52 - Goldberg 3:16 ft. Bill Goldberg 01:26:24

You know that program Hot Ones? Oh, yeah. Okay, I feel like I'm about to go on Hot Ones. We did that here. We actually did a Hot Ones show. I've done it. I've done it. I just turned it down last week in L.A. I just didn't want to go to L.A. Oh, I don't blame you on that one. Fuck, exactly. I mean, I did it in New York, like, in January. The problem is that if you fly home afterwards...

Exactly. You're just brewing on a plane. You missed the story of last week. Oh, God. Last week's podcast. This man. No, I ate at our favorite brunch place, and there was a little bit too much of this weird oil on one of the dishes, and I ate it anyways, and then got on a plane. Oh, really? Probably your experience. When you get older, you'll learn to partition everything around toilet breaks.

Yeah, he literally pooped. Were you wearing the pen? That was a bad day. It was a bad day. It was like you were about to board the plane and you're like, uh-oh. Oh, no.

Donut made a messy. I just want to know what you did after that. Did you turn around or did you go board the plane? I boarded the plane. I threw away everything. Did you throw it away or did you push it in the corner? I pushed it in the corner. Oh, nice. He's one of those guys. The janitor was in the bathroom staring at my stall. So he really appreciated it. You just went...

I turned it to where he wasn't going to touch anything when he picked it up. Like, I wrapped it up. You still made him pick it up. You had 100% Cody. They were screaming my name on the intercom. And you couldn't be like, uh. You were just like, he's watching me. Oh, my God.

I'm not a DJ. I just put this right here. This is the first time I did that in like 12 years. Oh my God. Welcome to the unsubscribed podcast, Bill Goldberg. Say hi to Eli. It's racially ambiguous, buddy. That guy's fucking ridiculous, don't I?

It's harder to rhyme, but he's a really nice guy. Welcome to Unsubscribe. Hey, guys. Thanks for watching Unsubscribe podcast. Make sure wherever you're listening or watching, whether it's on YouTube, Castro, Spotify, Apple, Google, Amazon, Podbean, Stitcher, or...

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And that's where the you come that is We usually pop here you usually mr. Steve Austin Steve drinks cool. No, actually he drinks. What does he drink boom? Austin's beer Oh

I was like, is he going to destroy me through a table if I call him Stone Cold? I was hoping. I was hoping a little bit. Then we were like, Eli, bring Budweiser. I was like,

Okay, I know where this is going. Well, you went from one end of the spectrum to the next in a very short throw, right? So you started off by calling me Steve, but then you handed me a bud. So I'll be like, anything you did prior to handing me the bud is just off the... Oh, man. That's great. Now I know, okay. The grand equalizer. How you doing, brother? It is great to have you. I don't... I'm fucking like... This is the first time I was like...

I got to put thought and process into questions. No, you don't. Good. Thank God. Okay. We don't really do things. Don't reinvent the wheel, dude. We're not. I was just trying to make you feel important. No, I don't even need that.

Oh, this is great. This is just another day on the Focus Grind podcast. I know. We don't really plan things. We just kind of show up. It's usually later in the afternoon. I didn't really plan on opening my first bud at 11.15 in the morning. I'm just glad you did. I am glad you did. You're just trying to set your day up. Did you really expect me not to? I wasn't sure. You weren't sure? Tim Kennedy. Great impression that I left upon you on the first time. Well, we were shooting weapons. Mini guns. You were like, pass me the bud. Murr.

Where's the drinks? I'm like, huh? I mowed the grass on that one.

That was a good one. I won't be doing that next time. Yeah, guys, if you didn't see that, we hung out recently and shot a minigun. One of our buddies brought it up, and it looked cool as shit. And what a lot of people didn't realize is we were shooting blanks out of it. But when Matt took the fucking... When it had the bullets in it, it was .308, wasn't it? Yeah, it's a .308. He levitated backwards like five feet. It was insane. And what's the record with that? I think it was a seven-second burst or something like that. Yeah, I mean, he did...

Dude, that's true. And you get to see how fast it can move a dude. It's like 220 pounds. Like, oh my God. How do you like, he was braced leaning into it, like ready to go. He did one person. He's like, oh fuck. And he braced again and leaned in like even harder. And even then he just,

I think if he kept his finger on it, then he would have looked like he was doing one of those jet ski gimmicks. We all would have died. Yeah. We all would have died. He's just in the air floating, shooting us.

Just mowing us down with 308. I think it was DDK Tactical Innovations, right? Was that what it was? I remember he was like, yeah. Yeah, he's like, the burst is like, it goes down and to the right. So everybody stand to the left and we all just like... Oh, oh, oh.

Not behind him shift gotcha and that thing no shit was like straight down into the right it was wild So much fun and so terrifying at the same time, right? He brought it out in a Tesla - which is my favorite part Oh, yeah, my favorite part was being behind him in my in my

TRX watching him 4x4 in a Tesla That was freaking awesome From behind Yeah that sounded like a rage I saw it on video too but it was bitch and I had to do it I guarantee it was the first time one of those fuckers went off like that Cause that ranch road is bad Yeah like it's hard for our Raptors in some spots and he took it It would be hard for your Raptors It's not for your Raptors It's not a garage

I'm just saying. Ding! Ding! I said it once. I gotta say it five times within an hour, so... That's just every hour. Just every hour. Every hour you have to A.P.F. when you're awake. Your contract's to do shit. My wife wakes me up in the middle and I, dodge! Ha! Did I get it? Ha! Ha! He's having nightmares. No, no, no. Dodge, dodge, dodge.

Speaking cars trucks you have

Your YouTube channel coming to life, which is Goldberg's Garage. Goldberg's Garage. Yeah, man. We shot that first video, Matt and I, and you were out there. It was great production, great views, but then boom, went off air for like six months. But that's the reality of the garage build or of any build during freaking COVID. Everything shut down. Everything doubled in price and everything doubled in length of time to be done. So it...

It's quite the balancing act. But, hey, they're back in full force, and hopefully within a couple months it'll be finished. And you're a car guy. You guys are car guys. Have you wrote, first off...

fucking Tesla plaid if you've not rode in that thing I've heard about it and yeah my buddy's got a 765 LT which is like the top of the food chain in the McLaren and he got in his son's plaid and he said he almost threw up it's nuts it is mind breaking but then you gotta plug in for like a day and a half to go drive down the street afterwards right

I traded the Hillcat Superstock for it. You did? I offered it to you first. I was waiting to tell you this on the podcast. I offered it to you first. All I can say is I get them at cost. Why would I buy yours and make you lose money? Because you told me. You were like, I'll buy yours. Just let me know when you want to sell it or get rid of it. I was like, okay, Bill.

Yeah, I don't blame you. I'm buying another TRX. Yeah, I'm probably buying another Hellcat. I would too. I love that Tesla, dude. It drives itself. It's so cool. I just push the little button and it takes me to Batty's house. You run into a cop every once in a while. Maybe. An autonomous driver. Well, I didn't do it. The car did it. It takes your individuality completely out the window and you just...

You're like a sheep now. Wow, he really does not like electric vehicles. I'm the internal combustion guy. I'm just holding on to it as long as humanly possible. And hopefully from what I hear, Dodge is coming out with something that's going to knock people's socks off as like a grand hurrah.

So, you know... In the electronic vehicle market? Hell no. Before they get into that. I just want to know one thing, okay, Mr. Responsible. Like, when you're done with the test, what do you do with the battery? What happens to the vehicle? I'm not Mr. Responsible. It's not an environmental thing. We're drinking at 11 a.m. You got it. No, that's just a pot calling the kettle black. I'm just saying, why'd you get in it? Because...

