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Nice Boys (Who Like Death Match Wrestling & What Happened To Tanahashi)
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This week the boys are talking Randy Orton's dick showing energy and why is Kota Ibushi crying?
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Hardway Heater's Neck Brace Reactions
00:00:35
Speaker
Hey everybody, welcome to Nice Boys who like deathmatch. I'm your host, Garrett Callender, and with me... I'm Hardway Heater. The most insane thing right now is that you do not have a neck brace on. Like, this is actually... I got used to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that a lot of people... I've thrown in a lot of people for a loop when I just take it off. Like, I'll be just sitting somewhere and I'll take it off and they're like, wait, hold on. Are you allowed to do that?
00:01:02
Speaker
Like yeah, it's a hard way heater goddamn. I talked to my fucking doctors. I go to the I go to the doctor I get checkups Yeah, I can take it off when I'm sitting down and still And also they she was like if you could like not like swing your head around and look at like try to focus on one area more than like I
00:01:28
Speaker
which had to have been insane for you.
Garrett Callender at the Terror Show
00:01:31
Speaker
You finally went to the terror show that we've talked about for like two months or something. It was like almost like a through line of all of our episodes is the countdown to the terror show that I was very excited about to go throw hands and feet and fists and then
00:01:53
Speaker
life happened and so I got to stand at the back of a terror show like a grandpa but it was a really good time just you know just grandpled out and watched a whole bunch of other people throw hands and got to watch terror play for a whole 20 minutes
00:02:12
Speaker
man I'll be honest I probably would have been a little upset about a 20-minute set especially if I showed up at four o'clock right right right right so I would have been upset if I hadn't if with honor did really well I really enjoyed with honor I really enjoyed dare I really enjoyed come back kid
00:02:33
Speaker
But I will be totally completely honest. The people that I were there to see was terror. And we got.
Terror's Short but Energetic Performance
00:02:41
Speaker
Hey, you know what? They came out. They came out just playing the hits like if you only have 20 minutes, that's the best way to do it. The the lead singer came out and they played their first song. And he said, everybody move in. We've got 19 fucking minutes left.
00:03:00
Speaker
and then they just launched into the next one it was fucking it was fantastic i think they ended up playing for like i would say like i think everybody goes 20 minutes but i think it was more like 24 25 like it i mean it wasn't quite a half hour i would have preferred like an hour i mean yeah i mean that's a that's a good amount of time for head 40 minutes i think for a hardcore band like 40 45 minutes that's a solid headlining set like
00:03:31
Speaker
like we got to hear we got to hear you know stick tight keepers of the faith they didn't play always the hard way which would have been fucking did they even know you were there i don't think they knew i was there i don't think i don't think anybody told him that i was there like hey there's a there's a guy in the crowd that uh that that uses one of your songs is like kind of his deal it's kind of his whole deal in wrestling
00:03:58
Speaker
Also, his fucking neck is broken right now. Throw the guy a bone. Yeah, the least you could do is invite him on stage. You know what? Terra, I'm kind of mad at you right now. You didn't even invite me on stage. You saw me. Fucking Rancid invited Ricky Morton to the show last night, and he was there in the pit. Oh, yeah? Yeah. It was like right before the show was starting, I got a text from a friend that had an extra ticket.
00:04:19
Speaker
and I'd ended up not going. And then I saw a picture, or not a picture, but a video of Ricky Morton and his son in the pit, like filming themselves singing Ruby Soho. And Lars had on a Ricky Morton school t-shirt.
00:04:35
Speaker
The S.O.N. the school weren't that those wild looking shirts like that like it feels like Ricky wanted it to look just a little bit like an affliction t-shirt. He was like could you mix in a little bit of affliction there? Just as long as it looks like one of Randy Orton's tattoos. Yeah yeah yeah.
Randy Orton's Tattoo Lawsuit Discussion
00:04:56
Speaker
I want a shirt that looks like Randy Orton's arms.
00:05:00
Speaker
Speaking of, I saw that Randy Orton's tattoo artist is suing the 2K games.
00:05:07
Speaker
for use of their artwork on Randy's body. Fucking kidding me. That's like that fucking Nirvana kid. God damn it. frivolous lawsuits everywhere. You can really tell we've been in a pandemic because like everybody's losing their fucking minds doing the wildest shit like yeah. But at the point you put it on Randy Orton.
00:05:32
Speaker
It's his now. It's his. He paid you for it. He paid for that artwork. I assume. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's also very possible that Randy just shit in one of their bags.
00:05:47
Speaker
You have a story for the rest of your life. That's as good as money. Yeah. Yeah. You know, in 10 years you'll be able to shoot interviews. I don't know if you knew this. Derek, his college neighbor was Randy Orton's brother. Really?
Derek's Secret Wrestling Fandom Story
00:06:05
Speaker
And Nathan, I want to say, is Nathan Orton. Nathan Orton. He's a stand-up comic in St. Louis.
00:06:11
Speaker
And I know Derek was a huge wrestling fan and wanted to be friends with him. But so every time he would come over, he would hide all the wrestling shit in his apartment. Because he didn't want Nathan to be like, oh, this guy only wants to be friends with me because of my brother.
00:06:30
Speaker
And then I believe the very last day he saw him like they were moving out and Randy Orton cowboy Bob Oh cowboy cowboy was there moving Nathan out and Derek leaned out the window as they were getting in their car to leave and just shots next time I see him an RKO your ass and Only time he ever mentioned anything wrestling to this I fucking love that
00:06:56
Speaker
Think about the story that Nathan walked away with there. This guy played with this guy multiple times. And at the end of it, he revealed that he knew who his whole family was. He's interested in the business of his family. I love it. I love it.
00:07:18
Speaker
What do you think his stand-up is like? I can't imagine that it's very grounded. I can't imagine that he's like a very everyman comic. I get upset about the things that happen with my landlord. There's no way that it's grounded. Isn't it weird when your brother shits in your suitcase?
00:07:43
Speaker
Isn't it weird that you grow up your entire life and your dad's in a cast? What's the deal with that?
00:07:54
Speaker
Because I can imagine that cowboy Bob wore that cast even just walking around in his daily life. Live the gimmick. Yeah. Well, number one, live the gimmick. And number two, like you got to assume he got like deals on shit because he's a wrestler. Yeah, they're all about being just a little bit Carney. So, yeah.
00:08:17
Speaker
Yeah, what are we? Yeah, not definitely not grounded, but I bet that he has like really good stories from childhood because also like the other thing like and I only know this from the those documentaries they were doing about the attitude era about like WWE did the one about like the evolution and they essentially say in that documentary everything short of Randy Orton was running around shitting everybody's back.
00:08:50
Speaker
You can feel multiple times people talking about Randy Orton and they ride that line of almost going Yeah, Randy was a real piece of shit because he was shitting in everyone's bag and his dick was always I'm just saying like he was just a fucking nightmare human
00:09:06
Speaker
See, I was getting ready to say like, at least he was just shitting and not waving his dick around at people. He was a dick shower, too. I can only assume. I mean, we've all seen the picture, right? Does he have dick shower energy? He's got dick shower energy, but he did the picture with him and like... So, I've never in my entire life...
00:09:27
Speaker
I've been in a situation where I'm around multiple other people and the only thing covering my dick is a towel. And it's just me standing there and I'm smiling. Randy Orton has that picture. That's why I say he got dick showing energy is because he seems very comfortable with showing his dick. This has been a week for pro wrestling. Oh yeah. It's very interesting that we're, yeah.
