Road Trip After Hours w/ WWE Hall of Famer Teddy Long and Host Mac Davis

Ric Flair’s WWE Grievance And Why Social Media Hurts Legends

Mac Davis and WWE Hall of FamerTeddy Long

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Ric Flair goes off, WWE pulls a deal, and the internet does what it always does next: it turns a real business problem into a public legacy fight. We read the quote, react in real time, and talk about the part nobody wants to admit out loud, that social media can make even the most iconic pro wrestling careers look smaller when the emotion takes over. If you care about wrestling history, WWE politics, and how legends protect their name, you’ll hear the tension between “character” and “real life” in a way that feels uncomfortably familiar.

Then we get into WrestleMania weekend mode with our Las Vegas plans, plus a shoutout to Juggalo Championship Wrestling and the kind of indie wrestling creativity that keeps the scene unpredictable. From there, the show takes a left turn when Glenn “Big Nasty” Williams drops in unexpectedly to talk SICW Fan Fest 4, old school wrestling tradition, and how performance experience outside the ring can shape what happens inside it. It’s part comedy, part respect, and part challenge, exactly how wrestling conversations tend to go when egos and opportunity share the same room.

The mailbag brings the chaos and the craft: Sandman vs the Invisible Man at GCW Spring Break, the importance of crowd psychology, Teddy’s pick for the most rabid wrestling crowds, and a Vince McMahon request that still makes us laugh. We also hit modern wrestling development, why “on-the-job training” is so common now, and why Tony Khan sounds best when he stops selling and starts speaking like himself. Subscribe, share the show with a wrestling friend, and leave a review, then tell us what topic you want us to argue about next.

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Intro And Teddy’s Background Talk

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Going out for the hardcore crowd.

Ric Flair’s WWE Grievance

SPEAKER_01

Bing bang bang boom. Hey Teddy, welcome back to another episode of Wrestling's Road Trip After Hours. How you doing, brother? I'm doing great. I'm loving the background. I'm looking behind you right now, and I see your son in the picture frame with you. Uh I see also looking over your shoulder is Vince McMahon, one of those busts that came from his birthday party. Is that right?

SPEAKER_02

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01

Man, and not many of those were given out, by the way. Those right there, that's a rare item that Teddy has right there. That may don't go to his house. Don't go. No, he's not selling it either. Uh but I don't know. I'm not gonna speak for Teddy. He might sell it one day, but I doubt that seriously.

SPEAKER_02

Well, that that's gonna be that one day.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that that one day. If you absolutely have to, that's one of the things you'll yeah. I I understand that. Look here, Teddy. Uh, before we get into uh to what we got a lot going on tonight, uh I do understand that Herb Simmons uh is wanting to come into the room. So uh when he does that, we'll pop him into the room. But I wanted to talk about Rick Flair. I don't know if you've seen this Teddy, but Rick Flair, all pissed off now at WWE. Uh, he he put out a tweet. Now, this is after WWE pulled him from an endorsement deal, I guess, for some kind of a clothing company or something. Uh, and he wasn't crazy about the fact that they canceled that out. Uh, here's what he wrote. I woke up this morning to find out that I'm no longer allowed to be with roots of fights per WWE. Let me think. I'm the only wrestler to ever be on 30 for 30 and ranked in the top 25 of all time. An Emmy nominated documentary, courtesy of the WWE, which I should have won, but I lost to a team, not an individual. 21 world championships, but I always played by your rules and kept it at 16. Paid Vince McMahon back$800,000 when he said he would forgive it, and I honored it. Fortunately, I still make$1 million from the great Ryan Fetterman. Uh, it's only a great uh Ryan uh at this point, uh, as long as he's friends with Ric Flair. Uh 500k from Ric Flair Drip, which is smoke line that he has out weed, and thank God for Tony Connie says, What more my legacy do you want to destroy, WWE? You all grew up loving me, and I sent the bar. Now you're trying to kill me and diminish my legacy. Thank you, but it ain't happening. Nice try. Your thoughts, Teddy?

