Taz - Doomed WWE Run, commentary, TNA, ECW, etc - Sam Roberts

ladies and gentlemen welcome to sam roberts bristling podcast [Music] introducing your host from New York here is Sam rubbers [Music] who's finally here Oh Tazz what's the haps not the man um appreciate you have me on I appreciate you being here you don't do a lot of uh I don't do a lot of wrestling podcast I do not you don't do a lot of wrestling podcast you don't do a lot of indie shows you don't do a lot of signings nothing why I am great question uh the next in a few times though no but really Oh Candace I'd like i skin sound I just I don't know I try to keep myself always my whole career kind of like if I don't have to do it I'm not gonna do it so disrespect on fans I believe in the some things get oversaturated and I don't want to be part of that oversaturation right that's number one it kind of ethic for your branding you got to keep yourself exclusive Inlet to a degree and also from a from a podcast perspective or being a guest on people's shows you know I'm sure you're going to get to this but I do a pallava of programming so I'm on the air ten hours a week right so it's like I don't want to go and talk to people more about wrestling when I could just cover my show so why am I here oh yeah I had to figure out some way to finagle you know I'm here because you're good dude and I always liked you always got along you know you a long time I respect you and you do good [ __ ] you've been on my show so I mean it's just you know it's cool that we could do stuff together it was fun doing your show and it's always interesting cuz like a lot of times that's the thing about your show is that it's to me it's much more of a radio show it's formatted like a radio show more so than a podcast cuz a lot of times like if I'll do other shows or whatever it's like a big time commitment like yeah just call into the show and you're on for like two hours but like with you it's like no you can stay up right after the pay-per-view look twenty minutes give me your opinion I don't know on to the next thing the next thing I got to keep it moving it's it is definitely to your point structured you being a radio guy you get it structured as a radio show because it's handled as that because that's what it really is so you know I sometimes I'll have a guest on two segments once in a while but we have to take breaks and what happens dude is like when the show drops as already on demand or a podcast you know we really don't edit anything out of it so there's really not all right Jim should be known Tom who do you ever be no but so it's like you know we we drop it as is so it's basically when I when I'm shooting and taping audio and video it's live to tape right so there's no editing as you know a lot of best it alive like this is just like people say absolutely they go back and listen to their I don't even listen to the stuff after it's I don't either I don't either and and just one point I want to make about podcasting like yet your stuff you do and some of the guys do its evergreen content yes okay my show is not evergreen my show is a topic based show it's not a guest driven show and that's another reason why it's not a podcast and it's live with cameras and this and that and it streams live so but people I do have to be frank more people listen to my podcast and listen life but I don't have good shelf life on my show that we know that we know that going in that's kind of CBS was cool about and they knew that and that's why you do it every day anyway correct there's new nude then cool you know this doesn't have shelf-life but they're watching new one in the new horizon new exactly so but you've put yourself in a position now where you have to watch wrestling all the time that's the tough part you have to watch all W ease programming over there you have to kind of at least know what's going on in TN I do yes I do you watch impact I watched some of it ah now as did whenever this drops Hardys will be gone I would assume yeah I can't believe I know I know we talked about that on my show recently a lot and it's heavy um my point of mention heart is is to be frank that was one of the main only reasons why would I love the broken gimmick I love the whole thing so I would watch TNA only when they were doing big stuff with them but otherwise I really wasn't on because my audience mostly wants to hear about WV stuff my particular audience and I do cover you know sometimes Ring of Honor and I do stuff with independent wrestling a little bit here and there I have a segment where every Monday have out of three different female wrestlers independent wrestlers they come on the show we do something called in the Indies okay where we have you know like Vader Scott I'm sure your Vader minor and Deanna Perazzo and and also Taylor Hendricks so they come we do a rotating schedule we kind of miss the past several weeks once the new year started we'll get back on track point is these girls come on and kind of update us on on what's going on in these I give them that platform but then you don't have to know everything that's going on in the garage much information about you correct and and so people can hear from somebody else within the TAT show yeah so I have like by Johnson from PW solder he comes