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and her sister station ninety eight won the Pool. We are back with a very special guest. We're on a roll with WWE superstars and you may see that guy in the middle. That's not our special guest, Billy. I know that everyone's been channing hashtag we want Billy, but now he's just a part of the show. Our special guests is is this guy all the way to our right? Chad Gable, WWE superstar for former SmackDown ta Raw tag
Chance. This guy's done it all. I had one hell of a year last year and he's going to be part of Raw that's coming to Lexington next Monday. So Chad thank you for coming on to the show. Man. How you doing. We're getting ms? Oh baby, It's my favorite time of the year. I always say for obvious reasons. I mean, if everybody's goal to get on the show, have their match, have their moment.
But it's the old athlete in me comes out at this time of year because I get to crank up my training and I get to die on the diet and really try to peak for that one big show. You know. So I'm excited you're training right now, You're at the gym. What time did you wake them in here? Dude? I just sleep in here. Yeah, I just sleep in here. This is my garage. This is where otis and I work out every single day. Keeps things convenient nice.
You know, don't have to go to any jam with a million people there. We just hunker down in the garage and crank our music and we're good to go. Yeah. You know, I've learned that if you have some workout stuff at home, it's just like staring you in the face by going to you's so you get you know, it gives you the motivation to do it. Love that finger at you, man. Yeah, it makes it
makes it easy. Or you feel guilty, right, But like you said, it's no secret very exciting time in wrestling, right, WrestleMania, the road to WrestleMania, it is the best time of year. It's really what made me fall in love with wrestling back when I was a kid heading into WrestleMania twenty four in two thousand and eight, that's when I started watching. Okay, And you know, I've always wondered, you know, what is
the Bible like as a superstar? What is it like in the locker room when we get to the stud here, You know, you can feel it changed that first day of the sign goes up. I'll say that when they raise it and it's almost like we know it's coming, but it kind of catches you off guard every time the sign you see it there the first time, and it's almost like everybody puffs their chest out a little bit more and it's like, you know, it's time, baby. And like I said,
my at least for me, I just dial in. Man. I just get so excited even that in a year like this or last year, where like I don't necessarily have my match like planned, I don't know what I'm doing yet, I don't know if I'm doing anything, and a lot of people are in that same position, but that doesn't change like your approach or your mindset. Really, you know, it's like this is our super
Bowl, It's our biggest thing. I mean it's a cliche to say, but it is everything for us, and you know, it's hard not to just get that feeling you had when you were a little kid man when you get to be a part of it now. So it's it's exciting. I mean, I personally, Austin attended WrestleMania last year. We're trying to find our way there this year. Hopefully we can get some credentials or something,
but that yeah, we're going to try to fly this year. Yeah, So I've never been personally, I can't even imagine, you know, the experience as a fan obviously incredible, but as a superstar walking out in front of you know, eighty thousand people, what what is that feeling like? I mean it's probably a cliche to say it's it's unlike anything in the world, but like trying to give us a glimpse of what that would be like for us walking out there, Yeah, let me try to do this in
a real way. So it's not just like you said, like a cliche, but it's like, you know, I I did it in Dallas, and then I did it last year again in LA And I would say in La I allowed myself to take it in a lot more than I did in Dallas for whatever reason. I don't know if it was because Dallas was like
my first, my first one as a performer on the show. But in LA I took a step back when Otis and I walked out onto the stage because it's like you know, as a kid, and for those that don't know, before the Olympics, before anything, this is all I ever wanted to do. And it was the like, maybe the best moment of my life because you kind of take back or take a step back and go,
I did it. I've arrived and everybody's looking at you. It's not like when I look when I did the Olympics and walked in the opening ceremonies, it was a spectacle in and of itself. It blew my mind. It was a stadium as well, but nobody was looking at me, you know, they were looking at the spectacle. What's unique about in these moments when you earn them for yourselves and you're given these opportunities, is for that one moment in time. Man, it's all about you, all eyes around you,
that whole stadium, eighty ninety thousand people. However many people, there's nothing like it. I mean, there's no unless you're a concert performer or someone that can sell out a stadium like that, you don't get those moments. It's it's and as a kid coming from Minnesota, growing up in this humble town where it just hard work and everything was preached to reach the pinnacle basically of what you do, it's just so gratifying and it almost like sets
you up for life to be able to tell people like it's possible. Man, Like whatever, whatever your dream is, no matter how big or impossible it might seem, you can do it. Because trust me, I grew up in a cult or in a regular neighborhood, just like everybody else did. And so to come that far and just be able to take that in for a moment was something else. It's fascinating to say that you kind of it's always especially me and Billy working in the radio business and working in events.