SPEAKER_02

No comment.

SPEAKER_01

Man, I I I gotta tell you, when I see stuff like that, we talk about how sometimes wrestlers can't drop uh the persona of who they have been as a wrestler. And this is one of those cases because when you read this, you're like, you're talking about like you won 21 championships. At the end of the day, this is entertainment. You you didn't really win 21 championships. I'm sorry, you can't claim to be somebody like uh in a major baseball or the NFL or uh the NBA. You can't compare yourself that way. And uh it just is constant, constant bitching and moaning if it doesn't go his way. The best thing Ric Flair can do, and he has not done to this point right now, is get out of his own way and get off social media. That's the best thing you can do at this point right now, because I get more and more embarrassed for him and the legacy that he had as the nature boy Ric Flair. All right. Uh Teddy, uh, I was expecting somebody to pop in the room here, and I have not seen him get in here yet. So hopefully uh let me just make sure I'm not getting any messages I need to know about here.

Vegas Week And JCW Shoutout

SPEAKER_02

All right. Also, uh, why can let everybody know that uh I will be in Las Vegas uh next week for uh a big signing now for WrestleMania weekend. So I will definitely be in Las Vegas. I'll be uh players.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, I tell you what, uh, while we're waiting uh for our guests to get in here, I I do want to mention that I will be in Vegas as well and be a part of a uh a lot of fun taking place there this entire weekend. I'll be there with Juggalo Championship Wrestling Step right up to the show you don't leave.

SPEAKER_06

Got candy on the ground, something red on your sleeve, Hortense breathing, the wind tastes like rust, smiles painted sideways, popcorn turned to dust, footprints in circles around an empty ring. You hear a little bell, but you don't see it swing. Welcome to the last Once you're in, you don't go home. You know how you don't go home. Every joke cuts in half. What's a grin when the eyes are cold? Round and round that carousel moans. Call your name in a crack falsetto.

SPEAKER_04

Welcome to the last Where the funny chew alive?

SPEAKER_03

Ears keep reading, show you what you hit Balloon in the doorway, whispers pick a kid.

SPEAKER_04

Something starts to click snap Trolls who is standing up to Welcome to the Last.

SPEAKER_06

You don't go home. The joke cuts in half What's the green when the eyes are cold?

SPEAKER_05

One ticket One screen One wish to wake up from someone else's dream. That was good.

SPEAKER_01

In horse uh this coming uh not this weekend, but the follow-up uh that's uh I I love some of the edits that we get uh from JCW. These guys put on a hell of a show, guys. Make sure you stop by and and get a look at uh some of JCW if they're in your area. Um we are still waiting on our guest. In the meantime, though, uh let me ask you a few questions from uh the chat room here. First of all, yeah, let me get some of you guys in here while we can. Uh Zach Minger, of course, always popping in here telling us what day of the uh month it is or whatever special holiday it is, and it's National Zoo Lovers Day today, Teddy. Right on, Zach. Also, uh Ellen with Buddy. She says, Buddy says hello, you guys, and he misses Teddy.

SPEAKER_02

Well, tell Buddy I certainly miss him, and uh tell him I've been seeing that uh he's been selling his t-shirts and stuff online, and so I shared that information for him. So y'all support Buddy when you see him online with his stuff, make sure you buy something.

SPEAKER_01

Do me a favor, Teddy uh forward that over to me. I have not seen that, and I would like to share that if uh if you have that still, or Ellen, uh shoot it over to me so I can make sure I share that as well.

SPEAKER_02

So Nick Patrick, I got it from Nick Patrick. It's under uh Deep South.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, cool. Also, uh we have Pee-wee. Hey, Pee-wee saying, What up, Mac? What up, Teddy? Hey, what's up, Pee-wee? Michael's in the room. Always good to see you, Michael. Hey players, how was you? Uh how was your and Teddy's Easter? Teddy, how was your Easter?

SPEAKER_02

I was great, man. I just did just hang around the house here. Well, I went to the gym because I just stayed home until about four o'clock. So yeah, I that's all I did. Did the gym came right on back home and hung out. Me and Rufus.