on a show every week and gives like a kind of a scoops report or like a I'm not a reporter you know I try I don't consider myself part of media of the industry where yourself would be because I've been in the game you know I was as a former champion and a broadcaster you know when you watch an NFL pregame show I always think of it that way like what I do compared to what you do or Austin or Jericho or but like there's a big difference people listen to if you're watching an NFL like you listen to Joe Buck and get something different than from Troy Aikman absolutely you know what I mean Joe Black has this analysis but Troy Aikman has this experience that is just not replaceable his opinion that's right means more beyond it being in a pit when you in the huddle you've been in the pit yeah now not necessary does it mean wall now I understand what you're saying and I appreciate it's more form from experience yes but you do need the Joe box of the world the Sam Roberts of the world that are going to give you a perspective I think so from a strong fan perspective yeah oh you agree with that part oh yeah we need Sam Roberts we need Sam yeah fan perspective is key key I'm just saying the wrestler perspective is important it's a point to yeah that's fun what was your because you were talking on the Syria on our morning show on Sirius today about how right now you're as happy as you've ever been yeah but being a wrestler when were you happiest was it when you were the number one guy in ECW was it when you show up in WWE's it's such a bigger stage was it before that like one when what is your happiest time huh as an active sports entertainer I would say I was probably most happy in ECW even though it was the toughest time for me because I really put a lot of pressure on myself during that time and I was getting a really strong push and it took me a lot of years to get that push and once I got that push meaning before she W well it took a lot of years so once I got it I didn't want to lose it and I got very um uh at times immature because I didn't have to handle the push and I kind of pushed everyone out of my world in that locker room for the most part had a couple of guys that I confided in I was friends or everybody else I was at times a little bit of a douche and some people have said that about me and I've won the first things I did when I got my show with CBS I got actually was before my shows the podcast with CBS the human podcast machine when I kind of apologized just the whole locker room of ECW just as a whole like I was a little immature because I put a lot of pressure on myself so as much as it was a great time in my career he ever the best as a wrestler it was stressful so how do you go if you don't get along with guys how do you go and wrestle with them especially in some place like ECW it was way more physical yeah then then typical you know TV wrestling's business problem yeah yeah it's business it's just you got to be professional um I've seen guys in especially in ECW get into fistfights and go and go out there and then wrestle each other and protect each other and it's it's the code of the business yeah it's the code of the boss um you know I've had problems with guys too and then we go out there and do business you know I mean I mean really we have I mean so it's just that's part of the game you can't break that code why do you isolate yourself when that's a like how does that protect your push is it because you don't want anybody knowing anything about you is if you just don't trust anybody trust it was my fault it was a trusted I'm with dude we're going back ninety five short stretch you know I was a lot younger uh yeah you know it was I was more in a I was in a I was nervous that I I'm on top of the mountain and I know people are trying to pull me down in a competitive way not a negative way and I don't want no one that they want your spot yeah I guess they don't want your head because they want to have and that's how it should be that's that's why we had a very competitive lock but remember two things ECW was like you know rainbows and butterflies it was a great place so I'm gonna be wrong but there was an ultra ultra competitive locker room you know and you know said something to a lot of the guys they like to have a good time it was it was wild it was a frat you know feel but I Connor was I kind of stay to myself and it was no knock on anybody that I lived my life and I wasn't so maybe someone who didn't trust me because I wasn't doing some of the things maybe so many guys were doing and I don't I don't begrudge anyone from what they do and don't begrudge me for what I do right you know I kind of lived my life I kind of stayed private and I didn't want to you know I just didn't want to so you know how did they how did they have that how was the ECW locker room that competitive was just that's what Paulie brings to the table because it's not like you guys had million dollar payday not like there was you know you had pay-per-view you didn't have Wrestlemania I didn't have Stadium shows like there wasn't this thing that you were fighting for were it's like if I'm the top guy I am a megastar and never after working you want to be on top sometimes it has nothing to do with the money yeah and if you're not