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Episode 34: Live From Starrcast With Ron Funches & Queen Of The Ring
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In this special episode Garrett, Derrick, & Queen Of The Ring do a live episode on the Podcast Movement stage at Starrcast directly in front of Sami Callihan's birthday party! Around the 24 minute mark Ron Funches joins the hangout!
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Introduction and Voice Recovery
00:00:00
Speaker
Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Predetermined, a pro wrestling hangout. I'm your host, Garrett Callender, and with me, as always, a man who I believe is starting to get his voice back from all in weekend, Derek Halpin. Just a little bit. There's still some work recovery to be done, but you and I have content to put out, and the show must go on, regardless of what ailments I'm going through, and we have a lot of exciting stuff to share with our listeners.
00:00:26
Speaker
But I do think that I really appreciated your voice in that last episode. I think I said I sound like Tom Waits. Oh yeah. I mean there were parts where it sounded like you were gargling that glass. But I think before we were doing it you were drinking like the tea and honey. You were really trying to get your voice back. But at one point you even you said this out loud. You're like you know what. I feel like my voice today is a badge of pride. It means I did good.
00:00:50
Speaker
Yeah, I still feel that way. If I lost my voice because the show was good, that means we had a good time and there's no shame in that. And I'm happy to report that I'm a little depressed because All In and Starcast Weekend is over and I'm feeling the effects. It actually makes me feel good that I am dealing with a little bit of a hangover. But just because it's over doesn't mean we can't talk about it after you hit our goddamn music.
First Live Episode and Starcast
00:01:53
Speaker
So we have something a little special and a little different on tap for our listeners today. And I think we posted about it on our social media so maybe they know what's coming. But we haven't done a live episode before. Oh no, we've never even considered it. Like this was such a last minute thing where an email went out that there was gonna be this stage set up that the podcasts would be able to sign up and do a live show if they wanted. And you know what? Why not grab every opportunity by the balls?
00:02:22
Speaker
Yeah, we pounced at the opportunity to do this, not really knowing what we were going to get out of it. And I feel like we got a nice little interview. We definitely lucked out the way they had it set up. They're like, you know what? Anyone could pop up at any time. And then I was like, hey, I would like to know if you're going to throw somebody up there with me because I can't be up here. And then just I'm like, who the hell's this guy? We were kind of anxious about that. And
00:02:47
Speaker
As you will find out from the more stories you hear from star cast, not everything played out the way that it was supposed to, or at least as it was advertised to us. Some of that was good. Some of that was bad, but we don't really have a ton of complaints because it seems like we had a really good time. I know that people are curious as to what kind of content we did get recorded, what interviews we had, what that experiences, you know, what those experiences were like.
00:03:12
Speaker
And today we're going to release another chapter of that. Um, one of our previous episodes is two episodes ago, we had an interview with MJF and people seem to like that. People seem to like the verbal abuse. This, what we have to offer you today, isn't that's not, that's not what this is at all.
00:03:28
Speaker
I like that we call the MJF when an interview when it was really just him coming, yelling at the curtain jerks, them moving. He yelled at us for about five minutes. Yeah, it was just like a five minute roast of our podcast. One thing we didn't even mention, though, is that because we just kind of played
MJF Interaction Recap
00:03:46
Speaker
it the way it was.
00:03:48
Speaker
He walked about three tables down and just stared at us for, I would go ahead and say an excessive amount of time. And so you and I were still trying to record something at that point. He's just standing there giving us the finger silently. Yeah, that's an important detail. After he finished recording with us, he went down to another podcast and started talking to them. And I don't know what he said, but he started talking about us and looking at us. And while he was talking to them, held up the middle finger in our direction, which was a very wonderful sight.
00:04:18
Speaker
I would like to think that he's actually a big fan of ours. I hope he is because I'm a big fan of his despite all the shit talking he does. I mean, I love the shit talking he does. The I wish it all in. He got two minutes on that microphone. Oh, me too. I wish you really let Chicago have it.
00:04:35
Speaker
My hope is that with the opportunities that were provided to us at Starcast and going forward as this podcast gets bigger, I want to follow MJF's career. And I'm hoping that we can get another interview with him someday, even if it's for, even if it's for the purposes of him running us down a little bit more.
00:04:51
Speaker
Oh, he can run me down any day. Wow. What, was that too sexy? It sounded way too sexy. Am I too old for him? Maybe. There's a decade between us. I was going to say, yeah. And he, God, yeah, like it's, I think we said this on another one, but it's weird to be afraid of a 22 year old.
Podcast Row Memories
00:05:14
Speaker
So we obviously, over the course of the next couple weeks, we're gonna have different stories to tell and share with you guys from Starcast and from All In. So we may be a little bit all over the place at times. It's important to know, for the purposes of the story, is that we were on Podcast Row on Friday, August 31st. And we were one of the first podcasts to arrive on this day. And was it fair to say we were like the last one to leave?
00:05:42
Speaker
You better goddamn believe we were the very last ones to leave.
00:05:46
Speaker
So Friday night, the night before all in, your boys from predetermined were hanging out in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency in Schomburg until what, after 10? Oh, I mean, we were there until right about... Actually, we didn't leave until after 11. Yeah, I think that's right. Because of the guys that we were hanging out with. We were hanging out with one of the gentlemen from sports guys talking radio... Sports guys talk wrestling.
00:06:14
Speaker
Yeah, sports guys talk in wrestling. They were Austin, Texas. Yes. And he was also the commentator for a local Austin promotion, which it sounds like gets pretty much, you know, all the names that you would want to see on the Indies. Many of which many of which were actually at all in and at Starcast that weekend.
00:06:33
Speaker
so we were having a good time talking to him and another guy came up and i thought it was his partner i thought it was like his recording partner at first because it it just seemed like they knew each other and had a good uh good rapport we ended up talking to
Conversation with Rich Brennan
00:06:46
Speaker
these guys for nearly nearly two hours correct
00:06:50
Speaker
And the thing is, you thought it was this guy's partner. After a couple minutes, I realized, holy shit, we're talking to Rich Brennan of WWE fame, who used to be the voice of NXT. Like you said, we were talking to them for about two hours.
00:07:06
Speaker
And we ended up striking up a really good conversation with Rich about WWE, the state of pro wrestling, Joey Ryan's dick being a gimmick. Which I think that was some of the most interesting stuff in the conversation was basically where the conversation started was him kind of talking from a commentator standpoint on the different types of wrestling and the merits of them.
00:07:33
Speaker
For sure. And the sad thing is, Rich Brennan and the sports guy talk in wrestling, they didn't show up until after we had packed all of our equipment away. We were getting ready to kind of end our day. This would have made for a really great discussion for an episode, or at least for audio for an episode, but we didn't have the mics on. This was just a personal discussion between colleagues, if you will.
00:07:56
Speaker
And Rich was actually there working Starcast. He was running a couple of the panels. He was going around with the Twitch guys doing some interviews. So I had I mean, I knew we had on the Starcast low polo shirt, but just I never put anything together. I thought we were just I thought we were just sitting there shooting the shit about wrestling until he had mentioned when he worked on NXT. And I looked at him as like, holy fuck, I know who you are. Yeah, I mean, his voice immediately gave him away to me. And then when I was like, oh, man,
00:08:26
Speaker
Even if he's not working for WWE anymore, it doesn't matter. He got to do that. And it was great to get his insight into things. And I don't know, it was cool to talk with somebody who'd worked for WWE and was so chill and had no problem talking to us.
