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00:02:12.280 What were your thoughts when you first heard that Jake Paul's older brother was going to join?

00:02:18.040 Like, be honest.

00:02:19.540 Like, be completely honest.

00:02:20.400 Maybe completely honest. 0.99

00:02:21.540 So who the f*** is that? 0.98

00:02:29.140 breaking news breaking news from the impulsive podcast three gents are sitting on a couch to 0.97

00:02:39.640 bring you this important message uh dude that's the point you gotta do your name on the background

00:02:47.960 i know i know part of it uh anyways hey guys welcome back to impulsive the number one podcast

00:02:53.780 in the world now when i say that i i mean it um it's data and why would i lie about something

00:03:00.260 like that you can look it up it's illegal to lie about that empirical evidence hit that subscribe

00:03:04.980 button if you're not subscribed logan wrestled last night in the wwe summer slam event of the

00:03:14.140 century you guys have all seen it he went off the top rope through a table that also had a sandwich

00:03:22.680 meat made up of Mike the Miz in the middle

00:03:24.620 of it. His brain 0.96

00:03:26.200 is now splintered into a million 1.00

00:03:28.480 pieces. You know what? But

00:03:30.140 he's going to do his best for you

00:03:32.620 guys today. Logan,

00:03:34.160 tell us a little bit about your state of mind last night.

00:03:37.420 I'll do my best.

00:03:39.180 My neurons aren't

00:03:40.560 firing the way they usually do.

00:03:42.740 Yesterday was a big day. And, you know

00:03:44.580 what? I'm very happy to say

00:03:46.020 I am feeling so healthy.

00:03:48.900 I'm barely sore. I can't believe it.

00:03:50.340 I did so many leaps, so many jumps.

00:03:52.620 Honestly, I didn't think I was going to make it out of that

00:03:55.300 without a broken arm or leg.

00:03:56.540 I swear to God.

00:03:57.320 That table jump, the first time I practiced it,

00:04:00.240 the stunt guy goes, you are going to break both femurs.

00:04:02.820 Why?

00:04:03.180 He said that to you?

00:04:04.120 Well, because I landed too close.

00:04:06.760 Oh, got it.

00:04:07.380 And dude, you know what's funny?

00:04:09.020 If you guys haven't seen the clip,

00:04:10.200 I've littered my Instagram with it.

00:04:13.040 I'm amused.

00:04:14.120 I don't know if I can say this.

00:04:15.060 I'm amused by watching me do the WWE.

00:04:18.040 I cannot believe it's me.

00:04:19.900 Do you understand what I'm saying?

00:04:20.900 And I watched it live

00:04:22.460 But I'm me

00:04:23.940 And when I watch it I go

00:04:25.480 Oh that guy's doing pretty good

00:04:27.760 I black out during it

00:04:30.600 I just focus on

00:04:31.560 I mean everyone says it right

00:04:35.260 There's like the game time performer

00:04:37.120 And then the person

00:04:38.160 And vastly different

00:04:40.300 So when I watch

00:04:41.200 Did you black out? 0.84

00:04:44.200 Not black out

00:04:45.360 Sort of honestly 0.99

00:04:46.620 Did it go like this and you're like what the fuck 0.97

00:04:48.680 How did I do all that 0.98

00:04:49.340 100 percent i go back in the locker room and that that you know 30 minutes of my life is just gone

00:04:54.440 and then i look at the replays with my jaw drop and i have to give a thank you to so many people

00:05:00.660 because yesterday summer slam 2022 in nashville to a 50 000 person uh nissan stadium was incredible

00:05:08.280 these are moments that i will remember for the rest of my life but what's more important to me

00:05:13.300 is that i'm creating moments that the people watching will remember for the rest of their

00:05:17.540 life yeah that means a lot to me because i had those moments growing up and i know one day some

00:05:21.920 kids gonna come up to me be like i was inspired by you doing the wwe and the crossover and but i

00:05:26.860 broke my femurs it's it's it's really working for me in the wwe steph mcmahon uh triple h who's the

00:05:34.260 guest today which by the way we shot his podcast yesterday before summer slam so if you're like

00:05:38.840 missing context that's why it's the only time we could get him um steph nick uh kristen potty

00:05:44.460 everyone at the wwe for trusting me and obviously like i i did this with floyd i gotta give a shout

00:05:50.200 out to mike the miz my my opponent and at one point mentor who i did beat last night i'm 2-0

00:05:55.320 i'm winning something i'm winning a combat sport he's dirty bro i don't i don't like i gave it but

00:06:01.900 but you know he's he's uh he allows me to shine and he's not afraid to and a lot of vets for the

00:06:09.380 new guy i can't imagine that's always easy he he understands what it takes to make the organization

00:06:17.300 great he's a team player yeah and i love the mike mike is for that um thank you the guy he rolls 0.96

00:06:24.380 with is all is problematic bro like he's gonna yeah he's gonna do some dirty shit i could tell 0.96

00:06:29.920 already the mike's wife and and uh how do you say his name again champa champa those two bro you 0.97

00:06:36.900 got to watch your back when not anymore bro i would beat him it's over um no but dude when i

00:06:42.340 when i was jumping off uh that pylon onto the table uh i i did have i had one thought before i

00:06:49.920 made the final leap i swear to god i'm looking around at this stadium and i'm like this is it

00:06:56.380 you know this is this is a moment that can make or break a career like or make or break you

00:07:03.680 literally literally in half is this what he could do what is he capable of and i go my life's been

00:07:11.200 so going so good i did great in wrestlemania i'm i'm gonna jump and break both my femurs right now 0.99

00:07:17.620 i go this is the end of my career fuck it and then just fucking nailed it i couldn't believe 0.98

00:07:26.400 do you know how much force it takes to break a femur it is the hardest bone did you see how 0.99

00:07:32.240 high he jumped it doesn't matter i made a point to go take it from someone who has broken their

00:07:36.680 femur you need to literally fall from the the sky from you were up there i'll get that done

00:07:42.040 i'll get that done i'm gonna have him make me go higher i can go i can go brother that was also i

00:07:47.820 want everybody to know not one of us knew what he was doing not we all watched it by the way god

00:07:53.740 i hate to say this out loud and i know you're partnering with them but i'm a big fan of wwe

00:07:58.280 now, bro. I was losing my

00:08:00.180 mind in the crowd. Why do you hate to say it, bro?

00:08:02.400 We have Triple H on today. No, because

00:08:04.240 dude, I like to speak real shit. I'm like, 0.99

00:08:06.160 this is a podcast. I want to speak my heart. When I first

00:08:08.160 showed up, I go, these guys are fucking weird. 0.99

00:08:10.300 I was like, everybody's like, dressed 0.99

00:08:12.060 weird. This 40-year-old man's in 0.80

00:08:14.080 tights and I go, dude, you're sweating.

00:08:16.240 Like, get away from me. But then all of a sudden, I

00:08:18.100 caught myself like, oh no,

00:08:20.240 what is she doing? And I was like,

00:08:22.180 oh shit. I'm like, wrapped in it. 0.99

00:08:24.160 Bro, you weren't even around at this point. 1.00

00:08:26.220 And I was still like, oh dude, that bitch better 1.00

00:08:28.180 And I'll do that 1.00

00:08:28.820 And then she did it

00:08:29.520 And I was like

00:08:29.860 No

00:08:30.180 And I was like 1.00

00:08:30.780 I'm wrapped in this shit now 0.99

00:08:32.500 But I kind of like it dude 0.99

00:08:33.620 It's kind of like a manly soap opera

00:08:35.220 We were watching

00:08:35.780 We were watching Becky Lynch

00:08:37.320 Becky Lynch

00:08:38.520 She's great

00:08:39.020 I'm telling you

00:08:40.180 Once you start paying attention

00:08:41.240 If you have someone

00:08:42.040 That you're locked onto

00:08:42.880 And you like

00:08:43.480 Suddenly

00:08:44.080 The WWE becomes

00:08:45.600 Exponentially more interesting

00:08:47.280 And you're captivated now

00:08:48.860 Yeah

00:08:49.180 And you're locked in

00:08:50.740 Invested

00:08:51.360 When they teamed up

00:08:52.300 I got so geeked bro

00:08:53.340 I was like

00:08:53.620 Here that's right 0.99

00:08:54.280 Don't fucking gang up on my girl 0.99

00:08:55.760 That also wasn't the first time 0.99

00:08:57.080 That you had

00:08:57.660 engaged with the ropes that evening

00:09:01.080 climbing on it when you first came out

00:09:03.200 you had actually had a slight run

00:09:05.100 with the corner of the rope

00:09:07.000 so when Logan first enters

00:09:09.060 the ring the first thing he does is he

00:09:10.600 goes to each corner to engage with the audience

00:09:12.800 and when he came over to our corner

00:09:15.220 he

00:09:16.580 for a split second

00:09:18.420 lost his focus on what he was

00:09:20.980 doing because he saw his friends

00:09:22.860 and for just the slightest second

00:09:24.880 he was a little puppy seeing a toy

00:09:27.200 in the corner and his eyes left the rope and looked at us and his foot slipped right past it

00:09:34.040 i go to stand on the second rope because i'm walking from one corner to the other right i

00:09:37.800 celebrated on the one and i'm in the zone i'm like yeah i'm the man whatever and i see my my all my

00:09:42.760 friends just like and i got so excited slipped and and and in that moment bro i don't i don't 0.61

00:09:49.620 i don't fucking care what everyone in the arena thinks but i care what you seven people think 0.86

00:09:53.820 and I go 0.99

00:09:55.280 they're gonna fucking 1.00

00:09:56.420 roast the shit 1.00

00:09:57.660 out of me 0.98

00:09:58.240 I literally pulled

00:09:59.440 this picture off

00:10:00.280 I was so embarrassed

00:10:01.680 when he walked away

00:10:03.460 all of our head

00:10:04.940 goes

00:10:05.200 bro

00:10:06.400 because it's so

00:10:07.180 and the way he

00:10:08.760 cheered afterwards

00:10:09.380 he was like this

00:10:10.380 at the beginning

00:10:10.680 and then he missed it

00:10:12.260 and as he was walking

00:10:12.860 away to go to the

00:10:13.440 other side

00:10:13.720 he goes

00:10:14.180 this is the new

00:10:17.160 WWE superstar

00:10:18.180 can't even get on 1.00

00:10:18.760 a fucking rope 1.00

00:10:19.380 when he enters the ring 1.00

00:10:20.300 hey but you made it up

00:10:21.360 bro I've never seen

00:10:22.320 so many backflips

00:10:23.200 on a guy's spine in my life like ever that was incredible i was i was so tired i cannot remember

