Hey everybody, hope you're doing well. This is Colt over in my studio apartment in Chicago, Illinois. This is a live bonus type podcast that I'm doing. I know it's been a while, but many a weekend was so much fun and High Spots had an after party and Michael from High Spots asked me if I could do something on stage and I was like, yeah, I could do a live art of wrestling. Of course, times got fumbled up for sure, so it just ended up being myself and mcfoley, but
I did want to present it to you here on the timeline. And the good news is I will be at the Squared Circle exbo this weekend in Indianapolis where on Friday night I'm going to be doing another live podcast. They've given me a full hour on the stage. There's a bunch of stage shows, so I will be putting that on the feed as well in the upcoming weeks, hopefully next week. The live portion itself was just me kind of introducing Mick really quickly and bringing him up. So you know the deal. Coltmerch
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Cabana. All right, without further ado, let's take it to the Globe Theater in Los Angeles, California. This is the Older Wrestling with professional wrestler Coldcabanda. All right, Hi, you guys doing come on and sit right down. You're about to listen to the art of wrestling. A professional wrestling podcast. It's a life podcast. It's a personal journal. It's an entryway to the minds, the soul is, the hearts and the lives of the
people involved in the world of professional wrestling. I am your host. My name is Cold Cabana. Hello everybody, Thank you. I am not coming to you live from my studio in Chicago, Illinois, but I am at the La Globe in beautiful Los Angeles, California. Today's podcast is a very special one as we are doing a live show during Mania weekend and Roah weekend. I guess I should shout out the old company that I work for,
and we are here in a huge stage show. Following this will be an unbelievable appearance from many talented wrestlers slash stars, including Mickey James and Max Cast. But first I would like to bring up a friend of mine who is going to come out here and chit chat with me a little bit, chit chat with you a little bit. Please welcome my guest to the stage, the legend, the fucking legend mcfoley. Everybody, mc Foley there, he is you. Uh, maybe I'm having trouble reading, because on my way
over here, I could have sworn it's a globe theater sold out. And well, Nick, I have some advice for you. Put on the reading glasses on your neck right there. I'll take these off. Anyone have the faintest idea why I'm in a tuxedo. I just came over from the WWE Hall of Fame induction, where I was asked about three weeks ago, called. I get a message, text message said, Hi, is this Mick.
It's Stacy Stacy Keibler, Because would you do me the hunter of inducting me into the WW Hall of Fame, and I didn't say, let me check my schedule. I said, yes, I will, and then the juggling process began. So I'm including how would get a tuxedo? Oh man, how to get a tuxedo? The whole time I was backstage with my wife's like, you look awful, like you don't know how to wear.
And I'll tell you what. I'm not a lip reader, but I can swear that when I got up there, we do it in the stage now and all of the all of the w It's it's cool to see all of the WW superstars and miss on that stage. Used to be my ol snow joke, right, it still works better as out, But I could have sworn I saw a triple h's lips say, is Mick wearing sweatpants? The answer, my friends, Yes I am. And I even took a magic
marker and I covered up the R for Russell on my pants. So I got the tuxs top, I've got the tie, I got the cumber band, I got the shirt and wearing the sweatpants and steakers. Wow, Nick, take me through the process of you being like, I hate need a tuxedo. What do I do I went to the same place where Double Jay got his tuxedo and uh, outside of Nashville. And the guy's going, Okay, this looks good. We just need to take a few things in. I was like, no, I think I'm good. Off the rack,
Off the rack, brother, I don't mess around. I can afford to look good. But if I start looking too good, I'm gonna lose everyone of you out there. Right, wait until the heat I get when I finally get my bottom teeth fixed. Right, hush has just come over the room. A hush, they look good, there they are. We should get gold teeth, Nick, I don't know. You know who's going to end up doing my work? Sam White from Libertyville Dental. No, that's a plug for my friends. We got him. Then we got Ripped
Rock the denters. Right, it's right, it was right. Rip Rogers, one of the great teachers wrestlers, underhelded workers. He was having trouble because he was in a car accident and the doctor told him, the orthopeda guy said, all of the calcium your body needs is going to go to your hip and your teeth are going to rot it. I've never even heard of that, And sure, enough. Yeah, Rip's Teeth, Are you a dentist? Okay, so what the heck are you doing questioning me my
friend? That was gonna pull rank like I'm on dentist. I've never heard of that. Well, anyway, Rip's Teeth started having a tough time. Colt knew that I was raising some money with some merchandise sales at my shows, and he was like, hey, I've got a friend. So the tag team due of Cabana and Foley. This is not the first time we've bent on a stage together, right, it's not the first time. Going
back to what two thousand and eight or was it nine? I think two thousand and nine, two thousand nine, we kind of became a little touring act if me, you and Bruce Pritchard, and sometimes it was in Colt, sometimes it was me and Bruce. But I'm telling you they booked it as total extreme comedy, which is not what either one of us do. And we had to sell out the first night of the improv and then we saw a lot of crowds kind of like this. But I'll tell you what.
