June 12, 2025 • 31 mins
Mac Davis and WWE Hall of Famer Teddy Long kick off another engaging episode of Wrestling's Road Trip After Hours with fond memories of their recent appearance at River City Wrestling Con in St. Augustine. The duo shares a heartwarming reunion with WWE Hall of Famer Jackie Moore, complete with hilarious road trip stories that showcase the genuine friendships formed behind the scenes in professional wrestling.
The conversation quickly shifts to current wrestling controversies, starting with Rikishi's comments about his son Jey Uso's WWE booking. Teddy doesn't hold back, agreeing that WWE failed Jey by having him lose his championship too quickly: "It's not how you win the title, it's how you lose it." This prompts a broader discussion about WWE's creative direction and whether the company adequately plans storylines beyond championship victories.
When addressing R-Truth's WWE release, Teddy cuts through the noise with his trademark directness: "It's a shoot." He expresses frustration at what he sees as WWE's attempt to reframe the situation as planned, suggesting the company is trying to cover up what he believes was a mistake. This segment offers viewers a rare glimpse into how wrestling veterans interpret corporate messaging.
Perhaps most striking is their candid assessment of WWE's current ticket pricing strategy, with reports of ringside seats costing $30,000 and nosebleed sections approaching $1,000. "It's greed," Teddy states plainly, reflecting on how economic realities make such prices inaccessible to average fans. Both hosts worry this approach could backfire by driving wrestling enthusiasts toward more affordable independent shows, where fan-wrestler interactions remain personal and meaningful.
The episode features lively audience interaction, with Teddy answering questions about inspirational colleagues (naming JBL) and sharing brief but insightful comments about wrestling personalities like Goldust, Lita, Marty Jannetty, and Mick Foley. Want more behind-the-scenes wrestling stories and unfiltered commentary? Join Mac and Teddy next Thursday at 7:00 PM for another episode of Wrestling's Road Trip After Hours!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Let's do this.
Hello everybody, welcome intothe room.
Make sure you pass this linkaround so everybody knows we are
live right now.
(01:16):
Teddy's up close and personaltoday.
Boy, you're right in thatcamera today, aren't you, teddy?
They changed the design of thelayouts here, so we're trying
something different to see howthis looks.
But again, everybody, welcometo the show.
This is Wrestling's Road TripAfter Hours.
I'm your host, mac Davis, andof course, that is WWE Hall of
Famer, mr Teddy Long.
(01:37):
Teddy, I had a great time lastweekend.
We were in St Augustine,florida, for the River City
Wrestling Con, which was a blast.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, me too, man.
Well, you know, I've had thechance to attend it for the past
three years and every year itgets better and better.
So, so happy I was there.
I had a chance to see a lot ofpeople that I hadn't seen for a
while.
We had so much fun with JackieMoore.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I'll tell you what.
For those of you who arewondering if you have not seen
the, the interview we did withJackie Morris.
It's just a couple of minuteslong, but we haven't seen.
I haven't seen Jackie in a longtime because it's been a while
since she's been at these thingsand to see her back around was
phenomenal.
And if you didn't get to see oryou didn't, you know, watch it
live when we did it I'll giveyou an idea right here about
(02:24):
exactly what went down.
Hello everybody and welcome toroad trip.
After hours on the road, teddyand I, of course, are in saint
augustine, florida, for rivercity.
So yeah, I'll let you say itthis time why you?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
why you being so proper, trying to use all
big-time words and stuff tryingto impress Jackie Moore because
she's standing there.
But I don't blame you.
You know to be standing next toa woman that's behind a Jackie
Moore, you need to do someimpression.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Thank you, Teddy.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You're very welcome.
You're very welcome.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Let me ask you a question just out of curiosity
have you ever rode with Teddyand taken any car trips with him
back in the days where maybeyou went way out of the way?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I did many road trips with teddy long, but I don't
want to talk about that.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I don't want to talk about us getting lost well,
ladies and gentlemen, in caseyou're wondering what is
happening here, the legendaryjackie moore, my best friend in
the whole entire world.
She was riding with me onenight.
I just couldn't drive no more.
I was so sleepy so we only hadabout 80 miles to go, but when I
woke up I think Jackie Mooretook us about 1,250 miles out of
(03:36):
the way.
I believe we woke up in.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Canada.
Listen here, teddy.
I was tired.
Come on, dude.
You didn't want to drive.
Give me a break.
You wanted me to drive thewhole way.
Give me a break here, okay.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Well, I guess there's not much I can say about that.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
At some point did you think to yourself I need to
wake Teddy up because we've goneway too long.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I was scared.
I was scared he was going tocuss me out.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
man, I was so scared.
Jackie, it's great to have you.
I was saying a while ago youlook absolutely incredible and I
haven't seen you on the circuitmuch lately, but now you pop
back in.
It's good to see you again.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I'm doing more signings now, but it's great
meeting you, mac Davis, thereused to be a country singer
named.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Mac Davis, I remember that, but you're more than him.
No, we wasn't him.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
No, it wasn't him.
No, that guy's dead so I hopeit's not me.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, right, right, All right, Jackie.
What are you doing now?
Are you anywhere else?
You're going after this showhere in St Augustine.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You know, the next trip, I think so I will be in
WrestleCon.
I think it's in New Jersey, Ithink.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
SummerSlam, right, SummerSlam yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
So you booked her right.
Are you signing her?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Well, I don't know whether I'm going to make that
or not.
I got something else I'm goingto be in Atlanta for Dragon Con.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
But you know Teddy does a lotof signings, so I'm trying to
catch up with him, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I'm trying to hang with him.
I'm going to help Jackie outright here because I Asking for
her.
You know what I mean.
So this is a long time comingand we're just glad to have her
back out on the scene soeverybody can come out and see
Jackie, because she was greatWWE Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Oh well, that's right , that's right, my bad, my bad,
the one and only.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And that's true.
Yes, absolutely true.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Jackie, thank you so much for joining us.
We appreciate you being here.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Thank yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I got a little hug on the neck there from Jackie.
I'll tell you what I love aboutthat Teddy was that she's a
Southern girl, just a countrygirl really at heart.
And you know I'm a country girl, I'm from the South man and
speaking with her and talkingwith her over the weekend about
different things, not justwrestling, but just talking in
general such a sweet, classy,southern lady.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, man, yeah, what a sweetheart man.
She's a great person.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
By the way, if you'd like to be a part of the show,
all you have to do is drop us acomment in the comment section.
We'll throw it up on the screenand answer any questions you
may have or comments you haveabout the show or anything else,
maybe even about today'swrestling.
But before we get there, I dowant to let you know that in a
little bit we are going to goback to River City Wrestling Con
where Teddy Long was actuallytrying to throw hands with D-Von
(06:12):
and Luke Gallows.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
That'll be coming up in just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
You're going to see this in a minute.
You'll love it.
Let me ask you.
Teddy Rikishi is in the newsright now.
He recently commented on hisOff the Top podcast about WWE's
booking of his son, jey Uso, andhe says let me see if I can
find it here.
