September 30, 2025 • 28 mins
WWE and WCW star Jimmy Wang Yang sits down to share the untold stories from his wrestling career, revealing what it was really like behind the scenes and why he decided to write a book about his journey. From iconic matches to personal challenges, Jimmy opens up like never before—perfect for wrestling fans and anyone who loves a good story of perseverance. Don’t miss this exclusive deep dive!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's going on wrestling fans as I see fall. Today's
a special day.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
The book drop. Gimmy wag Yang, your book is here.
How you doing today?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
How they stayed that your boy Jimmy wyn Yang, I'm
back again with my boy Steve, you know, like yeah, yeah,
but yeah, today I'm not Jimmy wyn Yang. I'm James
Young Jung's time author, Jimmy wayn Yang. James kind of
weird coming off the tongue, you know, Like, yeah, so
(00:29):
the book dropped today, Amazon paperbacks on Jazzy Yang dot com,
the audiobooks on Spotify, Apple, Barnes and Noble.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, so every day is the first page of your
book announcing that you actually don't have an accent. Because
my mind is melting and I'm I'm a little disappointed.
I think I'm gonna I think we're gonna wrap this
up right now.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, sorry about that. Sorry to break care here, but like, yeah,
it actually does start this is I was born in Hollywood, California,
so like, you know, not deep down in the South,
you know, So.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I'm I don't understand who you are right now. I'm
supposed to be talking to the Asian cowboy, but it's fine.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's fine. With this book though, coming out, are we
going to hear all of these ridiculous stories of how
you were pitched the Asian cowboy gimmick?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
You know, this actually goes before Jimmy Wayn Yang. So
like this this like tell us about my ridiculous childhood,
you know, like and how I got into professional wrestling,
how how I got into w CW, my time in
w CW, my time in Japan, and then coming back
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as a Kio. You know. I know a lot of
people know who Jimmy Wayne Yang is, but they don't
know the Japanese gangster Kio, you know. Like so this
this story starts from my childhood and it is ridiculous.
Like I always ask people, like everybody says, oh, my
family's dysfunctional. I'm like, yeah, but they're not as dysfunctional
(02:14):
as mine, you know, like everybody's like, yeah they are.
I was like, uh, you know, did your dad leave
you for his new wife? And you like at nine
and you haven't talked to him barely since? You know,
Like is your mom in like a religious cult? Like?
And they're like, oh, yeah, my mom's a dedicated diehard
(02:36):
Jehovah witness, you know, like she yeah, she's that's her
every that's everything to her. I have three sisters and
one brother. And going back to my mom, my mom
has been married and divorced like six or seven times,
like I lost count, you know, and basically grew up
(02:56):
on food stamps and ramen, you know, so like I'm like,
is that normal? You know, like that's I got your beat,
you know, like my family's more just folks than yours.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Like you know, it's an award, that's an award you
want to hold, it seems, and I think you, I
think you have achieved it. I think you story topped
all of us right now with any sad stories we
have planned to talk about today about me personally, but yes,
I believe you take the cake on that one. So
but we are going to understand though, the backstory of
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how you got into professional wrestling, how you became who
you are as a person, as a father, because I
think any everyone knows, like you said there, there's depends.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
How old you are, but how they know you.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You know, we got we got the three count Young
Dragons Robberies, ww you know we have again Keo t
Jeri's Gangster We have of course the Asian Cowboy. Of
course you're time with Tory Wilson as well, And I
hope there's an entire chapter three chapter is actually dedicated
to just Tory Wilson inside your own book?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Is that possible? Is that an happen? Does that happen today?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And so this one ends on a Kio So there's
a lot of a lot of stories in between the
Tory stories, you know. But like, but she was in
w CW with me, so like it's you know, it's like,
but there's the thing is like even I know you're
you know, I know that you know you're wrestling, you know,
but like this goes from you know, the independence in
Georgia to w CW to all Japan Professional wrestling too.
(04:26):
Actually I forgot to write about TNA.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
So like the flying Elvis are not in the book.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
For some reason. I forgot that one, you know, So.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, what is happening? What are we doing here?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Now?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
That's awesome to hear though, because but why did you
choose when to stop the book though? Why did you
choose at that point in your career in life to stop?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Uh, Jessica, I actually I'm I'm a I'm a professional
was a professional athlete, so I only graduated because I
was really good at sports. You know. So this writing
journey was really hard for me. This has actually been
like twenty years in the twenty year process, you know,
like so like I really I got exhausted of writing,
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you know, so like and then I thought it was
a big you know, because my life is like three
like a few different phases, the childhood, WCW Japan, back
to wee and and the thing is in it there,
like because my life was crazy, but becoming an actual
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WWE superstar that's when the craziness really began. You know.
I thought childhood is crazy, But the tension and the
spotlight you get as a WWE superstar, that that's a
that's a whole nother book.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So the part two, we're expecting part two on day
one of the first book out today, we're teasing another book.
It seems like if we could possibly get one. But
you said you're lazy, You're not gonna write anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, I just need some time, you know, like cause
I just put it, you know, twenty years trying to
write this book, you know, and then like I'm trying
to you know, it's just like I respect all the
writers now, like you know, like it's hard and trying
to proofread and try to make this all right, you know,
like it was, Yeah, it was pretty hard, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
So why now though, is it just what has actually
stopped you from going Okay, I've written enough, we're gonna
do it now, let's release the book.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Why now?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, because like years, people close to me always told
me I should write a book. You know, I'm like,
nobody wants to listen to me, you know, like that's
like kind of you know, like but also I was
really embarrassed my childhood, you know, so like you know,
I said, man, I don't really want all of this
out there, you know, like I don't know, you know,
and my friends close people to me tell me it's like, dude,
(07:02):
your story is great. Like you basically came from poverty,
you know, like and you you had you, you worked
your ass off, you did all this stuff to become
who you are, and you know somebody might be going
through the same situation and your story might help them.
