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This is my co-host George. Yeah, that's me. I am George sometimes. The most important thing is that you are here and you are hanging out with us today. Today we are talking about all things Kofi Kingston, but before we get into that, I would like to remind everyone to please head on over to roosevelts.com. R-S-V-L-T-S.com, use code SWAGL, save yourself 20% on your order. That's where this podcast is brought to you by. This podcast is for all of you, but it is brought to you by Dylan, George and Roosevelt's. And Dylan, plug your socials, man. Where can the people find you? Plug the YouTube channel, the Twitch channel, all those things. I'm used to plugging these at the end, so I always forget to plug them in the beginning and in the end. Guys, you can find me at Dylan Postl on all forms of social media. It used to be WWE, Hornswoggle, but then I was bullied a lot into changing it to at Dylan Postl. 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Their products are made to order with vitamins and all natural oils that promote strong, healthy hair and moisturize your skin as well. Mad Cat Beard Care has exclusive sense for myself as well as other wrestlers such as a childhood favorite of mine. Delirious. Ring of Honor legend with his lime and French vanilla scent that makes my beard smell and feel amazing. And of course, make sure to try my exclusive scent swagled with nuts of lavender and sage. And guys, make sure to use promo code SWAGGOLD to save 15% on your own at madcatbeardcare.com. And remember, the Mad Cat makes a happy beard. Oh, okay, Dylan, let's just start off here. When did you meet Kofi Kingston? What was your first impressions of each other and how did it all get started? So in thinking about this episode, I was like, man, I've known him for so long, literally since he debuted on the main roster. But I couldn't remember really when we met. It had to have been his debut because I would have been on SmackDown and he would have debuted at ECW. So I would have been there. And I remember like, I think it was me riding with punk thing and us just rooming with him and taking his free rental car and all of that like usual. But I really think it was that. And I just don't remember how it all kicked off, man, it did. And Kofi and I, instant friends like Brian, Kofi and I, just instant friends and it's always been that way. Like, you're going to hear it so much throughout this episode, I'm sure. But Kofi is, Kofi is that guy where almost like my dad, I say, where if you have an issue with Kofi, you're the issue. You're definitely the issue. And there's not one person on this planet that's ever had an issue with Kofi that held any merit. And so it's, it's, it's just, it was an instant, instant friendship because he's such a good human. Okay. Now, let's talk about the early ons. We touched upon it when we talked about the, your appearances in rumbles. But let's talk about the inception of that. Like at what point do you guys connect in terms of the rumble spots and stuff like that? Because obviously Kofi Kingston, incredibly athletic, capable of doing unbelievable things. And that was demonstrated long before you guys started putting together these rumble spots. So how did that kind of come to be? So that's hard for me to even remember because I, I literally can't, I can't remember when any of this happened. It just seemed like he was on the road and we were instant friends. And that was that. And it was, this is my, my shitty memory, but I just remember him and I always being around each other all the time, literally all the time. I, I, he's, he's definitely the guy I rode with most out of anyone. Like even when Brian was off the road and on the road, like Kofi and I rode together, I rode with Kofi more than anyone in my WWE career for sure. And but I don't know. I think it was just like over time it just happened. I can't think of like the rumble things or, or that. It just happened. Literally. It wasn't like you guys sat down and he was just like, Swagel, help me with these. With these. No, it was never bad. It was, it was literally this in the hotel room hand thinking about doing this. Okay, sweet. And then we just chat about it. But I can't, I wish I had answers. I really do because there was literally no reasoning that we would like sit down and talk about these things. It would just come up that weekend. I was talking about earlier, like how I rode with him the most. There was a lot of times there was an interchangeable person. Like when we were on the raw loop, Miz, we were with, wrote Miz wrote with us a lot for for a few weeks. And that started. So PSPs were the hot, hot thing at the time. Yep. PlayStation portables. And we all, Kofi and I had one. And so we would play Madden against each other. It was like, we thought we were technologically like so smart to be able to play Madden against each other on a PSP. And I was like, man, but thinking about now what you can do with video games. And that wasn't long ago. But now what you can do with video games and systems and consoles and that's a come a long way. Just in such a short time. And man, the drop game rate of the PSPs were never good. It was not great, but we made it work. Like on flights, we could play Madden on flights. It was great. But once Miz saw us doing this, he needed to get down in it. And so he bought, I remember he bought a PSP. I think it was on the road just so he could join us and Madden and all that. And he was absolutely awful. But Colffing I loved it because I've talked about it in the book. Life is short and so am I. Miz was always in Miz mode, what we called