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know these guys kill it Kelly to

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the Don't

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play this in my So

4:20

next is from a pretty club James Hightower

4:23

subjects here comes the man again According to she's because it

4:25

has to be true Becky Lynch's next move in the rest

4:27

of world is due to be made a lot More clear

4:29

pretty soon be shocked if she doesn't return to WV

4:32

But if she did go to a W wouldn't blame her because that's

4:34

a lot of cash for very little work What do I want to

4:36

know is what actually matter what Lynch

4:38

does next? She does go back to WWE. What are

4:40

the big matches for her that you get you interested?

4:42

She's wrestled everyone about three times each on a W

4:44

don't think Tony Khan fully remembers that they have a

4:47

woman's division There's nothing for her there and her joining

4:49

wouldn't change things up for them at all Okay

4:51

100 it might just be to hate her

4:53

his Becky Lynch's time off expose that just like

4:55

MJF She's really not that important to the wrestling

4:57

business. I Think

5:00

they do miss her like when she's on the

5:02

show. It's much better for the women because she cuts good

5:04

promos and Right,

5:07

I mean MJF is absolutely Brother

5:09

they do worse numbers when he's when he's off the

5:12

show, you know, so he does

5:14

mean something's no I would disagree with that,

5:16

but I'm not gonna suspend you Next

5:18

is some white growth line and the subject is KO a

5:20

e Wwtf not only people

5:22

talking about Miro asking for his a W contract

5:25

release again If long-running I see W talks is

5:27

to be believed but now it feels like an

5:29

annual tradition Kevin Owens W Wdb contract is running

5:31

out and there's talk from going to a W

5:33

usually I just think no chance He's making a

5:36

lot of money W and they use use them

5:38

great But over the past 12 months Tony Khan

5:40

has turned to the goat money mark of wrestling

5:43

history He keeps paying people more and more to draw less

5:45

and less You might think I'm nuts, but it's not actually

5:47

out of the question the cave could be making like eight

5:49

billion dollars per year at a W Conan disco Joe, what

5:51

do you think of the realistic chances of KO joining a

5:53

W? We're always gonna be used really

5:56

badly, but money is what matters worse. Pull

5:58

your mic down Conan. Should I suspend?

6:00

the guy because your mic doesn't need to be pulled out

6:02

right now, Tony. He's making a slide at you, having your

6:04

mic up and you're muted by the way. Should

6:07

we suspend him? Tony, pull your mic down? Yeah,

6:10

because we haven't suspended anybody. So

6:12

yeah, when girl find one week Joe, tell

6:15

Mike to put his mic down. I

6:18

don't know. I mean, Tony, obviously, Tony, obviously,

6:20

he's just overpaid everybody. Yeah. And it says

6:23

here, this is from the New York post,

6:25

stating a Fightful Select report that AEW is

6:27

waiting to make Owens a very aggressive offer

6:29

if his contract does indeed run out. But

6:32

the last time we talked about this a

6:34

few years ago, everyone was assuming

6:36

Owens and Zane were going to jump together. And then

6:38

at the filing WrestleMania, they put Owens in a main

6:40

event with Stone Cold Steve Austin. So I just don't

6:42

think, I think Kevin's like, I think that's

6:44

family for him now. I don't think he's a guy that'll

6:47

jump, but money talks. So we'll see.

6:50

I mean, they'll be up. The WWE will

6:53

be just fine without him. So Texas

6:55

Robinson Evans and the subject is Teddy

6:57

Hart Killikonnen Teddy Hart Zilla Conan greetings

7:00

came 100 hope all through you doing well. So if

7:02

it's this Konya work with Teddy Hart, if he and

7:04

you guys can see the similarities and Zilla fat to

7:06

and Teddy Hart, the bloodline storyline is going

7:08

on for four years. Of course, it's intriguing thing is

7:10

Zilla with limited training allegedly wants to be part of

7:12

it when the members of his family and putting their

7:14

dues in work. It's of course probably has a knowledge

7:16

base. He was just because his bloodline that he's ready

7:18

for the pros instead of letting himself get the proper

7:21

training. He'd have followed out with Booker T a

7:23

year ago, but then sometime this year in

7:25

2024 reconciled. He mentioned interview that he wants to

7:27

go to WWE and said that a W's around

7:29

because of his possible impatience of getting to the

7:31

mainstream. His recent release with GCW

7:33

because he allegedly no shows. Do you see

7:36

a Tim a Teddy Hart similarity regarding his

7:38

attitude and will his impatience and burn bridges

7:41

crushes chance to be with his family in WWE.