I'm like, now, you know, I don't look at myself
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as whatever w w w CW wrestler. I'm just that,
you know, poor kid from Allstelle Georgia. So like, like,
you know, I didn't think people would be really interested
in that story, you know, you know, but my friends
convinced me. He said, dude, this awesome, awesome story. You know,
what would you overcame and what you did to get
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to wherever you went to? You know, so and so
that's what was the convincement, you know, said you need
to put out there. So that's why I did.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You know, so when you would meet still meeting fans,
when you meet fans of yours and they tell you
what you meant to them or your story, you're gonna
find out through your book more than more people more
connected to you than you probably believe. But throughout the time,
when people come up to you and say you you know,
you helped me escape from the real world in my troubles,
well you how did you react to that? Because it
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sounds like with your childhood there's you know, it's very rocky.
But now in today's world, people have come up to
you how much you meant to them and their family.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
What's that feel like?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, that's a that's that's a crazy feeling for me.
And it's like it's uh when people tell me that,
but like it goes back to you know, my I
think because I you know, like I remember, you know,
I put in a book. But the first time I
went to WCW house or TV taping and I was
like eleven years old or something, and I just I
(08:49):
was staying was my dude, my dad left. I looked
at things like my firelight figure, like he was my hero,
he was my Superman, and all of a sudden his
music hit. You know, I'm like, god, damn adrenaline, run
up to the barricade, you know, and like please give
me five, Give me five, you know, and he like
smacked my hand.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
You know, I'm never gonna wash Hisham ever again. But
like I remember those feelings, you know how much he
meant to me. And there's another part of the book
like it's like, you know, I know, you know how
crazy I was like a wrestling fan. I was like
I used to stalk all the wrestlers all that kind
of stuff. And I remember, uh Sting had a movie
premiere in Atlanta at a Fox sty there and I
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found out, Oh, I'm going if he's gonna be there,
I'm gonna go, you know, Wenna beat my hero. And
I remember going in watching the movie. It wasn't that good,
but it was stinging, so like whatever. But then the
lights came up and then all of a sudden, I
see Sting like a few rows ahead of me. I'm like,
oh my god. You know that's my hero, you know.
And then he had other w CW wrestlers there. Buff
(09:56):
was there, Lex Luger was there. So I'm running and
the first person I run into is Lex Luger, So
like I'm like taking officer, Hey, Lex, Lex, Lex, Hey, Hey,
can't get a picture. And he turns around and he's like,
hey kid, I don't touch you like that, So don't
touch me like that? Yes right, that mean a heart.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Like oh no, you know my package, oh man.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
And then took the picture with them, and then I
got to meet Sting, but I was so torn up
from Lex Luger, like I could. I didn't enjoy meeting
my hero, you know. And but that sticks to me
as a wrestler, as a performer, as a public figure
kind of thing, like fans come up and they you know,
they get excited or whatever kind of situation it is.
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But like and then they, you know, tell me what
I meant to them, and that hits me. You know,
I'm like, oh my god, I'm one of those guys,
you know, like I I don't look at myself as that,
but like I know that feeling because of how I
looked at those wrestlers says superheroes to me, you know,
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and like, but it's like, you know, I always try
to I don't care if I'm in a bad mood
or whatever. And that's a I kind of have a
problem with now this generation and saying about these fans
are coming meeting me at the airport, they're meeting me
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at the car. I said, do you not know who
you are? What you do? Like the worst thing would
happen if there was nobody there asking you for your
autograph or a picture. So like it's like kind of
you know, like I know, wrestlers and people get they
get in a they lose touch of reality sometimes and
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it's like, oh man, I'm getting bothered too much. Well
what would happen if you wasn't getting bothered? You don't like,
that's not it, you know.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
So yeah, it's interesting you say that because I did
see a quote I think recently from seeing Punk when
he's like when I'm on the street and I'm walking
around with my dog, I'm not seeing Punk. I'm phil
I'm just a dude walking a dog. But I am
thinking to myself, I've heard the story from other wrestlers
where how do you know you're ever gonna see seeing
Punk ever again in your life? How do you know
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this could be the only time every your chance to
see him that you didn't have to buy a ticket
or go to an event. There he is, you'run up
to him, you probably tell them how much you love them,
something like that. I understand why wrestlers don't like that shit,
because people are always in their face getting them signed
something and then sell it to somebody else.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I get that part.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
That part, that part's different. Yeah, if it's an autograph
hound the selling on eBay and stuff, it's a totally
different story. But if it's just fans, and that's the thing.
I love seeing Punk. I love feeling like I love
that dude. He's awesome, you know, But like I just
wish most of those wrestlers would remember when they were
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little and when what made them get into wrestling, and
if they didn't go hound people I hounded, you know,
I stopped DDP like every day in high school. It's like,
you know, like it's like what made you want to
get into professional wrestling? Like it is to be one
of those guys and you know, people want your autograph,
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want to take a picture with you, and all that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So it's kind of you know, but I hear you.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I'm on both sides of the fence because I agree
with like, hey, you never know ever again.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
You know, I'll tell a personal story.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
You know, I do wrestling media, and so when I
went to wrestlinga one year, we were doing these press
conference calls for weeks and months and Shawn Michaels was
always in them. Shawn Michaels was my guy as a
kid and an adult, but my kids were babies that are
always behind me. I was always holding a baby, and
he eventually recognized me because of my children. Well, I
saw him two years later at a media junket. He
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sees me and he's like, Stee, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
How are you like?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Oh, And there's every all these media give her everywhere
and he's like and I was like to take a
picture with you, And as soon as I popped my
phone out, I heard ww.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
P R yell no photos. I'm like click, I hit
that ship and I'm just sorry.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
And I got out of them. But I was like,
when am I gonna see this? When am I when
I gotta shoot my shot?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And I did.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
And that's the thing. It's like, makes you feel so
good when somebody just acknowledged you, right like Sean Michaels,
that's crazy, Like hey, Steve, like, holy crap, my hero,
Yeah recognizes me. That is awesome, you know, like that's uh,
you know, sure, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I took my chance. I took my chance that day.
