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All right, everybody, welcome back to Steve Austin Show. I am sitting here in my Austin316 chair at 317 Gimmick street and I'm about to provide some answers to the questions you guys sent in to questionsveaustinshow.com and the first question comes from a guy named Matt in Saskatoon, Canada. If you and he's saying, hey, I was hoping Steve Austin might talk about the time that WWE toured Canada when he wrestled. Did you enjoy doing Raw Smackdown in Canada? Did wrestlers complain about traveling through Canada? Be honest. Or did they enjoy it? Do you have a favorite Canadian city? Best and worst about wrestling in Canada. Thanks and love the show. Hope you can provide a few minutes of commentary on this. Sincerely, Matt and Saskatoon, Canada. Big wrestling fan, Best boy. I'll tell you what, Matt, man, I always enjoyed working in Canada. The people were great, the crowds are great. Canada's a great wrestling territory. Going back to the Calgary Stampede days. I'm not sure about all the different other wrestling promotions that were there, but because of my relationship with the Hart family, specifically Bret Hart, I know a lot about the Calgary wrestling scene. Know so much about the super long trips, road trips that those guys used to go on between the towns, all the snow and weather that traveled through to get to their destination to put on a house show wherever it was. I always dug Canada. Like I said, great wrestling place. The biggest problem was crossing over the border. And Canada is very strict at the border and they should be. And they go through everything. They make sure all the I's are dotted and the T's are crossed. And when the boys start coming through, due to the fact that a lot of times back in the 80s, early 80s, probably 70s, 80s guys were carrying of stuff over there. There's many stories about the Iron Sheik. And you know, he'd always have some weed or something like that with him and he'd put, he'd put that in someone else's bag. But the, the precedent had already been set that a lot of times when the guys came through, they were going to be carrying some stuff. Whether it was this, that or whatever. You can probably guess what it might have been. But that was one of the biggest pains in the asses about going to Canada because you knew you can get pulled over, you're going to sit in a room for an hour, two or three, they were going to go through all your stuff and shake everything out. And so 99 times out of 100, nobody had shit. But every here and there someone would have something. And that's why they always kept checking the boys when they came into the country. So great on customs part, they did a very thorough job. But when you're one of the guys who's passing through there and you ain't got nothing in your bag and you get pulled over, that's a pain in the ass because you're always on a schedule trying to hit the gym, you try and hit a tanning bed, you try and go get something to eat, you may check into your hotel room. It might be one of those deals where you're going straight to the building and then you got a long road trip after that. But that was always a pain in the ass when you had to go and cross through customs on the way there. Coming back in the States, Hella wasn't nothing but a thing as far as traveling in Canada. You know, I used to listen to a lot of the Calgary Stampede days. Some of the guys that, you know that were part of the Attitude era, Chris Jericho, a lot of those guys that were in my period of participation in WWE came from Stampede days and had traveled in that territory. Brian Pillman managed to hear all the stories. All the ribs, all the guys loaded up in vans trying to save some money. Everybody shipping on gas, nobody was making a whole bunch of money. And all the ribs that were played on the road. So there's a lot of history there in Canada. And Canada is just a great country for restaurants because the fans are very enthusiastic. I always talk about the Calgary Stampede, that pay per view we had that one year. I can't remember I talked about it on a podcast before. Man, those people are hardcore fans, so that makes it fun. And as I'm looking at this map, you know, I'm looking at some of the classic cities that we used to go to. And this was a period of time when I was traveling with Bart Gunn and Billy Gunn, and we were staying at some of these shitbox econo lodges and red roof ends and stuff like that. And there would be three of us in a room. And towns like Moose Jaw, God dang Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Red Deer. Those are kind of some of the B towns. Kamloops, I think. Kalana, you know, the big cities like Vancouver. Vancouver was always cool. I mean, that's one of my favorite cities across the border because it's right across the United States border, just north of Seattle. The weather for Canada, in my opinion, is fairly mild compared to the rest of the country. You start to get into Calgary, it starts getting really, really cold. Vancouver's absolutely beautiful. The thing about wrestling in Vancouver was every time we got in the damn ring, you'd be in there in the main event, you'd be in there working your ass off. And damn near every single time, a lot like Salt Lake