00:08:41
Speaker
Yeah, I think, like I was saying, you know, talking about like the different merits of different types of wrestling, I thought it was interesting from a commentator's standpoint. He was talking about kind of a lot of high spot wrestling and how that didn't do it for him as much. And obviously, like, you know, I'm very much into that from watching a lot of PWG stuff and a lot of that would be in there with the Young Bucks.
00:09:04
Speaker
Right. But did did the conversation with him get you to see things a little bit differently and take a different outlook on
Rich Brennan on Wrestling Commentary
00:09:10
Speaker
it? Oh, 100 percent. Like when he started describing it as I think the way he worded it was, you know, when I'm calling these matches, my job is to help continue the story.
00:09:20
Speaker
Right. He said that his job is to help progress the story forward. And he said, if it's just a high spot match, we're just like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. He's like, at this point, I should just be calling a figure skating competition because I'm just calling moves. I don't have a story to call. And that totally makes sense. But I mean, like we said, it was an interesting conversation around our day on podcast row. We obviously have a million different stories we can tell you from our experience there on Friday. We'll probably end up what you think we'll end up doing some more of that next week.
00:09:50
Speaker
Yeah, because we still have the interviews to share with you guys from BlueMeany, Jeff Cobb, and just honest to God, the insanity that was star cast.
Upcoming Content Teasers
00:10:01
Speaker
We have some audio that we need to share with you guys that we haven't put out yet, but we have a big one today, so we decided to make that its own episode, and I think that was the right decision. Plus, you know, we were doing this just hours before All In. I mean, at this point, we recorded from about 1 to 145 in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency lobby, and I mean, obviously, we've never done a live show before.
00:10:27
Speaker
We've never done a live show before. We've never had the opportunity to. And to be honest, like we said earlier, we didn't know if we were going to have a guest or not. So we kind of came into it like thinking, well, we know Queen of the Ring. She's a friend of the podcast. We can have her in there to bounce ideas off of and have some fun just to help keep us out of a jam.
00:10:46
Speaker
But we ended up getting a little bit more than that, but the problem was we didn't know what we were going to be walking into and there ended up being something going on in front of us. Exactly. Like I kind of tried to scope out that stage the entire weekend. When we first got there and started setting up our stuff on Friday, I looked over and there were people podcasting already. And at that point, when I look over and like Wade Keller is doing a podcast to no one.
00:11:11
Speaker
I mean, he's sitting there in a corner while no one's around. And it was pretty soft, wasn't it? Like it wasn't too loud? Oh, yeah. I mean, like you could tell that something was happening over there, but it wasn't like it wasn't in your face or anything. So basically we looked over and we're like and then as the day went on, the line for all the meet and greets went past our table and we realized like, holy shit, some of these meet and greet lines are crazy. They're wrapping around the entire lobby.
00:11:38
Speaker
So one of the points I think needs to be stressed is that the lobby during Starcast was such a crazy place to be because you could see anything and everything while you're there. You don't know who's going to walk through. You don't know what kind of interactions there's going to be. And it's just madness. So you don't know what you're going to get. And when you're getting ready to do a live podcast in front of a bunch of wrestling fans,
00:12:02
Speaker
You're hoping that you get somebody who walks by that you can be lucky enough to pull up on stage with you, but you don't know if you're going to get anybody at all. Well, we got pretty lucky, wouldn't you say? Yeah. So we sit down to do the podcast and as we're kind of getting ready to go set up over there, you know, our thoughts are we're either going to be doing the podcast to people that are waiting in line to see whoever is, you know, doing a sign in at that point or no one.
Ron Funches Joins the Fun
00:12:27
Speaker
And either way, that was going to be fine. You're going to have kind of a just people moving by you as we go. But as we get over there, I look and I'm like, what the fuck is happening over here? Starcast was a really interesting event in that it offered things that normal conventions don't. It was offering you more experiences than just meet and greets. There were a lot of like really weird like little one offs.
00:12:51
Speaker
So, yeah, there were there were weird ways to interact with, you know, professional wrestlers and commentators and every everything in between that wasn't just like you said, a meet and greet or an autograph signing or a picture. It like everything, even from like the not just the events, but like what do they have, like the breakfast and the lunches with people? Yeah. And you could call the Kenny Okada match. Yes. Shit. One of the New Japan announcers. Why can't I think of his name?
00:13:19
Speaker
But either way, which that seemed insane to me that he had to sit there all day long and he had a line all day long. I wonder how hopefully they weren't doing the whole goddamn hour because that because if you work out to how much money he was making, that might have not been worth it. Yeah, I mean, totally a trooper for basically calling matches with a bunch of marks, which that's that's an unusual experience. That sounds pretty sweet. But what was sitting up in front of us was
00:13:49
Speaker
Sammy Callahan was sitting up in Nintendo 64 approximately seven feet in front of the stage. What we didn't realize is it was Sammy Callahan's birthday and for his birthday you could pay money to play video games with Sammy Callahan.
00:14:06
Speaker
Yeah, they were having a WWF No Mercy tournament, it looked like. And the people there in front of us were really, really into it. So at the beginning of the show when they were waiting for Sammy and the whatever, the thing to get started, the tournament.
00:14:20
Speaker
We kind of had everybody's attention at first because they had nothing else going on while they were waiting. But as the tournament started going, we became kind of just background noise like we had anticipated. But luckily, it wasn't all awkward. I think it was a transition for us. And we were just lucky to get the one and only Ron Funches to join us on stage because he happened to be walking by going to this video game tournament.
00:14:42
Speaker
I'm a big Ron Funches fan. I've been for quite a while since he was a larger man. Now a small man training for wrestling. Good for him. Well, he had killed it at Botchomania on night one on Thursday. Oh, his stand-up set. I've seen him do that set before in a regular comedy club. So for him to be able to go up and do his wrestling set in front of Marx, I can't imagine he had ever had a better experience telling those jokes.
00:15:10
Speaker
Right. For sure. So I guess we had to make a we actually originally had to make a list of people we wanted to interview, which basically got thrown out the window. Yeah, that was off the table immediately. But Funches was on there. Funches was on that list. He's you know, he's a guy that we're both familiar with. He seemed like a guy that would be a fun hang. And I'll be God damned if we didn't get, you know, about 20 minutes with him.
00:15:36
Speaker
We were really lucky to get about half of our half of our time with Ron Funches. And I guess that's what we're here to do today is to present to you the audio from our live podcast from Starcast on Saturday, September 1st, right before all in. And we hope it's funny. We hope you like it. Maybe awkward at times, but we're going to send it to you guys uncut as it was intended to be listened to. And we just kind of hope it's hope it's enjoyable for you guys.
00:16:05
Speaker
Oh, and a huge shout out to Neil and Alex for showing up. Absolutely. Neil and Alex from Nashville, buddies of mine from Southern Underground Pro, they were in town for all in and they were nice enough to stop by Starcast to come check out the live show. Appreciate that very much, guys. Just wanted to give that shout out.
00:16:24
Speaker
But before this goes, just the this was incredibly awkward for me, I think, because where we didn't have people passing by, we had people that were just trying to play video games and get their experience in. And it was set up so close to our fucking speakers that they had no choice. But like, it was like, sorry, boys, we're here. This is what's happening, my friend.
