EP02: The Condiment Wars Watch-A-Long (Part 2 of 2)

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Greg (00:01):
Here comes somebody.
That Brian Hamill.

Hollywood Pinto (00:02):
That's Brian.

French Wonder (00:04):
That's Brian Hamill.

Hollywood Pinto: That everyone was going, nugget, (00:06):
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Nugget.

I know.

Oh my God.

People were popping
for the Nugget.

Hilarious.
We always knew he got over.

Greg (00:19):
Get over. No, like, seriously,
like you.
If you don't know the character
and you see that,
how are you not.
Gonna get behind it? He got over

Quackers.

And I think,
and I think for like,
not even just for any like,
well, let's call it Normie crew,
like crowd, right?
So just like people who aren't
necessarily wrestling fans.
People who just like,
might be fans of just
watching some.
A couple people do
something stupid.
Like the nugget's the perfect
fucking character because

(00:50):
the nugget like,
talks in a goofy voice.
Looks silly.

Greg (00:53):
Yeah,
exactly.
It's the comedy character.
And comedy wrestling is great.

Hollywood Pinto: I try, I tried to be a little. (01:00):
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Don't let,
don't let Jim Cornett
hear you say that.

Hollywood Pinto: I pushed the referee. (01:06):
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I did a lot of things, but like,
it just wasn't happening.

Greg (01:13):
Nice. Yeah I mean,
they did a fine job.

Hey, Brian Hamill

Hollywood Pinto: I wanted to hear Mike's promo (01:18):
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and I felt very gypped
from there.

French Wonder: I wanted to hear my promo. (01:22):
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Mike.

The Zeitgeist (01:24):
Mike should cut the
promo right now.

He should.

Im not cutting it now.
The children are asleep.
I can't get loud.

Greg (01:32):
How do I see everybody?

French Wonder: I'll cut the promo later. (01:34):
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Hollywood Pinto: I want to see what Greg looks (01:36):
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like with Brian's.
Brian number two's mohawk.

Claudio (01:46):
I don't think that's possible.

The Zeitgeist: I mean, have you heard of glue? (01:50):
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It's a lot of glue.

Oh boy.
You shaved that mohawk off.

Claudio (01:58):
No, no,
he's just turned it into
a Nazi cut. Huh?

I did.

French Wonder: Wait, is it, Wait, is it, is it, (02:02):
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is it pushed to the side
or did you shave it?

No,
I just pushed it to the side.

Okay.

The Zeitgeist: I went back to the barber to cut (02:09):
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off the mullet version of it.

Greg (02:13):
You go to Brutus the
barber beefcake.

The Zeitgeist: His clippers were extra large. (02:18):
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All right, well,
we are here for episode one
of the EWA podcast.
Even though Mike and I have
already recorded a podcast,
it's called Episode zero.

French Wonder: The first thing we do is Mike. (02:33):
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The Zeitgeist: Decided that's episode zero, (02:34):
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which I don't know that I agree
with, but I'm going with it.

French Wonder: It's a standard podcast thing. (02:37):
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You've.

Is it? Yes.
Well, I.
For the 150 episodes of
my other podcasts,
I completely Missed that.

French Wonder: That note it's the standard. (02:47):
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Hollywood Pinto: All right. What is it an onion? (02:49):
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What is it an onion or what?

A donut?

Hollywood Pinto: Should it be a donut? (02:57):
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This is us blocking
out Brian's intro.

The Zeitgeist: I think we should all introduce (03:01):
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ourselves as our favorite
vegetable at this point
[MUSIC]
because we are watching the most

(03:24):
recent episode of ewa,
the Extreme Wrestling alliance
which we finally decided is
we're going to allow to be
called the Condiment Wars.
Right, Joe?

Hollywood Pinto: Condiment wars, episode 100. (03:35):
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Pinto Palooza is afterwards.

The Zeitgeist: There you go. Episode 100. (03:39):
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The EWA hit 100 episodes,
and for episode 100,
like I told Joe a year ago,
had to be done in a real ring.
And we wound up doing
it in Times Square.
And today we are going to
revisit this magical moment in
Times Square wrestling history

(04:01):
with a very pregnant woman in a
yellow fur jacket and her
sexy ass husband, Paul.

Hollywood Pinto: Right? And just so every. (04:08):
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Just so everyone's aware I am
putting together a little mini.
It won't be attached to this.
It'll just be posted separately.
It's going to be like a little
mini promo of, like,
AJ as the Colonel.
Hell have a hot dog and I'll

(04:29):
be Hollywood in, like,
the offices of the EWA,
and we'll be going over episode
100 and I'll be talking about,
like, what we had planned.
And then he'll tell me in one
way or another that that's all
out the window because he made a
deal and he said we're
not going to get.
We're not going to get into it,
but he's going to take a bite of

(04:50):
the hot dog and then pass me
one and he's gonna go,
let's sit down.
And then it leads to this.
So it'll be Like a little thing
we're just gonna record.

French Wonder: Joey cannot help but tie the EWA (05:00):
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in Times Square in with
the deeper storyline.

The Zeitgeist: And this. And this was, I think, (05:08):
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the main tension of the whole
plot scripting for this
Condiment War show. And Joe,
I think before we continue
watching this episode,
I have to reveal to you
something that I revealed to
Mike at dinner right
after the show

(05:29):
is that I let Mike know that you
let me know that you wish you
had just fucking listened
to Mike
and you had let this be a
fucking thing and not tried to
turn it into Pinto Palooza.

Hollywood Pinto: Because it could have. (05:46):
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It could have been.
I mean,
we didn't really have the time,
but it could.
It could have been a tournament
with just our regular
characters in it.
It's all good leading up to
winning like the belt,
but like the,
the belt that was blank,

(06:06):
you know,
like it could have been the
Condiment King that was crowned.
It could have been something
else. And I'm not and I,
you know,
but if we were just doing
it the one time,
it's kind of hard not to want
to do the Ewa belt.

Greg (06:21):
Can I ask why?
Why it was settled upon that it
was called Condiment Wars.

We kind of got,
we kind of got trapped in that.
We just threw that out there and
they took it and they just kind.

Greg (06:34):
Of went to battle for
the best hot dog.

Oh yeah.

The Zeitgeist: Actually that doesn't, here's, (06:39):
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here's the backstory
on it is that,
you know we met with Paul
the fine gentleman,
fine suit you see on your
screen. And he just,
he's a wrestling fan and he was
super excited to just get a
wrestling event into
this thing that.
It sounds like his wife
is mostly driving.
And he was just super excited.

(07:01):
And Joey and I were excited
to like, you know,
rattle off ideas.
So we said the Condiment
wars at some point.
And then a few weeks later I
heard that reported on the
news that, you know,
this dog is coming to Times
Square and one of the events is
going to be the Condiment Wars.
And I was like, well,
I guess we're doing
the Condiment War.
It happened, you know what?

Greg (07:22):
I must say it happened.
Yeah,
it could have probably just
happened to her too. Oh,
what's it called?
And she was like, we don't have.

And to be fair,
rolling accident, to.

French Wonder: Be fair also it is their show. (07:36):
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So whatever they want to call it
is what they want to call it.

The Zeitgeist: And then like wondering. Yeah, (07:40):
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the idea,
the idea behind the giant hot
dog. And you know, again,
like this is the 65 foot long
hot dog that Paul and Jen and
Paul's team at the
factory built.
The idea is that it would sort
of like inspire debates.
Like the common hot dog debates.
Ketchup versus mustard,

(08:02):
you know,
pickles versus relish
or sauerkraut.
Like that was part of the idea.
And they actually did some I
don't know if they did like
polling or something like that,
but in making the hot dog,
you notice that it has a
squiggle of mustard,
not ketchup and nothing else.
There was a lot of debate
internally for them amongst
their group. And I guess people,
they were asking,

(08:22):
it looks better as to what
you would put on it.
And some people literally
said like, I won't.
You put ketchup on that.

Hollywood Pinto: And also, also, Brian, (08:30):
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important to note because we
were the two in all
the meetings.
When we first started
talking about this,
it was just with Paul and there
was a lot more that
was original,
like we thought we would.
We were going to be able to do.

Yeah.

Hollywood Pinto: So it was very loosely. (08:51):
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That's why I kind of,
in the beginning was like,
we can do the matches from
whatever I had planned.

Plus more they told us.
They told us.
Joe asked a good question.
How long do we have and what
time would the show be?
Paul said, yeah,
I don't really know, guys.
I think it's going to be like,
you know,
early afternoon and however
long you want to go.

Yeah.
So I'm thinking, I'm thinking,
okay,
we'll grab everyone we can.
We'll do a battle royal.
We'll do a tournament.
We can do the three matches
I have for Pinto Palooza.
Get that out of the way,
film that, have that separate.
We can do something for this.
And we'll have three hours,
four hours, no big deal.

(09:36):
We'll just do it.
Then all of a sudden it turns
into, well, no, no, no, no.
And it has to be this.
And it's just an hour.
Then it turned into 45 minutes,
which definitely did not happen.

French Wonder: Yeah, no, to be fair, I mean. (09:49):
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Greg (09:51):
It'S a tight hour.
It is a tight screen
right there.

And to be fair,
I think after us like, doing it,
I think at the end, I don't.
I don't know.

For.

French Wonder: Given that two of our EWA (10:01):
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members are out of state and
weren't able to be there,
Brian and Greg, like,
I don't know how many more
matches we would have been
able to have done.

Greg (10:14):
Well for before we start the
video, my whole thing was for.
I didn't even want to show up as
Claudio Cacciatore at all.

Oh, really?

Greg (10:25):
I felt like.
Yeah,
I just felt like I didn't
have anything for him.
The whole time I was
racking my brain.
And then I came up with the
Chuck Wagon Charlie thing.

French Wonder: Yeah, that would be funny. (10:36):
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Greg (10:37):
But getting closer to it.
I wanted it. I wanted to invade.
I wanted.
While Joe was doing the
thing or whatever,
I wanted to grab the microphone
and talk about representation
for my people.
We're the minority in this.
I know. You know,
come out with the Confederate

(10:58):
flag mask and immediately be
hated and then just use that dog
whistle language and then
finally reveal.
I'm talking about the
corn dog people.

Yeah, yeah.

Greg (11:10):
And then I wanted to have a
brawl with someone and do the
thing with the drag queen
where I save her life.
I go to kiss her and
her wig falls off.
And what I wanted to do too,
what I came up with,
to have her somebody or,
you know,
I want to do that and then just
leave after kissing her
or if it was a match,

(11:30):
I wanted to have a mask
versus mask match
and lose it somehow
while saving her.
And then she would hand me you
know, a rainbow flag mask.
And I would have had that made
and I would have taken the
Confederate flag one off and
put the rainbow one on.
And that would have been the
end of Chuck Wagon Charlie,

(11:54):
his arc.

The Zeitgeist: That would have been great. (11:55):
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Greg (11:56):
Well for years I just wanted him
to come out as gay or something.
Just had the whole racist,
homophobic arc and then.
But it's all, you know.

Yeah.

My dad,
My dad really wanted
to do hillbilly.
He was very disappointed that he
wasn't going to be hillbilly.
Man.

The Zeitgeist: We. We still could do that. (12:18):
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We got some drag queen
connections now.

That's right.

Greg (12:23):
And I was gonna finish
my story down here.
I was gonna get that the no
ring death match guy.
Casting Over Valentine.
There's a couple places here
that I I did this community.
I Being in the restaurant
industry,
I know so many people
in bars and.

Yeah.

Greg: So I know people who know people (12:43):
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and they who own, like,
dive bars that are
willing to do it.
Oh, I just gotta book him.
I want to have a matching.
Want to do that same drag queen
thing at a no ring death match.

The Zeitgeist: You know, that would be awesome. (12:58):
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Greg (13:01):
I want to blade myself to
destroy the Confederate Flag
mask. So it's nice, you know,
and do the whole other thing.
So I'm gonna do that here.
If anybody wants to show up and
get up at a bar and beat
the out of each other,
maybe try.

