March 4, 2025 • 36 mins
A dynamic episode highlighting John Cena's significant heel turn in WWE, discussing its implications for the wrestling community and engaging storytelling. Michael shares personal experiences in gaming, fitness, and the intricacies of friendships tied to money.
• Cena's heel turn and its historical significance
• Recap of the Elimination Chamber and WWE's current landscape
• Personal gaming stories with lessons on perseverance
• Importance of warming up and fitness strategies
• Reflections on the mixture of friendship and finances
• Michael's humor and relatable anecdotes enhance engagement
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Here's hamilton's own , michael gillespie and welcome
to the wdym podcast.
I I'm your host, michaelGillespie.
Hope everything is good.
Everything is well in your hoodand in your neighborhood.
Welcome to the show, everybody.
Today, today's episode, we aregoing to hit some key things in
(00:39):
life that I am calling I'm sickof it.
I am sick of it.
I'm sick of it.
I am sick of it.
But before we get there, beforewe touch those topics, we're
going to talk about what hasbeen happening in the squared
circle, especially yesterday,yesterday, in the WWE.
We finally have something thatsome of us fans have been asking
for for years.
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For years, we wanted this tohappen.
Basically, john Cena has finallyturned to the dark side.
He is finally a bad guy, orwhat we call in wrestling, a
heel character.
Where he's a, he's a, he's abad guy, takes cheap shots.
It's that and the other whenCody Rhodes rejected the Rocks
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offer.
So before I go any further, letme give you a little backstory
of what's going on.
Cody Rhodes is the champion.
He's been the champion forsince almost a year now, since
last WrestleMania, and the Rockcame with some weird, weird
offer to him.
They want your soul, whateverthat means.
Basically, cody said no.
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Cody said no, I am a baby face,I don't do your evil stuff.
And this is fresh off the heelsof the Elimination Chamber where
John Cena just won, which giveshim a chance to break Ric
Flair's record for the mostheavyweight championships in
wrestling.
Ric Flair's at 16.
John Cena's at 16.
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Cena's at 16 and if everythingplays out correctly, john cena
has a chance to win a 17th titlerun, which would break rick
flair's record.
I'll get into that overall, butto finally have john cena turn
heel or be a bad guy is greatAgain.
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This is going to add anotherlayer to his overall character.
We'll see if he can do this.
I mean, he's done.
He's been a hill way early inhis career in WWE when he was
the doctor of Thuganomics.
John Cena, on his farewell tour,is trying to capture his 17th
title and I'm for it.
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I am all for it.
This is probably the biggestthing that's happened in WWE or
in wrestling I'm sorry, inwrestling since Hulk Hogan did
it in WCW back in the 90s whenhe finally turned heel and did
the NWO thing.
So it's, it's refreshing tohave this type of uh, this flip
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for him, because you know healways does a hustle, uh,
loyalty, respect, whatever, andit's never not his character to
do the bad thing.
And now he gets the opportunityto do it and I'm all for it.
I am so for this.
I hope this run goes well.
In fact, I'm hoping now.
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This is a long shot, but I'mhoping that he brings his own
version of the NWO to the WWE.
I think that'll be absolutelyrefreshing for him to do and
have of the NWO to the WWE.
I think that'll be absolutelyrefreshing for him to do and
have that run and just the musicalone from the NWO to play
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again.
I think that'll be that'll be awin win situation for the WWE
to do that.
So if you're a wrestling fan,now's the time to gear up and
watch what's going to go on withSwayze, john Cena, hopefully
tomorrow on Raw on Netflix,which is weird to say.
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It's weird to say, to hear thatout loud.
But to see what happens fromthe Elimination Chamber match
and there's so many connectivetissue to this.
To see what happens from theElimination Chamber match and
there's so many connectivetissue to this situation because
you have the whole CM Punkthing with him, seth Rollins and
John Cena because they are himand Cena are old rivals from
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back in the early 2010s andstuff like that.
So to have that brieflyrekindled in the elimination
chamber and going forward, maybehe'll get a triple threat match
for the title at wrestlemania.
But it is wrestlemania seasonand wwe is firing on all
cylinders since they got rid ofthat scumbag, vince kennedy
mcmahon.
It's a good time to be awrestling fan.
Not only wwe's firing off allcylinders, but you also have the
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other two companies in inamerica, aew and tna, that are
also firing on.
Firing off on all cylinders.
Um, while wwe is, is alwaysgoing to be, the headliner here
in america, unless they just dosomething absolutely dumb.
I'm an aew guy, let's you know,let's not get that confused.
I I enjoy aew a lot more thanwwe.
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Again, what they're doing withsome of the wrestlers that are
no longer a part of wwe, likeyou know, let's just take the
hurt syndicate, that's.
That's really good stuff.
Swerve strickland good stuffricochet.
Now, one thing I love aboutricochet is that when he was
with wwe it was all about hisflips and what he does in the
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ring, poor Mike's skills in WWE.
He comes over to AEW and he'sshining and it's so good to see
him one as a heel.
He makes it work and the workhe's been putting in with Swerve
Strickland has been nothing butgreat.
You know they had an event inCincinnati, I think, last month
or two months ago.
It was great.
He's been putting in withSwerve Strickland has been
nothing but great.
You know, I went to an eventthey had an event in Cincinnati,
I think, last month or twomonths ago.
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It was great.
It was great Small venue, it'slike up close and personal.
That's what I like.
You know, I'm not in the standsin the rafters where I just see
specs I have to look at.
Came to Cincinnati and I willgo again.
Absolutely, if they come backto Cincinnati, I'm definitely
going.
I enjoy AEW.
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Just, you know my thing, thatis my thing.
But yeah, it's Wrestlemaniaseason and let's see what
happens with John Cena when theWrestlemania season kicks off in
full gear.
And see what happens, man,because I'm interested.
I'm interested in the fact thathe has a chance to break Ric
Flair's record of 16 titlechampionships, because he's at
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16 now and if he beats CodyRhodes at WrestleMania, that'll
be 17th and that'll be thebreaker.
And I'm pretty sure Ric Flair,as the guy he is, he will be
highly upset at the fact thatJohn Cena will break his record.
But I'm all for it, I'm all forit, I'm all for change.
I love history and I love thething you know, the thing that
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Roman Reigns did when he had thetitle for almost what?
Three years.
That's storytelling and that'swhat we all live for.
We all live for good stories.
I mean, if you look at anythingin history, we enjoy the ride
that we have with LeBron James.
We enjoy the history of MichaelJordan and his struggles to win
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the championship and everything.
We all love a good story andright now WWE is producing some
really good story storylines.
That's been captivating.
Despite being an AEW guy, agood story.
And right now WWE is producingsome really good storylines.
That's been captivating.
Despite being an AEW guy, I dohave my eye on the WWE, so pay
attention Again.
You got WrestleMania comingaround the corner.
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It's going to be interesting,to say the least.
That's all I got.
I can't wait for Monday Raw onNetflix.
I will be watching that to seewhat happens, see what's said.
I'm pretty sure if I was codythe baby face, the champion,
I'll be a little upset.
And he does have a way of words.
I will say that cody has a wayof words, but I mean so does
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john cena.
So we will see that.
And one more thing before,before we switch topics and
everything the Rock.
The Rock is one of my all timefavorite wrestlers, right, but
this final boss, bull crap.
It's trash.
It is absolutely trash.
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Now again, him being who he isthe Rock and everything one of
the greatest people on the mic,one of the greatest wrestlers
arguably in the business, andeverything.
