David Arquette | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #294

today's episode is brought to you by. bridge. credit solutions the number one stop. for money back guaranteed credit repair. go to bridge credit solutions dot com. slash theo today's guest is. the um subject of a new. documentary which really is a. just kind of a scavenger hunt into into. this man. and his journey with wrestling and.

everything addiction life everything. life. life today's guest is. mr david arquette. i'll sit and tell you my stories. [Music].

[Applause]. he came in recently and he just sent. those over as a gift it was pretty nice. of him. oh yeah we're pretty happy to have him. look what somebody made. on a 3d printer yes on a 3d printer. david that's so dope.

pretty nice huh. you have uh you have quite a collection. of. yeah you can get into there um and we. shut that door do you mind there. oh sorry no you're good actually it was. your fault but um. do you have you have quite a collection. of things that people have made for you. i saw in the documentary. yeah i got a bunch of collection i've. been collecting since i. started making money at 17. but just. isn't it funny when somebody makes. something for like isn't it.

yeah i almost feel like you can't show. the appreciation that things really. deserve sometimes. yeah totally yeah it's cool to. it's cool with somebody i love art in. general and when somebody puts their. artistic. ability to like do something with you. involved it's always. dope it's like i don't know it's. amazing especially when it's fans and. all this stuff yeah it's crazy you have. a you had a marionette somebody made. like a um. yeah you have the marionette you i mean. just briefly in the documentary you're.

able to see. different little they didn't they don't. focus on it. but they have this little thing you see. a little doodad or a piece of art here. yeah yeah you know yeah you really get. led into my world so you see a lot of. sort of my house. and my some of my stuff i collect i like. collect giant things i have a giant. chair in it a giant. like tennis racket oh yeah weird stuff. like that. do you sometimes i just started drinking. diet coke. yeah i drink diet stuff too i feel like.

an old person when i drink it do you. i guess so yeah i mean. you know it's better than all that sugar. though there's these really great ones. called the united states of soda that. just came out. and i'm only saying it because i just. fell in love with it it's a. just 30 grams of sugar like. not sure grams of sugar 30 calories. total. oh yeah so it's like just a little teeny. but it it tastes good it's better than.

uh lacroix or whatever i like licorice. and you could burn 30 calories you could. bend over and pick something up and burn. third half you know that's 15 calories. right there yeah. i often ran into you at the at the gym. before. yeah and now i got my my mini theo. vaughn working now you're coming in and. you do have a little bit of flare. growing huh yeah. yeah you know flying brian pillman jr. yeah or bulletproof brian pillman was. really my. inspiration diamond dallas page had. always had a great.

mullet yeah yeah they got a lot of good. mullets i'm trying to think of something. they had back and they even had haircuts. that were. who was some early mullet work that they. had in wrestling. old school shawn michaels yeah yeah they. had some wild haircuts. i'm trying to think if hacksaw jim. duggan made his was just kind of. such a funny guy yeah his wife debbie is.

so nice. yeah they were at legends of wrestling. the last match at the. at in the documentary yeah they're. really. great people you meet the you meet these. wrestlers and a lot of the time like ric. flair is incredible too but his wife. wendy's like the. sort of boss behind all these guys you. know what like my wife christina's the. boss behind me. she's responsible for producing this. whole film and. dealing with all the crap that came. along with it.

yeah so it oh there he is right there. yeah. oh yeah my god man he looks like he. would use that board on like a. standardized test honestly. it's so funny he walks around with the. board still. really yeah people get it signed and. everything oh that's awesome man yeah. his whole thing was amazing yeah man. that was a wonderful time that was a. time when big boss man that's a time. when i grew up in that. when you had real i don't know i guess. that's when i was a kid too so that's. when i saw it. you know it was like headlights looking.

right at me of just excitement and. staying up late at night at. 10 30 to see uh saturday night sometimes. on saturday night yeah they would have a. championship bout. yeah yeah they well it was all this it. was something they set up it was like. these were really weird matches. saturday night main event yes and then. it would just be like these quick i. don't think like any real. belts were ever exchanged it wasn't a. typical kind of. fight it was more like a spectator thing. yeah. yeah it was wild man i remember just so.

excited and. sometimes i'd pass out because the. excitement i remember just waking up in. the morning and didn't know what had. happened and my brother was gone and. yeah no internet back then you couldn't. catch up no you had to find a friend. your internet. was the first friend you saw at the bus. stop or whatever and you'd be like. what happened larry like i got ground. and you're like. this internet sucks you're like. this dude is dial up man i need a real. friend. who has facts yeah that's what's also. cool about wrestling it's like.

i have a couple friends brent joseph and. curtis reynolds who. have just been my friends for years but. they're friends that love wrestling too. so we all like. it's almost like those kids again. growing up. you can call up and talk to them that's. what i love about rjcity too my tag team. partner. we can talk wrestling and he's all he's. wrestled half of these guys so he can. tell you stories about. hacks on jim duncan or you know. piper or whatever good tales yeah you. know the closest thing i've seen a.

wrestling in a while in real life is we. nick do you have that uh bring up that. park thing in portland the other day. this a. t i don't know if you saw this or not. this is. um okay are you. familiar with rj city at all i'm not i. saw him he's. hilarious he's really funny on instagram. is he. i mean twitter yeah he's a real twitter. he's a real. millennial i'll have to check him out. this is protesters in a park but. this to me seemed like i mean look at.

this. yeah to me i know like a lot of these. people like. you know a lot of this is political. stuff but a lot of it to me has a very. it starts to get a very wrestling type. vibe um do you see. any of that when you see some of these. park battles these days it seems like a. lot of. costuming you know what the best thing. i've. seen on the internet it just came up. this morning on reddit it was. otter gangs fighting each other and. seeming for. yeah these gangs of otters are getting.

together and they're fighting each other. in singapore. oh water animals you mean otters yeah. the otters. that reminded me of wrestling oh look at. this. this is so fun look at these otters. oh hell yeah so they're like these. otters that are just wild otters. but there's gangs of them and they don't. like the other gang. damn really and they're like they're. having a rumble here. these honors just oh they're going. to add it look at the small crew.

they're smaller than the the big crew. and they're going for it. this is the blm royal rumble oh my god. look at this guy that came out the top. rope you saw this guy. no i know they're really into it and do. they know who these otters are are they. pets or that people brought or these are. just. these are no natural no they they like. i think they might have bred the otters. for this lake but then they. they broke up into two different groups. and then they don't like each other.

man it's kind of like romeo and juliet. but like gangnam style yeah and that's. in asia. yep wow west side story oh they won't do. that dude. they'll fight anything i wonder if. michael vicks behind this i feel like. that's crazy dude how how how crazy do. you think if michael vick would have. fought a cute animal against each other. i wonder if it would have been different. oh man like gerbil or you know like i. guess probably not because. they had it was i think they got upset.

because of like a lot of the deaths of. the animals but. anyway um yeah so my friends the cop. who's in the. documentary jerry in connecticut he just. sent me a video too of these two. uh turkeys fighting and fighting for a. girl. that's something funny about animals. fighting over a girl was just so funny. and i guess we do it yeah i guess. animals will get real territorial. yeah you know did you ever get in a. fight for a girl whenever you were. younger you think yeah for sure i once.

got upset i dated alyssa milano for a. little while and i once got. upset she showed up at this club we all. go to roxbury. and she showed up with another dude and. we were just broken up and i was like. crushed did you stay in the club no i. came outside i. kicked her car unfortunately i. apologized to her. since she's she's cool i was a real. piece of work but i i just kicked this. out of her car. we got to do that bad but we didn't even.

really fight it was so pathetic. were you pretty heartbroken or not you. think oh. yeah she was like one of my like first. lovers. i mean yeah she's a wonderful girl. dude you had a real nice smile huh yeah. but were you all i mean you were pretty. handsome i mean you're still a handsome. guy. oh thank you but i mean this is a time. in our lives when people really were. that was just young young in in. hollywood for the first time never.