I'm going to take you back to when I did the twenty Years of Hell tour and it was just twenty cities, twenty dates in the US. And then I was asked last minute if I could do a show at at one of the conventions. Trying to think of which show in Chicago? What's the Big two? Natzi two eto the other wizard World? Here it is
wizard World. So I asked Glenn Jacobs if he would do the Q and A with me, And right before we walk in, given that I've had exactly one day to promote this show, he says, how many people are going to be out there? Mick I said, could be five hundred, could be fifty, I don't really know. And when we walked through it wasn't five hundred, but it was in fifty. It was about half a
fifty. And so I always found that a way to jolt myself into an alternate reality would be to go into character as either you know, mankind preferably, and I remember giving a story and I'll want me to do a little bit of it mankind. I think I was talking about the time when I was doing the interview with Jim Ross back in nineteen ninety seven, and I
was talking about when I was a goalie. I used to be a lacrosse player in high school, and because I was not fleet of foot, I would take my athletic cup out in order to run laps, and I would occasionally forget to put it back in. And there was one day when I paid the ultimate price, and I'm gonna take it back. It's gonna be amazing. I'm gonna put my head down as twenty twenty two, twenty three mcfoley. When I bring it back up, I will have transformed into nineteen
ninety seven mankind Jimmy. I went down like I'd been shot, and even though my testicle was the size of a grapefruit, I made it into school that next day. It was the only time I remember girls looking and pointing at my genital area, and for that reason, I considered that night to be the best night in the history of my life. And I looked at the face of one person and I could kind of read their mind. I said, you didn't think I was bringing my a game, did you?
I said, I always bring my a game. One thing about anybody, unless they're called in to become a big star, if they worked their way up through the ranks, every one of us will have performed in front of more crowds like this than we will have in front of those PACT arenas. And my friends, if you don't bring your a game every night, you
don't get noticed and you don't go anywhere. And one of the shames, as one of the sad things is that when I was on the independent scene, when I was wrestling for ECW and Wrestling in Japan, I did wrestle every match like it was my last match. And then when the crowd start getting big, you start looking out there and you start thinking, Oh, there's a lot of people out here tonight, and there's going to be a lot of people out here tomorrow night. I'd better keep something in reserve.
And at that point, when you start being a businessman, you lose something really important. But I'm so glad that I had those moments slugging it out. I've been with Colt on many an independent show, went to bat from on several occasions under the crazy This might sound crazy, but I was going under the premise that if you get over everywhere you go in the country, in the world, there's a good chance you're going to get over in WWE as well. And some people didn't see it that way, except for Scotty
gold Man. Scotty gold Man, Hi, Hey, the shows are add free over on Patreon, but stick around. We'll be right back after this break. You were talking about your independent days, and we've done like two podcasts before, yep, and I remember the second one you were like, you better ask me some stuff that I haven't talked about because you get bored
of the same question. Yeah, And so I was kind of really thinking, like you were doing hardcore wrestling, but I was like, I'm the independence or at least in Japan, the anfamous death matches, and I was kind of interested in like when the first time like a heart like someone was like, I'd like you to go through nay or or barbed wire, and I understand that. Like backyard wrestling, I too, like we did some dumb shit, but once you start getting trained. I'm sure Dominic Denucci wasn't
like pay some boys. So there hasn't been a point where either it was approached to you or you approached it to somebody else. And I was kind of curious when that came into First of all, I was always drawn to the wild stuff. So earlier yesterday I was doing an interview for some of the upcoming A and E biographies, and they were talking about Sergeant Slaughter and how the first hardcore I guess Morocco Snooka in eighty three July eighty three,