00:09:56
Speaker
Hey, Rady, I'm not trying to cancel you. Yeah.
Randy Orton's Charismatic Display
00:10:00
Speaker
I mean, but if you are showing people your dick, you probably fucking deserve it. You did it yourself. Yeah. I don't think I've ever flashed my penis to anybody because I don't have the confidence of a dick show. Right. Save.
00:10:14
Speaker
Like like I feel like here's what I would say is is that there is the energy of the person that shall remain nameless that Get the fuck get the fuck out, you know, we're done We don't need you in here anymore and then the Randy Orton energy that I'm talking about because I feel like Randy Orton is more of like a fraternity energy like
00:10:36
Speaker
You're gonna be in the locker room, you're bent down doing something, you turn, there's a dick right in your face. Yep, yep, exactly. That's what I mean about Randy Orton's dick energy. He has the energy of a guy who's, he's gonna show his penis to other boys. Yeah. And he's doing it for comedic effect. I'm not saying that it's okay, I'm just saying that that's the kind of energy that Randy Orton brings. Randy!
00:11:08
Speaker
Can we put this out in the world? We just established we don't have the confidence of dick showers. So we can, I think it's okay to poke fun at dick showers. Yeah, I think so too. Yeah. Cause fuck them. Yeah. Fuck them. Exactly. Because you know, like I also saw the movie waiting, you know, we all saw the movie waiting. Yeah.
00:11:33
Speaker
so like there is a certain there is a certain energy of a dick shower it's your andy millinoxes your louise gooseman your your dane cooks
00:11:53
Speaker
But yeah, you're Ryan Reynolds Yeah, I feel like he's cleaned up his act but I think at one point he had yeah, he had dick show energy Yeah, you know what it was. It was the spiky hair. Mm-hmm if you have if you have in your 20s rocked like full-blown spiky hair You got dick show and energy Trying to think of something
00:12:17
Speaker
and dane cook was right right in there with him yeah like you got frat you got frat boy dick showing energy kind of zach rider zach rider absolutely has frat boy dick showing energy which last night lost his internet title yeah did you hear about that i did not hear about this uh gcw screwed him again
00:12:38
Speaker
There was the Chicago screw job, now there's the New York screw job. He's getting screw dropped everywhere.
Effie's Surprise Victory Over Zack Ryder
00:12:45
Speaker
He convinced, Lauderdale convinced him to put the internet title on the line while he was in the ring last night. Effie's music hit. Effie ended up sneaking up behind him in the ring as he was waiting for him to make his entrance, rolled him up, got that internet championship. Holy cow. Well you know what though? He's had it for over 10 years. But you gotta, let me say this. Effie.
00:13:06
Speaker
Kind of the internet champion actually. For sure. Kind of the real internet champion. I would rather watch the Effie's Twitch channel than Zack Ryder's major fig pot. Okay, I'm not going to lie to you over the pandemic. You know, we've talked about the YouTube. I watch him go by his action figures. Yeah, I will absolutely watch him and Brian Myers by action figures. I don't buy action figures. I watch Danhausen buy them now. I watch Ethan. Turns out maybe one of my favorite genres of television.
00:13:36
Speaker
Yeah, I'm finding out more and more that I really like watching people open their mail. Why can't I get other celebrities doing this? Where's my Sarah Michelle Gellers opening mail? Yeah, exactly. Let's turn this into its own genre. We could probably build an entire network off of it.
00:13:57
Speaker
like just hire, you could hire 24 celebrities and, and you just put out their address so that people can send them things. And then you have an hour of TV per person, but Dan hasn't has to be like your prime time spot because he's very enjoyable to watch open his mail. And that what I can only assume is a 1970s basement. Oh yeah. Absolutely. At one point that room was called a rompous room.
00:14:27
Speaker
hand-housing gets so many toys and like barely thanks people for them like almost seems put out like there's like levels of where am I gonna put this which I get I get like yeah but it's very much yeah it's it's it's
00:14:46
Speaker
guys they're not blimps and not bags of money that's what he wants like he's very appreciative of the toys but it needs to be blimps and bags of money not odd flavors of chips that yeah but yeah it's like a whole genre now is people open in toys or shopping for toys or i watched one the other day with like i watched a major fig uh
00:15:16
Speaker
YouTube that didn't even have Zack Ryder or Brian Myers. I was watching the fucking lawyer guy. Yeah, lawyer guy. It was Mark Sterling and Ethan Page. Which, okay, here's the fucked up thing like that shows how little like little I have to do right now. I watched Ethan Page's side of the fucking
00:15:37
Speaker
I watched a 30-minute video of Ethan Page shopping while the fucking Mark Sterling, you could see him in the background with his phone doing the same shit, and then I watched 40 minutes of him doing it in the same store. Yep. So I got the same show from two different angles. Why? Why? Why? What are we doing? Yeah, that's how I feel right now, is I watch that and...
00:16:04
Speaker
Like, why? Why did I watch that? There's so much deathmatch wrestling I haven't seen. I could be watching, but I'm watching guys shop for toys from two different angles for nearly two hours. Something that I did this week is, is I was just like, I was in like this like weird rut of like, I want to watch entrances. And so I ended up like landing on Oneida entrances. And so I just watched
00:16:31
Speaker
five to seven onita entrances you you watched over an hour of a guy walk into the ring to wild thing yep i did i did that's what i did i watched a guy walk to the ring i watched him sit down in a chair light a cigarette i watched him have shit thrown on him i watched him walk out with all the guys from f&w at seize it when he wrestled uh treymont at czw um yeah just watched him walk out to a ring
00:17:00
Speaker
I just for no reason other than I think I want to watch Oneida in a ring. I don't want to watch the match. I just yeah. I mean I get that. I get wanting to just see Oneida like just you know see him at his happiest before he's bleeding before all of this. But what I really want to see is Oneida shop for toys. Yeah. Oneida you're missing out.
00:17:27
Speaker
I don't
00:17:48
Speaker
And then he ended up tweeting, does anyone have D'Amato's number? I didn't hear about this. And then D'Amato quote tweeted, and it's like, my DMs are open, man. And now they're going back and forth like, yeah, we're not
Matt Cardona's 2021 Rise in Wrestling
00:18:07
Speaker
going to see Zach. Zach Ryder can't handle ICW. But what if?
00:18:13
Speaker
But what if? See if I could Zack Ryder in the chains. He can't do more death matches. I think he needs to go out on top on a very good death match where I feel like he was very surprised by the amount of shit he had to do. And just leave it there. But what if he loves it?
00:18:34
Speaker
He didn't seem to love it. He didn't. This week he had to go to a doctor to get a piece of glass removed from his shoulder from that match. That was a month ago. So let me say this, that's soft ass shit because I probably still have glass in my head and I haven't been in a death match in what, two months?
00:18:56
Speaker
And I'm not going to the doctor. I'm a pussy for going to the doctor. Yeah. Did you go to urgent care? You know what motherfucker?
00:19:06
Speaker
Get it together, Matt Cardona. Fuck. It's glass. It's fine. It'll work its way out. But they, I think Danny showed a picture, I guess it's the Kirk's versus Danny and a mystery opponent. He's like, I need somebody to fill the slot. I love, I love that. That they're, that he's like.
00:19:28
Speaker
Matt Cardona doesn't give a fuck like let's step let's step away from like the storyline and just go to Matt Cardona really doesn't give a fuck like there is actual hatred between between Danny DeManto and Brett Lauderdale
00:19:45
Speaker
Yeah. They do not like each other. Oh, you can see it on Lauderdale's face. He looked surprised that he brought up ICW on live TV, like during a pay-per-view. And so like there's true dislike there. And Matt Cardona doesn't care.
