February 18, 2025 • 26 mins
(a Grant & Nic Production)
AEW is heading to The Valley and we want YOU to be there!
Being completely honest, this interview went off the rails early. BUT, there is SO MUCH heat around AEW right now! Live events everywhere! Streaming on MAX! And one of their BIGGEST stars, Adam Cole, is going to fill us in on everything!!
AEW is heading to The Valley and we want YOU to be there!
Being completely honest, this interview went off the rails early. BUT, there is SO MUCH heat around AEW right now! Live events everywhere! Streaming on MAX! And one of their BIGGEST stars, Adam Cole, is going to fill us in on everything!!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live across the world right now. This is the
John Jay and Rich radio program.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hello, Hello, check chick chick check ches check chest checkity
check one two Adam Cole's chest chess.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Grant. I gotta tell you this is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
This is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We have the Adam Cole Baby.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Great to be here and proper intro to the full name,
no name.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Listen, I'm not gonna give you anything less than my best,
and it's about forty percent as good as uh, like
anybody who's good at this. So congratulations, Uh you're here
with the like the second best person that you could be,
well in the best.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
The here's the thing you I've seen, I've seen pictures
and video of view. Yeah, and a man's about to
compliment another man.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Here. You are, good looking, dude, Hey, thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
You've been in the You've been in the wrestling industry
since what I like twenty ten, right.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Two thousand and eight? Yeah, okay, so in April of
this year, it'll be seventeen years.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
So how do you manage to not mess this all up?
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Right right? It's honest to god, been one hundred percent
luck seriously, because again, as we say all the time,
wrestling is not ballet, it's incredibly physical. Injuries happen all
the time. So I've just been really lucky to avoid
a ton of injuries to my face.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And you're not you're not exactly like a conservative wrestler. Sure,
you know, like you take your fair amount of risks.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, So the fact that yeah, you're you're the money
maker's still there.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And you know what are those are those making me blood?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Are those all your real teeth?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
These are all my real teeth? Yeah, I promise I
don't even have all my real teeth.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
And I'm in a non contact business.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Just this beautiful mane of hair. I cannot stop, like,
I have to look at you because if I look
at him, I'm gonna turn the stone.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
That's what I'm saying, dude. So what what are you
in town? Doing? What we were? We have? I think
I think Nick has the one sheet, but better from
the horse's mouth, I think.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah. So we're getting ready for a huge A E
W event tomorrow night in Phoenix. And the exciting thing
about it too is, first of all, the fans in
Phoenix are incredible. The aw fans are so passionate. But
what's so cool about tomorrow is not only are we
filming a live Dynamite, but we're also filming collision. So
you're going to get a ton super It's a mega show.
(02:36):
It's a mega show. So yeah, incredibly excited for tomorrow.
It's gonna be super super fun. I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Are you You're a Pennsylvania guy, right?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I am a Pennsylvania Hell?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, my my wife is from only which is I
don't here's but here's it. Here's what I'm getting at
the do when you when you wrestle in Pennsylvania or
in Philadelphia?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Right?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Are those fans crazy?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Like?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Are those the like the elite level of crazy fans? Like,
is is there any fandom that's crazier than Philly? Ooh
like throwing stuff, getting wild, totally in on the story, Like.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, Philly is definitely high up there, but lots of
times too as well. Again, are fans like in New York,
they're at Chicago, Los Angeles. We just had some great
shows in Houston. Again, Phoenix is a great town as
well Philadelphia. But as far as like absolutely wild fans,
the fans in the UK really are just un they're
(03:32):
singing songs the entire time, they are screaming at the
top of their lungs for the entire show. We did
a show in Wembley Stadium with over eighty thousand people
a couple of years ago, and it was unreal. Again,
the show's four or five hours long and they were
just completely invested the entire time. And as you guys know,
that makes such a huge difference in the show. I
say all the time that I think the wrestling fans
(03:54):
are just as much a part of the show as
the wrestlers are.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
The follow up question, Yeah, worst fans where you go
out and it's just flat no reaction, or it's really hard,
maybe you have to work your way up the hill.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Well that's Springfield.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I do not have a worst fan story, but I
do have a worst experience. Let's go. So when I
when I first started wrestling, I was like maybe nine
months in at this point, and I did a show
in Quotes in the Poconos in Pennsylvania, and this show,
it was packed, guys, just I just want you to
imagine six people.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
It was.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It was a family of four children, the wife and
the husband, the wife and the and the four children
didn't make a sound the entire kid, but the but
the father was wearing overalls with no shirt underneath.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Full Godwin right exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And he would rock back and forth the entire show,
and just anytime the good guy was beating up the
bad guy, he'd go get him.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
That was that to me, was the most wild show
I've done it. And he brought like four signs to
hew out.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Throughout the night. It's just says go wrestling. So I
got this is a this is I'm very fascinated with
a ring attire choice. Sure right, you're a trunks guy.
I am a trunksky. I don't I don't mean to
talk to inside business here, but trunks being like more
(05:28):
of a traditional speedo. Yeah, okay, was there ever a
time because there's two things I think about. One, the
body's got to be tight, right, you just say you
can't be a trunks guy and not have because Dusty
wrote or yeah right, he already kind of cornered that
market in big guys and trunks. So you have to
like make that decision, like I have to be in
the best shape all the time. Is that something where
(05:48):
you're like, maybe this time I'm gonna switch to like
a single it. Maybe I'm gonna get like a like
a full body covering. Do you ever have moments where
you're gonna switch because maybe you want to be lighter
on the diet?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Look? No, So when I first started again the first
i'd say six months to a year, I actually wore
long tights where my legs were completely covered. And then
again for me, h, my legs have always grown so
much quicker than my upper body has, so again immediately
I'm like, oh, maybe I should switch to trunks. Yeah.