I took my chance that day.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Did you tell lex Lugu that story though, when you
were in w CW about the moment that he crushed
your childhood?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
So I remember, like a few years ago, they had
Wrestlemingtia in Dallas, you know, and we was all at
the Atlanta Airport and then I see him coming down,
but he was getting wheelchaired down, you know, because his condition,
And at first I was like, man, I want to
go up and tell them the story. I don't want
to tell the story, you know, But he did also
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mean so much to me like as a kid. But
that did break my heart, you know. But then I
just turned back into the mark. Hey Alex, how you
doing man? Like it's good, you know, like I telling
the story, but like you know, like I was like, hey,
if you need you need help with the bathroom, I
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have no problem helping you the thatthroom because the wheelchair situations. Right.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So you said that to him, but you didn't say, hey,
when you when I was a kid, you told me
did not touch you, and it made me so sad. Yeah,
will help you in the bank. Yeah, no, you're hey man,
you're a good civilian, you know. I I salute you, sir,
But yeah, I want you. I need now we need.
I'm thinking because you work together and w W, I'm
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thinking that story never just you didn't go.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Out drinking one day.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I was like, hey, Lex, let me tell you something
there one time you piece and shit, Like I'm just
surprised it never happened.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah. I didn't like him at a moment at WCW.
Like I just every time I saw him, it just
brought me back to the memory. So I just stayed
away from him, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So that's hilarious that I can actually imagine being like, oh,
you're walking to the hallway you see, and me like,
oh my god, you're stuck into another locker room because
you don't want your heart to be broken once again,
my luger, how are you currently watching any current wrestling?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Like?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Are you an avid watcher or you're just busy with life?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I'm avid watcher to the neatest, the prettiest, the badest,
moll phone no doubt around here. Let's show you ain't
a wrestling jazzy Yay. That lots of time, but I
do keep up, you know. But it is football season,
so like it's kind.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Of busy on Mondays. Here we are recording on a Monday.
Get the TV.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I'm probably in the background. I'm guessing, Oh he does
iw it? I knew it.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
You just gave away when we are recording. I know
we just spoil alert.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I was recorded not on today when the book came out?
Will we have an audio version though of this book?
And I know it's stopping out a kio, but can
we please give the Asian cowboy gimmick doing the voiceover
for the audiobook?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I tried, man, I man, that was that was a
difficult process too. Oh my god, like the audiobook, Yeah what,
I mumble a lot and I you know, yeah, I
mumble a lot. Like that took forever, you know, like
that was a really hard process. But after halfway I
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got halfway through the book, I was so frustrated and
all this kind of stuff, like you know, AI is
taking over the world, right, Terminator two is coming?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, yeah, I already use AI for everything. I'm really here.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah. So that's the thing. After I got so frustrated
and I started down a rabbit hole and I got
my voice cloned, you know, so like and it's amazing
that I, you know, read ten minutes of the book
and all of a sudden they had my voice and
they finished the book for me.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
So like, yeah, hey, it's very simp it's very easy.
I have a twenty dollars app that does that for me.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Really, twenty dollars dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I was just gonna ask. I don't want to ask
what you pay these people to do this for you,
But you should.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Have talked, you should have called me, because I could
have done that for like thirty dollars, And it's very
I have a podcast with Sean Mooney and with Sean Mooney.
We do sometimes we do voiceovers for over things and
I'm just like talking talk for three minutes. I take
his voice, dump it in boom, write whatever I want
to write, and Steve's the greatest and he has to
say it in his voice because it's AI saying it.
(18:56):
So yeah, crazy, it is pretty crazy. You could really
do anything. I've pictures too. If you people get in
trouble online, folks, all right, let's give a PG around here.
I've seen some dirty, dirty things with current stars besides Jazzy,
of course, who do you see growing as a star?
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And it doesn't matter what organization because we have the
Roman reigns, as we have the Curdy Rhodes Is. But
who is next? Like who is going to be eventually
next to take over these spots?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
You think?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Mm hmm, that's a good question, Steve.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I've been doing this for a few years.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Ah, who do I think? Who do I? I think
Kyle Fletcker kind of reminds me, you know, he reminds
me of Randy or you know, like younger, so like
he's getting his push like in a W and like
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w W.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
It's hard right now, I think because there's just they've
made so many damn people, so everyone's on the same level.
Like there's no way anyone's going to go up or down.
It feels like in this weird way because people are
pissed at the WW for ticket prices and things of
that nature. But I gotta look at it as like, well,
if I was running a business, wouldn't you want to
make money? And I'm not saying it's a good thing
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or a bad thing to raise prices, but aren't you
supposed to be making money in this?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, but that's a goal, you know. But like you
want people to be able to forward your product, you know,
even my price or you know, like you know, I
see what how much other wrestlers charged for their books
and the audio and all that kind of stuff, and like,
you know, like I don't know, you know, like how much.
