I Borrowed Batista’s Suit And Stapled “Subscribe” To My Head

Reinvention isn’t a comeback montage; it’s a messy rebuild in public. We brought Maven on to talk about how he turned a “Tough Enough” tag he could never shake into a media brand built on candor, craft, and community. From going viral on YouTube within months to taking bumps on thumbtacks just to explain how the magic works, he breaks down the strategy behind the growth: make YouTube videos that happen to be about wrestling, not wrestling videos awkwardly uploaded to YouTube.

We trace the arc from early locker room heat to earning respect through work with The Undertaker and veterans who judged him on how he treated people and performed in the ring. Maven opens up about living under labels, why he stopped seeking permission, and how telling the truth—politely or bluntly—wins over audiences even when it ruffles peers. He shares the episode with Enzo that never aired, the night he borrowed Batista’s suit when his custom one didn’t show, and the reality of Randy Orton’s once-in-a-generation instincts paired with youthful volatility. There’s RVD lore, too, and a confession about losing a round to the legend’s tolerance.

We also get practical about the business side fans feel in their wallets: ticket prices that price out families, short-circuiting the pipeline that made so many of us fans in the first place. Maven argues for affordability, smarter demographics, and creating spaces where fathers, mothers, and kids can build memories without breaking the bank. And for wrestlers eyeing life after the ring, he lays out a blueprint for owning your story: collaborate widely, serve the audience first, bring receipts, and respect the platform.

If you love wrestling storytelling with honesty, humor, and real insight into YouTube growth, audience building, and fan-first thinking, this conversation hits the sweet spot. Listen, share it with a friend who loves the business, and if it resonated, subscribe and leave a review so more fans can find it.

Transcript

Live Opening And Guest Tease

SPEAKER_00 1:49

And we're back. It's another Wednesday night, and we're live here on YouTube, and of course, across Facebook. And if you'll do us a favor, those of you who are already in the room, please share this link. Let people know we are live. Uh, we have a very special guest that I notice is uh in the room just waiting to pop in here. We'll get to him in just a moment. Uh, but first of all, thank you very much for joining us here on Wrestling's Road Trip After Hours. I'm your host, Mac Davison, of course. That's WWE Hall of Famer Teddy Long. And I see you've uh done some decorating in the background there. You may move that bear half an inch across the table.

SPEAKER_04 2:28

Well, I try I try to fix it up a little bit so it doesn't look like I'm in a warehouse or something. So I'm telling you, I'm gonna come over there one day.

SPEAKER_00 2:37

We're gonna fix that room up so it doesn't look that way. We'll get it nice looking for you.

SPEAKER_04 2:40

That's the only time I ever come in here is when I come to do the show. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

So you don't care about us who are sitting here, you're gonna give us a good background like that. I see how it is. No wonder Rufus stays in the other room. We've got a very special guest today, and I'd like you to introduce him if you don't mind.

SPEAKER_04 2:58

Uh well, yeah, man. I'm uh really excited about uh this gentleman that we're gonna have today, and thanks to you, you were able to get a hold of him. Uh talk about Maven, a guy that I had the opportunity to work with in the WWE. I mean, what a hell of a nice guy. And uh I'm just so happy to see that uh, you know, he you know didn't let you know nothing stop him. He he he reminds me a lot a lot of uh Zach Ryder, you know. He was one of those, you know, that they tried to you know hold back and uh he went on and made it. And Maven is one of those too. You know, he went on, you know, didn't let nothing stop him. And now he's a you know big star, got his own podcast. So we ain't gonna keep talking about him, player. If you got him there, let's bring him on in.

Maven Joins And Early Banter

SPEAKER_00 3:36

All right, he should be popping in right here. Boom, boom, boom. There we go. Maven, how are you, my friend? I am good. Can you guys hear me okay?

SPEAKER_04 3:45

Yeah, yeah. We see see how see how professional Maven is looking. He's got his headsets on and he's sitting at a desk. You know what I mean? See, I'm just I'm I'm not, you know, I'm like in the bathroom somewhere here.

SPEAKER_01 3:56

Yeah, play player, player. You you uh don't let Mac give you a hard time. No, I do not. No, I do not set up, I think your setup looks super classy and second to none. And hey, and and if that's the only time you go into that damn room, if that's how it would look in my house, too.