a few months before the famous Cell match was a pretty hardcore match. But Slaughter and the Iron Sheek from eighty four was just outstanding. It was incredible, and it wasn't necessarily what they were doing, it was how they were doing it. And I just always felt what I say attracted, meaning like
that was something I wanted to do. So I was given the opportunity when I started wrestling to take the things that I liked to see and bring them to life with the feeling that if I liked it, some of you would too. One of the beautiful things about a week like this is no longer a weekend, is that there's something for everyone here. So if you're not a WWE fan, there's impact right there's new Japan was right here, and if you like the crazy stuff, they've got some of that going on as
well. The first time I was given the chance to go, I was asked about Japan. Now I'd done the Baba Tour, which is, you know, really strong style traditional wrestling, but I'd heard about the Blood and Guts organizations, and I was coming off of three years in WCW, so I really wanted to get back there. I never thought WW was in the cards, so I wasn't looking at doing stuff WW was not interested in,
which would be that wild hardcore stuff. But then as soon as I heard that Terry Funk, that's Funk with an end, so I'm not dropping a bombs on any of you. As soon as I heard he had signed with IWA Japan, I made that phone call to Victor Canonis, and I was like, I want in because cult. I wanted to prove to the fans
and also to myself that I was someone who could draw money. I always felt like, as much as I loved my three years in WCW, it felt like just so when I was getting the momentum going, that rug would be swept out from underneath me. So Japan was. It wasn't until Japan. Japan was the first time where you started getting super bloody and well, I've been in some bloody endeavors, but this was the first time I had toys to help me in those endeavors. So we had a guy who was
worth either between five hundred million and one billion dollars. He was the owner based on the real estate market in Tokyo at the time, and he was the guy who invented some of these crazy matches. He was like the mad professor, mister Asano. And so the first thumbtack match that was me.
We called it a pushpin misery deathmatch. And I'm sometimes asked like, well, why didn't you sue Nigan since you were using the barbed wire bat in nineteen ninety five, And I, like brother, I was like the eleventh guy in Japan to use the barbed wire bad. If I'm gonna sue Nigan, I'm gonna have to stand in back of a long line. Because they liked that wild stuff and they respected it. And that was the difference at the time, is that you didn't have a feeling like people weren't watching you
or you know, looking down at you. It was considered a really respectable form of wrestling in Japan. Did you would you ask somebody about like, oo does this hurt? Or were there like besides Terry Funk, who I'm sure, but were there like other guys on the tours that would like give you advice on how to like do hardcore right. I took to it pretty quickly. Yeah, I had Terry there. I wasn't comfortable with the fire stuff at all. Terry wanted to determine into fire a fireman. That didn't
work out well for either of us. There's that one crazy match from January tenth, nineteen ninety five, and I look at it realistically, I'm like, people do long stretches in jail for doing what Terry and I did to each other willingly. But if anyone caught the last tour I did, this was all me. Is my favorite part of the show. To talk about that match in front of one hundred and fifty people, talk about bringing your
A game, and I remember Tracy Smothers coming up to me. We were hovered over a kerosene here because the buildings were not heated and it was just slightly above freezing, and he saw the state of mind. Now this is this is right. Sometimes I don't even know could how I managed to survive, let alone thrive and professional wrestling because I didn't have any of that. I didn't have the size, I didn't have to build, but also I didn't have a monster truck. I didn't have a cool hunting dog. I
didn't hunt, I didn't fish. To this day, I drive a minivans.