00:20:02
Speaker
And I think that's part of what is, I mean, if I had to make a top 10 list at the end of the year of who had some of the greatest runs of 2021, Cardona is going to be in there. Yep. One hundred percent. Maybe the best character this year. Yep. He's, he's felt. I can't believe I'm about to say this. Cardona has felt the most authentic to what he's doing.
00:20:32
Speaker
than almost anybody else. Almost. I'm not saying everybody. But he feels so there's an authenticity because like you can tell that like Cardona is having fun. But he also kind of believes all the shit he's saying about like this is fucking chicken shit show like like this is the fucking most popular goddamn indie like this this everyone this is what you like like like and I fucking love that about him is like
00:21:03
Speaker
Man, he was in that WWE bubble for so long. And for him to kind of come out like guns blazing in the way he did. I never thought I'd see him in something like GCW. No, he'd be like the fucking guy that they had on like the local shows.
00:21:18
Speaker
You're going to go to the gas station and see him on the poster. It's hanging on the cork board as you leave. Yep. And it's going to have like the fucking old style WWE logo underneath it. And then formerly known as Zach Ryder also featuring Bushwhacker Luke. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. A meet and greet with Kamala. Yeah. Sounds great. Love to go.
00:21:44
Speaker
but um but yeah that's that's uh like for him to come out and kind of be able to adapt himself to what wrestling is now has been fucking awesome like it's kind of cool to see like
00:21:59
Speaker
he actually loves this shit like he loves wrestling and that's cool to see from somebody that has done it for this long as a career that he loves it this much that he's like I don't fucking care where I'm at I just want to do something with it I don't know I've really enjoyed his fucking run it's so much fun
00:22:20
Speaker
And I'm done putting over Matt Cardona. Fuck him. There were some good matches on the last couple. Well, the emo show was weird. Yeah. The emo show was weird. I didn't finish it. But the musical performances, there was like a rap emo guy. I don't. I was not familiar with him. OK. And it sounded like shit on the broadcast. I hope it sounded better in person.
00:22:47
Speaker
Because there's a lot of times that in the GCW broadcast you can't understand what anyone's saying. They don't have it plugged in straight to the feed. But yeah, it was rough. The setup looked cool. Oh, the venue's amazing. Like the giant light up board. And I will say that Gage had a great line.
00:23:12
Speaker
Please go ahead.
Nick Gage as a Humorous DJ
00:23:14
Speaker
The line being, do you remember it better than I do? Because I just know that it was, it was, all right, now play fucking my chemical romance. And then they played the Black Parade, correct? I had friends there and they said that Nick Gage is a DJ, is the same way his child is a DJ. That his child just screams at him to play music until he turns it on.
00:23:44
Speaker
Listen, but like, that's kind of what I would expect as Nick Gage as a DJ. Night two, that show they had Tony Deppin versus Ishimori. Yeah. Oh, really? That was a fun one. I like Ishimori. He was one that really got over with me when he was doing those matches with
00:24:09
Speaker
L.I.J., what can't you think of him? Broke his neck. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I
00:24:37
Speaker
uh new japan guy that was a lot of fun it makes me want to get to see tony deppin do more of that right well because like he's doing the ring of honor stuff as well and there's like there's definitely like that that feeling that like there's still the relationship between ring of honor of new japan and knowing that makes me very excited for tony deppin to see who he could wrestle potentially in new japan like
00:25:07
Speaker
Like, it would be cool to see, like, Deppin Tagahashi. Oh, that would, yeah. Like, absolutely. That would be a very fun match. Like, I don't, I mean, I always knew Tony Deppin was very good. Yeah. But seeing him get a good match out of Ron Funches. Dude, right? Like, his adaptability's so good. Like, you could put Deppin in there against almost anybody, and he's gonna pull a great match out of them. Like, even if they're trash.
00:25:36
Speaker
You know, like, and I'm not sitting here saying Ron Funches is trash, but this isn't what he does. He's a celebrity having his first raj on the big show. And for him to do the stuff that he did and look, I mean, Ron Funches looked fucking cool.
00:25:51
Speaker
Yeah, like, you know, like incorporating like Paul Scheer incorporated an alley cat chasing around Paul Scheer with a knife. Yeah, it was just a fun. It was a spectacle show that ended up being a lot of fun. Absolutely. But like, but when moves were thrown down, like they actually he fucking nailed it like
00:26:11
Speaker
it's just very it was very interesting like that was a cool like little thing and I can only like I'm not sitting here saying that Ron didn't do his work and didn't put in the work but a lot of that is Tony and I love that Tony cares that much about wrestling
00:26:28
Speaker
And that's why I want to see him get opportunities. Um, but yeah, so hopefully he gets like, especially like into that LA dojo with like some of the people that are over there. I would love to see him wrestle some like him. Kenta would be cool.
00:26:44
Speaker
I'm just trying to think I like guys his way. Okay, so you had me watch some new Japan and Over the last year I would say I've watched zero new Japan in the last year maybe longer We've made a decision on who we blame for that right and I don't give a fuck we blame evil, right?
00:27:04
Speaker
I mean, for sure, there was definitely, that was the beginning of me being like, I don't know if I need to watch this every week. Yep. Same. I mean, I don't hate evil. I bet he's a fine person. But he's just the world's least interesting human being.
00:27:21
Speaker
it makes me wonder though because i know occasionally there'll be a wrestler that doesn't translate as well for us right was evil super hot in japan yes so he gave a shit like yeah he was like a fucking merch mover like like you would see people with like those fucking weird psych things in the crowd like
00:27:41
Speaker
i guess he moved a lot of merch like from what i've seen he moved a lot of merch and then he broke up from lij and then again became i'm sorry fucking being in bullet club right now is the fucking kiss of goddamn death because it makes you so fucking boring to me they really do i mean don't they have like the end or the uh the bullet club b team yeah the evil is the yeah yeah it's like him and dick togo and uh they just added
00:28:11
Speaker
Where's the Tokyo pimp at? Is he still in there? No, he's B team. He's B team? Of course he's B team. Man, he should not be B team. Like, he should be, like, motherfucker, he's A team. But who's in the A team, really? Jay White?
00:28:26
Speaker
Tama Tonga. Yeah. Tonga Loa. That's it. Like I can't think of anybody else that I guess would Chris Bay is is Chris Bay like in Bullet Club for real. Yeah. Right. So that's the same question I have. Are you really in Bullet Club? I want him to be. Yeah. I enjoy him. Yeah. But I don't see New Japan acknowledging this. Right. Yeah. That's what I'm saying.
00:28:56
Speaker
I haven't seen them. I haven't seen them acknowledge him. But he's been acknowledged at at impact. But that's what I'm talking. Yeah. We've talked about this before that like impact is does J. White just need somebody there with him while he's an impact. Right. And when J. White's gone does Chris Bay get to continue on to Bullet Club or yeah. Or does he get because my assumption is that Bay's not going to end up at New Japan.
00:29:25
Speaker
I just don't I don't foresee that happening. So is he is Chris Bay in Bullet Club in the same way that Jeff Jarrett was in Bullet Club.
