1973 Podcast
1973 Podcast Episode 72
- Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, we're back. We're back, and it's five bad brothers, you know, so well. And it's probably gonna be our July 4th episode. I mean, we're going into weeks where people have birthdays, vacation time, things like that. Back home, feeling good, not looking drawn like it was last week. - Yeah, what the, oh, what the, alright, let's go. - Fourth of July, baby. - Playing the role of Hunter S. Thompson is the professor this week. By Tom's look, we don't know if he's still representing June or the Fourth of July. - So he's doing, he makes them up. - We'll just roll with it. So. - Is that a Bud Light hat, or a pass-food rib is hat? - BBR, baby. - A little bit. - A little bit on Redneck. - I'll tell you. - You're like, I'm gonna procure some Fourth of July fireworks. - That's the hipster beer choice, man, PBR. - Well, if you're voting there was fireworks, you're gonna light it up. (laughing) - There's probably about 50,000 fireworks places I passed on the way to and from my destination last week. And, you know, there were one billboard that says, stop off of this exit for all your guns and ammo and Jesus saves right next to it off the same exit. - Nice. - If you're from the Northeast and fireworks are a legal activity in the state of Massachusetts, even sparklers passing places like that is pretty much a trip. So, the professor brought the theme. Let's start off with some sat-nose. That was another passing, one of the actors from a lot of things that we grew up in in Martin Ball, known for a lot of probably bit acting roles, but when I found out that he had passed, the first thing I thought of was he was the asshole boss and Mr. Mom that was trying to get Terry God leave Michael Keaton. I thought that, you know, he always played that, you know, pretty much bit acting part. You know, if you needed him to play a dad, he was a dad, if you needed him to play that teacher in high school that nobody liked or some asshole boss, he was like, so eclectic with his range of stuff he could play with his look. Let's go to what the professor thoughts on the past in a Martin Ball. It was a shame. I mean, how old was he, 80 years old? I remember him most from Clue and from, of course, from TV was on Roseanne. I remember him from Roseanne, the original Roseanne, and I think it was on Sabrina the Teenage Witch as well. But what I didn't realize is that he had written a book. Thoughts on the passing there, right? Okay, we got a drop on that one. I, it's funny. The name was like super familiar. And so I look him up 'cause I know I know who he is. I see his face. Couldn't have named not one thing that he was in and like, what I know who he is. Sorry for your loss. Oh god. (laughing) - Brent, would you want to save this segment on Martin Ball, please? (laughing) - Absolutely not. I agree with the fan. I was like, who the crap is Martin Ball? And I saw a picture of him, I was like, that guy. He's been in almost every single pop culture hit, movie, TV show as basically the same guy and everything. He always plays like that questionably, maybe he's gay, maybe he's not principal, husband. I don't know. He had a range. He was funny. I mean, I only seen him in comedies anyway, but I remember him most from Roseanne, but like kind of the same guy he played in Roseanne, I feel like he played in every movie or TV show, but don't know the name, near the face. Sorry for your loss, man. - Ed, Martin Ball? - Well, I have to say, I think I agree with everybody else here in the panel like, I was like, who is this guy? - Hell of a mustache, hell of a mustache. (laughing) - I mean, back he was in Taxi, you know, he was in one episode of Taxi, he was in Golden Girls. I mean, you know, I mean, to follow up, I mean, he was in Roseanne, he had a current role in Roseanne for a while, as well as Boss and that type of thing. And, you know, I mean, he was one of those guys where he just, he seemed to just, in almost every TV show or movies and stuff like that, he was always seemed to be in there, that kind of like late 70s through the 80s, early 90s type of thing. So he was in Arrested Development. I knew our, I knew our organizers. And I wanna say he played the same character in Arrested Development as all the other shit, but also Arrested Development. If you haven't seen it, go watch it. Most hilarious TV show that was ever made. - So the thing about him is if you look at his IMDB, can you imagine that Residuals check that he got from all that movie and TV? That's some good living right there. Not known for anything but was in everything. So. - Was in every no 9-1-1, he was in everything. - He was in The Simpsons and Family Guy. - He was in Reba? - Everything. - Everything. - The Ellen Show? - Just nuts. - Dexter's Laboratory? - Yeah. - Oh yeah. - Sabrina, can we talk about how Tom knew that he was into Sabrina the Teenage Witch? - Well, hey, don't be happy here. And you talk about the notebook every week, too. (laughing) - Do you want my boa? - I'm not hating, man. I'm not hating. - Listen, it was a misdow fire? Holy crap. - There's another passing we're gonna get to, but we'll wait 'til we get to the wrestling portion of the show, kind of a big one, but we'll get there. So let's pause this, my mom madness, for some Ed's mailbag. Ed, what do you got this week in the bag? - Well, this is brought to us by googard@doodguide.com. So this comes from Angie, from Bad Haven, Massachusetts. I mean, I have had to say that there may be a couple people that may or may not know her that's on this panel right now, just saying. Hello, 1973 came across your podcast to Facebook. What's the background of your friendship and did you grow up together? Angie, Bad Haven, Massachusetts. Let's get one so close to home. - Angie, why don't you take that one? Why don't you start? - Well, I'd have to say it, but I've known Andy for quite some long time. We grew up, I'd have to say it together, and you know, and then Tom and I think we played baseball against each other a few times back in the, I think, right around, probably what, 1984, 1985, Tom. I think we played against each other in the Rochester All-Star tournament for baseball. And then through Andy, got introduced to Brian, and then Brad is a former co-worker of mine. So that's kind of like how everybody ties in. And we all kind of have similar interests and we're all a bunch of goofballs, because that's how we roll. - Does that email say anything about stories or anything like that? - Nope, that was it. - Okay. - That was perfect. - I don't want to incriminate anybody if I get off the cuff with this, but professor, you want to touch base with any of that stuff from that email? - I have a funny story about Ed, the first time ever, well, besides baseball, because I forgot meetings playing against him in baseball, but first time we were in high school and we were going to a record store in for a even mass. And we were going in, two of my high school friends were going in and Ed was coming out, and they knew each other. They had grown up together, I guess. And they said, "Hi, what's up, man?" They walked away, so I said, "Hey, who's that guy?" And the kid says, "That's Ed Sylvester." You don't want anything to do with that guy. He's bad news. - In a trouble way or a sexual way? - No, no. - Phantom, you want to add anything to that? A little email, want to touch on that at all? - Oh, I know Mr. Andrew from high school started playing hockey together, back in the day, and then through that hockey play, and I met Ed. I met Tom through softball through a mutual friends, and I just met Brad probably a month ago. Hell of a guy. - Hell of a guy. - So it's funny, it's the whole, I guess, to tie it all together, to answer this email, everything is kind of a culmination of like-minded individuals. You kind of, as you get older, you realize the circle gets smaller, and kind of life brings people in and out of it all the time, and you always try to, just stay in contact with the people that are going to kind of pick you up when you're down, and you pick them up when they're down, and