It's faster than dog shit. Yeah, that's exactly what I got. That is the only reason I got it. There you go. I like even more. It's simple. Look, you press the horn and it makes a fart noise. It's really cool. That is pretty badass. And it's got a boom box on it. You can project music out of the front. So like if you're hanging out with friends, having some drinks at...

I don't know, the beach or some shit. With your Tesla on the beach. I don't know. Out in the mountain range. It has cool stuff in it. No, it was because it was fast as shit. I went and test drove it. It was like, ah, yeah, this will make good content. It'll be funny. It's a write-off. Yeah, yeah.

Everyone got mad at me because I traded, you know, a hell cat super stock in for the Tesla. But in the end, all that anger was just engagement for me. And it boosted my stats on YouTube. That's all that matters, right? In this day and age, forget about your own fun. Just,

- No, I mean, I had fun in it. - It's fast, right? - It's scary fast. - That 1.9, zero to 60 in 1.9 seconds. - It's crazy. - That's insanity. McLaren F1 was the first car to break the three second barrier per production. But then it was like a decade before anything was under three seconds for zero to 60.

Under two was unheard. Like, that was like, nah, it's never going to fucking happen. A million years. It's amazing. And now it's a fucking roller coaster. It's like, okay, ready? Guys, hit the launch button. I'm going to fucking shit myself. It's fucking insane. Okay, so what is your favorite dream car, bar none? You just said it.

McLaren F1? The 94, yeah. Or 97, yeah. Absolutely. Oh, boy. My ultimate 24 hours of being a car guy. Well, I've done a couple of really cool things, but my brother's a Ferrari guy. So he lives in Aspen, and so I got two brothers, and so all of us went to Aspen, and I jumped in the F40, and...

Older brother jumped in the f50 and then my oldest brother jumped in his Enzo right and so we went up Independence Pass Struggling family After I and then we switched cars so I get to drive them all all three of them and then 20 within 24 hours I flew out to Northern California was doing a show. I can't remember the name of the show but

But automotive show and the CEO of Cisco had this thing called the Supercar Party. It was at some road course up in Northern California. And he invited like 30 of the top CEOs around the country. And he had two 18 wheelers full of supercars. And he just unloaded them and lined them up one after one after another. And you got 30 minutes in each car. If you break it, you buy it.

And there was everything there. And so within 24 hours, I got to go from the F40, the F50, and the Enzo right into the 97 F1. And I got to drive it, and it was the coolest experience of my entire life. I mean, bar none is the coolest car I've

Middle C so unbelievably fast normally aspirated 638 horsepower no power steering no power brakes Frickin no assistant. I didn't know that no assistance sick. It's at it's like the f40

but ramped up yeah it's it on crack it literally is that that bmw power plant it's like the engine bay is lined with gold because it's the best heat like conductor it is insane titanium uh one of the first vehicles to have titanium alloy almost everything yeah yeah things i mean it's in a class of its own i had an opportunity to buy one in like 2010 and how much it was 800 grand

You fucking passed on that? Yes, more and more. What the fuck? How much are they now? Between $18 and $30 million.

So if you ever want investment advice, don't ask me. What the fuck? But it was hard to justify 800 grand in 2006 or whatever. At that time, it was just kind of hard to justify it for me or for any human being who doesn't have more money than they know what to do with. But, I mean, it was most definitely the one that got away. Oh, my God. $18 million.

Yeah, the last one sold for $28.5 million, I think. And you're like, $800,000. You're like, nah, I'll pass on that guy. How many of them are there? Less than 100. So there was, I think, 82 made, period. There's still one that hasn't been titled at the factory. I think they were going to give it to Schumacher years ago or something happened with that. It's still there, supposedly.

Dude, that's if I was Lewis Hamilton black can I have it? Oh, you're kidding like just just send your boy that yeah, I'll race for free this Dude there's two McLaren f1 the GT long tail. That's my but there's only two of them I don't even know how much those ones would sell coming up for auction Oh God, you know much that thing's gonna be I'm curious to see

50 million, probably? Yeah. Like, easy. For a car. For a fucking car. Sit up, Matt and Evan. Hey, guys. Black Rifle would love to have this. Think of the content. He's just like, here. Working over here. I wonder what I can trade the planet for. Can I write this up? He's justifying his purchase somehow. Oh, God.

Oh, my God. Yeah, I'm a car freak. That's for sure. That's the way to be. Like, as you're saying, that's been my favorite...

That's a dream car. Like, now it's an unattainable dream car, I think. You know, it's like that Elon Musk status. Like, it's just never going to happen after seeing the prices now. I'm like, fuck. Unbelievable. But there's so many supercars out now, right? I mean, there's just, like, I can't even name all the manufacturers of them. Well, there are ultra cars now. Fuck supercars. Hypercars. Hypercars. There's fucking hypercars now. Like...

And what, as you said, that's actually true. There used to only be, you'd have your Bugatti and you'd have the McLaren, Ferrari, and you'd have a Lambo would have one and Aston Martin would have one. But I mean, that's it.

Now, fuck, there's got to be 20, 30 of them. Oh, yeah. And it's the new places are just popping up all the time. And the new speeds on these cars are like 300 plus miles an hour. Like, why? Jesco. Yes. Oh, God. Yeah. I wanted to buy one of those, too. People in hell want ice water. 1.8 for those things. You're like, yeah.

Yeah, it'll be $50 million next year. That's all good. Yeah, it's fine. It's fine. 0 for 2. The Countach? I was like, oh, that Countach is looking pretty. I'm like... The neighbor's got one that has 2,000 miles on it. Brand new one? An old one. Oh, God. Yeah, that's a...

Yes. Did you know those were $100,000? $80,000 when the Countach first came out. Most expensive car that was out. Yep. How long ago was that? 70s through 80s, and I think 90 was the last single production. I've never even heard of that. Lambo Countach? Countach? The first one with the doors that came up like this. What was the movie that made it? Wolf of... What was it? No, no, no. It wasn't Wolf of Russia. It wasn't Wolf of Russia. It was the Cannonball Run. Yeah, Cannonball Run. Cannonball Run.

It's the OG. It's the first, like, goalie. It's the first Super Bowl kind of thing.

It's an OG. It's what kids had on like that poster with the Diablo. You'd have like your coon toss your Diablo. And a hot blonde laying on it. Yeah. In a bikini. Ruining that paint job. Fucking bending that. It was next year that Mark McGuire got milk mustache. Yeah. Side by side. Talking about my room. Or it's Mark McGuire in the bathing suit. I don't know. He might have been on the Lambo. Sorry, Mark.

Yeah, the new ones. Did you see how much the new fucking Countach is? They're cool looking, though. 2.5 mil. Really? But that's nothing compared to all these other... I mean, there's so many. The one-of-one Bugattis that they're building right now. Oh, 10 mil out the gate. It's ridiculous. I mean, who the hell's...

There's my shitty Chevy Slug. My C10. How do you spell Countach? C-O-U-N-T. C-O-U-N-T. C-O-U-N-T-A-C-H.

I can't believe we've never seen one. Oh, yeah. It's like the Vice City car. Literally the Vice City car. Gotcha. Fluck, let's throw a Contash up on the screen here. The Lombrogani Contosh. Contash. Lombrogani Contosh. Yeah, the Contash. We love that. Contash.

The Doblo, the fighting chicken. The fighting chicken. Just making up names for cars. The Murky-a-Lago? Yeah, the Murky-a-Lago. Hey, do you know Henry Cavill? I was thinking Big H. I know, Big H. What's he drive? Henry Cavill, we have, he's, you know who he is, right? You've heard of the name. It sounds familiar, but I have no clue. Superman. Superman. He's the witcher.

