What is the vibe right now going into this game as Texas will play Tennessee tomorrow?

You know, the vibe is there's confidence, there's a lot of anticipation for great effort.

Because there were years past where Texas had teams that even though they had talent, They didn't put out the effort.

You know, it was the championship teams did, you know, 0-5, like 0-4, 5-6, you know, and they had some sprinkled in there in the team.

But, like, sometimes it gives lack of days before, and you don't see that with this team.

For you.

For me and my career.

It was it was it was energy like I always had the talent, but I always was kind of like I didn't feel like I had the opportunity to be a main event guy and hold the title.

What is the vibe right now going into this game as Texas will play Tennessee tomorrow?

You know, the vibe is there's confidence, there's a lot of anticipation for great effort.

Because there were years past where Texas had teams that even though they had talent, They didn't put out the effort.

You know, it was the championship teams did, you know, 0-5, like 0-4, 5-6, you know, and they had some sprinkled in there in the teams.

But, like, sometimes it gives lack of days before, and you don't see that with this team.

For you.

For me and my career, it was energy.

I always had the talent, but I always was kind of like, I didn't feel like I had the opportunity to be a main event guy and hold the title.

It depends which way you vote is really defining how you feel about this.

And it's curious.

I mean, uh, on a lot of issues in Alberta today, uh, there is a huge political divide.

Partisanship tends to color how people feel about different issues, but it tends to be more evenly split, where you'll see NDP supporters w- heavily, uh, on one side of the issue and UCP voters heavily on the other side of the issue.

This one's a little bit different in the sense that NDP voters are strongly in favor of banning-

I- in terms of what, you know, w- when you combine that sort of large chunk of undecided, not really sure, and you divide it among rural and urban lines, and then again along political lines, do you think it's more about that and the typical divisions than it is about the issue? When you've got that large number, what does that tell you when you're doing a poll and a lot of people saying, "You know what? I, I don't really know"?

E- e- exactly.

I mean, there certainly is a segment of Albertans, uh, where this issue is very salient to them.

This is far different, Mark, when you say Hell in a Cell.

Hell in a Cell is unforgiving.

I've been in a couple of Hell in a Cell matches.

I've won one and I've lost one.

I was not the same afterwards.

It took me a month to recover from it.

So you got these big guys, they're running into a fixed steel wall, and- It, either, e- there's no advantage for either guy.

What advice does a Hall of Famer have for the young guy?

Mm.

This has been true all through history.

When the nuclear family is destroyed, and that's what all of the, uh, the sexually perverted ideas are.

They're, "Oh, we can have sex outside of marriage.

We can have sex with men.

We..." Uh, uh, with, you know, all of the perverted conclusions that the world comes to, and it's directly destroying the intention of God.

And, and if we have strong nuclear families, we can have a strong nation.

Do you wanna touch on either one of those, or both if we have time?

Are we misconstruing that with something else?

No, I'm listening to what Cody's saying.

Last night on SmackDown, Cody, he basically said he looked down on the indies.

I mean, it's been weeks of him saying things.

You go back to three months ago when he told Nick Aldis, I'm QB1, you work for me.

That's heelish.

Cody has done that for the last three months.

So what did you think of the Brock Lesnar leaving the gloves in the ring and then sneak attacking Oba a couple weeks later?

... and I was supposed to wrestle Sin Cara and

andThey said, "Hold on a second, like, he's, he's got a knee brace issue." And I, I'm looking at Scott, and I'm Madison Carr now.

I'm like, "You mean to tell me that he back there all this time and he can't get his knee brace together?" And I'm mad.

And then they play his music, and he doesn't come down.

I said, "Man, what's going on?" And then they play Rey Mysterio music.

All right, guys, this ain't funny no more.

Then they play Vader.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, I'll let you kind of run with that however you want to, but just kind of from the beginning and, and formation, formational years.

Sure.

Yeah.

Well, I grew up here in Little Rock.