00:29:44
Speaker
maybe yeah we'll see yeah times are weird right now there's a lot going on um but yeah so chris bay uh elphantasmo like okay so the show that you wanted me to watch was the i don't know first night world serie yeah uh grand slam grand slam
Grand Slam Event's Disappointing Atmosphere
00:30:08
Speaker
I watched a little bit of both shows. I'll be honest. I thought those shows were kind of rough. They were. I was having a hard time getting through them. I don't know if it was because there were a lot of cool match ups that I wanted to see that just didn't fucking translate. It didn't like not like it just didn't. They just didn't work. And I don't know why it didn't work.
00:30:27
Speaker
I'm, do you think the environment had anything? Because they're in an enormous stadium that has a handful of people on the floor. Yeah. Which was weird. And they weren't, they were, as far as I know, the crowd was specifically told to not make noise. Yeah, they're not spread COVID. Yeah, they could only clap.
00:30:46
Speaker
which makes for a weird show anyway. Anyway, yeah, it makes it feel like an empty arena match with a crowd. And like there were certain match ups that I was very much looking forward to. Like I really, like I enjoyed the like Tanahashi, um, uh, Abushi match. Um, but that one was even like, there was a weird emotion about that match that I couldn't put my finger on because at the beginning of that match, both of them were crying.
00:31:16
Speaker
Yeah, I didn't. It was a weird, to have not watched in over a year, tune in and like the both top guys are crying and it isn't their first matchup. I've seen them wrestle before. And it's not their last.
00:31:33
Speaker
What did I miss? That's what I'm saying. I was confused. I watched a lot of New Japan, you know that. And I was confused as to why the fuck they were crying. The only thing that I kept... I watched it and I was like, why the fuck is Koda crying?
00:31:50
Speaker
And so I immediately got on my phone and I was like, Google, why is Koda crying? I was like, Koda leaving New Japan? And then like, it only brought up like articles from like 2019 and 2020 back when like, like they were like, Oh, is he going to leave to go to AEW? They're doing the golden lovers doing golden lovers thing.
00:32:09
Speaker
um and but like I never saw anything about like now leaving it was just like I don't it's tanahashi retiring and I don't know like he doesn't seem like he's retiring like Lance Archer wants to wrestle him at AEW
00:32:27
Speaker
in the goddamn murder hot. I think New Japan is still just at a place where there's so many matchups I want to see and they can't do anything right now. Like they're still just stuck with the people that are in Japan. And you know what also makes it hard? No Suzuki on a show. Like when I watch a New Japan show, I want Suzuki.
00:32:55
Speaker
Now granted, we are very lucky because right now we're getting a whole bunch of Suzuki. We have like two months in the States. Yeah, we got two months of fucking Suzuki wrestling, everyone we know. You know, like everyone we've been watching, which is fucking great. And name a guy Suzuki's wrestling.
00:33:12
Speaker
Suzuki said, I want all the matches. And they were like, you want all the matches? And he goes, yeah, all. He said, if you're a wrestler and not injured, I want to wrestle you. It's the Ron Swanson thing. Like what I'm afraid of is you heard. I want a lot of bacon. I said, I want all of the bacon you have. I am going. I was planning on making a trip to L.A. in October. OK. And we ended up scheduling it around Gage Suzuki.
Anticipation for Suzuki vs Nick Gage
00:33:43
Speaker
Awesome. I love that. So dream match. I didn't like a dream match. I didn't know I wanted like we'd get it. There was no reason to think we would ever see that. Right. Do we see Suzuki go through glass? I don't think so. You don't think so. I don't think that that I I I don't think I'm not saying like a Matt Cardona or just like normal death match. But like the AEW Chris Jericho match. Suzuki do death match.
00:34:13
Speaker
I don't man it would be cool as shit. Do you think that like Suzuki can see like fucking Chris Jericho did it. I mean I would love it. I would love it because I think that it would be a natural fit for him for the way he like way he met wrestles matches anyway like there's not
00:34:41
Speaker
There's not a lot of wasted time in a Suzuki match. Like it's, it's, and I'm not saying like he runs through his matches or anything. I'm just saying that like, he's very good at storytelling just from an athletic standpoint, because there is, there's a language barrier for me in Suzuki. I don't know what he's shouting at Ishi when he wrestles Ishi, but I know that he's mad.
00:35:10
Speaker
or he's laughing or you know so I don't know what he's shouting but I know he's not happy or he is happy it's one or the other because he's either laughing or he's just yelling and and next time you see him in there with Tana he's just gonna walk in the ring crying and you're like what the fuck does Tana have an answer? somebody needs to tell me what's going on with Tana Hashi
00:35:34
Speaker
I think that's the effort. That's the title of this. This episode is is that a nice boys who love deathmatch and what's going on with Tana? Let's see if we can get a fucking answer here. But yeah, like he just he bridges that gap very well. So I would love to see that in a deathmatch, especially against Nick Gage, who is arguably the best deathmatch wrestler.
00:36:03
Speaker
Think of the month. In one month he is fighting Jon Moxley and Suzuki like within the same like couple weeks, like a few weeks.
00:36:18
Speaker
uh, television cable television debut, like, like we were talking about Cardona. If we had to do a fucking list today, Nick Gage is maybe top of that list because he's had like, of course we're fucking partial to Nick Gage. If you're a wrestling fan of the independence at all, you're, you're partial to Nick Gage. I don't know anybody who actively roots against Nick Gage.
00:36:43
Speaker
How could you? I don't think you could see that man's entrance and then think, I don't get it. Right, right, right, exactly.
00:36:52
Speaker
um like you don't have to see the dark side of the ring you can just watch him come to the ring once okay i get it i think after you leave that's going to be the rest of my day you had your onita entrance afternoon i'm going to just sit here and watch an hour loop of nick gage getting mosh like yelling at him picking up kids put him on his shoulders and then go and have a bloody death match
00:37:16
Speaker
What's that kid doing at that deathmatch? Get that kid out of here. But yeah, like he top of the list, probably. But yeah, it's just been. Again, we I think we've talked about it in the last three episodes is how crazy this year has been like I didn't think we would get the things that we've got, like even the shit coming up, I didn't think we would get.
00:37:43
Speaker
I just don't know I don't know what to do with myself. It's a strange time because you know 2020 we spent most of it being sad and locked inside right now we're like mostly locked inside but getting on insane wrestling right right exactly
00:38:01
Speaker
And it's like they're taking 10 years of surprises, and they're like, we could all be dead tomorrow. Wrestling absolutely has we could all be dead tomorrow energy right now. Why save something if you can do it right now? Fuck it, we're doing it right now. Yes, wrestling absolutely has we could be dead tomorrow energy.
00:38:22
Speaker
Um That's that's a fucking excellent way to put it like wrestling 2021 is it's the apocalypse We may never get to do this again So, yeah, I mean that's been that's been really fun, um What else have we been watching what else have you been watching? I know you've been watching. We've been watching some AEW
00:38:45
Speaker
Yeah, AEW. I mean, there are a couple more things I would like to mention off the GCW show real quick. OK, go ahead. Your buddy AJ beat the shit out of Yo-Yo. Yes, he did. But Yo-Yo hung. I know. I know. It wasn't even proud of that dude. It wasn't a match on the card. Yeah. Just got added, like, surprise middle of the show. And when you're looking at those two side by side, when they started having that slap fight,
00:39:15
Speaker
Like I don't even know if what Yo-Yo was doing was selling. He was just getting the shit beat out. So as a human being who has been in the ring with AJ Gray, what I can tell you what Yo-Yo was doing in that ring wasn't selling. He wasn't, I'm gonna make this a song and dance.
