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Guys, today we're talking about a very, very awesome topic because the man that you just
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The name of the book life is short and so am I.
Guys, this was it.
This is probably my most proud of project I've done on, I say on my own, but by on my
own, I mean outside of WWE.
And it was really just a, always kind of a bucket list project that I never thought would
happen.
And I just, I always wanted to tell my story and I always thought, hey, with my growing
up and my surgeries and just life, I always had a decent story to tell.
And through this podcast, I've gotten into things more.
But I had never, first off, you guys know, when it comes to projects, especially my own,
I don't like doing them.
So when it's up to this podcast, right?
You love doing this.
I love this.
But like actual work for myself, I don't like doing.
I love, so I was like, I'm not, I know me, I'm not going to write a book myself.
So I get released and pretty quick after that, Ian Douglas, who's from Michigan, reaches
out to me in the email and says, hey, I'm a writer, I would love to write an autobiography
for you or with you.
And I was in, in and, I didn't realize what that would entail.
And that what that entailed is for three weeks, multiple days a week, for about three hours
at a time, just doing interviews about me and my life over the phone.
And literally, I would plug in my phone on my bed and just lay on my bed and talk.
And it was a very eye-opening experience, and that whole session was very like therapeutic
to a point, and almost a release of all, you know, that was like almost a release for
WWE stuff.
I'll get to later the second version of therapy, but it was cool, it was cool to relive
moments in my life and relive stories and all that.
And then we, we started pitching the book, Ian and I started pitching the book out to
publishing companies and such and literary agents and that.
I didn't know what a literary agent was, but I guess you needed to have one to then go
to a publishing company.
So it's just kind of crazy how writing a book is obviously not just paper to pen, put
it to print, publish it.
There's so many steps in between that I would have had no idea about.
So for you, what would you say, obviously besides the fact of talking about yourself and
making, you know, very clearly making this something that is about you, was the more
daunting task getting past that mental barrier or was it the tediousness of having to do
all the interviews and have all the conversations?
Because from this podcast, you know, and our friendship talks off the podcast, you're
someone who likes to, you know, you're not shy, you have an outgoing personality, you're
good to conversation, you like me, you never shut up.
I, it wasn't that that was hard.
That's going to come harder later.
So we have the book, we have it ready, we have it set, we have a literary agent, we have
a publishing company and then, I mean, that was a good year of messing around.
I want to say could be wrong, probably am, felt like a year.
But then the literary agent comes to me and says, hey, I have never really talked about
this.
They say, hey, you're going to have to handle this.
But I think we need to find a new writer and I go, what do you mean?
First off, why do I have to handle this?
And they're like, yeah, we, it's, it's good, but we can, we need it to be great.
And I go, again, why do I need to handle this?
They go, here's a, here's a writer we have a suggestion of, and it was this guy Ross
Owen Williams out of the UK.
And I was like, so what does this mean?
Like, do we need to do the whole thing from the start?
Like, and again, they're like, we'll put you in contact with Ross.
Just let Ian know that, hey, we're going to, like, we're going to still credit him, but
we're going to go with Ross for the project.
And it was like, again, why am I handling this?
Why am I the one writing it?
Yeah, puts you in a very awkward, puts me in a very awkward spot.
So I did.
And then we got Ross on board and Ross and I instantly clicked.
I don't know what it was, but we instantly had a very, very, very good relationship.
But again, it was hours over the phone.
He's in the UK.
I'm here.
So the time difference is brutal.
I think we would do it like noon my time or so, so is after he put his kids to bed.
And, but again, it was, all right, plug the phone in, lay on the bed, and we're doing
it again.
And it was almost like we, he went off Ian's notes for a few things, but I think it was
just to kind of get a concept of my story, if that makes sense.
Yeah.
And then, but he really dug deep into things.
I talk about it in there, my relationship with my mom, who was not, I'll say it on
my ear.
She wasn't a good person, my birth mom.
She was a very, very, I say was, like she's passed away.
She's not, but she's just not in my life.
She was just not good.
The bottle ran her life.
She put that at most importance over her kids, over me, obviously, over the family.
After my parents got divorced, it was really rough.
And so I had, I, and there was times I literally would step back and go to Ross, like, should
I say this?
