September 25, 2025 • 30 mins
Teddy Long's birthday celebrations take an unexpected turn when his sweet tooth gets exposed during our live broadcast. Between bites of red velvet cake and memories of banana pudding, the WWE Hall of Famer can't hide his dessert addiction despite his protests about hitting the gym each morning. The moment provides a perfect dose of the genuine friendship and playful ribbing that defines our show.
The conversation shifts to WWE's groundbreaking announcement about WrestleMania heading to Saudi Arabia in 2027. This marks the first time wrestling's premier event will leave American soil, raising serious questions about the future of the industry. Teddy provides valuable insider perspective on WWE's global expansion strategy while acknowledging the potential downside for domestic fans. We explore how skyrocketing ticket prices have already created barriers for middle-class families, with one listener sharing how a WrestleMania weekend package that once cost under $5,000 for four people would be unattainable today.
Our listener mailbag delivers thoughtful questions about wrestling cities, creative direction, and fan behavior. Teddy's response about his favorite destinations leads to the night's most hilarious moment – his insistence that a Corpus Christi restaurant would catch fish to order moments after customers selected them from a menu. Between fits of laughter, we manage to discuss whether AEW might capitalize on WrestleMania's absence from America, if Vince McMahon might return to the wrestling business, and whether today's wrestling fans have become too critical.
The episode captures everything that makes Road Trip After Hours special: insider wrestling knowledge, genuine friendship, listener engagement, and unexpected stories that could only come from someone who's lived the extraordinary life of Teddy Long. Join us next week as we continue navigating the fascinating world of professional wrestling through the eyes of those who helped shape it.
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
I gotta tell you you need to help that music out.
It is just horrible.
You need to do something.
I'm sitting here waiting onthis to come on live and I
thought I was attending somekind of wake or something.
What in the world?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Oh, good Lord, I was about to say I was enjoying the
little jam at the end of thatthing.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Of course you did.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I'm kind of liking this little beat here going on.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
We need some boots on the ground, man.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I can't play that without getting in trouble.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well, get in trouble, then we won't do it no more.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
That's right.
They'll shut us down.
We won't let us come back onyoutube anymore.
Hello everybody and welcomeinto the room.
We got a few of you in hereright now.
Please pass this along.
Let everybody know that we arelive right now and this is road
trip after hours.
I'm your host, mac davis, andof course, that's wwe Hall of
Famer, mr Grumpy, teddy Long.
How you doing, teddy?
(01:08):
Oh, now you're going to justact like you can't even hear me.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I don't know anybody named Mr Grumpy.
Okay, I'll go ahead and speakto the fans.
I know it wasn't none of youpeople saying that it's him, Mr
Highlight himself.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Hey, look, here I've got to say something Now.
I give you a hard time about.
You know recently, especiallyabout all the donuts, that you
would eat.
Two dozen donuts, that's a lotof donuts for one person.
But, teddy, I promised I wouldnot bring up the donuts anymore.
I'm not going to do thatanymore.
That's not true.
(01:43):
Okay, well, but now just toprove my point a little bit here
.
I want you to show me, and showeverybody else, what you were
showing me before the showstarted, that you got from a
sweet lady named Denise andBianca.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Oh, come on, Now, that's really doing it there.
Now that's how you bag somebodyup in a corner.
There you go.
You have really Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, he says he doesn't eat a lot of sweets.
Show them what you got there,ted.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Well, I don't eat a lot of sweets.
I didn't say that I didn't eatany sweets, but anyway, what
he's trying to tell y'all.
I went up to see Denise andcelebrate my birthday early and,
by the way, let me thankeverybody for all the birthday
wishes and everything.
Thank you very much.
So Denise picks the bananapudding.
She is absolutely, I mean,bread.
(02:39):
Don't get no better than that.
But I finally eat the last ofthe banana pudding today Because
I didn't know I was going tohave to be set up by my good
friend Mac, but okay.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Before we go any farther, though, teddy, before
we get to the next item, thebanana pudding.
How much banana pudding did youget?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Oh wow, I had as much banana pudding as I'm going to
show you this.
This is what Mac is talkingabout.
From Bianca, this is the redvelvet cake.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
You see how much cake is in that thing, and he told
me he's already been eating onit.
That's just what's left over.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Well, that's right.
I've been having this two orthree.
I can't eat all of this at onetime.
I eat one slice a day.
That's what I do, and then Iget up the first thing in the
morning, hit the gym and run itoff.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Look here, let's not forget.
You say you only had two orthree days.
That's why you couldn't eatthat much cake, but you've
already eaten all of the bananapudding in those two or three
days too.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Well, I had three days for it to eat.
I didn't eat it all in one day,I had three days.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
For those of you who don't believe he can eat two
dozen donuts in one time, justlook at what's in front of him
right now.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, that has nothing to do with it.
This was just part of mybirthday celebration.
Denise and Bianca, they knewhow much I love good.
Oh, look at that man.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
He's doing that on purpose.
He was originally he was goingto eat that banana pudding in
front of me on this show and nowhe's got his red velvet cake.
He's going to stick it in myface because he knows red velvet
cake is also something I love.
Teddy, I'm guessing that Denise, myself, you, bianca, we all
seem to have that same taste inwhat we love is the sweet,
(04:26):
because these are some of myfavorites that you keep bringing
out.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Good ladies up there.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Those are my girls, man, especially Denise does a
great job.
They found out, man, I lovethat home cooking and I mean and
they know, denise had to cooksome ribs too, man, and I swear
these ribs were so they were, sothey just fell off the bone.
I've never had any ribs likethat in my life, oh goodness.
(04:54):
So I was talking to her lastnight.
I said when I come back, I saidI want more ribs please.
I want to try them again.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Plot twist Jones popping in saying hey, mac, let
teddy live and enjoy all thosepastries.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
He can thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Thank you, plot twist yeah, I mean, even if it is a
couple dozen donuts in onesitting, so what?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
wow, you ain't gonna make nobody believe that ron
tables.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Uh, table stop.
Hey folks, he may not rememberme, but I met teddy at Dragon
Con Wrestling this year.
My friend Adrian and I wereworking the table next to him.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, yeah, I met those guys.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Good to have you in here and, by the way, if you
want to be a part of the show,it doesn't cost you.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Thank you very much, Ron.
Thank you for the happybirthday.
Thank you, Blair.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
And if you want to be a part of the show, as I was
just saying, all you got to dois drop us a comment in the
section.
It doesn't cost you anything,it's free.
We don't do the super chatshere, we just.
This is open and free toanybody who pops in here.
Say what you want, We'll throwit on the screen and we'll
comment or react to it howeveryou want us to do.
Yeah, Ron's saying happybirthday as well, and Zach is
popping in here.
(06:03):
He's saying happy birthday,Teddy.
Yeah, Teddy, I know when Iposted your birthday.
You know when your birthday wason my Facebook page.
Wow, man, the responses.
It was incredible.
