Windham "Bray Wyatt" Rotunda Tribute Show | SRTU Bonus | 8/30/23

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It's still really to be David.
Welcome, everybody. Welcome to this special

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edition of The Stow Railtoy Show.
Jeff Peck, Doctor Trey Franklin, August

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thirty, twenty twenty three. I
wish it was under better, better circumstances

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as we remember the life and give
our thoughts on the tragic passing of Bray

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Wyatt Windham Rotunda. The news broke
Thursday afternoon, late Thursday evening or early

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Thursday evening. I should say I
didn't know about it, doctor Tray,

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for a good four hours or so. I was playing softball, which I

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tend to do on Thursday nights.
I come home and I didn't go online,

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no text or anything like that,
not even any alert news items popping

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up. And I'm scrolling through Instagram
at like ten o'clock on the East Coast

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and I see a WE graphic WWE
remembers Windham Rotunda aka Bray Wyatt, and

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my heart immediately sank in my chest. You know, we'll have plenty to

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talk about here throughout this entire special
edition of the podcast. But where were

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you and how did you find out
about the very tragic news. So I

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had just gotten home from work,
getting ready to go on my vacation and

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kind of glancing through Facebook, and
I saw somebody posts, you know,

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r I P bray Wyatt and I
was like, wait what And went on

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a few of the wrestling news sites
that I go to. Nobody had posted

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anything about it yet. Went on
ww dot com, nothing was there,

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and I was like, Okay,
maybe it's one of those like a little

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fake news stories you see pop up
from time to time, like you know,

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like celebrity passings and stuff like that, because everywhere I look, I

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couldn't find anything. And then about
fifteen minutes later, I saw somebody linked

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to the tweet from Triple H And
even then, at first I thought it

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was a work. I literally thought
that, you know, it was them

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trying to kill off the bray Wyatt
character. And you know, you and

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I had talked a few weeks ago
about how he had been ill, but

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now they were trying to make plans
for his return everything else. I thought

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it was their way of kind of
starting over, like refreshing the character.

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Basically, you just clear clear,
cleaning the slate. And then the news

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reports are popping up everywhere, and
then I started seeing stuff coming out from

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wrestlers and everything else, and I
was just kind of dumbfounded and just didn't

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know how to react. I said, there way for my wife to get

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help from work so we could,
like I said, finished getting ready to

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go on our vacation. And she
got home and I was like, did

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you get on Facebook day? She's
like no, and I'm like, bray

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Wyatt passed and she's like, are
you kidding me? I'm like no,

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that's It's like, I mean,
it's been five days. I'm still kind

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of weirdly numb about the whole thing, but yeah, that's kind of my

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timeline for finding out about it.
Yeah, I obviously had a tough time

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sleeping on Thursday night going in Friday
just thinking about the news. When these

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things happen, you know, there's
a selfish side of it, where it's

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like, you know, you lose
a wrestler, and the fan, you

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know, being a fan, it's
like, wow, that creative light is

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out now. But I like immediately
jumped towards the fact that this guy has

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four young children, probably all under
the age of ten. I would imagine

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that as old as is probably under
the age of ten, and now they're

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living in a world without their father. Ray Wyatt's girlfriend, Joe Joe Offerman,

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who worked for WWE for a period
of time as a ring announcer,

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now is widowed, has two children
that she's going to be taking care of

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on her own without her boyfriend end
Rock, you know, solid person to

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have there in Windham Rotunda and my
heart broke thinking about all that. I

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mean, it was just and then
you just read the tributes like all night

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long, like I probably did not
get to sleep till about like twelve thirty

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one. I am just reading tributes
and tweets. There's always that denial that

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you know, your point out,
doctor Trey. It's like this has to

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be at work, this can't be
really. I mean, he's thirty six

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years old. I just saw the
video of his father, Mike Rotunda irs

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ermanar scheister at a comic con of
sorts, and they're asking about how Bray

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White's doing and he said he'll be
back sooner rather than later. There were

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reports, you know, this month
that he was dealing with not only a

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career threatening issue, but a life
threatening issue, and then this happens towards

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the end of the month, and
it's just was like a fog Sean Sapp

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of Fightful Select reported that the Rotunda
family wanted it to be known that at

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bray Wyatt had gotten COVID back in
March, you know, they were setting

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up the match with he and Bobby
Lashty for Wressellmania, and then bray White

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just magically disappeared from television and people
were pointing, well, it's because Vince's

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back. And then we come to
find out that it was a health issue,

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and then very much clarified that it
was COVID and that this COVID had

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ascerated aspirated heart issues for bray Wyatt, Windham Rotunda. And then there's a

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story out today or yesterday from TMZ
that reported that bray White had gone to

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a cardiologist or a doctor of some
sort on the morning of his passing.

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They'd given him reportable defibrillator. He
unfortunately was not wearing it. Nobody knows

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if it would have saved his life
that day or not, but it was

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left in his truck. According to
police reports, Joe Joe thought it was

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strange that he was out for a
good hour or so. I think it

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was past his alarm going off.
And then by the time they got there,

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he was passed. Everything's just like, very very shocking. It's a

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numb feeling. As wrestling fans,
unfortunately, we've grown accustomed to this.

