Transcript of Hour 2: Fee Fi Fo Fumming Through Life (feat. Braun Strowman)

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Per Hunter Volpe, Travis Kelsie's first four games this season. Fifteen catches, 182 yards, and one TD. Travis Kelsie's last five games after a song about his penis was released. 30 catches, 258 yards, and two touch downs.

Nice.

Better.

There you go. More dick songs. That's what we need. Yeah.

Uncle Dick.

Is that what we need?

Start of the day, start of the day.

You guys wanted to call him Udonis Haslem. All right, music. Disrespectful so and so.

Every now and then, UD gets some playing time after seven games right in the blind. Hits that baseline jumper. Hits that baseline jumper, and you're like, wow.

Aren't they building a statue of UD?

He still has it.

Aren't you building a statue of yourself?

I'm thinking about it. Yeah? They're pricing. In your lawn? Yeah.

What would be the pose?

I'm not sure yet. That's a good question.

What do you think your neighbors would say?

I think they would be a gas They would laugh because they would assume it's not there for a long period of time.

Do the pose that... Stand up and do the pose that you've always done. You're famous. If you were to flex and be a bodybuilder, I think this is what it should be. Famous Greg Cody. This is a famous Greg Cody. I've seen him do this.

You just made the regular one?

I like that.

I don't know what that was, but I liked it.

Yeah.

It gives me Sean Michael's vibes.

That's not an action shot of what we've seen him do, though.

No, it's not. He screwed it up. It's not exactly like- It looks like where you're like...

Rest in peace, Victor Conte.

I screwed it up. It's my thing.

You do it, it has your front foot up, and you're like...

Well, that's what I just did.

No, but you were crouched over. Oh, that one. Thank you.

The one where you go like this.

There you go. He's been doing that my entire life.

Wow. Is that like a conquering hero? You put your foot on the carcass of the person you just defeated?

I think so, yeah. That is the statue. I wish I saw that. That is the statue. But it's going to cost me like 6K.

Yeah, but money, you can't take it with you when you die. That's true.

I could leave it to my kids, but why bother?

These ingrates? Never. This guy called you Donna Haslem. That's a compliment. No, it's not.

Christopher's laughing. He's going, he's kidding, right? We're going to get money, right?

You act like you control your money.

Well, I was about to say I control my wife, but that's not true either. Hold on.

Not even close. The last will and testament of Greg Cody, is it specific in there? Does it get into the specifics of the-I can answer this, yes. Oh, it does?

How do you know? Me and mom have talked about all this stuff. Really? You guys are getting old.

Wow. It's like this much goes to charity and this much goes to charity.

Charity. Charity.

Charity? Charity? Who's that?

Charity?

Does it go to you, Chris, or does it go straight to your kid?

No, it goes, I am the... Because my brother, I have a brother, and one of us had to be put in the... I'm the responsible one, believe it or not.

I'm going to have to have a talk with my lawyer about that.

What are we talking about here? Like a 50/50 deal?

I don't know. I didn't know there were any specifics.

Telling you, he doesn't know guys. Really?

They're doing this behind your back.

I will answer tonight.

You got to go.

Speaking of will.

This is ridiculous. I should know all this. Power of attorney. Why is your mother working behind my back, Jack?

It's called just planning for the Future in case something horrific happens.

Are you sure that it's been planned?

I have a folder.

Got you. He's got a folder?

He should have brought me in on that.

How is he being left out of these decisions?

I'm telling you, he's aware of this. He just doesn't remember anything.

Okay. I don't know about that.

Yeah, thank you.

I don't trust this.

You may want to rehash some of this, Greg. You may disagree with some.

They're damn right, I will. You go home. I'm going to review and- You should get a couple statues.

Now that I think about it, you should get a couple statues. Spend their inheritance on yourself. That's a good idea. In the last couple of years. You got five statues instead of one.

6k, okay, turn it to 30K. One's fine. Then this is what you do. You leave the statues to them. Exactly. Here's a great hole of value.

How am I going to sell that? Sell it. It's tangible. You keep it.

It's an heirloom.

Put it in your front yard.

Like any good statue, it's going to be slightly larger than life. Oh, yeah. I'll be like 6'1.

Wait, your height, you mean?

Not counting the peddles.