Some of you might know fe female wrestler April Hunter got to know me over the course of a few months, and she looked at me one day and goes, you're an emo kid in disguise, and maybe so, but that fact, notwithstanding what I said to Tracy Smothers that night in Guma outside of Tokyo, will rank among the most badass things you've ever heard, because when he looked at me, goes, Cactus, there's not too many people out there, promised me, you won't do anything crazy, and I looked
at him like it was the most absurd request I'd ever heard. I just looked him and said, you know, I can't do that. That's badass, right, that's badass. Yeah. One last thing I did want to talk about. I guess we're here in Los Angeles a lot of celebrities like I just at the ring about our show. I just got to meet Sam Richardson from the Detroiters, which made me like like a little fan girl. You know, I was so excited, and I just I know you've talked
about it. In your books. But there's gotta be so many just different we you know, I know people look at us as wrestlers on this, so it's like who do we look up to as wrestlers? And I'm sure there's actors and singers, so many different categories that you've probably interacted with. I don't know if anyone sparks right, oh well, you know I've talked about Tory Amos right until you guys were tired of it. But her music
really inspired me. But a lot of people along the way, some people I've seen in venues, you know, that were no more filled than this, given their heart out, and I just I like that. I really like people are passionate about what they do. I would say the strangest meeting I've ever had is with Beyonce. So so I was brought in by the Nets to do something with their mascot, you know, and my back was killing me. I've got like two and a half courts of analgesic bomb on
my lower back just to try to closeline the mascot. And because I was a VIP, I got to go in the back and jay Z it was one of the Nets owners. And if there was ever. I had my oldest son, Duey with me and he was probably eighteen at the time. Jay Z is the first rapper I've seen to not be a pro wrestling fan. You know what bothers me is I think he was a wrestling fan and he wouldn't put me over in front of my side. But here's the thing. I know what it's like to be brushed off rudely. I can tell
when someone's looking for any reason to get out of the conversation. And Beyonce was totally invested for like the ninety seconds we shared together. So but she is absolutely every bit as beautiful as you've imagined and seen her. Hey, the shows are ad free over on Patreon, but I'm gonna take a quick break and then we'll be back. Did anybody see the Super Bowl this year with Rihanna? Did anybody see Bill Goldberg's reaction to Rihanna's performance? Hey?
Was Bill was a little angry, right, He thought it was inappropriate. And I was asked what I thought if I was angry at Rihanna, and I thought, now, this he's like going back to the Sandman being drunk at a show. You don't get mad at the Sandman for doing what he does and being who he is. You get mad at the promoter who booked
him to be who he is and what. So as my thing, I was like, if you don't want an act that gropes, they're junk, don't book and act who gropes they're drunk, whether it's male or female. Right, And it brings up But you know what, when I heard about that, I instantly was brought back to a moment in time. This is one of my favorite moments as a wrestler and the best moment I've ever shared with a true legend in our business talking about nature boy Rick Flair, Who
I do that pretty well? Right? Who? So I was doing a benefit show for Hurricane Helms back when Hurricane nearly lost his foot many years ago, seven eight, nine years ago. So I was doing a benefit show in Charlotte, and out of respect for Rick, he was the first person I called. I figured, I'm gonna invite Rick. He's going to turn it down. At least I did the respectful thing, and I said, Rick, it's Bick Foley. You'd like to know if you'd like to be
my guest at my show for Hurricane Helps. He goes absolutely, brother, I said okay, and then Rick not only came to the show, but he lined up media for us in Charlotte's sins. He's the man in Charlotte, not just the man everywhere else, the man in Charlotte. And right before Rick and Guy, I go on, we're supposed to see the winner of a local talent show. Who's a ten year old kid who has won
with his Michael Jackson impression. And I have not worked this out with the sound guy yet, but I'm gonna see if he can begin the beat of Billy Jean. WHOA. The guy starts doing his thing, and he was good, And after about fifteen seconds he went with his hand when I would preferred to not go at his hand, and I look at Rick, and Rick looks at me, and then I look at the kids parents and they're
continuing to dance as if nothing else is going on. I'm fifteen seconds later that he had reached down and he grabs himself a hearty handful and holds it there. Nature boy, Rick Flair, greatest wrestler has ever been, turns to me and goes, he's really got a handful there, brother, WHOA?
And if you can imagine the scene. Here's a ten year old kid playing with his penis while his parents applaud him and tapped their feet, while the greatest champion of all time and the hardcore legend who supposedly hate each other are doubled over laughing so hard Rick stot tears streaming down his face. It was a bonding moment like no other. So that's what I thought when I saw Rihanna do her thing. There you go. You got a pretty good
Rick Flair's story out of it, too. Right. Also, I don't know if anybody knew this, but Mick unreal Rick Flair impersonation, it's not bad, right, wonder I only have like four voices, My bench is pretty good. My Terry Funk is really good. Can I can I give them just a little Terry Funk or you want to lead me in another direction?
No, no, I was. I was thinking about my improv skills here, and I would Okay, I'm a young would you like me to come into anything and let's say I'm a young wrestler, you're Terry Funk. Would you like just know this is Terry Funk. After that match in Japan, after the January tenth one in front of one hundred and fifty people, proudest I've ever been because of the lengths we were willing to go to try to put that little promotion on the map because they had their media there.