He asked for Cody's quote on,quote soul, and you know again,
storylines is that, and theother asking for souls on the
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day I believe I think it was theday uh, cody's father died.
It's like man, come on, that'sa little personal, but this is
wrestling.
So I'm pretty sure that codysigned off on that, but his
overall final boss character isjust trash.
I'm sorry, it just doesn't donothing for me personally,
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because I've been watching theRock for years and this whole
I'm part of the board.
I'm evil.
Da, da, da da.
It's like we've already beenthere, done it with the scumbag
Vincent Kennedy McMahon.
We've done that for years andwe're still doing that.
So, yeah, that's trash, sowe'll see what that.
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So, yeah, that's trash, sowe'll see what happens.
Man, but it's a good time to bea wrestling fan and stay tuned,
because it's only going to getbetter from here to WrestleMania
.
So, with that being said,moving on to the new topic,
which is, which is I'm sick ofit.
I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of it now.
This is where we're going totalk about a couple things that
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you know gets under your boy'sbelt and everything.
It goes a little light heartedto a little bit serious and
everything.
But you know, that's what it isand you know, maybe at the end
of the podcast you'd be like,yeah well, I learned something
today from listening to you andI hope you do, but I don't know
if you will, because some ofthis stuff is ridiculous.
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First and foremost, I can'tplay fortnight no more.
I can't play fortnight no morebecause some little, some little
middle school kid took my lunchmoney and was proud of it.
Let me, let me explain whathappened when I play fortnite.
You know I'm, I'm okay, youknow what I'm saying.
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I, I can.
I know the well.
First off, I do zero build.
I ain't gonna be magicallybuilding bridges and forts and
all that stuff because, justbecause the game says so, I'm a
zero build type.
That means I'm in the field,I'm hiding behind buildings,
getting in cars, running andshooting.
That's that's to me in thefield.
I'm hiding behind buildings,getting in cars, running and
shooting.
That's that's to me in videogame world.
That is normal.
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I come across this middle schoolkid who I know we're gonna call
him bum b for this, for thissegment.
Bum b, he said, yeah, you know,I guess I got some skills in
fortnite.
I said, okay, so you know.
So he says hey, you want toplay, so we play, we team up,
right.
And I'm thinking you know, I'ma veteran, you know, I know how
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to handle myself in the field,I'm a veteran, right.
So we get out there and we play, you know, 2v2.
You know we're a team of twoand you and we get the little
victory we win.
We win one time.
I'm like, okay, you know, I gotmy six kills.
He got like 10.
I'm like, all right, so we playagain.
And he's dominant with thekills, like, yeah, I got 12
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kills, co2, michael, and he'sstarting to start making jokes
and everything, making fun of meand all that stuff.
I'm like you know, that's,that's cool and all that stuff.
So the, the competitor in me,it's like you know what?
How about me?
And you play one V one?
He's like, yeah, you know, Idon't think you want to do that.
So I'm like, okay, you, you,you up here winning everything
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and getting more kills andeverything, talk your stuff, why
not?
He said, nah, you know, I'mcool with it, mike.
I said, alright, cool, so I'mstill talking smack.
Every time I see him online Isend him a message like you
trash, you know just playingaround.
He said, alright, go, alright,let's play.
I said zero bill.
He says zero bill.
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I said cool.
I said I could do this, I couldbeat him.
I have real world experience.
Like you know, I, I I don'tcare if this is a video game or
not, I got real world experience.
I know how to shoot a gun,right.
So we set up the one V one.
I should have known that thiswas not going to be a good day
or a good, good time, becauseevery weapons available, every
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weapon is available in Fortnite.
That's not normal, right.
We don't normally have everyweapon is available in Fortnite.
That's not normal, right.
We don't normally have everyweapon available.
Like you can't just pick anygun and go out there and play,
right.
So I'm being set out.
You know, in the back of mymind, I think I'm getting set up
because he has every weapon.
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Every weapon is available forboth of us to be fair, to be
both.
Both of us got to be fair to beboth.
Both of us got all the weapons,but I don't have.
You know, usually it's whateverFortnite gives you, that's what
you do, right?
So we're out there playing andI swear he gets me one time
right, alright, you know, wantnothing.
It happens.
Shoot.
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You know what happened.
I'm shooting.
You know, get re, come back,respawn, get some more guns.
Drop down into this new fightzone area, like, all right,
replay and guess what snipes me.
All right.
Two, nothing.
Okay, you know, bum b, it'scool, it is cool, you, you, you
obviously been playing this gamea little longer.
Show you got this.
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Two, nothing, it's early,though.
It is early, like I could stillcome back.
No, so he's like playing withme.
You know.
You get a sense that, like,okay, he knows what he's doing,
right, he comes around thecorner, shoots me again.
Three, nothing.
Like you know what the windsare getting up there for him.
It goes from 3-0 to 6-1 to 7-2to 14-3.
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Right, he is kicking my butt.
It's not even fair.
He did this thing that made mequit.
He is like way in the sky, upat the top, way at the top, and
I see him.
He jumps down.
Like if you're jumping down,that means once you land, you
are going to die.
See him, he jumps down, like ifyou're jumping down, that means
once you land, you are gonnadie.
Right, he jumps down and I'mshooting at him, shooting at him
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.
No, no, no.
He comes down and shoots me inthe head.
I'm dead.
And then he lands, like I don'tknow somehow, pulls out his
little parachute or whatever,Doesn't die on impact and he
just beats me and he constantlybeats me all the time.
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So ever since then I haven'tplayed.
I haven't picked up acontroller to play fortnite in
months.
He didn't have to do that.
Bum b did not have to do thatto me, but he did, and so that's
the reason why I don't playfortnite no more.
I no.
No, dog, you ain't gonna dothat to me, hurt my ego.
I am a veteran.
You know what I'm saying.
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I know how to shoot a real gun,right.
I know tactics.
You can't just jump and shootand have accuracy.
That's not possible.
No, that's not possible.
Your body has a natural motionwhere it goes up and down, up
and down.
I know that because I shot.
I shot real good, right, I gottraining on this.
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He up there making me look likea fool.
So I already talked to his momand dad.
Yeah, I did that.
I straight talked to his dad,said look here, when the spring
and summer come around, we'regonna go to the paintball at.
We're gonna go to the paintballrange, right, and're going to
play some real Fortnite in reallife and see what happens.
I'm going to get him.
I'm going to get him so fast.
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I'm going to show him some realtactics.
I bet not.
I bet not lose In real life tothis young man.
Bumby, I hope you hear thisbecause, guess what, I'm coming
for you.
I'm already looking up pricesfor a paintball gun because I'm
gonna get the best one.
You, you can't afford it.
You're gonna get whatever thepaintball range got.
I'm getting the XL super duper.
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Shoot you in the butt,paintball gun.
That's what's gonna happen.
You're gonna do that to me.
So stay tuned for that Iguarantee.
I guarantee I'm gonna get him.
He ain't.
He ain't getting me, I don'tcare.
No, this is real life.
I'm going to show you.
You can't jump up and down andshoot like you did in Fortnite.
You put the controller down,get out there this spring, bum B
versus me paintball, it'shappening.
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So with that, I don't play thatgame, but I play another game
called Brahala.
Brahala, that's my game.
I've been playing that foralmost six, seven years now.
Now, when I first played thatgame, I didn't have a main
character, right, I just playedthe game, had fun with it, and
then I met this one dude, youngman, whatever, from Florida and
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he thought he was something.
So when I started playing it,he was.