making seven figures and you're making six or whatever whatever the figure is it's about being competitive you know so if I'm going out there I'm trying to outperform Sabu I'm trying to outperform Van Damme Ravens strung out before me Sam is trying out perform you know Raven Tommy Dreamer is trying to outperform you know uh the eliminators the Dudley's are trying it's just it builds that that's what you want that's how you know and Paul didn't say go out there and compete he didn't do that right he let us just go out we were animals and a lot of the main action there were very very very competitive more than people I think talk about when did it start occurring and it was no cupful [ __ ] by the way what do you mean meaning that it wasn't like we were so competitive we're trying to stay which other and back all right I can't say that about anymore I don't know if anyone ever trying to stab me in the back in ECW not one wrestler and I know I've never stabbed in one in the back I mean maybe some guys could tell you something different but I I that's not me III think it was all fair Oh wargames which is a locker room full of guys fighting to have the best match of the night I think so yeah I mean I'll tell you what tryin go follow a friggin Van Damme match okay it wasn't easy yeah and I had to do that sometimes Oh or be ahead of him or or wrestle him you know I'm just saying like just using Rob as an example you know I mean it you know it's like there were so many guys so many of us like that I mean not many guys had his athletic ability but there were so many of us that had our own powers out there amongst the audience no matter if it was a guy cutting an amazing promo or a salmon with this crazy awesome entrance that they interests are so powerful was like what do you do next or the mystique of Raven and how he just just who he was and the character or Sabu was just ahead of his time from a physical standpoint what doing crazy stuff out there yeah I mean those were you were pretty ahead of your time with the whole anime oh yeah I appreciate nobody was doing MMA no and like if you like if you introduced that now yep like that's something you'd be tested on you'd be like you know what I mean like like yeah oh yeah you get heat and got with the talent with the promoters like when I first went to WWF at the time in early 2000 I was doing you know I started out for a couple of matches doing my same style didn't ECW's suplexes submissions joint locks and they rapidly I had to chill out why because it wasn't when I was told in a nice way was you're not gonna have anybody wants to work with you I know why I'm not dangerous well it looks like you're hurting people well that's my job I'm supposed to look like I'm hurting [ __ ] you mean like think I don't hold on never like what were you not even six foot like okay so what Mike Tyson's not six foot he's knocking the [ __ ] out left and right uh-huh at the same time this is I mean what does that matter so I see so guys don't want to be the WWE guys at that time maybe don't want to be in the ring with a guy who's not six feet tall who's looking like he's kicking their ass correct and it wasn't the talent that was saying that I felt the office in WWF at the time felt like um you know what I don't think it's a good this is going to create a bad vibe amongst our locker room now double w that credit has changed immensely what that mindset we're not something like suplex City I'm let I left when I hear it another brilliant marketing behind it I love Brock and I love Paul and and it Brock's a friend of mine I mean but it's great I'm happy for him and all the different 205 live guys or cruiserweight stuff for the UK got all these different suplexing we've seen I laugh I've tweet sometimes if I did that throw I would have been fired and and I do it as a joke but during my time I mean like you had to really be careful I mean you know we had to really be careful the way you worked I think when the radicals came in right after me like a week later some of those guys had a similar style of me that week so I think that kind of loosened up a little bit but they they were coming from WCW so I had a better perception for them where I was from little old ECW but yeah they ignored the pop meaning the company that I got when I debuted at the God and so it was kind of a weird thing like that pop wasn't made by the company and I felt like the company wanted to rebrand who this task guy is I see so they wanted that that that vibe that Taz brings but they wanted to be their vibe correct and and that's kind of difficult cuz then you have to change the thing and the people that are cheering it doesn't work that's why when you actually when was the best time as for me as a wrestler I didn't say that would I be right right I said he's W so yeah cuz you would think if they had enough faith in you that they gave you Kurt Angle's first loss and they let you come in as Tazz and it was a whole like you look like ECW Tazz he changed your music and that was pretty much it yep did I don't understand - somebody say like oh there's this Tazz guy and we're gonna do this and maybe like Vince doesn't know what Tazz is and then he sees it change well it's those women I negotiated my contract you know so at what I mean