked down the hallway.
<v Speaker 1>And I respect Mark Henry for everything that he's contributed
<v Speaker 1>as far as being a backstage person on camera, even
<v Speaker 1>though like everybody in the Halls of Pain that was weak,
<v Speaker 1>that was punch kick, body slam. But god man, that
<v Speaker 1>guy is amazing. I'd love to talk to him any day.
<v Speaker 1>I would love to hear who cowers in his footsteps,
<v Speaker 1>and I would love to hear his inspirations. You know,
<v Speaker 1>I saw one interview and I don't know if you've
<v Speaker 1>ever seen this. We was talking about like he was
<v Speaker 1>dressing across from Ron Simmons Brooke and Ron Simmons looks
<v Speaker 1>at him, said you want to try me, and he's like, no,
<v Speaker 1>I don't. And for a guy that strong, say no,
<v Speaker 1>I don't. You know. Ron Simmons is legit. So but
<v Speaker 1>Mark Henry, Yeah, I'd love to talk to him because
<v Speaker 1>I think he's a great human being, and honestly, I
<v Speaker 1>think he's contributed more backstage than he ever did on screen,
<v Speaker 1>so as.
<v Speaker 3>You were, And something else that he even talked about,
<v Speaker 3>like I think somebody asked him about like his favorite
<v Speaker 3>moments that he had in a TV and I think
<v Speaker 3>one of the main things that he had talked about
<v Speaker 3>was his fake retirement. God, that was actually a pretty
<v Speaker 3>cool moment, and I will give him credit. It was
<v Speaker 3>nice to watch and I remember that very fondly about him,
<v Speaker 3>and I even walked up to his booth and talked
<v Speaker 3>to him a little bit about it, and he just
<v Speaker 3>had the biggest smile when we were talking about it.
<v Speaker 3>But it was kind of funny to see because they
<v Speaker 3>put the four members of the Nation of Domination next
<v Speaker 3>to each other like the booths, and uh, their cumulator
<v Speaker 3>session was actually pretty cool too.
<v Speaker 2>They were really awesome.
<v Speaker 3>But uh seeing them interact with each other as well,
<v Speaker 3>like they're yelling to each other and like bringing each
<v Speaker 3>other over for random stories and stuff that they're telling
<v Speaker 3>fans about, and it.
<v Speaker 2>Was really cool. And Uh Delo Brown really nice guy.
<v Speaker 3>UH got to meet him as well, walked up to
<v Speaker 3>get his autograph and uh, he filled that out for
<v Speaker 3>me pretty quick, and uh, you know, we were exchanging
<v Speaker 3>some information for a minute.
<v Speaker 2>I was writing something down for him and I.
<v Speaker 3>Hadn't really eaten that day, and I realized that I
<v Speaker 3>was shaking, and I was like, it might be a
<v Speaker 3>little bit due to nervousness knowing who that I'm writing
<v Speaker 3>this down for, but also that and I even just
<v Speaker 3>acknowledge it, and he's like, ah, man, don't worry about it.
<v Speaker 3>I don't bite, must pay extra And somehow I don't
<v Speaker 3>know what his assistant said, but it led to a
<v Speaker 3>conversation that we were having about foot fetish. Yeah, sudden,
<v Speaker 3>and I will say, you have the same agreement. Beat
<v Speaker 3>are not interesting to us for some reason.
<v Speaker 2>We don't get it. And I remember bringing up like
<v Speaker 2>the same people who like feet like elbows and eyelids.
<v Speaker 2>I don't understand it. That's just how I view them.
<v Speaker 2>He's like, yeah, plus they're smelly and gross. I don't
<v Speaker 2>get it either. Yeah. I just didn't expect to have
<v Speaker 2>that interaction conversation, but he was a really nice guy.
<v Speaker 2>Do you know the slang term for your elbow the
<v Speaker 2>little thing.
<v Speaker 1>Meanness? Yes, the weanness. We should should we call this
<v Speaker 1>episode the weakness? Look? Oh, yes, it's all about the weirdest.
