AskCVV #8 - Yes, That's Me In A Liam Neeson Movie! SummerSlam Predictions, Getting Starstruck, Favorite Wrestling Storyline

Do you think Jay Uso has a chance in defeating Roman Reigns at SummerSlam for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship? And who do you think would be next for Roman Reigns if Jey is able to dethrone him as the tribal chief? 

“It's a great question. And the answer to the very first one here, I think, yes, of course, he has a chance. Anyone has a chance in the WWE Universe. I don't think that it's going to happen though. I think it's going to be an incredibly entertaining match. And this Bloodline story has been so so good. And I'm speaking without hyperbole here, this is truly one of the greatest wrestling storylines in the last 20 years easily. And then I think if you expand it beyond that, like back into the 90s, and then 80s. Beyond that, I mean, it's a top five or 10 wrestling storyline, I think of all time, and I know that that is a bold, hot take there. But I love that it's culminating in these great matches, and Sami being worked into this and the match with Cody at WrestleMania 39 being worked into The Bloodline storyline. So I think that of course Jey has a chance that it's going to be an amazing match, but I don't think that Jey Uso is the one that dethrones him, at least not yet. I really think that Roman is going to have this championship leading into the end of this year into 2024 into the Royal Rumble and then I think that something happens at WrestleMania 40. I mean, it seems like the story was leading up to at some point, Cody Rhodes finishing the story. WrestleMania 40 I don't know how that happens, though. With them being on two different shows with Cody being on Raw and Roman being on SmackDow,n I don't know how they Bring this back together unless Cody wins the rumble again, which I don't. If you were to ask me at this exact moment right now July of 2023. With the way things are going that storyline doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. So I think that we're gonna see a lot of interesting matches leading up to WrestleMania 40. But I think that Roman is the champion going into WrestleMania 40. I don't know if he's the champion leaving WrestleMania 40. So we'll have to see there, but the match that I think that I am most interested in for SummerSlam and I think that a lot of people know it's gonna steal the show is Logan Paul versus Ricochet. And Triple H has said this many times. So this is his quote, not mine. Logan Paul has no business being this good. I mean, it's not just the moves, not just the athleticism, it's the fact that he gets what makes someone a great pro-wrestler, like he has the facials, he has the selling. His promos are actually really good too, for a guy who like didn't come up through the Indies and didn't spend time in NXT, like hasn't done live events. His promos are so good. And I've said this a few times before, so stop me if you've heard this. But I truly think that Logan Paul is the new Shane McMahon, because Shane McMahon would go into these matches, and you're like, I don't really care if he wins or loses, but he's gonna do something silly. Or like, oh my gosh, this is a ladder match or, oh my gosh, this is a hardcore match. He's gonna do something silly, he's gonna do something entertaining. He's gonna do something that we're going to be talking about here we are talking about Shane McMahon stuff 20 years later with you know, the Steve Blackman spot with the elbow or the Kurt Angle at King of the Ring and the glass, like the list goes on and on and on him jumping off Hell in a Cell, all that stuff. And that's where I think Logan Paul is, so put Logan Paul with his insane athleticism against Ricochet who's Oh my God, so incredibly underrated and underutilised. Put them together in one match. It's gonna be good. It's gonna be good. Also Cody versus Brock. And really, I think that Cody has to win this right? Like Cody has to win this for this to continue on. But then what does that mean for Brock Lesnar? So does Cody win in some sort of a dirty way? I don't know. I just can't see Cody winning clean. And if he does, I don't know what's next for him after that. So that match is the one that is the most interesting to me. And just in terms of like, I really don't know what's going to happen here.”

Why did you spoil that John Cena was in the Barbie movie? Just kidding. 

