Man, we are here. We are live. We've been talking
about this for weeks and actually probably for
a couple of months. And then we did the math
wrong and figured out it was going to come too
soon. So we had to just take the numbers off.
The math wasn't math. The math was not math.
But I tell you what, the math is math today.
Episode 200 of the TFW podcast, that's freaking
wrestling, is upon you guys. Either you are watching,
you are listening, you are a part of the family.
So what I will tell you guys off top, if you
guys partake in a beverage of your choice, it
can be even water, but if you have an alcoholic
beverage, depending on what time you are watching
or listening, I would tell you to go get you
one. We all have something we are drinking on.
Maybe showed up more responsible than others,
but this is going to be a celebration and a party.
We don't have a run sheet for this. I got a couple
of things I want to talk about, but this show
may be all about wrestling and what's happening
right now. We may deep dive into like some 1970s
wrestling conversation, or we may not even talk
wrestling at all. I don't know how this is going
to go. And that is why I am so excited. So before
we get started, shout out to everybody that has
listened. that has watched us for any amount
of time. Thank you. We appreciate you guys. We
love you guys. You know, we call you guys the
freaks because you guys are a part of this show.
I am mad. You guys know that. I am your favorite
talker out on these wrestling streets. I am joined
by my normal cast and crew. Rhodesia is sitting
there looking as good as you want to look. Mm
-hmm. Glowing. Eshaan sitting there getting...
He don't have a tea today. I guess he got just
regular water I think the sponsorship fell through
y 'all know I think even begin paid off this
tea stuff. He just ain't told us. Yeah, I think
like I think his contract ran out Okay, got nothing
to say Keeping it quiet keeping it to himself
Joining us one is a familiar face To the podcast
or voice one is not but is absolutely familiar
to the TFW Twitter Instagram, and on this platform,
you've heard me talk about this man over and
over again. But I'm going to start with the one
who was returning. You guys remember Billy came
on the show back in October. We had a hell of
a conversation, hell of an episode. Had to bring
him back for 200. Billy Mays in the house, baby.
Thank you. It's an honor to be here. Billy, before
we started this podcast, he showed off his five
-star hotel room. and did the whole thing. So
right now he is stunting on us and letting us
know that he wanted to come on the show just
to show that it's possible. It is possible to
live out your life's hopes and dreams. You have
to understand I flew into Denver today from Atlanta.
I left my house at like 6 45 a .m. I hate flying.
For some reason in the last couple years I get
motion sick so like I drive everywhere. I flew.
I'm all woozy. I land. rental car, seeing Denver
for the first time. It's like a desert, but there's
like grass and stuff. I don't get it. There's
mountains. I get to this thing I had to be at
for work stuff, going, going, going. The whole
time I'm like, I don't know. I can't, I don't
know if I can be there. Like this timing is just
not going to work out. I texted or I DM'd you
Matt and I was like, just a heads up. I'm cutting
it close. I checked into the hotel like 30 minutes
ago and I got to this room and I set up, I got
on the wifi, I had to put in some passwords,
but I couldn't miss it. 200. This is huge. It
is huge. And he was ready before I was. He sent
me a text and he was like, hey, where's the link?
I was like, man, hey, slow down for a second.
Give me a second. And then the other one that
is on this call proceeds to send me the Judge
Judy gift of hurry up, motherfucker. Let's go.
You guys have heard me talk about Eric constantly
on this podcast. If you are connected to our
Twitter, you've absolutely seen his comments
or his quote tweets or his retweets uh it is
a general nonsense to introduce eric and eric
as along with billy mays was one of the first
ever freaks i don't know when you started listening
eric i'm going to assume maybe it's around episode
20 something or 30 something but you've been
here ever since yeah gotta be around 20 something
uh and i was hooked i was hooked i'm like I dig
it. First, it's an absolute honor to be here.
Absolute honor. When you asked me, I was like,
I was in shock. I was like, wow, really? You
are one of the number one freaks. Yeah. And so
I just have 200 episodes. It's wild to me. Like
you said, not many people get this far. And I've
just been very, very happy. And I try to spread
the word as much as I can to people. My dad's
a gift genius over there. Oh, he is. The reaction
genius. I think one of the first times you...
It's funny you said that. One of the first times
you guys mentioned me on the show was when Eshaun
first came up with a big daddy. Oh, my God. You
know I was going to get to it. He said, the streets
call me big daddy. And I hit him with a SpongeBob.
What street's saying it that? Was it this one?
Oh, man. It is so funny because Eric is on E's
head every week on X. If you are not, please
follow Eric. Eric, because yeah, I think you
got to be, what is it? MrMom76, right? MrMom76,
yeah. Follow this guy. He is, you'll see. I'll
just leave it at that, but hilarious interactions
between us and also some good wrestling conversation
too. Eric, do you remember Where how did you
find us? Like, how did I find you? Do you remember
how they went? I think we interacted on a post
with Public Enemies, actually. Same thing with
Billy. Same thing with Billy. And then and then
you guys followed me. I followed you right back.
And then I was like, I started seeing this stuff
the guys posted. And I was like, you know what,
let me check out their podcast. I listened. And
then I just went back and I just started listening.
And now it's like permanently like it's Number
one on my list on Spotify. I got the notification.
So every time the episode pops up, I'm like,
okay, I know what I'm listening to at work at
night. Yeah, definitely appreciate it. But when
I tell you guys he's one, I know there's some
people who have been listening with us for day
one. You guys just don't show yourself and I
have no problem with that. I listen to a ton
of content and watch things and I would never
comment or do that. So I appreciate anybody that
has consumed our product 100%. Before we kind
of get started with, because we can talk about
200 a lot. So this ain't the only time we're
going to talk about 200. Radija and or Eshaan.
Yes. Any just opening thoughts and talks around
what we've been able to accomplish over the last
two and a half years. I'm trying to make sure
I look right in the camera. Am I looking in the
camera or over the camera? Just scoot back. I
do that every time. Now I lost my thought. Okay.
Damn 200. So when you think about 200 and literally
when we talk about being an expert, I'm nowhere
near an expert at this game at all. But when
you talk about just the reps that you have to
put in, shout out to Billy and Erica actually
listening to us back then and like decided to
grow with us just because I can only imagine
how I sounded. I knew how I felt. I kept the
heart rate over 120 beats per minute in the very
First 30 episodes. Um, I was a little excited
on this episode too, but 200 of anything is something.
Hell, we know one thing of something is something,
but 200. Like you can't take that away from us.
I want us to be no longer the mistress. I don't
want to be the best kept secret anymore. I want
the world to know me. I want to be the number
one. But even if that doesn't happen, I should
take that out. It's still not gonna take away
from what we've learned, what we've gained, who
we've become, the people we've touched, all from
being pro wrestling fans. Like, that's all I
gotta say. 200 is beautiful. I know there's so
much more that's gonna come out of this. And
here's to that. Cheers to that. Cheers to that.
I like that. Cheers to that. Salute. Man, 200
big number, man. I remember it just... Talking
to Mac and I've always wanted to do a podcast
and uh, I think I hit up man. I like Matt Let's
do a podcast. I've always wanted to do one. Let's
just get out there. Let's do it. This is half
way Matt was like, yo, I want to add Rhodesia
to it Right little sis for sure. Let's get on
here. Let's do podcast, right? And it's what
a blessing man, like we know the great is I always
tell Rhodesia this I told Matt this like the
Rhodesia I thought I knew wasn't the Rhodesia
that I know now and this is it's great cuz like
this version of Rhodesia Is is is amazing like
she's spunked fire. I didn't know she was so
damn sassy. I'm like, okay, cool I love it, but
you ain't know me. I did not goddamn yo, but
look That's a blessing to us my friends and I
met so many people like I said like written like
Billy and Eric Eric's Your stuff this really
kills me. I'm actually I'm actually at work and
I'm not supposed to get my phone I'm not supposed
to say my phone on me when I'm actually at work,
right? But I was thinking I'll look at something.
I'll see what his gifts and I literally just
start rolling unprofessionally in front of clients.
So then I got to make up something while I'm
being out of nowhere. So then I got to keep the
thing going. I make a total lie each and every
time. So it's just amazing to interact with friends
and now becoming family. We call them the freaks.
Let's keep doing this. Get to 400, y 'all. That's
actually low key. We want to monetize y 'all
like I know what each of this very very sad.
I'm gonna keep it We need to monetize we would
love to do this more often Right cuz all of us
the three of us work our thing I remember this
one guy put one he posted to get a real job asshole.
I do know how hard I work How many hours how
many shots I'm shooting the gym you won't without
shooting in the gym. God damn it right, right
I won't take some of them shots back. I would
love to do this more often. I think I'd be more
coherent If actually I was doing this earlier
in the day because that now it was 925 Billy
in Atlanta time 925 is 1225 Over there is that
the wife tell the wife we say I understand she's
a special guest How are you I'm good. How are
you? I am fantastic I just wanted to say thank
you to you one for putting up with Eric I can
only imagine the kind of guy he is at home. So
thank you for putting up with his nonsense And
thank you for keeping him happy We've had just
a couple of conversations about relationships
and family, and I can just tell that you guys
have a really strong bond and relationship. So
thank you for keeping my guy right where he's
at. Oh, wow. He definitely keeps me quite happy.
So yeah, and we're gonna get to that now for
the podcast. How he does that. Well, that's another
conversation. That's actually going to be episode
three of that's freaking conversations. That's
what that's going to be. It is about time for
us to bring that back. All right, let's get to
it. It is a 12 minutes into the show and we haven't
talked about anything yet. Okay. So for anybody
who is jumped in to the pie, because they love
how we break down wrestling, let's start with
a wrestling topic and however we go is where
we go. I do want to start with probably the biggest
thing this week was the ending to Monday Night
Raw. Okay. I'm not talking about the Stone Cold
Steve Austin level pop CM Punk guy. Not even
talking about Logan Paul ending My Night Raw
after hitting Jey Uso with the right arm, right
hand. Can he defeat the guy on Saturday Night's
main event, which was a great hook, if I cared
anything about Logan Paul. Not even talking about
that. I'm not even talking about how Ron Breaker
showed he belonged in that main event. Hmm. I
am talking about why did Seth Rollins show up
raw dog in those jeans. Big time. That was the
first thing I saw. I was like boo boo. Any underwear.
Boo boo. He was free balling. Is that what y
'all call it? Free balling? Woo. Commando. I
think they call it, you know. I've done it before.
It don't feel good. Now, granted, maybe that
is some different material. Eshaan, Eric, and
Billy Mays, I have a question for you three.
Have you ever done that? No underwear with jeans
on, not just no underwear, jeans. Okay, one,
have you ever done it? And two, you have to tell
me why you did that. If I've ever done it, it
had to be in a situation where I had some kind
of accident prior. And I had to lead the situation
with only those pants. I think my theory is that
Seth Rollins, he's known for getting these $10
,000 outfits. Maybe the other side of those jeans
are pure silk, and it just feels amazing. That's
a good call wanted to pause and rewind it, right?
So Billy has done it, but he probably had an
accident and that's why he had to do it pretty
much the same answer is Billy like I I actually
have done it and Because of an accident, but
you know, I mean accidents are y 'all in uh it's
called uh accidentally having a little bit of
water in mexico so oh no monazuma is your vein
so you know you know what these go right there
in the trash leave them at the hotel and then
yeah all right last question before we get to
eat though they didn't seep through the pants
they just stayed in your what kind of What kind
of underwear did you have? Let's call it black
shorts. The substantial part has a barrier. You've
got your underwear. But if anything seeps through,
I don't know. I'm just theorizing here. I don't
remember much. It's like bra and paper towels.
No commercials. But they show how much liquid
it takes up. Yes. They got bounty draws is what
y 'all got. There you go. Quicker picker uppers.
E, tell me about it. You know, I remember charting
before, right? It's your accident. It's your
accident. And you know, it's like, oops, where
that come from, right? And I vaguely remember,
yeah, it was like, oops, right? And I don't remember
when that happened. But I remember, like, this
is back in the day, you know, we were wearing
guest jeans. Remember that, Matt? Like, you guys
were wearing guest jeans back in the day, right?
i'm older than you guys so yes so you have across
colors oh we all have cross colors oh yeah for
sure but you know like that it's like that part
where connects you know with the what they call
that they call that part down there yeah Medically
the prunium, I think it's okay medical terms.
We're going the bootium the bootium It don't
feel good up there like no one to get a cup in
the That's rough cheers. I don't know what like
you said Billy. I think you might have some silk
lining in there. Yeah Why it slid down so easy
to And the crazy part was like say if that would
have went down after he hit like the stomp or
something Okay, maybe as soon as he hit the scene.
All you saw was ass crack like you when you left
When you left the locker room, there was no way
you was like, yep. I can do physicality physicality
night knees. It's impossible He showed up with
his ass out. Wait a minute. Hey, let's pause
for one second pause for one second. I didn't
tell you guys I think I am I bleed it from my
mind, right? I went to go visit moms in Detroit
a couple weeks ago, right? Blue Spirit. Had no
problem with Spirit. I flew cheap enough, right?
I'm sitting in my seat. I'm like row three. About
to get my ass off this plane. Oh, so you spent
the big bucks for Spirit. You was row three.
You had a big seat. Yeah, buddy. You had a big
seat. Hey, you know what, though? Spirit helped
me out. I didn't pay for it. Nice. Oh, that's
right. You told us that. Yep. Good energy. So
I'm sitting there. They recognized you on the
CFW podcast. Maybe they did. Right? So I'm sitting
there. I'm not getting up. Don't you know how
everyone stands up and don't I hate that shit?
Everybody stands up in the plane. I hate that
shit. Everybody's dead. I'm like, I'm sitting
I'm sitting my ass down I'm sitting there guy
over to the right of me get up. I Look over and
just enough to my ass. It's a whole ass to crack.
Oh Mohawk dog like above like I can live like
a big patch of mohawk hair above the like the
crack The booty. Oh my God. Oh my God. I mean,
I'm talking about it. The ass is like right here.
It's like right here. So I turned to the left
and the woman, she's like, I'm so sorry. I'm
so sorry that happened to you and your man. I'm
like, Lord, I forgot that happened. We talked
about his ass. My man's ass with the mohawk popped
in my mind just now. I'm sorry you had to go
through that, brother. That's pretty bad. all
seriousness. I do want to talk about the ending
of Raw and what I want to talk about. And you
guys can take it wherever you want to after I
kind of set the stage. One, Deuso with another
great main event match. So at this point, we
need to put that to the side, right? Anybody
who can't wrestle that whole thing, put that
to the side. That was number one. Really enjoyed
the match with him and Braun. Maybe the most
telling thing about That entire thing was seeing
Punks pop. That was incredible. That was crazy.
It is so loud over the TV where you can't hear
the music at times. That's a strong pop. That
is a really strong pop. And that's after they
saw Sammy. It's after they saw Jay twice. They
saw everything up to that point. I thought that
was awesome. And I want to speak to Punks just
knowing the game. They get on the ring apron,
of course they cut the music. Him and Sammy standing
there, crowd is singing. They don't move a muscle
until we are about to get to the hook of the
song so they can explode for the physicality.
That is what I talk about so much, and that comes
with time, but that is what I talk about so much
when I watch some of the younger wrestlers where
it's just like go, go, go, boom, boom, boom,
move, move, move, slow down. You're gonna get
more. out of slowing down and not doing as much
than if you throw everything at us. And I just
thought that was a perfect example of listening
to what's happening around you, taking your time,
and then striking right when you should. I thought
that was tremendous. Did anybody else pick up
on that? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. They literally
just stayed there. And then him and Sammy looked
at each other. And they just didn't move. But
it was like a nonverbal look. don't do a damn
thing until these people get to the chorus. And
then it was just like, bam. And the pop was insane.
Absolutely insane. And that was the second, like,
huge pop of the night. And I said it to you earlier
today, I was like, I don't know which one was
bigger, his or Rhea Ripley's? Rhea Ripley's just,
her pop was just insane. I couldn't hear her
music practically. Her pop was crazy when they
showed on the backstage video. I know. The woman
is like, that's a different subject altogether.
But the CM Punk, the crowd is chanting for him,
chanting for him, chanting for him. So the build
is there, the people want him. You hear that
guitar riff from Living Color and the roof blows
off. That was the level of pop as if he had been
gone for injury for six months. Yeah. You know
what I mean? Like that's kind of what that was,
which was tremendous to see. Do you guys remember,
Billy, you've been to a few shows, of course.
You've been watching for a long time. E, I think
I know your answer, but I'll be interested to
see. What is, what's the biggest pop you guys
have been a part of? It could be, of course,
wrestling is what we're talking about, but if
it was a concert, of course, feel free to share
that. But what was the biggest pop that you heard
where you're like, this is the loudest I've ever
heard people? Hmm I don't like I don't I the
one I can think of I'm pretty sure like just
be I can't remember the actual Moment, but I
saw Stone Cold in 98 and like it had to be that
like I I don't know it hmm Mine was when Triple
H returned at Madison Sweet Garden I was there
I lost my voice that night first, and I had never
heard a crowd so loud. I was fortunate enough
to be there for that, and I was like, wow. Holy
shit. I lost my voice in my living room that
night. Yes. Unreal. E, what's yours? This is
an old man brain con, man. I have no idea. That's
what I'm saying. I can't I can't actually remember
the moment but well one of them we were together
I'm sure which one was it when shaming man came
back on raw. Oh shit. I forgot. Oh, yeah That
was it. That was it. That was the one because
you know, we're real awesome Also, I'm thinking
about it because I was there experience at the
same time. I was like in the moment Just pop
it up. I don't know why I don't know why I was
so happy that Shane McMahon came out of nowhere
at the at the like, were you a big Shane McMahon
fan, Matt? I was, but not to the level of the
way I popped that night. Exactly. Yeah, I mean,
I liked them, but like, it was just the whole
thing of. He's coming to save the day, right?