you just kind of roll with it, and everything else kind of goes to the wayside, and just the guys on the podcast, whether we've had them on for one episode or a few episodes, it's all people that we've either connected with, lost connection with, trying to get back in contact with, and I think one of the people always say that social media has bad points to it, but one of the good things about social media is the chance to connect and stay in contact with people that you haven't seen in a while, that moved away, or you still see family photos or what they're doing, or places they've been, or when they're coming home, or that's kind of what it's all about. And the podcast is just to bring everybody together, maybe once a week, I've said it multiple times, just to do what we would do if we were sitting, watching games or wrestling or sitting in Senate 140 and yucking it up, or whatever. - It doesn't really get less ballbusting, but yeah. - Yeah, well, I said this last week, or the week before, in the world we live in, we cannot be 100% of what this podcast could be, because if it was, it would be so outlandish, this. - We could even be 75% of life, will we? - Yeah, there's stories that I love to tell, that you can't, because we would love it. There's certain demographic of people in our genre that would love it, but there's just some things that you just would love to say. - You can't talk about it. - We'll be rolling, and I'll have something in my head on the roller decks in comedy, and I can't say it. I just, so it ends up being less, because I can't give people off. So, I thought that was a great email. Hopefully it's a new listener, somebody that we might know, somebody came across a Facebook page, a Facebook page over the last week or two is blown up. I mean, the reach has been like 2 million people over the last two weeks. So hopefully some of those eyes will come this way, and then we'll get a, we'll get this thing going. So, speaking of getting this thing going, thanks for the email, I thought it was a cool email. You can kinda roll with that a little bit with some comedy, and let's talk wrestling this week. Brad loves the wrestling, we'll talk wrestling, but I wanna ask, we'll start with the Phantom. One of the most eclectic views in the group, I wanna ask him one question, who killed WCW in your opinion? - I am going, as much as they were getting into the AOL stuff, I'm going, Eric Bischoff, that's my guy with, it was a lack of leadership to me. You got that, you got the inmates running the asylum, the overpayment, like anything else, you give somebody so much money, and all they have to do is show up. Then they're gonna stop working for that money, they're already where they're at, and then the people that are getting less, aren't gonna show up for work, because why are you gonna bust your ass for a quarter of what the other guys are getting? That's kinda, my thoughts on it, I mean, there was definitely shared, shared in the demise of it all, but if I gotta pick one person, I'm going, I'm going Bischoff. - Ed, I'm gonna ask you the same question, who killed the VCW? - I'm gonna give you the 33.33 times three, because there's three different ways. Number one, it's Eric Bischoff would be number one, and I'm gonna, that's gonna piggyback on what Ryan said, but then number two, it's gonna go with the executives that didn't, they don't know about wrestling, and they don't, they didn't think about wrestling, all they wanna do is ratings and defeat another network. And then number three, it was the inmates in the asylum. Number one, would be the man that says his prayers, eats his vitamins, and he has 24 inch bite-thons. The man had total creative control, and the thing about it was that he always did a great job of keeping everybody down, instead of bringing people up. And just some of the storytelling and everything like that, and it just, it took three to tango, basically. And it's all three, all three parties have had involvement in why it disintegrated, but that's my opinion. - Professor, who killed the WCW? - Well, let me tell you something, brother. (laughing) First of all, I think it was a little bit of everything, I kind of agree with you guys, but I think a lot of it was the executives, you had certain executives that were trying, seemed like from the get-go, trying to get them off of TV, they weren't happy with them. The thing that was, to me, just proves the point is that Bischoff had a deal for like $65 million to sell the company, and they'd still be on TV those two nights, and the guy, Kellner, I think his name was said no, we turned the deal down, and then he ends up selling for like $4 million to McMahon. So to me, that right there is a telling sign that he was just trying to unload the company, he didn't want anything to do with it. But I have to say, I think it's crappy that Hogan, Goldberg, and Nash even said it on the thing that he didn't go down with the ship, they pretty much refused to show up on the last episode. That kind of was shitty on their part. But plus, like Franco said, the Bischoff, and he didn't help matters, and like the Phantom said, the inmates were running the asylum, and I think goes back to the fact that they couldn't push their own guys, like they were trying to give sting the belt with Hogan and Hogan with review. It's just a lot of different little things, I think. A little million, that's like a death bite, a million little paper cuts. All right, Bradford, who killed WCW? - Man, I mean, you guys said it, like death by a million cuts there is a multitude, you could point the finger at least a half a dozen people, but if you had to pick one person who was basically in charge of all of those people and had a responsibility to make this company successful, it would be Eric Bischoff. As much as people don't want to admit it, Vince Russo, did he have a hand in screwing the company over 100%. Did the executives have a hand screwing the company over 100% Ted Turner? Even Vince McMahon, low balling and buying out for four million, had a hand in destroying this company. Hogan, you name it, Nash, they all had a hand. It's Eric Bischoff's responsibility to go sell this business to those CEOs and to the AKS that are pushing the papers. It's his responsibility to take back creative control to run the company. Do you think Vince McMahon ever was like, yeah, hey, Hogan, yeah, hey, Sting. Oh, yeah, hey, Razor Ramon. Oh, yeah, hey, Ultimate Warrior. Oh, hey, Andre, the Giant. Y'all go take creative control. I'm gonna sit back, I'm gonna drink, you know, my martinis and I'm gonna kick it out over here. Hell no. Vince McMahon was in those meetings doing that shit, probably doing shit that we don't know about, gonna find out, getting favors, getting favors. But, Vince McMahon would never just sit back. He, that WWF was so successful because of his attitude towards the business. And I think Eric Bischoff is all his talents and what he had. I think he was in way over his head, way over his head. And if he was a savvy businessman that he claimed to be, he would have brought in somebody to be a writer, to be creative. He would have brought in somebody to manage the talent, to manage all their superstars or a star heavy roster. You gotta have somebody control that. He would have brought somebody in who knew business shit, who could have went to those boards to secure advertising, to secure TV spots. He can do any of that. He could say, he can blame Russo all he wants. And what I saw in that last episode, Russo blamed Bischoff. Bischoff blamed Russo. Nash blamed somebody. You know, everybody blamed somebody else. And nobody, not one single person. And those four episodes said, it was me, I fucked up. Not one. That's what killed WCW. - Well, I'm gonna ask one more time rapid fire around the, around the group. - Favorite person on the, on the episodes, least favorite person on the episodes. - Conan was my favorite. - Conan was your favorite and who was your least favorite? - I don't know. I'd have to say probably, I don't know. I loved him when he was a wrestler and everything like that, but I'd have to say Kevin