I don't know. I know there's no such things enough money,
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but like, you know, but I don't like it, you know,
like because you know, if I was a kid, I
couldn't afford to go to the thing, you know, Like, uh.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
There was one comment that was one comment I did
see was a generational thing where like my grandfather introduced
me into wrestling, My father's watched it because I was
watching it.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
My kids watched because of me.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
So it's a generational thing because we're able to afford
to go to these things that we're creating memories that
so they keep going on. If you price out people
like that, then there is no generational continuation of your
business because now they don't. No one's going to be
like I have that fuzzy warm feeling I have when
I was a kid, when you saw a sting, you
you have that memory. But if these things don't allow
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you to go to these events, well then you'll never
have them and share them, and then no one else
will want to experience them.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So, like I see, that is a huge problem. But
that's also saying like, well in fifteen years, we'll have
no fans left. They're not thinking about fifteen years and
thinking about today.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Yeah, but that's I go back to childhood, you know,
like I grew up real poor, you know, and what
I really I only had two channels on TV on
our TV at PBS and TV. Yes, you know, so
like then yeah, so like, uh you know, I didn't
like I kind of like says in the Street and
(22:07):
mister Rogers, but I'd rather watch Thing and and the
Great Muda and on Saturday night and Braves Baseball. You know,
so like if it was a streaming service back then,
or you know, even cable, Like I used to have
to break into my neighbor's house to watch Nika. Like
it's like but it's like, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Like breaking into your friend's house to watch Nitro.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah, yeah, I used to because they had the lat
that's so bad. But you could use it like a.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Rough years have gone by where you're okay.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah, yeah, well I literally could swipe their credit card
and to break into the back room.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yeah, oh my god. It was so much eat.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I'm not saying how great the world is now we
have all these locks, but I'm telling you right now, people,
you could break into anywhere. We're just a credit card,
slide it between the locks and you're in.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah yeah, so it didn't matter.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Where you were.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
It was insane. Now it's like the doors. Come on,
dere are you stupid door with your ten locks on it?
Now that that's pretty funny you say that.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I can't believe you know that too. You know exactly
what I know exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Wait, come on, come on, I'm turning I'm turning forty.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Oh yeah, so I'm very aware of all the funness
of weird things in the nineties and probably.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Eighties two before.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Though with your book, you know, inside your book, are
there gonna be stories like you don't have to share
them now because you won't give away with the book.
Are they gonna be stories in the book where suddenly
all these wrestling websites are like, I can't believe Hugh
said these things about these wrestlers inside your book.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
So that's the next book. The first book. I don't
plan on getting sued, but like I said, and getting
into WV as a superstar. Like these eyes have seen
a lot, you know, so like the second one, definitely
probably going to get in trouble with that one, you know,
like in the you know, my time in w B
you know, like in my time with Chrispin Wall and
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my time with Vincent Man and all, and even my
time in Japan, like the stories that you know what,
I've seen a lot. So like first book, the only
things only shocking is like how rough my journey was like,
but then you know, the kiod lifestyle, the sex, drugs,
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rock and roll, you know, all that stuff. But that's
that's if I get to that second book.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You know, well, I'm gonna say because so far, I
because it sounds like in WW, you're gonna tell some stories.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
But you know, CW.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Those guys, not a lot of them do to the
like the fane Fest of circuits. You don't see some
of these certain names you see like buff bagwell you
know you see a Lex Luger.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Now aren't understanding things of that nature.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
But I'm still but I can't get the image of
my head of you just bumping into like Slugur and
just being with Listen, buddy, You've ruined my life and
I want to talk about it. Wow, you could say that,
but you know, I don't have to actually ever asked
this question before, and I've interviewed a couple of times already.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Is you know people think this is a bad question.
I love this question.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Mount Rushmore, what do you consider the criteria of Mount
Rushmore's and who is on yours?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
So really because I get that question a lot, but
it's like what affected me? Like that's like my was
my Mount Rushmore? You know, my my hero? Like how
that dude made me feel? You know, it's not I know,
whatever Technical wrestling and the marketing, but sting was that,
(25:42):
you know, but for ws W, you know, and what
they did for the business and all this kind of
stuff that was my personal you know, how they made
me feel. So you know, mine is staying the Great
mooda the Raw you know, and Stone Cold Steve or
(26:04):
yeah Stone called Steve Auston, you know like that, and
then even well I love everybody, but like that's.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Not the question here.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
The question is four people on a giant mountain and
you have to trivel their faces in.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Well, this is my mount Reshmore.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
That has more than one five more more than four faces.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Okay, so but for the business, you know, like I
don't know, you got it, but I was still put
a thing in there. Ho Cogan, Rick Flair and the
Great Mood.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Well there you go. I'm surprised Lex Slugan wasn't on there,
but whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
That's like the title I'm like, the I'm thinking for
the title of the title podcast is like Lex Little Ruins,
Jimmy Wyan Yang's childhood and by his book.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Yeah, I can already see the headline today tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
That's gonna be the title everywhere. Jesus Christ, I can't
bring you said down. Yeah, well again, I cannot wait
to read this book and we're out.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Where can they get it? One more time? Let's rittle
off the places they can buy this book?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Okay, today's Amazon is, the e book, the paperbacks on
Jazzy yang dot com. Uh, the audio books on Spotify, Apple,
Barnes and Noble, all the other ones. I don't know, sadly,
you know a lot, you know, and uh, you know,
I also would say, you know, like like I I
(27:30):
don't want to be like Lex Luger. So like if
you buy that book, if you want me to sign it,
you just have to send it to me with a
self stamped envelope and I'm no charge, you know, And
I'll send it back to you if you buy it.
And if you see me somewhere walking my dog, do
not be afraid to come up to me, you know,
(27:52):
if you see me at the airport, no I'm not
you know, like I'm not gonna get you know, you know,
you know whatever, Have you see me, you have the book?
Have you seen me you don't have the book? You know?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Still don't be you know, don't be afraid to say hello? Yeah,
all right, I will not be afraid to say hello
next time I stalk you in the airport.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Well, I'm excited to read this book and hear the
stories of your triumphs and tragedies.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
But the Rise of.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
A Kyoh is what I really want to talk about
and I cannot wait to read that. So thanks again
for being here on tank count. I'm ce fall he's
to be Wang Yang, who doesn't have an Asian accent.
I'm pissed off. Have a great day and we'll see
you next time.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Bye bye Yeo.
