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The Pepsi's Done!
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Jimmy Lloyd is champ and the Pepsi is done.
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Episode Introduction and COVID Jokes
00:00:34
Speaker
Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Predetermined, a Pro Wrestling Hangout. Garrett Callender, Jimmy Fax, Chris Miggs. The gang is all here. ah Fax is at like 92.5% volume. Chris Miggs, regular volume. I don't know what I'm at, but we're excited to be with you. And I'm on the tail end of having COVID. So let's get into it. You look great. You look like you've Like you've been to the COVID spa. You look, you look refreshed. It's the best COVID I've ever had. Like it's, gay I have that COVID shine right now where it didn't, I didn't even come close to death's door. Uh, and I dunno, it made me more handsome and my pubes grew twice as long. I don't, that's not a benefit, but.
00:01:26
Speaker
Well, that's that's terrific. I actually think I noticed I can't tell whether I actually have or it's just the lighting in my new bathroom in my new house, which I'm recording from right now. I think I noticed the first great pube. Yes. Whoa. It might have just been the light though, because I'm pretty light down there. i'm um um It's the lightest of the hairs on my entire body. So maybe it was just the extra blondie and just hit the light just right. I don't know. Yeah. Your Hulk Hogan down there, you know, just bright blonde.
00:02:04
Speaker
Well, there is the bald patch right down the middle, and then it just goes real long on the sides. Unfortunately, I've seen the Gawker video. I'm i'm i'm not Hulk Hogan down there and in all respects. I did see it, but I don't remember the size of his hog.
Hulk Hogan and Bubba Army Humor
00:02:23
Speaker
Like on a scale of nothing to swipe Strickland. Oh!
00:02:31
Speaker
Yeah, it was it was i remember I remember being of considerable girth. Not bad length either, mind you. I'm not saying it was girth at the expense of length. I think he it was it was unusual girth though. Can you imagine being his best friend's wife down on her knees, that a fucking prime bottles in front of you. And when you look up, you see suburban commando. Like it's just a, it's too much. What if it was Mr. Nanny in the, in the tutu?
00:03:07
Speaker
I might do it. it's pride mom and i mean honest that's good to have fiting Think about how many times that woman has seen Brian knobs his asshole. Like anything starts looking pretty good when you're just seeing knobs his asshole day after day after day.
00:03:26
Speaker
Wait, his best friend in this one, that wasn't Nobz's wife. That was like Bubba the Love Sponge. Yeah. But Nobz is in that circle, right? That was during the reality TV show days. Nobz was definitely in Bubba's orbit. And that guy definitely sends pictures of buttholes around. He's definitely alike. Oh, yeah. I really funny thing about our friend, Hardway Heater. He drives a truck with a Bubba army sticker in the back. And the first time I met him, I was like, you big Bubba, the love sponge guy. But it was just in the window when he bought the truck and he has never removed it. And that's such a weird guy to be driving around and just, you know, promoting a little bit. And if you're not really in the army,
00:04:16
Speaker
It's stolen valid. i was well I feel like the answer is to cover that up, honestly. With pretty much anything, honestly. Where's the line for Heater on that? What sticker would he not have kept? If it said 9-11 was an inside job, like I assume he covers that one up. So in the spectrum between 9-11 was an inside job and Bubba the Love Sponge, where do we think the heater line is that he would bother removing? Or just covering it up with another? I guess radio stations don't really exist anymore though, right? Because that would be where you'd get your your bumper stickers.
00:04:56
Speaker
I mean, you can see wire bumper stickers. There's other things that bumper stickers exist. Yeah, but they're not just around. I bought a bumper sticker this week. My wife and I went to go see the hardcore band drain and drain was selling bumper stickers that said drain is not responsible for whatever you stick this on. Yeah, you're gonna stick it on hardware heaters car, Garrett. I could cover it over the the Bubba Army sticker, but then at that point, it doesn't look like he supports our troops. Well, he doesn't, I mean, you know. the but There's several branches of the, you know, there's the Army, Navy, the Bubba Army, and the Marines. He doesn't support those troops, he supports the other troops, just not the Bubba Army. The Bubba Army are technically higher on the pecking order than the Coast Guard. Yes. They're like NASA.
00:05:56
Speaker
They are the thinkers of our of yeah of our armed forces.
GCW Wrestling Event Highlights
00:06:03
Speaker
I can't believe that we've talked this long without bringing up some huge news from before we got and into it is that at a GCW show recently, we've never had one night where you've seen so many just before the commercial break of Future Dark Sides of the Rings. of the high point of people's careers all happening on the same night. Because Jimmy Lloyd is a former world champion, guys. Yes. You could have been there. I well could have brought your mother-in-law, and she would not understand why you were cheering so hard for the man you were cheering for. I was never able to go on Sunday any more than everyone in the physical laws of the universe is technically able to go.
00:06:50
Speaker
Um, I always had plans on Sunday, which is, which was the big show. You could have broken them though. So could you, so could you guys, huh? I, at least I was in the great state of New Jersey where this happened. The state that Jimmy Lloyd goes through garbage cans on.
00:07:12
Speaker
Somebody walk us through the, the events of this match. I don't even remember how many world champions we ended up having that night. But I know of there was a lot of first time champions. Four, I think. Right. So minimum absolute minimum was four. So they're they're doing the gauntlet for the title because Blake Christian is in Japan and no one cares. No one misses him. um Right. Even his mom's like, Blake just enjoyed Japan a little bit longer. I can see it in a little bit. It's fine. What a great ending to that glorious title reign is that he just has to relinquish it to do something more exciting. Yeah. And no one's like, that's unfortunate. Everyone's just like, okay, it's over. That's great. This is all for nothing. This gauntlet happening was the single best thing of Blake's title reign. Yeah, it's true.
00:08:10
Speaker
It's inspired this. So first so the first gauntlet, that the beginning of the gauntlet ends with, Janela is supposed to be the last guy. He doesn't come out. Nick Gage comes out instead. Beats up Charles Mason. That was weirdly satisfying, by the way. I actually didn't know, I guess Mason's being an effective heel character because I was like, man, get him, Nick Gage. And that actually was pretty nice. I enjoyed that. And you're never mad to see Nick Gage hold up a title as the winner? Yeah, so Gage wins. Cardona, who's the GM, is like, screw that. I don't want Nick Gage to be the champion. So he adds another entry to the gauntlet. And it's, of course, Broski, Jimmy. And Jimmy, Jimmy fucking Lloyd defeats Nick Gage.
00:09:03
Speaker
He's a world champion. Was De Niro there? Briefly. I forgot to look. Was De Niro in the audience? I think so. He's in the back. He was in the back with Abdul of the Butcher, and they were talking about who was gonna replace each of them. um And interestingly, the answer for both was Matt Tremont.