“I know you're just kidding. But I know how many people were actually serious about that. So to kind of give a backstory here, I did the interviews for the Barbie movie, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and the whole rest of the cast of the movie. And I saw John Cena in the movie. He's not in it for very long, but there's a fun cameo of John Cena as a merman. So when I went in to talk to Margot Robbie, who was a wrestling fan, by the way, I of course had to bring this up like it's because of Margot Robbie, that John Cena got into this movie, and I created this fun moment. This was not me spoiling anything. When I posted this three weeks ago, the movie studio Warner Brothers announced this in April. His name was in the trailer in April. Then John Cena went on The Today Show, you know, small, little tiny show, The Today Show in May, to talk about this role and how this came together and him bumping into Margot Robbie at dinner and like blah, blah, blah. I'm in the movie. So I was blown away by everyone's reaction of me spoiling this by, you know, putting this out there. How could I spoil something that the movie studio already told you about? I don't think it's spoiling. It's just that I delivered the news to you instead of another news source.”

Do you have a guest planned for the big episode number 500?

“I do. I have a guest planned for this and I'll talk more about it when we actually roll out Episode number 500. Which man I'm so excited about. I can't believe that's a real number. But episode number 500 is going to be rolled out on Tuesday, August 8. And I thought long and hard about this, because, I mean, who do you get? It's such a monumental like, Okay, on one hand, it's monumental, 500 episodes. On the other hand, it's just the first of 500 episodes, like, we're gonna do another 500, and then another 500 after that, and after that, you know, keep going, keep going. So in one way, it's like, yes, let's celebrate the little wins, let's celebrate everything that's happened along the way, here we are 500 episodes in. But also, it's like, it's just kind of another episode, because we're just gonna, you know, that's gonna be an episode on Tuesday, then there's gonna be another one on Thursday. And we're gonna keep moving forward from there. But I picked a guest, that means so much to me. It's someone who has been so insanely kind to me, and someone who is a legend. So I'll just leave it at that. And you can draw some conclusions, and you can make some guesses or you can tweet me what you think. But it's gonna be a really special one. So you'll be seeing that on August 8, and I can't wait. I can't wait.” 

What is your favorite wrestling storyline of all the time? 

“That is difficult, because there's been so many great ones. But I think I've got to go back to McMahon versus Austin, because that was the storyline that really hooked me and got me in. And I think that that was like, really the backbone of what made the Attitude Era great in the beginning part of the Attitude Era. Vince McMahon, going from being a commentator to being like a character. And leaning into that, after all, the Bret Hart stuff like that was just, it's brilliant. And I think that it was so relatable, because we've all worked for a boss that we don't like, or we've all worked for a boss who's maybe a little bit too arrogant. And Vince McMahon just took all of those qualities and rolled it into this one, the Mr. McMahon character. And then I think we can all relate to Stone Cold, you know, wanting to give your boss the finger or all of those other things that they did during that storyline. So that storyline for me was really special, because it got me in it sucked me in, you know, to be a wrestling fan than I am now. And also, I just think that it was just really smart writing. And it led to so many other great things after that. So, look, there's been a tonne of great storylines in the history of this incredible business. But that one for me personally means the most.”

When you were just starting out in your channel, what kept you going at the beginning? 

