November 22, 2024 • 36 mins
On this episode of The Downtown, we talk the superstars of AEW. We talk to Dustin Rhodes, Athena, Sammy Guvara, and The Outrunners. AEW All In is happening LIVE July 12th at Globe Life Field and we have the superstars of AEW here to talk all about it.
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Welcome to the Downtown.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Brought you abut Arlington Citizen Media.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I am Rody John and on this episode we talked
to the superstars of ae W. We talked to Dustin Rhodes,
Athena Samyavar and the outrunners. That's right, aw all In
is happening live July twelfth at Globe Life Field and
we have the superstars of aw here to talk all
about it. You can buy your tickets now. This is
(00:49):
absolutely gonna be an amazing event. The last two aw
all Ins we're in Wimbley Stadium over in London. And
that's right, we are going to do it even bigger
here in Texas, because, as they all say, everything is
bigger in Texas. So without further ado, let's get to
the superstars of ae W.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I would like to welcome the show.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
One half of the Ring of Honor World Tag Team
Champions and one third of the Ring of Honor six
Man Tag Team Champions and just all around legend Dustin Rhodes.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
How are you doing to day?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
I thank you for that introduction. That's great. I'm doing great.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
How about you?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I'm doing well. So we're here in Arlington, Texas.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
You are back after the nice little residency that was
here in Arlington. You're here to help promote All In,
which is happening at Globe Life Field next July. First
time since Action Chicago, since it's been in America.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
We're in Wimbley the last two years. How's the field?
To be back in Texas.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
US stadium show is pretty cool. Texas is home. Man
in Texas, so yeah, but I mean Dallas, Houston, It's
all the same for me being from Texas.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
We love our state.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Yes, right, So it's anywhere you're from Texas, you're a
native tax and it's you know, you live, breathe it,
it's in your blood. Very exciting to come to Globally Field.
I've been to AT and T Stadium, you know, with
other companies, but our first United States stadium show is
(02:17):
going to be huge and I'm I'm really looking forward
to it. And did the press conference, you know, getting
when we announced it.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Very cool.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
The atmosphere just I got on the mound and I
had a picture taken on me and I thought of
myself as Nolan ryan Man and it was it was
pretty cool being in in that park.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You can check no one at the obviously the first
stadium for the Rangers.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Yes, okay, yeah, I've been to the first Ay, that's
the first time I've been to this new stadium, gotcha.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Obviously it's not a stadium.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
It's not pretty on the outside, very pretty.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
On the inside. Oh, it's great, state of the art. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Now, I always asked this to people who are pro
wrestlers on the show.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
You raised in a wrestling family, But what is your earliest.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Memory of.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
My earliest memory is probably the Tampa Armory.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Okay, famous Florida where.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Dad was making a just a huge name for himself
in Florida. And I remember driving with him in his
Rose Royce and he had a you know, the right
steering wheel, and I was sitting in the passenger seat
and Mom and my sister's in the back driving up
to the Armory and seeing the people just wrapped around
(03:31):
the building.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
It's just like it was crazy.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
And getting out and all the fans going crazy for Dad,
and you know, him taking me to eighty gram Sports
Sports Stadium in Orlando, just making the rounds. You know,
special places, special places in my heart that I got
to work. Never got to work the Armory, but I
always wanted to. They closed it down when I got
(03:55):
in the business, and.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Then they opened it back up.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
But those earliest memories, you know, Dad working the Spoiler
or even Ox Baker, Terry Funk, you know, just amazing,
cool story.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I was terrified of the Spoiler Keith Jardine. I was
because he would bloody my dad.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
And I didn't know that because I was probably twelve
or eleven watching him.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I remember sitting with Gordon Solely in.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
The back of Vitagram Sports Stadium after his match with
the school and he walked back and I'm just terrified,
and Dad looked at me and all bloodied face, and
he just winked at me. So I was like, oh,
that's pretty cool. He taught me how to throw beer
bottles at signs that night.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I've heard that from reading Jerry Lawler's book. I mean,
not beer bottle, cook bottles for him.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
But as you're driving, you know, long car rides together
and it's terrible, they were littering.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Yeah, true, not good, but he taught me that. It
was really fun, fun experience. And you know, just watching
him growing up and seeing the titles in his closet,
you know, the nw A ten Pounds.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Of Gold, the bull ropes, the you know, just his boots.
He would all is. My task was cleaning hit the blood.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Off of his boots with wind decks.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Wind decks really.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Gave me wind decks and I would sit there and
I'd scrub all the blood office boots and that was
kind of my job. It was very cool look back
looking back on it now, I hated it then, obviously,
but it was like wow to get to experience in that,
you know, it was just he brought me and write
that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Taught me right.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Yeah, people would pay good money to do that nowadays.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Now I always ask people how did they find out
about other forms of pro wrestling that was out there.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I always make the example you were.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
The reason why I know that there's other pro wrestling
out there, because I flipped tho channels as a kid.
I see you in the ring in WCW. I don't
know what the hell WCW was, right, and.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
So I pull out the TV guide, What day is it?
What time is it?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
The whole thing.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I was like, what is it WCW. There's more wrestling
than w WF out there, Like that's crazy. So I
want to thank you for it.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, I want to thank you for letting me know
that there's other pro wrestling out there.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Well, thank you very much for watching them.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
We really appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
I was having the time of my life in w
CW Young just listening me and Steve Austin, Steve Stunning,
Steve Williams at that time.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Yeah, we're both hungry.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Just tearing it up, having a lot of you know,
we had a good feud going and just learned so much,
you know, and just being under the tutelage of Barry Wendham,
my best friend, arn Anderson, Bobby and Lauria Sabisco, Ricky
the Dragon, Steamboat.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
They were my teachers and they.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Taught me everything that I kind of do today, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So so you're you have your own wrestling school, yep.
What are some things that you've learned through your five
decades of wrestling? Wrestling in five decades that haven't wrestled
for fifty years, but that you really like to kind
of impark on your students?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
So a lot.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Actually it's it's I teach him the way I was taught.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
There's certain ways.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
That I grab a hold might be different than other trainers, right,
but it's worked for me for so so long, and
it's it's done good by me in the business for
thirty six years almost thirty seven now, and I'm just
teaching them what I was taught.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
And that's kind of the payoff for me. I enjoy teaching.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
I'm very patient and I'm not a patient person, which
is really strange.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
You ask my wife.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Man, I'm just not patient at all, especially in traffic.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
But when it comes to pro.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Wrestling, it's like it's shocking, man, because I will take
my time with a person until they get it right.
I want them to learn it the right way, and
I want to teach them, and I enjoy teaching them
and that it's not about the money. It's about them
passing my knowledge on to them them being successful. It's
like our first show we're having tomorrow night in Texas well,
(07:40):
Fury in Leander, Texas sold out.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Nervous.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
I'm not performing, I'm just doing the VIP right, but
I'm very nervous that all the production from the production standpoint,
the cameras and the lighting and everything just goes off
really well, and that they want to come back the
next month and that type of stuff. So I'm scared nervous.
I'm sure it'll be fine because he's I got some
(08:05):
great talent and they're very hungry young.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
You're gonna kill it.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
I'll put together a card that's really cool and special.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Well, it's good that you're still getting nervous about things
like this, though.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
I always get nervous even before I go out the tunnel,
and it's awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Every single time.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
I'm like breathing heavy or shaking if things you're in
the back of your.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Head, don't mess this up, don't do this.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
You know, you're old, you know, don'ld trip and fall,
don't you know?
Speaker 6 (08:32):
And it's it keeps you on your toes. But as
soon as the music hits and you walk out of
the tunnel, it dissipates.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
It's gone.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
You go out there, you do your job, hopefully put
on a good show, which I most time do.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I like to tell stories.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, at the end of the day, that's really what
you're what you're doing out there.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Yeah, I mean, you've got to get that engagement, find moments,
And that's what I would tell the young kids today.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Slow down. That's a big thing on my teaching. Slow down.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
And they're like, but my match is ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I want to get all this in.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
I don't want you to put ten minutes worth of
stuff in a match. I want you to put six
and space it out and give me some moments, some
character works and things like that that the fans can
be infested in what you're doing. If you're just going
one hundred miles an hour, no rhyme, no reason. If
anybody can do that, they can't take it in either,
(09:24):
tell a story, tell me something. You use psychology, and
it's hard. You can't really teach the psychology part. It's
a feeling.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
So when you're listening to the crowd, you're doing things
that you know they may not like, but that you know.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Then they're responding and so you're like, oh, you're remembering
what you're listening. It's very difficult a lot of logistics
and mechanics into the pro wrestling, especially training somebody for
the first time, which most of my kids are first
day ors, you know, but they get it about six weeks.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
It takes a lifetime. Yeah, it takes.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
It's not You're not gonna go through my twelve week
camp and get picked for WWE. You're just not or aw,
it's not gonna happen, you know, like, but I'm ready, No,
you're not. You got to go out and work some independence,
get some more reps, perfect your draft, perfect your brand,
and then the eyes start seeing you.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Then you have a chance with that's gonna take.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Five, seven, ten years.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Yeah, it's a long time.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
It's not like it used to be.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
It's not I mean as many as companies as there
are out there right now. I mean it is not
like it used to be, and there are obviously more eyes.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
But you also have.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
To continue to market yourself. If you're not marketing yourself,
then you know you are now. No one's gonna know
where you are and who you are.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I tell them when the first day.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
But you have rules, right, and then I'll go through
the list of rules, and we'll talk about every single day.