really had. pictures taken on me. i was a mess though i'd once like. confess my love. i hope she doesn't mind me sharing all. this but uh. once confessor love and i had taken some. pill and then. oh we had some real sweet conversation. and i'd forgotten. all about it but she was so hurt i. don't blame her i was a real like. horrible boyfriend. there was terrible things that happened. oh we once went on this really beautiful.

trip. oh i feel so i mean. at least you're honest about being a bad. boyfriend i was a really bad boyfriend. oh man we went on this trip and we. were playing this mixtape and it was all. these beautiful love songs and then. she popped it out and she saw some girls. writing on it and she was like where'd. you get this. tape and i was like oh for my old. girlfriend. she's like how dare you i didn't get it. at the time i totally get it now. but yeah yeah it's been a long road.

to figure out how to be a good man. that's been. something for me oh yeah i feel that man. i feed dude that's what this whole. podcast is based on. oh dude struggling. bro you're a young guy you got a serious. lady or no i've never had a serious lady. in my life no no kitty i don't think so. i mean i have. yeah i've just never been in a. relationship where i didn't lie or cheat. you know that. that's kind of really i think been my mo.

you know kind of i've always like. i think like dude i remember having a. paw. some girl invited me to colorado one. time i go she takes me to a party. i'm at the party somehow i end up. getting her to play like a board game at. a new tick a long time. and then i met some snuck offs with some. other girl and like professed my love to. some girl in this closet and. yeah i don't know everybody's feelings. got hurt yeah. i hear you my first marriage i i was.

really. faithful with everything and you know. it's you know it's one way or another at. all. i don't know there was a lot of stuff. that happened. i got my heart broken i don't know. i don't it's it's important to be. faithful and you know true it's hard. though. it is hard you know especially when you. have a broken heart.

and uh you got animosity and like. for like when you lose faith and love. yeah you know. sometimes i think i lost faith in love. like before i even knew what love was. you know. yeah totally yeah totally i mean i'm. still. trying to figure out everything marriage. and family and all that stuff. well you got a beautiful group over. there you got that little fella that. high-fived in the documentary yeah. charlie and gus there's 63. i'm an. incredible wife christina.

who's been amazing and really taught me. a lot about. loving myself and you know that's really. what it all comes down to like i've been. on this whole quest to like. you know find love and all this stuff. and as cliche as it is that people say. you have to. you have all these things at least i.

have all these feelings that. i'm like you know i don't know does. she love me or does you know certain. things happen during the. whole thing of this movie which were. pretty intense just. yeah there's me like yeah her being. really upset with me like. do you want just want to die like is. that what you want to do. and i had to sort of come to terms with. that like i don't want to die. but i wasn't happy either so i had to.

figure out how to love myself. as crazy as that sounds like do you do. what were some things you feel like. cause like i mean i go to. you know i'm in recovery so i go to like. stuff like that you know that's good. yeah that stuff helps you so that stuff. helps um. it's good to have like a group that kind. of helps me yeah for sure. it's hard for me to not be like i got my. biggest thing is just with my mom i go. through moments where it's just like. there's no point in like being upset. anymore it's almost like my brain like. like sometimes i feel like she was mean. to me when i was really little before i.

even knew. i was alive or anything you know right i. can't go back and fight those wars i. don't even know if it really happened. right sometimes i think i'm just over. extremely overly sensitive you know. yeah and then you grow up in a world. where it's like. you got to be a tougher you got to be. able to you know put a rear naked choke. on somebody or something you know. like you know and then it gets scary and. then. now i'm a little older it's like okay at. least i can try to figure out who i am a. little bit and not. be scared at least to do that yeah for a.

while i was trying scared to even kind. of figure out what i was feeling or. anything you know. yeah completely it gets interesting so. the the. doc i watched the documentary last night. i didn't watch the last 20 minutes. because i didn't. want to ask you about anything that. would give it away. um so it's it's a documentary it's a. mockumentary there were parts where i. didn't kind of know like it's. it seems like a little bit of i don't. know you tell me. it's a documentary okay i didn't like. they kind of set it up so i'd start from.

the bottom and go up but like. even there's a death match in it that. wasn't planned they weren't even. supposed to be filming that night. it's something i set up i'm the one who. also went on all the independent circuit. the film crew didn't really follow me on. all that. i loved that yeah it was really fun it. was a. real uh education yeah when you get to. places like there's a moment in the. documentary you get to the place. and uh well here's a question right here. that came in from a young fella for you. oh nice.

this is all real-time stuff no no no no. no no this is real time so. this is all we'll be edited later but. these were sent picked up this week. since we're david arquette why in the. goddamn. would you wrestle nick gage in a death. match. what's the point you could wrestle so. many other indie stars but why would you. choose someone. that is willing to stab you to death. with a light tube. get back at me good good question good.

question. i should have asked myself that before i. did it. what happened was i was supposed to. wrestle joey janella who's an incredible. wrestler. the spring before that but i couldn't. because i got injured or i was doing a. movie or something. so then they were doing another spring. break the next year in los. angeles and i uh. and the wrestler was wrestling the gage. fell out and. he said you want to wrestle the cage and. i didn't even really know who he was and.

didn't know much about like death. matches. i knew about hardcore matches uh. i knew certain things but i didn't know. that there was. death matches are kind of frowned upon. by some professional wrestlers because. they call it garbage wrestling. kind of came from i don't know if it. came from backyard wrestling it. they have a whole world of it and oh. yeah mexico and then. tetanus shot wrestling we used to call. it no game yeah yeah yeah. circuit yeah yeah i actually asked. somebody.

before that because my wife was all. concerned she's like uh. freaking watch do you um do you know if. they anyone has like you know what you. may call it. first aid kit no no like have been. tested for like hepatitis or something. and i was like i don't know do you ask. somebody. hepatitis is a black wrestler that i. know that's probably one of the best. wrestler names ever. no kidding that's hilarious yeah so i. didn't know. like if i was supposed to ask i didn't. know i was in over my head.

you know and it sounds like you've been. over your head you were. born yeah i have been i really am trying. to figure this all out but i went and i. uh i did a bunch of research on. on death matches and everything i still. didn't. know what i was getting into so but to. answer the question i wanted to. that's a segment of wrestling that has a. really. strong fan base that really love. wrestling and. even though a lot of people's frown on.

it a lot of people love it. so it is something i we wanted to do a. backyard wrestling match we wanted to do. like a hardcore match. but it just didn't know how hardcore it. was gonna get. and is that the one that's not the one. that i see in the documentary though. yeah that is. okay because that really yeah that was. definitely. you could see somebody's eating fritos. right by the ring that's real. it was real i was like getting spit on.

people i hated me. but the idea was like if i could win. over this crowd i could win over. uh any wrestling yeah yeah it seemed. like it must have been pretty brave to. wander first of all it's scary going. into somebody else's backyard that's. always a scary thing. that was really like okay let's do this. know. like i just can't i just. i don't know i equate this whole film. this whole experience to like almost. cleaning out your garage or like any. kind of task like that.

where it seems so big and insurmountable. but then once you get in. you just work on one corner then finally. you'll clean up the whole place. and that's sort of you just have to keep. it keep going like in wrestling. if you hurt your neck don't worry. because next week your back is going to. hurt way worse. you know what i mean you keep trading. these injuries all along the road it. just never stops. yeah it's almost like you're a voodoo. doll but you keep doing it to yourself. in a weird way. that's true it's true i was thinking.

about doing a little video game of. because my son used to play this video. game of a little voodoo doll. and i wanted to do one of me where then. you could get anything. try to blow me up or hurt me and i'd. just come all back together. and he's like you you can't kill david. arquette yeah that's crazy. um when you're doing the uh. when you're doing the documentary so at. the beginning you talk about. you won the wcw championship. yeah and at that time were you.

like were you still like running real. hot on the hollywood stuff were you. wanting to try to do something different. you also seem like kind of a loner that. kind of likes to do their own thing in. in a way to me was that part of it like. if you look back on like kind of. learning about who you are based on some. of your life path and the choices you. make. dick are you able to like kind of see. why you chose that or do you have any. thoughts about that. yeah in the movie it like kind of sets.

it up like. you know screamed kind of typecast me as. a goofball. and doing wrestling was kind of like bad. for my career. i don't really agree with that. necessarily that's. my wife kicked me out of the editing. room at one point because i was like. no you can't say that that's such a rule. you gotta because i say in one point i. haven't. you know gotten a job in in 10 years. like who goes to. yeah who goes to auditions over and over. again that hasn't gotten a job in 10. years. but what i say right after that is i. haven't gotten a job from an audition in.

