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The Dan Bongino Show
Axios: Trump's 2025 Vision Revealed
"The piece is called Trump's 2025 vision reveal Again now tell me what as I go through his vision piece by piece and some of the stuff he wants to do I want you to say to yourself what part of this axios is axios convinced themselves is going to be a negative for conservatives like they're going to be like my gosh that's a bridge too far This Trump is crazy What part of this So here's number one They talk about Trump's what Trump wants to do if he gets elected with the federal workforce which is clearly bloated and a lot of people sadly in the federal government I used to work for Have no a lot not all but a lot have no allegiance to the constitution As we've seen with the FBI and their recent failures but do have allegiance unfortunately to a political party the Democrats So Trump wants to give the president axios right The authority to hire and fire federal workers at will Not a new idea but now part of a broad effort to clean out investigators and officials he sees as disloyal who have questioned this conduct You mean like started the spy gate in collusion or does that mean questioning his conduct Folks what part of this is axios think is HL Conservatives are reading its gym and they're like my gosh Trump wants to fire people and the government who can't seem to manage their constitutional law That's horrible That's so bad That's so crazy I don't want that Hilarious how they write this Like this is a hit piece They're convinced This is the smoking guns thing Goldberg wrote about They have no idea how to talk to conservatives at all None
The Dan Bongino Show
The New York Times' Analysis on the 'Rise of Tucker Carlson'
"So The New York Times put out that he puts out an email from anybody German Lopez he sounds like a very serious individual I don't know if it's a woman or a guy but it doesn't matter New York Times doesn't know what a woman is anyway So it doesn't make a difference They have this theory about why Tucker Carlson was so popular and it's hilarious They said he tapped into white viewers Jim white viewers And their fears over the country's changing racial demographics oh my gosh That's how we did it I don't remember hearing any of that but whatever It's a New York Times And they say it fueled Donald Trump's rise in the 2016 election Oh interesting Then they note Tucker would regularly focus on the notion of the great replacement theory a racist conspiracy theory that claims elites are importing obedient migrants to disempower native born Americans Now German Lopez is writing this in The New York Times Clearly German Lopez doesn't read the actual New York Times because there's a 2018 article in The New York Times called we can replace them by Michelle Goldberg discussing the exact thing she says is racist These people are so dumb They don't even read their own paper It's right there Watch my podcast and if you want to see the link in the title You can go to a search engine and put it in now Michelle Goldberg October 29th 2018 we can replace them where The New York Times is writing an article about plans to replace voters They don't like and then yesterday or this morning excuse me they're saying Tucker's a racist for discussing the left plans for a great replacement a racist conspiracy theory Where did he get it from The New York Times
The Charlie Kirk Show
BREAKING: The Day Fox News Left Tucker Carlson
"Carlson is out at Fox News. The significance of this is serious. Fox has massive distribution. They're part of the central cable news distribution network. And to be in a 100 million homes and to be able to access that many people is a big deal. The question then remains, who is then going to be a forceful voice against Fox nation. Sorry, I'm getting too many messages against neoliberalism. Let's play cut 15. Whoopi Goldberg and the view celebrating, being nasty. Against Tucker Carlson. Play cut 15. Word is just come down that Fox News media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. Thank you for a service to a network and host your prior contributor. Wave. Come on, folks. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. Okay. He is responsible for the degradation that we see somewhat of our democracy in this country. And I just think as a faithful person, look at God. Look at God. Well, and Russian propaganda hardest thing. I mean, he's been the biggest purveyor of pro Russian coffee. Yeah. So it's a good day for the Ukraine. Karma doesn't lose anyone's address. No. I have a lot of thoughts, some of which I will not share with you. Based on that video. It's interesting. He's responsible for the degradation of our democracy. That means he's effective. And they think that they've taken them off Fox that they've completely muzzled him. Where is he going to go next? I'm going to tell him, hey, I think you should go to rumble