Which you're... He's an actor. Yeah, yeah. He's like the big jacked fucking great looking dude. Can superheroes still be jacked now? Isn't that like against... Don't they have to be bisexual? It is body shaming. Where's my fat superhero, man? That's what I'm ready for. Let's go. It's on the way. Fat Thor, never mind. Fat Thor happened. Yeah, Thor did happen. Fat Thor did happen. Not that there's anything bad about it, but...

Yeah, you get all the super... My gigs are gone. I'm just saying. Where's my beer? We'll just start the podcast with that. Boo. He's like, no, I should not have been on that show. We'll just soundbite stuff together. Fuck. Dodge. He's like, man, he really hates his songs. Oh, great.

I'm getting a dodge counter on the screen while we're doing this. Can't wait to see this clip. So many good ones. Oh, my God. Okay, so this is, first off, it's a gaming podcast. Huge fan. So we're going to talk about video games. Huge fan. Dude, I can probably speak for everyone. It's like growing up and watching you at your fucking peak prime and

But more importantly than that, fuck your wrestling career. You're a video game. You're a video game character. And then once you became that character, then you became a wrestler? Or how was it for a long time? I didn't do anything to justify being a character prior to wrestling. I guess standing on the sidelines of the NFL probably doesn't qualify, but...

I think, yeah, the wrestling probably came first. Okay, okay. Well, now we know that. I'm just saying. We were talking about one of my favorite video games of my childhood was Revenge for the Nintendo 64. The WCW NWO Revenge. You're on the cover of that. And that's such a good fucking game, dude. I put so many hundreds of hours into that. So many hours into those games. Have you played any of those old games? No. No.

I did not picture. I'm just saying. I know. It's like my kid. You'd think my kid would want to play a video game where his dad is in it. He don't give a shit. He could care less. He could care less. He just, you know. Let me play Madden. Well, I'm surely not in Madden because I was on the sidelines. I'm not even on a roster of anybody's former team. Maybe one year out of the four that I was still.

Introducing 1990 Madden, was it? Madden Sidelight Edition. Yeah. Bill and the rest of the guys just hanging out on the sidelines. You can't do anything. Squirt a high five. I remember one game in Cincinnati. I wasn't playing. I was in street clothes, and I had to go get everybody hot dogs at half past.

Jesus Christ. Far removed from being an NFL freaking defensive lineman. I didn't know that I had to go get hot dogs for all the veterans. So that's a very glorious position. Holy shit. Did they even call you by your name at that point? Your hot dog guy name? No. I don't even remember what they called me. Goldie probably. Yeah. Hey, dog boy. Pretty much, yeah.

Go get our wieners. I'll get you one day. I'll take 12 hot dogs. You guys wait and see. I'll be bigger than all of you. And then it happened.

I never imagined. So is that the secret? I just got to go start buying hot dogs? Absolutely. It's all about being in the right place.

Cody Dean 12 hot dogs. We already treat you like shit, so it's perfect. Nice. I fit right in. You guys fit right in for my past employers. Ginger, it's great. You look great, though. You're beautiful. Oh, honey. Like the next. I need another swig off the bottom.

Yeah, I got my neck tattooed yesterday. That was a fucking mistake. That had to feel great. It was not ideal. Not the worst tattoo. Not the best either, though. I'm just saying, if you have a beard that covers your neck...

Why would you get a neck tattooed? Does anyone ever get to see it? I covered, I was asked that a bunch, and I covered that this morning. My target audience isn't, you know, big, tall, 6'4 dudes. It's chicks that are 5'6 and under. It's about that angle. It's real tiny girls you can see up under your shit? Exactly. It's all about the angle, brother. Good job, dude.

He has a Goldberg tattoo. I didn't even know that. You actually started a whole fucking trend of... How does that feel? I didn't even think about that. You literally started a goddamn trend of... The tribal trend? Fallen goatee white dudes? Yes. Oh, that was Steve Austin. Shots fired! I'm just saying. It was like you, Steve Austin, and Mark McGuire on the same couple years there. I know. Just everyone up on the... Just a bunch of shirtless dudes. Yeah.

Yeah. You know, my dad thought I was gay. Now it makes sense. Oh, no. Stop rubbing Goldberg's poster. Maybe it all makes sense now. It's weird. You do wear a lot of dresses. It'll click one day. Were you ever on a Got Milk poster? No, I wasn't, man. I probably was on the carton for.

This is the podcast everyone's like oh my god, I have that milk He finds out he wasn't his true parents adopted as a child What's going on? That's where I find out But tattoos what made you get yours versus and then every other motherfucker Hila

fucking Mexican style love it. 100%. Yeah, I think I drank a half a bottle of tequila and said, you know what? I might as well go get a tattoo. I really want one. I always wanted one. You know, being a Jewish guy, I guess I can't be buried in a Jewish cemetery. It's all good. I do a lot of things that are different. Different. I just, I always wanted one, you know, for one reason or another, just to brand myself. And as far as the content of what it was, I left it up to

my tattoo artist, he and I kind of, I saw something that I liked years past and I took a picture of it and I brought it into him and he's like, fuck that, man. We're not copying nothing. We're going to do your own. I'm like, okay. You know, the first needle went in and then my blood just, because all the alcohol, right? Bleeding everywhere. So it's making me drink more. And I mean, you know,

Really didn't have an idea to except for it something tribal going in and I left it up to his expertise You know, he's he's pretty damn well known in his area So then a couple years later, I went back and had him do that one and I need him to sleeve me up but I

I don't want to leave my wonderful place here in Texas, so I'm going to have to bring him here at some point. It's the best thing ever. Yeah, we have a guy. We have a guy that just moved down here. Will came from Salt Lake, right? He comes over to our house and just does all our work. That's the way to do it. This is a cover-up, and you can't even tell. It's like there was a sleeve under this, and he's going over it. But it's the best way to live is when your tattoo artists come over to your house. 100%.

Especially for a lot of the long pieces because it's like, I'm getting drunk. I'm laying on my couch. Yeah, we're going to watch a movie. It's going to be cumbersome. It's the best way to do it. I don't want to go to a shop anymore and be uncomfortable in a chair and then just sit there. It's a fucking nightmare now. Fuck that. Still do it. Hour upon hour upon hour. Fuck that. It's the worst. But yeah, you fucking started a whole goddamn trend. Super cool.

Everyone in their mind. I remember going to high school. Like 16 year olds are getting it. You're just like, holy fuck. This is a thing. Fuck you, dad. Goldberg's got one. Yeah, I got a lot of people. Sisters get the tattoos.

That was the trampoline every day. Every summer when I was a kid, just spearing people. Oh, I thought you were spearing people's sisters. I was like, nice. Is that what we're calling it? Spearing. The birds and the bees. That's what I told my mom. I was practicing my spearing.

My dad already knew. My sister. Oh, man. And another swing. Welcome to our podcast. You should have at least watched one episode before signing up. It's all good, man. I like it. It's like getting your pants pulled down on a live event, dude. You just have to go with it. Yeah, you're just like, okay, here we are. I pulled my pants down in the middle of a match.

Really? Yeah, not all the way, but just my ass was hanging out. It was interesting. It was a lot of fun. When was that? Oh, it was way too long ago. It was at a house show, one of those non-televised events we used to do before COVID.

you know, you'd have your shows that were televised like right now. It's Monday Night Raw and then Thursday night or Friday night Smackdown and in between you'd do the cities in between the two main events. And it was non-televised. It wasn't on TV. So he takes a lot of liberties and

Of course, of course. He has a lot of fun, and he has quite the different character than I do. To say the least. It was kind of interesting. And truth be told, Flair had a house with my brother in college. No shit, so they knew each other. And a guy named Ken Patera. If you're a big wrestling fan, know who that guy is. They all lived together at University of Minnesota when my brothers played football.