Rikishi isn't a fan of Jey'scompetitors and the storylines.
(06:39):
He says, quote I feel I need tohave top-not notch players to
be able to feed Jay, to let Jayshowcase his talent.
He went on to say quote becauseI always think like he worked
so hard to get to this top mainevent spot.
Now just don't hold it back now, keep going, keep feeding him,
(07:03):
which is kind of something youmentioned the other day on
Sportskeeda, where you felt likemaybe it was too soon for him
to lose that title.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, you know, like I said, I hate just even
commenting on some of this stuff.
But like I said to me and thisis my opinion, you know I
thought it was too soon.
You know I thought he'd get alittle bit of a run with it.
You know what I thought it wastoo soon.
You know, I thought he'd get alittle bit of a run with it.
You know what I mean.
So sometimes, you know, whenyou keep it for a minute there
and then when you do take it, itmeans something.
Always remember this it's nothow you win the title, it's how
(07:34):
you lose it.
Okay, so that's what you alwayshave to remember.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, you know I hated to see that he lost the
title so quickly and I've beenpretty vocal about the fact on
other shows that I feel like WWEfailed him.
You know he gets that belt andthey had the story all the way
to the championship.
I just don't think they thoughtpast that and because of that,
(08:00):
Jay suffers holding thatchampionship.
He's not given some of theopportunities or real creative
storylines to make people careand no matter how good he is, if
the storyline stinks, thestoryline stinks.
Let me ask you about somethingelse in WWE, Teddy.
This is something we've talkedabout on other shows, but not
(08:22):
here R-Truth.
He got released.
We did talk about that, butthere's been a lot of back and
forth.
Is it a work, Is it a shoot?
Teddy Long, what do you say?
Work or shoot it's a shoot.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Jesus Christ, what does it take for these people?
Even Nick Khan WWE is sick.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, yeah is yeah, yeah it's.
You know it.
What the sad part is is thatthe wwe came in and they tried
to make it sound like it was awork.
They tried to sell the fans.
This is a work, and every fanout there I don't care if you're
young or old everybody prettymuch went nah, that's not the
case.
This guy got fired, you screwedup and now you're trying to
(09:05):
cover up the stench of a screwup by saying, oh no, that was
planned the whole time.
I don't believe that for asecond.
To me, it's old news.
Yep, all right, let's see, wedo have.
I want to get Reginald in here.
Hello, mac and Teddy, how areyou?
We're doing great, reginald.
Yeah, we're good, blair, andlet's see a pretty classy lady
(09:25):
also in here.
My shirt came in last week.
I'm going to make a video withit.
Good, good, send it to us.
We'll throw it up on the screen.
Thank you, and if you want tobe on the show, just drop us a
note right here in the commentssection.
We'll throw it up on the screen.
(09:47):
Else in the news, before we getready for some of the questions,
could Vince McMahon buy backthe WWE?
According to Eric Bischoffnever say never.
He says I can't imagine that.
He says I can't imagine thescenario where that would be
likely.
However, it's plausible.
Tko might not be interested,but it's a publicly held company
.
Bischoff went on to say it ispossible that Vince McMahon
(10:10):
could put together enough moneyto make an offer for a publicly
held company and because itwould have a positive,
potentially good impact on theshareholder's value, the offer
would have to be entertained.
That's interesting, teddy,because we've heard a lot of
rumors that he'd like to buy itback, but TKO saying it's not
(10:33):
for sale, and pretty much whatEric Bischoff's saying.
Well, if he has the moneybehind him and presents him with
so much money, they can't sayno.
Never say never.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Well, like I always tell you, every man has a price.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
That's true, especially if you're right now.
You see the, the ratings, andthey're not getting better,
they're getting worse.
If that's the case, Netflix isgoing to get kind of edgy about
everything, so you never knowwhat may happen.
I still believe that we willsee Vince McMahon one day
somewhere somehow back in thepublic eye, and probably within
(11:09):
sports entertainment.
Well, I certainly hope so.
I do too.
I'd like to see his creativitycome back, and I know a lot of
people hate to hear that, but uh, the person.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I don't care where.
You hate to hear it or not.
This is how I feel about theguy.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Absolutely All right, guys.
Uh, we're going to break awayreal fast Cause I'm going to
show you something that uhhappened over the weekend at the
River City Wrestling Con in StAugustine, florida.
Teddy got a little upset.
Somebody was coming up to seeD-Von Dudley and well, teddy
wanted to start throwing hands.
Here's what I'm talking aboutExciting.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
D-Von getting excited because there's a few men who
are never going to change ourlove.
I'm excited.
D-mark is excited because it'sa new man.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It's never gonna change our love.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Give me the poli Letters.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh, we get letters we get your letters every day,
Mailman, mailman mail.
Today, Reach right in and pullone out those letters.
I love those letters.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Let's find out what you've got to say.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Mailman Mail today, Alright so let's see.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Question number one comes from Ricky, retired on X.
He's actually got a couplequestions here.
Wwe under Vince McMahon wasvery generous at times, such as
sending a jet to pick up harleyraces uh, harley race when he
was not uh feeling good and wasnear death to bring him back
(13:01):
home never looked for praise.
That being vince the wwe undertko, will wwe lose this type of
generosity?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Well, I don't know.
You know that's kind of left upto the individual.
You know that was Vince's owndecision right there.
So that would be left up towhoever's running TKO.
That decision would be left upto them.
So I don't know whether they'llbe that generous or not, but
Vince was like that.
You know what I mean.
If he'd go out of his way, youknow, if that's what he needed
to do to get you there or tohelp you.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I do think that it's probably more likely that Vince
would do that over a fullcompany that's going to have to
go through red tape just to geta yes or a no, whereas Vince
would just say go do it, youknow.
So this probably is adifference when it comes to that
Pretty classic lady commentingsaying uh, good to see jackie.
Uh yeah, by the way, teddy.
(13:55):
Um, the story you told abouther driving.
After that, that incidenthappened and she drove so long
past where she was supposed togo.
Did you ever ride with heragain?
No, jackie may be watching this, by the way.
I sent her an invite.
Are there any other stories youcan tell us about jackie?
(14:16):
Uh, some things that happenedwith you and Jackie may be
watching this, by the way, Isent her an invite.
Are there any?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
other stories you can tell us about Jackie, some
things that happened with youand Jackie.
I think I say she is such acool lady.
Yeah, I rode with Jackie somemore.
You know, like I said, thingslike that happen, man, you know.
I mean that's on the road,you're tired driving back in the
day, man.
So you know, stuff like thathappens.
But no more stories.
Jackie was just always a sweetperson.
I just enjoy working with herman and she's so easy to get
along with.
But now she can.
I've seen her a little madbefore now and that's you kind
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of don't want to see that.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, no, no, no.
I can imagine you wouldn't wantto see that at all.
Let's see Zach is in here.
What is Teddy's thoughts on RonKilling's return to WWE?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Well, like I said, congratulations to him, hope
everything works out for him,just the act of God.
