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So far, so good. With guest host, WWE Superstar The Miz. I like it. Live from the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles. I feel like Travis Hunter is a bigger circus than Chadur right now.

Is he going to play offense? Is he going to play defense? That's all anyone's talking about, these two players. Am I wrong? Earlier on the show, former NFL players.

Quarterback Johnny Manzel. Coming up. Cavaliers Guard Max Drews. And Chanel sitting in front. WWE Superstar The Miz.

Hello, I am The Miz. I'm filling in for Rich Eisen on the Rich Eisen Show. Earlier today, we've had Johnny Manzel. We will have Max Struce. Give us a call, 844-204-RICH.

And TJ, I want to thank you very much because the last hour you gave me 30 seconds to tell a three-minute story. You're like, well, why don't you tell us?

Well, I'll tell you why. Because this guy in my ear is like, you got 30 seconds, and I know I can't tell that story in 30 seconds.

So I'm finishing my story. But I knew we had another hour. Why don't you start from the beginning? Can I paint the picture? Please do.

WrestleMania. Yes.

SoFi Stadium. I'm the host. Tonight. We were there. Yeah, we were.

We were watching. And I get out there, Snoop Dogg's hosting with me, and Shane McMahon comes back. Must be the movie. The crowd. Crowd is doing nuts.

They're loving it. Shane McMahon challenges me to a match in my suit, by the way. $10,000 it costs me.

So I'm like, I'm one for a challenge. I'm like, all right, let's go.

So we get into this match, and he does a leapfrog where he jumps, and I kind of go under him. And he lands, tears both of his quads. For real. Like, this is, it's no joke. It is a real.

Real. Injury and real injuries happen in WWE. It happens all the time. And we have to be professional and make sure that nobody, everyone seems like this is part of the show.

So I know when he goes down, I'm like, all right, he's injured. The camera's going to be on me because we don't like showing real injuries on there.

So the red light is on me.

Now I have to basically relay to a referee kind of what to do to the truck.

So they kind of know what to do and what we're going to do next.

Now I'm like standing like this and I know the camera's on me. And I'm trying to talk like this to the referee because I know the camera's on me and you can't hear me. And so I'm telling the referee, I was telling the referee, I was like, hey, hey. Play someone's music. I don't care whose music it is.

Hit the finisher, have Snoop Dogg hit me with a Snoop Dogg elbow. And so Ha ha ha ha ha. I get all of a sudden I turn around and Snoop Dogg sucker punches me. And I'm like, that's even better. That even works.

So then he starts cutting a promo. I'm not hearing what he's saying because they're trying to move Shane out of the ring. And I'm just like, all right, I can't just take one punch. He's doing this too long. And I know I have to lay down for this.

This Stoop dog elbow. And so I was like, give me another one. And by the way, Snoop Dogg isn't a professional wrestler, right? He doesn't do this for a living, but he's the consummate pro. I mean, if there is a celebrity that I would trust to do something like that that has no prior training, it is Snoop Dogg, Snoop D-O-Double G, Snoop Doggy Dog, baby.

Because let me tell you, when he punched me, it was like, it was a good punch. It was a solid punch. It looked great. It was in there, too. It looked great because it was in there.

And knocked me down. He does the Snoop Dogg elbow, covers one, two, three. By the way, he's not even in the match. He just covered and the referee counted to three. And I remember going back and talking to my wife.

And she was like, wow, I thought that was that all was supposed to happen. And the reason I'm telling you this, by the way, now is because there's a show, Unreal, on Netflix, that we kind of give you the insights and the insides of what it takes to not only be a WWE superstar, but the writer's room. You get to see how Triple H is involved, how Nick Khan is involved. And it's an amazing show. And I'm actually happy it's coming out because I think it gives a newfound respect of what it goes to put on a show like WrestleMania, to put on shows each and every week, Monday Night Raw, two and a half hours on Netflix.

You have two. Two hours on SmackDown, USA Network. And then we have PLEs. We have a PLE coming up, Clash in Paris in two Saturdays, where we have John Cena, who's on a farewell tour, by the way. After this, we're not going to see him inside the ring anymore.

He has like 10 dates left. I'm not sure how many matches he has. I want to put my name in the hat because I want one last match with John Cena. I'm not sure if that's going to happen. Logan Paul's getting that opportunity at Clash in Paris, which I don't know what's going to happen.

It's going to be definitely an entertaining match, but. I gotta tell you, man. It's been incredible to see The rise of or the popularity of people wanting to know what we do and how we go through it. Does that fill your void of that 30 seconds? TJ, do you get a little bit of insight?

Absolutely. And you could tell, like, obviously, you could tell that something was wrong, right? Jason and I. You could tell because my wife was like, I couldn't tell. Shane went down.

You kind of, you kind of realized, wait a minute, there's no reason for him to legitimately go down. The way he was reacting, the way I think Jessica Carr, I think, was the referee. Seth did the same thing a couple months, like a month ago. Yeah, this is true, but this is Shane. And, you know, at that point, we all bought it.

But it was just, bro, it was the quickness of which you and Snoop reacted. It's also the people in the truck. It's the camera. The camera shoots. It's the referees.

We are all working as one unit, as one team to make sure that you guys make it that we make it look seamless.