Okay. I saw some graphic on social media where it was just every president and their height and weight, and I was just playing the game of who am I? I'm Theodore Roosevelt. Wow, nice.

Got you some glasses.

She was like 5'10, around 220. Slick your hair back real good.

220, huh? Teddy.

On a good day.

Svelte.

Just the closest one I could find. How about a bad day?

Let's talk about the bad day. A night of bowling. A couple of Miller likes it. Only 96 calories. The good stuff. 3. 2 carbs.

How about that? Flanigan's. Miller light just got me back to Kendall. I want to go back to Kendall.

This right here, that should be the Greg Kelly statue performing in Vegas as the frontman of the He-Haw 3.

Look at that. Holding up the hand, got the microphone at the mic stand.

Look at Jeremy fake singing back there.

Yeah, Jeremy, I don't know.

I'm actually singing.

I can't believe as a white man, you look so much like Ray Charles there.

Thank you.

It's incredible.

That's the last time I've dressed up.

It's almost like Cami. It's almost like Cami.

It looks translucent.

He looks If I didn't know that it happened for real, I would say this is Photoshop. It's Sora. It's Sora, yeah. Sora would have someone else singing for some reason.

Are you in the Hall of Fame? Not your band, but are you going to watch the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction? I think I will.

When is that air?

I think this weekend. It's on Disney plus.

Not on YouTube TV.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is on somewhere every year. It's a different platform.

Can I say something? I discovered for the first time just how many people have YouTube TV? Because they won't stop whining about. I'm like, Oh, my God.

Go up and get some cable.

I finally found- Get Hulu. I finally found where I'm not crossing. It's this ESPN Unlimited stuff. I'm a WEE fans as you know this. I love WEE. I'm punting on the product and this whole thing that they're doing with YouTube TV, getting the ACC coaches to be like, Wow, YouTube is so bad. Get out of here with that.

I don't care. What's happening? I'm not understanding.

It's a power play to get you to get ESPN. What is it? Unlimited?

That's the new ESPN app.

That's their direct consumer service.

You know what I realized is I don't get the channels that I pay for with the ESPN app anymore. I have a cable package, and through a different carrier, I also have YouTube TV because I like to spoil myself during the football season. Okay? So I get it. All right, my YouTube carrier, I don't get ESPN that way. But I have Xfinity. That's what my login is. And I can't watch ESPN2 Live. I was trying to watch a Rambling Wreck over the weekend. And the app, number one, it sucks. Terrible app. Bad app. Laggy. Sound is all bad. Multivue is super behind. I don't like the app right now. They got work to do on the app. But I try to watch the Rambling Wreck because I don't have a cable outlet directly into my TV in my bedroom. Something that I was able to do before, I can't do anymore. No, you need ESPN Unlimited to watch a cable channel you pay for to Because that's ESPN Unlimited now. I don't like this. I'm not supporting this. It got me picking between Disney and Google. That's how bad this is going. I'm not going to watch...

Look, WW has got to give me a reason to watch, too. That product is flat out bad.

Are you just a sucker? Don't ever call me a sucker.

Are you a sucker? Because Mike says he's out, and you're in.

I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that.

It's bad stuff right now.

I watched Raw last night. Raw was good.

You see this attendance? The attendance is cratering because the TK was approach.

They did not show the upper deck last night. Upper deck was definitely tarped off. Yeah, not a good crater.

They overplayed their hand, man. What's happening? They overplayed their hand.

Why are the people turning away their goals?

Very expensive. Super.

It's always been expensive.

All their public comments, they're overtly political now.

They have really capitalist prices that don't make sense.

It's outrageously expensive.

Their prices are going one way while the economy is going the other way, and they expect people to just keep buying this stuff, which is, by the way, the product totally diminished. Predictable. The cards aren't good anymore. They're not giving you a reason to I don't like it. If it's at the crux of this whole ESPN Unlimited thing, I don't think the product's at a place where I should pay for it.

Speaking of raw, by the way, that's the hardest one to hold.

I mean, you heard me yesterday complaining about the prices for John cena's last match. It was being serious.

I thought that was for tickets to get in place.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's for tickets. But all these other shows have tickets, and you purchase them to go. They've gone from sold-out arena.

It was not a good crowd last night.