00:09:25
Speaker
Chris, I fucking forgot about him. so
00:09:32
Speaker
Bax, did you see the promo from the day before with Tremont and Abdullah? I did not. this is one of the This is one of my favorite wrestling moments of the year right now. It's the promo of the year for sure. All right, so so Garrett, which who which of these two do you want to play? Do you want to play Tremont or Abdullah? I'll play Abdullah. Okay. All right, so I'm Matt Tremont. I come out, um I'm singing some, everyone's singing Journey and I'm, I got a fork and I'm like, look, all right. You know, I'm supposed to abduct Abdullah into the deathmatch hall of fame tonight, but you know, I've been waiting all this time and I got this fork from years ago. Abdullah, get out here. I'm gonna, I'm gonna fuck you up, Abdullah, with this fork.
00:10:21
Speaker
Now I'm Abdullah the Butcher getting pushed to the ring in a rascal, mind you. Not driving the rascal, battery's dead or something. So a guy is pushing Abdullah in the the rascal and I come out. do I have a fork as well, I think. Of course, always a fork, yes. Yeah. And what happens there? They just like they go back and forth for a little bit. Well, a guy shoves Abdullah towards him. you go But Abdullah, what do you say, right? Oh, I get the microphone from Tremont. He hands it to me. Kindly. Hey, there's never going to be another Abdul of the Butcher and you'll never be him. And then I hand the microphone back to Tremont. I hold up a fork for a little while longer and I go. ah ah And then I say, actually, I motioned, give me the microphone. bell no the first But first I say, first I say, you know what, Abdullah, how could anyone be cruel to you?
00:11:17
Speaker
You're a legend in this sport. No one should ever do anything like that to you. Hands in the mic.
00:11:27
Speaker
Here's the thing, Tremont. I've watched a lot of your matches. You're the next Abdul of the Butcher.
00:11:35
Speaker
I can replace you? You replace me. He takes everything back in like 30 seconds. You're never gonna be Abdul of the Butcher. Never. Hands microphone. Actually, can I see that again? I watched some of your matches. You are the next Abdul of the Butcher. But the thing is that Tremont does it too. He's like, I'm gonna murder that fucker. And then he's like, you're a legend. Everyone should respect you. is ah The strangest promo I've ever seen. Abdullah changed his mind because he didn't murder him.
00:12:12
Speaker
o There wasn't enough time to for there to be a mind like they're still aimed at each other. Abdullah even finds like a snow shovel and Tremont says something along the lines of, well, I'm going to get out of here because I don't want to get bust up in the fucking head with a shovel by Abdullah the Butcher. How much do you think Abdullah gets paid for something like that? What do you think Abdullah's payday was?
00:12:40
Speaker
$300 in a pile of ribs. Hey, Fax, I got something to tell you. Fax, Jim, Jim Fax on. You're never going to be the full time host of predetermined the pro wrestling hangout. Jim, I now pronounce you the new, you're the new host of predetermined. You're the full-time guy. Oh my God. I'm so honored.
Wrestling Personas and Imitations
00:13:07
Speaker
I'm so honored. I gotta get out of here though. Before you change your mind.
00:13:15
Speaker
I do like, I like a Garrett that your Abdullah was, it was a De Niro.
00:13:21
Speaker
I, so again, I haven't seen it, but I have seen modern Abdullah on like the dark side of the rings and stuff. And that actually was a pretty good Abdullah. I got to say, I thought that was a pretty good Abdullah. Thank you. They both just kind of sound like Tremont. but but And DeNiro. And DeNiro. Well, I think DeNiro's there. He proudly watches his his son. Yeah, I turned the show off at that point. I literally just went comatose in joy and just passed out and I woke up and it was like the next Thursday.
00:13:58
Speaker
it's um That's why I didn't spoil you guys on it. I was literally catatonic. So I assume Browski Jimmy is still the champion, right? No, unfortunately not. Joey Janela got out of whatever whole macar don't put him in. He comes out. He beats Broski Jimmy, then Cole Radrick comes out, tries to cash in his golden ring thing, Steff to Lander beats him up, Mansur comes out, he cashes in the other thing, beats up Janela, Mansur world champion, um which I think is the right, I mean, if you had to pick anyone right now, I think Mansur's the correct choice. um He's definitely the hottest guy in the promotion.
00:14:43
Speaker
I mean, him or Gage, right? Cause again, like we were saying, like Gage is good, just the inertial choice, right? Of just like, I'm never going to feel bad that nick Gage is world champion. Right. But as far as like getting in an exciting match and a guy who just came out of an actual GCW story where this has been a build for a while that, I don't know, it seems like they were kind of trying to bring Mansur back up as an actual threat in the company. And as somebody who's going to be there and probably put on a pretty, like, you know what? Decent main event.
00:15:19
Speaker
week to week as far as just like a Jon Moxley style hardcore match, not necessarily always death match, but I mean, even that cage of death match him and Effie had, like when I saw the cage, I started goofing on it immediately. Cause the cage is just so shitty. Well, that was also the ridiculous piece there is that they're like, we gotta have the cage because we gotta keep everyone out. It's just gonna be you and me, Mancer. And it's a three-sided fucking cage. just wide open. There's literally people running in to help them set stuff up. It's like your friends can't come in, man. So my friends can't come in. But these two guys right here who are going to help us set up the tables, they can come in at it any time. That's fine.
00:16:06
Speaker
Like it made me feel like, cause you and I, Chris, while we were in Vegas, um, we actually hadn't even mentioned that on the show. You and I went to the, the sphere. Um, but while we were walking around, we kind of talked about how GCW never really felt like the outlaw mud show anymore. Like they felt like just kind of like a little lesser PWG, you know, just like a top indie. Well, and that and they do sometimes they do comedy matches or even comedy shows, but they're not like, yeah, they're not outlaw mudshoes. They're just, and they suck usually quite frankly. Like I remember I've been to some of them. They're not good. But like on a whole, when you go to a GCW show, you see a couple of really good matches and you just see like some good independent wrestling, like with some honestly high quality talent and
00:16:59
Speaker
When we saw the cage, I was like, oh, no, there's the outlaw mud show. That is an embarrassing cage. However. Badass match in that thing. Yeah, yeah, I mean, ah and I guess, you know, f the whole F.E. Mance Warner thing leading up to mega heel Mance Warner's champion like. They got there, like, you know, they got where they needed to go. Effie got set on fire pretty good in that match. Better than Jungle Boy. That's the thing, right? They tried to do the fire spot there. They did the fire spot well with Effie, but then the final fire spot did not come off well at all. Also, weirdly, John Wayne Murdoch did a fire spot the night before. Which really, I mean, if there's any time, I know Brett Lauderdale is not exactly ah fucking Bill Watts about this shit, right?
00:17:54
Speaker
But if there's any weekend where you're like, hey. Our biggest feud that's been going on for five months builds to a fire spot. And while yes, this is a deathmatch tournament. You should do whatever the fuck you want. Don't do a fire spot. Just a thought. I don't know. i yeah I agree completely there. And yeah, I mean, about those two spots you said, I don't really remember the Murdoch one as well. ah But the the one with Effie, like he lands in that like, you know, it's just a table covered in or was it glass covered in? Yeah.