Building A YouTube Channel That Works

SPEAKER_00 4:19

Maven, it's great to have you on the show. You know, we were talking about uh, I don't even know what the discussion was just about two weeks ago, and it was like your name came up. It's like we need to get him on the show. So I reached out to a mutual friend of all three of us, and it was Dvon. And D Von said, Yeah, man, I'll get you connected up. Yeah, uh, let me tell you something. Watching your YouTube channel explode the way that it has, did that shock you at all? I mean, I I don't even think you could imagine something like that happening in it because it seemed like it was overnight.

SPEAKER_01 4:52

Well, shock's not the word. Um, I you know, obviously, whenever you start or embark on anything in life, you want you want to at least have faith in yourself. But the wrestling business and Teddy will probably back me up on this. The wrestling business has a way of beating you down and telling you that your your value is limited. And for years I believed that about myself when it came to wrestling. So obviously, when we started the YouTube channel, no part of me thought it would, you know, get to where it has, you know, currently gotten. Yeah, but I had hope. And I always knew and I always believed in myself and I felt I had something to offer. Obviously, my in-ring days are you know long gone, but I I knew I still I still could provide something, a wealth of knowledge or just something, some form of entertainment. I fortunately, you know, by the grace of God, was blessed with a great partner, someone who knew that the way to attack this platform wasn't the way other wrestlers do it. It was to attack it as the YouTube platform it was. So I tell everybody, man, we make YouTube videos that happen to be about wrestling. And and that said, that said, I still owe the big man upstairs. I don't know where I met the devil at the crossroads and signed my soul over. I I'm still shocked every day with the success. How long did it take you to get up to 100,000 subscribers? Oh man, probably I would say probably three to four months, which and Chris Chris Van Vliet put it into context. We were on our second filming trip, and I was doing a video with with CVV, and at the time we were in the mid-50s, like 54,000, 55,000. And you know, he was doing some rough math, and he told me, he's like, where you will be in another month or two, it took me years to get there. So trust me, Mac, it's not lost on me how fortunate we are. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

You know, you had mentioned uh when you you kind of had some roadblocks along the way in your career, and and I, you know, I when I got into wrestling on the independent circuit, I came from radio, so I was an outsider coming into the business, just like you, in a lot of ways, you came through reality TV, and because of that, you got heat too. I'm curious, even though we know you had that heat in the beginning, was there ever a moment where you felt you were finally accepted in the back?

Heat, Acceptance, And The Tough Enough Label

SPEAKER_01 7:32

I once you work with The Undertaker, you know, that's that's usually a pretty good check, you know, sign off for most guys. I had a lot of people, you know, play a player was one of them, Big Vis. I had a lot of people that they didn't give a shit where I came from. It's how I how do you treat me and how are you to work with in that ring? That's all they cared about. But that's again, not the business. And I just knew that if I did what my father taught me, which was keep this closed, these open, um, eventually someone else is gonna come. And you know, heat's you know, heat's not necessarily always a one-way street in the wrestling business, but once it passes your exit, someone else is on the off-ramp, get ready to take it. And I knew if I just did my job, that eventually the heat would be off me and on someone else. What I didn't know, however, Mac, was I would never be able to get the shadow of being the tough enough guy. I I would never be able to shed that. And in subsequent years, other guys, uh, you know, the the the Ms. of the world, they would be able to get rid of that moniker. I never did. Which, okay, fine.

SPEAKER_04 8:48

And what you got to understand too is uh, you know, I was back there with you, you know, some instances there are some people that that heat never goes away. I don't give a damn what they do. You know what I mean? So, and like I told Mac, and you know, and I just have to be honest and tell the truth about it. Uh, there are some people in the WWE that want to fire you for doing your job. I I don't understand. How do you get fired for doing your job? You know, so that the business is based on whether they like you or not, whether you can do your job or not. So Maven did said the right thing. You know, he kept his mouth closed and his ears open. I did that for many, many years. That's why I made it in this business, and that's why Vince McMahon kept me in my spot for nine years. But there were some people that couldn't stand it, they just hated that, you know, and so uh and they weren't gonna stop until they did something about it.