7:43

If this email is too long, sorry, but

7:45

thank you for reading it. That's Robinson Evans.

7:47

My question is here is who I have

7:50

no idea who Zilla is. Do

7:52

is Zilla. He I only call him. I

7:54

probably knows more. He did train at reality of wrestling with

7:57

Booker T and I did see this story about him. No,

7:59

no showing GCW. I just read

8:01

the community game by the way, too. I'm sorry. I didn't

8:03

know gonna stop. Go ahead Well, he

8:05

he did miss the GCW show over the weekend

8:07

But the report I just read said it wasn't

8:09

a no-show was a disagreement about money His

8:12

management team once again the contact with GCW to

8:14

negotiate the rate and that never happened So but

8:16

he according to all this he's not dirty we

8:18

bound as of yet I don't know anything about

8:21

his attitude, you know, maybe Conan Well, I really

8:23

have a question about his attitude if you have

8:25

a management team and you're still not

8:27

fully trained It's like I wouldn't even want to deal

8:29

with you to be honest with you. What about you?

8:31

What's your take on that? Come in. Well, I don't

8:33

really I've seen pictures of me looks great. You know,

8:36

he's very young to be getting up I

8:38

don't know I don't know nothing about this guy

8:40

whatsoever if he has a bad attitude or not

8:43

But you know if you're

8:45

getting already a bad rep

8:48

early on in your career, that's not good You

8:50

know the one thing we know about

8:52

most almost every Simone, they're all good

8:55

workers, you know They're not hard

8:57

to deal with unless you try to fm over.

8:59

I don't know. I don't know. I can't really compare

9:01

him to Teddy I know Teddy very well, and we've

9:03

talked we we should get him on the show. He

9:06

hit me up the other day But

9:08

yeah, oh, yeah, and

9:10

get where he's gonna go wrestle. You're

9:12

gonna pop where China who've into the

9:14

Guerra Right

9:17

and so let me tell you another

9:20

thing. So I finally got obviously

9:22

you told me Hey, I wouldn't have no

9:24

problem if Dave Meltzer comes on the

9:26

show and I'm not on the show, right?

9:29

So I go hey, would you come on the show disco and be

9:31

on the show and he said yes He's

9:34

coming in next week. So if you got any questions,

9:36

you want me to ask him. I will ask him

9:41

Next one's from Robert Bailey Jr. Subtit's copula

9:43

Spielberg Borash. You okay 100 W in a

9:45

new era Although maybe it isn't the PLE

9:47

era Paul of s care. Maybe it's a

9:49

cinematic one Oh, by the way, we have

9:51

Josh towers at noon on Tuesday. Can you

9:53

guys do Tuesday at noon Conan? Yeah.

9:56

Yeah cool. Perfect All right. Yes, we start

9:58

start earlier next week WDS is a new

10:00

area, although maybe it isn't the PLE area,

10:02

the Paul of Essia area, maybe it's the

10:04

cinematic one. WDS went outside the

10:07

normal parameters with it can shoot backstage segments in

10:09

promos, but the same way Hangman and Page House

10:11

Burning segment was done in AEW. Jeremy Borash's fingerprints

10:13

were all over that Rhodes rain segment, and his

10:15

mind with WDB's budget seemed like a win. So

10:17

my question is about Borash. Mr.

10:19

Conan, was Borash looking at Lucha Underground and

10:21

maybe a few ECW Pulp Fiction video montage

10:24

segments, and seeing the future of pro wrestling,

10:26

much of the consternation of the sicko crowd?

10:28

Did you two talk about the way Lucha Underground formatted shows

10:30

as being ahead of their time? Mr. Disco

10:33

is a wrestling future where you build the

10:35

big matches with licensed music soundtrack split between

10:37

intro and conclusion, a black bar wide swing,

10:39

horror, drama, and comedic high level production skits

10:41

a bad thing or a good thing for

10:43

the business overall, warm regards as Robert Bayley

10:45

Jr. That's a dumb last

10:48

question. It's definitely a good thing for the

10:50

business because everybody's raving about the content. I

10:52

actually got some sense of behind

10:54

the scenes photos of the

10:56

shoot with Rhodes and Roman, by the

10:58

way. Now, was

11:00

Borash behind that? Yeah. Because

11:03

he, okay, I didn't. The fact

11:05

that I think about that shoot is just him and

11:07

Jimmy. You know, his little assistant Jimmy. Of course I

11:09

do, Jimmy Dean. It looks like a freaking shoot. It

11:12

looks like a shoot that like a

11:14

major production, but that's literally just Jeremy

11:16

and Jimmy and Paul Heyman. Here's the

11:18

thing, and Disco can attest to this.