00:18:27
Speaker
fluid, but either way, when he landed, Effie stayed on fire for a little too long. It was. Again, you may have been sleepy during the Murdoch match. You may have been sleepy during the Murdoch firespot scare care. I think you're right. I think you're right. So when I was moving, by the way, I, you know, sometimes you find shit when you leave your house.
GCW Title History and Trivia
00:18:50
Speaker
I found a box with a bunch of. Chris, don't tell Kent, toner. So i I put it in, and then my fax machine just lit up. And I got a bunch of fax, fax, fax here. Wow. ah Just now. I just put the toner in while we were recording, as I often do. It's been years. It's been years since we've got, it's been at least five years since you've been the recipient of a fax, fax. It's been a while. It's been a while. I think I've gotten one on predetermined but before.
00:19:28
Speaker
But I got to walk you through. So um it's about GCW. So GCW world title does have a Wikipedia page. And yes, all four of the recent champions are listed. They're all official, even if three of them say less than one day. One of I will say one of these people is is Jimmy Lloyd. There are two people who have been GCW world champion. and do not have a blue link on their name that you can click on them because they have their own Wikipedia page. Jimmy Lloyd does not. I will even furthermore add all of the other champions from last week do, but there is one other former GCW world champion and I was surprised by this. I can guess it, I think. Yeah. AJ? AJ Gray? It is AJ Gray.
00:20:28
Speaker
You were correct, sir. I was just trying to think of another one who had like, he basically had the the same length title reign as Jimmy Lloyd did. So I don't know. I could, as far as like his accomplishments in wrestling and stuff, I could just, I don't know, it made sense that maybe he didn't have one. I don't know, I feel just AJ Gray's been around a while that like, again, it's not that I think he should have won. It's just that if every other GCW champion has won, I don't know, maybe he's wrestled impact less than the rest of them. um All right, so the other question is, so before the GCW title, it does carry the lineage of the original JCW world title. So who,
00:21:16
Speaker
And I'll tell you, they won the title on June 13th, 2015. Who was the final. Jersey championship wrestling champion, world heavyweight champion before it became GCW. I'm going to disqualify myself because I was looking at something on the Wikipedia page. So I know this answer and I will tell you Garrett, it is stunning. It's stunning. And and I'll give another hint. It is someone who you would have no doubt has a Wikipedia page. No doubt. Jordan Oliver. No, no. no i he He was he was he was eleven at the time. Yeah. Oh, shit. This person is currently in WWE. Oh, um. Twenty fifteen.
00:22:07
Speaker
And he did hold the title for one hundred and eighty two days, although I have no idea how often shows were back then. Did somebody like Johnny Gargano? No, um I'll give you the two previous champions before him. OK, Hugh T. Marshall and Joey Janela. So he beat Joey Janela. for this title at JCW Six Flags event is the name of the event in Jackson, New Jersey, June 13th. So almost exactly nine years ago. Is it a well received WWE person? Yeah, I think people have been enjoying this person. I think but I think it's not someone most wrestling fans would associate with w WWE first, even though that is where they currently are.
00:23:02
Speaker
Hmm. Ethan Page. but Good guess. Uh, do we want to keep making, maybe this we can give another hint. This guy is primarily, but not currently known as a tag team wrestler.
00:23:24
Speaker
But historically it was always been a tag team guy. Jizz.
00:23:30
Speaker
No, no, I would say colder. I'd say you're getting colder. um Let's see, I'm trying to think what else I can say that wouldn't. ah This is a second generation w WWE superstar, maybe third, at least second. Second, I think i think second. set Second, and it's not like a loophole. like This is not like his his parent was someone you've never heard of. like you You know who this guy's dad is.
00:24:05
Speaker
Wait, it's not... I don't fucking know. I don't know. Okay, maybe you don't know who his biological dad is. Just tell me. Tama Tonga. I would have never guessed Thomas. I would have never gotten there. I forgot he was in WWE. He's also apparently been a two time CMLL tag team champion. Hmm. That makes sense, I guess. It makes more sense than Jersey Championship wrestling. Yeah.
00:24:43
Speaker
who where With with Elta replay and Ray Pucanero. So he's he's. Yeah. So apparently it was it was during a run in CMLL before Bullet Club and G.O.D. So like he went to New Japan, then did a little then they sent him on excursion to CMLL. Kind of weird that the son of Haku does a New Japan excursion to CMLL. But yeah, it was apparently right before Gorillaz the Destiny and him blowing up.
00:25:15
Speaker
I will say, looking at the JCW title in the end, do you know who the least surprising JCW former champion is? Crowbar. That's Crowbar. Yeah, that's at least, there's no, exactly, of course you got it immediately, of course. I didn't i didn't know the answer to that for real, but like, that felt right. Yeah, of course. Of course Crowbar has been champion.
00:25:43
Speaker
and Did anybody watch the Ethan Page match? No. No. No. I didn't either. I was going to and then I saw Melter's review of it. Apparently nobody really likes the NXT champion over there very much. And Melter said that this match was twelve minute a 12 minute main event of Ethan Page carrying their champion.
00:26:11
Speaker
Who is their champion? The champion is a man named Trick Williams. Is that correct? Correct. I am not familiar. I think I'm pretty sure Trick Williams is one of those yeah NXT people from when they would not hire wrestlers. I thought it was Dragunov who I didn't think was bad. But yes, I see that that guy apparently Dragunov dropped the title quite some time ago.
00:26:37
Speaker
I think Dragunov's going main roster, which is actually quite exciting if for the potential of, you know, like a big pay-per-view to have a Ilya Dragunov-Walter match on it at some point. I would like to think that current WWE will take advantage of guys with good chemistry. Yeah. I mean, this guy's got literally no career other than w WWE. Trick Williams. And even in the comment section, it seemed like the one thing all wrestling fans could agree on is that this guy's super green and shouldn't be the champion of a company. Sounds like WWE. He's bringing wrestling fans together on something. So that I do appreciate. That's nice.
00:27:24
Speaker
ah uniter
00:27:27
Speaker
That's a pretty good nickname for him too.
00:27:33
Speaker
I mean, he was ranked 213 in the last PWI 500. That's pretty high. Is it? It's not great. It's I think in the front half. I think that the the. Robo robotic body that the long dead Bill Aptor's brain resides in that starts making up names after about 67.
00:28:05
Speaker
Is Bill after still is he's alive. He's with us. Yeah. And he's making that list. No, he's not making the list anymore. No, no, no. Just just be clear. He it's alleged that he's alive. I submit. to We don't want to get sued. I mean, if you when was the last time you've seen him? He had a podcast that ran for like 10 episodes, but you're right. You can use AI to make a voice. Rob Black does two hours of podcasts every day. That man's the one we should be talking about. He's the one I want. He's the one doing a podcast with Andy Kaufman. They're both totally alive.