So you guys don't have to worry about that experience. We're worried about your experience and what you're seeing out there. We want you to have. Moments take away moments that will last a lifetime. And honestly, that moment right there has stood the test of time.

Like, people still talk to me about Snoop Dogg because you're giving me a people's elbow. By the way, and you know, like it was all there, and Snoop did it. And just the fact that he's not a wrestler, he picked up on what you needed and he executed it like that. You guys, it was when I was teaching Snoop the people's elbow, I was like, do the do the crip walk into it. But I think everything kind of happened so much that it was just like he didn't do it.

But I thought it would have been cool to like do the people's elbow, jump over, and just do the walk right into it. That was going around on like Twitter that night. He's like, imagine Snoop with a crit walk thing to that. But yeah, we had it in there, it just didn't happen.

Okay. I like this Miz story time. I got one for you.

So I saw yesterday that Leonard DiCaprio, he's got a new movie with Paul Thomas Anderson coming out and was looking back on his career. And he said one of the biggest regrets of his career was passing on the Mark Wahlberg character in Boogie Knights. And he thinks about it all the time, about how such monumental of a movie that was. What an achievement in filmmaking and how he wished he would have been part of that now that he looks back. Do you have a regret in your WWE career that you kind of look back on or your early wrestling life and you're like, man, wish I would have done that?

I try to live my life with no regrets. I try to live. My life with having as much fun as possible and doing what I want when I want. If I had to say like a regret. Um So, this is, do I have longer than 30 seconds?

I think I do.

Okay, so is this so. I'm in developmental. I'm at Deep South Wrestling in McDonough, Georgia. And what is told to us when you first get to developmental is, and this is what's told to me: if you can sell out in developmental in this territory, Then you go to another territory, and this is the way the old days were. You go to another territory, and if you could sell out there, maybe you can go up to the big leagues like WWE, and then that's where you can really sell out.

You can showcase a character.

So I go down to Deep South, and every week, Paul Heyman would come down for promo class. And we would do promo class with Paul Heyman.

Now, Paul Heyman was the creative for Ohio Valley Wrestling, which was in Louisville, which was our other territory.

So we had Deep South and Ohio Valley Wrestling. I was the champion of Deep South.

So we would do promos with Paul. every single week. And Paul Heyman one day had me. Uh kind of transferred from Deep South to Ohio Valley Wrestling to work with me. And I was like, wow.

That isn't like it wasn't everybody. It was me. And so I go to Ohio Valley Wrestling and I start working with Paul. And my babyface run, like I was a babyface, I was a good guy, believe it or not. Like people loved me in McDonough, Georgia.

We were turning people away. I was a deep South heavyweight champion, first one ever, and we were turning people away. I get to Ohio Valley Wrestling and people just weren't reacting to me the way McDonough was. And this is why you do territories. This is why you go from place to place because what works in one place might not work in the next.

For sure.

So I go to Ohio Valley Wrestling and it's not working. He goes, you know why? is your heel. And I go, I don't know, man. I don't know.

He goes, Believe me.

So we worked on a promo together. And from that day forward, I became a heel. And Paul started working with me and he said, you know, you should come with me and. Write the show with me. you know punk comes in all the time and we'll we'll sit here and write the show And I wish I would have taken him up on that offer.

And the reason I didn't. Yeah, why'd you pass it? Yeah, you might be like, well, that's a great opportunity. I mean, you just heard Kurt Warner yesterday talking about rookies talking to him about getting reaching out. Like, this guy is reaching out.

He's one of the greatest of all times. I was coming, like, I was an outsider before Logan Paul ever did, right? Like, made it like, oh, Logan Paul's an outsider. I was an outsider. I was from a reality show.

Nobody wanted me in WWE, whether it was in developmental. or if it was in WWE, like the big leagues. And I need people in the big leagues like. The higher-ups to teach me how to do it. how to become a WWE superstar.

I knew that. I needed the JBLs, the Undertakers, the John Cena's to take me under their wing to show me what it would be like to be that. And I knew respect was a huge thing in WW. It was huge. There's nothing, and there's nothing bigger.

They take the hand. You shake your hand. When you walk into the backstage area, you shake everyone's hand. No matter if they have a meal, about to take a bite out of the food, you're like, hello, sir, good to see you. That's the way it was.

That's the way you gained respect.

Now, How much would you respect a person that is writing the show and writing them to quote unquote get over? I don't now granted it. Punk was doing that. Yeah. But Punk had respect, I would say, from the indies work.

I don't think he had respect from the higher or the WWE superstars yet because he was just ROH guy, indie guy, very popular down there. But could he make it up here? He hasn't done anything yet up here. He was willing to take that risk. And I wish I was too, but I also think my trajectory would have changed.

I think I would have gotten up there, and Miz is all about himself because they already thought I was already about myself. Nobody wanted me. I was from a reality show. He just wants to be famous. He doesn't really want it.

And so I wish I would have. I don't know if that's a regret. Because I wish I would have been, I would have gotten that information. I would have learned how to write a show, how a show is formed. How to write.

I mean, obviously, he was teaching me how to write promos already, but to learn the whole aspect. And teach me about it. I wish, I wish I would have done that, but I also think my career would have changed and there would have been different things and different obstacles. I would have had to hurdle through to get to where I am today. Makes sense.