I don't know if you had achance to stop by, but I mean
hundreds of people stopping bytelling you happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, I did.
I looked at it, man, I had achat, because Denise saw it
before me and she asked me Deb,you looked at Max Payne and I
said no, I hadn't had a chance.
She told me all about it.
So yeah, man, that's why I saythank everybody, man.
God bless you all.
Thank you so much.
I'm just happy to be alive andto be able to still entertain
people and make people happy,and that's all I care about.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Let's talk about entertaining people and making
people happy.
Wrestlemania what was that?
It's just one of these sideswhere I just I'm not happy with
the decision that was made.
You know in this case, but letme WrestleMania, now we know in
(07:05):
2027, is going to Saudi Arabia.
It will no longer be in theUnited States, at least in 2027.
Teddy, I want to get yourthoughts on that move by WWE
going to Saudi Arabia.
Is it a smart move by them?
(07:26):
When it comes to the Americanwrestling fans, because WWE and
WrestleMania is basically it wasan American company it just
seems weird going to SaudiArabia.
Your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Well, you know, you have to look at it from another
point.
You know it's all aboutbusiness and I think it's brand
new what they're doing, you know.
Finally, you know we're goingexcuse me overseas, you know,
taking the product over there.
And I was there when we werejust going to the UK.
You know, every year aroundNovember we'd go there and spend
about two weeks and we do TVsthere and plus, we do our live
(07:58):
events there.
So right now they found out,since they started going to
Saudi Arabia, I guess they foundout now.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You know that's a big market for wrestling People
want it and, like I said, thosepeople over there got a lot of
oil money and they don't mindspending it.
So I think it's more about themoney than maybe anything.
I can understand that in abusiness sense, but there comes
a time where you know when itcomes even to ticket prices now
(08:35):
being so high in WWE and itseems to just keep going up
Astronomical numbers that nobodythought they'd ever see.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Well, that's the thing that's kind of bothering
me too.
You know, and everybody know,we're living in this moment in
time now where everything hasjust went up tremendously.
I mean, golly man, I even hateto go to Walmart.
You know, you thought at onepoint in time you could go to
Walmart and you'd save somemoney, but you can't save any
money going in there now.
So you know, and like I said,people, like I said the
(09:06):
unemployment rate, they say Idon't know, I'm not a politician
, I don't work in government,but I watch the news and they
say that it's at an all-time low.
So people ain't got no jobs now.
So you know what I mean.
It's just I don't have any ideawhat they're thinking, you know
where people now ain't got nomoney, no jobs.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah, to me it seems like WWE has become nothing but
a money-hungry company under TKO.
And I hate to say that when itcomes to wrestling, because, as
much as I didn't always likewhat Vince McMahon may have
brought to the table in WWE inthe later years, I never felt
like he was looking for a way toscrew the wrestling fan.
I never felt that way.
But today, under the currentownership of the company, I feel
(09:56):
like it's nothing but a moneygrab.
And if you look back, even intoday's current news, one of our
major hamburger chains I won'tsay the name, but there's a
major hamburger chain thatbasically they raise their menu
prices because they thought,well, no big deal, we'll just
raise it up and nobody's goingto care, it's still going to
come.
They quit coming and now you'vegone back to your old menu
(10:21):
pricing because you lostcustomers Eventually, just like
that particular burger company.
That can happen to WWE, don'tyou think?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, yes, I really do.
I think so, because what goesaround comes around.
That's very true.
So I'm thinking, you know, thispower grab or the money grab,
or whatever you want to call it,you know, may last for a while,
but at the end of the day it'sgoing to come back around where
they're going to have to.
You know, come back and givethe people what they want, but
the people have to show, youknow, resistance too.
You know, hey, we ain't got nomoney, we're not going to take
(10:54):
this, and they may have toexplain to their kids and
everybody.
You know, hey, I know you loveit, I know you want to go, but
mom and daddy just can't affordto take you.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
No, and I think I told you this on another show
that we were doing earlier thisweek.
I have somebody that I knowpersonally that wanted to take
his three kids to go see a WWEshow but the prices were so high
he couldn't afford to take hisfamily this is a middle class
earning family and he couldn'tafford to take his kids to see.
(11:24):
Now he could choose one ofthose kids and take them and
afford it, but he couldn't takethem all.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You can't do that, no-transcript.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, you can't do that, and I also think that one
of my concerns is that if WWEcontinues to look at things from
just a money perspective, weknow they left New Orleans
because there was more money togo back to Vegas, and now Saudi
Arabia has more money than Vegas, so are they going to continue
(11:53):
to go where the money is?
Are we going to start seeingmore and more shows over in
Saudi Arabia?
And let me ask you one morequestion and we'll get to your
questions.
I'm so sorry but I do want tobring this up.
Teddy, we know thatWrestleMania while it's in Saudi
Arabia, there is nothinghappening.
That particular week, which isalways huge in the United States
.
If you're AEW or some othercompany, do you try to make an
(12:18):
impact that weekend with stillhaving a wrestling con under
some other guise of wrestling?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Well, I would certainly have something for the
American audience.
I would certainly do that.
You know, and I I I seen youknow why you were asking that
question.
I've seen some people commentand say that would be the wrong
thing to do for AEW to try torun against WWE.
I don't think they're runningagainst them.
I don't think they do it.
It's giving the American peoplea show.
Wwe is giving it to them inSaudi Arabia, but there are ways
(12:45):
that they can get it in the US.
It's going to be all kind ofcable TV or ESPN.
I think are doing somethingwhere they're showing it right.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh yeah.
But yeah, you'll be able tofind it in all kinds of places,
including movie theaters andstuff like that, yeah, so you'll
be still able to see it on thebig screen.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
you know what I mean, but some people, you know, just
around WrestleMania time, itain't nothing like you know,
being right there in the arena.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, because you look forward to going to see
these bigger-than-life wrestlingshows and getting around a
bunch of your friends.
You know that that's one ofthose things you get to do every
year and a lot of these fansthat are wrestling fans do do
this year after year after year,so you know it's going to be
something they're going to miss.
And I do see where a place likeWrestlingCon can make a big
(13:28):
difference by putting togethermaybe some big independent card,
kind of similar to what, maybewhat Cody did with the Young
Bucks before AEW came along.
They said, hey, we'll fill10,000 people into a stadium and
give people a show.
I think that's the opportunitythat exists right now If people
plan it.
Plan it quietly, but plan itand get ready to make that
(13:49):
attack, because you can make abig name for yourself on that
weekend.
I really feel that way.
Yeah, we're gonna pop out ofhere real quick because it's
time to get into the listenermailbag.
Letters oh, we get letters weget your letters every day.
(14:09):
Mailman, mailman mail today.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Reach my hand and pull one out.
Oh letters, I love thoseletters.
Let's find out what you've gotto say.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Oh boy, mailman mail today.
All right, teddy.