I'll always say that if this isa shoot which I believe, but
you never know but, like I said,congratulations to him and I
hope everything works out forhim All right, let's see.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Here's another question.
Wwe raised prices to ridiculouslevels for a PLE.
It's getting unaffordable for adad to take kids anymore.
Do you think WWE is?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
reaching a wall and will they experience a drop in
viewership and revenue.
Well, you know, here's what Ithink about that.
You know it's kind of calledgreed.
You know what I mean, and whenyou get greedy, sometimes that
causes you a problem.
Like I said, you know.
Right now, you know you'reliving in this world.
The economy is really not in awhole lot of good shape.
(15:57):
You know their job you know alot of people out of work out
there, so they can't afford to,uh, you know, buy those tickets
and I understand what were theyin vegas.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
How, what, what was the price of them?
Oh, they were in the that.
Well, I think that yeah yeah,it was, it was well.
I think the actually was 30 000for some of the ones down by
the ring I.
I can understand sellinghigh-priced tickets, you know,
down around ringside, but even$30,000 is like, are you kidding
me?
But I mean, there's even, Ithink, if I've heard this
correctly, summerslam.
(16:21):
The cheapest ticket up in thenosebleeds is just under $1,000,
I think.
I think that's not right, Iagree.
Yeah, it takes away from.
I mean, you know, teddy, Iremember the days when you could
go to a ball game.
You know my, you know yourparents could take a.
He'd grab his son If his sonwas in the baseball or football,
whatever, take him go watch agame somewhere and it didn't
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cost you so much money.
It was real Americans with whathave real value.
They don't have a lot of moneyto spend and that's what made
sports so popular.
Am I wrong in that?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Well, that's just not the country we live in now.
Okay, things have changed.
So you know you have to beprepared for the change or you
have to hopefully that you canchange with it.
But a lot of people are notgoing to be prepared and some of
them not going to be able tochange with this change.
Like the prices and stuff aregoing up now.
I went in Walmart today and Ijust got a few things and I got
(17:16):
there.
It's $200.
You know, and I'm like JesusChrist, you know, but what can
you do?
You know you have to have thesethings.
I just thank God I had themoney to pay for them.
But there's some people thatare not going to be that lucky.
They ain't going to have themoney to pay for that stuff.
So kids are going to be goinghungry and you know it's really
sad.
So let's just hope and praythat things get better.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yeah, I hope it does.
You know where organizationslike WWE I don't see and I made
me wrong about this.
I don't know the man, but Inever saw Vince McMahon or never
felt like he was trying to getevery penny out of somebody's
pocket, and I feel like that'swhat wwe is right now.
(17:59):
I feel like they're trying tosuck every single penny they can
out of your pocket without careas to what it may do to you or
your family, or or maybe yourfan base dwindles because they
can't afford to come see yourshow anymore.
That's going to end up bitingthem in the ass in the end.
Is you're going to priceyourself out of the fans because
the average fan can't come seeyou live and suddenly they just
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don't care as much?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Well, here's what you got to look at.
They did it.
They bought the tickets atWrestleMania.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah, but again they sold fewer.
They didn't have a sellout, uh,and they they said they didn't
care as long as they got thedollar amount they were looking
for right right you know I can'timagine a time whenever vince
said every ass in this, you know, every seat in here, this
building, better have an ass init, and you know.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And they don't think that way now yeah, well, you
know, it's just like I said,it's called change.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, unfortunately uh, kayla, uh, franklin's in
here, we saw her over theweekend and she's saying yeah, I
enjoyed seeing you both overthe weekend.
Yeah, we got to see you too.
Uh, kayla, we enjoyed that uhyeah everything's fine with your
dad and everybody else.
I know that you've had someissues there, so hopefully
everybody's doing okay.
Uh, and let's see she's in hereagain.
She, I just got finished.
(19:13):
I'm sorry.
That's why I enjoy indie shows.
You get to interact with thewrestlers and it's affordable.
Uh, she's talking about thepricing of wwe tickets.
Yes, uh, and that's why I thinkthat there is such a surge for
independent wrestling right now,because anybody can truly have
a tv station.
I mean, if you want to say,well, I'm on'm on TV, well, go
to YouTube, go to Roku, go toone of these things, anybody can
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be out there.
As long as you put Teddy and I,we're here.
It's just he and I, there's nomachine behind us.
So it can be done.
And I think that when wrestlingbecomes too expensive, like WWE
just like Kayla says theindependents start becoming more
palatable to people who havemaybe never thought I want to go
see one, and then they do andthey fall in love with what
(19:58):
they're seeing and the peoplethere.
So it's a good thing for theindies maybe, but not so much
for the WWE.
Let's see Sin on Facebook isasking who was the most
inspirational person during yourtime in wrestling and who was
the most negative?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
God.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
The most person that I really enjoyed was John
Bradshaw Latham JBL.
He was a great guy.
You know there were some guysthat were negative, you know,
but not really nothing to reallytalk about.
You know, I'd just sit back andkind of watch them and just
stay away from them.
So that's how you do that.
So let the negativity keep ongoing and just try to, you know,
(20:46):
stay away from all that.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
If you want to be a part of the show, simply drop us
a comment and we will throw itup on the screen and talk back
and forth with you and answeryour questions, or just let you
vent something out.
If you rather do that and youcan share this around as well,
please do that as well, becausewe got a good number of you in
here right now.
We got about 10 more minutesbefore we get out of here.
Let's see Pretty classy lady'sasking did you see the clip
(21:10):
yesterday of Kenny Omegaspitting up blood from an elbow
drop?
Aew is doing too much, teddy.
I know you didn't see itbecause you don't watch AEW.
I saw the video and I thoughtit was overacted.
Let's put it that way.
I think that's what she's kindof saying herself.
It may have been.
(21:31):
Oversell.
Yeah, yeah, you sell it way toomuch.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
That could have been.
The guy might have hit himright in his throat.
Well, I think he got the elbowdrop, came across his chest, but
I didn't pay that closeattention.
Who knows, sometimes I thinkthey do go a little bit
overboard, especially with theblood and AEW.
They need to back it off andjust use it once in a great
while.
Lily Hunter oh, hey, look here,this is the girl, teddy.
I know you probably don'trecognize that name, but liveth
(22:02):
is uh in the s, uh, icw andother groups up there around the
area where we were in st louis.
She was the tall girl yeah,that's all right, yeah look here
, lily.
Uh, I hope everything's goinggreat for you.
Uh, man, I'm still waiting tosee you on TV one day, cause you
are a.
I don't want to make this soundbad, but you're a freak of
nature, you're.
You are a big girl, attractive,and I think that you're going
(22:25):
to do very well.
Just keep listening to BobOrton.
If I'm not mistaken, that isyour trainer, one of your
trainers, and if that's the case, you just keep listening,
because you probably gettingreally good advice.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah, not good advice .
She's getting the best advicethat she could ever get.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah, she said.
I'm sad I didn't make it overto say hi at the St Louis Fan
Fest, but we did pass each otherand I did say hello to you
because I wanted to make sureyou knew I was there because
I've been keeping up with you.