SPEAKER_01 9:40

Yeah, and it's it's unfortunately not only the wrestling business, but that's just how life is. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:47

Well, look at the world now, you know. I'm you know, like a lot of things are happening right now, but you know, what it's really doing for me is really educating me. I'm not angry anymore like I used to be because I understand now. I mean, I my eyes are open now, and I understand what this is all about now. There's just a there's just a limit to what I'm going to what I'll always be able to do and whatever I'm going to do, there's always gonna be a limit on it. So you got to realize that. So just let God put your life in God's hand and let Him take care of it. And that's what I've done.

SPEAKER_01 10:19

Absolutely. And I I I think for me, uh losing faith in myself was probably just my lowest point. Once I uh got that back, I don't give a damn what anybody thinks of me. I get the question. Yeah, the people people ask me all the time, well, when you started your channel, were you worried about pissing people off? I don't care, they don't pay my bills. They're they're not having dinner with me when I get off here. I don't give a shit what they think.

SPEAKER_00 10:48

And you know, the thing is too, Maven, is that when you do that, when you do respond back, you're just being honest. There's nothing wrong when you're speaking your truth. And and I do see where a lot of times you take heat for a lot of things you may say, but uh you can say the sky is blue, they're gonna say it's black, and you can't fight those people. Certain people are just always gonna be that way.

SPEAKER_01 11:11

There's um there's some people, Mac, that you can tell them all day long chocolate milk does not come from brown cows, and they're gonna they're still gonna fight you over it. They're gonna fight you over it.

SPEAKER_00 11:21

Let me ask you on the different things that you've done on your YouTube channel, is there an episode that you wish maybe you hadn't done or that never got aired?

SPEAKER_01 11:32

Uh nothing that I look back on with regret and say, ah, maybe we shouldn't have gone there. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Um but we did an episode with Enzo. And I mean, Enzo is just, I mean, he's just a uh a polarizing figure. Yeah. And after the yeah after the episode, I got a text from Enzo asking me, hey brother, can you not show a proportion of it? And I at that point, I'm I'm like, I can't show half of a completed work. So we had to, you know, we had to sit on that episode. We've never been able to air it. And that sucks, man. When you when you devote time, money, effort, oh yeah, and and then you think you have a good product, and then you have to sit on it, that that like that that still eats at me. But again, I get disappointed every day. If that's the if that's the worst disappointment I have, I'm gonna have a hell of a life, you know. So yeah, yeah.

Keeping Your Head Down And Playing The Long Game

SPEAKER_00 12:35

It's you know, for you over this time, and because I I think there's a little bit of uh kind of like, I've done my job when your YouTube channel became so popular. Because for me, you become almost an expert in the business that you weren't really welcome into at, you know, while you were there. And it shows that you have you know the balls really to come back and say, I do have something to offer, I do know this business, you know, inside and out. So I am gonna share my opinion. And I can imagine there are a lot of people who tried to stop you along the way, but that Maven is why that show works. Every time I hear trust, you're telling me your truth. And if that's the case, it makes the show that much more interesting to me.

SPEAKER_04 13:26

And that's why, and that's why the numbers that he's got, that's why they got the numbers that tell the truth. And people, some people want to know the truth, and some people can't handle the truth. But the majority of the people that want to know the truth, they they sit down and they listen. So Maven has done a tremendous job, you know. I mean, look like he's invented himself all over again. He started a whole brand new career, but you just never know what God has in store for you. So that's why I always say, give it to him, let him let him take care of it for you and quit worrying about the devil because you know he we ain't nothing we can do about him.

SPEAKER_01 13:59

And the beautiful part about that is, and I tell other people, the divans of the world, the Ken Andersons, the Stevie Richards, anybody that's doing what I'm doing, I encourage everyone to do it. Why? Because the stories I have are mine. I can't tell other people's stories. That's where the Stevie's come in, that's where Renee Dupree comes in. And there's uh and there's enough room for all of us. I how great was it when Undertaker came out and we saw a different version of Taker. We saw Mark Callaway. And I like I and I was enthralled. And I think there's just enough room. I don't, I'm open with whatever knowledge I have now about YouTube. We help as many people as we can. And I invite everyone, you know, once your days are over, like mine in the ring, man, there's there's other opportunities for you. Yes, absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 14:58

I don't want to I want to say this to you, Maven. Don't ever say your days are over because you never know. You know what I mean? And once you're in this business and you've been in it for a while, it kind of sticks with you for your entire life. So, you know, like I said, that may be a big blessing out there for you, and then maybe somewhere you just maybe come back, make a comeback, you know what I mean? So you don't don't ever say that. I don't think think your career is not not yet.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

There are enough zeros, Teddy. Yes, there are enough zeros.