“So I mean, I take it way back. I'm like, I'm not an OG, actually I guess I did have a YouTube channel in 2007. Quick story. I was working for MTV 2 Canada at the time, I was working in Vancouver on a show called 969. And we were getting huge interviews with some of the biggest musicians in the world at the time. And I just always had this like, it just like kind of bugged me a little bit that you would talk to a huge band, and then the only people that would see it would be the people that happened to be watching your channel at that exact time on that exact day. So me and my co-host at the time Lauren Toyota, who was incredibly talented. We started these like burner accounts like mine had this stupid still a YouTube account so you can look it up. It was dirty pirate hooker 123, which is a joke from a line in Anchorman. You're a dirty pirate hooker. So dirty pirate hooker 123. And I put like a few interviews on there just because, if you didn't watch the TV channel, but you are a fan of the band, a big one was The Fray. Remember The Fray? That band in like the mid 2000s, I had a great interview with them. And I was really proud of it so I just took it off the TV channel, just put it on this random YouTube channel that I had. And I was just like, I want other fans of this band to be able to see this interview. So I did that a few times. It's just a few interviews on that channel. And then in 2011, I continued the same thinking. And in the meantime, I went from Vancouver to hosting a show in Toronto, to then in 2010. Moving to Cleveland, and working for the CBS affiliate there and getting access to like even bigger stars like some of the biggest stars on the planet. You've heard me talk about this before. I've talked to Samuel Jackson and Tom Cruise and George Clooney and Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep and Steven Spielberg. And now the list goes on and on and on. And again, I had the same idea of like I'm doing these interviews with these huge names. What if you're a huge Morgan Freeman fan, but you don't live in Cleveland, and you're not tuned in at exactly 419 on that Thursday, well, that's too bad. You didn't get to see that interview. So that's where like it started for me of like, I just wanted other people to see these interviews, especially like at that time, Twilight was a really big movie. Hunger Games started to be a big movie that time. And I was interviewing Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner. And then Jennifer Lawrence. And so I had these huge interviews with these huge names for these huge movies. And I was just like, Man, if I can get these up, fellow fans of these movies can enjoy these interviews. That was really all that kept me going. In the beginning, I had access to some amazing, amazingly talented people that were some of the biggest stars on the planet at that point in time and was just like, I just want to get this out there. I didn't think about content being a job. I never thought of this. In 2011, when I started my main YouTube channel, never thought this would be like a full time gig. I didn't even know what AdSense was. It wasn't until like, I think a year into me having that channel, I was having a random conversation with one of my colleagues. And he was like, oh, yeah, blah, blah, blah. When I upload videos, you know, it's not a lot of money, but the Google AdSense is okay. And I was like, hold on, pardon me, what? Money? And he's like, oh, yeah, there's this thing called Google AdSense. You just go to the website, you like click a consent box? And when you get $100, they'll pay you out? I'm like, Are you serious? He's like, Yeah, what did you think those ads were on YouTube. And I just didn't know. So at that point, my goal was just to like, make $100 a month, and get paid out every single month. And I was fortunate that that started happening, like, relatively quickly, I think like, within two or three months of starting my Google adsense account, I went from, like, $33 to like, I don't know, $71. And then I was like, Oh my gosh, like $124 for just uploading these interviews that I already enjoyed doing. And then it kind of bled over to the wrestling world where WrestleMania 27. If you go way back on my YouTube channel, I was there at like, WrestleMania access, and they would like stop the autograph line. I went up with my flip camera. If you remember a flip camera. And I was recording these interviews, I did one with Cody Rhodes, Dolph Ziggler, which you can see on my channel. And it was just kind of like a situation where I was there. I was in the same building as these people. Can I borrow a minute or two or three of their time to you know, get a quick interview with them. And as a wrestling fan, talking to wrestlers, that was really what started to give the channel some momentum. When it wasn't just celebrities, it was like Raw is in town, The Miz is from Cleveland, he's coming home. I live in Cleveland, does he want to come by the TV station and talk about wrestling for 10 or 15 minutes with a wrestling fan? And he was like, Yeah, sure, let's do it. That was really what kept me going was like, I get to talk to people that I look up to about the stuff that they are so good at. And then as it kept going, it was just like, I just kind of got just really hooked on that idea. I did one. Can I do another one? Oh, I did another one. Can I do another one after that? Oh, I did another one after that. And then like you'd have an indie wrestling company come to the town you were living in for me Cleveland at that time. And then down the line. It was Miami was like, oh, Christopher Daniels is going to be in AIW. Well, I kind of know that guy. I met the guy once who runs AIW, John Thorne, could I reach out to him and ask if we could interview Christopher Daniels for the TV station, and then also do a longer interview for my YouTube channel. What? He just said yes, that was really what drove this. So I hope that whatever it is, with the channel that you have, or the podcasts that you have, that you can find that passion, because that's what it really comes down to is being excited about what you're doing. And I get really excited about these interviews. And I hope that you can feel that I get excited about doing these episodes. And I hope that you can feel that too. And I've teased this a bunch over the last probably two months, but I'm building something out for people who want to be a full time creator. And I want to be able to dump all of the knowledge that I have and tell you all of the mistakes that I have made so you can learn from them and not make them yourself. I'm going to be rolling this out and we think it's probably two or three weeks, so keep an eye out for that. Something about being a full time creator. And we're building up a membership so you can be part of that community.”