Do you want me to play mcfoley and you're Terry Funk? Yeah sure, yeah, sure, So the deal is okay, all right, So imagine Colt is mc foley badly torn. I mean, I remember coming home and going to the doctor on Long Island. He looked at me and said, I've heard about these type of injuries in prison breaks because of the barbed wire. When it's over, it's eighteen nineteen minutes long. I breathed this huge sigh of relief. I lost. So that's what I do. I'm good
at it too. I'm mc foley, and I lose matches. But I breathed this deep sigh of relief. And then I hear this noise I won't refer to as a voice because I didn't identify it readily as a voice. At first, it went coctus, so I didn't respond. It was like a voice in the wind. I just went until I heard it again. Coctus, Coctus, where are you, Terry, I'm right here. I was a little less mellow than that, sorry, and he starts yelling out
respect, respect as we crawled towards each other. There's only one hundred and fifty fans, all of them in winter coats, and they part like it's the Red Sea, like it's some type of superpower, you know, convention. And I get up there and he goes respect, and we pulled each other up by our broken, beating, bleeding bodies, and I sank that hug in like yeah. And then I heard Terry whisper in my ear.
I gotta tell you the hundred if the fans, they applauded so politely and sincerely, and then he was like a perfect ending to the hardest match I've ever had. And then I hear him whisper in my ear. Pile Drive me what pile? Drive me? Cactus? Who was I to disobey Terry Funk? So I turned the fable Funker upside down, trouve him head first. That cold gymnasium floor and the greatest thing about it. And I believe that it's not proper to disparage people because of their skin, gender, sexual
orientation, you name it. But it is okay to point out differences in our cultures if they're positive. Japanese fans do tend to respond in unison only seconds earlier they've been happy in unison and went whoa. And when I while drove Terry funk, I had trouble saying pile drove right, those fans turned on me in a heartbeat and went, oh, but that was one of the best nights of my life. Nobody. Here's something I'm gonna tell you.
I don't want to cross into DDP motivational territory, but I will tell you this, my friends, WrestleMania moments are not just about wrestling. They're about lives. My life, could slife, your life. And the cool thing about WrestleMania moments you get to decide for yourself what they are. It's not dictated to you by the size of the crowd or your spot on the
card. And if I say, wrestling in front of one hundred and fifty people and a cold little gymnasium was every bit as important as appearing in front of one hundred that one thousand at Mania, She's gotta trust me. I've been there, brother, so that would be my Terry Funk Story shows their ad free over on Patreon. But I'm going to take a quick break and then we'll be back. Hey, you want to take a few questions, maybe six questions? I know Micky, Jameson and Ago. All right,
hold on, come over here. What's your name? Were you from? Gurge? From Sacramento? From Sacramento? All right? My question for you, and I hope you've never been asked this before. Did hurt? No, I'm not gonna I've seen your live show. I'm not gonna ask that cult mentioned Dominic de Nugee. You started with Shane Douglas. What was that brotherhood like? From the time you guys trained for the next twenty years.
It always surprised people. Shane and I were such great friends because we were really a lot different, but we complimented each other perfectly in the ring, like we were having like state of the arc independent matches by the standards of the mid to late eighties. You know, you could you you could go and you could steal a show by having a pretty good match. You really could. Yeah, there were some bad there was some bad talent out there.
Uh, And now, brother almost everybody can go if they're getting booked regularly. You guys really have a treat, you know. I know some people get down on the aw shows or the raw show or smackdowns, like were you watching from the Allentown Convention Center in eighty three or you didn't even see the slightest inkling of a competitive match. So I think the talent has
gotten so much better. But Shane and I pushed each other. Shane found out that I was, you know, sleeping in my car or at a fourteen dollars motel, and so every Saturday night would stay with Shane and his mom. I really owe him a lot. I don't think either of us would have gotten to the big time without each other. And so that's why again he's Shane wasn't in great standing with WW when I was inducted ten years ago, but I specifically went out of my way to mention him as one
of the guys who had the biggest impacts on my career. So thanks for the question, Thank you. And I just feel like that time, like Shane Douglas did like an amazing drop kick and Melzer was like five stars.