00:28:49
Speaker
yeah I just want to see the raw black 500. And it's just the top 500. And it's a combination of wrestlers, burgers, and porn stars. But they're they're in order. So the number one is the best porn star wrestler or burger in the greater northern New York area. And and ah all of them the key all of them really ranked on on on juice ability.
00:29:21
Speaker
steroids, the cream, and cheeseburgers. I hear that, by the way, someone told me apparently um the the American cheeseburger is closed.
Appalachian Championship Wrestling and Commentary
00:29:33
Speaker
Aw, which is disappointing, but very hard. For health code violations. but do it Do either of you know how to play taps on a trumpet? and Sadly, no. um I will say, speaking of of ah restaurants and and wrestling, I was flipping through the Appalachian Championship Wrestling YouTube page. And first of all, I found something disturbing, guys. um Appalachian has commentators now or a commentator. This was supposed to be us. And I feel like maybe, you know, maybe we've let life get in the way of the important things, guys.
00:30:15
Speaker
Do you realize we were probably one email away from having that job and just none of us sent it? to Yeah. Yeah, I mean, we would have probably actually had to go to the Buffalo Wild Wings in West Virginia. But I think if we had gotten. At least some good vibe that it was possible we could do commentary, but we would have done that road trip, no problem. Yeah, he the commentator was talking about they're about to start the beat ups tour. for the year. They are doing the B dub. He said that. Yep. He called it B dubs many times. What did he sound like? Can you do his voice? um Can I be canceled for doing a Southern accent? I and just want to be. No, that's totally. No, the South doesn't believe in canceling anyway. So. Oh, that's a good point. He would he would never. um As long as as long as the the Southern voice you're doing is a man's voice.
00:31:13
Speaker
Y'all, you're gonna wanna come on out. we' torrent We're doing the tour of B-dubs. We're finishing up. We're starting in Charleston, West Virginia. We're gonna finish up in Cross Lanes, West Virginia with all all the stars of Appalachian Championship Wrestling. Bring your kids. ah Bring everyone. Bring the whole family. Limited seating. Limited seating. ah I mean, just you're going to you're going to want to you're going to want to come on out. Come on out for this, particularly across lanes. You're going to you're going to get to see the Sandman naked. If you hang out out long enough, he will he will be drunk enough and he will take off his clothes. So now. That was great. Thank you. Now, I have to follow. I have some follow up questions. I have some questions. Now, did we did you see this man? Have we seen like a picture of him? Has he been seen on camera?
00:32:03
Speaker
I, I didn't, I did not, but I was skimming to find beast man matches. So I, I will take an, I'll take another look. no Okay. Okay. Well, call me crazy. I'm going to, I'm going to make a wild assumption here. Okay. I suspect this person to be an overweight white man with a beard. I mean, I'm going to go awesome give you that impression facts. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that. So we're we you might see this as a door closing. I see this as a door opening. Because now that there is an established announcer, how hard would it be to just chloroform him ah and take his spot, right? If everyone's expecting an announcer, an indie promotion like Appalachian, do you think anyone blinks twice? Oh, it's a different fat white guy with a beard.
00:32:58
Speaker
Or maybe they don't even notice. They just go, oh yeah, he's not he's not a wrestler. I guess he's the announcer. You know, I do really like using the word y'all in casual conversation, which I really think would help the transition for everyone. I mean, you you put about three drinks in me in a hot Buffalo Wild Wings parking lot in West Virginia. It goes right back to my college days. I'll I'll be right at home speaking slinging ah West Virginia twang with no problem. I lived right right near the West Virginia border for five years. There you go. Garrett, resident of Nash Vegas. You got that Southern accent going. That's what I'm thinking is right now, if Appalachian's listening, they hear you two and they're like, those fucking East Coast City boys think they're going to come down here and take my job.
00:33:50
Speaker
Well, they got another thing coming and then they hear me and like, Oh, you're from Nashville. What do you know about Kenny Chesney's bar? And I'm like, well, what, what I know about getting justice bar. I know it's the best place in town to go hear somebody do a cover of a journey song and then like, God damn right. It is. And now I've got a new friend. Wait, it's the best place to hear a cover of a journey song. Does that mean Matt Tremont has been to Kenny Chesney's bar?
Pop Culture Crossovers in Wrestling
00:34:13
Speaker
Oh shit. It's really anywhere on Broadway. I was just throwing that out there. Like, you're going to hear a Journey song when you walk in. Tremont does appear when it plays. That's a rough life for him, because that still gets pretty good radio play. Do you think he walks in? Do you think Matt Tremont just walks in with a fork, ready to eat? And he's like, I'm taking out anyone. And they're like, sir, here's here's some ribs. And you're like, I would never do that. I would never hurt anyone.
00:34:44
Speaker
Why don't anyone arm the beautiful people of Kenny Chesney's bar? I mean, it the math checks out. I mean, David Chase has famously said that that was the actual ending of Sopranos. The journey was playing, and then Matt Tremont was gonna come in and just knife Tony Soprano. But they just went to black instead, because apparently, you know, the the Warner executives thought nobody knows who Matt Tremont is. That's such a w WWE way of thinking that unless you have a whole story and let somebody be seen for a month before their debut, you don't know who they are. Well, how do you make new stars? How do you make new stars? Tony Sibrano, he's leaving the territory. You know, you've met, you haven't put over Matt Tremont and instead what did they get? Fucking mother of dragons. Come on.
00:35:37
Speaker
I'm actually now just imagining it's like Matt Tremont coming out of the bathroom. Tony looks at the French fries and then he gets hit with a light tube. Wouldn't that have been a better ending to the Sopranos? I mean, James Gandolfini kind of looks like a veteran indie wrestler like he really does. He looks like he could blade basically like his character in True Romance is a fully fleshed wrestling indie wrestling person. Gandolfini could have played like Dominic Danucci. You know what I mean? Or frankly, he could have played Bruno. Gandolfini could have played Bruno, honestly. He had range. Well, he also, Tony Soprano was always just mashing it with the ladies. So he could have played the blimp.
00:36:29
Speaker
with some prosthetics, he obviously wasn't big enough. He could have played blimp levy and then he could have brought that charisma of like, how does this guy keep getting all these these women? Well, we're saving the blimp role actually for a back to back Oscar win for Brendan Fraser. Yeah.
00:36:50
Speaker
I'd be into it. Same prosthetics wrestler of the director or the director of the wrestler. Just do it again. Combine the movies into one. By the way, what do we think about the rock in the hurt machine with all those prosthetics? Like, it the still picture looks kind of amazing. But if he can't pull off the actual acting part, it's going to be really bizarre and miserable.
00:37:19
Speaker
I'd like to think that the Safdies can get a good performance out of him. I think it's just a matter of the Rock trying. And I don't know that he's ever really tried in a movie is the thing. But everything you hear about current Rock, and again, I trust them. They're great directors, but are they like, you know, sipping a little bit of their own Kool-Aid that they're like, we can put the fucking rock in this and get a good performance. Whereas everything you read, why do you think now is when the rocks going to start trying? Everything seems to be indicating the exact opposite. Apparently he hurt himself doing this. Like doing all workouts in the fighting and stuff, apparently. I mean, he hurt himself wrestling John Cena 12 years ago.