What's going on wrestling fans as I see fall. Today's
a special day.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
The book drop. Gimmy wag Yang, your book is here.
How you doing today?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
How they stayed that your boy Jimmy wyn Yang, I'm
back again with my boy Steve, you know, like yeah, yeah,
but yeah, today I'm not Jimmy wyn Yang. I'm James
Young Jung's time author, Jimmy wayn Yang. James kind of
weird coming off the tongue, you know, Like, yeah, so
(00:29):
the book dropped today, Amazon paperbacks on Jazzy Yang dot com,
the audiobooks on Spotify, Apple, Barnes and Noble.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yeah, so every day is the first page of your
book announcing that you actually don't have an accent. Because
my mind is melting and I'm I'm a little disappointed.
I think I'm gonna I think we're gonna wrap this
up right now.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, sorry about that. Sorry to break care here, but like, yeah,
it actually does start this is I was born in Hollywood, California,
so like, you know, not deep down in the South,
you know, So.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I'm I don't understand who you are right now. I'm
supposed to be talking to the Asian cowboy, but it's fine.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's fine. With this book though, coming out, are we
going to hear all of these ridiculous stories of how
you were pitched the Asian cowboy gimmick?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
You know, this actually goes before Jimmy Wayn Yang. So
like this this like tell us about my ridiculous childhood,
you know, like and how I got into professional wrestling,
how how I got into w CW, my time in
w CW, my time in Japan, and then coming back
(01:50):
as a Kio. You know. I know a lot of
people know who Jimmy Wayne Yang is, but they don't
know the Japanese gangster Kio, you know. Like so this
this story starts from my childhood and it is ridiculous.
Like I always ask people, like everybody says, oh, my
family's dysfunctional. I'm like, yeah, but they're not as dysfunctional
(02:14):
as mine, you know, like everybody's like, yeah they are.
I was like, uh, you know, did your dad leave
you for his new wife? And you like at nine
and you haven't talked to him barely since? You know,
Like is your mom in like a religious cult? Like?
And they're like, oh, yeah, my mom's a dedicated diehard
(02:36):
Jehovah witness, you know, like she yeah, she's that's her
every that's everything to her. I have three sisters and
one brother. And going back to my mom, my mom
has been married and divorced like six or seven times,
like I lost count, you know, and basically grew up
(02:56):
on food stamps and ramen, you know, so like I'm like,
is that normal? You know, like that's I got your beat,
you know, like my family's more just folks than yours.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Like you know, it's an award, that's an award you
want to hold, it seems, and I think you, I
think you have achieved it. I think you story topped
all of us right now with any sad stories we
have planned to talk about today about me personally, but yes,
I believe you take the cake on that one. So
but we are going to understand though, the backstory of
(03:30):
how you got into professional wrestling, how you became who
you are as a person, as a father, because I
think any everyone knows, like you said there, there's depends.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
How old you are, but how they know you.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You know, we got we got the three count Young
Dragons Robberies, ww you know we have again Keo t
Jeri's Gangster We have of course the Asian Cowboy. Of
course you're time with Tory Wilson as well, And I
hope there's an entire chapter three chapter is actually dedicated
to just Tory Wilson inside your own book?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Is that possible? Is that an happen? Does that happen today?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And so this one ends on a Kio So there's
a lot of a lot of stories in between the
Tory stories, you know. But like, but she was in
w CW with me, so like it's you know, it's like,
but there's the thing is like even I know you're
you know, I know that you know you're wrestling, you know,
but like this goes from you know, the independence in
Georgia to w CW to all Japan Professional wrestling too.
(04:26):
Actually I forgot to write about TNA.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
So like the flying Elvis are not in the book.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
For some reason. I forgot that one, you know, So.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, what is happening? What are we doing here?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Now?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
That's awesome to hear though, because but why did you
choose when to stop the book though? Why did you
choose at that point in your career in life to stop?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Uh, Jessica, I actually I'm I'm a I'm a professional
was a professional athlete, so I only graduated because I
was really good at sports. You know. So this writing
journey was really hard for me. This has actually been
like twenty years in the twenty year process, you know,
like so like I really I got exhausted of writing,
(05:16):
you know, so like and then I thought it was
a big you know, because my life is like three
like a few different phases, the childhood, WCW Japan, back
to wee and and the thing is in it there,
like because my life was crazy, but becoming an actual
(05:38):
WWE superstar that's when the craziness really began. You know.
I thought childhood is crazy, But the tension and the
spotlight you get as a WWE superstar, that that's a
that's a whole nother book.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
So the part two, we're expecting part two on day
one of the first book out today, we're teasing another book.
It seems like if we could possibly get one. But
you said you're lazy, You're not gonna write anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, I just need some time, you know, like cause
I just put it, you know, twenty years trying to
write this book, you know, and then like I'm trying
to you know, it's just like I respect all the
writers now, like you know, like it's hard and trying
to proofread and try to make this all right, you know,
like it was, Yeah, it was pretty hard, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
So why now though, is it just what has actually
stopped you from going Okay, I've written enough, we're gonna
do it now, let's release the book.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Why now?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, because like years, people close to me always told
me I should write a book. You know, I'm like,
nobody wants to listen to me, you know, like that's
like kind of you know, like but also I was
really embarrassed my childhood, you know, so like you know,
I said, man, I don't really want all of this
out there, you know, like I don't know, you know,
and my friends close people to me tell me it's like, dude,
(07:02):
your story is great. Like you basically came from poverty,
you know, like and you you had you, you worked
your ass off, you did all this stuff to become
who you are, and you know somebody might be going
through the same situation and your story might help them.