He thought he was something.
So when I started playing, Isaid I beat him.
I said, okay, maybe I do havesome skills with this, with this
game, and you know, keepplaying it.
I've been playing.
Like I said, I've been playingit for almost six, seven years
now.
I'm a consistent, high-leveldiamond.
They have the 10 bronze, silver, gold, platinum, diamond and
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Valhalla.
I think that's the last rank.
Once I get diamond, I justswitch characters and play with
new characters.
So I'm not trying to getValhalla In the back of my mind.
I want to, but I haven't tried.
Let's just let that be known.
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So when I play, I win basically60 of my games.
Right, um, 60, maybe 70, I'mnot, I'm not trash, but you know
I'm okay, all right.
Why, why do these kids todaywant to go straight to DMs?
They want to go straight to DMsand be like you trash After you
beat them.
Explain that to me, make thatmake sense.
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I will beat the draws offsomebody.
They have the audacity to getin my DM to tell me I'm trash.
I just look at the tell me I'mtrash.
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I just look at the thing and I'mlike I'm not playing Like dude,
why?
Why is this a thing Like?
You should not be talking notrash to me.
I just beat you.
All you do is sig spam.
That's what some most of themsay.
All you do is sig spam, whichmeans I repeat the same move
over and over and my my comebackto that is as well.
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If you don't make me changetactics, why do I have to change
?
My first move is to do this anddo this, and if you ain't
blocking or you ain't jumping toavoid it, I'm going to keep on
doing it.
It's kind of like the hadoukenin street fighter.
If you can't jump successfully,jump past the hadouken, then
you deserve every bit of thisfireball that I'm throwing at
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you.
Same thing with a six pan.
If you cannot avoid me doingthis sig or know when it's
coming, why do I need to changetactics?
Make that, make sense, like.
If you can't avoid this attack,then you stink right where
you're at and you belong rightwhere you're at and I'm going to
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beat you.
And they have the audacity toget in the DM's when you lose
back in the day.
You good game right.
That's one thing you learnplaying sports, playing anything
like.
You're not going to win themall.
What you do is hold your headhigh.
Good game, I'll get you backnext time if I see you.
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And that's one of the beautiesof Brahala it keeps your record
of who you played previously.
I might play this guy and Imight be seven and five.
That means it's on, we back andforth, it's on, let's play the
game, right?
That's one of the things thatokay, okay, I remember playing
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you or anything like that.
Like I can still play you andnot be bitter about it, or
anything like that.
It's just like hey, Iunderstand what me and you have
a past.
You win good game, I win goodgame, and that's how it normally
is.
That's how it normally is inlife.
But as I get older, I noticethese young kids don't don't
have that in them.
They want to get into the ends.
You stink, you suck at thisgame.
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But, dude, didn't I just beatyou?
What?
What is going on in this worldwhere you just can't take a l?
It's part of life, man.
Let me tell you guys somethingsome people are going to say no
to you sometimes.
You're not going to win everygame.
Learn to adjust and move on.
I'm sick of you guys in the dmtrying to ruin my day, just
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remember I'm sick of it sick ofyou guys being in dm.
Learn how to take a l and keepit moving.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Second thing I'm sick of it is my right shoulder.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Man bro, the right shoulder.
I've always had problems withmy shoulders, right, I don't
know why, but sometimes I justget to a certain point where I
can't lift anymore and somethinghappens to my right shoulder.
A little backstory in that uh,this past, like around fall time
or anything, I hired a personaltrainer just to see if I could
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get a new look, a way of lookingat things when it comes to
working out.
You know, I'm off and on,unless an injury happens.
Then I'm off, then I come backon work out, get injured, and
it's the vicious cycle that I'vehad the past couple years.
Like I'm getting good shape,i'm'm lifting 215, about to get
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this 225 up on the bench, thenka-pac-pac, my shoulder, my
shoulder hurts.
This past time I hired a trainerand he's like this is his words
, like this is going to be easy.
I'm like, yeah, this is goingto be easy.
And he's like, look, this isour services, you're going to
love it, let's do it.
I'm like I think this is ourservices, you're gonna love it,
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let's do it.
I'm like I think this is, youknow, uh, divine intervention.
I guess you could say, or youknow, like this is something
that needs to happen.
I say let's do it.
So we do it and I sign up forit and I'm giving a workout and
I'm doing the workouts and I'mstarting to see improvement.
So so I see, you know changesin the body and then the
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shoulder shoulder pops, theshoulder snaps the shoulder, the
shoulder does something where Ican't, I can't lift above my
head Right, and on top of that,the sciatica that I've
experienced a couple of yearsago starts flaring up again.
Experience a couple years agostarts flaring up again.
So it's like what let me tellyou about?
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If you don't know aboutsciatica, you don't want to know
about sciatica.
Okay, I, I used.
It's a pain in the hip area forme, where I'm laying there
asleep, minding my business,sleep and I adjust myself in bed
and my sciatica reacts.
Boom, I, I can't move, I can'treact.
I'm trying not to wake up mywife, who's sleeping next to me,
because I'm in so much pain,because my sciatica is flaring
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up.
It used to be so bad, like Iwould lay on the floor
stretching, trying to stretchthe nerves for the sciatica, and
it would be so bad I couldn'tget up.
I had to ask somebody to helpme up Sciatica, it's not a joke.
So sciatica starts flaring upand I'm working out and on top
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of that, the right shoulder ispopping.
So I'm like, yeah, I got tocall my doctor and let him know.
Hey, you know this is what'shappening, this that.
Or you know this is what'shappening this that or another.
Like, okay, well, come on inand we'll do some evaluations on
you this, that and the other.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
And.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I'm like so frustrated, I'm sick of this
right shoulder.
I just like, why are you doingthis to me and everything?
So get to the doctor andeverything.
And they're like let's dosomething called live needling.
I said live needling what'sthat?
Well, they just literally sticka live needle in your arm and
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then send pulses to the muscleand if it's reacting I think
it's what he said If it'sreacting, that means we're
getting the right spot, allright, cool.
And they start doing it and mymuscles flaring off, twitches,
boom, boom, boom, boom andeverything.
So I'm like, okay, so I dothree sessions of that and it's
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working, I think.
So I try to work out one time,nothing, it wasn't reacting and
everything.
So he's like alright, so liveneedling ain't working, tell me
about your routine.
So I'm telling him about myeverything.
So he's like he's like, yeah,all right, so now I have live
needling ain't working, tell meabout your routine.
So I'm telling about my routineand he's like well, um, are you
stretching?
Are you warming up your muscles?
Like no, like, like I, I havethis, I think I have some.
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I have something called yt whereI take a band and I just, you
know, stretch the, stretch itout one way, stretch it out the
other way.
It's like how long are youdoing that for?
Like maybe a minute minute anda half, because you know I'm
trying to get the workout in,because my workout's about an
hour long anyway.
Because now you know, moreadvanced in the workout, where
my trainer says, instead ofthree sets, do four sets, I'm
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like whatever, it's just likeyou need to, you need to do more
stretches, more training, more,more stretch.
So therefore, you're notinjuring yourself, because you
know they always do this.
You know because you're gettingolder type thing.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I'm like yeah whatever, bro.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I mean I'm not lifting no 200 pounds every day.
Like that's whack to me becauseI've been doing this for years
now, off and on, like I know howto work out yeah well, you're
getting older, you got tostretch Meanwhile.
Now, off and on, like I knowhow to work out, yeah well,
you're getting older, you gottastretch Meanwhile.