He was a tear book.
You say whatever you want.
And I would, I would very much go like, who do I want to protect?
Who do I not give a shit about protecting?
And, but a lot of times it was, hey, let's go hard.
And I, and be honest, so I was, I was very, very honest with the whole book.
My relationship with my first, like, main relationship and it was, there was some things
in there that I included that were very, very controversial, you could say.
Even in the part that got out, that, that ended up releasing.
But we added it.
I sent it to her out of respect to her.
I sent it to her.
Landon's mom, Kim, I sent it to her about that stuff with her.
I got a message back of, whew, this is kind of heavy.
And I go, yeah, but I got to be honest, I said, I'm putting myself out there and I, it's
your story.
Yeah, I can't hold back as this isn't a burial by any means, it shows that we had issues
and now raising him, we're past that and we're better people.
And then it was like, man, talking about my grandpa and the end of his life was such
like a, I don't think I have ever cried in my adult life more than I had when I was telling
that story and then I'll talk about the audio book a little later with that during that.
It was, but again, dealing with it with Ross, the audio, or the recordings for the ghost
writing with Ross was a very therapeutic, letting it all out and just being okay with it
point.
I remember I was a teenager, I went to a therapist for like a month and it was complete.
I took it as complete shit.
I didn't take it seriously at all.
So this was the first time I ever was like, like the very therapeutic feeling, I've never
had it.
I've never had it, I've never had that kind of feeling in my life of when I was talking
with Ross and just telling everything and just spilling it all out there and really, really
letting loose of everything.
And it was good.
It felt so good and then like it was funny thinking about forwards and thinking about pictures
of the book and thinking about the cover and like all that.
I knew one thing I wanted was for two forwards.
I wanted Kofi and Hawkins to do the forwards.
They're my best friends in wrestling and ECW press was like, hey, could we get John
Cena and I was like, I'm not asking John Cena.
I want Kofi and Hawkins, they're like, what about like a McFolly and I was like, I want
Kofi and Hawkins and I was not budging on it.
Did they just want that for name value or was there like a put them on the cover of a book
forward by John Cena, forward by McFolly, it's big and I was like, no, I don't want that.
I want these two.
Another caveat to that was I did not want to see the forwards until the book released.
And these two guys questioned it, ECW press questioned it, literary agency questioned
it, Ross Owen Williams, the ghost writer, especially after seeing them questioned it.
And it was like, and they all, I remember ECW press for
me because I had a moving forward a bit when the book was done and ready to publish, they
were like, hey, we're going to send you it so you can look over it and then he notes
you have.
And they sent it to me with the forwards and I was so pissed off because I was like, guys,
I don't want to see these.
I don't want any chance of seeing these and I sent it back and I said, you need to send
it to me without the forwards.
And they were blown away, they were like, well, we don't get why, I said, because I want
to be surprised like the readers.
This is the one thing I can be surprised with about this book, like the readers.
And it was.
And then we got McFolly to write a blurb on the back, which is really awesome for him
to do.
And the cover, I was like, I have this idea in mind for a cover for the book where it's
me in the ring and then Horne Swaggle coming from under.
And it was just like all these ideas I had over time and that they actually like, they came
to life and they came to fruition in the suit that doesn't fit me well.
But I had to have a suit for the photo and it's just, it's stuff like that that I really,
I think that's why I take this project so close to heart is because I had a lot of ideas
for it and almost all of them were used.
But yeah, it's a, it was really cool too for some of the photos inside.
We wrote to WWE and asked them permission because you have to obviously to use certain photos
of theirs and they wrote off on it and they sent them the photos that we wanted and they
wrote off on them completely.
It wasn't even like a, like a question of it, it was instant, like, yep, you're good.
And that's what I kind of go back to of what my dad has always told me, like, hey, don't
burn bridges.
I would burn that bridge, I wouldn't have had any of those photos.
It would have been like crappy photos that we would have found on Google or whatnot and
it would not have turned out the way we wanted it to.
Now going back to the cover and the title of the book.
So you said you had ideas, you had plans.
So the title of the book, life is short and so am I, that's all you.
That's all me.
They gave me options, I can't even think of the options, they gave me, I would have to
look back at through emails.