SPEAKER_01

So you know, you know, we talked about uh that hole in your floor uh on April Fool's. Oh some people actually thought that was serious, and I guess I guess.

SPEAKER_02

I got everything fixed down too. Everything looks good now, too. I have to send you a picture. I got everything and got the floors down. So uh let's see.

Big Nasty Offers A Truce

SPEAKER_01

We also have Curly Man in the room saying, Hey Teddy and Mac, and uh let's see. Curly man. We have Dave in the room also saying uh Mike Harold. Um I'm not sure what that means, but okay, Dave. Uh and Herb Simmons uh saying hello, gentlemen. Well, I'm a little bit confused now because if Herb's saying hello, gentlemen, then who's waiting in the wings for us right now? Because it's supposed to be Herb Simmons. Let me see. Hold on. I got somebody. Well, well, whoa. Ladies and gentlemen, this is none other than Big Nasty Glenn Williams who be part of the SICW Fan Fest 4 taking place in Fairview Fight Heights, Illinois. What the heck are you doing here? You're supposed to be Herb Simmons, not not Big Nasty.

SPEAKER_00

Look, I I've I've told everybody before, SICW runs off of my back. And I've got friends in some high places. I may have paid your producers to let me on. But look, I I want to tell you guys something. I we we've been working this out, and I feel like maybe we got off on the wrong foot. Maybe I was a little out of line. Okay. But yeah, but look, hey, we we all know this. We've been in this business, and I've realized I've been trained by cowboy Bob Orton Jr. I picked up some tricks along the way, and the squeaky wheel gets the grease. And so that's what I was trying to do. I got your guys' attention. Maybe I went about it the wrong way. So let's peace offering. I'm sorry. I'm excited. Let's have you guys formally, I want to invite you to be on Nasty Talk Live at Fan Fest 4. Herbs Ocated. Let's give the fans what they want, and that's one hell of a show. What do you guys say?

SPEAKER_02

Well, the first thing I want to say, uh, I want to say uh hello to you, uh Big Nasty, and uh let me make one thing clear. Uh, you know, you talk a good game, and a lot of people don't know that I know that you're certainly a tough competitor in the ring, so I'm not looking at playing you cheap at all. I know how bad and tough you are. But as far as me and Mac coming on your show, I got no problem with that. As long as you know how to conduct yourself and handle things right, then I got no problem with it, player.

SPEAKER_00

Well, that sounds great. Mac, what do you say?

SPEAKER_01

I I have no problem with it either. I just feel sorry for the cow that you slaughtered to throw into your back. You know, it just makes you look that much bigger and that much better, I guess. A little nasty. Tell me, I want to be serious for just a moment, Glenn, because uh I have seen that you've done some videos that have gotten some actually really great views. Has this big nasty person something unexpected for you?

SPEAKER_00

No, uh, I have been in entertainment my whole life. I was in a band about 15, 20 years ago. I'll date myself back when MySpace was around. We were doing 250,000 streams, which was revolutionary because that was before streaming was really, you know, dawned as a thing. So um I was in a band that did really well. I played with bands like Lincoln Park, Chris Cornell, I was on MTV too. I've done a lot of things. I've always been in front of thousands and thousands of people. Um admittedly, uh, you know, I I let the lifestyle get in the way for some years, and I I was, you know, went through some hard times and I built myself back brick by brick. And uh, you know, when you're homeless out here in St. Louis in the concrete jungle, you gotta find a way to do something right. Otherwise you'll you'll be forgotten forever. And so uh I had a friend that I met in music who wrestled locally around here, and he was like, Man, you love this, you'd be great at it. And so I did some research, I found Bob Orton Jr., the Ace Academy, and SICW. And as much as me and Herb Simmons uh bought heads, I mean, you know, the guy's giving me an opportunity to prove myself, and I've done that, and I ran with it.

