What's she gonna do? Brother? When Jeff Townsend Media runs wild on you, I am looking as your brief when you got it? Alright, alright, alright, Welcome to another episode of the Austin Airy Show. Austin. I can't believe where a couple episodes in. Man, how fun is this crap? Man? I'm having the time of my freaking life? Man? How fun was that Twitter spaces the other night we did? It was awesome? Yeah, that was a Juris podcasting wrestling podcasting community came in strong for you. Yeah, Jeff, Jeff does a Twitter space. They said, Monday nights for like for podcasters because you basically, you know, you do podcasts about podcasting, so you hold these little Twitter spaces. I've never done it Twitter Space, So I thought, let me pop in here and see what it's about. See if I if I get a little bit of traction in there. Some people popping in and it turned into chaos, a little bit, A little bit they've actually got One time, Eric Bischoff was brought up in one of them. He had been at podcast Movement and there was this special needs podcast where they joined the space sometimes and he just went off and did about a thousand impressions of Eric Bischoff saying you're or Lake Vince vic Man say and you're fired tired Bischoff Nice. That was one of my funnest That was like a good off the rails, just fired. Yeah, yeah, in the in the guy could do it perfect. So but no, this was a little bit different off the tracks. I never got a DM from that guy. No, I saw. I actually saw him tweet afterwards that he had a conversation with me and he loved it. But so basically what happened is that, like we ended up having a debate over the term of podcast and how loose it's kind of become. And so I think what we've kind of settled on is the kind of the old school mentality podcasting means it had to be under a certain what's it called an srm R, like an RSS feed you RSS I had to I had, I had some of the letters, right, that shows you I'm not very adapted this, But an RSS feed, right, is a typical podcast, right. And so this guy just runs a YouTube channel and that's it, and he has he has no RSS feed, it's just a YouTube channel. So the question basically was being asked, was, well, why don't you just call it a YouTube show? And why do you call this podcast the title? Yeah? Right, and so he got out he was like it really like offended by it and like upset, and he kept like touting his listenership and how much money he's making, and we're like, hey, man, we're not cutting on you and your success, like we're proud of you. We're just we're asking the question of, like how do you define podcasts? Anyway, it was it was a fascinating discussion for an hour. I did learn a lot about the podcast world and and then I think some of your podcasting friends got a little taste of the pro wrestling world and and fandom, so that it was definitely interesting. My big thing, just for the record, then we'll move on. My big thing was I don't really give a shit about what you consider a podcast or not. Sure, I should have it as many places as possible for people to consume, right, And that was my whole thing all along, Like it wasn't about like whether is it a podcast and not a podcast? Sure, Mike, dude, it would take you five minutes to make it a podcast. Yeah, The truth came out like thirty minutes later and not made it made more sense. Why he was kind of getting a little defensive is he didn't know how to upload it anywhere else other than YouTube, so he just said, well, I'm just focused on YouTube, and what he meant to say is I only know how to do YouTube. And I was like, oh, hey, man, like these guys will help you out. It's not hard to throw it up in these other platforms where people listen to podcasts. It's only going to help you, not hurt you. But yeah, that was pretty fascinating, and I actually kind of think I want to start doing some of these Twitter spaces myself, just for some different topics of conversation. I think it'd be kind of cool as a way for me to kind of re engage my Twitter following, because my engagement really isn't great right now because I haven't really used Twitter much since I got my head shoot off for you know, sharing my opinions on masks and covid yteen and things of the sort. So it might be a good way to have some some good debate on there and drow up some interest. Yeah, I agree, I think we should do it. I'll oil sounds good. If not, I'll just run rampant and they'll just be saying whatever, and you will know what to do. Yeah, I'll just be talking to each other on there. That's fine. No, I man, like I can, like I know how to except people to speak and all. That's what I was saying. Oh yeah, you'll run traffic like you do here. You'll run the traffic for me. I'm the traffic traffic control man, traffic control DF. So, man, what have you been up to in this in the turn up beating world? The last week, so I spoke at veg fest in Fort Myers. And I haven't done any of these speaking engagements for probably almost three years now, you know, since THEO pre COVID, and so I used to do these pretty frequently, go talk at these different vegge festivals or um. I've spoke for Physicians excuse me, Physicians Committee Responsible Medicine PCRM, which is a plant based medical facility in Washington, DC. See, So I've given speeches there, you know, given talks there. Yeah, just kind of sharing my message, you know, selling some books and so. Yeah, it was nice to get back out there and do that in Four Myers. It was a nice day. I had a pretty good turnout, had some good conversations. I got my ear read. One of the ladies, one of the speakers, they're Lisa Wong. She does play stick their tongue in your ear, Like, what is this consistent? I'm not familiar with your reading. Not quite. Maybe maybe we've yeah, that's an Indiana thing. Maybe sure, yeah, it sounds like something you have to do in Indiana just to keep yourself occupied. No. So, so basically, you know, if you look at the Eastern philosophy of medicine, right, with all these meridian lines in her body, basically she had like this map of the ear and how all these different parts of the ear translate to other parts and organs in our body. So she has this instrument kind of looks like a stylist, like a metal stylist, and she'll start testing these parts of your ear by putting, by applying pressure, and the places where it hurts are where you have certain blockages or potential issues going on in your systems. Right, so she ran like a check on my digestive system because you know, she asked me like, well, do you have any questions, you know, any intention you want to set and I said, you know, I feel like I eat really good right, Like I'm trying to always stand on top of my diet, but I don't feel like I feel as good as I should for how I eat. So she ran through my intestine and she's like, all right, let me know if this hurts like a scale like one to three, and like for the minute she put that thing in my ear, I was just like, ah, She's like, how how bad is it? I'm like two and a half, Like the whole thing was two and a half. Because I'm like, well, there might be something worse than this, but this hurts like quite a bit. And so she was like, well, that's your small intestine, that's your large intestine. And I was like, well, fuck, you know, like maybe I got do you have some issues there? And so so here's the thing that we that we need to understand is we can have an accumulation in our intestines of shit, right and and this has been this has been shown that you know, people can have ten to twenty pounds of packed fecal matter. I hope you're not listening to this podcast while you're eating dinner. If you are, I'm just going to give you a warning right now, you might want to say this for after dinner, but so over time, a lot of these foods we eat right when it's heavy meat products, so whether it's things like gluten, processed food, seed oils, like a lot of these things, the fecal matter will start to get impacted in the walls of your intestine, which then makes makes the area that your food has to travel and digest smaller and smaller and smaller, and makes it more difficult. So if you ever feel like, wow, why do I always feel full? Why do always feel a little bloated? Why do I always feel like even after I use the bathroom, I didn't really really really feel like I used the bathroom, I still feel like I have some some backup in there. And so this is also what can then create disease, right because that's those are toxins your body has wanted to expel that it hasn't been able to and that can then you start to seed back in your bloodstream and create disease. So that's why people recommend doing things like enemas, coaling, cleanses, colonoscopies, things like that, is to kind of clean out all that back up that you may or may not have in your intestines. I've never really done anything like that, you know, I've read up about it, I've