it. We never see Mike. You don't see Mike very much. And we would just, we would just be sick of Miz mode. And finally we'd, we're saying we need Mike turn Miz off. We need Mike, bro, this is Mike. This is Mike. No, just be Mike. Be Mike. And he'd slowly turn Miz mode off into Mike. And the Madden games would wind him up so much because he was so bad that he needed to excel in something. And so he felt he needed to excel in Madden as well. And it never happened. So we would bet at Buck. We would bet 20 bucks. We would bet whatever. And then there was a weekend. And I had the picture in my phone. It just came up randomly in my memories the other day. Where the three of us were riding that weekend. And Miz brought a guitar with him. But it wasn't like a full guitar. It was like this travel guitar. Okay. And we were very confused because we were like, Miz, you're not very musically inclined. Bro, I'm going to learn how to play guitar. And we looked at each other and we go, what? Because I'm going to learn how to play guitar. And it's this very weird looking guitar. I'll throw it. I'll put it in the notes, George. I'll send you the picture of this whole thing. It's very odd. It's like a hand. It's just this weird travel guitar. And he would like you could plug it into his headphones. And he thought he was playing. Well, he wasn't doing anything. Man, things like that make me happy. So as you can see in that photo, there is an autograph on the guitar. He was all about Miz was all about this guitar. Miz all about the guitar, all about the guitar. He kept losing. But then he kept wanting to play. He kept wanting to play Madden. And we're like, you're not good. You're just let us play each other. This is competition. Bro, you know what? I need to win. I need to win. You can sign my PSP. If you win, you can sign my PSP. And Kofi's like, I don't want to do that. He goes, Miz, if I win, I'm signing your guitar. Oh. And it was one of those things where Miz didn't want to do it. He did not want to do it. Because that was his new pride and joy. And he knew every time he'd have to look at the guitar and see Kofi's signature on it. And he ended up caving because otherwise he wouldn't have been able to play Madden. We fully bullied him into this. Now that I think more about it, he did it. He lost horribly. And then he got the guitar signed by Kofi, which in that picture you can see inside. We never saw the guitar again after that. He never brought it down the road again after that. My thing is like, we don't know if he ever learned how to play the guitar. There's no way he did. No way he did. But there, this is a very weird thing because he showed up with this and he was very serious about learning how to do it. And it just never happened. You just need a hobby on the road. You spend a lot of time traveling. Maybe you want to pick up a new little hobby and clearly Madden wasn't working out for him. So maybe he decided maybe he could play the guitar. I agree. More power to him for trying to learn. But he was dog shit. So I want to get into more stories from the road later on. But again, we've talked about this. You talked about it during the interview when you sat down with Brian Myers. We talked about it last time we, Kofi came up. Let's talk about the dad group. Team dad, yeah. Team dad is probably the best part of our friendship. So landed was born first. He was 0-9. So I would have found out mid-09 that his mom was pregnant with him. So he was born and then on the road obviously we'd get to a Denny's or a place to eat. And we order and I'd get up and I'd take my phone calls to call home. Kofi was married at the time. So he would call his wife and such but then when his son was born a bit later he would get up and he would have the dad phone calls where he'd call his son in that and check in. Brian did not have children. I don't think, no he was not even married at the time. He might not even have been with Liz. I can't remember because I have a horrible memory and especially with time-l-a-stamps or whatever. So we would get to a Denny's and we'd order and then Kofi and I would get up and just leave Brian at the table. And finally like this happened like two weekends in a row, like two loops in a row because guys this gotta stop. We gotta figure out, I'm sitting here with my Diet Coke because we didn't have, I mean this is the time before internet was really great on cell phones and that so he's just staring at the wall and out the window. He's, I'm sitting here with my Diet Coke. You guys just get up and leave and then the food comes and I have to text you when the food's here. That's the only time we had to talk to you. We're just loving it because it didn't stop us. It never stopped us. We still got up, made the dad, the team dad phone calls. That's what he said, we're team dad man, just a couple of dads, you know, checking in. God I get it, I get what you're doing and that's great but you gotta stop. Something's got it, one of you go and then the other one comes back and then switch off. I can't, you're leaving me here on my own. It's the worst. And it was just, it was so funny and then so like special that one day Kofi and I get a text in a group chat of, hey guys, just wanted to know if I'm able to join team dad. And we were like, oh, we get it. Oh, he's gonna be a dad. And that's when him and his wife were pregnant with their daughter, their first daughter. So it was a cool, cool way for him to announce it to us. And that'd literally be part of the group. And so it's a really special bond that now the three of us have. Yeah, just like the three of us is team dad and just the three, like seeing the kids