City, man, there'd be a fight in the crowd. Every time a fight in the crowd breaks out, the attention goes to the fight in the crowd. And as two guys who are in the ring trying to put on a show that doesn' work so well because you want the attention on you and you also want to watch the fight. So anyway, that was one of the. I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It was a funny thing about Vancouver because it's really a pretty mild city. Calgary, the Saddle Dome, that's an awesome place to wrestle. A lot of atmosphere. All the history there with the hearts and all of that. Edmonton was another good town. I had a great match with Chris Benoit in Edmonton one night, and I believe it was on the smackdown show. And we had worked a night on Raw and they only gave us a certain amount of minutes, and I wasn't very happy with that match because we didn't have enough time to tell the proper story. And I'll never forget, when we rolled into Edmonton that night, it was a smackdown. And we were going to work Together again. And I told Chris before we went out there, I said, dude, I said, I don't care how much time they give us, we're going to go when it's time to go home. And you know, it's all on me, I'll take the heat. So if they give us a go home cue, disregard it. And we really ripped it up that night. And there's another question coming up with regards to that match, which I'll get into in a little bit, but, you know, then you get over there to Regina, you know, with. I said Moose Jaw already. Winnipeg. I think we're starting to get close to where Chris Jericho's from. Right over in that area. That was a great little town hotbed. People are crazy over there. They really love their wrestling. And then of course you got Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City. Here's where some of the problems start to come in. Because when you start getting into the, I guess the French speaking provinces, maybe they all speak French all over the country, but specifically, man, it's Ottawa, Montreal City and Quebec City. And all of a sudden if you're on a road and you pull over to a gas station and back in the day we used to always chew Skoal or Copenhagen or whatever or we'd need to gas up or we' that's just the way it was. We didn't have iPhones to give us directions. You didn't punch in an address into something and it started talking to you. We had those regular full size road atlases that were about 2ft long and about 2ft wide when you opened it. And you learned how to read a map pretty damn good or your ass was lost. And getting lost doesn't pay the bills. So you always found a way to read a map every now and then. Like I said, when we pulled over, ask some directions and the dude behind the counter would just look at you with this deadpan look and start speaking straight up French to you. And I'm thinking, come on man, 80% of this country, this is my guesstimate, 80% of the country speaks fluent English. And I know that the Rest of the 20 speak some English and they probably speak a lot of French, but I know without a shadow of a doubt that they speak English and it almost was like they were a rib on you. And so when you start getting into those French speaking areas, they're great wrestling fans. And of course the Rougeaus were huge in these areas and Canada as well. But that French would really throw you for a loop. But it was a Good time being over there. And it was kind of like the wild, wild west. And you could see a lot of territory over there because there was a lot to drive. But I enjoyed my time over there. Coming and going across the border was a pain in the ass. Getting the directions in French was not fun. The crowds are always great. And best and worst about wrestling in Canada, I'd say the worst thing was about how cold it could be in some of the cities where it got really cold. And I would always wear shorts wherever we went because we spent most of our day in an airplane, a hotel room, a gym, a building. We were always indoors. And all the boys would rib me and said, man, why don't you put on some frigging long pants? And I had on a jacket, I had on a heavy coat, I had a cap, I had everything. I was warm. And people always think, oh, you're going to get the flu because your legs are showing. You don't get the flu because you get cold. You get the flu because, you know, you get some kind of virus or whatever causes the flu, the influenza virus. It ain't because your legs are exposed. So anyway, my legs would be all ashy and white and I look like shit, and all the boys would rib me about that. So the cold part of Canada was the tough part. You know, when you stop in the middle of the night to gas up, then you could freeze your ass off a little bit. The best part, the crowds. Because, man, when you showed up, I mean, Canada is very. They love their fellow Canadians. And when we did Calgary Stamped there, and I was technically. And everybody on my side was technically a baby facing United States. And we went over there and we were working against guys that were heels in the United States and we swapped roles and that was an absolute blast. So I think the best part about wrestling in Canada is how avid of wrestling fans they are. They absolutely love the business, they love the product. They're into