You're so right about that, and you have to think about it, and I don't want to speak for Mick, but like Mick was so ahead, like Mick and Samboo of just like those shows were so dull, like watching back, you know, and then these Mick and Taboo and some of these wrestlers are standing out and it's just like, holy fuck, different level Mick for sure. Hey, you know, I just saw Saboo today and he
admonished me for calling him terry. But I'll tell you what, brother, I came back after four years of not wrestling in two thousand and four, teamed up with the Rock, and I thought I gave him. I thought I gave an underwhelming performance. I did. I was. I was playing it safe, I really was. I was playing not to suck, and that's not how you achieve greatness. And so I really went back to the
well to try to get that eye of the Tiger. And the match I watched, or the matches I watched more than the others, were the independent matches I had with Saboo, and I would look get the stuff we did, and I would say, holy shit, we were earning our money out
there. And it was seeing how much I was putting into those things that made me feel like I had a lot more to give when I had a chance to wrestle Randy Orton, And if you guys liked that match, which I did, you can credit the inspiration behind those independent matches I did with Sabou. Very cool, very cool. This guy over here, I had a question. Let me know your name. Where you're from, Josh from Phoenix, Arizona. All right, all right, Josh, what's your question?
Hey Mick, I'm a big fan of your new pod. Fully, it's pot thank you. Yeah, show of hands. If anyone knows I have a podcast, Okay, show of hands. If anybody's actually listening to my podcast, it's no art of wrestling, my friends. I just want to know what it was like now that you dipped your foot into the podcasting game. What it's like to share some of these stories that you've never shared before in the podcast. Yeah. Yeah, Well it's a different type of
setting because you're not so much entertaining as you are. You know, I'm pointing, Ah, I'm talking to you, guys. I'm putting a little little bizaz on it. I do. I like Conrad Thompson a lot. It's so easy because they do all the research and I just have to call on my You know powers of memory, which I'm are surprisingly good. So there are some matches I don't know if you're the same way Colt, where
there's only so much you can store in your brain. So we tend to remember the matches that went really well and the ones that did not go well at all. And if it was a really good match or a really bad match, chances are got some memories of it. If it's somewhere in the
middle. And there are hundreds and hundreds of matches I have no recollection of, not because they were bad, but just because they were okay, or like something sparked, there was something that weirdly sticks in your brain like this,
like xicw had the greatest pizza. You know what I'm saying. It's not like I remember wrestling for xIC Dotty really Yeah, Like there's weird things that why you remember a match, right, Yeah, and the weird So for that example, I think the weird thing is so good or it was so bad. Yeah, that's those other weird things. Yeah, Nick, Buena Park, California, MiG big Fan, I think you have the greatest
spot in wrestling history. Question. Who do you think has the best it factor in all of wrestling, awww man wherever in all of wrestling, oh Man, but besides Cold Cabana. Obviously, considering I might one day want to go back to work for him, I have to give the nod to Triple h H. I'm joking, guys, Jesus, he could have it. He did have it, but I was like, oh my god, oh I will, I will. I'm not above pandering or a potential job down the road. Well, there's so many people at the Factor. I'm
thinking of Becky Lynch right off the top of my head. You know, people would just jump out at you, and uh, you know that the women are doing such an amazing job. I saw Charlotte flairback stage. I could not believe how ripped she was. Right, I took off my shirt and we got into a pose down right there was this guy had a question, this is two more and then two more? Yeah, what's your name? Way from? My name is Isaiah. I'm from San Antonio, Texas.
Uh, I'm a big fan of the Dudelove character. I just had good questions. You're the one. I mean, I'm I'm a Vintace T shirt collector. The Dudelove tea is like one of my most prized possessions. I just had a question about the Dudelove character as far as any memories that you had about Well, you know, Dudelove came to life in San Antonio
at Freeman Coliseum, and that was a really great moment. I think when my wife came running out as one of the dude ats and did things to me in the middle of that ring that would have gotten us canceled in an earlier future incarnation. That was a lot of fun. And I'll tell you what, Dude was always the one I dismissed, and I forgot how to
do it. For a while, I forgot how to be the dude, to the point where when I was doing thank you videos for the Santa Claus documentary that we put together in twenty fourteen, I was doing it as dude and I actually stopped and I said, I sound like Dusty Rhodes. I've
forgotten to be dude. But last year, I guess by going back two years little over Tiers, when I appeared on Most Wanted Treasures, they wanted me to do some stuff in character, and so I put those things on and I slowly felt it coming back to me and now as little as I liked being dude love when I actually was dude love. Brother, you order a cameo video for me and he will entertain you. He got one. Did I sing him a song? Oh man? I'm like, oh man,
