November 5, 2025 • 41 mins
WEDNESDAY HR 4 Could you make friends in prison? Sean Combs making friends. Matt Morgan city commissioner of Longwood. News From The Headlines Dumbest American TV show.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome back to the Monsters of the morning, Real Radio
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Rush Rowlins along with Angel Rivera. But by the way,
on Friday nighters, what the hell is?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
And you're listening to you.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
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at Real radiomonsters dot com. Ryan Holmes here, former champion,
and Manova here, oh time two time champion, and here
and friendly Ray Trendley here with us today.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
A couple of things. We'll be all over the board
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
First off, Ray, I saw this was something I saw
on TV this morning, and I guess Diddy uh is
in prison and making friends like like like doing doing
what they got the pictures of him laughing it up. Yeah,
he's telling people I hate He's telling people, I'm gonna
be pardoned at the beginning of the year. I've already
talked to Donald Trump, you know, and I can help
(00:59):
you out too, And I'm gonna help And he's found
a way in prison to make the best of it
and to make friends. And that made me think to myself, Okay,
do you think, like Ryan Holmes, could you do that
if you went to prison?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Do you think you can make friends in prison?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Like?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Did he did know someone's girlfriend so fast?
Speaker 6 (01:18):
Just to give context, So the guy that he got
photographed with is a former NBA player, Sebastian Telfair. He's
from Brooklyn and.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That guy got uh got.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
Shot in front of Diddy's restaurant. But he's in jail
for frauding the NBA. Yeah, so that's so it's a
guy they knew each other, right, right, right? Familiar with
You're already friend.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah when they reported this morning was yes, you're right
with that, with that, but also he's been friendly with
other people as well, telling other people, hey, I can
help you out when I get out, because you know's
gonna pardon me. So, angel I, if you go to prison,
do you think you could make friends with could you
make the best of it?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And and making a party? Sohow I don't know if
party is the right way, but I could, I can.
I could make it through. Yeah, Yeah, how about you
am or Nova. Let's say you go to a women's prison.
She would not survive cold. Could you make it?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Could you make friends with all the other girls and
ended up being Okay.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
I'll probably get beat up.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
No, I would definitely be friendly and make friends. I
think I would be because I am the kind of
person people go to to ask for advice and talk to.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Much like Ryan.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Yeah, much like Ryan said, she'd probably be somebody's girlfriends.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
How about you if for some reason, know God forbid,
some reason, you go to prison, could you make it
like did?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
He is?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
So I believe this group think idea you have to
become friends with some group in order to survive something
like that. So I think you have to be friends.
I think you do whatever they ask you to do
if it makes you a girlfriend. I don't think Ryan's
got the body to be somebody's girlfriend, but muscular Michael
(03:10):
Sarah looking at him, Bobby Jack, Michael Sarah.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
He Now, what was the story you had about Blake?
Blake Lively's lawsuit takes a disturbing turn over porn video.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
What is that? You remember?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
She had the two lawsuits, so she had the one
against Justin Baldini had the lawsuit against her.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It just got dismissed.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
They did that movie together, and during the movie she
claimed that he like sexually harassed her, correct and did
all kinds of horrible stuff and so and so he
sued her for defamation.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
That just got dismissed. And I think she's gonna go
after him for attorneys fees. Go, it just happened last week,
and then she's got to.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Dismiss on on who's like, who did favor?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I favored Blake Lively. It worked out for her, Okay, Yeah,
So I think she's gonna go after him for a
tourney's fees, uh, for her lawsuit against the producer for
the sexual harassment.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Apparently he showed of he's.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Been showing still a video of her giving birth, and
her and her lawyers are categorizing this as pornography.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Why would he do that?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
That's really crad dude, And he's been doing that. Allegation
has been that he's been doing that from the very beginning.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
From the get Yeah, that's that's that's horrible.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
And so, you know, I don't know how he got
in possession of it. I couldn't find that in any
of these articles I saw, But somehow he got possession
of this home birthing video.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Which if you've ever seen the birth of a child,
is very.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yea super personal. Absolutely, it's terrible. Yeah, you're talking about
Justin Baldini did.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
That or no, this is the producer I can grab
And how did he have access to her?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I haven't been able to find that in any of
the in any of the stories. Right, did she send
it to him? I think it changes a little bit too, Right,
Like if she had like a group chat with all
of her friends, She's like, hey, guys, look at this
beautiful video, I say, and then people are like, whoa,
let me show you this.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I think it's a little bit different. So they're want
to categorize it as porn private.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Parts and and and by like a revenge porn times
to saying by doing that, there's a lot of states
that have these statutes now for revenge porn, which.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's been criminally incivilly liable. And so what do you
think about that? Do you think that's good? That is
that is considered porn?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It's all they got left though, So by my you know,
I'm such a lawyer, I'm like, how do you define porn?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Right? Right?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Like I think about porn being defined as like something
explicit for sexual gratification. Right, So, like some people are
like really into crushing small animals behind heels, Like that's
not my thing, but like some people sexually are gratified
by that.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I suppose there's a kink for.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
If it is graphic content and it is showing, you know,
parts of your body that you do not normally expose,
it is graphic content, but isn't.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The graphic but it porn Yeah, it is.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
In the Supreme Court, the whole thing is like.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
That's obscenity, right, So that's a free speech issue, right,
So the courts in the States can regulate obscenity because
that's a violation. It's it's not a violation of free speech,
like you know, here's our social norms. If you exceed that,
like like it's very explicit pornography and things like that,
(06:21):
it's not free speech. We can regulate that. We could
protect the public from that. And so that's the obscenity.
The famous slogan is you know what when you see it,
which you don't, because again, I think the people's definitions
of what pornography is and is.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Not, and in this circumstance though, the reason they're trying
to use that is that that's the only thing they
got left to try to get this person to stop
showing the video.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, yeah, I think you're right, right, And so.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
You know, he's been refusing to turn over the the
the file. He's been very resistant and won't stop showing
it to people. So that when you're grasping at straws,
how do you protect your client or how does she
protect herself from a person that's showing a clip that
we don't know exactly how they got it right, and
they just won't can't stop help themselves to show it
(07:11):
to anybody who'll stop in front of them to talk
to them.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
So here here's a good question for listener.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
When so, would you, with that being said, would consider
breastfeeding porn?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I don't consider either the be Porne recently because again
for me, you guys start watching the right the right
right channel.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
It's the sexual gratification part that I don't, I don't
agree with, but I also think that it could potentially
be yeah, breastfeeding.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You know, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Is this is another weird thing I've been seeing a
lot of people have been like imitating breastfeeding social media right.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Now, and I don't I don't understand that that's I don't.
I don't understand that.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
Is like you, like you said before, anything could be
sexually gratifying to anybody.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Yeah, and you don't know what it is.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
You have to create a standard, like I think, like
like Instagram didn't allow breast actual breastfeeding before, but now
they do because for ninety.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Percent of the people it's just like feeding a child.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
But that's because because a couple of weirdos out there,
we have to stop everything.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I didn't realize. I
didn't realize they changed their policy on that. That makes
perfect sense though, because I hadn't seen it for a
long time. And then somehow I feed.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You don't have to do is click on it once. Yeah. Right,
it's a beaver moon this morning, and I learned that.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Oh my gosh, my favorite of all the moon's russ
of all the moons.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
But look at the picture I got of the moon
this morning. I won't show the day beautiful there is
there that's the beaver moon.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Think it's a very beautiful picture in the morning. Leave
a house. I like.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I like how it's like it's a starfish, like it's
just all spreading out, just like that.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Beautiful star fish.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
That's the beaver moon right there.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yes, anyone actually listening right now, not watching on YouTube,
It is a real picture of the moon is talking
about you guys are wondering.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Nobody was wondering.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I know you don't. I know you don't have the
equipment for this, but it's theater of the mond.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Oh man. Ryan gets funnier when I'm on die and
I think I don't know about that. Okay, you're concerning me.
Are you having? Are you having any food today? You're
gonna eat it all. I'll eat one meal today. What
are you having?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I'll probably have steak, steak with some grilled vegetables, okay,
all right? And then but first before that, I'll have
some creatine.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I'll do a workout. You excited about? Yeah? I mean
I really don't get that excited for food right now.
You don't. Yeah. Used to get excited about.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
To get really excited. My life was planning like trips
so I could go eat, I know, and drink and
you smile.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I smile.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Left so much more joyous.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
All right, Well, listen, he's a serious attorney. Now, he's
always been a serious attorney. He can still help you,
whether he's still whether he's fat Ray or skinny Ray,
he can definitely help you out. And that's one firm
forlife dot com. That's one firm forlife dot com.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I appreciate you, guys. All right, we'll see you next week. Yes,
all right, yeah, I think so. I might have a jury.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I might have a jury trial next week. They still
they were supposed to give me the dates yesterday. I
still don't have him, so sometime within the next two
weeks I won't be here. But all right, we'll figure
that out.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Very good.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
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Speaker 5 (11:06):
That's right, guys, I got your back.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
All that's happened.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
At Real Radio Monsters on YouTube. Welcome back to the
Monsters Umrest Rowlins along with Angel and Ryan Ambernova, and
we have a special guest here today. We've got Matt
Morgan not related to the law firm. This is like
a big Matt Morgan. I thought it was like mayor
of Longwood, but it's not mayor.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It's it's commissioner. Commissioner, yes, sir, but.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
It sounds like kind of the same responsibilities.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah. So, uh god.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
I got elected in twenty seventeen, re elected in twenty yeah,
and re elected this past November twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's a year ago. Now.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Yeah, we have four year terms and we wrote we
generally try to rotate the mayoralship each year. Yeah, and
so I think I've had three times and yeah, we're
five equal parts and what we do in the city
of Longwood, which I think is a good thing.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
So you've been in poltics now for eight years, wild
and listen, let's be on. There were pe people that thought, oh,
he's a big dumb wrestler, he's.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Not gonna be able to do this, you know, correct,
And you have proven to them that.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You know what you're doing, and you've been and you've
from what I hear and I tell you straight, you've
been doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And you're you're you're well respected.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Matter of fact, you're so well respected that you're coming
in to promote something for a completely different city.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And let's get that.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Out of the way, because I have some thoughts I
want to shoot at you. But you're here to promote
something that's going on in a Popka, Yes, And you're
hosting something to help us some firefighters, right.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Yes, sir so This upcoming November eighth, City of a Popka,
the Apopka Fire Department in the Apopka Professional Firefighters Local
fifty two ninety three proudly hosting the quote unquote fill
the Boot truck pull in downtown a Popka, Okay, from
four to nine pm on Fifth Street in downtown a
Popka and fill the boot. Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
The pun intended is for pH I L.