Of 25,000 for their flagship shows, smackdown and raw, not even their PLEs, to get in 5,000 maybe if you're lucky.

Only the lower level was built last night.

I feel like this would be a much bigger story if it were a mainstream sport or even a concert series. Whenever so-and-so has to cancel a tour because they couldn't sell enough tickets.

But that's never possible for wrestling. They're never going to cancel the show.

Yeah, because they have a weekly- Because it's a TV. Commitment to Netflix and USA Network. You're right, though. But we've been sounding the alarm bells. Wrestling fans have been sounding alarm bells for months and months and months. You guys aren't fan friendly right now. Your prices don't make sense.

It's good, though. I'm glad to see there wasn't a lot of people there because maybe they'll adjust the prices sometimes.

They're doing things like rip in Russellmanias away from towns that they already announced. They announced New Orleans. Now it gets to go to Vegas for back to back years. No one likes that.

In January, Royal Rumble, which is probably their second biggest show of the year. It's in Saudi. It sucks.

Which next year, Saudi Arabia is also getting Russellmania. Terrible. They're making bad decision after bad decision, and they're wondering why their crowds are thinner. And then look in the mirror. They They had a terrible Russellmania season. They wasted all the buyer buy-in that they had from their biggest fans after Russellmania 40, which was a great event. They botched this whole John Cina thing.

I think it really does boil down to ticket prices are outrageous. They're outrageous. I think that's by far the biggest issue.

They're outrageous. Outrage, not in this context of John Cina's last show.

No, but the product also fell off. It was a red hot product. Well, if only we could talk to an expert about this, because I do think that there are certain things the fan base at Braunstroman, who worked at that company for a very long time and is aware of TKO's business practices. Maybe he can shine some light on them.

Let me ask this, though. In the content, you're saying the ticket price is out of whack. Yesterday, we talked about John cena's last fight, $500, or $500?

Right now, because I'm going, I just don't have the tickets yet. Chippest ticket in the lower level is $500.

But what it would be a typical, a typical Russellmania or a typical- If this was a few years ago.

I'd say. Yeah, before all of this. If this event was a few years ago, essentially before TKO bought WW, let's do it like that, the cheapest ticket to get in the lower level, I'd say be, I don't know, 125 maybe.

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This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugatz.

Well, I'd like to welcome Braun Stroman on. He's got a cool show to promote. I mean, can you lob that up for a guess?

Absolutely. It's called Everything on the Menu, and it airs Friday. It's at 10 Eastern on the USA Network. It is a travel and eating show. Braun Straumann is here with us, WWE wrestling and was once a WWE Universal champion. Before we get into what we've been arguing about right here, Ron, the premise of your show is you go to a restaurant and you order everything on the menu, not to taste, but to eat it all?

Oh, my God.

Well, to try. Some of the restaurants, it's impossible, too. Some of the restaurants, I have no problem crushing their entire menu. The premise behind the show is I do two restaurants every episode. The The first restaurant is the nostalgia signature dish for the city. All those restaurants I did were open 50, 60 years. So you're getting in there, you're hearing the backstory of what's gone in to keeping their restaurant going, why the customers come back. I talk to customers that have been eating there their entire lives. And then you have the realization that you're taking a bite out of American history when you're eating this. And then the other restaurant that I do on everything on the menu, think about how many times you've gone out to eat and you're sitting down, you're seeing people's food come out. You're like, Man, that looks good. Whatever they're having, that looks good. Well, that looks good. Now you're looking at the menu, and I'm like, Man, everything looks good on here. I can't make up my mind what I want to eat. Well, neither can I. So I order everything on the menu.

Man. So what is a typical meal for Braun? How many calories are you intaking at these restaurants in a sit down? Oh, man.

So they've been doing some calorie counting and stuff like that. It's a lot of preparation that goes into this because I don't eat like this on a day-to-day basis. I would love to, but I wouldn't look like I look. So There's a lot of prep that goes into filming an episode of this. I do fasting beforehand. I'll do an hour of cardio in the morning before I go to eat, and then I'll do the big pig out on everything on the menu, and then I won't eat again for 24 to 36 hours again after that. And then I make myself before I break my fast, I make sure I work out, I do cardio, and then I earn that meal again. So everything just doesn't go to my love handles because I still got to take my shirt off on TV eventually. I got a bunch of cool stuff coming down the pipeline in 2026, more big screen stuff that we'll talk about when I'm allowed to talk about it and things like that. So trying to stay in shape while still getting out here doing this. And it was so much fun because like I said, I've always been a big food guy.