I would have probably been able to do it and work it, but it would have been even harder, and it was hard. Hard. When I was coming in. It was very hard. Not just for me.

I mean, I think CM Punk had it hard as well. I think he had to really prove himself and continues to prove himself. Yeah. And so yeah. Yeah, that's my That would be a regret.

I don't know if it's a regret, but it's one of those things I wish I got, I would have learned. But now I'm learning more. And by the way, how great is Paul Heyman doing right now? Man, I mean, look at what he's been able to do, not only with just ECW, but keep evolving not only himself, but the younger technology. Everyone he touches.

Bronson Reed. Were we talking about them a year ago?

Now they're in main events. Every Monday. They're with Paul Heyman and Seth Rollins, who, in my opinion, is. The best. Like, when he's said and done, we'll be talking about him in goat territory, in Mount Rushmore territory.

And I don't think he, I mean, he hasn't scratched the surface of his talent. Of where he is in WWE. And I don't think he's happy where he is right now, is in like, He wants more. And always wants more, even as a champion. And that's the mentality you have to have as a top talent.

But to have Paul Heyman in their corner. to have Paul Heyman in Roman's corner. Look what he did for Roman. Yeah, man. took over the business in four years.

I mean, Brock Lesnar, CM Punk was the first one. Being a Paul Heyman guy was certainly a thing. Yeah. And funny enough, I was a Paul Heyman guy before Paul Heyman guys was cool. Funny talk about maybe not a regret, but it's like a sliding door moment.

Like what could have been, what maybe could have been. But like you said, you would have had different challenges and different obstacles. And are you sitting right here today? Who knows? Maybe not, but maybe so.

Yeah, you never know. Like, that's the problem with regrets, right? If you regret something and it happens, like it happens, it changes your whole trajectory. Maybe I'm not the first ever two-time Grand Slam champion. Maybe, or maybe I'm a 14-time WWE.

You don't know these things, but I'm happy with the path that I've chosen. I'm happy where I am today. I'm happy being here hosting the Rich Eisen show. Funny enough, Mike, I'm actually wearing an Ohio Valley wrestling t-shirt today, which is so funny. This was the class of 02, one of the greatest classes.

I'm trying to think of my class. My class would be me, punk. Damian Sandow or Mizdow. Mizdow, yeah. Trying to think of who else would be in that right now.

No, Kofi wasn't in that class. He was the class after me, I would say. Um Seamus was a class after me. That's more the FCW Florida Championship Wrestling, but I would say me and Punk would be on that shirt. You know, what's funny is Punk was the first guest of my podcast with O'Shea, No Contest Wrestling.

He was our first guest, and he brought up the fact that Paul, because nobody wanted to work with him, Paul saw something in him, brought him down, and he was like, All of a sudden, I'm timing out matches. I'm learning to write TV. And he goes, Wait a minute, I'm like. Writing this show and he thought it was invaluable it is invaluable 100% your reasoning makes sense because reality stars of today are looked at different than when you were a reality star back then people still had this weird thing with reality people I think today's reality like me as a reality star today it's an influencer Yes, he's just an influencer. I remember being at the all-star MLB baseball game, celebrity baseball game, and they were announcing people and they announced some influencers like TikTokers and they got booed out of the building.

And I was like, oh yeah, that was me like 20 years ago. But it seems like those, that. I don't know, that particular sect of people, they're they're a little bit more well received. Because reality stars back in the day, man, you guys took crap. Like, they did not want you in the money.

No, TV didn't want us because we were taking jobs from scripted shows and those are trained actors. And you're just a no-talent hack that's on that's just, you know, laughing in front of a camera, but you don't realize how much it takes to be a reality star. It does take a lot, and it takes a certain type of talent. You watch these shows and you see people that are just wallpaper. And it's not entertaining.

That's why when I set out to do Ms. and Mrs., I go, I know how to do a reality show. Like, I do. And my wife is incredible in it. Our kids are incredible.

My dad, we were making my dad, Marjo, all these different stars. Like, they all had their particular characters, if you will, but it's them. And it's a gr and I was like. We that's why we had success in it. It's because watching and learning how to do a reality show and then being on the challenges and then going into my own, you kind of learn the trick of the trade.

And being a WWE superstar, it teaches you all the land, everything. I think WWE has trained me to be a great host, a great person. Good in media. It's taught me how to work in front of a live audience. It's really a hostile environment.

Yeah. Anything. You could throw anything at me and it doesn't phase me anymore.

Now granted, I get nervous. I get nervous before I go out every single match. You do. I do, oh my gosh, are you kidding me? I'm about to faint.

Every time, do you watch me like when I'm here right before I'm going? I'm doing this. I'm all over the place. But once the camera, when I say see a red light, it all goes away. Yeah, I don't know why.

It's so weird. I'm a big guy on preparation. I prepare, I prepare. I watch Kirk Cousins on those quarterback shows, and I'm like, I'm that exact same way. I'm an ultimate preparer.

When I hear about Tom Brady preparing, I'm like, And everyone's like, he's crazy. I'm like, no, that. That's what everyone does. That's normal. And I think everyone does that.

And my wife's like, you know, you're different. You're a little different. I go, oh, that's interesting. That's interesting. Different good, and that's why you've achieved the level of successes that you have.