the storylines and they're very, very engaged and very involved. So anytime you get a hot crowd, you know, you want to go out there and give them a good show. I will say, one of the towns we used to wrestle in all the time, Hamilton was always that was. I'll put this in the worst, Hamilton is a great town. But it always seemed like someone got hurt every single time we worked Hamilton, I don't know, it was like one of those Bermuda Triangle type things. One time we had a six, man. It was myself, Triple H and somebody else against three other guys. And, you know, the House wasn't very good, the territory was down. And we kind of just told each other, all right, man, we got a big show coming up. Everybody just kind of go out there and take it easy. Let's give these guys a good show and let's get out of dodge. Sure enough, Triple H was hitting the ropes doing nothing. He was just hitting the ropes. Bam, blows out a knee, does something to his knee, but he gets hurt nonetheless. And it was like a lot of the injuries that happen in the business, and this isn't specific to Hamilton, it just always seemed like something went awry over there. But sometimes you get in those matches and people always think, oh, man, wrestling's rigged, wrestling's fake, this ad, whatever, that the mat is like a trampoline. Oh, man, the mat ain't like a trampoline. Hitting the ropes, just hitting the ropes. Just doing a crisscross high spot for argument's sake. Dude, if you trip, if anything goes wrong, if a rope snaps, much less, you know, you get involved in a high spot where something goes wrong and you have two guys or two gals running full speed and you collide and something goes wrong or there's a botch or, you know, you land. You don't land flat anytime could be your last time inside a ring, and that's a total shoot. So. But anyway, that was just a side note about Hamilton. Always seemed like someone got hurt there, but that's about all I got to say about Canada, man. Great fans over there, of course, the legendary Hart family, the Rougeau family. There's been some famous wrestling families come out of Canada and at Calgary Stampede Wrestling. Here's one. This is from Paul from South End Unsee. He says, my question is, in your prime, do you think you could have been a success in the MMA ufc? And he has a follow up question which I'll get to in a minute. Man, I tell you what, I'm a huge fan mma, ufc. I've been asked this question before, but to give you a straight up answer, I think I would have had a good chin for it. I don't know if I'd have had a good anything else for it. The only time I ever got knocked out in my life and I've been in a couple of car wrecks. Never got knocked out when I got dropped on my head. I never got knocked out when I was wrestling the Undertaker in Madison Square Garden at Highway to Hell, when he bent over to give me a backdrop and I kicked him and he straightened up and the back of his Head caught me flush under the chin, right in that zone, and it flashed me. I went down. And that's when I was looking up at the Madison Square Garden ceiling, and Earl Hebner looked down at me and had that little smile on her face. And he says, God dang it, boy, you okay? And I said, where am I? He goes, that dang, boy, you in the garden. And so I got knocked out there. So I think that was a hell of a damn shot. So I think I would have had a pretty good chin for the MMA ufc, but. But, man, I've never taken any karate classes, no jujitsu classes. I never had one single wrestling shoot wrestling lesson in my life. All I've known is college football, baseball, discus throwing. I didn't do any boxing. I've trained in boxing for a few months at a time. Wasn't extremely proficient at it. Always kept my hands down. Well, my right arm doesn't straighten out all the way, so that kind of cuts the range out in my right arm. But going back to my prime, I don't know if I'd have been worth a shit or not at mma ufc. All I can say is that I'm a good fan. I love the business. Just got finished texting Daniel Cormier. I know he's getting ready for a fight with Stipe Miocic coming up here on July 7th, and that's a fight that I'm really looking forward to. It's a sport that I really enjoy. It's a sport that's been interesting to watch evolve from the guys that were just pure strikers to the guys that were just pure wrestlers. And now, all these years later, to see what it's morphed into, where, you know, wrestling is still kind of, you know, the bread and butter of it all. But the jiu jitsu with the striking and the wrestling, that's all combined to become the hybrid art form that it is or sport that it is. You know, I used to love boxing. All of the great characters kind of disappeared from boxing, and now, you know, UFC is kind of, like, so exciting, and anything can happen at any time with the kicking, the strikes, the chokes, just the art form that it is and how deceptive some of these guys can be and the skills that they bring, it's at a whole different level. So, nah, I wouldn't have been successful at it, but I'm a huge fan and continue to watch it and watch damn near every single pay per view they do and all the stuff on Fox Sports 1. But as a Follow up question. He says, hey, is there anyone from your prime time, not obvious, like a Kurt