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I immediately when these things happened,
I immediately think of how I felt and

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the day that was when I found
out Owen Hart passed away, that was

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during the live pay per view,
how I felt for days after Eddie Garrell

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passed away, how I felt for
a very small window of time when Chris

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ben Wat passed away, and then
obviously when those details got a little bit

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more clarified, it was, you
know, then a weirder numb feeling.

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And then most recently Brodie Lee John
Hubert passed away, it was very similar

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feeling. And here we are Bray
Wyatt and it's like, man, you

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gotta be kidding me, Like he's
gone. And the comforting thing and post

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all this Doctor Trey outside of favorite
matches promos, how he made us feel

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when he was on the microphone or
in the ring, or as a character

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in general, is all the nice
things that the people in the world of

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professional wrestling have shared over the last
couple of days. That's kind of how

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I've gotten through. It seems like
he was a very wholesome, real kind

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individual, and I'm just sad about
the entire thing. I really don't like

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doing these shows, but I feel
like we owe it to our listeners into

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one another therapy wise in a way, to discuss a passing like this,

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when someone's so instrumental throughout the entire
time and his time and professional wrestling,

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something that we've covered the entire time
here on SRTU is is now no longer

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with us. At such a very
young age, He's a year younger than

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me, thirty six years old.
Kind of makes you think puts puts life

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in perspective a little bit. Yeah, Like I'm forty six, I'm ten

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years older than Bray Wyatt, and
you know, I got Sammy running around

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the house, I have, you
know, my other kids, and all

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of that stuff kind of kicked in
my head and you know, it's it's

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weird in a way, like,
you know, we lost Terry Funk the

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day before, and you know,
being the older guy that I am,

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like I remember Terry Funk from growing
up in roadhouse and all those things.

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But you know, seventy years old
had a full life. You know,

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we see some other guys the Iron
Sheet. You guys like that passed me.

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Ever this year, it's a different
feeling when it's somebody in their sixties

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and seventies and eighties as opposed to
somebody in the in the prime of their

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life. And you know this,
this one hit me probably harder than any

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other one since Eddie grow outside of
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But like it just it's shocking to
the system. It just kind of

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floors you in a lot of ways. And it's just like, you know,

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like I skipped SmackDown, I didn't
watch SmackDown. I perfectly stayed away

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from Twitter and everything else for a
few days just because I kept hoping against

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hope that it was something else,
you know, But like you said,

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like it's somebody who you know,
with Bray we had heard at times,

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not that it's hard to work with
things, very passionate about his character and

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what he was doing. And you
know, every now and then, you

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know, somebody ruffles a feather,
and I kept waiting for that one for

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lack of better and that one asshole
to come out and say something or you

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know, like somebody and you're right, like everybody has said such great things

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about him, and not just the
performer or but just like feed to be

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behind the scenes helping helping me out. The story about Becky Lynch saying that,

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you know, the day she had
her TLC match with with Alexa Bliss,

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and neither of them knew how to
set the table properly, and and

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Bray was out there the entire show, like before the show, showing them

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how to properly set the tab able
up and do all those things. And

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you know, you just hear these
like gracious stories about what kind of person

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he was. It on one hand, it makes you feel good about the

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life he led, but then it
just makes you feel awful that we lost

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a really good person. And in
today's society, in today's world, those

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are getting harder and harder to find. So to lose somebody so creative and

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such a good person at such a
young age is it's devastating. And the

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only solace you can take from it
is you know, he's always videos forever

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the Internet forever, Like you can
go now and see whatever you want.

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I mean literally, like the other
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I was at the day off,
and I was just kind of unwinding and

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trying to avoid stuff. And I
watched a special on you know, one

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of the older specials on FCW,
and I'm watching in there talking about all

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the stuff from FFCW, and all
of a sudden, I see Appointment talking

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about the Dusty Rhodes promo classes and
you see Seth rollas pop up and he's

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like, yeah, there was one
guy that just got it better than anybody

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else. It was Bray White.
And they started seeing old clips of bray

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There's Bray and there's Brody Lead right
behind him, and Brace doing his promos

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in front of the class in the
Bray White character, and You're just like,

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guy, it was just so beautiful. So it's it's a little bit

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of solace knowing that it's not one
of those things were like, you know,

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you passing away with a young kid
and there's nothing other than pictures to

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remember you buy you know with his
kids that there's a video and there's gonna

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be stuff forever that talks about what
a great man their father was. What

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was your favorite time period of Bray
White you had, now, Craig me

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if I'm wrong here, because I
feel like I remember this during the period

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of time when we were doing this
during the show. But like you were,

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you were watching NXD before it was
on the network. It was on

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Hulu or something, right, I
forget what it was. I might have

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at Hulu before Hulu became what Hulu
is now. I remember you saying when

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bray Why like was about to debut, and I think he immediately feud with

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Kane heading into SummerSlam that year.
Like people, there was a buzz already

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on the internet, but you were
watching NXT and and you were, you

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were behind that bus on on brey
Why before he ever debuted on on the

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main moroster right, Yeah, I'm
not why. At that point, I

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was working a show here in Alabama, and I was trying to reinvent my

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character and I was stealing directly.
I was gonna I was gonna bring up

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the influence he had on you.
Like there's a there's a promo actually just

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popped up on my Facebook feed not
too long ago where I was sitting on

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a beach in Florida and I'm doing
the bray Why voice and and you would

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wear it for Dora too, right, Yeah, I've worned for Dora's I've

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worned Hawaiian shirts like i've we did
where we did, IWA mids South.