I'm like, now, you know, I don't look at myself
(07:23):
as whatever w w w CW wrestler. I'm just that,
you know, poor kid from Allstelle Georgia. So like, like,
you know, I didn't think people would be really interested
in that story, you know, you know, but my friends
convinced me. He said, dude, this awesome, awesome story. You know,
what would you overcame and what you did to get
(07:46):
to wherever you went to? You know, so and so
that's what was the convincement, you know, said you need
to put out there. So that's why I did.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You know, so when you would meet still meeting fans,
when you meet fans of yours and they tell you
what you meant to them or your story, you're gonna
find out through your book more than more people more
connected to you than you probably believe. But throughout the time,
when people come up to you and say you you know,
you helped me escape from the real world in my troubles,
well you how did you react to that? Because it
(08:16):
sounds like with your childhood there's you know, it's very rocky.
But now in today's world, people have come up to
you how much you meant to them and their family.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
What's that feel like?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, that's a that's that's a crazy feeling for me.
And it's like it's uh when people tell me that,
but like it goes back to you know, my I
think because I you know, like I remember, you know,
I put in a book. But the first time I
went to WCW house or TV taping and I was
like eleven years old or something, and I just I
(08:49):
was staying was my dude, my dad left. I looked
at things like my firelight figure, like he was my hero,
he was my Superman, and all of a sudden his
music hit. You know, I'm like, god, damn adrenaline, run
up to the barricade, you know, and like please give
me five, Give me five, you know, and he like
smacked my hand.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
You know, I'm never gonna wash Hisham ever again. But
like I remember those feelings, you know how much he
meant to me. And there's another part of the book
like it's like, you know, I know, you know how
crazy I was like a wrestling fan. I was like
I used to stalk all the wrestlers all that kind
of stuff. And I remember, uh Sting had a movie
premiere in Atlanta at a Fox sty there and I
(09:33):
found out, Oh, I'm going if he's gonna be there,
I'm gonna go, you know, Wenna beat my hero. And
I remember going in watching the movie. It wasn't that good,
but it was stinging, so like whatever. But then the
lights came up and then all of a sudden, I
see Sting like a few rows ahead of me. I'm like,
oh my god. You know that's my hero, you know.
And then he had other w CW wrestlers there. Buff
(09:56):
was there, Lex Luger was there. So I'm running and
the first person I run into is Lex Luger, So
like I'm like taking officer, Hey, Lex, Lex, Lex, Hey, Hey,
can't get a picture. And he turns around and he's like,
hey kid, I don't touch you like that, So don't
touch me like that? Yes right, that mean a heart.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Like oh no, you know my package, oh man.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
And then took the picture with them, and then I
got to meet Sting, but I was so torn up
from Lex Luger, like I could. I didn't enjoy meeting
my hero, you know. And but that sticks to me
as a wrestler, as a performer, as a public figure
kind of thing, like fans come up and they you know,
they get excited or whatever kind of situation it is.
(10:44):
But like and then they, you know, tell me what
I meant to them, and that hits me. You know,
I'm like, oh my god, I'm one of those guys,
you know, like I I don't look at myself as that,
but like I know that feeling because of how I
looked at those wrestlers says superheroes to me, you know,
(11:07):
and like, but it's like, you know, I always try
to I don't care if I'm in a bad mood
or whatever. And that's a I kind of have a
problem with now this generation and saying about these fans
are coming meeting me at the airport, they're meeting me
(11:27):
at the car. I said, do you not know who
you are? What you do? Like the worst thing would
happen if there was nobody there asking you for your
autograph or a picture. So like it's like kind of
you know, like I know, wrestlers and people get they
get in a they lose touch of reality sometimes and
(11:51):
it's like, oh man, I'm getting bothered too much. Well
what would happen if you wasn't getting bothered? You don't like,
that's not it, you know.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
So yeah, it's interesting you say that because I did
see a quote I think recently from seeing Punk when
he's like when I'm on the street and I'm walking
around with my dog, I'm not seeing Punk. I'm phil
I'm just a dude walking a dog. But I am
thinking to myself, I've heard the story from other wrestlers
where how do you know you're ever gonna see seeing
Punk ever again in your life? How do you know
(12:19):
this could be the only time every your chance to
see him that you didn't have to buy a ticket
or go to an event. There he is, you'run up
to him, you probably tell them how much you love them,
something like that. I understand why wrestlers don't like that shit,
because people are always in their face getting them signed
something and then sell it to somebody else.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I get that part.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
That part, that part's different. Yeah, if it's an autograph
hound the selling on eBay and stuff, it's a totally
different story. But if it's just fans, and that's the thing.
I love seeing Punk. I love feeling like I love
that dude. He's awesome, you know, But like I just
wish most of those wrestlers would remember when they were
(13:01):
little and when what made them get into wrestling, and
if they didn't go hound people I hounded, you know,
I stopped DDP like every day in high school. It's like,
you know, like it's like what made you want to
get into professional wrestling? Like it is to be one
of those guys and you know, people want your autograph,
(13:22):
want to take a picture with you, and all that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So it's kind of you know, but I hear you.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
I'm on both sides of the fence because I agree
with like, hey, you never know ever again.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
You know, I'll tell a personal story.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
You know, I do wrestling media, and so when I
went to wrestlinga one year, we were doing these press
conference calls for weeks and months and Shawn Michaels was
always in them. Shawn Michaels was my guy as a
kid and an adult, but my kids were babies that are
always behind me. I was always holding a baby, and
he eventually recognized me because of my children. Well, I
saw him two years later at a media junket. He
(13:55):
sees me and he's like, Stee, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
How are you like?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Oh, And there's every all these media give her everywhere
and he's like and I was like to take a
picture with you, And as soon as I popped my
phone out, I heard ww.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
P R yell no photos. I'm like click, I hit
that ship and I'm just sorry.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
And I got out of them. But I was like,
when am I gonna see this? When am I when
I gotta shoot my shot?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And I did.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
And that's the thing. It's like, makes you feel so
good when somebody just acknowledged you, right like Sean Michaels,
that's crazy, Like hey, Steve, like, holy crap, my hero,
Yeah recognizes me. That is awesome, you know, like that's uh,
you know, sure, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I took my chance. I took my chance that day.