French Wonder: We'Ll try to make it happen. (13:17):
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Greg (13:19):
But I definitely. I mean,
I spoke to that wrestler and he
said, if you can book it,
I'll come.

That's awesome.

Greg (13:25):
You can get those people to pay
me and book it. I'll show up.

Yeah, yeah.

Greg (13:30):
Wrestlers and stuff too.
And make it a big thing.
It'll be Big too.
I know that with all the
scad students here and.

Right.

French Wonder: And I think getting someone (13:38):
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to pay someone would be.
Would be an incredible feat.

Yeah.

Not that I wanted.

Greg (13:46):
Yeah.
But if they think they're going
to make money from it,
they'll book it.

Right.

Greg (13:51):
If they think like a hundred
people are going to show up,
it'll be.
And spend X amount of dollars on
alcohol and tickets. Yeah,
they'll book it.

Do you have an idea of
what bar that would.

Greg (14:02):
There's a place called
the Wormhole
and that's like the Coke bar.

Right.

Greg: And there's another place called (14:09):
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the Lodge of Sorrows,
which is owned by like a,
you know, a gothy couple.
And they own the, you know,
the Oddities Museum and
around here, too.

Well,
I remember the Oddities Museum.
That place was awesome.

Greg (14:25):
Yeah. Yeah.
They own a concert venue which
would be kind of perfect because
it's like out in like a
warehouse somewhere.
So that'd be perfect for a
no ring death match too.
But they have enough reach to
promote it and all that too.

Right, right. Well.
And they can share.
They can share all their
good stuff on socials.

Yeah.

Get us a Southern
tout.
Yeah.

Not to get too far
afield on this.
We should continue watching.

Yeah.

Well. Well, also,
just for the beginning,
it's important to note you know,
when we had.
We in one of the meetings
with them,
me and Brian were definitely set
on it being a separate thing,
which I think would have been
a little more entertaining.
It would have been the
same type of thing,
but it would have been more of

(15:23):
a. Not really a carryover thing.
It would have been like
the Red Rider
versus

Greg (15:29):
Yeah.

Hollywood Pinto: French Wonder or a different (15:29):
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character.
And then it would have been a
different character versus
the Punisher.

French Wonder: Right I remember that. (15:36):
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Yeah.
And then it was just gonna be
that those things won and
it didn't matter.
And then it would. The.
The final thing was still going
to be the hot dog versus
the hot dog,
but it was just going to be
Chicago versus New York.
And the only reason really why
we didn't do that is because
they insisted that we had to

(15:58):
incorporate the vegan dog
because there was a lot
of vegan people there.
But all they did was boo
the vegan dog. Whether.

Greg (16:07):
Well,
that's probably why they
insisted, really,
because they knew the vegan
dog would be the heel.

Right.
I think if I had to do it or
if I can go back in time,
I would just say, hey, look,
why don't we dress someone up as
a vegan dog make it clear that
they're the vegan dog.
And then during our
one on one match,
the vegan dog can come in and
then just help me win,

(16:36):
you know?
And then you beat up Dog just.

Greg (16:39):
Because he's an asshole
at the end.

Hollywood Pinto: No, the Chicago dog could. (16:41):
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Could cheat, have me down.
And then all of a sudden the
vegan dog comes out of nowhere
and he's like, no,
I'll give you a hand.
And he does something.
He runs away. That works.

There was.
There was a lot to be made
of the vegan thing.
But let's see what we actually
wound up with now.
We want to scroll through
this beginning.
They just gotta talk
with each other.

Get to the matches.

We.

Greg (17:04):
We waste a little bit of time.

Get to, like,
the beginning of the
first match.

French Wonder: So let's get to when Joey comes (17:07):
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out. Yeah, our first match,
because Joey comes out,
he talks about the

Greg (17:15):
I've seen the promo.

Hollywood Pinto: The promo is really good. (17:16):
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But let's just start
with the first.
The first match is
going to decide.

By the way, I.
I kept this in there because
Paul and Jen would not share
with us the actual
logo they made.

That's all right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There you go.
I got his arpino there.

Nothing.

Like.

I gotta say,
John did a pretty good
job for coming in.

The Zeitgeist: I'm a little upset with the (17:48):
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entrance camera angles
kind of missing.

Greg (17:53):
Right.

But I have,
I have most of it fixed.

Greg (17:58):
Where, who,
where are the camera crew from?
Who were they?

Jess has.
Mike's wife hooked me up with
some of his students.
And they were all afraid.

French Wonder: No, they were so cool. (18:12):
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They were college kids.
They were connected to.
Jess works.

Greg (18:19):
The school that she works at,
well.

French Wonder: There'S a teaching artist that's (18:21):
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coming to her school to teach
about camera stuff with their
kids, with their students.
And the teaching artist was
supposed to be there.
And then she sent a bunch of
other people that she knew who
were all just super excited to
be able to shoot a
wrestling match.

The Zeitgeist: Yeah, I told her, like, hey, (18:37):
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guys you know,
there's no money in this,
but it's going to be
a great night.
And I didn't have to
convince anybody.
They were all super excited
to do that.

Greg (18:46):
Hey, yeah.

The Zeitgeist: I mean, why the fuck not, right? (18:46):
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Greg (18:48):
Yeah.

One hour.

This is good.

Carpino did a good job.
I mean, like,
checking the knee pads,
checking the elbows.
I was super impressed.

We went over it.

French Wonder: The Golden Nugget is over. (19:00):
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Greg (19:01):
The crowd love the
Golden Nugget.

French Wonder: Not at first. Well, actually, (19:04):
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I think the crowd just like
the Golden Nugget is.
The gold Nugget looks silly.

Greg (19:09):
Yeah.

The Zeitgeist: Now now there's Nugget mania. (19:09):
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There's so much happening in
Joe's head right here.

Greg (19:16):
Who's the ketchup guy?

He's from my.

Greg (19:19):
See that lady loves the Nugget.

Look at this crowd is,
this crowd is hot
for the Nugget.

Greg (19:24):
Unless that was just
cut from another.

I, I,
I spliced that from
somewhere else.

Greg (19:29):
Yeah.

French Wonder: You'Re breaking kfab. (19:32):
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You're breaking K
my T shirt. I,
I wonder what it would have been
like for the Hogan music to
really come on. I know,
because I would have
been going nuts.

The Zeitgeist: And we gotta, we gotta say, (19:44):
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like,
what happened here was the music
cues were all off. And yeah,
Joe came out for that first
promos Hollywood Pinto.
And then they just, they,
they never shut off the
Punisher's music.
This is all done in the edit
because the Punisher actually
still playing right now.

(20:07):
When you see Joe,
when you see the Nuggets start
doing the Hogan ear,
that's when his music actually
piped in finally.

French Wonder: Oh, I didn't realize that. (20:15):
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The Zeitgeist: Yeah, it sucked. Well and also, (20:16):
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Joe was steaming mad
under that mask.

You could tell
Brian and I were in the hot.

Hollywood Pinto: The microphone almost completely (20:24):
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picked me,
Picked me up going this them.
Come on,
you're gonna flex with me now.

The golden,
the Golden Nugget broke KF
because the Golden Nugget spoke
in Joe's voice for some
weird reason.
But I cut that part too.

Greg (20:42):
So, so you guys were,
Was the dressing room, like,
in the, it was the hot dog.

French Wonder: Yeah, it was in the hot, (20:46):
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the hot dog.

Greg (20:48):
I didn't realize that until I
saw a photo you guys
posted where,
where Elvis is coming out of it.
And I didn't real.
I just thought it was.
I figured it was hollow,
but I didn't know you could
walk in and out of it.

We should have,
we should have done some, like,
selfie videos in there.
We should have, like,
cut some or like,
I don't document.

I don't know that we,
I don't know that we had
the time for that.

Greg (21:11):
Did you guys.

I love this. Joey,
what was it like getting,
I gotta ask.
What is it like getting to do
all the Golden Nugget? Like,
it's me,
it's me that like two in Times
Square Here, pause it here,
Brian,
because I want to
know what joke.

The Zeitgeist: Joe, before you answer that, (21:26):
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I gotta rewind this because you
gotta look in the background
a little bit.
If you see the commentator,
Paul's face when the Golden
Nugget starts talking,
just like pay attention
to the commentator.
Look at Paul,
look at Paul's face.
He's losing his.

French Wonder: He didn't know Joey's gonna (21:45):
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come out with his.

Greg (21:47):
I can't see. Oh, there we go.

Yeah
can't keep his can.

Greg: I probably feels the same way as (21:53):
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the rest of you too though.

Hollywood Pinto: Can I just give you guys a (21:57):
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little backstory to this?

Yeah.

Hollywood Pinto: So as, as you know, I, (22:01):
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I got there early
and I had noon.

The Zeitgeist: For the 6pm show soundtrack. (22:08):
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At 4:30 he was there at noon.

I had the pleasure.

Greg (22:13):
I'd have probably done
the same thing.

Hollywood Pinto: Up in the offices with (22:15):
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the TSA girls.
And you know, I,
I talked a lot so I'm
talking with them,
going back and forth them,
making them laugh and stuff
and ask them questions.
And we went through this whole
thing with the Golden Nugget
outfit and I was partially
embarrassed, but also like,

(22:37):
I had to just be me.
So I had to try this outfit on
and know that my junk was
showing 100 walking through the
hallway resting golden
pajamas basically.
And I had to walk in there with
these hot girls and just
be like, hey. So yeah,
the mask is a little off.

(22:58):
You know,
I totally know you can see
my junk through this,
but I'm gonna act normal.
And I'm making jokes about
the hand puppet.
And they, they took,
we took the costume off,
they cut the head off and
they stood. This girl,
the girl with the beer costume,
the beer outfit, the dress,
she just started sewing the top

(23:20):
of the outfit and having a whole
full on conversation with me
about the way the outfit
needs to fit me,
the wrestling and how hard it
was for her to do the eyes and
the mouth on the other mask.
But she's fine if I,
if I want to wear my mask.
And we're going back and forth
and back and forth and I whip
out quackers and it's like all

(23:40):
of them just stop and they
look and I'm like,
they're going to call me a
friggin nut. And they're like,
we love him. And I'm like, what?
And then, oh, I love puppets.
We love working with puppets.
I'm like, son of a bitch,
this duck is going to
get me over up here.
And it turned into
this whole thing.
So I finally got the outfit

(24:01):
squared away and they totally,
they were like,
we can't wait for you to do
the puppet. So, like,
I had that going into this.
It was very strange and unusual
and exciting all at
the same time.
The thing with the Hogan
thing was it was, like,
amazing to do the ear thing and,

(24:24):
like,
holler out to the crowd
and have them respond,
but know that the hand that I'm
doing the ear thing with
has a duck puppet,
and I think I'll shut
up in a second.
My most favorite part of this
match is when Stephen
throws quackers.
And they react to that more
than anything else.

Greg (24:44):
Can I ask why?
This is a Nugget.
He should have been in face.

The Zeitgeist: He should have been a face. (24:50):
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Joe wanted to get him over as a
heel because of the stupid story
with Ketchup versus Mustard.
We wanted Mustard to
be the good guy,
which was stupid because the
gold nugget got over.

Hollywood Pinto: Yeah. Unfortunately, (25:03):
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you also have to remember it's.
It's. It's Ewa, but not really.
I mean, it was. It was kind of.
We're using our characters,
but it's a different context.

Greg (25:16):
But you've just made.
Couldn't you just switch the
condiment or whatever?

I know.

Greg (25:23):
I mean, he's red and yellow.
He's the Hogan.

The Zeitgeist: We needed Mustard to win. (25:26):
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Hollywood Pinto: Yeah. We wanted to, so. (25:27):
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Greg (25:30):
Right.

So.

Greg (25:31):
Yeah, but.

Hollywood Pinto: That That's where this got (25:34):
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complicated. Yeah.