00:39:34
Speaker
he was you you just got to eat him when you with AJ like that is the best way i can describe it this might be a peek behind the curtain a little like but like you just got to eat it like and AJ's not coming light and the other thing is is that AJ don't want you to come light either and that's what that's what i was proud of of for from Yoya's perspective
00:39:58
Speaker
I know AJ can fucking throw. And Yo-Yo fucking showed that, God damn it, he's gonna die trying. That, God, I mean, that was one of two matches on the card. The emo. What's that? The emo fight night. No, this was, this was. Right. Lost, not, something about lost. Get lost all the time. Get lost a lot or whatever. Get lost a lot. Yeah, get lost a lot.
00:40:24
Speaker
I mean there were two matches with like little men getting the shit beat out by big men. The other being Chris Dickinson and Starboy Charlie are a tag team now. So they had a couple matches in GCW against each other. And the first Dickinson-Starboy-Charlie match made me feel like Jim Cornette.
00:40:50
Speaker
She went, I don't get it. Well, I got it. I got it. But there was like a certain point where I'm like, this doesn't make any fucking sense. He's got he's got fucking this giant guy in an STF and he can't get to the. No, I think it was like he had Charlie in the STF. That's the like the cross face, right?
00:41:12
Speaker
And then Charlie was able to crawl and get to the ropes while Dickinson's on top of him. And it just bothered you. That was maybe the only thing where I was just like, oh, fuck, I'm cornetting right now. You've got to fucking shut off, wrestling. You've got to take a 48-hour break. I've got to walk away. But yeah, it was a banger match. It was very good. They ended up having a second match.
00:41:38
Speaker
And after the second one, him and Starboy Charlie shook hands and Dickinson raised his arm and was like, you can hang. And now they're like a legit tag team. They went for the belts. And the whole match is Starboy Charlie getting the shit beat out of him and trying to get the tag. But then I think when I'm in LA, they're going to be up against Juicy for now and somebody else is going to beat the shit out of Starboy Charlie.
00:42:07
Speaker
I'll start my trailer you got like a rough couple months ahead of you bud there yeah but either way yo yeah that yeah yo yeah yo yeah and AJ that a nice a nice surprise like not like nice to see AJ anywhere but to see a match that appeared to be that like it was going to be a squash match right turn into something different like different fun I've really yeah well like I mean
00:42:34
Speaker
Fucking, we're back. How did it again? Cardona, Gage, AJ. Those are the three, again. Anyway, we don't need to get into it. AJ, you know I love you. If you fucking somehow find yourself listening to this goddamn podcast, I love you and I'll fucking talk to you soon. But, yeah. The other I wanted to mention is, crowd went nuts for Suzuki Homicide.
00:43:00
Speaker
That's awesome. That's awesome. I mean, both guys got the respect they deserve. Well, it's both those guys are those are like the the under, you know, like that that feeling of the underground guys, you know, like Suzuki, even though Suzuki has been with New Japan for fucking 10 years, at least at this point, like they're still like he still feels like the underground. He still feels like an underground king.
00:43:28
Speaker
For some reason, he still feels that way to all of us. Because he's never really the main event. Right. He's a guy that we're rooting for. He beats the fuck out of you. He seems main event. Right. But he isn't Okada. He's not Tanahashi. Right. It's almost like murder grandpa isn't given the respect he deserves in Japan. But we understand it over here.
00:43:56
Speaker
And I think he's seen that when he goes to an arena that's 20,000 people strong, everybody's singing his theme song. Right, right. So like, I love Suzuki. I also kind of love the idea that like, AEW, you're main evented him, you know, like, they built him, I feel like they built him as like, a top, the top main event scene.
00:44:24
Speaker
I know he's not going to be here forever. So why not just build a guy who's going to be here for three months in your main event scene? But like he's going to go back to you're going to send him back to New Japan and he's going to be on the fucking pre-show. And that's so fucking crazy to me like he's never held the heavyweight championship. No, like, but he's he's held. Never. He's never open way. I don't know that he's ever held the intercontinental.
00:44:55
Speaker
That's bizarre. That's bizarre to me. I don't think he ever even helped the intercontinental. But is he what is he a guy that like we were saying like evil evil translate better to a Japanese audience than he does over here. Right. Is Suzuki one that we're like oh we fucking get murder grandpa. Yeah. You know what. And that probably what it is what it is is that he just translates over here so much better because it does
00:45:25
Speaker
murder grandpa feels like a western character he feels like that feels like a character made in the United States that doesn't feel like a Japanese character like Tana Hashi has like I get Tana Hashi but Tana Hashi feels like a Japanese wrestler first like the air guitar like that's goofy as fuck here
00:45:52
Speaker
Do you see what I'm saying? I do. To be taken seriously in this day and age in wrestling, if a character came out today, Boogs comes out, the fucking dude from WWE, and instead of playing a real guitar, he's air guitarring his way to the ring. Do you take that motherfucker seriously?
00:46:13
Speaker
No, but we take Ta-Nehisi seriously because we also know how we know his journey. That's what I'm saying is I feel like Suzuki is a Western. It feels like more of a Western character. He feels because his isn't it. There's nothing fucking
00:46:35
Speaker
There's nothing over about Suzuki. It's, it just kind of feels like authentically him is like, I'm a murder grandpa. Like I'm, I'm an asshole and I just want to come out and I love violence.
00:46:49
Speaker
kind of as we were talking about this thinking i want to see a buddy movie of him and tommy lee jones on a road trip yeah yeah that's too grumpy old man like yeah yeah and tana and tazuki doesn't have to speak a single line in the whole movie you just fucking laugh tommy lee speaks the whole fucking time
00:47:09
Speaker
which he's gonna hate a lot of dialogue for him pages and pages of dialogue um but that's what i would say is is that like that's why i think i think i love Suzuki but
00:47:22
Speaker
Also Homicide, like that's fucking dope. Homicide got to be in AEW this week. Suzuki and Homicide were in the main event of an AEW show in an arena with 20,000 people.
00:47:40
Speaker
I want, I want WWE to succeed. I want AEW to succeed. I want every, the more options out there, the better off wrestling is. Guess what? That means there are more places for everyone to go to make a living wage doing this.
00:47:59
Speaker
But AEW, it feels like has been listening to the last 10 years of my thoughts.
AEW's Historic Matches
00:48:05
Speaker
And it's like, we're gonna put that on TV. Is that cool? You cool? You want it now? Yeah. You want that on TV? And I go, Yeah, I wanted that on TV like 10 years ago. And they're like, Yeah, but we're gonna do it now. Is that okay? And I'm like, Yes, it's 100% okay. We saw Brian Danielson, Kenny Omega.
00:48:27
Speaker
Opened the fucking show with that a 30-minute time limit draw match Which all I was saying before that match before it was even announced to be the first thing is I'm kind of bummed it's on TV because I'm like This is a match that deserves to go at least 30 minutes, right? And then when they opened like holy fuck they're gonna go to a time limit draw Yep, and take the whole 30 minutes. Yeah on a stacked show. Yeah on a fucking on a pay-per-view caliber show Cuz
00:48:57
Speaker
Ruby and Britt was good. I was a little bummed that they were the ones that was like, they get however much time is left at the end of the show. But it ended up being enough time for a good match. They ended up getting, what, 20? Like 15, 20, yeah. Malachi Cody was a great match.
00:49:18
Speaker
People don't like Cody. We were just talking about this. Leah was watching the show with me and everyone was booing Cody and she was asking me, why are they booing Cody? And I said, I'll be honest, I don't remember. He's been gone for a minute. If somebody could write in and tell us why they're booing Cody.