00:16:46
Speaker
You were way more worried than I was. Oh, I mean, if you want me to air some insecurities, fuck. I was like, I used to do stand up. I did stand up for about three years. Being on a stage does not make me uncomfortable. Being on a stage, though, is like when you're surprising people with something is never a good
Ron's Wrestling Favorites and Comedy
00:17:06
Speaker
thing. I've done stand up shows where it's just like, oh, yeah, you're doing
00:17:10
Speaker
I did a stand-up show in a fucking restaurant. It was like kind of the equivalent of like an Applebee's, essentially, in the Quincy Mall in Illinois. There were so many people eating that did not know they were gonna hear me talk about my dick while they were trying to eat with their family, and this wasn't nearly as bad as that, but they didn't ask to hear us. I hope they enjoyed it by the end. So without further ado, should we introduce the episode?
00:17:37
Speaker
Yeah, here we are live with Queen of the Ring and a few minutes in you're gonna get Ron Funches and then Eli from the Music City Horror Podcast jumped up with us right there at the very end. But yeah, you know, you listen to the show. We want you to be able to hear, you know, everything. We don't want to hide from what we did on this. So unedited, uncut. Here it is live from Starcast.
00:18:03
Speaker
Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Predetermined at Pro Wrestling Hangout. I'm your host, Garrett Callender. And with me, as always, a man who, you know what? This is your first time podcasting from the Hyatt Regency in Shomburg, Illinois. Absolutely. And not only that, it's indie pro wrestling Christmas and Sammy Callahan's birthday, which you can hear in the background right now. Happy birthday to.
00:18:33
Speaker
That's a great way to start a show. That's definitely the first time Sammy Callahan's birthday has been in front of me currently playing video games. We're also joined by Queen of the Ring, Alex. Yes, hi. How are you guys? Hello. Check her out on YouTube. First time getting to do a show with you? Yes, that's right. I wasn't in New York, unfortunately. But you were in Chicago. And we get to witness Sammy Callahan's birthday. And we get to sit here and get excited for the biggest independent wrestling show of all time. Yep.
00:19:05
Speaker
Happy birthday and many more. Is anybody here excited? I know. Happy birthday for him. You can tell him for me, please. Thank you. Yeah, he's right there. What? Oh, happy birthday, Sammy. Sammy, happy birthday. Happy birthday.
00:19:22
Speaker
Yeah, so here we are doing our show on the eve, I guess the morning. This is the weirdest these conventions are insane. It's crazy. It's pretty crazy. You're hanging out walking around. Yeah, you're enjoying your day. And the hardest thing for me is just seeing all the wrestlers dress casual Friday. Yeah.
00:19:44
Speaker
I think so far the most shocking was seeing Okada walk into the hotel last night. It looks like both of us shop at the Gap. You seemed really startled when I introduced myself to PCO yesterday and as I was walking away you noticed that he was wearing flip-flops and for some reason that really bugged you.
00:19:59
Speaker
Yeah, seeing him get this shit slapped out of him by Walter and then just seeing him casually strolling around the hotel and flip-flops pushing a cart with a battery attached to it. It's a little startling. Well, I think the way we started off this convention by going and meeting Marco Stunt and then getting him prepped to face PCO, and he was concerned, but he also seemed pretty concerned that he's going to be facing Walter soon.
00:20:24
Speaker
Oh, that match is gonna happen. He's going to get brutalized, right? He's going to die. But that's not what we should be talking about. What we should be talking about, hey, we're live. Yep, we're live on my Instagram, underscore queen of the ring.
00:20:37
Speaker
You've got some pull. You do video, we do audio. That's amazing. This is a big weekend for you because your enemy is putting this show on, is putting all in on. That's true. Cody Rhodes spit beer in my face at Supercard if no one knew that. Congratulations to him. And this weekend, it's amazing. I'm so happy for you. I mean, he seems like a good boy now.
00:21:01
Speaker
Didn't you say that when you met Kenny, he checked in with you to make sure that you were okay with having beer spat upon you? Yes, I met Kenny the next day at WrestleCon, and I told him I am the girl who Cody Rhodes spit beer on, and he asked if I was okay, and I said it's all right. It was an honor, honestly. But in all fairness, you were shouting a lot of things very, very loudly at him from the front row.
00:21:22
Speaker
That's very true. Well, I'm from New York. And New York audience is very notorious for being loud and rowdy. And I didn't know that New Orleans was pussies. They're not going to tolerate your shit? Oh, OK. Do you have any other cities you want to call out while we're here in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency? I'll save Chicago for tomorrow if you guys don't break it tonight. Yeah, you're going to wait till you leave, aren't you? Yeah. Like a coward. No. Oh, fuck you. You're not going to do it in front of this crowd here at the Hyatt Regency.
00:21:51
Speaker
I'll wait. I'll wait till tonight. And if you guys suck, then I'll call you out tomorrow morning. You haven't even touched any of the local food, have you? No, I have not, actually. No, I ate at Dove's near Wicker Park. And that's the only thing that I had. See, I came to your city. I made a point to have your pizza. Instead, you came here and you're not going to touch deep dish. You're not going to touch an Italian beef. You're not going to touch a hot dog. Well, you live here. Why don't you take me to the places? Well, we've been busy doing wrestling things. It's all in weekend.
00:22:16
Speaker
Well, we have some time tomorrow after we meet Okada at Pro Wrestling Tees. How about we do that? Deal? OK. All right, cool. Thanks. Wait, is he still going to be casual Friday tomorrow? Like, I just can't get over not seeing him in fancy pants. Do you want to see him in the fancy pants and the jacket and like the necklace and the balloons as well?
00:22:35
Speaker
Derek put it best yesterday. He was dressed like Leonardo DiCaprio yesterday trying to hide from paparazzi. Yeah, that's true. It did. It was it was it was intense. I think just being in the lobby at a wrestling convention is just incredible because no matter how old you get, you're always going to be a mark inside and you'll see people and you're like, oh, my God, that's DDP. Oh, my God. That's Eric Bischoff.
00:22:59
Speaker
Oh my God, that's Sammy Callahan. He hit Eddie Edwards in the face with a baseball bat and had absolutely no remorse. You got upset with me yesterday because Scott Steiner walked by and for whatever reason I felt comfortable calling him Scotty when he walked by and he gave me a look that suggested I was about to get murdered.
00:23:16
Speaker
There are so many people here I'm not comfortable just yelling things at. Why? He could be out here. I want to hear his side of that story. You know what? If he joined us right now, where's he at? Somebody bring Scott Steiner up here. He's downstairs. Oh, Scott. Somebody go grab Steiner. Somebody go grab Kenny, because apparently he's just walking around. Oh, yeah. They had their hands on Abushi. I don't know if everybody heard, but Abushi was lost in Chicago.
00:23:42
Speaker
Yes that's right and he lost his wallet. So as they were walking down the hallway right here they made sure to have their hands on him and he looked like a man who could be easily lost. Like he had a look on his face like he could wander away. He needs an escort. Yeah that's funny. I don't know how you lose your wallet on top of that. Like if I knew that I was bad at traveling I would probably be hyper aware of that fact and cling to somebody.
00:24:05
Speaker
And just again, we're talking about everybody that happens to walk by. I've watched Ron Funches do stand-up comedy so many times. Ron Funches is right in front of us right now. Ron Funches! What are you sippin' on, Ron?
00:24:18
Speaker
Sparkling water? Oh, yeah, you were sipping on that the other night on stage. Well, our goal for this is to help LeBron James have sex with your mother. I promise you that that is a thing that our podcast is now going to push for online is both I'm going to try to get you The Rock and LeBron James. You think so? She's not she's ready for one of them, but not like a three way.