contemplated it, but I've never actually gone through with it. But it's something that's been on my mind lately. Um. Yeah, So she did that reading and I was like, man, like, I guess I need to like do some type of like good cleanse. And so I did some little research online and I looked at some different protocols and I got some stuff. It's called oxy powder. It's so basically it's like a it's like an oxalated magnesium. And so you take these pills and what it does is it creates like oxygen bubbles in your intestine. And what that does is goes in there, loosens up a lot of the stuff that could be kind of packed in there and helps you really get rid of it. And so I'm gonna I'm gonna start that tomorrow and not straight too far from from the house in my bathroom. While it works, it's a magic and hopefully you know, get rid of maybe some things that could be in there for years and years and years. I've just build up think of no different than your pipes in your house, right, Or I had to clean out my aunt's air conditioning pipe not that long ago, right, it was starting to drip back into the into the garage just because the pipe was clogged. So we're no different. We gotta unclogged our pipes and unclogged our adjustive track for it to really be optimal. And you know, they've they've done some autopsies on people where after autopsies they've yeah, they found like twenty to twenty five pounds just in there in there intestine. Right, Our testine is really long, Right, it's like a it's like a tennis court if you were to unfold it and right, you take up a tennis court. So that's how much intestine we've got going on in there. So yeah, So you know, if you're out there and you you've you know, feel like you've had some issues with your digestion or bloating or constipation or anything like that, I would suggest maybe going and doing some protocols to do, like a good cleanse um. And then after I do that, like colon cleanse, that I'm going to go and do a parasite cleanse. Because if you've have if you have pets, cats, or dogs. If you've been eating meat, chances are you've got some parasites runner around in your insides, and and those can cause all sorts of other problems, you know, And so um, you do your colon cleanse, your intestinal cleanse first, then you come through with a parasite cleanse. And so the parasite cleans I'm going to do uses turpentine, uh, and not the turpentine that you find at the at the hardware store, but this is a pharmaceutical, great turpentine, like a pure turpentine spirit. So you mix that with a little cubes of sugar. The cubes of sugar draw the parasites out because that's what they want to eat, and then the turpentine effectively kills them. And then you use some castor oil, which that helps you get rid of them. So so yeah, so I'm gonna I'm gonna do those over the next couple of weeks and see how I feel, you know, maybe maybe I'll have my six pack of abs back after I do all that. I thought we were going to talk about sex and wrestling, but this is an interesting topic, so let me ask you something. Yeah, what's the difference between this and just some boys spiking each other's drinks with some ex lec like they used to do back in the day, some laxative. You know, right, so xx is so x lex is fine, but that but that's really affecting, you know, the last couple of meals you ate, right, your current process. It's that's not effectively going to loosen up and get rid of things that are again, yeah, think of that stuff like you know we're talking about like caked on and it hardens over time, right, and so it's you need something to help loosen that and get that free. Xlax is just going to deal with whatever you just ate in the last couple of days and how you get rid of it, but not necessarily going to help you get rid of things that have been building up over ten, fifteen, twenty years of you know, some bad diet choices. And again for me, you know, I eat really good now, eat a lot more raw fruits. I've really cut back on all processed foods. But listen, my transition from vegetarian to veganism was solely on these processed fake burgers and fake chicken nuggets and fake cheeses. You know, I really relied heavily on those in the transition, and even up until a few years ago, was eating those things a lot more than I really should have been. You know, while I'm eating really well now, that doesn't necessarily count for whatever build up I accumulated over the last five or ten years, and I've never really addressed it. So hopefully this addresses it. And I feel light as a feather and everything's good to go. He'll be ready for sixty minute iron Man matches here when you're doing Yeah, man, I'm down, I'm down. But yeah, So that was cool. Bedg Fest was good. Some wrestling fans showed up, which I always like, you know, non vegan people showing up just to kind of meet me and get a copy of my book, and I plant a few seeds in their brain and they go, yeah, I'm going to think about that a little more. That made a lot of sense what you set out there about milk or you know, about the spiritual nature of what we eat and things like that. So then here's the funny story. So actually I got invited to go to this place in West Palm Beach afterwards called Hippocrates Wellness Center, and that is like this holistic wellness center that people go to for like one to three weeks. It's it's high end, right, So people come from all over the world to get healed of their diseases. And I think it's been around for like almost forty years now and stay there like rehab kind of sort of thing. Like basically, yeah, it's like it's like a holistic wellness rehab. And so they serve you only the best food. And when I say the best food, I've I've eaten a lot of places in my life around the world. And they had this buffet there that night, and it was all raw, but it was all vegetables and greens that they grow on the premise, all organic, all like you know, sprouts and greens and vegetables. They did have like some lentil soup that was warm, but it was an amazing spread, like I've never seen that many different types of sprouts and different types of greens and again all grown right there, all grown organically, without pesticides. And so yeah, I loaded up on a big plate of that. And then one of the other speakers at the veg Fest night, doctor will Tuttle, he was performing there that night with his wife. He plays the piano. She plays the flute, kind of likes some sound therapy a little bit, and so yeah, I was invited to go there and hang out and see the see the facilities, and listen to his concert and uh and meet some cool people and so yeah, so that was fun. West Paul Beach to where I'm currently at is about three hours, so I started driving back about eleven o'clock at night. So recently I got a different vehicle. I used to have a Alexis Hybrid SUV that got flooded in the hurricane that we had here late last year, so that was a total loss. So I had to I had to get a new vehicle for the first time in like six seven years. I went with actually a Lexus Hybrid coup the smaller just you know coop. Yeah, and it's great. I'm getting like forty five miles a gallon, right, so yeah, So I mean that's nice, especially for some of these road trips I take. But so I'm driving back and I'm like, all right'm gonna have to get gas because I'm not gonna I don't have enough gas to get all the way back. I'll have to get gas at some point. And I'm like, all right, well, I need you know, I got another you know, twenty five miles until I get off this exit. And then once I get off the exit, I'll look for a gas station. And you know, the gas gates that I had, i'd have about ten to twelve miles once I got off the exit to find a gas station. No big deal. I get off the exit, says I got ten miles too empty, And I realized that the exit I got off was actually the turnpike and there wasn't another exit for ten miles. So now I realized, like the journey began, Yeah, I might just fucked myself here. So then I start looking at my map to see how far is a gas station once I get off this exit, and it's not like another nine miles until the little bit nearest gas station. So now you're talking twenty miles. So I'm talking twenty miles, and it says I got ten miles too empty. It's midnight at this point, and so one thing, So I'm listening to some Cureton music. If you don't know what Cureton music is, it's it's like chanting, right, It's like it's you know, like you'r chanting mantras. Krishna Das is one of the most famous Cureton singers. Give it a listen to. It's it's different, but it's very meditative. Chanting is a way to be meditative, right, because he chants chants to the gods, and then you repeat whatever he chanted and these songs will go ten, fifteen, twenty minutes of just these chanting back and forth. And when you're chanting, you can't be thinking about other things. You're focused on just this. So it's a form of