The trainer is like hey, whereyou at?
Like what are you doing?
Like literally, I cannot doanything.
I can't do anything because theshoulder is I'm starting to
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recover from my shoulder andthen the sciatica Like I can't
even get on a treadmill.
Can't do nothing because I'mnot trying to hurt myself with
sciatica's not going to work.
I still got to do my job.
So I had to shut myself downfor three and a half months,
maybe two and three, three and ahalf months no success in that
part.
But I will say this it freakingworks.
(26:59):
Ok, I'm going to tell you thathaving a trainer is probably the
best experience I had.
It was good.
It was good to have thatinteraction and ask questions
and everything, give youworkouts and everything, make
adjustments and everything.
If you got the ability to hirea personal trainer, I suggest
you do that.
But if you are injured orgetting older, one stretch,
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stretch, stretch, one stretch,stretch, stretch, warm up
because you don't want to behurt.
So just remember that.
And the last I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of it is a lesson Ilearned a long time ago but I
still keep.
I still make this mistake everynow and then.
(27:44):
The lesson is money and friendsmatter.
Never mix Right.
So a while back got a friendright who was going through some
real tough times I'm talkingreal tough times and so she kind
(28:04):
of hinted at you know I'mmessing up, you know I'm not
doing things right.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,I'm in trouble.
If you're in trouble, I got youback because we are friends.
We are friends, I've known youfor years.
We go back to you know theschool days.
I got you back right.
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She's like okay, look, I need X, y and Z.
So I'm like you know what?
I got X, y and Z for you.
Here you go, give her X, y andZ, not a big deal.
Again, I'm not worried about X,y and Z because I always
believe that if you're in aposition to do things, you
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should be do those things.
And thankfully, I was in aposition to do those things.
So, as I'm telling, as I do it,I tell one of my Italian boss
friend and she's like don't dothat.
She said don't do that.
I know her.
Don't do that, michael.
And my fake Italian boss soundwhatever voice and my fake
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Italian voice Don't do that,michael, I know her, she's not
going to pay you back.
I'm like yo, like man, we goback.
We go back, like you know,she's gonna pay me back because
we've been friends.
She's like okay, it's okay.
Okay, okay, watch and learn.
I'm like you know, we're gonnawatch and learn.
She's like like guess what?
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I bet you she's not gonna payyou back.
I said, oh, okay, you, you,just you, just you just really
think that.
Huh, I said we, me and thefriend who I lent her money to,
she's not gonna do me like that.
She's not gonna do me like thatbecause in her time of need I
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was there, I was the, I wasthere for her.
She's not gonna do me, justokay.
So another event happens.
She's like yo, my bad, I madethe mistake, I ain't got no gas
money.
I said, man, I'm traveling, Iain't got no gas money.
Can you venmo me some littlechange, some xyz, some more xyz.
It's okay, you know what I gotyou.
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You know, because we friends, Igot you xyz, send her some xyz.
So cool, thank you, Iappreciate it, you're a good
friend, okay, so I go tell myitalian boss friend so, yo, I
had to give her some more xyz.
She's like, look, I told you,did she pay you back the first
time?
I said nah, and she said yougave her a second one.
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I said yeah.
I said okay, I told you Mike, Itold you Mike.
Italian boss lady here said yo,you ain't getting your money
back player.
I said man, I'm going to get mymoney back because we friends,
like we went back to you know wehigh school junior, like we
went back to you know, we, we,we, we high school, junior high,
we've been friends this long.
She's not going to do me dirty.
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We, we, we tight.
She said okay, we'll see.
A third time has come around.
A third time XYZ, I need somemore.
Xyz.
Michael, I just messed up, Itook the money out of the wrong
account and I messed up, Ioverdrafted and I'm in trouble.
Idxynz, I'm starting to doubt it.
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Like, oh man, she ain't pay meback one time, she ain't pay me
back two times.
Now she asking for a third time.
I'm just real, real scat on herto keep asking me for XYZ.
But we go back.
You know, we friends from theold school, you know what I'm
saying.
We go back, we go back.
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She's not going to do me dirtylike this.
So I give her a third.
Xyz say thank you, you know Iappreciate you, you.
You a real one, michael.
You know you always have myback and everything.
She crying, sobbing.
I say you know what I got you.
It's cool, you know, real one,michael.
You know you always have myback and everything.
She crying, sobbing.
I said you know what I got you.
It's cool, you know it's.
You know.
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I said you know, in my head I'mlike you might be playing me
and this is a good play.
But yeah, I got you XYZ BoomCenter, the XYZ Months has gone
by, months has gone by and Iguess them XYZ payments has
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grown wings and that's the endof it, because there has not
been one single payback in myname brought my way and it's
like it's weird because you know, you know we, we on, we on
Facebook, we Facebook friendsand everything, and she's
enjoying her best life.
She's getting tattoos.
Like, yeah, I got a tattoo,that's cool that.
(32:43):
But I'm like yo that that thatcosts money, right, you know you
can't get.
You can't get free tattoos ifyou know a tattoo artist but you
can't pay me back.
Okay, okay, oh, I went to acrab boil.
That's like a crab boil.
No, I know that costs money,that costs a lot of money.
You, you enjoying the best sealife, the seafood ever, and you
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up there going on vacation.
Wow, you going on vacation.
Yo, that's crazy, because I'mpretty sure vacation costs money
, right, but you can't pay meback and we go back.
And that was the thing, likethat's the thing that stuck in
the back of my head, like shewouldn't do me dirty because we
go back.
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But as of this day and it'sbeen over over a year since I
gave the XYZs I ain't seen anXYZ come back in my favor.
That's messed up, man.
And so out of randomness, out ofrandom snap, random text,
italian boss comes.
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He said hey, hey, hey, guesswhat?
So I said what's up Today's mybirthday.
He said that's cool, you know,happy birthday.
He said thank's up, today's mybirthday.
He said that's cool, you know,happy birthday.
He said thank you, thank you,michael, you ever get your money
back.
I said you know what?
Don't be texting me about you.
I don't care about yourbirthday.
I know secretly why you reallytext me.
Because you wanted to rub it inmy face that you were right,
she said.
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She said you damn right I was.
Yep, I'm rubbing this square inyour face, pie, all in your eye
, my guy.
It was crazy how much laughterand enjoyment she got, and it's
only through text, but I knowshe is laughing in my face
Because she's good at it.
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She's like I told you.
I told you she wouldn't giveyou your money.
She's like I told you.
I told you she wouldn't giveyou your money.
And to this day I'm holding theslightest bit that she will
realize that, oh snap, I did oneof my friends from old school,
middle school, junior highschool dirty and took his money
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and didn't think about giving itback to him.
With that being said, I'm sickof it.
I am sick of it.
Now, in the grand scheme ofthings, you know it's money.
Money is not to be loved orcherished.
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But, dog, why you doing medirty over some money?
I'll never understand.
But hope I still have a glimmerof hope that she's gonna pay me
back.
I even got the Italian boss weshould go to her house.
No, no, no, let's go to herhouse, let's get this money now.
(35:37):
No, we ain't gonna do that.
So we'll see if she pays itback.
But other than that, I'm sickof it if I see.
Oh, thank you for tuning in tothe WDYM podcast.
I'm your host, michael MichaelGillespie.
Have a good night, everybodyand peace out.
(35:58):
Girl Scout, boy Scout, I'm out.
Peace.
you're listening to the wdym, the what do you mean?
Podcast?
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Now sit back and relax.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Here's hamilton's own , michael gillespie and welcome
to the wdym podcast.
