What's she gonna do? Brother? When Jeff Townsend Media runs wild on you, I am looking buzzard your brief when you got bam just letting my hair grow me too, dude, you like it? Man? I got this good, Dude, I'm I'm letting to go. Man, it's good. I used to just like buzz it basically, but then I'm like, like, I'm making it look worse, you know, like I know I'm going bold like buzzing. It doesn't really hilp. You gotta keep it like really buzzed, really buzzed. Yeah. I've cut my own hair my whole life. Basically, I've always kept it relatively short. But the bowl cut, no, not a bowl cut, man. I'm pretty I'm pretty handy with the uh, with the with the electric electric shaver, not too bad. But I've been telling myself for a while, I'm gonna let the hair grow out at least, you know, one final time while I still have it. And but it always gets to that weird phase We're like, I gotta cut this, and so they're like, is there about two weeks ago and I didn't cut it. So what I did do is buy a couple of these hats so I can start covering the covering the head during that in between phase, which is quite a long phase for a lot of us, as far as letting the hair grow out. So see my thing is here on the sides grow fast right yeah, in the top, So I go every once in a while, I'm getting these sides trend and I'm not haven't touched the top for probably five months sure, four months maybe, I don't know, but every once in a while I'm getting because it'll catch up on the side. Man, it'll be crazy. So well, I do like my uncle bobbed it for years. He had the comb over that started here and he would comb it all the way over to cover all the bald you know. And I remember thinking at one point I was a kid, I was like, man, when he gets out of the shower, you must look hilarious because like he's all ball that it just has like hair, just just like one side of his you know, they puts it over. But hopefully I'm not going to be there. Hopefully keep keep this head of hair for a while, you know, do my best? Yeah you like, does my lighting look better today? I feel like I up the anti Yeah man, yeah you look like you. Well, I think you are some warm weather. You almost look at you got a little bit of color in your face. This just might be the way I actually, I've been sitting like I took the lightbulb this like a double side, Like there's two sides of the light, right, two lightbulbs. I took the one out over my head. So then I use my actual lights, liver ring lights. So yeah, yeah, it's better, looks way better. And blue looks nice on you too. It's good. It's my favorite caller man blue color for you, and I've got some great coming in on my beard down here. Nice, you're doing good man. Yeah, I'm surprised you don't have some gray not tonight. That tonight, Well, you're not gonna ever use that just for men stuff, so you're gonnay, you're going gray, I mean just for men's probably one of the lower gray hair coloring systems you could use. But no, you know, I've I've disclosed this before. I I color the hair a little bit here, I'm not I'm not letting the gray out gracefully. I'm not quite ready yet. So maybe when I hit fifty or something, I'll change my mind. As I said, you know, pick your poisons. And I guess one of the concessions that excuse me, concessions I make is, uh, you know, a little hair color here and there, keep the grays away. Yeah. What are you drinking tonight, Jeff? What do you got grape juice? Okay? All right? And I wrote on the solo cup get money nice Okay, grape juice not grape drank. There's a difference, correct. Yeah, I got some probiotic, got health t like, got a little center and flavor to it. So well, I mean I'm going to get I'm trying to cut out the pop. This is like a step right now. It's not it's not it's still sugary. I know that. Yeah, but this is a progressive that's going to progress. Yeah. It's actually to the point now where your lists are listeners are messaging me telling me things to drink, yeah, to get you going, yeah, or order to not get in trouble, depend on what side of the fence they fall on. Yeah. Yeah, I had people actually telling me what to do to get you upset. Then I had people telling me what not to do. So that's how you know, I guess we're getting somewhere. Well, there's really not much worse than drinking cow's milk or whatever on my podcast. That's that pretty much. That's pretty much that, you know, the top of the list. I released that episode today and I really need to go back and get a clip from it. When you say to me, or are you just fucking stupid about something? I thought, Man, that needs to be like an audio gram, you know, yeah, just fucking stupid. But then our guest is sitting on there, just he didn't say anything the first five minutes when you're reaming my ass about what I'm drinking. Then all of a sudden, like we have a guest, yeah, Brian, you know, but Brian knew exactly where I was coming from because me and Brian already had their talk when he had the cancer diagnoses, Like broke, Get off the fucking milk, man, it's a growth hormone, you know, Like that's the last thing you want to be drinking if you've got cancer. So how do the show go last week? Without me? I mean I think it went pretty smooth. You know, not to not to demand, not to diminish what you do, um, but I was able to hit the buttons myself and get recording and you only had to message me once. Yeah, lots, he'll be lost by We lost Bobby for a moment on his end, but he was able to pop back on. And yeah, I think we get a two parter out of that because I think we talked for an hour and a half maybe when was close to two hours. So um, yeah, that was a good conversed wrestling talk. I think some of the listeners will that are a lean to that wrestling side will enjoy it. Yeah, and we'll have that. You know, obviously, when we have people on like like Brian and his story, it might be a little less wrestling. But when obviously and if I have colleagues on from the wrestling world, it'll probably be a little more wrestling heavy than normal. So and there's nothing wrong with that, but yeah, but he's an interested in dude, And really what was I was most interested to bring them us. I found out that he'd gone vegan along with his wife a year ago, and that was really why I was interested to get him on