And what I like about trunks is, like you would
kind of mention, it keeps you accountable. You just have
(06:22):
to make sure you stay in ring shape and ready
to go and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And do you ever worry because I'm I've been suffering
from like a month month long bout of the arena
aka diarrhea. I've had constant diarrhea for.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
The last month and yeah, he says, the last month
I have it's been like three years.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It's been three years. I'm a beacon of health. You
should maybe go to a ya. No, it's fine, man,
it'll go away. But have you ever had any close
calls in your trunks? Because I feel like maybe the
guys of them where pants, maybe you can have sick
days where they're not. It's got to be like an
insecure thing. Like if you have the flu and you
go out and wrestle.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yes, which I've done before. Yeah, yeah, I've certainly, But
I've never had an accident or anything in the rank
God right, but yeah there have been times before. I know.
I did a show in Los Angeles one time where
I had like one hundred and three degree fever and
I was just sleeping the entire time in the back
until someone came and tapped me and said, Okay, we're up.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
It was just do do you feel like Michael Jordan
in those scenarios where you go out and you have
like this is gonna be my flu game? Or are
you like this is gonna be like there's gonna be
a one stock.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Kill myself In a weird way. The one benefit to
it is you're so not nervous because you're just thinking
about ivingteah seriously. So then in some ways you feel
like you perform a little bit better because you're not
like overthinking everything. Especially early on in my career, I
noticed sometimes when I was sick I would have some
of my best matches, no kid.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah, yeah, So let's talk a little a little AW.
I have been on the AW train since the Jump, right,
Chris Jericho my favorite wrestler of all time, great since
since WCW. What can we expect from an ae W show.
It's at Arizona Financial Theater, which is crazy. It's crazy,
(08:11):
and the crowd is gonna be so loud. What what
are we gonna expect specifically.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
From Adam Cole? Yeah? Oh to me so again, AW
as a whole, you're going to get a rock concert,
roller coaster ride with the best pro wrestlers on the planet.
But with me, I know, at the very least, there's
a match that I'm very much paying attention to, and
that is Orange Cassidy versus my good buddy Roderic Strong
Disputed Kingdom. So I'm definitely gonna be there to support him.
And then otherwise, again, from me and the rest of
(08:38):
the roster, you're just gonna get the best wrestling show
you've ever seen in your life.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
And coming off this big ankle injury.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, I mean when wait, you had an ankle injury?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Oh, I was out for thirteen months.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I've got a bit of an ankle injury right now too, God, Grant,
I think we're basically the same guy.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
It's where I feel like you're about one question away
from being like, can we tag?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Can we just yeah, let's just partner up, dude, I
got a mess up ankle starfaction. We'll call it the
diarrhea boys.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So what happened to your ankle? So not an exciting
story at all, but so unfortunate. We had a show
in New York and there was a stage where I
was running down to save somebody. And when I ran down,
there were steps right there, but again, this was I
needed to have urgency. I'm like, I'm not going to
use the steps. I'm going to jump this little four
(09:30):
foot drop. It was literally four or five feet, not
make at all, but I landed on a camera cable.
And when I did, Guys, when I say my ankle exploded,
I mean really literally like I had to get two
surgeries in seven days. Literally like there were chunks of
bone just hanging off my ankle to where they tried
to save a little piece of my ankle but it disintegrated.
(09:53):
So I have a cadaver bone. I have someone else's
bone in my ankle. It was the most wild injury ever,
so it was definitely the most challenging mentally as well
as physically.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Again, I similar experience, like that's how I took a
bunch of mushrooms in the desert and I think I
twisted my ankle.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Oh my god, basically the same story. Dude.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I feel like this is just off the rail.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
So did did they say it was going to take
like eight nine months for the cadaver bone to like
properly fuse to your bone.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, they told me it was gonna be anywhere from
a year to a year and a half for me
to come back.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
But that's kind of like the fun when you're coming
off an injury. That's kind of a fun time in
wrestling to like expand your character in different ways, right,
Like to not just be like, oh, he's crazy in
the ring, but you could like show off your promo
mike skills, that's course, right.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah. Yeah. And actually, very quickly after the after the injury,
I was back on the road in a wheelchair, like
cutting promos and stuff everything. So I was that the
show must go on, right, I.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Mean, that's that and it is It's so awesome, and
especially when you get that return too, right, like where
where it's like no one knows except you, right, and
when you step through that curtain, I can only imagine
it is just butterflies and goosebumps and you're gonna nauseous
and like every emotion is surrounding you.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Right, That's one of the most exciting things about wrestling,
is like the return is one of the coolest things
that pro wrestling has over anything else in a way,
And my god, it's so exciting, Like when it's not expected,
but as far as me, oh yeah, I'm beyond excited
for it, I'm nervous. You know. You always hope that
the fans are going to care when you come back,
which goes through all of our minds every time. But
(11:36):
if it goes well, yeah, it's absolutely one of the
coolest things.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Like I grew up such a wrestling fan, like at
like a sick level, and then I thought I could
do that, Like that's That's what I'm gonna do. I
started the Carlinal trampoline wrestling in my backyard where we
just do that, and then I realized, like I'm not
super athletic. Was this always what you wanted to do,
so when you learn like, oh shit, I'm kind of
(12:02):
good at it too.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah. So I made the decision that I wanted to
be a pro wrestler when I was nine years old.