First of all, I want to mentionthis because I showed up on the
screen before we went to thatmailbag opening and it was
Ribshot saying happy birthday Iwant to make sure that you saw
(14:46):
that and Pretty Classy Ladysaying because everybody loves
Teddy except John Laurinaitis,and we see how that worked out
for him.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Well, thank you, pretty Classy Lady, thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Irving.
I think he's commenting on ourcomments about WWE's
WrestleMania, saying that's anAmerican staple and yes, I agree
, it's the same.
They'd be just like watchingthe NFL Super Bowl be played in
Saudi Arabia.
Just something doesn't seemright about that and I don't
mind other shows over there, Idon't mind other shows going to
other countries because I findthat interesting.
(15:22):
I just think that this oneparticular show maybe is not the
smartest thing to do and I hateto think that in the future
we'll start seeing them more andmore like that, where the
American fans no longer haveeasy access to what began as
their wrestling promotions inAmerica.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And then you got to realize this whatever networks
or whatever they put it on herein the US for people to see,
ain't no telling what you'regoing to have to pay to see that
.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Oh yeah, look, I know there's a lot of people to this
day right now, Teddy, who haveno clue how to get this
WrestlePalooza this weekend onESPN.
There's a lot of people underthe assumption that they're
going to get it for free if theyhave ESPN on their TV package.
That's not going to happen.
You've got to download the appand you've got to buy an extra
(16:09):
service level of ESPN service.
That includes the WrestleManiaPremium Live events.
But I don't think a lot ofpeople understand this.
I'm curious.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Well, what people got to really realize?
There's nothing free.
Okay, free is a hook.
That's like when you'rethrowing a worm to a fish.
When you see the word free, ohmy god, I don't have to pay.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yes, you do you just don't think so but now, if you
want to save some money,stephanie mcmahon stephanie
mcmahon did suggest the vpn nota bad idea.
Uh, let's see uh irving sayinghe agrees that it was the money.
And uh, one steak 45 bucks inWalmart.
Yeah, he's talking about theprice of things now.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I believe it, brother .
Listen, I'm in there, so I knowI had to cut back.
I had to put up the cross signin Walmart, like that.
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
We also have.
Let's get another one in herereal quick.
We'll get to the emails here.
We also have.
Let's get another one in herereal quick.
We'll get to the the emailshere.
Irving saying my dad paid forour first WrestleMania tickets
in 1984, 45 buck floor seats.
Now, see you buy those ticketsNow you're going to spend
several thousand dollars.
I think you know.
If I'm, if I'm understandingwhere you were sitting, then
(17:22):
yeah, that's going to cost you apretty penny to sit there now,
which is a shame.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And you used to get a free chair.
You ain't going to get that now.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
No, no, no, you might get booted out of whatever
chair you're in, though Andy inSouth Carolina is asking do you
think we will ever see VinceMcMahon back in wrestling?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
You know I don't want to comment on that.
You know what I mean.
Here's one thing I would sayyou know, I'd love to see him
back in wrestling, so maybe wecould get this thing
straightened out and do it likeit's supposed to be done.
Not saying that it's not beingdone right now, but Vince just
has another different way ofdoing things, so I'm not going
to comment on it.
The only thing I can say Ihopefully wish he does start and
(18:06):
get something started.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
You know and I'm sitting here thinking as that,
I'm thinking about that questionevents.
Getting back in wrestling wewere just mentioning that, while
WrestleMania is in Saudi Arabiain 2027, man, can you imagine
Vince McMahon putting on somebig wrestling event in America,
in New York, maybe evensomewhere big that really brings
(18:29):
eyes, because if Vince's name'sattached to it, people are
going to watch?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Well, because they want to see.
He's been out for a while, youknow what I mean.
They haven't heard from him, sothey want to see what big
creative idea he's coming upwith now.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah, and that would be probably a good time.
Gives him time enough to planand execute what he needs to
have done prior to 2027.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And like I said, I don't think it has to really be
anything spectacular.
He just needs to tease themwith something.
You know what I mean?
Like there's maybe a big meetand greet and then maybe three,
four matches or something,somewhere with some top names or
something, and I think, I thinkthat would work.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Let's see.
We also have Irving saying,indie wrestling gathering around
WrestleMania locations.
Yeah, I still think that indiewrestling is going to have a
presence in WrestleMania week inAmerica.
I just can't think that we'regoing to completely forget that
that entire week exists.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
You know I, you know I.
I wanted to say this too.
You know the way things are now.
You know, if there was someindie company, you know, and
that was out there and had hadsome money, somebody to back
them and wanted to do it right,you got to do this right.
And I've really not keepstressing that, because I've
been with some guys that didn'tunderstand about doing it right
and they didn't succeed and theydidn't listen.
(19:41):
Well, you know those guys outthere.
When I was out there in Texashe had a great thing going out
there, man turning people away,sold out, and next thing, I know
you know, bad evil get involved.
So I ain't going to go intowhat all happened, but I'm just
saying we had it.
I had a gold mine.
These guys had a pay-per-viewcompany that put them on a sign
(20:04):
in New York City, in MadisonSquare, madison Square Garden.
They put them on a billboard,didn't charge them one dime.
And I said to them do you guysunderstand what has just
happened?
You're on a billboard in NewYork City and you didn't pay for
it and then they were going togive them so much money every
month.
You know, you know to add theprogram and they asked for.
(20:25):
They didn't have nothing, evenshown.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Nothing.
He didn't have any businessrecords, basically.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Nothing, absolutely nothing, man, and there were
great guys running it.
You know nothing wrong withthose guys, but, like I said,
you know they let other thingsget involved.
So you know, sometimes, whenyou let other things take over,
it's not good.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I agree, let's see.
Peter in Utah is asking havefans become too bitchy about
today's wrestling?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Oh yeah, they're bitchy about everything.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
So you know, just some fans you can't please.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I don't care what you do or what you offer them, they
still ain't happy.
So you know you're going tohave that.
That's just the way it is.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Plot twist Jones saying I hope AEW does something
to hurt WWE and I don't watchAEW at all.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Well, you know you're with me too, player.
I don't watch them either, butI wouldn't want them to do
nothing to hurt WWE, becausethis is not how that's supposed
to work.
All they need to do issomething that WWE recognizes
and say, oh wow, I didn't knowthose guys had that.
You know that's what you wantto do, but not to hurt them.
You don't want to hurt nocompany, because when you hurt
the company, then you hurt thepeople that work there.
(21:40):
You know, may they put a lot ofguys out of work or something.
So let's not look at it likethat.
Let's look at it positive andsee if there's a way that AEW
could probably do something toget WWE's attention.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
The one thing that I think fans are always going to
be loud about how they feelabout the products.
But I think we've gotten to apoint where it's almost like
politics Either you're aDemocrat or a Republican, you're
one or the other, and you can'taccept anything that the other
side might like.
Wrestling to me is very similarPeople have gotten to now
(22:10):
either they're a WWE fan orthey're an AEW fan, and they're
not in between.