I I'm your host, michaelGillespie.
Hope everything is good.
Everything is well in your hoodand in your neighborhood.
Welcome to the show, everybody.
Today, today's episode, we aregoing to hit some key things in
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life that I am calling I'm sickof it.
I am sick of it.
I'm sick of it.
I am sick of it.
But before we get there, beforewe touch those topics, we're
going to talk about what hasbeen happening in the squared
circle, especially yesterday,yesterday, in the WWE.
We finally have something thatsome of us fans have been asking
for for years.
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For years, we wanted this tohappen.
Basically, john Cena has finallyturned to the dark side.
He is finally a bad guy, orwhat we call in wrestling, a
heel character.
Where he's a, he's a, he's abad guy, takes cheap shots.
It's that and the other whenCody Rhodes rejected the Rocks
(01:22):
offer.
So before I go any further, letme give you a little backstory
of what's going on.
Cody Rhodes is the champion.
He's been the champion forsince almost a year now, since
last WrestleMania, and the Rockcame with some weird, weird
offer to him.
They want your soul, whateverthat means.
Basically, cody said no.
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Cody said no, I am a baby face,I don't do your evil stuff.
And this is fresh off the heelsof the Elimination Chamber where
John Cena just won, which giveshim a chance to break Ric
Flair's record for the mostheavyweight championships in
wrestling.
Ric Flair's at 16.
John Cena's at 16.
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Cena's at 16 and if everythingplays out correctly, john cena
has a chance to win a 17th titlerun, which would break rick
flair's record.
I'll get into that overall, butto finally have john cena turn
heel or be a bad guy is greatAgain.
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This is going to add anotherlayer to his overall character.
We'll see if he can do this.
I mean, he's done.
He's been a hill way early inhis career in WWE when he was
the doctor of Thuganomics.
John Cena, on his farewell tour,is trying to capture his 17th
title and I'm for it.
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I am all for it.
This is probably the biggestthing that's happened in WWE or
in wrestling I'm sorry, inwrestling since Hulk Hogan did
it in WCW back in the 90s whenhe finally turned heel and did
the NWO thing.
So it's, it's refreshing tohave this type of uh, this flip
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for him, because you know healways does a hustle, uh,
loyalty, respect, whatever, andit's never not his character to
do the bad thing.
And now he gets the opportunityto do it and I'm all for it.
I am so for this.
I hope this run goes well.
In fact, I'm hoping now.
(03:32):
This is a long shot, but I'mhoping that he brings his own
version of the NWO to the WWE.
I think that'll be absolutelyrefreshing for him to do and
have of the NWO to the WWE.
I think that'll be absolutelyrefreshing for him to do and
have that run and just the musicalone from the NWO to play
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again.
I think that'll be that'll be awin win situation for the WWE
to do that.
So if you're a wrestling fan,now's the time to gear up and
watch what's going to go on withSwayze, john Cena, hopefully
tomorrow on Raw on Netflix,which is weird to say.
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It's weird to say, to hear thatout loud.
But to see what happens fromthe Elimination Chamber match
and there's so many connectivetissue to this.
To see what happens from theElimination Chamber match and
there's so many connectivetissue to this situation because
you have the whole CM Punkthing with him, seth Rollins and
John Cena because they are himand Cena are old rivals from
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back in the early 2010s andstuff like that.
So to have that brieflyrekindled in the elimination
chamber and going forward, maybehe'll get a triple threat match
for the title at wrestlemania.
But it is wrestlemania seasonand wwe is firing on all
cylinders since they got rid ofthat scumbag, vince kennedy
mcmahon.
It's a good time to be awrestling fan.
Not only wwe's firing off allcylinders, but you also have the
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other two companies in inamerica, aew and tna, that are
also firing on.
Firing off on all cylinders.
Um, while wwe is, is alwaysgoing to be, the headliner here
in america, unless they just dosomething absolutely dumb.
I'm an aew guy, let's you know,let's not get that confused.
I I enjoy aew a lot more thanwwe.
(05:25):
Again, what they're doing withsome of the wrestlers that are
no longer a part of wwe, likeyou know, let's just take the
hurt syndicate, that's.
That's really good stuff.
Swerve strickland good stuffricochet.
Now, one thing I love aboutricochet is that when he was
with wwe it was all about hisflips and what he does in the
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ring, poor Mike's skills in WWE.
He comes over to AEW and he'sshining and it's so good to see
him one as a heel.
He makes it work and the workhe's been putting in with Swerve
Strickland has been nothing butgreat.
You know they had an event inCincinnati, I think, last month
or two months ago.
It was great.
He's been putting in withSwerve Strickland has been
nothing but great.
You know, I went to an eventthey had an event in Cincinnati,
I think, last month or twomonths ago.
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It was great.
It was great Small venue, it'slike up close and personal.
That's what I like.
You know, I'm not in the standsin the rafters where I just see
specs I have to look at.
Came to Cincinnati and I willgo again.
Absolutely, if they come backto Cincinnati, I'm definitely
going.
I enjoy AEW.
(06:30):
Just, you know my thing, thatis my thing.
But yeah, it's Wrestlemaniaseason and let's see what
happens with John Cena when theWrestlemania season kicks off in
full gear.
And see what happens, man,because I'm interested.
I'm interested in the fact thathe has a chance to break Ric
Flair's record of 16 titlechampionships, because he's at
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16 now and if he beats CodyRhodes at WrestleMania, that'll
be 17th and that'll be thebreaker.
And I'm pretty sure Ric Flair,as the guy he is, he will be
highly upset at the fact thatJohn Cena will break his record.
But I'm all for it, I'm all forit, I'm all for change.
I love history and I love thething you know, the thing that
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Roman Reigns did when he had thetitle for almost what?
Three years.
That's storytelling and that'swhat we all live for.
We all live for good stories.
I mean, if you look at anythingin history, we enjoy the ride
that we have with LeBron James.
We enjoy the history of MichaelJordan and his struggles to win
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the championship and everything.
We all love a good story andright now WWE is producing some
really good story storylines.
That's been captivating.
Despite being an AEW guy, agood story.
And right now WWE is producingsome really good storylines.
That's been captivating.
Despite being an AEW guy, I dohave my eye on the WWE, so pay
attention Again.
You got WrestleMania comingaround the corner.
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It's going to be interesting,to say the least.
That's all I got.
I can't wait for Monday Raw onNetflix.
I will be watching that to seewhat happens, see what's said.
I'm pretty sure if I was codythe baby face, the champion,
I'll be a little upset.
And he does have a way of words.
I will say that cody has a wayof words, but I mean so does
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john cena.
So we will see that.
And one more thing before,before we switch topics and
everything the Rock.
The Rock is one of my all timefavorite wrestlers, right, but
this final boss, bull crap.
It's trash.
It is absolutely trash.
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Now again, him being who he isthe Rock and everything one of
the greatest people on the mic,one of the greatest wrestlers
arguably in the business, andeverything.
He asked for Cody's quote on,quote soul, and you know again,
storylines is that, and theother asking for souls on the
(09:03):
day I believe I think it was theday uh, cody's father died.
It's like man, come on, that'sa little personal, but this is
wrestling.
So I'm pretty sure that codysigned off on that, but his
overall final boss character isjust trash.
I'm sorry, it just doesn't donothing for me personally,
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because I've been watching theRock for years and this whole
I'm part of the board.
I'm evil.
Da, da, da da.
It's like we've already beenthere, done it with the scumbag
Vincent Kennedy McMahon.
