What Do You Wanna Talk About? - Chad Gable

36:45And the other day they asked me to get there a little early to sign some tops cards. And I was a lot of tops cards, but there was a lot of stardust cards. Sure. And I wrote on the one of one, the lowest point in my life in joy. And I signed it and they all giggled. And I thought, no, it was gang. Like, I'm glad this does something for someone. Now this was a, I felt boxed in. I, I, that's why I, cause we're talking about El Grande versus El Grande. it something about what your nemesis is doing it he's refusing yes again you we're talking about at the beginning of the pot you had the you had the world it's not the first time you had the world too because i'm gonna bring up another time you had the whole world watching right he's doing that with this yes one to look out for that's one to look out dangerous that's dangerous That's dangerous, man.

37:39Stay in AAA. You're good. You got it down there. You're killing it down there. No, he's a lifer. Yeah, he's one to look out for. I want to talk about because I hope it shouldn't be deceiving, but maybe it's a little deceiving. We talked about that match. There's also a series of American alpha matches that also had the world was watching. Nothing was like black and gold. All of us who were on the main roster or whatever it was couldn't get a bone like that, were jealous, blah, blah. I was down the street. I was living in Orlando at the time. Tell me about that partnership and tell me about those matches.

38:16There's a term called like, it's seniors. I don't know if you've ever heard this, but it's like, I love this thing because it's this idea of just a scene or this one quiet place in the world where something's happening and like going on at that moment in time. And I think NXT black and gold during 2015 and 16 was like that. it was just this group of people that were so driven and competitive at the same time it was a team but we were all fighting with each other at the same time to be the best and when you have that it creates just magic and i think that's what we had with the revival jason and i yeah jason and i were we were perfect partners our mindsets were exactly the same from amateur wrestling we got along like brothers from day one yeah uh when we got paired with them and we ran with them for like months on end with the revival there was a a competitive spark there that i have not felt since um we were really good friends with the guys but when it came time to do do the deed it was like nope we're gonna one-up you every single night again real yeah it was that was as real as it gets and it led to some magic and we were just out to outperform each other and when and that was happening throughout the whole roster but at that time yeah you know singles guys everybody and the girls uh just those were some of my house show matches back then were my favorites like we would do live events even just in florida in front of 100 people the coconut loop 30 minutes on a coconut loop or two out of three falls 30 to 40 minutes on a coconut loop just for just for the love of the game i feel like it's because it's you i know the answer to this but i'm asking because maybe i'm a bit more of a were they into a two out of three falls match yeah but as a fandom yes if you can get them in very much so out of threes so years ago experimenting on the the main roster live events there was a text in vote that you could do at intermission for the main event it was very obvious what you were supposed to pick sure the street fight right very obvious but one time i don't know if it was cena or it might have been somebody decided to stir it up and vote for uh glenn jacobs kane uh i forget who he's wrestling and they decided to make it a two out of three falls match and i remember as the big red machine was walking past everyone who had texted a hundred times yes at the monitor uh walking past to go to gorilla him saying you guys didn't rib me you ribbed the audience and i thought Oh, yeah.

40:53We did kind of. I don't know if they're going to be into this two out of three falls. Right. But they were into yours. Yep. I think to your point, you got to have the right players in there. Yeah. For a match like that. But they were into them. Do you think you could go 60 minutes today? Not 30, 60. 100%. Do you think an audience would like a 60-minute match? With the right players. Yeah. I'd be the right player for that. Well, if you're going into a 60-minute match, an Ironman match, not the half hour version 60 minutes what do you rely on do you rely on big variety fun moments or do you actually brett sean being an example yes from a wrestlemania is it actually bell-to-bell wrestling i think for me it's bell-to-bell wrestling with those moments built in what it's a noble we're going baby man i'll do this thing talk about wrestlers amateur wrestlers being a psycho where sometimes for my cardio i'll pick an iron man match and i will crank the treadmill to 15 for the incline and just go and i'll say it's not over till the match is over and like we'll do brett and sean or whatever yeah and it's like you know sometimes it's 60 minutes some whatever it ends up being but it's like i love it do you like brett and sean i love that match so do i and there's a lot of back to you guys there's a lot of haters of the iron man match at wrestlemania 12 who are you who the sean had we were waiting brett fans had enjoyed brett Sean wrestled for the title the year before and didn't win.