No shit. So now you can kind of understand how crazy the freaking Goldbergs are because my brother went after Patera with a hatchet one night. Not a hammer, a full-on hatchet. No, he started taking the door down. But anyway. Jewish and Cherokee, that's amazing. Jesus. There's more. But it was kind of a tie that I had to the wrestling business.

you know, looking back, it's like, fuck, Goldberg's brother lived with Ric Flair during college at Ken Patera. That's fucking crazy. Pretty interesting. I mean, that's, it's like, for one of my things was, it, it,

transitioning from the football thing into wrestling but more more on the line of being that individual that they were like hey we're going to make you this undefeatable monster that's not stoppable you're gonna have like the shortest match as possible most were like under 10 seconds for 100 and was it 120 70 something i was off by 50. god damn

But being that person where they're like, Hey, this is like, how was that? What was that conversation? Like, we're like, this is, this is going to be fucking. I just did what they told me to do. No, I did. Honestly. Yeah. I mean, you know, that's fucking insane. I came from professional football. I,

My accountant told me to get off my ass and go make some money. I didn't know what the fuck I was going to do. The last thing I wanted to do at that point was be a guy who ran around in the ring in his underwear acting like I was hurting people. And I just came from the NFL trying to kill guys every fucking play. So it was different for me. It was weird. I had to go through a process of being...

of accepting it to myself before I could put it out there for everyone else. And then, you know, I was... I went and I met with WWE or WWF. And then that's when I had just gotten done from the Falcons. So I was living in Atlanta. I went to school in Georgia. So, I mean, that was kind of like my new base. I've been there for years. And then WCW was...

was, you know, their home base was Turner in Atlanta, right? So the training facility was downtown. It was right there in my backyard. And being a football player and

liking to drink maybe every once in a while we used to go out every freaking weekend in Atlanta so I'd see these guys all the time and I mean certain ones I'd see them and go man there's no way I'd ever do that you know be that and then others I'd like maybe it's a taint maybe I can do that right and Sting was the biggest guy and Dallas Page

Oh, yeah. And DDP. DDP I'd see out all the time. And then Sting was a guy that I kind of just watched from afar and watched how he did stuff. He owned a gym called Main Event Fitness. He and Lex Luger. And when I was with the Falcons, we used to train. I used to train at Main Event Fitness every day. No shit. And so I'd see the guys all the time. And Bagwell was a buddy of mine. And Steiner Brothers. I mean, so I had a relationship with those guys before I was a wrestler to a point.

And then I had the opportunity to do the WWF thing. And it's like, man, I'm here in Atlanta. I might as well just hang with... You know, it's a different... It's like...

Standing on a diving board and not looking to see if there's any fucking water in the pool. I mean, it was a big jump for me. Oh, yeah. You went from getting hot dogs to potentially wrestling in my underwear with guys. And so... I'm looking at this career. It's real... There's a lot of winners involved.

You ain't heard nothing. But then I'm like, you know what? I went up there. It's a whole different deal. It's completely out of my comfort zone. Why don't I try it here? It's in my backyard. I can drive there every day. I don't have to move. I got people that I already know. So I picked up the phone. I called Bischoff. And I'm like, hey, man, I kind of want to do this. I'm not going to be freaking normal. This is not just I'm not going to try out. I'm going to be crazy.

I'm not doing anything to not be the man. Superstar. That's my goal. That should be everybody's fucking goal once they get into a different endeavor is to be the fucking best. Fucking cheers to that. Absolutely. So I just brought my work ethic and my knowledge and my love of martial arts. And UFC was freaking, it just started then. I went to the first seven of them.

With Hoist Gracie, the one that has a boxer. Yeah. The guy with one glove. All the old youth. It was awesome, man. Yeah. It was awesome. And I owned the largest MMA gym in North America, you know, towards the end of my WCW time. Yeah, the late 90s in Atlanta. It was like 40,000 square feet. It was huge. And Couture and Brandelman and Coleman and those guys would come to my place and train. Yeah.

And then I'm like, you know what? And I talk wild. I talk to them about maybe fighting. And then I hear how much they're making. And then I see this wrestling thing and I'm like, fuck that. I probably wouldn't have been that good because I didn't, I had no wrestling background. I mean, I studied martial arts for a while, but I mean, it wasn't like I was a fighter. I'm a football player.

And so I'm like, oh, that's easy. And I figured out the wrestling thing. And then I kind of attached my character to my idols, the UFC guys, the guys who fought over in Japan at Pride. And I know all the guys back in the day. Vanderlei Silva. Cro Cop asked me to go to Croatia and train with him. I'm like, fuck that. Are you kidding me? And you turned that down? I did. Yeah, it was freezing there. Oh, I bet. I'm kidding.

But I know all those guys. And for me, that was something that it was very intriguing. And...

as far as like martial arts, you there's, you're never going to meet anybody who knows everything. So you can always learn. You can always grow as an individual, as a student. And so I just started taking all these martial arts. And then I started buying all the videos UFC when they came out and had these training videos, I bought every fucking one of them. And I studied every one of them and I'd go down to the power plant and I tried to do those moves and not hurt guys and learn how to, how to take it to wrestling and how to have

have it work in wrestling. And nine times out of ten, it worked. You know, a couple of times it didn't. I was like the Mike Tyson of wrestling. There was an MMA guy and oh, you it's like throwing, you know, Romans to the lions. Right. And you have to be at the edge of your seat and watch everything that happens because it's going to happen in a short period of time, just like Tyson's fights. Oh, yeah. You don't know what's going to happen, but you know, shit's going to hit the fan and somebody is going to get frickin nailed.

And that was the intrigue that I brought to the business. And I was in the right place at the right time. And Hogan needed somebody to topple him. And literally, I was in the right place at the right time. It's not because of me being a great wrestler, because ask anybody in the world, I'm not. I'm just a decent showman. And I had Hogan, you know, teaching me along the way, the little intricacies of how to be that guy.

And I never wanted to be the chain wrestler. I never was a guy who professed to go out there for 30 minutes because fuck, everybody can do, not everybody can do that, but everybody's seen that before. They haven't seen a shock and awe guy in professional wrestling before.

So I kind of coined that. And like I said, I was very fortunate. I was in the right place at the right time. I didn't know the business. So I entrusted everybody that was willing to teach me with a blind eye in that people would fuck me and lead me down the wrong way because they were either dumb

or they didn't get the, whatever it may be. I just, I didn't choose to be that guy. I just was chosen to be that guy because of various reasons. And I paid for it my whole fucking career because people, oh, you can't, well, fuck. I put people in seats and I put them at the edge of their seat when it's time for me to nail somebody. So I may not be a chain wrestler, but I never wanted to be. So I got my own niche in,

You fucking carved out. The universe just kind of came together for you. 100%. I mean, it surely wasn't based upon my talent level. I mean, it was just me being in the right place at the right time and having a great work ethic and not accepting being a freaking sheep. Yeah. I know. That ain't me. No, the other guys in that room were probably, God damn it, my match last 40 minutes. Bill just gets to run in.

Who's next? And leave. When Paul White, the big show, they called him the big show at WC. Oh, God, that fucking year. He and I would go around the country doing main event dark shows, dark matches, which weren't televised. And literally, it would last. He would come out to the ring. They'd play his music. He'd be smoking a cigarette. Charles Robinson, the referee, would bitch at him. He'd choke him.

pick Charles Robinson up to chokeslam him. I come running in, I spear him, I jackhammer him, and I beat him before the bell rings. We did that all across the country. And people were on the edge of their fucking seat. Every time I ever flipped out. Because they couldn't, they had never seen a dude pick up a 525 pound guy and just walk around the ring with him. It's a fucking pig show, man. Like, fuck. You know? And so, that's all we needed. So,

So Hogan, sometimes all he needs is a look. All he needs is to drop the leg. It's based upon, it's not based upon, you know, repertoire. It's based upon, you know, end result. Yeah. Right? So. Fucking crazy. That's so, ah, damn.