00:38:10
Speaker
I don't know. I kind of thought The Rock was doing it because guys like us on the internet are saying like he's not trying and his, honestly, his movies weren't doing as well as they used to. And I think he needs to prove like forever. I thought The Rock might be the first actor to win an Oscar, but then I saw his movies for a few years and changed my mind. And that guy became Dave Batista. And I think The Rock wants me to think that again, though that he's, he does have that possibility.
Wrestlers in Film and Biopic Ideas
00:38:43
Speaker
Hmm, yeah. They're gonna make a ah remake of Salt Burn with an all former professional wrestling cast. Fantasy book, the Salt Burn remake. Ooh. Well, who does Jimmy Lloyd play? ah
00:39:04
Speaker
Jimmy Lloyd is the cum at the bottom of the bathtub. Yeah.
00:39:11
Speaker
yeah checks out the guy who's dancing around dick out um visually if I had to pick that. and Yeah, Barry Barry Barry's character. Yeah, I would say is Cole Radrick.
00:39:27
Speaker
ah No, I can get Deppin. Deppin has a similar look. Deppin has the look, certainly, and I think Hangin' Dong won't be an issue for Tony Deppin. um I don't know that that he's got the acting chops, though, right? Because cause that that guy really carries that movie. You know, you got to believe the lies, believe the desperation. um I don't know. I think it might be Edge. That man, he's wrestling like he's desperate.
00:40:02
Speaker
And now he maybe is because now he's been getting his wrestling fix and now he's on the shelf for months, right? He needs next time. Next time you see edge, he's going to look like Abdul of the butcher. Somebody's going to be pushing him to the ring in a rascal like he penciled off the top of that cage. What the fuck? Yeah. How how would they not? made a movie about, or like even talked about, to the best of their knowledge, about Masawa, right? Wouldn't you think that that would make a really interesting movie? Yes. With like the recent refocus on like wrestling stuff? Yeah, at least a movie in Japan, you know? Right. But even really anywhere, right? In the sense that- No cue, by the way. Like,
00:40:54
Speaker
That should be, uh, not to hear Scorsese's next movie. An enoki biopic? Because that dude had a truly, like, I've explained it to normal people, including my wife, multiple times. And it is literally unbelievable. Like you tell people about Anoki's life and just like the quick, like first paragraph of Wikipedia version, they think two sentences into it. You've just started making things up and are completely lying. Well, the problem is if Scorsese makes that we're going to end up with DiCaprio and a Mickey Rooney and breakfast at Tiffany's style role that just isn't going to fly in 2024.
00:41:34
Speaker
I mean, if he plays a heel.
00:41:41
Speaker
By the way, in order to Caprio, he'll turn. I don't know if you guys, you know, probably don't follow Yankees baseball as closely as I do, but the Yankees do currently have a rookie phenomenon. He seems like he's a shoe in for rookie of the year. A front runner for the Cy Young and his name is Luis Heal. His last name is he a real piece of shit. I keep I was at a game over the weekend and I kept trying to get heel turn chance going. But people didn't get it. I think it's because it's a brand for the Yankees. It's it's spelled guilt. So that might be the issue. They they don't get the.
00:42:26
Speaker
That's smart. I'm going to grab another drink real quick, but I'll be able to hear you. So, Chris, have you caught any of the who killed WCW yet? I haven't. I did read a little bit about what um was covered in the first episode. I mean, I'm intrigued. It seems like they got everyone talking. Yeah, I oddly didn't know it existed. I didn't know about the show until like I was flipping through TV like a week and a half ago and I just like lingered on something on interesting advice about like serial killers or whatever. And um no, it was it was Ken Shamra.
00:43:08
Speaker
I was flipping through the channels and then Ken Shamrock was there on my TV and I stayed. And that was Vice. And then they were like, Oh, who who killed WCW? I haven't seen it either because literally it premiered on the day I moved. Therefore, my DVR was not connected to the internets in the cabled world because it was in a bag with me. I have since recorded it the first and second episodes. So I have them ready to go. I've heard it's been great. What about you, Garrett? Have you heard? ah Have you seen it? I watched the. Yeah, I watched the first half. Kevin Nash looks really stoned in all of his interviews. from Yeah. people Yeah.
00:43:48
Speaker
And ah the episodes are up on YouTube as well. So if you don't have access to Vice, it is really Vice throws it up themselves on YouTube. And by the way, Vice is great and they throw almost everything on YouTube. I don't know how they make money because they put full episodes of like all of their original shows on YouTube for free. I also want to what ah ah make a ah comment here for everyone. Fax a few weeks ago told me you've got to get YouTube premium. It's totally worth it.
00:44:21
Speaker
And, uh, I want to go on record for all the people out here as saying, uh, backs, you were right. YouTube premium, uh, best money I've ever spent. Uh, just really tremendous. It's, it's the one thing that I guarantee you that like every streaming service, everything in the world has like, they're like five days free, 10 days free with 30 days free, whatever it is. It's the one that like, literally I was like, all right, fuck you. I'll take, I'll take this free for a couple months and then fuck you back. I'm going to cancel it. Um, and then it was like the very first day that I had ads back was worse than when I got cancer. It seriously was substantially worse. And I think I lasted maybe 45 minutes before i I paid full price to reorder it. It's the streaming service I use the most and I can't, every streaming service I have, I have the version without commercials.
00:45:20
Speaker
Except YouTube. i For some reason, I can't get past it in my head to give them money. Even though you know that money is actually going somewhat to content creators that, you know, you'd want to support because they're not like already rich.
00:45:42
Speaker
I mean, not oliver getting that when I watch with the commercials, like the commercials, what's getting driving the revenue over there, right? That is true. Actually, I can tell you from from marketing that actually like Google's banking on not many people buying this because if you run the numbers from them, if like all YouTube users all started paying fifteen dollars a month and then their ad revenue went to zero, they'd be fucked, even though they'd be bringing in, you know, billions in revenue. It's yeah, they make way more than $15 per family ah in ad revenue per month. Yeah, I really am going to suggest you try it, Garrett. it's It's life changing. I'm never going to go back.
00:46:28
Speaker
It's do they offer anything else besides no commercials? Is there like an extra thing you get? I guess you can download videos. um you Yeah, that video. Yeah, that's huge. That's huge. You um if you're watching on your phone, um if you're like listening to something that's like music, you can like close it. You can like lock your screen and it'll still keep running. You can even get they have on both Android and iOS. They have a YouTube music app. And it even has a podcast player. You can download music and it has fucking everything because not only is it a streaming service like, like a Spotify or or Amazon music unlimited or something like that. In addition, it just has everything on YouTube. So even if you're like, Oh, they don't have like black Sabbath. Well, some random dude is probably uplifted on, on YouTube and click the button saying it's legitimate and it's so it can be available for streaming audio. And then boom.