AP News Radio
Bob Lee, Cash App founder, fatally stabbed in San Francisco
"Police in San Francisco are asking for tips that might lead to an arrest after the fatal stabbing of tech company executive bob Lee. In a statement released early this morning, San Francisco police chief Bill Scott calls it a horrific crime, officers responding to a report of a stabbing victim on the 300 block of Main Street on April 4th, rendered aid, but were unable to save Robert Lee, the 43 year old technology executive, Lee died at a hospital. Mobile coin CEO Josh Goldberg says in addition to founding cash app, Lee made large contributions to Android at Google and was the first chief technology officer of square before becoming the chief product officer for mobile coin. Chief Scott says investigators are working tirelessly to make an arrest, the SFPD asked for anyone with information to call 415-575-4444 or text to tip for one one. I'm Jennifer King
The Dan Bongino Show
Amber Athey: Democrats Won't Stop at Only Taking Your Guns
"I'm not a huge fan of Jonah Goldberg You stay out of that or anything But he had a really great column though I'm pretty sure it was his I think it was that hot air I don't remember I always screw up where it's from But the columns 8 years old maybe 7 8 years old And he made a really great point about why the left just never wins on this argument about taking away people's guns As a matter of fact amber as you well know not only that I'm winning they're getting just destroyed constitutional carries taking over large swaths of America right now The gun argument is a big huge cultural loss for the left And monster loss right Which is one of few areas you've been successful But Goldberg's premise in peace is that you know the war against smoking worked really well because everybody knew a smoker So you knew how to talk to that person you know Mom dad don't smoke it does this and that you know what would kind of ring their bell But the Democrats don't talk to gun owners like that The first words out of their mouth these Jamal Bowman screaming at you that you want kids to die more death As if that's gonna win any way leave an impression like oh yeah I want to talk and negotiate with this guy over my right to defend my family They just don't know how to talk to us and that's why they just continue to get wrecked That's definitely a huge part of it And by the way this is also the same party that would gladly take away all of our rights not just our gun rights if they had the opportunity They talk about Australia and New Zealand well guess what happened and Australia and New Zealand when people didn't take the vaccine They were literally routed up and put in camps Yes Yes Yes Which was called the conspiracy theory right And everybody was called the crazy conspiracy theorists All they loved every second of it Same thing in Canada We were told that's not going to happen in representative democracies You're not going to have protesters locked up in their money confiscated and thrown in jail No that actually happened That actually happened
The Officer Tatum Show
Who Is Alvin Bragg?
"We talked about actually, you know what, before I go to this, I want you to hear another audio clip of someone that simply doesn't know the state that we're in. This is the problem with leftists and even liberals sometimes. Whoopi Goldberg on the view. She was a little upset. She was a little bothered that it seemed. You know, people were getting excited that Trump would be arrested. Guys, do you understand this has never happened in American history? Never happened in American history. Now we've got audio from a man that was the attorney of the attorney that's lying for Trump, exculpatory evidence. Meaning evidence that the defense that Trump should have had you got Alvin Bragg hiding this information, this man should be in jail. Frankly, there should be legislation in my opinion. For all prosecutors across the country because I do think at times you get these woke freaking prosecutors are these people that just want to notch another win on their belt where they're just, they're not looking at the rule of law. They're looking at patting themselves on the back, getting accolades and stuff like that. And they can be ruthless and insane. And I'm a guy that's for the rule of law. I love the cops, but sometimes people go crazy. And when this guy, people like Alvin Bragg go crazy and when they hide evidence from the defense, I believe that they victim should be able to sue the prosecutor.