I mean, I don't get 350 pounds by accident. And for me, with working with WW, even the blessings that came along with that, getting to travel around the world and try literally pretty much every walk of life cuisine that you could think of, really opened my eyes to how much I like trying new things and experiencing things. One of my favorite things to do now is taking people out to eat and getting them to step outside of their normal comfort zone and trying new foods. That's the premise behind everything on the menu. It's the ultimate cheat meal show for the bodybuilders and the people that are dieting and doing stuff out there when you need a relief. It's the show for people that can't make up their mind what they want to go out to eat or people that are afraid to try new things. I'm not this overly educated human when it comes to the culinary space. I learn food by trying and traveling and doing all this stuff. When I watch these food shows that are out there that I love and all these chefs and stuff that are amazing and what they do, there's times when I get like, I don't know what you're talking about.

For me, I like to think this is a blue collar approach to not necessarily fine dining because it wasn't all about fine dining. It was from Greasy Spoon, Mom and Pop kitchens to Soul Food to Roast Beef Sandwich Shops to three-star Michelin restaurants and everything else in between. But for me, everybody has taken a bite of in their life, and it makes you close your eyes and just go, So there's a lot of grunt, and there's a lot of groaning, and explaining it in, I don't know, layman's terms or whatever. I like to think that I'm just... I'm larger than nature intended. I'm a red neck that's had so many amazing jobs, and now it's my opportunity to do more stuff that I love, which is putting smiles on people's faces, man. At the end of the day, food is an opportunity to bring people together for a conversation, to sit down, to catch up, to kindle new relationships, to fall in love, to talk about life. And that's what it's all about. A lot of that shines through on everything on the menu, with my interactions with the customers, the owners, the chefs, getting back in the kitchen, getting my hands dirty, and breaking the proverbial stereotypes when you see human beings like me and you think, Oh, this guy's just fee, fi, fo, fo.

Well, don't get me wrong, I fee five folks on my way through life for a good while. They were pretty damn good at it. But now I'm having this opportunity to be a little more articulate, getting out here, breaking these stereotypes, showing that I'm compassionate and caring. I have one hell of an educated palate, at least what these chefs have been telling me. And James Beard award-winning, Michelin-certified chefs. I'll take their opinions.

Ron, what's been one thing on the menu that you've confronted that's been the biggest challenge to eat, something that you really never, ever would have ordered and didn't particularly like?

I don't know about never ordered. I mean, one of the things, crazy things, we shot the pilot episode to get all this stuff going at a place in Kewascom, Wisconsin, called Great Outdoor Supper Club, and they had a 96-ounce primed rib on the menu. Oh. Side of the- To the Great Outdoors with John Candy and stuff like that. So it was pretty funny in that. You'd literally pick it up like a loaf of bread and just start taking bites out of it. For me, it's a lot of experience and new things. Edison Food Laboratory and Kitchen in Tampa changed my whole perspective on lamb and peas. I've hated lamb, and I hate peas my entire life. But whatever they did with that braised lambshank, and they pureed the peas, it completely changed my mind. Same thing with so many things I think back in my childhood that I hated it, that my parents used to force me to eat, and I'm like,. And now, you mature and your palate changes. Or maybe the fact my parents make steam Brussels Sprouts, and I hated them. And now, all the Brussels Sprouts are deep-fried with bacon and stuff in it like that.

So maybe that's what it is, but I don't thought it.

The show is Everything on the menu. It airs Friday's 10 Eastern on USA Network. He's Braun Strowman, former WW Superstar. Braun, you're recognized everywhere you go. I mean, you're too big, all right? So people recognize you everywhere. Are you open to people coming up to you wherever you are? Is there a time where you don't like fans bothering you? What's that like?

I mean, for the most part, it's always a blessing. There's times where it can be a little taxing, hanging around a baggage claim at the airports and stuff like that, or mid-eating. I'm literally rifling food down my gulla and get tapped on the shoulder while I appreciate it. There's a time and a place for everything. At the end of the day, we're still all human beings. But the day That stuff like that stops happening is the day that I need to worry that people are forgetting about it. While at times it could be like, you can see me be a little... In the back of my mind, I still am appreciative of it, even though I get grumpy because there's only so many minutes in a day, and I try to be as welcoming as I can. But there's times when I'm in a damn hurry and sorry, get out of my way.