But they gave me options and again, I was with a project like this and I never was so
like dad said on something like I was for this and it's because I was like, man, if I'm
going to create a book and I'm going to put a book out there about my life, I want it
to be as much from me as possible and I wasn't budging on certain things.
So the the subhead, my life inside, outside and under the wrestling ring, that was them.
I was going to say that I feel like in my head, you pitched a less polished version of
that.
Like you're like you had the idea of saying, you know, because like when we started doing
this podcast, yeah, you know, way long ago, that was pretty much the pitch is that like
I want to talk about my life as a wrestler, my life, you know, as a dad and as a parent
and everything that goes outside of wrestling.
And then I remember jokingly, you said, and plus I've got a couple of funny stories from
things that happened under the ring.
And I was like, that's that's that's a great elevator pitch like that was not me.
I want to say that might have been Ross, because I don't think that came from them.
That might have been Ross.
Okay.
Don't remember.
And Ross will message me.
I'm going to I'm going to make sure he listens to this one if he if he doesn't listen already.
But that might have been Ross.
I can't think trying to think of how I could hear this in your head, but I almost think
that you like you probably say life for short, so my tails like you I feel like you like
tails from inside outside and under the ring.
You tails from under the ring if anything, but yeah, the words that you would use.
Yeah.
I don't even think I had that.
I think I literally just came up with the regular, regular title.
And that was it.
They do love those those subheads.
Yeah.
And some of them are really good and some of them are like, oh, okay.
Also a cool thing like that Ross did.
I'm looking through the book now.
I've never actually looked through it in person except the first time I hold held it.
But like Ross was really like he wanted it to be.
If you look at the book, which is available, guys, Dylan Pasta.com.
You can get autograph copies of it.
Yes, you can go to Amazon, but you can't get autograph copies on Amazon Dylan Pasta.com.
Get your copies of life is short and so am I.
I literally ship them, sign them instantly myself.
But he wanted it like as with the chapters, he wanted with the chapters like represented.
And it's it's really, really neat how he how he did it.
He categorized the chapters with a like an item or something like that.
And it was a very like all encompassing of what that chapter and that's part of my life
was about.
There's only one that's not what is it?
Hold on.
The the preface is just the date.
Everything else like chapter one and chapter two is the yeah, yeah, that's right.
May 23.
That was another 2006.
Oh, no, 2006.
Is that what I got?
No, that's what I got hired.
Not fired.
That's what you got hired.
Yeah, it's the it's the preface.
It's the it's the first thing.
Yeah.
That was another weird thing of reliving my firing.
I never really relived that in detail.
And that was rough.
So we sell this to ECW press are all on board literary agencies out on board were good.
We are we're on board.
We're all ready to go and then they go, yeah, with it is a audio book and I go not by
me.
And they go, well, why I go I hate my voice.
I hate my voice.
I hate the sound of it.
I hate all of it.
I don't want to do it.
And they're like, well, it would really mean a lot for like listeners and and and
reader like purchases of 100% if it's you.
And I had to have a talk.
Talked with whimer and I talked with bender and I talked with my dad.
And they're all like, yes, you have to do this.
It's a big difference if it was like Dylan wrote a story and they wanted you to read
the story that you wrote.
Yes.
That's one thing.
It's, but this is literally the story of your life.
And that's better to be the voice behind it than you.
And that was what whimer said he goes, no one can tell your story about you.
And I go, all right.
Here we go.
So they were going to fly me to like New York for a week and I was like, oh, like being
an audio booth.
Yeah.
And I was a guy that I don't, I don't, I can't do that.
I'm on the road because this is when I was on the road every weekend for shows.
I was fresh off WWE still.
And I was like, I physically can't do that with my son with my schedule.
I cannot do that.
Is there anything closer?
They go, well, we have one in, I think it was like, they found one then in California,
New York, Texas.
And then like randomly, they're like, oh, there's one in Madison, and I go, you mean there's
one in the state that I live in here?
That would be the most convenient option for me from my house, like, okay, great.
But that was just one of those things like, I just, I realized I had to push on things.
I had to push on certain things and we got it.
So we found a recording studio in Madison, which is like an hour and 15 from my house, but
I didn't care.