Vince knew I should say yeah sure sure but at what point does like who says then who is it a surprise to on what you do that's a good question I think that some of but out naming names cuz I don't want I don't do that I don't know if people are disappointed that sorry but that's not my style but a couple of I think agents at that time they no longer with the company we're very old school and I think some of them were low they had a lot of influence and I think they were turned off and I think when I wrestled in that actual match while I was wrestling against Kurt in the garden I don't know what happened backstage but I got a funny feeling a couple of people ran up to Vince while he watched it in the guerrilla position huh I said dude this guy is like you know he's gonna hurt somebody and it was one spot and I joke about it still and I choked out my Kurt Angle is on my show recently we joked about it a German suplex I mean peel back and watch the match I went to get my German released suplex and our timing was off a little bit so what I did was I put Kurt back down and then we threw him to protect him and clear him that little hiccup on that throw I really think was a big problem I think that one spot I think turned off some folks backstage and like oh this guy is reckless and actually if you look at the spot closely yeah it's not me being reckless it's me seeing our timing was off because you never wrestled each other and fixing it and fixing it on the fly and no one even noticing you know meaning the audience don't see nobody like no one's like you effed up nobody did that you don't need so I also think the pop and I've said this many times on my show Sam when I came out and and anybody was there thank you and that massive pop that I got I I knew as I was walking down the aisle with the towel on my head I think I'm doomed here because he didn't want you like I want to be I want people to know who I am I don't want this many people to know who I am because I knew it would be a little problem I see now in this day and age I think it'd be different but back then it was a different a very very very competitive locker room in WWF at that time and you know who was this guy from little old bush-league ECW in a bingo hall ring Haman's kool-aid who the hell is he to come in here at Madison Square Garden and get this pop that's insane because I guess there still was that thing where even though ECW was not on the the scale of WWE there was still that thing where in the wrestling world it was looked at his ECW is what was cool but there probably still was some competition of like why is this ECW guy think he can hang with us whereas now I don't think that that rock exists I don't think that there is I think you're right I think you're completely right totally agree with you but I do think the pop didn't help me yeah don't get me wrong it was the greatest professional feeling I've ever had that reaction in the garden I was I remember of hoping as I was getting ready to walk through the curtain that they would know who I was that was my biggest fear that they wouldn't know me you know because I'm used to working in Queens at the Elks Lodge in New York or or in Philly at the you know at the east of yurina bingo hall yeah so I was just worried out god man I hope they even know who I am just a little Pappa be nice and then when the place exploded when they sort of boom boom oh my god boy I don't think you like I don't want that much yeah you got a statu don't do like Vince and stuff that you know they had seen me work already in their ring because when we did the invasion it was on Raw at the Manhattan center right of course I remember that i wrestled mikey whipwreck and Paul Heyman was on commentary with Jerry Lawler and Vince when Sabu came off the arm he fell off the arc he said that's the big jokes ever we we still tease each other about it tease him about it and say oh I like you yeah it's like you fell see all bro yeah he did he fell on team toss off the arm yeah I got it was funny and horrible at the same time yeah I mean like but it's funny left foot now I mean I still tease him but um you know so Vince knew my work he saw me he so I was doing some unique suplexes in that match yeah and he you could hear his reaction comes like whoa what is that they were trying to pitch to like the nation of domination backstage doing a cut in not about me and they were just and once they did that and I saw it back I knew that they weren't they didn't care about me or ECW that much because they were doing cutaways for their stories was there a part of that when you guys did that Manhattan Center raw which to me like I mean I remember watching that and it was like it was just cool and I think there's what the intention was right there wasn't anything bigger than us just do a cool thing they were trying to help us we're trying to help them I think Paul and Vince had a little greement I think that was there any part of of you or any of the other guys that were wrestling on that show of like oh but we get to rest on match in front of Vince McMahon and this is uh or were you guys so ECW cool aided up I did it wasn't even a consider I was cool ended up I think I think several of the guys were um I it could have been no one ever said that we kind