You should be able to enjoy itall and root for them all,
because that's the only way it'sreally going to grow, that
we're going to get satisfiedwith what we want in our product
.
Let's see.
Funny, because I just saw onepop up on the screen here.
(22:30):
Question number four came fromAaron the Baron, who asked name
the best wrestling cities fromyour experience over the years.
Now, before you answer that, Ishould also mention a pretty
classy lady was on the samewavelength and she said Teddy,
what were some of your favoritecities or countries to travel to
when you were on the road?
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I didn't really have any favorite places because we
moved around so much, you know,you didn't really get a chance
to stay anywhere long.
I loved Corpus Christi becauseback in the day, you know, I was
drinking and everything I lovedthe margaritas and they had
this place in Corpus Christi.
Because back in the day, youknow, I was drinking and
everything.
I loved the margaritas and theyhad this place in Corpus
Christi, texas, and it wascalled Walter's Arster Bar and
the margaritas were $1.
And you could get any.
(23:14):
And then when you wanted to geta fish you know, order fish or
something all you had to do wasjust pick it out and they'd run,
go right out behind and go tothe river right there and catch
the fish.
Go right out behind and go tothe river right there and catch
the fish.
Yeah, no, they can't do that.
Yes, they can, brother, theywould catch the fish and they
would bring it in, okay, andthey would throw it to you and
if this is what you want, they'dcook it.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I want a sea bass.
Okay, hold on, teddy wants asea bass.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Run out there and throw your line.
Ask anybody that ever been toWalter's Orange Savoir about
that.
That's a true story, man.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh man, you had too many of those $1 margaritas.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
No man, that's a true story.
They would let you look at theboard and they would ask you
what fish you wanted.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
and I swear, man it was right on the ocean, they
would just pass the line.
Yeah, yeah, oh.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
God, oh, jesus.
Okay, I'm telling you, mac.
You may not believe it, that'sa true story.
Anybody that's been there knowsme and, back in the day, been
there at the Corbett Walters orsomebody.
I'll tell you how you can lookat the board, you pick the fish
and go get it.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Really fresh seafood you can catch the line as soon
as you order.
Exactly the Corpus.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Walters was one of those towns I liked Overseas.
I enjoyed the UK a little bit.
Of those towns I liked Overseas, I enjoyed the UK a little bit.
Yo, you just keep.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I'm waiting to get Teddy's fish.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Hold on Go ahead and drop the fries.
We'll be ready in about fiveminutes.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Oh God, Okay, I gotta quit.
I'm in a pot here now.
Okay, here's a question fromVanessa in Florida.
I'm sure they do the same thingthere in Florida too.
She wants to know, do you think?
Oh, what a good question.
Do you think WWE would bebetter off in someone else's
(25:21):
hands creatively?
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
maybe and maybe not.
And I I because, like I said, Idon't.
I don't see what WWE is doing abad job of anything.
I think they're doing good witheverything.
So but you know, there's somethings, I'm sure that are behind
the scenes, that uh ishappening, that I probably
wouldn't agree with.
But, like I said I, I don'twant to comment on it.
(25:48):
I think they're doing a goodjob, but I mean they probably
could do better.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Okay, what are you thinking about?
The poor guy that's got yourwaiter running from the table
throwing a line at him?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Oh he didn't have to run nowhere.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Oh yeah, dude, just stepped right out, oh yeah just
grab it out of the water, justreach into the ocean and grab
your fish, yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
And the reason.
And on that question too, andthe reason, you know it's kind
of hard to answer that becausesometimes things are done, you
know, just because somebodydon't like you.
You know what I mean and that'sreally bad, you know.
So that's why I said I don'twant to comment on it, joe, I'd
(26:31):
just rather, you know, we waitand see what happens.
But, like I said, if things aregoing to go right and God bless
us, hopefully Vince will comeback and get us, you know, get
us back to where we were.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Plot twist Jones.
The last time Mania was in NewYork with Vince, the weekend
package hotel, four days, chairless than five grand for four
people, 15 rows, that is now.
Let's see.
That to me is an affordableexperience because you're taking
you know that many people, yougot a hotel and everything else
(26:59):
and you're only in it for fivegrand.
That's not bad, but when yougot your entire family, that's
not bad.
Today, I would love to knowwhat that cost.
Plot you may even know this.
I'd be curious.
What would it cost today forthat same exact package?
That'd be curious.
See, he also mentions when Imeant hurt.
I mean make WWE to betterthemselves for the fans.
(27:20):
Yeah, yeah, I agree with you alot.
I really do.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
And a pretty classy lady.
She's laughing.
I guess she's laughing aboutthe fishing and the dining
experience, so let's laughing.
I guess she's laughing aboutthe fishing and the dining
experience, so let's see, we dohave, let's see.
One more question here I wantedto get in.
This is from Justin in Austin,asking what movies have you
watched more than once?
None, none.
(27:44):
There's not a favorite movie ofyours where you go out and say
I've got to watch that again.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Brother, I haven't, mac, I haven't watched a movie
movie and I couldn't tell you.
When I get a little bit of TVand news, I kind of keep up with
that and I watch On Patrol Live.
That's my favorite show andthat's about it.
I don't really care aboutmovies and stuff, no more.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
That's one thing I have noticed over the years I've
known Teddy.
Teddy has never been a bigmovie fan, you know Star Wars or
whatever it may be Because mosttimes you were working and
didn't have time.
You didn't have time to stop bya theater to go watch a movie,
did you?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
No no you didn't.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Even in the days of Blockbuster he didn't have time
to go out and get a videobecause he was on the road all
the time, so he couldn't justpop it into his house and watch
a movie.
Yeah, I didn't even think aboutBlockbuster.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I didn't even know it existed.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Danny, we're out of time.
Man, that went by fast and Iwas laughing so hard I think
about busting a gut.
But tell me, tonight we have at-shirt going to the person you
think had the best questiontonight, and who will that be?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Well, this person also had a question and a good
comment and I really enjoyed hisstuff today, and we're going to
talk about sending my main man,plot Twist Johnson, a shirt.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Plot Twist Jones.
Yeah, plot Twist Jones allright.
We're sending one, but we'llsend him another one because I
think he's won in the past, ifI'm not mistaken, which is fine.
I don't care, give it tosomebody else, I don't care,
give it to somebody else, Idon't care, just hand it off to
somebody else if you want.
But yeah, send me thatinformation just to be safe and
make sure I still got it.
But I do believe that he wonjust a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
We'll leave it up to Block Twist, if he wants to
accept that, he can.
If he wants to pass it on tosomebody else, since he's
already got one, that's up tohim.
But if he wants it, we'll sendit to him.
If not, then we'll findsomebody else to send it to.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Hey look, the best question of the night is the
best question of the night.
I don't care who it is it couldbe the same person you picked
last week but if it's the bestquestion of the night for you,
that's the one who's going toget lot of good stuff.
Yeah, he did, and I've enjoyedtonight and.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Teddy, I guess you have.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Between your eating habit.