active meditation. So I had that plan. So I just was like, you know what, there's no point of me being stressed out right, There's no point of me being upset. When this runs out of gas. It runs out of gas, I'll, you know, I'll hit up my roadside assistance and haven't bring me some And it is what it is, right, Me getting worked up about it isn't going to change anything. So I had I had the chill music on, and so I decided to switch the car to eco mode. So I'm like, all right, well, let me switch to eco mode and hopefully that helps conserve gas. So when I switched to eco mode, it said I had six miles to empty, and the minute I switched to eco mode, it went to zero miles to empty. No no reason, I have no idea why that is not what should happen. So and though even though it said that, I'm like, well I probably still have six miles, I didn't just lose like six miles of gas. So anyway, at this point, I said, you know, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna put my flashers on and I'm gonna keep my card about twenty miles an hour. Because the way these hybrids work is your lower RPM and your low lower miles per hour is done in the electric range, and then as you ramp up your RPMs and go faster, you need gasoline to power that. So I was like, if I keep this in the EV mode, in the electric, in the electric mode, hopefully I can extend this longer, because if I'm not stepping on the gas and I'm just kind of going mostly in the electric, maybe I can at least get off the exit and see what I got. So that was my that was my plan. So put my flasher's on and I just kept this thing steady at like twenty twenty two miles an hour, don't step on the gas at all, don't up the RPMs. And I'm just just chugging along. Cards is the O zipping by me in the right lane. I'm just all right, just doing my chant and you know, going amish speed. Yeah, getting a little closer, Get a little closer. Four miles to the exit. Two miles of the exit. I hit the exit. Okay, great, and so I kind of coast off the exit. I don't even hit the stop sign. There was no traffic. I'm like, if I if I stopped, then I got to use the gas to start back up. So let me just roll through this. But now, like this exit's kind of like in some like nature reserves. There's like there's no lights, it's foggy. I see like a bunch of deer on the side of the road. There's no cars, there's no gas stations to be seen. It's saying the next gas station is again nine miles down. It's like, man, let's just stick with the plan here. So now I'm just plopping along at twenty going up a little bit of hills here. And I get about five miles in and I was like, man, I'm halfway there. And then I see in front of me in the distance, like a stoplight. I'm like, okay, stoplight's a good sign, you know, like that's that's some life. Yeah. And then past the stop light on the left, I see a gas station with its lights on, which didn't show up on my GPS, and so like, man, I think I'm gonna make this, and I did. I got through the stoplight. It stayed great. I was able to, you know, just go through that pull off and roll into the gas station. And I felt like, you know what, I said, a good positive intention. I think it worked up about it. I implemented a good strategy, and I traveled twenty miles after my car told me I was unempty, and I was able to fill up my gas and uh and get home. So that was my adventurous travels back from my weekend event at Benchfest. I was I was pretty happy, you know, I was pretty happy with the way that turned out. You didn't have to call Dixie Carter to come save you. I'd still be waiting if that was the case, right, Yeah, you'd be waiting a long time. Yeah. No, I give you props for keeping calling there. I can only imagine what the swear words that I would have been saying. I'll tell you what, Jeff, It's It's one thing I've really really tried working on. I really have, because I think I think behind like when we're driving, that's one place where most of us can can be emotionally like off kilter and and get angry and upset. It's definitely something I've worked on because man, at earlier parts in my life, I could get pretty, I could get pretty uh you know road ray g Yeah. And and so one thing that's helped me with that is a stop being so arrogant, right, Stop being so self centered that you think everything that happens to you is personal, right, Stopped taking to personally like that, Like this person that's going exactly the speed limit in front of you instead of going five miles or ten miles over, isn't trying to make you late. They're not like we're gonna screw Jeff today and make him late for his appointment by going just exactly the speed limit, right, So it's not personal, you know. And so a lot of times if somebody cuts us off, if someone's going slow, like we take it personal, like they're just trying to ruin my day, we don't know the situation. We don't know what that person is going through. We don't we don't know, you know, who they are, what they're about. And so when I stopped taking things personally, that helped, right, And then I also always like have this belief, well, you know what, maybe if this person was going ten miles an hour faster, then maybe I get t boned three intersections down butterfly effect or something, yeah, you know, and it's it's one of the it's one of the Tony Robbins things that I took from from when I used to like, you know, read a lot of Tony Robbins. It actually went to one of his, one of his like weekend things. It's like either like life's happening to you or for you, it's just a perspective, right, For a lot of my life, it's like, oh, it's always happening to me, you know, it's always screwing me. It's like, well, maybe it's happening for you, Like maybe you're supposed to be late, Maybe you weren't supposed to go ten miles over the speed limit. Maybe you're supposed to make that wrong turn and tack on fifteen minutes to your drive, because who knows what would have happened had you not, you know, And so I always try to keep that perspectrum in the back of my mind every time I'm starting to get riled up or excited about this, like, hey man, just calmed down. And then here's the other thing. There's really nothing you can do about it, right, Like, if you're gonna you're gonna be late, you're gonna be late. If if you're gonna miss your flight, you're gonna miss your flight. If you're gonna run a gas, you're gonna run a gas. Getting angry and cursing isn't going to change any of that. It's just affecting you and your own emotional vibrational energy. You know. Again, one of the one of the big drivers of disease and sickness is stress. And a lot of the stress is stress that we give to ourself. Right, it's not external stress, it's internal stress, right, because we have this idea of how it's supposed to be, and when it isn't how it's supposed to be, then we get all bent out of shape, you know. So ultimately we have control over that. I saw some growth in that moment you know, because it's like the minute I turned down that turnpike, I was like, oh, man, I just I just screwed myself. But I didn't. I didn't and I didn't get bent out of shape about it, and it was cool. So that was That was my little story. So anyway, tell you my traffic story yesterday. Racing to get home to give my kids off the bus, right, and I'm cutting close. I'm cutting close, man, I'm not gonna lie. I turn onto this main street in the local town and this must have just happened minutes before, an old historic building in downtown in this town. All the brick on one side of the wall just collapsed into the roadway. Keep in mind, this is a major state highway that runs through here. Must have been the earthquake from Turkey, I don't know. So all of a sudden night, there's just shit everywhere. I mean it is, bricks are everywhere, man, and there's just one car like blocking the road with flashers on. I beat the cops there and everything, so I had to like back back out onto another major highway and go around. And I did say some curse words, so right, yeah, but no, it was like the building just collapse right before I got there. I'm like, of course, I'm like, what did I do to deserve this? You know, probably what if it would have collapsed as you got there? On you see, nobody was hurting this incident, by the way, Well that's good though, It's good, you know, it's good. Yeah, So everything's perspective and how we want to see it. We're either the victim or we're not. You know, it could be the same exact situation that people see two completely different ways as just perspective, right, and so, and we all the capability of change in our perspective if if the one that we currently hold isn't serving us. Sounds like a practice one could use the divorce. But I'm not going to go down that rabbit hole right now. Well, eventually, when the time is right and you feel like you want to vent that out a little bit, well we'll