Like, if you look fast, really what it was, we
were like, oh, my God, he is coming back to save
the day, because once again, the shows weren't
the greatest. Was it Steph and Vince were in
the ring or what was it? and then that music
hit and I just remember it was like a rush of
just sound that hit you because you're not expecting
it yeah and I remember of course they went to
commercial break Shane came back out and he was
just like guys I'll never forget that pop again
ever in my life like my nipples are hard right
now like I'm so excited and he left and I was
of course they never showed down TV but I know
that had to mean something to him um that's number
two for me number one for me is Steve Austin
Billy Detroit when he came and he drove in on
the Zamboni mmm, and he hit that ring. He jumped
off the Zamboni. I'm getting goosebumps and I
Couldn't hear the person next to me. Wow, it
was so loud They were screaming at me and I couldn't
hear it. I've never experienced till to this
day I've never and I've been to concerts with
80 ,000 people in it. Of course, we've been to
mania a hundred thousand people etc, etc I've
never experienced something so loud that you
can't hear Yeah, that's nuts. So what what happened
with punk like is as Greenville ever been like
known as a They're not a hot crowd. You know
what I'm saying? Like you're not a hot bed, but
uh It would they were like the best of the best
last night, right? Like they never try to get
themselves over granted They did fucking ask
for tables during the women's match would I can't
stand that chance? Um, but they never tried to
get themselves over and they they cheered for
the people that deserved it they booed the people
that deserved it they were they were just like
the ideal yeah us crowd you know it was crazy
though producer you got one that you remember
mines was not wrestling i don't think anything
would ever compare to what i heard in oh 102
it was the scream tour with Bow Wow, B2K, and
others. And I was a little bit older, I think,
than what I needed to be in that crowd. But again,
I love all these artists, R &B artists. And I
just remember it's the high pitch that I probably
did get ear damage from that, because I couldn't
hear Matt talking to me either. And what was
the crazy part about it? It went from the beginning
of their set to the end of their set for every
single artist. So imagine being in that constant
state of high pitch. I don't know how we actually
did it. Nothing can come close to me. They were
shrieking. And I started shrieking when Omarion
hit the touch. That was my joint back in the
day. Touch. Boom, boom. Let's go. I had another
good one from a concert I went to. This is going
way back. The second biggest pop was, I was at
a, I was at the Smoke and Groose tour. This was
back in 1996. Okay. Um, it was like, I was there
for six hours. It was like, woo, uh, Spearhead,
Busta Rhymes, Tribe Called Quest, The Fugees,
Cypress Hill, and Ziggy Marley. Huge conference.
Ooh, wow. So Tribe Called Quest, they're out
there. They're, they're rapping. They start doing
scenario. Busta Rhymes was already done. He left.
He was one of the opening acts and then he jumps
up out of the stage for his part in scenario
and the crowd just erupted for him. I couldn't
even hear him rapping. I was like, wow, that
was awesome. That's incredible. And that had
to be a hell of a concert to be at too. Oh my
God. And I paid like $20. Isn't that crazy, man?
Like $20 ain't getting you parking now. That's
not you can park your car for the price. You
saw that that show at no back a $35 just the
other day to park at Legoland to take my kids
I bought $35 worth of Legos and just called it
a day Legos She was here this weekend a little
matter beyond in a little bit, but she was here
she gets everything off team I think she got
our Christmas present team My wife they kind
of comfortable. She's like this short actually
I probably would like Seth Rollins, but it's
kind of like that material That I just sleep
in them. Did you be free balling on that one?
You do and that's a shoot Am I in a minority
So we're talking about the the end of raw And
of course Logan Paul shows up like I said at
the end which I thought was great business Because
nobody saw it coming. We think it's over right
they they all go through the crowd fantastic
piece of business with setting up that tag team
match for Saturday Night's main event and then
cutting back to your champion. Boom. Gets hit
by Logan. Logan's staying tall because he's not
going to stand tall this Saturday. We know how
this works. But my question to you guys is, am
I the only one that is just completely checked
out on Logan Paul? And it's not because I don't
care about anything people try to talk about
personally what he's done. I'm talking strictly
on what I'm seeing on TV. He, to me, he's not
playing wrestler, but he's the exact same guy
that came in to the company two or three years
ago. It's the same type of promo, right? I've
done a lot. I'm a, I'm a streamer. I'm rich.
I'm the best. You should, you should cheer me
because of that. And I, and I want gold. I got
all these views. Yeah, like that's kind of been
like his, like he doesn't have another layer.
So I can't get invested in his matches because
I don't care. I know he can work. He's great
in terms of that. He's great in terms of getting
heat, but like I think they even They even talked
about or they previewed his segment by saying
Logan Paul is going to cook tonight on the mic
or something like that I know they use the word
cook And I didn't like add that didn't add anything
to what my expectations were but when it was
over I'm like, it's the same promo. He's cut
since he's been here Gunther was the one That
really brought it. But like, I'm just, I'm kind
of out on Logan Paul a little bit. Like, what
do you guys feel or see from him, either positive
or negative? What did you think of that backstage
with Seth? I liked it. Yeah, I'm with you. And
then I saw that and I'm like, okay, well, at
least they're trying, like, we'll see what happens,
but it might turn out to be one dimensional still.
But I got like different vibes from that. It
felt a little different, for sure. Yep. Yeah,
the backstage was definitely a little bit different,
but like you said, it's like, he didn't carry
that promo, like Gunther carried that promo.
Like, I was like, that's, that's my Gunther right
there. That's Walter right there. That's my Walter
right there. Like, bust his chest open, Walter,
you know. But like, yeah, I really, part of my
language, I don't give a fuck about Logan Paul.
I really don't. Okay, you can you can do shit
in the ring. Yeah, so can 1000 other people.
So many other people can do shit in the ring.
Okay, like you're not the first. You know and
wouldn't when it eventually happens that bad
bunny Logan Paul match, you know, I hope bad
bunny smokes his ass, but you know That's gonna
be great though. See I'm here for that. I'm here
for that It's got to be in Puerto Rico since
to have this summer house in Puerto Rico I'm
sure I don't know if you guys listen to busted
open today He came up about Logan Paul and like
I don't know. I don't know if it's just like,
you know, propaganda or whatever, if they're,
they're kind of just saying stuff. But Bully
was talking about how he's like one of the boys
now he's proven himself and like, the way people
interact with him now is that he's there. He's
not just a part timer. And now he has the time
to be there full time. And people are treating
them differently. So that might or might not
be true. I guess that's good thing. I'm someone
who I I do find it hard to look past the personal
things I have against that guy, but I begrudgingly
am like, damn, I like watching him in the ring,
at least when he wrestles. Yeah, and I do think
the boys have taken him in because he is there.
He's more than earned his spot. Now if we're
talking about what he's done, if you take out
what our entertainment level or value is with
him, he goes out there with a live mic and cuts
an eight to 10 minute promo. He can do it. Check.
He brings eyeballs to the product. Check. He
is putting his body and sometimes life on the
line with some of the moves that he's doing because
he's not just cashing it in and not taking many
bumps. Double check. So at that point, of course,
the boys and the girls are like, no, he's legit
because you can see the work he's putting in.
For me, though, it's not enough. You're not enough.
You are like a generic create a character. And
these are the lines that were made by a 2K writer.
That's just what it feels like to me. I will
say this about him because I am also a person
who cannot always separate art from their personal
life. So I'm being honest. Him personally is
why I don't like him. I can admit that he can
go in a ring. I can admit that he can get nuclear
heat. to shoot him a tiny bit of bell. And I
can't even believe I'm saying this. It's also
in like the last 12 to 18 months who he's gone
against. I think he went against like LA night
last year. This year he went against AJ Styles,
if I'm not mistaken. And, and then to me, those
are people I didn't give two craps about. Maybe
at LA night, I tried to hold out faith for him,
but other than that, no. So to me, he also hasn't
been in meaningful matches, at least to me or
feuds for me. on top of me not liking him as
a person. I think also one of the things is,
is like he's only wrestling at like their special
events. It's not like you see him, even when
he had the U .S. title, I don't believe he was
wrestling weak. He never worked SmackDown. No,
he never worked SmackDown. So it's like, okay,
I don't like you. You know, I get it. You're
a heel. I'm not supposed to like you. But at
least let me see it every week and like develop
a little bit more to your quote -unquote character,
you know, of to really make like, cause like
Rhodesia, I don't like you because of the kind
of person you are, you know? So I want a little
more. I want my hatred to be fueled. I want your
hatred to be fueled by TV and not the person.
I think the perfect thing to get into would be
with the newly eventual face turn of Dominic,
Dirty Dom. I don't know if you've seen them interact
on the podcast and stuff. Dom just antagonizes
Logan Paul backstage in a really funny way. And
I think if they brought that dynamic, it could
do something. Because we want to cheer Dirty
Dom. At least I do. my guy right now, but I don't
know. That's another subject. Before we jump
to that, E, who do you think about this whole
Logan Paul thing? Because I got to talk about
Dominic's new love interests. As far as like
the personal stuff, I'm sorry, Mr. Logan Paul,
I'm not familiar with your game. I don't know
anything about the man outside of some of the
YouTube things and you know the rest to be honest
with you so I don't have that against him to
be honest with you but for everything that Matt
checked is why he's pushed and why he would continue
to get pushed and why if I had the books I would
push him. I think overall this is just my thing
you know the more I interact with people online
and I interact with other hardcore fans like
we are We hold people and things to such a high
standard that the average fan just simply doesn't
that's kind of disconnects From the responses
people are getting on on on TV. Like this guy
is getting millions of views So he's not enough
for you, but he's like, here's the thing We're
all old school fans. They don't listen to us.
No Listen, I'm glad the freaks listen to his
band, but these promoters ain't listening us
because guess what we gonna show up And we're
gonna spend fifty thousand dollars on seats regardless.
I mean so So at sometimes it's like all right
Because at the end of the day this man is there
because he's getting views He's a known quantity
and damn he's actually good at what he does.
He's respected for the business and people like
him like What more does the man he do? He actually
gets legit heat. You can put him in there And
and and he's uh, you know, like he's kind of
like, you know, you can't he's actually he's
taking the missus spot Like right like when you
put you can't put insert the miss into a man
event or uppercard Like match anymore, like as
you know, he's taking the tan Like right you
can put Logan and he possibly could win and they
keep booking them correctly like right so For
me, he's perfectly fine. He's doing what he's
needed to do. Um, like big name he can go in
the ring Again, the personal things, I have no
idea who the man is. Like when he signed the
man, I had no idea who he was and what he was
about or any of that shit. You know what I'm
saying? Look, I watch wrestling and anime. That's
it. So I have no idea the gateways these people
lie. But outside, when I watch and see what he
does, he's just fine. Does he cut a generic wrestling
promo? Like thousands of other wrestlers cut
generic wrestling promos. There are certain people
at the top, like a a la CM Punk. Right, right
good to talk about to me is miss cut the same
damn program for like five six years And he ran
with damn thing, right? He was like for me. He
didn't burn out. It's like the past like decade
He's been around for damn near 35 years. That's
crazy. You say right out to the last decade.
That's a long As time though, you know saying
so local paw for me is just fine But to your
point that like what you're saying is is the
reason that the non hardcore wrestling fan responds
to him because it's simple and it works and you
hate him and that's it like you don't have to
know everything about And it works on the hardcore
fans because people like me and Rhodesia that
are just like fuck that guy It also works for
us because then we want to see him get beat,
you know, so right they know that they have It
there's no one really like him. There's no there's
he's a he's a commodity too Mm -hmm. I can't
remember was it Billy or was it Eric who said
they wanted something to talk about with Dominic
Well, I mean Billy has Billy's gonna leave us
early my guy Billy love Billy to death doing
some great things out here So we're not gonna
take up all this time tonight. No, it's okay.
Keep going Okay, I got something to give you
guys so I'll do that before I before I get out.
All right, so let's do this then So let's start
with Dominic Yeah, these after we get done with
Dominic you ask your question and then Billy's
gonna bestow his greatness upon us Okay, what
about down it I'm all of a sudden. I'm just like
a dirty When he went back when he went back to
the ring at mania He called that and when and
I was just like this this dude I'm for life.
I'm a fan. Like, I don't know what it was. I
mean, maybe it's me. You know, I'm like, I'm
like this my own little nepo kid, you know, kind
of trying to finish my story. But like, he's
doing it. And he has such history and lore. And
he's so dialed in on what he is. And it's only
getting better. And like, I brought him up because
of that Logan Paul thing, because it was just
like, he's, he's one of the only people it seems
that has publicly antagonize Logan Paul and it
doesn't come across as like he's bitter it just
comes across like look we know you're an asshole
like I can just I can do my thing with you and
he probably respects the shit out of him you
know yeah I so my wife was away for WrestleMania
thankfully So I let the kids stay You were afraid
she was gonna, you know, well, she's gonna put
the kids to bed The kids the kids were like begging
me can we please watch WrestleMania, please?
Tell everybody how many kids you got? How old
are they? I have a 20 he's gonna be 25 my stepson
and he's getting married next year Eight -year
-old And a four -year -old. Wow. And my four
-year -old, he's a whole subject. Him, his obsession
with Oberfemi, thinks he's Oberfemi sometimes.
Thinks he's Oberfemi? I love it. I swear to God,
he thinks that. He's like, I'm the ruler. Like,
yo, relax, kid. Relax, kid. Love it. We got to
get him on the show. Oh, my God. So they wanted
to watch WrestleMania. So they're like... And
have they watched? Like, did you get them into
it? Since they were like baby babies or what?
Yeah, I have a pic. I actually have a picture
of me and Julian my eight -year -old he's at
his like he's got a little onesie my first WrestleMania
I'm like holding up watching so he would like
he regularly watches Wrestling with me when when
he can like during the week he can he's got school
But in the summertime like y 'all you're staying
up. You could stay up watch wrestling You know
weekends you watch him wrestle with me stay up
and watch wrestling. Yeah, so they were both
stayed up and My mouth was reckless during that
four -way Intercontinental Championship match.
And it was fire. And Dominic went, I'm like,
that's fucking true. I jump off my couch, and
both my sons look at me like, uh, I'm like, it's
cool. I mean, it's not here, you know? Oh, come
on. But it was just. So then, Eric, when did
you start watching wrestling? Oh, my god. I was
about. My son's age. I was about eight. So we're
going back to like WrestleMania one. Okay. Wow.
The original, the OG WrestleMania, like just
before OG WrestleMania. Yeah. What was, what
do you remember? Like as your first memory? I
vividly remember my very first match. You were
like, this is, I, this is the best thing I've
ever seen. Very first match I saw and it was
junkyard dog versus Mr. X. I was flipping through
her channels one day, and I came across it, and
Junkyard Dog was beating the piss out of Mr.
X in the corner, calling him Terry Funk. I know
you're Terry Funk. Like beating the piss out
of him, and I was like, yo, this is crazy. And
I was hooked. I had never seen it before, never
heard about it before. Saw that, and Junkyard
Dog was my guy. That was my man. So what was
that, AWA? No, this was WWE. Really? Yeah. It
was like on Channel 5, it was like Superstars
or something like that. One of the old shows,
it was on Channel 5, WNYW in New York, like way,
way back. And yeah, that was the very first match
I saw and I was hooked ever since. I was hooked
on him. I'm like, I'm so old, Tito Santana will
still enter the Continental Champion. I thought
you was about to say, you're so old, Tito Santana
won matches. Because at some point, man, he lost
his... Dude, he lost every... We call them jobbers,
of course, enhancement talent. It's enhancement
talent. I know it wasn't like this. In my opinion,
I've never seen somebody who went from winning
matches to never winning a match as quick as
Tito Santana. He did something dirty then. He
was an IC champion on Saturday night's main event,
and then he lost it, and then every match after
that, he lost. No, he had a good rail with strike
force though. I remember him winning matches.
I remember him going against the greatest enhancement
talent of all time, Iron Mike Sharp. I'll see.
I'll say Barry Horowitz. No, I'll go with Iron
Mike Sharp. He's Canada's strongest athlete.
I did just see a post somewhere on I think it
was on Instagram. We were saying like wrestlers
that had a post wrestling career in a completely
different field. And of course, it was like the
teacher. Yeah, so he became a teacher. I guess
I just learned that like three days ago. Warzone.
Guys though, like why we stay there for a second
like Eric. Like I know I'm getting old to where
I go like with music. I'm like man This r &b
these kids listen to nowadays. It ain't shit.