First we find out how much junkyou actually really do eat.
Then we find out you go to arestaurant.
Where was this again?
Corpus Christi, Texas, when yougo and you walk in and you can
tell the waiter right there,right then, hey, I want
so-and-so, that's the kind offish I want for tonight.
(30:15):
And your waiter will run outwith his shoes off, throw a line
into the ocean and out comesTeddy's dinner.
That's what Teddy said earlier.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Well, it's a true story I'm telling you now.
Anybody that knows back in theday they'll tell you that we all
used to go there because themargaritas were real cheap $1.
So that was the spot.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I still say he was having too many margaritas and
not enough food.
I'm Matt Davis and that is WWEHall of Famer.
Teddy Long.
We'll see you again next time.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Same time, same place .
Speaker 1 (30:48):
See you.
I gotta tell you you need to help that music out.
It is just horrible.
You need to do something.
I'm sitting here waiting onthis to come on live and I
thought I was attending somekind of wake or something.
What in the world?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Oh, good Lord, I was about to say I was enjoying the
little jam at the end of thatthing.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Of course you did.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I'm kind of liking this little beat here going on.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
We need some boots on the ground, man.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I can't play that without getting in trouble.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well, get in trouble, then we won't do it no more.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
That's right.
They'll shut us down.
We won't let us come back onyoutube anymore.
Hello everybody and welcomeinto the room.
We got a few of you in hereright now.
Please pass this along.
Let everybody know that we arelive right now and this is road
trip after hours.
I'm your host, mac davis, andof course, that's wwe Hall of
Famer, mr Grumpy, teddy Long.
How you doing, teddy?
(01:08):
Oh, now you're going to justact like you can't even hear me.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I don't know anybody named Mr Grumpy.
Okay, I'll go ahead and speakto the fans.
I know it wasn't none of youpeople saying that it's him, Mr
Highlight himself.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Hey, look, here I've got to say something Now.
I give you a hard time about.
You know recently, especiallyabout all the donuts, that you
would eat.
Two dozen donuts, that's a lotof donuts for one person.
But, teddy, I promised I wouldnot bring up the donuts anymore.
I'm not going to do thatanymore.
That's not true.
(01:43):
Okay, well, but now just toprove my point a little bit here
.
I want you to show me, and showeverybody else, what you were
showing me before the showstarted, that you got from a
sweet lady named Denise andBianca.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Oh, come on, Now, that's really doing it there.
Now that's how you bag somebodyup in a corner.
There you go.
You have really Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, he says he doesn't eat a lot of sweets.
Show them what you got there,ted.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Well, I don't eat a lot of sweets.
I didn't say that I didn't eatany sweets, but anyway, what
he's trying to tell y'all.
I went up to see Denise andcelebrate my birthday early and,
by the way, let me thankeverybody for all the birthday
wishes and everything.
Thank you very much.
So Denise picks the bananapudding.
She is absolutely, I mean,bread.
(02:39):
Don't get no better than that.
But I finally eat the last ofthe banana pudding today Because
I didn't know I was going tohave to be set up by my good
friend Mac, but okay.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Before we go any farther, though, teddy, before
we get to the next item, thebanana pudding.
How much banana pudding did youget?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Oh wow, I had as much banana pudding as I'm going to
show you this.
This is what Mac is talkingabout.
From Bianca, this is the redvelvet cake.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
You see how much cake is in that thing, and he told
me he's already been eating onit.
That's just what's left over.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Well, that's right.
I've been having this two orthree.
I can't eat all of this at onetime.
I eat one slice a day.
That's what I do, and then Iget up the first thing in the
morning, hit the gym and run itoff.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Look here, let's not forget.
You say you only had two orthree days.
That's why you couldn't eatthat much cake, but you've
already eaten all of the bananapudding in those two or three
days too.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Well, I had three days for it to eat.
I didn't eat it all in one day,I had three days.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
For those of you who don't believe he can eat two
dozen donuts in one time, justlook at what's in front of him
right now.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Well, that has nothing to do with it.
This was just part of mybirthday celebration.
Denise and Bianca, they knewhow much I love good.
Oh, look at that man.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
He's doing that on purpose.
He was originally he was goingto eat that banana pudding in
front of me on this show and nowhe's got his red velvet cake.
He's going to stick it in myface because he knows red velvet
cake is also something I love.
Teddy, I'm guessing that Denise, myself, you, bianca, we all
seem to have that same taste inwhat we love is the sweet,
(04:26):
because these are some of myfavorites that you keep bringing
out.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Good ladies up there.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Those are my girls, man, especially Denise does a
great job.
They found out, man, I lovethat home cooking and I mean and
they know, denise had to cooksome ribs too, man, and I swear
these ribs were so they were, sothey just fell off the bone.
I've never had any ribs likethat in my life, oh goodness.
(04:54):
So I was talking to her lastnight.
I said when I come back, I saidI want more ribs please.
I want to try them again.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Plot twist Jones popping in saying hey, mac, let
teddy live and enjoy all thosepastries.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
He can thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Thank you, plot twist yeah, I mean, even if it is a
couple dozen donuts in onesitting, so what?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
wow, you ain't gonna make nobody believe that ron
tables.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Uh, table stop.
Hey folks, he may not rememberme, but I met teddy at Dragon
Con Wrestling this year.
My friend Adrian and I wereworking the table next to him.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, yeah, I met those guys.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Good to have you in here and, by the way, if you
want to be a part of the show,it doesn't cost you.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Thank you very much, Ron.
Thank you for the happybirthday.
Thank you, Blair.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
And if you want to be a part of the show, as I was
just saying, all you got to dois drop us a comment in the
section.
It doesn't cost you anything,it's free.
We don't do the super chatshere, we just.
This is open and free toanybody who pops in here.
Say what you want, We'll throwit on the screen and we'll
comment or react to it howeveryou want us to do.
Yeah, Ron's saying happybirthday as well, and Zach is
popping in here.
(06:03):
He's saying happy birthday,Teddy.
Yeah, Teddy, I know when Iposted your birthday.
You know when your birthday wason my Facebook page.
Wow, man, the responses.
It was incredible.
I don't know if you had achance to stop by, but I mean
hundreds of people stopping bytelling you happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, I did.
I looked at it, man, I had achat, because Denise saw it
before me and she asked me Deb,you looked at Max Payne and I
said no, I hadn't had a chance.
She told me all about it.
So yeah, man, that's why I saythank everybody, man.
God bless you all.
Thank you so much.
I'm just happy to be alive andto be able to still entertain
people and make people happy,and that's all I care about.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Let's talk about entertaining people and making
people happy.
Wrestlemania what was that?
It's just one of these sideswhere I just I'm not happy with
the decision that was made.
You know in this case, but letme WrestleMania, now we know in
(07:05):
2027, is going to Saudi Arabia.
It will no longer be in theUnited States, at least in 2027.
Teddy, I want to get yourthoughts on that move by WWE
going to Saudi Arabia.