00:10:29.140 the last time i've been that tired in my life oh i know you saw you were gonna die i think i had a

00:10:33.500 heat stroke no you did you were like we left the room because we're like dude we need to get out

00:10:37.240 of here he's he looks pretty messed up and then i walk and and then backstage all the rest are like 0.75

00:10:41.820 walking around i saw your partner like like you beat the shit out of him dragged him around the 0.66

00:10:49.240 rig and he's like and anyone want to get ice cream and then i come back into the room to be like dude 0.66

00:10:53.960 you got to see and logan's just on the tile ice on my chest ice on my head on my neck um like i i

00:11:00.800 don't know what happened i think those uh leather pants bro like you wore pants think about half my

00:11:06.160 body is not breathing at all yeah and i i did coffee before i was kind of off but insane man

00:11:12.560 insane life's life's been uh life's been good i mean it's good for us it's wild to just be there

00:11:17.620 watching it and we got to get really up close

00:11:19.600 when you went through the table and run over and throw in 1.00

00:11:21.520 a few extra cheap shots on the Miz. 1.00

00:11:23.720 Bro, you finally threw a right hand. I was actually

00:11:25.640 pretty excited about that. I can't believe it, right?

00:11:27.160 You jumped and bop, bop, Milton was like, finally!

00:11:30.400 He was so happy. He shed a tear

00:11:31.800 I wiped it from him. You know, maybe

00:11:33.360 it is my sport. We'll get into

00:11:35.540 a little bit more of the details of WWE

00:11:37.760 in the future and the

00:11:39.020 way it works behind the scenes with Triple H today.

00:11:42.480 Other big fighting news

00:11:43.860 today. I want to say first before we do

00:11:45.740 that like one more quick little uh gas in myself up here and well prime uh just became the official

00:11:53.220 sports hydration partner beverage for arsenal the soccer team like this doesn't like bro you're in a 0.99

00:11:59.760 coma somewhere i hope you know that none of this shit's real dude you're like you're sleeping the 0.97

00:12:04.380 nurse is like oh he's still sleeping and you're like arsenal it's not real life it's not real 0.97

00:12:09.460 life it's that that is massive and i i have to be honest i haven't always been the biggest soccer

00:12:16.000 fan but jj was and arsenal loves jj right like that's part of the reason he's such a good partner

00:12:21.200 yeah bro like he runs the uk and arsenal really respects him and jj loves arsenal and so for him

00:12:26.540 it was a dream come true but for the for the business you know this solidifies that we are

00:12:32.060 a true competitor we are a better for you better tasting hydration beverage that is rivaling some

00:12:38.260 of the biggest companies in the world our data shows how competitive we are in this market but

00:12:42.640 now we have one of the best sports teams in the world representing and using our drink to fuel

00:12:49.620 them for their sport yeah that's huge bro are you able to it wouldn't take it if it wasn't great

00:12:54.340 that one data point yeah we it's prime is now uh uh uh the one is is now a one percent market share

00:13:02.700 in hydration so for every hundred bottles of hydration beverages sold one of them is prime

00:13:08.820 which doesn't sound no that's huge like it's it's big it's very are you are we competing with like

00:13:14.480 every beverage or just sports beverages no hydration drinks hydration it's massive that's

00:13:20.780 basically it's basically when other companies when you get that that one percent of market

00:13:25.060 when they start paying attention when they start saying wow we got it we got either a problem here

00:13:29.680 a possible acquisition here a competitor here like until you get that one percent you're you

00:13:34.220 really don't matter but now like that's that's major that's how far are you taking this you

00:13:38.820 want to keep this forever are you trying to get bought out my ultimate goal would for the would

00:13:43.060 be for this to become a legacy brand um i i think that's so cool like like for this to be around

00:13:51.940 expand the product right prime is an amazing brand and we're capable of making an amazing product

00:13:57.500 what else can we make in the

00:13:59.240 beverage category

00:14:01.420 and I think it can be a legacy brand

00:14:03.540 JJ is poised to do amazing

00:14:05.880 things in life, so young

00:14:07.640 29 years old, I'd like to think

00:14:09.700 I am too, bro we're young

00:14:11.200 we are just getting started, scratching the surface

00:14:13.460 so that's why it's exciting, anyways, enough of that

00:14:15.700 Jake's fight, I go out

00:14:17.380 apparently I'm walking out to go

00:14:19.540 to fight WWE

00:14:21.700 and we get some news

00:14:23.540 on Twitter, I didn't find this out until afterwards

00:14:25.280 He was about to show Pam right before you go on

00:14:28.600 I was the first person to see it

00:14:30.120 That's very Mike

00:14:31.600 I was the first person to see it and I was like dude 0.99

00:14:33.760 Fuck bro this is wild 1.00

00:14:35.780 I can't believe this is happening 1.00

00:14:36.780 Immediately felt really bad for Jake

00:14:38.580 He's obviously been training his life away

00:14:42.380 For this fight

00:14:43.080 His fight got cancelled

00:14:44.320 Evidently because

00:14:47.740 Hashim couldn't make weight 0.71

00:14:49.420 I mean

00:14:50.920 He's ducking bro

00:14:52.560 At what point

00:14:54.600 do you not want to try to make the weight

00:14:57.720 because you're a little nervous?

00:14:59.480 At what point is it not worth it?

00:15:01.040 I can't believe it.

00:15:02.020 I can't believe the social media stars

00:15:03.740 scaring off the real boxers. 0.81

00:15:05.540 They're all backing out.

00:15:06.560 The kid can't get a fight.

00:15:08.040 And we feel so bad for him.

00:15:09.440 If you had any idea

00:15:11.300 how grueling training camp was,

00:15:14.120 the four hours of training per day,

00:15:15.960 the sparring, constantly getting hit,

00:15:17.460 having to eat right,

00:15:18.340 making sure your diet's correct, 0.97

00:15:19.600 sending your girlfriend back to LA

00:15:21.260 because you don't want to get oxytocin boost

00:15:22.920 so you can stay in killer mode like for weeks months on end like fine i'll box him send me the

00:15:30.920 contract jake i want the same amount of money and and and and and he has to pay everyone on his

00:15:36.280 payroll he has to pay for the jets that were supposed to take him to and from new york and

00:15:40.640 every single fighter on the lost millions lost millions every single fighter on the undercard

00:15:46.000 no longer has a fight who have also been working their ass off a man serrano

00:15:50.400 like oh man it just it's devastating is the word do you know if he loses the msg deposit

00:15:56.580 i don't know how that works i don't know because they asked dana white about it last night at the

00:16:01.140 ufc after and he said his everybody's deal is different but i mean you probably got a drop of

00:16:05.560 a few hundred thousand dollars just to lock in the it's just a mess we have a new sponsor uh

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00:16:59.120 back to the program your mom had some choice words to say uh back to hasim uh after this

00:17:08.320 happened so jake had put out this this uh uh kind of report on what had happened why the fight had 1.00

00:17:14.160 been canceled your mom quote tweeted it and had written uh just simply you're a pussy 0.99

00:17:19.160 at hasim great great writing went for the guy's throat and you know was was nervous here's what 0.99

00:17:26.700 happened mike took my mom's phone and tweeted from her phone her phone like in mike's defense

00:17:32.640 she had this paragraph of nonsense and he goes listen let me wrap it up for you he deleted 0.99

00:17:37.080 everything and he just goes you're a pussy and then she looks at me she goes is that great i go 0.99

00:17:41.600 listen i trust mike on this she goes she goes should we send this to the team to like review 0.99

00:17:46.120 first i go pam i already tweeted it it's been tweeted for five minutes he has one on draft

00:17:51.420 actually she goes it's draft one for her tell him the draft one i don't remember it's uh man okay

00:17:57.400 so he has one in the draft and she says it's on site oh it's on site yeah she was like i like that

00:18:04.780 so he goes what site is it i was like nope nope just let him so so hasim responded to it you know 0.90

00:18:11.180 yes and and what was it her scene responded to my sweet sweet mother calling him a puss

00:18:17.740 from what i understand so did the um the new york so did the mom dude that seems mom i think i may

00:18:24.820 in unintentionally started a a major uh battle here oh wow he's very he's been very active the

00:18:32.660 past uh however many hours we have a podcast with jake which is also why it's problematic

00:18:37.800 selfishly we have a podcast with him and for a good you know 10 minutes of it it's a great

00:18:42.720 podcast it's coming out uh either later this week or next week but we were talking about his fight 0.97

00:18:46.740 we have to cut around all that do the surgery so you guys don't have to hear the bullshit 0.61

00:18:50.040 he's saying um so hasim is saying uh tweeted jake and his team canceled the fight not me 0.98

00:18:55.960 the fight isn't happening on their accord not mine yeah yeah yeah he said back to your mom 1.00

00:19:01.020 your mom said once again surprisingly i can't believe she would say this you're a pussy out 1.00

00:19:06.340 and he said 1.00

00:19:07.960 somebody put some

00:19:09.660 I don't know if I really want to read this

00:19:12.000 actually

00:19:13.160 can you read it

00:19:15.140 somebody put 1.00

00:19:18.220 something in this wrinkled bish 0.99

00:19:20.280 mouth my zipper stuck and we 1.00

00:19:22.320 go and see who the pussy 1.00

00:19:24.140 when you run into my mama 1.00

00:19:25.920 somebody put 1.00

00:19:28.120 something in this wrinkled bish mouth 1.00

00:19:30.300 my zipper stuck 1.00

00:19:31.900 and we go and see

00:19:33.820 oh it's on site when I 1.00

00:19:36.260 see this motherfucker that's a pretty like aggressive thing to let go is there a way that 0.99