You check your ego at the door. When you come
in here. You treat it like it's a first day
on the job. Every day you come in here, you
have an attitude and you look the part.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
If you're wearing crappy gear, I can't. It means you
don't care.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Yes, it costs money, find it. If you want to invest,
you have to invest in yourself or it's not going to.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Happen, It's true.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Now, as wrestling as long as you have and going
through as much as you have in your life, you
have been very vocal about, you know, your struggles that
you've had in your past, and.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You know, with your sobriety, how do you kind of
is it?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It doesn't get easier every day, because it's still something
you've got to work with, But how do you.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Mentally kind of you know, kind of prepare yourself and
work your way through that?
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Well?
Speaker 6 (11:38):
I mean in two thousand and eight, when I got
clean and sober, yeah, I was terrified stepping into the ring, right.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I loved drugs and alcohol.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Right, and I always you know, it started innocently with injuries, right,
but then you know, if you have an addictive personality,
you're taking more and more and more they're not working,
and then it's starting to show in your work.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Right.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
So I finally had.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
Had enough with a you know, a deep dark place
that I went to and got out of there and
survived it, terrified of can I do this without paying
killers in my body?
Speaker 6 (12:22):
And once I did it, I was like shocked at
how clear I was and.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
How I like, yes, I can. Yes, it hurts.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
I've had fifteen surgeries over the thirty six years.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
My knees are shot, my shoulders are shot.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
I need replacements. I don't know what's holding them together.
Maybe some fishing wire, but whatever. You know, I could
be really feeling and I try to.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Hide my injuries as best I can.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
A couple of times it's been spotted. But I'm not swowing.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Down per se yet. So I'm not done yet. And
I think I will know when it's time to hang
them up or it's gonna suck.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
It's gonna be hard because this is what I know
it and I'll always love it.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
You know, it's not like you're stopping. You still got
to school, so you're you're and you're still helping kids.
I imagine backstage tot aw So's I coach at a.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
W two so.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I mentor a lot of kids.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
It's it's uh, it's rewarding to see them me tell
them something or coach them through something, for them to
do it on television and do it well and go
Dustin New Ride. Yeah, I've been doing this for a while.
I'm not just some old vet that doesn't care.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
They just want you to do what I want you
to do.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
I want you to really get this and that means
a lot to me.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah, because I mean you're teaching, and so if you're
teaching and they keep doing their own things, then are
you really teaching?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
And some people don't want it?
Speaker 5 (13:51):
True?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
You know, I I help as.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Many as I can, but if they don't want it,
I'm not. I'm not gonna mess around.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
With it makes sense.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
Now?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Over your five decades of wrestling, is there somebody that
you haven't cross passed with that.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
You were kind of shocked and obviously wish you could
have gone back.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Because we were in the WWE together. One person I
never got to wrestle that I always wanted to was
Randy Seventh.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Oh wow, you name him.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
I've wrestled most most of them, man, and it's uh,
he was one that I always had this dream of
wrestling I never got the chance to.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I really thought you all I had cross pass at
least months.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I mean we were there and stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
But no, hmm, okay, Well, with all incoming back to Texas, Yes,
is there a way we could get marketing to really
embrace the y'all in say that again?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Is there a way we could.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Get marketing to embrace y'all in as I said, all
then like yeah, see I can start I can start.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
A campaign on X.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
I love that, y'all in Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I mean I've had two a couple of hashtags with us.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Okay, I mean it works. I mean we're in Texas.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
That's what we do, y'all. Yeah, not use guys like
the Northeast.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Oh that is Yeah, that is something else that I
can't get over.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
But they look at us like we're praise against true.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
They think we're dumb in southern So some of our.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Towns down here people can't pronounce either.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Some people in Texas can't pronounce them.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah, some of them.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Yeah, Lugerville is one of my favorites.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Yeah that's a good one.
Speaker 10 (15:21):
Yeah, Well, thank your baby.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Well. I have a segment on the show I called
the Five Counts.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
It's five rams questions.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
What emode you do you use most?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
The bird?
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Okay, no, the actual hook and horns? Oh that makes sense,
I use that one of the most or heart.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Okay, that's a good one. I normally ask, well, I
guess that's fast.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
If you own a coffee shop, brewery, winery, or distillery.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Which one would you own? And what would the name be?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Which one?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Which one would you own? And what would the name be?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Uh coffee?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
I figure this and I would actually fix them to
start a coffee coffee company and it's called beast Mode.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I think that has a picture.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Of my dog, who is a number one English master
up in the nation right now going to Westminster next year.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Congratulation.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Thank you, good show dog, great dog, two hundred and
thirty five pounds, big boy, muscular.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah, I would say so at two thirty five.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I love them for the best.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
What would your last meal be?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Pizza?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
It's good to What do you like on your pizza?
Speaker 6 (16:27):
I like double pepperoni, triple hamburger, extra cheese, thin crust.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Thin crust, yes, yeah, you get more in and you
know it's not as filling though, like deep dish or
even hand toss. You know, I get that.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
I like out of the way. Pizza company is not
not your typical chain pizza places.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Local was always better, right yeah, yeah, absolutely, of course
you taste it too.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Which is great.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Who were what inspires you?
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Great question? She's my daughter inspires me. I think my
sobriety inspires me. Becoming clean and sober and for sixteen
(17:22):
years and just continuing on a lot of that, A
lot of me not going back is because of my
daughter and just seeing what I used used to do
and how I used to be. She is my inspiration,
and sobriety is my inspiration.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Those are probably the only two inspirations I have.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
I loved that.
Speaker 11 (17:41):
Yeah, and what would.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
You tell your seventeen year old self, don't do anything.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I used to do.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
I should be dead or in prison.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
I'm sure you're not the only one out there.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
And no phones in the nineties got away with murder
sometimes man, and it.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Was not you know, crazy time.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, well, doesn't thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
And yes, tonight tonight it's play Texas a live right
there that starts at six pm. Yes, their pre sale
for all in and I will now say y'all in
Dare's William Tech Tahos baby can't wait for it.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
It's going to be a fun show. I wish July
was here right now.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Well not heat wise, but yes, you.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Know what, though this summer was not that bad, I
didn't think it was that bad either. It was surprising,
but it was crazy and it never rains.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
In August, it rained a ton in Austin. I was like, yeah,
it wasn't one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Degrees for ninety days straight.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
I would imagine that's going to give us a hard winter.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Well, you never know, We'll see you never know.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Yeah, we had some seasons all in one day.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Literally.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I would like to welcome the show Athena.
Speaker 11 (18:58):
How are you doing to day?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Man?
Speaker 11 (18:59):
I'm I'm sorry. I meant to say the.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Greatest women's wrestler of all time and also current Ring
of Honor, longest reigning champion, all championship and forever.
Speaker 11 (19:09):
Yea, that's minus time times.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Well, so we're here at Texas Live to talk about
all in Texas. I'm calling it y'all, in which I
didn't realize they made the shirt since a lot got here,
they already did it, so.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
Great Texas mindklike exactly.
Speaker 11 (19:25):
Well, I figured it was a Southern thing, so I
didn't know. I'm gonna stay to it.
Speaker 9 (19:27):
I think y'all is just a Southern thing.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yeah, I mean that's you guys up north, which is
super weird.
Speaker 9 (19:33):
Youse guys.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It's just whatever they want to Yeah, obviously you're very
excited about the first stadium all In happening at Texas. Yes,
I mean, you know, you grew up around here, you
still have roots here.
Speaker 11 (19:45):
How amazing is this fear?
Speaker 12 (19:47):
It's really cool, Like it's one of those things that
like I can't believe, believe it, it's actually happening. And
I remember when they announced that, like no one told
me why we were here.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
They were like, yeah, we're.
Speaker 12 (19:58):
Gonna do something with the Rangers, and this is and that.
Speaker 9 (20:00):
I found out was like, y know, we're doing all
In in Texas.