Man, big show. I would, man, Andre the Giant, all his drinking stories are some of the greatest stories I have ever fucking heard. Shit's insane. Do you know his stories? Yeah. And the picture of them holding a regular sized beer. And they'll do like a hundred and twenty. I was like, yeah, exactly. He's like, this is 16 ounce. Unbelievable. Oh, man. Freaking huge. But he was in a lot of pain. He was miserable throughout his whole career, life. And, you know, it's.

Everybody sees one side, but they fail to even look for the other. What you're telling me, what you see on TV isn't everything forever? There's more behind the scenes? Well, in certain circumstances, yeah. Most of the time, what you see is truly how it is. When did he die? That was the 1990s. Early 90s, if I do remember. I don't remember. You ever get to meet him?

Okay. That was, he was in that early. That was like the eighties was his like air. I think that was when he was, he was at, but as you were saying, he was, he had the actual like gigantic, I forget what it was. Acromaglia, gigantism. Yeah. And that's how the pituitary glands just in fucking high. Yeah. Think about him, you know, his comfort level, trying to travel anywhere in a car on a plane, just any of the normal things that normal people do. We're very uncomfortable and,

a task for him so it just sucks i mean as great as he was on that yeah this area you had to feel for the guy and others you know he's a human being yeah because i remember like one of the one of the stories i read about him is he got into like one of the the 16 passenger govey vans to go on an hour drive but he bought a 24 pack of budweiser beforehand and when they got there he was asking for more beer oh yeah like he was probably just super uncomfortable the whole time and like he's just like all right we're gonna most likely i think it was a 24 case of wine

Jesus Christ. Because Homeboy, yeah, because he has like, I do, I want to say it's like the document world record for most beers in one sitting, which is like 120 or something like that. Insane shit. Yeah, Homeboy is like, like the stories that are out there, which I fucking don't know how those are because they are stories, but you're like, that dude would have been fun. The Iron Sheik lighting up joints on planes back from Europe on the tours.

Yeah, there were some stories. These guys were crazy, man. As many times as people think that football players are the crazy ones, no. I didn't picture it. Crossing football players with like a rock star. That's what I literally envisioned. You guys are. You guys are. I only mean that because of time on the road. Yeah.

Yeah, that mixture of that. Speaking of fucking, this is the one question I did document because I was like, oh, because my buddy, my buddy actually, he,

He was the one asking about this. He's like, hey, this is the only thing I want to know. What can he tell us about the time in the WWE plane was rumored to have been held at the Saudi airport? I wasn't there. Oh, there we go. Yeah, I wasn't there. There's a question answered. Yeah, thankfully that was the one Saudi trip that I wasn't on. But from what I understand, it was a payment issue and...

they pulled the feed off of the Saudi pay-per-view. Dude, the fans went fucking... That's what made them hold the plane.

Until the feed was put back on. No shit. That's what I've heard. But I wasn't there, like I said. Fortunately, that was, I think, the only Saudi trip that I didn't go on. That's crazy. Because the internet's apparently like, whoa, like everything under the roof happened. That's why he asked that very specific question. I was like, I may not ask that. It was a shit storm for sure. I mean, the last trip that we had that I was on, well, February. Yeah, recently. I mean, it went fairly well.

Yeah, you said you went to Dubai? No, I think this time it was Riyadh. Went through Dubai a couple times before. This time we went through Ireland. Riyadh, very beautiful this time of year. I don't know where that is on the map at all. I wouldn't say they're the most beautiful places by any stretch because there's really no green out there. But I got to say, man, in a day and age when people center on stereotypes...

How do you think the biggest, one of the largest Jewish guys who are very high profile would feel going over to Saudi and wrestling? I didn't think about that. And I took my wife and my son on the first trip. Oh, yeah. Your name's Goldberg. They just called him Jew man when he walked out on stage. So to make an extremely long story short, throughout all of my trips,

And I said it to the press last time I was there he couldn't I really couldn't ask for more gracious Frickin fans. I mean they treated us like absolute gold whether it be in the ring out of the ring It was just it was unbelievable so but so the moral of the story is I never would have gone there if it wasn't for wrestling and if it wasn't for the situation that we're in right now and I did decide to go and

The stereotype was completely flipped. Yeah, you get to see that complete difference. It humanizes. Travel, I think it was Mark Twain said, it's like a well-traveled man is the least. Mark Twain, really? Yeah, I know. Mark Twain. He's a well-traveled man. We'll look at races completely different than somebody completely segmented. Well, there's no question because you get to, it's like plug and play. You get to act. Yeah. You get to actually see what people are thinking.

In real life. Yeah. And you're like, pass judgment on your own as opposed to listening to what people say about it.

Fucking key in life. That is the key. I'm just going to judge everybody based on some shit I read on the internet. Facebook taught me a lot. Thanks, Twitter. Yeah, Twitter. Twitter's looking a little different. Oh, yeah. Completely different. Oh, yeah. Donut. Oh, yeah. Look, guys. We got this one. This one. Daddy, hold that because it's orange like you.

That was a dad laugh right there. That was a dad laugh. A dad laugh? What the hell was that? I was like, dang, that was a sympathy laugh. That was a sympathy laugh. It wasn't a dad laugh. No, I got to go. Eli, do the fucking ad read. Hey!

Adam Rags, we just got Smooth Operator. It is all fucking veteran-owned, operated. I bet they're appreciative of the verbiage of that read. Thankfully, I'm one of the owners. I can say what I want. But AdamRags.com with a Z. Goldberg's a huge fan of it, as you can tell. Buy this shit or I'll kill you. Look at this lush of hair.

Yeah, that's the new tag. Joe Bob's Fine Food. Eat here or I'll kill you. What movie is that from? I don't even remember that one. That was 40. What is that? I've never seen that. Best football movie in the history of the world. No shit. It's an old movie. I'm an old person. But it's Matuzak. Matuzak was...

Who was it? Yeah, Matuszak was in it. He was one of my idols growing up. I don't know who the fuck that is. Defensive lineman for the Raiders. Back when the Raiders were the Raiders. When they were breaking people still. Yeah. Most people don't know this. We don't know sports. Also, I looked up. We don't know sports.

You in football. Let me see. So you didn't find anything. Football. I never knew you played soccer, which makes sense going to the W. What position did you play? Ford, midfielder or winger? Football. Wrong. Come on, man. Don't do that.

You can hit him whenever you want, please, honestly. I'm not left-handed. I got you this. I know. I was thinking about that. That's why you're still breathing. I have a...

Stop talking, I'll fucking kill you. Just produce another one immediately. I was going to Photoshop your face on football players doing soccer. Oh, what's the title of the episode? I don't even know what the title is going to be of this episode. Someone sent something online, that's not football, soccer is football.

I'm not even touching that. Walking away with right the fuck now. Right the fuck now. They're two different things. So what got you? So you went from like, now, are you officially retired? That was supposed to be your Oh, fucking geez, my knees. You were just what? Fuck. Sorry, I'll just say wrestling. Yeah, man. Why? I'm still under contract till the end of the year.

And we're kind of talking about what the future lies. Who knows? I mean, at the end of the day, if you give me time, I can get ready and I can freaking wrestle anybody. But like this three-week shit that they've given me, like the last time to Saudi, I had four weeks to get ready and I had COVID when they called. Oof. And I hadn't trained for two months.

So at 55? So how old are you? I'm 37. Imagine putting your body through that at 37. Imagine at 55. I'm not going to make it to 55. I'm just saying, man, it's a tough ask. Yeah. It's a tough ask. But if you give me two months, three months. Within the zeros. Well, yeah. But forget about the money. The fact is that, I mean, and you guys know.