We work a lot of really cool things too. It's sometimes hard to stop and smell the roses a little bit, but you know, to sit and watch you as a performer a sports entertainer, we wouldn't even be able to tell how nervous he was, especially before that match last year, because that happened to be such a really good match, and I think a lot
of people were kind of maybe giving it flack a little bit. We had Ricochet on a couple of weeks ago and talked about how, you know, it felt like you guys that tore the house down it and you guys totally did and you guys are no secret to doing that. So once you get out there and you kind of have a match like that, is is the vibe good once you step back through the curtain afterwards, especially in a match where it seems like, oh, you guys are just kind of throwing on
the car. I mean talk about like having a chip on your shoulder. Like I went from finding out we were going to have that match, which is like, oh, like I felt rewarded. I felt like I put in the work for the year, I get this match. But then that you know, as you said, the feedback from a lot of people it was like, WHOA, why do they get a spot on the card, like there's no story there that it's like, okay, now my mindset switch.
Now I get to back to that old athlete mode and it's like, okay, now it's a competition, boys, because we're gonna we're gonna tear the house down. Yeah. And the coolest thing was like, you know, walking into WrestleMania weekend and the vibe is there in like La and like all the boys are showing up and everyone's getting together and we're all vibing about this match. Everybody felt the same way, Like everybody was like, Okay, we're gonna walk in that thing and we're gonna tear the house down and
we're gonna blow everyone else out of the water because of that. Like so now you're gonna pay for saying that. And then we left the show and everybody's saying it was the best match, like maybe the best match of the weekend. Yeah, like fireworks right, just dropping bombs the whole time. And I think a lot of big part of that was just like everybody was so unselfish, like everybody wanted each other to like look good. Everybody wanted
the match to come together look good. And when you have that kind of vibe in that like relationship between all of the guys in the match, thankfully, which we did. I mean, that's what you get, you get a spectacle and so I think coming out of it, it's like, going forward, everyone's going to be like, well, what's the spectacle match going to be this year? What's the uh or whatever? We called it the Showcase match? Who's in the Showcase match this year? Because we made it
a thing from the first year. That's how you do something. So well, it's been a very WrestleMania heavy themed interview so far, and for obvious reasons, I'll continue on that theme with a few few whitening round questions. A couple of mark questions here for you. What's your favorite WrestleMania match of all time? Probably bretton Owen, just because of the like technical prowess,
the fact that it's brother and brother and the finish man. I just loved the whole story and the fact that it went on so early to paint the picture for the rest of the night. But just Owen and Brett, I think how about like best overall WrestleMania from from top to bottom? Maybe eighteen probably the one, the one I remember that Wreania. Yeah, that's probably I would say that that probably be it. Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. Seventeen. It's a lot of love. Seventeen eighteen nineteen
was a hell of a stretch in my opinion. There's a lot of good ones in the twenties as well. And I grew up that was just around me. And I'm talking about the Houston Astrodome like that WrestleMania seventeen that they give the match. I remember that for her for whatever reason, and that was that. That was good stuff all a sudden. I have another mark question before we let you go, Gab Well, you had one hell of
a run last year with a Gunther and chasing their continental championship. Fell short, but you had one hell of a match with him, and obviously you had a great moment afterwards with your family and and your daughter. I have to ask, how's everything it is? She still have heat with Gunther? Is doing good with him? Yeah? Yeah, she's she's all good now.
I think she I had to talk her down a little bit, you know, after that, but she saw herself like online, which was weird, you know, after like in articles or whatever, and she's like super into YouTube and stuff. So she's like, as soon as she saw that, like her mind all shifted off a gunther and onto like what are people saying? I'm like, you gotta we're not worrying about what people say now, don't get into that mode. So you know, it's just funny,
man, how your different kids. I have three react to different things. So she was like everybody saw, she was like highly emotional from the match in physical like my little dude, who might you might have seen two he wears single that matches me and all my big matches. He like is into the matches, but not as emotional about it, doesn't And then like my middle girl, like she could care less, you know, she's just like looking down and like she was just mad because she spilled her nachos, you
know, and was out of lemonade. I understand the field. Yeah, people get it. So we are talking to WWE superstar Chad Gable just stays ahead of Monday Night Raw Taken Over, Rapperina and Lexington, Chad, have you have you been to Lexington, Rapperina even the state of Kentucky before any memories there? And what can the fans, you know, expect if they come out to the show on Monday. Shout out to Factory Gym first of all, one of my favorite gyms anyway. I've been to Lexington many times.
What a wrestling crowd you guys have there, just whatever it is, they seem to really love their wrestling in that area, and so it makes me brings me joy to come back to areas like that that really stand out, because it's not everywhere in the country. You know, we're a hot product right now, but there's certain spots and areas where we really stand out and feel like we resonate, and you're in Lexington's one of them. So I'm excited to get back there and quote a Factory Gym one of my favorite
pots. Well, Chad Man, we appreciate you taking the time and we'll see you here in a couple of days in Lexington. Thanks guys. Hey guys, this is South Academy leader Chad Gable right here. You're listening to the Babyfaces on iHeartRadio. Thank you.