11:20

Jimmy without a doubt is one of

11:22

the smartest guys in this business and

11:24

he can do it all from ring

11:26

announcer to producing to writing, the editing

11:28

to putting together sick videos. Like, you

11:30

know, he's, he's, you know, he's one

11:34

of a kind bro. And shouts out to

11:36

him. I don't know if he still listens to the show,

11:38

but he does. Okay. Before

11:40

you used to be a shout out to

11:42

a boy JB with the discreet column, a

11:44

hot scopy bag. You

11:46

know, we talked about disco into more joking

11:48

around about who's got the power. And I

11:51

think you lost power. I would have

11:53

thought as, you know, an outsider, but

11:55

JB had the, he worked with

11:57

Russo close and then WSHW and

11:59

team. And I always thought he was

12:01

gonna be one of those outside guys that thought it'd be

12:03

wouldn't be interested in So how did he get in there

12:05

and get so much power so quickly? I

12:09

know but talent doesn't always yes it does

12:13

Yeah 100% Right

12:19

they see the show you that like

12:21

that's our first kazoo I'm gonna kazoo today

12:24

kazoo Joe let me kazoo him for a

12:26

question. Why Jeremy No

12:28

offense JB's I just I was looking at

12:30

it I mean no offense you just offended

12:32

the guy look bro When you

12:35

when you're looking at what JB

12:37

brings to the fucking table how

12:39

he shoots it his or his

12:41

creativity Everything bro, like

12:43

he's I spent many

12:45

hours with him just chilling at night

12:48

in a the hotel room and just

12:50

talking shop and Seeing the videos

12:52

how he edited them and and he's also

12:54

a guy that he goes to all the

12:56

cool concerts Like Kanye West and shit like

12:58

that and he gets Ideas

13:00

from there and he implements him like

13:03

he's got a very sharp mind and

13:05

when somebody like Paul You know

13:07

Paul of X sees somebody that talented

13:09

he's gonna use him Yeah, I

13:12

actually thought he was still in NXT and

13:14

now I find out that he's did this

13:16

thing on Smackdown in the football field Yeah, but

13:18

I think he's still in NXT though. Yeah, he

13:20

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13:24

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13:26

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17:32

for Jacob Fatu and I love how W you're booking him. But I

17:34

have to ask you about the bloodline. On the latest

17:36

SmackDown, the show had a KO promo that got interrupted with

17:38

a bloodline beatdown. During KO's entrance, you got beat down by

17:40

bloodline. After the match, you got beat down by bloodline. So,

17:43

so boring in the fact that in the storyline world, the

17:45

big face, he jumped over and over and I've never had

17:47

anything planned in place to avoid it. It's just stupid. If

17:50

you could jump 19 times per month by the same people,

17:52

then you deserve to get a beating. My question, Conan, is a

17:54

book yourself. How did you get around this? NWO

17:56

got stale back in the day with the endless beatdowns. It's happening

17:58

again with the bloodline. Yes Joe, I know you have

18:00

a ton of work that you do for the show because you start

18:02

mentioning the ticket sales for the show reviews. AEW

18:04

has been taking a dry in the ass recently with the sales

18:06

and we'd be glad to hear you guys bury it. Sure. I

18:09

don't know why we... Right. Yeah,

18:11

Kawa... Kona, how would you write yourself out of

18:13

the constant beatdowns? Yeah, to be ready

18:15

when somebody comes to beat you

18:17

down, you need to have backup. And we've seen that every

18:20

now and then, but I don't... You

18:22

don't see it now. Sometimes it'd take too long to come

18:24

out. I think that's something we gotta polish. Yeah. Subject

18:27

is Patrick Houston. Subject is Tony... Has Tony

18:29

Khan finally accepted reality at MGF? MGF

18:32

hasn't been on AEW since All Out and quite frankly

18:34

hasn't been missed. TV ratings and ticket sales are just

18:36

as bad. Now is it were while he was on

18:38

the roster for that Oscar. Seemed like a strange

18:40

choice to let one of your main guys take time off

18:42

when business is so bad. But I think it's possible that

18:44

maybe Tony Khan is finally aware that MGF simply is not

18:47

the draw that the IC... WC keep claiming him to be.