Speaker 12 (20:03):
And I think I was like so shocked the entire time,
Like I know, every interview.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
That I did was absolutely terrible because I was smiling
from ear to ear because I was.
Speaker 12 (20:12):
Like, oh my gosh, you're doing it's in my town,
Like Arlington is my stomping ground. I went to college,
I went to I won the Ring of Armor Women's
world Ship.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
Here on the campus, on the campus across the street
from where I live. So Arlington is my town. It
is my city. It's a place that I.
Speaker 12 (20:29):
Reside and have resided in the past, so I know
the city inside and out.
Speaker 9 (20:33):
So the fields are there on a lot of different levels.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Oh well, so as the podcast of Arlington. Which your
favorite pizza place in Arlingtown?
Speaker 12 (20:42):
Okay, it has to be Kane roaso Connie Rosa really yeah?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Oh is it Connie Rows?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I think it's fans.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Look, it's my Texas coming out Kane Rosso they. I
think it's called the Big Bastards.
Speaker 12 (20:57):
Yes, it has like honey bacon, just a hot honey.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
It's so good.
Speaker 11 (21:02):
Is that the one with Yourtato's brisket on it as well?
Speaker 12 (21:05):
I don't think it has the brisket okay, but it's
like your bacon just oh it's so good, sweet and
salty and everything I love and am pizza.
Speaker 11 (21:13):
Right, So let's go all the way back in time.
Speaker 12 (21:17):
Oh my gosh, probably watching with my grandfather, which would
have been the sporidatorium days.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Did you go to the schools? No?
Speaker 12 (21:26):
No, it got torn down before I started wrestling. So,
but my grandfather, uh so, I hated chores. Let me
let me put it this way. I hated chores and
I didn't really understand wrestling at that time.
Speaker 9 (21:37):
I just knew he really liked it. And if I
watched wrestling with him, I did have to wash dishes.
Speaker 12 (21:42):
There you go, so I at a very young age
I figured out the con but like over the years,
like I got older, I became like a little detachment
for wrestling and then ended up meeting a friend of
mine who stopped at Bully in middle school who was
a massive wrestling fan, and then I jumped full door back.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
And that's the life story and short form. I guess
I love it.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
No, it's great.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
So obviously you are great when it comes to your
entrance gear and having a big you know, bringing in
your loves of udo games and everything else with it
being here.
Speaker 11 (22:17):
What do you think already?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Argue?
Speaker 11 (22:19):
Are you thinking about it already?
Speaker 9 (22:20):
I don't know. So I'll see this right, like as
a Texas native as as a nerd.
Speaker 12 (22:30):
Right, I don't know what I'm going to do, because
I have thought about it.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
I have been thinking about it, and something.
Speaker 12 (22:35):
I think like six eight months ahead, this is a
full year and some change ahead.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
But yeah, like I don't I don't know. I don't
know if I want to go Texas.
Speaker 12 (22:43):
I don't know if I want to go video game
or comic book like.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
But whatever you're gonna do, it's just gonna be everything.
Speaker 11 (22:49):
Yes, it's so true.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah, well, so obviously being here in Texas, don't want
to be outside in July. How happy are you that
this is actually domed inside show?
Speaker 11 (23:00):
The old ball park would not have worked this way.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
The Stars at Night or pick We've been the heart
of Texas. No, very excited.
Speaker 12 (23:10):
Early in my career, I got to embrace all the
weather elements of Texas down in Austin out of promotion
called an Arhat Championship.
Speaker 9 (23:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (23:18):
So I'm very familiar to a wrestling outside and the
heat and the cold and the sleet and the rain.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
But I'm very thankful that I won't have.
Speaker 12 (23:27):
To worry about that because that's also another element you
have to prepare port catches.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
So very and immensely thankful that I have a zoned ceiling.
Speaker 11 (23:38):
So I have a quick segments called the five counts
as five random questions. Okay, what was your last meal be?
Speaker 9 (23:43):
I'm sorry, what would your.
Speaker 11 (23:44):
Last meal be?
Speaker 9 (23:45):
What was my last like my last meal? Ever?
Speaker 7 (23:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (23:48):
What would you last meal?
Speaker 12 (23:50):
Red velvet cupcakes, probably port belly ramen and some sort
of a crowd boil it with crawfish.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Uh, if you own it like a company brewery, winery
coffee shop.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
Yeah, which one would you own?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
A what the name?
Speaker 12 (24:07):
So I've always wanted to own a like nerd car
called D and D Drinks and Desserts, So probably something
like that to go with my love and Dungeons and
Dragons makes sense, Yeah, because I like fancy cocktails, but
I also like nerdy cultures RD bars, so have a
little arcade and the tabletop.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
At a bar perfectly.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
What was your first car?
Speaker 13 (24:30):
My first car was a nineteen eighty six accurate Integra
Night that was a Beater that had been out in
the sun for probably those twenty.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
Years before I got it.
Speaker 12 (24:44):
But yeah, it was just like beat tar but it
was a standard. So my first car was a stick
s Yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
I can't buy those anymore. So I asked your husband this,
He said you, But who were? What inspires you?
Speaker 9 (24:57):
My husband?
Speaker 12 (24:58):
Yeah, like my hands, Like he's the reason I keep going.
He's like my safety net when I'm feeling insecure.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Like he's my guy, you know.
Speaker 9 (25:07):
And we've been together over fifteen years. I've been married
for six but he's loved.
Speaker 12 (25:14):
My life and I wouldn't have it any other wife.
Speaker 11 (25:16):
Nice And what would you tell your seventeen year ourself.
Speaker 9 (25:18):
Who never changed perfect, all the hardships you go through
for a reason.
Speaker 11 (25:22):
Yeah, well, thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Man, I can't wait to see where the future is awesome.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (25:28):
I would like to welcome the show Sammy Gavara. How
are you doing today, sir man, I'm doing good.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Sorry.
Speaker 14 (25:32):
I was just sending a message to my wife so
she doesn't kill me, you know, make sure you're okay, Yes, exactly, wife,
And oh man, the kid is unstoppable, unlimited energy, running
around everywhere.
Speaker 11 (25:45):
I'm trying to catch up with her, like what you know.
So it's been a blast though. Was this not you
and you were a kid?
Speaker 15 (25:50):
Basically?
Speaker 14 (25:51):
Oh my god, if I did, I need to call
my mom and just say, hey, thank you, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Thank you when I'm sorry now, my mom she actually
she might be here today.
Speaker 11 (26:00):
Hey, I don't know.
Speaker 14 (26:00):
She always shows up at these whenever we're in Texas.
But there's a funny story she always tells. When I
was in the supermarket one time when I was a kid,
I wanted a toy and she said no, and then
I just couldn't believe it. I just started running around
the aisle screaming and then she was pregnant with my
little brother at the time.
Speaker 11 (26:20):
And she couldn't chase after me. She had to call
a worker to come get me.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (26:24):
Yeah, I've heard this story many many times. I love this.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
So, as you mentioned, we were here in Texas, we're
at Texas Live here to help promote all.
Speaker 11 (26:31):
In, which I'm calling y'all in, which honestly that's what
I'm calling it to made a shirt of it. I
didn't realize that I need that shirt. They went through
a textas and the yep, so should we get like
a percentage off her? So I think so I would
take a free teacher, but you know whatever. Yeah, honestly
me too. Yeah, I think you could get one more.
(26:52):
I'll just go to there.
Speaker 14 (26:52):
Hey, guys, I'm just gonna yeah.
Speaker 11 (26:56):
So how happy you being a Texas boy?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
The first all in in America?
Speaker 15 (27:03):
It's actually pretty wild.
Speaker 14 (27:05):
Like I've told a couple of people here, I used
to wrestle at Flea Markets here in Dallas, Texas in.
Speaker 11 (27:11):
Front of like twelve people.
Speaker 14 (27:15):
L Yeah, exactly, shout out Martinez Entertainment. But yeah, to
go from that to where we're gonna be wrestling in July,
and like you said, the first one.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
In the US.
Speaker 11 (27:26):
It's uh, it's insane.
Speaker 14 (27:28):
Life's a trip, and I'm very happy to be a
part of this trip.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah, you've gone from Flea Markets to Wimbley Stadium.
Speaker 14 (27:35):
Yeah yeah, for real, you said it for me and
I was just hearing it, is like, wow, life's pretty cool,
you know, and that that's what I'm trying to do
better at is like just enjoy the moments, you know,
because life's a big circle. It's like, you know, you'll
have good times in bad times, and I feel like
right now we're in a good time, so just try
to enjoy.
Speaker 11 (27:55):
It exactly good time.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
So as somebody from Texas, you obviously know the inso Texas.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
Oh yeah, how happy are you that this is actually inside?