of had our own locker room we stayed to ourselves they wanted to stay to ourselves they wanted to keep us like renegades because we were and that's kind of was the feel um I know this we were kind of pissed about a lot of different things after that night you know because even though was an awesome platform but we just didn't like some of the things like the commentary and some of the stuff that Lawler was saying and lawless saying and just we knew he would like be anti ECW but it was like really too far like really like and did you get legit pissed at lolly um I didn't I didn't get like legit pissed like I wanted a fight I was pissed right but but you just used it and again I back to the top of this conversation I said I was a little mature back then so I was I I was I was young aggressive and angry and and Ravan used to say to me all the time dude what are you why are you so angry you got everything you got a beautiful family a home you make a lot of money you're on top you're in this cool company CW and you're mad nice and Scottie I don't know why every graph is like you're crazy yeah I don't know why I'm angry I think cuz Taz is supposed to be angry right you know like so I Connor was living a gimmick a lot too which I think helped it and I think to be frank that's the problem with some of the younger guys Tam I'm a big fan of the young generation I am the current generation but I do think that some of them might be playing wrestle a little bit and you can't you can't play wrestle you kind of have to live the gimmick a little bit because that that gives it really resonates to the audience here to be like what's his name in there will be blood he just walks Daniel day-lewis oh yeah yeah just method you can walk around you got to feel it man I really that's how I was let me look you walk in here and you're wearing orange headphones you know I think you're still kind of living the game yes which is point actually yeah your stilt as I am and that's it I mean that's who I am I call my show I mean it's orange and blacked out and all that stuff and you know the set is and all that and that's all my merchandise is I mean by design that's a people arts branding so what was a why the change from the singlet to the to the jumpsuit it wasn't the jumpsuit Oh first thing well we're like MCS not a jumpsuit no Sam knows the mechanics outfit no wasn't that either I did not pump gas apologize I then a lot of people said that I'm busting balls it was it though it actually what it was to be honest okay the shirt the top was Dickies you know Dickies right there the shirt ice rated you I have the shirt that's right that's right you did a my house yeah and so that's a Dickey shirt yeah and I would wear that and the pants were I wore by sealing up singlet underneath it just to you know keep my body tight when I was doing suplex I need to keep something on me to like Spanx kind of like stacks know what's like manly athletics manly space yes nah-uh and the pants were actually just mesh they were custom-made mesh like sluice sweat pants mm-hmm like Mexican football jersey and I will wrestle boots and the reason why that change happened a lot of people thought that was WWE oh my god they're killing Tazz it they're making them wear that knot we're a singlet if I had Twitter back then or Twitter was even a thing I would have tweeted out listen stop it it's not The WB's fault it was my idea mm-hmm I went to Vince and one of the riders I'm like dude I want to I want to I told my bicep okay I was out for a little while the company took care of me paid me did the right thing sent me right doctors Vince reassured me and he kept his word I gotta say I can't say anything bad about him like other people do when it came to injuries I've been injured several times there they've always taken care of me always always and and and I told my bicep and I had that need some downtime and then I said to Vince when I was coming back look I want to change my look he was about to Watt and I told him and it's like it sounds cool let's let's give it a look maybe I like on a house show something see how it looks we'll have a camcorder day or whatever and we're gonna tape some of the matches anyway and he said that's cool if you want to wear it but you got such good legs you hide your legs if I know I just I just I just want to have a complete change over I want to keep the orange in black but a different look and that's how it happened and was it them I have nothing to hide I mean it was me I just wanted to change just to change look they didn't want that same Taz that human suplex machine because I wasn't cold anymore right they didn't want that guy anymore so you wanna and you probably when you realize what was going on you probably wanted to change some things too yeah okay we're gonna let go of the stuff that's right because I didn't want them to tarnish my in ring legacy any more than they were doing right so I'm gonna be wev correct yeah I'm gonna kill all that that we had there and I'm gonna I'm gonna conform and change and be creative and I'm proud of that so like there are some things like when I sign but double W that and I talked about this recently on my show that were my intellectual property you know things like human suplex machine ftw one-man crime