and I chat about that more so credible story though with the cancer diagnosis and some of the things that the doctors tried to tell him to do that. You kind of defined they are talking about Brian, I was talking about Bobby Leap vegan. Oh Bobby went vegan. No, yeah, that's why I had probably vegan. Shit. I was hoping you'd need me so like I was like the missing piece, so I could say it was me, Austin, it was me all along, but didn't work out that way. Fucking Mark. Have you heard that? Have you heard that a lot in your life? No? I tried not to such a shitty story a lot anyway. Yeah, so you were gone last week? Where were you? I was in Texas doing some work. I was in Long View, Texas. It was nice and warm. I come back to thirty five degree weather. It was about eighty three degrees. So it's nice to get somewhere a little bit warm for a few days. But a lot of work to be done. And of course, no matter where how long you travel, it's exhausting. Could just be one day of half a day of traveling, something about it's just exhausting, so normal last day up till two or three in the morning every night. But man, I was just beat. That's why the episodes got out later. Man, I was just beat. Highly I couldn't say that past midnight for some reason. It took me a few days to recover. Man, I don't know. Well, if you're not used to it too, it's it can be rough. I surprisingly for me, Man, I've I've never really gotten much jet leg takes a lot for me to get thrown off. I think I'm just used to it. Catch my sleep when I can, and I just pretty quickly to new schedules. Not to say that I that I haven't had my sleep schedule thrown off, but I just tend to always be able to Readjust I think it's just something with my line of work is you don't always have the luxury of taking a day or two to recalibrate. You got a lot of times you travel, even in Nashally, you got to go right to a show or the next day, and you just got to kind of figure it out. So and uh, And I actually think I mentioned this uh one of the last podcast episodes. But I got a big travel experience coming up here shortly at the end of March, as I'm heading off to India for a couple of months. It's it's official. I'll be leave in the thirtieth of March and I'll be there until the thirtieth of May. And that's a long travel day. I got to go to New York first, and then New York over to New Delhi and then I've got a connecting flight the next morning to Rishikesh, which is the birthplace of yoga. And uh, yeah, I'm gonna we live in an astron for a couple of months and go dive into my yoga practice head first. Maybe by the time we see you again, you'll have like hair length to your like shoulder. That's kind of what I'm That's what I'm thinking, you know, maybe maybe I'll have a big, long white beard and long white hair by the time I come back. Yeah, look like Gandolf or something. We got in a pretty good position though, to at least take a little bit of time off there. We've definitely been going over on things and so I mean should be uh, there'll be a definitely a gap in time though where we actually record after the end of this month. Yeah, as far as the show goes, we're gonna have The plan is to have some in the can and that's what we've done some some double episodes with some of these guests and we got a couple more coming up, so that way I have at least the first month to kind of get acclimated there. But I will be bringing my equipment and I do actually want to kind of do a couple of shows from India and just talk about my experience. I think i'd be kind of cool to do something on location. I will have Wi Fi there and I'll have an off day, you know, outside of the training that I'll be doing, and uh yeah, so that'd be fun. It should be interesting. I've got you the perfect mic for travel. It even comes with that bag with the stand. Oh, I take it when I travel, like it's yeah, I take it. When I traveled last week, I didn't record, but an anticipation that I might, of course I took it. And it doesn't take up any room hardly, so it's definitely convenient. Yeah. Yeah, the setup is pretty easy obviously. I don't need this big armed thing. That's just I have a small little stand and headphones, camera, light, computer, Easy peasy, because I'm really not taking a lot with me, to be honest, because I'm gonna be pretty heavily intense into the yoga training, the meditation, the breathwork, you know, six days naked the whole time, not going to be naked the whole time. It's actually the opposite, Jeff. It's actually very modest over there. Yeah. Yeah, you're wearing like overalls, puff jackets. No, not quite. Could be harder to yoga, and that wouldn't it. You probably would never Yeah, you probably won't find out. How many times have you done yoga in your life? Jeff? Does DDP yoga count? No, because it's not yoga. If you asked, if you ask me DDP, I'll tell you it's DDP. Why not DDP yoga. It's like it's very specific about that. He wants to brand it like P ninety x. Right, so it's DDP ye. If you call it DDP yoga, you'll get a stern look. When I was in college, that's when it was making it big. Damn. It's crazy to think that's well over a decade now when he rolled all that out. Yeah, it was all DVD then, right, but right, Yeah, no, so I did. I was actually pretty into it. It was I worked it in my workout regimen when I was in college. So question anything on there some yoga I've done? Gotcha's so and that's not really yoga. It's some of the moves and stuff. Though i've I've I did, Yeah, But so I understand that yoga isn't. We've kind of bastardized yoga in the Western culture, like we do basically everything. We bastardize everything. Yoga in and it's self is kind of a it's a lifestyle more than anything, and it's it's really to do. Yes, the movements is part of yoga, and that's the part we all think of, but there's also breathing techniques, meditation techniques, cleansing techniques, a way to eat, a way to live, a way to dress, things to abstain from. So yoga is really a holistic practice, and what we've taken is the athletic part, or the movement part, and we've kind of westernized that for all your yoga classes that you know, all the soccer moms like to go to, and there is benefit to that part of the yoga, but that's only one of the eight limbs of