Is it a smart move by them?
(07:26):
When it comes to the Americanwrestling fans, because WWE and
WrestleMania is basically it wasan American company it just
seems weird going to SaudiArabia.
Your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Well, you know, you have to look at it from another
point.
You know it's all aboutbusiness and I think it's brand
new what they're doing, you know.
Finally, you know we're goingexcuse me overseas, you know,
taking the product over there.
And I was there when we werejust going to the UK.
You know, every year aroundNovember we'd go there and spend
about two weeks and we do TVsthere and plus, we do our live
(07:58):
events there.
So right now they found out,since they started going to
Saudi Arabia, I guess they foundout now.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
You know that's a big market for wrestling People
want it and, like I said, thosepeople over there got a lot of
oil money and they don't mindspending it.
So I think it's more about themoney than maybe anything.
I can understand that in abusiness sense, but there comes
a time where you know when itcomes even to ticket prices now
(08:35):
being so high in WWE and itseems to just keep going up
Astronomical numbers that nobodythought they'd ever see.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Well, that's the thing that's kind of bothering
me too.
You know, and everybody know,we're living in this moment in
time now where everything hasjust went up tremendously.
I mean, golly man, I even hateto go to Walmart.
You know, you thought at onepoint in time you could go to
Walmart and you'd save somemoney, but you can't save any
money going in there now.
So you know, and like I said,people, like I said the
(09:06):
unemployment rate, they say Idon't know, I'm not a politician
, I don't work in government,but I watch the news and they
say that it's at an all-time low.
So people ain't got no jobs now.
So you know what I mean.
It's just I don't have any ideawhat they're thinking, you know
where people now ain't got nomoney, no jobs.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah, to me it seems like WWE has become nothing but
a money-hungry company under TKO.
And I hate to say that when itcomes to wrestling, because, as
much as I didn't always likewhat Vince McMahon may have
brought to the table in WWE inthe later years, I never felt
like he was looking for a way toscrew the wrestling fan.
I never felt that way.
But today, under the currentownership of the company, I feel
(09:56):
like it's nothing but a moneygrab.
And if you look back, even intoday's current news, one of our
major hamburger chains I won'tsay the name, but there's a
major hamburger chain thatbasically they raise their menu
prices because they thought,well, no big deal, we'll just
raise it up and nobody's goingto care, it's still going to
come.
They quit coming and now you'vegone back to your old menu
(10:21):
pricing because you lostcustomers Eventually, just like
that particular burger company.
That can happen to WWE, don'tyou think?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, yes, I really do.
I think so, because what goesaround comes around.
That's very true.
So I'm thinking, you know, thispower grab or the money grab,
or whatever you want to call it,you know, may last for a while,
but at the end of the day it'sgoing to come back around where
they're going to have to.
You know, come back and givethe people what they want, but
the people have to show, youknow, resistance too.
You know, hey, we ain't got nomoney, we're not going to take
(10:54):
this, and they may have toexplain to their kids and
everybody.
You know, hey, I know you loveit, I know you want to go, but
mom and daddy just can't affordto take you.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
No, and I think I told you this on another show
that we were doing earlier thisweek.
I have somebody that I knowpersonally that wanted to take
his three kids to go see a WWEshow but the prices were so high
he couldn't afford to take hisfamily this is a middle class
earning family and he couldn'tafford to take his kids to see.
(11:24):
Now he could choose one ofthose kids and take them and
afford it, but he couldn't takethem all.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You can't do that, no-transcript.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, you can't do that, and I also think that one
of my concerns is that if WWEcontinues to look at things from
just a money perspective, weknow they left New Orleans
because there was more money togo back to Vegas, and now Saudi
Arabia has more money than Vegas, so are they going to continue
(11:53):
to go where the money is?
Are we going to start seeingmore and more shows over in
Saudi Arabia?
And let me ask you one morequestion and we'll get to your
questions.
I'm so sorry but I do want tobring this up.
Teddy, we know thatWrestleMania while it's in Saudi
Arabia, there is nothinghappening.
That particular week, which isalways huge in the United States
.
If you're AEW or some othercompany, do you try to make an
(12:18):
impact that weekend with stillhaving a wrestling con under
some other guise of wrestling?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Well, I would certainly have something for the
American audience.
I would certainly do that.
You know, and I I I seen youknow why you were asking that
question.
I've seen some people commentand say that would be the wrong
thing to do for AEW to try torun against WWE.
I don't think they're runningagainst them.
I don't think they do it.
It's giving the American peoplea show.
Wwe is giving it to them inSaudi Arabia, but there are ways
(12:45):
that they can get it in the US.
It's going to be all kind ofcable TV or ESPN.
I think are doing somethingwhere they're showing it right.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh yeah.
But yeah, you'll be able tofind it in all kinds of places,
including movie theaters andstuff like that, yeah, so you'll
be still able to see it on thebig screen.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
you know what I mean, but some people, you know, just
around WrestleMania time, itain't nothing like you know,
being right there in the arena.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, because you look forward to going to see
these bigger-than-life wrestlingshows and getting around a
bunch of your friends.
You know that that's one ofthose things you get to do every
year and a lot of these fansthat are wrestling fans do do
this year after year after year,so you know it's going to be
something they're going to miss.
And I do see where a place likeWrestlingCon can make a big
(13:28):
difference by putting togethermaybe some big independent card,
kind of similar to what, maybewhat Cody did with the Young
Bucks before AEW came along.
They said, hey, we'll fill10,000 people into a stadium and
give people a show.
I think that's the opportunitythat exists right now If people
plan it.
Plan it quietly, but plan itand get ready to make that
(13:49):
attack, because you can make abig name for yourself on that
weekend.
I really feel that way.
Yeah, we're gonna pop out ofhere real quick because it's
time to get into the listenermailbag.
Letters oh, we get letters weget your letters every day.
(14:09):
Mailman, mailman mail today.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Reach my hand and pull one out.
Oh letters, I love thoseletters.
Let's find out what you've gotto say.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Oh boy, mailman mail today.
All right, teddy.
First of all, I want to mentionthis because I showed up on the
screen before we went to thatmailbag opening and it was
Ribshot saying happy birthday Iwant to make sure that you saw
(14:46):
that and Pretty Classy Ladysaying because everybody loves
Teddy except John Laurinaitis,and we see how that worked out
for him.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Well, thank you, pretty Classy Lady, thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Irving.
I think he's commenting on ourcomments about WWE's
WrestleMania, saying that's anAmerican staple and yes, I agree
, it's the same.
They'd be just like watchingthe NFL Super Bowl be played in
Saudi Arabia.
Just something doesn't seemright about that and I don't
mind other shows over there, Idon't mind other shows going to
other countries because I findthat interesting.