42:23Yeah. Back-to-back rumbles. If I had to wait an hour plus, plus, my dad literally had to, like, give me a squeeze. Yeah. Because when they went the hour, I thought, what? Sure. What the? No. No. And then he's like, oh, we're going to go into sudden death. And then I knew all the old school rules of wrestling because of my family. Yeah. So I knew Brett had a reason to be like, no. Yeah. I leave. I leave with a title. So all of that moment that I guess was real, which we're really discovering. It's just real. All of that was real. But, oh, man. Yeah, I'm leaving this podcast with you today, figuring out that the biggest secret to what we do is it's incredibly real.

43:05Can't wait to wrestle you again. It's going to be real, baby. Yeah, we better be ready. Have you heard what I said about you on the podcast about wrestling you? I don't know. Okay, so I said, I forget who I said it to, but I said, normally when someone suggests I'll pick you up and it's like a DDT, it was like a Northern Lights type positioning. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And I'm longer and lankier and a bit awkward as a body type. Yeah. But it was the one person, this is what I said, where I didn't question it. Okay. Because I knew you had the strength to do it. But if it had been anybody else, I would have been like, ah.

43:44The classic. What a compliment. it doesn't work for me but i remember doing it because we wrestled that night we wrestled so much was had there was there was a great deal happening in my life i i believe i found out what was going down at wrestlemania earlier that day okay and uh i nonetheless was gonna see it through yeah we i never wanted the audience to lose any faith sure so i wasn't gonna lose faith than me but that was such a fun time i have such fond memory of that little period because i found out out of nowhere i was like working out in my home gym yeah and i got a call and they're like hey are you at home right now yeah smackdown's in minneapolis like you want to wrestle cody it's like yeah i think it was that night or like the next day maybe and then we had a promo seg too which like yeah i don't ever get that really with especially a guy at your level so like to me it was bonus and then the match itself i was like as far as a tv match goes i was like that was so i loved that i loved that it felt like it was aggressive hard hitting and just what a blast man well i mean tv matches as they go you bring them up they don't always hit that way they don't always but i can say i think a big you know question for me is coming off of what we talked about right at the beginning because we're not beating around the bush here not today But we talked about what you just did and El Grande versus El Grande and having the world watching it.

45:10And now seeing you last week, what do you feel is the next mountain you want to climb? And I don't want to, again, we don't have to break any news, but feel free. What is the next mountain you want to climb here? I mean, without being a total cliche, I think I need to win a singles championship at this point for myself. and just for my legacy in order to take the next step you listed off some of my achievements at the beginning and they're all tag team stuff which is great and they were all i have fond memories of it all but like where's the single stuff i i need to convince myself that i am what i have said i am there's a big part of that for me um there's a conviction there that's Like I'm a big guy about like, if I put something out in the universe, I have to deliver.

46:04I think that's something that's been a strength of mine and served me well my whole life, whether it was for amateur championships or just even getting to the WWE, things like that. Like if I say something publicly and make it known, I see to it that it gets done. I don't know how always or how it works out, but I do. This is one that I haven't done yet. I haven't made happen and I've said it. so it's weighing on me and I think that's the next step sure and I mean singles championship goes is that you've got the world championship the WWE championship the United States championship the intercontinental championship you being on Raw yes I think we're circling the intercontinental championship and also to that point I was reminded just recently that I said on TV once I swear to God I'm winning that championship and I was taught from a young age you don't swear to God something unless you're going to do it.

46:56And that one hit me hard. It's like, you swore to God you were going to win that Intercontinental Championship, so I better do it. Listen, swearing to the man upstairs, definitely, and I fully understand the concept of, it was very helpful for me over the course of my career. I needed to will things in new existence. If you told me something couldn't be done, I needed to tell you it could be. I needed to rally those who believed in just confidence. Even if they didn't believe in me, they believed in the confidence. I'm going to tell you that these things on this list are important, but I will say this.

47:25As wrestlers, often we have to say things about what we're going to do, knowing we may not do them. And I learned a very valuable lesson from a guy who gets way too much credit on this podcast, so we're not going to say his name. But I learned a very valuable lesson that that is part of the job. That is part of the job, and I hated that. But it helps remind us that the collaborative effort of what we do, such and such as belief helps it no matter if I'm up or down it's tag team wrestling they say this about this all the time work in the apron if you don't care about the guy getting beat up if you don't want that tag the audience doesn't care exactly so you caring means they care but you did swear you swore upwards that's a big one for me Minnesota boy yeah so you got plenty of time I would wager I'll go ahead and put it out into the ether breaking news i'll put it out into the ether i think you will capture your singles championship and i think you'll capture more than one before the end of before the end of all this so now we're both screwed now now we're now you heard it now now that's in the ether now that's out there it's out there it's happening if you've been sitting on a business idea shopify makes it easy to make it happen everything you need to start selling is included and ready from day one including the moment your first customer is ready to pay.