yoga. Is the actual movement part. So and so yeah, So like a lot of westernized yoga is you know, getting a little sample of it, but not really in its authentic state. And so I've been thinking about this for a while, but I felt the time to do it. And you know, I've I've got some free time right now. I'm not tied down really by much of anything. So I'm gonna go right to Rishikesh and that's like the birthplace of yoga. And so, yeah, I expect it to be a little commercialized because obviously it's a yoga school. They're they're teaching yoga, um. But it's gonna be in a very authentic place with teaching the different layers of yoga, not just the movements I'm looking forward to. It's gonna be intense. I looked at the kind of mock schedule and it's we're up at five at am every day and you know we do you know, we do meditation and chanting, We do a couple of different yogas throughout the day, we learn um, you know, the philosophy, the anatomy. You know, we we eat a couple times a day and then you know, lights are out by nine o'clock so we can be back up at five souh. Wow. Yeah, it's gonna be it's nanting like like it's just like a like the remember the titans kind of chant. Oh, look we too that we are the yoga man masters. Ida might a yoga master. No, uh, not exactly. Have you have you heard of Kureton singing? No, no, I didn't think so. Curtain singing, he said, curtain Kyreton. By the way, By the way, do me a favor. Please, don't ever try to go into comedy because you have the worst sense of humor. Just just want to throw that out there. I could see the same thing to you. No. Actually, actually I've actually done stand up comedy, and so I've actually done comedy podcast. Actually I have one now that I rolled out that you don't even know about it. Neither does anybody else. That's how good it is. Yeah, it's beating our downloads. Man, I don't even know how well. It's probably cause it's named Jeff. It's just named Jeff. I haven't told anybody about it. People just keep listening to it. I don't know, Like they're typing in Jeff and they're like, what the fuck is this? And then you know, they end up listening to it and then I don't what the fuck is this? Yeah, you're right, maybe I'm not actually funny, but I do have a comedy podcast. Yeah, there you go. So I do have a backup plan in place in case you get caught up and we need to get an episode. I'm gonna I could bring on a special guest. I have that set up in case you fall through for one episode. Who's that a disco inferno? He's excited to talk about how I used to manage you and TNA and book your stories. So I thought it'd be good, but that never happened. Oh well that's kind of a problem. Okay, well never one. Remember it's the Austin Aias show, so we don't need to have Jeff having special guests on there. If for some reason there's a break, then we'll just go on hiatus for a week or two. Not a big deal. It's just to be an India. You won't even know. I could do whatever, Like it could be a party, you know, I bet you could. And then and then that'll probably the last episode that you'd be taking part in because remember, like we need we need Austin aios for the Austin Area show, but we don't really need Jeff Townsend to be a bit true. But you know, it's just like you know, you don't need me to do your discourse on Twitter with all your other podcast friends, right, yeah, so I'll just kind of staying ere Lane, And it's a good thing. I don't wait for you to edit the podcast. I'd never get that, son of a bitch, no kidding, no kid, I gotta some of the brewers. You got a bruise on your arm, man, you gotta like yeah, man, I'm a pro wrestler Canadian. Yeah. I just just had picked up a show here this last weekend here in Florida, a little impromptu show. Oh, I didn't know that. We get Bruce sometimes it's uh, it's it's a physical business. I got a bruise on my rib. Actually, I was installing a new car seat as love workout. Dude. Things are monsters, man right. They make them safe these days, but god damn to the size of the car. You know, well, I know it's especially for you to fit in there, you know. Yeah, yeah, so man, I actually I was a Jeff That was a Jeff Townsend joke right there. You like that? Yeah, it was good. I thought it was funny. You think everyone let me, I think, go ahead, I'm so bad. I do get you to smirk everyone once in a while. You don't like to admit it, but the tom petty thing got you. I saw the smile. I have it on recording. You did let out a smile. It's it's not a it's that's not really a smile like that right there, Like that's not really a smile. Like you don't want to know what I'm muttering, and I like internally or like under my breast. You know, I can only imagine you gotta remember, right you know this right here? You think that's a smile. I'm not thinking anything funny or good right now? Can I ask you a few wrestling questions? You can't, but you let let me. Let me finish my explanation to Kureton before it makes a bad joke about it. So, so Kirton is a form of chanting, right, It's it's it's it's chanting to the gods. And so there's the most famous Cureton singer's name is Christiana Us and he was actually originally the singer for a band that became known as the Blue Oyster Cult. And he actually went off to India on his own spiritual journey and he met he met his guru there and yeah, and ended up singing this cureton and it's a very interesting it's a very interesting music. And it's a form of almost active meditation to where he chants one line or sings one line and then the audience repeats that line and they do this back and forth. And some of these songs are fifteen minutes long, if not longer. And the ideas as you're chanting to these gods and repeating what you're hearing is you're free of other thought. You're just focused on that. And again, when you can free your mind of all the chatter and all the other thoughts that are always swimming around in there, that is a form of meditation. So yeah, so I'm excited to like be doing some cureton chanting and learn more about that in all the different aspects of yoga. When I off to India, I will now transition. Yes, Jeff, please ask me some wrestling questions. I'm super excited. I do want to get back to the India trip. Let's just keep on with the India trip