That's why you're so good and natural at this.

So, yeah, man, don't change anything. Sure. And I'm the Miz. That's brand. Filling in.

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Are you feeling more fulfilled now that you're back to work? This Friday. No. I need a vacation. See the movie the critics are saying is an awesome film.

Look at that. Crowd pleasing. Fist pumping. All-out brawl of a film. Right about that.

The coming after our family. Go fix this. Omar. Nobody to Rated R only in theaters Friday. Where could you do?

Like, what's the move that you could actually do? Oh man, you know what? I can kick a guy in the nuts without actually kicking him in the nuts. Yeah, I'm gonna pass on that. Hold on a minute.

No, it's my party trick. I guarantee it, I won't hurt you.

So is this some is this? Could this be sanctioned? Can she try to get who would volunteer for this work? Come on, you just have to spread your legs. And wish for the best.

Mike, Deltufa. We're both. Mike is about to join the ranks of the unsullied here on the road. Let's do this thing. Wow.

What are you about to attempt to do right here? Kick him in the nuts. Without actually hurting him. Yeah. But you do, you will make contact.

I'll make contact, yeah. That's okay.

Okay, but you will not hurt him. No. Well, it doesn't matter. You have no desire to have children anyway.

Okay, exactly. WWE Superstar Page. We'll see. Do we have the... Go ahead and hit it there, Jenny.

Here we go. Reading for me.

Okay, you ready? If I was you, I'd pull your shoulders up a little bit just so I can. Have a bullseye. There we go. Yeah.

This is great. She and Piss Woods like she's laughing. I don't know. I know. All right, Paige, have at it.

Superstar Paige. Here we go. There you go. I just slapped him on the left. Yeah.

You're up next. That was a good slap on the back. You're this up next. Ready, square them. You're up.

You're the one who would make it funner, so here we go. Oh, yeah. It just Are you serious? Are you serious, Chris? I'm selling it!

Big Smith Man, take note! All right, bike with my family. Bike with my family. Go check it out. Yeah.

Well done. Fantastic. Ladies and gentlemen, my first guest, or second guest actually, of today is the star. Of Stray Atta Compton, one of my favorite movies. He's the star of No Contest Wrestling podcast.

He is going to be filling in for me and Rich tomorrow. He is the host of the Rich Eisen Show, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, Shea Jackson Jr. My goodness. I've never been so welcomed on this show.

Is that the kind of interviews you're gonna, you know, introductions you're gonna do tomorrow? I'm gonna try to bring it a little bit. I realize how you're hosting right now, you're staying Miz. You're not rich, you're being Miz.

So I gotta be Shay. That's all I can be. You just gotta be you. You just have fun and enjoy yourself. Yeah, he's giving me the keys to the house, and we will see how smart that was, Miz.

Who we got as a guest? We got Jacob Fatu, which started us off with. Oh, you're excited about that one? Yeah, I'm pumped about that. Let me tell you.

Let me tell you about Jacob Fatu, man. He's special. He looks insane. He is special. Yeah.

Getting in the ring with him, I was like, oh, he's good. And he is one of those guys, because we've been talking a lot about this, that will go to the veterans and go, hey, How can I get better? What can I do to be better? And I literally look at him and I see the intangibles, the it factor. When I'm in the ring, I can tell when a guy is going to be a bona fide superstar.

Like when I remember being in the ring with Roman, and they were trying to figure out if he's going to be. Going up, and I got in there. I was like, this guy is amazing. I knew Jay and Jimmy Uso were going to be superstars because I could feel them in a ring. I could feel their energy, right?

And even AJ Styles, when he first came into WWE, everyone in the back was not sure if he was going to be able to become the AJ Styles that. He is today. But when I got on the ring with him, I go, There's something about him, and he's different from everybody else that I have worked with, but there's something about him that gives him that it factor. Jacob Fatu has the it factor. He will be a big rising.

I mean, right now he's rising, but he will be a huge star. In the WWE, the world is his oyster. His promos have energy, they're infectious. The in-ring work, he can do every move. And a guy at his size, he should not be doing half of the things that he is doing, but he is still doing.

What do you think of Jacob Fatu? Man, I love his intensity. And yeah, there's just. You believe him. You know, when he tells you that he'll dogwalk you, you believe him.

You know, he brings it. And obviously the moveset is there. And it is just that next level that you see the WWE starting to show you new superstars to kind of be the guys. And it's written on the wall. You know, Jacob Fatu, people were...

having whispers about him for so long.

So when he finally made his WWE debut, you couldn't be happier with the Samoan werewolf. He's in trouble right now because he's getting jumped every single time.

Well, yeah, he needs to. Every single time. Yeah, he's definitely getting jumped every single time by talking about that tomorrow. Talking about, you know. How I'm going to use the interview tomorrow is I'm going to cheat for the No Contest Wrestling Podcast.

Oh, yeah? Yeah, because we're definitely going to be using those clips. How's that podcast been going? It's going really well. Are you enjoying it?

So you've always been a huge fan of WWE. Growing up, what was that like? Like. Did your pops love wrestling? Is that how you got into it?