All right, right I know our parents said same
thing said all right, of course they did. Yep
and not like wrestling right now is great, but
man, I just feel like Finding wrestling in the
late 80s in early 90s, which is a great time
because you had to find it like right like I
had to find it like you wasn't as successful
you can go online and You can find these guys
you had to find it. So I'm going I Don't get
in the magazines don't go into the corner store
get in the magazines and discovering all these
wrestlers right and these were like You know,
sometimes I know it's the indies, right? But
these were guys who were like bona fide superstars
in different territories and different wrestling
companies or big deals that would end up eventually
being big deals in WCW NWA like it just was like
for me as a kid it was like a I was like a kid
in the candy store trying to all this great wrestling.
Um, it's a little bit different. Look now consider
now is we're so accessible is everything is so
accessible. You can get whenever you want to
get it. No, it is. That's real. And there is
something to that too. You know what I'm saying?
Like there is something to the, it's hard to
find where I'm not supposed to be watching. There's
that part of it too, especially if we were in
it. as a young kid, depending on where it got
in at. I mean, because damn, the attitude there
was absolutely like porn, right? ECW was on a
whole nother level more than porn. I had to search
for ECW. I came across ECW by accident one night
because I stayed up past midnight. Right? Look,
porn was more accessible than ECW was. It was.
Just walk out into the woods and pick up a little
magazine clipping. I don't know, did anybody
have that? I don't know, there's like this weird
thing, I don't know if you guys, if anybody's
experienced that. There's like a very common
experience where people would like teens back
in like the 90s would hide their like Playboy
penthouse clippings in like something out in
the woods and then everyone would know where
it was and you would go see it. I thought I thought
it was just something weird that I had encountered
when I was younger and then I I saw a thread
and everyone's like yeah I had that too and it
was just like what was it it's like that rumor
about like Marilyn Manson moving his rib You
know, like, yeah, like that was freaky freak.
Even number one freak right there. The 90s were
crazy. I don't know what the fuck's going on.
We were on some other shit. Man, weren't we?
That is what made us the upstanding citizens
that we are right now. The 90s were my formative
years. Junior high, high school. Man, oh man,
but speaking of so you said that. ECW is more
accessible than sex and you are absolutely correct
a porn or Because I remember I think I was nine
so that puts me Third fourth grade It definitely
wasn't more than fifth and I remember turning
to PBS which was channel 56 in Detroit And it
was a Tuesday as you can see this is Vivian Rudy's
I may not even ever shared this story with you
It was a Tuesday news 8 o 'clock or 9 o 'clock
but it was not midnight or anything and it was
a straight sex episode where they were talking
about um how you know the ejaculate comes out
of the penis and they're showing diagrams they're
showing naked ladies they're showing porn i guess
it was some type of like breakdown on porn i'll
just remember i turned to it yeah it was educational
but that's why i try to have certain people try
to define pbs that's probably why i am the way
i am now But that was crazy, but yeah, I had
to watch ECW like 3 a .m. 2 a .m. on passports
Yep, for sure. All right. What is your question
for? Wasn't this all started because Eric was
talking about WrestleMania and the kids and what
a whole thing. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, we skipped
that. We started with Dom and then we went to
you were going to talk about WrestleMania when
your wife was out of town. Dom won. He was like,
let's fucking go. And the kids looked at him
like, oh, this man is crazy. He was like, don't
worry. Mom's away so we can play. kids went crazy
and then I asked the whole thing about when they
started watching wrestling when he started watching
wrestling he brought up junkyard dog i do this
billy i do this i check them and i say man did
you hear anything i just said to you Yes, I heard
you, Rhodesia. But repeat what I just said. Well,
from the moment you walked in the door, you put
your coat down and you said, whoo, I had it on
day to day. So he remembers. My question about
Dom first was, does he take the bait? Does he
be a two time loser and go after Roxanne? Let's
talk about it. I say go for it. You ain't a dirty
Dom. You're a dirty Dom. Dirty Dom. He's got
to end up with all three of them at the end at
the same time. At the same time. I mean... Oh,
fable. Oh, fable. Oh, fable. Oh, fable. Oh, fable.
Oh, fable. Oh, fable. Oh, fable. Oh, fable. Oh,
fable. Oh, fable. Oh, fable. Oh, fable. So you
take the bait. We're sounding yes from everybody.
I mean, keep it moving. I don't know. Eventually.
I do want to talk about it. So, so Eric, I want
you to look at this as if this was real life.
Okay. Take wrestling logic out of it. Okay. You
are Dominic Mysterio. All right. Now, see, now,
see, we about to get to the shits now. Cause
I didn't even, I didn't know who was going to
bring it up, but we about to get to it now. You're
Dominic Mysterio. You started with Rhea Ripley,
right? You then get with Liv Morgan. Liv is gone.
She's in Japan right now. Yep. There was like
an 18 -hour time difference. She is just now
finding out what he did last night. 16 -hour
flight. And Roxanne Perez, new booty on the block.
Hold on, hold on. You got to put in the context.
Dom was in an abusive relationship with Rhea
Ripley. Wait, I don't agree with that. Don't
let facts get in the way of a good story. Listen,
he's now with Liv, who seems to treat him right.
They respect each other. He was doing her moves
in the ring. It's a different dynamic than when
he was with Rhea. That was a different thing.
Now he's in a comfortable place. He's got the
gold. Okay, that you guys had that because now
now you got Roxanne coming up and it's not just
simple like who's hotter, you know Live Morgan
left three weeks ago Do you think she asked Dominic
Mysterio if she can go to Japan for three weeks
and record a movie film a movie? I don't think
so. You know, no, she didn't this year. No, she
did not know she did If you would was with the
women, however, you look at that And she said,
I'm about to leave for three weeks. And she did
not ask you if you're okay with it. Are you going
to be okay? What's your thoughts on it? What's
your opinions on it? And a new one shows up feeding
you after a hard day's work with your favorite
meal. What you doing about that, brother? See,
you know, Matt and Rhodesia. So I know Matt and
Rhodesia almost, I feel like almost all my life,
but we really, really, really become Family family
until like they I had calmed down a little bit
This is my guy who knows me he already know Look
I did what this is why you tell people like My
W -2 said single. Until it didn't. Like, right?
So, if I'm dating, and some ass comes and I wanna
touch, I'm gonna touch it. Cause my W -2 say
I'm single. Talk about it. You know what I'm
saying? So, hey, look, I would tell a woman,
I'm like, hey baby, don't leave me. If you leave
me lonely, I'm gonna find some company. Okay?
If you leave me lonely, I'm gonna find some company.
Oh, hey, I'm gonna say I say hey look I used
to have a I used to have braids a long really
long race It's funny. We talked about a marion
People people you saw I look like a marion back
in the day, right? So I used to find girls to
braid my hair and I had a chick She's braiding
my hair between their legs Hey, listen So I had
a girl she had to do something. She couldn't
braid my hair. I say you sure You don't want
to braid my hair this weekend, babe. I have something
to do Hey mind you never mind. I ain't say that
cuz they're my cousin Anyway, I'm like you sure
you don't want to braid my hair, right? Right.
I have something to do. Well, okay Okay, I'm
gonna get somebody else to braid my hair. I got
somebody else to braid my hair and do me a couple
favors Dominic Mysterio If she gonna be gone
for three weeks that man, you can't leave him
lonely Especially you got a new booty in town.
So no, he is a single man. He needs to partake
and activities. It's not wrong with that. That's
all I'm saying. And when Raquel said Liv's gonna
hear about it, he's like, I don't give a fuck.
I don't give a damn. Do you not see these tenders?
Do you not see these? Do you not see these nugs?
You bringing me food like this, day one? A way
to a man's heart is through his stomach, right?
You know what they say? And she's nude. We all,
as men, have been around when the new one hits.
Whatever that looks like in your area when the
new one hits we've all been around that at some
point Roxanne's a new one. Hey Bad thing is ain't
ever gotta be better. It's gotta be new I was
gonna get right back. I was gonna get right back.
Shout out to jay -z. Oh speaking of jay -z Kanye
West is absolutely a piece of shit, right? I
don't I won't listen another Kanye West song
But he was right about jay -z and Beyonce's kid
Okay, i'm gonna ask y 'all the question because
i'm not about to do that with you that was completely
out of line my bad Completely out of line and
i'm not even going to elaborate on what you meant
by that in case somebody don't know the story
behind that He's off a lot. He was I think he
was spot on with the youngest when we see it
now Thanks, I have no idea what he said I think
Kanye made the the comment like slavery was the
choice Whenever he said that I stopped you've
not ever seen I've been out ever since I made
a mistake Clicking into one of those clips of
the the famous the infamous song that was just
released like a week ago And it's unfortunately
the catchiest thing you've ever heard. Somebody
else said that. It stays in your head and it's
evil. Somebody else said that. It's looping in
your head and you're like, wow. Thank you for
ruining my day. I swear. Somebody else said like,
it is, they don't rock with it. They don't believe
in what he's doing. The message is horrible and
it was like, but it's a fire song. It is. Unfortunately,
it is and I can't ever listen to it again. Mm
-hmm was a fire song I can name a fire song.
Yeah, they all kiss my ass. Yeah Okay, I've been
around since day one and This is now where we're
about to draw some lines of separation Real thick
up in here. It's about to get real thick up in
here Let's get this let's let's all get an argument.
Yes episode 200 is the last one because everybody's
got pissed off. I like this turn this shit up
You This is just a billionaire There is a this
is it there is a zombie apocalypse And you can
only have one of the kelp hosts of the tfw pod
by your side Who would you pick and why? And
it gotta be rude as hell, too. It's gotta be
rude. You gotta be rude as hell. I gotta be rude
as hell. So if I gotta pick one, I'm gonna pick
Eshaan so I can be on his neck all day, every
day, for the rest of my life. I knew he had to
get his shot in somewhere. Not because he wanted,
not because he wanted to keep him alive. Not
because he wanted to keep him alive because he
sees so much promise in him. It's entertainment.
Entertainment. I need entertainment in my life.
I'm like, I need somebody shorter than me to
like... Listen a man look in my Tim's brother.
I'm a good fighter in the half Air Force one.
Yo, if I put Tim's on I'll be six four two Tips
that's funny tiptoes. I shared that photo online
from Matt's graduation and somebody was just
like Man, he like that got you a height. No,
like the Air Force one got like an eight and
soul now Pertains to that so my my first instinct
was Is this a zombie apocalypse everybody's gone
like I'm gonna need to procreate forgive me Matt
You know what I'm gonna have to tag in little
Matt cuz I've seen that graduation picture I'm
gonna need a young strong kid to carry stuff
be my bodyguard Fend off these zombies. He's
a big boy. I love it. I love it. I thank y 'all
for the entertainment. Oh, hell of a question.
Hell of a question. I'm going to hold it. I'm
going to do something. I'm about to... I'm going
to mute real quick. I'm going to go to the bathroom.
You guys pop some bottles, do what you got to
do. I'll be two seconds and I'm going to come
back. I'm going to give you something. That is
perfect. He about to go to the bathroom? It is
now. See this this is how this is how we work
this thing. That's how you work it It is now
he's gone to the bathroom before you know, he
has definitely gone to the bathroom before and
he said oops I still can't get over like who
shits on himself and just says oops Who does
that? I have no idea who does that. All right,
so if we can get Our video technology working.
He doesn't have his camera on right now. Hopefully
he can hear us but we started talking about Roxanne
and we started talking about Liv Morgan and I'm
like, I gotta like get the biggest freak of the
freaks on. I gotta get the biggest freak of the
freaks on to have a conversation about the freakiness.
Brandon has now jumped into the podcast. We're
going to fastball at you really quick. So what
we just got done talking about was what should
Dominic Mysterio do? A new hot young one on the
block bringing food to this man When his main
girl left for three weeks and did not ask him
could she leave how he's gonna deal if she leaves
She just left on her own accord to go find herself
through the movie. Whatever that looks like Brandon
the question was Your Dominic Mysterio, what
are you doing? Are we live? Oh, we're live, pal.
Oh, we're live, pal. You can hear me? We good?
All right. We got you. We got you. Let's see
what we can. Let's see what we can do. I can
hear you guys clear. Dirty Dom need to dip his
nuggets in that Roxy sauce. So, uh, you should
make it happen. And that's why he's on the block.
I'm about to come home now. This is why I love
Brandon. You can't top that, Brandon. It's time
for you to go. Go out on top, brother. We'll
see you at 300. That's it. My man comes in, drops
the mic, and that is it. Shout out to Brandon.
Brandon is on the podcast. Just so you know,
Brandon, Billy is about to bestow us a gift.
I'm about to tag you in, Brandon. I'm about to
tag you in. But before he does that, you come
on. You got to put us over, of course. And arrogant
Billy has done a fantastic job. And also, Brandon
Eric Eric Brandon, there you go. Finally a pleasure,
right? Yes. He's on He's sitting there talking
about yeah, and as President Trump said earlier,
we are no Brandon. You are on. Brandon is on
133p right now if you're watching on YouTube.
Put us over man, this is episode 200 man. We
made it to 200 Of course, you have been on these
episodes with us You have been down since really
day one, of course behind the scenes because
you are you are family But uh, yeah what you
got for us man put us over Man put you guys over
what I considered going. I was trying to find
y 'all first episode and I wanted to play it
in the background Okay On what You guys have
to beat from day one. No. Yeah. Oh, no, we swissie
number Okay, when he used it over here, oh you
you sweating Brandon's struggling. What's going
on? I'm definitely about to disconnect his ass.
He said Dom needs to dip his nuggets in the boxes.
That is a hell of a bar right there. And his
shit ain't been right ever since. He needs to
send that to Triple H's burner. Ever since, that
man's been on the 36 second toilet. Wait, what's
going on? He's gone, man. He's gone. All right,
all right. I hope, like, if you are listening,
hopefully this is coming across great. If you're
watching, I know it is. Jump onto YouTube so
you can just see. That boy was talking from,
like, Monday night at 11 .35. It's like, dude,
it's Tuesday at 9 o 'clock. Hey, real talk. The
literal time zones were in effect. When Eric
said what he said, and Brandon didn't respond,
I was like, shit, there's beef happening right
now. He was like, Brandon went into no -sale
mode. He's like, I ain't selling shit they talking
about. Brandon thinks he's going to undertake
a raid. I'm not selling shit to your ass. That's
my gimmick. It's shit. Oh, shit. 1991 Survivor
Series, I ain't selling you. I told you before
I'm not gonna say I'm out here for a secret reason
But behind the scenes, I've been training to
fulfill my destiny. It's a thing that I've put
off for a long time and for some reason, the
time came around and I have my reasons. I'm not
going to say you guys know who my dad was. I
feel like I'm on this little side quest right
now and it's really exciting. But I'm very early.
I'm training. I'm taking mentorship from people
who knew my dad and worked with him. But I'm
out here to kind of like do my first thing for
real. But ever since you told me about 200. Here
comes Brandon again. Don't worry, don't worry.
Ever since you told me about 200. I'm about to
drop a gift and then I'm gonna tag you in Brandon.
So I was just filling everybody in. what I'm
doing out here in Denver. I'm in Denver here
for a little secret project, sort of on the road
to finishing the story, if you will. And as soon
as Matt told me about 200, actually before you
invited me on, I started preparing a little something,
a little practice, a little something I could
give you guys. And I don't know how it's going
to go. I don't know what's going to happen. It's
very short. But if you'll let me, I'm going to
cut a promo right now. Okay. All right. I'm ready.
All right. Let me take a breath. My dad, before
he would, before the director would call action,
he would kind of stand off to the side before
the step in and he'd kind of give this look and
do a deep breath. And then they'd be like, you
ready? And he'd be like, he would just nod. So
Billy real quick. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry
to cut you off. Can I please tell the story about
my connection to your dad? Please, please. Maybe
somebody who, and I'm sorry to cut you off. No,
please. For anybody who was not listening back
in October when Billy was first on, or who maybe
just missed that episode, Billy Mays, which is
Billy's dad, y 'all know Billy Mays, the legendary
salesperson on every and any infomercial back
in the day. There is nobody I think on the galaxy
who is 40 plus that does not know who Billy Mays
is. And that man used to put me to sleep. At
night, I would watch him at night. I told her
these are like, if I ever hit the lottery, I'm
buying every infomercial that I see, like every
piece of product. Like I was a big Billy Mays
man. Like I first thought he was fantastic. So
we started the podcast and I remember seeing
your name, of course, when we started talking
and it didn't connect at first. Cause I'm just
like, there's no way I'm like, Kicking it with
Billy Mays his son that when I was just like
our young teenager like was on my television
that I always talked about lovingly and Something
happened. I was like no fucking way That is Billy
Mays Billy man. That's the name Billy Mays But
shout out to your dad man. Like like I said,
I know that for me He was a big part of my television
watching especially when MTV used to show music
videos Anytime after midnight, your dad ran late
night TV. And just to get to know Billie and
just a genuine, awesome soul, you are and you
have been. And I'm still waiting for us when
we start some other type of episodes where we
are talking anything that's not wrestling to
get you on. Cause I know your passion is music.
There's just much more to you than meets the
eye. So I'm excited for that But I just want
to put your dad over cuz like that was just awesome
and it was like how I believe in life like everything
happens for a reason we have good energy good
energy finds you so for This to happen that way
and I'm just like wow, how crazy is that? But
it's it's what it's supposed to be. Well, look,
so I'm I for my whole life at least last 15 16
years since my dad died people have always asked
like you know, you're gonna step into his shoes
and For a long time, I was just like, no, I'm
a musician. I'm an artist. I don't do that. Even
though I worked in the business, I worked behind
the scenes. I was like a production assistant,
like on set with my dad, other commercials, other
infomercials, whatever. I never really thought
that it was something that would be just something
I would feel called to do. And I don't know what
it was maybe in the last like two years. It might
be because I have a kid now and stuff. I don't
know. And I did start to notice that my life
was having these parallels with my dad's, where
he was a traveling salesman when he was in his
20s and 30s. He didn't become famous until he
was 40. He didn't get on TV until he was 40.