Speaker 8 (12:55):
Phil Oh for a firefighter that had gotten hurt and
is down on his luck at the moment and it
needs to pay these bills. His name is Phil Farrow, Okay.
Guy's a hero and this is an opportunity to do
a fundraiser to help his family out. And they're going
to have, you know, a coveted fasted Poll Challenge trophy
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awarded to whatever team can pull the truck fastest and
the fastest amount of time and again it's going to
be this upcoming Saturday, November eighth, four to nine pm
on Fifth Street and downtown Popka.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Now, I think it's awesome that you're doing it, and
you're hosting it this week and true, you know, just
to be honest and true to disclosure. I had gotten
the information about this. I'm like, oh, it's a fundraising,
We're doing so many other fun and then they said, oh, well,
Matt Morgan's going to be involved. I'm like, okay, well
I've got a lot of interesting things I could talk
to him about, you know, and he can promote his thing.
So you're and we you can call it a little
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bit of celebrity and call it whatever. But you're wrestling background,
like in this situation, how how many ways has it
helped you to be, you know, a public a public
figure like that in politics?
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Great question to get eyeballs on important things that not
just that I'm passionate about, but look at this case.
This is a completely different city that needs attention and
eyeballs a very important issue. And that wrestling background, the
American gladiator background, the social media stuff, all of that
that following I have is great to get eyeballs on
important things that residents in our city a long would
want to see get done number one, right, and number
(14:24):
two in other cities like in this case for important
things that people really need help with, because that's your
job at end of the day. Is a public servant, right,
I don't even call it a politician. Public servants the
right word. If you're doing this job the right way.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, and you've been doing it now for eight years.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
It's wild. Yeah, that is creat you know. And that's
something else. I thought about it as soon as you
walked in, because I know I met you like eight
years ago.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Ana memory. He's sort of big, but you know when.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
You walk in, it's like you're you're this huge get dude.
And I will say this, I've been thinking about this
a lot lately. I liked it when professional wrestlers were.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Big, too.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I liked it with I don't like seeing him punk
as a world champion, like all these small guys, like
small guys in wrestling to me, don't really that's not
impressive when they're huge, Like you, You're like, oh my god,
this dude is a big.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Why is it?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Wrestling has turned to so many small guys you know
that they're putting them over.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
And a big guy, a big guy like yourself. You
know what I'm saying. Like there, it's not that big.
I hate the big guy guy.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
The small guys aren't cool.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
No, but the big guys are the ones that are
impressive in the ring. You're like, oh my god, look
at these two you know, musters going to each other.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What has happened?
Speaker 8 (15:33):
So I think the business is going in a complete
different direction where it's now about the acrobatic component and
the athleticism and what we call high spots and pro
wrestling where guys are doing crazy flips. Yeah, things that
I know I sure could never do right, But I
didn't have to do it. Because what you just said
earlier ring is true. I still think it rings true
to this day. I just don't see it as much anymore,
which is, I want to see a guy on television
(15:54):
that looks like he could kick my butt in a
real fight. Yeah, I want to see that guy, right,
And unfortunately you don't see a lot of that today's business.
But they're super athletic in their defense, but I'd also
argue they have a hard time getting on roller coasters.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
But I'll digress.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, but yeah, but when like when we were when
we were kids and stuff, you know, we were younger,
it was it was the Hulk Hogan's it was Warrior, Like,
oh my god, I would not want to be in
the ring with that guy. Now it's like see him punk. Yeah,
I think I could take him, Like, I scared of it.
He's too small. Giant right, Oh you could, yeah, big
John Studd.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
These guys are huge.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah. Yeah, who did you when you were growing up?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Who was it that you?
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Andre He was andre Yeah, My dad's guy was Bruno.
But when I was introduced to andre As like a
five year old, I was bananas for him.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
How did you? How did you take on the whole thing?
Oh he's a wrestler.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
He must be a dumb dumb you know, like how
did you handle that, you know, getting into politics.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
Give me a microphone and let me rip and talk
about the things that these residents care about. Because everything
I'm talking about, if I'm doing this job right, is
being their megaphone. There can do it, yeah, the things
they want to see you get done. I can get
up here and talk as much Mack as I want.
The things I want to see get done. But that's
not your job. Your job is to do what they
want you to do for the city. And that's what
I've done. Created autism walks, seven foot Santa writer Park
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Me and are other commission's done a really good job
in Longwood.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Hey, as we all know, politics are very divisive these days,
in national politics and maybe maybe local I don't know,
you know, I haven't heard anything about you one way
or the other. I don't know if you're a publican
or democrat. I have no idea. I just don't want
to hear about you. I hear positive things. Do you
do you think about that? Like who you align yourself
with because people are gonna judge you when you're in
(17:31):
local politics. Is that something that you like you stay
away from or you're like, oh, no, I'm going with
this guy because he's you know, he's the popular one. Now, like,
how do you how do you decide how what you're
gonna let people know who you align with.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
That at the end of the day, if you're in
small town city politics like I am, small government, less government, intervention,
things like that, those are my my core beliefs. But
at the same time, the pothole in the street light
does not give a rats. You know what, if you're
a Pubublican or you're a Democrat, if you're a conservative
or you're a liberal, it doesn't care. It wants to
(18:05):
get repaired, right, So it wants at the end of
the day, and it doesn't matter what side of the
aisle you're on in that regard. And that's why I
do think I like small city politics better because it
doesn't matter. It's not so partisan driven. It's just results.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah. Do that makes sense? Yeah it does. I mean
I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I'll speak for myself. I find it sad where we
are right now. It's so divisive. People can't even talk.
They can't you can't even people. Some people won't be
friends with someone who's on the other side of the
aisle or whatever.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Does that sadden you, Yes, it definitely saddens me because
less talk is not is not a good thing. Scared
to talk to somebody because of publicly what it may
look like to others that are in your party, and like,
oh my god, I can't believe you spoke to somebody
in the opposite of the isle. We need more of
that because that's how you get things accomplished instead of
what you see in big government right now where NonStop
(18:53):
stuff keeps getting stopped. Look what we are right now
with a government shutdown right now.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Right We have listeners right now, listeners who aren't getting
paid and because you know, the two sides are fighting
out and no one wants to come to sit down
and talk about it, and it's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Here's another question I have for you.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Okay, so when you're doing as well as you are, right,
it's gonna be hard not to get a little more
little hey, a little bit of power. They get a
little power. Maybe I'll move on to something else. Maybe
maybe I'll be governor when like, does that does that
whole thing? It does the power and does the I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
The power is the right word?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Is there another? Another word? Is not?
Speaker 8 (19:29):
Because at the end of the day, you're employed by
our city sixteen eighteen thousand residents.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well, the ambition, that's the word I get. Do you
get you get more ambitious? Like, Okay, this is long wind.
I think I can handle all of Orlando? Then, yeah,
what I can handle the state of floor? Does I
see what you're saying? Does the ambition then start to
go in your mind? And you know, the more popularity more.
I don't know, does that Does that enter your mind?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
No?
Speaker 8 (19:56):
Because if I think I can help more people, don't
get me wrong, I would love to. But you can't
look at things like that until That's one thing I've learned.
You can't look ahead until you've gotten accomplished of things
you want to continue to get accomplished in your current role.
I think that's a problem with politics in general. Is
that so as soon as somebody's in, they're already looking
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too far in the future.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I mean, can you can you tell the people that
are just in it for the power? Yes?
Speaker 8 (20:25):
Yeah, yes, and so I when I hear that word.
Though everyone assumes power and power, I don't see the
power making nine hundred and forty five bucks after taxes
a month.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Right, yeah, yeah, powers, not the rest, you know what
I mean? Just the ambitious that of the most people
don't know that.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
Yeah, most artificial will even those public information, they don't
share that information.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I lead with X. I want everybody to know to
know you're not making a lot of money.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
You're doing this because you are who you say you are.
You want to affect positive change in your community and
help lift my city, the small city in Seminole County
up to be featured, to have everybody want to come
to our city, which they are now thanks to our
opening of ryde Or Park some years back. Now we're
drawn now in Longwood and I'm very, very proud to
have been a part of that with my fellow commissioners.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah. Okay, So, when you have a job and it
doesn't pay a whole lot, do you have to have
a do you have a question?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Another job? Do you do? All my other jobs?
Speaker 8 (21:11):
I a senior community outreach coordinator for Orlando Recovery Center.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah, in the recovery village. I get people.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
I'm a nineteen and a half year recovered opioid addict,
functioning addict. My first few years with WWE RIGHT, I
was able to get my life together and got sober.