Let's see, we do have anotherGeorgia independent wrestling
fan here that I know.
Ellen is in here and she'sasking hey, teddy Buddy says
hello, he just graduated highschool.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yeah, I know exactly who Ellen is.
Hey, I get a chance to see herat some of the shows that I'm on
every once in a while.
I think the last time I saw herI was in Atlanta.
No, I mean, I'm sorry, Probablywhen we were together.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah, I mean, where did?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I go.
It was for an industrial, Ithink it was out there or
something.
I went out there and she wasout there hearing Buddy.
They were at that show.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, buddy, her and Buddy have been at so many of
the shows I've been to, you know, in the later years when I was
going to the independent shows.
Sweet lady and a great son.
And congratulations, by the way, buddy, for graduating high
school, that.
And congratulations, by the way, buddy, for graduating high
school, that's a big deal, yeah,man.
Congratulations.
Let's see here.
What else do we have?
I got a name association.
We'll have to get to that injust a minute because I want to
make sure I'm trying to get youout of the way.
(23:47):
For some reason I got you frozeup on here.
Oh, don't do this to me now.
You know, screen will freeze upthere we go there we go now I
gotta be alive.
It's meant to be.
That's right.
Let's see.
Zach, what kind of day couldyou give me about how to be
better at commentary?
Uh, I have been working since2018.
(24:11):
It built my brand.
I'm not sure if I understandthe question.
Zach, what kind of uh advicemaybe could you give him about
uh being better at commentary?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I can't give any advice.
I don't.
I never heard him, never seenhim, never.
You were on his podcast.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
He's one of the guys in the podcast from st louis
that we did a show with um.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Okay, yeah, but you haven't seen enough of his work
to be able to tell that yeah,I'd have to see that and to be
able to determine what adviceyou you know.
So I haven't seen any of that.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I'll tell you something that I have learned
Just simply be yourself that way.
Anytime you have that mic open,if you speak, that's you, and
anytime that you do something,it's you.
You don't have to think aboutit, and that's the same way as
commentary.
Just be you and let it roll.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
And another thing try not to step on each other,
terry, just be you and let itroll.
And another thing try not tostep on each other.
That's real important.
Try not to do that.
You know, give the guy at leastget.
Let him get his point out, geta pause in there.
So when you start, you're clean, but when you're stepping on
each other, that's confusing.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
There's another good suggestion here and then we'll
move on to the next one.
But listen to what your guestis saying.
Too many times I watch apodcast or listen to them and
the interviewer is askingquestions, but he's not really
listening to the answers.
He's just getting ready for thenext question.
Sometimes you miss goldennuggets when you do that,
(25:31):
because they may say somethingthat you can take that
conversation a little bitdifferently, in a different
direction, and make itcompletely different.
So never shut them down tooquick and listen to what they're
saying.
Let's see, zach, what kind ofno.
Okay, that's what I thought itwas.
Okay, here we go and he says hethanks us very much.
We appreciate you, you're verywelcome, man.
(25:54):
Yeah, man, all right, we gotname association time and we got
time for maybe just a few ofthese, teddy, before we have to
close out again, if you've got aquestion, pop it in here.
We'll throw it up on the screenbefore we're gone.
Name association Give me athought or a memory or anything
else you can at the followingpeople Gold dust.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
What about it?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Any thoughts, any memories?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Oh, gold dust oh yeah , uh, dustin, yeah yeah yeah, I
had a great time working withhim back in the day.
I remember a good story I hadthere one time and I know this
was wrong, but you know wedidn't care back in the day.
He wasn't old enough to buybeer so I had to go in and buy
beer for him.
So now you know that was deadwrong.
Anything could have happened.
(26:38):
I'd have never lived it down.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
What would you have done if Dusty found out?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Oh, I don't know, come here, baby, listen, listen.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Don't influence my son.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yeah, yeah.
What's wrong with?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
you Pretty classy lady.
She's asking what are yourfavorite Atlanta eating spots.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
At my house.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Before you said that, I knew exactly what you were
going to say.
I don't order.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
no restaurants.
I don't eat out.
I don't do none of that.
It's me and Mr Ruva.
So we eat at home every day.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
We love it, curly man , saying that you don't think
you've got your t-shirt yet.
If that's the case, if youhaven't received your t-shirts,
I think everybody else hasalready confirmed.
If you haven't sent me yourinfo again, let me make sure
that everything I have iscorrect and I didn't send it to
somebody else.
Who knows.
He will do that, cause I'm'mgonna tell you that right now,
(27:42):
nick is in here.
Uh, joe hamilton jr holla,holla, oh man what a great guy.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
We got there.
Ladies and gentlemen, if youdon't know joe hampton jr,
that's nick patrick, legendarynick patrick, referee of all
time.
This man here was in thebusiness I never.
I walked up to him and I triedto give him a resume.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha ha.
I could just see his expressionlike what oh?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
yeah, you know me, I don't know, I'm trying to get a.
Do you want to be a referee?
So I had a resume, trying toget it out.
Oh man, thank you for checkingin on us, man, and tell Tony
that little big Nick I saidhello.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, look here Anytime you need, Teddy and I.
You holler at us.
Let us know we had fun thatlast time we were there.
All right, here's another nameassociation for you, Teddy Lita.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Very nice to work with.
You know she was always niceand great attitude.
You know Never had no problemwith her.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I've always seen her with Trish Stratus.
They're always around eachother every time I see them if
they're in the same room.
Did they do that back at thattime?
Were they getting along backthen, or did that just kind of
develop over time?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
No, they always got along, they were always friends.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Here's an interesting one, marty Gennetti.
Is that, marty?
Well, I'm saying that's a nameassociation.
Another name here for you isMarty Genetti.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Oh, yeah, well, yeah, god, I love so much respect for
Marty.
Marty's had a rough time andMarty's went through a lot, but
you know what I mean.
Marty's the guy that you're notgoing to take him down.
He's not going to stop, he'scontinuing to go on and I admire
him so much, man, all the stuffthat he's been through and, uh,
you know he's still movingalong, man, and every time I see
(29:22):
him somewhere I go right up tohim give him a hug.
Marty genetti, I love him.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
what a what a great guy all right, we got one more
name on here.
This is somebody that we saw inflorida last weekend, and that
is mick foley oh yeah, I had achance to go say hello to Nick.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Always great to talk with Mick Foley.
He's an interesting guy.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yes, it is All right.
Teddy, I know you usually pickthe people who win T-shirts.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Can I pick one tonight?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Well, if you want to pay me for the shirt, then I'll
let you pick one.
Yeah, they're in my possession.
I don't pay you nothing.
Actually, I want to give thisto Ellen because I know where
that will go.
That will go to her son, buddy.
Yeah.
So, ellen, you and Buddy arethis week's winner for the Road
Trip After Hours T-shirts.
All you have to do is just sendme your information.
You can do that throughFacebook, because I know we're
(30:18):
connected there.
Just t-shirts All you have todo is just send me your
information.
You can do that throughFacebook, because I know we're
connected there.