It was a nice, relaxing drive there and back.
Did it, I think we did it three times a week for three weeks.
Okay.
It was, again, it was a lot.
But it would be a teleprompter in front of me.
And I would just read chapter after chapter after chapter.
And that's when it got, like, painful to read about my grandpa through my words.
And I remember I still can hear like, because there was a, there's a you, a producer, an
audio mixologist that, and she was.
So I'm probably way more qualified than I am audio me.
And she was so nice and so like, but it was almost like when you remember when you take
like a hearing test or something and there's like a person in your headphones, but from
another room.
I don't know if you've ever taken hearing test, but when you're, I would imagine it's
probably a lot of when you are recording any kind of like.
Yes, instrumentally have someone in your head like, oh, we're going to do that part
again.
And we're going to do this part again.
Yeah.
But you don't see them.
Like it's very odd.
It's very odd because they're very soft and they're, they're just, okay, hey, we missed
up on a word and you see the thing go back and it became like a good relationship between
her and I where I was like, I would see the thing pause and I go, shit, messed that up.
And I would see it scroll back down, but it was really, really, I'm glad I did it.
But yeah, there was parts, the chapter about my grandpa towards the end about him passing
away.
It was so hard to get through and so like, oh man, that's the most I've, I've cried easily.
But she was like so sympathetic and so like, hey, if you need time, I said, nope, I'm
just going to do it.
I said, do you want me to like compose myself?
She goes, no, this is better because it's you.
It's awesome.
And it was just like, it was, that was the final therapy.
And that was the final closure I needed on that.
And it's not like, I'm past him passing away or I'm past how shitty my mom, my birth
mom was, but I'm like, I'm okay with it now.
I'm just okay with, hey, that's what I dealt with, that's what I went through.
That's what I, and now I'm here and now I'm just very glad I did it.
Thinking about it now, I am so glad.
And she would like to do a playback of my voice sometimes and I would have to go, nope,
nope, stop, stop, stop.
I don't want to hear it because it was, and I felt like such a jerk because I just don't
like the sound of my voice so much.
And she was doing it just so she could hear back, but it would come through my headphones.
And I would literally at times take the headphones off because I hate hearing my voice.
And it was her listening if a sentence was messed up or a word was messed up.
But yeah, I'm very glad I did the audio recording.
And I give people, when they get unaudible or wherever they get it, and they're like,
man, I can't believe that you did it, it's really, really good that you did it because
it made us think that it's what you went through.
Thinking back on it, I'm very glad Jim Smith didn't do the recording of my book.
So again, going back to that, it's, who better to be the voice of your story than you?
Yeah.
I, if I wouldn't have done it, I would have been so mad at myself and so like, man, why would
you let someone else tell your story?
Why would you hear that, like, that affected by something like this and it's a project
that's supposed to be so meaningful to you?
I would have been very, very upset about it, so I'm very glad I did it myself.
Looking at the book again, I got sidetracked there.
Another cool thing Ross did in it is every chapter has like what they call it in this video
version, you can see what I'm, has like what's short stories that are part of that section
as well.
Here's the main story and then there's like a little break of telling about Hawkins
is wedding when I fell on the stairs on purpose and a certain straight edge guy thought
it was me being intoxicated and it wasn't, it was literally set up the whole time, but
it went viral and so much so that talent relations called me and said, oh, man, making a
real ass out of yourself and that, huh?
I was like, no, it was set up, it was part of it and but it was stuff like that that little
stories I would tell that Ross would jot down, that would be like, oh, that might not fit
during a main part of the book, but I can make it fit in a section of it and make it, essentially
like an Easter egg for DVD, bonus feature.
And to think about that out of context of the book, that's more or less what this podcast
is.
Yeah.
It's just, we have a topic, we talk loosely about the topic and then randomly we go off
on tangents because something will spark a memory, we'll tell a story, you'll tell a story
for 10, 15 minutes and then we go back to the topic.
And a lot of the times for getting completely about what topic we're on, if it's me.
Well, no, that's never happened on this podcast, where do you, we've never gone off on a 15
to 20 minute channel about something else.
That's right.
I've been there.
You're going to talk about it.