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We did the tryout show about a
year after that, and I literally did

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a bray Wyatt character as a manager. Uh, like the guy was and

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you know you and I've joked with
you for shoot Jeff almost almost a decade

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and a half. Now, I
root for chubby guys as a guy who

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was, you know, been chubby
his entire life. You find a charismatic

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chubby guy. Yeah, I'm root
for that guy. And that was our

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affinity, my affinity for Kevin Owns, my affinity for Bray White and just

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how charismatic he was. And uh
that that video I referenced that that thing

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on a peacock, Like Sasha and
Charlotte were talking about it and they're like

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half the time, you didn't know
what he was talking about, but you're

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like, dude, whatever he's talking
about him in And that's how I felt

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watching him in n xt FCW when
that transition was taking place, Like I

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didn't know half the stuff he was
saying, but it was just so captivating

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and enthralling, and you're just like
I bought in day one. I bought

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into the bray Wyatt character. I
thought I was so unique and so different,

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even though people were like, you
know, it was kind of a

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take on the Wayland Mercy character.
But Bray he just made it his own

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and just did it in a way
that was so different, unique, And

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I kept waiting for that called the
main rosters. I knew he'd be even

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bigger on the main roster stage than
he was an Excy just because of production

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in the size of the crowd,
not knowing he would ever get to the

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level that he eventually got to.
So back to the question there of what

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time period of Bray Wyatt did you
enjoy the most. You have the debut

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of the Wyatt family and his couple
of years in there in the beginning where

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he's you know, wrestling John Cena
at WrestleMania thirty and then at thirty one

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he's wrestling the Undertaker. Then there's
that time period where in my I'm trying

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to think here where it was Okay, so WrestleMania thirty two he's in the

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ring with the Rock in a segment, and then Rock takes on Eric Rowan

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at thirty three. Is the SmackDown
time period where Bray wins Thewich Champion Chip

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he's got Brodie Lee, Luke Harper
and Randy Orton in the Wyatt family with

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him, and then Randy turns on
him, lights the house on fire.

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Then they have a match at WRESTLEMANI
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it via WrestleMania. There's the time
period where he is with Woken Matt Hardy

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for a little bit, then he's
off television for a period of time.

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He returns as the Fiend. You've
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Then he gets released and then he
returns most recently less than a year

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ago. I believe it was October
of last year, in a very triumphant,

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amazing return with a great build up. He returns with that character.

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Then unfortunately, that character obviously does
not last long on television because he is

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off TV by late February. I
think really one of the last times he

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had cut a promo in the ring
heading into elimination Chamber, letting the winner

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of brock Lessner and Bobby Lashley know
that they were going to be he wouldn't

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meet them at Russellman. He had
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I think afterwards with Bobby Lashley of
doing the muscle Man dance, and then

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we did not see Bray Wyatt until
you know, the news broke out of

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his passing last week. So what
is what is your favorite Bray Wyatt time

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period? So there's two for me
and one is pre Sammy and one's post

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say so I'm kind of torn yourself. I'm talking about your son, just

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to clarify, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah. So the early NXT

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stuff was so good and so experimental
and like the stuff with the rocking chairs

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and all that stuff, and it
was just you kind of you know,

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you and I joke or you and
not talking about like it's NX. He

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was finding Metallica before Metallica hit it
big, and that's why I felt with

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bray Whitt was like, oh my
god, this is like the coolest thing

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ever and nobody knows about it again
and just waiting for it to kind of

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off, you know. And honestly, I can't even remember really any of

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the feuds they had an NXT,
Like the Wyatt family was there and they

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were kind of getting mixed up with
different things, but there was never one

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of those big, long out feuds
that you know, we see guys get

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into later on, but that character
was so unique and so different, and

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the presentation inside you know, full
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And the entrance music, like everything
about that fit. The entrance music was

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so different than anything else we had
heard post Sammy. It was the Firefly

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Funhouse because even that character. I
mean, the first time we saw the

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Firefly Funhouse, you and I say
on the show and like went like,

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what the hell was that? Yeah? Yeah, we had no idea what

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that was going to be. And
it was crazy because I think Sammy was

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about a year and a half old, and every time that music would hit,

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he would stop whatever he was doing
and watch the TV. Did not

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matter he was playing with toys or
eating dinner, and it didn't matter.

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I could pull it up on YouTube
that song is Who's that song would hit,

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he would stop everything in absolutely be
engrossed watching bray Wyatt. And it

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made me, as a dad kind
of like happy because I'm like, oh,

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this is something we can bond over
down the road. So but to

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me, those two characters, those
two versions of bray Wyatt, were so

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unique and so different from anything else
we had seen on TV that it just

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it captivated me. I mean,
could you imagine if the like we always

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Bray Whittet always kind of compared to
the Undertaker, if the Undertaker had an

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altered ego where he was like the
actual like if he was actually doing the

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If he had the Paul bar gimmick
as an alter ego where he was like

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the super clean cut director of a
funeral home, and then the Undertaker was

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was altered a gimmick, we would
have lost we would have lost our minds.

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And that's kind of what Bray did
with that Firefly Funhouse Fiend combination.

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So those two characters was just so
uniquely different from anything else we had seen

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on TV that it's hard for me
to kind of pick a side there.