(15:22):
I just think that this oneparticular show maybe is not the
smartest thing to do and I hateto think that in the future
we'll start seeing them more andmore like that, where the
American fans no longer haveeasy access to what began as
their wrestling promotions inAmerica.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And then you got to realize this whatever networks
or whatever they put it on herein the US for people to see,
ain't no telling what you'regoing to have to pay to see that
.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Oh yeah, look, I know there's a lot of people to this
day right now, Teddy, who haveno clue how to get this
WrestlePalooza this weekend onESPN.
There's a lot of people underthe assumption that they're
going to get it for free if theyhave ESPN on their TV package.
That's not going to happen.
You've got to download the appand you've got to buy an extra
(16:09):
service level of ESPN service.
That includes the WrestleManiaPremium Live events.
But I don't think a lot ofpeople understand this.
I'm curious.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Well, what people got to really realize?
There's nothing free.
Okay, free is a hook.
That's like when you'rethrowing a worm to a fish.
When you see the word free, ohmy god, I don't have to pay.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yes, you do you just don't think so but now, if you
want to save some money,stephanie mcmahon stephanie
mcmahon did suggest the vpn nota bad idea.
Uh, let's see uh irving sayinghe agrees that it was the money.
And uh, one steak 45 bucks inWalmart.
Yeah, he's talking about theprice of things now.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I believe it, brother .
Listen, I'm in there, so I knowI had to cut back.
I had to put up the cross signin Walmart, like that.
Let's see.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
We also have.
Let's get another one in herereal quick.
We'll get to the emails here.
We also have.
Let's get another one in herereal quick.
We'll get to the the emailshere.
Irving saying my dad paid forour first WrestleMania tickets
in 1984, 45 buck floor seats.
Now, see you buy those ticketsNow you're going to spend
several thousand dollars.
I think you know.
If I'm, if I'm understandingwhere you were sitting, then
(17:22):
yeah, that's going to cost you apretty penny to sit there now,
which is a shame.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And you used to get a free chair.
You ain't going to get that now.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
No, no, no, you might get booted out of whatever
chair you're in, though Andy inSouth Carolina is asking do you
think we will ever see VinceMcMahon back in wrestling?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
You know I don't want to comment on that.
You know what I mean.
Here's one thing I would sayyou know, I'd love to see him
back in wrestling, so maybe wecould get this thing
straightened out and do it likeit's supposed to be done.
Not saying that it's not beingdone right now, but Vince just
has another different way ofdoing things, so I'm not going
to comment on it.
The only thing I can say Ihopefully wish he does start and
(18:06):
get something started.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
You know and I'm sitting here thinking as that,
I'm thinking about that questionevents.
Getting back in wrestling wewere just mentioning that, while
WrestleMania is in Saudi Arabiain 2027, man, can you imagine
Vince McMahon putting on somebig wrestling event in America,
in New York, maybe evensomewhere big that really brings
(18:29):
eyes, because if Vince's name'sattached to it, people are
going to watch?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Well, because they want to see.
He's been out for a while, youknow what I mean.
They haven't heard from him, sothey want to see what big
creative idea he's coming upwith now.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah, and that would be probably a good time.
Gives him time enough to planand execute what he needs to
have done prior to 2027.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And like I said, I don't think it has to really be
anything spectacular.
He just needs to tease themwith something.
You know what I mean?
Like there's maybe a big meetand greet and then maybe three,
four matches or something,somewhere with some top names or
something, and I think, I thinkthat would work.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Let's see.
We also have Irving saying,indie wrestling gathering around
WrestleMania locations.
Yeah, I still think that indiewrestling is going to have a
presence in WrestleMania week inAmerica.
I just can't think that we'regoing to completely forget that
that entire week exists.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
You know I, you know I.
I wanted to say this too.
You know the way things are now.
You know, if there was someindie company, you know, and
that was out there and had hadsome money, somebody to back
them and wanted to do it right,you got to do this right.
And I've really not keepstressing that, because I've
been with some guys that didn'tunderstand about doing it right
and they didn't succeed and theydidn't listen.
(19:41):
Well, you know those guys outthere.
When I was out there in Texashe had a great thing going out
there, man turning people away,sold out, and next thing, I know
you know, bad evil get involved.
So I ain't going to go intowhat all happened, but I'm just
saying we had it.
I had a gold mine.
These guys had a pay-per-viewcompany that put them on a sign
(20:04):
in New York City, in MadisonSquare, madison Square Garden.
They put them on a billboard,didn't charge them one dime.
And I said to them do you guysunderstand what has just
happened?
You're on a billboard in NewYork City and you didn't pay for
it and then they were going togive them so much money every
month.
You know, you know to add theprogram and they asked for.
(20:25):
They didn't have nothing, evenshown.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Nothing.
He didn't have any businessrecords, basically.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Nothing, absolutely nothing, man, and there were
great guys running it.
You know nothing wrong withthose guys, but, like I said,
you know they let other thingsget involved.
So you know, sometimes, whenyou let other things take over,
it's not good.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I agree, let's see.
Peter in Utah is asking havefans become too bitchy about
today's wrestling?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Oh yeah, they're bitchy about everything.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
So you know, just some fans you can't please.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I don't care what you do or what you offer them, they
still ain't happy.
So you know you're going tohave that.
That's just the way it is.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Plot twist Jones saying I hope AEW does something
to hurt WWE and I don't watchAEW at all.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Well, you know you're with me too, player.
I don't watch them either, butI wouldn't want them to do
nothing to hurt WWE, becausethis is not how that's supposed
to work.
All they need to do issomething that WWE recognizes
and say, oh wow, I didn't knowthose guys had that.
You know that's what you wantto do, but not to hurt them.
You don't want to hurt nocompany, because when you hurt
the company, then you hurt thepeople that work there.
(21:40):
You know, may they put a lot ofguys out of work or something.
So let's not look at it likethat.
Let's look at it positive andsee if there's a way that AEW
could probably do something toget WWE's attention.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
The one thing that I think fans are always going to
be loud about how they feelabout the products.
But I think we've gotten to apoint where it's almost like
politics Either you're aDemocrat or a Republican, you're
one or the other, and you can'taccept anything that the other
side might like.
Wrestling to me is very similarPeople have gotten to now
(22:10):
either they're a WWE fan orthey're an AEW fan, and they're
not in between.
You should be able to enjoy itall and root for them all,
because that's the only way it'sreally going to grow, that
we're going to get satisfiedwith what we want in our product
.
Let's see.
Funny, because I just saw onepop up on the screen here.
(22:30):
Question number four came fromAaron the Baron, who asked name
the best wrestling cities fromyour experience over the years.
Now, before you answer that, Ishould also mention a pretty
classy lady was on the samewavelength and she said Teddy,
what were some of your favoritecities or countries to travel to
when you were on the road?
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I didn't really have any favorite places because we
moved around so much, you know,you didn't really get a chance
to stay anywhere long.
I loved Corpus Christi becauseback in the day, you know, I was
drinking and everything I lovedthe margaritas and they had
this place in Corpus Christi.
Because back in the day, youknow, I was drinking and
everything.