I'm very proud that's my probably achievement. Quite frankly, Wow,
I did not know that. Yeah, So long story short.
I help get people into treatment. Senior community which coordinators
fancy term for I get people into treatment every day
and I love doing I really do.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
So you're the kind of politician that people could respect, like, okay,
doing it for the right reasons and not all the
other trappings, and then you also do something else that's
still helping the community. Why do you think you fell
that way? And so many other And I know a
lot of other guys that have wrestled in WW and stuff,
they don't go that way. They go further down, you know,
(21:59):
and and they have not many You know, my good
friend Mark Merrows has turned his life around and he
has the positive stuff and he's great. And Diamond Dallas
Page is another one. Yeah, I know you know these guys,
but I love other wrestlers.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
What do you think is the difference that makes you
go the way of when to help others?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
Getting my life back? I not on purpose. I had
overdose seven times by increasing my.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Pain coller seven times.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
I just keep chasing that high and again as a
functioning attic, made a harder to want to stop it.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Right, So good rationalization.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
I'm making great money wrestling on pay per views and
things like that, living out my childhood dreaming a w
W wrestler at the time, and I don't want to
mess that up due to injury. So it's a quick
rationalization to keep using these pills. And I keep increasing
it where eventually I end up overdosing.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
How many matches would you wrestle a week back in
the day four And people don't understand. I know, people like, oh,
it's fake or whatever. It hitting the mat is real.
The things that you do are that stuff really does hurt.
Whether it's predetermined or not, it's real.
Speaker 8 (22:57):
What injury did you have the first lower back CD
back spasms and didn't want to miss I was about
to be called up to smack down at the time,
and I did not want to miss that opportunity.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Was it because of your finishing move?
Speaker 8 (23:07):
Great question. I did it on Big Show once, which
did not help it. Vince McMahon was the owner at
the time. He made me switch my finisher for some
stupid reason to an F five where I picked the
guy up on a fireman's carry on my shoulder spin
him out, and I had to do that the Big
Show multiple times, even I'm not for.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Those are the listeners that don't know a lot of
our listeners are how much is.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
The Big Show way five point fifty five hundred?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
So you would have to pick up the Big Show
and then spin them around and then do like a
DDT right.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Just land them forward in this front, but he would
help me do it, don't get me wrong, sure, but
still it would take its toll it. Let me be clear,
my injury started before that, it got worse with that,
and then after that it kept getting worse. But my
point is is you asked a question earlier, why do
others don't? It's because again, I'm blessed to be I
shouldn't be here on this plan, I should be dead, right,
(23:57):
So I've been playing with house money is the way
I look at it. From the Lord letting me be here,
and my job is to take advantage and use anything
I can where it's my wrestling background being in a
former American gladiator, the Beast on that show, or what
I'm doing now, it's all a blessing and my job
is to pay for it and help other people because
he kept me here for this reason, in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
As some of them did do with your faith. Yeah, definitely, yeah,
I guess sir.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Yeah, yeah, interesting story, very interesting. The reason I asked
you about the finishing move because I Teal Piper was rowdy.
Rodney Piper's daughter was in here yesterday and we were
talking about finishing moves and and she's like, yeah, my dad,
a rowdy, roddy piper, was so glad his finishing move
was a sleeper because because Hulk Hogan's was the drop,
the big leg drop and his.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Back was that hurt my back too doing it? Is
that what it was?
Speaker 8 (24:44):
That hurt mine too. I used to set the guy
up on the outside of the ring like Undertaker used
to do with his bottom his head out right below
the bottom rope and on we walk on the outside
of the apron and do that leg drop across the.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Neck and people don't understand that that hurts.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Did that?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Like?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yeah, double shots?
Speaker 8 (25:02):
Holkgan used to do double shots, like Alb'm complaining about
four to five days a week. They would do sometime.
Not exaggerating, he wasn't him and Rickclair don't exaggerate when
they say twice on Saturdays, twice on Sundays.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Right, they really did because they were bringing in money.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
And Hulk's doing that ledg drop landing on his butt. Yeah,
in that ninety degree compaction.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
So when you're when you're in w W E and
the first time someone offers you or saying take this
pain meds, it'll it'll help you. Yeah, you probably think
nothing about it, right, but you kind of know that
other guys were hooked on him at some time.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
Not yet, I didn't it is two thousand and two. Yeah,
so no, not yet. A lot of the guys had him.
But I don't think any of us saw it as
a problem yet because we didn't see, we weren't starting
to see the crazy amount of rest and deaths that
were about to come, right, And they hit it really
hard at one point there in the mid two thousand
and five, six, seven, eight ish.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
And nobody was talking about CTE back then, where they
oh lord, no, no, no, no, definitely not yeah, yeah, yeah,
and that I mean after his name just scaped my head.
But the guy, his thing was the headbutt Ben wah,
Chris Ben whah. Yeah, I mean that was that was
I don't know what you think, but it seems like
that was a direct result from CTE.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah, so the murders and all that stuff.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
Chris Christopher Nowinski that has it's not called Sports Legacy
Institute anymore. I think it's a different name. Sorry Chris
for brain flirting on it.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
But he teaches the concussion seminars at all the major companies.
I've actually participated in one of his so I knew,
I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 8 (26:28):
And so when I when I die, my brain's being
donated to that because I've had I've had twenty concussions legitimately.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
And they only started keeping tabs on it in two
thousand and eight. Huh, that's when the wrestling started. At
least TNA at the time was doing it keeping track
of your concussion. So I started in two thousand and two. Yeah,
and as of two thousand and eight through twenty fourteen,
I had twenty because it's so simple to get another
one once you've had.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Once you had it, yes, Hey do you miss it?
Do you miss being a professional wrestler? Yes? And no
I missed the fans. Yeah, I missed the adrenaline.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
But my other ways that I feel that now the
high I get is and this sounds so cheesy, but
it's the truth.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I believe getting somebody into.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
Treatment and knowing I'm a part of that, that life
saving process. I know, massund arrogant, but I love it.
I'm very addicted to that. Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
That's a high end itself.
Speaker 8 (27:16):
When I get a call from them six eight months
later telling me that they're back at work, they're feeling good.
Guy just a former NFL player I'm talking to right
now and got helped for he uh you know, just
texted me last night. He just got his one month
coin at AA and I was really really proud of him.
But those moments, that's.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
A high man. Matt Morgan. Thank you for coming in, buddy.
I really do appreciate it. If you ever need anything,
I mean, we're here, you're welcome to come in.
Speaker 8 (27:42):
And oh we gotta started plugging a city along with
AKA Strongwood there.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, thank you, thank you, yes.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Of course, and you will be in a You're you're
helping a popka this week house. It's very nice of
you because and listen, when I said it earlier and
people were coming at me, I saw that, oh you
wouldn't help a popka. It's there are so many people
that always come at me for all kinds of promotional stuff,
for all kinds of fundraisers.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
We just couldn't do them all. No, no, we couldn't
do them all.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
But because you were involved, I'm like, okay, yeah, sure
Mac could come in because we have to have some
entertainment value when we do. You know, a radio show.
But I appreciate you coming in. Thank you for going
out to a popka to help the firefighter. It's fill
the boot. Yes, it's this Saturday, yep. And what time
four to nine pm and Fifth Street there in a popka.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Very nice, Matt Morgan, Thank you so much. Man, Thank
you all for having me. I appreciate her.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
All right, Well, take a little break. When we come back.
It's News from the Headlines. Don't go anywhere. You're listening
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Speaker 2 (28:34):
Match of the morning. That was cool.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I'm so glad everybody, you know I wasn't watching the
taxing Service.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
I'm glad you guys enjoyed that interview. I did too.
You know, that was very interesting for me.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Matt Morgan seems like a great dude. I'll pull that
a whole interview and put it up on our YouTube channel.
Say if you missed it, you can see the whole thing.
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Speaker 2 (29:34):
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Speaker 1 (29:35):
Hey, So this is this is a sort of news
from the headlines of the news. I like, there is
a television show. It's a Scandinavian game show that's been
very successful and they're bringing it to the United States
and it's going to be on Fox, of course, and
it's a game show and it's called Nation's Dumbest. And
(29:57):
what they do is is they take a bunch of celebrity,
you know, like five or six celebrities and they sort
of it's sort of backwards like you normally like you know,
the winner, the winner is the person that comes in
last for the Nation's Dumbest Celebrity. Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
So celebrities uh will.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Compete and then get kicked off one by one to
crown who is the nation's dumbest celebrity? First off, how
do you get celebrities to enter that that that competition?
And who do you think would be the first winner
of a Nation's dumbest?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Who comes? Who comes to your mind first?
Speaker 5 (30:31):
For here?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
No? No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I'm saying like, like, this is a national show and
they kind of like they have Dancing with the Stars
or whatever, is a show where you have.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
A bunch of Scandinavian celebrity.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
No, these are god damn you dumbest. No, your dumb
dumb No, it's in America. They're going to do this
in America.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Now it starts celebrities were here and you said no.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Oh oh, I thought you meant in this room.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Oh no, I meant for here.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
No, in America they're going to do it, and they're
gonna have celebrities that are American celebrities, and uh, like,
who would be who would be your your dumbest celebrity?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Kanye West?
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Kanye West goes on there.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
No, I don't think he's dumb. I think he's crazy.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yeah, he's crazy. I don't know if he's totally dumb.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
Hmm, but doesn't those two kind of go hand in hands.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Crazy and dumb?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah, I think you can be crazy and still be
kind of smart.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Yeah, crazy, but he's smart.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
No today, how about like, okay, what about what about
the uh the guy that was the karate guy, the
big tall karate guy.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Uh, Steven Seagal. Do you think he is? He dumb?