Nash really masturbated with me. - So, who, least favorite, most favorite? - Least favorite's easy. Bro, Vince Russo. I'm so fucking, it's more vocabulary, man. Geez, I'm so tight here in bro. Let me tell you, bro, bro, ah, ridiculous. And bro, I'll be Conan. Phantom favorite, least favorite. - I'll probably say my favorite was Booker T. Yeah, I think it had some pretty honest views. He was also fan of his as well. But, you know what kind of rubbed me the wrong way? Even though what he was saying wasn't really anything over the top Goldberg. He, he's, I don't know, it just seems like he's a dick. Like, I don't, I mean, I was a fan of him when he wrestled, but his, his takes on things as like, I don't think it was, I don't think it was really like in the line like long enough to like have the opinion that he has, at least when like Kevin Nash probably screwed up because he was one of the guys that were on top, they probably didn't want to relinquish his spot. But like over the years of all the stuff I've heard that Kevin Nash has said, I feel like he knows wrestling. So if he's talking about stuff that makes money and things that don't make money and that kind of thing, I think that he's, you know, he's got a pulse to it anyways where Goldberg, not so much, but I'd probably go with those two. - Bradford, favorite, least favorite. My favorite, and this might, this might not be popular opinion, I thought Kevin Nash was brilliant. He was brutally honest. He spoke the truth. He's straight up was like, the finger-poked death, fucked everything up. You know, the fan, it was over with the fans, but when they said, what's your moment that sticks out? It was that, you know, he gave kudos to the good stuff that Bischoff did do. And he was brutally honest, man. Like he didn't, he didn't hide nothing. He didn't cover nothing up. He's like, I still got paid the same. I heard something about money. - My man. - He didn't hold anything back. You know, he was as true as he could have been. My least favorite, and I don't know if it's old age, too many concussions, CTE, but the more Brett Hart gives interviews the more, I can't stand this guy. Like fucking let it go, man. Let it go. Get over yourself. The past is in the past, man. Like, Jesus Christ. Get some of nerves. (laughs) - Brett Hart and clean so much about Hulk Hogan, but I think if he ended up getting like Hulk Hogan's spot, he would be just like him. - Well, you wouldn't know what to do with himself, man. (laughs) You wouldn't know what to do. - Yeah, it's all that boom in the '80s that was so great for wrestling that created how Hogan was with his whole career. So, I mean, the only person that never changed from the '80s is Hogan's personality. I mean, he kept, he protected that Hulkomania gimmick as long as he could. And, you know, I mean, they brought in guys to work with him when he first got there that were his friends that knew what he expected. He expected a light work schedule. Everybody was gonna just, you know, do the three big punches, the big boot and the leg drop. And, you know, they were gonna hurt him at all. They were, he only worked with guys that he trusted and they were okay with it because wherever he went, he took them with them. I mean, the nasty boys and all those guys, that whole crew that he ran within the mid '90s on, they all ended up in the NWO pretty much. But, so from what I understand, the vice, that is their most highest rated wrestling package of shows that they've ever put together. There was more people watching that than any of the doc cited, the rings. So I don't know if it, because the rock's name was attached to it, that that had a lot of, you know, power to draw an eyes to it. But I hope they do more things like that. I don't know what else they could do, but at least it gives the classic wrestling fans something to watch and the new school fans something to kind of gravitate to for a little history lesson. So speaking of history lessons, we, oh. - Well, let's say, I mean, I agree with Ryan and I agree with Brad. Brad, your point about Kevin Nash, I'm just saying, just to, my point was, it just, he took a couple of steps back because of what, how great he was back in the day. That was my only opinion. But I agree with you, he shot it straight. Ryan totally agree with you about Goldberg. He came across as like a huge dick. And then the whole point about Brad Hart, that's also true too. Man, he's just getting grouchy as he gets older, you know? - Yeah, from the Goldberg kick. - Yeah, yeah, Goldberg kick. - Yeah, it's not crying about it. - Did you know, did you know that Goldberg kick, Brad Hart? - I did, I did. - Brad Hart, he just took a picture of the other day with Snoop Dogg. Do you think he remembers taking the picture with him? Is he confessed? - No chance, no chance. - Well, you know, he took a, he took a kick from Goldberg. - Yeah. - Listen, Brad Hart complaining about that Goldberg kick end in his career would be like the iron sheik saying, I only lost the whole Hogan because Vince wanted me to, but I could have broke his leg. What kind of guy you wanted me to and he never would have been champion. It's, come on, just let it go. Let it go, there's a lot of wrestling in between that kick and now. So, let it go. Where I was going with the vintage wrestling stuff is we had a passing this week. Kind of big if you're a Roman Reigns fan. Kind of big if you're a fan of classic wrestling. Like we are one half of the Wild Samowans. Seeker, not the one I thought was going to pass away first. I always thought Afo was going to be the one he just had surgery recently. So how do we, how do we hit this? Do we hit this from a Roman Reigns perspective? Or do we just hit this from thoughts of the Wild Samowans? Because I have a lot of great memories of the Wild Samowans. I thought-- - I think he hit it straight. - It's straight out. - Yeah. - When I was a kid, I thought those guys were crazy. They would eat fish on on TV. They never talked. They would eat raw food. And when they were with Captain Lou, Captain Lou. - Captain Lou. - Yep. - Absolute magic with Captain Lou. When Captain Lou was a bad guy and he had Morocco and those guys, it was wrestling gold. It just worked so well. And Phantom thoughts on the Wild Samowans. - My Wild Samowans thing that I always remember. And I don't know what the date of that match was. But if we figured it out, it's probably right around the time where I kind of really started watching wrestling enough to really, really pay attention to it. Because when Captain Lou gave the chair shot and broke the chair around it, and the chair broke perfect. And it was like around his neck like a necklace. - Yeah, that's the one thing that's like, I always like stands out to me that he kind of cost him that match by making the mistake of hitting him with the chair. I can't, who do they wrestle that day Andy? - What is the match where Tony Atlas and Rocky Johnson won the tag box? - So what do you figure, like '79, '80? Oh, it was an after that. - That was '83, late. - Wasn't it? All right, I thought it was earlier than that. I got a little bit of the brat hot. I'm gonna kick my Goldberg. (laughing) - I was one years old. - Holy shit. (laughing) Yeah, definitely, Seeker, definitely the one of the OGs to the bloodline for sure. - Yeah. And thought on the wild salons. - Oh man, I remember when they used to come to the ring and then like, man, eating fish in the ring. I mean, that was just like, and, you know, just seeing how big they were in the ring. It was just like, man, those guys are just massive. And I did a little bit of a deep dive. I totally forgot that he had synced up with Kamala and they had the thing with Mr. Fuji and Kimchi. I totally forgot all about that. But I mean, you know, he had such a big ring presence, you know? And it was just like, it was back in that day, like you were talking about, like, you know, they weren't jumping around, you know, doing all these moves that they were gonna get paralyzed doing. And they just, they had, they had ring charisma and they, they could tell a story. They could speed it up and then slow it