<v Speaker 1>So one time when I was living in Memphis, I
<v Speaker 1>was clearing out my bar that worked and we were
<v Speaker 1>about to have a party come in. So I had
<v Speaker 1>to pull all the barstools out because we're gonna do
<v Speaker 1>first come, first served, and like we used to have
<v Speaker 1>like five six hundred people in the bar, and so
<v Speaker 1>we're clearing it out and I just backed my elbow
<v Speaker 1>into a big barstool and this hilly said, hey, man,
<v Speaker 1>you hurt your wenus. And I looked at him and said,
<v Speaker 1>I know what my weness is. It's my favorite part.
<v Speaker 1>Leave me alone, Herbert, and then my hillbilly parks ender
<v Speaker 1>Meghan was like, God rest her soul. She said, that's
<v Speaker 1>your elbow scheme bowl and that's what they colored down here.
<v Speaker 1>I looked back at him and he was walking out
<v Speaker 1>door shaking his head, and I was like, oh, okay,
<v Speaker 1>I screwed up. But the point is, yes, you do
<v Speaker 1>call that that skin wenus, and yes, do not hurt that.
<v Speaker 1>So moving forward, so what was it like to see
<v Speaker 1>and did you actually have any questions with the Nation
<v Speaker 1>of Domination?
<v Speaker 3>So I was not somebody who was able to grab
<v Speaker 3>the mic and ask any questions or anything like that.
<v Speaker 2>And I didn't want to take up too.
<v Speaker 3>Much of their time when I was going up and
<v Speaker 3>talking to them. But now I didn't really get to
<v Speaker 3>ask any questions directly to them about anything. But one
<v Speaker 3>thing that I did find interesting about the Nation while
<v Speaker 3>they were up there talking was they actually brought up
<v Speaker 3>the point that a lot of the things that you
<v Speaker 3>hear on TV, things like know your role, that came
<v Speaker 3>from Ron Simmons.
<v Speaker 2>You know, it was one of the Rocks phrases, but
<v Speaker 2>it was.
<v Speaker 3>Something that Ron Simmons used to say whenever whenever a
<v Speaker 3>group of people was driving in a car together, they
<v Speaker 3>expect the rookie to drive. And if you know, somebody
<v Speaker 3>looked at Ron Simmons, he'd be the one to like
<v Speaker 3>look at the rookie throwing the keys and be like,
<v Speaker 3>no your role Immediately. That was just his thing. And
<v Speaker 3>Mark Henry his thing was what was it?
<v Speaker 2>That's what I do? He started that just that was
<v Speaker 2>just a phrase that he used to say all the time.
<v Speaker 3>Like I guess he used to go out partying into
<v Speaker 3>the club and stuff before his matches.
<v Speaker 2>The night before or whatever.
<v Speaker 3>And you know, somebody was asking like, man, how are
<v Speaker 3>you able to do all this? And he would just say,
<v Speaker 3>that's what I do. That was just a part of
<v Speaker 3>something that got written into TV eventually, so it was
<v Speaker 3>interesting in hearing them talk about that.
<v Speaker 2>And honestly, the Godfather is a very interesting guy.
<v Speaker 3>Just seeing him on stage as Papa Shango instead of
<v Speaker 3>just the regular Godfather, it's like, I don't know, man,
<v Speaker 3>it was just interesting seeing his presence change from one
<v Speaker 3>day to another, and like the makeup and everything. But
<v Speaker 3>they all seemed like genuine guys. They were pretty cool
<v Speaker 3>with the fans, and that's what I really appreciated about
<v Speaker 3>almost everybody there was just how greatly that they were
<v Speaker 3>interacting with everybody.
<v Speaker 2>I really loved seeing it.