Just shoot it to me in amessage and I'll get that out
the door and to your house andthen take a picture.
Let us see it once you get it.
We'd like to pick those upevery time we have a chance.
I did have a shirt and, teddy, Iforgot this until just now.
I'll bring this in next week.
There was a T-shirt this pastweekend at the Fan Fest that was
something to do with the storecalled Bucky's.
(30:41):
I'll share that with you nextweek.
It was probably the mostoutrageous T-shirt I saw.
No, there was actually one moreand I remember.
Teddy, you pointed the otherone out, but we'll talk about
that next week.
We'll tell you more about thesecrazy T-shirts when we come
back again next Thursdayursdaynight, seven o'clock.
Right here, same time, sameplace.
I'm your host, mac davis.
(31:01):
This has been road trip afterhours, and that is wwe hall of
famer, mr teddy long, and if youdon't subscribe and if you
don't check in with us,one-on-one with the undertaker?
We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Let's do this.
Hello everybody, welcome intothe room.
Make sure you pass this linkaround so everybody knows we are
live right now.
(01:16):
Teddy's up close and personaltoday.
Boy, you're right in thatcamera today, aren't you, teddy?
They changed the design of thelayouts here, so we're trying
something different to see howthis looks.
But again, everybody, welcometo the show.
This is Wrestling's Road TripAfter Hours.
I'm your host, mac Davis, andof course, that is WWE Hall of
Famer, mr Teddy Long.
(01:37):
Teddy, I had a great time lastweekend.
We were in St Augustine,florida, for the River City
Wrestling Con, which was a blast.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, me too, man.
Well, you know, I've had thechance to attend it for the past
three years and every year itgets better and better.
So, so happy I was there.
I had a chance to see a lot ofpeople that I hadn't seen for a
while.
We had so much fun with JackieMoore.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I'll tell you what.
For those of you who arewondering if you have not seen
the, the interview we did withJackie Morris.
It's just a couple of minuteslong, but we haven't seen.
I haven't seen Jackie in a longtime because it's been a while
since she's been at these thingsand to see her back around was
phenomenal.
And if you didn't get to see oryou didn't, you know, watch it
live when we did it I'll giveyou an idea right here about
(02:24):
exactly what went down.
Hello everybody and welcome toroad trip.
After hours on the road, teddyand I, of course, are in saint
augustine, florida, for rivercity.
So yeah, I'll let you say itthis time why you?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
why you being so proper, trying to use all
big-time words and stuff tryingto impress Jackie Moore because
she's standing there.
But I don't blame you.
You know to be standing next toa woman that's behind a Jackie
Moore, you need to do someimpression.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Thank you, Teddy.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You're very welcome.
You're very welcome.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Let me ask you a question just out of curiosity
have you ever rode with Teddyand taken any car trips with him
back in the days where maybeyou went way out of the way?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I did many road trips with teddy long, but I don't
want to talk about that.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I don't want to talk about us getting lost well,
ladies and gentlemen, in caseyou're wondering what is
happening here, the legendaryjackie moore, my best friend in
the whole entire world.
She was riding with me onenight.
I just couldn't drive no more.
I was so sleepy so we only hadabout 80 miles to go, but when I
woke up I think Jackie Mooretook us about 1,250 miles out of
(03:36):
the way.
I believe we woke up in.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Canada.
Listen here, teddy.
I was tired.
Come on, dude.
You didn't want to drive.
Give me a break.
You wanted me to drive thewhole way.
Give me a break here, okay.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Well, I guess there's not much I can say about that.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
At some point did you think to yourself I need to
wake Teddy up because we've goneway too long.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I was scared.
I was scared he was going tocuss me out.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
man, I was so scared.
Jackie, it's great to have you.
I was saying a while ago youlook absolutely incredible and I
haven't seen you on the circuitmuch lately, but now you pop
back in.
It's good to see you again.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I'm doing more signings now, but it's great
meeting you, mac Davis, thereused to be a country singer
named.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Mac Davis, I remember that, but you're more than him.
No, we wasn't him.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
No, it wasn't him.
No, that guy's dead so I hopeit's not me.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, right, right, All right, Jackie.
What are you doing now?
Are you anywhere else?
You're going after this showhere in St Augustine.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You know, the next trip, I think so I will be in
WrestleCon.
I think it's in New Jersey, Ithink.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
SummerSlam, right, SummerSlam yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
So you booked her right.
Are you signing her?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Well, I don't know whether I'm going to make that
or not.
I got something else I'm goingto be in Atlanta for Dragon Con.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
But you know Teddy does a lotof signings, so I'm trying to
catch up with him, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I'm trying to hang with him.
I'm going to help Jackie outright here because I Asking for
her.
You know what I mean.
So this is a long time comingand we're just glad to have her
back out on the scene soeverybody can come out and see
Jackie, because she was greatWWE Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Oh well, that's right , that's right, my bad, my bad,
the one and only.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And that's true.
Yes, absolutely true.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Jackie, thank you so much for joining us.
We appreciate you being here.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Thank yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I got a little hug on the neck there from Jackie.
I'll tell you what I love aboutthat Teddy was that she's a
Southern girl, just a countrygirl really at heart.
And you know I'm a country girl, I'm from the South man and
speaking with her and talkingwith her over the weekend about
different things, not justwrestling, but just talking in
general such a sweet, classy,southern lady.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, man, yeah, what a sweetheart man.
She's a great person.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
By the way, if you'd like to be a part of the show,
all you have to do is drop us acomment in the comment section.
We'll throw it up on the screenand answer any questions you
may have or comments you haveabout the show or anything else,
maybe even about today'swrestling.
But before we get there, I dowant to let you know that in a
little bit we are going to goback to River City Wrestling Con
where Teddy Long was actuallytrying to throw hands with D-Von
(06:12):
and Luke Gallows.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
That'll be coming up in just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
You're going to see this in a minute.
You'll love it.
Let me ask you.
Teddy Rikishi is in the newsright now.
He recently commented on hisOff the Top podcast about WWE's
booking of his son, jey Uso, andhe says let me see if I can
find it here.
Rikishi isn't a fan of Jey'scompetitors and the storylines.
(06:39):
He says, quote I feel I need tohave top-not notch players to
be able to feed Jay, to let Jayshowcase his talent.
He went on to say quote becauseI always think like he worked
so hard to get to this top mainevent spot.
Now just don't hold it back now, keep going, keep feeding him,
(07:03):
which is kind of something youmentioned the other day on
Sportskeeda, where you felt likemaybe it was too soon for him
to lose that title.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, you know, like I said, I hate just even
commenting on some of this stuff.
But like I said to me and thisis my opinion, you know I
thought it was too soon.
You know I thought he'd get alittle bit of a run with it.
You know what I thought it wastoo soon.
You know, I thought he'd get alittle bit of a run with it.
You know what I mean.
So sometimes, you know, whenyou keep it for a minute there
and then when you do take it, itmeans something.
Always remember this it's nothow you win the title, it's how
(07:34):
you lose it.