So he was hitting the road, going to these home
shows and he was performing and selling these
products. I found myself performing music and
then selling my little products off to the side,
my records and stuff. And I was like, I'm living
like, I felt him. I felt like I'm living. experiences
that he did in my own way. And so somehow that
got around to, well, I actually kind of am a
pitch man. I'm pitching for myself and my work
and people I love and whatever. And that's what
I do. If you know me in Atlanta, I've made my
way to like local businesses and I'm representing
them locally and stuff. Not in this kind of way,
but so lately I've just been, there's something
else that's a secret. I'm not even going to say
what it is, but it's also kind of fueling all
this. Um, but I'll let you guys on in on off
the air, but, um, basically I've started this
journey and it's, it's a, it's a little quest
to see what happens and develop my voice. And,
um, and a lot of it is just like. Copying my,
I feel like I'm reverse engineering what my dad
did. Cause I knew him from the very end to the
beginning and back. I'm starting where he was
at the end and I'm working backwards. I'm trying
to get to like. What is my authentic way of doing
this? So Bear with me. I'm gonna just I'm gonna
I'm gonna do this thing. It's gonna be what it
is, but Just know that like my reasoning for
doing this you guys are like the first Real public
thing that I'm doing because my goal with this
I think that's what locked it in for me of like
this is real to me is that I Want to be the voice
for people that I love they're doing amazing
things that I appreciate and that I respect.
So there's some nonprofit stuff and there's people
like you guys that are doing something I believe
in. And if I could lend a little bit of help,
I wanna do that. So this is that, okay? So here
we go. I gotta make sure these people at the
Hyatt Regency are gonna hear me next door. Are
you tired of throwing on the same old boring
pro wrestling shows every week? Hi, Billy Mays
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We got Matt, we got Rhodesia, we got Eshawn,
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Follow That's F &W on all social media. The TFW
podcast. That's freakin' wrestling. Yo. Yo. How
fuckin' awesome is that? I tripped up a little
bit, but you know, I'm an NXT. I'm developmental
talent over here. You found the hard camera.
Definitely thank you Billy. That was amazing.
Do that. I'm trying not to get too emotional
with that Emotional that that brought a little
tear to my eye there that you know One you sound
when you hit the Billy Mays here. You hit it
like perfect. Oh my god, that's that that part
but This goes back to where I just said before
you did that and we had no idea you want to do
that Just how a gentleman's genuine soul you
are I told her these a couple days ago about
you and I was saying how whenever You get a tweet
that really pops. You put another tweet underneath
and talk about our podcast. And I recognize that.
And I appreciate that more than you know. And
you don't have to do that. Right? Like, because
there's been a couple of times where they're
not even wrestling related. And you're like,
Hey, for anybody who watches wrestling, check
out my people. And it's like, you don't find
people like that often. And typically anybody
that you guys have seen on this podcast, Eric's
now included. They're along for the journey.
Like this is not a thing where oh They're just
on and that goes very by I don't want to forget
anybody So I'm not going to give out, you know
names Thank you. So I know I'm gonna forget somebody
and I will feel like shit So I don't want to
do that But anybody who's been on our platform
or anybody that I've been on their platform You
are along for the ride meaning when this thing
takes off because it's going to take off You
guys are part of Right? Like you're just, you're
not forgotten. And it's like, Oh yeah. Remember
when we, if you have crossed that threshold and
you have made these airwaves, you are on with
us. Just like if you have listened from day one
and you have supported from day one. And I know
who you are. You are along for the ride and we
are not going to forget about you. Um, so thank
you for that, man. Like I love you for that.
That was incredible. So super thoughtful. And
I cannot wait until you are able to do what your
life purpose is going to continue to be. Take
it to that next level. And I would be there to
shout from the rooftops how great you're doing.
I'm trying to figure out what this looks like
in 2025. I don't want to be an influencer. I
want to call back to the way things were. but
in the modern technology and stuff. But that
also brings me to something he said earlier.
I wanted to take this opportunity to say it's
200. Moving forward, let's set up the Patreon.
I'll help you guys, whatever you want to do.
Let's just get it there. Let's just put it out
there. And it's time. Thank you, Billy. That
means so much to me. Thank you. That's A to B
because I can't speak. Yeah, but he really did.
You know what? I'm switching up on E's name because
I actually changed it to Big Daddy on here. While
we were talking. And I was like, I thought that
was what I wanted to say. And you knew it was
wrong. Don't ever do that again. A big daddy
that's good. Nothing ever come good out from
that. It feels so right. It hits so hard. But
Billy, let me tell you. You gotta relax. He just
said, it feels so right. It hits so hard. It
hits so hard. I need you to get off. Double pause.
No pause. No pause. Real quick though, Billy.
Man, look, I never share with you. like my experience
with your dad, like I was a late night TV kid.
I used to, my kid, my parents, actually I think
about like my mom, I say my mom is too sweet
on my kids. Like they just let them off. I was
up to like four or five o 'clock in the morning
watching TV back in the day. And I remember being
up late and seeing all of your dad's infomercials.
So when Matt introduced me to all that, oh my
God. And like, now look at your face. I was like,
I see your dad. And when you set your name, in
that promo just it just hit man again it gave
me goosebumps man thank you so much thank you
look I'm finishing the story whatever that means
I'm gonna I'm gonna put it out there though for
you guys this is the one thing that I do share
publicly because I just think it's it makes sense
to me I'm manifesting it I'm putting it out here
right now for you guys what you got for me finishing
the story means I become the official spokesperson
for Taco Bell because my dad was signed to be
the Taco Bell spokesperson before he died, but
he never got to shoot the commercial. It's declared
it. And so I want to do a Super Bowl commercial
with Taco Bell. Let's do that. It's manifested.
Tell the story and then do a do a do a infomercial
for that. You know what? You know what's so cool
about this? And once again, I can get really
deep, so I'm not going to get that deep on this
show, but it's already done because you said
it. Yep. Right. It's already done. It's already
done. You saw it. So we're gonna be able to look
back and I'm just blessed and appreciate you
sharing that with us and our audience of what
because you really This is like the infancy steps
of what you're about to start doing So to be
able to share that it takes courage to share
it and to speak on it, right? Like that is so
fucking powerful man So for you to be able to
come on here share that with us So I am beyond
blessed just for you to feel like that's something
that you can share with us Right now in this
moment But for you to be able to do that and
then say that, it's happened already, man. And
I promise you, I will be there for whatever that
looks like when you get there. It's a fine line.
Sometimes I've tried to go the other way with
my life and not share too much because I'm known
to share my goals too much and then they shift.
And this was one that I am keeping a lot of goals
secret right now and a lot of projects that are
in the works secret. But for this one, it honestly
To bring it back to wrestling, finishing the
story became part of my life through that storyline.
I want to meet Cody and I want to just exchange
that energy with him because I feel that it's
real for as much as it's a storyline. I feel
that it's real and we all felt it and we all
know what happened. It was, like, transformational
for everyone. And I'm not saying I'm gonna reach
that level. I'm not gonna have some WrestleMania
40 moment, but my version of that. And then when
it comes down to it, we all kind of are doing
that. We're all finishing these stories of our
ancestors. So, like, that's what I'm trying to
show here, is that, like, big or small, whatever
it is, it's the only thing for us personally,
like, whatever each of our things are. We're
all our own Cody Rhodes on the road to WrestleMania
40. 100%. 100 % Cody's been gone for 30 days
and I'll let you go after this cuz you got to
rest up Cody's been gone for 30 days as of today
In two sentences three sentences and I need it
from everybody How much do you miss Cody Rhodes
on WWE TV I On one hand I I think that it's good
that he's he's not around right now just because
of the landscape. But on the other hand, I think
that it's becoming apparent how much of a foundation
he was for the moral center of the show. Even
when it wasn't flowing right or whatever, I think
it gave people a different kind of wholesome
thing to latch onto. And maybe that's why punk
is getting the big pop now, because that's where
that energy is going. To the bad boy that is
there for us too, and he's real, you know? That's
my take. Love it. Absence makes the heart grow
fonder. So when that man comes back, he's going
to get that huge pop. You hear that music hit.
One day, Eshaan will learn the lyrics to Kingdom.
My four -year -old knows it. Don't hold your
breath, brother. Eshaan can't. Understand it,
but it's cool. It is what it is. My son's gonna
hear that music hit one night on Monday Night
Raw or on SmackDown and he's gonna go ape shit.
That's it. Nice. Brandon? I don't necessarily
miss Cody, but Cody is very much a North Star
for that SmackDown show. SmackDown is missing
a lot with Cody right now. I'm not saying that
it's a hard watch or anything, but to Billy's
point, there's a center in that show for him.
And that shows North Star for sure. I'm still
trying to process my feelings right now after
what you just did, Billy. And I even text Matt
like, I can't even right now. I'm shogged up
over here in a hotel room. I'm pumping some heat
out of my body. Hey, you're a jerk like me. I
normally get the foggy glasses off. I'll go wipe
my eyes there a little bit, you know? I don't
miss Cody. I don't miss Cody at all. But no,
no, no, no, no, this is not, this is not. No,
let me finish what I gotta say. Damn. I don't
miss Cody at all. She went with at all I can't
wait to see she says this time But I know his
fans misses him dearly and they're probably missing
out a lot on the show for all the reasons that
y 'all just mentioned. Um, so I know that just
like how, with how I felt about Roman and when
Roman not being there, how much he was missed
for me. I can only imagine the Cody fans really
missing out on Cody. So again, cause he has been
the stability there alongside with like a Seth
Rollins, so. Is Cody in hiding? Is he, have we
seen him? Has he posted? Like he hasn't done
anything. Wow, uh, he's he's trying to keep posted,
but he hasn't okay. He hasn't done anything yet.
Yeah Wow Does anybody miss roman? Well, hold
on because you know, we got to get the resonant
cody. We got to get that on the pod. You got
to answer So e how much did you miss cody like
legit question? Don't know the words Something
something Cody Rhodes My man is sounding like
Bill Cosby singing Something something pudding
pop come on Like I think I Think Billy somebody
made a comment of it, but it's me. No, it was
Brandon. Um Cody Rhodes is a smackdown wrestler.
He's not on raw Right? Take out outside of WrestleMania
where they do some of the crossover to get people
to watch both shows. He's a SmackDown wrestler,
meaning he is exclusively on SmackDown. I don't
miss Cody Rose until I watch SmackDown. They've
done a fantastic job on Raw. I talked about it
last week and they really leaned into it. Shout
out to whoever is in some type of creative something
in WWE. For being a huge fan of the TFW podcast
Shout out to you guys. I appreciate you. All
I ask is you just put this pod in the right person's
situation Okay, but I talked about it on last
week's show where I said raw feels like a living
breathing reality Place where people just talk
to people matches just happen people are involved
in two or three different things They really
leaned into that last night, but smackdown is
just what it is if this match is scheduled It's
that match and we going for another segment.
So Raw's done a really good job of giving us
what we wanted. To your point, I think you said
Eric, maybe punk pop. It's part of that is because
we don't have that hero right now. We got Jay.
We going yeet with Jay. We love Jay. And Jay's
got it. I've said it before, what a change makes
of having gold glasses, having that championship
belt and going to just regular black track Nike
pants. Holy hell does he look like the superstar
that he's been But it's like when you watch smackdown,
you know, something's missing. You like you can
watch and say, okay It's alright, but something's
missing And it goes deeper than cody rhodes on
how they do that show but cody's a really big
proponent of What's missing on that show? So
he's he's missed on smackdown. Is he missed all
the way in wb? This is gonna be stupid. Is he
missed all the way in wb? No, is he missed on
smackdown? 100 Absolutely he is Nobody's as big
as him on smackdown and there's three or four
people just as big as him on raw Jacob fatu is
still alive. Oh Jacob fatu That's fair. Oh real
quick. That's fair real quick Billy because before
you leave you gotta put us over again. Um, yeah
Real quick Jacob fatu I don't need the announcers
to tell me his catchphrase 32 times on the broadcast.
It's making it not cool. I'm good. Stop. Solo's
making it not cool too. Dude, he's hilarious
though. Solo is so damn funny, man. Solo has
been hilarious for like the last year and a half.
He is super funny. Yeah, last year and a half
for sure. Whoever listens on WB that listens
to the pod. Pull back a little bit on the announcers
with the yard that I mean stop like he's he's
different. He's a monster Let him be that do
not lean into that too much because then it's
not cool anymore. That's that's my two cents
on Jacob That's it let me tell you this do you
guys feel like like is that is that the bloodline
like Is the bloodline just is it over is the
bloodline saga over or are we just yeah? It's
over. Not in like a bad way. No, not in a bad
way. It spawned all these things and this is
one of them. There's an old saying that heroes
don't die, they just fade away. You know, but
you know where they messed up. And that's how
you can tell, damn, as much as we love what Triple
H has done, there's been some pretty big misses.
This is one of those misses. I get keeping things
open for rock. I get keeping things open really
for rock is what it is. promote Survivor Series
as this is one and done. Whoever wins this, wins
everything. One, imagine how much better the
hype would be for us as fans. If we know like,
oh shit, this is the end of the feud. This is
what we're doing? Oh, I'm locked in. But it was
kind of like, okay, we had war games and then
they went along as if the perception was that's
what it was. Was that oh, well war games told
you that roman history won. So why are you tripping
on it? We thought we were getting roman rock
We thought we were getting roman jacob and we
still thought we were getting roman and solo
until of course january, you know first week
of um On netflix, but it was kind of just like
they just kind of breeze passed through and there
was so many More stories. We never got the official
awesome roman to Jay, which we should have gotten.
We never got that. We really, outside of the
hug, yeah, it was a hug, but damn, give me Jimmy
and Jay. Like, really get into that. Like, give
me some more of that. It was just, they blew
right past it, and we still don't have Solo who
said he would acknowledge Roman Reigns if Roman
won the Ulla followback, and he's never done
that. It was just so much that was left on the
table. I think we can blame The Rock for a lot
of the issues that you just described, and that
sucks, but I don't know. There's something there.
This so if this is a real quick and then of course
it's Billy you gotta go everybody Funny side
fact is that my dad never really said that it's
just no way No, no, it was always I'm not done
yet. I'm not done yet. And I'll tell you the
reason that I think it's my theory I knew my
dad and I knew that he had huge respect for Ron
Popeel, the original original guy. And that was
his catchphrase, but wait, there's more. And
I think my dad like out of respect was like,
no, that's Ron's thing. I'm going to do this
thing. But the meme became, but wait, there's
more, you know, 2020, every day in 2020, but
wait, there's more. Like it was a me. Every time
there's something new, there was like a series
of things. So anyway. Fun fact, I love it and
I'm done because I can't my question is not gonna
top that so put us over and get out bit All right
No, I'm just gonna say it's all been said but
you guys are the best I Think that I'm serious
when I say like you guys deserve to have some
monetization in exchange for what you give. And
it doesn't have to change anything. It doesn't
have to make you do it for that reason. And I
don't think you guys will. And I hope all the
listeners right now are in agreement with me
that we would suck in a buck and throw a little
monthly whatever it is to the show just to like...
Let you guys have a budget. Let, let it be the
fly E out to a, to an event budget kind of thing.
I know you guys. I mean, I mean, to start, it
could be that, and then you know, but, uh, anyway,
I'm with you guys and, uh, I appreciate it. I
don't know. Thank you for having me and thank
you for letting me be a part of it. Shout out
to the freaks. You are you are the fucking main
you're gonna miss my promo I'm gonna cut About
200, you know what? I know you're gonna rock
it. All right. Thanks, y 'all. Until next time.
It was good meeting you, Brandon. It was good
meeting you. Good meeting you as well, sir. It's
a great pleasure to speak with you. I need to
come check out your little collection behind
you in Atlanta when I get home. For sure, man.
Oh, I thought you were talking to me. Hey, I
told the wife. I'm welcome. Wait, are you in
Atlanta too, man? No, I'm in Pennsylvania, but
this whole wall is filled with just sweet travel
pictures. Perfect. Nice. Well, when I come to
PA, I'll come up there. I'm actually from Pennsylvania,
by the way. So no way. Pittsburgh. That's right.
That's West Side. I'm out. You guys continue
on. Love you. Love you. Love you. Thank you.
Thank you, man. Billy Mays. Billy, are you fucking
serious? Talk about you don't know how awesome
that was for me, like legit, like. All bullshit
aside, I have no problem showing my feelings
and such. But if people, Rudeja understands,
of course, if people understood how much I used
to talk about infomercials and to get a promo
cut from said person's son about something that
we've created out of thin air. That was completely
unexpected. Right. And it was awesome. I loved
every second of it. Same. Like it even like brought
a little tear to my eye like cuz he said it with
such passion Like it was just like different
yeah, like I felt it he was like this shit means
something to me man, you know Like the beginning
middle end of every single show like This episode
brought to you by Billy Mays. The awesome thing
about this, and I've said it every time somebody
comes on, and I'm sure the energy comes through
the microphone, comes through the camera, on
TV. Everybody's good people. Yeah. Right? Exactly.