I mean, yeah, my dad loved wrestling. He kind of got out of it, but it was really my big brother Daryl who introduced me to wrestling through a game on Second Genesis called WWF Raw. That's when he showed me Razor Ramon, Doink the Clown, Bam Bam Bigelow, Taker, Shawn Michaels. And from there, he was like, you know, we could watch these guys. And then I was like, oh, all right, these are real people.

It's not just a game. And he showed me and. Probably about 98-99 is when I started watching like weekly. And then by the 2000s, I'm fully locked in. I'm locked in to Raw back when SmackDown was on UPN.

Like, I'm locked in. And yeah, now it got to the point where I finished filming Dennett Thieves 2. And I had um Swagger season two had just aired, and we were on strike. And that scared me because it was like at any time, two people can have an argument that causes me to lose my income for eight months. And I didn't like that.

So I needed something that I could rely on. And wrestling don't give a damn. Wrestling gonna be here, you know, and no offseason. They didn't even stop during the pandemic.

So it's always gonna be something I can go to. And so I was thinking of ways that I could talk about wrestling, you know, whether that would get on streaming and do it. And then Little did I know that there was a conversation being had with between Rich Eisen and my man TJ Jefferson back there. And when it came time to kind of pick a host for this wrestling show that he wanted to pair with TJ. TJ had me at the top of the list.

So, you know, that's why that's my tactic partner. What's your best interview, do you think? Like, you've probably, how many interviews have you had so far? Interviews. I know our episodes are in the 40s, but we probably.

Do you have a favorite? Like, do you like, do you have one that you're like, or maybe in a couple that you're like, dude, this was amazing. It's everything I want it to be. It was crazy. Yeah.

Yeah. And Nick came in studio, but to be able to sit down and talk to Mick, there were a lot of times, and TJ will tell you too, there's a lot of times where it's just like, It's Mick Foley. I just found myself staring at him, man. Like a monument. You know what's crazy?

Like. Every year he sends my kids Santa cards. Like he loves Santa Claus. He loves Christmas. And so every year he gets these amazing drawing pictures that he writes a whole and the writing is immaculate.

It's gorgeous. Gorgeous. And he'll always text me and be like, hey, can you give me a little bit about what they're into? And he'll write all about it. And so every year, my kids look so much forward to getting these letters for Christmas.

One year he forgot. I think it's, well, it's because I moved. Oh, okay. And I didn't tell him. And he was like, oh my God, I cannot believe it.

And he sent it late, but the kids still loved it. That's the type of person that Mick Foley is. Just a good dude. And, like, I told him, I said, dude, you are the personification of. For the love of the game.

It's like you've done so much that you don't have to do, but because you get it. And he told us about, you know, having tax on the ring and like taking a bump on the tax face first. And he was like, I might lose an eye, but think of the pop and like the man right there. But that's what we live for. That's what we live for in the ring because the pop, it's not just us getting the pop.

It's the audience getting that experience too. Because that person, whoever it was involved in that arena will always remember that moment.

So that's what we're always living for. That's what we're always striving to do. The moment. And he spoke about that. He spoke about, you know, he said he wasn't as athletically gifted as a lot of the other greats, but.

If you talk about him on that car ride home, he got you. That moment, the still in the show moments, and he's got a lot of them. He's got a lot of them that have been tried, people have tried to recreate, but. Nobody does it like Mick.

So, Mick was one of my favorite CM Punk, you know, because it was our first episode. Did he come in a suit? No, no, no. He came in a heat t-shirt, really. Yeah, in a heat t-shirt.

I have a hard time seeing him in a suit. Like, when I, like, I back in the day when I used to see him, it would be like Hall of Fame, and I'd be like, dude, suit! Yeah, all right.

Now I'll see him a couple times. I'd be like, Look at this guy, yeah, CM suit. Yeah, CM suit. Oh, I'm texting him that CM suit, but yeah.

So, um, uh, it's been a blessing so far. We've had a Great ride. We got to go to Fanatics Fest. How was that? It was amazing.

I heard all I've been. I've been to the first one. I heard the second one was even bigger. I got to meet Triple H. Stephanie McMahon gave us hugs.

It was like the best time we got to meet Taker. Got to meet and talk with Nick Khan. TJ doesn't like that Triple H is in my phone under Paul. He feels like that's out of line, but like, this is what it is. Yeah, he's not Paul and mine either.

It's Triple H. It just bugged me. He kept calling Paul. I'm like, you don't know him like that. I guess he feels like he knows him like that.

Chef Paul, bro. He's cooking out here. Who's the one person that you guys would want on the podcast right now? Like, what's your get? Like, what's the one that you're like, this is what I want?

I do a one, two, three, and I know what you're going to say, and we'll hit him with it. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoo. You just gave it away. I just wanted to make sure, bro, we live. One, two, three.

See that little noise right there? When you hear the rocks music, you're waiting for that. Because that's where the pop happens. And I've been waiting on that since WrestleMania 41.

So, like, Rock, he's gonna be kind of around the time of our 50th episode will be when I would assume he's starting promo for the Smashing Machine.

So it'd be a good look. You're really getting in depth with where he's doing this, this, this, and this. This is how we can get him. Yeah, buddy. What would be like a question that you'd want to really ask him?

I have a few questions that, like. Because we're on our first leg of meeting a lot of people for the first time, there are certain questions that I can't. not ask people. I gotta know. About you getting bit by the wrestling bug, you know, what that was.