What was your first impression of Sean Ricker? I mean, LA Knight? Yeah!

“I mean, the guy is so talented, so talented. And he actually said this in the first interview that we did, but you could even like watch him on mute. Or you could just watch a GIF, and you can see that the guy just has his charisma like oozing out of him. I was very familiar with his work as Eli Drake in IMPACT Wrestling, and I think people sleep on the fact that he's a world champion. He was a world champion in IMPACT Wrestling. And I interviewed him. It was the first interview. I did the first interview with him after he asked for his release from IMPACT Wrestling, and I don't want to like put words in his mouth. So you can check out the interview that we did from 2019 to find out like why did he ask for his release from IMPACT Wrestling, and then he didn't show up to WWE till several years later. But the guy is so talented. He has the look, he has the voice. He has the charisma. He has the body. He has everything. And I just think that I wish that WWE had seen what he was capable of the first time that he was in WWE like 10 years ago. I wish they'd seen it. Because then I think that we'd be talking about whatever his character would have ended up being called in WWE. I don't know if they would have stuck with his NXT name. But I feel like we'd be talking about him 10 years into his WWE career, a highly decorated superstar but I think there's no mistakes in life. I think that the things in your life happen for a reason. And like The Rock, you know, told me during that one interview we did, sometimes the best things in life are the things that don't happen. And perhaps for Sean/Eli/LA, maybe the best thing to happen in his life was to not stay with WWE, and to really find his path with IMPACT Wrestling and NWA and then found his way back to NXT in WWE, so I'm really excited for what's next for him. Dude needs to start winning some more though, like he's so over without really having a main storyline. Isn't that crazy? And he's so over without having really any big wins like his last storyline was. I mean, his last real big storyline was the Bray Wyatt Pitch Black match, that Mountain Dew match at Royal Rumble, and he loses the match. And then Bray Wyatt disappears. It's like that match helped nobody. The match was like I get it, Mountain Dew probably paid a lot of money to be the sponsor of that match. But my goodness, that match didn't help either of them. But the fact that he's gotten this over without really any help from anybody. I mean, that just truly speaks to how special a talent he is.” 

What does it take for one to become a professional wrestler? And does it take much financially? 

“It's a really interesting question. And I will divert back to the interview I had with Santino Marrella. And he talked about, he told this great story in this analogy of like, he when they were in Europe, he went into the Coach store with Randy Ortiz like I've always thought of myself as being a guy who could have a coach wallet. Oh my gosh 6000 euros, I'm gonna paying 6000 euros for a wallet, geez. And he related that to pro-wrestling. There was a price to pay if you want to be successful. If you want to like be a pro-wrestler, as your job as your career make a living off of it. There was a price that you have to pay. And I'm talking here more like physically and mentally and like your time, but he talked about like training twice a day, twice a day, like every day and like speeding up that process and learning from everybody that he could learn from and try to be the best that he could be. So I don't want to quote how much a wrestling school costs but it’s gonna be a few thousand dollars. Find the best school that is within any sort of proximity to where you live. And if there isn't a great one, if there isn't one with a reputable coach, someone who's actually been there, and has done it. Obviously, immediately off the top of my mind, top of my head, I think of Shawn Spears and Tyler Breeze and Flatbacks because not only have they been there they are there right now. And I think about schools like that all the time, like Bubba Ray Dudley school, or D-Von Dudley’s school, you know, there's tonnes of great schools like that, if there isn't one in your area, or like Lance Storm, you know, so many great people have come out of there. If there isn't a school like that in your area, I would look into saving up what you can to move down and spend, you know, the few months somewhere like flatbacks, and get the best possible training that you can get. So if that's something you're looking into, good luck.”