for now. No, we can get back to it. Well, we'll talk about it more as we lead up to it. Here in the next couple of weeks. Yeah, so while you were off radar doing you're like you do every couple weeks where you just kind of go silent. Yeah, which I'm just I'm actually I'm growing so used to you. I just know now, but I still make sure you know that I'm checking in on you. But nevertheless, Yeah, I was actually spending a lot of time watching some old T and A stuff, and man, that the work you did with Bully Ray yeah just incredible. Like there's multiple parts to the why this was incredible. You showing that you could work with anybody, and then us also getting to see that side of Bully Ray that we did not get to see when he was with Devon and the Dudley Boys. I was kind of like curious about that experience and what was that like for you? Yeah, I mean so I looked at it at the time. For me, I looked at I looked at it as that he was my test, if that makes sense, to see if I could break through and work, you know, main event, top of the card heavyweight style, because there's a different style to that than there is to the X division or to tag wrestling, and so and I felt like, Okay, we're gonna put him in there with a guy like Bully, who's who's a pro. He's a big dude, and he knows that style because he's been around so long, and he's gonna shoot straight. You know, he's not gonna he's not gonna sugarcoat anything. So if I didn't have it or I couldn't carry my end of the bargain, then he would tell the office right now, this guy doesn't have it. So that was kind of the way I looked at it, and I think for him he might have looked at it in a little bit of a similar but different way of who was his test to see if as a singles guy he could wrestle a main e bed style top of the card right and then be able to carry his part in a good match and a good program with someone that you know athletically can go in the ring, but can he helped lead in all the other aspects, So I think I think because we were both motivated by some personal goals while also realizing that the other guy was kind of helping us unlock those things, I think it worked. And then there's always just an easy David and Goliath story to tell when you have the big size difference between between Bully and myself. I think we actually just talked about one of the matches I had with Bobby Fish because the question from Big Bird wants to know was what's the worst bump I took in wrestling, and the person referenced that this one, I think it was. Remember the pay per view now off hand actually Hardcore Justice twenty twelve. I was on the top rope and Bully came the big boot and I basically, like John, moved right back into the guardrail to the floor, like in one motion and just drilled the guardrail. Had a huge bruise on my back and the back. Yeah, I remember the immediately, and it luckily didn't hurt very much, but it looked like it was. Yeah, you could instantly see it instantly. Yeah, but it was great because now we had, you know, we had a visual sympathy that he played off a while and it kind of helped make the match in some ways. You know, from an emotional standpoint. Sometimes that's what happens when you know, we really get hurt and there, we really get busted open, we get bruised, races that level of emotion and intensity, and that's what happened there. What did it surprise you how good he was to work with? No, because you hadn't had a lot of experience with him and up until then, right, Anny, Just so, Actually, funny thing is my dark match for w W back way back in like two thousand and three was Sean Davari and myself verst the Dudley Boys, and I think they were being punished. They were being punished by having to work a dark match against the local guys. Of course, for us for a thing, it's our big opportunity. So that was my first experience with them. No, it didn't surprise me because I've watched you know, I've kind of watched his work over the years and then was watching him as he transitioned, and I've had enough conversations with them to where you know, he just gets it, you know, And I know he's not for everybody, but I'm not for everybody, so I think, you know, once I was able to earn his respect a little bit, you know, we kind of that mutual respect thing and it made things pretty easy. No, I just wanted to bring that up because it was well really ten years ago, I mean a little over that now, and it was good stuff, man, and is every aspect of wrestling at its finest. You didn't need to do There was some great moments and spots and stuff, but it was way beyond that. Yeah, and that's what Bullie Race also really good at. You could tell, like you just said, he gets it. It's it's what I needed at the time because I've been so I've been relied on so heavily to do that X Division style and be that that stylistically, be that guy that It was great to be in there with someone who is going to not try to work that style with me, but force me to slow down and work more of that main event you know, guys on top style, you know, and and there's a difference there and so and then that's one thing we don't see today is you know, everyone kind of wrestles the same pace, the same style, the same type of moves, and you don't feel a difference between say the undercard or the the you know, two or five live guys when they were doing that, or the X Division versus what the guys are doing in the main event. Everyone's kind of working the same and you know, for me that you lose a little bit of the variety there, you know, Yeah, I do want to ask, So if you were able to, like you went away to Spain create for a while, You're going to You're going to do this yoga journey now India, yep. If you could like have these moments in time and come back and like kind of more the person you are and you could apply this to wrest lane, what do you think that would have done for you if you had these moments, if you had these realization till you've come to what is it? Does this change your career any if you had these moments earlier. I mean, that's such a huge hypothetical, right, And I think the answer to that, Jeff is those those moments probably would have happened at that time because I was so in the wrestling bubble and like it being everything that