00:47:27
Speaker
Well, if you do have YouTube music, be sure to subscribe to erotic thriller club on there. I know that's on there for sure. It is. I am. My wife has asked about it many times in the car why erotic thriller club keeps coming up in her car as a recommendation from YouTube music. I think if she hears the theme song, she'll ah she'll realize it's a quality program and keep going. I agree. I agree. I think that she just can't not listen to Ja Rule in the car. and So, you know, she'll have to listen to it at home. Speaking of theme songs, I feel like we don't give them a shout out enough. Josh Hendricks that did the theme song for Predetermined.
00:48:13
Speaker
I mean I've said this before but like for a while like he worked for Hans Zimmer like he definitely helped in the production of like the soundtracks for Dune and some movies like that and now he doesn't work there anymore but like all of those 90 day shows you're hearing his music. You're hearing his music in the tuna, like the what like the deadliest catch shows, like those kind of things. He does the music for NASCAR. like That dude has made music like for things that so many people have seen and also predetermined. um I notice it's not on his reel of like his biggest accomplishments.
00:48:57
Speaker
I get it. I get it. He worked great song, though. I mean, I get it from a credit perspective. But you think you want that tight jam out there is like, mm hmm. It's my beat. Yeah. I'm surprised music he makes for whenever a sad, a sad white man has flown across the world to meet someone who turns out to be a catfish is impeccable. And really what makes those shows work? It does.
Sphere Experience and Impact
00:49:25
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Well, hey, as we get towards the end here, Chris and I went on vacation together. And this was our first vacation. This was the first time we've shared a hotel room. Yep. This is a lot of first for us now. That actually sucks that we didn't do that. We should have done that. Yeah. I feel like there's a couple of stories we need to get ah out of our bodies into these microphones, if that's OK, facts.
00:49:52
Speaker
Yeah, go for it. I mean, I want to hear what random wrestlers you ran into at the casino.
00:49:59
Speaker
Well, the last time both of us were in Vegas was the double. We were all there. Yeah. Yeah. I remember seeing Billy go on together. But again, it's this this was only one week after this double or nothing. thing So I feel like some somebody was still there. They just never. Yeah. Where do we start, Chris? I mean, look, first of all, this is not a i'm goingnna believe this is not a music podcast. um We're not going to specifically recommend Dead in Company to you, although they're great. I got to say, the spear is fucking incredible.
00:50:36
Speaker
um it Unreal. It really rearranged my brain in a way that's difficult to get over. And if you like music and a band that you enjoy in any way is playing the spear, um Run, don't walk. um Get yourself there um and let your life be changed. um I mean, I would suggest that you let your life be changed by the beautiful tunes of Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia. But, you know, I mean, that's up to you. I mean, if you want to go when it's the Eagles or next year when it's like Taylor Swift or whatever, go for it. Just do it. Trust me.
00:51:15
Speaker
and but And to be fair, by the way, while this is definitely not a music podcast, I think most of our listeners would agree that it's not quite clear what this is a podcast for. This is appropriately a topic as I think it's mainly about penis cocaine, but, you know, the dead probably did some of that back in the day. Oh, for sure. Oh, yeah. There's no way Jerry Garcia didn't experiment with penis cocaine at some point in the. lake That's where that's where a young events got the idea. Well yeah, jar so Vince booked the Cape Cod Coliseum for a long time. He and Linda ran it, and the dead definitely played the Cape Cod Coliseum. So I feel like Vince walked backstage, saw what you know Jerry was doing, and was like, this man's a genius! Because of his guitar playing?
00:52:08
Speaker
No, but beat because of his lyrics. No, no. He put cocaine in his penis. It's a brilliant man. He couldn't get over. He's just like, I don't understand how he got over with that physique. Yeah.
00:52:25
Speaker
I think, i'm i'm I'll say I'm an atheist, um but there's two things that have made me question my faith. And my faith is nothing, I guess. One was for the erotic thriller club watching the Sydney Sweeney erotic thriller where she showed side boom. I believed in God for a second. The other was inside that sphere just looking at those beautiful images while John Mayer twiddled on his guitar. It's it's but like, I think I said to Chris while we were there, this is insane that this is a thing we all can enjoy if we want. This feels like it's something that only exists for a Saudi prince. Yeah. It's like doing drugs, but better. And you do not need, I i actually had a little bit of weed the last night because someone just handed a bunch of weed gummies to us as we were walking out of the Venetian.
00:53:20
Speaker
And I was like, well, that's a sign, but honestly, you really don't. And if you're, if your brain isn't any way like struggles with any of these things from the right angle with just a little bit of weed, it literally looks like the stage was lifting off. Five fucking milligrams. Okay. Five milligrams. i slipp there off There's a moment in this show that I teared up on night one and I have teared up multiple times just thinking about it since I've been home. Like I have been, it changed me. We did this three nights in a row and it, it was mind bending. Like I,
00:54:03
Speaker
I can't imagine if I know Dana White has already talked to the sphere people about doing a UFC show there. And I heard him say something about WWE w potentially doing something there, which I don't think that doesn't seem like it would make sense. yeah Not as a viewer on TV, but is. But even in person like isn't. ah Maybe I don't fully appreciate what the experience is. Cause it seems like it needs to be kind of like a lot of it needs to be pre-produced, right? Like the bat, especially the backdrops and yeah, that that would be, I mean, look, you could do stuff where things are kind of images are being projected of what's on the stage, but I'm with you but for wrestling or UFC, it seems a little bit weird. Unless you went full into like, this would be the perfect opportunity to do cinematic wrestling. Well, but also remember.
00:54:58
Speaker
the the Oculus, the Mediquest, we already can see Luchadora's ass as the size of a house. We already have it, just just strap that on. Now, normally I would expect the Dead to play very different sets each night. However, because of the pre-preused nature, like is that true? like what We're where the chosen ones. Different set every night. we did not see We did not see a song repeat. Basically, they figured out ah
00:55:28
Speaker
Each video probably has X number of songs it could relate to. Each video has a vibe and they just need a song with a similar vibe but for some of them. yeah oflthough Every Thursday's show is just fire on the mountain for the entire show. Yes. Was it Thursday that we heard fire on the mountain? It was actually what they did play fire on the mountain on Thursday. That was appropriate. Got it. Nailed it. No, there's just this, the show starts like we were sitting in there looking at it and they have it set up to look like scaffolding and shit. So it looks like you're looking at the inner workings of the arena. And then ah it took us a little bit to realize we were looking at the screen. It was just an image of shit behind the stage. It wasn't actually it. Then the thing opens up. You're in San Francisco at their house.
00:56:20
Speaker
And then it blasts off into outer space in the most HD crazy fucking video that looks like the most HD like Google earth or something. I think where this ties back to wrestling is that this, this, ah you know, this meshes with what I've heard from others that this is just an incredible must do kind of live event experience. And I agree with Chris that I think for like w WWE for like a pay-per-view or something, I don't, I don't really get it. But AEW should be taking note here. That's how you get the tickets. Make a better in-person experience, right? Circle six, great in-person experience. what That's what Tony Khan needs to do. Look at circle six. Look at the dead in Vegas. Combine these experiences.