00:19:40.320 i could like go back and not tweet that because like yo this was not my intent man and evan you 0.99

00:19:48.240 should have stopped me she actually just sent a voice memo she said did you see hasim's response

00:19:53.440 to me and i said uh use the draft i said yeah maybe don't i said maybe don't respond she did

00:19:59.140 just send another voice memo should i play it sure it's 34 seconds no okay

00:20:03.800 damn well uh yeah the jake episode is coming too uh we we still have plenty of meat in that

00:20:11.140 podcast we have a uh special message for andrew tate we've got triple h going on the podcast 0.96

00:20:15.180 uh it's an amazing episode uh if you have not subscribed hit that subscribe button and yeah

00:20:20.340 let's cut to yesterday i'm sorry pam hey steph how are you hey how are you you mind if we watch

00:20:26.980 no no no no no no please join us all right all right do does the volume sound good yeah it's

00:20:33.440 good you're comfortable you guys went with the old guy's death right you turned it up position

00:20:38.420 three's headphones it's on the it's on the highest setting so we blow out your eardrums yeah apologies

00:20:42.660 on behalf of mike my hearing is really good it's my vision i don't think you know that's can you

00:20:47.500 see me right now i can't i could distances are fine if you ask me to read something i'm not even 0.61

00:20:51.700 close i can't even read whoa well that's not because of my vision that's because i'm stupid

00:20:56.720 it's just a skill set it's a skill set thing that you never learned i'm mastering it yeah i got an

00:21:01.580 intro for you go are you ready our guest is one of the greatest and most iconic wwe superstars of

00:21:08.520 all time he transitioned out of the ring and is now the executive vice president of talent relations

00:21:12.280 and is officially a head of wwe creative he's actually my boss he is the 40-time world champion

00:21:18.480 he is the cerebral assassin he is the king of kings it is the game triple h ladies and gentlemen

00:21:23.880 that's a good a good aggressive read i like it thanks i've been working on my mic skills now

00:21:33.160 that now that i am a wwe superstar i have a ways i have a ways to go but uh it's it's it's funny

00:21:38.380 because you know you're you're actually my boss but uh unfortunately since you did come like

00:21:44.120 15 minutes late i don't know how to say this you're fired yeah cool thanks for having me

00:21:50.860 no it's it's an honor to have i was debating quitting when i was upstairs and then

00:21:57.020 no you're you're i could i can imagine how busy you are did you fly in today last night

00:22:05.300 dude this week has been uh you talk about getting shot out of a cannon so

00:22:09.620 tuesday i left uh you know we're prepping for this and then tuesday i leave home to come down

00:22:16.280 here because wednesday morning early and and tuesday i the only reason i was there was it was

00:22:20.960 my daughter's birthday thursday but i wasn't going to be there so i spent the day with her on tuesday

00:22:27.080 as a make good for the thursday uh dad and and and husband priority over everything else right

00:22:34.520 and then uh so tuesday night i flew here wednesday we started uh tryouts we had 50 college athletes

00:22:42.740 and NIL athletes at the Wild Horse Saloon,

00:22:47.480 which seems like a funny place to do an athletic tryout.

00:22:51.080 You're in Nashville.

00:22:51.600 Yeah, but you're in Nashville, and it is Nashville, right, the Wild Horse.

00:22:56.680 But so flew in Tuesday night, started that on Wednesday.

00:22:59.140 Wednesday afternoon when we wrapped the first day of tryouts,

00:23:01.920 I flew back to Connecticut, had a business dinner with some of our partners,

00:23:07.420 got up in the morning, had a board meeting from the morning until 3 o'clock,

00:23:10.680 got on a plane flew back here came straight to the tryouts again um was there for that

00:23:17.240 um i'm trying to think now what was that yeah but what did i do in between there there was

00:23:23.520 there was something else that i did so thursday thursday i flew back did the second half of the

00:23:31.440 tryout um god there was something else i did in between there but anyways then yesterday

00:23:37.140 no i haven't had time for my yoga yeah i wish i did is there any leisure jammed in there like

00:23:43.000 you go to top golf or something like not just nothing the leisure was driving from wild horse

00:23:47.320 to the hotel back to wild horse nice or to the airport but then uh yesterday we started first

00:23:52.660 thing in the morning had uh tryouts again then media then some stuff with fans then got on a

00:23:58.780 plane flew to atlanta did smackdown got back in the plane flew here was at takers one man show

00:24:05.260 last night got up this morning i'm here with you guys uh head over to the stadium and watch you

00:24:10.760 if there was a roof on it blow the roof off yep yep you have no roof is by the way is interesting

00:24:15.100 i'm wondering if it's going to be humid wait the energy is going to be different nah dude

00:24:18.340 so the one thing it's funny like those stadium shows the energy will be different because there's

00:24:23.640 a slight delay as weird as it sounds it's not really that far away but there's a slight delay

00:24:29.500 so when you do something there'll be like a gap and then a reaction interesting right it'll be

00:24:34.940 it'll be slightly different and the sound a lot of times goes up so smaller venues like the loudest

00:24:42.480 one of the loudest arenas for me in the country is chicago is all state arena used to be called

00:24:47.180 the rosemont horizon i've been in that place i can recall distinctly in like late 98 899

00:24:55.700 wrestling austin in that building it's right after sean got injured austin had just become champ he

00:25:01.620 was crazy over and i can remember laying in that ring and we've done about a 40 minute match or

00:25:09.820 45 minute match laying in that ring closer than we are and having to scream at each other to

00:25:16.260 communicate and i we just couldn't and steve's deaf anyways but uh we could not just could not

00:25:23.260 hear each other it was so incredibly loud like so buildings like that where it's tight and the

00:25:30.660 the roof is small and it's got a wooden roof it's made acoustically well yeah yeah yeah that is the

00:25:36.440 the the it almost vibrates through you right stadiums are different yeah i'm new to this

00:25:42.160 obviously and so like it's gonna there's gonna be an interesting dynamic here because i'm i'm

00:25:45.960 curious right as the new guy i'm sitting in front of a you know a vet a legend and now my boss uh

00:25:50.940 but i noticed um distinctly how much louder how much more i could feel the energy just last week

00:25:58.360 at msg yes oh my god you know i'm not doing arena uh or like stadium performances often but man

00:26:05.800 madison square garden went nuts man yeah and i also think that just the fact that you're at the

00:26:10.700 garden like you're absolutely yeah your adrenaline and everything else amplifies right so like to me

00:26:16.900 when you're geeked like that you know that's the first time you uh perform madison square garden

00:26:22.620 Yeah, and we opened with physicality.

00:26:25.280 We were going crazy.

00:26:26.860 Yeah, I know, right?

00:26:27.720 And you blew the roof off the place. 1.00

00:26:30.740 And let me just say this to you, to your credit, right, and Miz's, 0.65

00:26:36.620 the garden is probably the most jaded arena in the world, right? 0.64

00:26:40.560 They are, like, you know, we used to say back in the day sometimes,

00:26:44.780 like, God, you've got to cut somebody's head off with a chainsaw on this joint

00:26:47.520 to get to the care, right? 0.95

00:26:48.880 They've seen it all.

00:26:50.000 Inside and outside the garden.

00:26:51.000 Yeah, from Bruno to Hogan to Cena to Rock to Austin to just everything, right?

00:26:56.660 And they've seen it all.

00:26:58.180 They've done it all.

00:26:59.160 And that's the place where, like, if you get them at the Garden, you got it.

00:27:03.760 Yeah.

00:27:04.140 You know, and you got them at the Garden, dude, so hats off.

00:27:06.960 So Nashville's roofless?

00:27:08.920 It's roofless.

00:27:09.420 It's Nissan Stadium.

00:27:10.340 So you've performed, actually, just to remind you, at a roofless stadium before you fought a really small boxer by the name of Floyd Mayweather in a roofless stadium.

00:27:21.000 I remember it was pouring rain.

00:27:22.660 It's just the fandom is different.

00:27:24.600 But also let me tell you the difference in that.

00:27:26.620 So you box a dude like Floyd, you have one focus, right?

00:27:32.960 I don't care if you're fighting anybody.

00:27:34.340 You have one focus.

00:27:35.460 An athletic event is different.

00:27:37.240 One focus, it's the person in front of you, right?

00:27:40.260 You don't, you're not so worried about fans.

00:27:44.260 You're not so worried about the reactions.

00:27:45.620 It's like I'm trying not to get tagged and get knocked out

00:27:47.500 and embarrass myself in front of the world, right?

00:27:49.180 or whatever that is your focus is is clean our job is to make them go crazy your focus is on

00:27:58.380 their reaction i can't believe you're saying this i just told this to my girl this morning

00:28:02.000 i'm i'm i'm trying to gauge how i feel going into this new venture and even like he's been

00:28:08.800 making fun of me i've just been like quiet this trip and like super reserved collecting my energy

00:28:14.540 because I have never thought about this much stuff in my life for a performance.

00:28:20.940 I want to put on a good show.

00:28:23.500 It's not just about the physicality.

00:28:26.220 I've got to be an entertainer, and you told me that at WrestleMania.

00:28:30.200 Because I feel like that's the gap that people have.

00:28:33.240 Even our talent that have been doing this a long time.

00:28:36.780 It's not the moves.

00:28:41.140 It's like watching a movie.