Speaker 14 (28:04):
So it's so cold outside right now?
Speaker 11 (28:07):
But yeah, yeah, yeah in July.
Speaker 14 (28:09):
Yeah, honestly that am very happy because I've I've bumped
on some canvases that are sitting out in the sun
and as soon as you hit the ground, you bounce
up because it's burning your skin, so there's no cell
on there. Yeah, exactly, I'm very very happy it's indoors
and in such a cool place.
Speaker 9 (28:26):
We just went over there a second ago. It looks
so bad as.
Speaker 11 (28:28):
Yeah, so much on the outside, very much on the inside.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
Oh yeah, an inside.
Speaker 14 (28:32):
Yeah, That's what I'm saying, is like I just walked
around over there and they took me in an elevator
and showed me the field and all that. I was
just picturing it, imagining how it's all gonna look.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
It's gonna be sick, It's.
Speaker 11 (28:42):
Gonna be It's the first wrestling show to happen inside
that movie.
Speaker 14 (28:45):
Oh hell yeah, there we go another first, another verse.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Yes, So, I mean you're coming.
Speaker 11 (28:50):
Back from injury, you are one half of the tag
team champions, are bringing honored with the legendary dust Is right.
What have you learned just being around here?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I mean the first time you were with Jarifia, which time,
imagine you learned so much from and then you know
where you are now.
Speaker 11 (29:03):
But Dustin, like I've qu intended on your multiple.
Speaker 14 (29:06):
Run Yeah yeah, for real, man, it's just been a
blest But I've been. I feel very blessed for sure,
to be a part of so many, uh, be around
so many great minds in wrestling, like Jericho, like you said,
and now Dustin, and to be tag team champions with
them is super awesome because, uh, you know, no matter
what a part of our history is in wrestling, now
(29:27):
they're now intertwined and then championship glory, you know, and uh,
well we'll we'll see what we can do. Maybe we're
going to bump that up to dustin three belts right now,
you know, or maybe seeming two belts.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
I don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 14 (29:41):
There's so many options out there for us as a team.
I think we're undefeated right now, so it's uh, the
future is looking good, futures looking bright. I need sunglasses
because it's shining too much on my eyes right now.
Speaker 11 (29:53):
Well it starts a brighter here in Texas, that's right. Yeah,
now I've sat. It's called the five counts five random Russ. Okay,
what was your first part, ah Man?
Speaker 14 (30:01):
I think it was a Nissan two thousand and three,
two thousand and three white Nissan Pontiac.
Speaker 11 (30:07):
Yeah, that's what it was.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
If you own a liquor tom of the brewery, wine
or a coffee shop, which one would you own?
Speaker 4 (30:11):
What would you name?
Speaker 14 (30:12):
I think I'd own a wine company because Thaie likes
red wine, so I don't think I would really drink it.
But give her free wine, you know, and then the
name of it would be like probably like taste of
Taste of Thaie Wine or something like that, you know,
Sunday in appropriate, I don't know.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
You see, there we go.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
You got it.
Speaker 11 (30:38):
What is the most What is the emoji?
Speaker 14 (30:40):
Use the most emoji? I've been using this the Texas sign. Yeah,
I've been using that a lot more, especially ever since
we've been tagging. I've been using that a bunch, I
replied to people on YouTube, and I just send that,
you know, yes, which.
Speaker 11 (30:53):
Is not a longhorse or metal Yeah, yeah, exactly?
Speaker 6 (30:57):
Who know?
Speaker 4 (30:59):
So what who are inspires you?
Speaker 14 (31:03):
Who inspires me is uh probably Tie and Luna. They
inspired me to just try to be better, you know.
I feel like sometimes life tries you and it's up
to you to how you respond to things and how
you how you handle yourself as a person, And I
just want to be the best me I can be
for them so I can be the best husband and
(31:24):
the best father that I can be. So they definitely
are my inspiration to just keep going to do better
for not only myself, but for them as well.
Speaker 11 (31:34):
And we'll just tell your seventeen year olds Selms.
Speaker 14 (31:36):
Oh my god, I would say it's gonna take a
lot longer than your thought, you know. But you're right,
You're just wrong about the timing. And just keep doing
your thing, you know, and you're gonna fall down a bunch.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
You know.
Speaker 14 (31:51):
You're gonna You're gonna make a lot of mistakes.
Speaker 11 (31:53):
But the mistakes make you know who you are.
Speaker 14 (31:55):
So when you're down, don't be down too much, because
like I said earlier, life's a big circle and.
Speaker 11 (32:01):
Those good times right around the corner exact same. Thanks
so much for your time, No, Dan, you can't wait.
See will you end up when it comes?
Speaker 15 (32:07):
All in?
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I am here with the outrunners so that people know
which one you are.
Speaker 11 (32:13):
Can you please say your name?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
My name is Turbo Floyd it is and I have
truth magna.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
Yeah you are.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
So.
Speaker 11 (32:19):
We are here at Texas Live promoting All In. I'm
calling it y'all in because we're in Texas.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Yeah, since we are here in Texas, it is a
little chillier than you know we expect here normally in Texas.
Speaker 11 (32:29):
But how are y'all feeling about being here?
Speaker 6 (32:31):
Turbo and I are much more used to the hot
sandy beaches of Miami.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Yeah, it takes a little getting used to here, but
we're gonna warm it up real quick.
Speaker 15 (32:39):
As you can see.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
I had to put on my win Turkey ear.
Speaker 11 (32:41):
Sure did Sun's out, our guns out.
Speaker 9 (32:43):
It's real tough and it's hard and jet ski over here.
Speaker 11 (32:47):
You know that's cold weather.
Speaker 15 (32:48):
But we're getting used to it. And here we are.
Speaker 11 (32:50):
We're in Texas or the out owners like to.
Speaker 9 (32:52):
Call it flexus.
Speaker 11 (32:55):
Y flexus the place cos w Well, actually that's all.
They don't even see you flex They just knew here
we felt.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
They can sense it.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
They heard the girth churney.
Speaker 11 (33:06):
Well, so let's go all the way back in time.
What's your earliest memory for wrestling?
Speaker 6 (33:10):
The earliest memory is when we're we're training with George Hackenschmidt.
Speaker 11 (33:14):
Because you guys are the youngest men a lot, we
are the youngest mental lives.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
We've been at this a while training with George back
in the hacking Schmidt dojo.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Those are the dates.
Speaker 11 (33:23):
If I could say it any better than truth magnum,
I would.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
I can't, so I won't.
Speaker 11 (33:28):
Now we are in November, almost December. The show is
in July. How many tag team rains will you have
had by them. How many tag team belts are there?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
I mean there's the regular aw ones, there's a six
man suddenlyss, you guys have my brother cousin.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
There's only gonna be one rain because once we get them,
we're never gonna lose, never will lie.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
There we go.
Speaker 11 (33:53):
Now I have a second I call it the five
counts is five random questions?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
What was your first car?
Speaker 9 (33:58):
Or we're cars invented?
Speaker 11 (33:59):
We're you guys started moving around.
Speaker 14 (34:02):
Nineteen eighty five, Lamborghini, Kutans white.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
We shared it.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
I love if you own a coffee shop, brewery, winery,
or distillery.
Speaker 11 (34:13):
Which one would you own? And what would the name me?
Speaker 5 (34:16):
A wine coolery?
Speaker 11 (34:18):
What the naming?
Speaker 15 (34:21):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (34:23):
A moment of truth? I like that one. Okay?
Speaker 11 (34:26):
What emode you to use the most? Is it the flex?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Okay?
Speaker 9 (34:29):
There you go?
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (34:32):
Who what inspires you to go?
Speaker 13 (34:35):
Flo?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Truth back?
Speaker 9 (34:36):
I love it?
Speaker 11 (34:37):
And what would you tell your seventeen year old self?
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Well that wasn't too long ago.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
So yeah, yeah, Well I would say keep doing what
you're doing because you're embraced them all time.
Speaker 11 (34:47):
I love it, Thank you guys so much. I can't
wait to see where you guys, end up in July.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Awesome, thanks love, thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
So much for the superstars of a Doug for being
on the show.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
What a dream that was.
Speaker 16 (34:57):
It had been talking to Dust in the roads, talking
to Athena. How can a Samigavara talking to the outrunners,
the youngest men alive? It was absolutely amazing. And don't forget.
You can get your tickets now for aw All in
the Presale is happening. It is going to be live
July twelfth at Globe Liive Field. You are not going
to want to miss this, the first American All in
(35:17):
Stadium show and it is here in Arlington, Texas, and
I cannot wait for this to happen. So while you're
doing all that, make sure to go out and eat local,
drink local, and go rediscover your city.