Besides The Rock, who had you the most starstruck when you first met them? 

“I mean, I'm not usually starstruck. I've been so fortunate to be able to do this. Now for most of my career, that it's just like, I'm talking to another person who just happens to be really, really, really good at whatever it is that they do, you know, whether that's, you know, telling jokes as a comedian, or directing movies, or wrestling or playing a sport or acting in a movie, they're just, you know, they're really, really good at it. And they, you know, have the opportunity to spend some time with them. And I'm grateful for that. But I will tell you that the setup for a red carpet definitely leads you to like, be a little bit nervous, anxious, all of those things. So Tom Cruise was, well, The Rock was the number one person I wanted to interview. And I was so fortunate to be able to interview him for the first time in 2012. And, you know, I've interviewed him a few times since. But then when I got an interview with The Rock, the next person was Tom Cruise. And I got to interview Tom Cruise in 2018. In Paris, on the red carpet for Mission Impossible Fallout, was right in front of the Eiffel Tower. If you haven't seen the photo, Google it. It's amazing. It's like we're standing there and the Eiffel Tower is right behind us. But the way that red carpets are set up is like, you get there early. You get your spot, you like you do some, they call them stand ups in the TV world. Where you like, you're you on camera, like doing intros and outros and stuff like, Hey, come on up. We're talking to this person about this movie, don't miss it. Like that type of stuff. So you're there early, you know, there's all this build up, all this buzz, all the 1000s of fans, they're screaming fans, and the red carpet starts. And then some of the other cast members come down. And then maybe the director walks the carpet. Oh my gosh, there's Tom Cruise. And like for that red carpet, I was maybe a quarter of the way down. So pretty good, because they will enter the red carpet on one end. And then they'll start speaking to all of the press as they make their way down the red carpet. So I was like a quarter of the way down maybe 20 people down, maybe 15 people down. So where you get starstruck is you're like, oh my gosh, there's Tom Cruise. And he's now six news outlets away from me. So I'm going to talk to him in six interviews. How long is an interview? Oh, they're like two or three minutes. So oh my gosh, I'm talking to Tom Cruise in 15 to 18 minutes, something like that for 10 to 20 minutes. And then he does another interview or two or three and you're like, oh my gosh, now he's three people away from me. That's where it kind of builds up and you're like, oh my gosh, that interview was really short as my interview gonna be really short. Oh my gosh. And you're like second guessing the questions in your head? And you're like, oh, is this the question I should lead with? Or should I wrap up with this question? I don't know. That's where you kind of get starstruck. And then you know, he walks up to you, shake his hand. He's one of the nicest people on the face of the planet. And he's so insanely engaging in the conversation like he looks you in the eye, like, you're the only person that exists in that moment. And he's so, so present. And you know, number one, it puts you at ease. But number two makes you go Oh, yeah, this is why you're so good. This is why you're so good at just being a movie star and also like acting and all of that together. So that's a really cool one. And I hope that when Mission Impossible eight, I guess, or seven part two, Dead Reckoning, part two comes down a few years. I hope that maybe I have a chance to talk to him again, at some point in time there.” 

I want to ask CVV, should WrestleMania have been a two night event sooner? 