SPEAKER_04 15:25

It's just that it's just that simple. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 15:32

Maven, uh, I was going things to bring up uh that I wanted to show, and I was gonna show some pictures uh from uh you know your history, and uh you kind of made it easy because when I went to your Facebook page on your title page or the banner area, you had already selected a certain amount of photos that you made as a part of your cover, which tells me they must mean something to you. So I want to kind of go over some of these pictures. First of all, going left to right, uh, what's in that first picture there?

SPEAKER_01 16:01

Well, if we're going left to right, top to bottom. Yeah, I'm sorry. That picture is Stacy Keebler and I. And here's the funny story about that picture. That was in 2005, WrestleMania in LA. Now, that was the first year that they were going to be televising that Hall of Fame ceremony. So they told us in plenty of advanced time, make sure you have something nice to wear. So I went out and I bought my very first custom-made suit. I I mean I spent about a thousand dollars on it. I was so excited about it. Here's the problem that suit did not get mailed to the uh hotel in time. And the suit I'm wearing with Stacy in that picture, if you can believe it, I swear on my life, that's Batista's suit. When the day Yeah, when the day came and my suit was not at the hotel, I went to the only man I knew had a closet full of suits in LA, Dave Batista. And with no problem, huh? Oh well, it was it was big. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, it was big. But it but it got the job done. And I asked, I went to Dave and I asked a favor, and he was like, Oh, yeah, no problem. He's like, just don't wear this one. He's like, That's the one I'm wearing. And yeah, that was it. And then obviously you see Dave and I uh under under that picture. That was just we ran into each other out in a club in DC just at random, just at random.

SPEAKER_00 17:31

Was Batista a good friend of yours uh back in the day when you were there?

SPEAKER_01 17:35

Man, there are a few people in the wrestling business that when I say I would take a bullet for him in the leg, I uh I would do it. Dave is one of the most genuine human beings from this industry that I ever met. When I say nice, I I I that doesn't even cover it. When I was at my lowest, when I was at my lowest, he helped me financially.

The Enzo Episode That Never Aired

SPEAKER_04 18:01

And I want to say this too about Dave, too. He's uh just like uh uh uh Naven is saying, what a hell of a nice guy. I had the opportunity of being good friends with him, too. In fact, I met him before he even became a big star. They sent me to Louisville one time to go down to work for uh OVW or something, and Cornette and them were running a show in Louisville. But anyway, but Teaster was a guy that came and picked me up at the airport. Okay, now I'm he's uh he's riding me. And uh what a year after that, the die uh several years after that, he's at Hollywood.

SPEAKER_00 18:34

Yeah. Even that second one on the uh top uh from the left, the second one there, that's you, I imagine, as a young kid.

SPEAKER_01 18:42

Yeah, yeah, that's me for one of my birthdays. And I I the what I remember from that was my panda cake. But yeah, that's curly, that's curly haired me. Um the picture to the right of that with uh with the red background, that's from after, that's from probably a year after the WWE released me. I I started working with BET and I actually had my own uh top 10 video show. And that's from that, yeah, that's from from that picture. Um you were in the home shopping network too at one time. Is that correct? I did two years on BET, and then after that, that parlayed into I still don't know how I got on HSN, but I did. It pays the bills, right, brother? It did, and it paid them well. Um, the pictures, the picture beside that, that's my buddy Kirk's wedding, and then there's me and Keebes and Randy Orton. And I I wish I could say that me and Orton being out at a bar and uh our our shirts being unbuttoned was an uh an uncommon occurrence, but it wasn't. That was probably every damn time. That was another nice guy, yeah. Another, yeah, yeah. People give Randy a hard time for how he was back in the day. Well, he just spoke the truth.

SPEAKER_04 20:05

That's why they didn't like him because he spoke the truth. Yeah, Teddy.

SPEAKER_01 20:08

Teddy, you remember he and I, we rode the roads uh at that time, and honestly, I I probably got released because of it. Like, you know, they weren't gonna let Randy go. I I was I was someone that they could snip and let yeah, let go pretty easily.

SPEAKER_04 20:26

How many times did you have to pull Randy back? I rode on the bus. I was happy I had the chance to ride on the bus with him and stuff. So I was yeah, man.