Speaker 7 (31:44):
He's also crazy and he's not American anymore.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
No, he's Russian.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Russian, he's Russian.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Okay, all right, Well, they're gonna do it in America.
It doesn't say they're only going to take American contestants.
It's just it'll be a TV show in America, you know,
in America, and you would know all the contestants.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Yeah, but how will each celebrity. The point is to
win the game if to act the dumbest, So everyone
has to do an activity.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
No, they're going to it's a test like you like
you answer questions, mental challenges, it says.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
So they're going to try to play stupid and try
to play dumb to win if they want to win.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
It says, it'll be both physical and mental challenges, and
then they'll be voted off or they'll be kicked off
one by one. Whoever the last one is will be
crowned the nation's dumbest. Nobody wants to be considered the
nation's dumbest celebrity.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Yeah, that's that's a tough one.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I'm trying to think of who someone says that.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Gwyneth Paltrow, Tracy Morgan. You think Tracy Morgan is dumb?
Speaker 4 (32:43):
He's fun Kelly's goofy funny. It doesn't mean he's dmbe.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
I mean he's dumb.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Let's have a good time. Yeah, I'm trying to think
of someone that's actually just plain ignorant.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Well like Corey Felman Dote. He don't seem very smart.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
He's crazy. Again, So if you can't use.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Crazy celebrity, man, I'm crazy. Eyready made him crazy?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Yeah, rock stars like dumb rock stars? Okay, like like
like like, okay, what about uh uh? He seems nice
and he plays incredible guitar. Like, uh, what's the name
Richard for the Rolling Stones?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Keith Richards. You think he's a smart guy.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
I don't know anything about him. I know who's in
the Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Yeah, uh, Britney Spears, She's.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
She's actually meant she has she has a mental illness.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I don't make fun of her anymore.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Okay, but like, why did I go this one?
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Oh? Just just when I said, Jessica Simpson, Okay, there
you go.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Or she had a dumb moment on TV. She's done
a lot of she's cleaned herself.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
She didn't know a marketing campaign of a tuna company.
That's that's not dumb.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
I think she.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Would be a good celebrity to go on there for
fun because everyone would make fun of her as the
whole dumb chicken tuna. That would be a good one
to have her go on the show, I guess, because
it's more lighthearted. I was thinking more like maybe like
you're Justin Bieber's or your young celebrities that are famous,
like you said, he's stars maybe.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Justin Bieber. Now Justin Bieber once again?
Isn't he a little bit in the mental illness right now? Though?
Doesn't he?
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
I think he's not drugs.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Yeah, I think he's got I didn't know that this
TV show. I don't think you'd want to pick people
who are mentally ill.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
No, yeah, or it's.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Hard ass because so much dumb is crazy adjacent and I.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Wonder how many celebrities would sign up for this, like
I'm gonna got the TV show, You're gonna make on
all the nation's dumbest.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Oh Tom Brady should because he did that roast and
that was pretty.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I think we're shooting.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
I think we're shooting too high on our celebrities in
the sense of to participating this. Right, it's probably gonna
be the run of the mill uh career celebrity uh uh.
George Santos reality TV people, Ah, yeah, that we probably
we probably don't know them offhand, but they've been on
a bunch of other realality TV shows, right, And because
(35:02):
those people want to continue to be on TV.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Presley Guy, they just got out of jail. George Santo's
people that.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
Are I think Jersey Sure, all three of those I
think are too Are you we're shooting those I think
are still too high.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
They're still too hot.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Jersey short characters are too high.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
I don't think yeah, because she's a mom now she's.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
I'm using her as an example, but other Jersey short
people that just want the.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
In the fame, none of the like, I don't think
any of them you'd get any of those guys because
they're all moms and parents and stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Now you're young, if you're a parent.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
You're not gonna want to be on a show that
you know it makes fun of you being dumb.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
What about the dude that is all from that show
that's worried about as abs or whatever, what's the name
the main guyation situation. He's someone that would enter that.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
I bet Kardashians like that.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
We're still shooting too high with these There there are
reality TV show people. I'm sure that our listeners would
know that. They would give us a better idea. Look,
you can text this a seven seven zero three.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
We were not familiar Bachelor people.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Yeah, anybody on The Bachelor, any of those shows that
are popular right now.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
I'll bet you this guy would do it, Polly Shore,
I bet you he would do it just just to
get it. A lot of people who used to be
famous aren't really famous anymore, just to be on TV again,
like a poly Shore, I bet would would go on
the show.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
I don't know if he'd be the dumbest.
Speaker 7 (36:16):
I think pretty happy where he's at is he he
took over his mom's clubs.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
He's just everybody like, uh, you know, hugging him. I
don't know what the.
Speaker 7 (36:27):
Phrase I want to use I can't say on the air.
So I think Jaden Smith.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Okay, too high, he got kids.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Pretty dumb though his dad would't let him do it.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
No, you're right, yeah, yeah, It's like, I don't know, man,
it's the dumb and crazy are so close together that like,
I can't really think of anybody anybody who's got a
lot how about.
Speaker 6 (36:50):
This, anybody who has representation, Like they've got somebody representing
them to get gigs there. If you're an agent for
one of these people, you're not gonna let them do that.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Well.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Angel says in this article that this is a super
popular show in Scandinavia and I got to see it
will be a US version of it, and it's.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
I would have to see how they promote the show
because if if it's lighthearted and let's say there's a
charity option behind it and all these kind of things,
and they soften the blow because the way that you
presented it, we're going to be making fun of people
that are just dumb.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah, yeah, And and.
Speaker 6 (37:23):
That doesn't seem like anybody would want to open themselves
up to that.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Celebrities will be complete, uh will compete to be kicked
off as quick as possible so they aren't crowned the
nation's dumbest.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Oh so they are going to be trying to get
kicked off, like, hey, I'm not stupid. I didn't fail
to IQ test yet.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
So you get Rob Gronkowski The Island Boys.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, yeah, Gronk is a good one.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
Terrence Howard thinks he's very smart. He'll probably try to
stay on to win the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Caitlyn Oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Kato Caitlin, No, is.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
That so old? Dont cares about Kato?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
No, they don't care about him. But he's He's the
kind of guy that would sign up for just.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
For the no one he'd be on that show. We'd
be like, who is this guy? But they do that
all the time.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Matter of fact, if you look at the list of
people that are in Dancing with the Stars right now,
guarantee you you don't know half of them.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Like they're they're not real celebrities anymore.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
So that's the other part. You're there, you go, that's
a good point if you're going for that same demo.
Let's say, if you're going for the same demo that
watches these shows, then it's going to.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Be all old stars.
Speaker 6 (38:26):
If you're looking if we're doing what's it, the Golden Bachelor, Bachelor,
aad uh, Dancing with the Stars, and that's the target
market that audience, Yeah, then it's going to be all
people that it's never that we haven't seen on TV
for the last ten fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Kind of like that show where they dress up like
like I don't know, mascots and singing what's the mascot
singing show?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
That's that's a bunch of old old stars.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
But those the ones that pop up on mass show
are a step away from showing up on the show
that you're talking right, Yea, they're on their way there.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Matter of fact, once you get caught kicked off that
what's that show called you sing the singing the mass singer,
the mass singer. Yeah, once you get kicked off the
mass Singer, we just send you right over to the
Nation's Dumbest Go well you do on that show anyway?
Speaker 7 (39:09):
I don't know, like, is this the time to have
the nation's dumbest celebrity or whatever?
Speaker 5 (39:14):
When we're having like an.
Speaker 7 (39:15):
Education crisis, and everybody's already complained that everybody's too dumb already,
like it's just it's kind of standard now, like are
you smarter than the fifth grade?
Speaker 5 (39:22):
It feels like who wants to be a millionaire at
this point?
Speaker 1 (39:25):
So it's that terror Reid Danny Bonaducci.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
I think he's actually small. He's a smart guy though,
like he's not.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
This is in two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Gary Busey Bucy moment.
Speaker 6 (39:39):
I just had this what I was watching Point Park
and I was I and I saw a scene that
I've watched Point Park or I've seen the movie Point Park,
point blank a point Break, sorry Jesus a dozen times.
See Ryan see if you can grab the scene of
Gary Busey's foot in the sand in Point Break. And
(39:59):
I was shocked that they would let somebody put their
foot or grab this and put it in the movie.
It's got the worst toe, the worst like growing out,
growing nails. No, but it's hysterical in the sense like
it's like this is a big budget movie and I'm like,
I was like, that can't be Gary Busey's foot, And
I had this whole inner dialogue. Is that his Is
(40:21):
that really his foot or is that a stunt foot?
Because the whole scene is that they're going out one
of the beaches and they're cutting people's hair to grab
to find out if that's the break that the dead
presidents are surfing right, And there's a scene where he's
walking up on two potheads and for whatever I happen
to look at the TV at that precise moment and
the camera's right.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
On his foot, and I was like, that can't be
his foot. Well, look for the Nation's Dumbest coming out
on Fox next year.
Speaker 5 (40:47):
I know, Gary Busey feet picks.
Speaker 6 (40:50):
You got to go from from a point break see
if you got the beach scene.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
I am. That's a very specific search. It only had
one page.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Of when we come back.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
It's such a diet Denmark Ryan Holmes and make his
daily proclamation, you're listening to the manster of the morning.