I was supposed to be talking about Pokemon.
Pokemon, I will never let you live down the serial weight championship episode where we're
talking about your cruiser weight.
Oh, that's it.
That's it.
And then had a 15 minute argument about serial, you know, the worst, you know, the worst part
about it.
We're doing it now.
Yeah, I know.
It's happening right now.
And I'm aware that we're doing it.
It was, yeah, man, that one took a real hard turn.
I do have a question.
Yes.
What?
So obviously the photo shoot for your cover, you talked about earlier, you in the suit,
you in the, uh, in the swagger gear under the ring.
Is that shot at ACW?
Yeah.
Okay.
I was going to say, was it?
Literally.
That's like an extra layer of, like, cool detail.
That's another thing.
A lot of, yeah.
I was like, let's do it before an ACW show.
I'll know the ring.
And I was like, so what we, and I literally just had a local photographer, BJ Fleming.
I was like, hey, I need you to shoot the rocks.
We were doing roster photos that day too.
And I was like, but I also need you to shoot what might be the cover for my book.
And he goes, okay.
And so I had the idea and we did it before the show and it was done.
That's, I always was wondering, like, oh, yeah, I wonder if that's ACW and, you know,
who, who was the photographer that shot that if it was someone that you knew,
if it was just, you know, if ACW press it, sent someone to take the photo.
So it was another layer that I wanted to tackle today on the episode.
So then we go to, like, the release.
And I talked to the, the, the, the D league basketball arena in town.
I know the book is coming out and I know that we have a, an event,
ACW has an event at the local D league basketball arena.
And I was like, hey, what if we did the book release that day?
Like that afternoon, the book release, I said, I wanted, I didn't want the book to be available
before it came out in my town.
I wanted the first time at doing available of in Ashkash.
And it's just, again, one of those things where I always talk about how much Ashkash
and this, like, community means to me in every interview I mentioned it.
All I, it's just, it's like a weird habit I have.
And I really, really think that it needed to be done.
And I won, and so we did it.
We said, we talked to the arena and we were like, hey, this is going to be,
it was in the papers, all of that.
This is going to be the release of my autobiography.
And Wimer set up this whole meeting room for meet and greet up there with pictures
and things for my life.
And it was great.
It was really, really awesome.
And it was a cool thing.
It really made me feel like people from my family that I haven't seen in years and years,
they came out.
And it was just a, the first time I was okay with something being about me.
If that makes sense.
And I was, I was like, yeah, yeah, and this is a, this is pretty awesome that I can.
As someone who's doing has done this podcast with you for a little over two years now,
yeah, I get that.
It's, it, it is sometimes a struggle to get you to do things for you.
I just don't, I don't like it.
But it was a very, very cool day.
And it was a, it was a neat thing that we were able to put together.
And that day, I literally sliced open a case of books that they sent me to, to, to release.
And I went under the bleachers in the arena and I read the forwards to the book.
I was like, oh man, it was there.
That was another emotional moment of crying and then laughing and then crying and then laughing.
Hawkins is forward being so heartfelt and so like just nice and, and caring and really making me feel good.
And Kofi's forward being just an absolute goddamn roast of me.
And, and then I texted them in a group chat.
I texted them.
I said, you guys got me crying and laughing and then crying from laughing all in one.
And I cannot thank you enough.
And Hawkins goes, I thought it was supposed to be this heartfelt forward.
Kofi goes, I did not want it to be that way.
I wanted it to be honest and you got a good mix.
It was a good blend of both.
And I was like, man, to start the book out with that was so perfect because it shows two sets of my life that couldn't be more perfect.
And I was so happy and so excited about that.
And I was like, man, this is, this is it.
And now I'm, I'm, I'm okay with it.
And it was a, it ended up being a kind of crazy thing.
It ended up being a number one pre-order on Amazon for like two or three weeks in a row.
And that's a big deal for me.
I just like, and that was pre-order.
That wasn't even like sales.
And I just, man, it's, it's such a passion project.
That's how I really described it.
It's such, it's such a passion project that really, it was a bucket list thing that I never thought would happen.
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All right.
So I want to do a little, I want to do a little word association with two names because if you go and Google, you look up.