I'm a fucking warrior, right? I do things differently. My mind is different than other people. And so a warrior never knows when to fucking hang it up. And it's like I always think I can compete. I don't care if I'm fucking 80.

I always think that, you know, 90% of me is better than 99% of the rest of the fuckers on the planet. A hundred percent. I feel that, but you have to feel that to be a guy like me. And so the thing is when to hang it up, you know, when are you embarrassing your kid? When are you, you know, is it too much? You tarnishing your legacy. Fuck, you know, give me three months. You see me and Bobby Lashley. I was 285 ready to rock.

But three weeks, it's a different story. So if I'm allowed the prep time, I can do a couple more. If I'm not, I'm hanging it up.

That's pretty much where it is. That's crazy. As you're saying, it's that mindset and a lot. I agree completely. Like a majority of the people we roll with, work with, are close friends. I always look at them like these are the top 1%. These are the 1% of the 1%. The motivation is just different. It's on a different planet. The work ethic, every little thing. It's fucking, they crush life. And it's a hard thing for people to grasp because they think they get it. I'm like, no, the fuck you don't. Start employing people or like doing that and you're like,

Oh, this is the standard. And you're like, no, you got to go above and beyond. It's so low these days. It's fucking stupid. Bars on the floor, my man. Well, mediocrity has become the norm and excelling in anything. You're a bad person if you're good.

No, it's your fucking that. That's not going to change me. It's not going to change the way I've trained my son. I raised my son. He's going to be a fucking alpha. And nobody's ever going to have an issue with that because I don't give a shit because he's going to follow in my footsteps, my wife's footsteps. And, you know, there are people that need to cut meat in the fucking world, but it ain't me.

That's it. I mean, that's the best fucking state. Amen to that. I like that. That's I fucking say that all the time. I'm just saying it's just it's the way that I am. It's the way that my family has always been. Shit's built different, man. Some people are built differently. People got to cut me. It ain't me. Goldberg 316.

Fucker. Man it! Man it! Really? This is the episode where he finally fucking dies? He dies. Obituary. On episode 27. I love you. Holy shit. You got another one, right? I hope he got another one. I only had that one. You got heart A? Do you drink hard alcohol?

Hell yeah, but not before I have to go to my son's football practice. That's the perfect reason to do it. I ain't killing him. Fuck. What are you doing, kid? You pussy. Oh, sorry. I had a couple of beers. Can we just cut this whole episode? It's gone. We're the one. I promise.

Let's talk about how cool Texas is. Texas is awesome. You're near San Antonio. I'm coming from Mexico. I live somewhere on the Rio Grande. Here you're in Texas. Here's the deal. I grew up in Oklahoma. That has a lot to do with why I'm where we are right now. But I had to...

go to LA for a number of years to, you know, be close to the business. You know, television show here and appearances there. It seemed to be the right thing. Plus my brother lived in San Diego and so I had a good in to the community there. I mean he's got some nightclubs and restaurants and all this and that. He's got a lot of knowledge of the area. And so I lived there for a while. There are a lot of things and a lot of reasons why we left.

But I'm a people person, man, unbeknownst to most everyone out there. Because when I'm on TV, I'm one guy. And when I'm off, I like to be invisible. But, I mean, I'm at home when I'm around the guys.

I'm at home when I'm in a military setting. I'm at home around a bunch of veterans. I'm at home when I'm on 220 acres in the middle of fucking nowhere and nobody can get near me. And if they do, then they can just pick out which gun I'm going to shoot. It's a very liberating decision that we made coming out here. And it was the third best decision of my life.

And I'm so happy now. It's not even funny. It's just absolutely wonderful. If I could have written a script for my son, we moved because of my son. We wanted to make sure that he was in a great setting so that he could prosper. In the middle of America, hardworking people, God-fearing people, people who appreciate and respect the military, that's where we are. That's how we're made up.

And I wanted him to grow up in a situation like that and a surrounding like that. And like I said, if I was a screenwriter, I couldn't have written a better fucking story

movie than we're living right now. Yeah, that ending right now, you're like, this is... It's fantastic. It really is. My boy doesn't have one person that I met at his school that I dislike. I mean, the town shuts down at like 9 o'clock at night, so he can't get in the... It's just fantastic. No, there's no trouble. Yeah, you can't get in trouble. It's great, and the people are wonderful, man. They really are. And so it's...

kind of like a rebirth, us moving out here. And, uh, I was able to hook up with cool guys like you. So, I mean, it's, it's just been wonderful. It really has. It's, it's like starting my life all over again. Cause now we're doing things that we enjoy doing and we're around people that we enjoy being around other kind of hanging out with you guys. But, um,

I came from Charlotte he came from Vermont Eli's been out here a couple years though, but that was the first one and then I got these fucks to me

You're appreciative of him pulling you out here. Absolutely. It comes down to what you're talking about, that mindset of people in our circle. We have a very small circle of people because we're all just so driven and motivated to be successful. That's why it's like us, Black Rifle Boys, Demo Ranch, like...

Yeah. It's funny how we all were separated, but we all magnetized towards each other once we got here. And we're all fighting for the same thing. And at the end of the day, we're all good people. Most of us. Yeah. Most of us. I'm all right. But, I mean, you know, we have the same common goal and the same common way to accomplish it, kind of.

My group needed a Mexican Asian to hang out with. We got you. Now you got a Jew. Mark that off the box. Check the box. Ginger. Mexican. White guy. White guy. White man. Hello, white man. Have you ever been upset that Quentin Tarantino didn't cast you as the bear Jew? No, not at all. Oh my God. I would...

Wouldn't he have made a good parent? It's all good. You would have been a good parent. I would have been a lot of good things.

So I can did you ever live in Texas before this was the first time you're just like my dream actually was to go to school the University of Texas shit until I met the head coach at the time and then I was like I ain't never going

Then I went to Georgia. But yeah, that was in high school. It was a dream of mine to go to UT. And now I won't even set foot near Austin. The only time I'll go up there is summer baseball with my son. Yeah. He does football and baseball? Yes, unfortunately. Fortunately, but unfortunately.

What do you want him to pursue as a... I can't chime in on that because I don't want to be selfish, but we all know football, what I want him to pursue. I'm not good at football. But the reality of football is that I want him to be successful and to be a happy human being. If following a baseball career is what he loves, and oh, by the way, it's probably a

less harmful on your body than a football career, then hey, man, go for it. But I mean, let's be honest. I'm a football player and I never had the ability to go on as a baseball player. But whatever he wants to do, I'm fully behind it a thousand percent. He'll love you less, but he supports it. It's all good. Yeah. Remember that, man.

I am disappointed. And today's the first day they're in full pads and they get the hit. So I can't wait. I can't wait to go see it. It's awesome. And he'll be starting at linebacker this year. And it's a totally different scenario than last year. He's sophomore. Okay. Yeah. All right. Oh, God. He's probably, what, 6'2"? No, he's 6'195". So more than me. Awesome. He's freaking stronger than I am now.

It's amazing. It's just like, dad, I bitched 400 today. Dude, he can do 75s dumbbells like this, like nobody's business. I was 5'1 when I was a sophomore. 5'1? I didn't, 5'1, I didn't, I went from 5'1 to like 5'3.

in a year and then I was 6'2 or some shit after that. I was the smallest fucking dude until my, like, just as I was leaving high school. Well, I'm praying he finally gets a growth spurt. I just hit puberty. Eli's still 5'1". Have you watched last year's episode? Like, hey guys, welcome to Double Jack!

but yeah man anything he wants to do man i'm fully behind i gotta be that dad as long as it involves crushing people i'm good with

See, you should... Like, his kiddo just... John's a big boy. Holy shit. My son, I don't know where he gets it from. He's 13.