00:49:37
Speaker
Also, what's wrong with Tanahashi? Yeah. Listen, we have two two very big unanswered questions from this last, you know, couple of weeks in wrestling is is what's going on with Tanahashi and why does everybody hate Cody right now? I mean, we were talking like it could be political.
00:49:55
Speaker
Or I don't know is it just that he's the the gatekeeper guy that gets First matched with everybody. Well, and then like I said like it's the gate It's either the gatekeeper thing or it's that that for a company that's doing so many things differently like AEW is doing like listening to the audience out the gate like granted
00:50:19
Speaker
There are sometimes they're going to have to invest in people regardless of initial reactions from the crowd. Like you're just like it's just going to happen occasionally. They're going to get it wrong. Eventually down the ride, they had down the line. They haven't yet, but they will.
00:50:37
Speaker
Uh, but what I can say is, is that for a company doing everything almost at the antithesis of how WWE does it for the guy who does shit the most WWE way possible, like having a reality show, getting a big entrance every time he comes to the ring, bringing out his wife and he's got this whole fucking like crew of people and like, aren't Anderson coming out and falling off the ring twice?
00:51:07
Speaker
fell trying to get to his spot where he was going to fall. He was on the wrong side of the ring for the spot so he was trying to move around the turnbuckle to get to his spot and then flopped.
00:51:28
Speaker
Him fucking wafer off. I'm fine. I'm tough. I'm fine I'm tough and he gets back up on the ring and then immediately goes down again and Cody who didn't give a shit that he fell the first time Because Cody watched him fall the first time That's the funniest part of that match is as you watch Cody look at him as he falls off the fucking ring and he goes into the fucking spot and
00:51:55
Speaker
He falls the second time and then Cody's the most concerned human being in the entire world. And it's like, you know that you probably could have just cut the part where you knocked him off the ring, right? You could have just went and checked on him there and it would have been fine.
00:52:18
Speaker
but yeah that was that was very interesting that was like that it was the one moment in that match that i was taking completely out of the match where i was like wait what the fuck is going on here and like and you know what i don't think it's on cody i don't i like i know it's not on cody but i like that is 100 on on
00:52:36
Speaker
because why the fuck didn't you just get off the ring and just walk over and hop up on the other side who fucking cares nobody nobody needed to see you fucking stay on ring that may it makes no sense he's a big guy it was it's hard to get up and down off the ring was trying to take a short I am 20 years younger than him at least um
00:53:02
Speaker
or even at most. Who knows? I'm younger than him. And I've done that at a ring and I've been like, oh, this is fucking difficult. I hate doing this. I hate going around the post like and this motherfucker is not spry anymore. And it's fucking come on on. Come on. Just get the fuck down and walk. We know you can still hit a hell of a spine. I get it. I get it. Like it's a tough guy shit, but just fucking
00:53:29
Speaker
That needs to be part of his bit now. Hey, Arne, that first fall hurt though, right? It looked like it hurt. I mean, I'll tell you this, you did take a flat back. But goddamn, that shit looked like it fucking hurt. It's like I watched the air leave your body on that one.
00:53:56
Speaker
Fucking clipboard was in disarray. Got his papers all messed up. Do you think Cody is sad that Miz made it to Dancing with the Stars before him?
00:54:08
Speaker
He's definitely not happy about it. Dancing with the Stars seems like some real Cody Rhodes shit. Yeah, it really, really does. He's fucking, he's kind of pigeonholed himself because now he's that guy to me. He's like, oh, is there gonna be some sort of like AEW crossover? Well, we're definitely gonna see Cody Rhodes then.
00:54:25
Speaker
like he's did that like he like he didn't host it but he was a judge on one of those on that fucking him Snoop Dogg Rosario Dawson yeah what the fuck ever it's called my big talent or whatever the fucking talent show a big fat Greek talent show that show fucking Rosario Dawson came out to attack Alistair Black a week or two ago back
00:54:52
Speaker
give her a black mask that would have been fucking hilarious you want people talking the next day yeah don't make rosario doesn't look tough make her eat a black mask or split spit in her face well he's not disrespectful yeah you're right she'd have good then cori booker gets involved and then we got to deal with the politics of it all
00:55:18
Speaker
Do you watch any G1? I haven't watched any of the G1 yet. I'll be honest, I had such a bad taste from those two Grand Slam shows that I thought, well, G1 hits different.
G1 Climax Tournament's Unique Energy
00:55:31
Speaker
Even though it's the same match-ups I've been watching for the past few years. Everybody brings just a different energy. Yeah, a different energy comes to the G1. And it was good. I got to watch some Ishi, man. I always like anything with Ishi.
00:55:48
Speaker
i really want like i want him to do a fucking fucking dancing with the stars yeah yeah yeah or have him on my big pack greek talent for his talent he is going to headbutt through a brick wall he might not get it the first time but god damn he's gonna keep going till he gets there
00:56:12
Speaker
Um, no, I would say I would like to see an Ishi do a fucking United States tour. I think that'd be fun as shit. Just like to see him over here. Just the stone pitbull just beating the shit out of people. Headbutt and everybody. I think the seeds have been planted with AEW. I love that. Like I know that I've seen signs in the crowd and I've heard like some of the dirt sheets talking about it. I don't know where it came from, but people want Miro versus Ishi.
00:56:37
Speaker
I do love that. I want that too. I do love that. Honestly, I kind of want Kingston Ishii. I would honestly, most of the fucking roster I want to watch fight Ishii. Because again, I think Ishii's another one of those under, not necessarily underutilized because I think they've always got
00:57:00
Speaker
I said earlier that I that like I'm mad at the way it almost seemed like I was mad at the way that they booked Suzuki in New Japan. I feel like Suzuki is just Undertaker of New Japan. Like he doesn't really need the belts so they don't put them on him because he's gonna people are excited to see him regardless.
00:57:22
Speaker
Suzuki and Ishii fall into just a very strong mid card. Yes, exactly. Like I can watch them fight anyone and have a very good time. Yep. And yeah, you're right. They are even each other like over and over every show. So I guess Suzuki just left Japan because he's not in the G1. I guess. Well, I think that I think my assumption is is that they have this excursion planned.
Suzuki's US Tour Highlights
00:57:46
Speaker
And so he was like, oh, I'm missing the G1 this year. Darn.
00:57:52
Speaker
I'm going to go fucking make a bigger name for myself on the United States independence and in front of fucking a giant audience and on cable television. That's the most exposed Suzuki's ever been. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean for to an American audience for sure. But that's fucking crazy. Like, so did he really need like at this point, do you really need the G1 man?
00:58:22
Speaker
Fuck the G1. I'll go over to the United States and have a match with fucking everyone. He's working Calvin Tankman. Not far from us too. Not far from us. That's in St. Louis. He's doing indie promotions I've never heard of. He's putting indie promotions on the map at this point. I'm a little salty he's not coming to Nashville.
00:58:50
Speaker
Come on. Come on. Like, come on. I don't want to bust your balls up, but he's he's playing places I've never heard of. Oh, well, Dom's fucking wrestling him. Yeah. So, see, we could have got we could have got. I said, I said, I said she would be fucking amazing, too.
00:59:18
Speaker
Somebody give me goddamn AJ Grey versus Menor of Suzuki before he leaves this fucking country. I swear to fucking Christ, you motherfuckers. Put it somewhere. We need it. I need that. And then I need you to bring over Ishii and I need you to give me AJ Ishii too.