Horn Swaggle, Dylan Postel, you get some information about the book.
We've talked about a couple of names, obviously, the man himself, Dylan.
We talked about Kofi.
We talked about Brian.
But now there are two other names.
So, this is public endorsement by one, Dolph Ziegler, tell me about that.
To have my friends that are at such a high level in wrestling and just how I view them so highly talk about, again, such a project that I did.
And then that we finally put out, man, again, I talk about how like long it felt for this to come out.
It felt like 10 years for it to finally happen.
And it was out there and it was, yeah, we sent advanced copies to people.
And for people that I care about in my life and then our friends to go on social media and post about it.
It made me feel so good and it was like actual, real, like, responses to the book.
And Dolph, who is a constant giver of a hard time back and forth, he's a very sarcastic human.
But it's how he is and him and I are that way, we always have him, he's like that with everyone.
But for him to really put such a heartfelt post out there, it really, really made me feel good and it really made me feel like, man, this is, this is good.
And then I think I know where you're going with this.
Well, then take it away, sir, I don't need to lead you in for where it's going.
It was like, I don't know the timeline, but then Stephanie McMahon, out of nowhere, puts out a tweet about it.
And that was mind blowing because at that point, she was at the top of wrestling at the top of wrestling.
And for her to tweet about my book was unreal.
And then she sent me a message about it.
And it was like, this is, this is crazy to me, crazy to me that this project, whether she read and here, let's be honest, whether she read it or not, she said something very, very nice about me and about the project.
And it really, really was cool for that to happen.
Because again, at that point, she had a lot on her plate.
The last thing she needed to do was tweet about Little All Dylan's book.
It's cool. It's really, really cool.
It's again, it's something that I had in the notes coming into today because we have talked about it.
I don't know if it's ever come up on the podcast, but if it has, I'm forgetting whatever said, but I know that you and I separately off the podcast have talked about it.
So I wanted to make sure that we touched upon it because it is, again, super, super cool, super, super awesome thing that happened.
Man, I can't encourage anyone enough to go and read this book.
Yes, you can go on Kindle, you can go on Amazon, you can get it, but if you're going to get the book, you might as well buy it from the man himself.
Go and get it from Dylan Postel, DylanPostel.com, buy it, get it personalized version.
And then if you really want, you can just flip along with the audio version.
A cool thing. A few months ago, someone brought this up to Hawkins.
I was doing a signing with Hawkins and they brought my book up to him to get signed.
And it was like, it was one of those.
Oh, that's really cool.
And it like, it's it, I physically saw him, like him get taken a back by it because he's never wrote a forward.
Obviously, that's not something he does in his day to day life.
So for him to do like how to autograph the forward took him back to and it was, it was really, really neat to see.
I wonder if you think there's anybody.
So your new goal is to get a signed copy where you sign it, Kofi signs it and Brian sign that's listeners.
That's your new goal. You're going to say you should do that.
Like I think you need that because that's awesome for you to have.
No, because I don't, I don't ever have anything signed by myself besides a card.
All right. Well, then just to have the version that you have in the case behind you, just get that version signed by them.
Oh my god.
I don't really have to.
Yeah.
And then how do you do, I never thought of this till today and then maybe if you want to do another version,
maybe that ends up being something that you put up on whatnot or you do a, you, you use it for the ACW
toy drive or something.
Oh my god. That's great.
Well, listeners, you too, your job.
I want to do that now.
Your, your job when COVID Kingston does very few signings.
Get him, get Hawkins and get me.
If someone, if someone makes it happen, if someone out there makes it happen, a prize pack of astronomical proportions is coming your way.
First person to do it.
That's, yeah, that would be awesome.
That'd be awesome.
I don't believe you'd never thought to do that.
I guarantee Kofi is never signed what I have to text him after this.
I guarantee he's never signed one.
If I'm going to a king, Kofi Kingston signing the last thing I'm thinking of is my book
because there's so many other things out there.
I guarantee he's never.
That's interesting.
I have a cool, that's a cool, cool idea.
Yep.
So that's on your list.
And then obviously listeners get out there, try to get it like all I got to say this.
Kofi does limited signings, but it could be worth it.
Such a niche item.
I love niche items.