these other things weren't even really on my radar, right. I was so one track mind focused on I'm a wrestler who wrestles trying to make you know, be successful, Go here, go there. If you're not worse in this company, well then what you know, it's immediately every time I left somewhere, whether it was you know, contract running out or me leaving or them letting me leave, whatever the deal was, you're immediately looking, Okay, where do I go next? You know, where's the next place? Where's the next place? And so there was never like, oh hey, hey, I got some time off before I go sign another contract, let me go to India for two months. Like that just wasn't even a thought process. That just wasn't where I was at in my life yet, you know, And that's part of the journey. It's you know, sometimes everything's you know, timing, and I wasn't ready at that point in my life to to open myself up to those journeys. Now hypothetically, if I had, yeah, it might have helped me. It might have helped me simply to navigate the emotional ups and downs of the industry better, you know, and give me some better tools and outlets when things got difficult, you know. And so I could have been more constructive and how I handled certain situations. But again that's all hindsight, right, because I was at different I was a different cat ten years ago, you know, fifteen years ago than I am now. And so, you know, I think part of it too is when you're chasing something, there's a level of focus and motivation you have. And then once you once you achieve some of those goals, then you start looking for new things to chase, you know, new goals to accomplish, and sometimes they're not always related to whatever your your field is. Right, It's like, you know, baseball player, once he wins the World Championship and a couple All Star appearances, he's had a ten year career and always starting to look, well, what am I going to do outside of baseball? This business venture or this here. But before you get all those accolades, before you have that success, you don't you don't have the bandwidth to try to focus on these other things because you need to make it here first, because that's gonna be the platform that's going to allow you to spring off of to do these other things hopefully one day. Yeah, you're definitely a different cat than Pussycat. Um I am what I eat? Jeff? Does it make you look Mikhei, look you got me there, it's hard to get me too. Does it make you like approach wrestling different? Now? Though? Yeah, I mean I can just tell life period, but yeah, yeah, it's just it puts everything in perspective. And again I'm not. I've had a good run. I've had success. You know, I've been very grateful and very grateful and been very lucky to do this for as long as I have have it be the thing that takes care of my bills, provides me the you know, freedom and opportunity to go travel and do these things right now, which isn't lost on me that not everybody in my situation, you know, forty five years old can just pick up and go here for two months, go there for two months, you know. So I've been afforded a lot of freedom and privilege because of that. It's not my everything, and it's not my identity, and it's not how I need to put my stamp on the world as far as my self worth, you know, it's not. It's not tied to where I am in the wrestling world, where my standing is, you know, if I'm on TV or not, if I have championships or not. Um. Again, I've had that time and it's been great, and um you know, part of my journey in Mexico and these plants ceremonies, a big part of that is dissolving the ego. Man, there's nothing that nothing gets um blown up and and accentuated more than our ego in pro wrestling. You know, it's it's even more, i say, than in pro sports, because in pro sports, your egos only will allow you to for as good as you are, right, and you can be humbled rather rather quickly when someone's better than you. But in pro wrestling, that's all subjective, right, like who's good or who's not? It's an art form, and like who's the best painter of all time? Who's the best musician of all time? Like there's no definitive answer, because there's you know, how do you measure that? So we all get to pretend in some ways we're the best. We all get to pretend we're better than this guy or that you know that guy. And so, you know, the egos and pro wrestling, that's that's a whether it's your own or other people's, can be difficult to navigate. But you know, for me that that dissolving that ego and fighting more satisfaction and being at peace with who Daniel is irregardless of Austin Aris and where his standing is in pro wrestling, has been part of that journey. I think it now allows me to just come and focus on the fun parts of wrestling, you know. But here's what I have realized and the wrestling I've done even since then is and I don't think I want this to change. Is I'm a passionate I'm a passionate guy, like I give a fuck, Like I legitimately give a fuck about stuff, and that can be a double edged sword, you know. And so I'm not going to stop caring like what I do these indie shows now, like I care about helping these guys and girls get better. I'll, you know, if they want my advice, like I'm gonna give it to them legitimately, not just give them some you know, blow some smoke up their ass or just give them some st Like I'm going to take time to be passionate about what we're doing because I want people to succeed. And I don't think that's going to change, you know. I'm passionate about helping people change their lifestyle and their diets if that's something they're seeking. And so I'm trying to find that balance between being you know, zen and peaceful and you know, a student of yoga to be able to have that be part of me, but also like becoming comfortable with this fiery, passionate, emotional side of me too, because that's part of what makes me great and part of what helps me inspire people. And I can't lose that, and I don't have to. And I think there's one thing, like struggling is the wrong word, But this, this thing I've been kind of internalizing and trying to navigate, is is, oh, well, if you want to be this kind of guy over here, how can you do that if you're this kind of guy on the other side. And the answer