00:57:09
Speaker
and give me Kenny Omega versus Okada. All of those things and you'll sell out at any arena anywhere. Darby Allen will climb that thing if you ask him. That can be his Everest. I do think that there's something cool that could be done with entrances there though. Like if everybody had like a produced big video, it won't translate to television. There's no way it will. Like I described it to Chris, like, you know, I've seen a million pictures of the Grand Canyon, but until you're looking at the Grand Canyon with your eyes, there's just something about it that doesn't photograph. That's the same with the sphere. And I think people in attendance, you could do something cool as shit for entrances, but it's for the people in that room, not at home.
00:57:58
Speaker
But that's what I'm saying. AEW would be, would be great for that, right? Cause they, they apparently are still really happy with the TV ratings, but the actual tickets still aren't flying on shelves and throw a little bit of reward for, Hey, you want, you want people to have a reason to go to this Chicago show. That's right after the Wembley show. Give them a sphere to the Chicago sphere in the Sears center. They don't have technology like that at the Sears center.
00:58:27
Speaker
You don't need to do technology. I've always said that's why I brought up Circle Six. That's what I want. I want sleep no more it. Just give me more. Make it interactive theater with my rest line. I did see that level of budget of the sphere.
Circle Six Event and Music Expansion
00:58:43
Speaker
Circle six was in town over the weekend and I couldn't go cause I had COVID, but I did see that room was fucking packed. I saw they even thanked the Cobra for letting them sell twice the amount of tickets they were allowed to sell twice. That sounds, that sounds, uh, uh, dangerous, dangerous. Yes.
00:59:07
Speaker
It's a scene, man. I mean, if they were able to pack it out like that, and it looked like this time they didn't have hardcore bands, they had like a pop band. So I mean, if they're expanding the music they're doing to like bands that have big audiences, the bands are bringing crowds, because it's basically, the band gets more time than the matches, so. Can we get a Grateful Dead cover band and light tubes? That I think is the answer here. I'll i'll fly to Nashville for if I can watch a Grateful Dead cover band and light tubes. Maybe the Grateful Dead drag band, right? Bertha, which is based in Nashville. They're gonna be playing a show soon. I mean, if they won't do it, we just need to start our own. I unfortunately am not nearly good enough at any musical instrument, I think, to be a part of that. Oh, I think he just meant the wrestling. We could hire Bertha. Oh, okay. Right? like I think that's what you meant. We're not yeah playing, right? Okay.
Punk Rock Museum Visit
01:00:05
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okay
01:00:05
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okay I will say we should talk about a couple of stories of things. Please. So. ah First, I think let's start with Gary and I went to the punk rock museum, which was a lot of fun. It was great. And there's in the punk rock museum, there's a music room where you can play a lot of question. sir Why is the punk rock museum in Vegas? Great question. No fucking clue. I think that's where fat Michael from no effects lives and he, it's his museum. He started it. So I believe that it's in Vegas because of the man who owns it and where him being close to home. Probably. I don't know. It's my guess. That's the only good reason that means as well as opposed to being on like the low re side of New York. Yeah. I was about to say it would be like, here's the Motown museum in Quebec.
01:01:03
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hate
01:01:06
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but whatever okay but so So in this music room, you can play in a lot of instruments that have been played by a lot of famous music legends. And i ah I went down to look at something and I come into the music room and Garrett is talking to the keeper of the music room.
01:01:26
Speaker
he's ah He was and I think when you walked in, he and I were having a conversation about politics at that point for some reason. I didn't start it. I went over to ask him, is that really Wesley Willis's keyboard? And the answer is it was, somehow that turned into- I'm focused on that question. So Garrett, have you often been deceived at museums that they aren't the things that they claim to be, that you need to verify the veracity of their claims directly with the keepers of said artifacts?
01:02:05
Speaker
Yeah. But when you go to the Louvre, they don't let you rub your nuts on the Mona Lisa. Like I could have teabagged this keyboard. He was giving me the option to plug it and do an amp and play it. Like it's weird that part of the museum is here's fat Mike's base. Play his base right now. Like you usually can't pick the guitars up and enjoy them. So that's why I was like, is this truly his Garrett sat on a couch that was apparently Kurt Cobain used to sleep on. So yeah yeah, they let me sit on a piece of furniture that a famous dead guy was on. I mean, that makes sense, right? Like, but then I would question a little this man. So he's, I walk in the all he's like, is like, you know what the problem is? You know, people aren't coming from love. Biden's not coming from love. Trump wasn't coming from love. Obama wasn't coming from love. And it's like,
01:02:58
Speaker
Yes, that is one, if you politics or, um, but I really think what took me about this guy was that he's, he plays in a lot of bands. Um, I know his metal band is called Patricide and you can find them on, um, sponsor YouTube music as well. Yeah. Um, he had a tourism Lord stops paying us. The checks never cleared. So now we're on team YouTube, that scrappy young upstart that needs our help. YouTube. This man had a very simple dream. All he wanted to do was move to Philadelphia. And I really wanted to convey to him how easy his dream is.
01:03:39
Speaker
Philadelphia is such a cheap city. it's He has the most doable dream in the world. It's like if you said, my dream is to like start a podcast. You can do it. Zencaster is here for you. You can start that podcast. this man all he it's the It's the literal equivalent. Philadelphia is the literal equivalent. It's a very cheap city to live in. can do You know what it's like to tell somebody, hey man, I know this sounds cheesy, but follow your dreams, you can do it. Because I really had faith in him. I heard him playing guitar when I came in. He was a good guitarist. ah He's in a couple bands, I believe, that he could do it. um You know, it seems like it just a couple bucks for a bus ticket to Philly. and
01:04:24
Speaker
You can find a roommate you're set up just you can find it you can find a roommate He can I believe in him if you're listening to this man. First of all, we're sorry about the jokes um But please go we've actually told everyone that we've in listeners we have a quest for you as well if any of you go out to Las Vegas and You go to the punk rock museum Please do us a favor and go upstairs to the music room. Check if there is a long haired Hispanic man who's about 21 years old with very specific nose piercings. You'll know exactly who we're talking about. I guarantee it. Very specific, yeah. Kind of looks like Nuno Betancourt from Xtreme. If you see him and he's still there, just tell him, hey man,
01:05:12
Speaker
I think you should move to Philly. Don't explain why, but just, we want this man to follow his dreams. If he's not there, I want you to ask someone who is there, just check. And I hope the answer is, oh yeah, that guy, he moved to Philly. He's not, he doesn't work here anymore. That's what we want to hear. We eventually want to hear happy there. He's so happy. He's living with his new partner, Jimmy Lloyd.