talk about it. And actually one of my guests that's going to be coming up as a good friend of mine and she's a psychologist sports psychologist, so maybe that would be a good episode of talk about relationship stuff a little bit and uh, you know, listen, uh, any type of breakup isn't easy, and especially when you start talking marriage with kids and all these things and difficult stuff that nobody likes having to go through. Let's switch gears a little bit. So you what I'm drinking? So I'm drinking some tea here. This is some blue white blueberry tea. What do you do? You you you're drink anything during these things? Keep your palette moist. I'm drinking vitamin water. Yes, I said vitamin Are you proud of me? Uh? We read the ingredients lists on that, so like crystalline fructost if I'm not mistaken, or something reverse us moss water. Okay water, Yeah, you're right, you got that right, of course. It's got the azerbic acid. Yeah. Yeah, Oh, it's but austin. It has vitamins A, C, E, B three, yeah, five, B six, and B seven. Damn. It's not the worst thing. A lot a lot of the a lot of vitamins that are fortified in there aren't aren't gonna be really utilized as well as if he just actually thought I was drinking earlier today, So you should be proud. Well, that's I was gonna say. It's it's a big improvement over soda. And your and your diet coke. And it's funny because you know, you said, hey, what are we gonna talk about tonight? And I said soda? You like really, I was like, Yeah, we're gonna talk about soda because we're gonna get you off that poison. We're gonna get you off that garbage. Maybe'll bring some color back to your complexion, right, you know, maybe. But the funny thing is I was literally drinking a pop as we'd call it here. I was really drinking a diet coke when you said that. So I took a picture of like literally right in front of me. And that's funny too because so when I you know, I grew up in Wisconsin, but I went to college in Minnesota, and when I got there, edward to Minnesota called soda pop. That was like the big debate my freshman year or is it pop ors a soda? And I was like, well, where are you guys from? They said Minnesota. I said, exactly, You're not from Minna. Papa right anyway, bad terrible joke, right, but that was like the big debate. So you say pop, I say soda. We'll just call it soda pop. So we hit both of them. So to me, like soda pop is one of like the most anti nutritional things we could consume, right, it really is. And so and people think about drinking diet sodas somehow is going to be better form and it's not necessarily right. Obviously, when you're drinking regular soda that the name brands, you're consuming something called high fructose corn syrup. And mostly now they're starting to switch over to cane sugar, which is a little better, but still, you know, refined sugars are something we should be really limited in our diet. But high fructose corn syrup, that's like jet fuel of sugar, right, it's it's and it's highly destructive. But so that the diet sodas have artificial sweeteners, and usually they use something like a sparta me. Right. The thing about artificial sweeteners is the body doesn't necessarily register differently, right, It still releases insulin, right, these artificial sweeteners, and so your insulin is like your body's primary fat storage hormone. So if you release an insulin on these diet sodas, what you're doing is you're storing fat. Right, So it's probably something we don't want to do. And then the sparta mean has also been linked to and again we can we can scrutinize the studies, but it has had some links to cancer and some other issues with that. UM. There's also something and they're called phosphoric acid. Right. If you look, if you read the ingredients label of your of your soda, phosphoric acid uh you or else? Phosphoric acids used for no, the removal of rust on metals trust in right, and then they put that in soda and you drink it. And while they put in soda, it gives it that like sharp tangy flavor, and it also helps it from getting any bacteria or fungus grown in there, right, But it also leaches calcium from your bones, right, so it makes your bone density less you and makes your bones more brittle over time. So that's probably something we don't really want. UM. And then just being acidic overall is really bad for your gut bacteria. And as we've talked about, what happens in your gut directly is related to what happens in your in your brain, because your gut affects your hormones in your brain, right, So depression, anxiety, stress, all these things we think some mental you know, mental health, it's really our gut. Health is where it starts. So we're drinking a super acidic sodas which then destroys the bacteria of our gut. Doesn't help our mental health. It's been you know, linked to heart disease, diabetes, strokes, and uh. And I guess you you know, agree with me that those are all bad things, things you probably don't want to deal with, you know, So we got to get you off the soda. But then it's always okay, well, what's the solution. Is there something more your transition to There are some sodas on the market that are that are a step up from your commercial sodas. Ones called Ziba ze vii A and so it uses stevia as a sweetener, which which isn't as bad as even these fake sugars or you know, cane sugar or you know, high fuctose corn syrup. Another one's called Buy five Bai five, and and they also, I think, use stevia, and they use like a natural like fruit for coloring and stuff like that. The coloring a lot of times the dark sodas is caramel color, which is just basically like charred sugars from different like corn or grain or whatever. So there those options, or you can always just go with like sparkling water and try to add some flavor to it, like natural flavor, like adding like I'll do. I don't really do sparkling water because being carbonation don't really mesh too well. But I'll put like frozen berries or frozen mango in my in my sparkling water, or not my sparkling water, just in my water. But you can put it in your sparkling water to give it some flavor. And then you have to ask yourself how much of it is the caffeine is what you're really really craving and addicted to, you know, And so if that's the case, then you know you have to look for an alternative caffeine source or trying to kick the caffeine altogether. Do you think you could? So, I don't know, what do you think is the I don't remember what you said? Is the five guys one? What is it? Another? Buy five one? Yeah? Yeah, it's a great place. Yeah, oh yes, yeah, real good? Is that in common grocery stores like your mayor your Croaker? I don't know, you guys have down there. I would probably say, no, you might have to go to a more of a specialty store or I imagine these day and age, if you live anywhere that has Internet, you can look and order things to be delivered, you know, whether it's through Amazon or another similar company like that. Yeah, you might have to look at more of a specialty store. You know. I know that, I know that that ZeVA one is a little more common and you might be able to find that in a regular supermarket. Otherwise, you know, I don't know how far a Whole Foods is or sprouts or something like that from you. Yeah, but I would just look about a line and see, you know, I'll tell you where it's being distributed. But it's like, okay, like it's not going to be that much more expensive. And again, you were talking about your health, right, So if if SODA's going to be a crutchy ers and you're gonna try to transition away from it, it's like, don't buy the lowest grade, cheapest, easiest shit, like, you know, spend a little more money and and trying to at least get the highest quality stuff you can. I was feeling good about myself too. I waited in at two of four today cruiserweight, yeah, and now a cruiserweight. But now you're making me feel bad again, just like man, Like when I was growing up, Like, you know, one of my best friends all through like middle and high school, his breakfast was diet coke and Marlborough reds. I mean that was that was breakfast and like and I hung all of them so much that I adopted some of those habits. I started smoking cigarettes when I was fifteen, and I smoked almost a pack a day for five years. I quit when I was twenty, but yeah, so you know, and both my parents smoked when I was growing up. You know, it was kind of like a Midwest thing, you know, smoking cigarettes and bowling. You know, it's kind of it's a Wisconsin thing. But yeah, so I you know, I had some bad habits you know, in my younger years that luckily for me, I was able to overcome and adopt some better ones. And I drank a lot of sodas a kid, a lot of you know, generic Mountain dew and things like that. Um, but now I I maybe have a soda once every couple of years, and I have a hard time finished. You know, whole