Why Honesty Wins And Owning Your Story

SPEAKER_01 20:36

Matt, people used to come to me and they and like because Randy, he's just he's just crazy, like for lack of a better word. But but that that said, I don't think there's ever been someone who's more naturally gifted in the art of professional wrestling than Randy Orton. And from day one. Oh, yeah, I agree. He knew he he he from day one knew stuff that guys it would take them 10-15 years, veterans to pick up. But Randy had that, he all both wires in his brain at the time weren't touching. Guys would come to me and be like, Maven man, Randy's doing something. Can you get him? But what the hell do you think I can do? Like I can I can reel him in a little bit, but when when he ain't gonna come, he ain't gonna come until he's ready anyway. Yes, he yeah, he's he's like a jack in the box. You can wind that thing up, it's gonna pop out when it's ready, right?

SPEAKER_00 21:33

So that far top right picture there. What is that from now?

SPEAKER_01 21:37

Again, again, my BET days when I was working on B.E.T. they had uh probably my first professional photo shoot. That was from that. Um there's a baseball picture in there too. That's yeah, that's that's from and Teddy, you'll love this. That's from 1997. My that's my college year in baseball. I've always told people. It looks like I'm a damn runaway slave from the Civil War era. Like they had color photography at the time. I don't get, I don't get why they use black and white. They had color color photography existing. You know why they use it.

SPEAKER_00 22:21

Let's see. I'm getting a couple things. I want to see if we have any questions in here because we got a lot of people saying hello in here tonight. Got a nice crowd in here. We appreciate that. And uh by the way, if you want to be a part of the show, uh, we got about another, well, about five to eight minutes here uh before we have to say goodbye. But if you want to be a part of the show and we can throw it up on the screen, it's absolutely free. No stupid stickers or anything like that. This is absolutely free. Just uh throw your questions up on the screen. Uh, there's one here I'm trying to figure out now. You can maybe help me with this, Maven. Uh, this is Dave Cron, who comes in here every week and he's saying Maven is better than Hannibal.

SPEAKER_04 22:56

Oh, God, yes. I'll I'll amen to that. I'll amen to that.

SPEAKER_01 23:01

Listen, where I stated, uh I would be I would be a hypocrite, and to me, there's nothing worse on earth than a hypocrite. I'd be a hypocrite to state what I stated earlier and then go back on it now. There's a place for Hannibal. Hannibal has his voice, he has his opinions, and there's a lot of times he doesn't like what my stance on something or doesn't agree with with what I state, what I say, what I experience. Perfectly fine to do so. I'm happy with his success and I wish him nothing but success. Why? Because there is enough room for all of us. I'm not gonna go go back on what I stated earlier. I I wish Hannibal nothing but the best. And if he's hating, at least he's watching.

Photo Memories: Batista, BET, And Early Days

SPEAKER_00 23:46

Amen. Amen. Uh let's see. Uh, we have also Ellen. Um, no, I'm sorry. This is Elijah saying, hey guys, hope you're having a great night. I want to ask, what do you all think about fans? Keep chanting, we want uh, okay, well, we want something. I don't know exactly what you want, but uh let's see if this next one down here, maybe he's got more Owen there. Uh hey guys, what do you guys think about fans who keep chanting, we want Vince uh McMahon at Triple H every single premium event? Let me, you know, you're you're pretty open, Maven. Your thoughts on uh how the fans are reacting to Triple H right now with all the current pay-per-views and and what a lot of fans see is a bad choice.

SPEAKER_01 24:30

It's always revisionist history. We always look back on high school and think, ah, those were the days where we don't we we completely forget about you know how we truly felt in that moment when I don't know if the girl likes me or I don't know if I'm gonna get picked for this this team. But everybody wants what they once had. And it's easy to point fingers, it's easy to always say they're doing something wrong. Uh when okay, I might disagree with some of the moves Hunter might Hunter would make. I don't sit in that chair, I don't know how stressful it must be. Obviously, I've made no bones about it, and I've made it very clear. I and I got from first hand first hand knowledge of someone in that room that Hunter actively you know held me back. And hell, and whenever people would bring my name up, eh, he's not ready. Uh, let's hold off, let's do the and you know what? I'm about I'm beyond that. I like I I still can look at Hunter when he does good and say, well done. Look at him and say, I might not have made that move, but at the end of the day, I'm not sitting in that chair. Um, I one thing I will say, and if they want uh a nickel's worth of free advice free advice for me is actually overpriced, but I'll give it to them nonetheless. Charge fans less to come to your events. Vince knew this. Vince, Vince knew the way you you build long-term fans year after year is making it a family affair, having fathers taking their sons to events. And the way they price tickets now, they price families out. And there's my you know, there's my advice to them.