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Yeah, it's very difficult to find
like a time period of Bray's character that

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you enjoy the most. But there, for me, I got to go

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back to that SmackDown error when Hero
Brody, Lee, Luke Harper and Randy

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Orton had like this reformed Wyatt family, because that was one of the first

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times in a while in w Wheat
that they had like this slow build angle.

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It always felt like Randy Orton would
turn on Bray Wyatt and it took

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forever for that to happen. They
wanted a tag team championship at one point

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at the TLC show that Becky Lynch
talks about. Then the Elimination Chamber match

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happens, Bray wins the title and
then that heads into WrestleMania because Randy had

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won the Royal Rumble that year and
that match was okay. It had some

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strange moments, like like I think
like a spider was squshed on the mat.

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Remember the mat like took over as
this like horror movie screen that was

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so cool, and it kind of
rebooted Randy Orton. Like Orton was one

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of the top like and I don't
mean this in a sense of good guy

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but faces of the company. Like
promotionally and strategically, he was one of

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the top stars of the company.
He took a back seat to the Bray

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Wyatt character, and it was completely
different from what we're used to because Randy

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Orton would always be out in front, whether it be Evolution or legacy.

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It was he was always kind of
a centerpiece and he was a bit player

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in the new formed Wyatt family.
And that was when they had just did

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the brand extension again. And for
a very brief period of time, like

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SmackDown, Raw were really cool because
they were different and that had a new

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different feel to it, and it
was really enjoyable. And then the second

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thing was was the Fiend. I've
watched the tribute video that aired on SmackDown

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and also aired on Raw this past
Monday, the music video captivating his entire

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career in life, and there's the
part where it shifts to the Firefly fun

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House phenare and just the subtle things
that they would do. It was so

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hilarious and so funny, and bray
White had such great, great comedic timing,

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whether if he was one that made
the point to do these types of

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things or to or if a writer
was doing it. No matter what,

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it was executed to perfection. And
there's this brief cut of the Firefly fun

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House. He's waving and I think
it's either Huskus the pig or the rabbit

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is holding up a sign that says
help, and he slowly pushes it down,

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laughing and then waving, and it
was like that type of stuff.

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I watched it and I was like, man, I just remember how entertaining

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the Firefly fun House was. It
would make you laugh. It would make

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you feel like like creepy, like
you had bugs crawling on you. And

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it was just ahead of its time. And that's the thing. We've talked

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about it here time and time again. I said it in the beginning of

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the show. The selfish part of
this all is that one of the most

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creative lights in professional wrestling history has
slowly dimmed down in the past week,

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and that is heartbreaking. The selfish
side is where were things going upon his

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return to w w WE. Where
were things supposed to go after the realm?

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But where were things supposed to go
following elimination chamber? Like we're missing

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that he was silenced by a disease
and then silenced in his passing, and

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we have the memories forever, but
it's like the what ifs. You can't

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sit there and go and not think
about the what ifs, Like what was

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the direction supposed to be? We
had read so much right Exa Bliss was

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starting a turn. W WE had
resigned Eric Young and there's been whispers that

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he was supposed to be involved in
some degree with whatever Bray Wyatt was doing.

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I believe Vincent and Dutch who are
now in roh Or a w however

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you want to look at it.
Were kind of rumored to be coming into

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the company as well to work with
Bray Wyatt, and it's just I love

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to see a good comeback. And
his release back in twenty twenty was awful

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and something that all wrestling fans could
agree on was should not have happened.

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And that sucked that he was away
from w for that long. And then

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he finally made the return. Triple
H is back in charge, and it's

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like we're getting way back and we're
getting this opportunity to see what's next for

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him, and it just yeah,
it just doesn't doesn't take place, and

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it's just hard. It's hard from
a wrestling perspective to see someone creative,

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so creative gone, and it's so
sad from a human perspective to see someone

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so genuinely loved and adored a father, a significant other, a brother,

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a son, a friend like gone
like this so young. I mean,

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that's the thing, Doctor Trey is
just like so young. It resonates with

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guys like you and I because you
know, we get these moments in our

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lives where life is put in perspective, and this is one of those moments.

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In professional wrestling and in life where
it kind of sits you on your

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ass for a good couple of days
and you self reflect, and you reflect

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in general. You think about everything
that his family and friends are going through

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right now, and then you think
about your own life and how things are

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right now, and in an instance, you could be on top of the

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world like Bray why it was,
and a snap of the fingers you could

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be gone. And it's just it's
a sad day. It's been a sad

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week. It's been a tough week
for professional wrestling. I know there's a

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lot of things celebrated with all elite
wrestling, I know, celebrating the life

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of Terry Funk, celebrating the life
of Bray Wyatt. But obviously we're not

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lying to you. Where I wish
we weren't sitting here today, going up,

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Let's have the Bray Wyatt tribute Shell, Let's get one of the books

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before we sit down and recorded this
week's episode tomorrow and then make it available

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for download. It's just it stinks. It's I don't know. I just

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don't think there will never It's easy
to say when someone passes doctor Trey,

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but I think it's safe to say
there will never be another Bray Watt and

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professional wrestling now. When I was
listening to what you're saying there and you

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talked about how ahead of his time
he was, and I don't even think

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that he was ahead of his time. I think he was just on a

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different level than when anybody else creatively
could come up with because I mean like,

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because of him, really, we
started getting into the cinematic matches.