grow and just craziness over Facebook is the best and worst thing as we know. But man, when it comes to like seeing families grow and kids grow up, it's the coolest thing possible. I don't, we all, none of us do. If we're being honest, heartfelt, Dylan moment incoming in three, we don't keep in contact with people we don't see regularly. We don't keep in contact with them enough. That's a, that's a known thing. It's just how life works and how society works and how, how we work as, as a culture, I feel. Um, but the good thing about Facebook is now like, if I see Kofi at a house show or he comes to visit or he's in the area, he like sees landed's life or I see his boys and girl and daughters lives. And it's like, we feel like we are still keeping in contact like we should. And it's a sad thing because we should still be keeping in contact more than just over Facebook or living life through Facebook photos. But it's, it's a man. It's, it's, it's a blessing because Mark Henry, um, his daughter is born the same day as landed the exact same day and to see how them to have literally grown up the exact same age. It's just a, it's a, it's a neat thing. It's a really cool thing and something that you don't really think about. And um, but yeah, when, when land didn't sees Kofi a couple of years so at a house show in Milwaukee, uh, he just, he was man. He's just huge. He's, he's absolutely. And I just got a text from a couple of months ago. He's just enormous Dylan. He's just, he's a, he's literally a man. He's, he's a man and he's a man. And I said the same thing about what Kai, his, his oldest son was doing. And it's just, it's a cool thing to, it's a cool part about technology and life and culture, I guess. Um, yeah. About how you can keep up with people. I mean, I, I've like I talked about with the Brad Williams episode. I, I never met him in my life, but I felt like we're good friends only because of social media. And that's, uh, I think that's a pro and a con for social media. So you can form very strong relationships on social media that feel like you've been friends with people for a really long time, but at the same time, like you had mentioned earlier, sometimes it's also a reminder of, you know, the, the lack of contact that you have with other people. Like I, you know, I really wish that I had time to talk to these people more, but I, it's one of those things where like you said, life gets in the way everyone's busy, everyone's traveling, everyone's got their own things going on. But, uh, let this, I guess serve as a reminder Dylan, let me know if you agree with this. Maybe this is your reminder. If there's someone that you're thinking about right now, while we're talking about this, and it's someone that you haven't reached out to a while, maybe this is your, your signal to reach out to them and just a touch. I just lived through Facebook. Sorry guys. I'm looking literally, I'm, I'm listening to everything George is saying, but I'm extremely distracted by the Kofi photos of my phone. That's an awesome, awesome, how about tech man? Dylan possible big technology guy. I literally, you can search through faces on your phone. That's something that we, we would have to maybe take a trip down memory lane of, of one day, just like going through swagls photos of time in the WWE. Man, oh, there's some fun ones. Oh, Jesus. What? Ah, stop. Ladies and gentlemen, the land has to run in of the week. Stop, get out. Get in, Landon. What's going on? Talking about Kofi. We're not talking about, I was talking about you. I was being nice. Get out. What's going on, Landon? My brownie. That was my breakfast. Don't sell me out. Get out of here. Bye. Peak behind the curtain. Dylan had a, a brownie for breakfast today. I had a brownie for breakfast. Not going to lie. It's the greatest breakfast. It's the greatest breakfast. It's, it's made of weekend. I'm, I'm not caring. Oh, yeah. That was, that was the shortest. That was a record time. Landon running. He literally did that to sell me out. But I ate a brownie for breakfast. That was his only reason to come in here. You're an adult. You make the rules if you want to have brownie for breakfast. I'm a grown ass man, a half grown ass man. I can eat whatever the hell I want. Hell, yes. All right. So let's, let's pivot a little bit and let's talk about televised moments, live show, how show moments with Kofi. Obviously, the Samoan drop heard around the world is, is a moment that we've talked about before from, from the rumble. But are there any other little moments that come to mind about, you know, how shows, live moments, other televised moments that jump out? WrestleMania 29 is probably one of my biggest mean Kofi moments. Fuck. I just got the, the, the picture of my head. We'll get back. Ah, but no WrestleMania 29. We're all talking about the match and sitting down about the match. And I asked if I could do a dive onto the, onto the, onto everyone. And then like, okay, yeah, sure. How are you going to get to the top rope? I said at some point I'll have, I'll come in and truth and Kofi will hoist me to the top rope, hold my hands and shoot me off. Great. My best friend guy I've traveled with now at that time for years and our truth, such an awesome, awesome person as well. Man, it's going to be awesome. If there's one guy I, I should be able to trust to be there for my spot. It's Kofi, I would think. I get to the top rope. You can audibly hear me looking at Kofi and you can hear me going hand, hand, hand as I'm standing on the top rope, not able to balance very well because my best friend isn't helping me balance on the top rope. I'm just going hand, hand, hand. And then I