I've come to is it's it's all duality, right, Like we're we're complex creatures, and I can you know, I was having this converse station in the night. I went out with the Body and we went to a bar and we and there was like an open mic for like rock music. He's a musician, you know, I used to play in some bands, so you know, it was like some heavy metal music and so rock music playing as I'm getting ready to go to India for two months to go on a yoga journey, you know, and sink hertan, you know, and it's like I came to this place of peace that night where I was like, I can do both right, Like, I give me super healthy and be mindful of what I drink and what I eat on a day to day basis, and then still the side, I want to go have you know, an old fashion at the bar and go listen to rock music. I don't have to pick one or the other. I can do both. And that's the balance of life. And I think, you know, that's the message maybe to spread to everybody's you know, it doesn't mean, you know, like you don't have to stop ever drinking so to the rest of your life. Just because you start making better choices of what to drink on a day to day basis doesn't mean that once in a while you can't have a coke or a pepsi if that's what you're craving, right, But it's about finding that balance that serves you at at your highest. And so for me, you know, dissolving that ego, putting wrestling in a in a more appropriate place in my life now, um, and focusing on some other things, but also realizing that that passion and that emotion and that given a fuck is a part of who I am and that's and that's that's a beautiful thing. As long as I'm in control of it and it's not in control of me. Yeah. That's awesome, man. And the best musician of all time is not really debate. It's Toby Keith, is it? Okay? Hey, we're all entitled to our opinions. He was in TENA as well, he was he wasn't tena. They shook a little money out of Toby Keith's pockets too to keep that thing going, right, Yeah, they did. There was. I also saw that some of those moments there's a weekend. Oh man, how are you going to afford you? Man? Hey, how are you going to afford Johnny fair play? If you're not shaking some money out of Toby Keith's pocket? Like I said, he's a big dude too, Yeah, he's a tall guy. Yeah. So man, what else were you thinking about in this episode? Because I know your mind goes a million different places, and it's a lot going on in the world, and oh man, there's all sorts of crazy shit going on in the world. Man, here's like this new and maybe so I've a new but a better way to verbalize it. Whatever they're whatever they're telling you to think about or argue about, isn't the truth. And for example, now all of a sudden, the lab leak theory for COVID nineteen is making its rounds again. Now, originally that was a conspiracy theory, and if you said that, you were deep platformed, right if you said it came from a lab and it wasn't from guy eating a bat at a market. If you said that originally, you're a conspiracy theorist. Now it's coming out, they're saying, well, maybe it did come from a lab. So now we're back on the lab leak theory, which that tells me is that it's definitely did come from a lab and it definitely didn't from a guy eating a bat. Because I feel like the deception is like whatever they're telling us is okay to argue, is not the truth, right, And so like now we're all going to go to the lab leak theory, Well, that takes us off the other conspiracy theory that maybe it has something to do with five G right, And again I'm not saying it does or it doesn't, but I am saying this from just a common sense layman's term standpoint. We can't expect to continue to up the amount and the levels of electromagnetic radiation that is shooting in our air and not expect that there's no repercussions, there's no collateral damage to life. That is like that to me is an ignorant thought, right, that we can keep shooting these invisible beams that we don't see them, so we don't realize they're there. But your your WiFi, your cell phone, right, the radio waves. I mean, if you if you look back historically in time, every time we started upping our level of technology, it tends to correlate more or less with some of these pandemics. We've had Spanish flu right, all the you know, the bird flu. We start looking at these things and there's a timeline, interestingly enough, that correlates with us upping our level of technology. And I think it's an interesting theory that we should be able to talk about, and we should be able to at least question and debate without immediately getting labeled, Oh, you're a conspiracy theorist. Oh that's crazy, it's like, but is it crazy? I don't know if it's crazy or not. So so now that they're saying, oh, the lab leak's okay to say it happened, now I'm going okay, well then it's definitely not the lab leakue. So what's the truth behind that? Or I mean two years later, now we're still talking about January sixth, you know, and now like these all new tapes have been released Tucker Carlson. You know, people, oh well, Tucker Carlson, he's full of shit. Fox News is full of shit. As as if CNN isn't full of shit or MSNBC isn't full of shit. That's that's like people going no, no, smacked down, and that's that's fake. Raw is real. It's like, Okay, sure your station tells the truth and doesn't lie to you and it isn't propaganda. But the other station that's the one that's a lie. Pretty sure that they're both lies, right if you really, if you really break it down. So now we got these January six tapes being released showing this q this QAnon shaman guy that's you know, got supposedly sentenced to jail time being let around by Capitol police. I mean, it's just all sorts of weird shit that to me just just look just I haven't followed it very closely. I know it's a big distractionary tool. To get everyone, you know, aggravated and distracted. But to me, it looks like it was a complete fucking show. It was an inside job, it was staged, it was set up. We're seeing more and more federal people being linked to this and tied to it, and but that just goes with the history of everything, right when you start looking back at the world wars, World War One, world War Two, we're realizing that the same people funded both sides of