10 years. i've i've worked within that 10 years. it's just. you know people knowing me or or just. word of mouth or whatever. so it's a little like confusing but. the you know i've always like made these. weird choices. you know i i'm very public with stuff i. called into howard sterling had a bunch. of drunken conversations and. did a bunch of att commercials those are. probably the things that hurt my career. more than anything. honestly than than the wrestling film or.

wrestling in general. so i don't really agree with that but my. my career was at a weird place. ready to you know when you get up to a. certain place where you're doing. your own films it's kind of like if this. next one doesn't do. great then you kind of fall back down on. this ladder of. success but if you could parlay it and. have your films. continue to do good or just even make. money. then it's a you know you can kind of. keep going with it. but and but having any of those.

expectations are it's almost unrealistic. a lot of it's out of. a lot of it is out of your control yeah. totally unless you do it yourself and. that's what i've sort of learned that's. why we did this documentary it's kind of. taking. control of your life and your career or. just your. what you want to put out there yeah it's. what you've done with this this podcast. it's that kind of attitude where you're. like it. i'm gonna you know do what i want. structure it the way i want. you know and then that just builds on. then you can do other things that you.

want. different projects start popping up then. you start spending your energy on your. own stuff. yeah rather than waiting around for. someone to you know stamp you cool or. not. yeah so that's just not the way to go. anymore and people can do it with their. phones and learning. editing on on their on their phones or. on a computer. you know it's wide open now because. storytelling is getting better. people are more aware of filmmaking and. and what it takes to tell a good story. so you can read books on it you can look.

at youtube videos to learn. things about lighting like there's all. kinds of resources now. yeah you know it's funny when i was. watching it one thing i started to. realize. was because i'd seen you we did just. cross paths at the gym a couple times. you know and uh you were always playing. were you a trainer or racket what were. you guys doing. i was always just going i usually play. basketball and then do. some weights that's usually just what i. do to get cardio i thought maybe. i am a sweater are you i'm yeah i sweat. too much it's gross.

dude my legs i'd get these uh i. shouldn't probably say this but. i'll get these in india i used to get. these erection pills from india right. yeah and then they may not look so. sweaty no kidding. why didn't you just get them like legit. they're too expensive. and they just they're too strong man. though. strong oh wow god bro i couldn't even. bend my arms i was like a damn. gingerbread man trying to have snacks. no but these men they would make my legs.

sweat so bad and mostly on the back of. my legs so it was just. oh so i have to keep my back and my body. away from a woman during like any sort. of like. you know sensual engagement and damn it. just broke me man it just. god but they were so cheap and they were. they were. they would give you kind of a d an. erection but a soft like a co. like a manageable erection manageable. because the stuff that these selling. farm a big farmer that dick that big. farm is selling is too much.

it's too heavy yeah um but what i was. going to say was when i watched the. documentary one thing i started to do. was. that i did notice i liked the story and. i liked the references to wrestling you. know because i i like wrestling myself. um but i love i started to care about. you though as a person as i'm watching. it you know. i start to get invested in okay. obviously i know who david arquette is. but you know i just started to. the scene that really got me was with. the scene when you're doing the uh the. street fighting with the mexican guy.

oh yeah man that was amazing i didn't. even know street. like wrestling was a thing it really put. me on your side it put me on your side. like in a. you know i'm already on your team as i'm. watching it but it put me on your side. as like in a. just in like a real human kind of way i. feel like um. so i know you're not asking about that. but i'm just trying to give you just how. i felt about. during the documentary um now there's. some wrestling. in our circuit there's some you know.

there's some hot air balloons out there. and i want you to take a peek at this. guy right here tom shiguro. oh yeah and he had this wrestling uh. this promo video that came out a while. back uh. just about a month ago. yeah you've also said quote they have. diminished capacity. yeah could you explain what you meant by. that exactly and would you like to take. this moment to apologize. oh no i was i meant that they're stupid. uh they're poor. um they're all beneath me uh.

you know they're losers if they want to. come you know maybe clean up my toilet. or whatever. i could spit on them while they're doing. it give them a little taste of the. mystique. hey rick you're so strong you could even. withstand the ankle lock. oh it's true it's damn true mr greg what. about the uh wrestlers themselves some. of them. have reached out to you saying they used. to be fans of yours. how they've been hurt by your remarks. how do you respond to that. mission accomplished get it mr grinch.

this is my parrot solstice you know we. always enter the brain together. anybody wants to get the turkey slicer. come come at me man. mr rick you are never down for the count. you are the best there is the best it. was and the best i ever will be. just keep those jeans high and tight and. know that you are the excellence of. execution in everything you do. you think you can do what they do. wrestlers. yeah it's fake why can't i win a fake. fight sign me up.

let's rehearse and then i'll whoop your. fake ass. that's what burns me what that's what. burned me that part. oh yeah did you guys have it out. yeah i went back at him but that just. it's it's fake. it's it's it's it's it's not graphed. it's organized. but it's not fake at all once you get in. the ring you'd. be surprised how not fake how real it is. and uh you often like people here. waiting to kind of teach you a lesson. once in a while because you're bleeding.

in the documentary yeah. that was a death match though but even. the backyard match but. you almost there's always something it. just hurts to take those bumps and i had. three fractured ribs when i had to. wrestle rj city and a bunch of stuff. oh man it's a good look with you as a. wrestler. oh i came back at him this is me coming. back mystic and i went more old school. style. oh yeah buddy here waiting for the rack. i mean obviously it's got no respect for. the business that thompson. rat king a lot of smack being thrown. around by mystic rick saying wrestling.

is fake. what are your thoughts on that oh. was it fake when i nabbed the gab. out of that little russian hunter mr. michael rappaport. was it fake when i broke the spirit of. that little norwegian smut mannequin. mr crystal. was that fake rick was it fake. when i put the dirty you noggie on. little bobby miyagi.

was that fake ricky. the only thing not real here is you. brother yeah you little diet denier. starch addict gout candidate i bet you. can't even skateboard. that was the personal like that's a. because that's the part that hit me i. think there's a certain element of. people out there that don't understand.

when they call it fake how it hits some. people. yeah that's for sure where does that hit. you when they call it fake. oh man you just don't understand how. real it is until you get in there. it really is like it's getting crazier. and crazier not that it's. there's a there's a real beauty like i. wrestle cult cabanas. one of my favorite matches and ethan. page these guys are. super pro so even though they're making. it real.

it's uh it still isn't as painful as. some of those. other lessons people teach you you think. you could beat the fat guy that was in. the beginning of this it's a girl yeah. come on you think he has what it takes. actually once it gets once he gets into. the ring do you think he could. i mean has he trained probably that's. the thing like. wrestling anyone would go on a very. short limb and say no he is not. well then it's just it's kind of like. something you usually. shouldn't do like unless somebody's. really training because.

every wrestling match is as good as. the most experienced person in there you. know or the most. you know spec like the most trained you. know they don't have to have the most. experience but. someone who really gets it can make you. look good one of my best matches was. with jack perry. and jungle boy aw and he's just so. talented that he. made him made me look like i could do. things that nobody had ever. i'd never tried before a canadian.

destroyer and the only reason it works. so well is because he's. so great at it i mean it's certain. things you're not really supposed to. talk about or whatever but. right but he's a super talented wrestler. luke perry's son oh is it really yeah. god dang he's damn beautiful dude yeah. he's great he's a movie star this kid. he's. never smoked never drank he's got a. great head on his shoulder he's tough as. nails. he's better looking about easily sixty. percent of the women i've dated. the easily problem even the guy above.