00:28:42.680 how many movies have you seen with crazy budgets and special effects and cgi that visually you go 0.94

00:28:51.220 like holy shit that's amazing right and no one cares the movie bombs there's no story

00:28:58.360 no one really fully cares right because it's not about the moves what we do it's about what you do 0.57

00:29:04.920 in between it's the characters and the story that's why i was saying to you like you know what

00:29:08.780 you're doing right you've you've you've walked through this you've done it you're ready to go

00:29:12.760 you know the moves you're an athlete you're and dude crazy good athlete that has picked this up

00:29:19.820 like that that's not easy to do i've only seen that less than a handful of people be able to do

00:29:24.960 what you've done thank you right that's amazing you should be proud of that but but the truth is

00:29:29.580 the athleticism all those other things i can make a way longer list of terrible athletes that were

00:29:34.380 incredibly over in this business than I can crazy athletes that were the be all end all right people

00:29:41.080 that are fanatics about what we do go like oh my god the match was so good those guys are so good

00:29:47.300 right now everybody else is like yeah you know yeah remember the two guys had a good match I

00:29:52.320 don't remember what their names were but they were really good like you want to be memorable

00:29:56.640 capture their emotions right my wife uses a quote from Maya Angelou all the time about people don't

00:30:02.680 remember what you say they don't remember what you do they remember how you made them feel

00:30:06.680 right our business is about feel if you make them feel it's the in-between things that make them feel

00:30:14.280 it's that it's the wide world of sports it's the thrill of victory it's the agony of defeat it's

00:30:19.860 those movements where you can't believe oh my god i hit this guy with everything i had he just kicked

00:30:23.800 out it's that moment after that and if guys slow down and let that story register the the the level

00:30:30.800 of when you're when you're new at this or you haven't fully grasped that concept yet you do

00:30:37.760 something it gets a massive reaction and you're like oh my god that's cool right and now your

00:30:43.440 your adrenaline's up and your instinct is to go to the next thing and let's get them while they're

00:30:47.340 hot and do this thing sit wait let them not know what's next and they will start to rumble

00:30:53.560 right that the anticipation of like getting to the edge of your seat you need those moments

00:30:59.240 where you look at your friend next to you as an audience member 0.94

00:31:02.260 and go, holy shit, what's going to happen now? 0.98

00:31:04.960 I've seen it. 0.99

00:31:05.820 Oh, my God, I don't know where they're going.

00:31:07.280 This is crazy good, right?

00:31:08.640 Like, you need those moments.

00:31:11.160 That's where this becomes magic.

00:31:13.120 The rest of it just becomes a movie that you go like,

00:31:16.620 wow, that was a really cool movie.

00:31:17.760 And then a day later, you've totally forgotten about it

00:31:20.280 as opposed to something that makes you watch it

00:31:23.540 and then you talk about it for five days afterwards. 0.99

00:31:25.560 Holy shit, can you believe that? 0.99

00:31:26.940 I'm still thinking about that movie. 0.99

00:31:28.420 We were talking about this with Roman Reigns, and he sits in the silence, and he just lets it simmer and brew, something I know nothing about.

00:31:39.800 Everybody in the audience just sat there waiting, biting on what he was going to say next.

00:31:46.460 And I want to ask you, how long did it take for you to go from getting out there, handling the core tenets, the physicality, the main parts of the performance before you started to layer in those minute details that really drilled home to the viewers?

00:32:02.600 Because that's when I'm waiting for him to reach that point where he starts to own the core tenets of the performance and starts to layer in his real personality.

00:32:11.500 So it takes time and everybody's different.

00:32:13.640 i think for me i was lucky in my generation coming in right so i come into in 95 i come

00:32:21.620 into wwe and i've got bret hart sean michaels one two three kid who was like a measuring stick here

00:32:28.180 in some manner right i'm working with razor ramon every night i'm working with diesel i'm

00:32:32.340 like all these people all these guys that have incredible experience at being storytellers not

00:32:38.300 being you know just just just doing the movements and all that stuff right um like scott hall one

00:32:45.460 of my really close friends uh you know unfortunately passed but like i i learned he's so underrated in

00:32:53.220 this business i learned so much from him right because he would be the guy that like you know

00:32:58.740 he just talked like eeyore but he would be like afterwards he would just say shit so simple like 0.90

00:33:02.460 why are you getting up so fast right there when we do that thing? 0.99

00:33:06.100 Like it makes no sense.

00:33:07.820 Dude, lay there and just let them come and they're going to rumble.

00:33:11.680 You know, and the next night we'd get out there and he'd be like, don't move.

00:33:16.020 And we'd lay there and all of a sudden like the people would be going apeshit.

00:33:19.200 I'd be like, oh my God, boom, light would go off, right?

00:33:22.520 Stuff like that. 1.00

00:33:23.320 I learned more from working with guys like the Bushwhackers, right? 0.93

00:33:27.740 yeah because like i remember one time we were in um we went to um kuwait like right after the 0.99

00:33:36.700 the war was over and and uh they brought us over there for like a six day run was actually great

00:33:43.360 we were in the same hotel every day which half of which was missing from a bomb but but we're in

00:33:48.420 this hotel and every night we'd go work the same arena but every night was different so like one

00:33:52.840 night i'd work with razor one night i'd work with kid one night i was working with butch you know

00:33:57.260 but you know those guys were older and they wanted to have fun and they wanted to make it

00:34:04.240 different and so you had to learn how to tell a story with them without making them take a bunch

00:34:09.220 of bumps and without doing other things and that's that period of time for me is when I learned

00:34:16.920 that aspect of it psychology and and crowd control not crowd controlling me crowd controlling them

00:34:26.100 you know what I mean and and when you get there where you have that crowd and even if you're

00:34:31.720 thinking I'm gonna do this next because that's what we've talked about doing but you're you know

00:34:36.020 you get to that moment and you go like yeah I know that's what we're supposed to do but if we do this

00:34:40.440 they'll go double nuts and you call an audible and you switch it and you do something else right

00:34:47.120 and there's the moment where it just becomes a lie because you're you're guiding them they're

00:34:52.220 giving you that feedback but then you're taking that feedback and going in a totally different

00:34:56.180 direction to go like you think you know where we're going watch this but that's when this thing

00:35:01.260 like we used to always do that back in the day that's the main line right like when you get there

00:35:05.480 and can do that dude and there's nothing that can ever happen in the ring then that's out of

00:35:11.140 your control do it do you have a moment that like stands out too as like the craziest moment that

00:35:17.180 ever happened to in your career?

00:35:20.040 Dude, I make you a list.

00:35:21.920 But I'll give you an example of just something that one time Rock,

00:35:26.220 Kurt Angle, and myself were in a storyline.

00:35:29.940 We're having a triple threat match at a big pay-per-view.

00:35:33.380 Steph's a part of that.

00:35:34.340 She's in the back.

00:35:35.280 As a part of that match, Kurt is going to get put through a table by me,

00:35:40.580 and I'm going to pedigree him through a table.

00:35:42.000 He's going to get knocked out, and they're going to cart him off.

00:35:44.500 Except we get up on the table.

00:35:45.920 I hook Kurt's arms and as we're about to go for the pedigree the table breaks from underneath us

00:35:50.140 and I'm looking down to try to protect Kurt because I got his arms and like I'm you know

00:35:54.920 first rule right protect your opponent I'm trying to protect him but we come down and I watch his

00:35:59.700 head smash into a control box right and we hit we yeah it's funny right we hit and I go down

00:36:07.480 and I hear Kurt start snoring he's out like cold so I put my hand on him I go Kurt you okay and he

00:36:14.800 wakes up and he starts trying to get up and take a mouthpiece that he doesn't have in out of his

00:36:18.860 mouth and he's like trying to get up so i grab him by his straps i pull him down i said dude don't

00:36:23.220 move and i hold him there but i realize and i tell the referee like he's out so they take him

00:36:29.400 on a cart to the back which was supposed to happen which was supposed to happen except for

00:36:34.000 he's out and has no idea where he is and we don't know if he's coming back and the whole finish

00:36:39.900 is him coming from the back with Steph

00:36:42.920 and coming from the back and doing all this stuff.

00:36:45.360 Now, this is where the story gets terrible

00:36:46.620 because today we know about concussions

00:36:48.200 and everything else.

00:36:50.320 None of this should have ever happened,

00:36:51.700 but we didn't know this at the time.

00:36:53.820 But, you know, Kurt goes in the back.

00:36:56.520 Rock and I are just working now.

00:36:59.780 Now we're off script and we're just working

00:37:02.300 and we're just talking to each other.

00:37:04.940 And at some point we're getting feedback

00:37:06.320 from the back through the referee

00:37:07.780 and like finally i just tell it was earl hebner i just tell earl earl do not tell me one thing 0.98

00:37:13.960 with a lot of expletives in here that they say from the back i don't give a shit i need one thing 0.85

00:37:18.420 tell me if he's coming back if he knows where he is that's it that's all i need to know and tell me 0.97

00:37:23.360 when we'll just keep going until somebody tells me he can come out or he ain't coming i'll figure

00:37:27.480 out a finish but halfway through what we're doing you know we're now we're just like in uncharted

00:37:34.520 territory we get a note

00:37:36.140 Kurt can come back when you're ready

00:37:37.980 he has no idea where he is

00:37:39.840 so he met one of the parameters

00:37:42.100 yes

00:37:42.620 so

00:37:45.500 you know Rock and I talk

00:37:48.520 about it alright let's go

00:37:49.520 here comes Kurt we see him coming

00:37:51.900 Steph has him like a kid

00:37:53.940 like walking him down the ramp

00:37:55.560 and he's glazed over he has no

00:37:58.340 like he has no idea

00:38:00.400 where he is and now Rock and I start doing

00:38:02.320 stuff with him and literally

00:38:03.440 like just telling him what to do and like at one point like i go to punch him steph's behind him i

00:38:08.660 gotta i gotta punch but he's got to duck the punch and i'm gonna hit steph and like he can see me

00:38:15.740 rearing up but he's just looking at me like i know he is not ducking i had i grab him by the neck and 0.96

00:38:21.080 i pull him out of the way you know so i can yeah hit steph like that's the kind of stuff like you

00:38:26.960 just can't

00:38:29.040 there's no way to plan for

00:38:31.160 it there's no way to anything right

00:38:32.660 and when you watch that match back you go like

00:38:34.900 oh my god I would never know

00:38:36.820 anything was wrong I would never know

00:38:38.820 anything was amiss

00:38:40.680 any of it but for us

00:38:43.080 we were

00:38:45.060 we were flying without radar

00:38:46.800 and just going and

00:38:48.440 when you get to that place

00:38:50.300 you know you can do anything but it's

00:38:52.460 it's a challenge

00:38:54.460 and stuff happens you know it just

00:38:56.660 is what it is right injuries happen moments happen where things change and you got to just be able to

00:39:02.220 to switch on the fly not you obviously yet but you know if you do this long term and you do it long