“Yes, way sooner, way sooner. And this is said by someone who has been to 12 Wrestlemanias. And I remembered, so I used to go with my friends. It was a group of four of us. And it was me, a big wrestling fan, my other buddy, a casual wrestling fan, like watches every once in a while. And then two of our friends that just weren't wrestling fans and just went for like the spectacle of it, which I thought was so awesome. Like, they were just there because they're like, let's go to let's go to a show with 80,000 people. And you can explain to me what's going on or why this person's wrestling this person. So it was really cool. Being able to go with my three buddies, Alex and Brian and Jason. We always had such a great time, and everything that goes on around Wrestlemania. And the last time that we went together was 34, New Orleans. And I just remember my one buddy. Jason was like, should I name him? Or should I not? I remember Jason being like, oh my gosh, why are we getting here so early? And why does this thing go so late? And the thing is, it ended up being like a seven hour show if you include like the pre-show and everything and it's like, it just dragged on. And remember the next year I was actually just covering it in New York. WrestleMania 35, Kofi Mania, and it was just so long. And then if you went to WrestleMania 35 you can relate to this. It was so difficult to get out of that building, especially late at night and it was pouring rain and Ubers were insanely expensive. And it was just like, yes, two nights is so much better, because it breaks it up into too much more chewable. It just they're just so much more digestible to chewable and digestible. I don't know what I said there, but they're just too much more digestible timeframes. Four ish hours, way better. So yes, I think it should have been a two night event years ago. Number one just for like it to, you know, you can include more people in it, because a lot of people Yeah, go to night one and two. But there's a lot of people that just go for one, or just go for two. And I think that it allows more people the opportunity to go. And I think that it makes it a weekend long event, which I think it's really cool. If you're a hardcore fan now you've got Saturday night Wrestlemania and Sunday night Wrestlemania baby! Yeah, no, it's cool. And I think it's really smart that WWE started to do that. But yes, they should have done that a lot sooner.” 

Do you have any plans of writing a book about yourself at some point about your journey as an interviewer or host? 

“I've toyed around with this a bunch. And maybe you've heard me talk about it. I think I'd like to write a book at some point in time. I don't think it's about my journey as a host or interviewer as I don't think that that's super interesting. I've told that story a bunch of times, you can hear that on a podcast or see it on a YouTube video. I mean, at the crux of that story is just like the idea of like, number one be like so insanely stupidly passionate about something. And then number two, like don't take no for an answer and just keep looking for your way to find a yes, that could maybe lead to another yes at some point in time. That's really what my story is. But I think that there might be a book in there about like, I get asked a lot about like, how do you start a YouTube channel? How do you start a podcast? How do you grow in social media? Like, I know it sounds cliche, but it's like you just got to start. And I think that that could be a good book title one day, Just Start. But also I think that there's something going back to that idea of like I'm building this community of people who would like to also be a creator one day, full time creator, I think there's something there. Full Time Creator, I think is also a great book title. So I don't think the book’s about me, the book’s more about like, how can you do this? Can you do this? Of course you can do this. And here's the steps of how to do it. So there we go.

Chris, what is your advice for preparing to be a parent? 

“Look, I really don't think anything can prepare you to be a parent. And you can hear lots of great advice from people who have been there, they've done it, but really nothing will prepare you for the life changing moment that that it is. I think it's twofold. With a life changing one, you find out that your significant other is pregnant, and that's such a huge moment. It's like, oh, my gosh, the world as we knew it, before, this does not exist, it has abruptly ended as of today. And actually, we went on a trip to Cabo me and my wife, Rachel. And she didn't know that she was pregnant. Like very, very early on, we had just the greatest time, you know, we're in Mexico, drinking tequila, and having all kinds of fun, and, you know, eating great food at the resort and going on all these adventures. And then like, we found out like a few weeks later, that she was pregnant. And it was like, okay, kind of in a weird way that trip to Cabo is like the end of this one chapter and the beginning of a new one. And then when you when the baby is actually born, it's like, oh, my gosh, and now we're in another chapter here. I just think the biggest advice that I would have is just enjoy every moment, because Logan's two months old this weekend, this Saturday, her birthday is May 29. My birthday is May 19, Kane’s favorite day, and it just feels like it's going by so fast already. Like, even as I sit here in the office of our house recording this. I know, they're like 20 feet away. And I'm like, I kinda want to spend some time with them. I feel bad that I'm in here recording and they're over there. Probably, you know, trying to eat or sleep or, you know, whatever is going on at this exact moment. But yeah, just enjoy every moment, that's really it. I know that that's super easy. And super basic and cliche but yeah, just enjoy every moment.”