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I mean, you go back to
the the was the House of Horrors match

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with him and Randy Orton that was
ahead of its time, you know,

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like and then all of a sudden, because the pandemic, we had to

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do more of it. I saw
somebody tweet out this week that the match

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with him and John Cena WrestleMania,
the cinematic one they did, it was

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the only interesting thing John Seen has
done in the last ten years, you

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know, And I'm like, that's
I mean, he was he was including

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Sena's movies, and I was just
like, it's kind of kind of a

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shot. But I was like,
in a way, he was right,

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Like, you know, we got
to see a John Cena heal in that

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match, Like what would have happened
if it had gone that row, Like

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all these questions that we've had over
the years about have seen it got answered

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in that match in a sense,
and it was just so crazy and delightful

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at the same time. And you
know, just I would say about this

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week, I'm like, I don't
want to I'm hoping at some point somebody's

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able to kind of come out and
lay out what we were going to get.

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Now. I know we're not gonna
get you know, we're not gonna

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find out like what we're gonna do
ten years from now, but just just

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what was the plan for the Wyatt
six or whatever it was? Because I

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still remember that the Mountain Dew Pitch
Black match, and I saw some may

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people are hating on that match,
and I still I went back and watched

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it yesterday and I was like,
I still really enjoyed that, Like it

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was cool and it was different.
And then the ending segment, you know

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when you see all the Wyatt family
characters like kind of looking down, you

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know, You're like, oh,
man, where is this going? I

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mean, even going back to you
know, the rumble, you know,

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and seeing the characters around the ring
and then the crowd and everyone else,

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I'm like, where were they going
with it? Remember you and I said,

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are going who do you think was
that guy? Who do you think

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that guy was? Or who do
you think that guy was? Or who

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do you think sister Abigail was.
It's like the intrigue into it all,

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Like, I mean, you and
I were still going on. I think

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Husks a joke acy, I think
Rambling Rabbit were I think Mercy the Buzzard

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was Grayson Waller and like that was
a thing. And then even when I'll

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call Howdy debut and we're like,
is that bow Dallas? I think it's

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bow Dallas. Maybe it's not bow
Dallas. Like all of these things tying

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in just to it's kind of like
you only got half the movie, you

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know, even if it's a you
know, like Marvel movie post credit scene,

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just let me know where we're going
with this, because it was because

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right now, I think the hardest
part about this, and it's similar to

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Eddie and similar to Owen, is
there's no closure on it. And from

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a character standpoint, there's no closure. I mean, you go back to

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this with Eddie Graw like we were. There was rumors that we're gonna get

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Eddie Gramer Shawn Michael's match at a
WrestleMania, you know, and how much

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that sucks Owen Hart, you know, where that was going and Bray being

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arguably the most creative performer in the
history of our business, Like where was

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where was this buying going with stuff? You know? And how is all

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this gonna play out? Like I
hope we kind of get something down the

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line where we can kind of go, Okay, that would have been beautiful

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and we can kind of play it
out in our mind's eyes where just to

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kind of get that little bit of
closure on the end, because it just

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sucks on so many levels right now. And you mentioned earlier like taking stock

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it was ironic they brought the COVID
stuff And I have talked about you off

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air before, like I'm still blown
away that in what the three and a

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half years of I've never gotten COVID
thank God? Right, Yeah, And

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you know everybody knows how much I
travel, Like if anybody was frightening to

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get it, it would have been
me. It. I just talked with

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my wife out the near day is
like I can't believe I haven't gotten it

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yet, you know, And then
all of this comes out and you know,

403
00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:45.039
like two of my friends are battling
the new straight of COVID right now,

404
00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:47.640
and I lost a friend of mine, you know, to COVID,

405
00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:51.640
you know, right in the middle
of the pandemic that was a diehard wrestling

406
00:29:51.640 --> 00:29:53.279
fan and you left behind it,
you know, a couple of young kids,

407
00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:57.119
and it's like, yeah, it
makes you take stock of everything in

408
00:29:57.160 --> 00:30:03.319
your life when something like this happens
from somebody who you admire and look up

409
00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:07.079
to, and you almost because of
the way wrestling is now, you almost

410
00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:10.319
feel like that you're a part of
their life, even though you're like,

411
00:30:10.359 --> 00:30:14.480
you feel differently connected to a brave
wyat uh you know, a professional wrestler

412
00:30:14.519 --> 00:30:18.319
than you do an NFL player,
a baseball player, like you know,

413
00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:21.519
the stuff with Damar Hamlin last year, Like I felt bad for the guy,

414
00:30:21.599 --> 00:30:25.200
but it didn't it didn't hurt me. It didn't hit me. This

415
00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:30.160
hurts. This hit me hard because
I think we just have a different look

416
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:33.680
into their lives they would do any
other celebrity or athlete out there in the

417
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:38.599
world today, Wrestling is its own
separate dy that we bond to closer,

418
00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:44.119
Like we talk about wrestling me in
a soap opera. I didn't cry with

419
00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:47.680
any of my soap opera characters that
I love, Diet Victor Kuriakis, you

420
00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:49.599
know, Jennifer Hanson is at it
felt bad for her, didn't like get

421
00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:53.799
upset, didn't you know people like
I grew up watching for forty years with