down. It's speed it up again and slow it down. And it just seems like these matches today compared to the lake when he was doing it. You know, they just, they're too fast. - See, the salons, when I was a kid, when I saw them one time at New Bedford High School when they had a small show, and both of the salons were there, but they were, weren't in, they were in separate matches. And I can remember when they came out, even with a small crowd, people were like afraid of them because they didn't do anything to make you afraid of them. But they were like, the persona you saw on TV that these guys were loose cannons that you didn't want to like touch them or anything like that. Because, you know, they would give you that look and that, that whole mystique of, is it, you know, blend in that line of these guys like, you know, cannibals, are they like from the island? Do they speak English? And, you know, that's what I miss with it. Hey, I miss stuff like that. Thomas, thoughts on the wild small ones. - It's three time WWF tag team champions, three time Mid-South champions. The one I didn't realize, I knew they won the NWA championships once. I did not realize they had ever faced a fabulous freebirds to beat the freebirds for the belts. I did not know that. That just shows you how long they rustled because the freebirds, I mean, were, what, 80s, mid 80s, maybe early 80s. - Yeah, when they came to the United States in the 70s, they weren't even the Samoans. They were the Islanders when they started. - Yeah. - All those Hawaiian guys came through Pacific Northwest, Don Owens in Oregon, came in that way. And then they kind of started traveling through the territories. But that's how Snuka got to get to. They all came in through that Piedemaia via kind of connection brought them all kind of in. - The one thing I'll remember about him like these, not always say these days, but within the last few years is when Roman Reigns won the belt and he went nuts, he was in the front row, he took a shirt off, he was waving it around, he was all hyped up. That's the one thing I thought was pretty cool, was when he kind of broke K-Fave, I mean, just was just a fan and just was loving it. And with like proud of his kid. - Well, I'm going to go speaking to kids, we're going to ask the youngster on the podcast, Bradford, thoughts on the passing of Sika. - This is like the one time in my life I get to be the young guy. So I like to relish it way before my time. But you know, we've seen since I've started this podcast with y'all, I've kind of lost count of how many wrestlers have passed away since in just a short while, since I started this with y'all, since I joined you, it's been a lot. You know, the great ones don't, they don't have longevity anymore. You know, they hit that old age and you know, their bodies were so battered and beat up from, you know, that golden air of wrestling, they just weren't taking care of themselves. So now when guys like Roman Reigns goes and takes a three or four or five months, however long break, I'm like, please do. By all means, Seth Rollins take three months to rehab your knee before you come back. You know, you will always be the MVP of WrestleMania. You know, like go take your break, get healthy, come back. You know, 'cause we want to see you guys long term, we don't want you guys, you know, passing away, you know, way too soon, you know, either. So it's kind of the, you know, the trend for these old-timer wrestlers though, man. So. - Andy, Mrs. Professor wants to know if you touched him. She said that they're the track record. - I did. I had my arms around both of them. And they were fantastic, they, what I will say about when you meet that crowd, like when I met Ivan Colof, when they ask you that question of, when did you stop watching wrestling? And you make that connection that you're not just there with a buddy or you're not just there, you know, because you brought your kid and you're there and you actually can tell them certain things that you saw them do on TV and how old you were at that. They actually, you get like a pop out of them. And those guys were like the same. There was like not a big line for them going there, so I'm like, oh, for some moments, should I be scared? And then they start laughing, they're like, get over here and they like, they grab you. And when they grab you, those guys got some grip on them. I will say, you know, some of these guys, they got that natural, big guy strength still. Like I don't know if it's tendon strength or whatever. You know what else was like that? Baron Von Raski, that claw. But when they grab you, it's like, - Hockey Johnson was like that when he shook my hand, his arm, his hand went up like to my, almost to my elbow was friggin' hand was huge. - It's crazy. So that goes back to that aura of all that stuff I say that's missing the rustling is the, I don't want to say the men's men, but the guys that can't work a nine to five job. I don't want to see a guy wrestling that looks like he could bag my groceries at Walmart. That's what I don't want to see. I want to see guys that are loose cannons. This guy can't function in a regular nine to five. That's what I want to speak. But what I want to ask Brad, and I was kind of segue into it, saving him for last, the bloodline. We're going to talk. He's going to bring us up to speed on all things bloodline, Paul Haman, wrestling. Good, Bradford. - Man, so yeah, smack down. If you guys didn't get a chance to watch it, go back, catch the highlights. It's all over social media right now. So basically the blood, what's that? - My boy. - Yeah. - My boy too. - Main. So at first they were worried about Fatu coming out and kind of upstaging Solo. They were 100% right. The man is a beast. He's an absolute animal. - I've been telling you. - Yeah. So they've kind of, he has been relegated to this backseat role. And so they initiated everybody in the bloodline on Friday night, SmackDown. And Solo came out and he wanted everybody to acknowledge him. And one by one, they all acknowledged. Now it's interesting because Tom Itanga and his brother both kind of exchanged glances. Like they're kind of unsure about this current after on, but they're still going along with it. They're reminiscent of like Cal James. Jimmy used to be behind Roman Reigns. Like they're kind of playing that up again. But obviously like Tom Itanga's his brother just jacked. But anyway, so they brought out Paul Haman and Paul Haman comes out, his eyes are bloodshot. He's got a five o'clock shadow. He looks like he's just a mess. And they pulled out the red dragon's teeth necklace. And he wants to be anointed as the tribal chief. And I'm gonna talk about the biggest pop. I haven't seen in weeks. He was like, I acknowledge you, but not as my tribal chief, the crowd was wild man. So they beat him up for Paul Haman. He took some bumps like a champ. They get him out of the ring. I feel like there was kind of initiation for Jacob thought to though, 'cause he had to have the Paul Haman Fuqua all in his face in order to get the power bomb down. But he did it. He took it like a champ. He got initiated on live TV. What can I mean? It was absolutely amazing. And I was on the edge of my seat, the edge of my seat. 