It was like all I wanted to do, and my
mind never changed. I remember when I was seventeen and
my mom asked me, she goes, what are you going
to do after you graduated high school? I'm like, you
know this, I told you I'm going to be a
pro wrestler, and she she's like, no, come on, and
(12:23):
then she said, she goes, well, I hope you figure
out how you're going to pay for that, because I'm
not going to pay for it. So then at the time,
I was on the wrestling team all through high school
in middle school, so I quit that team because I
only wrestled for pro wrestling. And then I started working
year round so I could save up money to go
to pro wrestling school, which I started when I was
a senior. So yeah, my mind was made up from
the very beginning. I was going to do it some
(12:44):
way somehow.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
What's an odd job for Adam Cole? Like, what job
did you have to support your wrestling?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah, like did you have like any weird ones?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So I when I was early on in my career,
because again the first three, four or five years you're
not really making it's too much money, anything to water.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Also the first eleven years in radio. Turns out it's
the same, the same situation, dude.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
You're on. But I worked at a retirement home, hell
and then also taught kids swim lessons. Job for me
while I was while I was still getting my feet
wet in pro wrestling.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I assume you're still teaching swim lessons.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yes, yes I have.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
The kids are really interested learning.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, okay, I'm specifically available all the time. So favorite
match of all time like your match.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Your favorite match, favorite match you're in, and then favorite
match you're not in.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Okay, favorite match of all time that I was not
in is Stone Cold Steve Austin versus The Rock Wrestle
Media seventeen yeast. I will never forget because that was
the exact moment. I will never forget it. It was the
exact moment I said, Okay, no matter what, I'm going
to be a pro wrestler. They played that limp biscuit
my way music video. They come back, they announced them
(14:00):
notice qualification. There's this one second pause where there's no
noise and then Austin's glass breaks in sixty seven thousand,
Oh little crazy. I get chills talking about it. That
was the exact moment where I'm like, oh my god,
So that will always be my favorite. Favorite match I
was involved in is probably that's a tough one, but
I think I wrestled Kyle O'Reilly at a Ring of
Honor pay per view was Best in the World twenty
(14:22):
twelve in the Hammerstein Ballroom. At this point, we were
still new to Ring of Honors. We were still trying
to prove ourselves. So the fans liked us, but they
didn't like love us yet. And we're having this match
and the fans really weren't that into it. They kind
of weren't that interested. They're like, Okay, when's this going
to be over. Kyle punched me and hit me at
a certain place of my lip where I could have
taken my lip and like spread it. Oh yeah, no,
(14:45):
and it hit a vein or something. There was so
much blood it looked like a horror movie. And there
was a point where he gave me a move and
I like fired up and tried to get in his
face and as I was yelling, blood from my mouth
was squirting onto his chest. Oh, like this horror movie.
And from that point on we were made. It was
like the fans accepted us then. Yeah, so that one
(15:06):
is so special to me because I again, I kind
of broke in practically with Kyle O'Riley. So for us
to have that moment together was really really cool. And
ever ever since that match, the trajectory of our careers changed.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
But yeah, I mean and Ring of Honor those are
intense fans too, So yeah, like that makes sense. It
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
We're wrestling so much blood to be like yep plus
in New York City. Yeah, right, forget it.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Uh man, this is awesome because here's the thing is,
I feel like we're in a really really fun time, yes,
and wrestling overall like it. It does have a little
feeling of maybe a little late nineties some competition, and
competition makes the product better everywhere. Uh, And it's just
(15:51):
so exciting to see the trajectory that aw is on.
And I just I mean stars everywhere, just stars everywhere.
It's crazy. You got nothing, I got nothing.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
This is the coolest phase for me in my career
that there's been in wrestling, because again, aw and seriously,
everyone across the board is just crushing it. There's just
so much good pro wrestling everywhere now and I love that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
What's the camaraderie like between like, let's say, I mean,
because what happens is they'll be like one, you know,
one company over here and then another company, and just
like in every business, you know, you kind of go
back and forth or you know, move around. What's the
camaraderie like between guys who have maybe left aw and
gone to other companies? Are you guys? Do you guys
still talk you guys? I mean, cause you have a
(16:39):
lot of downtime between matches, it's traveling, it's all this stuff.
You have friends that are not in AW.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Absolutely, that's so.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
There's so much love and respect shared amongst so many
guys in pro wrestling, no matter what company they work Awesome.
You know, we support each other. There are so many
times where I'll have a match at AW and I'll
get some some texts from people who are so cool,
and then I'll do the same thing when they do
really well. It's just awesome. Yeah. Yeah, it's nothing but
love and respect for each other.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
What's the scariest move, oh to take?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Like? What is I got it?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yeah? What is it?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah? Yeah? So I did a match one time where
I was on top of a cage and there were
two tables in the ring. Again, these cages, I'm terrified
to heights because what is that?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
That's what thirty feet? Okay, yeow.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
We underestimated yea to the point where, by the way,
every time I get on top of a cage, I've
been thrown off a cage so many times in my career,
and somehow it's me even though I'm the one who's terrified. Yeah,
but when I get up there, my body physically shakes,
like I try to get out of that zone. But
it's so scary for me. Heights creep me out. But anyway,
so I took this move called an air raid crash,
(17:46):
where a guy picks you up and your legs are
by his head and he has your head down here
like this, and so you're upside down, and from the
top of the cage, a guy named Tomaso Champa he
jumped off and threw me through the two tables. I
remember when I landed, I almost started sitting up right
away because my body was in shock and I gotta
(18:07):
lay back down. That's it. And then laid back down. So, yeah,
that one was the scariest. Bible.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Well, there's got to be the moment right before the
move happens where you're like, this is the scariest thing,
and then the moment when it hits, when you're like, oh,
I'm hurt. And then there's a moment in between where
you're like, this isn't so bad.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
But yeah. You know what's interesting though, is there is
then there's another moment like immediately before, where you go,
I don't care what happened. Hell yeah, you just accept it.
You're like, whatever, who cares what happened? There? Really is.
There's so many things cheering, right.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Do people tell you you look like another wrestler?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Is it? Does? It start with a sean it and
it ends with a yeah, no kidding? Yeah, you you
are like a spinning like upgraded version. I would say handsome.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Well that's I don't know about that. Yeah, come on,
I know about that. But that's the highest of compliments
because he's my favorite wrestler of all time. That was
gonna be my question.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I would I would assume, Yeah, you guys have a
very like not same, but similar move said and very charismatic.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I just I love and respect not only him as
a person, but my god, him as a performer. He
was such a great good guy. He was such a
great bad guy, underrated talker. Not enough people talk about
how good Sean was on the mic. And at the
end of the day, every single person who stepped into
the ring with Sewan Michaels ninety nine percent of the
time their best match was against him, which is like
the ultimate compliment.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I think that WrestleMania fourteen lead up was probably some
of the craziest best Like, yeah, I wasn't a Shawn
Michaels fan before that. I was too you know, of
course he was a little kid. I was like that
guy saw but Steve. Steve's gonna knock him down a
bigger too.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah. And like for me at that time again, being
in like middle school, I was like a WCW guy.