422
00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:57.920
my grandmother. It didn't hurt me. Like when guys like that, when

423
00:30:57.960 --> 00:31:02.359
this happens at guys like or Eddie
or Owen or even go back to Cherry

424
00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:07.559
von Eric, you know those guys
and that you know Liz even Ultimate Waire,

425
00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:10.559
Like you're just like, man like, how much more did they have

426
00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:15.160
to contribute to the business that we
all love, not just characterwise, but

427
00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:18.680
also on a personal level, you
know, going forward, I mean we

428
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:22.079
see all these guys out of the
independent scenes. You're doing autograph signings and

429
00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:23.200
things like that, and you can
go up and you can talk to Alex

430
00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:26.240
Luder, you can talk to you
know, a Stargist Slaughter. You can

431
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:30.880
actually form a connection with these guys. Now, you get you don't do

432
00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:34.119
that with star athletes, but wrestling
is its own different entity, and we

433
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:37.839
fill a closeness in a bond to
these people that we see on TV in

434
00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:41.839
multiple times a week. I think
you said it very very perfectly. There.

435
00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:45.799
There's not much more I can add. I mean, you learn about

436
00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:51.920
these people more than you learn about
any other actor, actress, sports figure,

437
00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:56.519
what have you anybody that you look
up to, or anybody that you

438
00:31:56.599 --> 00:32:00.880
watch it In an entertainments aspect,
you know more about them than anyone.

439
00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:05.799
You know about their trials and their
tribulations, you know about their struggles.

440
00:32:07.079 --> 00:32:10.079
In the case of Windham Rotuna,
he started out as Husky Harris on NXT,

441
00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:15.920
was with Nexus, and then he
was sent back down to developmental to

442
00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:21.079
find a new character. I remember
reading about him toying with his new character.

443
00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:23.279
I think he wore like this Hannibal
Lecter mask, and then this character

444
00:32:23.319 --> 00:32:28.119
started catching fire and there was this
buzz around him, and then he came

445
00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:32.200
on the main roster and you watched
him grow and become this amazing superstar we

446
00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:37.359
champion. You get behind these people
more than anywhere else in the world.

447
00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:43.720
Because I don't know, it's what
makes wrestling special to me. It's the

448
00:32:43.799 --> 00:32:49.319
reason why I feel so much more
connected than any other entertainment form and why

449
00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:52.920
when I watch Sammy Zane and Kevin
Owens hold of the tag team Champion to

450
00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:58.640
close out wrestle MANI this past year
that I feel just as accomplished as they

451
00:32:58.680 --> 00:33:04.519
do, because twelve years ago I
watched them in a thousand seat arena in

452
00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:07.359
the Manhattan Center in New York City, tearing it up as Kevin Stein and

453
00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:12.119
al jan Erico. We connect with
professional wrestlers more than you would in any

454
00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:16.759
other type of entertainment value. I
mean, if an athlete passes away today,

455
00:33:16.799 --> 00:33:21.839
the likelihood of me knowing what their
trials and tribulation and their struggles were

456
00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:29.640
to climb the charts into who they
became or their families is probably pretty slim

457
00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:34.359
to none. But I immediately thought
of Bray Wide and his family, his

458
00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:39.279
connections to his father Mike Rotunda,
his brother Bo Dallas, his girlfriend Joe

459
00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:44.880
Joe Offerman, and his children.
Like it's the same exact thing that I

460
00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:47.720
thought of when John Hubert passed away
Brodie Lee Luke Harper, Like, I

461
00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:53.440
immediately thought about his children because I
had watched this little ten minute clip on

462
00:33:53.640 --> 00:33:59.759
WA Network about like before he became
a superstar and him talking about the importance

463
00:33:59.799 --> 00:34:02.759
of of being a role model for
his kid in Luke Harper. So it's

464
00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:07.599
it's a really that's what makes it
a very beautiful and poetic entertainment form.

465
00:34:07.639 --> 00:34:14.280
And that's why the connection that diehard
wrestling fans have with the superstars and the

466
00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:19.239
shows and the organizations and the promotions
and everything in between is oh so very

467
00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:23.159
special. And it's tough. It's
a tough day. It's a tough week

468
00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:28.320
for professional wrestling fans. It's a
tough week profession and wrestling to lose somebody

469
00:34:28.360 --> 00:34:34.719
so young in bray Wyatt, Doctor
Trey. I think to wrap up this

470
00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:42.159
this tribute show, how does Bray
Wyte or how do you want bray Wyatt

471
00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:49.840
Windham Rotunda to be remembered? That's
a that's a fantastic question because it does

472
00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:53.880
kind of feel like we talked about
Oh, we talked about Eddie. You

473
00:34:53.920 --> 00:34:58.840
know, Eddie Hitry had twenty years
in the business, Ohol had, Alveray

474
00:34:58.880 --> 00:35:02.239
had twenty. I mean, these
guys had long careers, you know.