SPEAKER_01

You know, I just got a note in here, uh, Glenn. This came from one of our producers saying that you're actually you're filming uh live right now from a parking lot where you're doing dumpster diving for things just like that jacket you have on, I understand. That's right. Uh we just ran out of time. We can't have Glenn anymore right now, but we will see Glenn at S-I-C-W Fan Fest. Of course, that's in the St. Louis area at Fairview Heights, Illinois.

SPEAKER_02

I had something I wanted to say.

SPEAKER_01

Well, well, hey, look here. Uh Glenn, I'm gonna let you back in here. Go ahead, Jenny. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_02

I would I was really uh impressed uh with you, Glenn. I mean, with everything you said, and I mean you wouldn't have that title around you, you know what I mean, if you wasn't a tough competitor in the ring. So I want you to know I understand that very well. So, like I said, me and Mac, we got no problem, you know, coming on your show, you know, just conduct yourself like a man, and then I think we have some other problems that we may settle a little later on in the ring. So uh I'll certainly be ready for that.

SPEAKER_00

Hey, look, let we we can talk about that when we get in the ring. I I don't have anything against you guys. Teddy, you got the Lifetime Achievement Award last year when I won Wrestler of the Year. Um, you know, I think the legends that we have involved with this year's fan fest is more heavily involved than ever before, and this is the way it should be. SICW, their whole legacy is keeping old school wrestling alive in a in an era where there are all different flavors for everybody. That's what SICW provides for people. So I like to pride myself on being one of the last few wrestlers in this business that actually cares about tradition and actually does this sport the way that it's supposed to be freaking done. And so I'm taking this opportunity. It's not lost on me. What a big opportunity it is for me to be in the same ring with you two. So I'm gonna I'll do my best to behave. You know what happens when the spotlights are on me. I can't help it. I uh don't have much of a filter, but I'll do my best. And uh look, I just want to take this chance to let the world know uh how good I am. And at FanFest 4, we're gonna make a moment that lasts forever.

SPEAKER_01

You want to know more about that? Thank you, man.

SPEAKER_02

You want to know what I'm saying? Thank you, and and and thank you for all the respect that you have for our business. Thank you very much. And I certainly I see I S I C W has certainly done a great job of keeping old school wrestling alive. Thank you, Herb Simmons. Yes, sir.

SICW Fan Fest 4 Commercial

SPEAKER_01

And if you want to know more about SICW and the big event, here's a brand new commercial. You want to? Well, here it comes.

SPEAKER_06

Fan fest for returning it up.

Mailbag Plus Spring Break Oddities

SPEAKER_04

Fair view heights for shaking the floor. Two out nights to be big and four more. Legends and warriors understand. Oh, we get letters, we get the letters every day. We better those letters. I love those letters. Let's find out what you've got to say. Oh boy! Mail bed, mail today.

SPEAKER_01

That's a favorite uh song of Teddy's right there. It's on his uh playlist on his phone, as a matter of fact, to play over and over again.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_01

All right, let's see. We have Chad Driggers. I want to get everybody in the room while we're here too. And if you want to be a part of the show, all you have to do is leave us a comment and we'll throw it up on the screen. No super stickers, doesn't cost you anything, is absolutely free. Just participate. That's it. You got questions for Teddy? Anything about what's happening in wrestling, throw them on the screen. We'll answer them the best that we can. All right, uh, let's see. Chad, thank you so much. Uh Sonny the Love, and thank you for the uh kind comments about the show. Thank you, Chad. Uh, we have Patrick uh saying JCW is a big personality among the indies, very fun in moderation. Uh yeah, just wait. It's uh it's getting even crazier. Just wait. Uh uh John C uh saying, hey Teddy and Mac.

SPEAKER_02

Good afternoon, Glenn.

SPEAKER_01

I know you're gonna like this next one, Teddy. Uh our next one comes from E. Uh, what's y'all's predictions for the Sandman versus the Invisible Man at Joey Genoa's spring break GCW Mania Weekend? Have y'all seen the videos he made uh being attacked by the invisible man on a TV interview? Did you see that, Teddy?

SPEAKER_02

No, I have not.