Okay, so that's what you alwayshave to remember.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, you know I hated to see that he lost the
title so quickly and I've beenpretty vocal about the fact on
other shows that I feel like WWEfailed him.
You know he gets that belt andthey had the story all the way
to the championship.
I just don't think they thoughtpast that and because of that,
(08:00):
Jay suffers holding thatchampionship.
He's not given some of theopportunities or real creative
storylines to make people careand no matter how good he is, if
the storyline stinks, thestoryline stinks.
Let me ask you about somethingelse in WWE, Teddy.
This is something we've talkedabout on other shows, but not
(08:22):
here R-Truth.
He got released.
We did talk about that, butthere's been a lot of back and
forth.
Is it a work, Is it a shoot?
Teddy Long, what do you say?
Work or shoot it's a shoot.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Jesus Christ, what does it take for these people?
Even Nick Khan WWE is sick.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, yeah is yeah, yeah it's.
You know it.
What the sad part is is thatthe wwe came in and they tried
to make it sound like it was awork.
They tried to sell the fans.
This is a work, and every fanout there I don't care if you're
young or old everybody prettymuch went nah, that's not the
case.
This guy got fired, you screwedup and now you're trying to
(09:05):
cover up the stench of a screwup by saying, oh no, that was
planned the whole time.
I don't believe that for asecond.
To me, it's old news.
Yep, all right, let's see, wedo have.
I want to get Reginald in here.
Hello, mac and Teddy, how areyou?
We're doing great, reginald.
Yeah, we're good, blair, andlet's see a pretty classy lady
(09:25):
also in here.
My shirt came in last week.
I'm going to make a video withit.
Good, good, send it to us.
We'll throw it up on the screen.
Thank you, and if you want tobe on the show, just drop us a
note right here in the commentssection.
We'll throw it up on the screen.
(09:47):
Else in the news, before we getready for some of the questions,
could Vince McMahon buy backthe WWE?
According to Eric Bischoffnever say never.
He says I can't imagine that.
He says I can't imagine thescenario where that would be
likely.
However, it's plausible.
Tko might not be interested,but it's a publicly held company
.
Bischoff went on to say it ispossible that Vince McMahon
(10:10):
could put together enough moneyto make an offer for a publicly
held company and because itwould have a positive,
potentially good impact on theshareholder's value, the offer
would have to be entertained.
That's interesting, teddy,because we've heard a lot of
rumors that he'd like to buy itback, but TKO saying it's not
(10:33):
for sale, and pretty much whatEric Bischoff's saying.
Well, if he has the moneybehind him and presents him with
so much money, they can't sayno.
Never say never.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Well, like I always tell you, every man has a price.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
That's true, especially if you're right now.
You see the, the ratings, andthey're not getting better,
they're getting worse.
If that's the case, Netflix isgoing to get kind of edgy about
everything, so you never knowwhat may happen.
I still believe that we willsee Vince McMahon one day
somewhere somehow back in thepublic eye, and probably within
(11:09):
sports entertainment.
Well, I certainly hope so.
I do too.
I'd like to see his creativitycome back, and I know a lot of
people hate to hear that, but uh, the person.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I don't care where.
You hate to hear it or not.
This is how I feel about theguy.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Absolutely All right, guys.
Uh, we're going to break awayreal fast Cause I'm going to
show you something that uhhappened over the weekend at the
River City Wrestling Con in StAugustine, florida.
Teddy got a little upset.
Somebody was coming up to seeD-Von Dudley and well, teddy
wanted to start throwing hands.
Here's what I'm talking aboutExciting.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
D-Von getting excited because there's a few men who
are never going to change ourlove.
I'm excited.
D-mark is excited because it'sa new man.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It's never gonna change our love.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Give me the poli Letters.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh, we get letters we get your letters every day,
Mailman, mailman mail.
Today, Reach right in and pullone out those letters.
I love those letters.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Let's find out what you've got to say.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Mailman Mail today, Alright so let's see.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Question number one comes from Ricky, retired on X.
He's actually got a couplequestions here.
Wwe under Vince McMahon wasvery generous at times, such as
sending a jet to pick up harleyraces uh, harley race when he
was not uh feeling good and wasnear death to bring him back
(13:01):
home never looked for praise.
That being vince the wwe undertko, will wwe lose this type of
generosity?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Well, I don't know.
You know that's kind of left upto the individual.
You know that was Vince's owndecision right there.
So that would be left up towhoever's running TKO.
That decision would be left upto them.
So I don't know whether they'llbe that generous or not, but
Vince was like that.
You know what I mean.
If he'd go out of his way, youknow, if that's what he needed
to do to get you there or tohelp you.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I do think that it's probably more likely that Vince
would do that over a fullcompany that's going to have to
go through red tape just to geta yes or a no, whereas Vince
would just say go do it, youknow.
So this probably is adifference when it comes to that
Pretty classic lady commentingsaying uh, good to see jackie.
Uh yeah, by the way, teddy.
(13:55):
Um, the story you told abouther driving.
After that, that incidenthappened and she drove so long
past where she was supposed togo.
Did you ever ride with heragain?
No, jackie may be watching this, by the way.
I sent her an invite.
Are there any other stories youcan tell us about jackie?
(14:16):
Uh, some things that happenedwith you and Jackie may be
watching this, by the way, Isent her an invite.
Are there any?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
other stories you can tell us about Jackie, some
things that happened with youand Jackie.
I think I say she is such acool lady.
Yeah, I rode with Jackie somemore.
You know, like I said, thingslike that happen, man, you know.
I mean that's on the road,you're tired driving back in the
day, man.
So you know, stuff like thathappens.
But no more stories.
Jackie was just always a sweetperson.
I just enjoy working with herman and she's so easy to get
along with.
But now she can.
I've seen her a little madbefore now and that's you kind
(14:42):
of don't want to see that.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, no, no, no.
I can imagine you wouldn't wantto see that at all.
Let's see Zach is in here.
What is Teddy's thoughts on RonKilling's return to WWE?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Well, like I said, congratulations to him, hope
everything works out for him,just the act of God.
I'll always say that if this isa shoot which I believe, but
you never know but, like I said,congratulations to him and I
hope everything works out forhim All right, let's see.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Here's another question.
Wwe raised prices to ridiculouslevels for a PLE.
It's getting unaffordable for adad to take kids anymore.
Do you think WWE is?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
reaching a wall and will they experience a drop in
viewership and revenue.
Well, you know, here's what Ithink about that.
You know it's kind of calledgreed.
You know what I mean, and whenyou get greedy, sometimes that
causes you a problem.
Like I said, you know.
Right now, you know you'reliving in this world.
The economy is really not in awhole lot of good shape.
(15:57):
You know their job you know alot of people out of work out
there, so they can't afford to,uh, you know, buy those tickets
and I understand what were theyin vegas.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
How, what, what was the price of them?
Oh, they were in the that.
Well, I think that yeah yeah,it was, it was well.
I think the actually was 30 000for some of the ones down by
the ring I.