Angle, who you think could have cut it in the octagon? Well, and this is from Paul McKeon. Yeah. Obviously, Brock Lesnar has done what he's done, and I guess there's word or maybe rumor or maybe something that he might go have another fight in the ufc. I don't know. I know he just kind of. I thought he re signed with wwe. But Brock obviously has done what he did. Kurt Angle, it would have been interesting to see what Kurt could have done because he won the gold medal in the Olympics in 1996 with a broken neck. And obviously that means his wrestling skills are, you know, premier. But as a striker, how would he have fared as a chin? What kind of chin does he have as far as trying to, you know, take some blows that these guys are dishing out? I'll never forget when Kurt Angle broke into the business. I guess it was back in the late 90s, or was it 2000? Nonetheless, you just see this blue chip athlete, and the guy was an absolute blur. Very aggressive, highly technical. You know, he caught on to the business of pro wrestling faster than anybody I've ever seen. So had he applied himself to MMA and striking and jiu jitsu and everything that went with it, he was so high level of a wrestler, I don't know why he could not have been high level at the striking and every other aspect of mma. But obviously that's my speculation as far as other guys. I mean, you had Ken Shamrock, but he was already in. He was training for pro wrestling, got into mma, then came back out of pro wrestling. And there's a guy who, like I said many times before in the podcast, a guy who came out of a shoot business after being in a work business and come back to a shoot world as the legit toughest guy in the world, the baddest human being walking planet Earth. And it was Ken Shamrock. And I caught some words or lines from an interview he just did. And he initially had reservations about being the special guest referee when Brett and myself were going to have the submission match, because coming from that shoot world of mma, he didn't want to be part of something that wasn't going to be able to hold up or, you know, wasn't going to pass the test or make the grade. And obviously, you know, we went out there and rocked the house and tore the joint down and executed a double turn. And Brett got his shit in, I got my shit in. I left As a baby, Brett left as a heel and you know, Ken was a big part of that match. It's like I said when I was doing a podcast with Edge and Christian and Bret Hart talking about that match, you know, I thought Ken brought a lot of star power to the match, legit. He brought presence, just good looking dude jacked up. If there's anybody that could enforce the rules between two guys who are at a major angle that was built and ready to go, it was Ken Shamrock. He brought a lot of star power to the match and from a different world, bringing those outside eyeballs. So obviously Ken did what he did in the world of mma. When I think about the rest of the guys, there's been some, there's been a lot of tough ass guys in the business of pro wrestling, but when you're in the gym or you're in the dojo or whatever they call it and you're training like those MMA guys do day in, day out, going through the grind, I mean, whether it's working on their grappling, their striking, their jiu jitsu, but that's what you train to do. And you are a professional fighter, that's a whole different level, that's a whole different stratosphere. And when you're trained to entertain people like you are in the world of professional wrestling, you know, some of the best athletes I've ever seen in my life came from, you know, that were in the business of pro wrestling and came from the world of football. But football ain't fighting. And if you put a UFC guy in a football uniform, you know, that doesn't really transfer. His skills in the octagon don't transfer to the gridiron. So, you know, most of the guys skills in the world of pro wrestling wouldn't transfer into what would go on in an octagon, although many have said, and I've never seen him in action. But Haku Meng was an absolute destroyer in his prime. Big ass hands, just tougher than all get out. And everybody will vouch to that. But you know how he would have fared into a heavyweight match with someone, one of the premier people in the octagon, I don't know. But out on the streets, everybody in the locker room respected him. And if you didn't know anything about him and you were about to start some shit with him in a bar, you were about to have your ass handed to you. And that's the bottom line. So anyway, I segued into a little bit of street fighting there, but no, man, I probably wouldn't have been worth a shit at it, but I'm a huge fan and I'm looking forward to CM Punk's fight coming up here pretty quick. I'm looking forward to stipe Miocic and DC Daniel Cormier getting it on July 7th. Hopefully I get a chance to talk to DC before that fight. And that will be a fight where it'll be interesting because Daniel's coming up from light heavy to go back to being a heavyweight. And then there's Stipe, you know, probably going to go down maybe as the greatest heavyweight fighter in the history of the ufc. So we'll find out. But that is going to be an interesting match and will be one that I will be paying my 60 