AP News Radio
Oscars 2023: How to watch the 95th Academy Awards today
"Since 1961, the red carpet at the Academy Awards is not red. It champagne colored. They're also will be a roof over it, not just in case of bad weather, but so that it looks like an evening event. While most of the country watched the Oscars at night, celebrities started arriving in Los Angeles at 3 p.m., Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel says he likes the look. I think the decision to go with a champagne carpet rather than a red carpet shows how confident we are that no blood will be shot. Speaking of Kimmel, this is his third time hosting the Oscars. He's only the 5th person to be a solo host at least three times, along with Bob Hope, Billy Crystal, Johnny Carson and Whoopi Goldberg, hope hosted or co hosted 19 times,
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Whoopi Goldberg Wants Fox News Shut Down for Reporting Truth
"Whoopi Goldberg yesterday on ABC's the view. Check this out. Good question. I have a question. How come this is not thought of as being recruiting? How come they're not thinking about this? Why is this not being scrutinized the way that they scrutinize other? Yeah. No, thanks. Because to me, this is this should be against the law. You should not be able to lay to lie to the American knowingly. And you know, it's one thing if you made a mistake and you didn't know. But we heard for 5 or 6 years how, you know, the media was lying second, dude. They were fake news. They were just so how come? What is our, what do we do as Americans? To say this is not okay. She's talking about Fox News airing previously unseen videotapes. Now, I know you'll dismiss her as one of the dumbest women on TV and she's an actress and she's a comedian and all that. But, you know, she's got a platform. And she's literally wanting Fox News to be shut down and prosecuted as domestic terrorists. You've got to help me understand what the argument is. Against truth against the light of day.
Mark Levin
Mike Gonzalez: 'Diversity' Means Anything but White People
"We had Mike Gonzalez on life liberty and Levin the other week he was explaining this It's like diversity What do they mean by diversity They don't mean diversity by diversity They mean anything goes but the white dominant culture and white privilege So they don't mean diversity And they don't mean really quality with liberty when they talk about equity And when they use the word inclusion they mean exclusion How many times have I said when you look at the names on these departments in Washington the Department of Energy the real name should be the department against energy The Department of Education is the department against education and on and on and on most of these departments do the opposite of what they of what they claim to be They exist to put their private sector alternative or parallel out of business or to hamstring it With these kind of Rube Goldberg kind of regulations and rules and taxes and so forth Well it's the same with the language that the marxists use The people's republic of this side and the other When the people have no say whatsoever the people are enslaved to the state there is no free will There is no individual liberty There are no unalienable rights The only right you have is what the government decides you can do And that's not a lot They attack free speech Freedom of association The right to practice your faith So what do they mean when they say the People's Republic of China the peoples this or the peoples then They mean the opposite of
The Officer Tatum Show
What Does Nikki Haley's Run for President Really Mean?
"So Nikki Haley, I don't think she has a single chance whatsoever to be the president of the United States of America. But I think it's fair for people to get into the race and be competitive. I really do. I don't think that it's fair to our country. And it's fair to the voters, the electorate that you just randomly pick one guy and you just go with it. I think other people should be competitive enough to challenge. But I also believe that when they have no path to a genuine challenge of any of these politicians that they should drop off, I'm now starting to understand why a lot of people get in the race because they're bidding for VP positions are being a part of the cabinet and all these other stuff. So it's not like some of these people are genuinely running for president. They're actually running to align themselves or I would argue they would, I can't think of the word, I wanted to say campaign but it's not audition is the word I'm looking for. That they would audition in order to have favor with the person who wins, therefore they can have a position in the administration. I would argue that that's probably primarily what these people are doing.
The Officer Tatum Show
Is It Prime Time for Nikki Haley?
"Nikki Haley is now putting her name to run for the president of the United States of America and it's crazy because three things are happening here at one time. You have Nikki Haley running for president, then you have Nikki Haley challenging Trump, right? I mean, she's not running for nothing. She should be competitively challenging Trump. And then you have what Don lemon said about Nikki Hayley. Now, I made a comment about this on the show last time. I haven't gotten any emails saying that somebody was so upset with me that they decided to call in or something to complain. However, I did have somebody that may not have come to my son's birthday party because of what I said. And the crazy thing is is that everything I said was true. Now, I think Don lemon is a complete idiot. And they didn't fire him when he said white people were they didn't even suspend him when he said white people were the biggest threat to America, but somehow, and what I would argue is a fair statement that Nikki Haley has passed their prime could be passed their prime according to the Internet and when you say the Internet is statistical data that most women and I would argue men as well, you know, when you start getting past your 50s, you're not in your prime. You're prom. And people like to conflate too because they get their feelings hurt and it's like a dog getting hit. They're going to scream the loudest. Prime just means that your highest mental acuity at your highest physical at your looks, I mean everything. You were just at a Pinnacle and then you begin to decrease from there and you die at some point, right? Some people don't want to admit you die. You can't be at your peak and you're about to die. And I'm saying, I'm not saying you die 50, but when you start getting a 70, 80, the average lifespan of a person in America, I think, is around 80 something. So when you start getting there, you towards the end, okay? Can we admit that you'd probably not your prime?