So it's like I was watching the nWo until DX game, right,
and so then I was like, Okay, now I get it.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
And I'm like I missed all that I missed the
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Well, yeah, right, you guys want to start right now? Okay,
good And speaking of streaming, uh AW launching on Max
as well.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yes, but god, that's huge, super exciting.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah, I'm gonna say, like backstage, it's got to be wild, right,
my gods, that is like my number one streaming servey.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, we were amped. I love Max absolutely and it
is wild to think too. Man. That again, AW has
been around for like five years. Like the growth the
company has made in such a short amount of time
is unreal. But yeah, Max is a huge step forward
for us.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Have you have you ever seen Sister Wives on Max?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I have not.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
You gotta check it out. The guy lives right up
in the flag so's it's a guy Cody Brown who
has four wives and spoiler alert, after seventeen seasons, he
has one wife. You gotta watch the show the guy.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I definitely don't want to watch that the ending.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
So what's your what's your like favorite good bad TV show? Movie?
Like what do you put on when you're just chilling
at the end of the night, or like maybe it's
not even TV, Like what do you do to just
kill that time?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
And I am a massive video game fan. Hell yeah,
okay massive. So I actually stream on Twitch in my
off time as well when I'm home from the road,
which is awesome.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
What are you playing?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Oh my god? So I have a five game cycle
right now.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I'm playing The Witcher three Wild Hunt. I'm playing Paper
Mario the Thousand Year Door.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
You're a switch boy.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I'm playing Dark Souls two Scholar of the First Sin.
I'm playing this awesome metro video called Ender Magnolia, and
then probably my current favorite game in the cycle is
The Silent Hill to Remake No Kidding, which is this horrifying.
It's the best psychological horror game ever made. So good.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
I'm about to play through Red Dead Redemption. But I'm
a I'm a switch guy, so yeah, I'm not a
real gamer.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I got so much like ship from other.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
People who are like, brought my switch on the road
with me.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
This. Are you a Mario Kart guy?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I love Mario Mario Kart.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I'm a ringer dude.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I set up like little lobbies with listeners and I
just talked shit, let's beat them down all the time.
But the man the Witcher, that's a pretty intense, like
is that new?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
No? No, so that came out in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
To me, it's it's one of the best stories ever
told in video games. So again, the Witcher three is
like this open world game where of course there is
a main path, but there's all this optional side stuff
that you can do. The side quests are so incredible
and interesting that it's fascinating to me that you you
could miss these amazing quests if you just stuck to
the main The main thing you strike.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Me, Adam Cole is one hundred percenter? Are you? Are
you one of those fellas?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Sometimes okay, but like most of the time.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
What was the last game you?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
One hundred percent Astrobot, which is this amazing PlayStation five
mascot platformer which is really really cool.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
So have you played Stray?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I have played I stream Stray Oh no.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Kidd yeah, I just one hundred percent of that baby.
I bought it for my wife. Yeah, thinking like, oh,
this is something fun for her. I just took it
over that just started recorded. I think like sixteen hours
of just footage that I'm never gonna use. But just
so you like your did you play that for pso?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, hell yeah, yeah, that's what sorry, we're talking video games. Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I playing in TENNA sixty four like once a month.
Great console, man, Look like I'm not gonna apologize. I
feel good about it. Still you should should. The N
sixty four is a legendary console.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
So in general, Adam Cole wrestling, non wrestling, What are
you excited about in twenty twenty five? Like anything? Like
what do you wake up in the morning You're like, damn, dude,
we're getting a new whatever or.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
You know, I really do mean this just because I've
had I've had a pretty challenging two years when it
comes to injuries. Yeah, I am so excited to feel healthy.
Oh yeah, and be healthy and to be able to
be back on the road and wrestling and doing what
I love. Because again, when you're out injured, uh, it
really does put into perspective how important our our physical
(23:48):
health is and our mental health for that matter. Yeah,
it does because I love it so much, so not
getting to do it was really hard for me. So
just getting to be healthy and live my life and
wrestle every week and be on the road with a
you is That's what I'm excited about.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Are you party? Are your party? You don't you don't
strike me as a party. You seem pretty put together.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, I can't get away with it anymore.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
You feel too bad? I feel horrible. Yeah, so yeah,
that's what happens. I'm like, I'm like, man, it HiT's
like eight o'clock.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I'm like, okay, you are you married?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Married?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
No? No? Single? Single? Ready to mingle? Are you? Wait?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
So are you? Are you? Are you out dating?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Like?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Are you on the apps while you'reing the country?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I'm not currently dating?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Smart probably right.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
The schedule has been very, very busy, but someday, someday
I'll hop back on.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
That's so sick. Dude, so cool.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I know, dude.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
In here and I'm just like, man a dude, well, dude,
thank you so much. By this is such a pleasure
for both of us. Like, I don't know if you
can tell, maybe we're geeking out a bit, but I
know it's it's we don't.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Talk to you about anything we probably were supposed to
talk to you about, but we just got this was great.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
We covered Arizona theater. Yeah, sister wives, Sister wives, poop
in your pants.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Poop in your pants?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah, break that's a typical nick and granted.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah, Adam Cole, next time you're in Arizona and you
just want to go on the desert and do mushrooms
and hurt your ankle.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Again, just come out, Just come out with me, or
come teach my kids swimming perfect three and four.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
They do great. There we go.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
We'll have your people contact our p Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
They were like, never again. No thanks, all right, Adam Cole,
thank you. Tomorrow night, Arizona Financial Theater, February nineteenth, to
be specific. And it's gonna be a hell of a show.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I'm so excited it really is. Yeah, thank you guys.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
So can they watch all a w stuff on Max
coming up?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Go back and binge at them cold?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Then, yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Put your elevate your ankle and go on, Adam Cole.