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Speaker 15 (36:14):
Up bubble u b b U, Buble, Uncle, up Bubble,
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Welcome to the Downtown.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Brought you abut Arlington Citizen Media.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I am Rody John and on this episode we talked
to the superstars of ae W. We talked to Dustin Rhodes,
Athena Samyavar and the outrunners. That's right, aw all In
is happening live July twelfth at Globe Life Field and
we have the superstars of aw here to talk all
about it. You can buy your tickets now. This is
(00:49):
absolutely gonna be an amazing event. The last two aw
all Ins we're in Wimbley Stadium over in London. And
that's right, we are going to do it even bigger
here in Texas, because, as they all say, everything is
bigger in Texas. So without further ado, let's get to
the superstars of ae W.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I would like to welcome the show.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
One half of the Ring of Honor World Tag Team
Champions and one third of the Ring of Honor six
Man Tag Team Champions and just all around legend Dustin Rhodes.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
How are you doing to day?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
I thank you for that introduction. That's great. I'm doing great.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
How about you?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I'm doing well. So we're here in Arlington, Texas.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
You are back after the nice little residency that was
here in Arlington. You're here to help promote All In,
which is happening at Globe Life Field next July. First
time since Action Chicago, since it's been in America.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
We're in Wimbley the last two years. How's the field?
To be back in Texas.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
US stadium show is pretty cool. Texas is home. Man
in Texas, so yeah, but I mean Dallas, Houston, It's
all the same for me being from Texas.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
We love our state.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Yes, right, So it's anywhere you're from Texas, you're a
native tax and it's you know, you live, breathe it,
it's in your blood. Very exciting to come to Globally Field.
I've been to AT and T Stadium, you know, with
other companies, but our first United States stadium show is
(02:17):
going to be huge and I'm I'm really looking forward
to it. And did the press conference, you know, getting
when we announced it.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Very cool.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
The atmosphere just I got on the mound and I
had a picture taken on me and I thought of
myself as Nolan ryan Man and it was it was
pretty cool being in in that park.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You can check no one at the obviously the first
stadium for the Rangers.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Yes, okay, yeah, I've been to the first Ay, that's
the first time I've been to this new stadium, gotcha.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Obviously it's not a stadium.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
It's not pretty on the outside, very pretty.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
On the inside. Oh, it's great, state of the art. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Now, I always asked this to people who are pro
wrestlers on the show.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
You raised in a wrestling family, But what is your earliest.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Memory of.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
My earliest memory is probably the Tampa Armory.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Okay, famous Florida where.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Dad was making a just a huge name for himself
in Florida. And I remember driving with him in his
Rose Royce and he had a you know, the right
steering wheel, and I was sitting in the passenger seat
and Mom and my sister's in the back driving up
to the Armory and seeing the people just wrapped around
(03:31):
the building.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
It's just like it was crazy.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
And getting out and all the fans going crazy for Dad,
and you know, him taking me to eighty gram Sports
Sports Stadium in Orlando, just making the rounds. You know,
special places, special places in my heart that I got
to work. Never got to work the Armory, but I
always wanted to. They closed it down when I got
(03:55):
in the business, and.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Then they opened it back up.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
But those earliest memories, you know, Dad working the Spoiler
or even Ox Baker, Terry Funk, you know, just amazing,
cool story.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
I was terrified of the Spoiler Keith Jardine. I was
because he would bloody my dad.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
And I didn't know that because I was probably twelve
or eleven watching him.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I remember sitting with Gordon Solely in.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
The back of Vitagram Sports Stadium after his match with
the school and he walked back and I'm just terrified,
and Dad looked at me and all bloodied face, and
he just winked at me. So I was like, oh,
that's pretty cool. He taught me how to throw beer
bottles at signs that night.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I've heard that from reading Jerry Lawler's book. I mean,
not beer bottle, cook bottles for him.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
But as you're driving, you know, long car rides together
and it's terrible, they were littering.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Yeah, true, not good, but he taught me that. It
was really fun, fun experience. And you know, just watching
him growing up and seeing the titles in his closet,
you know, the nw A ten Pounds.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Of Gold, the bull ropes, the you know, just his boots.
He would all is. My task was cleaning hit the blood.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Off of his boots with wind decks.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Wind decks really.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Gave me wind decks and I would sit there and
I'd scrub all the blood office boots and that was
kind of my job. It was very cool look back
looking back on it now, I hated it then, obviously,
but it was like wow to get to experience in that,
you know, it was just he brought me and write
that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Taught me right.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Yeah, people would pay good money to do that nowadays.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Now I always ask people how did they find out
about other forms of pro wrestling that was out there.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I always make the example you were.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
The reason why I know that there's other pro wrestling
out there, because I flipped tho channels as a kid.
I see you in the ring in WCW. I don't
know what the hell WCW was, right, and.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
So I pull out the TV guide, What day is it?
What time is it?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
The whole thing.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I was like, what is it WCW. There's more wrestling
than w WF out there, Like that's crazy. So I
want to thank you for it.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, I want to thank you for letting me know
that there's other pro wrestling out there.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Well, thank you very much for watching them.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
We really appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
I was having the time of my life in w
CW Young just listening me and Steve Austin, Steve Stunning,
Steve Williams at that time.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Yeah, we're both hungry.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Just tearing it up, having a lot of you know,
we had a good feud going and just learned so much,
you know, and just being under the tutelage of Barry Wendham,
my best friend, arn Anderson, Bobby and Lauria Sabisco, Ricky
the Dragon, Steamboat.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
They were my teachers and they.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Taught me everything that I kind of do today, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So so you're you have your own wrestling school, yep.
What are some things that you've learned through your five
decades of wrestling? Wrestling in five decades that haven't wrestled
for fifty years, but that you really like to kind
of impark on your students?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
So a lot.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Actually it's it's I teach him the way I was taught.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
There's certain ways.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
That I grab a hold might be different than other trainers, right,
but it's worked for me for so so long, and
it's it's done good by me in the business for
thirty six years almost thirty seven now, and I'm just
teaching them what I was taught.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
And that's kind of the payoff for me. I enjoy teaching.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
I'm very patient and I'm not a patient person, which
is really strange.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
You ask my wife.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Man, I'm just not patient at all, especially in traffic.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
But when it comes to pro.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Wrestling, it's like it's shocking, man, because I will take
my time with a person until they get it right.
I want them to learn it the right way, and
I want to teach them, and I enjoy teaching them
and that it's not about the money. It's about them
passing my knowledge on to them them being successful. It's
like our first show we're having tomorrow night in Texas well,
(07:40):
Fury in Leander, Texas sold out.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Nervous.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
I'm not performing, I'm just doing the VIP right, but
I'm very nervous that all the production from the production standpoint,
the cameras and the lighting and everything just goes off
really well, and that they want to come back the
next month and that type of stuff. So I'm scared nervous.
I'm sure it'll be fine because he's I got some
(08:05):
great talent and they're very hungry young.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
You're gonna kill it.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
I'll put together a card that's really cool and special.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Well, it's good that you're still getting nervous about things
like this, though.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
I always get nervous even before I go out the tunnel,
and it's awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Every single time.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
I'm like breathing heavy or shaking if things you're in
the back of your.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Head, don't mess this up, don't do this.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
You know, you're old, you know, don'ld trip and fall,
don't you know?
Speaker 6 (08:32):
And it's it keeps you on your toes. But as
soon as the music hits and you walk out of
the tunnel, it dissipates.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
It's gone.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
You go out there, you do your job, hopefully put
on a good show, which I most time do.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I like to tell stories.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, at the end of the day, that's really what
you're what you're doing out there.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Yeah, I mean, you've got to get that engagement, find moments,
And that's what I would tell the young kids today.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Slow down. That's a big thing on my teaching. Slow down.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
And they're like, but my match is ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I want to get all this in.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
I don't want you to put ten minutes worth of
stuff in a match. I want you to put six
and space it out and give me some moments, some
character works and things like that that the fans can
be infested in what you're doing. If you're just going
one hundred miles an hour, no rhyme, no reason. If
anybody can do that, they can't take it in either,
(09:24):
tell a story, tell me something. You use psychology, and
it's hard. You can't really teach the psychology part. It's
a feeling.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
So when you're listening to the crowd, you're doing things
that you know they may not like, but that you know.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Then they're responding and so you're like, oh, you're remembering
what you're listening. It's very difficult a lot of logistics
and mechanics into the pro wrestling, especially training somebody for
the first time, which most of my kids are first
day ors, you know, but they get it about six weeks.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
It takes a lifetime. Yeah, it takes.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
It's not You're not gonna go through my twelve week
camp and get picked for WWE. You're just not or aw,
it's not gonna happen, you know, like, but I'm ready, No,
you're not. You got to go out and work some independence,
get some more reps, perfect your draft, perfect your brand,
and then the eyes start seeing you.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Then you have a chance with that's gonna take.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Five, seven, ten years.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Yeah, it's a long time.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
It's not like it used to be.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
It's not I mean as many as companies as there
are out there right now. I mean it is not
like it used to be, and there are obviously more eyes.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
But you also have.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
To continue to market yourself. If you're not marketing yourself,
then you know you are now. No one's gonna know
where you are and who you are.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I tell them when the first day.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
But you have rules, right, and then I'll go through
the list of rules, and we'll talk about every single day.