Has anybody ever tested your professionalism while conducting an interview? 

“Hmm, yes. And it's probably not the one you think it was actually, it was an in-person interview. I mean, the one that immediately pops in my head, I'm not gonna name names. But it was an in-person interview, and we got, I don't know, pretty early on in the interview. And I was just like, come on. Come on, like, I don't know, you, you might be able to put two and two together and figure out who I'm talking about. I like that person a lot. But just Yes, my professionalism has been tested. But I also think that part of being a great host, because I think I'm a host first. And I'm trying to build rapport. And I'm also just a curious person, I think part of that is either rising to their level, or sometimes on the rare occasion, coming down to whatever their level is. And I don't just mean their level of like, like intelligence or anything like that, I mean, more of their level of their energy. Like, I'm a pretty excitable guy. And if you've been listening to the podcast for a while, you know that and I think that sometimes it's not always easy for our guests to like, rise up to my level of like, oh my gosh, I'm pumped about every day. So sometimes, you know, you come down on that and that's okay. But for this particular interview, I was just like, Yeah, I'm gonna put it like unless you say something, I'm gonna put this out there this interview out there unedited. And I don't know if this makes you look that great. But this is the interview that we did and let's put it out there so so yeah.”

As the father of a daughter, what is the one moment you can and cannot wait for?

“That is a top level question right there. I can't wait for all the like dad daughter things, right? Like our very first like, Daddy daughter dance or daddy daughter like date or something like that. Like, I'm so excited for stuff like that and just to build memories, like to build memories with her. A really big one core memory for me growing up was when I caught my first fish and I am mega passionate about fishing. I own a bass fishing company we sell tungsten weights, it's called Woo! Tungsten. So if you're into bass fishing at all check us out wootungten.com I remember catching my first fish, it was a rock bass on sturgeon Lake, Finland Falls, Ontario, Canada. That was such a core memory for me that I can't wait to create that core memory with her, and maybe fishing won't be her thing. I don't know, you know what it'll be. But I can't wait to be part of whatever that core memory is. The thing I can wait for is we all make mistakes. And I did some pretty silly things and stupid things and made some dumb choices in my teen years and maybe my early 20s mid 20s I'm still making dumb decisions now but not as dumb I've learned from them. And I can wait. And I don't want it to happen, to get that call one day of like, Hey, Dad, I did blank. Or Hey, Dad, I know you, you'll be really upset but blank. And I just want to always be there for her. You know, her mom and I are always supporting her but that's one that I'm like, Let's push that off as long as possible because it's you know, it's inevitable. That's just part of being a parent I think.”

How cool was it to be cast in a Liam Neeson movie?