<v Speaker 1>That's awesome, man. I'm so end this because I've never
<v Speaker 1>got to go to a I've never had the opportunity
<v Speaker 1>to go to a wrestling convention, and I think that
<v Speaker 1>this is amazing for people to understand who's approachable, who's
<v Speaker 1>not approachable. Obviously, this is going to be a very
<v Speaker 1>abridged Wrestle Magic show, but today it was a great
<v Speaker 1>spotlight on you, Maverick, And is there anything else you
<v Speaker 1>want to talk about about this experience, or anybody you
<v Speaker 1>say to go to or not to go to, or
<v Speaker 1>you know you sent me pictures. What about Sunny? You
<v Speaker 1>were standing behind him?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So while I was waiting in the line for
<v Speaker 3>Mark Henry, he wasn't back to the booth yet, and
<v Speaker 3>all of a sudden, like sonny ono is just like
<v Speaker 3>walking around. He just seemed like he was bored or whatever.
<v Speaker 3>And then like we're all still waiting for Mark Henry,
<v Speaker 3>he just walks up to the front of the line
<v Speaker 3>and looks at whoever's behind the desk at the booth,
<v Speaker 3>like I don't know who he's texting and trying to
<v Speaker 3>set things up with, trying to get Mark Henry back
<v Speaker 3>over there or whatever he was doing.
<v Speaker 2>Also a sudden, he owners just that's not the muck Henry.
<v Speaker 2>You're not handsome enough. It's not Henry.
<v Speaker 3>And just like walk away in the world, just like okay, thanks,
<v Speaker 3>And then uh, I don't know. He just had a
<v Speaker 3>very funny personality about him, and I exactly it was
<v Speaker 3>great just left doing that.
<v Speaker 2>But then let me think here, who else was there?
<v Speaker 3>So I will say meeting the great Muda honestly, talk
<v Speaker 3>about that insane to me. Love meeting Muda just because
<v Speaker 3>he was such a cool guy. And Uh, I speak
<v Speaker 3>very little Japanese. I won't lie, I won't hide it.
<v Speaker 3>But I spoke just a little bit to him and
<v Speaker 3>he smiled and he was like thanking me in English
<v Speaker 3>instead of Japanese, and I was like, I know you
<v Speaker 3>speak English, but I wanted to be able to tell
<v Speaker 3>you some of these things in your native language, so
<v Speaker 3>maybe it hits a little bit harder or whatever. And then, uh,
<v Speaker 3>similar things happened over with Uh. I went over and
<v Speaker 3>met to Jury and uh, he actually started to speak
<v Speaker 3>with me a little bit in Japanese and I told
<v Speaker 3>him like a couple of sentences into it, like hey,
<v Speaker 3>my Japanese Ese is so so, and he like stopped me.
<v Speaker 3>He was like, no, you're doing very good. And I
<v Speaker 3>was like, oh, appreciate it. And he was a very
<v Speaker 3>nice dude. And I was just buying a shirt off
<v Speaker 3>him because I thought it looked cool. But either way,
<v Speaker 3>Famuri was really cool, Muda was awesome. They were both selling, but.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, you've had such an experience, keep going.
<v Speaker 3>So both of them were selling, Uh, how do I
<v Speaker 3>but this It was like a canvas with mist that
<v Speaker 3>they sprayed on it and then like autographed it. Both
<v Speaker 3>of them were selling it, but uh Tijeri was selling
<v Speaker 3>it for half the price.
<v Speaker 2>But I had to go for Muda's. I'm not gonna
<v Speaker 2>I but it.
<v Speaker 3>Was really cool just to have that experience and be
<v Speaker 3>able to talk to them, and uh yeah, Muda's mist was.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, it was a little little expensive, but I'm
<v Speaker 3>kind of glad that I have it. I really like
<v Speaker 3>having that. But yeah, I really enjoyed meeting the both
<v Speaker 3>of them, and they were really cool about it. And
<v Speaker 3>it was kind funny because I don't know who it was.
<v Speaker 3>I was sitting with uh Sonniano, maybe it was like
<v Speaker 3>a son, a manager somebody. When I started speaking Japanese
<v Speaker 3>with Tajery, like this dude, I just got super wide
<v Speaker 3>looking at me, like.