00:39:08.160 enough you get there i've heard i've heard i've heard these stories about being able to adapt and 0.90

00:39:13.700 it's it is so crazy to me again as the newcomer like wwe is a living breathing organism and 0.95

00:39:21.040 everything changes and happens so quickly but at the same time while it is living and it is

00:39:27.620 breathing it's also a machine a very well oiled machine right i've i've never uh been involved

00:39:33.660 with an organization that functions with such fluidity um i'm told where to go i'm told what

00:39:39.020 to do uh and i listen i'm a good employee please please don't fire me um but it is exciting that's

00:39:46.880 that's what makes it so interesting i want i want to talk about your uh your rivalry with uh the

00:39:51.780 rock yeah legendary yeah and and what he's done with his career has been incredible and you know

00:39:58.680 kick-started by the wwe you guys both had prolific careers and what you've done for the organization

00:40:03.280 is amazing but the rivalry with the rock was one of the coolest things i think that's happened

00:40:07.380 it was for me you know at the time you don't realize it we've all talked about this me

00:40:13.460 stone-cold rock uh we we've all had these conversations at separate times what an era

00:40:19.600 that was and the talent and and what we had to work with each other and um it just was a special

00:40:27.620 time but at the moment it was just like thursday you know it's so weird yeah you didn't understand

00:40:32.960 it at the time now you look back and go like oh my god it was so amazing and so wonderful and

00:40:39.680 the people that we had to work with you know on on any given night like I can make you a list of

00:40:45.680 the most talented guys ever in the history of the business and I was getting to work with them

00:40:49.360 you know so when Rock came in you know I was kind of just getting past my hurdles here and was sort

00:40:56.620 of getting elevated into a position Rock comes in as the new guy you know and then our careers sort

00:41:03.900 do this like alignment with each other where it's like we fight over the intercontinental title as

00:41:10.760 two guys just trying to make a name for themselves then we do make names for ourselves and we're

00:41:15.580 still fighting over the intercontinental title and it goes as high as you know ladder matches

00:41:20.280 at wrestlemania i mean uh summer slam and like these huge moments then he gets into the nation

00:41:26.020 and goes from being rocky maivia to to the rock and uh he's with the nation and i'm with dx and

00:41:32.600 now we have this rivalry with those two groups and then we bounce out of that he becomes a you

00:41:37.520 know a heel I'm the baby face still then uh it flips yeah and he becomes the baby face and I

00:41:43.040 become the heel again and now we're we're having this rivalry over the WWE championship and and

00:41:49.120 just moving up the line Austin gets injured and has to leave and and Rock and I you know he put

00:41:55.980 himself into place as the number one baby face you know right in line with steve as i was coming

00:42:03.020 out of dx i saw that and i was like well i'm you know like one i don't like being a baby face

00:42:06.960 two like these guys need a darth vader you know as you had two because you could just see that rock

00:42:13.460 like from the moment i met him i was like dude this guy is so charismatic like he just gonna

00:42:19.540 take this to a whole nother level personality-wise as soon as he figures out what that is

00:42:23.700 and he did

00:42:25.420 so they needed

00:42:26.980 only as good as the opposition

00:42:29.200 the antagonist only as good as the protagonist

00:42:31.840 and vice versa

00:42:32.920 so I knew that spot

00:42:35.640 so then I wanted that

00:42:37.520 king bad guy spot

00:42:39.420 but it just worked

00:42:41.600 for the two of us

00:42:42.320 my only regret of the whole thing with Rock is

00:42:44.860 in 2000

00:42:46.560 we were

00:42:48.120 poised to have a match

00:42:51.300 at Wrestlemania one on one

00:42:52.720 and i think that would have been an epic thing for both of us in that moment the timing of

00:42:59.260 taker's return and austin's return and austin wasn't quite ready yet so they pushed

00:43:04.400 the wrestlemania match and it's the year that we did this like fatal four-way with foley who i had

00:43:09.560 just retired coming back like a month later with his hair all cut because he thought he was off

00:43:15.080 now forever right he was going to be a normal dude and here he is back and and big show and

00:43:20.820 um you know like a month later or a couple of months later we would have the one-on-one iron

00:43:27.100 man match that we wanted to have at wrestlemania and uh it's unfortunately for me i always feel

00:43:33.600 like it's the one thing like we got to this unbelievably heated long-term rivalry and then

00:43:40.280 never got to pay it off on the biggest platform possible and i think rock feels that way too is

00:43:45.400 why a couple of years ago we did a backstage little thing i saw that last night hilarious

00:43:50.140 yeah so funny and that was literally him coming to me and saying like dude i i want to do a match

00:43:55.300 next year i'd like to do it with you like let us have that wrestlemania match we never got to have

00:43:59.600 and i was like yeah i'm in why did that not happen his schedule oh man is that you guys

00:44:06.040 had teased the match in like 2014 as well that you guys were supposed to have that didn't happen

00:44:10.920 it's happened a couple of times and just you know schedule wise or whatever it just couldn't take

00:44:15.740 place but you know he's certain guys that i've worked with uh you know just austin i worked with

00:44:24.380 like all the time because when sean was injured even before i was in that position i was doing

00:44:29.380 all the main events with steve because sean was out right and getting ready for wrestlemania and

00:44:34.040 so i you know of the opponents i worked with the most it's probably rock and steve during that

00:44:40.100 time frame it was just every night and and one of the things that i realized with rock is you know

00:44:46.120 it's very competitive environment for all of us and and sometimes that competitiveness could get

00:44:52.240 heated and sometimes it was we all got along but it was you know it was it was competitive and um

00:44:58.360 but we knew like it was magic you know like i knew from the first time he and i got in the ring

00:45:05.420 together and went out i was like two of me we the two of us have some chemistry here like this is

00:45:10.740 just it's it's off the chart and it's going to be really good i i have a bit more of a technical

00:45:15.640 question because you are now the the new head of creative and you're talking about an era that was

00:45:20.740 some of the most exciting uh sports entertainment quality standard era in history and

00:45:28.580 now i feel like how do i say this how how do you continue to get that excitement and and and make

00:45:41.360 this next generation thinking about and remembering the moments they're seeing today for the rest of

00:45:48.840 their lives because there's so much media out there and so much to consume and people are

00:45:54.660 getting lost and x and y and z and we all remember the time when you were coming up right but

00:45:58.920 do you feel that the wwe is as uh prominent and as uh much of a force as it was when you were on

00:46:07.200 the come up so i i do right i i think the the global nature of what we do and and the phenomenon

00:46:14.120 of what we do like how much it touches people and the emotion of it there was a moment in time i

00:46:21.240 I think because it was so, I don't want to say new because the Hogan era was so big.

00:46:28.260 Steve and I used to stand at a curtain every night.

00:46:30.180 Steve and I are both like the kind of guy that, like I would go to the shows,

00:46:34.340 I watch every match.

00:46:35.640 Like I'd have my gear on 30 minutes before the show,

00:46:39.340 I'd be standing at that curtain watching everything.

00:46:41.620 Student.

00:46:42.200 A student.

00:46:42.760 Yeah, Steve's the same way.

00:46:43.900 So a lot of times, even when we were facing,

00:46:45.860 we'd be like on opposite ends of the curtains

00:46:48.200 because then people wouldn't know

00:46:50.440 that we were just three feet away from each other

00:46:52.320 in case they saw us.

00:46:54.740 But we'd be watching the show

00:46:55.920 and doing like running commentary with each other

00:46:57.800 while it was going on.

00:47:00.600 You know, it was so fresh and so new.

00:47:04.180 And we used to talk about it all the time.

00:47:05.500 God, you think this could ever get like it was in the 80s, right?

00:47:09.100 Like with Hogan and stuff.

00:47:10.280 And I remember very distinctly being in Pittsburgh one time

00:47:13.760 and the building was like half full

00:47:15.380 and we had that exact conversation.

00:47:17.100 And then like maybe two, three months later, we were there and it was to the rafters sold out like crazy.

00:47:24.320 And the two of us were like, dude, this is insane.

00:47:26.820 Like how big this has gotten.

00:47:28.380 And it went like that.

00:47:29.960 It went from and it takes a spark and a moment to like capture people's imagination of something like that, something that wasn't even in their mindset three weeks ago.

00:47:42.780 And then all of a sudden something happens that everybody is talking about.

00:47:45.800 and all of a sudden it becomes the thing.

00:47:48.340 Now, the world is different today, right?

00:47:51.180 So there's so many options of things that you can do,

00:47:55.520 podcasts, television shows, streaming stuff.

00:47:59.300 You can watch anything when you want to watch it.

00:48:01.160 You're not a slave to the moment in time of,

00:48:05.680 well, this comes on at 9,

00:48:07.040 and there's only five other really good things on at that time even to watch.

00:48:11.240 So what are you going to watch, the news?

00:48:14.280 or are you going to watch WWE here?

00:48:16.680 And that's different.

00:48:18.460 I'm sorry to interrupt, George.

00:48:20.080 Even just, you know, everyone in the world

00:48:22.440 has to be a bit more sensitive right now.

00:48:24.240 And some of the more risky or some of the more exciting

00:48:26.420 like shock moments that we were able to have back then,

00:48:29.600 you guys have done an incredible job of adapting.

00:48:32.720 But I think part of the lore of professional wrestling

00:48:37.360 is the hardcore nature of it, right? 0.99

00:48:39.760 Like you've got guys in there who don't give a fuck, right? 0.99

00:48:42.800 They're showmen. 1.00

00:48:43.320 they'll put their bodies in the line they'll you know hit people with objects and yeah go crazy but

00:48:48.080 you know now you do have to work around those parameters a little bit more you you do but like

00:48:54.180 i often think that so a lot of times that stuff is overblown it's the story right like if you watch

00:49:02.780 a movie and i always equate what we do to movies right if to me if you watch a movie and it's just

00:49:07.560 a slasher film it's fun but it's not going to stick with you forever it's just blood and guts

00:49:12.040 and it's slashing and everything's just like the who can do the more violent kill or the crazier 0.70

00:49:16.780 kill or whatever that is right then what's the most ridiculous way somebody can die in this movie 0.96

00:49:22.080 and have their guts come out and an eye pop out of their head or whatever that is right

00:49:25.540 it's not doesn't stick with you it's not memorable it's the stories even in that era we did a lot of

00:49:32.120 crazy stuff that was mind-blowing and was shock television but the reason it lasted was not

00:49:38.060 because of the shock television that's maybe what made you go what was that but what kept you there

00:49:43.180 was the emotion and the storytelling you don't need the shock if you tell the emotion and the

00:49:48.860 storytelling right and um i there's moments in time of that through generations i remember when

00:49:56.860 i was a kid and you know everybody like general hospital with that you guys probably know what

00:50:01.420 that is oh i do my mother watched course my mom watches it to his day there you go and and it was

00:50:05.900 It was like the biggest moment in time of like this,

00:50:08.960 I remember being a kid in this Luke-Laura storyline, right?