You get hurt from watching Adam Cold.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
No, you get hurt from no one else. Would A
man who said, okay, thank you sir, thank you guys,
appreciate it.
Broadcasting live across the world right now. This is the
John Jay and Rich radio program.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hello, Hello, check chick chick check ches check chest checkity
check one two Adam Cole's chest chess.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Grant. I gotta tell you this is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
This is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We have the Adam Cole Baby.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Great to be here and proper intro to the full name,
no name.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Listen, I'm not gonna give you anything less than my best,
and it's about forty percent as good as uh, like
anybody who's good at this. So congratulations, Uh you're here
with the like the second best person that you could be,
well in the best.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
The here's the thing you I've seen, I've seen pictures
and video of view. Yeah, and a man's about to
compliment another man.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Here. You are, good looking, dude, Hey, thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
You've been in the You've been in the wrestling industry
since what I like twenty ten, right.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Two thousand and eight? Yeah, okay, so in April of
this year, it'll be seventeen years.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
So how do you manage to not mess this all up?
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Right right? It's honest to god, been one hundred percent
luck seriously, because again, as we say all the time,
wrestling is not ballet, it's incredibly physical. Injuries happen all
the time. So I've just been really lucky to avoid
a ton of injuries to my face.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And you're not you're not exactly like a conservative wrestler. Sure,
you know, like you take your fair amount of risks.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, So the fact that yeah, you're you're the money
maker's still there.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And you know what are those are those making me blood?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Are those all your real teeth?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
These are all my real teeth? Yeah, I promise I
don't even have all my real teeth.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
And I'm in a non contact business.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Just this beautiful mane of hair. I cannot stop, like,
I have to look at you because if I look
at him, I'm gonna turn the stone.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
That's what I'm saying, dude. So what what are you
in town? Doing? What we were? We have? I think
I think Nick has the one sheet, but better from
the horse's mouth, I think.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah. So we're getting ready for a huge A E
W event tomorrow night in Phoenix. And the exciting thing
about it too is, first of all, the fans in
Phoenix are incredible. The aw fans are so passionate. But
what's so cool about tomorrow is not only are we
filming a live Dynamite, but we're also filming collision. So
you're going to get a ton super It's a mega show.
(02:36):
It's a mega show. So yeah, incredibly excited for tomorrow.
It's gonna be super super fun. I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Are you You're a Pennsylvania guy, right?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I am a Pennsylvania Hell?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, my my wife is from only which is I
don't here's but here's it. Here's what I'm getting at
the do when you when you wrestle in Pennsylvania or
in Philadelphia?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Right?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Are those fans crazy?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Like?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Are those the like the elite level of crazy fans? Like,
is is there any fandom that's crazier than Philly? Ooh
like throwing stuff, getting wild, totally in on the story, Like.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, Philly is definitely high up there, but lots of
times too as well. Again, are fans like in New York,
they're at Chicago, Los Angeles. We just had some great
shows in Houston. Again, Phoenix is a great town as
well Philadelphia. But as far as like absolutely wild fans,
the fans in the UK really are just un they're
(03:32):
singing songs the entire time, they are screaming at the
top of their lungs for the entire show. We did
a show in Wembley Stadium with over eighty thousand people
a couple of years ago, and it was unreal. Again,
the show's four or five hours long and they were
just completely invested the entire time. And as you guys know,
that makes such a huge difference in the show. I
say all the time that I think the wrestling fans
(03:54):
are just as much a part of the show as
the wrestlers are.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
The follow up question, Yeah, worst fans where you go
out and it's just flat no reaction, or it's really hard,
maybe you have to work your way up the hill.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Well that's Springfield.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I do not have a worst fan story, but I
do have a worst experience. Let's go. So when I
when I first started wrestling, I was like maybe nine
months in at this point, and I did a show
in Quotes in the Poconos in Pennsylvania, and this show,
it was packed, guys, just I just want you to
imagine six people.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
It was.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It was a family of four children, the wife and
the husband, the wife and the and the four children
didn't make a sound the entire kid, but the but
the father was wearing overalls with no shirt underneath.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Full Godwin right exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And he would rock back and forth the entire show,
and just anytime the good guy was beating up the
bad guy, he'd go get him.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
That was that to me, was the most wild show
I've done it. And he brought like four signs to
hew out.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Throughout the night. It's just says go wrestling. So I
got this is a this is I'm very fascinated with
a ring attire choice. Sure right, you're a trunks guy.
I am a trunksky. I don't I don't mean to
talk to inside business here, but trunks being like more
(05:28):
of a traditional speedo. Yeah, okay, was there ever a
time because there's two things I think about. One, the
body's got to be tight, right, you just say you
can't be a trunks guy and not have because Dusty
wrote or yeah right, he already kind of cornered that
market in big guys and trunks. So you have to
like make that decision, like I have to be in
the best shape all the time. Is that something where
(05:48):
you're like, maybe this time I'm gonna switch to like
a single it. Maybe I'm gonna get like a like
a full body covering. Do you ever have moments where
you're gonna switch because maybe you want to be lighter
on the diet?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Look? No, So when I first started again the first
i'd say six months to a year, I actually wore
long tights where my legs were completely covered. And then
again for me, h, my legs have always grown so
much quicker than my upper body has, so again immediately
I'm like, oh, maybe I should switch to trunks. Yeah.
And what I like about trunks is, like you would
kind of mention, it keeps you accountable. You just have
(06:22):
to make sure you stay in ring shape and ready
to go and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And do you ever worry because I'm I've been suffering
from like a month month long bout of the arena
aka diarrhea. I've had constant diarrhea for.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
The last month and yeah, he says, the last month
I have it's been like three years.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It's been three years. I'm a beacon of health. You
should maybe go to a ya. No, it's fine, man,
it'll go away. But have you ever had any close
calls in your trunks? Because I feel like maybe the
guys of them where pants, maybe you can have sick
days where they're not. It's got to be like an
insecure thing. Like if you have the flu and you
go out and wrestle.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yes, which I've done before. Yeah, yeah, I've certainly, But
I've never had an accident or anything in the rank
God right, but yeah there have been times before. I know.