I gotta know your welcome to wrestling moment where you're like, okay. This is my new life. All right. This is what we chose. Another one of my favorites is obviously our bar fight question where we put superstars in a situation where they got to fight 50 people and they need to pick a team of them and four other superstars to make it to the car, which is always fun.

Wow. People love drafts. People love drafting. And then another one that is kind of close to my heart is when, as a fan, Did wrestling break your heart?

So, I need to ask you, those are great questions. You can check. You guys don't know Contest Wrestling Podcasts. No Contest Wrestling podcast. Let's go.

You guys are getting into what's that? Wendy Wrestling, as a fan. Because you were a fan. When did wrestling break your heart? Break my heart.

Yeah. My example that I always use, obviously, when Austin teamed up with McMahon and beat Rock at 17 or at 7 if you're one of those people. But then. Also, when Hulk Hogan definitely ran the rock over while he was in an ambulance, as a kid, I was crushed. You know, you know, it wasn't as a kid.

Oh, yeah, take it. When wrestling and it wasn't even a broken heart, it was more of a oh. Yeah, but that was beautiful.

Okay. That was incredible. Sean Michaels.

Okay. Ric Flair. Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. I love you.

I'm sorry. I love you. Yeah. And the way he said it, and the way Flair is selling up, there was just beauty and magic in that moment. The audience all knowing what is going to happen.

We knew before even going in. But the way they were able to sell that reaction. is unlike anything I've ever seen. It was amazing. It was beautiful.

And even like now, I'm still getting usebox just talking about it. And I'm a grown man. Like, I'm a grown man. Yeah. But that's the beauty of professional wrestling.

We take you into our arena and we share this audience. And this crew, it's almost like a fraternity or a sorority, and we're all together. And we're all watching the same product and we're getting involved in the same characters. But some people love characters more than others. And you get to choose who you love and who you like.

My daughters right now love Alexa Bliss. Why do you love Alexa Bliss? I like her pink hair. Yeah. They're five and seven.

Yeah. They're five and seven. Sometimes just a cut. Like sometimes I'll watch my daughters watch the show and I bet, who do you like? And they always chose the colorful person.

And I was always like, well, that's why Cena looked like a fruity pebble. You know what I mean? Bright orange shirt. What do you think about the farewell tour? And TJ will tell you, I don't fake the funk.

I'm not a funk faker. I was not a Cena fan. Really? Man, I would, oh. Always wins, but then he loses too, because that's how you get to 17.

But like, man, I've just always felt like he won. My little brother Sharif, full-fledged member of C Nation, and I couldn't stand it. People like winners. Yeah, I couldn't. People love winners.

Oh, man. I get it. You do the Marine movie and you come out salute me every time now. Get out of here. Marine six.

Yeah. Fire. Look at that. See that? We're getting a lot of plugs for the Marine today.

I'll tell you what. I'll take you back all day. All day. Yeah, yeah. Oh, man.

So, what else we got tomorrow? Who else you got as a guest? The middle section is still pending. But third, we're going to finish it off with a. Actor, rapper.

I'm a big fan of him. We're going to be talking about his basketball league. Ice Cube is going to be joining us. I hear he's a good dude. I can't wait to talk to him.

You made a call, didn't you? I mean, my mom picked up and he said, yeah.

So we were dope. Were you close with your dad growing up? Yeah, absolutely. That was like, he's the best coach I could ask for. And in fact, was he a basketball coach?

Yeah, he was my basketball coach, but he's also my life coach. But yeah, and he was the dad who coached that. Once the ball went in the air, My name is 33. Like, my name is, you know, whatever my number is. He won't say my name.

He's just, I look for my number to hear from him. And, uh, It it he's been my coach all out through life. My basketball coach, obviously, when I was a kid. But today just happens to be the 10-year anniversary of Straight Out of Compton, of my first acting gig ever, where he got to see all his coaching come to fruition. You did so good, man.

That movie is unbelievably, it's just so good because I remember. You know, when they came out, and it was just, it was unlike anything that anyone's ever seen. I remember CB4 coming out, basically. Like, like five minutes. You got a cameo in that movie.

Yeah. I mean, I remember all that stuff. I mean, my first, um, my first CD, if everyone remembers CDs, was Ice Cube. Nice. It was, it was having uh, what was it?

Today was a good day. Yeah. Like, that was my first that, and it was Onyx Slam. Oh yeah, bro. Those were my two CDs.

Those are my two first CDs that I ever got. Wow. So, what life lessons did your dad bestow upon you? Like, what does Ice Cube bestow upon you? I think one of the biggest lessons he's ever given me was: there's no good time for bad news.

That's an That's a heavy one because a lot of us will get some information and try to procrastinate to see if there's a good time to tell somebody there is no good time. Just take the band-aid off because that way you can heal the quickest, you know?

So that's a good one. When it came to the business, he always told me to never do a movie that I wouldn't go see. Um don't do anything that Like just having knowledge of Whatever I put on that screen Is going to be there forever. And nobody's going to be like, man, the writers on this did him terrible. Or, like, nobody's thinking about all the other things.

They see you, and you did that, and you got to hold that forever.