'Cause I'm waiting, I'm like, if Roman Reigns comes back, now is the fucking time. But his father had passed. So I was like, you know, it makes sense. Then I was like, see him punk, cue his music. Somebody comes say, Paul Haman, nobody came out. I was a little disappointed at that and went off air. But even before that, Cody and the boys got into it with security beefing with the bloodline. And so that heel Cody, like he starting to show up week after week, beaten up security guards. He gave a security guard a crossroads. I swear he broke that dude's neck. He did not land correctly. Hello, the camera never showed him. I don't know if that dude ever got up off the floor. I'm just gonna say, they never showed him again. But then Cody's in the ring with the mic talking about he don't have a viable option. Nobody wants to challenge him. And Randy Orton is every time he said it, like three times. And every time he said it, Randy was like, what? Like, excuse me? Like you don't have a, you don't, nobody challenged you. So I'm waiting for that beef to happen. But I think right now, Cody has like a no contact type of thing going because Fat 2's first night, he broke my whole boy's ribs, broke two of his ribs when he, he, he's someone splashed him through the table. So Cody's injured, I think they're gonna get him healthy for money in the bank and we'll see what happens from there. - I told you, you can go back to one of those podcasts a while back. I said, if they get him, that's the guy. The Samoan werewolves, his nickname. - Insane. And his brother, Zilla posted a cryptic tweet on, or yeah, on Twitter, talking about, I'm ready, I'm coming. I'm next, something to that. So we're, I'm like, fuck, where's this guy at? - Yeah, he looks a lot like, uh, oh my God. - That's not what gonna be insane. - They don't stop coming, those guys. - I was, I was this close to being done with the bloodline and now I'm like, no, please, let's keep this going. Jimmy's every had, so we're waiting for him to get healthy. Literally, I think he's every had for drugs. That's what I read anyway. So he's gonna get healthy, get him back. Jay is cooking, Roman's gonna get healthy. Maine can only go up from here, like, it's incredible. - Yeah, the thing on, if you go back and watch that clip, and it's only like two minutes long, you can find it, it's on Twitter, whatever. If you watch Jacob Fattu, he's so ingrained with getting himself over that he's pacing in the back. - Yeah. - Like, just so that people are paying attention, what's this guy gonna do? He's like, he's like a loose cannon. You know, just like, he's not just standing there with a suit on, he's like, I want eyes on me. Like, look at me, I'm gonna do something. So yeah, it's definitely the Triple H era. I'm very impressed with so far. I'm impressed with, you know, they brought a little bit of a blood back. They, you know, in the storylines, they're probably gonna get a little bit more aggressive when they go to Netflix. That's the next thing we're gonna talk about. And I had seen a post that when RAW moves to Netflix, it's gonna be two hours. I like that. I'm impressed the show. I would love to see all the WWE content in one show. That would be epic. You would get everybody on one show and then, I don't think that's gonna happen because I heard SmackDown's gonna go three hours. So that's a, that's not a good sign. So yeah, I think it's gonna be great. It's gonna be uncensored. So I don't know how far they're gonna push the envelope. I don't want them to get too crazy with it, but at least it gives them some really good options as far as the storytelling and, you know, let's get that thing going a little bit more. RAW, adult oriented, not kid oriented. I would say the end of the day, who's watching wrestling? Like my, my son's friends, obviously the teenagers are going into their 20s. They're not big wrestling fans like us. Like the wrestling is more like for people our age. Like we're the ones that kind of grew up watching wrestling. So you got to kind of put all your, all your stories to your demographic of who's watching. I'm like, I'm sure there's a lot of women that like watching wrestling. But like, well, what's the percentages? I'm sure the girls I'm all getting together and well, let's watch wrestling together. You know what I mean? It's a, you got a little bit of everything, but for the most part, I would say it's, it's probably males between, you know, the age of like 20 to probably 50 or even older. That's my opinion with it, but I think it'll be good. I just want to see if they take a hit with what people happen to get Netflix. I mean, I kind of think like everybody has it. Well, I'm sure there's a shit ton of people that don't. I want to know like, I can remember like, when we used to watch how it's staring all the time. And then he would like, he would left the radio to go to like Sirius after that. And he would listen to how it's staring over again. 'Cause I never got into it, picked up Sirius after that. I mean, he still lasted. I'm sure we made his money, but I don't know if you're going to alien a little bit of your audience, but they'll still have SmackDown and still have NXT. So I don't think it'll be that big of a problem. And if they really start going over the top on the Mondays, people will dig down on the wallet and shell out the 15 bucks. - Professor, thoughts on the move to Netflix? - I think it's going to be good for them and they can get a little bit more, I guess, risque, go a little bit more. I mean, they've already started anyway, but I do agree with Ryan. I think that they're going to alienate some fans because some fans like, you don't have it. But I mean, I don't know, I see both sides of the token because they can see it on YouTube. It's going to be on YouTube or something like within a day or two. But one thing I want to say about Fatu, it could screw up their plans. I won't say screw up their plans a little bit, but he's got a criminal record. He's a felon, he can't leave the US. So that's why it took so long for them to actually bring them up because they were overseas. So they had to wait and, I mean, I think it worked out fine. This was a perfect place for him these last couple of weeks and I think it worked out fine. I mean, Chicago and New York are two of the hottest US crowds that you can get. So I mean, I think it worked out in the long run, but I think like when they have the big show in Saudi Arabia, I think it's going to hurt him a little bit because he won't be able to go there. - That's what they have massed for. (laughing) I ran around with one couple of months. It's not that bad. - Yeah, they're going to get creative with their writing 'cause I think that makes him more endearing. Like I like him even more. They have the criminal record. - Yeah, they should actually talk about it on the show saying that they can't address it. Yeah. - But that criminal background, doesn't that talk for what I was saying about these guys that can't hold nine to five jobs? - Yeah, it makes him more of a stud. As long as it wasn't like sexual assault or something, you know. - I think it was not all over again. - Yeah, if he beat somebody up or robbed somebody, I, you know, but, you know, but I have my limits. But it makes him more endearing as like this enforcer, like dominating threat of a person that he has a real life criminal record. - I got a question from the mouth of the South. What is it going to take to get Ed involved in watching wrestling every week again? Religiously. What's it going to take Ed? - I don't know. - I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. It's, I don't know. You know, I really got hooked on the AEW and I really started kind of enjoy that. And really kind of started it. And I still felt like the WWE was kind of still kind of going out there. You know what Ryan was talking about? About going after that younger demographic, still kind of using that. Like these guys weren't believable. Kind of that one name, name kind of guy. Like, you know, like, just to throw somebody out. Like kind of like, you know, to Tonka. I mean, like, you know, you're gonna have it. Like, you can't come up with a better gimmick for a guy like that. I mean, 'cause he's good in the ring. And he's not stiff, you know? It's, I don't know, man, it's, it's, I don't know. Maybe I just need to sit down and like do the old Red and Stimpians and scrap myself down in the chair and stick the two pigs in my eyes and force myself to watch it. I don't know, I don't know. - Do you have Netflix, Ed? - I do not. - I don't either. - Okay. (laughing) - No, I don't have to watch this channel. I mean-- - Oh, my body, watch this podcast. I got to do any channel network this year. I mean, come on. I finally chimped the 21st century. So you got to cut me some slack here a little bit, okay? - Okay. We're just throwing it out there. So, you know, if somebody wants to donate to the Ed Wrestling Fund, he's free. You can send it on to 15 bucks. - And I know guys that know