00:24:46
Speaker
Just LeBron one on one. LeBron all the way. If you want to, you can hop on this mic for a minute. If you want to jump up here for a little bit, that'd be great, Ron. All right, we are being joined by comedian extraordinaire Ron Funches and my former coworker. Yeah. I was a tour guide at Warner Brothers. Yeah, you and I chat several times.
00:25:07
Speaker
I thought to anybody who makes me feel famous there makes me happy. I believe what you ended up saying is I pass it over on your right Ron Funches and you're like hey everybody you don't know who I am.
00:25:21
Speaker
Hey everybody, this show is getting cancelled. I feel like this is the first wrestling experience we've shared outside of PWG. Yes, this is beautiful to travel together, get to know each other, it's a beautiful relationship. Yeah, you know we went on separate vacations, met up here, here we are.
00:25:41
Speaker
Who have you marked out the hardest over this weekend? You're still a mark at heart, right? I mean, just walking in and doing the roast and doing the pre-roast stuff and having people just walk in and talk about jokes and stuff and have Gerald Bristol come by and try to put me in some type of maneuver. And then everybody's very drunk, which I like.
00:26:07
Speaker
Darryl Briska was very drunk. Could you imagine as a child that when you grew up, you would get to talk about Tony Shabani's dick at a wrestling convention? I was already doing it at home. So it's just good to do it now for money. So you were watching Nitro and talking about Tony Shabani's dick. I was just like, I bet he got a little dick from the way that he announced his match. And you were right. And you were right.
00:26:33
Speaker
Which company won that won that war? WWE. Yeah.
00:26:40
Speaker
How's this tournament going? It looks like it's still getting set up. I was going to ask, so since it's all in tonight, what are you most excited for? Matches, what do you think you're going to mark out the most for? Of course Pentagon, Omega, of course. But the sleeper match for me, is it going to be that Chicago Street fight? Hangman, Paige, Joey Janela, because those dudes are fucking insane. Yeah, that looks like a good match. It's already set up. I didn't ask. Oh, yeah, you could curse, right? It's not my podcast, but I think you curse.
00:27:09
Speaker
Nice. Yeah, they're both crazy dudes. Joey is just nuts. He's just walking around wearing fucking leopard's print Zuba. Smoking a cigarette inside buildings. Yeah. Nothing. He's crazy. Yeah. He thinks it's the fucking 80s out here. He's dressed like the 80s, so. Yeah. I think we're going to witness a possession tonight. I think Hangman Page is going to kill him.
00:27:33
Speaker
My prediction for that match is that Joey Ryan's ghost is gonna create a scene similar to the one in Beetlejuice when everyone becomes possessed at ringside and there's gonna be Deo playing and Poltergeist activity during the middle of the match. I love that. That's like Beetlejuice. I love it. My favorite scene in Beetlejuice. So you and I have two big things in common. Weed enthusiasts. Yes. Wrestling enthusiasts. I love both those things. Enthusiasm for both responses. Yes.
00:28:00
Speaker
And I need to know, what is your favorite thing to watch stone wrestling wise? It goes both ways. Either you know I'm very happy or I might be slightly depressed if I'm just stone watching thunders.
00:28:18
Speaker
trying to look for mistakes. That's what's fun for me. That's what I fall asleep to. My girlfriend falls asleep to the office, and I fall asleep to late 90s thunders. Yeah. Actually, the first show I ever attended was a WCW thunder in the Russo years.
00:28:35
Speaker
That's horrible. You remember the New Blood Angles? It's crazy that you're still a fan. Well, I got to see Terry Funk wrestle twice in one night. He defended the hardcore title twice. That's beautiful. But my personal favorite thing when I'm stoned is JBL commentary. Nothing makes me happier than when anything happens and it's always, why would he do that? Yeah, he does. He seems insane. Yeah. In a bully.
00:29:08
Speaker
So I guess he's not going to be a star ever. No. Is that an interesting campaign to run if you're a pro wrestling organization? Like so many of the angles involve bullying. Being a bully. Yeah. Like don't be a bully unless you know there's a title on the line. Then it's OK. Yeah. Then you got to win by any means necessary. Yeah. Yeah. Alexa Bliss got away with that.
00:29:32
Speaker
But, you know, there's some that are just bullies when there's not a lot of them. Like Joey Janela seems like he's just here to fuck shit up. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Joey Janela is like the Joker. He's just insane. He just wants to watch the world burn. And that's it. He's a bad, bad boy. He is a bad, bad boy. And he has a beautiful lady. It's great. What does it say about somebody when they're willing to take a drag off their cigarette and then blow smoke in the face of an anthropomorphic bear?
00:29:57
Speaker
They probably didn't have a good childhood. Yeah, I would have a lot of questions for Janela about his childhood. Are you joining this? I like how Sammy looks more intense about this than most matches. It's his birthday. Happy birthday, Sammy. So are you are you partaking in this? Yeah, I mean, it looks like a lot though, so I might quit.
00:30:30
Speaker
Did we just ruin your all-in pre-show party? I just thought it was going to be. I guess, is there like 64 competitors? Is that it? That's too many. Everyone discount going back and you get an idea. Can this guy cut the line? I'll play. If they're still people, if they need somebody, I'll play. If not, I'll back out. He was an adaptable, get hard. He can cut the line. But we're not upset about having Ron Funches up on stage with us. Oh, I'm going to leave pretty soon.
00:30:47
Speaker
I don't want to take you away from the fun.
00:30:59
Speaker
He checked our social media, saw how many followers we had, and he was like, all right, I'm out. Oh, I assumed. I assumed. You're not one of Conrad's podcasts. You're not doing great. I don't know. It's sad all the time. Parents very disappointed. The peak accomplishment is swearing in the lobby of a Hyatt Regency. This is beautiful. I'm loving it, having a great time. Everything's practiced. We're all getting better, right? Yeah, yeah. Exactly.
00:31:28
Speaker
Well, I mean, I don't want to hold you if you need to head out, man. Yeah, I mean, let's wrap it up. But I just appreciate you coming up. Thank you. Thank you. You got a last question before I go? No, you got. Oh, OK. I pushed it too far. I pushed it too far. The question I was going to end with was what you were drinking, but you opened with that and you did well for me. Yeah, sparkling water. Well, did I just say, is this being recorded or is this just out to the lobby? This is being recorded.
00:31:55
Speaker
So you're going to have to live with this again later when we plug it. Oh, that's fine. But yeah, RonFunches.com, if you want to come see me, do comedy. Look me up. I'll be in your area. Most likely, I'm getting ready to go on a big tour this fall. My Twitter is at RonFunches. And then I have my own podcast called Getting Better with RonFunches, where we just talk about trying to get better at life. That's it. So check me out. And you have a stand-up special coming out. I do have a stand-up. Thank you for knowing about it.
00:32:24
Speaker
Yeah, I got my first hour special on Comedy Central There's a very special I did a half hour in an album before and I had the rapper Bunby on my album and I was like Oh, I gotta have an even better special guest for my special and I did I can't even tell you who he is But let me tell you wrestling fans are gonna be very happy. Oh, wow. You finally got the rock maybe I think we owe you LeBron James now just for coming on
00:32:52
Speaker
Please, get it out there. Hashtag LeBron, fuck Ron's mom. Just get it out there. She really wants it to happen. I want it to happen before she, you know, passes eventually. I hope that's not what causes her to pass. If she goes that way, she will be very happy. She'll be like, bury me with LeBron on top of me.