You check your ego at the door. When you come
in here. You treat it like it's a first day
on the job. Every day you come in here, you
have an attitude and you look the part.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
If you're wearing crappy gear, I can't. It means you
don't care.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Yes, it costs money, find it. If you want to invest,
you have to invest in yourself or it's not going to.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Happen, It's true.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Now, as wrestling as long as you have and going
through as much as you have in your life, you
have been very vocal about, you know, your struggles that
you've had in your past, and.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You know, with your sobriety, how do you kind of
is it?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It doesn't get easier every day, because it's still something
you've got to work with, But how do you.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Mentally kind of you know, kind of prepare yourself and
work your way through that?
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Well?
Speaker 6 (11:38):
I mean in two thousand and eight, when I got
clean and sober, yeah, I was terrified stepping into the ring, right.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I loved drugs and alcohol.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Right, and I always you know, it started innocently with injuries, right,
but then you know, if you have an addictive personality,
you're taking more and more and more they're not working,
and then it's starting to show in your work.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Right.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
So I finally had.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
Had enough with a you know, a deep dark place
that I went to and got out of there and
survived it, terrified of can I do this without paying
killers in my body?
Speaker 6 (12:22):
And once I did it, I was like shocked at
how clear I was and.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
How I like, yes, I can. Yes, it hurts.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
I've had fifteen surgeries over the thirty six years.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
My knees are shot, my shoulders are shot.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
I need replacements. I don't know what's holding them together.
Maybe some fishing wire, but whatever. You know, I could
be really feeling and I try to.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Hide my injuries as best I can.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
A couple of times it's been spotted. But I'm not swowing.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Down per se yet. So I'm not done yet. And
I think I will know when it's time to hang
them up or it's gonna suck.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
It's gonna be hard because this is what I know
it and I'll always love it.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
You know, it's not like you're stopping. You still got
to school, so you're you're and you're still helping kids.
I imagine backstage tot aw So's I coach at a.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
W two so.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I mentor a lot of kids.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
It's it's uh, it's rewarding to see them me tell
them something or coach them through something, for them to
do it on television and do it well and go
Dustin New Ride. Yeah, I've been doing this for a while.
I'm not just some old vet that doesn't care.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
They just want you to do what I want you
to do.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
I want you to really get this and that means
a lot to me.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah, because I mean you're teaching, and so if you're
teaching and they keep doing their own things, then are
you really teaching?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
And some people don't want it?
Speaker 5 (13:51):
True?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
You know, I I help as.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Many as I can, but if they don't want it,
I'm not. I'm not gonna mess around.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
With it makes sense.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
Now?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Over your five decades of wrestling, is there somebody that
you haven't cross passed with that.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
You were kind of shocked and obviously wish you could
have gone back.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Because we were in the WWE together. One person I
never got to wrestle that I always wanted to was
Randy Seventh.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Oh wow, you name him.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
I've wrestled most most of them, man, and it's uh,
he was one that I always had this dream of
wrestling I never got the chance to.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I really thought you all I had cross pass at
least months.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I mean we were there and stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
But no, hmm, okay, Well, with all incoming back to Texas, Yes,
is there a way we could get marketing to really
embrace the y'all in say that again?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Is there a way we could.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Get marketing to embrace y'all in as I said, all
then like yeah, see I can start I can start.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
A campaign on X.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
I love that, y'all in Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I mean I've had two a couple of hashtags with us.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Okay, I mean it works. I mean we're in Texas.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
That's what we do, y'all. Yeah, not use guys like
the Northeast.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Oh that is Yeah, that is something else that I
can't get over.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
But they look at us like we're praise against true.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
They think we're dumb in southern So some of our.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Towns down here people can't pronounce either.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Some people in Texas can't pronounce them.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah, some of them.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Yeah, Lugerville is one of my favorites.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Yeah that's a good one.
Speaker 10 (15:21):
Yeah, Well, thank your baby.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Well. I have a segment on the show I called
the Five Counts.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
It's five rams questions.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
What emode you do you use most?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
The bird?
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Okay, no, the actual hook and horns? Oh that makes sense,
I use that one of the most or heart.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Okay, that's a good one. I normally ask, well, I
guess that's fast.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
If you own a coffee shop, brewery, winery, or distillery.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Which one would you own? And what would the name be?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Which one?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Which one would you own? And what would the name be?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Uh coffee?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
I figure this and I would actually fix them to
start a coffee coffee company and it's called beast Mode.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
I think that has a picture.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Of my dog, who is a number one English master
up in the nation right now going to Westminster next year.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Congratulation.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Thank you, good show dog, great dog, two hundred and
thirty five pounds, big boy, muscular.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yeah, I would say so at two thirty five.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I love them for the best.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
What would your last meal be?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Pizza?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
It's good to What do you like on your pizza?
Speaker 6 (16:27):
I like double pepperoni, triple hamburger, extra cheese, thin crust.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Thin crust, yes, yeah, you get more in and you
know it's not as filling though, like deep dish or
even hand toss. You know, I get that.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
I like out of the way. Pizza company is not
not your typical chain pizza places.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Local was always better, right yeah, yeah, absolutely, of course
you taste it too.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Which is great.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Who were what inspires you?
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Great question? She's my daughter inspires me. I think my
sobriety inspires me. Becoming clean and sober and for sixteen
(17:22):
years and just continuing on a lot of that, A
lot of me not going back is because of my
daughter and just seeing what I used used to do
and how I used to be. She is my inspiration,
and sobriety is my inspiration.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Those are probably the only two inspirations I have.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
I loved that.
Speaker 11 (17:41):
Yeah, and what would.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
You tell your seventeen year old self, don't do anything.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I used to do.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
I should be dead or in prison.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
I'm sure you're not the only one out there.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
And no phones in the nineties got away with murder
sometimes man, and it.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Was not you know, crazy time.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, well, doesn't thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
And yes, tonight tonight it's play Texas a live right
there that starts at six pm. Yes, their pre sale
for all in and I will now say y'all in
Dare's William Tech Tahos baby can't wait for it.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
It's going to be a fun show. I wish July
was here right now.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Well not heat wise, but yes, you.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
Know what, though this summer was not that bad, I
didn't think it was that bad either. It was surprising,
but it was crazy and it never rains.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
In August, it rained a ton in Austin. I was like, yeah,
it wasn't one hundred and twenty.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Degrees for ninety days straight.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
I would imagine that's going to give us a hard winter.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Well, you never know, We'll see you never know.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Yeah, we had some seasons all in one day.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Literally.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I would like to welcome the show Athena.
Speaker 11 (18:58):
How are you doing to day?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Man?
Speaker 11 (18:59):
I'm I'm sorry. I meant to say the.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Greatest women's wrestler of all time and also current Ring
of Honor, longest reigning champion, all championship and forever.
Speaker 11 (19:09):
Yea, that's minus time times.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Well, so we're here at Texas Live to talk about
all in Texas. I'm calling it y'all, in which I
didn't realize they made the shirt since a lot got here,
they already did it, so.
Speaker 9 (19:22):
Great Texas mindklike exactly.
Speaker 11 (19:25):
Well, I figured it was a Southern thing, so I
didn't know. I'm gonna stay to it.
Speaker 9 (19:27):
I think y'all is just a Southern thing.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yeah, I mean that's you guys up north, which is
super weird.
Speaker 9 (19:33):
Youse guys.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It's just whatever they want to Yeah, obviously you're very
excited about the first stadium all In happening at Texas. Yes,
I mean, you know, you grew up around here, you
still have roots here.
Speaker 11 (19:45):
How amazing is this fear?
Speaker 12 (19:47):
It's really cool, Like it's one of those things that
like I can't believe, believe it, it's actually happening. And
I remember when they announced that, like no one told
me why we were here.
Speaker 9 (19:57):
They were like, yeah, we're.
Speaker 12 (19:58):
Gonna do something with the Rangers, and this is and that.
Speaker 9 (20:00):
I found out was like, y know, we're doing all
In in Texas.