bucks to watch. Here's another question comes from Baz over there in Walsall, United Kingdom. Get a lot of people from the UK that listen to the show and I appreciate it very much. Got a long question here. Why do you think there isn't a lot of focus on Bruiser Brody by the wwe? Do you think we'll ever have a documentary on the network based on his life? Or anything similar to the Andre documentary would be great for the younger fans who might not know what influences guys like Bruiser had on guys like yourself who influenced the current guys and us fans. Cheers, mate. Love the show. Hey, Bob, I appreciate the question. Let's get to this. I'm sure Bruiser Brody probably stepped foot in a WWF ring or WWF ring back in the day as an independent coming through, I'm guessing. But he never spent an appreciable amount of time in that territory. If he crossed through it, from everything that I've understood about Bruiser Brody, he was an independent. He worked Japan, he crossed through the promotions, the different territories, and worked the bookings that he picked up. He was a smart guy with his money. He was a shrewd businessman. You know, he lost his life in Puerto Rico where he was stabbed in the shower. I don't know if they were talking about finish of the match, if they were talking about payoffs or angles or whatever went down, but I don't think he spent a whole lot of time in the wwf. And I don't know that WWE would be able to monetize making a documentary on Bruiser Brody because the business has moved on so far from that now. A lot of people don't know who Bruiser Brody is. To your point, I think it would be great for somebody to do a documentary about Bruiser Brody because to me, he Was one of the most influential guys in the history of the business. As far as the brawlers go. I don't know that there's ever been a better brawler than Bruiser Brody. And he could basically not just brawl, he could do it all. If you watch some of his matches that he had with Nature Boy Ric Flair, they would actually lock up headlock takeovers and wrestle. Bruiser could wrestle his ass off. He preferred to brawl. And he was a tough son of a bitch by anybody's account. So he was a smart guy. He could be a very intimidating guy from what I've heard about him. I never got a chance to meet the guy. I'd love to see a documentary made on him. I don't know that it's incumbent upon WWE to make a documentary on him, but it'd be neat for someone to make a documentary on him. He didn't have the worldwide or global appeal or notoriety that Andre the Giant had. And so maybe that's why you won't see a documentary on him. But from some wrestling, smaller type budget wrestling. Suddenly I like those. What's that? Guy sends me DVDs all times. Elbow. Broken Elbow, whatever productions. Someone should do a documentary on Bruiser Brody. I'll stop rambling because I'm getting out of my wheelhouse there. But he was very influential and shit for myself, for Cactus Jack, for anybody that brawls. Keith in Indiana says, hey, Steve, I was just wondering, did you ever catch that skunk? Man, I tell you, last time I told a story about that skunk over there in Nevada at the broken skull ranch 2.0, man, my yard guy had a blower stuck in one side of a culvert. I was 20ft away with my.22 in my hand waiting for that skunk to come out. And he never came out. So we ain't caught the skunk yet. Put the 22 away. I have the Havahart trap ready. Next time I go back down to Nevada, I'm gonna try to catch that bastard. Because the last thing I need that some bitch to do is to squirt Callie or Moolah and have them smelling like shit when that damn skunk let up Hershey a couple of years ago down there in South Texas, she stunk like hell. We knocked the initial smell off of her, but it took a couple of months for her to smell back to normal and it scalded her eyes. So them skunks. Hey, man, I ain't got nothing against the skunk. They're just being skunks. But when they come up to, you know, do business or all of a sudden they're face to face with your pet and they turn around and squirt their ass in and light their ass up, I can't have it. So the skunk's got to go. All right, here's a question from Sammy. Hey man, I've been a die hard fan since I was a kid and I'm currently 23. My question is, how do wrestlers work out effectively when they're on the road traveling all the time? I'm a traveling salesman and I stay in Hampton Inns, Holiday Inns and Hilton Garden Inns 300 days a year. These hotel gyms more often than not have nothing but treadmills and dumbbells up to £50. There are so many important workouts I cannot do without bars or machines. How do the wrestlers do it and look like bodybuilders? Sammy, Sammy, come on, man. 50 pound dumbbells are 50 pound dumbbells. Your cardio is your cardio, man, if you just make up a circuit when you're in those garden ends and those Hampton Inns Hollands. Dude, I've stayed at a million of those places where all they got is 50 pound dumbbells. So I know exactly what you're talking about. And I think that they don't want to go any heavier than that because they don't want a liability. They're not going to have those hundred pound dumbbells in there for someone to go in there and get hurt. Ain't nobody going to get hurt. But I just think that's