I love niche items.
So for that, that's such a cool, that would be, to me, that would be such a cool thing to have.
Hell yeah.
I see the, I see the wheels turning in your head about.
Yeah, I got to do it now.
I never thought about this.
I've got to do it now.
I got to have my personal copy signed by them.
All right.
Well, final, final words, man.
Anything else that you want to cover about the book?
I feel like we've done a good job covering the process living up to the book.
Obviously, if you want the full story of the book, go and read the book.
But this was, this was a cool episode leading up into everything and a little peak behind
the curtain about how your experience writing your first book was.
Yeah, it, it really was a, uh, I, I keep saying it, but it was very a therapeutic thing.
And I'm very glad I did it and I'm very, but I'm also very glad.
Like I took the time to edit it and to, cause I didn't want to.
I was just going to like, nope, just do it however you want, but there was some things in
there where out of respect for things and people I talked about and issues I talked about,
where I did pull back a little bit, very little bit.
But man, like I am very, I'm very, very proud of this project.
I'm very, very happy about doing it.
And, uh, yeah, that's it.
All right.
Well, again, uh, make sure to go follow us on all forms of social media at going past the
pod.
Make sure to follow the man himself at Dylan, post on all forms of social media, guys,
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He's going to be going live eventually soon within the next couple of weeks.
He's a busy man, but he'll be playing games on there, probably getting his ass kicked
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We've probably at the beginning of this podcast, but to do it again, uh,
it will be live within the next couple of days, potentially before this episode
even comes out.
So, uh, make sure to go and check that out.
Uh, Dylan, is there anything else that you want to plug that I miss anything?
Uh, is there anything happening in the wonderful world of ACW that you would like to
plug? Uh, right after this comes out, we have our show at, uh, in correlation in
partnership with ACW Timberattlers, the AAA baseball team.
And then that Sunday, we have, uh, a show at bare bones brewery.
Uh, it's our summer tradition.
But then we're back at the Masonic Center in October, but my full schedule will
be up on Dylan Postal dot com, uh, when I send George my dates.
Oh, but George, how are we not talking about this?
You got a, you got a comedy show in November.
I have three of them.
I'm taking a chance.
I'm taking the show on the road.
Even more, uh, I started doing these a couple of years ago.
And now I'm trying to do more of them because I like telling stories instead of
falling for a living.
I got, yeah, I got some, uh, quote unquote, stand up or stories evening with,
we call them evening with dates.
George, I sent them to you.
What do we got?
Where we got them.
So you've got September 6th at the comedy cabin.
And that is stories from under the ring with horn swaggle.
Then you've got, uh, Friday, November 10th and evening with horn swaggle,
uh, comedy and stories from under the ring at the Charlton Theatre in Green Bay,
Wisconsin.
And then you've got December 16th.
And, um, I got to rely on you for that little bit of information.
That is in Madison, that one's in Madison, Wisconsin.
So it's Jamesville in September, Green Bay in November, Madison in December.
And we're actually trying to add some more dates in between, but with my wrestling
schedule, I, I'm going to have to start choosing one or the other.
And I'm going to see how these go.
Guys, if you're able to make one of these shows and you're a listener of the podcast,
come up to me after the show and, uh, and let me know.
Thank you.
These are, this is an endeavor that I'm really just kind of trying to, uh,
trying to start into more.
Um, I, I really have fun doing these.
It's the most nerve-wracking thing I ever do is the stand up.
I hate calling it stand up, but the story telling and all that because I talk
about it, the focus is solely on me and I don't like it.
Like, if I mess up something, I can't blame the guy for not taking a good
ass bite.
So it's very, very odd for me to, uh,
since I never thought I'd hear you say anyone say, but yeah, three huge dates,
September, November, December, all in Wisconsin for now.
We are branching out very, very soon with those as well.
Mike Stricker is helping me.
He's all, he always opens for me and he's, uh, becoming a great comedy partner and
crime.
Awesome, awesome, awesome.
Well, uh, we've done the plugs for the social.
We've done the plugs for, uh, your live events and your upcoming appearances and
your comedy shows.
Uh, I think the only thing that's left to do is for me to start playing that
outro music and for you to do that signature sign off.
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