That is the community that we're cultivating.
It's good fucking people. It's fucking people.
And I said that. Earlier this year when you guys
were posting during WrestleMania like out there
at WrestleMania and You met lovely yeah, and
like and I was like This is what it's all about
being genuine human connection is what life is
all about and I 100 % believe that and it's like
the main reason I love to travel the world I
Love to learn new languages We're talking earlier
this week about like learning languages and shit
like And that's the stuff that I want to like
instill my children like you need to go out and
you just need to meet people Yeah, and develop
those connections Yeah, I told my kid I told
my son my son so My son my older son Julian.
He's going to Japan with my wife Wonderful. Yeah,
and I told him I was like, you know my father
lived in Japan for two years when he was in the
military. Three years. The look on his face.
Here's how you say this. Here's how you say this.
Here's how you say thank you. Here's how you
say hello. Here's how you say good morning. Here's
how you say you're welcome. Like just teaching
him like some basic Japanese, which is like,
how do you know that? I'm like, my father taught
me. Like just, you know. But it's it's just about
building those connections. It's pretty dope.
Billy is a genuine connection with you guys.
And now I feel after finally speaking in face,
because we've interacted, you know, on a course,
mama called Twitter. I'm called Twitter. Right.
We've interacted on there. He calls me like he's
like, Eric's the reaction king. I was like, Eric,
real quick, you know how I know where this is
feeling good. She didn't hit the line. So her
favorite movie is Coming to America. You hitting
that, she should have gotten super excited and
said, mama call him Clay, I'm gonna call him
Clay. But she feeling pretty good right now.
No, I'm still pretty emotional right now. So
like she's trying to keep it together right now.
I'm trying to keep it together too though. You're
like, I am trying to keep it together. So it's
like, you know, talking to him face to face,
it was like, wow, this is like, or computer to
computer, camera to camera. Wow, this is really
fucking cool. We had this guy come on to the
podcast So we couldn't get these two I could
have had episode 200 go by without having this
guy on the podcast. Bushman is in the building.
What's up, Bushman? Hold on. Listen, let me be
real specific for a second. There you go. Let
it go. What's he talking about? Ocean? Atlantic.
Atlantic. Atlantic. I'm going to get Arctic up
in here. We got one thing and one thing to say.
We got to get out of the way, and then we can
rock it out. Big Daddy E! Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
Let's go That day I was dying from pneumonia
in urgent care Log in just for like two minutes,
man. This is just me. I'll be good So my guy
Bush man is is in the building also Bush the
only rule really we've had all night is you got
to put us over Coming on you got put us over
going off. It's really this really kind of like
what's been happening, right? So before I get
to that means not you know Yeah, cuz I got some
questions. I got a question. I'm going to ask
you That is a running question. I'm also going
to run i'm also going to ask matt this question,
too I can't wait to hear matt's answer to that
question. Um, which man put us over put you on
All right. How do I do this? Let's see Like Brandon
down there. I'm a day one supporter. Shout out
to all of the day one supporters. Yes, sir I
wish man was the one in the before anybody was
leaving YouTube comments Bush man would be in
there spamming the comments and shout out to
Bush man I mean Bush man go way back if you wasn't
on and you didn't listen to that show go back
and listen That show that Bush man was on don't
interrupt me when I'm putting you over As a day
one supporter I gotta say this I mean three friends
took an idea, a concept, and their passion for
wrestling, and they rocked it out into something
that so many people enjoy. At least, I think
we were on the road to 800 as we try to approach
the road to 1 ,000. I mean, that's something
that not everybody can do. Not everybody will
stick with it this long. It's been compelling.
It's been engaging. It's been fun. I've loved
to watch my friends. Go on this and and make
it something special something fun and a place
where you have been able to share your experiences
as you go to these events and meet the people
and just Sharing your life together because a
lot of the you know, I've caught the pod where
you and redisha did the thing on vacation. So
One of my favorite it's been fun. I'm glad that
I could be a part of it a handful of times Of
course, baby, you know that you know that appreciate
you Bush man. Love you man. Um, so the question
that has been On everybody's mind really just
minds. Okay talking about Dominic Mysterio Brandon's
answer was so great Brandon hit his answer and
he just fucking dropped off like he went on a
tape delay Saudi Arabia it was like a 22nd delay
and he was like we asked him a question he just
sit there he like this back to you yeah i mean
it's great it's like nobody asked you a question
brandon that's five minutes ago but he's back
my man's back he's still with like 240p that's
better than the 132p he was on earlier so my
question is this if you're doma stereo and this
is real life this is not wrestling logic okay
doma stereo you had ria rippley right Left Rhea
Ripley got with Liv Morgan. Mm -hmm. Okay, Liv
Morgan left without asking His opinion on should
she go and do whatever she's doing filming a
movie find herself for three plus weeks He's
ass out That new thing hit the block Brings you
food your favorite food looking like she looking
talking like she talking Bushman if you were
Dominic Mysterio, what are you doing? Whatever
I want And then when I'm done doing whatever
I want I'm gonna try to go down to NXT and find
Stephanie I Love Maria I love mommy lives nice,
too But there is nothing and I mean nothing that
I want more from this life than for Stephanie
to put me in that mood Me too. Face the other
way. My face not hitting the mat. She's amazing.
Alright, while y 'all getting off on off of her.
Dirty, horny. So, hey, Chrissy. What'd you say?
He pulling at you. And like, I did it already
on the show too. I already did it on the show.
First three minutes. First three minutes. Hilarious.
We talked about my favorite wrestler of all times.
going free balls too. So we were talking about
Seth Rollins. Now we're in any undies this week.
How's Seth gonna come out there? Bush man without
no damn draws on. His ass is showing out in the
first two seconds of what he does. Come on man,
you kidding me? I loved every second of it. Never.
Sorry to that woman of Beth, or whatever her
name is, Becky. Sorry to Becky. Sorry to that
woman. Do I gotta make that picture too? Like,
Beth takes his head on Becky Lynch's body? Yes.
Our bad, my bad. Sorry to her. Uh, Chris, Bushman.
That is Brandon. Brandon, that is Eric. Eric,
that is Bushman. Bushman, that is Eric. Eric,
pleasure. Nice to meet you. What up? What up?
What up? Don't ever throw shade when I'm repping
Big Daddy E and giving him a shout out, OK? This
is ridiculous. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, you
missed that. What is it? Amen. You can see E
is working to, uh, because I would never clap
for some of this shit that he got going. I've
been waiting. He's definitely working. I've been
waiting. I've been waiting this whole time. I've
been waiting. So production note, but we were
saying on the pod, put the audio for the sound
effects at like 70%. When it's at 100, like it
blares out everything you can't hear in the nose.
So I'm guessing we do about 60, 70%. It'd probably
be like an awesome transition. Hey, this is like
a 5%. No, I'm talking about when you actually
do the file itself, you can go in and look at
every audio and then you can just move it. Because
it don't come across same keep me in a hundred.
No, so What you had zero we had you had an awesome
question What fun question do you have? Now that
Bushman is on and Brandon is on the pile I actually
had another question for them, but I'll ask them
because they still were day one's So the day
one question I had was there is a zombie apocalypse.
So this is just for Bushman for Brandon Okay,
there's a zombie apocalypse and you can oh wait
Let me also started this shit got to get thick
after this like we got to be like, you know Already
how I'm already thumbs down and you already Bushman.
Oh, you gotta imagine worse than that You gotta
be like super rude about it, like to the point
where I'ma go, I'ma turn you off. Yeah, you gotta
say it like that. Yeah. You gotta be mad disrespectful,
yo. Zombie Apocalypse is coming. You can only
rock with one host of the TFW pod to be right
there by you. Who are you picking and why? Damn.
Well, you know it's not you. Why not? I'm the
smartest one up here. I can make a fire. But
you know, like a fire. It's Matt. Come on, baby.
Let's go. And why? And why? And why? And why?
To 2009. It started working for you. Dude, I
think it was earlier than that. I got a feeling
was earlier than that. I mean, you might be right.
I left. I left the newspaper in 09. And then
I was Benji's assistant. And then in less than
a year, you shuffled me out of there. So 09.
Well, so and that's something you can never say
Rhodesia is he Needed me and respected my opinion
on things and he saw that I took care of him.
You can't say that But no, no, I'm gonna say
something that's gonna blow his whole spot up
in just a second. So go ahead Tell me why so
2009 Eric Eric Bush has seen this plenty of drunk
nights in Vegas He just told you he's seen this
on the podcast and he's been there I'm late for
parties. Brandon's absolutely seen this side
of Rhodesia. Whenever you don't agree with Rhodesia,
this is the side of Rhodesia you get. Just so
you know. So now you're linked in. I've always
been the one for Sekaroti. Thank you. Let's go.
Sekaroti's running around. I can't show a label.
To answer your question, I would have to say
leadership. Leadership, we're going to survive.
Whatever team he has assembled, To get us through
this apocalypse and you'll be there. You'll be
there The leadership ain't gonna be there. We're
gonna survive. No, Eric. You won't be there,
but You get one person so you That's gonna assemble
a team and under his leadership Look at her.
Look at her. I love it. I love it. I love it.
I love it. Huh? Fox five. I told you. Go ahead.
Brandon. Breaking news. What's that Matt? I agree.
I agree. I'm picking it up. Because I know why.
Because I know better Love you. I love you. I
love you Yes, ma 'am Bush man the reason why
you shouldn't pick Matt Matt be honest, tell
me why if a zombie apocalypse happened Tell me
what you would do Because Matt still has to come
on and tell his answer, okay. Okay. Well wait,
we'll save it then we'll save it I'm gonna sacrifice
all of us I still rock with it. It's worse than
that. It's worse than that. It's worse than that.
So we talked about Rock standing on Raw in the
Money in the Bank, which I'm glad to see that.
Julia is on SmackDown, which she and I had a
little too last week. They were called up. You
can kind of tell by the verbiage in their promo.
My question to all you guys is, do you trust...
I'm going to put it on... What's his name? Brian.
Road dog because he is the head writer of smackdown
Do we trust with what we've seen so far an answer
may be absolutely. Yes Do we trust road dog to
book julia wright on friday nights? I don't know
I feel like the weapons roster on smackdown is
top -heavy And even though it's top -heavy I
don't know who to put the blame on for how they've
done Bailey, but I feel like Bailey has not gotten
a fair shake and she's been on SmackDown for
the vast majority of I guess the last year, year
and a half. I don't know how long Road Dogg's
been head of the show, but I don't know. I don't
feel confident. I think outside of Jay, Nia,
Tiffany, Bianca, I mean, their personalities,
their characters and all that stuff kind of writes
itself. I don't know if there's enough, I don't
know if favor is the right word, but I don't
know if, I don't know if Julia has the cache
to warrant, you know, big pushes. I think their
priority should be her or one of the priorities
should be her given that she's fresh up and she's
a new star. But having said that, I consider
what they did with Tiffany over the last year
and a half where she was a call up and she was
a champion in about a year or so. It's a mixed
bag, but I don't feel confident that she'll get
the push she probably needs to get over and be
established as a star on the show. I agree with
everything you just said. Like, I really, I don't,
I don't, and it's a shame. I really don't see
her that being the brand for her. Kind of wish
it wasn't the brand for her, you know? Because
she's so damn good in the ring, you know? She
could put on a show in rain. She's tough, you
know but I Don't think the focus is gonna be
on her maybe mid card title why is Maybe they'll
push her that that direction But that's gonna
like step on some toes in that mid card in the
you in the women's US championship like, you
know like Cause I don't know about other people
that have been there for a while to be outshined
by her. Yeah. But I think she can put on some
really good matches with some of the women that
are there. Like she could have a banger match
with Meacham. Ooh, yep. She could have a banger
match. Hell, shit. Her and Charlotte is probably
a dream match. Come on, man. For fucking every
wrestling fan in the world. Julia versus Charlotte,
like, that typically would be a WrestleMania
match. Julia versus Charlotte for the title,
boom. You're getting worldwide recognition on
that. That might be what's needed for Charlotte.
That might be what's needed for Charlotte. Charlotte
needs like. Charlotte don't need nothing y 'all
got to stop with this narrative. See like I let
it ride a little bit What do you mean? That's
what Charlotte needs Charlotte don't need nothing
Charlotte did her part Tiffany had getting up
to Charlotte's level and As a matter of fact,
I'm glad you said that real quick and you can
talk while I pull this up Cody had an incredible
It's like a minute, I'll play it for you guys.
He had it, somebody asked him about the Brock
Lesnar feud. And he talked, it was like so damn
deep. And this is, when you get to this type
of inside baseball, this is like what everybody
who's on this pie lives for. This kind of stuff.
Right? Like hearing them talk about what's really
real. So check to check this out and of course
we can get back to Charlotte, but this is good
But I can tell you the people ever wonder how
real wrestling can be the three matches I had
with Brock Lesnar are the most competitive and
There's a thing when you work with a guy who's
a big monster He's a monster where they make
you earn it is what they'll say You're not just
grabbing my leg, even though that might be the
spot You're not just hitting me with that. The
Cody cutter. It's not just happening that way.
You have to actually earn it and earn it is as
as close to being in a real fight as I've ever
been in life. I look back at the three matches
of the bank lovingly and so proud of the the
body of work we put up. Yeah, but also I remember
scared is probably an appropriate term, but just
That was the most aggressive and I've been in
fights and I've wrestled folk style, freestyle,
did all that. That was the most real anything
had ever been for me in the ring. And it actually
gave me a whole new education. Yeah. On getting,
I guess, to the top of our game. What it really
means is there is an element of you're not just
taking this. Yeah. Thank you. This is going to
be a bit of a struggle because that man is a
freak athlete. How fucking fun is that? How fun
is that? That's fucking awesome. How cool is
that right only in wrestling is that a thing
and we know once again us on this podcast Probably
anybody who's listening to this podcast understands
what that is try to explain that To someone who
is sitting now watching for the first time. Oh,
yeah It's it's it's predetermined and they have
these things called spots that they kind of go
over But like when you're at the top of the top
You're pushing that person you're in the ring
with to make sure that they can hit that spot
That you're already at what happens if they don't
hit that spot Oh, then that's a whole other thing
and then that's when they can maybe get buried
or they go drop down in the car But while they're
in the ring they have to do this like that is
I thought that was tremendous To hear that from
cody to talk about yeah, there's a spot here
where you're grabbing my leg But you need to
grab my leg. I'm not just leaving the leg out
there and i'm falling on my back for you I've
got to fight for it. Yeah. Yeah That incredible
man, like so many layers to what professional
wrestling really is and it really is and even
that little segment there goes Really tells the
story of the Tiffany Charlotte feud Charlotte
made Tiffy work for it. Mm -hmm and I appreciated
that. I really did. I'm like no make her fucking
work for it Like fucking work. You are the title.
Which is why I'm like, OK. Charlotte needs someone
to. Which is why, like Charlotte doesn't need
Julia. I think Julia needs Charlotte. To make
her work for it. But in the in like the other
sense in the ring. The two of them can just fucking
go at it. Like. In the ring, it's not gonna be
an issue. It's the other stuff, the outer layer
of it that I think Julia needs. And language
barrier aside, I think she can bring it. You
know what I'm saying? Like, it's like, I think,
I think Julia needs those things. I think it's
even interesting for having this conversation.
E, you know, back in the day when Road Dogg was
head writer for X -Mackdown, it wasn't the best.
And I'm giving, I'm shooting them some bail because
it's three hours. Oh, this is not his first day?
No, this is not his first day. Oh, okay. But
the, from Triple H's perspective, the pushback
to that is, but yeah, but I'm not putting my
hands all over it. Like, maybe Vince did. I'm
letting him do what I know he can do. That's
where I came up with that question from. Because
at one point when Road Dogg was head writer of
SmackDown, it was the shits. Nah, it maybe had
nothing to do with him. Maybe he literally wrote
the best script up in the world for that show.
He sends in events and Vince completely rewrites
it. Maybe that's the thing. Ten minutes before
showtime. Right? Right. I don't know. Ten minutes
before showtime. Exactly. So E, you have been
around when Road Dogg was head writer. You have
talked numerous times about how you feel like
it is really important for a wrestler to be able
to connect to the audience via promo. You know,
we've seen EO get away with it with the subtitle
video packages at times. We've seen Shinsuke
do that, but you feel like, hey, you got to be
able to cut a promo to succeed in WWE. Are you
comfortable and confident that with the structure
that is SmackDown right now, she's going to be
presented as the star she should be? I think
the WWE creative umbrella is stronger than just
one man weighing down on talent. I feel like
if she's going to be over, she's going to be
over. I don't think it's Brodawg is going to
be the demise of her. I think she would be just
fine because she's talented. If you look at overall,
like a lot of those women, especially some of
the women with the language barrier, it took
them a while to kind of get over with the larger
audience. You know, you look at, you know, Asuka
did kind of well. I think that Vince kind of
Fumbled her a little bit. I think it was a I
listened to Paul Heyman Interview he was talking
about Raven, which is one of my favorite wrestlers
in the world. I never got a chance to be out
there ever will meet Raven To be honest with
you. He's one of those guys. I heard it's not
all a great experience meeting him I don't want
to diminish him being like one of my all -time
great wrestlers But he talked about Raven. He
was like, uh, you know He was big and Matt knows
and you guys watch ACW know he was a big part
of ECW and he kind of never really reached we
could have reached in WWE and Paul was like,
well look, you know, I'll be mad. It's a WWE.