00:50:12.680 But the whole world is like the most captivating thing.

00:50:15.380 And then like I can remember seeing it,

00:50:17.280 like my mom would record it every night

00:50:18.560 and I remember watching it and thinking, 1.00

00:50:19.480 this is the stupidest shit I've ever seen. 1.00

00:50:21.400 Like it's terrible, the acting's bad, 1.00

00:50:23.480 like it's just terrible.

00:50:24.760 But like the whole world was absolutely captivated by it

00:50:28.020 because the story was so good.

00:50:29.500 Like then once you watch it for a couple of times,

00:50:31.780 you're like, oh yeah, what's he going to do next?

00:50:33.460 I don't know, this is crazy.

00:50:34.340 it's the story it really is so the other stuff while it's cool after a while it i'm friends

00:50:42.380 with a guy named john millius john millius wrote conan uh apocalypse now right like classic epic

00:50:50.060 did wrote wrote the scene in jaws where he talks about the indianapolis and all right like just a

00:50:55.940 crazy good writer and one time he said to me we were talking about movies and our business and he

00:51:01.040 goes machine gun fire is boring after five seconds no one cares but i can make you a 30 minute scene

00:51:07.800 in the movie with one bullet one gun one guy with a gun to another guy's head and tension and you'll

00:51:13.860 never forget it for the rest of your life right it's like a thousand bullets versus one yep drama

00:51:19.720 versus one one that makes you have angst and feel and oh my god what's going to happen next i think 0.98

00:51:26.760 about all the time like inglorious bastards right like the opening scene with the guy at the farm 0.97

00:51:31.920 house and the people are under the floor and you're like sweating watching the scene right 0.98

00:51:36.960 like you'll never forget that scene i've seen people run across the screen a million times

00:51:41.740 and nothing's anything wrong with that that's that's a part of what makes movies great yep i

00:51:46.520 just need something mindless and go watch some people get murdered well it's like you think

00:51:50.940 about horror movies and everybody's mind you know you would think everybody's mind would go to jason

00:51:55.200 and all and freddy krueger but like one of the greatest horror movies ever that everybody

00:51:59.680 remembers is the shining and it's and it you know what i'm saying and it's like please name

00:52:03.500 please name the big horror like the horrible gory special effects scene and there's a little

00:52:08.240 blood in the hallway with the two girls but like you know it's so it's short right it's not somebody

00:52:12.540 getting their head chopped right right like it's it's it's the emotion and the feel and it scares

00:52:18.340 the shit out of you right like look the the magic of jaws i mentioned that movie a bit ago right like

00:52:23.300 people wouldn't swim for forever right some don't still you hardly ever saw the shark and it was a 0.97

00:52:30.320 mistake because the mechanical shark wouldn't work right right so they had all these scenes

00:52:34.980 with the shark eating people and doing all this gory shit and then the shark wouldn't work so

00:52:38.900 they had to just hide it just show finn coming through the water or the barrels dragging along 0.89

00:52:42.740 the water with the music and you knew the shark was coming that's like really being in the ocean

00:52:47.200 you can't see the shark it goes back to what we mentioned earlier it's sometimes it's about what

00:52:51.360 you don't say what you don't show those moments of silence and making people captivated by 100

00:52:56.440 but but getting that and then you you can know that but in the moment when there's you know like 0.98

00:53:04.940 in that moment tomorrow when there's 50 000 people there and they're going apeshit to have the balls 0.67

00:53:11.060 to wait to have the balls to be silent to take the risk of of that quiet to get to the next level 0.59

00:53:20.740 that's a that's a risk and and a lot of people don't have the guts to take it but if you do 0.99

00:53:26.180 there's magic on the other side can i can i suggest something yeah what the fuck do i know

00:53:32.060 but i'm gonna put on my but you're a fan so you do know yeah yeah but i haven't always been i have 0.57

00:53:39.700 that's not true i have been but now i'm a fan fan right i'm invested and so are all my friends

00:53:44.840 i'm gonna put on my creator brain as i say this uh because we don't come from inside out inside

00:53:53.020 the wwe universe and out we came from outside in and now that we're in and i'm in we're all

00:53:58.700 invested you know my girl now never watched this in her life is she came to msg she goes oh my god

00:54:04.040 i'm in i'm in now so while i 100 agree that the story at the end of the day is the uh thread that

00:54:13.480 the spine of this organization and operation i am also a disruptor right i i like those big

00:54:22.560 viral moments i like those hooks that grab the globe's attention and i think if there was a way

00:54:30.880 to you know tastefully i don't want to go too shock and all too like you know decapitate show

00:54:36.360 the guts and everything but if there's a way to create those moments to hook people who aren't

00:54:41.000 normally invested in the wwe and then get them invested with the the rich nature of the stories

00:54:47.340 i think that's where you guys are going to crush and honestly that's where i would like to help

00:54:51.420 out as well because i i don't come again from this world i come from like mainstream like how 0.80

00:54:57.100 do i make you care with a fucking six second vine and then i'll attach you to my decade-long 0.83

00:55:01.640 almost career that people are still watching yeah and i think like if there's a way to weave 0.99

00:55:07.400 those two worlds you know wwe and wwe is a universe let's make this shit a multiverse

00:55:13.900 yeah look couldn't agree with you more i think you're like just saying that it's genius right 0.75

00:55:19.000 like to me that's where it's at you you inherently get this it's why you're where you are right like

00:55:25.280 you inherently get the vibe of today's kids and and and the young adults and what they're looking

00:55:32.980 for and all that it's and when i say the story stuff it's it's not like the story has to be

00:55:39.360 there but yeah no the special effects got to be good when you do them and you've got to have the

00:55:43.500 commercial moment to sell the movie because like there's a million great movies out there that

00:55:47.700 nobody gave a shit about and or watched because there was nothing that hooked them to go see it 0.50

00:55:52.680 right you you have to have that hook and you have to have those things and dude like 0.83

00:55:57.800 like we want to work with you for that reason yeah yeah like that's the thing i'm old dude i

00:56:05.840 don't know how to figure out some of those things across what you're talking about yeah it's why

00:56:10.480 like you do it's why i'm excited um especially because i mean like vince was was so good to me

00:56:15.620 i think i was the last superstar he signed i mean i'm not a superstar but i think i was the last

00:56:22.220 you know you are you signed the paper that made you a superstar yeah all right i've got there

00:56:25.880 and you know i've been i've been kind of getting my feet wet and i've been in gorilla and backstage

00:56:32.740 and every time after my thing i shake his hand and he's sitting in the corner there

00:56:36.040 and last uh week at msg it was you you know and so i think there's a a really interesting 0.60

00:56:42.700 opportunity to uh to i don't know do some shit that has not been done before so i'm gonna be

00:56:48.920 pitching ideas all the time of you.

00:56:51.100 I'm counting on it, dude.

00:56:52.160 Okay, good.

00:56:52.540 Yeah, I'm counting on it.

00:56:53.360 Look, I'll say this about Vince.

00:56:56.120 Massive shoes that I couldn't even dream of

00:56:57.980 beginning to think I could fill, right?

00:56:59.940 Like the gap there in this moment is massive,

00:57:03.540 but the opportunity to take it in a direction

00:57:06.700 that has never gone before is massive.

00:57:09.760 I'm thrilled for that opportunity.

00:57:11.660 We have an unbelievable team

00:57:13.400 that it's never going to be one person.

00:57:16.340 One person can't even begin to fill his shoes.

00:57:18.380 It's going to take an entire team of people to jump in those shoes

00:57:21.180 because without him, there's none of this, right?

00:57:24.200 Like the vision to take it from this tiny little thing happening in bars

00:57:28.500 to this big to global sensation like nothing else, right?

00:57:37.680 You know, WrestleMania is one of the most valuable sports franchises on the planet.

00:57:41.980 Billions of social media followers,

00:57:43.780 the 70-plus billion lifetime views on YouTube, right?

00:57:49.980 Like the level of fan interaction, following,

00:57:54.960 and dedication and passion for what we do,

00:57:58.700 there's nothing like it.

00:58:00.120 And I'll put any sport against that,

00:58:01.620 and I'll put any form of entertainment.

00:58:03.800 Certain movies only resonate in certain countries.

00:58:06.140 Certain sports only resonate in certain countries.

00:58:08.620 Name one that goes everywhere.

00:58:10.700 It's WWE.