French Wonder: The Nugget couldn't win because (25:38):
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the Nugget wasn't moving on
because of Hollywood Pinto.

It was. It was decided.
It was decided that Ketchup
could not win.

Greg (25:46):
Yeah, but he.
But he doesn't have to
be a heel to lose.

This is true.
Youll see that in our second.

Match,
the Nugget had to lose because
the Nugget is over with
the crowd. And he get.
His whole idea is to build
everyone up and then leave
him disappointed,
which builds them up for the
next match that they.

Greg (26:05):
That's what I think. Yeah.
I know he has to lose,
but if he was a face,
it would have made it
that much like Joe.

The Zeitgeist: Joe tried to make him a heel, (26:12):
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but it was impossible.

Greg (26:15):
You. If the crowd was with.
As soon as he walks out,
it's like,
what the fuck is this?
Oh, now I get what we're in for.

And I will say that that
that cut of the.
Of the girl in the crowd
chanting and, like,
going crazy was for the Nugget.

Yeah.

The Zeitgeist: Happened to come later (26:30):
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in the show.

Greg (26:32):
Well, let's see. I want to say.
Because I only watched the live
feed until it cut off.

Right, right.

All right, here we Go.

Greg: Once you said that we were going (26:39):
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to watch this together,
I didn't watch anything.

Oh, nice.

We got drop kicked.
That was good.
Oh,
a little crossbody pin,
like,
you guys went really
quickly out there.

The Zeitgeist: For the surreal, by the way. (26:55):
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So, you know the, the.
The match length.

French Wonder: That was a great right. (27:00):
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That was a great little suplex.

The T bone.
The T bone suplex that Rob right
there called windbreaker.

Greg (27:10):
How was this ring compared
to the other one?
This was different looks.
There were two.

French Wonder: There were two pads, so it was, (27:15):
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it was soft.

The Zeitgeist: Oh, my God, it was so great. (27:19):
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Greg (27:21):
Hurt, right?

That one?

Yeah

Greg (27:25):
I mean,
you got used to it because
you get used to, like,
no matter what.

I. Yeah,
I think that that trip to the
Queens gym helped because our
bodies at least had a chance
to get acclimated.

French Wonder: Yeah, we went before. (27:38):
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Before this,
we went to Queens and
we wrestled at a,
at a gym called Coliseum Gym.
We just played around and that
was only one layer of padding
and oh, my God, that was bad.

We were like, Mike,
I don't think I even told you,
but when we were practicing the
body slam that would lead into
your leg drop for our match,
when you body slam me,
it took all the wind
out of my body.
I didn't want to say it
because I was like,
I want you to do it and I
want you to do it.
Well,
I didn't want to freak you out,
but, man,
that I wouldn't be freaked out.

Greg (28:12):
The Nuggets. See,
I feel like too,
by watching this, even.
I don't even hear the sound
right now. Just by watching it,
you're building a face match.
Yeah,
he comes out. He's coming out.
He's doing everything right.
He's not cheating,
not doing anything. Craft.
Loving it. They love him.
He's flex.

(28:33):
He's doing everything right.
Everybody is smiling.

Yeah.

French Wonder: Well, yeah, you guys came out. (28:41):
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The Zeitgeist: The visual of the nugget is just (28:45):
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so endearing and lovely,
but it's just.

Greg (28:49):
Like the way this match already
has been flowing.
It's like
it's to rally.

By the way, this is Joe.
I gotta give you a lot of
credit for this. Like,
Joe practiced getting over
the ropes in the,
in the Queen's gym,
and you're off to perfection
here, dude.

Greg (29:09):
I couldn't tell when I was
watching the live feeds,
but now.

Oh,
look at this guy was excited.

He was very excited.
For the near fall
show Stephen how to do
a Russian leg sweep.

French Wonder: A side Russian leg sweep. (29:21):
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That's a good. That's a call.
That Greg,
my favorite is from the
Freedom Mania. Greg.
That's the Russian at the side.

Russian, of course,
he would pull a side
Russian leg sweep.

That's. So far.
You guys came out with a lot
of energy, you and Stephen.

Hollywood Pinto: Yeah, the first match. Yeah. (29:38):
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And But when we went in,
we were tired.
We were really tired.
By the way, Brian,
you can see he came down
knees first there, too.

Yeah,
that was a that was
a risky fall.

The Zeitgeist: I love that the kids in the (29:55):
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front row were so into this.
The whole time they were going.

Nice.

The Zeitgeist: The kids were pelting me (30:01):
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with Chinese mustard.

Look at those kids.
Those kids are so excited
to watch. Two adults,
two grown adults.

Hollywood Pinto: And the whole theme of this (30:09):
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match was, oh there.
There's the push. Yeah.
And they.
And they booed the referee
for pushing me back.

Yeah, yeah.

Greg (30:19):
Like anything. Like,
even though you pushed him.
And you're the
kind of. That's why I was.
Because when I was watching it,
I was at work.
I'm on the pizza line
with my phone there,
and me and my co workers
are watching it.
And then when I saw Nugget push
him, I'm like, wait a minute,

(30:42):
he's a heel, right?

French Wonder: You were shot. You were shot. (30:44):
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Greg (30:45):
I don't mean to harp.
I don't mean to be a dick about.
You know,
there's a lot of moving parts.

Brian,
you don't have to be a dick
about it because Joe's dick is
literally out in this match.

Greg (30:58):
Well, I don't see nothing.

French Wonder: But it's also. It's also, like, (31:00):
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what. I think it's also a test.
Maybe like a testament to, like,
what people could observe as
they're watching. Like,
Brian knows the characters,
you know, like, so Brian.
Brian would come in
with assumptions.

Greg (31:14):
Yeah. But I think the visual,
it's like a golden silly goose.

Hollywood Pinto: You see how I. I do stuff that, (31:21):
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like,
allows for Stephen
to set that up.
Otherwise it just takes forever.
You know,
we're never.
We're never doing that over
the top rope thing again.

No.

Hollywood Pinto: But even the way you (31:38):
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have to take it.
Watch how you have to take it.
Yeah, it's.

That's a very confusing
move to take.

It's a confusing move.
And Stephen's on the short side
for getting up and over.

Greg (31:52):
I mean,
you could just turn that
into a stunner.
Weird.

Like,
if you look at the 2018 video,
they were stunners.
I'm not sure what happened
to the move.

Greg (32:05):
He's nervous.

French Wonder: It looked like you tried (32:06):
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to pick him up.

Big Stevie.

Cool. Did you just.
Did you just. No.
Sell his kick to the.
To the chat to the guy.

He missed him.

Okay. Just.
I thought you just gut kick and.

Hollywood Pinto: This is my favorite moment ever. (32:22):
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Oh, yeah.

Greg (32:25):
Can you turn the sound up?

Yeah, yeah.

Let's raise it up.

Greg (32:28):
The reaction.

We got a nugget. Ch.

Greg (32:38):
I.
I popped for that while
I was watching Nugget.

He got the quackers
in his mouth.

Hollywood Pinto: And then we. We fell over. (32:45):
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We got. We fell.

The Zeitgeist: It was good, though. I honestly, (32:49):
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I.
I love the call on this because
Paul is just like.
Listen to Paul call this.
I think he did a great job for
not knowing anything about us.

Is it in his mouth?
Any Chuck's quackers.

Hollywood Pinto: And they booed. They boo him. (33:18):
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So.

French Wonder: Because that is a Healy move. (33:21):
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That is a Healy move.
Yeah.

The Zeitgeist: That was a big move right there. (33:24):
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And then here we go.
Nugget gets his attitude
adjusted.

The Zeitgeist: The kick out. I was actually. (33:34):
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What's really nice about
the wrestling rings
is that our kickouts just sound
better and look better because
they sound better.

French Wonder: We have all that actually (33:45):
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creates the.

Emotion of the moment
rather than, like,
having it all dulled.

Hollywood Pinto: The ketchup guy is going (33:53):
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nuts with quackers.

Greg (33:55):
Oh, he's got quackers good.

He's got quackers back.
All is well.

Oh oh,
oh here comes. He's gone.

Hollywood Pinto: Comes out to ring the bell. (34:05):
undefined

Oh,
he's
got the sharpshooter locked in.

The Zeitgeist: The clown loves the Nuggets. (34:14):
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Well, yeah,
they could be tag team partners.

Oh the clown.
The Cloud of the Nugget
would be a good tag.
I would be so hesitant to do a
tag match in Times Square,
though,
because our tag matches are
always a bit of a disaster.

I just.
I just love how the Nugget
got his start.
How he was originally not slated
to be in the stud Squad,
but then Mitch and we needed
a replacement,
and the Nugget came in,
and the Nugget got over
the courts of the Ewa.

This.

Greg (34:47):
I think the student squad alone
changed a lot for those
three characters.

Oh, my gosh.

Greg (34:52):
Period.

French Wonder: But also. But also the. (34:52):
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The best part about this T Squad
thing was Brian and Joey didn't
tell me that was what was
going on. So, like,
in the actual thing, I like,
throw Joey out of the way.
I'm like, what are you doing?
And then Brian's like,
wait a minute, Wait a minute.
He doesn't like the underworld,
and you don't like the
underworld. And I.
Let's join together. I Was like,

(35:13):
oh, yeah, that's a great idea.
Like,
Brian explains the thing
in the moment.
That was a good stunner.

Greg (35:22):
Those were probably the
most chaotic times.
Oh,
that was so given in
alcohol and drugs.
But probably some of the best.

Look at the booing.

Look at this.

Look at the crowd.

Oh, my God.

Hollywood Pinto: The crowd is on the side (35:37):
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of the nugget.
They were very upset.

They're booing.

The whole crowd is
going to punish.

French Wonder: They're all booing the Punisher. (35:50):
undefined

Hollywood Pinto: I'm gonna hang up in a minute. (35:52):
undefined

French Wonder: Well, you got to watch one. (35:55):
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You're gonna have to listen
for the rest.

That was awesome.
So in the new edit of the match
he kicked.
In my edit of the match,
he kicks me once and I catch it,
and we do the finish.
We don't do the whole kick and
then kick and then kick
and then kick again.

The Zeitgeist: And even in my edit and (36:18):
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what you just watched,
I also cut out a few kicks.
So I cut out.
I cut out two kicks,
and Joe cut out five kicks.

Greg (36:28):
Who's the other guy
calling the match?

The Zeitgeist: Rob is the host of my health (36:31):
undefined
podcast, Rob Hoyle.

Here I am.

Greg (36:38):
Does he know anything
about wrestling or.

The Zeitgeist: He was just, like, not really. (36:39):
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Joe and I tried our best,
but he called the Attitude of
Jesse and the DVD he
called the Stunner.
So he was.
It was in the vicinity,
by the.

French Wonder: Way, walking around the ring. (36:52):
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I was like, man,
there's a lot of people taking
pictures for me, too.
I walked around.
I just kept running into human
beings. I was like, cripes.

We got the.

I think, yeah, Frank.

We got Frank.
Freedom as the Onion.

I spent.
I spent Tuesday of that week.
I spent Tuesday gluing.
Gluing
Feathered boas to the edges of
that. Of that boxing robe.

And we.
We had designed outfits
for everybody.
And part of the design for the
French Wonder included an
entrance robe, Ric Flair esque.
But Mike did not believe they
would do it. And he was right.

Well, it wasn't.
It wasn't so much I didn't
believe they would do it.
It was more of.
I didn't believe they were
gonna have the time.

The Zeitgeist: Yeah. Yeah. But it looks great. (37:39):
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You did a great job.

So I just did it myself.
So now I have that robe,
and I have that robe hanging
in my basement.

Oh, yeah.

Greg (37:47):
I'm gonna run and piss.
And then I have a question,
but go ahead.

Yeah, yeah.

Greg (37:50):
Sorry.

French Wonder: Tree pause if you want. (37:51):
undefined

Yeah.

Hollywood Pinto: What I like with the nugget is (37:56):
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how he got over organically.

It couldn't Be.
Couldn't be quelled.