SPEAKER_01

It is hilarious. I'm glad he brought this up. Thanks, um, but the one thing that they did uh right with this is they went out and the Sandman is sitting. On stage, like he's uh like a Johnny Carson or David Letterman setup, you know, and all of a sudden his neck gets wrenched back, and he's like he's flailing with somebody. There's nobody there, but it's Sandman wrestling, nobody, but it's the invisible man. That's one of the matches coming up at uh spring break, GCW.

SPEAKER_02

Well, that's that's good.

SPEAKER_01

It's entertaining. Yes, it is. Yeah, I think people forget that about wrestling. Uh in the end of the day, there's either professional wrestling where you're just hugely a fan of the in-ring performance, and then there's other people who like the things in between the matches, the stories, the characters. And I'm I I tend to be one of those guys. I like great matches too. Uh, but I especially love stories and characters, and uh, that's just one of the things I I love about different companies and GCW's uh deal with Sandman and the Invisible Man, uh very smart. I think it's a really smart booking move.

SPEAKER_02

And the perfect guy to do it to a sandman.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yeah. Uh Herb Simmons saying, Thank you, Teddy, for the first matches being put together for Fan Fest. That's why you're the man.

SPEAKER_02

Thank you very much, Player. That's what I do.

SPEAKER_01

Well, let's see. We also had Chad Driggers and this was been during uh the interview saying, punk him out, Playa. Uh well, if he gives me a reason, he also says that uh Chad saying uh he stole rock's cowhide. Yeah, well, we he got his from the dollar store. I'm sure the rock got his from a designer uh firm somewhere. Uh Money Mac saying, hello all. Hello, Playa. Pretty classy lady uh is also in the room. She's also asking, by the way, if either one of us uh will be in Las Vegas for WrestleMania week.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I'm there for WrestleMania week. I'm there the Thursday, Friday, Saturday, I believe.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I'm not sure exactly what days I'll be. I know I'm there uh for sure Friday, Saturday because uh we don't start our show, Teddy, until 11:59 p.m.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01

Right right at midnight.

SPEAKER_02

So you guys have fun, yeah, man.

SPEAKER_01

Uh let's see. Uh, but yes, uh, pretty classic lady. Both of us will be in the uh Vegas area. Dave Crohn, uh, is Rig Flair's weed any good? I'd never tried it, so I couldn't tell you. Me neither, brother. And here's something from Herb Simmons too, Teddy. Uh he says, Don't trust Big Nasty.

SPEAKER_02

Why would I? What's his name? Big Nasty. That's telling you everything you need to know.

Top Wrestling Towns And Crowd Work

SPEAKER_01

And uh, let's see. Uh yes, Dave saying he uh the Sam man got his ass kicked by the invisible man. Yeah, good stuff. It really was good stuff. Got questions for Teddy or anything about wrestling? Drop them in the uh chat room. We still have about five, six minutes to go before we have to get out of here. Uh, but I also got some stuff I want to throw in here, Teddy. Uh that came in the mail. Walter uh M in Nevada, speaking of uh the Las Vegas area. Teddy, name the top three wrestling towns for you.

SPEAKER_02

Uh golly. Well, back, I guess, you know, I used to love to go to Corpus Christi, Texas. That was one of them.

SPEAKER_01

That's because of the uh margarita deal. That's one of them.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, they had a place that's still there called Walter's Oyster Bar, and they had the dollar margaritas there.

SPEAKER_01

All right, so you got two other places to pick. Uh, what's another uh couple of great cities uh that were wrestling towns for you?

SPEAKER_02

Uh I kind of like Memphis when I went there. Uh I kind of guessed you know get around and see a lot of went to uh Elvis' place and saw a lot of memorabilia there. Um the other one I guess would probably be LA. You know, I don't like to be out there a whole lot, but when we did go out there, I enjoyed that. It was it was nice.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, which you you just said that thing about the Elvis. I'm thinking you ought to get an Elvis bus like the uh Vince McMahon behind you and have them side by side, the king of pop and the king of wrestling. Well I was like the king, you need to get a Michael Jackson in there too, then you need the king and the king of wrestling. All right, let's see. Uh we also have uh well, you didn't did you name it two other towns or no? You mentioned Memphis and what else?