18:49

You guys at K100 may personally like MGF, but the simple

18:51

fact is the fans are bored of MGF. It's been the

18:53

exact same character since day one of AEW and his media

18:55

appearances where... He's talking about WWE or

18:57

beyond all now. MJ has played out zero

18:59

big matches left for him and AEW. We all know he's

19:01

not leaving the company in time soon. But he thinks that

19:03

Tony Khan is not gonna be self aware that

19:05

the MGF experiment has not worked out. PS,

19:08

Conan. You seem shocked as to why Hook

19:10

has cooled off in AEW. Well, there's a

19:12

simple explanation for that. Chris Jericho. Jericho sucks.

19:14

He's boring. He's overexposed. He damages everybody he

19:17

works with. That's why Hook has cooled off.

19:19

Okay. So first of all, I

19:21

did not seem shocked. I said, wow, it's

19:23

incredible how much he's cooled off. When

19:26

they first brought him in, you know, and

19:29

Hook ain't the only one. We could write

19:31

a long list of people and that's 100%

19:33

booking. You can't

19:35

put all that on Jericho. And

19:38

what's the other one? MJF, bro.

19:40

The numbers have proven. We

19:42

put, we, we actually

19:45

put the numbers on the screen every

19:47

week and he's always the highest

19:49

rated segment or 90% of the time. Right.

19:53

So you can't say he is in a draw. He's

19:56

the most entertaining guy on

19:58

that roster. He's. the best

20:00

on the mic on that and not only

20:02

that he can go. He's had a lot

20:05

of good matches. You're a hater and

20:07

you're saying that fans don't like him anymore. You

20:09

mean like you and your friends and some other.

20:13

There's always going to be everything you

20:15

do. There's going to be people that like it and hate

20:17

it. But for you to say he isn't a

20:19

draw and that experiment is

20:21

over. What experiment, dude? The

20:24

guy's been, I'm not going to

20:26

say he's been carrying the company, but he's

20:28

been the face of the company basically since

20:30

it started just about or two years in.

20:32

Definitely the last three to four

20:34

years. Yeah. Yeah. So he went in

20:36

with punk. He immediately was, you

20:39

know, immediately shot up because he killed punk

20:41

on the mic. Yeah. Thanks for Donald Willard subject

20:43

his why though. Miro asking for his AW release

20:45

this week again wasn't the only AW contract needs

20:47

to leap down into the sheets. It's also come

20:49

out the dust of roads contract with AW roads

20:51

out before the end of 2024. My

20:54

question is with all the respect of dust and roads, why would Tony

20:56

Khan need to keep around known with even a 40% working

20:58

brain would ever say he's not a wrestling legend, but in 2024, who's

21:01

tuning to see Justin Rose on TV? Who's

21:03

buying tickets for him to me? There's a perfect

21:06

chance for Tony Condis are reducing his roster and save

21:08

face. We'll do it. But the question is for you

21:10

three guys. If you were Tony Khan, would you try

21:12

to re-sign Dustin Rose? Do you think it's time to

21:14

shake hands and see you later? PS Conrad Thompson sucks.

21:16

He's a show for AW and he can deflect only

21:18

once, but zero people are buying. So whack dude, just

21:20

Conrad. I don't think Conrad. You're the rat. Yes. Um,

21:22

the dust of roads should go to, he's probably got

21:24

a story. They were

21:30

Cody. He probably might want to go, go to WWE. His

21:32

brother's doing so great. He'd be protected there. I'd

21:35

be a producer, you know? I don't know. There's really

21:37

no reason for Tony Khan to keep him and

21:40

very rarely use him. And he does

21:42

still does good TV. Yeah, he

21:44

certainly does. And with Miro, I was

21:46

just looking and her sports illustrated Miro

21:48

signed a four year extension in the

21:50

spring of 2022, earning him North of

21:52

seven figures. However, since putting pen to

21:55

paper, he's been used very sparingly. He's

21:57

wrestling just eight matches dating back to all out

21:59

2020. And he has not wrestled at all

22:01

in 2024. He's making seven figures

22:03

and they do not use him. And according

22:05

to SAP, it's always been created differences in

22:08

the last couple of years. So what would

22:10

you, would you, would you stay on and

22:12

cash your million dollars or would you want to roll out

22:14

and see what they had to offer you? Oh

22:17

no. Depends on how much money he's had. What's his

22:19

decision? I don't know. What are you going to

22:21

come and come in? On what exactly? Should,

22:24

should Dustin go to W years? Should

22:26

Tony cut company? Let me tell you.