these wars because they realize that there's a lot of profit to be had in war. Especially when you fund both sides, you all you come out the big winner. So you know, this is nothing new, it's it's it's just interesting to me now that the level of distraction and deception that we're seeing from all fronts. Man, it's it's overwhelming, if you allowed to be. I think it's fair to say that everybody has their agenda when it comes to anything, of course, and that was always my argument when people would really rag on me, whether I was talking about you know, COVID or vaccines or you know, different conspiracy theories, like I'm not selling you anything, right, and so that medical doctor, well you're not a doctor. Yeah, But I also didn't pay hundred of thousands of dollars to have allegiance to this, to this medical book that tells me what meant you know what medicine is and what healthcare looks like. So I'm not colored or tainted by that. You know, I'm not trying to sell you my well you're ever take my vitamins so they'll cure you. I'm not I'm not selling anything, right, I'm just going by you know what I feel. First of all, this is the first the big one got instinct, right, like what you feel and we and we don't listen to what we feel a lot of times. And one thing I talked to a lot of people over you know, during the pandemic, is they say something just feels off, right, Well, listen to that. Don't listen to CNN or Fox News. Listen to listen to that internal voice. Something feels off. If it and if that's how you feel, then you're probably right. Something probably is. Every everything has an agenda attached. Everyone's you know, trying to sell something or making money again, like the whole like protein, right, we need protein, protein for muscle, protein for well, who's telling you this? People who sell you protein, right, you know, I mean you always follow the money at the end of the day. And you know, I'm not really trying to sell anything. I mean, if you want to buy a copy of my book, you can go to Pro Wrestling Tease and find it food Fight, But I'm certainly not getting rich off of that. I'm giving those things away at this point on a lot of shows because you know, I already broke even and I wasn't writing the book to make a bunch of money. I was writing the book to help, you know, share my story, to help people who are interested and making a change in their life. And for me, it's as important to get the information out there to people who want it that it is for you to make profit off of it. So yeah, sometimes you need to listen to people that aren't motivated by money, that aren't motivated by selling you things. And that's why when we let guys like Bill Gates come up here and start dictating policy and telling us what's good for us or what's not good for us, Well, you got to look at all the different jars and cookie jars that Bill Gates has his hands in, right, And this guy's talking about a food shortage at a time where he's the largest land farm landowner in the United States. Right now, he's talking about you know, we know about GMO crops. Now he wants to go one step further. You want to start putting this mRNA into crops so that even if you don't want to get vaccinated, if you want to go eat some vegetables and fruit, you're gonna have to be very, very careful about where you're getting its sourced from. He also made genetically modified mosquitos. Right he's unleached a bunch of genetically modified mosquitos, is then also going to aim to vaccinate people, whether they want it or not, through mosquito bites. You know, there's a lot of things, you know, keep you distracted with all this shit, so you're not paying attention to what's going on right underneath your nose and all these things that are happening right now, not conspiracy theories, facts, things that are happening now, verifiable facts that it doesn't matter how you know, how deep you want to put your head in the sand or how far you want to stick your fingers in your ears and shake your head, No, that's not happening. It's not real. It's fucking real. It's happening right now, and you're either going to ignore it until you can't ignore it, where you're going to pay attention and let that guide you and how you go about your life. You bring up a good point when people are fixated on something. I'm kind of use an example in another way, but still goes with it. Tim Duncan one of my favorite basketball players of all time. Humble guy, quiet guy. He waited to retire. He announced his retirement right after Kevin Durant announced this huge free agency decision. Almost seemed intentional, not to get any publicity right, just kind of right off in the sunset, yack, Hall of a day. Little attention is possible after a Hall of Fame career, yep. But nobody talked about it then because they were all talking about what team Kevin Durant was going to go to. You that's the same reason they you know, they always released a lot of information on Fridays, right important document information or you know, it's because it gets lost in the news cycle for the weekend and by Monday through onto something else and nobody really even heard about it or talked about it. It happens all the time. It's one of the oldest tricks they use. And you know, media right is to always release that damning information or that you know, that news on a Friday and hope by Monday everyone's to occupy was the new story. So my grandma used to always tell me to remember that there's always somebody that has it worse. And we talk about these food shortages, and like, you go to a country like Venezuela, they an economic crisis that's being deemed far worse than the Great Depression or anything like that. Populations die in thirty percent of their populations left the country. People are literally starving to death in the streets. Uh, you know, it just kind of makes you realize, and that's not on the world news talk about a lot of other things, but they're grandma had a good point, which you said that, but this also ties in with what you're saying. Well, so yeah, it's like right now, it's like pray for the Ukraine, but let's not pray for all those kids that are mining all the natural resources to make your iPhone, you know, under under less than you know, livable