SPEAKER_02

Uh St. Louis. St. Louis, yeah. St. Louis was another one.

SPEAKER_01

Was there a town in particular where the fans seemed most rabid? Like you knew they were always going to be crazy.

SPEAKER_02

Philadelphia.

SPEAKER_01

Philadelphia, one of those great towns, huh? There's nothing better. And and guys, I I sometimes I watch wrestling shows and I see where people sit on their hands during the show. If you get active, the wrestling or the wrestlers themselves, the performances will get even better because they get into the feel of the crowd. Uh, the crowd is so much of the program.

SPEAKER_02

And that's also left up to the two guys in the ring, too. You know what I mean? You got to be doing something to get to uh in and involve the crowd, you know what I mean. I I go, I see a lot of indie shows. I go a lot of them now, and I see a lot of those guys that just working their butts off, but they're not trying to do nothing to get the people's attention, yeah. Or either when they do get them, they don't go and keep it up. You know, they'll start to clap, clap, clap, and you know, as soon as they hear one person cut, they let it go. You can't do that, you gotta get them and then go, you know.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, the best thing you can do in a wrestling match, and you know this, Teddy, is listen. That's it. Just listen to the fans. The fans will tell you where to go.

SPEAKER_02

They'll tell you exactly what they want. Yeah, absolutely well.

Vince’s Weird Request And Autographs

SPEAKER_01

Sometimes you gotta you gotta shift gears too, because they may not be what you expect, right? I was seeing Joe in Jacksonville writes, will you two be coming to this year's River City Wrestling Con? And Teddy, what was the craziest thing Vince McMahon ever asked you to do? First on the uh the River City Wrestling Con. Uh, I we don't know anything about that at this point right now, but when it comes to Vince McMahon, Teddy, uh, was there anything really crazy that he threw out at you?

SPEAKER_02

Yes, he did. He asked me one time, I think I was doing the thing uh with Vicky and uh Cesaro was there at the time, and they wanted me to rub and put lotion on his back. And I was, you know, and and and uh late on that Vince asked me about it. And uh he said to me, you know, he said, Well, you really gonna do that? I said, didn't that what you want? Whatever you asked me to do, I got no problem with it.

SPEAKER_01

And you're thinking to yourself, Oh, what the hell? Here's another one of those shave your head kind of situations. I don't want to.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I'm like, okay, well, here's another test here, no problem.

SPEAKER_01

Raven from Gmail. I love the name. Uh, if you could get anyone's autograph, that's a good question, actually. If you could get anyone's autograph, Teddy, who would it be?

SPEAKER_02

Hmm, golly.

SPEAKER_01

That's a good question. I've never even really thought. Here's why I don't think I've thought about it. And Teddy, you're probably the same way. You you do so many autographs over your lifetime that you probably don't really care to get another autograph from someone else, do you? No, then I don't even think about it, you know.

SPEAKER_02

And I've met people, you know what I mean? Uh, like well, me and Mike Tyson, we I've we've known each other a while. I got pictures with him, but I've met other people. I met uh forgetting now, some guy in the airport that uh you know recognized me, me and him talking. Uh I didn't ask, I didn't even ask for a picture or nothing. You know what I mean? We finished talking and went on our way, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And I'm the same way, and I get a lot of hell for that because I don't take a lot of pictures of things that I do. And the reason for that is I don't really think about it. I just don't I don't want to ask guys for stuff like that when I'm working, you know. It's just seeing them and knowing them, that's well enough. I don't have to have proof I I've met anybody. That's not a big deal to me.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I yeah, that's the way I look at I do this too.

Modern Wrestling And WrestleMania Buzz

SPEAKER_01

Uh let's see. Uh Manny from Texas wants to know how would you describe wrestling now versus yesterday?