Oh Yeah, yeah I remember him in WCW Um, but you
know, we were saying what Paul was saying. He
was like, look, I've, I was with Raven day one,
fleshing out this character, add nuances, seeing
the character grow. And then now you're going
to take this character that was grown somewhere
else and you're going to give someone else and
they don't understand because they weren't there.
Right. You know, they won nutrient this care,
right? They're going to take the care, they're
going to mold it and they're going to make it
in a different way. Right. Not maybe that happened
with Oscar, a lot of the NXT talent. But now
I think there's a greater symmetry between Triple
H and Shawn, right? Now, how much has the Julia
character grown in NXT? She was only there for
a hot minute. So still kind of the canvas is
not complete. So that character is still going
to continue to develop and is going to develop
on stage. Now they're going to look at what she
does well and what she doesn't do well. They're
going to try to fill in, pencil in. Maybe they're
gonna do the subtitle things with her which i'm
fine with like right? I watch a lot of anime
i'm fine with read subtitles And I can get into
a engaged and get these characters in a mode
and everything else just by sitting reading a
verbiage No problems there. Um, so do this is
is like now we look at smack now. We didn't get
into it You guys are so damn noisy all good though
You're on mute Coughed and then I never took
myself off you but that was Eric Eric is making
that noise. I'm Drinking first How long have
you known me? Well, but Bush did tell me earlier
that he died like two weeks ago cuz he was sick.
That's why he Bush ain't really been much About
the pot. Yeah, he's about he bounced back. He
came back like a bad bag of dope He was like,
yeah I just got back today and I was like, oh
welcome back like you coming on the show tonight
Hey, make sure you bring a drink I haven't been
watching wrestling. I can't really speak on This
this particular topic because I don't watch NXT
I don't have the reference or the reference for
those guys when they come up from NXT. That's
when I get to know So so for me to have much
much like a lot of people will push you like
a lot of people I remember I was telling Matt
and you probably maybe heard about like I was
on the plane talking these dudes for like We're
going to WrestleMania where I was talking to
for like the whole trip. I think it's three hour
trip We talked literally the whole entire time
and they did not watch in XT at all And but they're
a big, you know WWE fans, right? They're going
to the show and very excited about but they don't
a lot of people don't watch them So they don't
know those stories I think Julia will be just
fine. I think her story her character is not
As the way we see it now, it will continue to
grow and develop I think io This is the best
version of her since that she's been on the main
roster for a long time now long time, right?
So there's definitely growth. So again, I like
I think smackdown is what it is for popular reasons
I don't think it's just brand. I think three
years. I'm sorry three years three hours of the
program is tough and I think And Bush was like,
you wasn't president earlier, but you know, Matt
and Rhodesia, you know, they shadowing. Cody
Rose again and his contribution to this to the
company and to the show one more again. That's
a lie. We talked about hey is are we missing
Cody Rose from WWE TV, right? Absolutely. His
name is Cody Rhodes. I was about to say now.
Yeah, I don't know who Cody Rose is. Hey hey
hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey
I'm usually don't buy now. All right, just track
people with so cut pictures. Like we pot every
every weekend, one o 'clock in the morning. No,
he just can't pronounce the right 1119 is like
two o 'clock in the morning for me. God damn
it. It's like this is this is this is it. But
Bush, so they were saying pretty much you saying
like, you know, Rhodesia, you know, shadow Cody.
I don't miss Cody. Fuck him. Right. And then
Matt double down on it, too. Let me say this
let me just say this one thing about Julie because
it sounds like I shit on her a lot Your original
question was do I trust? Roadhog to book her
properly. I'm ignorant to Roadhog's booking.
So I don't know how his pen is. I don't know
anything about his producing. So I don't know.
I can't answer that question. What I will say
is I'm torn in that answer because one, I didn't
think that she should have came up from NXT quite
yet. But two, seeing what's left in NXT, I can
also say that she didn't need to be in NXT anymore.
So I'm in this, in this area of. Okay, well.
Oh shit, I can't send it. Fucking hate her contact.
See like do you are? Because you knew she wasn't
all right to it. Hey, hey, listen Eric, the bad
part is I have no idea what her eye color is.
I have no idea what she's talking about. What
she says it. She looked gorgeous, absolutely
breathtaking. She had her brown eyes, just regular
brown eyes. Yeah, okay. That's exactly what it
is. Roman with his blue green eyes versus his
regular eyes. That's beautiful. That's them.
I had no idea. Yeah. I do want to shout out and
thoughts and prayers to Zoe start. I hated to
see that. Oh my God. I heard you Bush. Not nice.
I was just getting ready. I was getting ready.
I was watching live. I was getting ready to tweet.
Damn Zoe got her sleep last night. May she look
good as fuck. I was about to say the same thing.
And then I heard her scream. Yeah, I read when
she jumped off the rope. I heard it. She was
like, I was like, oh shit, she's gonna knock
it out, right? Yep. And then it happened. I was
like, oh my god, no. Brutal. We don't get to
the details of it. But if you know what you're
looking for, you know what you're looking for.
So I'm not going to put this is not a blame game.
Of course. But this is what I talked about last
week on the pile where I talked about the Julia
spot with Jordan grace a week before where I
said Julia could have been paralyzed She landed
on her neck and just that quick. Yeah, how life
can change how life can change and of course
like I do believe Tony Stark was shoot. I mean
Tony Stark is always dark. We'll be able to walk
again nasty Injury so thoughts and prayers to
her also because That doesn't happen if she wasn't
trying to make the spot, right? Yeah, and I'll
just leave it at that because I say this is not
about the blame game or anything like that but
if she just tried to hit the spot and Make it
look the way it looks and it lands the way it
lands. That doesn't work. So god bless to her
I'm also thoughts and prayers to Jim Ross Now
it's couple days ago that he has colon cancer.
Um, Jim has been going through it As anybody
will as you know life is just this is what it
is, right? He's got to take you know, the time
that you have and maximize it But Jim has been
through a lot and hopefully he gets through this
also as well. Well, but um, yeah He's good colon
cancer is one of those things like I have to
get check for it regularly because of family
history and whatnot, so They caught it early.
He's gonna have his surgery He'll be good. He'll
be good. Love to hear that. To your point with
Jim Ross, he's been through a lot. He's a strong,
resilient mofo, so he will completely fight through
this for sure. Absolutely. Before you guys make
me all emotional again, because I'm still trying
to process my thoughts here, I do have a question
on injuries, because there's a lot of injuries
in pro wrestling. So this is for everybody on
the panel. Okay. What is your best scar story?
Hmm like personally like on you all your body.
What is your best scar story? How much time you
got? Hey All the time in the world Wait until
I can finish this and this I have several go
for it. I'm about your best Everybody does have
a scar right? Yes, okay Who wants to go first?
I'll go I'll go first. So you probably can't
see it, but I got right here It's you might see
it. It's almost like a zit or a bump You can
you probably can't tell but it's on your hand,
right? In your in your index finger, so couldn't
find a can opener and Big tin cans of juice at
grandma's house Can't get her up Chris Chris.
This is an audio in video of mention. You got
to paint the picture, brother Yes, you can't
just say juice. We need to know is a cranberry
The biggest knife in the drawer and I'm and I'm
stabbing and I'm Stabbing myself and a giant
hole. I mean it was a hole and it was put some
paper towel on it till it stopped bleeding and
I threw that juice away and no one ever knew
I got it out just like a bad kid And you can
tell bush could be the sweetest kid in the world
or hell on wheels. We're both. We're both, yeah.
He's got that look. I caused some trouble. Bush
is like a bad kid, but a kind person. That's
what he is. He tell you he kisses his ass, but
he'll say it really sweetly. Because you won't
know what he did. Bad ass. Who's next? Kids are
so mad. I got... Scar here on my shoulder, homemade
ramps in the hood, crates, plywood, jumping ramps.
I jumped the ramp, went over the handlebars,
slid across the sidewalk, shoulder right here
to the white meat, had a scar right here, it
was real bad. But I still had a scar on my shoulder.
How long ago was that, you said? last week Elementary
for sure. Oh, I was yeah elementary Yeah, that's
a elementary, okay horrible story It goes to
me being a badass kid to babysit So, going to
my uncle's house, my uncle had, he lived in a
smaller apartment. He had a microwave, low power
microwave. I'm gonna try and get through this
as quick as I can. His low power microwave, you
put the sliders in there, they need to be in
there for 10 minutes. That's how low power his
microwave was. Oh wow. Fast forward, like a week
later, my grandparents got the same sliders.
I throw them in their big, huge microwave, 10
minutes. I don't know what time I came back to
look but the shits was on fire and all I remember
is I ran out the house again granny was always
sleeping No one's in a panic except for me we
go back over there My granny's holding a wooden
spoon looking at me with the wooden spoon and
she just unplugged the microwave and fire just
goes out Hey Chris and then shortly after I got
my ass beat Of course you do. Was granny like
granny off of Bassana? Yeah. That is like, that
is funny. Let's think about my grandma. Just
real quick. I know. My grandma. I understood
that reference. Her legit job was at like a bank
teller. She did a lot of things in banking, but
my grandfather worked at GM and she didn't really
have to work that job after so long. Okay. When
she retired, she was a waitress, a bartender
at a bar. My whole life. She was at the bar,
Prue's bar, and all she did was serve drinks,
and she was a heavy -handed pourer. I found out
once I turned 21. Nice. My girl. My girl. Will
you say bad Santa, Grandma? Yeah, a little bit.
A little bit. That's fucking awesome. That's
great. That is. All right. So... Rhodesia, so
we went to AW last week, and I told you, I told
everybody who was listening, I would... Tell
you guys what the prices were for the AW residencies
that was coming now I must have a different mindset
and mentality with these residencies come with
cuz you're my thoughts an assumption was These
are residencies were set up He's well, so they
got See in there in an intimate spot they're
not gonna cost as much as Like, if they ran an
arena, that would only be the common sense thought,
right? That you would think that if they're running
a place that sits 400 people, they're not gonna
charge the same amount as they would for, like,
an arena show. That is not correct. They are
charging, like, $350 for, like, the first two
or three roles. No. For the entire residency?
No, if you buy all if you buy all six you save
ten percent total Just ten percent and those
seats are like the last couple of rows on the
floor Wow, so Yeah, that's we're not doing that.
I looked and like front row for a dynamite was
like three hundred twenty -five dollars Hmm Now
make it make sense But whatever I just wanted
to update that cuz I thought I was like, oh,
this is cool They'll be in the same spot, you
know for six shows They'll run a package, you
know front row You know six hundred dollars for
all shows, you know total, you know, but that's
not the case. No Yeah No, not at all I did have
fun last week But you gotta turn your brain off
with AEW. You just gotta turn your brain off
and just watch for what it is Perfect example
like Sunday. I'm I'm pretty excited for double
or nothing Of course, we don't have to run the
car down or anything like that, but I am super
excited for over. This is all we can talk I'm
super excited for Mercedes because Mercedes has
found an ass now Where did that come sorry what
I'm back, huh? Where did that come from though?
I know where did what come from? Mercedes means
you just decide to start eating them Yes, sir
She does no shout to her though that you get
everything you can tell that she's doing it on
purpose whatever that is Maybe she's doing a
different workout. She's eating something. She
looks tremendous. I'm excited for her and Jamie
I'm excited for us pray and hang man. There's
a lot of good matches Don't understand the shot
to my guy rich who sent me this yesterday. Um
ricochet and What's his name? Help me out here
somebody from That's all the damn tag team No,
the tag team young bucks with a mark briscoe
the briscoes. Oh Mark Briscoe and ricochet is
wrestling in a stretcher match on Sunday That's
your love and hate with AW Yep, you love it to
give you everything you hate it because why the
fuck are they having a structure match? But whatever
any who Anything about what's going on over there?
I just know I talked to Mercedes every day and
y 'all are just jealous Do you is it the real
Mercedes? Listen don't hate on what my $99 gets
me Wow So before we bring little man on um I'm
trying to do a middle row Yeah, I'm trying to
do a mental Rolodex When you try to put us over
no, he never He like dropped the mic when it
came to my Patreon content. Yeah, I'll put you
over. All right, so we need you to put us over
So I'm clearly a day one supporter. Yes, sir.
I was a 20 plus year absentee wrestling fan And
I don't know if you guys remember this like when
we first met on that Vegas trip With Brandi for
her birthday. Yeah. Yeah, what's that? I remember
I remember y 'all saying like yeah, we're big
wrestling fans and I remember thinking like really
like still Fast forward to now, I have a son
who developed an affinity for wrestling and I
kind of started watching with him. Along the
same time, the pod was starting and I would watch
one to support my son, but two to keep up with
the pod and make sure I know what's going on
when you guys are watching. I have since rekindled
my fandom because it's been a good product. I
enjoy it. but a part of that has to do with you
guys and the show that you put out, the product
that you put out. Ooh, grandma and ginger ale,
I like it. And you guys just do a good job. I
mean, I tell you weekly about the stuff that
I feel like is very insightful. The stuff that
casual fans appreciate. You guys put out stuff
that hardcore fans appreciate. So kudos to you
guys. plan to do was I was gonna try to find
your first episode of having planned in the background,
I was gonna sit with the TV behind me or whatever.
But I don't know if I can find it. I don't know
if it's posted. The only thing I what only thing
that I did find though was that the very first
post where y 'all do clips of y 'all talking.
And the we coming. Yeah. And I thought that was
really cool. And it gave me goosebumps hearing
the old music. So yeah. I thought that was fire.
But no, you guys have been incredible for 200
plus episodes. I'm excited to see you guys do
200 more grow this YouTube channel. The Patreon
is going to pop and I'm excited to be a part
of just the wave. Of course, man, you absolutely
have been there day one. Excuse me, whenever
I need Brandon will send me You know his thoughts
on just the pot in general. Yeah, and and now
this is I'm just about to go into a quick rant
It's gonna be really quick. We might go in a
quick rant I talked about on episode 100 right
like For me what this looks like and and why
and I talked about community see it in spades
right now on this podcast I talked about Having
a show that people who listen can be proud of
of listening to I think we have done that Um,
but I, I do just want to say I make this shit
look easy. Right. And I'm not saying this in
a way of like trying to be, but I make this easy
for what work goes into hosting a show like this.
Right. Like I do it for the love of the people
who I pod with. In Rhodesia I do it for the love
of anybody who listens because that's a big deal
to me, right? It's a big deal that People look
forward to listen to our show every week. You
gotta drop every week You know I run this shit
like we are making a million dollars an episode
Because when we do get to that point, you got
to have that work ethic This ain't easy It's
not easy to host the show Set your pod mates
up to look good and it sound good you be entertaining
They be entertaining transition topics that make
sense that people want to listen to that get
people to engage. It's not easy. I'm better than
the majority. And our podcast is better than
the majority of shit. That's out here. Fuck your
shit. So I'm talking episode 200. I look at like,
sorry. No, like bullshit. He sent a text to the,
the, our group text a couple of days ago about
Will Ospreay. Popping his shit about aw seeing
how like they have the best wrestlers in the
world and he's not that good On one level we
can look at it and say all right will All right,
will right and on one level on another level.
We should look at that and say Well, why the
fuck would he not think that right? Right repping
for his shit What he enjoys he knows and I don't
care if you look at listener count viewer count
put our show up against any of your main shows.
We blow them out of the water. Fuck. It's just
about the timing. I just wanted to say that because
In these, like, so we're at 200. I said a couple
episodes ago, we out of here going forward. Right?
If I got to drag Ian Rodriguez with me to get
there, the show is going to feel and sound a
little bit different. But I guarantee you, everybody's
going to enjoy it more. Right? So just for me,
I just had to pop that off because it's not easy
doing what we do. But I know I make it look really
easy just kind of putting this shit together,
but it's not put me up against everybody That's
how I feel when it comes to the main holes. Of
course, I can't do it without tradition I couldn't
do it out II can't do it out Brandon can't do
it out Bushman in the YouTube comments Can't
do it out Eric tweeting and represent every single
fucking week can't do without Billy Mays cutting
that promo I can't do without everybody. I know
that but I will say Put me up against who you
think your favorite is And I run laps around
them. Our show run laps around them. You can
listen to this show and get everything you need,
no bullshit, every single week. You don't have
to worry about the teetering, the tottering.
Well, I can't say this because I got a relationship
with this company. And I can't say this because
I got a relationship with this person that I
know talks to this person. So that person can
come on the show. And yes, we would love to get
to that point. But I am never going to sell my
soul. Some is not right. Some is not right. If
some is great. Some is great There's been times
where and I do it intentionally we will have
a certain amount of subscribers or ex Followers
and I will tweet something on purpose and see
that number drop Hmm, I don't want you around.
Anyway, if you are only here just to hear pro
WWE This ain't probably the podcast for you.
No Right and you damn sure in the podcast view
if you only want to hear aw we lost him a long
time ago. Thanks a lot Appreciate it, you know
I just say that to say over there Easiest job
on the pod that's it. So That was all I just
wanted to say. So can I do the PR version of
that? Yes. Listen, everyone. Thank you so much
for all the listeners. But we're going to always
be true to ourselves. We're going to always be
honest with us. We're going to be who we are.