Bron, our resident monster among men, Chris Cody, is doing a food challenge tomorrow. He has to eat 99 chicken nuggets. Now, you gave some tips, do some cardio, fast a little bit. I don't think that's in my boys locker. Any other tips for tomorrow's big day?

But you got to give him the time span. He's got to do it in basically a little over three hours.

Should I get stoned?

Yeah. It probably would help, at least allegedly, that's what I've heard. I don't know. So for me, I've never been this challenged, try to be competitively eating. I just eat a lot naturally. I mean, I've eaten 90 something chicken wings in a sitting before, and things like that. The only thing I think of is maybe drink a bunch of water and try to stretch your stomach out beforehand or get really stoned.

I don't know. What about sauce? I shouldn't go sauce, right? If I'm trying to eat a bunch of them.

Well, sauce, you always think. Think about Joey Chesnut and these guys and gals that wolf down 100 hot dogs in whatever, 12 minutes. They're dipping it in water. You need lubrication. You can't just dry water through life.

So dip it in water? I should dip the chicken nuggets in water?

I don't know. I feel like has a little bit more lubicity. Is that a word?

I think lubrication is what we're looking for. I'll allow it.

Lubicity.

Lubicity. Lubicity. Let's ask you one wrestling-related question because we were talking about, look, wrestling aggregate sites have been making a lot of attendance dipping in the WWE. You were around the product. You've seen highs and lows. Around the time of your departure, it was towards this tail end of a red hot resurgence. Having parted with WW, we know you can get a call at any moment, so we don't want to put you in a bad spot. But TKO has moved away from going to these smaller markets, places that WWE would reportedly take a loss because Vince McMahon thought it was important to be running shows there.

I'm not trying to go to Saudi Hey, Braun.

And you got these big ticket prices, and it's starting to catch up with the product. Do you think TKO is making a misstep here?

I'm not sure. All that stuff is so over my pay grade when I was with there. While for me as a talent business to the side, I think all these little house shows and little shows that they don't do anymore is hurting the talent because the talent doesn't have an opportunity to go out and really refine their craft and find their niche and how to connect with the audience. When you're literally just plugging away every day at the performance center and you're being told what to do while they have great coaches that sets you up for everything, it don't work like that. This is live. I think that's why they rely on so many of the older still and call guys back and stuff, just because people haven't polished their skills, I guess, enough by doing these smaller shows. That's how I learned how to do it all. I had four wrestling matches in my life when I interviewed on TV. And the reason I picked it up and got so good at it so fast was because the dancing partners that I had with doing all these little hoe-dunk towns is what I like to call them, is where I learned how to do this.

I've wrestled Kane every night for, I like a year a year on all these house shows and stuff like that. And that's where I'm getting my reps. That's where I learned what I learned wouldn't work. That's where I learned what didn't work. And as far as the business side of things, I get it. You got to make money. I mean, I'm sure they still owe a ton of money on this loan or whatever it took to purchase the company and stuff like that. So I mean, I can't even imagine what's going on in the minds of that side of the tracks. But like I said, that was so far out of sight of mine for me. All I cared about was, give me the script. I'm going to go out there and do the best I can with it, and I'll see you next week.

Braun, do you have a great or memorable personal or travel story on the road with John Senna?

I never could see John. He did a joke.

That was a sucker question by you. You're saying, Yo, don't ever call me a sucker. That was a sucker question by you. You said yourself, I'm going to be a sucker.

Braun, what's the best food town you've been to on the road? So not for the show, but when you were wrestling, the town that you look forward to, we eat good here.

I always have a great time when we're in the area. There's Calumns up there that's been a huge focal point in the rest that was going to be eating it. The excitement of getting to eat at Rivera's Steakhouse when we're in Japan, the nostalgia behind that. I mean, for me, it's always exciting because every city has a different walk of life and culture when it comes to the food. Getting to get in there and eat it, that's what I said, look at it. It's everywhere. I said, When we go to New York, Buffalo, I'm looking forward to chicken wings. When I'm on the West Coast, it's sushi and Hawaiian barbecue and stuff like that. And everywhere else between Texas, North Carolina hog barbecue, Florida, all the damn seafood. I just look forward to it. At the end of the day, that's life. Life's about experiences. It ain't about what you got. When you're laying in bed, dying, all you're going to have is your experiences. And damn it, I'm going to have as many of them as I can.