can You'll have a couple of SIPs and it's just it's too sweet, and it's it's not really it doesn't really taste too good, so it can be done. It's just, you know, it's it's it all comes down to if you want to and if you don't want you that's cool. It's your life, you know. But I figure that we're gonna be sitting here every week talking and it's not my personality type to not try to offer you some suggestions to try to help, you know, level up a little bit. You know. Oh yeah, that's the that's a T shirt I'm working on, continue to level up. What's the other turn up turn up eating? I'm gonna get eat tiny turn up eating? Man, that's gonna be on a T shirt. But no, I wanted it. You're talking about the Mountain dew h Off brand. Isn't that called a Fago moon mist? It might be, man, I don't know anyone pushed by the Juggalos? Was it? Okay? Your favorite kind of wrestling too? That's where you're trained, right? Yeah? Right? Yeah? Uh yeah? Growing up man, like that was I had, We had all the generic everything, right. It wasn't like instead of like fruit loops. It was like fruit rings, you know, like you know, instead of rice crispies, it was like crispied rice. You know. It's like they look for like a lot of effort in a renaming or whatever. And I was like always so upset. I was like, man, look, why can't we just get the real cereal like the other kids? You know, yeah, it's twice as much, you know, It's like but yeah, so we had all the generic cereals and and sodas, and man, I think back, it's like, man, no wonder, like, oh, you know your son can't pay attention in class. He's hyperactive. It's like, well, you're giving me like eighty grahams of sugar at lunch, you know, like chocolate milk and ice cream sandwiches. And then you're like, okay, go run around for ten minutes and it's like, okay, say it's still for the next four hours. Yeah, it makes no sense, right, I guess it doesn't when you bring that up. Nah, doesn't, it doesn't at all. But yeah, man, I haven't. I haven't really drank soda for a long time. You know. One of our habits back we U when I first broke in and wrestling back in Minnesota. We'd always we'd always go to Subway after camp and we you know, we get different sandwiches. And you know, at the time, I was still vegetarian. I had quite transitioned to to veganism yet, so more options when you eat the cheese and the mayonnaise and things like that. But one of the wrestlers there, who who was probably you know, pushing three fifteen, three twenty, he would go get he would get the foot long and he would get double meat, double cheese, double mao. No vegetables please, man, no vegetables at all. Yeah, man, no vegetables. It was like it was like to him, like that was the that was the toxic poison, right, But it was member was like it wasn't just the no vegetables. It was like doublemo, double cheese, double meat. I'm like, we're just you're doubling down on all of it, man, So you should have released the double light meal. Yeah right, okay, because that makes much difference. This is the people that you know, they go order like the double cheeseburger and the fries and like, oh and a diet coke please, because that's gonna be the thing that's gonna shift that meal from gross tesque and to to oh it's not so bad, though, I got the diet soda instead, right, Like, that doesn't work that way. I just like the taste of diet soda. I do. It's fucking gross, man. I think some people that it really is the case. Man, like diet doctor Pepper, like if some people like the taste more than the regular Yeah, I mean, I guess I think a lot of these tastes are acquired taste. And if you if you get off it for a while and you go back and drink it, you're gonna go, Man, how the fuck did I ever drink this stuff? You know? I really think that's the case. I mean, it's like it's like coffee. You a coffee drinker? No? No? Do you like coffee? No? Yeah? Right? And either did I. The first few times I drank coffee tasted terrible, and I acquired the taste for it now, you know. But when I've gone along stretches and not drink coffee and kind of got out of my system and then go back and have that first couple of SIPs, I'm like, yeah, Jesus Christ, say with beer, you know, be the same way. You know, our taste buds and our likes will adapt if you know, as we as we change our our habits and what we drink. So we'll keep working on it. We'll get you We'll get you off the We'll get you off the soda eventually, work in progress vitamin water. So so, speaking of Minnesota and old training days, uh sad news recently where Thunderblood Charlie Norris passed away. Uh yeah, I saw two different reports, once at fifty seven, once at fifty nine. Old. Yeah, neither one's that old. And so Charlie, you know, for those who don't know, Charlie Norris was um, you know, he was probably most well known as I guess you call it enhancement talent for wc W back in the day. But you know that that upper echel on enhancement talent, you know, yeah, big guy, like a really like a big guy, super nice and when I broke in, uh you know two thousand, Charlie was one of those events that had TV experience, you know that we can kind of look to and be like all right, cool, like there's a path for us to someday get to TV because we're you know, we're in these locker rooms with guys who have been there, you know, and other guys like you know, Sean Waltman, XPOC and Jerry Lynn had also kind of come out of that area. So we had some some role models sort of speak to look too, so that we felt like, okay, like that could be us someday, Like guys from here have gone there, and Charlie was one of those guys, and it was just always really cool. And so one of my funny stories I remember my first time, in my first trip up to Canada, we're doing a big road trip with the crew and we're going up to like Winnipeg area to do it, so to go do some shows, and we're in like these two vans. Charlie got winto the fact that I had some some tasty green flowers in my possession, and from the minute he found that out, he switched. He switched vans and we were in I was his brother now brother brother, Hey, hey brother, just sitting next to me, chatting me up. Every time we stopped. Hey, brother, let's go, let's go. We gotta get rid of that before we get to the border. Let's go, let's go get rid of that. Before we get supporter and through it, bow through it, because you don't want to try to take it it through you know, through the border and through customs or whatever. So he made sure to help me get rid of everything before before we got there. But yeah, I just remember that, I remember that story when I read about reading motors passing that he befriended me and I became his brother pretty quick on that trip, and for me was great because again I'm you know, I'm super brand new and green and now I'm getting you know, chatted up with him and pick his brand a little bit and feel like accepted, you know from a guy that that you know, had some success. So local guy that's always feel good too, like you said, like yeah, and he and he was a guy that too, you know, even though he had his you know, had his cup of coffee and and got to you know, do TV wrestling, like when he came back and was doing shows with us, there was never any big league in or you know, any any any ego or whatever. You know. He was just kind of one of the boys, you know, and so yeah, so sad to see that, you know, we lost sid Sidebuster Kenny Ju a little bit before that too. And that's a guy that also old school, old school wrestler that had been doing this for a long long time, old a WA enhancement guy and actually actually faced Muhammad Ali in an exhibition match. Yeah, wrestler versus boxer. And it's a good story. Yeah. Yeah. So sad day for um Innesota wrestling in the past couple of weeks here. So rest in peace to those two gentlemen. It's part of life. It's never any fun to deal with. But one thing I've come to learn in my uh in my experiences now through some of my plant medicine ceremonies, is death is nothing to fear. It's it's a beautiful transition to to to the next, to the next realm, to the evolution of our soul. So it's it's definitely given me a different perspective to not fear it and not and not to look at as completely as a as a sad thing. So it's sad for us here in this realm, in the three D experience on Earth. But you know, depend on what you believe. It's just a part of the transition to to our next, to our next journey. So see in the next journey's two D. For all we know, ideally you want to be moving the other direction and you want to be going to the fourth and fifth dimension. Yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. But for you you keep drinking soda, Yeah, probably gonna be two D. Vitamin water, vitamin watertam Yeah, that stuff's okay. But you know what you can get the same. So you can again, you can take water like you can take a good like you know, filtered