how to still cable. (laughing) - As seen this week on the Facebook page. - Yeah. So, anything other wrestling related you want to talk to? We're going to get to some of that, talking some shitty pics. - One last wrestling note, and I don't know, you may have talked about it the last week or the week before I everything melds in. So I don't really remember. But there's a slow like whispers building that Shane McMahon may be trying to contact AEW about joining them and going over there. So they supposedly contacted a few ex-WWE wrestlers out of there. And supposedly Tony Khan is open to it. So we shall see. - Well, I would like to see it just because of Brad's point last week when we were talking about just having a little bit of competition there. I don't think Shane McMahon would put him over the top, but at least it's something that draws more eyes back. Like you never know like what could happen. - Yeah, it could be great. But going back to what we're talking about, who killed AEW? If you look at the Tony Khan thing, there's so many things that are just warning signs. They're on TBS, they went, they had that one show every week, then they had to go to two shows, then they had to go to a third show to appease, keep and see him punk, which didn't even work. And see him punk said he never even wanted another show. He just did that just because he didn't want to address the elephant in the room. So just, if AEW is going to ever get some traction again and because people still watch it, but the numbers are in the toilet for places, they need to go get rid of the gold to these arenas. And I don't know how they're going to sell out Wembley again. And Swerve Strickland versus Will Osprey is not going to sell out Wembley. I don't think they're going to put the belt on Will Osprey in England, but that's, they're going to go in a different direction. So we'll just have to keep eyes on that Roma 'cause I've seen multiple different places. And you know, some of these people with social media, these wrestling people can't keep their, keep their stories under wraps for any surprise. One last thing before we move on for the wrestling, this whole hot tour thing that-- (laughing) - I don't know what you're talking about. - You see the little Morgan one? - Yeah. - That's all I got to say. We'll end the wrestling segment on that one. Professor, it's time for your segment. Get some sports talking going on. - All righty. Tom Sheetie-Pix is brought to you by Brock Street Brewing Company located at 244 Brock Street South in Whitby, Ontario. Everything they brew is in-house, including their beers, salters, vodka sodas, and their hard iced teas. So if you're in the Whitby area, go check them out and tell them the 1973 podcast sent ya. Now, in honor of the Fourth of July, and all my other fellow Americans, to this week's Pick of the Week, I am going with Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. Brian, I actually have a little conspiracy there. You can build it sometime. Joe Chestnut is not being allowed to do this contest this week because he took an endorsement deal with an organic cut dog company. - He has like a vegan or vegetarian hot dog, some dumb shit. - However, I'm making my pick. Believe it or not, they have rankings online. If you ever go up, go online, look, they actually have rankings for these. I'm going with the number two ranked eater. His name is Jeffrey Esper from Oxford, Massachusetts. I'm going with him to win, and I will tell you why. He's a 2017-2019 Hooters Wing Eating Champion. 281 wings in 10 minutes. - Cheers. - Nothing says Americana, like winning the strawberry shortcake eating contest, 21 pounds in eight minutes. I'm going with Jeffrey Esper, don't let me down, dude. - So, I challenged any way that watches this. Even people like Ed. - Google says-- (laughing) - Google says hot dog eaters. - That's how first you people said you people. - Just Google search hot dog eaters and just see what you get. - I'll talk to you in that. (laughing) - Turn your safe search off. Put on hot dog eaters and have fun with it. Don't be weak, get into that. So, we're going to wrap up our Stanley Cup Talk this week with congratulating the Florida Panthers. - That's your team. - Epic, well, not my team, that was my pick. But I do love the way they play, and I do love the way that they celebrated with the Cup that first 24 hours. Jumping in the ocean, pouring beer off the balcony and into fans' mouths, all that stuff. - Yeah, all 10 of them that showed up. - Yeah, crazy. It's crazy. - It's a crazy crowd. There's like 10 people there. - Yeah, four people at rodeos. - That's true. Ed thoughts on the Panthers. - Man, it was so nice to see a team that just, they were grinders, man, and that's, and they stuck to what they were true with, and that's how they won the series. And for the story, I picked them and said, "How about that?" But it was just really nice to see that, I'd love to see, you know, Paul Maurice, you know, what he said and how he handled the Cup. You know, I do have a problem with Steve Levy, though. It kind of pissed me off. You're watching it, the guy just won the Stanley Cup, and then you have to mention that he has the most losses in the NHS, like the most, like the dude's playing coaching since he's been 28 years old. You're gonna cut the man some slack, and you're gonna, like, you know, he just won the Stanley Cup, and you're like, you know, by the way, he has the most losses. Come on, man. Like, that's just lame. And that's why ESPN sucks. - Amongst other reasons. - With the NHL, because they're horrible, and they're that, like, fricking welfare desk that they had up at Edmonton. Come on, man. You're the number one sports leader in the whole world, and you got a desk that basically you could have bought at Building 19. Come on. - Well, I'm gonna toss this to the Phantom, 'cause he actually was rooting for Edmonton. So here's his chance. He can vent right now while things that didn't happen to the Edmonton Oil Listing Loop. Not claiming the consmic trophy on the ice from McDavid. He was having-- - No, no. - He didn't want it anyway, so, but-- (laughing) - No, I said. - Phantom? - Yeah, yeah, got it. The Oil List should've won. That, they, the fuck the Panthers, they robbed us. They robbed us from history. It would've been so fucking awesome if they had come back. Game seven, I mean, whatever, they would've been known as the biggest losses of all time, that, you know, they didn't probably don't deserve that long. I wanted to see the Oil List come back so bad as they started pushing the series along. And they just, I guess they ran out of gas at the end and they didn't have enough. It was such a good game. It's a great series. That's gonna be an all-time series. Why, as far as like the cons, Mike. Well, who are you gonna give it to? You ain't gonna give it to Bob. He almost choked the season. He almost choked the series away. Not gonna give it to back off. McDavid didn't score the last two games. He still scored 20 more points in back off, did. That's, he was on his way to breaking Wayne Gretzky's playoff record, which I thought would never, ever get touched. I don't, I mean, you don't have to be the biggest McDavid fan, but when you're watching Howie, he like single-handedly was bringing them back. They didn't have Kane, Leon, I guess he had broken ribs and a broken hand or broken finger or something like that. So he was kind of out of the picture and he was playing two ways. He was in the corners, he was doing everything. Just came after they figured it out. They tried keying on him and that was it. Bob played a great game seven. So I thought maybe at the end, they might actually give it to him. But the thing that cracks me up too is that they were given McDavid shit for not leaving the locker room after you just lost game seven and you played probably the last five minutes of the game 'cause he didn't come out to get the trophy. Like who's gonna, who's gonna leave the, they're gonna tell the guys in the room after you just lost game seven. Hey, I gotta go get the trophy for being the best player of the playoffs. Come on, if he had gone out and gone and got it, then the narrative would have been the opposite. Like all of the guys, Sophie, she is. He just lost you, he's only cares about getting the trophy. So good on him for not going to get it, but on the Panther side of it, when he didn't come out and get it, one of those guys should have gave their nuts a tug and went over and grabbed the trophy and skated over and just gave it to Bob just to be like, "Hey, you should have "fucking wanted this fucking guy. "You shouldn't get it." 