Welcome back to the Monsters of the morning, Real Radio
one on four point one, broadcasting live on iHeartRadio. I'm
Rush Rowlins along with Angel Rivera. But by the way,
on Friday nighters, what the hell is?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
And you're listening to you.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Right here on Real Radio one on four point one
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and Manova here, oh time two time champion, and here
and friendly Ray Trendley here with us today.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
A couple of things. We'll be all over the board
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
First off, Ray, I saw this was something I saw
on TV this morning, and I guess Diddy uh is
in prison and making friends like like like doing doing
what they got the pictures of him laughing it up. Yeah,
he's telling people I hate He's telling people, I'm gonna
be pardoned at the beginning of the year. I've already
talked to Donald Trump, you know, and I can help
(00:59):
you out too, And I'm gonna help And he's found
a way in prison to make the best of it
and to make friends. And that made me think to myself, Okay,
do you think, like Ryan Holmes, could you do that
if you went to prison?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Do you think you can make friends in prison?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Like?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Did he did know someone's girlfriend so fast?
Speaker 6 (01:18):
Just to give context, So the guy that he got
photographed with is a former NBA player, Sebastian Telfair. He's
from Brooklyn and.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That guy got uh got.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
Shot in front of Diddy's restaurant. But he's in jail
for frauding the NBA. Yeah, so that's so it's a
guy they knew each other, right, right, right? Familiar with
You're already friend.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah when they reported this morning was yes, you're right
with that, with that, but also he's been friendly with
other people as well, telling other people, hey, I can
help you out when I get out, because you know's
gonna pardon me. So, angel I, if you go to prison,
do you think you could make friends with could you
make the best of it?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
And and making a party? Sohow I don't know if
party is the right way, but I could, I can.
I could make it through. Yeah, Yeah, how about you
am or Nova. Let's say you go to a women's prison.
She would not survive cold. Could you make it?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Could you make friends with all the other girls and
ended up being Okay.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
I'll probably get beat up.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
No, I would definitely be friendly and make friends. I
think I would be because I am the kind of
person people go to to ask for advice and talk to.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Much like Ryan.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Yeah, much like Ryan said, she'd probably be somebody's girlfriends.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
How about you if for some reason, know God forbid,
some reason, you go to prison, could you make it
like did?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
He is?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
So I believe this group think idea you have to
become friends with some group in order to survive something
like that. So I think you have to be friends.
I think you do whatever they ask you to do
if it makes you a girlfriend. I don't think Ryan's
got the body to be somebody's girlfriend, but muscular Michael
(03:10):
Sarah looking at him, Bobby Jack, Michael Sarah.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
He Now, what was the story you had about Blake?
Blake Lively's lawsuit takes a disturbing turn over porn video.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
What is that? You remember?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
She had the two lawsuits, so she had the one
against Justin Baldini had the lawsuit against her.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It just got dismissed.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
They did that movie together, and during the movie she
claimed that he like sexually harassed her, correct and did
all kinds of horrible stuff and so and so he
sued her for defamation.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
That just got dismissed. And I think she's gonna go
after him for attorneys fees. Go, it just happened last week,
and then she's got to.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Dismiss on on who's like, who did favor?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I favored Blake Lively. It worked out for her, Okay, Yeah,
So I think she's gonna go after him for a
tourney's fees, uh, for her lawsuit against the producer for
the sexual harassment.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Apparently he showed of he's.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Been showing still a video of her giving birth, and
her and her lawyers are categorizing this as pornography.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Why would he do that?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
That's really crad dude, And he's been doing that. Allegation
has been that he's been doing that from the very beginning.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
From the get Yeah, that's that's that's horrible.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
And so, you know, I don't know how he got
in possession of it. I couldn't find that in any
of these articles I saw, But somehow he got possession
of this home birthing video.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Which if you've ever seen the birth of a child,
is very.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yea super personal. Absolutely, it's terrible. Yeah, you're talking about
Justin Baldini did.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
That or no, this is the producer I can grab
And how did he have access to her?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I haven't been able to find that in any of
the in any of the stories. Right, did she send
it to him? I think it changes a little bit too, Right,
Like if she had like a group chat with all
of her friends, She's like, hey, guys, look at this
beautiful video, I say, and then people are like, whoa,
let me show you this.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I think it's a little bit different. So they're want
to categorize it as porn private.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Parts and and and by like a revenge porn times
to saying by doing that, there's a lot of states
that have these statutes now for revenge porn, which.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's been criminally incivilly liable. And so what do you
think about that? Do you think that's good? That is
that is considered porn?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
It's all they got left though, So by my you know,
I'm such a lawyer, I'm like, how do you define porn?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Right? Right?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Like I think about porn being defined as like something
explicit for sexual gratification. Right, So, like some people are
like really into crushing small animals behind heels, Like that's
not my thing, but like some people sexually are gratified
by that.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I suppose there's a kink for.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
If it is graphic content and it is showing, you know,
parts of your body that you do not normally expose,
it is graphic content, but isn't.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The graphic but it porn Yeah, it is.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
In the Supreme Court, the whole thing is like.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
That's obscenity, right, So that's a free speech issue, right,
So the courts in the States can regulate obscenity because
that's a violation. It's it's not a violation of free speech,
like you know, here's our social norms. If you exceed that,
like like it's very explicit pornography and things like that,
(06:21):
it's not free speech. We can regulate that. We could
protect the public from that. And so that's the obscenity.
The famous slogan is you know what when you see it,
which you don't, because again, I think the people's definitions
of what pornography is and is.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Not, and in this circumstance though, the reason they're trying
to use that is that that's the only thing they
got left to try to get this person to stop
showing the video.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, yeah, I think you're right, right, And so.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
You know, he's been refusing to turn over the the
the file. He's been very resistant and won't stop showing
it to people. So that when you're grasping at straws,
how do you protect your client or how does she
protect herself from a person that's showing a clip that
we don't know exactly how they got it right, and
they just won't can't stop help themselves to show it
(07:11):
to anybody who'll stop in front of them to talk
to them.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
So here here's a good question for listener.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
When so, would you, with that being said, would consider
breastfeeding porn?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I don't consider either the be Porne recently because again
for me, you guys start watching the right the right
right channel.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
It's the sexual gratification part that I don't, I don't
agree with, but I also think that it could potentially
be yeah, breastfeeding.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You know, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Is this is another weird thing I've been seeing a
lot of people have been like imitating breastfeeding social media right.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Now, and I don't I don't understand that that's I don't.
I don't understand that.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
Is like you, like you said before, anything could be
sexually gratifying to anybody.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Yeah, and you don't know what it is.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
You have to create a standard, like I think, like
like Instagram didn't allow breast actual breastfeeding before, but now
they do because for ninety.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Percent of the people it's just like feeding a child.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
But that's because because a couple of weirdos out there,
we have to stop everything.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I didn't realize. I
didn't realize they changed their policy on that. That makes
perfect sense though, because I hadn't seen it for a
long time. And then somehow I feed.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You don't have to do is click on it once. Yeah. Right,
it's a beaver moon this morning, and I learned that.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Oh my gosh, my favorite of all the moon's russ
of all the moons.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
But look at the picture I got of the moon
this morning. I won't show the day beautiful there is
there that's the beaver moon.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Think it's a very beautiful picture in the morning. Leave
a house. I like.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I like how it's like it's a starfish, like it's
just all spreading out, just like that.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Beautiful star fish.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
That's the beaver moon right there.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yes, anyone actually listening right now, not watching on YouTube,
It is a real picture of the moon is talking
about you guys are wondering.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Nobody was wondering.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
I know you don't. I know you don't have the
equipment for this, but it's theater of the mond.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Oh man. Ryan gets funnier when I'm on die and
I think I don't know about that. Okay, you're concerning me.
Are you having? Are you having any food today? You're
gonna eat it all. I'll eat one meal today. What
are you having?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I'll probably have steak, steak with some grilled vegetables, okay,
all right? And then but first before that, I'll have
some creatine.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I'll do a workout. You excited about? Yeah? I mean
I really don't get that excited for food right now.
You don't. Yeah. Used to get excited about.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
To get really excited. My life was planning like trips
so I could go eat, I know, and drink and
you smile.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I smile.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Left so much more joyous.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
All right, Well, listen, he's a serious attorney. Now, he's
always been a serious attorney. He can still help you,
whether he's still whether he's fat Ray or skinny Ray,
he can definitely help you out. And that's one firm
forlife dot com. That's one firm forlife dot com.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I appreciate you, guys. All right, we'll see you next week. Yes,
all right, yeah, I think so. I might have a jury.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I might have a jury trial next week. They still
they were supposed to give me the dates yesterday. I
still don't have him, so sometime within the next two
weeks I won't be here. But all right, we'll figure
that out.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Very good.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
All right, there you go, friendly Ray Trendley. Don't go anywhere.
You're listening to the Mansters of the Morning.
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Hey, you're not on.
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Speaker 5 (11:06):
That's right, guys, I got your back.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
All that's happened.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
At Real Radio Monsters on YouTube. Welcome back to the
Monsters Umrest Rowlins along with Angel and Ryan Ambernova, and
we have a special guest here today. We've got Matt
Morgan not related to the law firm. This is like
a big Matt Morgan. I thought it was like mayor
of Longwood, but it's not mayor.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It's it's commissioner. Commissioner, yes, sir, but.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
It sounds like kind of the same responsibilities.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah. So, uh god.