<v Speaker 2>Who is this dude?
<v Speaker 3>I have no idea who he was, but just to
<v Speaker 3>look on his face when he saw me just start
<v Speaker 3>conversating with Tajeri was just shocking.
<v Speaker 2>But it was kind of fun to watch.
<v Speaker 1>I am so envious of what you did, Russell Cotton.
<v Speaker 1>So as far as your rust Khan experience went, how
<v Speaker 1>would you rate it?
<v Speaker 2>Uh? I did.
<v Speaker 3>I would rate it as an eight just because man,
<v Speaker 3>it is such a money pit because it's so cool,
<v Speaker 3>but there's so many things there that are like, oh
<v Speaker 3>my god, I need it, but I don't, but I
<v Speaker 3>want to spend money on it because it's so cool.
<v Speaker 3>And then, uh, there's a surprise the last stay. Actually, uh,
<v Speaker 3>Grado had taken the place of Sting because he left
<v Speaker 3>that Saturday. So Sunday Grado just kind of shows up
<v Speaker 3>and I accidentally ran into him for a second, but.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't want to like bother him.
<v Speaker 3>He was on his way back to his table, and
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, oh, he's here, and then I just see,
<v Speaker 3>like the table now instead of Stinging, it says greato
<v Speaker 3>at the top. I'm like, oh cool, fair enough. But yeah,
<v Speaker 3>he seemed like a pretty chill guy as well. And honestly,
<v Speaker 3>all the fans there such nice people, and we're all
<v Speaker 3>just kind of nerding out, you know, we can all
<v Speaker 3>be weird to get at that point. We all know
<v Speaker 3>that we're all into this stuff and nobody's gonna judge
<v Speaker 3>each other for it. Yeah, we're all going to sing
<v Speaker 3>sexy Boy together because we don't care.
<v Speaker 2>And every time that Andrew's theme would play.
<v Speaker 3>You hear people clapp right on beat every time that
<v Speaker 3>Cody Roads's entrances would start playing. Everybody would screen WHOA
<v Speaker 3>for no reason as soon as it would start. It
<v Speaker 3>was just a great experience and I highly recommend anybody
<v Speaker 3>go to it. This one was called for the Love
<v Speaker 3>of Wrestling. Next year, I guess they're hoping to get
<v Speaker 3>some more people involved with this, some more wrestlers. I
<v Speaker 3>guess one of the first ones, they actually had the Undertakers,
<v Speaker 3>so they've got some credits to their belt for sure.
<v Speaker 3>I mean this year they had Saboo there, they had Mick,
<v Speaker 3>they had had all the names that I've already listed.
<v Speaker 3>They had some some of the guys that aren't really
<v Speaker 3>as big in my opinion, like they had Dana Brook there,
<v Speaker 3>who I was just kind of like, Okay, you're here
<v Speaker 3>and I find you attractive, but I don't know anything
<v Speaker 3>about your career.
<v Speaker 2>What was that? I said?
<v Speaker 1>Seven shots of Yager and Dane Brook and I probably
<v Speaker 1>hook up.
<v Speaker 2>If you say so, man, But yeah, it's all I
<v Speaker 2>can think was like, you were That's what I well
<v Speaker 2>both both.
<v Speaker 1>Actually, Honestly, I think she is very uh. I think
<v Speaker 1>a lot of people do not respect that she is
<v Speaker 1>very strong, and she's a great wrestler, and she is
<v Speaker 1>very attractive minus the plastic surgery. She is amazing. Matt
<v Speaker 1>and I talked about this on the Regular podcast many
<v Speaker 1>many years ago, like she has potential, but they just
<v Speaker 1>never tapped it.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, I can see that. But yeah, I just
<v Speaker 2>kind of felt bad because I'm like, I don't know
<v Speaker 2>anything about you. How do I know pretty much everybody
<v Speaker 2>else here?