00:58:11.500 on the topic of social media and and you know how it's gonna play with the wwe we're in the air

00:58:19.160 the era of social media creators influencers whatever you want to call them when when i don't

00:58:25.200 know how the idea of logan paul joining the wwe got to your desk but candidly what were your

00:58:32.600 feelings and what were your thoughts when you first heard that jake paul's older brother was

00:58:37.680 gonna join to tell like be honest like be completely honest maybe completely honest so 0.54

00:58:42.800 who the fuck is that yeah who he's not the demo 0.94

00:58:50.580 you're not the demo yeah no offense yeah yeah i think it's funny because sometimes people talk 0.99

00:58:57.180 about our business go like well i i you know i i watched a little bit when i was a kid that means

00:59:01.480 i never watch and they don't want to offend me or something like that like yeah that's not for

00:59:05.580 everybody yeah when they first said it christian proud he walked in talked all about it and i'm

00:59:10.300 like i don't know what that is like no kb let's go yeah i had no idea and then they told me and

00:59:17.700 then i started looking at it and i was like holy shit these dudes are massive right and and uh you

00:59:24.000 know and i have kids right and they're watching all this stuff and then as now it's on your radar

00:59:28.980 so now you start hearing people talk about it where if i would have heard people talk about it

00:59:32.900 before i wouldn't have ever paid attention to it now you start paying attention to it like this

00:59:38.160 thing is huge we gotta get with this guy and then you know even then i i can tell you over the years

00:59:45.120 a million celebrities have come up to us and said i want to be a baby every superstar i want to do

00:59:51.720 it so bad right that that all sounds great on paper first time they hit the mat they're like

00:59:57.640 yeah so i was thinking maybe i could help with commentary or i could you know i could do something 0.98

01:00:02.020 else because that shit hurts carrie busey like nick nolte no dude this isn't for you it's a lot 0.98

01:00:09.060 of that or you know and they just don't get it but then when they do it's a different story then 0.99

01:00:14.640 there are certain folks that come into it that are just like invested in it and then that's when i

01:00:21.580 light up right if somebody comes in and they just want to hook their wagon to it for a minute or

01:00:26.120 they want to promote a film that's exciting but when somebody comes in like you and goes

01:00:30.940 hey this is awesome i'd like to be a part of this and then when they come in and they kill it you

01:00:36.680 see that level of because you know to do what you did right it's like bad bunny same thing like

01:00:44.180 and and i don't give this easy right because i've done this for a long time put my life on the line

01:00:50.540 for it and seen other people do the same respect in our business for what we do is tough to get

01:00:56.520 and I don't give it easy.

01:00:58.280 Taker doesn't give it easy, right?

01:00:59.640 The people at the top are like,

01:01:00.940 yeah, you got to earn it

01:01:01.800 and there's a lot to earn, right?

01:01:03.980 You earned my respect.

01:01:05.240 Thank you.

01:01:06.000 Big time.

01:01:07.000 Bad Bunny earned my respect big time

01:01:09.520 because to do what you did,

01:01:11.720 you had to dedicate yourself 100%.

01:01:13.860 I don't even mean just going to the gym

01:01:15.420 for a couple hours

01:01:16.680 and going through the motions

01:01:17.860 and doing the stuff.

01:01:18.700 I mean dedicate yourself to it.

01:01:20.200 Like you woke up in the morning

01:01:21.540 thinking about it,

01:01:22.580 you went to bed at night

01:01:23.560 thinking about it, right?

01:01:25.260 That's the difference.

01:01:26.520 to me and when you can do that now now i want to help you succeed yeah i want to help somebody go

01:01:33.360 because i know what that's like i know it's the greatest gig in the world if you can make somebody

01:01:38.140 help somebody feel that because they have a passion for it and they're willing to grind

01:01:42.200 and they're willing to put in that level of dedication take the risk everything else

01:01:46.040 shit yeah let's go i have no problem earning respect i've i've done it before and i intend

01:01:53.040 done doing it in the wwe i will say though i do really feel like i have a bit of a cheat code 0.95

01:02:02.500 and i did hop to the highest level so quick and i can kind of feel some of the other wrestlers

01:02:09.040 sometimes maybe a little chip on their shoulder because you know they put in years decades even

01:02:15.040 of work to just to get where i am now and look if a dude comes into a podcast next week starts 1.00

01:02:20.060 whipping your ass a month later you're like yeah yeah we've been at this shit i'm gonna kill this 1.00

01:02:24.140 guy yeah what's going on and i feel i feel like i get it i don't know how i'm here i just i just am 1.00

01:02:29.160 but um i do i do want to commend all the all the people who have been doing this you know for the

01:02:34.400 majority of their life like like most of my now peers have been um and i know you uh uh are big

01:02:43.080 in recruitment which i think is going to be massive in in the future of the wwe right nil you mentioned

01:02:48.360 next in line yeah at the beginning that's huge for us yep and and and nxt as well yeah so you

01:02:54.400 know nxt started we created with you right yeah yeah i mean us right like so as a company vince

01:02:59.860 and i sat down this is years ago obviously i wore steph out talking about it before that but like

01:03:05.660 you know we we talk about it and like there was a moment in time where vince was so successful

01:03:11.340 at creating one brand but in in turn shut down all these territories and all the places that

01:03:16.820 guys had to go learn this craft over time and we started talking about it in a manner of saying

01:03:21.400 like we're like 10 years from now 20 years from now we're screwed like where are these guys coming

01:03:26.900 from yeah and and somebody's got to teach them because of the guys were out there learning but

01:03:31.380 it was not good um and somebody had to teach them properly and and correctly and and uh teach them

01:03:38.140 how to do it right so how do you do that how do you get better quality athletes how do you get

01:03:41.160 better quality humans all that stuff you build a performance center you you you make it um you

01:03:47.840 know at the time you make it super cutting edge where a professional athlete that is thinking

01:03:52.560 about doing this you know can walk in and go like oh yeah this is like even if to learn the money's

01:03:59.140 not great up front but i get to be an athlete in a place like this i'll do this every day for a

01:04:03.380 while and see if i can do this you know that's the kind of stuff that cuts it then you need a

01:04:07.320 brand for them to learn on so we created nxt we rolled with that you know um the difficulty for

01:04:12.840 us has been and always been on the recruiting side finding people with the passion to do this

01:04:17.840 with the athletic skill to do this the charisma to do it which is king and then the right human

01:04:22.720 beings the biggest pool of people to do that is collegiate athletics right it just is is why the

01:04:31.200 nfl can let go of 500 players a year because they have this ocean of talent coming into them at any

01:04:38.560 point in time and for every person that's in college football waiting to get in the nfl there's

01:04:43.820 hundreds that are in other sports that no one looks at and there's no professional avenue for

01:04:49.400 them and like yeah when you get done being a hammer thrower like your gig is yeah i either

01:04:54.780 coach or i get a gig doing something else whatever i got my degree in um but we couldn't engage with

01:05:02.480 those collegiate athletes because of ncaa rules and all that right even though we're an entertainment

01:05:06.840 company we risk their eligibility and it was difficult um once nil hit it was a game changer

01:05:13.500 because i could immediately talk to all these athletes and offer them this opportunity which

01:05:19.600 for a vast majority of them were like oh my god i grew up watching this like this is the

01:05:24.300 opportunity of a lifetime and i i get to i'm i'm 21 years old man i'm gonna take this shot for a

01:05:31.140 couple of years and be an athlete have the all the things that the biggie and i were talking about

01:05:36.600 this just the other day about the recruiting process because while he's out with his injuries

01:05:40.100 kind of like helping be a part of this and uh you know he was saying how devastating it was for him

01:05:45.760 in college everything in his life was football and athletics and and that camaraderie of team the

01:05:52.900 the drive, the grind, all the things that go on being a pro athlete.

01:05:56.500 And then all of a sudden he graduates college and he's like,

01:05:59.300 it all just stops.

01:06:01.060 That all goes away.

01:06:02.360 And like, so what do I do with my life?

01:06:06.300 And that drive, I get a job.

01:06:09.000 That's great.

01:06:09.680 But it isn't anywhere near the same level of anything.

01:06:14.420 So to now have that opportunity for these kids to go like,

01:06:18.360 well, wait a minute, yeah, I'm not going to go to the Olympics

01:06:21.500 or whatever and i'm not gonna be a pro hammer thrower and i'm not gonna do all these other

01:06:27.420 things what can i do and wwe throws an opportunity at you which many of them probably have thought

01:06:33.400 about man i'd love to do that is how do you do it i have no idea you know um now we're getting

01:06:40.320 right out to them and saying like come come with us yeah right we have some some college athletes

01:06:46.600 on nil deals where they're you know um our ours is different we're not looking for a transactional

01:06:52.960 thing where we you know like a chicken company where we go like here here's a few grand like

01:06:57.400 say you love our chicken you know we're working with athletes that want to be a part of wwe

01:07:02.640 that we can invest in we're looking for long-term recruiting opportunities with these people and how

01:07:07.740 we can make them long-term you know bigger and they promote us so every contest they go to every

01:07:16.520 game they go to everything they go to they're representing wwe they're like a walking billboard

01:07:20.080 and then when they get to the end of their college career we've worked with them on how to be a you

01:07:25.460 know their finances we've worked with them on social media we've worked with them and how do

01:07:29.920 you how do you make yourself a brand right we've worked with them on all that so they're getting

01:07:34.620 bigger and bigger and bigger if they don't come with us at the end of it great they've been a

01:07:39.360 billboard for us for two years or three years or whatever it's been if they do come with us

01:07:43.060 we're already way ahead of the game in in who they are as human beings and as athletes and

01:07:49.340 and everything else under the sun so it's it's it's the perfect mix for us dude that 360 degree

01:07:55.140 like breeding if you will is so important and and sharp whoever implemented that like kudos

01:08:03.320 because i can only imagine like we've even suggested this to dana white if the ufc had a

01:08:09.620 program where they were like 360 degree breeding their fighters and they came in with their in

01:08:14.700 there in the ring or the octagon with the enthusiasm excitement charisma personality of

01:08:20.060 if every ufc fighter was a conor mcgregor you know yeah or any wwe superstar but if you're just

01:08:26.020 sitting waiting like we can create or we can have the attempt at least to create a conor mcgregor

01:08:31.580 and we do you have a ton of them right we have you have all conners generationally right from

01:08:37.840 from bruno san martino yeah all the way through to roman reigns right now and everything in

01:08:42.600 between and you can even throw brock lesnar into that list because where did he learn to do the

01:08:47.720 personality charisma all those other things that he had right like athletically yes but the rest of

01:08:53.140 it like from us so his level of promotion and all that stuff was next level when he went to ufc and

01:09:00.040 That's what he jumped off on.

01:09:02.460 But yeah, they can do that.

01:09:04.180 But what boxing and all those sports do is they're just waiting for the next generational

01:09:10.160 connected talent.

01:09:10.440 Yeah, they're waiting.

01:09:12.080 Yeah, he's waiting for somebody to come along that captivates you.

01:09:15.440 And we're different.