him right there. yeah lucha soros he's an amazing. wrestler wow he's. good you know i don't know six eight six. ten. so you really have a love for this whole. world i guess that's something when i. got. as i'm going through um you cannot kill. david arquette. that i'm like okay is this love is this. a real passion that he has for this. yeah i love wrestling i've always loved. wrestling just sort of i've always loved. it as a fan. yeah kind of like and then when the. championship thing came.

i was promoting ready to rumble they. said we'll. put the belt on you if you can stay till. the next pay-per-view. i thought it was a terrible idea but. diamond i was saying. paige broke it down he's like listen. well you don't have to do it if you. don't do it then the promotion already. rumbles. over the whole ready to rumble things. over you won't be wrestling with us. but if you do you'll stay with us you'll. travel with us you'll go. you know do a pay-per-view and that's. kind of what i really wanted i thought. it would be really fun.

and i thought it would be taken more as. a funny storyline rather than something. so serious and kind of. devalued the belt which i understand now. what was more d. what do you feel like was more devaluing. the fans that were saying this is. uh you know using a guy from hollywood. if you will. um or. critics that were saying this is not. what somebody like david arquette should. be doing. yeah i mean i think part of it was i was.

an actor i was smaller than. most of the wrestlers back in that time. period. since then you've had smaller champions. like daniel bryan and. mike mazzanin yeah and uh. i forgot seth rollins sort of some. some guys so rey mysterio is like kind. of the first yeah rey mysterio yeah. hell henry rollins could win a belt i. think if you gave him he's pretty tough. i was a tough guy. but yeah i don't know it was just sort.

of that i was an. actor and i wasn't trained and they just. didn't accept it as like this. in funny thing and then guys like booker. t had never been the champion or scott. steiner so. i was uh i asked booker t in the locker. room i said how many times have you been. the champ booker and he's like never. so i was like oh so then when i. went out next i. i went off script and i said i don't. deserve to be the champ booker t. deserves to be champ. and he was the champ a few uh like two. you know the belt went to jeff jared and.

then i think it went to booker after. that so not that i had anything to do. with it but. it's good to plant those seeds yeah did. you um. so did it did it get weird because then. after you get the strap you. did you start to feel ashamed of having. it are you like holy you go from. excitement to then all of a sudden i. still have this thing. and i have you have to carry it you have. to carry it from everywhere. through airports every day you can't. lose it or leave it in your car you. can't leave it in your hotel room like a.

baby in georgia yeah you have to carry. it. they're heavy you're responsible for it. and they're heavy and they're heavy. yeah i just didn't know what the heck i. was really doing nobody told me. like really how to wrestle how to do. anything like i'd just show up and. they'd say okay you could. sometimes they'd hand you like literally. pages of dialogue. like i'm supposed to memorize this like. this is more. it's way harder than people think like. cutting a promo. all that kind of stuff and a lot of it's. has to do with.

the thing people say that it's not real. or something because. when people cut good promos they're real. like you have to find a place inside. yourself that you. feel this you can convey that you're. angry at this person and you. do the things that you do in an acting. set where you're like when. you have to do something emotional where. you kind of go through in your head all. of these. really painful times in your lives and. you get to a place where. those emotions are like kind of right. there and you have to do that with.

wrestling too. you know you have to make wrestling real. for you for. what you're doing for what you're. conveying like that's where wrestling is. entirely real and and then there's the. level of like. people's personal lives what's going on. how they feel about you. or how they feel about their own lives i. mean a lot of people are. when you're real pro you can separate. stuff like that but. some people coming up don't some people. get overly excited you know and.

and then me being a beginner it's mostly. me that's getting like. you know ahead of things or like you. know not. you know you've learned in wrestling to. really slow down time. just kind of like you know allow. moments to happen and like get hit and. like really react to it. and look at an uh you know a fan. and just make a connection right there. it's like he's not going to do this to. me you know. you just make it real and then it.

becomes real when you can. make wrestling really feel and and you. the audience. you can capture them and then they're. they're they're like. like while the match is going like oh. you almost made it and then you got them. on the hook you know and then you just. have to kind of reel them in. best way to reel them is like do a few. like. things that they don't either don't see. coming or a quick turnaround and then. boom you know some big thing that makes. them cheer and then. you know you either get them to uh.

like the three count or or you kick out. yeah but it you should always end on. sort of your biggest. pop of the of the performance it sounded. like he was describing stand up. no i think stuff like. i'm sorry no no no no that was it. there's like that's a really good point. i was trying to think of some. of correlation and oddly i couldn't even. think of that yeah. but yeah i guess and you're taking me. back now too also to just being a fan i. remember.

man when the guy would crawl over and. get on top of the other guy and. finally it's like good is gonna beat. evil and everything is gonna be okay in. the world and the. and then you're like this ref has like a. rotator cuff injury and he can barely. get his arm to go down. and he gets stalled at the top and some. other ref has to come in and push his. arm down. but it's just like life it's like things. just sometimes get so close. and then there's just these chops and. these ups and downs and. oh man yeah that's when it's beautiful.

that's when that's not fake man yeah and. when you typically work with. veterans they know how to construct. matches where it's like. half the time i didn't even know like. what was going on like why are they. putting that here i don't understand. why would i but then you see it all. together and you start figuring out. and then once you get used to it then. you then you can relax into stuff. and you know certain things are coming. certain parts of the match. you know the heat and all the sort of. stuff that comes how you.

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vaughn thank you very much. what is that net the the the leg twist. that neck what is that move is that you. is that your finishing moment oh the one. of your moves. yeah it's a legs i don't know it's it's. called a her karana some people call it. but yeah. that's one of my moves that's a move. that goes into a lot of stuff it's a. it's a frankensteiner if you're on the. corner of you know the top rope. or um there's a few a lot of different.

moves go into it but my finishing moves. uh a diamond cutter like diamond dallas. page. now the because yeah because people. wouldn't say that uh ballet is fake. people wouldn't say that. a move i mean i guess. yeah there's just there's almost a greek. art to it or something. absolutely there is it really is good. against evil. i mean that's what's happening like in. the world right now it it really is. becoming a wrestling match. ah you know we've got heels and faces. good guys and bad guys.

everybody i mean everything has turned. we've been saying this for years that. ever it's all turning into the wwe. yeah everybody's cutting promos it's. just like what is going on. no it's crazy everybody's cutting promos. everybody's driving for uber. it's just getting insane no. remember like when politicians they used. to be like in a place somewhere like. debating against each other now they're. all just cutting promos on. twitter. i know the whole feuds on twitter thing. is just crazy.

and like everyone in. politics and everything are just a bunch. of wrestlers. going nuts it's everything man i. remember one of the most beautiful. things i ever saw though i was at the. i was at the wrestling and they had a. mexican gentleman a man. i think he was a man him and his son. were the same exact height. so who knows how old either one of them. was you know but. they were both wearing a championship. belt and when the rock came back it was. the night that the rock came back this.

is about eight years ago i think or. maybe and when he came back they both. started bawling and crying together like. just. standing there i loved him and it was. just man it was. that's real the night was great but that. was probably the best thing that i saw. yeah i love that that's that's the best. part. just that humanity and the love for and. it's. it's because he took his son but his dad. probably took him and then you know his. dad probably took his father you know.

that's what it is it's like. some of these moments are just part of. our history. yeah that's what upset me so much like i. i love wrestling i didn't want to be. excluded from it or go with my wife and. then have people like. yelling at me i was just sick of it. so i wanted to do something about it so. also like. everybody's got that feeling of like. something they dream of doing. you know we all wanted to tap into all.

that like. you know not letting people bully you. like you know. going after your dreams like never. giving up like. giving something everything you got and. we didn't know where it would go. if it would you know if it would go to. one of the bigger places or something. but it worked out that it was this. perfect kind of full circle moment. you mean this documentary yeah with the. nasty boys just kind of like. getting my back and accepting me as one.

of the guys. yeah yeah because it's interesting. because i didn't even know today. whenever. we're coming in here um i didn't i. didn't know. i didn't know if i should ask you in. advance like how serious is this. is this like uh you know just a. i don't want to say a spoof but no it's. it it definitely gives it more depth. to me uh knowing how you feel about it. you know. yeah and also one thing that's really. cool is that you got to be you've gotten. to be a hollywood star i mean you've.