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50:09I better have a little sip before I talk about this guy. I came back and I knew WWE had changed, but also I thought plenty of things were the same. And I remember they didn't even do the long international tours anymore. They were short. It's like two nights on the bus. They were four. They were little. They were, they're actually pretty healthy. They were just these little packed show, you know, but I got on the bus and I, you know, wandered to the back, but I didn't go all the way back. I was new, wandered to the back. And there he was sitting at the little table portion. and he had a full bar, a full bar.

50:44And he had a fan for himself. Oh, yes. He had a fan and a full bar. And I thought, this guy is, yeah, this is it. We're back. He's bringing it back, baby. This is wrestling, baby. But then I looked on the sheet and I saw we were only on that bus one night and it was only going like an hour and a half. Yeah. So none of it, like, I don't think any of it got consumed. Yes. It was wild, but also about Big O. I feel bad. He gets going in a way that's almost Cajun. Yeah. He gets going in a way that he says stuff to me all the time. I understand. I have no clue. And I always am. Yeah, man. So fortunately, I speak Otis.

51:26I have for I've known the guy for almost 20 years. He used to wrestle my brother, my younger brother in amateur wrestling. So I coach against him. Anyway, I speak Otis and I know when other people don't. and my i learned this from my parent dealing with my parents when he would talk to them so i'm looking at my dad as he's telling my dad stories and stuff and i'm like my dad has no clue what he's talking about not a single word not only does he not know what he's talking about he can't understand what he's half of what he's saying so i taught my dad just to do the thing just like what you said uh-huh uh-huh and if there's something relevant or something important that he is trying to communicate i will get that across to you and so i dealt with that being his tag partner for a long time just teaching guys uh if any of this is relevant i'll make sure you know but for now enjoy the guy because he's uh he's the man what an athlete too just so explosive what a what an scary strong yeah uh i took a mitt from him and the royal rumble like two years ago that i swear i still feel in my jaw or my back like left side of my molars because it's just unbelievable the weight behind that thing i love how you said mitt yeah that's what they are man yeah they're mitts mitts i heard someone describe uh john candy's hands as mitts there you go and chris farley i also heard the same they're mitts and they had the nimbleness that you didn't see was there you know there was a quickness and athleticism that was there you know he's like one of those guys that he wouldn't harm a fly you know but if he ever got unhinged and went off everybody's everybody's in trouble how do we get him unhinged yeah i don't you've got the secret to that you don't want i think i do have the secret but i don't want to get him on hand stir it up a little bit we're done for in that case and he's he's uh he's definitely a special athlete sweetheart man yeah the truest of friends will you as far as we talked about jb and we we talked about uh the undertaker and we've talked about these different moments where you've had the attention of of of the audience in terms of whether it was uh you know at nxt and then obviously what you've been doing recently who uh you're talking about these iron man matches that you're watching and and putting it on yeah who's someone because you're you're a wrestler's wrestler who's someone you're watching right now as far as that you're picking things up from i find myself going back to some of my tape trading heroes when i was a younger kid so lately i've been watching do you do you classify yourself by the way as a tape trader for sure wow yeah a lot of people are fake nerd girls on the tape trader they say they were but like yeah i mean if i was one of the fakes i wouldn't know it because i had you had my wall was full okay i mean that's it i obsessed about it yeah i made my own labels for like everything and then would you know it's big time uh so kibashi right i'll go back and watch a lot of him liger um these guys that just inspired me because of their uniqueness like kibashi's facials and the way he would get across the emotion of like pain and anguish but then come out of it yeah and Liger's just athletically his style and it was just different different to me that stood out and there was a lot of that going on in WCW too at the time but this was like to me next level you could you could drop right into WCW during that period and you would have there's some guys yeah you would have had the time your life oh my gosh some of those guys yeah but I'll go back and watch that stuff and I'll go back and watch you know even guys like stan hansen um just because of some of that realism stuff we talked about yeah when you watch a guy like that make an entrance in japan and he looks like the people are scared of him you know as he's coming through the crowd also again israel yeah i need them to know i'm i'm dangerous yeah so i'm swinging the bull rope and if you get out of the way you get out of the way otherwise i got you you know they he needed them to know i love it man i'm watching stuff that makes me feel something now yeah you know you like liger and i i grew up i loved liger growing up what a unique again could have fit anywhere anytime every part of that was successful whoever came up with the presentation of it the fact that what he was doing but also he was a bigger light heavyweight so he could fit into anything he's what made me think like i had a couple friends in amateur wrestling that we started wearing warm-up clothes that we called thick clothes because Liger had that thick build that I thought was so cool.