00:33:19
Speaker
Did she care about the switch from Cleveland to LA? She's happy because that's where we live. She found out LeBron came to the Lakers. She was like, I got to get in the gym. Her odds just went up astronomically. Oh, they did. That's great. Do you still have access to the Warner Brothers lot?
Convention Anecdotes
00:33:35
Speaker
I do. He has an office there, man. Oh, I know. I just don't tell my mom that.
00:33:42
Speaker
I've seen him walking around the gym. I don't want my mom getting arrested. You and Andy Richter get together, get LeBron. The two of you can charm him, right? Yeah, we're workout buddies. Yeah, I got my flu shot with Andy on the lot. Nice. Over in the gym? Over in the gym. Oh, this is inside baseball.
00:34:04
Speaker
Well, Ron, thank you for joining us, man. Oh, thank you guys for having me. It was a pleasure. It's a pleasure to see you guys at all-in. Yeah, of course, of course. Thank you for joining. We're predetermined to pro wrestling hangouts. Thank you for having my favorite of the wrestling part.
00:34:18
Speaker
We're going to loop that and play it back over and over and over again. Yeah, play it back. That's a full-fledged Ron Funch's endorsement of our podcast. So now you're all obligated to subscribe and follow us on social media. Thank you guys so much. Pleasure. Thank you so much for hopping up and coming by.
00:34:40
Speaker
And everyone standing in front of the stage has now left. And now they're stuck with us. Yep. Sorry. It's all downhill from there. Although I appreciate the OG Bullet Club shirt. Hey, what's up, man? How are you? I see another guy with my Panda Bear Steen enthusiast shirt over there wearing the hat. That's it. That's right there. You're doing well for yourself with the shirt. Thank you. You know, he got fired. He could be here today.
00:35:03
Speaker
You know this I don't know if you know this normally this podcast is 40 minutes of crowd work Just going around telling people what we think of their clothing. That's obviously why we started with Okada pants last night You know wearing that hat cover in the red pco's flip-flops yesterday, which was a big deal for you
00:35:18
Speaker
Where's an XFL shirt where you need it? Yeah, Chicago Enforcers. Somebody's got one. It's up on eBay already. Man, so we got a big show. It's the idea that in just a few hours we get to go to this thing that we've been looking forward to. Who would have thought this was possible a year ago? Not at all.
00:35:37
Speaker
I mean, and everything that's attached to it, the convention, the show, the number of people they've been able to get. And it's just been fun conversing with everyone, like everyone from people running podcasts that you know of, people who are just starting out with podcasts, from the wrestlers to the promoters.
Wrestling Event Surprises
00:35:55
Speaker
We bumped into some of our friends here. And just what a weekend. The vibe of this place is incredible. It is. It really feels like we're attending WrestleMania one.
00:36:05
Speaker
It does, and we haven't even gone to the show yet. So I'm lucky enough to not lose my voice yet, but I can't speak for tomorrow. Obviously, you have to keep your voice for when CM Punk makes an appearance. Ooh, do we think CM Punk is coming out? He's going to be pissed when he hears that you're saying he's going to be at the show.
00:36:21
Speaker
Everybody walking by is like, OK, another podcast talking about a CM Punk return. Yeah, no, that's not what we're getting. No, we should do next. Talk about a Roman Reign teal turn. No, fuck Roman Reigns. That's what people like out of a podcast. I'm still waiting for Cena to turn heel. I don't know what you guys are talking about. Well, I see someone wearing an Alpha Club shirt, and I think Jericho's coming out tonight. Is Jericho going to be at all in tonight? What do you think, buddy? What do you guys think? I saw a thumbs up. I saw a thumbs up. So I think that's the dribble. I see a guy stroking his beard. Do you think maybe it's going to be an open challenge for the Intercontinental?
00:36:53
Speaker
No. Is Flip Gordon going to be there tonight? Sure. Oh, Flip's going to be there. Oh, I see a thumbs down. No. Is that you don't want him here, or is that he's just not going to be here? I don't want him. I don't want him here. He's not allowed. Cody doesn't want him. I don't want him out. He's not allowed in the building. I don't want to upset Cody. He put this whole thing on. OK, what Ron was saying, I also agree. The match I'm most looking forward to is that Janela Hangman match. For real? I feel like those two, sometimes they just wrestle like they got a death wish.
00:37:22
Speaker
Yeah, dude, I think Hangman Page is going to do a moonsault off the nosebleeds. Is he going to do it with no boots on? Hopefully. I hope he wrestles the match with no footwear. Like Matt Riddle style? No shoes? He confessed last night. He can wear shoes again. What was that? Oh, exactly. There's definitely going to be a ghost at this show. George and Ella is going to get possessed. Do we have predictions? Is Firing Squad going to get involved tonight? Yeah, I think so, for sure. What'd you say?
00:37:52
Speaker
Oh. They're calling their shot? Oh, man. Oh, just going back to Joey for a second. I think him being dead is going to be hard to do the dick grab because isn't it going to go straight through? It's going to go straight. Joey's going to become? No, you can't grab his dick if he's a ghost. Oh, I didn't know that Joey. I didn't know that's the Joey we were talking about. I thought we were talking about. You really want to talk about Joey Janela, so.
00:38:21
Speaker
So now we're just going to sit here excited. Well, I'm waiting for the video game. What's going on? It's Sammy Callahan's birthday. Let's get this going. See Triple H on the screen. Who's going to play as Perry Saturn first? Oh, man. So we talked to Rich Brennan last night, the former voice of NXT.
00:38:46
Speaker
looked up and suddenly two hours had passed and we were just talking old WWE stories, what he was doing now. I don't know if Rich is out there right now, but- Rich, Rich, Rich, Rich, where are you? Where are you? We would love to have you stop by. He bailed on us. No, I thought- He got too big for us.
00:39:07
Speaker
So yesterday we had an opportunity to interview MJF. Yes. And we have a little bit of a history with MJF. I am afraid that he's going to hear this now and come back again. He interrupted the middle of the podcast, came in to let me know what a piece of shit I am. And I think the thing he's best at is just scanning you like he's the Terminator and finding all of the insecurities. All of your flaws. All of your weakness. Yeah. And then just running you into the ground.
00:39:35
Speaker
You know what, he actually was able to find things that I had never been made fun of for that, you know, I didn't realize I was self-conscious about. Yeah, you tried sucking up to him a little bit just by like agreeing with him like, yeah, yeah, I am a piece of shit. Yeah, what else you got? What else are you going to do? I engaged him. I wanted more. I wanted to be a smart ass with him.
00:39:56
Speaker
But were you just kind of ganging up and teaming up with MJF and making fun of Garrett? No. Which is shocking, because that's normally what the show is. That's my buddy. Fuck MJF. Where is he at? Well, when I got on the podcast, the one advice you told me was to be mean to Garrett. Well, you've got to keep him in line, because sometimes he'll stray from the topic. He's fine. No, he's not. Like the Bullet Club, I am fine. Bullet Club is fine. Will they be fine tonight?
00:40:27
Speaker
Yes.
00:40:28
Speaker
Maybe. Oh, you're asking me? Yeah, I was asking everybody that's in this room right now, but I guess. Yeah, I see a thumbs up. Thank you, buddy, with your Pac-Man Bullet Club shirt. You rock. Are you wearing a Yankees hat? Oh, fuck that. Anyway. Really shitting on Chicago. Yeah. No, that's OK. It was a Cubs hat on a Sox fan. My first time here. I mean, I feel like it's scary for me to announce this in a microphone in Chicago, but I am a St. Louis Blues fan.