gotten to. the fruits of that stardom are really. i mean it's it's sketchy. and i don't even know if there's that. big if there's that big of stardom these. days. there's a few people but the. the idea of like like stardom forever is. very. hard to have i feel like um yeah. yeah like at a level of like you know. sometimes we think about it. guys yeah i mean there's like eight or. ten got you know it's so.

they're really selective i mean they. have the not the luxury but they have. the patience to be. like able and uh just have it in. themselves. to really wait for the right project you. know get the right directors and. producers attached. make sure that that's the character that. they want to play but they also have the. luxury of maybe not working for a year. or two. right like i always i grew up with a. father was a working character actor who. so i think it like got into me that it's.

like i'm a working actor like i need to. work so. yeah i'll do things that you know. you know on paper people say like why. are you doing this kids show. you know just for for whatever reason. but. it's it's all directly connected to just. working having a job going and doing. work like i'm not. comfortable sitting around all the time. yeah i think you have to give up but you. also it feels like you have to give up. some of you have to give up some of what.

you want. in hollywood it seems like at certain. points you know like. like i got offered some things in the. past year and. there was this animated project i got. offered to be on this show called. hoops that just came out on netflix and. it just didn't. i kind of wanted to do my own animation. thing and i didn't. and i just wasn't sure and so you know i. had to say. that it wasn't for me even though it. would have been probably fun and neat. and i had to see it come out and be a. little disappointed.

but then i also just had to remember. myself because i'll just. immediately start feeling bad like oh. man i wasn't in it and yeah yeah but i. don't. my brain doesn't want to remember nine. months ago when i was like i just don't. think i tried to make a choice for. myself. you know it's hard to do those choices. it's hard i'm like. to my detriment a few times like not. wanting to do something that turned out. to be really. great and really really great group. of people doing it sorry i'm burping. over here it's okay.

um these mics don't pick that up but. that's diet soda man i remember when i. would see people drink diet sodas when i. was young i thought they were old that's. what starts to scare me dude. i'm no man i'm much older than you so. it's like. it's really funny when you start looking. back it's real like. real it's real yeah. how crazy is how much older you get once. you hit like 39 or 40. yeah there's there's that 39 to 40. 39 to 50 is like a whole thing.

there are really cool things that happen. to you start like. not caring nearly as much about stuff oh. that's nice. yeah it's really nice not getting like. you start realizing where your anger. comes from. like it's like oh you start feeling you. can control it more. uh-huh and it's not like. crippling like sometimes it feels like. oh yeah man. i would like to have that less stress. dude i used to get especially over women. bro. here's the crazy thing if you want to. date a girl now and say she's younger.

than you. it's so hard because you can't talk. about any music. oh yeah you say like oh do you listen to. it a second you get halfway through that. sense you're like. if i name a band that is like 15 years. old right now i'm gonna sound so. old. i know i don't know that whole that old. world is. yeah you like the black crows and you're. like oh i don't you know. i don't know like what are they at the. san diego zoo and you're like. i don't know she's like are they. endangered it's just.

it's so sketchy bro trying to like. trying to keep up with the joneses of. youth is impossible. yeah it is it gets real sketchy. and it also is like i don't know you can. meet the right people but. you know it's a lot of the time just. pretty empty feeling. you know what i equate a lot of that. stuff too it's funny everyone's doing. zooms now and at the end of a zoom call. it's always like oh let's get to leave. the meeting thing. it's always like it's almost like you're. done and you're like oh.

this feeling is like here's my real. face that's a good point here's my real. face. and no one can ever find it it's like. all right i love you. and then it's just well i have those. moments i've learned how to sit in them. a little more. the uncomfortable moms i did a show. called carter but it came out apparently. with. jerry o'connell who's a real i love.

jerry man yeah. he's so talented dude he's hilarious. he's the best stories bro. he has the best stories he's just such a. funny guy. we had a blast we were just joking the. whole time but i went up to. canada to do a show carter and then uh. he was like something happened on the. set and people were getting a little. upset and he's like oh yeah yeah yeah. i was like i was licked and i was like. what's up it's like. i think they're getting a little. argument or something i was like yeah. they're in an argument why are you. getting all jacked up about it.

you just love the fact that there was. conflict. and i was like oh wow that's such a like. an interesting response because my. past response just from being from a kid. from a chaotic. like childhood or whatever i'd get like. super like. like uh i don't know embarrassed or. something or like. yeah i'd be i'll feel like oh you know. why are they fighting of that whole. thing and i it's like such a kid. response to it. yeah and now when you're able to kind of.

like not take it personally. or it doesn't involve you and you know. you're having a conflict you know you. don't have to solve it. yeah and you can kind of sit back and i. can see how i don't know if i could ever. enjoy it. but i could see how he could be relaxed. about it jerry's making it has he's. eating popcorn as you look over he's. loving it. dude he's so talented man he has this. story about growing up. in he grew up in new york during the. aids epidemic or pandemic and he has.

this wild story about how. half of the people in his building when. he was a kid died. and just how like every couple of weeks. he'd come home and another neighbor. would have died and just um. man it's just fascinating and he's such. a gripping when you. you know why he's a good actor because. when you were talking to him it is like. you are. in just an elevator into like another. like a elevator that goes forward right. into his damn soul yeah. he's one of a kind dude that's fun man.

yeah when i was. uh yeah there he is right there with a. guy with brendan shaw right there. and he's a guy. but uh dude it's so funny when i was. young i used to feel so much like i'm. responsible for everything like no. matter like. i would feel so much shame like i feel. so ashamed of everything that happened. like if. like one of my family members did. something and they was off or something. i would feel like it always like. reflected on me like. every yeah i was just ashamed of. everything man i know. that's a sucks yeah it super sucks i.

used to have this. thing where i've i like discovered i was. kind of a shame. addict i was like addicted to the. feeling of like putting myself in a. position where it was. like either shameful or like and i. didn't. want to but i kept putting like calling. into howard stern and then having to. like. apologize to people or even maybe like. what i just did with. talking about alyssa or whatever just. not meaning to but it might be. something in me that why do i talk about.

somebody else you know what i mean i. don't know what it is. is she gonna get mad i don't know not. that i did it for any reason but i don't. know why. my brain would do it sometimes right. where i'd get into this thing just. to be humiliated or something which is a. terrible thing to do. it's like really painful place to be. but dude sometimes it's so funny i would. love like uh. i remember one time inviting i had two. girlfriends right and a. huge rarity in my life and i invited.

them both to a bar. right oh my gosh and i knew it was gonna. make me feel. i some people would think oh this can be. fun cat fight these girls gonna go at it. i just knew in hindsight looking back. i'm gonna feel so bad because. i care about both these girls both of. them care about me and bo. everybody's going to get their heart. broken right now and i was just like. let's do it. yeah and i know that feeling but looking. back like yeah it's like man. yeah i wonder if there's ways where my.

brain leads me into places to. really feel not great about stuff you. know. without just because of old patterns. yeah i do things to blow up a lot. like that thing sounds kind of like that. or you do something like with the. specific intention of just. blowing all the just to. like. it you know go punk rock there's. always been a little bit of a punk rock. vibe. i do that with work sometimes man even.

work stuff yeah you know like. uh because i've found in the past two. years like i like to i don't. i really didn't like in some ways. working with others in some ways i. didn't realize it. i've just always kind of done things by. myself and so i didn't realize until. i had to start to work with others a. little more that i have to. i don't know it's not a reflection of me. it's just a group thing and but man i. would. i had such a just a visceral reaction to. it man. that's what i would you know i'd always. i don't know i'd get up in the middle of. the night and. rattle off an email that's like oh this.

is like a bomb yeah yeah so that. three hours later when everybody wakes. up i know. i did that stuff too oh oh god. it's painful you like kind of a lot of. the time. and especially sometimes you're working. with the kind of people that do it. where they create issues and like. problems where there are none. just to like have a problem yeah and. then you have to deal with the problem. i don't know yeah i'm like the david. blaine of complete.