I took my chance that day.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Did you tell lex Lugu that story though, when you
were in w CW about the moment that he crushed
your childhood?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
So I remember, like a few years ago, they had
Wrestlemingtia in Dallas, you know, and we was all at
the Atlanta Airport and then I see him coming down,
but he was getting wheelchaired down, you know, because his condition,
And at first I was like, man, I want to
go up and tell them the story. I don't want
to tell the story, you know, But he did also
(15:03):
mean so much to me like as a kid. But
that did break my heart, you know. But then I
just turned back into the mark. Hey Alex, how you
doing man? Like it's good, you know, like I telling
the story, but like you know, like I was like, hey,
if you need you need help with the bathroom, I
(15:23):
have no problem helping you the thatthroom because the wheelchair situations. Right.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So you said that to him, but you didn't say, hey,
when you when I was a kid, you told me
did not touch you, and it made me so sad. Yeah,
will help you in the bank. Yeah, no, you're hey man,
you're a good civilian, you know. I I salute you, sir,
But yeah, I want you. I need now we need.
I'm thinking because you work together and w W, I'm
(15:50):
thinking that story never just you didn't go.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Out drinking one day.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
I was like, hey, Lex, let me tell you something
there one time you piece and shit, Like I'm just
surprised it never happened.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah. I didn't like him at a moment at WCW.
Like I just every time I saw him, it just
brought me back to the memory. So I just stayed
away from him, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
So that's hilarious that I can actually imagine being like, oh,
you're walking to the hallway you see, and me like,
oh my god, you're stuck into another locker room because
you don't want your heart to be broken once again,
my luger, how are you currently watching any current wrestling?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Like?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Are you an avid watcher or you're just busy with life?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I'm avid watcher to the neatest, the prettiest, the badest,
moll phone no doubt around here. Let's show you ain't
a wrestling jazzy Yay. That lots of time, but I
do keep up, you know. But it is football season,
so like it's kind.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Of busy on Mondays. Here we are recording on a Monday.
Get the TV.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I'm probably in the background. I'm guessing, Oh he does
iw it? I knew it.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
You just gave away when we are recording. I know
we just spoil alert.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I was recorded not on today when the book came out?
Will we have an audio version though of this book?
And I know it's stopping out a kio, but can
we please give the Asian cowboy gimmick doing the voiceover
for the audiobook?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I tried, man, I man, that was that was a
difficult process too. Oh my god, like the audiobook, Yeah what,
I mumble a lot and I you know, yeah, I
mumble a lot. Like that took forever, you know, like
that was a really hard process. But after halfway I
(17:45):
got halfway through the book, I was so frustrated and
all this kind of stuff, like you know, AI is
taking over the world, right, Terminator two is coming?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, yeah, I already use AI for everything. I'm really here.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah. So that's the thing. After I got so frustrated
and I started down a rabbit hole and I got
my voice cloned, you know, so like and it's amazing
that I, you know, read ten minutes of the book
and all of a sudden they had my voice and
they finished the book for me.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
So like, yeah, hey, it's very simp it's very easy.
I have a twenty dollars app that does that for me.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Really, twenty dollars dollars.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I was just gonna ask. I don't want to ask
what you pay these people to do this for you,
But you should.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Have talked, you should have called me, because I could
have done that for like thirty dollars, And it's very
I have a podcast with Sean Mooney and with Sean Mooney.
We do sometimes we do voiceovers for over things and
I'm just like talking talk for three minutes. I take
his voice, dump it in boom, write whatever I want
to write, and Steve's the greatest and he has to
say it in his voice because it's AI saying it.
(18:56):
So yeah, crazy, it is pretty crazy. You could really
do anything. I've pictures too. If you people get in
trouble online, folks, all right, let's give a PG around here.
I've seen some dirty, dirty things with current stars besides Jazzy,
of course, who do you see growing as a star?
(19:16):
And it doesn't matter what organization because we have the
Roman reigns, as we have the Curdy Rhodes Is. But
who is next? Like who is going to be eventually
next to take over these spots?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
You think?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Mm hmm, that's a good question, Steve.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I've been doing this for a few years.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Ah, who do I think? Who do I? I think
Kyle Fletcker kind of reminds me, you know, he reminds
me of Randy or you know, like younger, so like
he's getting his push like in a W and like
(19:56):
w W.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
It's hard right now, I think because there's just they've
made so many damn people, so everyone's on the same level.
Like there's no way anyone's going to go up or down.
It feels like in this weird way because people are
pissed at the WW for ticket prices and things of
that nature. But I gotta look at it as like, well,
if I was running a business, wouldn't you want to
make money? And I'm not saying it's a good thing
(20:20):
or a bad thing to raise prices, but aren't you
supposed to be making money in this?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, but that's a goal, you know. But like you
want people to be able to forward your product, you know,
even my price or you know, like you know, I
see what how much other wrestlers charged for their books
and the audio and all that kind of stuff, and like,
you know, like I don't know, you know, like how much.