spring water, and you can add your own electrolytes, and you can add your own natural sweeteners again just adding a few pieces of fruit, some lemon juice. Man, add some squeeze some some organic lemon juice and a little bit of and a little bit of sea salt in there. And that basically, you know, is gatorade, right, That is vitamin water, right. And so if you're having to rely on things like vitamin water to get your vitamins, you need to take another look at your dietary choices because that's not where you should be trying to get your vitamins in my opinion, right, we should trying to be trying to be getting through supplements or water. You know, this is where it comes back to eating eating nutritious food, not colorically dense food. Doesn't have any nutrition in it, right, And then and then when we cook food, we start killing the nutrients, start killing the enzymes. So reading all this stuff and reading all these calories, but we're not actually get what our body wants, which is vitamins and nutrients, and then we're still hungry. Why am I still hungry? Because your body is still starving for the thing it wanted. It didn't want calories, it wanted nutrients, right, and so anyway, I won't that's poling. That's poling enough find you here in one episode. Well we'll switch it up a little bit. So what if I added some iron and lead in the water, then it would just be flnt Michigan. Basically, yeah, some fluoride. Put some fluoride in the water too. Don't even get me started on floor. We don't have enough time for me to get started on fluoride. We'll do it. We'll do that some other week. Okay, Okay, Well no, Nevertheless, it's a good lesson and something to a good practice. I guess one could say, yeah, I think so. So I had an idea. I had an idea for like a little segment. Right. So, I don't know if you remember back in the Ring of Otter HD NET days, if you watched any of that stuff going away back m So I did this. I was as my second reign as the world champion there I had this idea I came up with. It was called the Austin Airies Lucky Lottery, and the premise was every every week on TV, I would put fifty of the top wrestlers around the world into a hat and I would draw a name out for a shot at the ring about our world title. Okay, yeah, Now, being a bad guy at the time, the whole idea was, you know, they weren't really the fifth top you know, fifty top wrestlers in the world, Like they were just a bunch of ham and eggers, right, So I'd pull out some you know, lower level guys and then just beat him up, right, So that was the whole thing. Or like I remember one week I pulled out keny Omega's name, knowing that keny Omega was in Japan and he couldn't possibly challenge me for the title, right. So right, I was like always gonna try to make a big name for himself in Japan. Well, good luck with that, I'd say, I'd say he did extremely well, right, yeah, good star matches. Yeah, but yeah ten star matches. So I've had some ten star matches. If you add like three of my matches up, you get to ten stars. Yep, just like just I can just like I can bench four hundred and fifty pounds over you know, over like ten reps. Yeah yeah, if you had him all yeah, exactly had him all up. But yeah, So I had this premise of the Lucky Lottery and actually ended in this really cool segment where I did a fireball to Tyler Black now known as Seth Rollins. He came down of the rain to basically call me out on the scam, and I told him he could pick the name out this week if he thinks it's a scam. You picked the name out. And when he picked the name out, it was a blank He's like he was a blank piece of paper, but it was actually a lighter like flash paper, and I lit it and it did a fireball. Sounds always a big mark for fireballs back of the day, Yeah, you know, and you used to have those. So but anyway, so going off that idea, I thought about doing a segment called Big Bird wants to Know. Okay, okay, okay, you're asking it yourself. What the fuck does big Bird have to do with this? Well, this is one of my oldest hats in my collection. I've had since college. Oh great visual here. Got it at a thrift store in college. Used to wear it on stage when I sang in a heavy metal cover band. And for me, and this is my sense of humor for those of you who who want to get to know me a little better, there was something hilarious about me, like singing like God's Smack or Metallica. Yeah, like headbanging with Big Bird on my head, just doing this right like there's just because it was like it's it's visual right now if you can't see big Birds got a little head flapping off the top of this. Yuh tomalgan here and so when so when you're rock in your head, he's also right big we're just jamming out to heavy metal. So to me, that was funny. So I'd wear it during my shows sometimes, but I've just kept the head all the ears because it's like work. You were you to find one of these, crazy you didn't lose it. I dare you to try to Amazon this or find this somewhere. It's it's this is a collector's item at this point. Right, So the segment is going to be called Bird Wants to Know And basically when it take questions from the listeners that have submitted questions through email at Austinary Show at gmail dot com, if they've submitted questions via DM on Twitter Austinary Show or Instagram Austinary Show. And so people can submit questions and I'll take the questions and we'll put them in the big bird hat and I'll draw one or two out every week and we'll answer questions from the listeners. What do you think of that idea? That's a good that's a good idea. I like it. But what if they questions something like ridiculous, like I don't even want to throw anything out. No, No, that that's good, right, because that's good something I thought about. People will say, well, yeah, but you get to you ultimately, if you write in the question down to put in the hat, you get to kind of censor the questions a little bit, right, But that's that's kind of the thing about me, right, I'm pretty transparent. There's no skeletons in my closet I'm worried about. There's really I'm pretty much an open book. I'm hoping that that quality is one thing that's going to drop people to this podcast over time. Is you know, I kind of think of myself as just a normal guy in a lot of ways, no different than the listeners, are different than the fans. And I don't really have anything to hide, you know. I think that all my qualities, my good and bad qualities, you know, all the mistakes I've made in my life can just be tools to help other people or help them connect and realize that they're not alone. So there's really to me, like really no questions that are like you know, you know, out of bound, nothing that oh we can't talk about that, right and so, And that's why I kind of waited a while to ever do one of these shows, because I didn't want to do it at a time where I felt like I had to be very careful about my reputation or my perception of these things. And I'm at that place in my life I don't care. I am who I am, and I'm comfortable to who I am, and and you know, I have a lot of great people in my life that that love me for who I am, and I love them for who they are, and we'll go with that. So yeah, so there's really no questions, you know, unless you're just trying to be unless you're just trying to be an asshole, and and and there's no substance or no value to the question. I don't really have anything to hide from. So submit the questions and I'll jot down. I'll jot them down, you know, every week, jots them down, and we'll start accumulating in in the Big Bird hat and then every week we'll do Big Bird Wants to Know. So we're gonna kick this off today. You we had something okay, Yeah, yeah, we've had Yeah, we've had a few questions come in after the last couple episodes. You know, we told people where they could, so I've been a few questions. So we got a handful of ones in here, and we're gonna take some out here, all right. So this question is from yea yeah f from Instagram, and her question is what's uh, what's the favorite place uh you've ever been to for wrestling? Okay, that's that's a good question. Um, And I've been you know, I've always said, like one of the absolute best things that that pro wrestling has done for me is allowing me to travel the world, right, because like where I grew up in my family and in my circle around me, traveling really well, it's a big part of the of the equation, you know. And cheese, Yeah right, cows and cheese, you know. And so go over to the bowling alley, you know, that was that was a big excourge skating ring. Skating ring was peaking in roller skating. Yeah, we had skate skate Land. I'm a terrible roller skater and ice skater for being a decent athlete, that that's not where my athletic ability ever translated. Yeah, so I've been I've been blessed to travel, you know, all over the world to places I never never