00:40:59
Speaker
Oh, one too sweet. Once again, sad all the time. You guys have all those cups. So what's been your favorite part of this weekend so far? I mean, you yelling at Scott Steiner was pretty good. That was your favorite part? Wait, you yelled at Scott Steiner? I said his first name. We were talking about it earlier. He walked by, I said, Scotty. And then Garrett looked at me like, what are you doing? You're going to get us murdered. He just seemed too brave.
00:41:27
Speaker
He has a level. Derek seems to be brave. There's too many people here that when I see them, I don't want to say anything. Yeah. There's been times where I've tried to push Gary to be like, go talk to him. He looks at me like, really, Dad? No, like right now, if Bob Holly walked by, I would shit my pants.
Wedding Storytime
00:41:43
Speaker
You would shit your pants if Bob Holly was here? Too afraid. Too afraid. You know, I said this yesterday, but Billy Gunn has a magnificent smile. That's somebody I would love to have on this show.
00:41:54
Speaker
Now we just go through, critique some wrestler smiles. Is that how we get people on the show? We just yell for them, Billy! Billy! Are you still here? Billy Gunn, give me that ass. For the podcast, not for me. Actually, yeah, sure. So my wedding, I was married on Halloween, dressed as The Miz.
00:42:14
Speaker
With your intercontinental title and at the end of the wedding somebody called me out I turn around to see that somebody has stripped down To their underpants they have on the actual mr. Ass trunk And drunkenly called me out at 1 a.m. The night of my wedding
00:42:34
Speaker
I want to tell you a story. I don't think we've talked about this in the podcast before, but this is good. This is good as places in here. So as we're preparing for this guy's wedding, and I know he's going as the Miz, he's insisting that he needs to have the Intercontinental Championship to make it legit. And I agree. So he goes to WWE shop and he buys the Intercontinental Championship and he gets it mailed to him.
00:42:56
Speaker
And he texts me or calls me, and he's like, I got this belt in the mail, and I can't believe this. It's all scuffed up. There's scratches all over. It looks like shit. And I'm like, oh, that sucks. Well, you should send it back. So he does. And he requests another one. And they send him the same belt back that he returned. And he starts complaining again. And they're like, well, that's the only one we have.
00:43:23
Speaker
That's what customer service is. You were on customer service for hours, weren't you? Complaining with these people about how the quality of the belt was not up to par. So you send it back, and you're contemplating buying another one off eBay or whatever. And then like a day later, you're like, oh, my wife just buffed it out, and it's fine. There were just like, what, plastic scuffs that you could just use your hoodie to rub it? He was impatient. He mailed the thing back.
00:43:50
Speaker
Because he didn't want to inspect it. I was getting married. There was a lot going on. And I was mad about the intercontinental tie. I definitely went heel on the customer service team over there. And you ended up being the bad guy because you didn't give them a chance to figure it out like you had screwed up.
00:44:09
Speaker
Is that the only title you own? Yeah. Okay. I was the Miz then. I mean, I wasn't assuming. I walked down the aisle till I came to play. Oh yeah, congratulations on that. But I just, I wasn't assuming that you were going to be one of these smarks that just has like two belts around their waist and then like one belt on one shoulder, another belt on another shoulder. You're talking about a hundred people in front of you.
00:44:29
Speaker
I'm, like, directing this comment on a few people. I'm trying to get some heat for this podcast. Why? Why? You just helped us out the last two days. Now you're trying to sink the ship? Yeah. Why? What did we do? Was it the Zima? It was the Zima last night. That's Garrett's fault. I was questioning the Zima that you picked up from the beginning. I didn't know what the hell that was. It's not like it's the official drink of Starcast.
00:44:50
Speaker
Not yet. There's still a couple hours left. Maybe the Hyatt will endorse that. But you've done a great job of basically being our manager this weekend. You've been, you know. You're my guys. You're Paula Heyman. We're your guys. Paula Heyman. Ooh, I like that. Wow. That's also going to be a roller derby name now.
00:45:07
Speaker
Ooh, I'd love to roller derby. I wanted to do that for a while, but then I didn't, because I didn't believe in myself, but it's okay. This is turning really sad. Don't be sad. If you sat through any of the speeches that the Bucks and Cody gave, you need to believe in yourself. Oh, yeah, that's right. They said that to me yesterday. If you can dream it, it will happen? Yeah, hopefully. That's probably the most exciting thing that happened to me this weekend, was meeting the Bucks for 60 bucks. Oh, I didn't even plan that. Oh, well, good job on me.
00:45:35
Speaker
Thank you, thank you for the snap. Didn't they do some video plug-in for you? Yes, they did on my channel. You can follow it. Just search on YouTube, Queen of the Ring Wrestling, because if you search Queen of the Ring, you're going to get a rap battle channel, and that's not me. That's not the one you're looking for, unless you are. Unless that's up your alley, then cool. Subscribe to that channel. Plug on that, but you can subscribe to mine on me. What do you do over there?
00:46:01
Speaker
I just mark out. That's all I do. There's a bunch of videos of Cody Rhodes spitting beer in my face. Of course, it's supercard. Pete Dunne stole my shoe and hit me with it at progress. What bad thing do you think is going to happen to you tonight? I don't know. Actually, somebody DM'd me. Someone fucked up on the video game.
00:46:23
Speaker
Someone DM'd me tonight and said, hey, what do you think is going to happen to you? I think my friends and I are just taking bets on what's going to happen and also where are you sitting? I am sitting on the floor, but I'm sitting in the last row on the floor. So I don't know. Hoping that the street fight just comes my direction. Firing squad is going to do a run in. And when they come in, they're going to shove you out of the way. You're going to fall over. That's the next thing to happen. Yeah. Punching in the mouth by Minoru Suzuki. Not on the card. Just does a run in.
00:46:52
Speaker
for not getting his tattoo that's downstairs. Oh yeah, you did get a tattoo. I got a tattoo, yeah. I did. I committed. I didn't know that this was part of the Marty Sarah podcast, but that's cool. I've always wanted this tattoo. It's a heart and a banner around it that says wrestling, kind of like a mom kind of deal. I've always wanted something like that. It was fun. I have tattoos, and it didn't hurt. It was just my first time having a tattoo at a convention.
00:47:21
Speaker
Whoa, this guy has all in shaved on his head, dude. That's insane. That is nuts. That's wild. You legit went all in. It's a little crooked, but that's fine. Did Brutus do that?
00:47:35
Speaker
City? He's like, yeah. Where'd you get that done? Where are you from? Texas. Oh, Texas. Damn, you went all out. Go big. Go home. Texas style, right? I think the big thing that's going to happen to you tonight is just you're going to get kidnapped by Flip Gordon. He's going to hold you hostage. Oh, god. No, please. You're going to be used as bait so that you can get on the show. You may be right. Hostage there. Man.
00:47:58
Speaker
Oh no, I don't know, maybe, yeah, I'm just hoping that street fight just comes in my direction and maybe they throw a chair at my face. That's the only thing that needs to happen to my face, I guess.
00:48:12
Speaker
What is happening? I don't know. We got to talk to Jeff Cobb and the Blue Meanie yesterday. I'm jealous. I love the Blue Meanie. How was he? He was really funny. I wish we'd had some more time to talk to him, but it was great because he had to tell us a little bit about the origins of the Blue World Order. Oh, man. Cobb. Cobb was a delight. He was there for a little bit longer, and we got to talk about his action figure collection. We'll have those episodes coming out soon, won't we? Yeah. Those will be up by the end of the weekend.