00:59:37
Speaker
We just need A.J. and New Japan. A.J., just go to fucking New Japan. Stop fucking around. Japan is fun as hell. It's a great place. The toilets are fancy. You're going to love it. Badays for days. Badays for days. So my wife is just speaking of badays. She is back in our college town. They're having a 35th anniversary party for the punk house that was in our town. Fuck yeah.
01:00:05
Speaker
And she went to like the shitty punk house bathroom and sent me a picture last night. And she's like, why the fuck does Lost Cross have a bidet now? I hate that. I hate that. But at the same time, like, I mean, I love it. How often is there toilet paper in there? It's nice to get a little something.
01:00:22
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's better than walking around with like a questionable wipe because there was like just enough toilet paper to feel like you did nothing. There were three squares. I got to look at it and say that wasn't enough. Yeah, I pulled up my pants uncomfortably. And that's why Lost Cross smells that way. Right, right, right, right. Yeah, at least with the bidet, like you walk around with a wet butt.
01:00:52
Speaker
What are we watching for next week? Here's the thing. We've gone a month without any death matches. We've got it in the title. There has to be people tuning into this that are like, what the fuck is this show? They keep talking about things auxiliary to death match.
01:01:09
Speaker
um well let me start here it's been very difficult for me to watch a deathmatch but i'm getting back to it so let's watch a fucking deathmatch uh i mean we could do do we just do we tease it and then just never give the sick nick mondo like we'll never talk about sick nick mondo let's face it we're not watching him i and if i do watch it i'll never fucking tell you i'm here you won't get a podcast about it
01:01:38
Speaker
Yeah, let's watch some let's watch some deathmatch maybe we can release on like Twitter or something like what we decide because I don't know right now but like maybe we should choose like a CZW pay-per-view To watch and then we'll just talk about it like a tournament of death or something
01:01:56
Speaker
That sounds good. And then we can let people also watch it if they want to or just listen to us talk about whatever fucking happened on CZW. But guess what? If Cygnix on that show, you're not talking about his fucking match.
01:02:13
Speaker
Love you, Sick Nick. We ain't fucking talking about you. I love that that's the... It became a bit... We needed a gimmick. We found the gimmick. The first time we were gonna watch Sick Nick, your neck was intact. Yeah.
01:02:30
Speaker
That's how long ago that was. Although I was telling, I was telling my wife this morning, I was like, I was like being in this fucking neck brace has made my, has made like my ability to understand time so much worse. Cause I was like, I feel like I've been in this thing for fucking years. She was like, it's only been a month and a half. And I'm like, yeah, but it feels like it's been years. But at least you can take it off when you're sitting down. God damn right. It's fucking fantastic.
01:02:57
Speaker
Just think of how comfortable you would have been a terror if you just pulled up a seat in the back and just took that thing off Yeah, I think that I my thing is is that I think that my brain would have Really started playing tricks on me because at least I had the constant reminder that I had the neck brace You can't go in there. You can't go in there
01:03:14
Speaker
Um, uh, at one point, uh, like the lead singer of terror was telling people to stop fucking fighting because there were people fighting, of course, you know, the fucking terror show, but, um, there were people fighting, uh, after the music was over and he was like, stop fucking fighting. This is not about, this is not about negative energy. This is about positive energy. We're getting the shit out so that we, so that we can walk around being positive, you know, like fucking hardcore stick. He was giving us hard core stick, which is fine.
01:03:45
Speaker
And he kept talking and I am now granted literally two songs before that. He said, we have 19 minutes left. So I was not mad, but I wanted people to stop so I could watch more terror. They were eating the time. You're eating up time now. And I screamed, I swear to God, I will take off this neck brace and I will come fight every single one of you. And a very drunk man sitting next to me goes,
01:04:13
Speaker
Ha, that's fucking hilarious. Can I buy you a drink? And I go, I'm good, thank you. I ended up going to turnstile. Yeah.
01:04:27
Speaker
um i couldn't find tickets it ended up being cheaper on stub hub to buy two than one yeah ended up with two they fucked up somehow gave me different two tickets the person who originally i was buying tickets from said well stub hub fucked up i have nothing to do with these here you go i ended up with four tickets hell yeah it was dumb it was
01:04:46
Speaker
how was it but how was it did you enjoy it i had a great time yeah we ended up we stood at the front but kind of to the side where people couldn't jump on top of me i don't like that i don't like it jump on i don't like getting jumped on so much like especially when people try and do the crowd walk like where they run feet first and try to run across people's heads yeah i'll pull you down yep i will immediately grab you and pull you down for that yeah so if i'm trying to step on my wife if i feel if i feel you step up my
01:05:16
Speaker
Shoulder and I can get to your foot fast enough. I'm grabbing it and I'm fucking and I'm trying to pull it off my shoulder as quick as possible because I want to see you fall to the ground. I because it's the shittiest way to do it. You wouldn't think that crowd walking would be the shittiest way to do it, but it's the shittiest way to do it because like even now I couldn't fucking support a guy fucking crowd walking on me. No, never in my the rest of my life. I won't be able to support a guy crowd walking on me.
01:05:45
Speaker
So you can jump on me like and I can fucking put my hand up and catch you. You're gonna get the fucking tread of your your boot on my face. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck off. Get out of here. Get the fuck out of here. You're not better than me. Get the fuck out of here. Complete lack of disrespect. Complete goddamn disrespect. But yeah.
01:06:05
Speaker
But yeah, so the turnstile show was fun. Yeah, that was great. It was it was my first aggressive concert. Yeah, since like attending things again. We were talking. I was talking to a couple of people at the terror show about like what everybody's last concert was before.
01:06:22
Speaker
And like, um, so I was asking them and they were like, what were your last concerts before? And I got like a lot of, uh, cause it was, you know, here in Nashville. So I got a lot of a fail because a fail played here in 2019 at the end of 2019. Um, uh, and so what was your last concert before COVID? Fuck. Uh,
01:06:47
Speaker
What did it have been? I know what it was. I know what it was because I left it partway through because it was like it was already like shit was getting bad. Yeah. And it was one of those were like not it. We weren't told to wear masks yet. Like that wasn't a thing. But we knew like so we're February like early March. Yes. Maybe even March. OK. It was right after the tornado in Nashville. Yeah. It was a
01:07:15
Speaker
benefit show at marathon music works just like a bunch of country acts and so yeah Margot price and right and people like that but I just remember there was like a moment partway through where like I Was getting news alerts on my phone that was like government says shit's fucked Like I'm looking around at this crowded room and I remember like I
01:07:39
Speaker
When I agree to my friend that I met up with, I went to shake his hand and he had his hand in his sleeve and gave me a fist bump and I'm like, oh, things are different now. Oh shit, life's different. And there was this partway through that show, I just remember thinking, eh, I need to not be here. This feels like I'm not supposed to be here. This feels dirty.
01:08:04
Speaker
Um so mine would have been um I think mine was like the last like I've been like I went to like Headley concerts uh I I don't really count Headley concerts because I don't know why I don't count Headley because he's your friend because he's my friend you feel like you're not you're seeing a buddy that yeah yeah I'm going to support my friend and like not that I don't love his music you should go support him too everybody go support god damn fuck
01:08:34
Speaker
I can't believe I have to have this conversation with you. I'm sorry. I don't know why I'm yelling at everybody. Don't yell at them. They fucking get the fuck together. Give me Ishii and fucking AJ. Give me Ishii versus Hadley. God damn it. Give me Ishii Hadley. No. So like the last concert that I remember going to.