Speaker 8 (11:34):
I got elected in twenty seventeen, re elected in twenty yeah,
and re elected this past November twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's a year ago. Now.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Yeah, we have four year terms and we wrote we
generally try to rotate the mayoralship each year. Yeah, and
so I think I've had three times and yeah, we're
five equal parts and what we do in the city
of Longwood, which I think is a good thing.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
So you've been in poltics now for eight years, wild
and listen, let's be on. There were pe people that thought, oh,
he's a big dumb wrestler, he's.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Not gonna be able to do this, you know, correct,
And you have proven to them that.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You know what you're doing, and you've been and you've
from what I hear and I tell you straight, you've
been doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And you're you're you're well respected.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Matter of fact, you're so well respected that you're coming
in to promote something for a completely different city.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And let's get that.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Out of the way, because I have some thoughts I
want to shoot at you. But you're here to promote
something that's going on in a Popka, Yes, And you're
hosting something to help us some firefighters, right.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Yes, sir so This upcoming November eighth, City of a Popka,
the Apopka Fire Department in the Apopka Professional Firefighters Local
fifty two ninety three proudly hosting the quote unquote fill
the Boot truck pull in downtown a Popka, Okay, from
four to nine pm on Fifth Street in downtown a
Popka and fill the boot. Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
The pun intended is for pH I L.
Speaker 8 (12:55):
Phil Oh for a firefighter that had gotten hurt and
is down on his luck at the moment and it
needs to pay these bills. His name is Phil Farrow, Okay.
Guy's a hero and this is an opportunity to do
a fundraiser to help his family out. And they're going
to have, you know, a coveted fasted Poll Challenge trophy
(13:16):
awarded to whatever team can pull the truck fastest and
the fastest amount of time and again it's going to
be this upcoming Saturday, November eighth, four to nine pm
on Fifth Street and downtown Popka.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Now, I think it's awesome that you're doing it, and
you're hosting it this week and true, you know, just
to be honest and true to disclosure. I had gotten
the information about this. I'm like, oh, it's a fundraising,
We're doing so many other fun and then they said, oh, well,
Matt Morgan's going to be involved. I'm like, okay, well
I've got a lot of interesting things I could talk
to him about, you know, and he can promote his thing.
So you're and we you can call it a little
(13:49):
bit of celebrity and call it whatever. But you're wrestling background,
like in this situation, how how many ways has it
helped you to be, you know, a public a public
figure like that in politics?
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Great question to get eyeballs on important things that not
just that I'm passionate about, but look at this case.
This is a completely different city that needs attention and
eyeballs a very important issue. And that wrestling background, the
American gladiator background, the social media stuff, all of that
that following I have is great to get eyeballs on
important things that residents in our city a long would
want to see get done number one, right, and number
(14:24):
two in other cities like in this case for important
things that people really need help with, because that's your
job at end of the day. Is a public servant, right,
I don't even call it a politician. Public servants the
right word. If you're doing this job the right way.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yeah, and you've been doing it now for eight years.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
It's wild. Yeah, that is creat you know. And that's
something else. I thought about it as soon as you
walked in, because I know I met you like eight
years ago.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Ana memory. He's sort of big, but you know when.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
You walk in, it's like you're you're this huge get dude.
And I will say this, I've been thinking about this
a lot lately. I liked it when professional wrestlers were.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Big, too.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I liked it with I don't like seeing him punk
as a world champion, like all these small guys, like
small guys in wrestling to me, don't really that's not
impressive when they're huge, Like you, You're like, oh my god,
this dude is a big.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Why is it?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Wrestling has turned to so many small guys you know
that they're putting them over.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
And a big guy, a big guy like yourself. You
know what I'm saying. Like there, it's not that big.
I hate the big guy guy.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
The small guys aren't cool.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
No, but the big guys are the ones that are
impressive in the ring. You're like, oh my god, look
at these two you know, musters going to each other.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What has happened?
Speaker 8 (15:33):
So I think the business is going in a complete
different direction where it's now about the acrobatic component and
the athleticism and what we call high spots and pro
wrestling where guys are doing crazy flips. Yeah, things that
I know I sure could never do right, But I
didn't have to do it. Because what you just said
earlier ring is true. I still think it rings true
to this day. I just don't see it as much anymore,
which is, I want to see a guy on television
(15:54):
that looks like he could kick my butt in a
real fight. Yeah, I want to see that guy, right,
And unfortunately you don't see a lot of that today's business.
But they're super athletic in their defense, but I'd also
argue they have a hard time getting on roller coasters.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
But I'll digress.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, but yeah, but when like when we were when
we were kids and stuff, you know, we were younger,
it was it was the Hulk Hogan's it was Warrior, Like,
oh my god, I would not want to be in
the ring with that guy. Now it's like see him punk. Yeah,
I think I could take him, Like, I scared of it.
He's too small. Giant right, Oh you could, yeah, big
John Studd.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
These guys are huge.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah. Yeah, who did you when you were growing up?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Who was it that you?
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Andre He was andre Yeah, My dad's guy was Bruno.
But when I was introduced to andre As like a
five year old, I was bananas for him.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
How did you? How did you take on the whole thing?
Oh he's a wrestler.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
He must be a dumb dumb you know, like how
did you handle that, you know, getting into politics.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
Give me a microphone and let me rip and talk
about the things that these residents care about. Because everything
I'm talking about, if I'm doing this job right, is
being their megaphone. There can do it, yeah, the things
they want to see you get done. I can get
up here and talk as much Mack as I want.
The things I want to see get done. But that's
not your job. Your job is to do what they
want you to do for the city. And that's what
I've done. Created autism walks, seven foot Santa writer Park
(17:07):
Me and are other commission's done a really good job
in Longwood.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Hey, as we all know, politics are very divisive these days,
in national politics and maybe maybe local I don't know,
you know, I haven't heard anything about you one way
or the other. I don't know if you're a publican
or democrat. I have no idea. I just don't want
to hear about you. I hear positive things. Do you
do you think about that? Like who you align yourself
with because people are gonna judge you when you're in
(17:31):
local politics. Is that something that you like you stay
away from or you're like, oh, no, I'm going with
this guy because he's you know, he's the popular one. Now, like,
how do you how do you decide how what you're
gonna let people know who you align with.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
That at the end of the day, if you're in
small town city politics like I am, small government, less government, intervention,
things like that, those are my my core beliefs. But
at the same time, the pothole in the street light
does not give a rats. You know what, if you're
a Pubublican or you're a Democrat, if you're a conservative
or you're a liberal, it doesn't care. It wants to
(18:05):
get repaired, right, So it wants at the end of
the day, and it doesn't matter what side of the
aisle you're on in that regard. And that's why I
do think I like small city politics better because it
doesn't matter. It's not so partisan driven. It's just results.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah. Do that makes sense? Yeah it does. I mean
I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I'll speak for myself. I find it sad where we
are right now. It's so divisive. People can't even talk.
They can't you can't even people. Some people won't be
friends with someone who's on the other side of the
aisle or whatever.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
Does that sadden you, Yes, it definitely saddens me because
less talk is not is not a good thing. Scared
to talk to somebody because of publicly what it may
look like to others that are in your party, and like,
oh my god, I can't believe you spoke to somebody
in the opposite of the isle. We need more of
that because that's how you get things accomplished instead of
what you see in big government right now where NonStop
(18:53):
stuff keeps getting stopped. Look what we are right now
with a government shutdown right now.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Right We have listeners right now, listeners who aren't getting
paid and because you know, the two sides are fighting
out and no one wants to come to sit down
and talk about it, and it's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Here's another question I have for you.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Okay, so when you're doing as well as you are, right,
it's gonna be hard not to get a little more
little hey, a little bit of power. They get a
little power. Maybe I'll move on to something else. Maybe
maybe I'll be governor when like, does that does that
whole thing? It does the power and does the I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
The power is the right word?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Is there another? Another word? Is not?
Speaker 8 (19:29):
Because at the end of the day, you're employed by
our city sixteen eighteen thousand residents.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well, the ambition, that's the word I get. Do you
get you get more ambitious? Like, Okay, this is long wind.
I think I can handle all of Orlando? Then, yeah,
what I can handle the state of floor? Does I
see what you're saying? Does the ambition then start to
go in your mind? And you know, the more popularity more.
I don't know, does that Does that enter your mind?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
No?
Speaker 8 (19:56):
Because if I think I can help more people, don't
get me wrong, I would love to. But you can't
look at things like that until That's one thing I've learned.
You can't look ahead until you've gotten accomplished of things
you want to continue to get accomplished in your current role.
I think that's a problem with politics in general. Is
that so as soon as somebody's in, they're already looking
(20:18):
too far in the future.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I mean, can you can you tell the people that
are just in it for the power? Yes?
Speaker 8 (20:25):
Yeah, yes, and so I when I hear that word.
Though everyone assumes power and power, I don't see the
power making nine hundred and forty five bucks after taxes
a month.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Right, yeah, yeah, powers, not the rest, you know what
I mean? Just the ambitious that of the most people
don't know that.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
Yeah, most artificial will even those public information, they don't
share that information.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I lead with X. I want everybody to know to
know you're not making a lot of money.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
You're doing this because you are who you say you are.
You want to affect positive change in your community and
help lift my city, the small city in Seminole County
up to be featured, to have everybody want to come
to our city, which they are now thanks to our
opening of ryde Or Park some years back. Now we're
drawn now in Longwood and I'm very, very proud to
have been a part of that with my fellow commissioners.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah. Okay, So, when you have a job and it
doesn't pay a whole lot, do you have to have
a do you have a question?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Another job? Do you do? All my other jobs?
Speaker 8 (21:11):
I a senior community outreach coordinator for Orlando Recovery Center.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah, in the recovery village. I get people.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
I'm a nineteen and a half year recovered opioid addict,
functioning addict. My first few years with WWE RIGHT, I
was able to get my life together and got sober.