I did a show in Los Angeles one time where
I had like one hundred and three degree fever and
I was just sleeping the entire time in the back
until someone came and tapped me and said, Okay, we're up.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
It was just do do you feel like Michael Jordan
in those scenarios where you go out and you have
like this is gonna be my flu game? Or are
you like this is gonna be like there's gonna be
a one stock.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Kill myself In a weird way. The one benefit to
it is you're so not nervous because you're just thinking
about ivingteah seriously. So then in some ways you feel
like you perform a little bit better because you're not
like overthinking everything. Especially early on in my career, I
noticed sometimes when I was sick I would have some
of my best matches, no kid.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah, yeah, So let's talk a little a little AW.
I have been on the AW train since the Jump, right,
Chris Jericho my favorite wrestler of all time, great since
since WCW. What can we expect from an ae W show.
It's at Arizona Financial Theater, which is crazy. It's crazy,
(08:11):
and the crowd is gonna be so loud. What what
are we gonna expect specifically.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
From Adam Cole? Yeah? Oh to me so again, AW
as a whole, you're going to get a rock concert,
roller coaster ride with the best pro wrestlers on the planet.
But with me, I know, at the very least, there's
a match that I'm very much paying attention to, and
that is Orange Cassidy versus my good buddy Roderic Strong
Disputed Kingdom. So I'm definitely gonna be there to support him.
And then otherwise, again, from me and the rest of
(08:38):
the roster, you're just gonna get the best wrestling show
you've ever seen in your life.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
And coming off this big ankle injury.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Yeah, I mean when wait, you had an ankle injury?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Oh, I was out for thirteen months.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I've got a bit of an ankle injury right now too, God, Grant,
I think we're basically the same guy.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
It's where I feel like you're about one question away
from being like, can we tag?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Can we just yeah, let's just partner up, dude, I
got a mess up ankle starfaction. We'll call it the
diarrhea boys.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So what happened to your ankle? So not an exciting
story at all, but so unfortunate. We had a show
in New York and there was a stage where I
was running down to save somebody. And when I ran down,
there were steps right there, but again, this was I
needed to have urgency. I'm like, I'm not going to
use the steps. I'm going to jump this little four
(09:30):
foot drop. It was literally four or five feet, not
make at all, but I landed on a camera cable.
And when I did, Guys, when I say my ankle exploded,
I mean really literally like I had to get two
surgeries in seven days. Literally like there were chunks of
bone just hanging off my ankle to where they tried
to save a little piece of my ankle but it disintegrated.
(09:53):
So I have a cadaver bone. I have someone else's
bone in my ankle. It was the most wild injury ever,
so it was definitely the most challenging mentally as well
as physically.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Again, I similar experience, like that's how I took a
bunch of mushrooms in the desert and I think I
twisted my ankle.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Oh my god, basically the same story. Dude.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I feel like this is just off the rail.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
So did did they say it was going to take
like eight nine months for the cadaver bone to like
properly fuse to your bone.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, they told me it was gonna be anywhere from
a year to a year and a half for me
to come back.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
But that's kind of like the fun when you're coming
off an injury. That's kind of a fun time in
wrestling to like expand your character in different ways, right,
Like to not just be like, oh, he's crazy in
the ring, but you could like show off your promo
mike skills, that's course, right.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah. Yeah. And actually, very quickly after the after the injury,
I was back on the road in a wheelchair, like
cutting promos and stuff everything. So I was that the
show must go on, right, I.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Mean, that's that and it is It's so awesome, and
especially when you get that return too, right, like where
where it's like no one knows except you, right, and
when you step through that curtain, I can only imagine
it is just butterflies and goosebumps and you're gonna nauseous
and like every emotion is surrounding you.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Right, That's one of the most exciting things about wrestling,
is like the return is one of the coolest things
that pro wrestling has over anything else in a way,
And my god, it's so exciting, Like when it's not expected,
but as far as me, oh yeah, I'm beyond excited
for it, I'm nervous. You know. You always hope that
the fans are going to care when you come back,
which goes through all of our minds every time. But
(11:36):
if it goes well, yeah, it's absolutely one of the
coolest things.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Like I grew up such a wrestling fan, like at
like a sick level, and then I thought I could
do that, Like that's That's what I'm gonna do. I
started the Carlinal trampoline wrestling in my backyard where we
just do that, and then I realized, like I'm not
super athletic. Was this always what you wanted to do,
so when you learn like, oh shit, I'm kind of
(12:02):
good at it too.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah. So I made the decision that I wanted to
be a pro wrestler when I was nine years old.