I grew up in a really, a good home with great, uh, parents, but grew up really far from the Lord.

Um, and was raised in the public schools here in Little Rock.

Uh, and really thrust myself into athletics when I was around junior high and started playing football.

Hmm

All right, so Mark, what's something from old school that you would love to see implemented in new school pro wrestling?

So as a kid, just like you guys, we're wrestling fans, and I used to love waking up on Saturday morning and going and watch the recap show.

And there's not a Saturday recap show, uh, I mean, you have Busted Open now, so you can, you know, tune in to Busted Open and get a recap of what happened on Saturday, uh, by radio.

But on network television or any form of TV, structured TV show, you remember when they would have, like, Tony Schiavone and, um, what's the guy that used to do the Saturday morning wrap-up with Tony Schiavone? And they, they basically would go down the list, "Well, this happened last, this, this week," and they would talk about it, and then they would show a clip from the match.

And then they would come back from that, and they would go, "Yes, that's gonna carry over, I guarantee you, this week." So, and, and they, and you, it would re-get you acclimated to what happened.

Yeah.

That's, that needs to be a thing worldwide because that's how the leaks happen.

They don't care.

What are you going to teach them?

So we're going to break them up into groups of 25.

And they'll get a good talking to, all positive stuff.

Because strength is not just physical.

is, is, is emotional and, and is mental.

And you have to be able to endure and problem solve.

And I want kids to be, to think about that stuff before you make a decision.

Oh

He tell you what happened? Which time?

That time, Vince ribbed me in the ring.

Like, I went out.

I was supposed to wrestle Sankara.

And...

They said, hold on a second.

Like, he's got a knee brace issue.

Vader time.

No

way.

Funny.

You know the other thing that you did to me one time? What? Maybe drink pickle juice and Jack.

Ew.

I do kind of,

Do you eat cucumbers?

I will eat cucumbers.

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Scott, and I'm Madison Carr now, I'm like, "You mean to tell me that he back there all this time and he can't get his knee brace together?" And I'm mad.

And then they play his music, and he doesn't come down.

I said, "Man, what's going on?" And then they play Rey Mysterio music.

All right, guys.

This ain't funny no more.

Then they play Vader, "It's time.

Oh, yeah.

Dang,

12 that have been world champion or tag champion.

I remember I saw Apollo Crews and Rich Swann in Japan.

And we were over there in Japan, you know, wrestling at... you know Kobo Hall and you know the big time and then I'm watching TV and I see wrestling on TV they got strong wrestling in Japan and I see these two dudes and they man they just entertain the hell out of them and I remember getting back the next show in America was in Columbus Ohio and I went in Vince's office and I said hey man I saw these two dudes tag team in Japan it was incredible man I was like, they need to work here.

And he said...

Well, bring him here.

And I said, what you mean, bring him here? And he said, just bring him here, and let's take a look at him.

Oh, my

Ricky Steamboat came and said some words to you, and how did that help you?

It helped me tremendously.

In wrestling, we always say you gotta learn to eat [censored] and like it.

You gotta get broke down a lot before they build you up.

And I have been beat down so much that I was at the brink of, like, man, I'm, I'm done with wrestling.

Like, I'll always be a fan, but I'm finna go back and try to play football again.

[laughs] And it just so happened in a perfect world, Hugh Morrus, at the time, was at WCW, and he was running the same thing as I was running.

What was your favorite part about that run?

What's your day-to-day like?

I wake up at 5 o'clock every morning and get prepared, finish my prep for my sports show.

I do five days a week, Monday through Friday.

I have a show on iHeartRadio.

We're the number one sports show in Austin, Texas.

We have the contract with the University of Texas.

We cover all UT sports.

But

What's your day to day like?

I wake up at 5 o'clock every morning and get prepared, finish my prep for my sports show.

I do five days a week, Monday through Friday.

I have a show on iHeartRadio.

We're the number one sports show in Austin, Texas.

We have the contract with the University of Texas.

We cover all UT sports.

But