Do you. Mike,
do you remember how the
Nugget got his push?
Because the Nugget originally.

Brian.

Hollywood Pinto: Because you weren't at the (38:10):
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house. At the house.
The Nugget was a jobber
in the beginning.
And what was supposed to happen
is the French wonder,
Claudio and Mitch was
supposed to be.

Are you re. Greg,
we just talked about this.

We just did this.

We just said this.

Hollywood Pinto: Sorry, I just took a bonk hit. (38:29):
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I'm not paying attention.
I'm watching.
But he got over.
But my point is,
with the Nugget,
he's the character.
Let me just make one more point.
Do you remember the original
Battle Mania? Yeah. Okay,
so when we had, like,
Val's friends and, like,

(38:49):
that kid that was there,
which character got over the
most with everybody?
If you watch that,
nobody says anything.
They just all start chanting,
no get. No get. Like,
he is the guy that is the one
character that if we ever, like,
went mainstream,
you'd have to have the Nugget on

(39:11):
because he would get older.
Well, that's why.
That's why he's there
more interestingly.
Enough So we were so focused on
what we were there to do.

Greg (39:21):
I.

We.
We never put the Nugget in the
French Wonder together in one
picture or in front of
the camera at all.

Yeah, that's all.

Hollywood Pinto: I'm a Nugget fan. Like, (39:31):
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I'm a Nugget fan, man.
He.
He's the guy that got the
ewa to where to be.

French Wonder: Here's my wonderful robe. (39:39):
undefined

I like that.

French Wonder: You know what I liked about the. (39:44):
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What we did in our matches,
in all the matches here.
Here's where my promo
gets cut off.
I think I got to yell
New York City.
And then I heard I heard what.
What you call it?
Rage against the Machine.
But nobody was coming out,
so I was like, wait a minute.
Is it coming out or is he not?

(40:05):
I was like,
what the hell is going on?
Then I was like,
I will say my promo.
And I was like, oh, wait,
somebody's coming out.
The music cues were weird.
There's Elvis. I love Elvis.
And I was just like, whatever,
I'm going to go with it.
Even though I wrote this
promo about onions,
and now I'm not going to say it.

Hollywood Pinto: Oh, Joe. John Carpino was there. (40:21):
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He was the ref.

Oh,
he was the ref in the.
The entire match you
just watched.

That was him.

Greg (40:34):
Hit that bong again.

Yeah. Come on, Greg.
He just asked.

Hollywood Pinto: Okay, where's he living now? (40:41):
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Brian?
What I like about all the
matches is we had all.
We all had.
We all did something different
in the beginnings and all
that sort of stuff.

That's true.

French Wonder: Like, each match was different. (40:53):
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Very different.

And this one,
you guys attack me.

I'm glad that we, like,
landed on this beginning
because, you know,
Mike and I had sort of organized
what we wanted to do to
start off the match,
but then getting the.
The condiments actually in the
fight was awesome. And my wife,
fam the Pickle really wanted
to take some bumps.
I don't know Brian,
if you remember,
but he was at the one at Freedom

(41:18):
Mania that I was going to have
that match with. And we, like,
did the practice run in the
ring at Freedom Mania.

Greg (41:24):
Yeah.

The Zeitgeist: So he's the guy that I was (41:24):
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actually going to have a match
with as the rider and ran
out of time. He was.
He was glad to finally
get his moment.

I was laying those.
I was laying those hits on you.

Oh, dude, it was great.
I was so. I was like, Mike is.
Mike is ready to actually fight.

French Wonder: I'm going great. Well, I mean, (41:39):
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we're in front of everybody.
You gotta make it.
Make it look good.

Greg (41:43):
What is another guy?

Hollywood Pinto: An onion or he's an onion. (41:44):
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Yeah.

Greg (41:48):
It looks like a pineapple.

I know.

French Wonder: It does look like a pineapple. (41:50):
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And they like that.

Greg (41:55):
And if this was a pizza war,
that would be
eviscerated.

This was.
That was great because
that was right there.
That was a Frank idea.
Frank in the moment was like,
celebrate, like, Frank, like,
in the moment, like,
told me to do that.
All right, let's do that.

Nice.

Hollywood Pinto: And then that all spawned out of (42:13):
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a conversation between me
and Brian, because.

Greg (42:19):
That was a good. By the way,
just looking at the crowd,
that was great.

Another crowd intro.

Greg (42:27):
You got stomped.
And then you both went to the
opposite corners and did the
punches that I watched.
The people lit people up.

Yeah. And the count.
It's all about that count, man.

The crowd,
we also.
We also made slight changes to
it right in the beginning.
Me and Sam were talking about
it in the offices.

Yeah.

French Wonder: And, like, it was written, like, (42:48):
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after we double noggin.
Knocker them or not?

I.

It was either.
I think we double knob and
knock, knock and knocker.
And then we do, like,
close lines. And I was like,
let's just end with that.
And then they roll out like,
they bunk. They bonk heads.
And then we.
And then they roll
out and we reset.

Greg (43:05):
I gotta say, when we.
When we plan things,
we tend to over complicate
them because simpler,
we're not used to wrestling
in front of people.

Right.

Greg (43:15):
And we're used to watching
T wrestling on tv.

Yeah.

Greg (43:19):
So you watch it on TV and you
see all the backstage
and all that.
And we're thinking in that.
In those terms when all
you got to do is just
a few simple things, right?

Exactly.

Greg (43:32):
Like,
works in front of a crowd
because that's who you're
really playing to.

Yeah. And like,
instead of doing like another,
like, big. I don't know, like,
dvd,
like just a big back body drop
or a hip toss sometimes,
you know, just something simple.

Greg (43:46):
And. And we get excited too,
and we want to throw all this at
each other. Mom. Its like one.

The Zeitgeist: And then you look at someone (43:51):
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like that. The belly to belly.
Yeah, like that bounced twice.

French Wonder: That was a great belly to belly. (43:56):
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And it worked easily. Like,
it was a very. The belly.
Belly is a very easy move to,
like.

Greg (44:02):
Got a little replay.

Claudio (44:04):
That was a good spot
right there.

French Wonder: Yeah, that was good. The only. (44:07):
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The only thing I.
The only thing I wanted from
John here was to be
more forceful.

I was able to get, like,
in the cut that it looked like
he was doing what you
wanted him to do
because he.
There were some extra seconds
I cut out there.

This. I like this.
I love that I get mad at you.
I come in,
then you start arm bar arm
wrenching and everything.
The shoulder.

The Zeitgeist: Yeah. We took our time with it. (44:37):
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And really, I mean, we were.
That time in the gym,
Mike and I really used more to
just, like, feel out what to do,
which was great. Like,
I just happened to take you into
an arm wrench and, like,
land on Like.

Yeah.

The Zeitgeist: And it's like such a simple set, (44:52):
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you know,
but it really lets everybody
just breathe with it.

French Wonder: You scratch me in the eyes and (45:00):
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then this surprised the hell out
of me with ddt. I was like,
what the fuck?
Well, for a second I was like,
that's not the end.
We're not at the end.

And we all kept saying
it's like,
we're not gonna remember
everything. And in that moment,
I was like,
I feel like they should
have a DDT in here.

French Wonder: But that's all good. It worked. (45:19):
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Hollywood Pinto: Was the DDT always the end move? (45:21):
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That's how.

French Wonder: Yeah, the Hammerlock. (45:26):
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DDT was the end.
And then Brian got me into this.

Greg (45:31):
The Moxley one,
whatever the it's called.

Yeah.
Ryan got me into this,
and then from this, I've.
I've fought my way back up.
What's interesting,
in our matches, I. You.
I really get positioned
as the powerhouse.

You do.

I, like.
I did all the power moves.
Yeah.

The Zeitgeist: Because I have no upper (45:50):
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body strength.

The one.
The one thing I would say about
that is And that was, like,
a big risk, and it paid off.
What would you have done if you
tried to do that and you
just fell forward?
That wasn't.
That's not easy to do in the.

Greg (46:08):
Middle of the room.

French Wonder: Well, the thing is, we did that. (46:09):
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We already did that.
We did that once one when
we did once before,
so I knew I could do it.

The Zeitgeist: By the way, credit to Mike. (46:15):
undefined

French Wonder: I don't know why I turned (46:18):
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it into a taka driver.

I just.

French Wonder: It was kind of in the moment. (46:21):
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I was like, I'm gonna.
Oh, yeah, here I.

Here.

I'm like,
I'm gonna go to the top rope.
And then you watch me.
Look. Look back, and I go,
Now I'm not going to the top
rope. Because I was like.
I was like,
if I go to the top rope,
you got some hang time.

The Zeitgeist: The bounce. The bounce on that. (46:37):
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Yeah, it landed.
It landed very well. It landed.

Landed perfectly.

Greg (46:45):
That was a little.

The Zeitgeist: And I will say, look at Sam. (46:46):
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Look at the pickle here.
The str.

I realized.
I realized I should have gone
over to the pickle instead
of just doing what I did.
I should have gone over
to the pickle.

Yeah. Well,
I think Sam did jump
up pretty quickly.

Oh, here you go.
I'm anticipating the punch.
Yeah, that was great, though.

Greg (47:04):
Yeah.
But everybody's paying attention
to the pickle.

The Zeitgeist: The pickle out there gyrating. (47:07):
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So I think we were good.

French Wonder: I think I went a little sideways (47:11):
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on that. On that ddt.
I don't think I landed the
way I should have,
but I do like that Brian.
Brian comes out for the
next match, and.
And the kids are throwing
at him.

Hollywood Pinto: Yeah, yeah. They don't. (47:26):
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They don't like him.

And, like, we.
We We clearly established
Brian as the heel,
and we clearly established
me as, like,
the respectable face the guitar.

Great.

Claudio: Because you're talking so much (47:38):
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to the point when you get
hit with the guitar.
The crowd is so satisfied
that it's even louder.

This
do we have any pickle fans
of the building.
This was, this was super fun.
I think, I think my mat.
I think Brian, I think.
I don't know what the time start
and the time end on
our match was.
I think it was like a
solid nine minutes.

Yeah, probably. Yeah,
something like that.

It didn't feel long.

The Zeitgeist: We started at 20 minutes on the (48:12):
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dot and I. We ended about 20.
Your entrance started
at 20 minutes.
The bell rings at 28 minutes.

Eight minute match.

Eight minutes exactly.

Claudio (48:24):
Elvis.

Here it is.
Oh, wait, no, this is not.
That's not it. Oh,
here's favorite.

Claudio (48:31):
Oh, this is my favorite.

Now.
Did your dad rewrite
the song like to.
To do something with
hot dogs and stuff?

Hollywood Pinto: So what I said was they (48:40):
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didn't play the,
the song for him begin with.
So he got very confused
and thrown off.

The Zeitgeist: He walked out to Viva Las Vegas, (48:48):
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which was on the scripts.
And it was,
it was imprint Everywhere Joe.
So I don't know how
we missed this.

Well, no, no,
he's supposed to walk out to it,
then they're supposed to stop,
right. And play the other song.

The Zeitgeist: But the problem was that Elvis (49:04):
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came out and started singing
Viva Las Vegas.
Oh I think they got confused
because he was already singing.

Yeah.
But to answer your question,
yeah,
you ain't nothing but a hot dog
was a last second change.
Yes.

Claudio (49:22):
Great.

Because,
because I was in the back,
I was in the hot dog right now,
getting my French wonder costume
off as fast as I could so
that I could put on.
So I could put on and
come out to call.

The Zeitgeist: We got a little preview of the (49:35):
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drag queen wrestlers in
the back right there.

And he's clapping,
he's clapping for me. They,
they were,
they were nice people.

They were great.
They were great. They came out,
they had their own show,
their own interesting
thing they did.

Greg (49:47):
As opposed to all the
other drag queens.
They were nice.

They were nice.

Good though.