It was like all I wanted to do, and my
mind never changed. I remember when I was seventeen and
my mom asked me, she goes, what are you going
to do after you graduated high school? I'm like, you
know this, I told you I'm going to be a
pro wrestler, and she she's like, no, come on, and
(12:23):
then she said, she goes, well, I hope you figure
out how you're going to pay for that, because I'm
not going to pay for it. So then at the time,
I was on the wrestling team all through high school
in middle school, so I quit that team because I
only wrestled for pro wrestling. And then I started working
year round so I could save up money to go
to pro wrestling school, which I started when I was
a senior. So yeah, my mind was made up from
the very beginning. I was going to do it some
(12:44):
way somehow.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
What's an odd job for Adam Cole? Like, what job
did you have to support your wrestling?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah, like did you have like any weird ones?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So I when I was early on in my career,
because again the first three, four or five years you're
not really making it's too much money, anything to water.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Also the first eleven years in radio. Turns out it's
the same, the same situation, dude.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
You're on. But I worked at a retirement home, hell
and then also taught kids swim lessons. Job for me
while I was while I was still getting my feet
wet in pro wrestling.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I assume you're still teaching swim lessons.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yes, yes I have.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
The kids are really interested learning.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, okay, I'm specifically available all the time. So favorite
match of all time like your match.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Your favorite match, favorite match you're in, and then favorite
match you're not in.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Okay, favorite match of all time that I was not
in is Stone Cold Steve Austin versus The Rock Wrestle
Media seventeen yeast. I will never forget because that was
the exact moment. I will never forget it. It was the
exact moment I said, Okay, no matter what, I'm going
to be a pro wrestler. They played that limp biscuit
my way music video. They come back, they announced them
(14:00):
notice qualification. There's this one second pause where there's no
noise and then Austin's glass breaks in sixty seven thousand,
Oh little crazy. I get chills talking about it. That
was the exact moment where I'm like, oh my god,
So that will always be my favorite. Favorite match I
was involved in is probably that's a tough one, but
I think I wrestled Kyle O'Reilly at a Ring of
Honor pay per view was Best in the World twenty
(14:22):
twelve in the Hammerstein Ballroom. At this point, we were
still new to Ring of Honors. We were still trying
to prove ourselves. So the fans liked us, but they
didn't like love us yet. And we're having this match
and the fans really weren't that into it. They kind
of weren't that interested. They're like, Okay, when's this going
to be over. Kyle punched me and hit me at
a certain place of my lip where I could have
taken my lip and like spread it. Oh yeah, no,
(14:45):
and it hit a vein or something. There was so
much blood it looked like a horror movie. And there
was a point where he gave me a move and
I like fired up and tried to get in his
face and as I was yelling, blood from my mouth
was squirting onto his chest. Oh, like this horror movie.
And from that point on we were made. It was
like the fans accepted us then. Yeah, so that one
(15:06):
is so special to me because I again, I kind
of broke in practically with Kyle O'Riley. So for us
to have that moment together was really really cool. And
ever ever since that match, the trajectory of our careers changed.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
But yeah, I mean and Ring of Honor those are
intense fans too, So yeah, like that makes sense. It
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
We're wrestling so much blood to be like yep plus
in New York City. Yeah, right, forget it.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Uh man, this is awesome because here's the thing is,
I feel like we're in a really really fun time, yes,
and wrestling overall like it. It does have a little
feeling of maybe a little late nineties some competition, and
competition makes the product better everywhere. Uh, And it's just
(15:51):
so exciting to see the trajectory that aw is on.
And I just I mean stars everywhere, just stars everywhere.
It's crazy. You got nothing, I got nothing.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
This is the coolest phase for me in my career
that there's been in wrestling, because again, aw and seriously,
everyone across the board is just crushing it. There's just
so much good pro wrestling everywhere now and I love that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
What's the camaraderie like between like, let's say, I mean,
because what happens is they'll be like one, you know,
one company over here and then another company, and just
like in every business, you know, you kind of go
back and forth or you know, move around. What's the
camaraderie like between guys who have maybe left aw and
gone to other companies? Are you guys? Do you guys
still talk you guys? I mean, cause you have a
(16:39):
lot of downtime between matches, it's traveling, it's all this stuff.
You have friends that are not in AW.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Absolutely, that's so.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
There's so much love and respect shared amongst so many
guys in pro wrestling, no matter what company they work Awesome.
You know, we support each other. There are so many
times where I'll have a match at AW and I'll
get some some texts from people who are so cool,
and then I'll do the same thing when they do
really well. It's just awesome. Yeah. Yeah, it's nothing but
love and respect for each other.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
What's the scariest move, oh to take?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Like? What is I got it?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Yeah? What is it?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah? Yeah? So I did a match one time where
I was on top of a cage and there were
two tables in the ring. Again, these cages, I'm terrified
to heights because what is that?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
That's what thirty feet? Okay, yeow.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
We underestimated yea to the point where, by the way,
every time I get on top of a cage, I've
been thrown off a cage so many times in my career,
and somehow it's me even though I'm the one who's terrified. Yeah,
but when I get up there, my body physically shakes,
like I try to get out of that zone. But
it's so scary for me. Heights creep me out. But anyway,
so I took this move called an air raid crash,
(17:46):
where a guy picks you up and your legs are
by his head and he has your head down here
like this, and so you're upside down, and from the
top of the cage, a guy named Tomaso Champa he
jumped off and threw me through the two tables. I
remember when I landed, I almost started sitting up right
away because my body was in shock and I gotta
(18:07):
lay back down. That's it. And then laid back down. So, yeah,
that one was the scariest. Bible.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Well, there's got to be the moment right before the
move happens where you're like, this is the scariest thing,
and then the moment when it hits, when you're like, oh,
I'm hurt. And then there's a moment in between where
you're like, this isn't so bad.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
But yeah. You know what's interesting though, is there is
then there's another moment like immediately before, where you go,
I don't care what happened. Hell yeah, you just accept it.
You're like, whatever, who cares what happened? There? Really is.
There's so many things cheering, right.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Do people tell you you look like another wrestler?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Is it? Does? It start with a sean it and
it ends with a yeah, no kidding? Yeah, you you
are like a spinning like upgraded version. I would say handsome.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Well that's I don't know about that. Yeah, come on,
I know about that. But that's the highest of compliments
because he's my favorite wrestler of all time. That was
gonna be my question.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I would I would assume, Yeah, you guys have a
very like not same, but similar move said and very charismatic.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I just I love and respect not only him as
a person, but my god, him as a performer. He
was such a great good guy. He was such a
great bad guy, underrated talker. Not enough people talk about
how good Sean was on the mic. And at the
end of the day, every single person who stepped into
the ring with Sewan Michaels ninety nine percent of the
time their best match was against him, which is like
the ultimate compliment.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I think that WrestleMania fourteen lead up was probably some
of the craziest best Like, yeah, I wasn't a Shawn
Michaels fan before that. I was too you know, of
course he was a little kid. I was like that
guy saw but Steve. Steve's gonna knock him down a
bigger too.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah. And like for me at that time again, being
in like middle school, I was like a WCW guy.