56:12He was short, stocky, but he moved like a, like a junior, you know, shooting star press, like with a tuck that nobody else had. Just every little thing he did was. I like how you said junior. Yeah. It's funny that you didn't, you, cause your, your experience in wrestling, pro wrestling is all W to B. Sure. It's funny. You didn't see all like, you know, the juniors and stuff as far as in Japan and all that, but just knowing junior, I'll tell you some crazy thing because you mentioned Kibashi. Yeah. Right? I obviously know. I feel like I know my wrestling. Yeah. I love it. And I made a mistake the other night that I'm not going to forgive myself for.

56:47Okay. One of our peers, I won't say which, does this move where he runs you to the ropes, hits you with a knee, runs you to the other ropes, hits you with a knee, then pulls you to the center. And he gives you like this big chop across your chest. The running of the ropes knee part. Do you remember a wrestler named Val Venus? Yes. Okay. so i remembered that he did that okay so when this person mentioned it i said oh yeah the the valvinas and he goes no kibashi and i i can never go back in time oh and correct what have i done what exactly so i've limited my spectrum and scope of the entertainment to that attitude era of wwe but yeah i'll never choice fair i will never it was what i thought and i i actually like the knee move them along the knee and that's how i teach kids nightmare factory how to run the ropes is going with them yeah yeah you know move them i remember those four steps yeah um kibashi's kibashi is a special one yeah yeah there's uh i i don't know if i mentioned this on the show before and it's maybe something you've seen but i always would i would always get uh irritated when you hear people talk about you know in japan they're not selling yeah and i i'd say they are very much selling.

57:58Sure. They're selling that they're not hurt. Yes. You know, it's like when you go out and you get drunk, you don't pretend to be more drunk. You're pretending to be sober. I'm okay. Yeah. Good. You know, like you walk straight, you pretend to be sober. Yes. That's very much the case over there is I'm not hurt. And then you see it finally set in. When the big one happens, you see it, it, to me, it becomes all that much more real. Yeah. Oh, now he's screwed. Like you just saw it. And I think to tell those stories, you need a little more time for sure, which is funny because when you come over and you have a more american style it's a little bit of of indie like right away grabbing what hurts and moving to that and then the time is more at a premium but nothing like when you have a good amount of time my gosh man i'm so glad you came on the podcast thank you cody i am i am so i'm so glad you're here i want to ask you we talked about shorty g this is going to be a different g uh you have a very unique rivalry on record with who i call big g with gunther yes sir who is who's been on the pod before and retired the greatest of all time john cena all of that talking about singles titles talking about your next your next step all of that looked like it was heading towards you becoming intercontinental champion or competing again at wrestlemania for the intercontinental championship it seems and i'm not i don't want to speculate please a bit of a swerve and all of that but you you again still standing still standing elton john style still standing just just just looked at it as an opportunity and not uh what was me which we got a lot of that by the way sure yeah here i am breaking news a lot of woe a lot of woe is me you know what i mean like come on yeah guys This is the greatest job on earth.