I'm very proud that's my probably achievement. Quite frankly, Wow,
I did not know that. Yeah, So long story short.
I help get people into treatment. Senior community which coordinators
fancy term for I get people into treatment every day
and I love doing I really do.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
So you're the kind of politician that people could respect, like, okay,
doing it for the right reasons and not all the
other trappings, and then you also do something else that's
still helping the community. Why do you think you fell
that way? And so many other And I know a
lot of other guys that have wrestled in WW and stuff,
they don't go that way. They go further down, you know,
(21:59):
and and they have not many You know, my good
friend Mark Merrows has turned his life around and he
has the positive stuff and he's great. And Diamond Dallas
Page is another one. Yeah, I know you know these guys,
but I love other wrestlers.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
What do you think is the difference that makes you
go the way of when to help others?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
Getting my life back? I not on purpose. I had
overdose seven times by increasing my.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Pain coller seven times.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
I just keep chasing that high and again as a
functioning attic, made a harder to want to stop it.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Right, So good rationalization.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
I'm making great money wrestling on pay per views and
things like that, living out my childhood dreaming a w
W wrestler at the time, and I don't want to
mess that up due to injury. So it's a quick
rationalization to keep using these pills. And I keep increasing
it where eventually I end up overdosing.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
How many matches would you wrestle a week back in
the day four And people don't understand. I know, people like, oh,
it's fake or whatever. It hitting the mat is real.
The things that you do are that stuff really does hurt.
Whether it's predetermined or not, it's real.
Speaker 8 (22:57):
What injury did you have the first lower back CD
back spasms and didn't want to miss I was about
to be called up to smack down at the time,
and I did not want to miss that opportunity.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Was it because of your finishing move?
Speaker 8 (23:07):
Great question. I did it on Big Show once, which
did not help it. Vince McMahon was the owner at
the time. He made me switch my finisher for some
stupid reason to an F five where I picked the
guy up on a fireman's carry on my shoulder spin
him out, and I had to do that the Big
Show multiple times, even I'm not for.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Those are the listeners that don't know a lot of
our listeners are how much is.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
The Big Show way five point fifty five hundred?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
So you would have to pick up the Big Show
and then spin them around and then do like a
DDT right.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Just land them forward in this front, but he would
help me do it, don't get me wrong, sure, but
still it would take its toll it. Let me be clear,
my injury started before that, it got worse with that,
and then after that it kept getting worse. But my
point is is you asked a question earlier, why do
others don't? It's because again, I'm blessed to be I
shouldn't be here on this plan, I should be dead, right,
(23:57):
So I've been playing with house money is the way
I look at it. From the Lord letting me be here,
and my job is to take advantage and use anything
I can where it's my wrestling background being in a
former American gladiator, the Beast on that show, or what
I'm doing now, it's all a blessing and my job
is to pay for it and help other people because
he kept me here for this reason, in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
As some of them did do with your faith. Yeah, definitely, yeah,
I guess sir.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Yeah, yeah, interesting story, very interesting. The reason I asked
you about the finishing move because I Teal Piper was rowdy.
Rodney Piper's daughter was in here yesterday and we were
talking about finishing moves and and she's like, yeah, my dad,
a rowdy, roddy piper, was so glad his finishing move
was a sleeper because because Hulk Hogan's was the drop,
the big leg drop and his.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Back was that hurt my back too doing it? Is
that what it was?
Speaker 8 (24:44):
That hurt mine too. I used to set the guy
up on the outside of the ring like Undertaker used
to do with his bottom his head out right below
the bottom rope and on we walk on the outside
of the apron and do that leg drop across the.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Neck and people don't understand that that hurts.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Did that?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Like?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yeah, double shots?
Speaker 8 (25:02):
Holkgan used to do double shots, like Alb'm complaining about
four to five days a week. They would do sometime.
Not exaggerating, he wasn't him and Rickclair don't exaggerate when
they say twice on Saturdays, twice on Sundays.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Right, they really did because they were bringing in money.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
And Hulk's doing that ledg drop landing on his butt. Yeah,
in that ninety degree compaction.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
So when you're when you're in w W E and
the first time someone offers you or saying take this
pain meds, it'll it'll help you. Yeah, you probably think
nothing about it, right, but you kind of know that
other guys were hooked on him at some time.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
Not yet, I didn't it is two thousand and two. Yeah,
so no, not yet. A lot of the guys had him.
But I don't think any of us saw it as
a problem yet because we didn't see, we weren't starting
to see the crazy amount of rest and deaths that
were about to come, right, And they hit it really
hard at one point there in the mid two thousand
and five, six, seven, eight ish.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
And nobody was talking about CTE back then, where they
oh lord, no, no, no, no, definitely not yeah, yeah, yeah,
and that I mean after his name just scaped my head.
But the guy, his thing was the headbutt Ben wah,
Chris Ben whah. Yeah, I mean that was that was
I don't know what you think, but it seems like
that was a direct result from CTE.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah, so the murders and all that stuff.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
Chris Christopher Nowinski that has it's not called Sports Legacy
Institute anymore. I think it's a different name. Sorry Chris
for brain flirting on it.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
But he teaches the concussion seminars at all the major companies.
I've actually participated in one of his so I knew,
I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 8 (26:28):
And so when I when I die, my brain's being
donated to that because I've had I've had twenty concussions legitimately.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
And they only started keeping tabs on it in two
thousand and eight. Huh, that's when the wrestling started. At
least TNA at the time was doing it keeping track
of your concussion. So I started in two thousand and two. Yeah,
and as of two thousand and eight through twenty fourteen,
I had twenty because it's so simple to get another
one once you've had.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Once you had it, yes, Hey do you miss it?
Do you miss being a professional wrestler? Yes? And no
I missed the fans. Yeah, I missed the adrenaline.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
But my other ways that I feel that now the
high I get is and this sounds so cheesy, but
it's the truth.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I believe getting somebody into.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
Treatment and knowing I'm a part of that, that life
saving process. I know, massund arrogant, but I love it.
I'm very addicted to that. Nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
That's a high end itself.
Speaker 8 (27:16):
When I get a call from them six eight months
later telling me that they're back at work, they're feeling good.
Guy just a former NFL player I'm talking to right
now and got helped for he uh you know, just
texted me last night. He just got his one month
coin at AA and I was really really proud of him.
But those moments, that's.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
A high man. Matt Morgan. Thank you for coming in, buddy.
I really do appreciate it. If you ever need anything,
I mean, we're here, you're welcome to come in.
Speaker 8 (27:42):
And oh we gotta started plugging a city along with
AKA Strongwood there.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, thank you, thank you, yes.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Of course, and you will be in a You're you're
helping a popka this week house. It's very nice of
you because and listen, when I said it earlier and
people were coming at me, I saw that, oh you
wouldn't help a popka. It's there are so many people
that always come at me for all kinds of promotional stuff,
for all kinds of fundraisers.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
We just couldn't do them all. No, no, we couldn't
do them all.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
But because you were involved, I'm like, okay, yeah, sure
Mac could come in because we have to have some
entertainment value when we do. You know, a radio show.
But I appreciate you coming in. Thank you for going
out to a popka to help the firefighter. It's fill
the boot. Yes, it's this Saturday, yep. And what time
four to nine pm and Fifth Street there in a popka.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Very nice, Matt Morgan, Thank you so much. Man, Thank
you all for having me. I appreciate her.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
All right, Well, take a little break. When we come back.
It's News from the Headlines. Don't go anywhere. You're listening
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Speaker 2 (28:34):
Match of the morning. That was cool.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I'm so glad everybody, you know I wasn't watching the
taxing Service.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
I'm glad you guys enjoyed that interview. I did too.
You know, that was very interesting for me.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Matt Morgan seems like a great dude. I'll pull that
a whole interview and put it up on our YouTube channel.
Say if you missed it, you can see the whole thing.
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Speaker 2 (29:34):
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Speaker 1 (29:35):
Hey, So this is this is a sort of news
from the headlines of the news. I like, there is
a television show. It's a Scandinavian game show that's been
very successful and they're bringing it to the United States
and it's going to be on Fox, of course, and
it's a game show and it's called Nation's Dumbest. And
(29:57):
what they do is is they take a bunch of celebrity,
you know, like five or six celebrities and they sort
of it's sort of backwards like you normally like you know,
the winner, the winner is the person that comes in
last for the Nation's Dumbest Celebrity. Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
So celebrities uh will.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Compete and then get kicked off one by one to
crown who is the nation's dumbest celebrity? First off, how
do you get celebrities to enter that that that competition?
And who do you think would be the first winner
of a Nation's dumbest?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Who comes? Who comes to your mind first?
Speaker 5 (30:31):
For here?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
No? No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I'm saying like, like, this is a national show and
they kind of like they have Dancing with the Stars
or whatever, is a show where you have.
Speaker 5 (30:40):
A bunch of Scandinavian celebrity.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
No, these are god damn you dumbest. No, your dumb
dumb No, it's in America. They're going to do this
in America.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Now it starts celebrities were here and you said no.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Oh oh, I thought you meant in this room.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Oh no, I meant for here.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
No, in America they're going to do it, and they're
gonna have celebrities that are American celebrities, and uh, like,
who would be who would be your your dumbest celebrity?
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Kanye West?
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Kanye West goes on there.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
No, I don't think he's dumb. I think he's crazy.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yeah, he's crazy. I don't know if he's totally dumb.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
Hmm, but doesn't those two kind of go hand in hands.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Crazy and dumb?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah, I think you can be crazy and still be
kind of smart.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Yeah, crazy, but he's smart.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
No today, how about like, okay, what about what about
the uh the guy that was the karate guy, the
big tall karate guy.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Uh, Steven Seagal. Do you think he is? He dumb?