So, never do anything that you wouldn't go see. And don't put yourself in those positions. Like, things like know your worth. Know your worth is tricky. Because there was a situation on the first Den of Thieves where, you know, it's my third movie.

Ever. And I was on set a lot of the days for 13, 14 hours, and they wouldn't use me. They just wouldn't have time to get to my character because I'm supposed to be low-key in that movie.

So I don't have a lot of meaty scenes.

So I called him one day and I was like, dad, this is like the third day in a row where I've been here 12, 14 hours and they haven't used me. He was like, go home. Like, what? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. He was like, yeah, tell them that you're flying to LA and call you when they need you.

I said, damn. It don't work like that. I can't do that. That's an ice cube way of thinking. You know, that's an ice cube way of doing things.

I'm still trying to earn my stripes.

So, you know, a lot of that had to be filtered and like shifted into how I can do things. But now I'm a 10-year vet, Miz. You are playing. And you're hosting this show tomorrow. That's right, TJ.

And I didn't have to fake a leg injury to do it. That's right. That's right. Hosting tomorrow. You got the No Wrestling Contest Podcast.

Congratulations on all your success, man. We really love it. And I'm The Miz filling in for Rich Eisen on the Rich Eisen Show, and we will be right back. Mm. What makes a Super Bowl champion in your estimation?

Like, is there a formula, something a fan can think about where a player knows needs to be on a team? What do you think?

Well, I think it starts with a culture first. If you don't have a winning culture, meaning that you. You have from top down from coaches to every player on the roster, everybody is bought into what you're doing in the smallest ways. Um in that And it's not, you're not having to be directed by everybody.

So, if there's an issue, if your locker room can handle it within the locker room. without it ever having to be a coach thing, then you know you've kind of established some type of culture. Secondly, you gotta have the talent. Um but then I think the The two other things that really are kind of out of your control is you gotta stay healthy. and you gotta come up with a little bit of luck.

And so, um... I can remember when we played the Dolphins when I was in New Orleans. We were down, I don't know, 21 points or something like that and ended up coming back. and winning that game. We played in the Redskins and Tight game, we're on the road, we're losing and Uh Jabriz throws.

Uh a pick. And then Robert meets him, strips the guy, and then runs it for a touchdown. I remember that touchdown. And so, like, games like that, where we probably weren't supposed to win, but we did. You know, that kind of prepared you.

You know, when you have the talent, you have the culture, you always give yourself a chance. Then you also have to have those button-pushing moments, too. Both your coaches from you, Super Rowans, made some ridiculous calls on special teams. Ridiculously, Cojone's. Filled calls.

Definitely. What was it like in the locker room when Sean Payton said we're going to go on sidekick to start the second half of that Super Bowl?

So I think it's like, you know, both coaches, I think, understood. Like who we were, right? And so we were playing the cults, and you know. Manny was eating everybody up. We knew going into that game, we needed to steal two possessions.

If we can do that, we can score with them and we win. And so the very first one, two weeks before the Super Bowl, we said, all right, we're gonna put in this kick, practiced it over and over and over and over. And we go in at halftime, he's like, hey. How how do y'all feel about it? And everybody's like, let's do it.

And so we come out. We get it, that was the first possession we stole, and then the second one was Tracy Port. Sure. So you took the temperature of the locker room? Yeah, I mean yeah, he's like, hey, how do you guys feel about it?

Everybody's like running. Right. All right, let's go. Same thing, you know, and when we played the Patriots, we knew they were going to. The Phillies special.

Yeah, we knew they were going to go and they were going to score points. For us on defense, it got to the point where, like, we just need one stop. And then if our offense can keep doing stuff, that feels special, obviously. as one of the gutsiest plays in in Super Bowl history. It paid off.

It's amazing. You were there for both. I mean, you could say. Gutsiest calls in the history of the Super Bowl. We just talked about one, two.

You could even argue which one's one and which one's two. Yeah. In the history of that, you know, when you think about it. Yeah. I mean, I was just, you know.

I was on the field for one, he's on the sideline for the other, just kind of... Watching. But I feel special here on the sideline. Yeah. Right.

And I didn't know what they were going to run. You did not. And no, I didn't. I hadn't even seen them practice it. Really?

Yeah. So I didn't even know where it came from.

So you were like a fan in the stadium, which was like, where the hell did that come from? Right. I mean, it's a copycat league. The Patriots ran that play against us a couple years before we played them, right in the Super Bowl. Tom caught it and then did it again in Super Bowl and obviously Tom didn't catch it that time.

And we're back! I in the Mist taking over the Rich Eisen Show for Rich. Let's take a call, shall we? Nick from Anaheim, what you got for me, Nick? Amen.

Big fan. Thank you. Here to do the Bucs winner loss game. Ooh, a Bucs winner loss game. We've done quite a few of these.

All right, Nick, hold on, let's get the schedule up there and we'll run it down. Jay Felly, let's get a little music. Bucks win-loss. Week one at Atlanta. Yeah.

Week two at Houston, Monday night. Give me another one. Week three, Jets. I know that. Eagles week four.

They always struggle coming and playing with us. We ended Jason Kelsey's career. And we shut down the best kick in the line. Oh Morto. Week five at Seattle.

Win. Week six, San Francisco. I forgot to do this. For my mother. Wink.