The Zeitgeist: They were the nice drag queens. (49:56):
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There's a great drag queen in
Manhattan called Izzy Uncut and
she does like backflips into
splits that I was trying to
recruit for the show.
And then when I said they got a
whole drag queen wrestling
group for the second act,
I was so pissed. I know, Brian,

(50:16):
you wanted to do the
drag queen spot.
I had drag queens like
lined up for it.
Like the second you said that,
I was like, let's go.
I had like, I really.
It could have been fucking
spectacular.

Now here we go.

I'm sure you didn't
pull that off.

Greg (50:32):
I'm sure one of the Ones from
Chokehold would have been down.

I think so.

Greg (50:37):
I think Chokehold, like,
if they were just.
If it was what they were
wearing is less
obvious.

Right. They also.
They also may not have been.
I mean,
you said you want to do a thing
where, like, the wig falls off.
They may not have been able to
do certain things. Like,
they may not.
They may not have been able to
do that simply because, like,
their costume needs
to be together.

Greg (51:00):
Yeah, well,
that's why you get someone.
Someone, like,
because they had a long card,
you know?

Yeah.

Greg: Show someone on on the other end (51:06):
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of the card so they have time
before they come out to change.
Oh,
we just get the one that Brian
was talking about.

Yeah, that's right.

My other friend.
Her name is the trash Queen,
and she just dresses like the
chick from Nightmare Before
Christmas. Sally.

Yeah.

Elvis is materials.

Claudio (51:36):
Elvis entertaining the ladies.
I love it.

The Zeitgeist: Elvis, Elvis and Joe were. (51:39):
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Were.
Were working the crowd
before the show.
I'm pretty sure Joe was trying
to pimp his dad to make money.

Well, they. They.
Before the show,
they were offering him They
wanted to take pictures
with him.

The Zeitgeist: And look at that vest, dude. (51:53):
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Look at that Punisher vest.

I like that.
They made. They made a vest.

Greg (52:02):
That's simple. The whole outfit,
too, with the shorts Joey got.

French Wonder: Joey not only got to say, (52:08):
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do the nugget thing in the
middle of Times Square,
but he also got to do his
Hollywood. The best there is.
You know, whatever.
The backyard icon.

Claudio (52:19):
The mouth of the north
and south.

French Wonder: The best in the east and west. (52:22):
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Greg (52:26):
You think we could go

Claudio: You need Rob Gr. Out right now. (52:28):
undefined

Greg (52:32):
I like.
I like

Who.

Greg (52:36):
Go ahead.

No, go ahead.
I'm sorry I cut you off.

Greg (52:39):
No, I was gonna. No,
it has nothing to do with this.
I was just gonna say,
have you seen that?
Those the African pro wrestling.

Yes. The guys in,
I think Uganda and.

Greg (52:50):
Yeah.

The Zeitgeist: Yeah, they're phenomenal. (52:50):
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Greg (52:51):
Will Osprey is gonna
go over there.

They're so good.

They're so good.

Greg (52:55):
Wrestle with them.
He's donating so they can
get a ring and, too.

French Wonder: Yeah, it's. They just do it in, (52:59):
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like, a patch of, like, mud.
Yeah, they. They built, like,
some ropes. Oh, here we go.
Here we go.
I want to see you get hit with
a. With a mustard packet.

Oh, yeah.

Claudio (53:10):
I want to see the guitar,
the crowd pop for the.
You were such an.
That when you got hit,
they were so happy.

French Wonder: You know what was nice about it, (53:16):
undefined
too, was Brian,
you came out with such a long
promo that even me as cash
calling. At one point, I said,
man he just keeps talking.
And part of me was also
just like, man,
how long is Brian going to
keep talking? But also.
But as photos, I was like, well,
great, I can make that comment,

(53:37):
but I can make it sound like
I'm calling, you know,
like I'm calling it.

Yeah.

But then.
But I think it was nice one of.

The Zeitgeist: One of us had to go long. (53:44):
undefined
No,
it's good I got
smartly cut you off, Mike.
I might as well have
taken the time.

I mean, listen,
that worked into our match.
It worked in.
I like your.
I like that you decided you're
gonna crap all over New York.

Hollywood Pinto: Yeah. But it worked out that he. (54:05):
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The longer he spoke,
the more of a big deal it was
for us to shut him up.

Yes, yes, I think so.
I think that was.

Hollywood Pinto: The home of consumerism, (54:26):
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capitalism.

French Wonder: I like that you went for all the (54:35):
undefined
cheap. The cheap heat on.
On the crowd calling
a mouth breezer.
Now, one lady was like, what?
I cannot believe the.

Well, listen,
it's not like I'm Claudio
Cacciatore at Freedom Mania
talking about Z.
I'm never gonna top that.

Greg (54:58):
That was a different time.
That was location.

That's right.
A lot less access to strength
stragglers with guns.

Greg (55:12):
I don't know.
We're probably closer
to people with guns.

10 times square Y.
And the vegan is not over.

French Wonder: No, I was surprised at how. (55:28):
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Because you,
you said you were like,
we really got to get the vegan
dog in because, like,
we were like,
Paul and Jen know their,
their audience and their
audience is a lot of like,
artists who are like vegan and
all that sort of stuff.
And man,
the crowd in Times Square
did not like it.

Hollywood Pinto: Most of that crowd was (55:51):
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from the ticket line,
the ticket lining crowd.
And then it was the people
walking by. I.
I don't know that it was really
the people that they thought
was going to be there.

Yeah,
I think a lot of random people.

Greg (56:05):
But that's a lot of people
right there.
That can't be everybody
that they know.

There was.

Greg (56:11):
And there was already like less
than a quarter of them.

Hollywood Pinto: There's a ton of people. (56:16):
undefined

Yeah,
there.
There was a random woman who,
who was like walking like she
was just filming herself walking
around New York City.

She was awesome.

French Wonder: She stumbled upon our show (56:27):
undefined
and like, filmed us.

I actually DM'd her
because I'm gonna.

Try to get with her,
like get the.
You're gonna try to get
the the footage.

Don't I get.
I'm gonna kind of try to
get her to twitch,
if you know what I mean.

All right,
good luck getting the footage.
That was great. That was great.
Go back. Go back a minute.
Go back. I want to go.

We got replays, baby.

Here's an instant re.

Oh,
that was the crowd
just gets out.

Yeah.

French Wonder: Wait, go back just a hair. (56:58):
undefined
Go back just there.
I want to see the crowd again.

Yeah, let's see.

Greg (57:03):
Just watch the people
behind them.

Like
you can do it in the repell.
That's fine.

The Zeitgeist: I got shards of wood in my hair (57:16):
undefined
actually. Look at that.

Yeah,
there were a lot of pizar.

Greg (57:24):
What you guys do to gimmick
the guitar?

I I gotta,
I'll text you the photos,
but the night prior went to my,
my roommate John's place and he
sawed the guitar and all,
like the supporting
structure area.

Greg (57:39):
I saw a couple of the pictures.

Yeah, yeah. So he did it.
I, like, I thought he,
I thought he did overkill.
I was worried that the guitar
wasn't going to hold through the
match to get to the spot.
He did a great job.

Yeah.

The Zeitgeist: Here you go. The clown is on me. (57:51):
undefined
The kids.
I got sassy dude kicking me.

French Wonder: My only criticism on the guitar (57:57):
undefined
is you should have taken some
baby powder and squeezed some
baby powder in the middle of it
so that when Joey hit you,
the baby powder would have
put poofed all over.

Yeah, tell me that.

Greg (58:10):
Classic.

Hollywood Pinto: I, I, that's classic honky tonk. (58:11):
undefined
Yeah,
I told them about
the baby powder.

The Zeitgeist: It was one too many details (58:16):
undefined
to keep together.

Dude,
that is classic honky tonk, man.

The Zeitgeist: You should have brought (58:21):
undefined
the powder then.

Greg (58:23):
Maybe the drag queen's
got baby powder.

Good point.

French Wonder: I do like how the Pintos (58:27):
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basically smash you in the head
with a guitar and then decide
you're no longer part
of the match.

Yeah, well, no,
as though you said it perfectly.
It's like they've decided that
the Chicago style doesn't
even get a say in this.
They don't even get
a voice in this.
They are not conversation.

Hollywood Pinto: You shouldn't give them a say, (58:45):
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Joe.

Oh, yeah.
I don't know.
Was I supposed to not say that
you guys were brothers.

You were.

Yeah. Yes. Yeah.

Apparently Joe didn't
want that known.

Yeah, we were,
we were never going to
acknowledge that we were
brothers. We had decided on.

It wasn't,
it wasn't Mike's fault because
Paul literally said, you know,
these two really look alike.
Yeah,
it's a great,
it's a great plot point,
actually.
I don't know why we would
leave that on the table.

Yeah.

Why not?
Brother versus brother
is a great, it's.

The Zeitgeist: A great story and it makes sense (59:16):
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Then why they're teaming up?

French Wonder: Here we go. Belly to stealing. (59:22):
undefined
The French Wonders.
Belly to belly.

The French Wonders,
Belly to belly looked
way better.

French Wonder: You got You got up for that. (59:34):
undefined
That was nice.

The Zeitgeist: I feel like the condiments. (59:42):
undefined
Our managers were such MVPs
of the show. Like,
all of them did such a good job,
especially my pickle.

Hollywood Pinto: They did good. They did good. (59:50):
undefined
They did good running around
that. Was all good.

I actually, like.
I know I inserted myself as
though this cash in
the commentary.
And, like.
And part of it is also I was
like, you know what?
I actually just also.
Because the French Wonder was
out of the final match and
everybody else was in it,
I was like, well,
I want to be out there.
I was like,
so the only way I could be out
there is as a commentator.
Oh, my God,
look at that

(01:00:16):
kendo stick.

Hollywood Pinto (01:00:18):
Brian,
you were right on
point with that.

The Zeitgeist: Joe told me that if I don't hit (01:00:24):
undefined
them well with the candlesticks,
he would kill me.

Hollywood Pinto: Well, you. You broke it on me. (01:00:28):
undefined

The Zeitgeist (01:00:30):
I literally broke
it on your ass.

Greg (01:00:32):
Those things don't hurt unless
you hit somebody with
the tip of it.

Right.
And by the way,
Joe,
tell Hamill what you told me to
do with the kendo
stick spot here.

Oh, yeah,
you want to pause it real quick?

Greg (01:00:46):
Are we gonna do the stomp?

French Wonder (01:00:48):
There we go.

Yeah. Yep.
So I remember when you did that.
The chaos. Okay,
Looks incredible.

Greg (01:00:54):
That's one of my favorite
matches that we.

The Zeitgeist: So I went back and watched it, (01:00:56):
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and Joe was like,
you should watch Claudio vs.
Chaos for the championship,
because he was like,
I love how Claudio did the
kendo spot. And, like,
he stomped me and then hit me
with the kendo. Stomped me,
then hit me with the kendo.
And I watched it the night
before. It was like,
you had to do it.
And I didn't do it as well as

(01:01:17):
Claudio here, but, like,
I was like, that's.
That's a nice way to make this
look a little extra.

Hollywood Pinto: Yeah, go ahead. Hit play. (01:01:22):
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Hit play for.

For the commentators,
none of whom are wrestling
experts or, like,
even really fans that know
the names of the moves.
They sold this really well, too.
Like, oh,
how is he even gonna walk?
Yeah,
it all came together because,
like, this is, like,
good storytelling. So.
Thank you, Claudio.

What a maneuver.

We should have told
them to say that.
The commentators,
Joe and I wrote a lot of
dialogue for them,
and they read all of it and
did a really good job.

Absolutely.

They did good.

Hollywood Pinto: I. I thought they were good. (01:01:59):
undefined

French Wonder: Yeah, they were good. (01:02:01):
undefined

They Did a good job.

French Wonder: I was. I was the surprise. (01:02:03):
undefined
I was the surprise third guy who
wasn't on this script at all.
But it was fine because I was
like, I can just talk.
That's fine.

Hollywood Pinto: I thought the head stomp (01:02:12):
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came out really good.