thought i'd be. Man and so another thing about I very rarely have favorites, Like I've places I like in places I don't like. It's like, what's your favorite band, I'm like, I don't have a favorite. I don't have a favorite much of anything. So and and so I hope uh Yeaya is not disappointed that I don't like zero and on one place, But I'll give I'll give some places over my favorites. One of my first favorite places I got to go was Australia before they got all super fucking crazy during COVID or whatever locked everything down and uh oh man. I I got some friends that were like in special forces and stuff in Australia, and yeah, they they flew, they fled out of there. We we you know, met him, met him down in Mexico. Is like people were fleeing from all their respective countries and getting out while they could not having to deal with some of that nonsense. But um, yeah, So but my first my first time in Australia was awesome. Like I just ay, I love I love the ocean and so obviously it's a it's a big island, so there's lots of beaches and uh and and surprisingly like Australia is like got three of like the top five vegan cities like in the world as far as just options and to eat and things like that. So I had a great time visiting a lot of places. I went there for World World Series Wrestling Uma, which yeah, which was a great which is and I think they're backup running now again. They obviously took a little hiatus. Yeah. Man, just a great tour well run Um. Loved all the local local wrestlers that I met there, um and just the you know, the time of the year that I was going the way that was beautiful. I got to go dip myself in the ocean and go playing in the beach a little bit, So that definitely was one of my favorite spots. I also would say Chile. When I went to Chile, h was it was also I'm sorry Peru, Well, I went to chilean Peru, but a Pru. I'm thinking of Prue. So when I went to Perue, that was really cool experience. More so for the fact I stayed after my show and went to Machu Pichu and that's you know, that's obviously like one of the top destinations. Are you familiar with Machu Pichu? No? No, okay, So Machu Pichu is like this, it's this like it's this town that was built up on top of these mountains and it's considered like a very like sacred and kind of you know, spiritual land. But when you get up there, you're just trying to you're just trying to figure out like how the fuck did they build this all the way up here? Like how did they get all these stones up here on top of this mountain? Why did they build it up here? Like hout and so, yeah, it's become a big tourist destination now, but I can only imagine before they were commercializing it, like just a level of spirituality and specialness that that place had. So I went with one of my one of my good buddies, you know, he came with and we took a day and you take basically you're an only into Tambo, which is this town, and you got to take a train to the city and then from there you got to take a bus or you can hike. You can actually hike over the course of days. And some people do this. They'll hike up the mountain over a few days and get to the top. We took like a forty five minute Just think about there's a forty five minute bus right up the mountain, which tells you how big this is. And then you get up there and yeah, man, there is al pack is up there and like all these old forts, and you see how everything was aligned with the sun and the stars, the windows and all the different buildings and stuff like that. Just a pretty cool experience. So those are two spots that kind of stick out and Tom I had as far as wrestling, non wrestling wise, I just got back from Spain not that long ago, and I really really liked Spain again, you know. It was it was able to hang out at the beaches and then enjoy some of the sand in the sun. He tried not to come back. I tried not to come back, but I could only be there three months at a time on a tourist pisis, so I couldn't stay indefinitely. So I'm back now and who knows, maybe I'll return here later on in the year. And I actually found some some independent wrestling over there. It was curious, can I wonder if there's like indie wrestling here? And it was really the day that I thought that I was in. I was in a place called Kelpe, which isn't a really big city. It's along it's along the coast, and I was walking, I was walking downtown else and I saw a flyer for an indie wrestling show that it just happened the weekend before, and so I actually snapped a picture of it and DM the guy on instagrammed and we hopped out of phone and just had a conversation about what the scenes like there and and any opportunities and so yeah, so maybe next time I go back there, I'll I'll do a seminar or something and maybe do a show in Spain. So that was pretty cool? Is cool? Boy? Thinks you would do one more question? Or we got to wrap this up where we have time? Wise? Uh about fifty five minutes, yo, we can do one more question. All right, let's do it. We'll do one more all right. This question is from I like this at Bob Orton's cast on Twitter Bob Orton's Castay, all right, all right, check, I'll have to check that out. All right, So he said, Jim Cornette has said many bad things about you. He said you wanted to just be a manager when you were the highest paid guy at ring Aboter. Why is that? I remember? I remember this? This is years ago now, I remember this episode of the Jim Cornettic. Yeah, yeah, experience. I remember this. Yeah, I was. I was informed of that episode and heard that too. Um. Listen, somethings Jim Cornett has said about by are absolutely true. I've owned up to him bright Um as far as you know, not being the happiest that particular time in my life and at the time we were to gather and ring a bottle. I think I touched upon that a couple episodes ago. You know, he said that once. I was quoted as saying, you don't pay me enough to not have an opinion. I one percent said that to him. I can see that, yeah, you know, because in contacts, and this is the important contacts. While I was the highest paid guy there at the time, I wasn't even making fifty thousand dollars a year as a two time world champion on top of the card, and I was making less, to my knowledge than the general manager was making, who had no rest and experience or respect really in my opinion, for the men and women that were busting their ass in the ring, so that he had a job at all. The question of he said, I just wanted to be a manager. That's one of the cases where Jim kind of tells a half truth, right, and Jim's good at this. He embellishes some things and then he tells half truth, so he's not lying completely, but he's not really telling the full picture. So the truth is at least from my perspective, and there's always three sides to every story. Then I just wanted to be a manager. It was I felt like they weren't really utilizing me, you know, as much as they could. I'd already kind of done everything I could do there as far as winning titles, being on top. You know, few is this and that. So when I suggest it was, hey, in addition to not only in addition to what I'm already doing as a wrestler, you know, you can put me to the main advance, You can do these things with me. Why didn't you have me manage some guys and hopefully elevate their game by association. Plus, managing was always something I thought would be a natural transition for me as I got older, because I felt like I had a lot of the tools that translate into being a good manager. I can talk, got a personality. I'm not a super I'm not a really big guy, which is a manager is actually a bonus because by proxy, it's going to make the guys you're managing look bigger. And I can bump. I can take bumps, right, and so there's a payoff to you know, when a manager camp bump. It's hard to have a payoff a lot of times, right, so at least by being all takes some bumps. I was like, okay, Like, so let me get some experience. And I'm thinking, like, who better to learn under and start doing some managing and get some some you know, feedback from them. Fucking Jim Cornette one of the greatest managers of all time in my opinion, right, And I just saw like recently they're they're starting to get some some seam about getting a Midnight Express and Jim Cornell the Hall of Fame, like Apps of fucking Lootley, they belong in the Hall of Fame, right, So anyway, so that's just to clear that up. I wasn't just trying to be a manager. I was trying to be a manager in addition to everything else they wanted to do with me. I was just trying to make myself as valuable as possible. Hey, I can do more, I can wear more hats. Let me get some experience doing this. I did the managing thing. I managed Kenny King and Reet Titus when they formed the team the All Night Express, you know, which is a name, but I came up with, right playoff of the Mint Express, the All That Express. Instead