I can understand sellinghigh-priced tickets, you know,
down around ringside, but even$30,000 is like, are you kidding
me?
But I mean, there's even, Ithink, if I've heard this
correctly, summerslam.
(16:21):
The cheapest ticket up in thenosebleeds is just under $1,000,
I think.
I think that's not right, Iagree.
Yeah, it takes away from.
I mean, you know, teddy, Iremember the days when you could
go to a ball game.
You know my, you know yourparents could take a.
He'd grab his son If his sonwas in the baseball or football,
whatever, take him go watch agame somewhere and it didn't
(16:42):
cost you so much money.
It was real Americans with whathave real value.
They don't have a lot of moneyto spend and that's what made
sports so popular.
Am I wrong in that?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Well, that's just not the country we live in now.
Okay, things have changed.
So you know you have to beprepared for the change or you
have to hopefully that you canchange with it.
But a lot of people are notgoing to be prepared and some of
them not going to be able tochange with this change.
Like the prices and stuff aregoing up now.
I went in Walmart today and Ijust got a few things and I got
(17:16):
there.
It's $200.
You know, and I'm like JesusChrist, you know, but what can
you do?
You know you have to have thesethings.
I just thank God I had themoney to pay for them.
But there's some people thatare not going to be that lucky.
They ain't going to have themoney to pay for that stuff.
So kids are going to be goinghungry and you know it's really
sad.
So let's just hope and praythat things get better.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yeah, I hope it does.
You know where organizationslike WWE I don't see and I made
me wrong about this.
I don't know the man, but Inever saw Vince McMahon or never
felt like he was trying to getevery penny out of somebody's
pocket, and I feel like that'swhat wwe is right now.
(17:59):
I feel like they're trying tosuck every single penny they can
out of your pocket without careas to what it may do to you or
your family, or or maybe yourfan base dwindles because they
can't afford to come see yourshow anymore.
That's going to end up bitingthem in the ass in the end.
Is you're going to priceyourself out of the fans because
the average fan can't come seeyou live and suddenly they just
(18:21):
don't care as much?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Well, here's what you got to look at.
They did it.
They bought the tickets atWrestleMania.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Yeah, but again they sold fewer.
They didn't have a sellout, uh,and they they said they didn't
care as long as they got thedollar amount they were looking
for right right you know I can'timagine a time whenever vince
said every ass in this, you know, every seat in here, this
building, better have an ass init, and you know.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
And they don't think that way now yeah, well, you
know, it's just like I said,it's called change.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, unfortunately uh, kayla, uh, franklin's in
here, we saw her over theweekend and she's saying yeah, I
enjoyed seeing you both overthe weekend.
Yeah, we got to see you too.
Uh, kayla, we enjoyed that uhyeah everything's fine with your
dad and everybody else.
I know that you've had someissues there, so hopefully
everybody's doing okay.
Uh, and let's see she's in hereagain.
She, I just got finished.
(19:13):
I'm sorry.
That's why I enjoy indie shows.
You get to interact with thewrestlers and it's affordable.
Uh, she's talking about thepricing of wwe tickets.
Yes, uh, and that's why I thinkthat there is such a surge for
independent wrestling right now,because anybody can truly have
a tv station.
I mean, if you want to say,well, I'm on'm on TV, well, go
to YouTube, go to Roku, go toone of these things, anybody can
(19:36):
be out there.
As long as you put Teddy and I,we're here.
It's just he and I, there's nomachine behind us.
So it can be done.
And I think that when wrestlingbecomes too expensive, like WWE
just like Kayla says theindependents start becoming more
palatable to people who havemaybe never thought I want to go
see one, and then they do andthey fall in love with what
(19:58):
they're seeing and the peoplethere.
So it's a good thing for theindies maybe, but not so much
for the WWE.
Let's see Sin on Facebook isasking who was the most
inspirational person during yourtime in wrestling and who was
the most negative?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
God.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
The most person that I really enjoyed was John
Bradshaw Latham JBL.
He was a great guy.
You know there were some guysthat were negative, you know,
but not really nothing to reallytalk about.
You know, I'd just sit back andkind of watch them and just
stay away from them.
So that's how you do that.
So let the negativity keep ongoing and just try to, you know,
(20:46):
stay away from all that.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
If you want to be a part of the show, simply drop us
a comment and we will throw itup on the screen and talk back
and forth with you and answeryour questions, or just let you
vent something out.
If you rather do that and youcan share this around as well,
please do that as well, becausewe got a good number of you in
here right now.
We got about 10 more minutesbefore we get out of here.
Let's see Pretty classy lady'sasking did you see the clip
(21:10):
yesterday of Kenny Omegaspitting up blood from an elbow
drop?
Aew is doing too much, teddy.
I know you didn't see itbecause you don't watch AEW.
I saw the video and I thoughtit was overacted.
Let's put it that way.
I think that's what she's kindof saying herself.
It may have been.
(21:31):
Oversell.
Yeah, yeah, you sell it way toomuch.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
That could have been.
The guy might have hit himright in his throat.
Well, I think he got the elbowdrop, came across his chest, but
I didn't pay that closeattention.
Who knows, sometimes I thinkthey do go a little bit
overboard, especially with theblood and AEW.
They need to back it off andjust use it once in a great
while.
Lily Hunter oh, hey, look here,this is the girl, teddy.
I know you probably don'trecognize that name, but liveth
(22:02):
is uh in the s, uh, icw andother groups up there around the
area where we were in st louis.
She was the tall girl yeah,that's all right, yeah look here
, lily.
Uh, I hope everything's goinggreat for you.
Uh, man, I'm still waiting tosee you on TV one day, cause you
are a.
I don't want to make this soundbad, but you're a freak of
nature, you're.
You are a big girl, attractive,and I think that you're going
(22:25):
to do very well.
Just keep listening to BobOrton.
If I'm not mistaken, that isyour trainer, one of your
trainers, and if that's the case, you just keep listening,
because you probably gettingreally good advice.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yeah, not good advice .
She's getting the best advicethat she could ever get.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah, she said.
I'm sad I didn't make it overto say hi at the St Louis Fan
Fest, but we did pass each otherand I did say hello to you
because I wanted to make sureyou knew I was there because
I've been keeping up with you.
Let's see, we do have anotherGeorgia independent wrestling
fan here that I know.
Ellen is in here and she'sasking hey, teddy Buddy says
hello, he just graduated highschool.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yeah, I know exactly who Ellen is.
Hey, I get a chance to see herat some of the shows that I'm on
every once in a while.
I think the last time I saw herI was in Atlanta.
No, I mean, I'm sorry, Probablywhen we were together.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Yeah, I mean, where did?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I go.
It was for an industrial, Ithink it was out there or
something.
I went out there and she wasout there hearing Buddy.
They were at that show.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, buddy, her and Buddy have been at so many of
the shows I've been to, you know, in the later years when I was
going to the independent shows.
Sweet lady and a great son.
And congratulations, by the way, buddy, for graduating high
school, that.
And congratulations, by the way, buddy, for graduating high
school, that's a big deal, yeah,man.