Speaker 7 (31:44):
He's also crazy and he's not American anymore.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
No, he's Russian.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Russian, he's Russian.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Okay, all right, Well, they're gonna do it in America.
It doesn't say they're only going to take American contestants.
It's just it'll be a TV show in America, you know,
in America, and you would know all the contestants.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Yeah, but how will each celebrity. The point is to
win the game if to act the dumbest, So everyone
has to do an activity.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
No, they're going to it's a test like you like
you answer questions, mental challenges, it says.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
So they're going to try to play stupid and try
to play dumb to win if they want to win.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
It says, it'll be both physical and mental challenges, and
then they'll be voted off or they'll be kicked off
one by one. Whoever the last one is will be
crowned the nation's dumbest. Nobody wants to be considered the
nation's dumbest celebrity.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Yeah, that's that's a tough one.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I'm trying to think of who someone says that.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Gwyneth Paltrow, Tracy Morgan. You think Tracy Morgan is dumb?
Speaker 4 (32:43):
He's fun Kelly's goofy funny. It doesn't mean he's dmbe.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
I mean he's dumb.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Let's have a good time. Yeah, I'm trying to think
of someone that's actually just plain ignorant.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Well like Corey Felman Dote. He don't seem very smart.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
He's crazy. Again, So if you can't use.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Crazy celebrity, man, I'm crazy. Eyready made him crazy?
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Yeah, rock stars like dumb rock stars? Okay, like like
like like, okay, what about uh uh? He seems nice
and he plays incredible guitar. Like, uh, what's the name
Richard for the Rolling Stones?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Keith Richards. You think he's a smart guy.
Speaker 7 (33:21):
I don't know anything about him. I know who's in
the Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Yeah, uh, Britney Spears, She's.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
She's actually meant she has she has a mental illness.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I don't make fun of her anymore.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
Okay, but like, why did I go this one?
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Oh? Just just when I said, Jessica Simpson, Okay, there
you go.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Or she had a dumb moment on TV. She's done
a lot of she's cleaned herself.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
She didn't know a marketing campaign of a tuna company.
That's that's not dumb.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
I think she.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Would be a good celebrity to go on there for
fun because everyone would make fun of her as the
whole dumb chicken tuna. That would be a good one
to have her go on the show, I guess, because
it's more lighthearted. I was thinking more like maybe like
you're Justin Bieber's or your young celebrities that are famous,
like you said, he's stars maybe.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Justin Bieber. Now Justin Bieber once again?
Isn't he a little bit in the mental illness right now? Though?
Doesn't he?
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
I think he's not drugs.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Yeah, I think he's got I didn't know that this
TV show. I don't think you'd want to pick people
who are mentally ill.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
No, yeah, or it's.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Hard ass because so much dumb is crazy adjacent and I.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Wonder how many celebrities would sign up for this, like
I'm gonna got the TV show, You're gonna make on
all the nation's dumbest.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Oh Tom Brady should because he did that roast and
that was pretty.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I think we're shooting.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
I think we're shooting too high on our celebrities in
the sense of to participating this. Right, it's probably gonna
be the run of the mill uh career celebrity uh uh.
George Santos reality TV people, Ah, yeah, that we probably
we probably don't know them offhand, but they've been on
a bunch of other realality TV shows, right, And because
(35:02):
those people want to continue to be on TV.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Presley Guy, they just got out of jail. George Santo's
people that.
Speaker 6 (35:09):
Are I think Jersey Sure, all three of those I
think are too Are you we're shooting those I think
are still too high.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
They're still too hot.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
Jersey short characters are too high.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
I don't think yeah, because she's a mom now she's.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
I'm using her as an example, but other Jersey short
people that just want the.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
In the fame, none of the like, I don't think
any of them you'd get any of those guys because
they're all moms and parents and stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Now you're young, if you're a parent.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
You're not gonna want to be on a show that
you know it makes fun of you being dumb.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
What about the dude that is all from that show
that's worried about as abs or whatever, what's the name
the main guyation situation. He's someone that would enter that.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
I bet Kardashians like that.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
We're still shooting too high with these There there are
reality TV show people. I'm sure that our listeners would
know that. They would give us a better idea. Look,
you can text this a seven seven zero three.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
We were not familiar Bachelor people.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Yeah, anybody on The Bachelor, any of those shows that
are popular right now.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
I'll bet you this guy would do it, Polly Shore,
I bet you he would do it just just to
get it. A lot of people who used to be
famous aren't really famous anymore, just to be on TV again,
like a poly Shore, I bet would would go on
the show.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
I don't know if he'd be the dumbest.
Speaker 7 (36:16):
I think pretty happy where he's at is he he
took over his mom's clubs.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
He's just everybody like, uh, you know, hugging him. I
don't know what the.
Speaker 7 (36:27):
Phrase I want to use I can't say on the air.
So I think Jaden Smith.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Okay, too high, he got kids.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Pretty dumb though his dad would't let him do it.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
No, you're right, yeah, yeah, It's like, I don't know, man,
it's the dumb and crazy are so close together that like,
I can't really think of anybody anybody who's got a
lot how about.
Speaker 6 (36:50):
This, anybody who has representation, Like they've got somebody representing
them to get gigs there. If you're an agent for
one of these people, you're not gonna let them do that.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Well.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Angel says in this article that this is a super
popular show in Scandinavia and I got to see it
will be a US version of it, and it's.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
I would have to see how they promote the show
because if if it's lighthearted and let's say there's a
charity option behind it and all these kind of things,
and they soften the blow because the way that you
presented it, we're going to be making fun of people
that are just dumb.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah, yeah, And and.
Speaker 6 (37:23):
That doesn't seem like anybody would want to open themselves
up to that.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Celebrities will be complete, uh will compete to be kicked
off as quick as possible so they aren't crowned the
nation's dumbest.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
Oh so they are going to be trying to get
kicked off, like, hey, I'm not stupid. I didn't fail
to IQ test yet.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
So you get Rob Gronkowski The Island Boys.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, yeah, Gronk is a good one.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
Terrence Howard thinks he's very smart. He'll probably try to
stay on to win the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Caitlyn Oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Kato Caitlin, No, is.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
That so old? Dont cares about Kato?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
No, they don't care about him. But he's He's the
kind of guy that would sign up for just.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
For the no one he'd be on that show. We'd
be like, who is this guy? But they do that
all the time.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Matter of fact, if you look at the list of
people that are in Dancing with the Stars right now,
guarantee you you don't know half of them.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Like they're they're not real celebrities anymore.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
So that's the other part. You're there, you go, that's
a good point if you're going for that same demo.
Let's say, if you're going for the same demo that
watches these shows, then it's going to.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Be all old stars.
Speaker 6 (38:26):
If you're looking if we're doing what's it, the Golden Bachelor, Bachelor,
aad uh, Dancing with the Stars, and that's the target
market that audience, Yeah, then it's going to be all
people that it's never that we haven't seen on TV
for the last ten fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Kind of like that show where they dress up like
like I don't know, mascots and singing what's the mascot
singing show?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
That's that's a bunch of old old stars.
Speaker 6 (38:50):
But those the ones that pop up on mass show
are a step away from showing up on the show
that you're talking right, Yea, they're on their way there.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Matter of fact, once you get caught kicked off that
what's that show called you sing the singing the mass singer,
the mass singer. Yeah, once you get kicked off the
mass Singer, we just send you right over to the
Nation's Dumbest Go well you do on that show anyway?
Speaker 7 (39:09):
I don't know, like, is this the time to have
the nation's dumbest celebrity or whatever?
Speaker 5 (39:14):
When we're having like an.
Speaker 7 (39:15):
Education crisis, and everybody's already complained that everybody's too dumb already,
like it's just it's kind of standard now, like are
you smarter than the fifth grade?
Speaker 5 (39:22):
It feels like who wants to be a millionaire at
this point?
Speaker 1 (39:25):
So it's that terror Reid Danny Bonaducci.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
I think he's actually small. He's a smart guy though,
like he's not.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
This is in two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Gary Busey Bucy moment.
Speaker 6 (39:39):
I just had this what I was watching Point Park
and I was I and I saw a scene that
I've watched Point Park or I've seen the movie Point Park,
point blank a point Break, sorry Jesus a dozen times.
See Ryan see if you can grab the scene of
Gary Busey's foot in the sand in Point Break. And
(39:59):
I was shocked that they would let somebody put their
foot or grab this and put it in the movie.
It's got the worst toe, the worst like growing out,
growing nails. No, but it's hysterical in the sense like
it's like this is a big budget movie and I'm like,
I was like, that can't be Gary Busey's foot, And
I had this whole inner dialogue. Is that his Is
(40:21):
that really his foot or is that a stunt foot?
Because the whole scene is that they're going out one
of the beaches and they're cutting people's hair to grab
to find out if that's the break that the dead
presidents are surfing right, And there's a scene where he's
walking up on two potheads and for whatever I happen
to look at the TV at that precise moment and
the camera's right.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
On his foot, and I was like, that can't be
his foot. Well, look for the Nation's Dumbest coming out
on Fox next year.
Speaker 5 (40:47):
I know, Gary Busey feet picks.
Speaker 6 (40:50):
You got to go from from a point break see
if you got the beach scene.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
I am. That's a very specific search. It only had
one page.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Of when we come back.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
It's such a diet Denmark Ryan Holmes and make his
daily proclamation, you're listening to the manster of the morning.
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