00:48:41
Speaker
He talked about every, he had something I'd never heard another wrestler do. Everybody he wrestles, he buys their action figure and has them sign it. That's really cool. Yeah, I think The Undertaker does the same thing. That's how he collects the souls. All of his opponents are locked away in a room. What is this video game that they're playing in front of us? Is this No Mercy? I can barely see it. No Mercy? Sweet.
00:49:04
Speaker
I've never even played it now. Nintendo 64, I see that. Oh, snap. All time favorite wrestling. Do you guys think that's the best wrestling video game? Oh, OK, cool. I see a head shaking. Make a counter argument. What is the best wrestling video game? They all suck. They all suck. All right, so fuck it. What are you doing over here, then? Oh, OK.
00:49:34
Speaker
I don't know what we're doing. We're podcasting, I guess. Trying to podcast. No. No, you're fine. No, you're great. You're great.
00:49:46
Speaker
Yeah, sure if you want. That'd be great. Yeah, I don't either. No, I think still to this day, my favorite wrestling video game, the one I played the most was SmackDown, Just Bring It. That's your favorite? Yeah, there we go. I tried playing that the other day. I was really bad at it. I used to be good at the SmackDown games, but I think that one was before the button combos got a little bit more complex. The new wrestling video games cannot handle.
00:50:09
Speaker
Ooh, I just noticed the trophy has a golden Nintendo 64 controller on it. That's pretty cool. Good work, whoever assembled that. Yeah, good job, Sammy Callahan. Happy birthday. I think I'm just too dumb for the new video games.
00:50:21
Speaker
I can't control the controllers. I'm so simple. I like the SNES. They actually have the arcade game here in the lobby, the WrestleMania arcade game, where we were playing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't like anything? I beat you. Everyone broke it. Yeah. So you can only... Oh, yeah, that's right. I couldn't go forward. I could only go backwards. You were Lex Luger. Speaking of wrestling video games, Fire Pro Wrestling just came out and you picked it up on the PS4 the other day.
00:50:46
Speaker
That's a great thing to bring up, since I've not played it yet. Well, I was going to say, but everything we're hearing about it is that it's difficult to play. Oh, yeah. It sounds like I'm going to just continue to be bad at video games for the rest of my life. Oh, ding, ding, ding. The sky won. Oh, no. Yeah. Congratulations, yellow controller, because that's all I see.
00:51:09
Speaker
How long do you think it's going to take to get that sweet, sweet wrestle must out of the lobby of the Hyatt? Months? Oh, yeah. Right. This smells like any indie wrestling show you've ever been to. We're just filling this place with hot, sweaty dudes. At what point do you think the Hyatt Regency rose? This was going to be a problem. It was like three hours in. We didn't know what we were getting into. I think when they realized how many just hot, sweaty dudes were going to have to use two bathrooms.
00:51:39
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, it's been interesting trying to pop into a restroom when you're in a hurry. Hi, how are you? Once again, the weirdness of being at a convention. Wrestling conventions match. Who's that? Watching Sammy Callahan's birthday party as Pentagon Jr passes by. Yeah, and a little bit more of that right here.
00:52:04
Speaker
Wow. Yeah, it is kind of crazy to come to a convention like this, and it's just everyone just walking around. So you've been to other wrestling conventions? I've only been to WrestleCon in New Orleans at WrestleMania. And that, I'm not gonna lie, I just walked in. I didn't pay a ticket. They weren't checking anything. I'm gonna admit that. What's one of the weirder things you've seen at a wrestling convention? At a wrestling convention?
00:52:30
Speaker
You look like you immediately had it, and you're like, the person's in the room, I can't say. I don't think the person's in the room, but you know what? I'll say it. Oh, man. There's an incident that happened at WrestleCon with a...
00:52:45
Speaker
Jake the Snake and Davey Boy Smith Jr. They got into a fight and I kind of saw that at WrestleCon this year. What did that start over? I have no idea what it was about. I don't know if it was like Jake the Snake was talking smack about Davey's. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't see the actual coffee being thrown, but I saw a woman like just yelling at Davey Boy Smith and he walked by. I was by the collar and elbow.
00:53:07
Speaker
booth and I was right next to Al Snow and he came up to Al Snow, shook his hand and this woman was like yelling at him and they made a whole scene and Al Snow just looks at me, he's like, what do you think happened? I'm like, dude, you know more than me. I have no idea. You're supposed to be one of the boys. Yeah. What took place? Yeah, give me the inside scoop. Shoot right now. But yeah, that's probably the craziest thing I've ever seen at a wrestling convention.
00:53:32
Speaker
But that was my only wrestling convention, so. Well, I saw Hacksaw Jim Duggan's kids yelling at him because he wouldn't stop not charging for photographs. Yeah, I remember you telling me that story. Which, so nice. So nice of Hacksaw. Yay! Congratulations, whoever won in this video game contest! Stone Cold Steve Austin won, it looks like. Yay!
00:53:52
Speaker
Yeah, his hand being raised. Tell ya man. Congratulations. You won. You advance. That's a sweet kendo stick. I was, you know what, I was a little concerned last night because we were sitting over at our table and there were a lot of wrestlers around the bar and at a certain point I wanted to tell Chuck Taylor to go to bed.
00:54:13
Speaker
big day tomorrow. You need to go to bed. Saw him walk by this morning. Looked like he needed to go to bed a little earlier. Is there a point where you get used to just looking over at the bar and seeing like Buff Bagwall hanging out there all night?
00:54:24
Speaker
With Buff, no, I love Buff. He's the stuff. I really want to meet him. He is the stuff. This is just like a weird Disneyland for wrestling Disneyland. Yeah, we were just saying that because Bernard was walking through and we were able to take a picture with Bernard. Of course, with his approval, he's a businessman. He's all fucking business. He's all fucking business, baby.
00:54:47
Speaker
The fact that as a 31-year-old man, I genuinely was very, very excited about a bear. For a bear. The picture we took, I have the biggest smile on. I am so happy to be between those two. Biggest celebrity you met this weekend. No, I'm saying that was. Oh, OK. Bernard? Oh, yeah. Well, I met CM Punk, so. I was a little mad at both of you last night. Why?
00:55:12
Speaker
It would not allow me to go to the insane clown posse meet and greet. No, fuck ICP. No, we're not letting that happen. I will say it to their face. They're in this building, right? Somewhere. But didn't they bail last night at one point? They're down the hall. Someone get them.
00:55:27
Speaker
No, I want them to come yell at you guys. I'm on their side. You need to hurry up and paint your face right now if they're going to come through. It was fun sitting at the table and then just seeing clowns. See all day bears clowns. They bailed on their own meet and greet.
00:55:43
Speaker
One of them just, like, got in a car and left, and there was a line set up, and I was like, what's this line for? They're like, oh, are you saying clown posse? I was like, well, one of your posse just left in a car. That's not what you do to your family. Start a riot. Hey, get out of here. Do you know how much joy, though, somebody had driving down the street seeing a clown in the front seat of a minivan? That was terrifying. Yeah. There were witnesses. There were witnesses. You would think the Joker had hijacked a vehicle here and was going to ruin Starcast.
00:56:12
Speaker
Which I think we determined. Oh, plot twist. There we go. I actually, I thought that guy was Flip Gordon just walking in and I just wanted to get out and just drop kick him out of the building. Are you trying to antagonize somebody so they can come over and fight us? I don't know. I think just because it's all in weekend, I want to fight. I feel like you came up here and just started instigating. I don't know why. Are you mad? Did we stop you from doing something?