We've done that for years andwe're still doing that.
So, yeah, that's trash, sowe'll see what that.
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So, yeah, that's trash, sowe'll see what happens.
Man, but it's a good time to bea wrestling fan and stay tuned,
because it's only going to getbetter from here to WrestleMania
.
So, with that being said,moving on to the new topic,
which is, which is I'm sick ofit.
I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of it now.
This is where we're going totalk about a couple things that
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you know gets under your boy'sbelt and everything.
It goes a little light heartedto a little bit serious and
everything.
But you know, that's what it isand you know, maybe at the end
of the podcast you'd be like,yeah well, I learned something
today from listening to you andI hope you do, but I don't know
if you will, because some ofthis stuff is ridiculous.
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First and foremost, I can'tplay fortnight no more.
I can't play fortnight no morebecause some little, some little
middle school kid took my lunchmoney and was proud of it.
Let me, let me explain whathappened when I play fortnite.
You know I'm, I'm okay, youknow what I'm saying.
(10:50):
I, I can.
I know the well.
First off, I do zero build.
I ain't gonna be magicallybuilding bridges and forts and
all that stuff because, justbecause the game says so, I'm a
zero build type.
That means I'm in the field,I'm hiding behind buildings,
getting in cars, running andshooting.
That's that's to me in thefield.
I'm hiding behind buildings,getting in cars, running and
shooting.
That's that's to me in videogame world.
That is normal.
(11:10):
I come across this middle schoolkid who I know we're gonna call
him bum b for this, for thissegment.
Bum b, he said, yeah, you know,I guess I got some skills in
fortnite.
I said, okay, so you know.
So he says hey, you want toplay, so we play, we team up,
right.
And I'm thinking you know, I'ma veteran, you know, I know how
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to handle myself in the field,I'm a veteran, right.
So we get out there and we play, you know, 2v2.
You know we're a team of twoand you and we get the little
victory we win.
We win one time.
I'm like, okay, you know, I gotmy six kills.
He got like 10.
I'm like, all right, so we playagain.
And he's dominant with thekills, like, yeah, I got 12
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kills, co2, michael, and he'sstarting to start making jokes
and everything, making fun of meand all that stuff.
I'm like you know, that's,that's cool and all that stuff.
So the, the competitor in me,it's like you know what?
How about me?
And you play one V one?
He's like, yeah, you know, Idon't think you want to do that.
So I'm like, okay, you, you,you up here winning everything
(12:15):
and getting more kills andeverything, talk your stuff, why
not?
He said, nah, you know, I'mcool with it, mike.
I said, alright, cool, so I'mstill talking smack.
Every time I see him online Isend him a message like you
trash, you know just playingaround.
He said, alright, go, alright,let's play.
I said zero bill.
He says zero bill.
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I said cool.
I said I could do this, I couldbeat him.
I have real world experience.
Like you know, I, I I don'tcare if this is a video game or
not, I got real world experience.
I know how to shoot a gun,right.
So we set up the one V one.
I should have known that thiswas not going to be a good day
or a good, good time, becauseevery weapons available, every
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weapon is available in Fortnite.
That's not normal, right.
We don't normally have everyweapon is available in Fortnite.
That's not normal, right.
We don't normally have everyweapon available.
Like you can't just pick anygun and go out there and play,
right.
So I'm being set out.
You know, in the back of mymind, I think I'm getting set up
because he has every weapon.
(13:22):
Every weapon is available forboth of us to be fair, to be
both.
Both of us got to be fair to beboth.
Both of us got all the weapons,but I don't have.
You know, usually it's whateverFortnite gives you, that's what
you do, right?
So we're out there playing andI swear he gets me one time
right, alright, you know, wantnothing.
It happens.
Shoot.
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You know what happened.
I'm shooting.
You know, get re, come back,respawn, get some more guns.
Drop down into this new fightzone area, like, all right,
replay and guess what snipes me.
All right.
Two, nothing.
Okay, you know, bum b, it'scool, it is cool, you, you, you
obviously been playing this gamea little longer.
Show you got this.
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Two, nothing, it's early,though.
It is early, like I could stillcome back.
No, so he's like playing withme.
You know.
You get a sense that, like,okay, he knows what he's doing,
right, he comes around thecorner, shoots me again.
Three, nothing.
Like you know what the windsare getting up there for him.
It goes from 3-0 to 6-1 to 7-2to 14-3.
(14:28):
Right, he is kicking my butt.
It's not even fair.
He did this thing that made mequit.
He is like way in the sky, upat the top, way at the top, and
I see him.
He jumps down.
Like if you're jumping down,that means once you land, you
are going to die.
See him, he jumps down, like ifyou're jumping down, that means
once you land, you are gonnadie.
Right, he jumps down and I'mshooting at him, shooting at him
(14:50):
.
No, no, no.
He comes down and shoots me inthe head.
I'm dead.
And then he lands, like I don'tknow somehow, pulls out his
little parachute or whatever,Doesn't die on impact and he
just beats me and he constantlybeats me all the time.
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So ever since then I haven'tplayed.
I haven't picked up acontroller to play fortnite in
months.
He didn't have to do that.
Bum b did not have to do thatto me, but he did, and so that's
the reason why I don't playfortnite no more.
I no.
No, dog, you ain't gonna dothat to me, hurt my ego.
I am a veteran.
You know what I'm saying.
(15:30):
I know how to shoot a real gun,right.
I know tactics.
You can't just jump and shootand have accuracy.
That's not possible.
No, that's not possible.
Your body has a natural motionwhere it goes up and down, up
and down.
I know that because I shot.
I shot real good, right, I gottraining on this.
(15:51):
He up there making me look likea fool.
So I already talked to his momand dad.
Yeah, I did that.
I straight talked to his dad,said look here, when the spring
and summer come around, we'regonna go to the paintball at.
We're gonna go to the paintballrange, right, and're going to
play some real Fortnite in reallife and see what happens.
I'm going to get him.
I'm going to get him so fast.
(16:11):
I'm going to show him some realtactics.
I bet not.
I bet not lose In real life tothis young man.
Bumby, I hope you hear thisbecause, guess what, I'm coming
for you.
I'm already looking up pricesfor a paintball gun because I'm
gonna get the best one.
You, you can't afford it.
You're gonna get whatever thepaintball range got.
I'm getting the XL super duper.
(16:34):
Shoot you in the butt,paintball gun.
That's what's gonna happen.
You're gonna do that to me.
So stay tuned for that Iguarantee.
I guarantee I'm gonna get him.
He ain't.
He ain't getting me, I don'tcare.
No, this is real life.
I'm going to show you.
You can't jump up and down andshoot like you did in Fortnite.
You put the controller down,get out there this spring, bum B
versus me paintball, it'shappening.
(16:57):
So with that, I don't play thatgame, but I play another game
called Brahala.
Brahala, that's my game.
I've been playing that foralmost six, seven years now.
Now, when I first played thatgame, I didn't have a main
character, right, I just playedthe game, had fun with it, and
then I met this one dude, youngman, whatever, from Florida and
(17:23):
he thought he was something.
So when I started playing it,he was.
He thought he was something.
So when I started playing, Isaid I beat him.
I said, okay, maybe I do havesome skills with this, with this
game, and you know, keepplaying it.
I've been playing.
Like I said, I've been playingit for almost six, seven years
now.
I'm a consistent, high-leveldiamond.
They have the 10 bronze, silver, gold, platinum, diamond and
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Valhalla.
I think that's the last rank.