59:46Thank you. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. But your mindset during that period, I'm curious what it was. Super hungry, super motivated because he was the first guy, I think, kind of at that level that I had mixed it up with for any length of a program, you know, like multiple matches. And we had some chemistry, man, me and him and still do. We did it on live events. We did it. And it was great. one of my favorite opponents so i wanted to go all in on that i made some of these vignettes on my own i remember and and i was doing everything i could yeah uh and it didn't pan out now would i say am i surprised that it didn't no i don't know that that was ever the plan i was still in a mode then where i was just trying to do whatever i could i didn't have anyone telling me here's the plans here's what's going to be in the pipeline for you nothing i was just doing what i could and i think i took it as far as it was going to be taken at that time and i accepted that uh frustrated yeah but it was one of those moments that was clear to me you you don't control everything here you can't just you can't just work your way into success like you can work it's not like amateur wrestling where the harder you work you're gonna see the results yes they don't it doesn't exist like that it's not that kind of place and that's fine yeah i had to come to terms with that and i have now that doesn't change the work ethic part of it it's still in there otherwise i'd be ashamed on a daily basis but it was eye-opening and so it served me going forward because now i'm doing the same thing the el grande americano stuff again like i said with my nemesis he could have taken that and done what a million people would have done and said oh i hate this i don't want to do this i could have done the same yeah i loved doing that it was so fun from the moment i put the mask on it's like this is something totally new and that far into my career being able to experience like new things and a whole new wave of like being a luchador door like that i had never even considered yeah it was magic it's like i was freed by that i told people i was like dancing on my entrances which i don't ever dance and like just having the mask itself on made me it just freed me and so it was just a great experience and like if you look at everything as potential for growth potential for success that there's something in there you can take, then the sky's the limit.

1:02:29You just have to have, you have to have those glasses on when you're looking at stuff like that. You mentioned that you were doing these on your own and you, you were, you were trying to create something. One of the things I see a lot with younger wrestlers and when I was a younger wrestler is doing it once trying to do something for themselves. And then when the results aren't there never doing it again sure and i think you'd be the type that say you know now exactly where you're going say you have more information than you ever did say you know you're you would still do it so that's insane that you just said that because i was talking to a guy my friend this morning cole that helps me with these things and we've got a whole plan for one now regardless of where everything goes yeah i i can't stop it's like i take this stuff home with me for better or for worse yeah i take it home with me and i have for 13 years man it's all i do dude you're addicted yeah let's go let's go it's not unhealthy at all guys we're into this we like this gig um but no that's the it means you love it yeah i think a lesson that i learned one time uh before even before stardust i was on i think it was we're all the time it might have been SmackDown, but I wrote like six guys, all peers of mine, no heat.

1:03:50I wrote them on a sheet of paper and I wrote something next to them, all next to them that they had better than I did. It was silly stuff. I remember for like Dolph Ziggler, it was abs. It was like silly stuff, but it was, hey, I have to cover this spread and then I can get ahead of them. And it wasn't until, it wasn't that I put that away. It wasn't until my lesson for me was until I started competing with me yes that i found any type of bone any type of okay now we're going because that's a big mistake is well such and such doesn't care as much or such and such is late all the time or such and you this that's never going to help welcome to a life of misery right 100 that's screwed it's never going to help you it's good to go through early i think but after a minute don't worry yeah they're they're going to get what they're going to get and in you you if you really think of it are going to get what you want if you actually put in the time and effort i had that situation with multiple tag partners yes every tag partner was always better than me yeah and i was told they were better than me one i was told don't bring him down flat out you know so for me it became i got to compete with these guys and i remember the moment i don't want to use the word surpassed and be dramatic yes but the moment i moved past them creatively i wasn't stoked yeah I didn't think I got him.

1:05:11I remember feeling like, oh, that's kind of sucks. It never really delivers. It didn't deliver. It wasn't, it wasn't a feeling like, ah, you know, it was more of a, well, I hope he works hard. I hope he gets something too, you know? But if you have that same relationship, but to yourself and you prove yourself wrong, if you say that I'm better than what I thought, that does deliver every time. If you, if you exceed your expectations, meet them and exceed them every time that delivers. Yeah. in a way that the vice versa just couldn't. It's very true. We got deep here today. Man. We got deep. We could have just surfaced.

1:05:50We could have just surfaced leveled it, you know? Buried Bischoff. Yeah. You know? We should get him on, by the way. We got to get his defense for all this. Yeah. Someday. Someday. Eh. You know, hey, hey. Breaking news. Who knows? chaos theory a classic american mule bought to us by our friends at wheatley american vodka and we always like to do the american dream team i consider myself in wheatley the dream team i like to ask my guests what is your dream team and lately we just overly qualify i don't even i have to start right in on there is no wrong dream team there is no right dream team you pick a hundred people or you pick four people just for life this is who i like to think this is your wwe specific dream team which often in your case as we found out you you're addicted yeah you're you've got the sickness you got the fever so who is who is going into this with you who's on who's with you otis i knew it i mean no question jason jordan hell yeah nice finn baller all right gotta have we love finn i mean we love finn he brings a lot to the table yeah he's he's incredibly smart.