And we all live really, really, really hard.
Don't say hard. No. We live our day jobs. We
work hard. We work very hard. Our day jobs. It
takes a lot out of us every single day. I do
express those we see you with his Yogi brand
sponsorship that he has going on right now that
he's not sharing There's times that Matt is knocking
on death's door and he's still coming on this
show putting over when I'm asking Matt Okay,
how we gonna do the show run? What do you need
for me? Oh, I got this. So again We know I know
I can get better 100 % Brandon, when you said
that episode one, that would make me cringe so
bad just to see how I look. I remember, and I'm
going to go, we can bring Matthew in. I just
remember the first 52 episodes, Matt was like,
Radizia, when I call it to you, when I call you
out, you got to do more than just look there.
Like you've got to actually say something, be
engaging. But he's like, how y 'all doing today?
Good. And that would be me. But again, like I
know I have a lot to grow, but the thing is -
But look at the growth you've had already. So
this is this is really us. This is our passion
Like literally we're not making a penny yet off
of this. We don't we We did two and a half years
of this because we want to because we want to
Yeah want to and I think that's what some of
the people are feeling like we want to do this
So yeah, like for me, it wasn't it's not I would
love to of course do this for a living, right?
Do nothing else but this for monetization But
that wasn't why I got in this. I got in this
for, tonight is a perfect example. To be able
to spread love and joy and talk freaking wrestling
and whatever that comes out to be after that,
it comes out to be after that, right? But making
those connections, having those conversations,
that is what for me it was about. But right now,
the young legend is in the house. Just graduated
high school. I've known Chris Bush for at least
15 20 years Eric He is from the the Twitter universe
Representing for the TFW podcast is episode 20s
something at least that's fire easy You know
you mama of course beautiful here's the thing
so man I got one question to ask you Yeah, which
now has every man that came on the pod today.
Okay, that's here No, no, no, no check. He's
not 18. Yeah, like your mom's not here. Oh man.
Put it out there You graduated you a man son.
Yeah, he's a man. Dominic Mysterio, Matt. You're
a man. Oh His roster is nuts Dominic Mysterio
first started out Dominic Mysterio with Rhea
Ripley, right? Yeah Then he moved on and some
would say upgrade it to Liv Morgan Okay, then
Morgan left him about three weeks ago to go find
herself do a movie whatever she did. Yeah gone
for three weeks now She didn't ask that man.
So if she could go and what that would look like
for him. She just left. Yes Then that new hot
thing come on Favorite meal chicken tendies Nuggets.
Oh, yeah Are you feeling it? Look at you. He
knows it. I knew the difference. Look at you.
That's all he care about is attendees. Look at
him. No sauce is nuts. No sauce is crazy. Let
me ask you a question. Yeah. What are you doing?
Are you going with the new hotness that just
got you the chicken nuggets? There's a new hot
thing on town? Yeah. Or are you sticking with
Liv Morgan? So Matt personally, like me, or if
I'm in Dom shoes? No. Me personally. Answer however
you want to answer. No, you. OK. So what I would
do is like in like When anybody in Judgment Day
is watching, I'm going to act like I don't rock
with her. But on the side, you know what I'm
saying? She's going to know what it is. I'm going
to be eating those chicken nuggets 24 -7 around
her. Around her only. Besides that? You're going
to be eating her nuggets? God bless. Oh my god.
This man is ready for college. Can I just tell
you that? This young man is ready for college.
I'm eating her nuggets. No sauce. You eating
no sauce? Yo, she's in it. different time zone.
It doesn't count. He just earned himself a weekly
segment. We need that concert every week. Weekly
segment. Weekly segment. What does Lil Matt think?
Rhodesia. No, I am. You're running 100%. He's
hurting my feelings. He's hurting my feelings.
He's hurting my feelings. Oh, I think you want
the zombie question. You're going 100 % Rotten
Tomatoes. All right. Quick summary Matt you miss
Billy Mays cutting an infomercial about the TFW
podcast almost brought me to tears You missed
Eric talking about how much he paid for his like
first concert that he remembers Which is crazy
in his moment of mr. X and junkyard dog was what
hooked him on wrestling You missed your uncle
E trying to put more shade on me and your mom
because he thought we said something disrespectful
about cody rose where your mom did but i didn't
i've never said anything wrong about cody rose
today listen man that was not very convincing
that was not very convincing he said i didn't
miss him what's wrong with me saying that so
i'm supposed to say i mean yeah he's the biggest
star in the company he's the biggest star in
the company right now the company Thank you.
Yeah, the company. Oh, talk about it. The company
you want to say? No, he's not. He's not who is
who is the big the biggest star missing in the
company is not Cody Rhodes. He's the biggest
star missing on SmackDown. They're gonna say
Roman. Yeah, bring my finger down. I'm so mad
at him right now. Okay, he'll be back in a few
weeks Yo, I'm gonna say a hot thing. I gotta
make this entertaining for the people right?
I rarely come on here. I've only been here one
time Cody's run right for like the amount of
time if we're looking for the amount of time
Here we go. The amount of time Roman's run was
overall Cody has had to had a better title run
than Roman Reigns did and And you got to hear
me out here, right? What Roman did for the company,
right? 100 % completely different, but if we're
looking at actual entertainment, I think consistent
entertainment, right? There was times when Roman's,
um, championship run, it kind of started falling
flat. He started doing weak matches here and
there. But Cody has kept it on the gas completely.
Arguably his best match in his entire championship
run was towards the end at Money in the Bank.
It's like, or not Money in the Bank. Sorry, the
ladder match he had with uh, K .O. Owens. Yeah.
K .O. All thanks to K .O. Roman. Amazing. That
match was amazing. Roman ran the COVID fucking
era. He did that's why I said that's that's true
and that's completely no fans in attendance and
that man was talking his shit When he was putting
Jay in his place when he's putting everybody
in his place. Yes, sir Motherfucking Roman. Yes,
sir. Okay, you can toggle like Oh Cody's great
with the fans. Okay Roman was there with no fans
and put Jay in his fucking place and we were
sitting there watching him on bated breath to
see what that man said. Hey, COVID was a long
ass time ago, man. We move on. We in it now right
now. Who was he a long time ago? Roman in that?
I'm going to compare real quick. I'll let you
get to your part. Roman during that time period,
or when Cody after he lost to Roman, and he had
everybody on his side wanting him to win that
40? Well, Cody, because his baby face. Roman
was always the heel. But to be fair, look what
we're talking about right now. Roman ran the
company. To be fair, Roman held that shit down.
That is true. That is true. two plus years with
no fans and talk about it and this is the first
time and this is why w is so hot right now if
we really want to talk about it typically when
you got that guy hogan cena roman roman's been
the only time where they actually was able to
hand it off to the next guy that was already
there that was no problem they went from roman
reigns to cody rose That's right. They tried
to go from Hawk Hogan to Ottoman Warrior and
that flamed out in three months. He wasn't ready
for it. They tried to go from John Cena to who?
I don't know. They didn't have anybody ready.
They have nobody. Nobody. Yeah. So for them to
be able to pass that off. Well, actually, it
tried to be Roman. It's supposed to be. Right.
Right. And then Cena came back and said, I'm
back because you can't do your job. But that
may be the sweetest handoff in the history of
professional wrestling I may be forgetting somebody
and please if I am putting in the comments, let
me know I don't think there was even so if you
went because even Bruno It wasn't brutal to Hogan.
It was like Bruno to Bob McClain, right? I was
like Bruno to like fucking some random like Larry
Zabisco that guy to that guy, and for them to
be able to find him. Bob Backlund, and then they
were like, okay, we're not going to do face versus
face, so Bob Backlund dropped the shit to Iron
Sheik for no reason, and don't get me wrong,
I love Sheiky Baby. Sheiky Baby. You know it.
Sheiky Baby. My four -year -old put my eight
-year -old in the camera clutch, and I was like,
yes, make him humble. They don't know about it.
Eric, they don't know about it. You just popped,
you probably popped three people when you said
that. That was it, cause you only popped me.
Nobody else knows about it. Like, Shiki baby,
like. Eric, Eric granted an illegal promo in
his house. Yeah, I mean, you know, cause we go
to Mexico City a lot, so they're illegal. And
we need to go with you to Mexico City. Like,
for real, we gotta go with you there. I got a
question for everybody. I've heard great thing
about Mexico City. I got a friend there now.
Dude, Mexico City, let me tell you about something
about Mexico City. Yes, you are in a tunnel.
Matthew is right there. Wait till you watch this
show, Matt. Younger Brandon came home spit the
hottest ever spit He turned it to like CNN and
Saudi Arabia to like Detroit where they got like
that 30 -second they do this Uh -huh. Uh -huh.
Nobody's talking. Uh -huh Yeah, uh -huh Yeah,
so that was the same thing we saw here. That's
that was what he did and he just He was gone.
Yeah, he was gone. So I got a question about
his old age This this this is a fun one and you
cannot say who's already been named So if you
are if you go fourth or fifth, then you just
got to pick somebody out the hat There was nobody
who was ready after Cena Okay, we just talked
about Roman Reigns wasn't ready If you had to
pin at that time Who was your next guy after
John Cena and WWE that you would have put this
trap in the rocket? Well, what was his last title
y 'all know I missed the whole John Cena air
No before that before I'm gonna go with Beth
Phoenix. She is my favorite woman wrestler after
Lita. There you go. I Thought I'd look crazy.
I said dude. I thought you said dudes. I just
wasn't ready. It doesn't matter. This is her
answer. That's true. Okay, okay I don't know
cuz I didn't see all of his run, but I'll go
Bray Wyatt That's a good one. He should he should
have be seen it at WrestleMania 34 and he did
most a great one certainly So like that time
here, so then I'll this is kind of might be crazy
to say Drew McIntyre like I don't know Yeah,
cuz I'm not gonna say it's not Roman. I'm not
gonna say Seth. Oh, yeah, I'll say Drew Okay,
so you going drew That drew wasn't drew though
But if you mentioned like WrestleMania 30 yo
would be a good time period 30 will be a good
one, too Drew was like, yes, because I'm thinking
he's talking like 2017 kind of 2016 so Yeah,
because like um ko and shout to ko2 he still
hasn't had surgery yet. He said he should have
some answers the next couple weeks on Having
the surgery and what the best course of action
is but he's still looking at different opinions.
So Shout out to him Yeah for sure Talk about
like not watching NXT and then seeing this guy
come in and his first match beating John Cena
I was flabbergasted And now like I'm when he's
on the TV I'm locked in yeah And going back a
little bit, because it got away from us, everyone
was talking about what Roman did throughout the
COVID era. We cannot diminish what Cody did.
Cody did not have the machine behind him. Coney,
man, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney,
Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney, Coney,
Coney, If somebody wanted to Bush if somebody
wanted to they could make an argument and of
course, this would be years down the line, right?
Maybe even after he's retired They can make an
argument that he is the single -handedly One
of the biggest stories in the history of professional
wrestling. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, absolutely
Absolutely. He's one of the And it's been said
before like he reignited people's passion That
company, I shouldn't say just him because it
was a group of people, but he reignited everyone's
passion for this business. Things started to
get hot again, competitive again, because of
everything that they did over there. Now we've
gone down the road of what has happened to it
and what they're doing with it now. But every
kind of brick that was laid led us to so many
great moments. We wouldn't have Punk back today
if it wasn't for that. Punk probably wouldn't
even be wrestling. He'd probably still be laid
up at home with AJ, living living in retirement.
Oh, man. That's not that that's not a bad. That's
not a bad. That's perfect. Oh, my gosh. Yes,
man. I need some women here from experience.
Geez. Can we talk about Seth's booty again? Wait
a minute, pause. Can you get to that? He showed
up in the first two seconds he was showing ass
crack There is no way you put that on you was
like I can do physicality tonight It's impossible
listen and that's what he did Bush it looks like
remember what I said in 52 minutes I had to do
Bush looks it looked like he was about to do
that and somebody said you had to go out to the
ring and he wasn't done pulling his pants That's
fast. Hey, Matt. So real quick, this past weekend,
you had an incredible, my god, graduated with
honors from high school. With honors. Let's go,
baby. The young legend. Hey, when I took away,
I'm going to pause for one second. I apologize.
I'm going to move. Let me tell you what I took
away from the photo that you seen on X. You tower
over your parents. Well, if you got it, you got
to restart. You got to re -go because the clap
was too loud. I couldn't hear you. We talked
about that already. Yeah. Well, what I keep away
from your graduation photo before he praises
you is you tower over your parents. So, I mean,
you run that house now, man. Don't set me up
like that. Please don't set me up like that.
I'm not claiming I won't want to run any house.
No. No, not yet. Not in the Air Force. I said
the Air Force once has like a six -inch soul
on it. So We're about to say we are about to
say but anyway, sir, you had a fantastic Graduation
so proud of you, man last time the first from
you You sucked and you still suck, but at least
you've sucked now with honors Last time I heard
this young man on the pod was episode 100 and
that man was cooking. He was cooking. That man
went into the cabinet, got the big ass bucket
of disco and just started frying. That man. So,
yeah, I mean, it comes easy to me. It's second
nature. So, hey man, so Eric just set you up.
I have a question for you. Yeah, I remember you
told me about this. You didn't tell me what the
question was. Correct. You said, yeah. Mm -hmm.
What is your hottest take? I don't care what
it is. Okay? What is your hottest take in wrestling
right now? Wrestling right now. Okay. My hottest
take in wrestling right now this second. All
right, this is easy. It might not be a hot take,
though. Man or woman. whatever, Rhea Ripley is
the hottest wrestler in the world. Not looks
-wise. I mean, she's up there too. But like,
actually like, running the game. I mean, people
are going to the shows to see Rhea. The pop is
nuts. The people that dress like her is crazy.
Her impact, you're already seeing it. I don't
think that's much of a hot take. And that's what
I said, I don't know if it's a hot take. But
it would just be because there's Cody, there's
Cena, there's Roman still. That's the only reason
why I don't think that's really a hot take. Yeah
Okay, all right, let me cook up real quick give
me so what you Brandon Brandon was ready to chomp
at the bit Yeah Chad, Chad Gable, Chad Gable,
and El Grande Americano can be the best acting
ever. All right. That's enough of you, Brandon.
Hey, if anybody was going to mind an hour ago,
I told y 'all, Brandon should have left on a
high note. I need to see it. And he comes back
and he does that. Yeah, I'll say I'll say we
can I go Women's wrestling has evolved beyond
what charlotte bailey and becky and mercedes
have them Yeah, is that really i would agree
yeah, i wouldn't say that's a hot take yeah it
has well matt was praising his goat but like
20 years ago I would back that up a bush because
I feel like a lot of people still put those caveats
on it being like women's wrestling, women, women,
women, women. I do feel like we are now in that
second stage of what happened after the Four
Horsewomen laid that path for the next generation.
I agree with that. I think that is a hot take
because I don't think a lot of fans who are truly
hardcore fans would actually admit that. I think
a lot of ... I'm gonna disagree because I think
a lot of hardcore fans love Roxanne so much.
That girl has transcended what they are capable
of doing. Already? Yes. Yes, already. Absolutely.
Absolutely. And I cannot wait for the MVP of
NXT, Roxanne, to go against the MVP of WWE Liv
Morgan. In the battle for Dom, in a Dominic on
a ladder. Shark cage. She don't want that shit
like anything. Why are we fighting over a man?
That's a good man. They didn't have to be over
a man. But it's Dominic. But it's Dominic. Let's
be honest. It's Dominic. Like, come on. Look
at him. Eric, what are you about to say? You
said all seriousness. What are you about to say?
No, siriness. It's not about a man But it is
Dominic That wasn't what you about to say that
one was I said, but he forgot that's fine. Yeah
So, let's move on to Saturday night's main event
is this a whole whole you said I could get my
I have to oh, yeah And my first one I'm gonna
not go into 2d because I don't watch NXT too
much right and then I'm gonna watch my second
one Don Michaels in the last like year Somebody
could say it's a hot take as a better booker
than Triple H. I could see somebody saying that
and then my second one which I believe CM Punk
is the best wrestler in the world right now on
WWE. That would be a hot take on everything.
I think CM Punk overall is he's by far not by
far no he's by screw it but he's by far the best
on the mic I don't care every time I see him
I'm walking away thinking nobody's gonna top
that tonight and then whenever he's in the ring
your eyes aren't off the screen you're gonna
sit down you're gonna watch the whole thing if
you can't make it to watch the entirety of raw
you're making sure the next day you're going
to watch his match you're making sure you're
going to watch his promo you're scrolling on
twitter you're gonna make sure you see whatever
tweets putting out there i think CM Punk's the
best wrestler in the world he doesn't even have
to be on the mic he doesn't he just has to be
there his music just has to hit the presence
is what you're talking about Yep. Yep. It's the
present. Well, that's when we know you went to
that extra, that next level. Yeah. When the crowd
was singing his song last night, that was kind
of lit. That was nuts. That was nuts. And they
waited. We talked about it, Brandon. We talked
about it. And we talked about how, so what I
said was we were talking about just how much
of a professional CM Punk is. Crowd goes crazy.