22:28

Tony, he's very prideful. He doesn't

22:31

want to see him like getting, but it's

22:33

going to leave. And he pays all these

22:35

people, so many people just to stay at

22:37

home or come to the show and do

22:39

nothing. You have no idea how many complaints

22:41

I hear about that. And I'll give you

22:43

one good example. Have you seen Pentagon and

22:45

Phoenix like in the last month or so?

22:48

No. They're still getting paid, bro. It's like,

22:50

if you're going to pay them that type of

22:52

money, use them, use them on the way out

22:54

to put people over. But, you

22:57

know, I wouldn't just give

22:59

Dustin Rhodes a handshake. And I know he's

23:01

very well liked behind the scenes. He helped

23:03

a lot of young talent out and that's

23:06

good. You know, and he cuts good promos,

23:08

but I wouldn't just shake his hand and

23:10

say goodbye. I'd shake the hand about 50%

23:12

of the fucking roster, including your boy Camarano,

23:15

nothing. Next is from

23:17

Ben. He's been a big hit. What's up,

23:19

Cam? The latest Stevie Richards podcast. He said, Don

23:22

is a jackal had nuclear heat. The WLocker room.

23:24

He had a dress in the hallway. I know

23:26

your boys did. Did you ever mention why I

23:28

did? I never heard this, but

23:30

I would suggest that probably the reason Don Callis

23:32

had heat back then is because he's very intelligent.

23:35

Yeah, he had, I believe it was the wrong

23:37

way. So I believe it was Bradshaw. Maybe we

23:40

could ask him in the near future because Don

23:42

didn't drink or he didn't want to pound drinks

23:44

with them. And, and like you

23:46

said, yeah, he's very intelligent. Maybe people saw

23:48

that as as obnoxious or cocky. Not just

23:50

that he's a smart ass. Right. There's that.

23:52

Yeah. Yeah. There's actually a story where I think

23:55

it was the heart. It was either the

23:57

hardy. Yeah. It was the hardies. They admitted in their book

23:59

that when. They were coming in JBL had

24:01

them stick toothpicks in his rental car locks Don's

24:03

rental car Do you know fuck him over you

24:05

can use the car and all that? How do

24:07

you know all these stories bro? Just I

24:10

just retain used to retain a lot of dumb

24:12

shit ain Well, you have you have to read

24:14

it and look for you to retain it. Yeah,

24:16

I used to read a lot more than mark That's

24:20

what makes it nice of John Roddy.

24:22

That's for sure But just

24:24

fake news hi guys. Hi Conan.