1:07:06One of my favorite people to sit down and talk to. He'd be our intelligence guy. Yeah. And Bailey. Really? Yeah. Have her in there. Tell me why. Not that we need a why. She's phenomenal. Yeah. She's obsessed at the same level. She has that same mindset. She's from the same NXT era as me. That competitive she gets it. Coffee lover like me. Coffee lover. Share a lot of hobbies. So we've said obsessed. we've said the sickness i i often refer to it as the fever here is something that can help you with the fever okay because i have it please know and i've sat there with our boss one time yeah please know that you have done incredible things and you will do incredible things but you've already done incredible things i am just telling you that as your peer and someone who loves wrestling it ain't easy to get their attention it's definitely not easy to get ours right or this room this all we do is wrestling all the time you've done that multiple times in your career and what that tells me and this is what i tell anyone who goes ups and downs it's wins and losses highs and lows if you did it once you can do it again it's hey i hate using them as an example but the miz is the greatest example anytime somebody sits with me and tells me oh i don't think miz is a good wrestler get the fuck out of here you get the fuck out of here miz the because he's done it yep right and it's all different types of it's it's fun variety entertainment it's the wrestling wrestling if you can do it and you did it once you can do it again and you have done it multiple times thank you uh you mentioned your hobbies too i'm gonna throw this out there at the last minute yeah do you remember your photo contest you did with sammy overseas one of the fondest memories i have talk about live events being awesome i gotta tell you my version of this so you and sammy decided to take a photo overseas on a tour and at the end all the photos were going to be put up right yes it was other gallery gallery was going to be put up and there was going to be a vote amongst the roster yes on who took the best photo there were no rules right it could be a professional camera or what there was no rules whatsoever they just the only rule was we had to take photos of the same objects xavier woods was also in this and xavier woods was in this as well so this photo competition exists and uh i don't even like leaving the hotel so this was the most i saw of these beautiful places was your photos on the gallery day here's what i always liked about this and i don't mind putting this out there for the universe now and i'm sure he doesn't mind either or maybe he does you you didn't win a lot to say about that yes i didn't win you didn't win the Sammy Zane won.

1:09:47But the whole thing to me seemed like a gift to the boys. You did something that we got to enjoy that wasn't just the matches. It wasn't just the hotels. You did this thing. We got to look at this gallery and go, cool. I have in my duffel bag the winning photo. Really? I asked Sammy as a joke to autograph it. The autograph I got is not a joke. it's a full note about how grateful he was that he won and the beauty of the city and that i i he hopes i voted for him because it meant a lot to him and i realized that as i was doing like hey sign it for me autograph for me now oh my god this is real like now again the lesson today so I still have it in my bag.

1:10:37He, he was into that. Oh, he was living and breathing that photo competition. It's exhausting thinking of his joy after he won that contest. Look, I went to art school. Like I said, I'm not going to big myself up. Like I'm some big art critic. I know art. He didn't go to art school. No, no. The stuff he hung on the wall was hotel art. Oh my God. It was less than hotel art. Yeah. Now I put these gorgeous, leave it, leave it at that. No, we don't have to. No, that's fine. Congrats to Sammy. Yeah. We'll do it again. Once these live events come back overseas, we'll do it again. For the purposes of this podcast, I'll find the photo because I had it, and I looked at that note the other day and thought, why did I get involved?

1:11:21I was just a voter. But, yeah, we'll see and maybe put it out there. Art is also in the eye of the beholder. I mean, you went to art school. He's Picasso in his own eye. Our friends at Wheatley Vodka, they have a little jingle. I even met the guy who sang this song. I'm going to play it for you, and then I'm going to ask you to replace a single word. Wheatley's so good, I drink it neatly. I watch in Moscow always get the mule. Vodka this good is an American jewel. Wheatly is so good, I drink it neatly. Wheatly is so good, I drink it neatly. If you were to take the word neatly out of the equation, what is that word for you?

1:12:02Wheatly is so good, I drink it... Deeply. I don't know. To the pot. Oh, my gosh. Well done. Well done. Is that one been used every time? No, you'd be shocked at the ones that aren't used. That's the first one that came to mind. been used and missed when they were right in front of us. This was wonderful. Thank you for finally coming on the pod. I hope the things you said here, I hope we will it into existence. Thank you. I think it will happen. Thank you. Again, it was inspiring, and I look to be inspired more. So thank you, my friend. Ladies and gentlemen, what do you want to talk about? Chad Gable.

1:12:37Thank you, Cody. Thank you.