like guess what tada. you know. um thanks did you ever have it. that was great. did you ever um could you talk a little. bit about addiction and think do you. talk about that kind of stuff. yeah i mean i've had my battles with it. so i've been like on this roller coaster. yeah it's a tough ride kind of it's a.

really tough ride. but it's a fun ride though too i think. it is i mean. it's fun when you learn like i don't. know how not to do it. i mean it's just beating yourself up my. addict's just like. literally like in my wife asking me do. you just want to kill yourself it's like. no but there's something inside me. that's trying to. kill me absolutely has no problem with. it. you know what i mean so you have to like. but then also like. just not wanting to go there like right.

my personal life like. like i i don't know i uh. i i like when i first sort of fell off. the rails. it was kind of public i was like calling. an hour shirt and all this. and i don't remember any of that i don't. know i don't even know about it oh thank. god yeah. oh yeah it's just like completely like. like. regurgitating my life you know and just. like oh yeah but we do that here yeah we. do. yeah you do that but it's your own place.

and it's right it's like you know you're. also not. up doing it oh yeah yeah i would. do that. dude i had a nightmare so i ended up on. uh. opie and jim norton they used to have a. show yeah opie and uh. this was after opie and anthony and. serious it was across from howard and a. lot of times people would do the loop up. there and they'd run it. so i ended up one night all cocaine all. night driving a taxi the taxi drivers in. the back he's in the taxi right wow.

long night dude great time yeah um. get to the radio station i would be on. air at 6 00 a.m bro can't even. i mean can't even feel my face. bro with either hand. i tried both hands right at first i. thought oh something's wrong with this. hand you know. and then i tried feeling my face with. this hand and i knew something wrong. with my face. and uh daryl strawberry's the other. guest oh my gosh. and he's a good he could help you. through it. yeah if anybody can help me through it.

but man. put it behind your ear you'll get your. feeling back. there i am right there almost blasted. out of my brain. oh my gosh dude i had done enough. cocaine to freaking. take daryl strawberry to extra innings. bro no doubt no. kidding i see you grinding away too oh. man i lost a half inch in my mouth that. day oh no. it's such a big cocaine's little burst. yeah. the worst really is just i say it turns. men into mice.

yeah and it's fun though that's the. thing they put a little bit of fun in it. yeah i mean it's fun it's just so rapid. the fun. yeah it's all so full like hot air yeah. they need so many to do it but it just. takes. much a lot more work you know you just. have to work to get. those highs but it just takes the work. to get there and then it's like. the culmination of all the work and then. you have that fun. time and then even the process of doing. this stuff can be fun.

too yeah where you can get that life. high yeah yeah. yeah no there's definitely a lot i mean. there's things i like now about. definitely. waking up and being able to handle my. day oh hell yeah and like open my eyes. up have those little moments i'm sure it. is with family and stuff too especially. yeah and the more responsibilities i get. my in my life the less. i find myself wanting to do stuff like. that you know yeah. um but so with the so are you. with the documentary i don't know if i. didn't watch in because i just don't. know how much like you want to share. about like give it.

are you making a push now to get more. to get more into wrestling yeah i don't. know i. might wrestle more i did it mainly for. this documentary. so i kind of did what i set out to do. right if we wrestle some more i mean i. love the world. you know uh i like wrestling with rjcity. as my tag team partner. so i don't know if i want to do it. without like a tag team partner. it's a i always got in trouble without a. tag team partner. yeah yeah unless it was with the pro.

like colt cabana or something. and here's a guy right here he's. probably alone what. theo what's up david seth from kentucky. here and my question for david is. who has more fun in the wrestling. community heels or faces. you know do you get to have more fun. being that bad guy or do you have more. fun being the face of it all. game game gang bro. that's a good question yeah it is a good. question the heels definitely have more. fun within it. like it's just you know heels represent.

like. being chicken shits being like. backstabbers having no. spine you can just say the worst things. you could just do all this stuff you can. just when you come from a place like. that. it's weird when people get mixed up like. some people get mixed up like they might. be the heel but they want to be tough in. the match. too and it doesn't work as well if. you're. like if the audience gets more invested.

if you cheat. to like hurt them or you do something. like something like if you do a heel. behavior. yeah if you're gonna be a heel be a heel. yeah yeah exactly. so yeah and then really be a heel so. much so it's like. being chicken about stuff or cheating to. win or like. all that kind of stuff it happens a lot. man. it's really just a reflection of life. you know it's just such a. it's such a like whatever i think it's. called a greek play or something where. they do plays and it's.

you know in greece or something and they. you know it's like good and evil. you know it's just like that man yeah. for sure. but i would love to see you beat the. out of uh mystic rick though. yeah yeah dude do you guys have a little. uh like a little like promotion or. something. is it does he have a belt the uh theo. called him out and he never responded. rat king called him out and he never. responded man we had a belt that started. years ago.

uh when they have a podcast called the. fighter and the kid. yeah and they had a vote on their. podcast for. best guest or one of the best guests in. the year and that guy got a belt. so once the belt came into it it came. that's the origin story of the belt. and then you know we started taking on. different characters and you know just. you know kind of like most of our fan. base is really a bunch of rats you know. not bad rats but just like. underdogs you know yeah right there with. you yeah cheese hunters you know.

so yeah i feel it um. what else do you want to talk about you. think i don't know. did you ever do any jail time no i've. never. had a mug shot i've been pretty careful. about certain things. i've been wild but did you ever like. wreck a car. really really no i never drove always i. mean i've. driven once in a while but i avoided it. all very. yeah yeah that's one of the main things.

that's really good then yeah yeah i. never wanted to. get a situation where i hurt anybody. yeah do you think um do you think that. um. [Music]. yeah i just wonder if i could handle one. of those prisons or not you know you. think you'd be good in prison. i don't know man i would i hate to have. to. have to deal with it but you know we did. a. documentary called survivor's guide to.

prison. which was really cool we produced it. with danny trejo it was a. matthew cook film it was really great my. wife really produced it but. uh that taught us a lot about the prison. system. you know you know how corrupt it is and. how it needs to be changed but actually. being in there that would be something. else i mean i. i taught a acting class at san quentin a. couple of times. yeah yeah so good actors in there it was. cool it was. it was weird i had them do this.

improvisational game called. animal transformation where you pick an. animal and then you transform it. into like all right let's put you know. you're a giraffe and you're. a run run right now rhinoceros. yeah yeah i was about to say. ryan reynolds. but you bring them up to like human form. but still maintain the characteristics. so like this dude would be a. you know like a rhino or whatever and.

there's. goes up to the giraffe but it was like. kind of aggressive because. rhinos seem aggressive and then the the. guard was like stop stop stop you gotta. stop. and he explained to me like they could. get into this little acting thing right. here. but then they could go out and like get. in a huge fight on the yard. if if like someone disrespects each. other and there's like all this. code and all this stuff so i'd hate to. have to learn that stuff but. you know i get by but do you think when.

you think about prison like do you think. what parts of prison do you think you. would enjoy. i don't know man like you like a small. room i like a small room. i like characters so i'm sure there'd be. some characters in there that i. gonna hit i like the kind of joking that. happens. in places like that or in school or in. like you know places where people are. all hanging out and kind of not bored. but. uh have time on their hands or it's just. like hanging out with your homies like. yeah.

you know when you're growing up the guys. you grew up with the way you can joke. with them is like. you know a great feeling yeah why do we. lose that as we get older it just. i mean that disappears doesn't it in a. lot of ways it does. you have to kind of stick with those. guys you have you when you go back home. you probably have friends like that. right. yeah yeah i'm on a couple text chains. like that but. you never can really replicate that just. that. childhoodness of it where somebody. doesn't have to. now people have responsibilities and. somebody you know.

yeah they owe somebody money or there's. some or something. yeah totally but. i love brody that's. yeah man one of a kind he just had a. birthday the other one did he really. yeah he's awesome i knew him for a while. we hired him on a. show called uh midnightly news to. warm up the audience like back in. back in the 90s or something did. you uh yeah he uh. one thing that i loved about him was.