just go screw it and I jump. I go up to him after I go, where were you on that one? He goes, yep. Didn't think about that. Great. In all reality, he had a lot to do in said WrestleMania match. Holding my hand to make sure I was balanced probably wasn't a worry of his. It was my only spot in the match. I cared a lot about it. I cared even more that my best friend didn't have my back. And if I would have fallen backwards into the ring and messed up the spot or just not, just not went off right, that was my mania moment that year. And he could have messed it up and man, I still hand, hand, hand, nope. And I just had to jump. That's probably like the most in ring thing I remember. There's an infamous, oh man. It was a tribute to the troops or a Christmas Smackdown or something where a bunch of the baby faces dressed as reindeer. Kofi has a match as a reindeer. Yup. Oh, like Tyson Kidd. I remember this to this day. Tyson Kidd was at his breaking point. He was dressed in the reindeer as incatering. And you could see him like steaming dressed as a reindeer. Because he had the antlers. And then Kofi had to wrestle the match as said reindeer. I think he had the Rudolph nose and everything. And he did a cross body off the top. This had to have been a tribute to the troops show. I wonder if the video of this exists somewhere. 100%. I've seen it. I've seen Kofi as Rudolph since then. There is video of Kofi as a reindeer. But yeah, just that I don't know why that just popped up in my head. I specifically remember one of them where Tyson was a reindeer and was very, very, very physically upset and just incatering. I'm never like fist clenched and just knew that he should be doing something other than being a reindeer. Oh, geez. I can't. Okay. Let's. I don't know if there was any other. I don't know if there was any other in ring stuff between Kofi and I besides that, besides that and the Moen drop, the greatest row rumble. Well, you want to touch on that again? We touched upon it last. Yeah. So the greatest row rumble, I had a spot in it and I found out not so far before that that I was going to be then in the greatest row rumble instead of a singles match, which was supposed to be. They told me, Hey, yep, come in, do a couple things and then we'll get to your spot with Tony Nees and Ziggler and you'll be out. I was like, Hey, Kofi, you want to take the, it was supposed to be Finley's emerald fusion. It was supposed to be that, but with my small body, it doesn't look like that with a big guy. It just looks like a small and drop. I've quickly realized, but I immediately said to Kofi like, Hey, can I give you this? And he goes, Yeah, perfect. I knew he wouldn't, he wouldn't say no at all. And I got my spot in the match with a, with a good pal and then with another good pal in Ziggler. So it was all, it was all, all good days work there. Now we're going to go back to what I wanted to continue talking about, which I'm sure that there are plenty of. Let's hear some good road stories from your time traveling with Kofi. I'm going through my photos of him. And so there was an overseas tour where we got stuck. I think I've talked about this one before, maybe not actually, but we had an overseas tour, our usual international one. But this one got elongated. Is that the word lengthened? We were over there for long. Stretched. Because we got stuck because of a huge volcano and all the ash from the volcano blocked any flights to and from Europe to America. Okay. We got stuck in Ireland. And we literally had no idea when we were coming home, no clue. So one day like we set up a day at a mini golf course where it was like Kofi and me and Mark Henry and one of the doctors and one of the trainers and one of the security guys and Cina and Mark Henry, I think I said him, but we went to play mini golf and it was a blast. And then one night we were like, Hey, let's find a bowling alley. And we all found a bowling alley and like the whole crew and roster on the house shows went to this bowling alley and it was like children. It was pizza and soda and beer and bowl. How are you supposed to do a bowling? It's so much fun. That's part of the experience. It was so much fun, but we had teams of three and my team was me, Evan, born and Kofi. And each team of three, you would tally up your total score. We had such a bad, we took last. There was 12 teams and we took dead last in this. Do you know a positive big bowling guy? None of us are big bowling people. I like bowling a lot. I'm not good at all. None of us. Don't possibly mini golf guy. I'm a huge mini golf guy. I know we've talked about on the podcast how much you like regular golf. Mini golf could be a polarizing subject for some people who like regular. No, but the mini golf course has to be a real mini golf course. Can't be like one just open in Oshkosh in this little strip mall, like one of these little bullshit glow in the dark things. That's just like ramps and blocks in front of stuff. It's stupid. I've never done like the black light mini golf. It's stupid. No, I need. I need bridges. I need a big hill. A windmill? Windmill is hit or miss. Windmill is kind of old, but I need a big like these pirates cove. Those are like that kind of mini golf where it's a big hill on one where you have no idea where the ball is going. There's one where you have to hit it into the water and the water pushes it down. A little looped hole. I need multiple random pipe holes. Oh, okay. And you don't know what pipe to hit it in. And also if you're the type of person, if you're the type of person that tests out the holes before hitting your shot, like practice shot, I've seen it and I've had people