SPEAKER_02

Well, I mean, you know, they still, you know, guys still, you know, they got a few guys in there that can really work and entertain, you know, like uh the attitude era. There's some guys that's still around, you know, but uh there are a lot of guys that need a lot of help and a lot of work in the ring there. So uh, but you know, the cut the the company has become so big now, till you know, you just don't have, I don't think there's the time to really train, you know, and get it like you're supposed to get it. It's it's like on-the-job training right now. You got to learn as you go. You know, that's that that's what it is. Every time you step in the ring, it's like going to school. So that that's how it is now. But some guys are coming along and some guys are not, you know. And like I said, what they'll do, you know, the run every rear run WrestleMania, those guys that are not cutting it, they'll they'll be gone.

SPEAKER_01

Have you heard any kind of rumble from anybody of your friends about this year's WrestleMania Teddy? Are they anybody excited or talking about it around you? No, I I just don't see a great WrestleMania. I don't, and I I know now that they're saying that uh it's possible that maybe TKO is trying to direct some of the traffic for this year's WrestleMania and the storylines, and there's talk about maybe we won't see Hunter around much longer and that Vince may come back into the company. There's a lot of rumors flying around about WWE right now. How much of that would you say is believable? Would you say some of it, none of it?

SPEAKER_02

I'd say some of it, you know what I mean? There's there's always, you know, like I said in this business here, never say never. And I've always found out sometime when a person goes, that ain't the last time you see them.

Tony Khan Interview And Sign-Off

SPEAKER_01

Very true. Uh, let's see, John Z. Hey Mac, did you watch the Tony Khan interview with Coach and Bro? I did. I thought uh the Tony Khan gave probably one of the best interviews I've seen him do. He was himself, uh, he wasn't in promoter mode. And that is something uh that I think he needed to do for a long time. He needed to be just Tony. Come on there, just be Tony, explain what you do, why you do what you do, and and don't try to sell a show. Uh, just talk about yourself. And and a lot of people enjoyed that uh conversation between the three of them. Uh, so hats off to Coach and Vince for uh getting that interview with Tony Khan. And uh Tony Kahn ended up being uh somebody who enjoys JCW lunacy. Uh who knew? And that's that's a great deal, too. It's nice to hear that. So, Teddy, we're out of time. Uh, we got to get out of here. But I do want to mention again that uh coming up uh very soon, we'll both be in Las Vegas for different functions there. You can find us in Las Vegas, and also Tony, I mean uh Teddy, anything coming up for you outside of that that I haven't talked about?

SPEAKER_02

I'm gonna celebrate Denise's birthday.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, hey, hey, when's her birthday, my friend?

SPEAKER_02

I ain't telling you, but it's uh right after uh after I come back from mania.

SPEAKER_01

Ah, well, Miss Denise will have a good birthday, and uh, you know, I and happy birthday since he won't tell me when it is, but uh happy birthday. And and he uh don't say how old she is, Teddy.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, I don't wouldn't worry about how old she is. That ain't got nothing to do with with that body. She is fine as all our does.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and she can still whoop your ass too if she needs to. That's all right. I don't think Teddy don't mind getting his ass whipped once in a while. I'm back, Davis. That's Teddy Long. This has been Road Trip After Hours, and we'll see you again live next Wednesday night, right here. Same time, same place.

SPEAKER_02

Hey, you know what? We ain't did we ain't give a hat away, man.

SPEAKER_01

We're we don't we we we don't have one to give away because uh we have to keep what we have in stock right now for the St. Louis show, and I got some on order right now, so until I get they come in, I can't give anything away.

SPEAKER_02

Well, why don't you just explain that? Okay, and let the people know why we're not giving away hats. Well, I think you're always trying to dodge it and get out of it. No, no, ladies and gentlemen, I got some hats. We're gonna have a hat here, something next week.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, we'll we'll have a hat here next week. Uh Teddy's gonna give us one next week. So yeah, we also have some being made, I understand, too. So that's a good thing, yeah. Yeah, we do. All right, we're out of here. Same time, same place next week.