So it's like I was watching the nWo until DX game, right,
and so then I was like, Okay, now I get it.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
And I'm like I missed all that I missed the
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Well, yeah, right, you guys want to start right now? Okay,
good And speaking of streaming, uh AW launching on Max
as well.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yes, but god, that's huge, super exciting.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah, I'm gonna say, like backstage, it's got to be wild, right,
my gods, that is like my number one streaming servey.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, we were amped. I love Max absolutely and it
is wild to think too. Man. That again, AW has
been around for like five years. Like the growth the
company has made in such a short amount of time
is unreal. But yeah, Max is a huge step forward
for us.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Have you have you ever seen Sister Wives on Max?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I have not.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
You gotta check it out. The guy lives right up
in the flag so's it's a guy Cody Brown who
has four wives and spoiler alert, after seventeen seasons, he
has one wife. You gotta watch the show the guy.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I definitely don't want to watch that the ending.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
So what's your what's your like favorite good bad TV show? Movie?
Like what do you put on when you're just chilling
at the end of the night, or like maybe it's
not even TV, Like what do you do to just
kill that time?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
And I am a massive video game fan. Hell yeah,
okay massive. So I actually stream on Twitch in my
off time as well when I'm home from the road,
which is awesome.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
What are you playing?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Oh my god? So I have a five game cycle
right now.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I'm playing The Witcher three Wild Hunt. I'm playing Paper
Mario the Thousand Year Door.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
You're a switch boy.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I'm playing Dark Souls two Scholar of the First Sin.
I'm playing this awesome metro video called Ender Magnolia, and
then probably my current favorite game in the cycle is
The Silent Hill to Remake No Kidding, which is this horrifying.
It's the best psychological horror game ever made. So good.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
I'm about to play through Red Dead Redemption. But I'm
a I'm a switch guy, so yeah, I'm not a
real gamer.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I got so much like ship from other.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
People who are like, brought my switch on the road
with me.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
This. Are you a Mario Kart guy?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I love Mario Mario Kart.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I'm a ringer dude.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I set up like little lobbies with listeners and I
just talked shit, let's beat them down all the time.
But the man the Witcher, that's a pretty intense, like
is that new?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
No? No, so that came out in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
To me, it's it's one of the best stories ever
told in video games. So again, the Witcher three is
like this open world game where of course there is
a main path, but there's all this optional side stuff
that you can do. The side quests are so incredible
and interesting that it's fascinating to me that you you
could miss these amazing quests if you just stuck to
the main The main thing you strike.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Me, Adam Cole is one hundred percenter? Are you? Are
you one of those fellas?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Sometimes okay, but like most of the time.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
What was the last game you?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
One hundred percent Astrobot, which is this amazing PlayStation five
mascot platformer which is really really cool.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
So have you played Stray?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I have played I stream Stray Oh no.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Kidd yeah, I just one hundred percent of that baby.
I bought it for my wife. Yeah, thinking like, oh,
this is something fun for her. I just took it
over that just started recorded. I think like sixteen hours
of just footage that I'm never gonna use. But just
so you like your did you play that for pso?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, hell yeah, yeah, that's what sorry, we're talking video games. Okay.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I playing in TENNA sixty four like once a month.
Great console, man, Look like I'm not gonna apologize. I
feel good about it. Still you should should. The N
sixty four is a legendary console.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
So in general, Adam Cole wrestling, non wrestling, What are
you excited about in twenty twenty five? Like anything? Like
what do you wake up in the morning You're like, damn, dude,
we're getting a new whatever or.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
You know, I really do mean this just because I've
had I've had a pretty challenging two years when it
comes to injuries. Yeah, I am so excited to feel healthy.
Oh yeah, and be healthy and to be able to
be back on the road and wrestling and doing what
I love. Because again, when you're out injured, uh, it
really does put into perspective how important our our physical
(23:48):
health is and our mental health for that matter. Yeah,
it does because I love it so much, so not
getting to do it was really hard for me. So
just getting to be healthy and live my life and
wrestle every week and be on the road with a
you is That's what I'm excited about.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Are you party? Are your party? You don't you don't
strike me as a party. You seem pretty put together.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, I can't get away with it anymore.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
You feel too bad? I feel horrible. Yeah, so yeah,
that's what happens. I'm like, I'm like, man, it HiT's
like eight o'clock.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I'm like, okay, you are you married?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Married?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
No? No? Single? Single? Ready to mingle? Are you? Wait?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
So are you? Are you? Are you out dating?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Like?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Are you on the apps while you'reing the country?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I'm not currently dating?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Smart probably right.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
The schedule has been very, very busy, but someday, someday
I'll hop back on.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
That's so sick. Dude, so cool.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I know, dude.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
In here and I'm just like, man a dude, well, dude,
thank you so much. By this is such a pleasure
for both of us. Like, I don't know if you
can tell, maybe we're geeking out a bit, but I
know it's it's we don't.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Talk to you about anything we probably were supposed to
talk to you about, but we just got this was great.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
We covered Arizona theater. Yeah, sister wives, Sister wives, poop
in your pants.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Poop in your pants?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Yeah, break that's a typical nick and granted.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Yeah, Adam Cole, next time you're in Arizona and you
just want to go on the desert and do mushrooms
and hurt your ankle.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Again, just come out, Just come out with me, or
come teach my kids swimming perfect three and four.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
They do great. There we go.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
We'll have your people contact our p Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
They were like, never again. No thanks, all right, Adam Cole,
thank you. Tomorrow night, Arizona Financial Theater, February nineteenth, to
be specific. And it's gonna be a hell of a show.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I'm so excited it really is. Yeah, thank you guys.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
So can they watch all a w stuff on Max
coming up?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Go back and binge at them cold?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Then, yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Put your elevate your ankle and go on, Adam Cole.
You get hurt from watching Adam Cold.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
No, you get hurt from no one else. Would A
man who said, okay, thank you sir, thank you guys,
appreciate it.
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