Braun, what do you miss about wrestling, if anything?

I miss being in the ring and being in the locker room with the boys. The rest of it, I need a break.

Don Levatard. Is there back in my day?

There is, actually.

What?

Were you not going to tell anyone? Wait a minute. You guys- What's it? Guys, it's a Tuesday. Stugatz.

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Shit, I can't help my head.

Okay, here it is.

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Can you give... I always like whenever I talk to pro wrest, I like asking about what. Now, I know the travel schedule is a little different these days for the active wrest, but 10 years ago, when you first started in W. W, can you describe what the travel schedule was like?

Oh, my God. When I first got called up in the main roster, one, yeah, not knowing the difference between a headlock and the hole in my ass. You get thrown in the- You think it's that hole? Getting the proverbial kick in the butt and getting out there and learning along the way. The boss, Vince, at the time said, Look, I know you don't know much about this, but we're going to figure it out. I see something in you. He believed in me, gave me an opportunity. It was awesome. Probably some of the most fun was those early days of learning this and being terrified, going out there. The 11th or 12th wrestling match I ever had was me and Restive Soul, Brody Lee, versus the Brothers of Destruction in Marita, Mexico, in front of 12,000 people. And Caine and Under taker refused to speak to me all day. They said, We'll see you out there, kid. So that mortifying on that. And then Being on the road, we would fly out Friday morning, do a house show, drive up to 300 miles. Saturday, do a house show, drive up to 300 miles. Sunday, either a pay-per-view or a house show, drive another up to 300 miles.

Monday Night Raw, another 300 miles. Smart down, get home 1: 00 or 2: 00 on Wednesday, have Thursday all, back out again Friday. I did that for three or four and a half years straight. And while it was amazing, it also was very taxing. You miss out on a lot of stuff. And that's what I'm trying to catch up on right now is the things in life that I didn't have opportunities for, for being on the road for a decade, working so hard. And then the big thing for me now is with this show and stuff like that, this This is the first time in my life I've ever had a massive platform where I get to be Adam Sher. It's unscripted. It is me ad-living everything. I wrote this show. I helped produce this show with my agent and a close friend of mine, Kevin, that did all this. We did the pilot episode. We got it all out. And for me to have a chance to be Adam Sher, because the whole world knows who Braunstroman is. They've seen Braun, they know what he's capable, but he played a character on a show.

This is the first time that I get to be me. I keep telling everybody, watch this show. And if you don't believe me when I say this, if WWE would have ever just let me be Adam Sher, I would have ruled the world.

Wow. Important update, lubricity, noun, plural, lubricities. The property or state of being lubritious. Also, the capacity for reducing friction. My guy.

Yes, sir.

Look at that big brain on Braun.

More than the average bear. Just a little less hairy. And bigger.

Braun, what's the most scared you've been in a WW ring, and why was it when Brock Lesner punched you in the face?

It definitely wasn't that.

You ate a shot, though. Another sucker question.

We tried to kill each other in that match, and then we both had a realization like, This is a work, brother. You want to just work? The poor cane sitting in the corner going, Yeah, I'm not getting in between those two pulls. They didn't have that. Great learning experience, and what awesome TV, right? For me, scariest moment. It didn't actually happen during a match or any of a match. It was after a match. It was when Bray, Ryan, and I did the swamp fight together. We filmed for 36 hours straight in Florida heat and humidity with that. And when I got home, was taking a shower, I collapsed in my shower. Full body cramps, had to have EMS hauled my big ass out of my house. It took six people to get me down the stairs on the journey to get me out. Double-line plumbed up, four liters of sailing. So basically a gallon of fluid put back into my body to get me to stop cramping, all kinds of my electrolytes and all this other stuff. And was at Monday Night Raw the next day? No.

That's right.

Ron, I just saw the one-two combo you got from Brock Lesner. Damn, buddy, you're a horse.