01:08:53
Speaker
is redfang okay uh in 2019 was that at basement east no that would have been at accident okay and so that was the last like concert and it was for my birthday in may but i've been doing wrestling for so goddamn long now you miss weekend shows weekends are like like now that i've been injured and i remember what a weekend is
01:09:16
Speaker
Like, cause normally it's just driving. Now it's a whole lot of me sitting around going, what video game am I going to play today? Like, which is just a very strange and weird concept because I did it during the pandemic too. Like I wasn't home during the pandemic, but I feel like.
01:09:35
Speaker
What's different now from staying home is is like I during the pandemic I went I could go outside and lift weights because remember I fear bought a whole bunch of gym equipment. Yes. Yeah. My fucking backyard. So I just like if I was like real worked up or I felt like I needed to do something I just go out and fucking work out and I would do that like I work out like three or four times a day. So like it was very like it was super healthy for like
01:10:02
Speaker
strangely enough the pandemic was super healthy for me like I got in better shape than I'd ever been in but now like I can't work out so I don't have that outlet so now it's like okay what video game like I've already beat skate 3 I started playing MLB the show and like I didn't really enjoy it too much so I fucking quit that it was just not I don't like the new mechanics of baseball games that's what I found out
01:10:28
Speaker
uh but i've been playing like sports games got fucking hard when we got way harder than i remember like as a kid i remember playing nhl 94 on sega having time of my life yeah even on like playstation 2 playing a hockey game it was still fun yeah you have to use like every fucking button on the controller use every button
01:10:45
Speaker
Yeah, it used to be like you moved with the stick and there was like you had like the defend button and that's what you had. Oh, you had a pass button too. So we we really utilize three buttons in a turbo.
01:11:00
Speaker
so your thumbs just always on the turbo so yeah yeah exactly your thumbs always on the fucking turbo um because you just let that shit run out and then and then like during the cutscenes that's when you let the turbo recharge like when like after the goals it would be like okay now you get turbo again like when i come back i'll have turbo again because the game had to reset itself but now
01:11:24
Speaker
They're all fucking hard. Like I watched a fucking video about NHL 2K21 where they were talking about these specific type of shots. Like you can time it exactly right and you can do the lacrosse shot where you scoop it up and then you hit it in and it's not a single button that you push. You have to push a sequence of buttons like a fighting game.
01:11:50
Speaker
Like I you fuck sports games now. They're not fun. They're not fun.
01:11:57
Speaker
The Smackdown games on PlayStation 2 were the most fun I've ever had. And now these wrestling games, I'm too fucking dumb for it. So that, like, I had this moment where I was like, man, I wonder if I should start playing Fire Pro Wrestling. And then I started reading about Fire Pro Wrestling and I was like, oh, this game is not for me. Me, Derek and Queen of the Ring tried to play that in Chicago and was just like, I'm,
01:12:24
Speaker
I'm an idiot. Like this is this is Sega graphics with the controls of like a goddamn flight simulator.
01:12:32
Speaker
Like zero fun about it. Nothing fun about that fucking game. I mean, you put this in front of Suzuki and let me see. Like that one is 100% a simulation game. You just go, I want to see what it would be like for fucking Suzuki to wrestle AJ Craig. But in Sega, in Sega 16 bit. And then you just turn on both computer players and then you just watch it.
01:13:00
Speaker
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01:13:24
Speaker
I was like, the first 90 minutes of that movie, I was like, whatever, but it was holding my attention. The last 30 minutes made that one of the best movies I've seen this year. Shit gets wild. Also, you know, I'm a big fan of bad movies. There was a movie getting such bad reviews that it made me very excited, and that is Dear Evan Hansen, which stars a guy playing a 17-year-old kid. He is 28 years old.
01:13:53
Speaker
So 11 years the senior of the character he's playing. And I get it, dude played the same character on Broadway. But the thing is, when you're on Broadway, you're 100 fucking miles from the stage. I can't tell that's not a child. Right, right, right, right. When he's right up in front of my face, I don't know what they did to this motherfucker, but they made him look 40 years old. How did they make him older? And he's acting with teenagers. Jesus fucking Christ.
01:14:22
Speaker
the thing everybody i was really hoping it was gonna be like cats like something that you can something so bad that like it defies all logic that you love it yes yeah yes i was like i want to watch this 40 year old guy sing songs in school and like
01:14:40
Speaker
Just be just fucking chew up scenery. Yeah, but it's just a sad movie about teen suicide And like 10 I giggled through like the first 10 minutes and then once you realize like okay He's just gonna be a 40 year old man the rest of this will act in like a teenager It wore off very quickly. Yeah, and I was I'll be honest. I ended up leaving like I couldn't how far did you get in I?
01:15:05
Speaker
I checked my phone at one point, because I thought, this has to be almost over. I was an hour in, and there was still an hour and 15 minutes left. Are you fucking kidding me? And I was like, I can do anything else right now. Like, literally anything else. And I left. So it is not a fun, if you think that it's going to be a fun, bad watch, it is not. So it is not nice boys who like death match wrestling and deer evidence. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, this is no Fast 9. This is no Fast 9.
01:15:34
Speaker
But I don't know why I would say that. Fucking Fast and Furious is not a bad movie. So I take back what I just said. I apologize. Listen, I apologize. Everyone just will replace with cats. All right. Cool. Cool. The I did find out from my friend. Is that the both the movies that you wanted to bring up? There's Do you have any more?
01:15:51
Speaker
Uh, I watched a bunch of shit. I watched, uh, I watched Copshop. Copshop with that. It's the new Gerard Butler. Gerard Butler still making movies? He is. And when I was in the theater, I had no idea it was the new Joe Carnahan movie. Okay. Smoking aces. Yeah. Uh, halfway through that movie, Toby Huss comes in. Toby Huss was, uh, already the strongest man in the world in Pete and Pete.
01:16:14
Speaker
yeah like he's in a ton of shit like you don't recognize him because he looks different now but he is playing a character straight out of smoking aces really he is so much fun like first half of the movie like whatever but like it picks up and cop shop cop shop okay is it streaming no it's in theaters right okay um all right well cool yeah i'm glad to hear that girard butler still doing things yeah it's him and frank grillo
01:16:40
Speaker
Jesus fucking Christ. Hell yeah. Okay. All right. Well, I'm going to be watching Copshop. Yeah. I also found out that there did you know that there's a director's cut a fast nine? I do. I have it on my TV. I have yet to watch it, though. Okay. I think there's like 15, 20 minutes extra. Don't talk about family. It has to be because, you know, like they didn't cut action like they did.
01:17:05
Speaker
It ain't cutting action. What is this extra 20 minutes? Unless there's maybe some more Cardi B. Right. Which I'm all for more conversation in the back of that van. Give me another 15 minutes of just Cardi B saying things, using words phonetically. I love it. I love it. But anyway, all right. Well, are we getting out of here? Yeah, let's get out of here. All right, everybody. Thanks for listening. Social media shit. I am at Gartet on social media.
01:17:34
Speaker
I am at Hardway Heater on social media. And I promise next week, we will be talking about Deathmatch wrestling. We will not be talking about Sick Nick Mando. Sick Nick Mando is a match on their way. We ain't fucking talking about it. If you watch his matches, never bring them up to me. Listen, if you just watch a Sick Nick Mando match, I don't even want to see you. I need 24 hours where you don't look at my face.
01:18:03
Speaker
That being said, Cygnik Mondo, we love you. Yeah, we love you, Cygnik Mondo. This is a tribute show to you. All right, everybody. See you next time. All right, kisses.