spree all of those monikers were never used for me in w/e mm-hmm because it was my English property resident I can add to that in right and I didn't know that was gonna happen and that's my agent he's so good so he's so talented so ice genius and you know yes so uh so so anyway um so that didn't work so they went with two Z's instead of one Z one Z was my ta z was my IP right yeah not to Z Z no problem you can have it we're gonna make it to Z this okay yeah yeah it's perfect there so how do you make the ears what did you was your because I watched an interview a clip of you on YouTube yesterday and it was those when you were talking about going to the garden and calling Paul Heyman and doing that thing so why was it hostile when you left ECW like what Paul why did your relationship with Paul Heyman with why was it not great oh well Paul was under the impression that we came to terms and I was staying in a company and he's not wrong okay he's not wrong we verbally agreed he we did you know there's a lot of years ago so I'm trying to remember it and Paul and I are still good friends shirts what on the bridge we worked it out it's a lifetime ago it really was so I'll try to remember something so when I'm saying does it match exactly what I said on that YouTube thing that I'm sorry but I'm not lying I'm just trying to member exact would happen all the long and short of it is Paul thought that we had an agreement and then I Connor was reneging on the deal the verbal but I really felt like us knowing some stuff that was going on I felt like at that time he was not going to be able to do make well to do right on that financial end of the agreement for Mike my money um his heart was in the right place he felt he would be but and in hindsight 20/20 I was right you guys said what it would have been and I just had we just had a baby and my wife and I and it was like it was just I I couldn't play games and I had this opportunity did you ever did you ever miss checks from him in the past or you just saw that's where it was going uh I had missed um I got a say uh Paulo's b0 no money he's never owed me money um never so and there's several guys like me he never would money - um there were a couple times where I'd have my check and he would say he called me and say hey uh wait until Friday and put your check in oh come on Paul bah bah bah dead [ __ ] him oh no no just wait please stop okay that would happen wait until Friday and then it would be cool it would be cool okay one time it wasn't cool and he fixed it right away I mean right away and it but dude I there was so many other guys had much bigger issues with that I don't I don't I can't really speak on because it didn't happen to me right right now you just saw he was right thing going he did and the Maya listen man when I got hurt early do early in each W like before we really hit like it when I broke my neck in 95 Mary you know he there wasn't a lot of money in that company dude and I was terrified I just came back to my honeymoon and he said listen to me you take as long as it takes I'm gonna keep paying you I could pull you can't afford it was I'm gonna keep paying you any doubt and he did and he did he did and I was that's over a year before pay-per-view that that's when ECW is nothing that's right this taut like springtime of 95 that happened yeah he paid me Wow um and I and I was making pretty good money and it wasn't the contract was a handshake you know and he kept good on it and [ __ ] guy paid me that's an answer so I stayed loyal to him for a long time after that you know so uh so how do you end up in a commentary position I remember I think when I first started seeing you is when they were doing the Sunday night heat show out of the restaurant it happened a little bit before that when I was uh I was in an angle with Jerry Lawler right um then you get a candy jar smashed over your head that was a little bit this this was before that okay what happened was I went in the garden in the garden on our live raw and I had to have me cut a promo on jr. because I had wrestled on a pay-per-view I know why Keith it was fully loaded in Dallas I did that's where it was I'm probably running bad with towns and I think I wrestled al snow I think that's who it was I won the match but I cheated I was a heel of course why won't you cheat the win that's what you're supposed to do and jr. good old jr. my man while I was going through the current he said all that Tad's whatever he said he's a cheating bastard he didn't say that but whatever he said like he bared me which he should I was a heel you know so I had the idea of God let me play off of this and I went to the riders and then we went to Vince together jr. so look I wanna I want to go at jr. over this I want to be pissed and Vince like I like it it's cool let's do it you could pull this off no problem and they didn't want to write my promo they wanted me just the way in which I was begging them always let me just win promos that's amazing they did let me win it and it worked and that's the promo where I begged was begging to hit me hit me hit me and then Jerry Lawler got up I was right next to jr. J I want to hit me because I made a very disrespectful comment huh on a microphone in the garden Arana and I said what I said to