drop the balls. Yeah. Yeah. Quit. Don't ever play mini golf again. Don't ever play mini golf again. Now, if you're saying that a windmill is old school, does that mean like a classic loop to loop? That's the old school. That's the strip mall. Glow in the dark lazy bullshit hole. Oh, see, I've seen one where you have to. I can't remember where it was where you have to hit it up a hill and then from the top of the hill, it rolls down a like a longer hill into a loop. And if you hit it perfectly, you go over the hill into the loop loop. But if you don't hit it hard enough, your balls rolling back to you. So I was like, it's a little bit of an added challenge to the loop to loop. But yeah, I get it. It's kind of like classic. You always get with those bullshit, the broken down mini golf courses where it's this metal loop on like hole five. Yeah. And also there has to be like a for a hole in one. Otherwise, you're not setting your course up properly. How do you feel about the purposeful bank shots where it's like, okay, there's all the angles. You got to bounce it off the multiple corners, try to get the home one hole one and two. That's fine. Anything after that lazy. Okay. All right. Don't pass a big fan of water hazards in water hazards, man. If there is a hole that you have to hit it under the waterfall and you can walk for under the water. You're doing something right with your course. All right. All right. This is all good knowledge. I don't think that we ever ever thought we were going to talk about mini golf on this podcast, but here we go. Here we are. Yes. It is, it is, we none myself, Evan, born and Kofi, none of us got over a hundred. I think one of us got in the eighties and it wasn't good. And so we got, there's a picture of us holding this random like Irish like plate that we got as a trophy that I still have it somewhere in my house. And I got it's because I got signed by everyone that bold, which that's what I always did. I always got like something signed by the whole tour just through. You got to send that picture to me too. I got to throw it up on screen. Yep. Kofi was always, is always not always, is always the, the instigator, but like the secret instigator. He pokes the bear in the locker room from a far corner where you don't expect it and you don't hear it for certainty. And it's like, did I just hear him say something? Is he trying to rile me up against this person and a hundred percent of the time he is? He hated everyone did when they rode with me. He hated. I would fall. I fall asleep insanely fast, especially if I eat. If I eat, I fall asleep in the car at night insanely fast. We had it to a timer where it would be 20 minutes or less and I would be sleeping after eating in the car. So he would man, if it was just him and I and we had a decent drive, he knew it was happening. I would tell him, hey, it's going to, I'm going to sleep. You know this by now. And I didn't tell him after a while. He knew it was happening, but he was the roll the window down just so the wind hits me to wake me up, the slam on the brakes and screams. So I wake up. Finally, I got to a point where I, if I felt the brakes, like hitting, I would just open my eyes and just look and then go back. I didn't care. He wouldn't. Oh, we did have a game. We had to get, oh, here's one. So Kofi is, lives in Florida. I live in Wisconsin. Kofi loves to be warm. He gets cold very easily. He just always has. They're all his life. He's always, he grew up in Boston, but he's always gotten cold very easily. I'm the opposite. I get hot very easily and I cannot fall asleep if I'm hot. I can't. I hate it. So we'd have a game. It was the, for the thermostat in the hotel. So we always shared a room. So it was for the thermostat in the hotel. I wanted it at 67 or less. He wanted it at 72 or more. So 67 and 72. So we'd play a game. Start as, I would go, all right, 65 tonight. He goes, you're out of your mind. He goes, I'll give you 71. And then we would like meet in the middle where it'd be the exact middle where it'd be like, okay, it's at 69. Done. Then, so then it started with 69 was the meeting point. That's where it would start. And then we played a game where, I don't know how it even started, but there was, they always give you two room keys, which here's a thing. Why are we getting two room keys? Even if it's just me, I get two. Why? There's no answer. Seems like a waste. Absolute waste. There's got to be some kind of logic behind that. But I remember if, like, if you forget your key, you're locking it in there anyway, like maybe you can have it in multiple spots. You could put one in your wallet and then you could put one in like a coat pocket or something. There's got to be some kind of logic or reason. Everywhere we evaluate life, one room key. People only need one. Let's save on plastic. Let's save the world. One room key at a time. The more you know. MVC, I called it out this week and I was very proud of myself. So then we came over the game where, oh, I know where it started. So randomly, he was across the room from me because I always take the far bed. I have to have the far bed as we know. The far bed from the bathroom because if there's a murder, I'm going to be second murder, not first. We have talked about this. So he was closer to the door and I was getting my stuff out of my bag and he took the room key and ninja started at me. And I felt it breeze past my head. Oh, this is what we're doing now. So I picked up the key and be without him looking, I ninja started back. And now it started a war where neither of us could lose sight of the other if the last person, if I threw it at you, I could not lose sight