6-0, week 7 at Detroit Monday night. I need this man. Give it to me. 7-0 at the Saints. Easy win.

Eight, no into the bye week. Patriots, week ten. I need to Keep it to me, Wayne. At Buffalo, week 11.

Okay. Gee, this is going to be the Super Bowl right here. I think it, because I just picked Josh Allen for my quarterback for fancy pretty tough. But it's gonna be a lot, but we'll get the winning school. All right.

Well, oh, finally, the win streak is over.

Okay. Week 12 at Rams, Sunday night football. I am trying to get to this game. Uh wait. Week 13 Cardinals Yeah.

Week 14, Saints again at home. Falcons short week Thursday night football. The creams to go, it's gonna be so pretty. Uh Wayne. Panthers week s 16.

Uh, Panthers? Oh, win. This is the end of the stretch, so it seems to be one out. Went out.

So you're looking at 16 and 1. That is a good decade. 16 and 1? I what sorry repeat that? 16 and 1.

One seed NFC, and you're going to the Super Bowl. Is that what we're talking about right now? Yeah, and then we'll see Detroit. because they gotta come to us and then we'll beat them. And then Philly has to come again.

All right. And then we'll show them who actual Super Bowl champions are. Nick, what about the Browns, man? No, you gotta beat the Browns to go to the Super Bowl. What about the Browns there?

Great point. Oh the browns uh legendary Browns quarterback, Baker Mayfield will lead us there. Ha ha ha ha ha. That's cute, Nick. That's cute.

That's real cute. Bill's first leg new. You got this, guys. Let's get it. Thanks, Nick.

Bills Bucks Super Bowl 56-1, in case you're curious.

Well I don't know about that. I gotta tell you. Thinking about Bucky Irving for a running back in fantasy football. I love Bucky Irving. I'm debating on it, though.

I got him as one of my keepers. Is this one of your keepers? What round? Seventh. Seventh.

That's a great value. Great value. Who are other keepers? Do you have a lot of keeper leagues? Seventh round.

This is my main keeper league. I got Brian Thomas in the seventh, Bucky Irving in the 11th. Wow. And who's your like top three right now? If you're looking at it.

Depending on the keepers, who's going to be available, you mean? Yeah, sure.

Well, top three, like, who's like, so I imagine most people aren't having keepers, right? Right. So, top three would be Chase, Bajan, CeeDee Lamb. Mm. Okay.

Saquon, probably. Yeah, I mean, Saquon, where do we put Saquon? Do you want to do you are do you usually go like wide receiver, wide receiver, running back, or it's best available, or do you go running backs? I have different strategies for different leagues. Right.

My league, my main league, full PPR.

So wide receivers are a little more valuable. Plus, we start three of them.

So you kind of want to load up. I would take Chase number one if I. I feel like there's a lot more wide receivers, like valuable, like good wide receivers. Than good running backs. True.

But you also want, I mean, if you're going to go running back first, you need a running back. TJ, we talk about this all the time, right? Pass catching. You need to be involved in the offense. I need Bajan.

I need Saquon. I think Chase Brown is probably going to have a huge breakout year. He's going to be heavily involved in the passing game. You got to have guys like that. And then if you want to go touch down heavy, then it's, you know, Derrick Henry.

When are you getting your quarterback? Ugh. Great question. This keeps me up at night, not gonna lie. It keeps everyone up at night.

Because do you go monster stud and then you gotta take them early, right? We're talking about Allen, Lamar, Hertz, Burrow, Jaden Daniels this year. That's probably your top five. You gotta go early, you gotta spend an early pick. Or you wait and you go, you know, love Stroud, Dak, running quarterbacks, maybe Drake May is a sleeper this year.

That's like around 8, 9, 10, something like that. Gives me up a new even rate. Like do you get like a Stafford? Where are you taking Stafford? I mean, he's going to be way down there, I would imagine, correct?

I mean, he has back issues. Yeah, I think he's in the back.

So everyone's going to be sleeping on him, no one's going to be taking him. Do you even look at Aaron Rodgers? Let's say, like, hey, I'm going to wait all the way down. Like, I'm just going to let everyone get a quarterback. And I'm like, well, I mean, you're going to have the 12th quarterback or 13th, 14th, 15th quarterback off the, off the, like, do you, do you like Tua?

No, you don't like Tua when he's healthy. No, he's not. With a Tyreek water. Too big of a dice roll. Yeah, but I mean if you can get a backup Yeah, two of backup.

That's nice. Yeah, that's what I always wait on quarterbacks. I stock up on wide receivers, running backs. I make sure. I used to go.

Kelsey all the time in round one. And I'm thinking about Bowers now. Yeah. Like if I'm late. In a first round, that's might where I might be going and then getting a nice running back on the end.

But I'm debating on like Derrick Henry right now. You know, he's getting up there in age, but I've seen his training. No one has training. He had 1,900 yards at 16 touchdowns last year. Exactly.

But how much of that does Lamar play into it? Lamar's not in a situation like Philly where he's kind of. taking touchdowns away from Saquon Barkley. Saquon Barkley could have had eight more touchdowns last year. Yeah.

But Hertz got him. That doesn't happen in Baltimore. Henry gets the ball on the one yard line. I love fantasy football and I love powerless rankings, and it's coming up. Right now after the break.

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