The Zeitgeist: I said, I pulled you close, Joe. (01:02:16):
undefined

Yeah.

Oh, here it is.
This is the picture that's
in in the New York Times.

Hollywood Pinto: I just move over a little bit. (01:02:24):
undefined
That's it. And it's perfect.

The Zeitgeist: When I look back, by the way, (01:02:29):
undefined
my left leg comes off the ropes
before my right leg does.

You kind of.
You kind of look like you went.

The Zeitgeist: I wasn't ready for the bounce (01:02:38):
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because we're just not used to
having the spring of the ropes,
so.

And then
Stephen was on point for that,
for the stunner there, too.
All of that.
All of that timing
in the beginning.

Was incredible,
and I landed so perfectly
on your chest,
so good call on the positioning
there, for sure.

Yeah. And then also,
the reaction to the moonsault
was good.
Steven's timing was good.
Everything up to here is, like,
on the money.
The knees to the face.

French Wonder: Yeah, the knees look good. (01:03:10):
undefined
Yeah, that was great moment,
but this.

Clearly is what, like,
gassed him well.

Hollywood Pinto: So when I originally came (01:03:18):
undefined
up with this part,
I meant for him to do the second
part a little slower with the
punching and kicking in the
corner while taking breaths.

Greg (01:03:28):
I think.

Hollywood Pinto: I didn't mean for him (01:03:29):
undefined
to go full throttle.

Greg (01:03:31):
It should have been one
of those moments, too,
where he was taken
out right away.

Right

Greg (01:03:36):
He could rest.

Well, that's the.
That's the tough thing
about triple threats.
It's like triple threats always
work in some. In some respects,
they work best when you.
Like, there's only two.
When you keep eliminating one
person from the match
for a minute.

Well, that's.
That's what we did, essentially.

They're always.
Whenever we've done them in the
past, they've always been.
They're always hard to wrestle.

Yeah, they're not.
They're not easy matches. Right?
I remember.

French Wonder: I remember we did one, (01:04:04):
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by the way.

Did you guys.
Did you guys see where
his knee just landed?

French Wonder: I just want to write on you. (01:04:08):
undefined

I just want to point out.
Fucking knee lands.

French Wonder: He didn't pull you out. (01:04:14):
undefined

Look at that.

French Wonder: You weren't out enough. (01:04:17):
undefined

The Zeitgeist: So bad, dude. I was like, (01:04:22):
undefined
you just broke my. I thought he.
This dude just broke my ribs.

I really.

At that moment.

French Wonder: That did look like a knee stop. (01:04:32):
undefined
I called it as a five
star frog splash.

But.

Hollywood Pinto: This is important because this (01:04:39):
undefined
is where things start
to get unhinged.
Not Unhinged in a bad way.
So I give him the rock bottom,
and I don't know if he
was ready for it.
So the super kick on
Brian looks good,
but then I'm supposed to do
the next move to Stephen,
and he kind of rolls out of
the ring after this pin.

(01:05:01):
So he. See he's out there.
Well, we'll see it after.

French Wonder: That is a good super kick. (01:05:06):
undefined

The Zeitgeist: That was the only blood (01:05:08):
undefined
we spilled, Brian,
and it was inside my mouth.

French Wonder: Was that where you got. (01:05:13):
undefined
You. You bit your tongue?

Greg (01:05:15):
Rock bottom?

I didn't bite my tongue.
Joe bit my mouth into
a bloody pulp.
The soul of his heel.

Hollywood Pinto: So now Stephen's out (01:05:22):
undefined
of the ring.
I'm supposed to be doing
this to him.

Greg (01:05:29):
That looked good, though.

I mean
Me and Brian ran them at the.
At the.

Greg (01:05:35):
What are you supposed to do?
Put your arm over it?

Yeah, yeah.

French Wonder: And you gotta square. (01:05:39):
undefined
You gotta square your back.
You gotta really square your
back to the rope so that you
don't hit, like, with your back.

Perception of a spring.
Yeah,
but I'm. Joe,
the fact that you pulled this
guy over the ropes like that.

Were you.
Were you deadlifting
Stephen on that?

Yes,
I.

The Zeitgeist: Because I could not deadlift (01:06:01):
undefined
Stephen later in the match.
And I was just like, jesus,
he looks light,
but I always forget
how weak I am.

He's.
I don't know if he's light.

The Zeitgeist: Look at this, look at this. (01:06:14):
undefined
My manager,
they're putting the pickle
in his face.

French Wonder: No, no, that was a good thing. (01:06:21):
undefined
He was getting.

That's a good thing.

French Wonder: He was getting he was getting. (01:06:24):
undefined
Oh, that was good.
I thought the senton
looked good.

How did that feel, Joe?

It was fine. I.
I didn't feel a thing from it.
It was fine.

I think you're tired.

Hollywood Pinto: Is this after the camera cut out (01:06:39):
undefined
on the live feed? No, no, no,
not yet.
The camera cuts out on
the hurricane run.

Oh.

Greg (01:06:47):
Like right before the hurricane
run. Like you guys are outside,
but you're close to the.
You're.

So this. This was.
I had told Brian,
give him one body slam
and then come back.

Watch Stephen.
Watch Stephen and how he
takes his body slam.
His.
The back of his hand is still on
the back of my head as he's
falling like he was holding on
to me like a little baby.
Like he's pulling me down with
him for the body slam.

French Wonder: Oh, here we go, here we go. (01:07:25):
undefined

The agony on your face.

French Wonder: Little little, little rest, (01:07:30):
undefined
a little rest. Hold. Oh,
there it is. I know.
Was that the moment?
At one point I forgot.
No,
I called it a drop kick earlier.
Somebody did.
I think Stephen did a drop kick
to someone and I yelled
out a flying kick.
Just like just like the
Botchamania spot.
Oh,

(01:07:50):
the guy's screaming flying kick.
It's a flying kick.

Oh, no.

Hollywood Pinto: A Frankenstein off the top. (01:07:56):
undefined

And Rana But a lot
went wrong there.

Someone,
someone
couldn't.

Greg (01:08:08):
You cannot see that though.
I was looking for it.

Yeah, there's a photo.
Brian texted a photograph.

The Zeitgeist: It happens like in real time. (01:08:15):
undefined
No one noticed, I'm sure.
But yeah, Joe noticed.

It was, it, it was,
it was a freak.
It was just a freak subconscious
thing.
I was kind of balancing us up
there right before he jumped and
I was trying to time it,
you know,
so like I let go in time and my
fingers just got caught. I.
I don't know how it happened,

(01:08:42):
but even right there,
Stephen go does the move.
He goes for the pin.
I drop kick him in ahead.
I go for the pin.
That's still solid right there.

I. By the way,
I love this your call.
I forget where it was in the
match, but at some point though,
just goes, you know,
that referee,
I wish he would slap the mat.
You know,
the referees just got to slap
the mat so you could hear the
count. Referees slot mat.
And then this,
this counts were so slow.

Hollywood Pinto: The Death Valley driver here was (01:09:09):
undefined
what I was supposed
to do before,
only now I kind of picked all
his weight up with my back
and my arm hurts.

French Wonder: Oh I like the opportunistic. (01:09:19):
undefined
That ask right there.

So even that,
even that little exchange
between the three of us is good.
You can't just go high speed
all spots the entire match.

French Wonder: You don't have to tell me twice. (01:09:33):
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I don't go high speed all spots.

Greg (01:09:37):
No, not even we're aware.
And none of us don't make fun,
Joe. None of us could do that.

So it's true.

Greg (01:09:46):
Half of us fucking small
for like 20 years.

I just like that Steven's
just hovering.

Greg (01:09:53):
He's just kind of.
There
we go.

This,
this right here would be the,
the,
the 30 seconds of the match that
I would say is like, what,
what happened? And we,
there was just no plan for this.

French Wonder: Stephen sandbagging you (01:10:08):
undefined
don't Even try.

Greg (01:10:13):
Why do you even try, Bry?

You know,
it was my idea to have Stephen
in the main event.

Greg (01:10:20):
That was cool, though.
At least he turned
it into a pin.

French Wonder: Yeah I thought that was good. (01:10:23):
undefined

The Zeitgeist: It looked intentional. So good. (01:10:25):
undefined

French Wonder: It was really just Stephen (01:10:29):
undefined
being like, no, no,
Steve was just sandbagging you,
hon.

I went a little quick
on the suplex.
I could have given him
another second.
I'm not sure if he would
have jumped, but.

So this.
This is where I asked him to go
to the top rope for the suplex
power bomb. And he said no,
because that would have saved
that moment and it would have
transitioned us to the table.
So now that. Now that he.

It's a lot, too. I mean,
it's a lot when you're in.
Look at this crowd.

They are hot.
They want to see Hollywood
pull it off here.

Greg (01:11:08):
What's Hollywood, by the way?

People just filming.

Greg (01:11:11):
I could.

Yeah,
there were a lot of people that
were there filming with much
more sophisticated equipment
than ours.

French Wonder: They're like. There was. (01:11:24):
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It's funny,
there was just people filming,
like,
oh, now it's the.

Greg (01:11:31):
Have you tried to, like, search?

French Wonder: Yeah, well, it was the one. (01:11:34):
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Bring her upstairs.
You want me to have
her down here?

The Zeitgeist: So, like, they're the. The dude. (01:11:39):
undefined
The ball dude is filming.
He was a wrestler,
and he does his on Twitch.

Greg (01:11:47):
How do they.
How do wrestlers appreciate?

The Zeitgeist: Well I talked to Dominic (01:11:53):
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De Niro,
the same dude from
Freedom Mania.

Greg (01:11:56):
Yeah.

He didn't, like,
have any particular comment on
the. On the show, to be honest,
other than some of that
high spot there.

Hollywood Pinto: Are drawing rack down. (01:12:02):
undefined
You want me to bring him up?

French Wonder: Me? Let's mute Joey right now. (01:12:06):
undefined
Joey, mute yourself.

I can mute him.

Hollywood Pinto: I. I'm a fan of Dominic Daero. (01:12:12):
undefined

Greg (01:12:17):
Like, like, aside from him,
though, like, like. Well,
what did he have to say?

Yeah, I'm curious.

Yeah,
I just went up to him and he
asked me after the show,
he asked me how my body was
feeling. I said, I feel great.
He's like, yeah, you know,
some of that top rope stuff
looked a little unsafe.
And then we just talked about
other That was about it.

I mean.

Greg (01:12:39):
Yeah,
we're yarders, man.

Exactly.

That's right.

That's the.

Yeah, yeah.

Greg (01:12:46):
That's like.
It's like the difference between
bungee jumping with an airbag
underneath you at, like,
you know,
a sanctioned thing or doing it
off a bridge. Yeah, you know,
we're the bridge jumpers with.

The Zeitgeist: He really didn't have any issue (01:12:59):
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with it, it seemed, because,
like, he really wanted.
So Dominic,
he wanted to be on the card.

Greg (01:13:07):
Yeah.

The Zeitgeist: And when we got cut to one hour, (01:13:08):
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I had to tell him because I told
him, yeah, let's bring him.
Second time.
The second time that we've
cut this guy out
because we're a bunch of.

No names,
and we keep cutting them.

At Freedom Mania,
Claudio's music plays and
Dominic comes out because he's
also Italian. He just.

Greg (01:13:28):
Well,
that's what it gets for
assuming. I mean, that's right.

French Wonder: Don't be. Don't assume. (01:13:31):
undefined

Greg (01:13:34):
Right.

Hollywood Pinto: Remember that girl was (01:13:34):
undefined
yelling at me.

The Zeitgeist: While the pool spot is going on? (01:13:36):
undefined

Greg (01:13:38):
No,
I don't remember any of that
because I was. I was, like,
throwing. You know,
I was busy and.
Because when you're doing it,
you don't really.
Unless you're focusing on what
the crowd is doing. Like,
it's.
It's like any live performance,
it's insane how you could
tune every thing out.