I think I'm the only human being that's I've never gotten hit by Brock like that and didn't go to the Nether realm.

You ate that shit, and you were like, What's up?

I'm still back here, man.

Everything on the menu, the two-piece and the biscuit.

Bro, I'm curious. I'm a huge Star Wars fan, so it always fascinates me when I find out famous people are also Star Wars fans. I would imagine it's the same thing with wrestling. You find out they're like, Oh, this guy loves wrestling? So who's the most famous person that it surprised you is a huge fan of yours and of WW.

You're George W. Bush.

Wow. That's a good one.

How did you find out?

I've been very blessed. I've formed a pretty good relationship with him. I was up at their family estate earlier this year, playing in their big charity golf term and stuff like that. It was really cool. Got to cook for the President, former President of the United States, drilling out lobsers and stuff in Maine, and getting out there, having fun. I hadn't played golf in 20 years, so I did three cool things. There was one hole. It was a $100 buy, and it was a par three hole, and you got to use one of HW's old woods. And if you got it on the green, you got a George HW doll token medallion. And I weren't burned once, skipped it across the pond and put it 20 feet from the pin and got me a little gold coin.

Braun, when I hear that your father is the Babe Ruth of softball, what does that mean?

So he's in four or five Hall fames for slow pitch softball. He's the player of the decade for the '80s and U-Triple-S-A ball. He holds single-season home run records. He hit 491 home runs in 192 games with a lifetime batting average of 685. He was with... I didn't even say that, but it's funny that he's sitting right next to me here. So this is the old Loodle Slugger poster, blasting his own pops right there. The apple hit every branch on the way out of the tree. But just a big burly man. It was really cool because he was with Easton and stuff like that. So I got to meet John Elway when I was a kid. I got an autograph football. So it was really cool because when my dad was playing slow pitch softballs when baseball was really struggling, they would send him around to all these baseball stadiums and have him put on hitting demonstrations in between the double headers of the games. And my dad got really close with Pete Rose while doing all that because Pete had seen him do it before. And all the guys were going back into the dugout in the locker room and stuff that.

Pete was like, No, no, no. You all need to stay out here and watch this. They're like, This dude's not going to hit softballs out of here. Because I can't remember what field was, but they had a temporary fence up at the time because the baseball players weren't even hitting balls out. My dad hit 12 out of 15 pitches in the upper deck of the stadium. He's one of the only humans to ever hit a ball in the upper deck of the Astridome. He hit balls on the roofs of the apartments on the other side of Waverly Avenue at Wrigley Stadium or Wrigley Field. I always I wanted to play softball, and I did play softball for a while, but I was never getting out of that shadow. So in my mind, I was like, I got to go out and cast my own shadow. And boy, I think this back sure has put a decent one on the planet.

You got to give Bronnie that same advice. Get out of your dad's shadow. Try something different.

It's not 6'8, 380, though. Bronnie James. Not a pet nickname that you have for Ron Strowman.

I could see where that might have confused him. Not bad. Again, the show is called Everything on the Menu. It airs Friday at 10 Eastern on USA Network. Ron Strowman, thanks for joining us, man. Thanks, mom.

Thank you all so much for the time.

Great chat, fellows. Yes, sir. That was fun, man.

I want to be best friends with you. What do you think Ron bank?

He's amazing. You know what I want? I want to go out to a restaurant with him because I'm one of those people. I've always dreamt of being the guy that everything on the menu. And then I taste it and take it all away. It's a dream. But to have the opportunity to do that on a weekly basis.

Get him down to Miami.

Oh, that's what we should ask them.

We should take them down to the Cuban spots.

You'll have 8,000-an-a-hour sitting. He's still here. If you guys want to talk to him.

Ron. Ron, you're there? I'm just listening. Oh, yeah.

Okay. Oh, Ron. All right. So first of all, let me ask you, have you done anything in Miami yet?

Not Miami. We did Orlando and Tampa for Florida in season one. I heard you talk about Cuban sandwiches. I went to the Mecca of Cuban Sandwich.

No, buddy. No, no, no.

They do it wrong. They do it wrong up there.

Disrespectfully disagree. Okay, you just- I heard that.

Ron, I like you. I like you, I like you, Brian. It's the number one.

It's Miami, buddy. Come down. We'll take care of you.