00:56:35
Speaker
No, you didn't stop me from doing anything. Would you rather be somewhere else than up here with us right now? No, I'd rather be with you guys. That's what I like to do. That makes me blush. I've had a really great weekend with you guys. So we only have a few minutes left. We are a few hours from the biggest indie pro wrestling show of all time. History, man. We're about to all make history.
00:56:53
Speaker
Maybe you said this earlier in the show, it does have that vibe of being like WrestleMania 1. Yeah, that's a great way of putting it. And we don't know where this is gonna go. No, I anticipate just, you know, several hours of just goosebumps the whole time. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna lose my voice within the first five minutes. That's okay. I'm just so excited. I just want to get there already. My hands are sweaty. Did they announce with the opening matches? The opening match I think is SCU.
00:57:21
Speaker
SCU! SCU! Yeah! That gotta pop. God, that is... I really wanna do an Adam Cole thing, I know. That is the pro-wrestling version of just yelling slayer. It's the new woo. Like, getting to hear that echo around the building is just a... There's a woo. There we go. Yeah, there we go. That's a classic. There's a woo. We had a friend who thought Ric Flair was supposed to be here this weekend. Oh, yeah, poor Eli. Sorry, Eli. Yeah, Eli's somewhere out there, sadly. No, right now he's meeting Art Anderson, so...
00:57:48
Speaker
Yeah, he brought a big, heavy belt to get signed in me. We're told that Ric Flair is in Atlanta this weekend at a convention. Oh. So he's at a convention, just not this one. Yeah. He's like, no, fuck your little bit. It was a choice between us getting Pat Patterson and Gerald Briscoe or Ric Flair. You either got those two or Ric. The rope made it here. That's what matters. What was that, from Chi-town Rumble? Is that the one that we were? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice. And the belt. Right?
00:58:18
Speaker
Yeah, I think so. Oh, speaking of. Eli.
Queen of the Ring's Convention Tales
00:58:22
Speaker
Your friend of the podcast, Eli. Did you just meet Arn Anderson? Look at that beautiful autograph. Eli, hop up. Eli, we got a few minutes left. I know you're a fan of the show. Yeah, tell us about your Arn Anderson experience. Of course. So we have Eli from the Music City Horror Podcast.
00:58:44
Speaker
How's it going, bud? Hello. Eli, you like our podcast. We like your podcast. Plug yours. We've had plenty of time to hype up ours. We do horror related stuff, but we always mention wrestling. So it's pretty cool. Music City Horror. But you said you just came from meeting Arn Anderson? Yes. That's a dream come true. He is the best spine buster ever.
00:59:06
Speaker
Yes, without a doubt. That seems to be the consensus. Well, he's in your top five. Easily, yeah. He's a magnificent man. Is that a kendo stick? It is. It is. Yeah. Yeah, you've missed a lot. Sam McAllahan's birthday party's happening in front of us right now. Ron Funches stopped by. Are they playing Sega Genesis? That's an N64. No, that's an N64, and the trophy is an N64 controller. Yeah.
00:59:31
Speaker
Is that the WWF or the WO? No mercy. That's no mercy. You came up here to be pretty soft spoken. Yeah, what happened? Did you just go through a life changing experience? Are you just getting over your experience? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have a podcast. I met the enforcer, so. He broke you. Just still very star struck. Yeah, so. Did it give you a spine buster? That would explain. I would be stunned. You're doing good though.
01:00:01
Speaker
They're doing good stuff.
01:00:04
Speaker
Thank you for all your support. That's fantastic. You know, people think my stepdad looks like Art Anderson. You know, Bruce? It is Art Anderson. It is, yeah. That's like the highest compliment you can guess on. Yeah? All right. Well, it looks like it's- We've only got a couple minutes left. Yeah, I was going to say, it looks like it's about time to start
Listener Engagement and Gratitude
01:00:22
Speaker
wrapping things up. We should probably plug all of our social media and stuff. Guys, we're predetermined to pro wrestling Hangout. You can find us on all the usual podcast platforms, iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play.
01:00:34
Speaker
the things. All of them. If you want to follow us on social media, we are at Wrestle Hangout on Twitter, at Wrestle Hangout on Facebook, at Predetermined Podcast on Instagram. Guys, if you interact with us on social media, if you give us some match requests, we'll watch them. Sometimes we'll talk about them on the show, but we put up polls, we put up pictures. We love hearing from you guys.
01:00:56
Speaker
and will be substantially less awkward. I don't think it's been that bad. I think it's all in your head. Oh, it's definitely, it's really... Super anxiety. So used to being on a couch, relaxed, two cats climbing around, brewing and everything. I think it went better than you think it did.
01:01:13
Speaker
Well, it's weird to just air this in front of all these people. You got Ron Funches up here. Love the moment. Good Lord. Alex, plug your stuff. You can follow me on Twitter at a Queen of the Ring Instagram underscore Queen of the Ring. And again, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel, search Queen of the Ring Wrestling. And that's me. All right. This has been predetermined to pro wrestling hangout. Thank you so much, everybody, for hanging out.
01:01:38
Speaker
We need to take a moment. I want to say thank you to everyone that was on Podcast Row with us yesterday and everyone that was here today. Yep, right there, quarter nerds.
01:01:47
Speaker
Yeah, no, just it's been an honor. We've got podcasts that, you know, are just starting out. We've got established podcasts and it's been a joy getting to talk with all of you and share this moment and this weekend with you guys. And it's been so much fun. And hopefully there's another one in the years to come. Yeah. Yeah. You know what? On that note, hit our goddamn music. That'll be in post. All right. Thanks, everybody.
01:02:15
Speaker
We're hoping that the number one thing you take away from listening to that interview, or I guess multiple interviews with our guests, you guys need to get on the social media and you need to help Ron Funches get LeBron James to fuck his mom.
01:02:30
Speaker
That's what we're here to spread the word about.
01:02:47
Speaker
Yeah, I really just want to make sure everybody over there is doing okay. But yeah, for real, thank you again to Ron Funches. Be sure to check out all those things that he plugged at the end of his time with us. And for us, do us a huge favor, guys. Please rate, review, subscribe. This podcast comes out every Thursday. It's free. And if you want a way to help us
01:03:10
Speaker
that doesn't cost you a dime. If you could just get on there, mash that five star button on iTunes, it'll take you two seconds. And if you really, really love us and want to leave a review, I will never turn that down. But at the very, very least, hit that five stars, rate, review, subscribe.
01:03:28
Speaker
Pretend you're Dave Meltzer. Give us that five star review. We love you guys. Thanks for listening. We got some more stuff coming out. Like we said next week, we're going to have interviews with the blue mini. We're going to have an interview with Jeff Cobb. We've got some audio from the botchomania set and we've got some audio from the weigh in too.
01:03:46
Speaker
And just we want to tell you all about the insanity that is wrestling conventions. We want to tell you what kind of experiences you're gonna have even if you don't spend a dime just walking around the kind of interactions you're gonna get at these things. You got to get out of the house and go to one of these things guys but uh you're gonna hear about all of all about that next week uh you know follow us on the social medias
01:04:10
Speaker
Predetermined podcast on Instagram, Wrestle Hangout on Twitter, Wrestle Hangout on Facebook. Derek, what should we do now? I think it's time to hit our goddamn music.