of having the tennis racket, I had the Sherlock Holmes pipe. That was my gimmick, right and I, you know, blue smoke and some opponent's faces a couple times create distractions and help my team win. So yeah, so that's that's story behind it. I wasn't I wasn't just trying to be a manager. I was trying to do that in addition to whatever else they wanted to do with me. So again, you know, Jim didn't quite tell the whole truth there, nothing but the truth. But but that's okay. He's trying to you know, he's trying to keep his listeners, and you know, he's trying to be a podcaster, which, hey, no, I'm trying to be a podcaster. So I get it. I think there was another question that I had off of that, I already call him saying that you polluted Kenny King's thoughts and basically or it's possible I don't, okay, don't quote me. It's possible that you are the individual that polluted Kenny King's thoughts was led to him basically breaking his contract. Okay, well I don't. I don't know if I clouded his thoughts. I certainly would never ever suggest it was that's what you're doing to the locker room. That's what he was implying. Sure, well, well, I mean there's there's two perspectives and ways to look at this. So one I say it like it is right at least from my perspective of what I see. And if that paints a bad picture, it's you know, that's because the way it is isn't good. It's not because I'm embellishing or making things up. So first of all, I would never suggest anyone breaks a contract or goes against the agreement. I don't I would never do that, not the way I do business. There might be some truth to it from this aspect, right, going back to what I said earlier, I was on top of the card there making under fifty thousand dollars a year, or I should a hundred fifty two thousands, less than a grand a week. I wasn't even pulling a grand a week. Okay, So now you have all these young guys who are who are being asked to take really shitty contracts of one hundred two hundred bucks a night sign exclusivity where they couldn't go work for other certain places. And they're all looking to me, going, well, yeah, but if I do this, hopefully someday I'll get to be whererost it is. But Austin is going well, well, a lot of second guys. You might think that there's some gold at the end of the rainbow, but I'm staring in the pot and there's no pot of gold. There's no gold in this rain at the end of the rainbow. So just keep that in mind that when you make decisions to take a terrible contract, now that the payoff isn't anything like you might think it is, So just keep that in mind to make your decision accordingly. And that was what upset That's what upset these guys is because I want I spoke the truth about the reality of the situation at the time, and if that painted a bad picture, I'm sorry. Then change the picture. Stop asking guys to take terrible contracts, Stop taking perks away from guys that had perks, Start respecting the guys that had been there. Again, my students that had been there setting up the rings, driving all the towns, tearing it down, setting it up that weren't getting the pay of the respect they deserved. You know. The thing was, so did I cloud Kenny King's mind that you know, maybe I don't know. I mean, I just gave perspective to the situation. But Kenny King's a grown ass man. He makes his own decisions. He's not being let around by me. And I think the assertion that somehow Kenny King was a pretty smart cat is going to be like, you know, let around by me is silly, right. Kenny Kings just a smart dude, And when and when he got a little perspective of the situation, he made with decision that he thought was best for him. I think this all ties in with the point though, being the persona that you had as far as being very talented but miserable son of a bitch, it wasn't even miserable, man. It was just I was angry about shit. Yeah, that is literally sure. You know. It was just I was angry and upset as some things that were happening that I was pervy to the situation. Right again, I had some things going on in my personal life, you know that, you know, relationship stuff. Finding out one of my colleagues was was having sex with my girlfriend ex girlfriend while she still lived with me. That's a difficult thing to navigate, as you can imagine, then having to come to work, and then just some things you know, with the company, like you know, and again I don't know what's one hundred percent factually true, because because it's just things that I heard. But they had an opportunity to have a good a good deal with the hd NET and infused some capital into the company and give guys proper contracts, and they passed on it because they didn't want to get rid of that GM who is probably hide and I knew where the bodies were buried, so to speak. And so that for me was a big red play because we'd all been, you know, working for not a ton of money, you know, being very physical in the style of wrestling, and I felt like when there was time to pay the boys back, the deal was passed down because it was going to jeopardize maybe some secrets and some skeletons ever hid in the closet, and that didn't sit well with me. But listen, that's old news. We're not going to sit here and rehash it. It is what it is. Everyone's going to have their perspective. I certainly look back at that, and you know, listen, if I go back and do some things differently or a dress things in a better way, yeah, I'd probably do that. You know. I think I'm matured a little bit and grown as a person since you know, two thousand and eight or nine or wherever that was. And I hope so I hope we all have hope we all grow and mature as we you know, our decade older than we were then. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna harp on it. It's not something I think about too often now unless people bring it back up. And it's still something that, you know, because Jim's talked about it so so frequently over the years on his on his platforms. Is some that's still alive, and and a lot of the stuff things I've never really addressed, you know, the other side of the story. Um, and so it might come up from time to time on these episodes, but but frankly, man, there's a million other things I'd rather be talking about than than Jim Cornette or two thousand and nine Ring of Honor. So and we're gonna do that. I've got some really cool guests lined up, some from the restling world some from outside the resting world. Cool man, This is a good episode, right. Yeah. One thing alla you escape though, is the turnip thing. I'm going to have that on a T shirt soon and I'm going to bring that up all the time. So just said we make T shirts of it. I feel like one of these weeks when we Okay, here's what we're gonna do when we unveil the T shirts. Right, I'm actually gonna also eat turnips here on the show for the time ever, because I've ever had a turn up before, so I like this. Well, make some turnups, will unveil the teeny tiny turn up India Man T shirts that will we'll put on pro wrestling teas probably or wherever you know we think's best. Jeff T shirts also maybe Jeff T shirts. Yeah, we'll do both and uh and then I'll eat some turnups on here and uh and they'll be cool. I liked son of that. Well, No, I'm excited, so no, next week sounds fun. This has been another fun one man, And it's important to also mention that, like you said earlier, the email is Austin Arias Show at gmail dot com. If you have any questions comments that you said before, death threats, anything you want to throw at Austin. He's used to your questions in big Bird's hat. Yeah, yeah, get you some of that, Big Bird, And I will have the website Austin Area Show dot com done one day. I will have it one day. With all the things I'm managing, I'm gonna get to it. I swear. Yeah. Will Still people still people still use websites. Is that still a thing? We have just completely transitioned over to social media. No, Yeah, people still use websites because you never know when the social media will get rid of you or go bye bye or a true yeah shadow bay, or to own your own readier account because because you didn't because you shared an opinion that was contrary to the narrative, you're sharing misinformation and then you know, six months later it's like all the information was actually the misinformation, or all the misinformation was actually the truth. Right here we go, Here we go. No, that's a that's a rabbit hole. But no, I think it's just important not to have all your eggs in one basket. I guess that's all I could sum it up. Sweet, All right, man, we got something cool to say or like because I can end it with my favorite saying if you want me to. This is how you do it this week, and I'll think of up a cool saying for next Kay. Until next week, keep being you, keep being great, and don't litter and don't litter. There we go, baby yours, Jeff Townsend, Media Bart