Congratulations.
Let's see here.
What else do we have?
I got a name association.
We'll have to get to that injust a minute because I want to
make sure I'm trying to get youout of the way.
(23:47):
For some reason I got you frozeup on here.
Oh, don't do this to me now.
You know, screen will freeze upthere we go there we go now I
gotta be alive.
It's meant to be.
That's right.
Let's see.
Zach, what kind of day couldyou give me about how to be
better at commentary?
Uh, I have been working since2018.
(24:11):
It built my brand.
I'm not sure if I understandthe question.
Zach, what kind of uh advicemaybe could you give him about
uh being better at commentary?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I can't give any advice.
I don't.
I never heard him, never seenhim, never.
You were on his podcast.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
He's one of the guys in the podcast from st louis
that we did a show with um.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Okay, yeah, but you haven't seen enough of his work
to be able to tell that yeah,I'd have to see that and to be
able to determine what adviceyou you know.
So I haven't seen any of that.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I'll tell you something that I have learned
Just simply be yourself that way.
Anytime you have that mic open,if you speak, that's you, and
anytime that you do something,it's you.
You don't have to think aboutit, and that's the same way as
commentary.
Just be you and let it roll.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
And another thing try not to step on each other,
terry, just be you and let itroll.
And another thing try not tostep on each other.
That's real important.
Try not to do that.
You know, give the guy at leastget.
Let him get his point out, geta pause in there.
So when you start, you're clean, but when you're stepping on
each other, that's confusing.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
There's another good suggestion here and then we'll
move on to the next one.
But listen to what your guestis saying.
Too many times I watch apodcast or listen to them and
the interviewer is askingquestions, but he's not really
listening to the answers.
He's just getting ready for thenext question.
Sometimes you miss goldennuggets when you do that,
(25:31):
because they may say somethingthat you can take that
conversation a little bitdifferently, in a different
direction, and make itcompletely different.
So never shut them down tooquick and listen to what they're
saying.
Let's see, zach, what kind ofno.
Okay, that's what I thought itwas.
Okay, here we go and he says hethanks us very much.
We appreciate you, you're verywelcome, man.
(25:54):
Yeah, man, all right, we gotname association time and we got
time for maybe just a few ofthese, teddy, before we have to
close out again, if you've got aquestion, pop it in here.
We'll throw it up on the screenbefore we're gone.
Name association Give me athought or a memory or anything
else you can at the followingpeople Gold dust.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
What about it?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Any thoughts, any memories?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Oh, gold dust oh yeah , uh, dustin, yeah yeah yeah, I
had a great time working withhim back in the day.
I remember a good story I hadthere one time and I know this
was wrong, but you know wedidn't care back in the day.
He wasn't old enough to buybeer so I had to go in and buy
beer for him.
So now you know that was deadwrong.
Anything could have happened.
(26:38):
I'd have never lived it down.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
What would you have done if Dusty found out?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Oh, I don't know, come here, baby, listen, listen.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Don't influence my son.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yeah, yeah.
What's wrong with?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
you Pretty classy lady.
She's asking what are yourfavorite Atlanta eating spots.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
At my house.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Before you said that, I knew exactly what you were
going to say.
I don't order.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
no restaurants.
I don't eat out.
I don't do none of that.
It's me and Mr Ruva.
So we eat at home every day.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
We love it, curly man , saying that you don't think
you've got your t-shirt yet.
If that's the case, if youhaven't received your t-shirts,
I think everybody else hasalready confirmed.
If you haven't sent me yourinfo again, let me make sure
that everything I have iscorrect and I didn't send it to
somebody else.
Who knows.
He will do that, cause I'm'mgonna tell you that right now,
(27:42):
nick is in here.
Uh, joe hamilton jr holla,holla, oh man what a great guy.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
We got there.
Ladies and gentlemen, if youdon't know joe hampton jr,
that's nick patrick, legendarynick patrick, referee of all
time.
This man here was in thebusiness I never.
I walked up to him and I triedto give him a resume.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha ha.
I could just see his expressionlike what oh?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
yeah, you know me, I don't know, I'm trying to get a.
Do you want to be a referee?
So I had a resume, trying toget it out.
Oh man, thank you for checkingin on us, man, and tell Tony
that little big Nick I saidhello.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, look here Anytime you need, Teddy and I.
You holler at us.
Let us know we had fun thatlast time we were there.
All right, here's another nameassociation for you, Teddy Lita.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Very nice to work with.
You know she was always niceand great attitude.
You know Never had no problemwith her.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I've always seen her with Trish Stratus.
They're always around eachother every time I see them if
they're in the same room.
Did they do that back at thattime?
Were they getting along backthen, or did that just kind of
develop over time?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
No, they always got along, they were always friends.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Here's an interesting one, marty Gennetti.
Is that, marty?
Well, I'm saying that's a nameassociation.
Another name here for you isMarty Genetti.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Oh, yeah, well, yeah, god, I love so much respect for
Marty.
Marty's had a rough time andMarty's went through a lot, but
you know what I mean.
Marty's the guy that you're notgoing to take him down.
He's not going to stop, he'scontinuing to go on and I admire
him so much, man, all the stuffthat he's been through and, uh,
you know he's still movingalong, man, and every time I see
(29:22):
him somewhere I go right up tohim give him a hug.
Marty genetti, I love him.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
what a what a great guy all right, we got one more
name on here.
This is somebody that we saw inflorida last weekend, and that
is mick foley oh yeah, I had achance to go say hello to Nick.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Always great to talk with Mick Foley.
He's an interesting guy.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yes, it is All right.
Teddy, I know you usually pickthe people who win T-shirts.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Can I pick one tonight?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Well, if you want to pay me for the shirt, then I'll
let you pick one.
Yeah, they're in my possession.
I don't pay you nothing.
Actually, I want to give thisto Ellen because I know where
that will go.
That will go to her son, buddy.
Yeah.
So, ellen, you and Buddy arethis week's winner for the Road
Trip After Hours T-shirts.
All you have to do is just sendme your information.
You can do that throughFacebook, because I know we're
(30:18):
connected there.
Just t-shirts All you have todo is just send me your
information.
You can do that throughFacebook, because I know we're
connected there.
Just shoot it to me in amessage and I'll get that out
the door and to your house andthen take a picture.
Let us see it once you get it.
We'd like to pick those upevery time we have a chance.
I did have a shirt and, teddy, Iforgot this until just now.
I'll bring this in next week.
There was a T-shirt this pastweekend at the Fan Fest that was
something to do with the storecalled Bucky's.
(30:41):
I'll share that with you nextweek.
It was probably the mostoutrageous T-shirt I saw.
No, there was actually one moreand I remember.
Teddy, you pointed the otherone out, but we'll talk about
that next week.
We'll tell you more about thesecrazy T-shirts when we come
back again next Thursdayursdaynight, seven o'clock.
Right here, same time, sameplace.
I'm your host, mac davis.
(31:01):
This has been road trip afterhours, and that is wwe hall of
famer, mr teddy long, and if youdon't subscribe and if you
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