Let's go. I'll actually be down Jupiter Our area, probably in December and stuff for some business. So let's see if we can catch up. Quick drive. There you go.

That's perfect.

Also, shit, I didn't even forget. I got to get you guys some of my tequila. So this is my retirement project, Kintaliza Reprisado Tequila, that I've been working on with a close friend of mine here in Florida and stuff like that. So if you guys like tequila and you want to show me around Miami, change my opinion on Cuban sandwich. We'll throw a couple back and go munch some Sammies down.

You can drink your tequila. We'll drink our very favorite corporate partner-sponsored tequila, and we'll just have a nice big party. But the Q&A is the buzo. The food, though. The food is great. The food is great. The food is great. Yes, we got our own tequila. It's a tequila that I meant to tequila.

Thanks, Braun. He said December, right? So we're just-Yeah. We're done. We'll set it all up.

Sing him down.

You bring him in studio. Get him on the bright line.

I took the bright line today for the first time. Not bad.

Did you get a little Did you get a little morning pop there? No, man.

What do you think of that? I'm an alcoholic?

How about on the way back? You got it like...

Maybe. Yeah. Maybe.

Maybe. Drill for the sucker questions you asked Braun.

Oh, my God. I know what's going on there. I thought you were a wrestling guy.

What do you mean? What was a sucker question? What was a sucker question?

You asked a bunch of sucker questions. You asked something like a John Zeta memory, and you played yourself right into a You Can't See Me joke. Yeah, I didn't understand that.

Hey, bro, what's it like to be famous?

It's like, you remember when you were in the Beatles? Chris Farley did, man.

I never thought I'd see the day. Jonathan Zaslow, sucker.

Yo, I'm going to tell you something right now. You all can go fuck yourself. Oh.

That's aggressive.

That's what I'm saying.

I think for the first time in your life, you may have to identify the time you were a sucker.

He's eating it. He knows it. Just 100 minutes.

Some bullshit.

Drinking it with some soda, too.

He was involved in a Russellmania program, but you weren't getting that answer because- Got a lot of balls trying to make me look stupid with a wrestler on. Daddy, you did it yourself.

It's my wheelhouse.

Dad, you ever been a sucker?

All the time.

All the time? Why?

Why are you doing that term?

Okay.

What do you think of that? Kick saving a beep.

One of my favorite things, let me just say, I know it's not postgame yet, but I'm going to do something. Because sitting in this chair, I get a different perspective on the shipping container. Every time Greg starts to ask a question, Chris gets this look on his face like, What the hell are you trying to say? He just cocked his head. You absolutely do. You squint and When you stare at your dad like, What the hell are you saying?

Sometimes I just want to make sure, where are we going with this?

It does. There is a concern of literally, where is this going? But also sometimes it's like, when you ask Diana Rucini about the dolphins-We're like the fourth dolphin.

Chris was like, Jesus. That's what I did. We had asked him. We asked her six questions, and my dad's like, One more.

Well, she hadn't been asked what I wanted to ask. But at least you're better than Levatard, who always rephrases what I've just said.

I believe that was a two-part follow-up, too. Oh, yeah.

I got two questions.

Dan would have lost his mind.

Why do we do that to guests? Ask them one question.

The two-part question?

Can I ask you two questions?

Number one, and number two- Chris, they teach you not to ask two-part questions.

That's what-They didn't teach me that. I wrote the book. I write the rules on asking questions. Nobody teaches me that.

This isn't a journalism thing. That's when I got to ESPN, they told me, Hey, by the way, never ask a two-part question.

You never get two good answers. That's what they said. That would be the argument, right?

No, it's not a good argument, though. Okay.

It's not a good argument.

Never ask a yes or no question.

That one, too. Open any questions. Where's the best place? Not, Is this the best place? Yeah, exactly. I learned something. Okay, what else? What are the other rules?

There aren't that many rules. There are no bad questions, only bad answers.

Yeah, but some questions breed bad answers. That's true. And so the two-part question, the argument is, right? If you give a two-part question, you're going to get a bad answer to one of them.

Well, the question I always hate hearing from other reporters is when you ask a question that isn't really a question. When someone has just had a great game and you go, Great game today. What's the question?

What's the worst question you've ever heard?

Ever heard? Oh, man. There used to be a radio guy.

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