SPEAKER_00 26:14

And you know, I agree with that because I think that you have to know your demographic. And I feel they forgot who their demographic is. They're now going after the money and not so much the fans.

SPEAKER_01 26:25

They're going after corp, they're going after corporations to fill those suites and to sell those big, gigantic bulk ticket packages. And that's just not where most people are. Most people look at disposable income as a few hundred dollars, not a few thousand.

SPEAKER_00 26:42

Correct, if not in the tens, if you have a family. That's that's the scary part. Like you said, you know, in the old days, a dad or a grandfather could take his grandkids or kids with them, and they could afford to do so, eat and everything, and leave and you know, not spend a ton of money. Now it's how I went back.

SPEAKER_01 26:58

That's how I went to my first show. My father took to my first show, and I became a fan.

SPEAKER_00 27:02

Yes, absolutely same. Yeah, you've got to make it affordable to the demographic, not to the it, it ain't just it ain't just about wrestling either.

SPEAKER_04 27:10

All these sports, basketball, baseball, everything they need to make it affordable because people are in a lot of stress right now, man. I tell you, you you ever yeah, how when the last time y'all went to Walmart spending the money?

SPEAKER_00 27:22

Every time you walk in the door, you can't walk out with spending something. That's the problem.

SPEAKER_04 27:26

You'll walk out of there with 10 items and you spent 200.

SPEAKER_00 27:30

Yeah, especially if you got the munchies. Dave Crohn's saying he's jealous that Maven got to smoke with R V D.

SPEAKER_01 27:37

Hey, I I realized how much of a rookie I was. My partner and I, we were going back and we were gonna film more. And we went back to our Airbnb, and I'm not kidding, I was in the fetal position for five hours. Yeah, Rob's a pro.

SPEAKER_04 27:59

Rob Rob's not a he's not a rookie, he's a vet. No, you you know, no, anybody can't smoke with Rob. I smoke with Rob way back in the day, brother. So I'm telling you, you're right. Rob is the man.

SPEAKER_01 28:09

Yeah, he's like smoking with Godfather, and he was yeah, that's about it. And he he was walking around like it was nothing, like like it was just too Tuesday, you know. Pretty classy lady. Uh Melan is hot, pretty classy lady. Uh, I I don't want to say that she's the smartest woman on earth. I'm not saying she's not, but I do know she has the best set of eyes on earth. That much I will say.

unknown 28:39

All right.

Randy Orton’s Talent And Wild Years

SPEAKER_00 28:41

Chad Drigger is saying, sending love to all three of you. Thank you, Mac and Teddy. Hey, we appreciate you watching the show this evening. Thank you. We got time maybe to squeeze in just a couple more here if I got them. Uh, I keep getting these now. Uh I'm getting a request for you to make an appearance at FanFest 4, uh, which is an event Teddy and I will be doing that's in May, uh, for SICW in St. Louis. Uh hey guys, I'm sure if you reach out, if Maven has availability, you can do something like that. I'm sure he'll respond. So uh, Maven, if they want to do that, how do they contact you, by the way?

SPEAKER_01 29:12

Uh, everything we have a on our YouTube channel, we have a uh uh Gmail account. Any my partner gets all those requests, he filters them, and then anything that we do, and we're just a two-man operation, but anything we do, we try to make get the most bang for our buck. So if I was to go to St. Louis, what I would do is in advance, look for some of the boys that live in that area and hit them up and you know, hey, you want to make some make some couple bucks? Let's do a video together. And then try to just make the event around us filming as well. That's how we we did with Perry. That's how we we've done two Orlando trips that way. So just try to get as much done as possible. How how often are you out doing content for your show? We just got done. I flew home a week ago, and we I flew to set Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and um we were filming for a solid week. Wow. Yeah, and I'll I'll I'll this video's gonna be out at the end of the month. So we've had our our biggest success and best numbers through with our secrets videos. Yeah, and the last secrets video, Teddy, I'm an idiot. Uh I did a I took a bump on thumbtacks because I knew if I told the secrets of thumbtacks, all I would hear about in the comments is well, Maven, you never took a bump on them. So to get rid of all that, I just went ahead and did it. So the secret in this upcoming video, I'll break it on here first uh first. It's the secret to the staple gun. And I will tell you guys, I took, and not just a staple gun, a car, one of those carpet staplers. I took an industrial staple gun to the head, and Mac, you'll love this. I stapled a subscribe picture to my head. Wow. You sure you ain't still smoking? No, no, you don't you want to know what it is, Teddy? I'm I'm addicted to those YouTube numbers now.