Once I get diamond, I justswitch characters and play with
new characters.
So I'm not trying to getValhalla In the back of my mind.
I want to, but I haven't tried.
Let's just let that be known.
(18:12):
So when I play, I win basically60 of my games.
Right, um, 60, maybe 70, I'mnot, I'm not trash, but you know
I'm okay, all right.
Why, why do these kids todaywant to go straight to DMs?
They want to go straight to DMsand be like you trash After you
beat them.
Explain that to me, make thatmake sense.
(18:35):
I will beat the draws offsomebody.
They have the audacity to getin my DM to tell me I'm trash.
I just look at the tell me I'mtrash.
(18:57):
I just look at the thing and I'mlike I'm not playing Like dude,
why?
Why is this a thing Like?
You should not be talking notrash to me.
I just beat you.
All you do is sig spam.
That's what some most of themsay.
All you do is sig spam, whichmeans I repeat the same move
over and over and my my comebackto that is as well.
(19:22):
If you don't make me changetactics, why do I have to change
?
My first move is to do this anddo this, and if you ain't
blocking or you ain't jumping toavoid it, I'm going to keep on
doing it.
It's kind of like the hadoukenin street fighter.
If you can't jump successfully,jump past the hadouken, then
you deserve every bit of thisfireball that I'm throwing at
(19:44):
you.
Same thing with a six pan.
If you cannot avoid me doingthis sig or know when it's
coming, why do I need to changetactics?
Make that, make sense, like.
If you can't avoid this attack,then you stink right where
you're at and you belong rightwhere you're at and I'm going to
(20:05):
beat you.
And they have the audacity toget in the DM's when you lose
back in the day.
You good game right.
That's one thing you learnplaying sports, playing anything
like.
You're not going to win themall.
What you do is hold your headhigh.
Good game, I'll get you backnext time if I see you.
(20:26):
And that's one of the beautiesof Brahala it keeps your record
of who you played previously.
I might play this guy and Imight be seven and five.
That means it's on, we back andforth, it's on, let's play the
game, right?
That's one of the things thatokay, okay, I remember playing
(20:48):
you or anything like that.
Like I can still play you andnot be bitter about it, or
anything like that.
It's just like hey, Iunderstand what me and you have
a past.
You win good game, I win goodgame, and that's how it normally
is.
That's how it normally is inlife.
But as I get older, I noticethese young kids don't don't
have that in them.
They want to get into the ends.
You stink, you suck at thisgame.
(21:11):
But, dude, didn't I just beatyou?
What?
What is going on in this worldwhere you just can't take a l?
It's part of life, man.
Let me tell you guys somethingsome people are going to say no
to you sometimes.
You're not going to win everygame.
Learn to adjust and move on.
I'm sick of you guys in the dmtrying to ruin my day, just
(21:33):
remember I'm sick of it sick ofyou guys being in dm.
Learn how to take a l and keepit moving.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Second thing I'm sick of it is my right shoulder.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Man bro, the right shoulder.
I've always had problems withmy shoulders, right, I don't
know why, but sometimes I justget to a certain point where I
can't lift anymore and somethinghappens to my right shoulder.
A little backstory in that uh,this past, like around fall time
or anything, I hired a personaltrainer just to see if I could
(22:05):
get a new look, a way of lookingat things when it comes to
working out.
You know, I'm off and on,unless an injury happens.
Then I'm off, then I come backon work out, get injured, and
it's the vicious cycle that I'vehad the past couple years.
Like I'm getting good shape,i'm'm lifting 215, about to get
(22:26):
this 225 up on the bench, thenka-pac-pac, my shoulder, my
shoulder hurts.
This past time I hired a trainerand he's like this is his words
, like this is going to be easy.
I'm like, yeah, this is goingto be easy.
And he's like, look, this isour services, you're going to
love it, let's do it.
I'm like I think this is ourservices, you're gonna love it,
(22:46):
let's do it.
I'm like I think this is, youknow, uh, divine intervention.
I guess you could say, or youknow, like this is something
that needs to happen.
I say let's do it.
So we do it and I sign up forit and I'm giving a workout and
I'm doing the workouts and I'mstarting to see improvement.
So so I see, you know changesin the body and then the
(23:08):
shoulder shoulder pops, theshoulder snaps the shoulder, the
shoulder does something where Ican't, I can't lift above my
head Right, and on top of that,the sciatica that I've
experienced a couple of yearsago starts flaring up again.
Experience a couple years agostarts flaring up again.
So it's like what let me tellyou about?
(23:29):
If you don't know aboutsciatica, you don't want to know
about sciatica.
Okay, I, I used.
It's a pain in the hip area forme, where I'm laying there
asleep, minding my business,sleep and I adjust myself in bed
and my sciatica reacts.
Boom, I, I can't move, I can'treact.
I'm trying not to wake up mywife, who's sleeping next to me,
because I'm in so much pain,because my sciatica is flaring
(23:52):
up.
It used to be so bad, like Iwould lay on the floor
stretching, trying to stretchthe nerves for the sciatica, and
it would be so bad I couldn'tget up.
I had to ask somebody to helpme up Sciatica, it's not a joke.
So sciatica starts flaring upand I'm working out and on top
(24:13):
of that, the right shoulder ispopping.
So I'm like, yeah, I got tocall my doctor and let him know.
Hey, you know this is what'shappening, this that.
Or you know this is what'shappening this that or another.
Like, okay, well, come on inand we'll do some evaluations on
you this, that and the other.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
And.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I'm like so frustrated, I'm sick of this
right shoulder.
I just like, why are you doingthis to me and everything?
So get to the doctor andeverything.
And they're like let's dosomething called live needling.
I said live needling what'sthat?
Well, they just literally sticka live needle in your arm and
(24:51):
then send pulses to the muscleand if it's reacting I think
it's what he said If it'sreacting, that means we're
getting the right spot, allright, cool.
And they start doing it and mymuscles flaring off, twitches,
boom, boom, boom, boom andeverything.
So I'm like, okay, so I dothree sessions of that and it's
(25:15):
working, I think.
So I try to work out one time,nothing, it wasn't reacting and
everything.
So he's like alright, so liveneedling ain't working, tell me
about your routine.
So I'm telling him about myeverything.
So he's like he's like, yeah,all right, so now I have live
needling ain't working, tell meabout your routine.
So I'm telling about my routineand he's like well, um, are you
stretching?
Are you warming up your muscles?
Like no, like, like I, I havethis, I think I have some.
(25:38):
I have something called yt whereI take a band and I just, you
know, stretch the, stretch itout one way, stretch it out the
other way.
It's like how long are youdoing that for?
Like maybe a minute minute anda half, because you know I'm
trying to get the workout in,because my workout's about an
hour long anyway.
Because now you know, moreadvanced in the workout, where
my trainer says, instead ofthree sets, do four sets, I'm
(25:58):
like whatever, it's just likeyou need to, you need to do more
stretches, more training, more,more stretch.
So therefore, you're notinjuring yourself, because you
know they always do this.
You know because you're gettingolder type thing.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I'm like yeah whatever, bro.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I mean I'm not lifting no 200 pounds every day.
Like that's whack to me becauseI've been doing this for years
now, off and on, like I know howto work out yeah well, you're
getting older, you got tostretch Meanwhile.
Now, off and on, like I knowhow to work out, yeah well,
you're getting older, you gottastretch Meanwhile.
The trainer is like hey, whereyou at?
Like what are you doing?
Like literally, I cannot doanything.