01:05:40
Speaker
facts this guy was going through such an existential crisis he he's like how do you guys still have friends from grade school he's like how do you even keep friends how do you make friends and we legitimately so we were in that room for a half hour Chris yes yes we sat there and told this man different ways to make friends and it
01:06:09
Speaker
Like you might start a podcast too. I don't know. That might be way how he makes friends. Like we did. Well, yeah, it was funny that he's like, well, like, how do you guys know each other? It's like, well, we, we both like wrestling and met through that. And now we, so we talk. yeah He's like, but do you guys like tell each other secrets? Like it seemed like he was sad. He didn't have anyone to tell his secrets to. So he was telling him to us and it was kind of a bummer. Yeah. Yeah. b I mean, he, he this is, the this is the problem with
Nostalgia and Humorous Experiences
01:06:43
Speaker
Uber, right? Back, back in the day, that's taxi cab confessions was a show, which by the way is no longer on max HBO doesn't cat house. All of this stuff is gone. I was just looking through zest every month. I was looking through just what's new on max and I realized, Oh, I haven't seen anything spicy on max in a while.
01:07:04
Speaker
And I remember when HBO Max first launched, there was a whole section for, I don't remember what it was called, but it was basically, I think it was just called late night. It was late night. So it was like John Oliver, Bill Maher, and then titties. It's all gone now.
01:07:21
Speaker
ah what It just, that's where it's gotten to. what What is a young teenager? who still hasn't figured out the kid's safe password on the Wi-Fi, supposed to masturbate to. Tune into my podcast that just dropped yesterday from Erotic Thriller Club to listen to us talk about a movie that I purchased out of the $5 bin at Walmart in high school and masturbated too many times. And for this podcast, it was the first time I had seen the movie in its entirety and now know what it's about.
01:07:56
Speaker
Interesting. Interesting. Killing Me Softly starring Heather Graham. Oh, I know those scenes. Available on HBO Max, motherfucker.
01:08:10
Speaker
So, yeah, I guess they just needed to up the production values. Yeah. One last story, Chris, or at least at least got to tell us. Yeah. And I think this one sets us up to wrap up the perfectly. It it really does. Um, one of the things for years that I've done in Vegas is I, while I'm in Vegas, I visit a Gordon Ramsey restaurant and I steal a piece of silverware and take it home. So in our silverware drawer, we have several mismatch pieces of silverware, uh, from various Gordon Ramsey restaurants around Las Vegas.
01:08:49
Speaker
And it's, I don't know, I did it in my twenties and it was a stupid thing and I kept it going. ah There was a restaurant I hadn't been to. Was it Gordon Ramsay's Fish and Chips was the name of it, Chris? Fish and Chips, yeah.
01:09:05
Speaker
Chris and I go to visit this restaurant. It turns out is it's more of a fast food style walk-up restaurant, plastic ware. Didn't get to steal anything, but we go up, we order, it was actually quite good. It was a ah fish sandwich on a non. ah We both ordered a side of lobster. Casually, you can order a side of lobster. Yeah, so we ordered a side of lobster. We're in Vegas, going crazy. are Was it more expensive than the fish sandwich? It's about the same price. About the, yeah, it was basically ordering a side that costs the same as your meal. Okay. um Ordered some really good fries. Like everything was quite delightful and you had conversations with people about the Grateful Dead while we were in there. And small place, very few places to sit. Like really, truly maybe 10 seats inside the restaurant. And some people got up, we got a seat right next to the soda machine.
01:10:04
Speaker
I get my soda, Chris gets his soda, we're sitting there, start to eat. This old man walks over and, one thing about Vegas, everywhere's a, pe it's a Pepsi town, I don't get that. But it's like one of those Pepsi freestyle machines that has all the sodas in it. does and This old man goes up to it and is holding his cup and he goes, how do I get Pepsi? And he's screaming at the machine and he's pushing the thing and ice is coming out, but he keeps screaming, how do I get Pepsi? And this lady comes and goes, oh, sir, let me show you. It was just another patron. She pushes the Pepsi buttons. Like you just hold this. He pokes it once and it stops because he doesn't know you have to hold it. And she's like, no, you poke it. And he pokes it and he looks and there is a little Asian lady behind the counter and he looks over and he goes, the Pepsi's done. It's done.
01:10:56
Speaker
And I don't know what that means. And he goes to push it again and it's spraying Pepsi into the glass. And he just starts pouring out and goes, the Pepsi's done. I paid $6 for a Pepsi and it's done. What am I supposed to do? And I'm just like, she doesn't know what he means because she does like her English is pretty good, but not good enough to know what the Pepsi's done means. I don't know what that means. No one knows. No one knows what Pepsi's done. She comes over and tries to show and she pushes the button and shows the soda coming out.
01:11:30
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But like basically it comes out quickly and there's kind of a lot of foam and then it settles. It settles very quickly. But this man, as this woman is doing this for him, is just screaming, it's done. Can't you see it's done? She's like, here's this soda man. And so he starts clicking through the other sodas and he's announcing it to the restaurant as if like it's engines going down on a ship. Like he's pushing it and he goes, the phantas done. It's done. The phantas done. Diet Pepsi done. Sierra mist done. You guys should have started calling out requests. What about the mellow yellow? Can we get a check on the mellow yellow? Done.
01:12:16
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So they send a chef from the back out to fix it, and the guy's just like pushing buttons and trying to reset it, and they clearly like... getting some hoses fixed, and the guy is just in his ear the whole time, like, what am I supposed to do? You charged me six dollars for a soda, and it's all done! I don't get anything, it's done! It's done is the craziest shit I've ever heard somebody say to describe it and I couldn't get it out of my head. It was just this man shouting, the Pepsi's done, the mug root beer's done, the Fanta, it's done on soda, done, it's all done. And then we walk out of this, we eat our meal, we walk out. 20 minutes. 20 minutes.
01:13:01
Speaker
That man is outside explaining to someone. He's like, you know, the food was good, but the, the machine, it was done. The Pepsi was done. it's just As we're walking away, it's just like tailing off. He's like, and that was done. He's just explaining to someone this poor whoever a stranger person, a stranger. He's just costing people as they enter this place to explain that the Pepsi is done. Now, have you checked the Yelp reviews? Since then to see if he left one, Google maybe. I gave a four out of five, but I gotta to explain the one star I didn't give. It's because the Pepsi, it was done.
01:13:44
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It was such a perfect button on a joke. Like if you were going to write a joke perfectly where it had just such a great comeback and an end, it was us laughing about it for like 20 minutes while he's gone. We leave. And then we hear as we're walking by just the end of a sentence of him going, and when I pushed it, it was done. He's still going. I love him. I love him. God bless him. What a man. Vegas baby. What happens in Vegas shows up on this podcast.
01:14:17
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I also think here's, here's my takeaway, Garrett, with where
Episode Conclusion
01:14:21
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we are here. I think this podcast, at least, at least this week's episode, I think it's done.
01:14:29
Speaker
You heard the man, the stories, they're done. The wrestling, it's done. The sphere, done. but the and Also done. Also done. Our goddamn music. It's done.