24:26

Hi disco. Hi Joe. Hi guys get

24:28

away Hi guy So the

24:30

latest clearly bullshit story going around online is that Jacob

24:32

fat to it a backstage blowup with triple-h because he

24:35

took the tag Tiles off is using him as a

24:37

singles guy instead the fight story alone is enough to

24:39

tell me that some effing mark online made it up

24:42

Shared it in a marquee message board and now

24:44

they have other marks reporting like it's a hundred percent

24:46

fact It's so dumb. Jacob had to has worked his

24:48

ass off for years again Did W really expect this

24:50

to believe that suddenly going to throw it all away

24:52

because he's a mark What makes it stand out is

24:54

that even rakishi commented on it? So my

24:56

question is guys, Kony? What do you think about

24:58

rakishi's comments in the article PS? Conan

25:00

gift that to on the show he'd be an awesome new guest

25:03

for disco to cut off and ruin the whole segment Let's suspend

25:05

this guy for that To

25:07

John Roddy one week. Well, can you read

25:09

the article cuz I don't know Yeah,

25:12

she's pretty silenced on Jacob fatu's rumored

25:14

backstage class with triple-h I

25:19

Don't know

25:21

they're probably reporting did that

25:23

mostly says just report on the other sides

25:25

report on it We're going to crush that

25:27

rumor right now. Jacob would never ever disrespect

25:29

triple-h period No one just don't know way

25:31

he disrespect me or anybody older our family

25:33

or even his cousins We're in the

25:35

workers there. That's not the kids bones If

25:38

you cross that kid is a whole new different story

25:40

rakishi and that's what she said

25:42

about this This is the stories bullshit. So

25:45

well, let me say This I know

25:47

rakishi I know about two very well

25:50

that does not sound like him He

25:52

would never do that and he's

25:54

correct. If you try him, he

25:57

will fuck you up He

25:59

will fuck You up bro, but I'm

26:01

so happy for him one of the nicest

26:03

guys in the business. She's been through a

26:05

lot Yeah, this is from Roland. Our log

26:08

Allard subject is movies starring pro wrestlers

26:10

to Conan disco best and worst movie

26:12

star and pro wrestlers and no ready

26:14

to rumble doesn't count That's rolling. What's

26:17

it called? They live no

26:19

the wrestler. No Well,

26:21

that was a good one too, but the one with predator. No

26:24

the one about the bouncer They did

26:26

the remake with Conor McGregor a road house had

26:28

Terry house What Terry fun?

26:31

Yeah, I think by far is

26:33

my favorite wrestler But

26:35

but I mean Batiste has been in some you know

26:38

The rock the rocks been in well actually probably the

26:40

rocks a lot of rocks movies I don't know. I

26:43

like Roadhouse to me is one of my favorite movies

26:45

favorite favorite bad movies Yeah, any comment

26:47

on it. No, I can't

26:49

remember Benny right now. Yeah, I

26:51

can't remember any right now good or bad Yeah,

26:54

I would just say they live with rowdy

26:56

Piper predator with Ventura Oh,

26:58

you mean movies that wrestlers have been in

27:00

yeah rocky the one with Hogan

27:03

rocky three. Yeah Sure.

27:05

Yeah. Yeah, that's good. That's good answer. Yeah

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29:12

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29:16

guys. Did

29:20

you all see former NWA World's

29:22

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29:24

championship belt on the Gutfield show. Conan,

29:27

I know you and Tyrese are great good friends,

29:29

but what is Glenn's opinion on Tyrese as a

29:31

Fox News personality? I wish he would have Tyrese

29:33

on K100 before the upcoming election. We've

29:37

had him on the show before too, so let's see if he can get there. He

29:40

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30:00

what that's my boy been so Next

30:04

is some Anthony hunt so it is Bill

30:06

Simmons. Oh, I told you a long time

30:08

ago to make amends with the motherfucking guy

30:10

I mean you what's more important your relationship

30:12

your pride And it was funny

30:14

because he started off contentious like he wanted to

30:16

argue and I just do you were contentious to

30:18

dude I know but now I'm now in my

30:21

mind is clear. So it is much clearer. We'll

30:23

say that K 100 greetings crew There's been

30:25

a lot of buzz with the to a situation Bill Simmons

30:27

has been doing a lot of talking. Here's my question He

30:29

says combat fighters do a lot of fighting saying the USC fire

30:32

would never be asked to retire What I want to know is

30:34

a wrestler's arrest to take a step back cause of concussions So

30:37

mrs. Bashing people say to a sugar tire think

30:39

there's genuine concerns Teddy brewski former Patriots

30:41

in his family would not support him coming back after

30:43

this concussion Or do you sit in

30:45

the to a situation serious sincerely Anthony hunt PS?