of you because I knew at some point it was coming back to me. It was coming back. Yeah. And we had a five foot rule. Like it couldn't be close range, but we ninja starred the hell out of these room keys. And if you made contact, it hurt. It really hurt. There was one where, and then he knew I'm afraid of the dark. So he would hit the lights with the ninja star and he would try to do that. So I definitely couldn't see it. Man, there was this very dangerous. I caught him once in the right above the eyebrow. I caught him so hard and it just dropped him. He was, we might have probably should be doing this anymore. And I said, no, it just never ended. It literally never ended because coming out of the bathroom, you'd have to be on high alert. And you'd have to like look in the mirror to see where he was and we'd hide from each other with the ninja star. It was just crazy. It was so stupid, such a stupid little game from a hotel key. But we'd enter the room going back to the thermostat. We'd enter the room and we would take the room keys and he'd get one and I'd get one. And we'd have a certain target that we'd have to try to hit. And the person who got closest got to control the thermostat. See that sounds like you're two birds with one stone. That's a double problem. So now no one's going to lose an eye from a hotel room. Correct. And we're decided to see it's double wind every Wednesday. And like both of us were miserable with the other's temperature, miserable. But then he would change and the rule was you couldn't change it overnight. Like you couldn't wait for him to fall asleep or meet a fall asleep and change it. It just wouldn't happen. One night out of all of it, one night he broke down and he changed it. He was dealing, I was shivering so much. I was freezing. I couldn't deal with it. I had to do it. You could have the thermostat tonight and just man it was. Yeah. It was just it's things like that that I again, I've never thought about until right now the just arguing over four degrees on a thermostat just because we wanted to win the battle. What do you say? Is that any other good stories? You think that's a good point to wrap up here for Kofi Kingston? I so it's just funny because still to this day, if I don't hear from him like within two days. We get him as like it's multiple times a week and it's I mean he's he's done it all literally done it all. He had that the biggest WrestleMania moment in recent memory. Truly I feel that's not just because I'm his friend. That's a true mania moment where it was a guy who literally just got this reception on his own. Almost like the Daniel Bryan thing. I think it was as as big as the Daniel Bryan moment. I'm just it felt true because it was true. No one no one dislikes him. It wasn't forced by any means. There was no one backstage that wasn't very elated and happy they showed all those like shots of the backstage and everyone watching at the monitor. That was real like people really were watching to support him. That WWE 24 on him the special on him made me so happy and so just like. Hell yeah you you have been there forever and you've you've gotten a tiny taste of moving up to those ranks up and it never happened until then. Man when it happened it was I want I remember watching it in the basement with land and and just eyes watering and I was just so happy for my friend. And it was such a cool moment overall for wrestling and because it was genuine it felt genuine it didn't like I said it did feel forced just it felt genuine. Even like reports afterwards you always no matter what WWE does or a w or anything. There's always reports afterwards of man that could have been so much better if they just did this other thing. There was nothing. There was nothing and nobody on the planet I truly feel that didn't want that moment. All right well with that we will put a pin for now and George if they have a follow up question which I there might be because as my memory serves and it's not very well. How does how do they how do they ask the follow ups. Oh that's very very simple all you would do is reach out to either Dylan via his personal Twitter account or via the podcast Twitter account at going past a pod or at Dylan pastel could also hop into the Dylan pastel discord channel there is a little podcast section within that discord and you can ask your questions there as well at Dylan pastel at going pastel pod and the discord that's where you're going to want to go. But with that Dylan no is it hot take time. What do you got guys let me talk to you about our friends over at manscaped bringing you the absolute best in men's below the waist grooming manscaped makes precision engineered tools for your family jewels. 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I had a one of my students they came over last night and they were like they go they drive truck for a living they deliver for the semi company and he just he just said he goes I can't disagree with you more on some of your hot takes and it drives me insane how mad you make me with what you say and I said it's just what you're doing and the reason it upsets you so much is I truly feel that you're not living your life the correct way. What do you have for me today what do you have for me just throw one at me. Alright, let's let's talk about how Dylan feels about grilled cheese. So we talked about this like toast we've talked about this like toast. I don't think on this format of the podcast I think we that was when the when the podcast was the patreon exclusive for the major wrestling figure podcast we had brought up toast in a longer form but let's let's let's unpack toast and grilled cheese here