jr. which I cringe saying thinking of the line was it I you know and jr. and I are good friends so he knows it was just character character I said I'd love to smack you across your face but God already beat me to it that's tough it was tough and the whole place in my hometown was argue but I loved the bad guy acts like a badass right some vile I wasn't trying to be cool right and that's when that's that's that's that's how bad guys need to be yeah you don't have to care about being cool right I mean ivan koloff who just recently passed away a legend this was a guy who was he heal the bulk of his career and he went out there he wasn't trying to be cool he was a bad [ __ ] all the time we're cool in the language right yeah yeah he was just bad all the time he wasn't trying to be cool he was an ass-kicker bad guy cheatin bad guy nasty all the sturdy Russian all the stuff well look uh my thing was I ought to be healed I'm in my hometown I got to turn them and and I said that line to jr. he got pissed and the whole place was like all man hit him junior and like you want to hit me right you want to hit me and I got his face hit me hit me at the announce this and that and they shot it so perfectly hit me and once I crescendoed up and we didn't even really plan it like we knew we're going to do but King winged it I winged that Junior winged it and the production truck went there and all of a sudden King just drills me around junior punches me I take a bump and a place goes berserk right and then I go a big pull apart I go after King he goes after me they we think we can't get each other there's an angle so then we got into this angle me Lawler and that's what led to be going at the commentary because I jumped the beat him up and I sat in Michael Cole were you okay doing an angle with Jerry Lawler coming from a guy who's like super competitive like an ECW I want to be the top guy and now like an eggo Jerry Lawler great angle but it's not going to be a world title man she's not gonna be saying that's my friend but there's one thing you're missing tell me I'm in an angle what a guy was a babyface yeah and has the power of a mic for two hours as a commentator so it becomes this all-encompassing yes sir gotcha gotcha so it helps because he's gonna talk about his angle when do time right so it helps me because I'm with a guy who's got a full mic right he's got a platform right tall sense it helps yes you know so that that's that's why I was caught it uh-huh and I didn't know was gonna morphed with it morphed into so when I jumped Lawler I keep the it was Louisville but in Louisville they're gonna smack down I think I jumped him early in the show and then I sat and they wanted me to sit in for one match one segment with Michael Cole mm-hmm I was terrified right so I said to cause listen man I don't know what I'm doing it was not just I'll get you through it man and worry about it we worked on some things he was just just Barry Lawler that's your job be a he'll bury the guys doing whatever and I did that and then you know if I got done you know they told me before time they said you'll be told in your headset when to leave after the match and the match ended I did my thing I was thank God it was over and I get up leave and then like I think Cole said to me don't they stay but wait till I tell you and then next I know they're playing music for the next matches and I think was Kevin Dunn if somebody said just ate I just say it call it x1 we're having a problem with some just just stay out there waiting for King King was supposed to come back behind me and jumped me and take back to see ya dude they kept me out there for a couple segments I didn't realize just in time they were like auditioning me so I didn't know that and I was like I was nervous and then when I came through current Vince is like a man you did a really good job you know and thanks I go I hate it because you're hate he goes that's your future I don't want to do this and I left whose I will say and and then I got to be like two weeks later I get a call like on I just came back from a house show I was getting to go on a house show loop it was like a Thursday and I get a call from Kevin Dunn and it's like hey what are you doing this weekend I go I'm working you know I'm working a house show loop in Fresno and California you know whoever it was and he goes you want to go to UK I go excuse me he goes yeah no I'll all I can't make the trip it was like they were doing like different two different tours yeah sure and going to UK and we're doing the pay-per-view and lawless can't make it and we need someone sit with jr. do color for I got three hours or whatever it was he goes yeah goes I got i Kevin I can't I can't like don't worry about jr. we'll prep with you he'll get you through it baba and I was like oh my god Taz is a great opportunity but I don't want to do this Kevin no no it's a great opportunity just just trust me okay I got no choice so they take me off the house elute they send me out there I was terrifying right I have to sit up to that loan with a legend like junior and che oh god man bless his heart he was awesome he sat me before the show for like an hour dude just went over everything with me and especially since junior and Jerry Lawler are like monsoon and Heenan