475
00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:07.800
And then we mentioned you know,
Brodie Leeve's last John Hubert and although it

476
00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:15.280
hurt, he really hadn't ascended to
that next level where Eddie Owen were and

477
00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:20.119
then you obviously were braves with Bray. It just feels like it was cut

478
00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:22.760
short like it was like there's so
much one, there's so much more meat

479
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:28.119
on the bone. But for me, I think I just want Brady Wide

480
00:35:28.159 --> 00:35:34.880
to be remembered as you know,
maybe the most creative mind we've ever come

481
00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:42.400
across and professional wrestling. The way
he could articulate an envision where he wanted

482
00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:46.320
his characters to go is something we've
never seen before. And to have the

483
00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:52.800
guts and are in the balls to
take risks beyond anything else and we've never

484
00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:57.800
seen. And I mean obviously just
a good person, a great man,

485
00:35:57.880 --> 00:36:00.800
a great father. I mean I
don't know about you watch in the SmackDown,

486
00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:02.960
like watching the start of the show
and watching I was just talking about

487
00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:07.079
this earlier today watching Brounze drum and
breakdown. Like to see a guy who's

488
00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:13.599
six foot ten three or fifty pounds
like just break down because that was his

489
00:36:13.639 --> 00:36:16.159
best friend. You know, it's
like it's just so hard. But for

490
00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:21.159
you know, to me, like
I said, Bray Wyatt was the most

491
00:36:21.199 --> 00:36:25.320
creative mind we have ever seen come
across professional wrestling in my lifetime. And

492
00:36:25.360 --> 00:36:30.239
I hope people remember him that way. Yeah, even the Becky Lynch the

493
00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:32.719
clothes to raw on Monday night with
her holding up the arm pan and just

494
00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:37.000
breaking down crying. I felt like
was a representation of all of us.

495
00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:43.239
It was culmination of the past couple
of days, and her emotion is what

496
00:36:43.320 --> 00:36:45.960
every wrestling fan and wrestler felt,
what the world of professional wrestling felt.

497
00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:52.679
And losing somebody so young, so
amazing, so creative, so bright,

498
00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:57.599
so energetic, so kind in Windham, roetun and bray Wyatt. I will

499
00:36:57.639 --> 00:37:01.840
remember him as one of not the
most creative mind in the world professional wrestling.

500
00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:07.840
He took something that can be so
repetitive and mundane and that you've seen

501
00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:12.440
time and time again, whether it's
over a five year span you see something

502
00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:16.000
that is similar or a ten year
span, and he spun it around and

503
00:37:16.199 --> 00:37:22.199
created a world and created a character
of some things that we never saw before.

504
00:37:22.280 --> 00:37:25.559
Whenever you thought bray White's character and
storyline was going to go left,

505
00:37:25.639 --> 00:37:30.800
it went right. And it was
so beautiful, it was so entertaining,

506
00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:36.159
It was so much fun to watch, and I wish we weren't saying these

507
00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:40.320
words, but it's just a complete
thank you to everything that he did and

508
00:37:40.760 --> 00:37:49.840
brought to our joy and entertainment throughout
his entire career. So we wanted to

509
00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:52.639
get this episode in the books.
We wanted to share our thoughts about bray

510
00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:58.760
White, We wanted to give it
enough time so that we could give our

511
00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:01.280
thoughts and feelings about the entire situation
and not feel like there was a time

512
00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:06.880
crunch to cover anything from the past
week. So we'll get to the world

513
00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:13.159
of professional wrestling tomorrow the next time
an episode drops here for SRTU. But

514
00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:15.920
it was important to get this this
show out there, Doctor Trey, There's

515
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:20.039
there's something I want to read that
I feel like it is the perfect way

516
00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:24.440
to wrap up this show. But
before we close up shop on this week's

517
00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:30.400
edition of of SRTU, is there
anything you would like to add in regard

518
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:37.119
to bray Wyatt. I mean really
from I mean you mentioned his family and

519
00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:40.280
you know, not to mention like
his uncle Barry Wyndham. Obviously he's still

520
00:38:40.280 --> 00:38:45.880
out there as well, But I
mean some one of the things like when

521
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:50.000
something of this happens, this is
reminded like not to take life for granted,

522
00:38:50.679 --> 00:38:52.760
to tell the people in your life
how you feel about them whenever you

523
00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:58.800
have the chance. You know,
today's I saw it some today, like

524
00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:01.880
anybody who die today had plans for
tomorrow. Anybody who died this morning had

525
00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:07.599
plans for tonight. You know those
instances where it's like, man, just

526
00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:12.719
let everybody know around you how much
you value them, appreciate them, love

527
00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:15.320
them, because you never want to
leave anything unsaid. You know when it's

528
00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:20.639
your time, So just take that
to heart. Tell like, hug your

529
00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:22.280
kids, hug your family, tell
them all you love them. Like,

530
00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:29.599
oh, those things kind of come
back to the forefront when something like this

531
00:39:29.679 --> 00:39:34.119
happens and we have to put you
know, wrestling and work and everything else

532
00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:36.079
kind of on the back burner and
just go you know what, man,

533
00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:37.880
I love you. I mean you, and I like you, and I

534
00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:42.840
joke off the airlock like we've been
on that we've been We've been together longer

535
00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:47.159
than two of my marriages combined.
You know, I've known you since before

536
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:51.599
you met your girlfriend. Yep.
Like we're we're an old married couple.

537
00:39:51.719 --> 00:39:55.360
And I value and appreciate and you
know, love everything you and I have

538
00:39:55.440 --> 00:39:59.039
done for twelve years. If I
haven't told you that, I want you

539
00:39:59.079 --> 00:40:04.599
to know that quest front for all
of our listeners that tune in every single

540
00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:07.280
week, Like we value and appreciate
everything you guys have done to us.