today. I I don't like foods that are no matter how you eat them messy no matter how you eat toast it's messy and it's I'm not saying like lick your fingers like you could say that about ribs I get it or wings. That's I know you're wrong. Like you are you not like a loser wings. No no no no no you lick your fingers when you eat ribs and wings correct. Yep. And you get when you eat toast it gets all over your lap the plate the table your shirt your beard that's why I'm 50 50 on soup. As well. Soup is very hard to eat a thin soup without getting it all over the place but grilled cheese there's nothing to it there is nothing to it. It's it's literally you eat it your hands are getting greasy I hate that I hate that look of like greasy hands I don't like the look of it it's gross to me you can't eat it without getting crumbs all over the place. I have I will fully say maybe out of the many grilled cheese I've made you're never getting a pull of a grilled cheese if you just make it with the craft singles and if you don't make a grilled cheese with the craft singles you're lying it's fine. But the issue is also everyone says well what about a good grilled cheese and tomato soup. I agree that's good I agree but you're not just eating the grilled cheese you're not just eating the grilled cheese that you're not going crazy about the grilled cheese you're going crazy about the grilled cheese and the tomato soup you cannot eat it without making a mess very simply grilled cheese is a nothing food you're not getting any any nutritional value out of a grilled cheese. Yeah because if you add things to it it becomes a melt. Thank you. People all what about a grilled cheese with tomato on it. That's not a grilled cheese. It becomes a melt. Yep. Thank you. And well a melt. I think the I think the maybe the exception I think at all because is it grilled the milk made it like it's not a grilled cheese and tomato sandwich it's a grilled cheese. This is how crazy I am I will microwave if I make like a cheese sandwich which I you never unless you're out of cold meat you never just make a cheese sandwich. It's insane to me to just the thought of just making cheese on bread with mayo. The grilled cheese thing you dip it in ketchup great you know why because you like the ketchup. I have ever dipped grilled cheese in ketchup you don't or do I don't think I ever have. Oh it's the only way to eat grilled cheese. You eat grilled cheese. Regular just grilled cheese with nothing with it. No dip. No just grilled cheese. You're you're an insane person. That's I just like that like a great sandwich is that the wrong with it. I don't like this is this is not this is not good. I don't. No one wakes up and goes man I could really go for a grilled cheese at lunch. No one. Grilled cheese is a you have nothing left in your fridge. These grilled cheese food trucks. Get them out. Get them out. Oh it's all. The gourmet grilled cheese. Here's the issue George they're not gourmet because they're putting more shit on them. They're not just. No they're using different kinds of cheeses like like they'll do like cheese the combinations of cheeses are like very expensive kinds of cheeses and that's what makes it gourmet because you're not using a craft single which no knock to a craft single. It's fantastic. I don't ever buy other cheese besides craft singles. But I think that's the appeal of like the gourmet grilled cheese trucks is that they're using cheeses that you otherwise wouldn't put on. This is just just blasphemy. I don't like it. I don't like this at all this. I mean like the thought of like spending $11 on a grilled cheese sandwich makes me angry. I've made grilled cheese with miracle whip a couple times when I've been out. Oh instead of instead of butter or yeah. Also can we talk about this? How do you butter both sides without getting your hands all dirty? You don't. I think that's kind of like part of the process of like making food Dylan. No I don't. Sometimes your hands get dirty. I don't like getting my hands dirty George. I've I've realized I have a weird thing about getting my hands dirty. I don't know what it is. I don't know where this came from. I would say my hatred for the grilled cheese if we're rating it out of 10. I would say the hatred for the grilled cheese. One is I can accept it. One is it's one of my biggest enemies in the world. I would say it's a solid six. What's just toast? 95 9.5. Yeah I knew that you're you're disdain for toast. So stupid. I. You're me just eat bread. Just eat bread. Literally take the bread out of the bag and eat it. It's the same. Talk to connect and see if we can get a going past little toaster that toasts the swaggo into the toast. I won't make it. I will never use it. Landon got it. Landon got a Bob that would be the coolest thing. You know what I'm going to make. Landon got a Bob. You're going to be on toast. Landon got a Bob Ross toaster for Christmas. It's been in the cabinet. He's used it twice because he I will. We don't need it. I don't want this toaster that I have in my house. I've used it three times in my life. Three times in my whole life since I've lived in this house. I've used it three times. I hate it. It's taken up counter space. I can have another air fryer that I can make like chicken strips or something. All right. Well that is the hot take of the weekend. As always the views expressed by Dylan Postor are not necessarily the views of everyone on the Going Postol podcast or all those associated with the major pod network or Postol Industries. But Dylan next episode we've got a big interview with one of your good friends who you sat down with tell the people who are listening