yeah that's way man yeah so I was like damn you know and junior really walked me through that whole show I'll never forget it to show and it was a really good shot remember the name of the pay-per-view it was it was in like it was in the other arm and it wasn't in London it was Manchester maybe and it was a really good pay-per-view and I remember um walking after the show and welcome back to the locker room I was by myself and I turned a corner down to coming down the hallway was coincidentally enough Vince McMahon and Kevin Dunn and just be walking at them then they both look to me and they stopped me to go hey you were outstanding tonight you did a great job that was not easy Agron oh and I put all the shine on Jericho no Junior's again wrong we know how great Jr's of course but I don't know he got me through that and they were like no no no you you know We Need to Talk you're doing great I go oh okay I really don't want to do this guys nah but yeah we think we think we need it at home we think it's good for you I'm like okay then what are you asking me for I never wanted to do it I didn't want to be a commentator right but then once I started doing it was very hard and and then I got I'm very competitive like I said so I saw hard to became this new thing yeah my wife was like dude you need to keep doing this because you didn't have a future and that's why you and then you ventured into radio after that for like I can take this deal set and broadcasting and makes absolutely something that's not just wrestling absolutely that was there was a easy natural segue for me really was to be honest with you to go into radio was and I always had a passion for it I've been trying to getting ready for over 10 years I know an outside I told the story on your show here with you and Jimmy know that I mean long serious is here but when Stern came you know I was saying that I tried to get on me and Michael Cole trying to get a show here we a radio a long time ago plugged away at different shows with CBS I mean a lot a long time I surprised TNA was not your happiest as a as a professional well honestly dude man like there were there was an early goings in Tina had a lot of fun man one of the best things was meet a lot of people at TNA like Mike today who become one of my best friends I love Mike I love working with Mike I miss Mike I miss work with Mike I mean true just a good friend you know I had I had a lot of fun there work and I had there was a lot of times for a lot of Yahoo's like six seven years ago us and I got to be honest only like the last year and a half it got like you know the infrastructure sucked and business money money cash flow they had money but they had no cash flow so that was a little bit annoying and I'm that's why I had to get out of there yeah I got I can't sit here and say my TNA run sucked I I had a lot of fun working it I did yeah it seemed like it didn't I mean I did a guy like you to I mean just to just to be able to go out and do a show like that where there's kind of freedom you can go you can have fun you can commentate you guys yeah so I wasn't micromanage just go and beat as yeah do the show and sometimes I could be better than I was and I had a police myself at times where we're mm be it was at that time the announcers were very micromanage where and then I segue into you don't go into a place where you have creative freedom to join these spots stay in a story and you know and policing yourself is a skill set that's super valuable absolutely that's something you they absolutely have to learn how to do absolutely plus that first I was like well it's a Wild West this is great know how to back myself up a little bit right now right I was it was I was new to me this was like wow I I just said something that no one said dude don't say that wrong didn't say go this way you know I was like I didn't have that there you know so it was I had a lot of fun a teenage with the bulk the bulk of my time I did well I want everybody to go to Ted show comtesse does a great show it's it's its best streaming media that's where this is someone very intelligent told me that's what it's called it's a streaming media and it's on every day and it's uh it's a lot of work a lot of work you know been limit you know as well as me I should say that'll work so you can watch and listen to Ted show every day at Ted show calm at official tears on Twitter and you can come back here on this show anytime man thank you brother anytime it's just fun I'm glad you did it I appreciate it and and you know you've been on my show on you're gonna be on my show again and let it I would love to keep doing things together for sure I mean definitely um you know we probably have a lot of the same fans that listen to your podcast arrestee podcast oldest is you and Jimmy on your regular daily show as a and in conjunction with people who listen to my show so definitely and maybe there's some different things there's some fans crossover bringing us crossover as we call it cross diagram yes crossover Jones as I would say let's dig into the junction that's a deal bro I appreciate me all right tez thanks a lot thank you

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Id: B6syGcCvwCI

Length: 38min 53sec (2333 seconds)

Published: Mon May 29 2017