I maybe I'm letting people down. I only have seventeen different birthday songs, which is sixteen more than most people have. Right, all right? What more? What's your name? Where you from? Hey? My name is Lavan, So I'm from Los Angeles, born and raised. Thank you a few things. We have a birthday that we share. We're that we share June Seventh's yes, all right, So I'm here with my friend Sam Um. We love you. By the way. One of our favorite WrestleMania
matches is your match with Edge at WrestleMania twenty two. At the point that you were at when you had that match, Like, what's something that you learned from that match? If I'm sure you did. I don't want to say like if anything, but like, is there anything that you could think of off the toime? Yeah? I learned that seventeen years ago. I was still being still capable of having a good match as long as you put me in the ring with the best wrestler in the world. I can be
carried my friends, or at least I could. Then you know what I'm gonna do. Raise your hands if you have the slightest modicum of respect for me, Okay, if you want to keep it that way, all close your eyes while I clumsily walk off that stage. I kid you not. When I see an incline of about eight inches, I get more frightened than I was being thrown off the cell by the undertake. Here the count of three. Let's all close our eyes and chant folly one, two three,
everyone, unbelieabel give it up for mcfolly wow. And that was just myself and Mick Foley up on the stage. We're gonna take one more quick, short, little break and then I'll tell you all about my plugs and coming even. All right, the Patreon is still going strong. All episodes are ad free over there, and there's always fun goodies, including a tier where I can send you stickers every month and write your address and give you a
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of me. He get in some commercials, you know, and it's on the back end. What do you care? So listen to the commercials or don't listen whatever. This is a This is a classic business move your podcast, Hustler, Cold Combata. Before all that, I want to bring up a person who is not only a dear friend, mentor hero, uh, pioneer, uh the an absolute legend and anything he ever decides to do, I'm gonna call him the podfather a professional wrestling and I'm talking about cold Cabanta.
Come grab Mike number two. You're gonna be may second for a minute. Everybody, turn it on, turn it on, don't break it. Literally, yeah, he broke it. I think I did. Know. Hey, all right, hello everybody, I'm gonna ask you no, I think this should be your job. Mega Ran as the teacher here, I'm gonna get everybody to take five big steps forward. There go. That was great. Look at that. If you're in fist bump range, then you are in maximum enjoyment range. So you folks up top have loss, but
at your comfortability, at your comfortability. But we want to make this as a very intimate, very fun thing and give it up. Mega Rand's gonna be hanging out all night. So give it up from Mega Ran. He is amazing. Nerd Core Ran. We have a man in a suit. I thought for sure you owned this place, but nope. Okay, okay,
these two guys nice, nice, very nice. So we have kind of a mixture here of myself and another guest I'm about to bring up, and I guess we want to put it under the guys of a podcast that I used to do and I still do occasionally which is the art of wrestling, a podcast that went from for many years. So I'm gonna kind of start it off a little bit as I am recording it, and then I bring on a friend and we will kind of start talking about wrestling, and
it's gonna be really fun. So uh and on the count of three, can I get you start making some noise and I will fake pretend to come on to a stage. I think at this time I'm gonna invite Mega Ran on stage. Is that correct? Let's give it up from Mega Ran. Everybody, Um, that was great. Oh I'm loud, okay, so let be so hot. You're so hot, very hot. That was awesome. Oh my, all those great stories. Man, that was super cool, unbelievable. I know we have I think this is my time to parts.
Is that? Do you have any clue? I be the only one that knows is Michael from High Spots. Let me see, uh my fifteen, it's probably your time. I don't know. I think it is my time. I'm gonna hang out a little bit. I do have some much somebody did steal too microL rollers in my words? Uh if I if we all close our eyes and chant folly and someone puts them back, I would appreciate it. But if not, I guess you stole yourself. Some cards
and micropowlievable congratulations. Um wow, I could go. I could interrogate every single one of you. I'm thinking about it. Lock the doors. We're getting some answers. The man just cheers me like it was me. It was I did tell you, this is my time. We have so many great acts coming up stars from professional wrestling. It's a fun night. I do encourage everybody to grab a drink, have a good time, enjoy yourself, make some new friends. We're all wrestling fans. That's most importantly.
Introduce yourself to somebody and tell them and ask them who their favorite wrestler is about that that's cool. Who's your favorite I'm gonna say, yeah, my favorite wrestlers knew Jack. It's true. I wish knew Jack would jump off that billy right like we know he would jump off that balcony, but that one. Yeah, he was such a good wrestler. I loved him so bad. Jack, thank you very much, and I appreciate it. Having great rest of your night. Thank you, thank you. Co comeet everyone. Wow,