He weighs 180 and he's 5'3". Good Jesus. Yeah. And he's not fat. He's just like, he's strong. I've had him in mixed martial arts for like seven years now. Nice. Yeah. And he loves lifting and he loves fighting people. That's awesome. But he's like the kindest kid ever. But that's good because he shows range. Yeah. Right? Well, yeah. He was getting bullied at school last year and he came home and he's like, Dad, I can wreck these guys. He's like, Dad, I can beat the shit out of them. But they're not like physically bullying him. So he's like, ah.

Yeah, he's like, I don't really want to get in trouble because they're saying mean things. And he's like, I know if they put hands on me, I can just tell him to turn around and look at him and say, do you want me to kill you? Yeah. And they'll stop. Yeah, he handled it. He did something like that. He told him not to mess with him anymore. He was going to do bad things to him. Violence is sometimes. I'm a firm believer that violence is definitely in a lot of areas.

It more it does do mr. In-between. I'm watching that fuck it. I don't know if you've ever watched mr In-between TV show easy will take you no time to watch It's an Australian based show, but that is the main characters thing is he's like they're like violence isn't always the answer He's like dad is yeah, I'm gonna fucking hit you Sometimes I answer and he does it throughout the entire show And I'm like man, this is great. You really you really see nowadays like people who just have

Just go to the bars playing football being in the army or whatever like maybe just being in the military just wherever like You've been hit in the face You know when you need to shut the fuck up or when you need to shut somebody the fuck up and man It's it's so wild to just be like man. You have just never ever

The Tyson punched. It's a completely different world we live in. Yeah. It's wild. It's insane. The Tyson airplane incident. Holy shit. That dude's like poured water on Tyson. Could you imagine standing behind Mike Tyson? Oh my God, I would have killed that kid.

Would have killed him. Like, you, it's those bad fan interactions, which fan interactions, like, they're fucking great. You love the people that got you where you are, that supported you along your journey. But don't be a fucking dickhead like, you know. Oh, see, here's the deal. People think that if they pay a ticket and, you know, they get to enter, then they can act any way they want. Well, that's not really the case. That's not society. I headbutted a guy through a fence one time. Every time I did that one.

That's just at your kid's fifth birthday, right? I didn't put my hands on it. There's the cat.

You shut the fuck up, didn't you? Yeah. Yeah, real quick. Guaranteed. Never talk back again. Not to me. Not to anybody. People just don't learn. I mean, they don't, and there's not a situation to where they can learn because they'll call the cops on you. It's just, it's a different deal. You have to deal with people differently. You do. Holy shit. Because that stupid motherfucker on the airplane is going to get paid.

Probably I hope he doesn't I don't think he will you don't think so I mean he poured water on the dude like that alone They have video evidence before but it is sometimes easy man. It's that hard The court of public law he ain't getting a penny yeah, I hope fucking that's not they don't so you imagine a world where it's it's fun to trash-talk Mike Tyson like

What kind of an ignoramus would you be to talk shit to Mike Tyson? That man is terrifying, no matter what age. It's quite obviously someone who's never seen him fight. No. Or was too young to know who the hell... I mean, I just... That dude probably was like, you were in that movie, Hangover. Exactly.

I'm going to talk shit to this dude. It's like weird. You got your ass beat by a professional boxer who destroyed people in his box. He's lucky he was alive. Right? He didn't fucking ruin his face with a hit. I love that before and after picture. He's just like...

Like, homeboy got his ass, but he's like, oh, that's what life is. But I guarantee you he won't learn. No. Oh, I fucking ain't gonna learn shit. Not a chance. That dude is too old. So if you're on my plane, dude, don't come near me. That's all I can say. Yeah, I don't know. And still, I guarantee that. That's what's crazy to me. I'm like, I look at you, I'd be like, that's the dude I want to fuck with. Just fuck.

I mean, he tore his sleeves off of a perfectly good shirt. I'm claustrophobic. I'm not getting his face. But there's dudes that would be like, fuck that dude. I'm going to start a fight. I don't understand that logic. He's bigger than me. I just don't get it.

The guy who was harassing him wasn't even like a big dude. Like, in what world? What did you think? He's like, I can't be touched. I'm safe right here. What? This is my safe space bubble. You can't get me. What do you think? What the fuck happened, man? This isn't Twitter anymore. The fact that that doesn't even enter his mind is amazing to me.

It just shows you where we are. Oh, read TikTok. I've never seen. Thankfully, Savannah's TikTok. She shows me like all that stuff. I don't know if you've even looked at it. I've never. Don't. One. It's brain rot. That tactic. It is. Yeah, it is that new. And that's like this is the first time I feel old because I look at that style of content. I'm like.

Fuck is going on, but then you get to see yesterday's thing. She showed me was a videos a Psychologist post that was just saying it's like if you were left to you know make your kid cry it out I think all of us did that I at least I did with right in like yeah, you let your kid cry it out. I don't know kids fuck that you let your lizard cry it out Your lizards and your cats yeah, they cry it out. I just lock them in the bathroom. I'm like shut the fuck up

But it was saying that was terrible for your kids and that's why they have anxiety and stuff in this day and age. Kids, when I was a kid, kids didn't even know what fucking anxiety was. Right? I didn't even know what a seatbelt was going on. Or a helmet. Yeah, like none of that. I woke up. It was like, all right.

all right, it's daylight. Get out of the house. Door's shut. And I was gone until dark. That's it. My parents would say, don't come back until it's dark. And even then, it was like, all right, you got two hours after it's dark to make sure your ass is home. And then we shot each other with BB guns while riding bicycles. Yes, we did that too. Absolutely. It's a different. No helmet. No nothing. It's just a different day.

It's crazy when you look at that stuff. You are so soft. Holy shit. Look at the military. Oh, I know. I can't even picture it like...

Going from just being the idea of using the phone in the military now and basic. I remember that was becoming a cycle thing. And then the red cards, because I was at that cycle transition before we were still in BDUs. It was that last. And then there was the generation after you. Yeah. Yeah. And it was just that we're like, oh, and then people look at mine is soft. And I was like, damn, that's back in the day when they would like have drill starts. And he's like, just be like, what's this? It's cake. And they're like, ha.

I was like, oh, this is different military. You get to see that transition because now they're going to have like cell phones and stress cards and all that stuff. Yeah. And I'm like, what the fuck? Especially when about that. How about the requirements? Oh, yeah. Like comparatively, how many they call it hell week or whatever it is. How many fucking people do you think that go through it now could have gone through it when you went through? No, no. I mean, seriously, three quarters of glass.

Yeah, they go. I'd say three, like, there's that last quarter. Would fail. No, I'd say the last quarter would fail, 100%. Three quarters, I would say, because there's still, even, because I went through, like, the generation. I went through in 2009, which is when you got out, right? Or you got out in 2008? Yeah, because you had the three, your red week, I don't even know what red week is anymore. Then you have your last year. Your red week is your hill week. It's red, white, blue, they call them now. And then you have your black, gold phases, which is when you're leaving. I mean, it's probably different now, because this was in 2009. Everything's fucking different. Yeah, exactly, but...

Even that first week when I was there, you had people fucking crying and trying to quit and shit. And I know for a fact, four or five years prior, it was even harder because I was in that weird transitional phase. Like things were starting to change when I was in there. Like,

I couldn't even imagine seeing some of the dudes like just bawling their eyes out at night in a bunk with another fucking guy above them dude start crying There's no way. Screaming and crying. What would have happened if that was during your tenure? Oh when we had our dudes like I told you guys stories about like the suicide watch people they'd be like I'm gonna kill myself, Drew I'm sorry. Take the shoelaces and get a crazy vest. You're gonna kill yourself? Okay, guess what? We have to have six people on guard

Just for him at night for one hour and you have to rotate guard to watch him not kill himself at night. So we're like this piece of shit just made me wake up an extra hour. Like no one would say shit because you're like, oh, I'm going to make every motherfucker. And then that's the hey.