30:47

What does Feeny think about the Sixers trying to

30:49

move to Chinatown? I think it's a

30:52

hideous idea the location is piss poor and it's

30:54

a giant waste of money They're

30:57

not going to New Jersey they are moving

30:59

to do that that's moving to Chinatown. Yeah

31:02

in Philadelphia Yes, location is so it's bad

31:04

It's tough to get to if you want

31:06

to drive and nobody wants to go to

31:08

that train station You know, I mean so

31:11

right I don't have any problem selling that

31:13

place out. So they just got Paul George,

31:15

right? Yeah Bill

31:18

Simmons is bringing up something that

31:20

I mentioned on this about

31:22

the concussions Is that you know where and I've

31:25

actually messaged I'm trying to get a what's his

31:27

name on our show Chris nowitzki I'd send him

31:29

a message. I'd love to talk to him because

31:31

he's you know, okay We

31:33

we we we know about concussions. All

31:36

right, but the question is is like if people say this

31:38

your tires like dude You know

31:40

what? What's the monetary value of

31:43

risking brain trauma? You know if you tell

31:45

somebody retire you look at what they're retiring

31:47

from tens of millions of dollars, you

31:50

know I mean what if you're not playing

31:52

football, how else are you gonna make tens

31:54

of millions of dollars? You know,

31:56

I like like yeah, I just I just I think

31:58

it's you know We're

32:01

making it safer, right? So

32:03

that should be enough because what do

32:06

you do? Just cancel, is football gonna

32:08

flatline? Just cancel the sport? Head trauma

32:10

is a part of trauma. There's emotional

32:12

trauma, physical trauma, and head trauma are

32:14

three things that people deal with in

32:17

their lives. You know, so it's like,

32:20

and there's risk and rewards for that. You

32:22

know, some people think emotional trauma is worse

32:24

than head trauma. You know, when you just,

32:26

your heart's broken and you feel freaking, you're

32:28

physically miserable, like over losing a

32:30

girl or something, you know? And then

32:32

this is not, you're not even getting paid millions of dollars

32:35

to feel that way, you know? So I

32:37

would just say, I don't think, you

32:39

know, if the guy wants, if the guy

32:41

is family, thinks

32:43

he should retire, and they're cool with him not

32:46

making the money, then retire. But if you wanna

32:48

make the money, you keep going, you

32:50

know? I mean, how is he gonna make the money? I

32:53

don't know if Anthony misheard something or

32:55

is misinformed here, if Simmons is misinformed,

32:57

but that's not true about UFC. Chuck

32:59

Liddell was asked to retire, basically forced

33:01

in Ferguson recently, even though he didn't

33:03

officially do it, you know Dana wants

33:05

him to quit, he said. Danison was

33:07

forced in WWE. Yeah,

33:09

because they weren't gonna book the guy. Like,

33:12

you know what I'm saying? Like, did they have

33:14

the opportunity? They're like, look, we're not gonna renew

33:17

your contract, we're not gonna book you, because

33:19

we're taking care of your health. So he

33:21

went to AEW, where they're letting him

33:23

do that still. And so now, and I

33:25

can't really, like I said, I'm very uncomfortable

33:27

watching his matches, but like I said, that

33:29

is his own personal choice to do that.

33:31

I think he's foolish for wrestling the way

33:34

he does, given his

33:36

concussion history, you know?

33:38

But like I said, how do you, like, there's

33:40

a million things these guys do that I wouldn't

33:42

do. And I would tell them you shouldn't do

33:44

that, because you could do other things and still

33:46

make the money. It's crazy what a lot of

33:49

people do in their life for money that

33:51

you don't have to and still make the money.

33:54

That would be my take on that. Did you agree

33:56

with that, Conan? Yeah, I think at the end

33:58

of the day, I'm just afraid that this is gonna happen. going

34:00

to get worse if he gets hit again,

34:02

because he's injury prone and concussion prone. But

34:04

if he talked with your family, he's willing

34:06

to take the risk. He's talked to the

34:09

neurologist and everybody that says you

34:11

can still go out there, but you're risking it and

34:13

he's willing to take that risk. What's his career in

34:15

his life? I just have a feeling this will not

34:17

end up well. Per example, like

34:20

I don't really know. There's

34:22

more voices for two to

34:25

retire than there are for Tony

34:27

Ferguson to retire. And you watch Tony Ferguson,

34:29

he's been freaking repeatedly. But

34:31

nobody's really talking about that. Exactly. So it's like, but

34:34

that's what the guy

34:36

does for a living. He's a fighter. He's baked

34:38

into the cake. You're risking ending

34:40

up like this because you're clobbering people

34:42

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34:44

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right, Phil, we're recording now, so it's live. Go

38:37

ahead, pick on me the way that you want

38:39

to. Did I say that? I would say that

38:41

to my son. Man, I mean, come on, man.

38:43

Just go. This isn't CBS. All

38:46

right, be quiet for a few seconds. Why would

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people want to listen to The Sims complete podcast?

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Well, a couple things. One, if you'd like to

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see sons pick on their father, this might be

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39:00

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dynamic duo talking about the game of

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39:11

Growing up, I was able to watch

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39:18

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39:20

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39:23

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