(01:13:59):
It's like if you're on.
Like when we performed
at the gathering,
when Fuku Jembe performed, like,
yeah, the ring,
there was one show that we did.
It was in front of, like, a.
Somebody built a stage.
And on the last night of the
gathering, the ICP performs.
They're the last act.

(01:14:21):
And they built the stage right
where the exodus of people after
the show comes through.

Yeah.

Greg (01:14:30):
We started our show with like,
I want to my mom
as, like,
thousands of Juggalos are
walking away from icp,
and that song caught all
their attention.
And then we. There was, like,
just a column of people
for us.

Wow.

Greg (01:14:49):
And so immediately,
I thought we were doing.
Gonna do a show in front of,
like, 40 people,
and it turned out to be, like,
probably over a thousand.

That's awesome.

Greg (01:14:58):
And then you just have.
Your brain just goes up Okay,
listen to the,
look at the monitors and listen
to your voice, right?

And you know,
don't look at anybody.

Greg (01:15:06):
Yeah, yeah. Say,
and you can too. And you,
you finally get used to it where
you're just like, okay,
this is happening. Let's do it.

Yeah.

Hollywood Pinto: I think, I think, I think, (01:15:13):
undefined
I think I feel that way.
I felt a little better that way
when I got out there for
the wrestling. Like,
I didn't really,
I didn't look at the crowd.
I like,
I didn't really look at
the crowd at all.
I just sort of was like, okay,
stay focused.

Greg (01:15:25):
You look like on the horizon
and stuff too.
Maybe make eye contact with like
one person that you feel
comfortable with.

We got,
we got another entrant into the
Condomin Wars Battle mania.

What?

At a height of 6 foot 5,
weighing in at a humble weight.

Oh, there he is.

The Zeitgeist: Birthday Christopher Anthony. (01:15:45):
undefined

Happy birthday,
Christopher Anthony.

Claudio (01:15:52):
Happy birthday.

Hollywood Pinto: I don't know. He'll pop on. (01:15:54):
undefined

Yeah, yeah.

Greg (01:15:57):
We'll cut this in post.

Hollywood Pinto: Yeah, that's right. Have fun. (01:16:00):
undefined
Have fun with this one.

The Zeitgeist: As we stare at the world's (01:16:03):
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largest wiener.
And by that,
and by that I mean Joe.

Claudio (01:16:13):
Clown look.

Oh, zoom.

Greg. Greg,
what do you think of
the show so far?

Greg (01:16:18):
Oh,
also I like that there's camera.

Claudio: Angles because it shows like the (01:16:21):
undefined
depth of the crowd and stuff.

Chris (01:16:25):
Right.

Claudio (01:16:25):
It was a hot.

Hollywood Pinto: You had a lot of cameras (01:16:27):
undefined
and that was great.

Listen, like,
you're having class.

Greg (01:16:33):
And the,
the people operating the
cameras kind of,
they probably never shot
wrestling before,
but never they. The way.
I mean, they have instinct.

They do, yeah.

Greg (01:16:44):
You climb in the rope with a
kendo stick or whatever,
you know, right after, you know,
like once you went to
go do the moonsault,
somebody got under that corner.

The Zeitgeist: That looked cool, right? Yeah, (01:16:54):
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yeah, they did a good job.
My buddy Bernie does.

Greg (01:16:59):
That's gonna be such a fun job.

Honestly,
I'd rather film wrestling than
be a wrestler, I think.

Greg (01:17:05):
Yeah, I just kind of wanted,
like,
that's why I want to do the no
ring match because I really like
brawling and acting cool, right?
And just throwing like,
I could do good punches and I
could take good punches and I
could swing a chair with.
Without like killing somebody,
but not looking shitty. Yeah,

(01:17:27):
I could do that stuff because
it's just instinctive
in me as a lunatic.

The Zeitgeist: And sometimes and it's just so. (01:17:34):
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Greg (01:17:36):
Much fun to like run around
and scream and.

Oh, yeah. Oh, I love,
I love when we. I love when you,
I love when you, when you.
Like Brian and I had like, we.

We've.

Hollywood Pinto: We aim to tell a story, (01:17:46):
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and we succeeded at that story.

Yeah.

No, like, it's just like,
my match with Chris years
ago was like,
we aimed to tell a story,
and we.

Greg (01:17:58):
Perfect.

Claudio (01:18:00):
I think the crowd.
I think the crowd would have
loved it if Pierre was there.

Greg (01:18:06):
That. That is true.

Should we.

Yeah.

Click. Play.
Oh, here we go.
I love Paul in the back,
squeezing the pickle
into his mouth.

That's right.
That's John and that.

John. John. Right.
And John did that,
and John came up with that,
like, in the moment.

By the way,
do you guys see that there are
buckets underneath this cover?

Of course.

What the.

We were.
They gave it the bump
they needed.
We were unaware of the buckets.

Yeah,
but what if I fell back first
on the goddamn bucket?

Greg (01:18:44):
Oh, God damn. Who built that?
For what reason?

Hollywood Pinto: That was the That was them, (01:18:47):
undefined
the artist.

The Zeitgeist: Well, this is all Joey's idea. (01:18:50):
undefined
Let's not steal.

Greg (01:18:53):
What the is that? Hot dog?
Because this is where it
cut off before this.
So I didn't see any of this.

The Zeitgeist: The hot dog. Joe said to them, (01:19:02):
undefined
I want a hot dog table.

Hollywood Pinto: And so they gave you (01:19:07):
undefined
a hot dog table?

I. I said in that meeting.
I was like, joe,
what do you mean,
a hot dog table? And he goes,
a hot dog table? It's like,
that's not helpful.

Greg (01:19:20):
And that's why you got buckets.

Hollywood Pinto: That's why we got buckets (01:19:21):
undefined
of The giant that Chris
powerbombed you through.
So it's supposed to be this,
right?
Oh, my God.

Claudio (01:19:35):
At some point.

At some point, though,
does Cash asks Paul where he
keeps his giant hot dogs?

Did I ask him that?

Did.

Claudio (01:19:47):
Here we go.

Well I didn't want.

Greg (01:19:50):
I don't want to question.

Well, I also don't.
I don't want to, like.
I don't want to,
like
like, bury the spot and be like,
look at that thing with its
ridiculous buckets under, like.
I wanted to be like,
it's a real hot dog.
That's gigantic.

Greg (01:20:05):
It also would have been Scott
Peterson in person.

Hollywood Pinto: Scott Peterson would (01:20:08):
undefined
have been great.

Greg (01:20:10):
Anybody would have picked
up on the name.
I just like doing that
voice the.

Longer I'm telling the
crowd right there.
That's why you don't mess with
people from Chicago.

Hollywood Pinto: Dusty street would have been (01:20:26):
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great. On the commentator.

Chris (01:20:29):
God.

Yeah.

Greg (01:20:33):
Dusty Street.
Scott Peterson and whoever.
Yeah. And throw it as cash.

Hollywood Pinto: And I wanted to come out. (01:20:42):
undefined

Chris (01:20:44):
I don't know what other.

Hollywood Pinto: Oh, there it is. We're done. (01:20:45):
undefined
You're in.

We Got it.
Yeah, we can hear you.

Greg (01:20:51):
I don't know,
whatever
you did, you.

Just hit the buttons.
Just hit the button.

You're good.

Chris (01:20:57):
The frustration and I'm I'm
on My videos on too?

Hollywood Pinto: Yeah, yeah, your videos are. (01:21:01):
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Chris (01:21:02):
All right.

Well, we, we are.
We are halfway through this
triple threat match from
Condiment Wars.

Greg (01:21:09):
Go back a little because.
Yeah,
it stopped recording
maybe right a.

Hollywood Pinto: Minute a couple minutes ago. (01:21:13):
undefined

Greg (01:21:15):
Yeah.

Hollywood Pinto: All right, here we are. (01:21:15):
undefined

Greg (01:21:16):
Go back to when they bring the
hot dog in the hot dog table.
I want a hot dog table.

Hollywood Pinto: Hot dog table. I want a hot dog. (01:21:22):
undefined

Chris (01:21:24):
Does anybody got any relish
for the hot dog table?

Well, right after this,
right after our match,
they put in a kiddie pool in
the middle of the ring,
filled it with relish and had
a bunch of hobos fight.
Oh great.

Chris (01:21:39):
Awesome.

Greg (01:21:45):
Was it.
Were any of those people there
from Awful Wrestling too?

The Zeitgeist: No, no. Although I guess. (01:21:49):
undefined
Oh, no,
technically Jen is wrestled with
them, so maybe she counts.
But.

Greg (01:21:57):
So yeah,
that's the
hot dog lady.

The Zeitgeist: The hot dog Mrs. Outlaw. (01:22:01):
undefined

Mrs. Outlaw lady.

Mrs. Outlaw,
who I share a birthday with July
4th. Yeah, I remember that.

Hollywood Pinto: She's why we got to wrestle. (01:22:13):
undefined
Yeah, she's why.

That is true.

Chris (01:22:17):
Our nation also shares a
birthday with Brian.

Yeah,
I think. I think they're.

Hollywood Pinto: It's the bombardier's best (01:22:22):
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friend, America.

The Zeitgeist: I was very touched at Freedom (01:22:29):
undefined
Mania in the middle of the
Bombardiers promo about
July 4th in America.
I felt a special call to a
special friend of his birthday.
Yes.

Chris (01:22:42):
And that friend is America.

That's right.

Hollywood Pinto: This is where that friend. (01:22:44):
undefined

America.

Chris (01:22:49):
America. There's only one.
I haven't said that forever.

By the way, this,
this whole match,
Steven's punches and kicks
look like just bad.

Chris (01:22:59):
And right here,
Steven wanted to be there.

The Zeitgeist: Right here we start actually (01:23:02):
undefined
like throwing punches.
I was very happy that he finally
started throwing punches.

Greg (01:23:12):
Sometimes it's really
just potato there.

The Zeitgeist: You just gotta actually punch (01:23:14):
undefined
him to get him going.

Greg (01:23:17):
Yeah, exactly.

Hollywood Pinto: Here we go. The attitude. (01:23:18):
undefined

Chris (01:23:22):
Oh,
there was an attitude adjusted.

Hollywood Pinto: Joey scoops up for the stunner. (01:23:25):
undefined

I actually did rip that
twitch streamers.

Chris (01:23:35):
Yeah I was gonna say that was
how I initially consumed.
This was through that girl's
stream check, right.
She is horrendous.
She was on top of that.
Like,
she was really mean
about you guys.

Claudio (01:23:49):
Really?

Chris (01:23:50):
Like, she was. Yeah,
she was like, oh,
do you guys want me to like,
leave?
I'm not interested in this.

The Zeitgeist: I didn't think it was that bad. (01:23:56):
undefined

I left a.
I left a comment on her video
saying I was the guy in blue.

Nice.

Chris (01:24:03):
What'd she answer?

He said seven and
three quarters.

That's it.

Claudio (01:24:16):
You're the winner and still
the champion of the Ewa.

Greg (01:24:23):
Hollywood victor.

Here it is.
Joey's getting the boo from the
pickle. But the audience,
the audience is in.

Claudio (01:24:36):
Hollywood was the winner.
In the middle of Times Square,
Hollywood defended the title.
There you go.

The Zeitgeist: Hollywood defended his title. (01:24:44):
undefined

Hollywood Pinto: He defended what looks like. (01:24:46):
undefined
Looks like a mirror.
Just looks like he's holding
a mirror up.
I do love our titles.

Chris (01:24:54):
He's holding a mirror
up to society.

That's right.
Look at yourself.

Greg (01:24:59):
Things about. All right,
look at yourself.

Chris (01:25:02):
Hot dogs go deep.

You think, you know,
okay, it's a.

Greg (01:25:06):
Whole big pee pee in the ring,
you know, I mean, yeah, so, you.

Chris: Know the male gaze and all that, (01:25:10):
undefined
you know.

Well, I mean,
there's a reason that the giant
hot dog explodes confetti
out of one end,
right?