You're not killing yourself, right? So every five minutes, you're just like, hey, buddy. Wake up. He's got a concussion. Make sure he's not sleeping. He's just like, I'm just on suicide watch. I thought you had a concussion. But that's literally like, and then that, I don't even know how that is. Because it was that. We should talk to Nico about that. Oh, Nico would be a good one. We should go through Army Boot Camp for a video. Nope. I'd love to see that.

That was the weirdest shit when you were joining the recruiters were like yo if you can get a couple people to sign up We'll bump your rank that

That was a thing, an incentive when I was joining. That was for us too. Because I got E2 because I got a friend to join. Imagine being that douchebag. It's like, hey man, you want to join with me? And they're like, okay. I'm like, yes. You'll get free college and it's dope as fuck. Both of my friends died to join. Sorry. Sorry I forgot to tell you that part. But I got my E3. But I got a promontory.

Dude, sorry. That's those fucked up shit. That's pretty fucked up. That is. You're getting your buddies to join. When I was 19. Yo, man, I gotta join the army. You wanna join too? You don't even need to be in the infantry like me. It won't ruin your life, really. The BTS, that's not real yet. Don't worry. It's called The Surge. I don't know what that means. Oh my god.

That happens like the first time everyone's like so eager for a gunfire you look fuck Yeah you're like going on that first and then like on the way and then like bullets are hitting the side of your vehicle like I might have fucked Like dismount left action right like

Running out to choo-choo. It's like, oh, man. There's like 16 more months of this. But it was fine after the first one? Like, you get a few reps and it gets a little... There was an adjustment period? Yeah.

Just like anything else. Yeah, I got a comfortable enough to fall asleep going to missions. I'd just be like, ping, ping, ping, ping off the fucking hill. And they'd be like, dismount left. I'm like, weapon on fire. I'm like, okay, let's go, buddies. But yeah, you just fucking fall asleep. You got so comfortable with the lineage. I tell you guys, it's like towards the end, you just do not give a fuck about like anything. You just see a line of cherries because we're smoking on the way to a mission. It's like, this is a high value target.

There's a sniper mark to your head. Don't care. It'll be in the head. Won't feel it. He's walking in mission. Ashing everywhere. It was bad. Like, we didn't give a fuck towards the end. Obviously. Like, fuck, man. Yeah, I would not do that again for a million dollars. I'm like, nah.

You like romanticize it, and then you're like. Then reality hits. Yeah, you're like, oh, man. Reality be different. Plus, if Iraq was like Hawaii, way better. Iraq's Iraq. It's 140 degrees during the day. It's fucking miserable, and you get a shower once every 20 days, 22 days. So you're just like, ah, this is not worth $2,000. It's not worth it.

Yeah, it's fun times. Never again. Oh, man. Guys, Bill? Sir? When's the last time you played a video game? Oh, my God. Yeah. This is a good question. Maybe three weeks ago with my son. Madden? Yeah. Are you a Madden player? I was three weeks ago with my son.

See, Madden, when I was in the NFL, Madden was the hot shit, right? So everybody would play their own characters, right? Because I was the Falcon. I was in the NFL, and everybody played their own shit. Well, I didn't have a character. Who did you get to play? For me, it was different. Hot dog simulator. It wasn't much fun for me. Exactly. I was the vendor. Do that halftime. See the guy on the sidelines with the dog?

Did you how many games did you actually get a Probably like five a year for my three years, so I played like 1520 I Disrespect my career, but I mean yeah, I get to play in some Would you play video games with us?

For a video? Not right now. It depends on what the video is. What if we put him through some ridiculous video games? Yeah, oh, that's a good idea. Someone who doesn't play video games. Why don't you make me play myself and have you kill me? No.

With the goofiest wrestling character humanly possible. Oh, let's play Revenge. I know, we can. I'm sorry, WrestleMania 2000 was a better game. It was a better game. No, Revenge. I don't give a fuck. You weren't on the cover of that one. I'm sorry, I don't give a fuck. I'm putting my foot down. WrestleMania 2000 was a better N64 game.

In the comments, guys, what was better? Revenge or WrestleMania 2000? I'm just saying. It had the black cartridge. It looked fucking cool. Yeah, but Revenge had a black cartridge, too. Did it? Yeah. Oh, they both did. And you had fucking Bill staring down Hulk. I mean, by the way. Oh, that was the NWO. That was the NWO era fucking. That was that cover. It was like NWO Hulk, if I remember right. Yeah, it was WCW NWO Revenge. Yep, yep, yep, yep.

That was a crazy time period. I remember that. Yes, it was a crazy time period. That was like the height of chaos. It was unreal, man. You know, right when I broke in, it was the Monday Night Wars. That was my shit. It was crazy. That's why they moved Monday Night Football to 9 p.m. It was going head-to-head with our two shows. That's fucking... It's just moving fucking American football to a different time slot.

Who was the comedian they got to host or commentate in the NFL at the time? When was this? 98, 99? Fuck, when was this? Yeah, late 90s. The stand-up comedian that had the TV show that was a commentator for Monday Night Football. But they brought him in to get a different sector, a different population watching it. Different demographic to watch it. Yeah, they tried to steal it from us and it didn't work.

They're like, no, this is bigger than that. Was that wrestling at its peak? Oh, yeah, I would say so. Viewership, numbers, everything wise. That was like, I think, late 90s, early 2000s. That's what I watched. I was a fucking freak about Monday Night Raw. That was my shit.

yeah i can remember that's like part of my childhood is like those specific fights all those big things were like oh well kane taking off his mask for the first time that she was wild you getting tased like where were you when elvis died well i don't know but when kane took his mask off i was here that was huge was a nash hitting you with a taser how'd that feel i love kane it was was that like how strong was that tape

I wanted the one I... The whole idea was that I wanted the one that shot in you. Like a... Oh, like a... Yes. I wanted that one. You wanted the barbs, not the cattle prod. 100% If you're going to take me down, then you've got to take me down with something real, right? Not a chance. Oh, now it's still okay. No, it's not on national television. It's not my first loss. 176 matches, right? So, yeah, that's what I called for. But they didn't want to do it. And so we had to go with the prod.

It still was not a Felga. No, it wasn't active, but still, comparatively, visually, it wasn't near what the frickin' Barbs would have been. Barbs would have been like...

I just picture the lock up and as you're charging, you're just like fucking... I would have been bad if I would have crapped my pants. I did want to do that. Because the leaner you are, the more the currency flows through you. I wasn't really lean at the time, so I think I would have been good. Yeah, maybe. Some people drop, some people are like, eh, it's like mace and any of that stuff. I've never been hit with barbs. I've been fucking hit with a...

We went hands-on with people we didn't use them. Oh fuck sorry hardcore. Yeah, sorry I

I ask questions later. Oh, my God. There was no taser, taser, taser. No, they didn't have tasers when I was in the police. Ha! Ka-ka! Oh, that wasn't a taser. Fucking God, I hate those videos so much.

Close out, Batty. Batty, let's hear the closeout. Thank you for watching the Unsubscribe Podcast and or listening to the Unsubscribe Podcast today. Of course, as always, we have Donut Operator, Eli Double Tap, myself, Batty Screams, and our very fucking special guest, Bill Goldberg, who's in my house. I have Goldberg in my house right now. That's fucking wild. The value finally went up on this place. Honestly, yeah. This is as good as it's going to get. It's all downhill from here. Thank you for watching, guys. No, wait, wait, wait.

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