I can't do anything because theshoulder is I'm starting to
(26:38):
recover from my shoulder andthen the sciatica Like I can't
even get on a treadmill.
Can't do nothing because I'mnot trying to hurt myself with
sciatica's not going to work.
I still got to do my job.
So I had to shut myself downfor three and a half months,
maybe two and three, three and ahalf months no success in that
part.
But I will say this it freakingworks.
(26:59):
Ok, I'm going to tell you thathaving a trainer is probably the
best experience I had.
It was good.
It was good to have thatinteraction and ask questions
and everything, give youworkouts and everything, make
adjustments and everything.
If you got the ability to hirea personal trainer, I suggest
you do that.
But if you are injured orgetting older, one stretch,
(27:23):
stretch, stretch, one stretch,stretch, stretch, warm up
because you don't want to behurt.
So just remember that.
And the last I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of it is a lesson Ilearned a long time ago but I
still keep.
I still make this mistake everynow and then.
(27:44):
The lesson is money and friendsmatter.
Never mix Right.
So a while back got a friendright who was going through some
real tough times I'm talkingreal tough times and so she kind
(28:04):
of hinted at you know I'mmessing up, you know I'm not
doing things right.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,I'm in trouble.
If you're in trouble, I got youback because we are friends.
We are friends, I've known youfor years.
We go back to you know theschool days.
I got you back right.
(28:25):
She's like okay, look, I need X, y and Z.
So I'm like you know what?
I got X, y and Z for you.
Here you go, give her X, y andZ, not a big deal.
Again, I'm not worried about X,y and Z because I always
believe that if you're in aposition to do things, you
(28:45):
should be do those things.
And thankfully, I was in aposition to do those things.
So, as I'm telling, as I do it,I tell one of my Italian boss
friend and she's like don't dothat.
She said don't do that.
I know her.
Don't do that, michael.
And my fake Italian boss soundwhatever voice and my fake
(29:10):
Italian voice Don't do that,michael, I know her, she's not
going to pay you back.
I'm like yo, like man, we goback.
We go back, like you know,she's gonna pay me back because
we've been friends.
She's like okay, it's okay.
Okay, okay, watch and learn.
I'm like you know, we're gonnawatch and learn.
She's like like guess what?
(29:30):
I bet you she's not gonna payyou back.
I said, oh, okay, you, you,just you, just you just really
think that.
Huh, I said we, me and thefriend who I lent her money to,
she's not gonna do me like that.
She's not gonna do me like thatbecause in her time of need I
(29:51):
was there, I was the, I wasthere for her.
She's not gonna do me, justokay.
So another event happens.
She's like yo, my bad, I madethe mistake, I ain't got no gas
money.
I said, man, I'm traveling, Iain't got no gas money.
Can you venmo me some littlechange, some xyz, some more xyz.
It's okay, you know what I gotyou.
(30:13):
You know, because we friends, Igot you xyz, send her some xyz.
So cool, thank you, Iappreciate it, you're a good
friend, okay, so I go tell myitalian boss friend so, yo, I
had to give her some more xyz.
She's like, look, I told you,did she pay you back the first
time?
I said nah, and she said yougave her a second one.
(30:37):
I said yeah.
I said okay, I told you Mike, Itold you Mike.
Italian boss lady here said yo,you ain't getting your money
back player.
I said man, I'm going to get mymoney back because we friends,
like we went back to you know wehigh school junior, like we
went back to you know, we, we,we, we high school, junior high,
we've been friends this long.
She's not going to do me dirty.
(30:57):
We, we, we tight.
She said okay, we'll see.
A third time has come around.
A third time XYZ, I need somemore.
Xyz.
Michael, I just messed up, Itook the money out of the wrong
account and I messed up, Ioverdrafted and I'm in trouble.
Idxynz, I'm starting to doubt it.
(31:20):
Like, oh man, she ain't pay meback one time, she ain't pay me
back two times.
Now she asking for a third time.
I'm just real, real scat on herto keep asking me for XYZ.
But we go back.
You know, we friends from theold school, you know what I'm
saying.
We go back, we go back.
(31:40):
She's not going to do me dirtylike this.
So I give her a third.
Xyz say thank you, you know Iappreciate you, you.
You a real one, michael.
You know you always have myback and everything.
She crying, sobbing.
I say you know what I got you.
It's cool, you know, real one,michael.
You know you always have myback and everything.
She crying, sobbing.
I said you know what I got you.
It's cool, you know it's.
You know.
(32:01):
I said you know, in my head I'mlike you might be playing me
and this is a good play.
But yeah, I got you XYZ BoomCenter, the XYZ Months has gone
by, months has gone by and Iguess them XYZ payments has
(32:23):
grown wings and that's the endof it, because there has not
been one single payback in myname brought my way and it's
like it's weird because you know, you know we, we on, we on
Facebook, we Facebook friendsand everything, and she's
enjoying her best life.
She's getting tattoos.
Like, yeah, I got a tattoo,that's cool that.
(32:43):
But I'm like yo that that thatcosts money, right, you know you
can't get.
You can't get free tattoos ifyou know a tattoo artist but you
can't pay me back.
Okay, okay, oh, I went to acrab boil.
That's like a crab boil.
No, I know that costs money,that costs a lot of money.
You, you enjoying the best sealife, the seafood ever, and you
(33:06):
up there going on vacation.
Wow, you going on vacation.
Yo, that's crazy, because I'mpretty sure vacation costs money
, right, but you can't pay meback and we go back.
And that was the thing, likethat's the thing that stuck in
the back of my head, like shewouldn't do me dirty because we
go back.
(33:27):
But as of this day and it'sbeen over over a year since I
gave the XYZs I ain't seen anXYZ come back in my favor.
That's messed up, man.
And so out of randomness, out ofrandom snap, random text,
italian boss comes.
(33:48):
He said hey, hey, hey, guesswhat?
So I said what's up Today's mybirthday.
He said that's cool, you know,happy birthday.
He said thank's up, today's mybirthday.
He said that's cool, you know,happy birthday.
He said thank you, thank you,michael, you ever get your money
back.
I said you know what?
Don't be texting me about you.
I don't care about yourbirthday.
I know secretly why you reallytext me.
Because you wanted to rub it inmy face that you were right,
she said.
(34:08):
She said you damn right I was.
Yep, I'm rubbing this square inyour face, pie, all in your eye
, my guy.
It was crazy how much laughterand enjoyment she got, and it's
only through text, but I knowshe is laughing in my face
Because she's good at it.
(34:29):
She's like I told you.
I told you she wouldn't giveyou your money.
She's like I told you.
I told you she wouldn't giveyou your money.
And to this day I'm holding theslightest bit that she will
realize that, oh snap, I did oneof my friends from old school,
middle school, junior highschool dirty and took his money
(34:52):
and didn't think about giving itback to him.
With that being said, I'm sickof it.
I am sick of it.
Now, in the grand scheme ofthings, you know it's money.
Money is not to be loved orcherished.
(35:13):
But, dog, why you doing medirty over some money?
I'll never understand.
But hope I still have a glimmerof hope that she's gonna pay me
back.
I even got the Italian boss weshould go to her house.
No, no, no, let's go to herhouse, let's get this money now.
(35:37):
No, we ain't gonna do that.
So we'll see if she pays itback.
But other than that, I'm sickof it if I see.
Oh, thank you for tuning in tothe WDYM podcast.
I'm your host, michael MichaelGillespie.
Have a good night, everybodyand peace out.
(35:58):
Girl Scout, boy Scout, I'm out.
Peace.
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