Chris (01:25:20):
Semen.

I think they call it a
celebratory blast of confetti.
Chris.

I do like.
I do like that bit of.
That bit of Joe at the end.
He's like,
whatever hot dog you want,
just do your own thing.

And then I had two
of our hot dogs.

Don't be a dick to
other people's.

Greg (01:25:40):
Is this sort of a play
on the Rocky thing?

We were.
That's what we were going.

Chris (01:25:45):
You can change if
you can change.

That's right.

I think.

Chris (01:25:49):
I mean, that is the.
That is.

French Wonder: And I like New York style. (01:25:54):
undefined

Greg (01:25:58):
And we all like New York stuff.

French Wonder: I think I told Joey to do that (01:26:03):
undefined
in one of our phone calls.
I was like, joey,
you should do them. You should.
At the end, you should do, like,
the Rocky. The Rocky style.
The Rocky.

Greg (01:26:10):
He was talking to me on the.
Over the phone before this.
Like, wait, like a month ago,
he was thinking of doing
something like that.

French Wonder: And now all the contention. (01:26:17):
undefined
Now all the contention between
the. The. The.
The condiments and the
hot dogs goes away.

The Zeitgeist: Hollywood has solved all of the (01:26:26):
undefined
hot dog problems in the world.

French Wonder: World peace. Here's world peace. (01:26:29):
undefined
Unfortunately,
the onion did not come
out because.
Why didn't the ketchup and
the mustard come out?

I don't think that they
were properly prepped.

French Wonder: The onion didn't come back out (01:26:44):
undefined
because he had to prepare for
the relish fight or whatever
it was called.

Right, right.
But, yeah,
Chris got here just in time for
the highlights. Perfect.

Chris.

French Wonder: Here is the highlights. (01:26:57):
undefined

Yeah,
Listen,
I love that Golden Nugget
outfit. They did a great job.

French Wonder: Oh there it is. Quackers. (01:27:06):
undefined
Kisses, Stephen.

Hollywood Pinto: Oh, nice, Nice. Here it is. (01:27:11):
undefined
The Stutter. The Punisher.
The Stunner on the nugget.
The 1, 2, 3.
And the Punisher is victorious.

Now we finally got the
Walt Poly call.

French Wonder: Here's the Despicable Zeitgeist. (01:27:25):
undefined

Oh,
and he's in the corner
laughing.

French Wonder: Brian in the side of the head. (01:27:32):
undefined

Greg (01:27:33):
It just said Jews on the screen.

I saw that.

The Zeitgeist: That happened so many times (01:27:38):
undefined
during the show.

Greg (01:27:40):
I know. It's like at the height.

Yeah.

Greg (01:27:43):
Everything behind you is
like Israel, Palestine.

Everything is like the
world is ending,
but we're wrestling about it.

French Wonder: We have a wrestling match (01:27:49):
undefined
at the back. It's big.

I was waiting.
Walk into the Ewa show
and start protesting.

I.
I honestly thought that
might happen.
But the rest of the protests.

Did you get a beat?

The Zeitgeist: You get a. We get a beat. (01:28:04):
undefined

That.
I was a really great moonsault.

Hollywood Pinto: Yeah. Then you could. (01:28:13):
undefined

French Wonder: It's not the best moonsault. (01:28:15):
undefined

No.

It was in the middle
of Times Square.

The Zeitgeist: So that elevator was in the (01:28:20):
undefined
middle of Time Square. Honestly,
if I had practiced it,
I would have realized
just how much the spring would
affect my footing. By the way,
on that last elbow drop,
Joe does for the win.
Because the table was
a plastic table.
The legs didn't really give out.
And so the table remained,

(01:28:41):
you know, at a 45 degree angle.

Chris (01:28:43):
Yeah.
You guys could get.

Huh, huh.

I guess.

The Zeitgeist: So when Joe lands on me. (01:28:47):
undefined

Chris (01:28:51):
To go through.

Oh,
is that why you couldn't eat?

The Zeitgeist: I couldn't open my mouth because (01:28:54):
undefined
Joe's knees slid so hard into my
cheek that he bruised like the
whole left side of my face.
I couldn't open my mouth.
How how did the guitar.

Chris (01:29:05):
Hilarious guitar break go?

Wait, pause this.
This is a hilarious picture of
Joey. Joey holding his arms up,
Brian laying down.
And then over the top corner
just globalized the fauna.
Because it's.
Because that's not
part of our show.
Like it's just a hilarious
square.
Like it's just in time square.

(01:29:29):
Like it's not.

Greg (01:29:29):
This is like such. This is.

Chris (01:29:31):
These Ewa guys,
they're globalists.

Greg (01:29:34):
It's such a beautiful
like time capsule.

Hollywood Pinto: Do you remember when the (01:29:38):
undefined
ultimate warrior,
he tore up the Iraqi flag
and the crowd went nuts.
If they came in,
the Z could have beat them up
and tore up the Palestinian
flag.

Greg: Something tells me the Zeitgeist (01:29:50):
undefined
would not be with Israel.

Chris: You know what would be a little (01:29:54):
undefined
more a little less you know,
like controversial if we kind of
went like the 12 Monkeys route
with the Zeitgeist and he was
all about like, you know,
freeing the animals
from the zoo.

Basically.

French Wonder: Basically you can be like Gary (01:30:10):
undefined
Yourofsky. Yo, homie,
let's play this thing out.
I like these pictures.

The Zeitgeist: Yeah, Jess did a great job. (01:30:18):
undefined

Nice.

That,
that Mike's entrance was like
the best caught on camera
by far. Like you,
you had where your head was down
and then your music like hits
the crescendo and you pop
up and you move forward.

French Wonder: I didn't hear my music (01:30:36):
undefined
that well.
It was hard to hear in the hot
dog. I was like, oh crap,
my music's playing.
Scurried out there. Oh, quick,
let's go.

Yeah.

Hollywood Pinto: The Golden Nugget gets (01:30:45):
undefined
top billing.

I like this picture of
me walking back.

Chris (01:30:53):
Didn't Joe not want to do the
Golden Nugget for some
reason initially?

He wanted.

Chris (01:30:58):
That's stupid. That's our,
that's our like most
over character.

Yeah, yeah.

Hollywood Pinto: The Nugget was the best. (01:31:03):
undefined

Chris (01:31:05):
The Nugget like loves
the Nugget on site.

This is right.

Greg (01:31:09):
That's what we were talking
about, what.

He wanted to do.
He wanted to have Hollywood
Pinto fight the Punisher.
And like the Matt,
the first two matches have
nothing to do with
the last match.

Chris (01:31:19):
Yes, he wanted to,
he wanted to fight the punisher
in a 180 minute Iron man match.

The Zeitgeist: If we. If we let that happen. (01:31:25):
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Chris (01:31:27):
Steven's first wrestling
match in six years.
Joe wants to have a three
hour match with him.

French Wonder: This is a good picture. (01:31:33):
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Was this a Jess picture?

Yeah,
these are both chest pictures.

There I am.

The Zeitgeist: Everything I used in here was a (01:31:39):
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Jess picture because the others
were copyrighted.
Oh, like,
we could have used them,
I guess,
but they spelled your
name wrong, Brian.
Well, I.
I did send Joe an
updated version,
which I'm sure he's just gonna,
like, swap it.

Greg (01:31:56):
Dude, that's not even close.
Makai ho.

Joe's gonna.

Chris (01:32:01):
Joe's gonna star wipe.

The Zeitgeist: We spelled Absaloma right, (01:32:04):
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but not Michael.

French Wonder: At least you give everybody (01:32:11):
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a credit.

Greg (01:32:13):
Well, you know what I love, too?
It still has the.
The Nero Ewa touch.

Yeah. Yeah.
Joe is very happy about that.

That's a really good.
And I just love how
Elvis is in it.

French Wonder: Jess was like. Jess is like. (01:32:28):
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Everybody get over there.
I want to take a picture
with everybody.

Chris (01:32:33):
Who's the ref? The ref?
The ref is one of Paul's guys.

No, John Carpino.

Chris (01:32:38):
Dude, that is John Carpino.

That's John Carpino.

Oh, good God.

Chris (01:32:46):
Is he living at Joe's house?

No, he.

French Wonder: He drove in from, like, (01:32:49):
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Ohio or something.

Hollywood Pinto: Is that where he's living now? (01:32:51):
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Is he still
Oh, never mind. Yeah, yeah,
Ohio.
Because he was in Canada the
last time I saw him,
but that was years ago.

You know Chicago.

No, he drove in.

Chris (01:33:03):
Yeah,
I thought he was in Chicago.

Hollywood Pinto: That was cool of him to show up. (01:33:05):
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He drove 14 hours,
apparently to get.

Greg (01:33:09):
You forgot to credit him.

Hollywood Pinto: I forgot to credit him. (01:33:11):
undefined

Well,
we got to make some edits
to this to this.
Make some changes.

Yeah, yeah.

French Wonder: Credit. Credit the referee, (01:33:20):
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please.

Well,
we spelled the French wonder and
thought his cash right, so.

Greg (01:33:26):
You know what I was thinking,
too?
I don't know why Joe had to
change out of that costume
because all he did was come
out as Hollywood before,
and he was wearing pants
and a sweatshirt.
You could have put
that over this.

He did.

He did.
I think he did because he was.

Greg (01:33:41):
Telling me he had to go and
change, and it was like rushing.
Like, I.
If all he had to do was take the
clothes off, put a mask on.

No I think he.
I think he did go back.
Go back to when Joey
comes out to talk.

The Zeitgeist: You notice he's actually wearing (01:33:52):
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gloves as he cuts the
Hollywood promo.

Oh.

Chris (01:33:57):
To cover it. The.

Greg (01:33:58):
Yeah.

I think he.

The Zeitgeist: He had to hold his sweatpants (01:34:02):
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the whole time.

Chris (01:34:04):
I thought it was a
little unusual.
I remember that was
a very nice day.
I I thought it was
a little unusual.

He was wearing.

Greg (01:34:10):
I miss the era of the Golden
Nuggets pants always
falling down.

Yeah.

Damn.

Greg (01:34:17):
It was so endearing.

That was so great.

Greg (01:34:20):
So many of us use that
against him, too.

Chris (01:34:23):
If I recall,
we did not get a missed gold
digger in this match.

Oh

No, the gold.

Chris (01:34:31):
Gold rush. Gold rush. I'm sorry.

Yeah,
we didn't get a missed
gold rush.

The.
The whole crowd was chanting for
the Nugget. It was incredible.

Oh man, he hooked up.

He's over. He has.
It's the fact that he comes out.

Yeah.

Chris (01:34:47):
He got the New York.
He. He got the New Year.
The Golden Nugget got the New
York crowd to cheer for ketchup.

He did, right?

Greg (01:34:54):
He did
well. I mean, they like ketchup.

Chris (01:35:00):
That's another strike against
the streamer girl, by the way.
She was insistent on rooting for
Mustard or Stephen and refused
to like to nugget.

Totally randomly.
Totally random. By the way.
Chris,
you'll appreciate this because
you're a football fan.
Somebody posted something on
Facebook, and it says,
super bowl appearances since
1996, Dallas Cowboys, 0.
Taylor Swift, 1.

Chris (01:35:24):
Yeah. Yeah,
those are

I'm not
funny.

Chris (01:35:31):
Yeah,
there's lots of memes
owning Dallas.

The Zeitgeist: Cowboys over the last 25 years. (01:35:33):
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To be fair,
Taylor Swift has more super bowl
appearances than I do, so.

Chris (01:35:39):
That's true.

All right. Oopsie.
All right, gentlemen. All right.
Good luck.
Good luck editing this, Brian.

I know. I.
I think all we could do is
post it as is, basically.
Maybe I'll take a look.
But, hey, it's a watch.

That's right. All right.

The Zeitgeist: All right, y'all Enjoy. Later. (01:35:59):
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Chris (01:36:02):
Bye, guys.

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