'Cause we won and they didn't. That would have been fantastic. - That's some wrestling storyline right there. - Oh, man, come on. - But to Ryan's point though, Ryan, he still looked like the fastest person out on the ice. - He's unbelievable too. - He's like, "Ape's Seven." - He is unbelievable. - And he really is the greatest hockey player today. - Like, actually what you can bring to the table, like pure skill, I know you can't compare errors, but he's the best player that's ever played. That's how he moves and what he can do. - He's so fast, man. - He's on his way to becoming the Dan Marino of the NHL. He's never gonna win one. I don't want one in that, in Edmonton. - Oof, we're gonna have to keep going on in some of these negative waves, man. - Hey, your boy Gay Ray won one. - He was gonna have to go somewhere else. (laughing) - You might do the same thing. (laughing) - That's why I didn't leave the podcast. - I still think one of the most clutch players that I've ever seen in the, you know, over the years, his mystique has grown with how I appreciate the way he plays his Crosby. You get that, and he's not the biggest guy. You get that guy in a game seven. That's one of the guys you won, your team right there. If not the captain of the ship. - Soon he crossed me in a game seven against Mac Messier in a game seven. I mean, that's epic stuff right there. Two guys that will, you gotta kind of kill 'em to win the beat 'em. But we'll put a, that's it for our hockey talk for a little while. We'll move on to, you know, got football right around the con for you gentlemen. Gonna be getting hot stove and that stuff pretty soon, right? It should be in the queue. - You can hot stove this week here. It's my favorite time of year. You got Bocky Free Aid and CN. - The basketball free aid is just starting up. - Yeah, that's July 1st. That's pre-agent frenzy. That's always a let down for me. I'm always thinking it's gonna be bigger than what it actually is. And it's always like, ugh. - You're fly a spin, you're used to it though. (laughing) - All right, so this is Tom's last week on the show. (laughing) So yeah, let's stop what we're doing. 'Cause Brad's about to ruin us with some tinfoil hat. Thomas, you wanna do the lead in for this? - All righty, Brad's tinfoil hat conspiracy the week is brought to you by the 1973 podcast store. And we're gonna insert the old QR code right here because it's too long of a-- - So long to read. - Yeah, don't read it. - Watch the episode, this swag that pops up like every five minutes on the thing. So just click on one of those. - We got a lot of shit for you to buy. So just go there and buy something. - And we have new aprons, right? For Chris? - Yep. - Yes. - Yeah, we have aprons, we have travel mugs. I mean, come on, never buy the mug. And stop being so cheap while you're way back from the keys. - And a funny story for Chris's segment, cooking with Chris, which last week was pretty cool. He's got a good one this week. We'll talk about that after, but the funny story is he went to buy an apron off of that and didn't even click on the free ship. That's what we ended up getting for the shipping. So it just goes to share it. Oh, no, don't go online drunk. Thomas? - Yes, you see. - Tim, what do you have? What do you have? - I asked the lead and it's all Brad. - Okay, Brad. Same one. - Ready to go. Here we go. All right, let me share my screen to so y'all can have a picture here. So this is the Nazi bell or die block. It's one of their WonderWaff slash Wonder weapons. The Hitler invested a lot of money to everybody knows he was into the occult. He was into all kinds of wacky shit. So apparently this thing, nobody really knows what it's about. So this is a conspiracy because some authors, you know, back in the 2000s had written some books. They had published some historical, you know, references to what Hitler was doing. And this was kind of listed in one. And then these dudes got slammed and hammered. Of course, when they don't want you to know about stuff, they just go after the people that wrote it, then they tried to wipe it and erase it and say these dudes are crazy and this never existed. So anyway, it's bell shaped. The top part spins opposite the bottom part. The theories are that this was kind of like a anti-gravity machine, a teleportation device, a precursor to a UFO free energy device, maybe a precursor to like a nuclear reactor. It did have a lot of wacky symbols on it. It didn't have like this purple-ish like liquid U that kind of went in there that people are saying maybe was like mercury or plutonium or some other like radioactive material. A lot of folks that came in contact with that, with the bell or the material inside it died. And those that survived being around this, you know, were allegedly by the SS towards the end of the war. It's even kind of rumored that Hans Kamler, an SS officer traded knowledge of the bell and that technology for free passage to America. I think, you know, that was called Operation Paperclip, right, Ed? We brought the Nazi there. Yeah, so not that far-fetched. Some folks think maybe this thing was a teleportation device. A Hitler kind of used it to teleport to Antarctica to their little Nazi base in Antarctica. Some folks think he used it to teleport to the dark side of the moon where they set up their base on the dark side of the moon. Lots of wacky stuff with this thing, man. I don't know what it is. I know Germany had its own Stonehenge where that was basically built to hold the bell in place and tether it while they were doing their experiments. There's been tons of photographs and rumors of like these UFO precursors flying around Germany. I don't know, man. I think it's a precursor to like a nuclear reactor, personally, too many parallels with the energy, you know, ideas with it. So I don't know. What do you guys think? Brad, didn't they put plants next to it and the plants died like almost like within 24 to 48 hours? Oh, probably. Yeah. You know? And then, you know, the thing about it is just that, you know, you brought up a point about, you know, how Nazi officers, you know, made deals with France, Britain, the United States. Of course they did, you know. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. So that's what we did. Then our whole space, NASA and everything all set up through like old Nazi scientists and stuff. Yep. Our Russian paper clip, man. Kind of how we got the atom bomb so quick. I'm just going to say, you know, we run as a Nazi scientist. Yeah. Well, actually. Well, yeah, head of us that they couldn't figure it out. They actually had a bunch of scientists in England and they actually bugged the house. And when we dropped the bombs and he or she went in Nagasaki, they were told and they discussed it and they couldn't believe that we had actually figured it out. And we figured it out. We did have some German scientists that we took in four or more, but they were not as close as everybody thinks that they were. So there was a show that was on that I was a huge fan of. It only was on for like two and a half seasons. It was called UFO hunters. And they went to the spot where they had the bell and the framing is still there in Germany where you can actually still see it. And, you know, they'll tell you hypothetically there was supposedly a German bell here or whatever. And, you know, the clock is what they call it, whatever. But the funny thing about it is if there was a story from 1962, 1964 in Pennsylvania, I ever heard that story of there were these guys that they saw a asteroid or a comet going through the sky in the rural parts of