his i think he just always had this. ability like. to make you feel kind of he was such a. loner almost he was such like a scared. dude. but he always would like really kind of. go out of his way to kind of make you. feel included you know. um he man talk about. being a loving person but finding it. really hard i feel like to express how. your love in like normal ways and stuff. yeah.

he was a warrior man i can't i still. cannot believe that it that. suicide it's just crazy how it just i. mean it sneaks in. yeah like in an instant almost yeah it's. sad and people can't do it anymore. yeah but i also get it sometimes man i. get it but there's. like you have to fight through these the. hard times because there is beauty on. the other side. yeah this is a really dark time right. now just in general. a lot of people are scared a lot of. people are losing.

loved ones and you don't know where. there's. you know other bills are going to get. paid from so it's really scary at this. time but you have to know that it. we will make it through this yeah and we. will have. your fun on the other side and there's. little things that come like as you get. older that are really beautiful. little things and it's just literally. like. catching you know tadpoles with your. kids or like. the wind on your hair like you know you. get an appreciation for.

certain things getting a snack anything. something small. i know when you can really like sit. there like oh this grape tastes great. like yeah you're like in a place where. you're like you're taking a moment to. appreciate. a grape yeah it's like oh this is. different because you're not like as. wound up about the world yeah man it's. tough dude i made a gratitude list this. morning i'm trying to. get back more into gratitude you know. just be thankful for the little things. that's the best man. that's such a key it gets so tricky um.

yeah i think so yeah i i feel like so. yeah after watching the doc i felt like. it was it's really kind of a. i guess it really does kind of stand as. a story of like setting a goal. and kind of um do you feel like it's. getting a monkey off your back. a little bit i mean it definitely you. know what the the. thing i learned was that it was me like. i had this one therapy session with my. therapist and and i was like. talking about my mom and dad and how.

heavy like their marriage and. relationship was and then i was like. wait they're both dead it's like. literally this heaviness is just inside. me. and they're gone so like to work to lift. that was really. helpful you're like david duchovny but i. feel like the x-files are on the inside. i'm telling you it is we all have to. figure out all this stuff going on. inside. it's so crazy bro how much crazy baggage. we carry man i know man. yeah and then i will swim in it i will.

make a. swimming pool out of my baggage and then. dive right into it i know when there's. tons of other things to go do. people like hey come get on this water. slide come get on this ferris wheel like. i just made this amazing swimming pool. with all my own. yeah let's just go in there for a while. oh it gets to me after a while what else. we got nick we had a written question. that came in it said when will we see. chuck hank in the san diego twins you're. telling me there's a movie i did like.

eight years ago. and it still hasn't come out i just have. no idea it was. i was so impressed by this group of. filmmakers because they all had cameras. they're all shooting i was like. you have like eight cameras like nobody. has eight cameras unless you're doing a. sitcom. and then uh so they're shooting and. they're like having all these angles. they're all filmmakers they're all. editors and then the movie disappears. for. years there's rumor that it's still. going to be done but i just don't what. cause.

what causes that kind of stuff when. something disappears what caused that. could have been any. kind of thing it's usually like there's. a falling out between the filmmakers and. then one person's either in charge of it. and then just doesn't. like complete it or there's. just tied up so they're sort of push. pulling. i don't know there's all kinds of things. yeah. what about you what are you interested. in doing like uh. thinking about getting uh i'm thinking. about getting a dang dog recently. yeah man that's a real that's a.

beautiful thing have you had one before. oh no kidding like do you know what kind. of dog you've been looking for. i think like a one like uh everybody's. kind of has like a labradoodle right now. yeah so i've been thinking about that. kind of i feel like they have nice like. kind of eyebrows kind of but. yeah but you need a bigger dog for any. reason. i don't really i was thinking also a. black lab then also a friend of mine has. a. dachshund wiener dog yeah and man he was. nice. yeah dogs are the differences big dogs.

are dope because they're big dogs and. like they're. i don't know but little dogs are amazing. too i've had both. little dogs are just fun because for. someone like you you can almost bring. them anywhere yeah like. and then you become the guy with the dog. but that's the whole thing. but if you love this dog and he's really. easy and he can be here. and like it'd probably be like fun for. you. yeah bigger dogs are harder to to bring. like they're harder to bring on trips. they're just harder to. to manage but they're incredible i don't.

we have four. basset hounds which is oh they're big. that's like a rich old looking dog. they're big dogs they're like. medium-sized dogs but they got little. dog legs so they're. really short to the ground oh bassett. hounds have the long with the long ears. yeah. yeah yeah yeah those are fun dogs oh. yeah they're good southern dogs too. yeah i wouldn't mind i'm trying to think. of maybe what to get i don't know. i went to i went to a man's house. yesterday and he had two bunnies too. oh no yeah that's cool but that's your.

big responsibility is that what you're. kind of like. yeah i'm thinking about that you know. now there you go right there that's. beautiful yeah oh and look at that. undercarriage huh they got some real. meat on them. yeah they have rolls of skin when. they're when they're like. but they're pretty well behaved yeah i. mean someone like. they're all individuals so some of them. are better behaved than others i mean. they all have their own personalities. but you know they howl and bark a lot. these guys so some of them don't as much.

but. that's just something to think about if. you're you have to leave them in your. apartment or house for a little while. sometimes. the barking can be a whole thing or like. get babysitters. yeah that's what i would think maybe. getting a friend with a yard or. something yeah. um but yeah what else i don't know i. want to take some brazilian jiu jitsu. actually. yeah man that's amazing do you have a. guy uh i don't have a guy. but we have a guy eddie bravo that. trains people oh you did oh that's tough. he's dope but we don't know but i i. don't know i trained with higan machado.

during this whole thing. oh he's amazing bro so you've taken it. yeah you enjoyed it just. not like uh right belts or anything but. just for. exercising hell yes it's important to. learn that. yeah that's what i want to learn just i. think like kind of working on that. confidence that inner confidence of just. you know. feeling a little more comfortable yes. that's what any of that stuff will do. for you like i i. i it's funny that i got a brown belt in. yoshikai karate but. uh it was i never got a black belt i had.

like one more. thing that my sensei moved to. florida i'm like stuck with the brown. belt but it's kind of perfect. it's kind of it's got a good colored. belt but uh. what it does teach you like once you get. into it and you're like training a lot. and doing it as an exercise and stuff. like your balance and everything you're. like. you learn all this kind of like little. ancient tricks with life that are just. like really kind of cool when you.

learn all the like katas and all the. stuff it'll just prepare you for kind of. stuff like that and then jiu-jitsu is a. whole other beast which is amazing. it's so cool yeah it seems cool. i just always have this dream like i'm. somewhere you know i'm at a subway or. something i didn't want to go but. somebody took me. you know because i don't like it but. and then somebody like some guy's like. hey you know what the is wrong with. you. you know and i'll be like that you know. and then.

next thing you know i have to. defend myself dude. first of all i don't really probably. want to be in a fight second of all i do. not want to fight in a. subway bro you know what i'm saying like. at least beat my ass out of five guys. you know. so but i want to be able to at least. like. know that if something happens like i. don't have to feel like i don't have a. chance. you know yeah that's i feel like that. when i was young that's always the. feeling that i had man. every kid was like tougher than me i. felt like so i know that feeling. i was like i don't have a chance dude.

i'm gonna go hide in this tree or i'll. do something gig. make a kite or something like what the. is wrong with this kid you know. yeah nowadays you have to be careful. fighting just because some people. like a lot of people do know that kind. of stuff and oh yeah everything going on. someone henry. you know if you saw henry hudo somewhere. regularly. you'd beat him with a stick probably. it'll candy come out bring him a picture. of him. but he is a legend you know. yeah i mean he's you know.

is he undefeated uh no he lost to. demetrius once. and then he i think that might be his. only loss he beat. demetrius the second time but even you. can just get a picture of him nick. that's him right there i was trying to. get him like one where he's not or how. tall he is. i mean i think he's five two oh yeah. but he's the ch i mean he won three. belts i think oh man that's tough.