541
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:13.800
You guys are our motivation to keep
doing this show for seven hundred plus episodes.

542
00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:16.599
You know, like like you and
I told you as far as I

543
00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:23.119
looked up, we are the second
longest running wrestling podcast in the world that

544
00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:28.280
I that I could verify against.
And honestly, I don't know if number

545
00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:30.840
one is even still around, so
we may be number one. Who knows,

546
00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:36.079
But things like that put it in
perspective that you know, those people

547
00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:38.039
that you value and appreciate, just
let it, me know, just just

548
00:40:38.119 --> 00:40:42.519
get it out there, put in
the world. It looks you might have

549
00:40:42.599 --> 00:40:46.159
the most cold hearted, redneck,
toughest nail's friend and you tell them that

550
00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:49.920
they may blow you off. I
guess what it's going to sink in And

551
00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:52.159
that way, if something happens,
they know how you felt and they don't

552
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:55.000
feel guilty about it. So just
love your friends, love your neighbors,

553
00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:59.079
love your kids. Just put it
all out there into the ethos and let

554
00:40:59.079 --> 00:41:02.119
it go. It's a perfect way
to end the show. Their doctor Trey

555
00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:08.079
with some beautiful thoughts. So we
close with something that is obviously made the

556
00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:14.039
rounds. Since bray Wyatt passed away, It's something he posted on Twitter and

557
00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:16.920
Instagram back in August of twenty twenty
two, and I felt like it was

558
00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:23.679
the perfect way to sum up how
we as wrestling fans feel about the world

559
00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:30.079
of professional wrestling and how the world
of professional wrestling makes us feel. So

560
00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:32.519
we'll read this and then close up
shop here on the show. Thank you

561
00:41:32.559 --> 00:41:37.800
all for for joining us, Thank
you for allowing us these forty plus minutes

562
00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:42.320
to give our thoughts and feelings towards
the tragic passing of Windimore Done and Bray

563
00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:47.239
Wyatt, and and thank you for
you know, letting us share how we

564
00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:53.039
feel on this podcast today. It's
it's therapeutic because it's been it's been tough

565
00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:59.880
to go through this, because it's
it's not easy, obviously losing somebody so

566
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:04.559
special and made people feel so good
in the world of professional wrestling. So

567
00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:08.599
Windomton a road back in August twenty
twenty two, and I quote, wrestling

568
00:42:08.679 --> 00:42:13.039
is not a love story. It's
a fairytale for massachists, a comedy for

569
00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:17.559
people who criticize punchlines. Punchlines fantasy. Most can't understand a spectacle. No

570
00:42:17.639 --> 00:42:22.679
one can deny lines are blurred heroes
or villains, budgets or cuts. Business

571
00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:27.199
is business, but it can also
be a land where dead man walk,

572
00:42:27.519 --> 00:42:31.480
where honor makes you elite, where
demons run for office, and rock bottom

573
00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:37.039
is a reason to rejoice. Woo. It's an escape, a reason to

574
00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:39.800
point to blame in anyone but yourself
for two to three hours, an excuse

575
00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:43.920
to be a kid again, and
nothing mad except the moment we are in

576
00:42:44.599 --> 00:42:47.360
Wrestling is not a love story.
It's much more. It's hope and in

577
00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:52.239
a world surrounded and hate, greed
and violence, a world where closure may

578
00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:54.519
never come, we all know a
place that has hot and cold hope on

579
00:42:54.599 --> 00:43:00.480
tap for better or for worse.
End quote. Thank you Bray Wyatt,

580
00:43:00.760 --> 00:43:08.239
Rest in peace, Windom Rotunda and
uh until next time. Follow the buzzards.

581
00:43:20.440 --> 00:43:49.800
He's gone in news. He's gonna
die in news. I I stop

582
00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:54.039
creating some kind of buzz here.
Man, you won't see nothing yet.

583
00:43:57.199 --> 00:44:05.320
Feel a new face out here.
Walk upon my side and I will lead

584
00:44:05.480 --> 00:44:13.840
you to clarodops. We're here.
See about the dance and feel the magic

585
00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:20.719
on the floor. They try to
save me at all stop, but they

586
00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:29.280
never cared in school. You never
had the last time because he no shine

587
00:44:29.639 --> 00:44:32.960
he gave us everything and now you
never in his mind. Yes, it

588
00:44:34.039 --> 00:44:50.960
is the firefly funhouse waiting no money
over, no shall she must Yeah,

589
00:44:52.280 --> 00:45:07.320
because he was jail going world gold, now sunset and space between the shows.

590
00:45:10.639 --> 00:45:15.440
Never let it darkness. She couldn't
down shine sees that a being the

591
00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:22.000
spa in the long I can truly
say that I have the whole damns in

592
00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:35.599
the world in my head. I
would like to welcome you all. Tuesday

593
00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:52.960
Hour rock if it's my favorite dew
point the Shu great mother understood photograph.

594
00:45:54.800 --> 00:46:14.880
The resent in my mind was still
together. Spear meet I and the color

595
00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:20.800
red. In a world for the
black and white. I am the eater

596
00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:39.280
of worlds. I bray white,
am forever you, and I can look

597
00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:45.440
all of you in the eyes and
I can say thank you.