what they do over there. It can be frustrating, but dude, if you just put your mind to it, if you make up a circuit routine and throw in some abs or some squat thrust or some burpees in between doing 50 pound dumbbell presses, jump down and just string a bunch of exercise together. And then in between that, go one minute hard on a treadmill or one of those bicycles and get back on your weights. There's so many ways that you can mess with those. Make yourself up a little cycle while you're there of just a cycle of exercises and train your whole body. Yeah, we spent all those days a year on the road. And the thing about it is, when you get into a new territory, you start hanging out with the guys and you learn where every gym in the United States is. Well, all the good gyms and they're all the same. So each town you fly into, you're going to the same gym. Sometimes you don't Have a chance to get your workout in the gym. But more often than not, that's what we did. And for sometimes I've trained it a million of those damn hotels you speak of. Just go in there and get something done. If you go in there and put in 45 to 60 minutes and get your swell on, you maintain your consistency, you burn off all them shit calories you're eating from eating most of the trash that's on the road. But again, if you want to talk about dietary stuff, you go to any ihop, Denny's, Cracker Barrel, Waffle House. If you get grilled chicken, egg whites, steamed hash browns from Waffle House, you can eat clean in any restaurant you go to. If you only see a string of McDonald's, Burger King's and Wendy's, you just go through the drive through window and get either chicken or hamburgers and throw the bread away and just eat the meat. You don't need to go keto, but you don't need all that white starchy stuff in that bread. So it's easy, very easy to eat on the road. It's easier to make excuses to eat garbage on the road because one, you want comfort food. Two, because it's easy to say it's hard to eat clean on the road so you just eat shit. But it's really easy to eat clean on the road. And after all the times I travel with Billy Gunn, Bob Holly and those two guys were absolute gym fanatics. And whenever it came to eating at a restaurant, I'd be over eating junk or hamburgers or Burt's chili or whatever, and those guys would be eating egg whites and chicken breasts. And that's why they always look like a million bucks, because they always put the time in in the gym. And neither one of them drank as much as I did. Well, I don't even think Bob even drank. Billy would have some cocktails with me. But we were so active in the ring doing cardio when we was at the gym making the rounds. But that 15 to 25 minutes every single night in that squared circle would burn so many calories and you get your heart rate up so high, man, you could almost eat like shit and damn near be a body guy depending on your genetics, he says. One more question, he says. Steve, even after you adopted the brawler style following the Owen Hart Tombstone Pile Driver, I still feel we could have gotten more from the Dude Love versus Stone Cold feud. What are your memories with Mick from that part of your 98 run as World champion? Well, man, it's hard for me to remember everything that happened in 1998 just because it's been so damn long ago, and that's 20 years ago. I just remember working with Dude Love. I remember working with Mick Foley, whatever you want to call him, whatever Mankind. And Mick was absolutely phenomenal. And we met way back in our early days when he was in the business before I was. And we met, I guess, in Dallas, Texas. And then, of course, we crossed paths in wcw and then we turned into traveling partners and we rode the roads together. But as far as the feud and his totality goes, I can't remember. I remember that one match we had and there was a bunch of cars involved, and we were bouncing off those and used those as a lot of props. But Mick Foley is one of my favorite guys to work with. There was a guy who would do absolutely anything in the world, and Mick was always hungry to have the best match on the card. I don't know, a night that Mick Foley took off, he always wanted to have a damn good match. He wasn't selfish. He wanted both guys to get over. He wanted to finish, to make sense. Mick was a very smart businessman. He knew how to take care of himself. And he had a big enough heart and he gave a shit enough that he wanted the other guy to come out whole just as well. You know, that's whether, you know Mick Foley's going over or under. He was a businessman and he knew the business. He was a very smart guy and had a very good demeanor about going into a match. And, you know, some of those matches he had with myself, the Rock Undertaker, I mean, the dude had classics with everybody he worked with. So he's one of my favorites as far as the feud in and of itself. How long it lasted, I don't remember. But I remember working with Mick plenty of times and always loved working with him because every time you work with Mick, he's going to bring plenty of ideas, plenty of creativity. He's going to want to get our shit in and entertain those fans to the utmost ability that we both had. And so nothing but respect to Mick Foley, the hardcore legend. WWE hall of Famer.