Pennsylvania. So they followed it and it crashed in the woods. So they went and they looked at it and it had a blow to it. And it looked what they thought was a bell shaped. And at the bottom on the brown part, at the bottom they thought it was Egyptian hieroglyphics. Now that spot still stands in Pennsylvania as a historical site that you can go see. Within like 10 minutes of those guys finding the bell or what they thought was a UFO or whatever. The government showed up, confiscated everybody in the area, shushed them away and put it on a flatbed and took it away. What's not to say that if it was a timepiece that they could move through time, that before it was confiscated, they sent it, you know, either what's supposedly say into the future. And it went 20 years forward. And that's what it actually was. So how do you know what happened to it? Nobody knows what happened to it. Did they confiscate it at the end of World War II? Did they confiscate it when they found it in the future? The paths, who knows? So yeah, as far as some of the really cool conspiracy theories that's one of them. But the bell is actually a real thing. It's just they don't know what the capabilities of it was. Was it a timepiece? Was it a portal? Just like you were saying, Brad, it was on point with everything that you said. So I'm going to I want to toss it to the USA, USA professor. What do you think of this week's tin foil hat? I'm glad I'm wearing the shirt I'm wearing because that's right there, man, that's an crazy shit. Yeah, those those Germans were so wacky. I'll use that term in that time. They were doing outlandish things that you only see like a little bit of it with like razor loss back where they were going all over the world looking for religious side effects. They were wicked into the cult. They had, they were confiscating all kinds of things. They were doing awful things. It's not just the stuff that you see in the diary of Anne Frank or what you know about Auschwitz. They were crossbreeding people with animals. They were taking limbs off of people and putting them on other people. They were sewing people together. They were taking, they were doing horrific things. And the thing that's sad about the whole thing is if all those scientists got a pass to come and start NASA, you got to look at if you allow that stuff to happen, it's just a crazy, crazy world that we live in. And you know, conspiracy theories, how much of it is truth blended with a little bit of fiction to kind of set you off course or to make you think everybody's wearing a tin foil hat. But Brad always comes up with all kinds of stuff. And it's funny too, because there must be an algorithm to what Brad talks about because a lot of the things that he's brought up since we've said this I've heard about. And I love his take on it 'cause it's usually pretty much my take on it too. But the algorithm for like my week after that on social media is almost all the stuff that Brad talks about. So who's watching who? There's a conspiracy theory to talk about right there. You're out on your phone. How many times do you look at something or talk? It's happened to people that you're working with and you'll have your phone not even on. And you'll be saying, hey, you know, I should go on Amazon and look at, you know, raise a scooters or whatever. Next thing you know, you go on Facebook and there's raise a scooters on your feed. How many times does that happen with certain things that just come out of a conversation when you're not even searching for it? That's the crazy thing right there, so. - Right. - I've been with DMH Malaysian flight 370 since we did that episode. I've been bombarded with the information about how they're gonna find it. And it's not a, like everything that has come down on my, even on my work computer for crying out loud. I'm like, how the fuck do you go from my phone to my personal computer or my work computer? You know? - Thank you, Brad, just trying to drive. - They're onto me, yeah. Yeah, like the CIA, man, my FBI agent is over here just laughing right now. But like, it's crazy, but every Malaysia flight 370 thing that pops up is like how they're gonna find it. And it wasn't a conspiracy. It wasn't aliens or it wasn't a, I'm like, come on, man. It stopped beating me as this bullshit. - So if ever we do a subject in this closure, eventually of that, we're gonna have to add that as a part two eventually. If something ever, you know, gets debunked or, you know, we're all talking about stupidity and it ends up being something else, we'll touch on that hopefully too. Speaking of touching on stuff, it's time to bring Chris into the fold, even though he's not on this week's podcast and talk about his segment, his new segment, cooking with Chris out as he likes to call it. (Brad laughs) Very, very good one this week. Thomas, you wanna lead us in? - Sure, cooking with Chris is brought to you by the book, "Loving Elliot," a fitting tribute to Undying Love written by our very own Andy Clark. It's about the oldest special needs Jack Russell Terrier when he passed away at age 21. It's available at amazon.com or you can get it on Kindle if for you, all you youngsters out there, you know, can go do that. So go out and support the cause. - Great book, buy a book. Stop being cheap. - What the fuck did you write a book? (Brad laughs) - Many talents there, Bradford, many talents. The book's been out for a little while, dude. - I've been about 10 years. - Brad, guess what? You're getting Christmas now. - Yup, great stock and stuff for eight. Listen, if two things I have soft spots for, animals and kids. So if you are an animal lover like myself, some of the other people on the podcast go out. The book is great if you're an older reader, like 12, 13 years old and up. And it's, you know, it's a great story. True story about the dog that I had 21 year old dog and special needs lived to be the oldest dog with special needs. Yeah, so wrote a book about it. Here it goes. We're gonna drop Chris in right around here with some lobster rolls. So let's do what we do and wind this podcast up and put this one in bed for July 4th. Edward, you're not. - Well, happy fourth of July, everybody. Ryan, I'm gonna be the first to say it. Happy birthday. - Thank you, sir. Thank you. - You're welcome. - Go ahead, 25 years old now. - Absolutely. - Brad, you have the floor. - I wanna give a shout out to Chris, AKA Christa. I love the recipes, bro. I'm gonna try one out also. I'm gonna shout out to your friends from the midget wrestling night. Those dudes seem like they were wicked cool. My saying that right, I don't know. But I would hang out with dudes in a heartbeat. Chris, we miss you, buddy. Can't wait to have you back. - Professor, what do you got? - In honor of the fourth of July, I would like to say shout out to America and to England. Sorry about your damn luck. (laughing) - Dan's away at this week. - I'm gonna shout out Tom, with all that red, white and blue one. After I watched "Just A Beat" the other day, you got my vote, brother. (laughing) - Bro, right? (laughing) - Oh, rep, I'll wrap this one up this week. I know you'd like to be the one to finish the episode, but I wanna wish my good buddy happy 51st birthday, class of 1973 with the boys. We're all getting older, but in the minds, still 14. (laughing) Got that freshman mentality. - Now, if I kick the bucket between now and July 6th, you guys fucked me. (laughing) - Oh. - Andy touched you. That's the question. (laughing) Multiple times. (laughing) - A little bit of waste don't count. - Yeah. (laughing) - Yeah. When you sleep head to feet on a sleepover, it don't count for nothing. - That's right. It's all legal. (laughing) - So for another week, a lot of fun with the boys. Got some stuff in the works, maybe some watch along. So we're gonna try to do a deep dive with that and get that going for some fun mystery science, theater style. And, you know, this is what we do. Episode 75 coming up. I gotta get everybody on board for that pretty soon and should be pretty cool. So we'll see you for another week. And, you know, we do what we do. Later, fellas.