01:09:18.060 We can control that environment.

01:09:19.980 We can control the...

01:09:21.460 And we also can control the narrative long term.

01:09:24.000 I remember having a conversation with Dana when they were going into China

01:09:27.820 and the Chinese national girl was fighting for the title.

01:09:32.100 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:09:32.500 We saw him at the ESPYs, and he was like, you know,

01:09:34.880 I was congratulating him on the movement into China.

01:09:37.040 And he said, yeah, no, I just, I need her to win, right? 0.94

01:09:40.540 And he was like, it's all just, if she gets killed,

01:09:43.380 it's all for nothing.

01:09:44.600 If she wins, man, we're on fire.

01:09:47.380 And I said to him, like, it's the magic of what we do.

01:09:50.180 I know she wins with us.

01:09:53.700 True, because she lost, I think.

01:09:55.840 I don't recall.

01:09:57.160 You know, I don't recall at the time how that went.

01:09:59.720 I thought she won, but I'm not positive.

01:10:01.460 I also apparently don't recall.

01:10:03.140 Yeah.

01:10:04.160 We just got a five-minute sign from our producer, Dylan.

01:10:08.500 I want to ask him.

01:10:09.360 I thought you ran this.

01:10:10.260 Not really.

01:10:10.980 He's the boss.

01:10:11.740 Or at least he also throws us up symbols that we don't even know what he's saying.

01:10:15.340 Sometimes he does this.

01:10:16.140 He runs by and gives you gang signs.

01:10:18.140 Yes.

01:10:18.500 We're like, what are we supposed to do with this info?

01:10:20.200 I think he wants to fight us.

01:10:21.260 I don't know.

01:10:22.080 I'll throw it out.

01:10:23.540 All right.

01:10:24.020 Well, actually, Logan had tried to add some physicality to today's podcast.

01:10:29.460 And I looked at our PDF this morning and said, please, no wrestling.

01:10:32.220 That's not true.

01:10:33.060 I did not.

01:10:33.980 Dylan pitched it.

01:10:34.800 You guys can have that all you want.

01:10:37.160 I'm of a watch mode now.

01:10:38.640 So I'll critique it.

01:10:39.980 Wait, ask about Steph.

01:10:41.820 Ask about Steph.

01:10:42.860 Not participating.

01:10:43.800 I want to talk about Steph a little bit.

01:10:46.020 Let's go.

01:10:46.680 Steph is right there.

01:10:47.740 Yeah.

01:10:48.400 Your wife, daughter of Vince. 1.00

01:10:49.740 If you want her to whip your ass, go ahead. 1.00

01:10:51.600 I don't care. 1.00

01:10:52.000 Oh, no, no.

01:10:52.520 You want to get her involved?

01:10:53.720 I don't have any problems. 1.00

01:10:54.960 I'm scared of her.

01:10:55.760 You should be, too.

01:10:56.600 Yeah, let me just say.

01:10:57.700 All my bosses are in this room.

01:10:59.260 You've been hit hard. 0.98

01:11:00.700 Her slap will take your eye out of your head. 0.67

01:11:02.360 I'm just saying.

01:11:03.280 I believe you.

01:11:04.180 I believe you.

01:11:05.220 No, that's, I mean, just real quick, the last thing is I can't believe how familial now this organization is.

01:11:13.540 Right?

01:11:14.140 She's in charge.

01:11:15.400 And now you're, again, the head of creative.

01:11:17.620 And you guys work in tandem.

01:11:19.680 And you work in tandem at home because you're married.

01:11:23.080 You have kids?

01:11:24.420 Three kids.

01:11:25.840 Three girls.

01:11:27.320 16, 14, 12.

01:11:29.720 I'll be honest with you.

01:11:30.460 It sounds like a nightmare.

01:11:32.140 It's a lot.

01:11:33.480 The 16-year-old just started driving, just got her permit.

01:11:36.400 I'm starting to teach the 14-year-old now a little bit.

01:11:39.320 I'm panicking about the little one trying to learn how to drive 1.00

01:11:43.040 because she's the nut job. 0.99

01:11:44.940 But it's going to be... 0.99

01:11:46.940 Wait, so how does... 0.93

01:11:47.740 I love you, stinker, Noah. 0.99

01:11:49.700 I love you, stinker. 0.90

01:11:51.160 i mean that job in the best way possible yeah but okay so you're both you're both so busy and 0.68

01:11:56.960 you're always here i see who is raising these children we just put some we put kibble out

01:12:02.000 and some water and we just lock the door so they can't get out and then just let them

01:12:06.380 go what what's the biggest challenge of working alongside your uh the person you're married to

01:12:12.300 because i i work with my spouse as well so i know there's quite a bit of challenges there like what's

01:12:17.320 the biggest challenge you guys have found i mean honestly if i was to look at her always being right

01:12:21.320 that's that's hard yeah how much of that how much of that happy wife happy life

01:12:27.220 sometimes it's just hard to swallow but you just have to do it

01:12:30.760 i'm gonna get slapped on it yeah

01:12:35.500 no it's just wild you know because it started as a storyline correct

01:12:40.960 that's why we always joke that our our marriage works so well like almost 20 years and like i

01:12:48.100 think we're more in love now and happier now than we were even then which is really cool like being

01:12:54.940 married to your best friend is awesome but we always say it works the best because we had a

01:12:59.000 dry run on tv we were do you still have a writer now have three daughters i need to have a chat

01:13:06.980 Don't talk back.

01:13:08.040 I need to have a chat with the writer.

01:13:09.580 But, yeah, but, you know, we were married, had a violent divorce,

01:13:13.360 divorced the whole thing on TV.

01:13:14.980 So we know what it's all like.

01:13:16.140 We got it out of the way.

01:13:16.840 Yeah, yeah.

01:13:17.280 We got it out of the way.

01:13:18.040 We're all good now.

01:13:19.300 Well, Steph.

01:13:21.180 Thanks.

01:13:21.620 And Nick.

01:13:22.660 Yeah, Nick, our co-CEO.

01:13:24.780 And, yeah, my booking assistant over there, Sonny Con,

01:13:31.520 is my booking assistant.

01:13:32.680 I'm going to go pick his brain.

01:13:34.360 Drink a pride, by the way.

01:13:34.560 Drink a pride.

01:13:34.960 I'm going to go pick his brain for some good ideas on SummerSlam later today.

01:13:38.740 Amazing, amazing.

01:13:39.680 I want to give KP, too, you guys all a personal thank you for trusting me

01:13:45.180 and welcoming me with opening open arms into this business.

01:13:48.060 It is a lot, and I'm glad that there's trust between us,

01:13:53.560 that you guys trust in me to do what I need to do to put on a great show

01:13:58.200 and continue propelling this organization forward.

01:14:00.420 I love working with you because of what I said earlier.

01:14:02.940 Your passion for this.

01:14:04.180 dude when I looked over from Gorilla

01:14:06.540 the night you were going to go out there

01:14:08.380 and I walked over and said this stuff to you

01:14:10.100 I could see it in your

01:14:12.540 eyes as you were staring at the

01:14:14.440 ground getting yourself into it I could feel

01:14:16.440 it coming out of you and I was like this dude

01:14:18.480 is like he's one of us

01:14:20.240 he's passionate about this this is in his

01:14:22.520 soul right now

01:14:24.300 that's why I went over and talked to you right like

01:14:26.280 when somebody has that level

01:14:28.380 of passion I can't help but want to go

01:14:30.400 over there and work with them and if there's some

01:14:32.440 way that I can assist them to get it even more and become even bigger and I'm all over it so

01:14:38.080 for me thank you for the passion for it because not everybody has it some people come in here

01:14:42.900 differently and you have it and thank you for having it and and I look forward to we're going

01:14:48.520 to take WWE to places it's never been yeah and how we're going to partially do that is by working

01:14:52.640 with people like you that can help us get to places that we haven't even thought of yet for

01:14:56.540 sure right and vice versa for you hopefully we make you even bigger than you ever thought you

01:15:02.780 could possibly be that's that's the that's the goal in all of this and and uh i don't you know

01:15:09.280 i don't i don't think there's anything as a brand as a product as a when people ask us where we see

01:15:15.640 this thing going we're disney we're not yeah you know we're we're gonna be bigger long term you

01:15:22.380 talked about the multiverse it's like let's do it all those things that that that are there for us

01:15:26.920 in front of us the the exponential growth and where we can go and where we can take this

01:15:34.140 and the desire to and no one's going to stop us i love that man wow this has been an honor uh i'm

01:15:40.720 gonna go stretch because i have a match tonight at summer slam in front of 50 000 people when

01:15:44.720 they asked me to do this and they said well you can do it that morning i'm like should he do it

01:15:49.620 that morning because i feel like i'm good doing it that morning but i feel like he's gonna be

01:15:53.280 kind of like thinking about later maybe he should we should do it a different time yeah i said you're

01:15:57.860 fine with it wait till you see him at 2 a.m at his after appearance yes uh amazing amazing paul

01:16:05.460 boss sir triple h thank you for coming on impulsive man the number one podcast the world

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01:16:15.240 you were so quiet this whole episode do you have anything to say about jesus anything

01:16:18.120 Yeah, it's always a Jesus joke

01:16:19.820 So this is what happened, man 0.97

01:16:21.660 You intimidate the fuck out of him 0.98

01:16:23.020 I don't want to interrupt you 0.98

01:16:24.300 I love Jesus, but I'm not ready to meet him just yet

01:16:27.860 And for context, there's like 30 people watching

01:16:32.740 That all could fire Logan

01:16:35.500 They could fire my boss 0.99

01:16:38.240 So what the fuck am I going to do here? 0.99

01:16:40.340 That trickles downhill, right? 0.99

01:16:42.300 That firing trickles downhill 1.00

01:16:43.600 First generation, still trying to keep it in America

01:16:45.900 We love you 1.00

01:16:47.740 They're doomed.

01:16:48.480 Thank you.

01:16:49.120 Peace, y'all.

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Impaulsive with Logan Paul - August 02, 2022

E337 Triple H On Logan Paul Joining WWE, Rivalry With The Rock & Stone Cold

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