I don't know. I know there's no such things enough money,
(20:48):
but like, you know, but I don't like it, you know,
like because you know, if I was a kid, I
couldn't afford to go to the thing, you know, Like, uh.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
There was one comment that was one comment I did
see was a generational thing where like my grandfather introduced
me into wrestling, My father's watched it because I was
watching it.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
My kids watched because of me.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
So it's a generational thing because we're able to afford
to go to these things that we're creating memories that
so they keep going on. If you price out people
like that, then there is no generational continuation of your
business because now they don't. No one's going to be
like I have that fuzzy warm feeling I have when
I was a kid, when you saw a sting, you
you have that memory. But if these things don't allow
(21:33):
you to go to these events, well then you'll never
have them and share them, and then no one else
will want to experience them.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So, like I see, that is a huge problem. But
that's also saying like, well in fifteen years, we'll have
no fans left. They're not thinking about fifteen years and
thinking about today.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Yeah, but that's I go back to childhood, you know,
like I grew up real poor, you know, and what
I really I only had two channels on TV on
our TV at PBS and TV. Yes, you know, so
like then yeah, so like, uh you know, I didn't
like I kind of like says in the Street and
(22:07):
mister Rogers, but I'd rather watch Thing and and the
Great Muda and on Saturday night and Braves Baseball. You know,
so like if it was a streaming service back then,
or you know, even cable, Like I used to have
to break into my neighbor's house to watch Nika. Like
it's like but it's like, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Like breaking into your friend's house to watch Nitro.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah, yeah, I used to because they had the lat
that's so bad. But you could use it like a.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Rough years have gone by where you're okay.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah, yeah, well I literally could swipe their credit card
and to break into the back room.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yeah, oh my god. It was so much eat.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I'm not saying how great the world is now we
have all these locks, but I'm telling you right now, people,
you could break into anywhere. We're just a credit card,
slide it between the locks and you're in.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah yeah, so it didn't matter.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Where you were.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
It was insane. Now it's like the doors. Come on,
dere are you stupid door with your ten locks on it?
Now that that's pretty funny you say that.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I can't believe you know that too. You know exactly
what I know exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Wait, come on, come on, I'm turning I'm turning forty.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Oh yeah, so I'm very aware of all the funness
of weird things in the nineties and probably.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Eighties two before.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Though with your book, you know, inside your book, are
there gonna be stories like you don't have to share
them now because you won't give away with the book.
Are they gonna be stories in the book where suddenly
all these wrestling websites are like, I can't believe Hugh
said these things about these wrestlers inside your book.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
So that's the next book. The first book. I don't
plan on getting sued, but like I said, and getting
into WV as a superstar. Like these eyes have seen
a lot, you know, so like the second one, definitely
probably going to get in trouble with that one, you know,
like in the you know, my time in w B
you know, like in my time with Chrispin Wall and
(24:08):
my time with Vincent Man and all, and even my
time in Japan, like the stories that you know what,
I've seen a lot. So like first book, the only
things only shocking is like how rough my journey was like,
but then you know, the kiod lifestyle, the sex, drugs,
(24:31):
rock and roll, you know, all that stuff. But that's
that's if I get to that second book.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You know, well, I'm gonna say because so far, I
because it sounds like in WW, you're gonna tell some stories.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
But you know, CW.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Those guys, not a lot of them do to the
like the fane Fest of circuits. You don't see some
of these certain names you see like buff bagwell you
know you see a Lex Luger.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Now aren't understanding things of that nature.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
But I'm still but I can't get the image of
my head of you just bumping into like Slugur and
just being with Listen, buddy, You've ruined my life and
I want to talk about it. Wow, you could say that,
but you know, I don't have to actually ever asked
this question before, and I've interviewed a couple of times already.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Is you know people think this is a bad question.
I love this question.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Mount Rushmore, what do you consider the criteria of Mount
Rushmore's and who is on yours?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
So really because I get that question a lot, but
it's like what affected me? Like that's like my was
my Mount Rushmore? You know, my my hero? Like how
that dude made me feel? You know, it's not I know,
whatever Technical wrestling and the marketing, but sting was that,
(25:42):
you know, but for ws W, you know, and what
they did for the business and all this kind of
stuff that was my personal you know, how they made
me feel. So you know, mine is staying the Great
mooda the Raw you know, and Stone Cold Steve or
(26:04):
yeah Stone called Steve Auston, you know like that, and
then even well I love everybody, but like that's.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Not the question here.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
The question is four people on a giant mountain and
you have to trivel their faces in.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Well, this is my mount Reshmore.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
That has more than one five more more than four faces.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Okay, so but for the business, you know, like I
don't know, you got it, but I was still put
a thing in there. Ho Cogan, Rick Flair and the
Great Mood.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Well there you go. I'm surprised Lex Slugan wasn't on there,
but whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
That's like the title I'm like, the I'm thinking for
the title of the title podcast is like Lex Little Ruins,
Jimmy Wyan Yang's childhood and by his book.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Yeah, I can already see the headline today tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
That's gonna be the title everywhere. Jesus Christ, I can't
bring you said down. Yeah, well again, I cannot wait
to read this book and we're out.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Where can they get it? One more time? Let's rittle
off the places they can buy this book?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Okay, today's Amazon is, the e book, the paperbacks on
Jazzy yang dot com. Uh, the audio books on Spotify, Apple,
Barnes and Noble, all the other ones. I don't know, sadly,
you know a lot, you know, and uh, you know,
I also would say, you know, like like I I
(27:30):
don't want to be like Lex Luger. So like if
you buy that book, if you want me to sign it,
you just have to send it to me with a
self stamped envelope and I'm no charge, you know, And
I'll send it back to you if you buy it.
And if you see me somewhere walking my dog, do
not be afraid to come up to me, you know,
(27:52):
if you see me at the airport, no I'm not
you know, like I'm not gonna get you know, you know,
you know whatever, Have you see me, you have the book?
Have you seen me you don't have the book? You know?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Still don't be you know, don't be afraid to say hello? Yeah,
all right, I will not be afraid to say hello
next time I stalk you in the airport.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Well, I'm excited to read this book and hear the
stories of your triumphs and tragedies.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
But the Rise of.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
A Kyoh is what I really want to talk about
and I cannot wait to read that. So thanks again
for being here on tank count. I'm ce fall he's
to be Wang Yang, who doesn't have an Asian accent.
I'm pissed off. Have a great day and we'll see
you next time.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Bye bye Yeo.
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