who are sitting down with for the next episode. This was a fun one. This was a fun one. A guy that I have known for a long time. A long long time. Tony Chimmel. W.W. long time. W.W. Ring announcer. Tony Chimmel. We talk about a lot of things that I guarantee you had no idea about. He doesn't do a lot of interviews. He says in this interview about how are you going to get heat from buddies of his for not doing their show and doing mine. It was a lot of fun. We talked cards. We talked how we got into WWF. He at the time and just kind of a whole fun history. Talk about hot takes. He might be the king of hot takes. He hates technology and where it's going. He hates it and it makes me laugh so much because it made me miss him and it made me think like, oh man, I'm turning into you. Because I get older, I'm turning into him more and more with just my thoughts. We talk about at some point, little teaser about earbuds. I hate earbuds. I might hate them more because I can't use them because of my wonky ear. I hate. When I get on the scale of one to ten. Oh, that's us. Earbuds in the gym is one thing. Earbuds out in public, especially the one. Just the one. You look like a doofus. Like you just look stupid. We're both. We're both. Simple. Uh, on the, on the one to ten. Earbuds piss me off at least a six. Okay. Because he makes a great point. You lose one. What happens? You gotta buy another pair. You're not buying one earbud. That's very true. That is very true. Earbuds. They're getting you. Apple's getting you. Apple's getting you with these earbuds. Go to Amazon.com. Go to Amazon.com and, and get the knock offs. Oh, no. I just said a wrong thing and I just realized what I said. I just called him an infamous dog movie. Landon. I just realized I called them infamous 2000s dog movie or a dog plays basketball. Landon I messed up. One of those things that Apple makes that you wear in your ears. What? You know what I just called them? Earbuds. Like the dog basketball. As soon as you, George, as soon as you went off screen laughing, I realized I really messed up there. Oh, because I just, in my head, I went, I wonder if Dylan knows that airbud is already a thing. There's a soccer one. There's 97 basketball ones. Yeah, Apple earbuds. You know? Oh, God. Guys, if you, if you listen to this podcast regularly and you think many of these jokes should become shirts and we will have them made, but just let us know which jokes need to become shirts. I think airbuds may need to be one of them. Oh, no. I did it again. I often think that when I do this, whenever we record this, whenever we record this and I make one of these sillies, I often go, oh, no, I didn't know. No, they're so good. Like, can't like, I don't know if I've made it through an episode without making a silly. What did we call them? Pastelisms. Pastelisms. That's what it is. Yep. Yep. And where my mind literally goes, oh, I did it again. Oh, man. So how did we even get on AirPods? Oh, Tony Chimmel. That's what it was. Tony Chimmel goes on a good rant about AirPods. I almost did it. About hearing devices. And he, I literally was laughing because I go, I agree with you, but he just kept getting more and more mad. If, don't listen to this one with your children because he cusses a lot because he gets very angry. But yeah, it was a lot of fun. I love that man. He's literally done and seen it all. I just watched WrestleMania 10 and he's taking jackets at WrestleMania 10. He gets super kicked many times. It's just, he's, he's the man. He's the absolute man. And yeah, listen to it. Let us know what you think. Going to be an awesome interview. Oh, and I get Georgia's question in about video games. Oh, we tie all things together. Everything is so good. All right. Well, now this is the part where you go and you, you plug your social stuff again. I know we already did it once. We're going to do it again because now we're like an hour plus into the episode. So remind the people where they can find you guys. Twitch.tv slash Dylan possible every Monday, every other Wednesday streaming on Twitch, having a blast. I have so much fun on Twitch. It's such a community and the community. We just have so much fun talking all thing, just random. We talk wrestling. We talk food. We talk music. It's just very Disney. We had a whole Disney. Usually it comes up about Adam Sandler movies. And I don't know why we talked so much about Adam Sandler movies on Twitch, but I've realized like people hate. I think the week of George. I truly think the week of is a top three Adam Sandler movie. And it is a huge argument. It's the one with Chris Rock, the Netflix one. It is a huge argument on Twitch. I love that movie. It is so funny. But twitch.tv slash Dylan Postle every Monday, every other Wednesday swagl on pro on pro as and tees pro as and tees.com slash swagl for all the pro as and tees from myself. And this podcast podcast specific designs as well on there. Twitter at Dylan Postle Instagram at Dylan Postle. And then Roosevelt's Roosevelt's brand shirts. They just dropped a WrestleMania collection and many awesome collections coming this month. Use code swagl site wide to save 20%. And of course, swagl auction dot com swagl auction dot com for a free $10 on what not. We an awesome, awesome what not sale WrestleMania Saturday. And I'm planning the post water city wrestling con sale as we speak. In addition to this podcast, I also host the game marks podcast where we break down a different wrestling video game each and every week. It is myself and former create a pro champion Johnny clash. But on this podcast, he goes by. Thank you. 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