SPEAKER_02 31:10

I hear you.

SPEAKER_01 31:11

I like seeing those views go up where YouTube numbers make money. Cha-ching, player.

SPEAKER_00 31:18

Before we get out of here, I do want to mention Bill Aptor stopping in saying, not one hair on three heads. Leave it to Bill. Leave it to Bill. Exactly. Also, this is one thing I do want to bring up before we get out of here. I see uh and Buddy have been watching their long time uh viewer of the show, Maven. And and Buddy's birthday is tomorrow. And I want to make sure that we say happy birthday, buddy. I hope you have a great birthday. All right, let's see if happy birthday, buddy.

SPEAKER_01 31:51

Happy birthday.

SPEAKER_00 31:52

Everything there's a lot of people in here, Maven, asking about uh St. Louis. There's a lot of interest for you in St. Louis. Uh Herb Simmons, I'm hearing, may even be interested in doing this. So, Herb, reach out to me if you need to get in touch with Maven. I'll give you uh information if you need it directly. I'd be happy to do that. Uh, maybe you can find out uh if he's available or not. All right, guys, I appreciate it very much, Maven. It's been a pleasure, my friend. I appreciate the uh the quick response uh when I asked you about doing it that maybe what are you gonna say, Maven?

SPEAKER_01 32:21

I I oh I you got the quick response because of the amount of respect I have to that man sitting beside you. Teddy Long was one of the gifts giving to me in my wrestling career, a man that I knew was always gonna shoot me straight, uh lead me in the right direction. And from the moment I got into a WWE locker room, he was a friend. That's why you got the quick response. I there's few people I have as much respect for than uh Teddy Long. And Teddy, I will tell you this. I told you when I was shaving my head in the locker room, I was having a problem with bumps, and you told me you went, oh, player, you gotta use some some uh rubbing alcohol on your head and use the green kind. And to this day, I have it in that bathroom. I have done it since you told me that, and it solved the problem 20 years ago. I still do it, my friend.

SPEAKER_04 33:13

Well, like you say, I've always kept you straight. You did, you did that, and I want you to know this before we go too, man. Uh, I know you anytime you'd like to have me and Mac to do your show, man, we'd be happy to do it, man, because there's some things uh that uh Mac uh would you know we'd like to talk to Mac about because I was with Mac when he first got started with this thing, you know, and uh there's a lot of history there. So uh whenever you'd like to have me and Mac, we'd like to do your show too.

SPEAKER_01 33:40

Yeah, we I I love doing one-for-ones. I love it.

SPEAKER_04 33:43

Oh, okay. That's what whatever you want us to do. We just want you to know we're available.

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SPEAKER_01 33:47

Maven, anything coming up for you that we need to talk about or anything you want to put over? Just go to the channel, check out the channel. We have a Patreon channel, we have a clips channel, maybe not in clips. Uh, my partner started up um uh the same guy who I do the channel with started our Facebook page. Um just the fact that I've like you said, I've been able to reinvent myself. I I I don't know you know what I did to deserve it, but I'm thankful. Thankful to all the fans. Uh, I owe it all to them. And lastly, Mac, you have the best radio voice I've ever heard in my life.

SPEAKER_00 34:23

Brother, I appreciate that very much. I really do. Ever, ever. If you ever need help somewhere, you just tell them I'm available. You know how that works. I found my VO guy. There you go. There you go. Maven, I appreciate it. Everybody else, thanks so much for watching. We'll be back again next Wednesday night, live, 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, right here on YouTube and of course on Facebook. If you go over to Facebook, it's live every single night. All right, guys, we appreciate it. We'll see you again next time, same time, same place.