Speaker 12 (20:03):
And I think I was like so shocked the entire time,
Like I know, every interview.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
That I did was absolutely terrible because I was smiling
from ear to ear because I was.
Speaker 12 (20:12):
Like, oh my gosh, you're doing it's in my town,
Like Arlington is my stomping ground. I went to college,
I went to I won the Ring of Armor Women's
world Ship.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
Here on the campus, on the campus across the street
from where I live. So Arlington is my town. It
is my city. It's a place that I.
Speaker 12 (20:29):
Reside and have resided in the past, so I know
the city inside and out.
Speaker 9 (20:33):
So the fields are there on a lot of different levels.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Oh well, so as the podcast of Arlington. Which your
favorite pizza place in Arlingtown?
Speaker 12 (20:42):
Okay, it has to be Kane roaso Connie Rosa really yeah?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Oh is it Connie Rows?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I think it's fans.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
Look, it's my Texas coming out Kane Rosso they. I
think it's called the Big Bastards.
Speaker 12 (20:57):
Yes, it has like honey bacon, just a hot honey.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
It's so good.
Speaker 11 (21:02):
Is that the one with Yourtato's brisket on it as well?
Speaker 12 (21:05):
I don't think it has the brisket okay, but it's
like your bacon just oh it's so good, sweet and
salty and everything I love and am pizza.
Speaker 11 (21:13):
Right, So let's go all the way back in time.
Speaker 12 (21:17):
Oh my gosh, probably watching with my grandfather, which would
have been the sporidatorium days.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Did you go to the schools? No?
Speaker 12 (21:26):
No, it got torn down before I started wrestling. So,
but my grandfather, uh so, I hated chores. Let me
let me put it this way. I hated chores and
I didn't really understand wrestling at that time.
Speaker 9 (21:37):
I just knew he really liked it. And if I
watched wrestling with him, I did have to wash dishes.
Speaker 12 (21:42):
There you go, so I at a very young age
I figured out the con but like over the years,
like I got older, I became like a little detachment
for wrestling and then ended up meeting a friend of
mine who stopped at Bully in middle school who was
a massive wrestling fan, and then I jumped full door back.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
And that's the life story and short form. I guess
I love it.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
No, it's great.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
So obviously you are great when it comes to your
entrance gear and having a big you know, bringing in
your loves of udo games and everything else with it
being here.
Speaker 11 (22:17):
What do you think already?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Argue?
Speaker 11 (22:19):
Are you thinking about it already?
Speaker 9 (22:20):
I don't know. So I'll see this right, like as
a Texas native as as a nerd.
Speaker 12 (22:30):
Right, I don't know what I'm going to do, because
I have thought about it.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
I have been thinking about it, and something.
Speaker 12 (22:35):
I think like six eight months ahead, this is a
full year and some change ahead.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
But yeah, like I don't I don't know. I don't
know if I want to go Texas.
Speaker 12 (22:43):
I don't know if I want to go video game
or comic book like.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
But whatever you're gonna do, it's just gonna be everything.
Speaker 11 (22:49):
Yes, it's so true.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yeah, well, so obviously being here in Texas, don't want
to be outside in July. How happy are you that
this is actually domed inside show?
Speaker 11 (23:00):
The old ball park would not have worked this way.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
The Stars at Night or pick We've been the heart
of Texas. No, very excited.
Speaker 12 (23:10):
Early in my career, I got to embrace all the
weather elements of Texas down in Austin out of promotion
called an Arhat Championship.
Speaker 9 (23:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (23:18):
So I'm very familiar to a wrestling outside and the
heat and the cold and the sleet and the rain.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
But I'm very thankful that I won't have.
Speaker 12 (23:27):
To worry about that because that's also another element you
have to prepare port catches.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
So very and immensely thankful that I have a zoned ceiling.
Speaker 11 (23:38):
So I have a quick segments called the five counts
as five random questions. Okay, what was your last meal be?
Speaker 9 (23:43):
I'm sorry, what would your.
Speaker 11 (23:44):
Last meal be?
Speaker 9 (23:45):
What was my last like my last meal? Ever?
Speaker 7 (23:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (23:48):
What would you last meal?
Speaker 12 (23:50):
Red velvet cupcakes, probably port belly ramen and some sort
of a crowd boil it with crawfish.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Uh, if you own it like a company brewery, winery
coffee shop.
Speaker 11 (24:02):
Yeah, which one would you own?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
A what the name?
Speaker 12 (24:07):
So I've always wanted to own a like nerd car
called D and D Drinks and Desserts, So probably something
like that to go with my love and Dungeons and
Dragons makes sense, Yeah, because I like fancy cocktails, but
I also like nerdy cultures RD bars, so have a
little arcade and the tabletop.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
At a bar perfectly.
Speaker 11 (24:28):
What was your first car?
Speaker 13 (24:30):
My first car was a nineteen eighty six accurate Integra
Night that was a Beater that had been out in
the sun for probably those twenty.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
Years before I got it.
Speaker 12 (24:44):
But yeah, it was just like beat tar but it
was a standard. So my first car was a stick
s Yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
I can't buy those anymore. So I asked your husband this,
He said you, But who were? What inspires you?
Speaker 9 (24:57):
My husband?
Speaker 12 (24:58):
Yeah, like my hands, Like he's the reason I keep going.
He's like my safety net when I'm feeling insecure.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Like he's my guy, you know.
Speaker 9 (25:07):
And we've been together over fifteen years. I've been married
for six but he's loved.
Speaker 12 (25:14):
My life and I wouldn't have it any other wife.
Speaker 11 (25:16):
Nice And what would you tell your seventeen year ourself.
Speaker 9 (25:18):
Who never changed perfect, all the hardships you go through
for a reason.
Speaker 11 (25:22):
Yeah, well, thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Man, I can't wait to see where the future is awesome.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (25:28):
I would like to welcome the show Sammy Gavara. How
are you doing today, sir man, I'm doing good.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Sorry.
Speaker 14 (25:32):
I was just sending a message to my wife so
she doesn't kill me, you know, make sure you're okay, Yes, exactly, wife,
And oh man, the kid is unstoppable, unlimited energy, running
around everywhere.
Speaker 11 (25:45):
I'm trying to catch up with her, like what you know.
So it's been a blast though. Was this not you
and you were a kid?
Speaker 15 (25:50):
Basically?
Speaker 14 (25:51):
Oh my god, if I did, I need to call
my mom and just say, hey, thank you, you know.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Thank you when I'm sorry now, my mom she actually
she might be here today.
Speaker 11 (26:00):
Hey, I don't know.
Speaker 14 (26:00):
She always shows up at these whenever we're in Texas.
But there's a funny story she always tells. When I
was in the supermarket one time when I was a kid,
I wanted a toy and she said no, and then
I just couldn't believe it. I just started running around
the aisle screaming and then she was pregnant with my
little brother at the time.
Speaker 11 (26:20):
And she couldn't chase after me. She had to call
a worker to come get me.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (26:24):
Yeah, I've heard this story many many times. I love this.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
So, as you mentioned, we were here in Texas, we're
at Texas Live here to help promote all.
Speaker 11 (26:31):
In, which I'm calling y'all in, which honestly that's what
I'm calling it to made a shirt of it. I
didn't realize that I need that shirt. They went through
a textas and the yep, so should we get like
a percentage off her? So I think so I would
take a free teacher, but you know whatever. Yeah, honestly
me too. Yeah, I think you could get one more.
(26:52):
I'll just go to there.
Speaker 14 (26:52):
Hey, guys, I'm just gonna yeah.
Speaker 11 (26:56):
So how happy you being a Texas boy?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
The first all in in America?
Speaker 15 (27:03):
It's actually pretty wild.
Speaker 14 (27:05):
Like I've told a couple of people here, I used
to wrestle at Flea Markets here in Dallas, Texas in.
Speaker 11 (27:11):
Front of like twelve people.
Speaker 14 (27:15):
L Yeah, exactly, shout out Martinez Entertainment. But yeah, to
go from that to where we're gonna be wrestling in July,
and like you said, the first one.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
In the US.
Speaker 11 (27:26):
It's uh, it's insane.
Speaker 14 (27:28):
Life's a trip, and I'm very happy to be a
part of this trip.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah, you've gone from Flea Markets to Wimbley Stadium.
Speaker 14 (27:35):
Yeah yeah, for real, you said it for me and
I was just hearing it, is like, wow, life's pretty cool,
you know, and that that's what I'm trying to do
better at is like just enjoy the moments, you know,
because life's a big circle. It's like, you know, you'll
have good times in bad times, and I feel like
right now we're in a good time, so just try
to enjoy.
Speaker 11 (27:55):
It exactly good time.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
So as somebody from Texas, you obviously know the inso Texas.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
Oh yeah, how happy are you that this is actually inside?