“It's true. I am in a Liam Neeson movie with Amanda Seyfried called Chloe, you can go check this out. I think it's still on Netflix. I'm also in the trailer for this movie. I have no lines. I'm just in the background. But I'm very featured in the background just as an extra. I'm a guy sitting in a cafe. And they were filming this in Toronto. Adam Egoyan is a director and I just had an agent of the time and they submitted me and he wanted me to play a waiter in the film. And I got to set and they already used actually one of the waiters from the actual cafe. So I ended up just sitting in this one. I'm actually having two scenes. There's one scene where I'm very pivotal seeing the movie sitting behind Amanda Seyfied as she's like looking at Liam Neeson. It's like this very pivotal moment of movie. And then there's another very pivotal point in the movie, where Liam Neeson is married to Julianne Moore, so their characters are having a big argument. And I'm sitting directly behind Liam Neeson in that scene, reading a newspaper and drinking wine at this cafe. And the whole premise of the movie is like it's set in this college town that says set in Toronto, but it's like it's a college area of the town. So I was just supposed to be a college student just like sitting there behind him. And I remember learning so much from the two days I spent on that set. And it was a super intense scene with Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore. And she's like yelling at him. And it's his very intense argument scene. And I just remember Liam Neeson just like, being so like, almost like whispering he was so quiet. And I just it was the opposite of how I would ever think that scene would be played. And I remember watching us like, oh, that actually felt like they were talking. Like that actually felt like what an argument would look like at a cafe between a very angry wife and a husband. That's like, oh my gosh, like tht is acting. And to be able to see that two feet in front of me was so cool. So I'm also in the trailer for that movie. I'm also in the movie, snap a screenshot, I would say snap a screenshot and tag me snap a screenshot, see if you can find me in Chloe. Also, I'm in The Love Guru. I've had a few people take a screenshot and tag me on that one. The Love Guru with Mike Myers. I spent like two weeks on that movie. And I also have a role in a movie called The Bronze. I actually have some lines. I play a news reporter and that one, I have some lines in a movie called Love Finds you in Sugar Creek. I play a news reporter and that one, are we seeing a trend here? And I have some lines in a John Travolta movie called Criminal Activities. So see if you can find me in that movie and snap a screenshot and send it over to me.” 

What makes a great ring announcer? In my mind, Samantha Irvine is the best. 

“Samantha Irvine is very good and she's become very good very quickly too. Like, Lilian [Garcia], legendary, and this is nothing but love for Lilian, she will tell you this. If you watch some of Lilian’s early stuff, she doesn't have nearly the poise or nearly the voice. Nearly the the presence, the grandioseness of who she became, you know, a few years after that. But Samantha has picked us up so quickly. And she's just so so talented. I'm sure you've seen the video of her like playing the flute and she's a great singer and very good. So she is great. I agree with you. What makes a great ring announcer I think is someone who can elevate the moment. Justin Roberts is so good at this. Bruce Buffer in the UFC is an absolute freaking walking GOAT when it comes to this. It is someone who can make the already special moment feel just that much more special. And you don't need to be huge and over the top with like the style that Bruce Buffer has, like Michael Buffer, makes the moment feels so special just by like bringing it down a little bit. Let's get ready to rumble, like he's so good at like bringing you into the moment. So I think it's just someone who can, who has the voice obviously. And who it can make it really special. And everyone who WWE has hired from Mike Rome is so underrated I wish that guy got more like actual like screen time because you hear his voice all the time. But like put his face on the camera. Greg Hamilton so good at this as well. Justin Roberts, of course, you know, Tony Chimel, Howard Finkel, you know, these, they're all legends. And WWE takes that position very, very seriously. I mean, I listed off just what was at six names, and that's over the course of 30 plus years, 40 years of WWE, like that is a very special position. So it takes a very special person to be in that position.” 

Do you ever fly private? 

“No, I've never flown private, but it is on my bucket list. And I actually said to Rachel the other day I said in the next five years we will fly on a private plane. We will fly on a private jet even if it's like an empty leg flight. You know what I'm talking about here. Empty leg flights like if someone actually owns a private plane or has rented it out and they're flying from I don't know, make it easier LA to Vegas, the plane that has to go from Vegas back to LA, is empty. So what they try to do is like for a super discounted price they go tomorrow, you know, tomorrow there's a flight on this plane from Vegas to LA because it needs to reposition, needs to go back to that city. And it's like way cheaper. So yeah, maybe it'll be an empty leg flight. But yes, the goal is to fly private. Maybe it'll be on Vince's plane one day. I don't know. Maybe it'll be on Tony's plane one day, I don't know. But I guess we'll find out in the next five years.”