<v Speaker 3>Like I know Gender mahal over there And funny story,
<v Speaker 3>guys actually ran into him at a Chicken place the
<v Speaker 3>night before the the whole convention and it was him,
<v Speaker 3>Tyler Breeze and Heath Slater. Actually we're at a table
<v Speaker 3>together and I'm sitting there eating. I look up from
<v Speaker 3>like gender, I don't know who the other two guys are,
<v Speaker 3>looked them up like, oh okay, that's who it is.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, it was a really cool experience seeing everybody there.
<v Speaker 2>I highly recommend anybody go to.
<v Speaker 3>These if you just want to be able to finally
<v Speaker 3>let that nerd out, So maybe you hide when you're
<v Speaker 3>at work or whatever, because I know it's kind of
<v Speaker 3>weird to like show off and be a full on
<v Speaker 3>wrestling fan. But being there running into your macho man
<v Speaker 3>cosplayers and whatever, it's a nice feel I can finally
<v Speaker 3>be liberated that way.
<v Speaker 1>Well, it sounds like you had a great experience. And
<v Speaker 1>obviously this is going to be an abridged version of
<v Speaker 1>Preussel magic. We're not going to go on for hours
<v Speaker 1>and hours and between the hour difference between Maverick and myself.
<v Speaker 1>We want to make sure that everybody just has a
<v Speaker 1>great day, great night, and we also need a good
<v Speaker 1>night's sleep. So with that being said, now do you
<v Speaker 1>have a movie? And more and less? I starting song.
<v Speaker 3>So I'm not gonna lie. Unfortunately, I do not have
<v Speaker 3>a movie this week. My brain has just kind of
<v Speaker 3>been out of it after doing you know, marathons and everything.
<v Speaker 3>You know, I was out in everywhere else. My brain
<v Speaker 3>wasn't really preparing for all this. But if I could
<v Speaker 3>recommend a song for anybody, actually just found this wall
<v Speaker 3>I was running because I had it playing in my headphones.
<v Speaker 3>Back from the Dead by Hailstorm. My God, that vocalist
<v Speaker 3>has pipes, and I really love listening to Hailstorm. But yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I highly recommend it Back from the Dead. It was
<v Speaker 3>very good sounding. Do you guys know how to reach
<v Speaker 3>me on Twitter x whatever you want to call it
<v Speaker 3>at maintenance mav as you you guys know I say
<v Speaker 3>every time, now do something nice for somebody, never know
<v Speaker 3>who needs it. Sometimes you just gotta step in help
<v Speaker 3>some many out once in a while.
<v Speaker 2>With that, I'm out taking away Gardner.
<v Speaker 1>All right, So I'm gonna tell you that you can
<v Speaker 1>reach me at one four four captain on ex Twitter,
<v Speaker 1>whatever you want to call it. At this point, my
<v Speaker 1>movie for the day is Viva Vendetta, and people are
<v Speaker 1>going to say it's cop out, But the fact is,
<v Speaker 1>Frank Miller wrote a comic book when I was fourteen
<v Speaker 1>about Batman getting into drugs, and he was that that's
<v Speaker 1>the origin actually of the way they did this. And
<v Speaker 1>that's why I remember, remember, remember the fifth of November
<v Speaker 1>with gunpowder, treason and plot. We see no reason why
<v Speaker 1>gunpowder and treason should never be forgotten. Guy guy, Guy,
<v Speaker 1>stick him up on high, put him in the bonfire,
<v Speaker 1>and watch him die. A guy is a scarecrow to Americans,
<v Speaker 1>and that's what they burned in streets. That's their version
<v Speaker 1>of the Fourth of July. Now, with that being said,
<v Speaker 1>that's the movie.
<v Speaker 2>The song.
<v Speaker 1>Some forty one bat whip, you get a wild hair stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Let's try that for a second. It'll be fun. With
<v Speaker 1>that being said, I'm your gardner. Michael Gross, the original
<v Speaker 1>last podcaster on wwepodcast dot com. Thank you, good day.
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