that's though yeah there he is compared. to some other guys. some whites no kidding yeah that's. actually the big shell big show zones. he's seven feet something have you ever. been slammed by any of those real big. guys. um you bully ray slammed me through the. table. hell yeah put my hips out. yeah i did that's what my back like what. would happen with me it's like either my. neck or my back would go out. constantly so then i'd just be jacked up.

for the next. week or so it just sucks oh it's so. brutal and would you get those shots. would you get some shots to help it. no i wish like they probably have that. stuff at wwe but then the independent. circuit they don't even have like. ambulances hopefully we'll have like a. first aid kit well yeah on the. independent circuit man i remember. growing up they had some dude's bus. fighting man it would be people in their. backyard and this before. people wouldn't even videotape it people. would draw a picture of it and show it.

the next day. you know this is back hard wrestling man. and uh people would just put a bunch of. picnic table i mean it was choppy. it was just extremely dangerous too but. yeah you know people's stepdads and. family disputes. one man threw another man into a damn. ditch fire bus one time. pretty cool man oh yeah fire's intense. um what else we got nick i had a. question about like the independent. wrestling circus. is it still like kind of the wild wild. west with like some of the performance.

enhancers because i watched ready to. rumble last night. just because of this and uh uh mr. perfect. kurt henning uh macho man. and then i don't think mean gene was on. anything but all three of those guys. have passed away. and it's like it seems like there's not. wrestlers that get over like 60 or. whatever and. you keep hearing about dying or is it. still like kind of that unhealthy. well obviously it's bad for your body. too but like i feel like the steroids. back in the day definitely played a part. for sure i don't know like. how many like how prevalent steroids are.

i think when john cena came up it was. like real. like from that point on there was real. more of a focus on body and like. strength training and working out also. some of the guys. kind of the stature guys kind of fell. down so it's not as like big. giant but there's a few guys that are. really super buff and i don't know if. they. take anything or not i never did i had. to. i just i always liked the kind of body. that like a bruce lee has.

where it's more ripped than anything you. know what i mean if you can lose enough. weight. you got muscles under there so once you. lose the fat it kind of looks bigger. anyway. yeah and then you learn little things. like. you know eating protein right you know. right after you. within the first half hour of doing. weight helps a lot to build muscle. but yeah he's like the baddest. and he's not like huge but he's did you. ever meet him. no he never got to me yeah but we were.

huge fans growing up. and i met his daughter who was really. nice really was she hot. yeah she's beautiful she's just sweet. and just. yeah bruce lee beautiful she was just. like has like a cool like air. to her and you could tell you got to be. can you imagine being bruce lee's. daughter and you're just. you know a dick then it happens i mean. there's some people that just get caught. up with this. whole world i know i know i bet.

especially in the world that you've seen. man really being into hollywood it gets. really. kind of vapid out there yeah it does. i mean there's a lot of that. happens i've been in the business 30. years so. that's crazy man yeah i mean how old are. you i'm 40 years old oh you are. yeah you seem so young so i'm getting. older man i'm an adult now and. 40s are cool it's a cool age so it's. when stuff starts not. you'll get you figure your world out. yeah. i like the idea of stuff not having.

being so stressed like. you know not being so serious yeah. i do too i think that battle always. that'll go on forever i mean especially. just. dogs and kids and all that stuff if you. want to have them. there's just there's a lot of that. comes with them but then there's also. like the most silliest stuff you'll ever. do you know what i mean which is then. becomes the funnest stuff you'll ever. experience. yeah when you look back on on being a.

chat on being a wrestling champion do. you. look back on it fondly yeah i mean i. just to be part of this world the world. that i always loved i look at that. fondly. you know you know and without like. griping about stuff. you know it's wrestling so i use it all. in the. movie you know what i mean i mean i'm a. fan of. andy kaufman's that's part of this whole. thing you know what i mean it's just. part of. what i the things that i love right now.

so it's like. i i do look at it fondly i mean. especially with sort of coming back and. and like who knows if this is the end of. it. you know who knows if there'll be some. other kind of wrestling adventures. yeah what do you see do you are there. other i mean do you still have a lot of. stuff obviously. you want to get into stuff that you can. make more that's your own um. do you feel like yourself getting more. motivated towards that kind of. yeah for sure i mean that's what i do. with my spare time in between waiting. for something or auditioning for.

something. just sort of uh yeah work on projects. that i believe in. and have you done any movies in space. man i could really see you in space. i would love that i mean how cool how. cool would it be to be like the first. film. shot in space that would be the baddest. that was a little better yeah i think it. would be i mean i i don't know space we. keep going to see. shitholes man mars the moon like he's. playing like look i'm no. i'm no real estate agent well i don't.

know why the moon they don't. already have like a disney world up. there i know nobody would like it to be. upsetting. yeah some people but i think it'd be. amazing oh i think something small you. could stop in at least a rest area. you know but yeah it seems like we keep. going to these shitholes bro. mars let's be honest bro this place is a. i'm not a real estate agent but every. picture you see is like this place is. garbage dude fire everywhere there's no.

place you could even. you can't even you couldn't even have an. outdoors it's just. i don't know palm springs yeah yeah it's. like. they can build it up it's like palm. springs dirty grandfather. yeah you know it's just like why don't. we let's find a decent planet. or quit around man you know. spend the money send a shuttle in the. zaire and let's habitate over. there you know like i just feel like if. we need to work more locally look at. this. come here come on dude oh yeah.

and you got dumb chicks and dudes. and chews out there sitting around. saying oh man i think we'll ever live on. mars like idiots at a bar. somewhere you know you got one third of. the bw. buffalo wild wings population sitting. there four beers deep. man wonder if we'll ever live on mars. you know. play's a man sorry i i just i. didn't know. oh marsley yeah i didn't know anybody. was going to be here when i felt like. this.

but it's just kind of just making me mad. man. we just got bigger fish to fry dude but. i want to see some more of these promos. i want to see more of these wrestlers. cut promos i want to see. more politicians cut promos yeah dude. i'm telling you. one politician puts out a dope ass. wrestling promo i feel like it they. would get all the votes they would get a. lot of votes. i had one friend who was voting for. trump because he. he provided you know wrestlemania at his. casinos i was like you can't vote for. him for that reason though you just. can't.

not for that reason dude it's crazy i. mean he. that the whole world is so crazy his. wife looked melania looks hot though. i gotta say that man yeah you know. people act like she's not hot like. yeah i'll pretend a lot of stuff but i'm. not gonna pretend that she's not. dude that's insane yeah i can imagine i. mean you have to have. people have to present you a lot of. times with projects where they're like. you would be perfect for this huh. was there a point where you didn't want. to really do some of that stuff. no not really i mean when you get hot.

you get a. like a lot of offers so then it's like. you have to kind of sift through the. good stuff but when you're not you just. kind of like are trying to find. good projects to work on yeah so. typically. low budget things that you don't get. paid for you never know how they're. really going to turn out if they ever. come out. at all yeah yeah i've been offered a. couple of real wild animals man. but yeah i don't know man.

we'll see you know yeah i would love to. do something where. you know a friend of mine a black friend. of mine said that black people and. aliens don't get along well. or there's beef there's so much space. there's a new there's or there's like. beef in that community. and so i'm like yeah that's amazing. so i'm like wondering how do we get. let's get that film. you know i'll be like some guy just like. you know some guy that works for the. united nations or whatever.

but i'm just thinking how do we get to. see that. you know because i'm ready to see that. that's good you know how to get a. treatment. a outline than a script yeah brothers. versus aliens dude i'm ready to break it. there's no way i wouldn't watch that. that's amazing so. um all right well david i appreciate you. coming in man thanks for having me man. yeah big fan of your comedy and i. appreciate you. well i definitely remember like the day. that you said hey to me at the gym it. made me feel really good i'll i remember. uh.

telling one of my friends like dude i. got to meet david arquette today it was. awesome. um but yeah i was happy to watch the. documentary man i'll watch the end now. that i know it's safe to. and and you guys love to check out. um you cannot kill david arquette. thank you so much and just stay alive i. guess right and we'll see a secret. that's it i'll i'll be alive i can't die. okay you can't kill me. now i'm just floating on the breeze and. i feel i'm falling like these. leaves i must be cornerstone.

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