He stands on the apron with Sammy. and they don't
move until the perfect time when they're about
to hit the hook to where their crowd pops because
we're about to give you the physicality. And
that is just that little stuff, right? And people
who don't understand what the art form of wrestling
is, we just think it's about moves. It's about
moves and getting on the microphone and saying,
bitch, ass, fuck, and just, no, that's not. This
is about evoking emotion from somebody who is
watching. I know this is predetermined. I know
this is a show, but damn, I get goosebumps every
time X happens. Or I cannot wait to watch blah,
blah, blah, because I can't wait to see how they
make this happen. And when you know that, it
changes the game of what you're watching. And
Punk is one of those guys where he knows exactly
how to evoke that emotion. If he's a baby face,
if he's a heel, if it's something as simple as
I'm coming out just for punches and kicks. Yeah,
and we sat here on this podcast and talked about
it because he did it perfectly It's incredible.
Absolutely incredible Um, alright, so real quick
Saturday's main event. We ain't gotta break it
down because I don't want to really break it
down. Oh Yeah, I have it pulled up. I'm excited.
What is it? Give it to us. Okay, and Yeah for
matches so far we have the we have the championship
John Cena facing his biggest protege our truth
Squash in like in like 15 seconds around the
horn. What do you guys think about the match?
He thinks when we think about match excited and
excited. I'm for truth deserves it You know,
I like people are saying that people are no legit
people are saying that I don't know. I mean,
I mean half are probably trolling but I Know
you're new to this right? Yeah, so like when
the whole says like we just Keep it to like 10
seconds. You said your point. You got to say
this people. He loved the most man We get to
the next match anyways going thanks going He
muted up. Oh my god Hilarious. I like it. I think
it's too soon I'll explain later. Okay, keep
it going. I like it. Archie was gonna have his
moment on Saturday night's main event against
his childhood hero. It is what it is like. Which
he's older than right, but yeah That's great
That's right, that's right you got to give yours
right I said fun fun. I think it's tremendous
Yeah, it's gonna be fun. It is fun. This is the
perfect story for john cena's farewell that we
didn't know we needed Exactly thing is great.
Yeah. Yeah. All right. What's next? Next we got
Damien Priest versus Drew McIntyre in a steel
cage In a salad salad steel cage match, okay
salad salad Coming in half. Drew McIntyre is
one of the best wrestlers in the world, and he
keeps sticking them to Damian Priest. And it's
annoying. It is. It's annoying. And I know I'm
not the only one that feels that way. Damian
Priest isn't bad by any means. He's not. Drew
McIntyre should be a world champion right now.
Or at least in things that matter as much. He
continues to downgrade. This is the lowest he's
been since he was like... The sidekick of Dolph
Ziegler years ago. Okay, that's enough now You
just graduated with honors why are you so angry?
Oh my god You're taller than your dad. Why are
you so angry? I wasn't for Damien and drew when
it first started coming together. I didn't think
much of it I think that was a universal message
across the pod when when it when it started click
for me Was the only good thing to come out of
backlash was that fatal four -way? And and the
spots and the moments they had I'm like, alright,
this is this has got some legs to it. I'm excited
to see where it goes So I'm sure the steel cage
is gonna be fun. I'm looking forward to it Brandy
I think it'll be fine. I hope True wins. Eric?
I think it's going to be another great match
between the two guys. I think Damien's going
to win, especially now that he just had a street
dedicated to him and the BX. Oh, that's cool.
I didn't know that. I didn't see that today.
He has a street. Wow. Dedicated to him in the
Bronx, his hometown. Like, my man's grew up,
like where I used to live. Like, it's fucking
awesome to see. It's like, it's got a full name.
Don't do that. Don't do that. Like something
we use and then in quotes, Damien Priest, like
Hey, can I say this real quick? I've been I've
been I've been drinking real quick ain't nobody
ever talk about this But I guess I'm the only
woman that's on the show Anybody talk about how
fine? Damien Preece daddy is you know We saw
his daddy backstage Yeah, I just saw it was on
it was actually on CBS News Tonight CBS News
in New York City. He had a street named after
him in the Bronx Just earlier today and he was
there to celebrate it and his father was there
and it was great. It was awesome be who you are
Avenue You can't wait to visit it Damien. Okay.
All right, Matt. You gonna go before go to you
What you got can't wait for the few to be over
Yeah, and that's kind of where I'm at You know
what it is like freeze. I was on freeze when
he was ROH Roman. This is not a nightmare on
the worker the guy He's a tremendous guy There
is just something missing with that something
is it's him not being his real true self on TV
Yeah, once once they can figure that out cuz
everybody can't be that I get that This what
what we got into some of this about his characters,
right? Like people will face pain and they don't
wear that in their real life But that would drew
us to them There's something missing with priest.
Oh And it's a shit. What do you want a championship?
I think yes, I think they need to focus on Him
like his interview on CBS earlier today That's
the real guy see he's like I I just wanted to
be a hero for my neighborhood. I wanted people
to see from that you can come from this neighborhood
and be somebody. And I was like, fuck yeah, Damien
Priest. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I grew up there.
Was never said before. He said words never said
before. You a layoff Damien Priest, Matt. You
a Damien Priest hater. Yeah, you're right. You're
right. Big time. You're Damien Priest hater.
You might be taller than your dad, but you're
not taller than me. You're making me like, punch
me. You're making me like, set me up. You're
going to set me up next time he sees you. He
knows what it is. Punch me. Oh, man, if we had
time, I would let him, I would let you tell the
story of what happened to you last week. When
you jumped on my back. You talking about when
you couldn't breathe. When I got the belt out.
Before that and you were laid out on the ground
because you couldn't breathe it was like in three
seconds and you sitting there looking ridiculous
He tested me all the time I do leave me alone.
I don't want to play these games with you. I'm
trying to go to sleep. I gotta work tomorrow
He was like, no, come on. No, come on. All right,
Beth. All right, here you go. Yep, all right.
Get out. Why you had COVID? You would have been
impressed. But anyways, let's go to the next
match. The move I had him in, I took him from
my back to on the ground folded up in 2 .6 seconds.
That's why he was on COVID. He was like, I couldn't
breathe. He tapped. I know he tapped. I squeezed
it even harder. He tapped even harder. He did.
He's actually a weirdo, because he did. I was
tapping. I couldn't breathe. He was like, do
you want to quit? He knew I couldn't talk. He
saw your face turn. We got two more matches.
Again, this is just three words. CPS is going
to get a hold of this. Three words. He's already
17, so that means he's independent. At this point,
we've done our job. He's graduating. They take
him out. I agree with that. It helps us. I agree
with that. He's more than what he would ever
produce. I could walk around the house with you
finally. I just want you to know, I've been advocating
for you to stay home as long as you possibly
can. I appreciate that. Matt is not with it.
Hey Matt, guess what? You keep talking, what
you talking? Bush man's gonna be the third person
going to WrestleMania with us next year, not
you buddy. You keep talking, you see how it works
out. Pretty easy what you got. All right, so
we have, again, three words, that's all your
responses are. Okay. So the next match is Tag
Team CM Punk joins forces with Sami Zayn against
Seth Rollins and Braun Breaker. Three words only.
Three words only you said. Three words only.
All right. Three words only. Sammy Zane turns.
Damn it. You got mine. I said don't mine was
don't turn Sammy. See? See? Yeah. Don't turn
Sammy. And it probably won't be Saturday. Because
I think the turn if it is happening is gonna
happen on Jay. But yep. Yeah. That's just that's
just a thing. Eventually. Sammy at this point
don't turn Sammy. No. Never now. Protect yourself
punk. I'm gonna channel my inner E here. I don't
care. This is what happens when you let each
other's friends Pretty much great quality content
Very very entertaining individual three words
It's a bitch pass my bitch I'm getting cross
out over here. Yeah, but um, I said I can't wait
Yeah, I went first. See where it is when you
get to the level of actually being the host.
Don't do that shit. Do not do that shit. Matthew,
cover your ears. Do not do that. Oh, and Matt
ain't put us over yet either. So once you get
to this last match, you got to put us over. Last
match is for the championship. You got me and
Vin J. Uso versus, ugh. Go ahead. One word. Finish
it. No, you have to finish it. Logan Paul. Logan
Paul. Logan Paul versus a main event Jay Uso.
Let me stop. Let me stop. I almost cussed at
my own kid. Jay Uso wouldn't be the first time
this week. Oh, shit. He's calling you out. The
one word is yeet. That'd be yeet. One word is
yeet. That'd be yeet. Let's go yeet. Let's go
yeet. Yeah, yeet. One word, four letters, uh
-uh. You know, it's so cool and real quick and
then we can But like just watching jay He gets
more comfortable every week jay's been doing
this for two decades plus Like this thing is
not just that you figure it out overnight Like
it's just so cool to watch when they're you can
see it If you know what you're looking for and
you watch it and he is on a roll right now He
is doing some awesome stuff and then for him
to be in like multiple storylines like this is
we know what this is There's zero percent chance
he loses to Logan Paul. But damn, I got Gunther
waiting on the other side. I got Seth Rollins
waiting on the other side of me. Like, it's just
how they're telling the stories. This is top
tier stuff. So yeah, you can miss Saturday Night's
main event and really not miss anything. Kind
of like SmackDown, right? I rushed to watch SmackDown
Monday. We were doing everything with Matt in
his graduation, so I didn't watch on Friday.
So I watched a couple of hours before Raw. And
my takeaway was... I didn't have to watch this.
I could have just watched. I could have just
heard a recap. That's SmackDown. With Raw though,
if you get a recap, like if somebody tried to
break down to you right now, say, yeah, oh, Roxanne
Perez won against Natalya and Rhea Ripley. You'd
be like, oh, I need to see that. And it's great.
And if you have not seen the match, please go
out of your way. They did a good job. Nia Jax
and Tiffany Stratton smoked it. If you have not
seen that match, stop listening to this right
now, because we're about to be done. So you're
not missing much. But go watch that match. And
there probably needs to be a conversation about
Nia Jax in the future. Just, we've talked about
how great she's been. She was magical in that
match. But that was really good. But you could
watch SmackDown and just, or not watch it and
be like, okay, I got the J .C. Mateo. Cool. Got
it. He was in the match. Okay. Solo score. Money
in the bank. Got it. But it's just a different
feeling with raw. It just feels like there's
more care Yeah, with raw than what it is on smackdown.
So That is what it is. Is that the the card baby
cake? That is it. That's all we have so far.
That's the card Those four matches. I already
said earlier. I am excited to watch aww or nothing
We're not gonna run that card down, of course,
but um, I am excited to see that um Last but
not least lil mat. Yep Come on let's put this
over for the podcast It is your turn, sir. Put
us over. Okay. Um, magic. I feel like that's
the perfect word to, uh, to use with what you
three have made for the people to listen to,
for the people to be entertained by a family
feel, uh, entertainment constantly, honestly,
consistently as well. Putting it out always.
putting your best foot forward with this, always
making sure it's as great as you want it to be.
I know we were talking about that earlier, dad,
about how, um, I was like, do you think it'd
be good with me on? You were like, I would never
put my name on something that isn't, doesn't
meet the standard, um, that I would want. And
it's, uh, it's very role model S cause then seeing
you put that to your personal work and then your
podcasting work, it just shows more for me to
want to follow a hundred percent, especially
with me going into the workforce now after school.
Yeah You can't even watch you can't watch Santa's
main event because you'd be working you chicken
cooker What's the line from Coming to America?
Next week I'll be on fries. Oh, yeah. Oh, talk
about Louis Armstrong, or Louis Anderson. You
said Louis Armstrong. Louis Anderson. Louis Armstrong
is never coming to America. Right now, I'm cutting
lettuce. Louis Anderson. First, I was washing
lettuce. Pretty soon. Oh, man. I appreciate and
love everybody who was on a body major. Listen
to the show We made to 200 y 'all. Hopefully
y 'all enjoyed as much as we enjoy presenting
this to you for sure Eric my brother. This is
not your last time man Appreciate you. Love you.
Thank you for always putting on for us quote
tweeting retweeting listening to the pot interacting
with the pod, telling us to put more Instagram
bits out than we do. I'm the only one. And I'm
on his head about TikTok. Yeah. Oh, I'm doing
it this week. But it was a testament to you.
I said when we hit 200, I'm going to make sure
I figure it out. So I'm going to do that. This
is how strongly I feel about it. You can run
lives from there, impromptu pods where you can
engage with your audience. That's one thing.
And they can donate and all of that. That's just
income monetization for the pod to grow the brand.
That's huge. And I think that that that gap that
we're that we're at where we're trying to reach
that 1000 followers on my YouTube. Getting your
name and getting the pods name out there on tiktok
is going to get you That that two to three hundred
whatever it is where that you're at. I don't
know what the number is right now I know it's
close somewhere. I think we're at eight. Hey,
what do we do? Whatever? We are you right? It's
gonna get you there because the shorts the shorts
that you put the youtube shorts that you put
together look at the Geez, I don't know what
the the action that they that they bring in.
Okay, I don't know what the but and you're gonna
Once you hit tiktok, it's gonna blow up Hey Bush,
I gotta say to you 786 is where we said We and
that right now right there just says it all you
said we when we get to a thousand You said everything
right there. Thank you. Yep. We that's what it
is. I don't know if you wrong I said that but
I say anybody who's been on you guys are coming
along with us Like this isn't just a oh you're
on right now and that's it if you're listening
you're listening right now That's it. Everybody's
coming with us. Like you're not going to be left
behind whatever this looks like. Whenever we
get to that point, if you're with us, you're
with us, right? And so like, that's a big deal
to us. So shout out to everybody who has listened,
who has been a part of this journey. Keep telling
y 'all we going to the next level in these next
50, 100 episodes. I can promise you that's the
case. Eric, this is not your last time on. Of
course, Bush, you know this ain't your last time.
Brandon, you all already in the background talking,
talking, whatever that looks like. Matt, this
is the last time you're on because you be making
a Making chicken chicken chicken cooker chicken
cook. That's all you do is cook chicken poor
young man. He just graduated with honors You
can graduate with honor some culinary school
It is hit culinary classes. Yeah, it is. There
you go. He and Rhodesia Any last words on episode
200? Thank you. Love and light, huh? Thank you
Yeah, all up in the camera. All up in the camera.
Dancing all in your videos. Dancing all in your
videos. Not the child. I was asking. Oh, Matt,
you said you had a question for me. I did. Off
-pop. Before we started, you said you had a specific
question for me. I did. And you forgot. And I'll
put it back in the tuck for next time you're
on. Beautiful. Beautiful. Yep. Sure did. Works
for me. Hey, I do this. I do this. You know what
I'm saying? I do this, man. E, what you got for
the beautiful folks that's listening and watching?
Hey, thank you, freaks. To be on this journey
with us is a dream come true. Having friends
and family that I never imagined. Doing this
with my best friends. Thank you so much. Join
TFWPod. Who is your daddy? Oh, see, you had him.
See? You were so close. You were so close. My
daddy's name is Richard. My daddy's name is Richard.
So close, and you fumbled at the one yard line.
And then my daddy's name is Matt. Totally fumbled.
Oh, god. Hello. Hey, I'm going to take care of
that. Hey, Matt, I'm going to take care of that
thing right here. Yo. Oh, my gosh. This man is
blocked out. Oh man. I love it. I love it. I
love it. Once again, thank all y 'all. This has
been a pleasure. Hopefully it is. If this is
half as fun listening as it was doing, we have
did our job. I went on my tangent. I literally
cannot even wait to listen to it tomorrow. When
I said my piece earlier, so I'm not gonna repeat
myself, but appreciate you guys I really do enjoy
and we do this for you all the hard work that
I put in on this podcast Honestly, and I and
I'm not saying I as it We don't do it. I'm only
speaking from myself from my heart. I know The
joy that this show brings to the people that
listen and watch and I take that very seriously
And as long as I can do this, as long as we can
do it, you will have a spot to come and enjoy.
And you're about to have much more laughs than
what you've had before. Once again, we're about
to take this thing to the next level. I'm excited
for it. But thank you for everybody who was on
the show. First 200. Thank you. Like I said,
I'm not naming names. I'm going to forget somebody.
But if you were on the show, I love you from
the bottom of my heart. I appreciate you if you
have ever commented. If you've ever tweeted,
if you've ever retweeted, if you've ever quote
tweeted, if you've ever done anything to what
this is, I appreciate you more than you know,
and just know that you are seen and you are appreciated.
Uh, we are back next week. I don't know how we
gonna follow this. This is our first ever three
hour plus podcast, just so you guys know. So
shout that out for everybody who participated
on this one. Bushman, you parted three plus hours.
Brandy, you parted three plus hours. Air, you
parted three plus hours. Ritzy, you parted three
plus hours. I can't believe Eshaun's still awake.
I only went to party five minutes, but I'll take
three plus hours. Is he sleeping? And we are
so angry internally right now, because you know
they were shooting for 30 minutes. I know they
were. You know they were, right? No, not on the
200 pie. 200 pie, we good. 200 pie, we can go
into 2 o 'clock in the morning. I'm down. Eshaun's
still awake. I don't even know what my name is
right there. He doesn't even know my name. It's
been a pleasure to get to kick it with y 'all.
Absolutely. It's been a pleasure. Don't do that.
Don't do that. Don't do that. I will cut you.
I will straight cut you. Brandon, I will give
you my brother, but I will straight cut you.
We out of here, y 'all. Love y 'all. We will
catch y 'all next week. Yes. Appreciate you.
Thanks for having me. Love.