I loved the margaritas and theyhad this place in Corpus
Christi, texas, and it wascalled Walter's Arster Bar and
the margaritas were $1.
And you could get any.
(23:14):
And then when you wanted to geta fish you know, order fish or
something all you had to do wasjust pick it out and they'd run,
go right out behind and go tothe river right there and catch
the fish.
Go right out behind and go tothe river right there and catch
the fish.
Yeah, no, they can't do that.
Yes, they can, brother, theywould catch the fish and they
would bring it in, okay, andthey would throw it to you and
if this is what you want, they'dcook it.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I want a sea bass.
Okay, hold on, teddy wants asea bass.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Run out there and throw your line.
Ask anybody that ever been toWalter's Orange Savoir about
that.
That's a true story, man.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh man, you had too many of those $1 margaritas.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
No man, that's a true story.
They would let you look at theboard and they would ask you
what fish you wanted.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
and I swear, man it was right on the ocean, they
would just pass the line.
Yeah, yeah, oh.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
God, oh, jesus.
Okay, I'm telling you, mac.
You may not believe it, that'sa true story.
Anybody that's been there knowsme and, back in the day, been
there at the Corbett Walters orsomebody.
I'll tell you how you can lookat the board, you pick the fish
and go get it.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Really fresh seafood you can catch the line as soon
as you order.
Exactly the Corpus.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Walters was one of those towns I liked Overseas.
I enjoyed the UK a little bit.
Of those towns I liked Overseas, I enjoyed the UK a little bit.
Yo, you just keep.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I'm waiting to get Teddy's fish.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Hold on Go ahead and drop the fries.
We'll be ready in about fiveminutes.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Oh God, Okay, I gotta quit.
I'm in a pot here now.
Okay, here's a question fromVanessa in Florida.
I'm sure they do the same thingthere in Florida too.
She wants to know, do you think?
Oh, what a good question.
Do you think WWE would bebetter off in someone else's
(25:21):
hands creatively?
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
maybe and maybe not.
And I I because, like I said, Idon't.
I don't see what WWE is doing abad job of anything.
I think they're doing good witheverything.
So but you know, there's somethings, I'm sure that are behind
the scenes, that uh ishappening, that I probably
wouldn't agree with.
But, like I said I, I don'twant to comment on it.
(25:48):
I think they're doing a goodjob, but I mean they probably
could do better.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Okay, what are you thinking about?
The poor guy that's got yourwaiter running from the table
throwing a line at him?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Oh he didn't have to run nowhere.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Oh yeah, dude, just stepped right out, oh yeah just
grab it out of the water, justreach into the ocean and grab
your fish, yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
And the reason.
And on that question too, andthe reason, you know it's kind
of hard to answer that becausesometimes things are done, you
know, just because somebodydon't like you.
You know what I mean and that'sreally bad, you know.
So that's why I said I don'twant to comment on it, joe, I'd
(26:31):
just rather, you know, we waitand see what happens.
But, like I said, if things aregoing to go right and God bless
us, hopefully Vince will comeback and get us, you know, get
us back to where we were.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Plot twist Jones.
The last time Mania was in NewYork with Vince, the weekend
package hotel, four days, chairless than five grand for four
people, 15 rows, that is now.
Let's see.
That to me is an affordableexperience because you're taking
you know that many people, yougot a hotel and everything else
(26:59):
and you're only in it for fivegrand.
That's not bad, but when yougot your entire family, that's
not bad.
Today, I would love to knowwhat that cost.
Plot you may even know this.
I'd be curious.
What would it cost today forthat same exact package?
That'd be curious.
See, he also mentions when Imeant hurt.
I mean make WWE to betterthemselves for the fans.
(27:20):
Yeah, yeah, I agree with you alot.
I really do.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
And a pretty classy lady.
She's laughing.
I guess she's laughing aboutthe fishing and the dining
experience, so let's laughing.
I guess she's laughing aboutthe fishing and the dining
experience, so let's see, we dohave, let's see.
One more question here I wantedto get in.
This is from Justin in Austin,asking what movies have you
watched more than once?
None, none.
(27:44):
There's not a favorite movie ofyours where you go out and say
I've got to watch that again.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Brother, I haven't, mac, I haven't watched a movie
movie and I couldn't tell you.
When I get a little bit of TVand news, I kind of keep up with
that and I watch On Patrol Live.
That's my favorite show andthat's about it.
I don't really care aboutmovies and stuff, no more.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
That's one thing I have noticed over the years I've
known Teddy.
Teddy has never been a bigmovie fan, you know Star Wars or
whatever it may be Because mosttimes you were working and
didn't have time.
You didn't have time to stop bya theater to go watch a movie,
did you?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
No no you didn't.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Even in the days of Blockbuster he didn't have time
to go out and get a videobecause he was on the road all
the time, so he couldn't justpop it into his house and watch
a movie.
Yeah, I didn't even think aboutBlockbuster.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I didn't even know it existed.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Danny, we're out of time.
Man, that went by fast and Iwas laughing so hard I think
about busting a gut.
But tell me, tonight we have at-shirt going to the person you
think had the best questiontonight, and who will that be?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Well, this person also had a question and a good
comment and I really enjoyed hisstuff today, and we're going to
talk about sending my main man,plot Twist Johnson, a shirt.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Plot Twist Jones.
Yeah, plot Twist Jones allright.
We're sending one, but we'llsend him another one because I
think he's won in the past, ifI'm not mistaken, which is fine.
I don't care, give it tosomebody else, I don't care,
give it to somebody else, Idon't care, just hand it off to
somebody else if you want.
But yeah, send me thatinformation just to be safe and
make sure I still got it.
But I do believe that he wonjust a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
We'll leave it up to Block Twist, if he wants to
accept that, he can.
If he wants to pass it on tosomebody else, since he's
already got one, that's up tohim.
But if he wants it, we'll sendit to him.
If not, then we'll findsomebody else to send it to.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Hey look, the best question of the night is the
best question of the night.
I don't care who it is it couldbe the same person you picked
last week but if it's the bestquestion of the night for you,
that's the one who's going toget lot of good stuff.
Yeah, he did, and I've enjoyedtonight and.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Teddy, I guess you have.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Between your eating habit.
First we find out how much junkyou actually really do eat.
Then we find out you go to arestaurant.
Where was this again?
Corpus Christi, Texas, when yougo and you walk in and you can
tell the waiter right there,right then, hey, I want
so-and-so, that's the kind offish I want for tonight.
(30:15):
And your waiter will run outwith his shoes off, throw a line
into the ocean and out comesTeddy's dinner.
That's what Teddy said earlier.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Well, it's a true story I'm telling you now.
Anybody that knows back in theday they'll tell you that we all
used to go there because themargaritas were real cheap $1.
So that was the spot.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I still say he was having too many margaritas and
not enough food.
I'm Matt Davis and that is WWEHall of Famer.
Teddy Long.
We'll see you again next time.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Same time, same place .
Speaker 1 (30:48):
See you.
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