Speaker 14 (28:04):
So it's so cold outside right now?
Speaker 11 (28:07):
But yeah, yeah, yeah in July.
Speaker 14 (28:09):
Yeah, honestly that am very happy because I've I've bumped
on some canvases that are sitting out in the sun
and as soon as you hit the ground, you bounce
up because it's burning your skin, so there's no cell
on there. Yeah, exactly, I'm very very happy it's indoors
and in such a cool place.
Speaker 9 (28:26):
We just went over there a second ago. It looks
so bad as.
Speaker 11 (28:28):
Yeah, so much on the outside, very much on the inside.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
Oh yeah, an inside.
Speaker 14 (28:32):
Yeah, That's what I'm saying, is like I just walked
around over there and they took me in an elevator
and showed me the field and all that. I was
just picturing it, imagining how it's all gonna look.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
It's gonna be sick, It's.
Speaker 11 (28:42):
Gonna be It's the first wrestling show to happen inside
that movie.
Speaker 14 (28:45):
Oh hell yeah, there we go another first, another verse.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Yes, So, I mean you're coming.
Speaker 11 (28:50):
Back from injury, you are one half of the tag
team champions, are bringing honored with the legendary dust Is right.
What have you learned just being around here?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I mean the first time you were with Jarifia, which time,
imagine you learned so much from and then you know
where you are now.
Speaker 11 (29:03):
But Dustin, like I've qu intended on your multiple.
Speaker 14 (29:06):
Run Yeah yeah, for real, man, it's just been a
blest But I've been. I feel very blessed for sure,
to be a part of so many, uh, be around
so many great minds in wrestling, like Jericho, like you said,
and now Dustin, and to be tag team champions with
them is super awesome because, uh, you know, no matter
what a part of our history is in wrestling, now
(29:27):
they're now intertwined and then championship glory, you know, and uh,
well we'll we'll see what we can do. Maybe we're
going to bump that up to dustin three belts right now,
you know, or maybe seeming two belts.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
I don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 14 (29:41):
There's so many options out there for us as a team.
I think we're undefeated right now, so it's uh, the
future is looking good, futures looking bright. I need sunglasses
because it's shining too much on my eyes right now.
Speaker 11 (29:53):
Well it starts a brighter here in Texas, that's right. Yeah,
now I've sat. It's called the five counts five random Russ. Okay,
what was your first part, ah Man?
Speaker 14 (30:01):
I think it was a Nissan two thousand and three,
two thousand and three white Nissan Pontiac.
Speaker 11 (30:07):
Yeah, that's what it was.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
If you own a liquor tom of the brewery, wine
or a coffee shop, which one would you own?
Speaker 4 (30:11):
What would you name?
Speaker 14 (30:12):
I think I'd own a wine company because Thaie likes
red wine, so I don't think I would really drink it.
But give her free wine, you know, and then the
name of it would be like probably like taste of
Taste of Thaie Wine or something like that, you know,
Sunday in appropriate, I don't know.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
You see, there we go.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
You got it.
Speaker 11 (30:38):
What is the most What is the emoji?
Speaker 14 (30:40):
Use the most emoji? I've been using this the Texas sign. Yeah,
I've been using that a lot more, especially ever since
we've been tagging. I've been using that a bunch, I
replied to people on YouTube, and I just send that,
you know, yes, which.
Speaker 11 (30:53):
Is not a longhorse or metal Yeah, yeah, exactly?
Speaker 6 (30:57):
Who know?
Speaker 4 (30:59):
So what who are inspires you?
Speaker 14 (31:03):
Who inspires me is uh probably Tie and Luna. They
inspired me to just try to be better, you know.
I feel like sometimes life tries you and it's up
to you to how you respond to things and how
you how you handle yourself as a person, And I
just want to be the best me I can be
for them so I can be the best husband and
(31:24):
the best father that I can be. So they definitely
are my inspiration to just keep going to do better
for not only myself, but for them as well.
Speaker 11 (31:34):
And we'll just tell your seventeen year olds Selms.
Speaker 14 (31:36):
Oh my god, I would say it's gonna take a
lot longer than your thought, you know. But you're right,
You're just wrong about the timing. And just keep doing
your thing, you know, and you're gonna fall down a bunch.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
You know.
Speaker 14 (31:51):
You're gonna You're gonna make a lot of mistakes.
Speaker 11 (31:53):
But the mistakes make you know who you are.
Speaker 14 (31:55):
So when you're down, don't be down too much, because
like I said earlier, life's a big circle and.
Speaker 11 (32:01):
Those good times right around the corner exact same. Thanks
so much for your time, No, Dan, you can't wait.
See will you end up when it comes?
Speaker 15 (32:07):
All in?
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I am here with the outrunners so that people know
which one you are.
Speaker 11 (32:13):
Can you please say your name?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
My name is Turbo Floyd it is and I have
truth magna.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
Yeah you are.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
So.
Speaker 11 (32:19):
We are here at Texas Live promoting All In. I'm
calling it y'all in because we're in Texas.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Yeah, since we are here in Texas, it is a
little chillier than you know we expect here normally in Texas.
Speaker 11 (32:29):
But how are y'all feeling about being here?
Speaker 6 (32:31):
Turbo and I are much more used to the hot
sandy beaches of Miami.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Yeah, it takes a little getting used to here, but
we're gonna warm it up real quick.
Speaker 15 (32:39):
As you can see.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
I had to put on my win Turkey ear.
Speaker 11 (32:41):
Sure did Sun's out, our guns out.
Speaker 9 (32:43):
It's real tough and it's hard and jet ski over here.
Speaker 11 (32:47):
You know that's cold weather.
Speaker 15 (32:48):
But we're getting used to it. And here we are.
Speaker 11 (32:50):
We're in Texas or the out owners like to.
Speaker 9 (32:52):
Call it flexus.
Speaker 11 (32:55):
Y flexus the place cos w Well, actually that's all.
They don't even see you flex They just knew here
we felt.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
They can sense it.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
They heard the girth churney.
Speaker 11 (33:06):
Well, so let's go all the way back in time.
What's your earliest memory for wrestling?
Speaker 6 (33:10):
The earliest memory is when we're we're training with George Hackenschmidt.
Speaker 11 (33:14):
Because you guys are the youngest men a lot, we
are the youngest mental lives.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
We've been at this a while training with George back
in the hacking Schmidt dojo.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Those are the dates.
Speaker 11 (33:23):
If I could say it any better than truth magnum,
I would.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
I can't, so I won't.
Speaker 11 (33:28):
Now we are in November, almost December. The show is
in July. How many tag team rains will you have
had by them. How many tag team belts are there?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
I mean there's the regular aw ones, there's a six
man suddenlyss, you guys have my brother cousin.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
There's only gonna be one rain because once we get them,
we're never gonna lose, never will lie.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
There we go.
Speaker 11 (33:53):
Now I have a second I call it the five
counts is five random questions?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
What was your first car?
Speaker 9 (33:58):
Or we're cars invented?
Speaker 11 (33:59):
We're you guys started moving around.
Speaker 14 (34:02):
Nineteen eighty five, Lamborghini, Kutans white.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
We shared it.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
I love if you own a coffee shop, brewery, winery,
or distillery.
Speaker 11 (34:13):
Which one would you own? And what would the name me?
Speaker 5 (34:16):
A wine coolery?
Speaker 11 (34:18):
What the naming?
Speaker 15 (34:21):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (34:23):
A moment of truth? I like that one. Okay?
Speaker 11 (34:26):
What emode you to use the most? Is it the flex?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Okay?
Speaker 9 (34:29):
There you go?
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (34:32):
Who what inspires you to go?
Speaker 13 (34:35):
Flo?
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Truth back?
Speaker 9 (34:36):
I love it?
Speaker 11 (34:37):
And what would you tell your seventeen year old self?
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Well that wasn't too long ago.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
So yeah, yeah, Well I would say keep doing what
you're doing because you're embraced them all time.
Speaker 11 (34:47):
I love it, Thank you guys so much. I can't
wait to see where you guys, end up in July.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Awesome, thanks love, thank you.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
So much for the superstars of a Doug for being
on the show.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
What a dream that was.
Speaker 16 (34:57):
It had been talking to Dust in the roads, talking
to Athena. How can a Samigavara talking to the outrunners,
the youngest men alive? It was absolutely amazing. And don't forget.
You can get your tickets now for aw All in
the Presale is happening. It is going to be live
July twelfth at Globe Liive Field. You are not going
to want to miss this, the first American All in
(35:17):
Stadium show and it is here in Arlington, Texas, and
I cannot wait for this to happen. So while you're
doing all that, make sure to go out and eat local,
drink local, and go rediscover your city.
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