conditions, right, getting paid pennies opennies on the dollar. There's a lot of atrocities that take place in this in this world on a day to day basis, but the only ones that people care about are the ones that television tells them they should care about it. We ignore all the other ones. And I just I've always found it interesting, and maybe interesting is not even a good enough word. It's always bothered me that we've decided in a society it's perfectly okay for people like you and me, or people that are even one hundred times better off than you and me. We can wake up in the morning and look in the mirror with the clear conscience, go grab our breakfast, or if you're really doing well, go hop on your private jet. Um, you know, waste your money knowing that not just in other countries, but there's people in this country. There's there's literally people on the world who are starving to death and have nothing. And you know, people, I'll say, well, well, so you're for socialism. It's like, no, let's not about socialism. But you know, you know, it's all like high hides, raise all boats, and we're we're okay in a society where some people literally starved to death while we throw out huge amounts of food every day at restaurants and grocery stores, and we don't see a problem with that, you know. Or we we price fixed things so that corporations can have record profits at a time where we've had forty percent increase in inflation. But yet the gas companies and all these companies are showing record profits and no one blinks a fucking eye. You know, we can sit here and send tens of billions, if it's probably maybe even the hundreds of billions of dollars to fight a war in the Ukraine, a proxy war, right, just you know, I didn't vote for that. I didn't vote That's where I want my tax money to go. I'd rather help it pay the veteran down the street that's homeless and isn't eating. I don't want to send it off to another country. I didn't. I didn't vote for that. Why don't I get to vote where my tax money goes? Then I showed up at the voting bulls, right, But they don't. They just they steal our money and they apply it to their own special interests. And it's always been that way. I don't care what side of the political isle it is. Republican, horde Democrat. It's always the way it's been. You know, Taxation is the biggest heist, you know, the Federal Reserve, the whole banking system, it's it's all a fucking work. It's all one big, elaborate work to keep most people good compliance slaves for life. Crazy to think that's how this country really was founded, getting away from those things supposed to be at least that's that's what the history books told us. I wasn't alive then, so I don't really know, you know, but you could see though how it could be like that. But then you're unknowingly just going along with the same system. Yeah, And I've just always come to learn, like the victors get to write the history book, so they get to shape it however they want to tell the story they want. We don't know if that's actually the true history unless you were alive and you got a figure after one hundred years, you know, why do you think why do you think Fiser wanted to wait eighty five years to release all the information on these vaccines until they were forced by a federal judge to actually start releasing it now. Well, because if you're in eighty five years, everyone who's had complications or die because of this vaccine will be dead, all right, And the next generation in eighty five years isn't going to give a shit what happened to people eighty five years ago. They're gonna have their own problems to worry about. They're not going to care, right. It's like when they It's like when they waited whatever sixty plus years to release the classified documents of the Gulf of Talking, you know, which never happened. It was the it was the incident that would that they used to go to war to Vietnam, and it was completely fabricated, but they waited sixty years to release it, and no one really gives a shit anymore. They're over it, right, But that deception has been going on for a long long time. And that's why I was asked people like I can tell you why I don't trust the people I don't trust? Can you are takeing why you do trust the people that you do trust? These are the questions we should be asking ourselves. Why do I trust politicians Democrat or Republican? Why do I trust the news anchor on CNN or Fox News? Why do I trust Anthony Fauci. Why do I trust Bill Gates? Why do I trust the World Health Organization? Why do I trust the CDC, the CIA, the FBI? Why do I trust these people? What's their track record? Have they built? They have? They built up a level of trust over time by being honest and forthright. I would argue the opposite, they have not. So I can tell you why don't trust these people? Conflicts of interest they're making, you know, like follow the money, you know, I mean, but these people that just kind of go along with the narrative, I always want to ask them the only you know, why do you trust the people you trust? Because the only difference between us is in our philosophy, because our philosophy, you was shaped by the people we decided to trust or not trust. So we should be asking ourselves why do I trust the people I do trust? Why don't I trust the people I don't trust? And it should be about identity, politics or anything like that. And at this point, science can be manipulated and cherry picked. Right, information can be manipulated and cherry picked. The news is manipulated, you know, manipulation and cherry picked. So we need to use a better a better system to discern that than a lot of people currently use. So why do you trust the people you trust, Jeff? And who do you trust? Well? I think, like you said, it really has to come from your own experiences and developing your own beliefs based off of those legitimate experiences. Do you trust the news put you on the spot? Here with everything? The truth is somewhere lies somewhere outside of what's actually being said, whether it's a mile outside, whether it's six feet outside. So to answer your question, No, I don't fully trust the news or or a lot of things unless I personally on the world. You know what I'm say, Jeff, counting media b