The Officer Tatum Show
The O'Keefe Case Isn't Over Until It's Over
"I made a statement online and said that I will never support project veritas again. This is my personal choice, has nothing to do with Salem. I said I will never support project veritas again because they ousted James O'Keefe. And my opinion, I believe James O'Keefe is project veritas. So without him, what's the point? That's like saying, it's like having a show that's like the officer Tatum show, but then replacing the office Tatum with somebody else, but it's still called the officer Tatum show. They actually makes no sense. But there were allegations from the board that they were investigating James O'Keefe. And they said that James O'Keefe refused to go to meetings and he refused to cooperate and try to reach out to him and make amends. Some of the accusations that they're accused of James O'Keefe is spending donor money and access that will be, I would say that would be deemed unbecoming of a personality or unbecoming of a CEO or leader of project veritas. Let me just give you some highlights. This is what they claim in their statement is that he spent $14,000 on a a singular charter flight to meet someone to fix his boat under the guise of meeting with the donor. This is the allegations. $60,000 in losses by putting together dance events such as project veritas experience. Then another price point was over a $150,000 in black cars in the last 18 months. Thousands of dollars spent on DJ and other equipment for personal use, hundreds of other acts of personal. Inurement, I think this must be a. I think this must be a typo here. I don't have never heard of the word in your mint. But anyway, let me play the James O'Keefe clip 'cause I want you guys to hear kind of what he had to say about it, roll clip two. So, our mission continues on. I'm not done. The mission will perhaps take on a new name. And it may be no longer called veritas. Project veritas. I'll need a bunch of people. Around me. And I'll make sure I'll make sure you know how to find me.
Mark Levin
CNN Anchor Don Lemon to Receive 'Formal Training'
"So mister producer it looks like a sour lemon went into re-education camp For his insensitivity towards women Re-education camp Because he said that women are not in their prime in their 40s Now he was backed up by Karen Whoopi Goldberg she felt the same way Two geniuses how come she didn't go into a re-education camp What is it ABC and her syndicate Do they back up with Karen Whoopi Goldberg had to say I mean the view is aimed at women That's what it seemed at It's particularly aimed at stupid women May I say that yes whether they're in their prime or not You have to have a low IQ or want a low IQ to watch that program And so to program for the stupid Women male transitioning confused by try whatever And I'm just asking the question how come sour lemon has to go to a re-education sensitivity training and camera will be Goldberg does not
Mark Levin
Whoopi Goldberg: Nikki Haley Is Not a 'New Generation'
"Now I want you to hear from Karen Goldberg That's right Whoopi Goldberg's first name leased her birth name was Karen Pretty hilarious don't you think mister producer She's the original Karen In a current supposed to be sort of this white yuppie suburban woman that's how they use that term and I apologize to all you Karen's out there but this is their way of promoting a racist attitude So Whoopi Goldberg is caring Goldberg And she's on the view today And she regurgitates what Sarah Lennon said on the constipated news network Kind of 11 go The Washington establishment has failed us over and over and over again It's time for a new generation of leadership You're not a new generation You're 51 What are you talking about Clapping seals It's a D.C. that's a new generation But it's not a new generation She may be she may be younger than most of those people but her rhetoric is the same She said the same BSN I love the young kid but you know what The only way you're going to get younger people to run dude is if you're out there talking to people and saying don't shoot me Slow down Got to deal with the genius here Dude There's a woman a dude mister producer Do that right I'm so behind the curve it's unbelievable When you're 51 years old and you're running for president that's a new generation The youngest president we had was Theodore Roosevelt who took office on the assassination McKinley Second youngest president we had with JFK
AP News Radio
Google to expand misinformation 'prebunking' in Europe
"After promising results in Eastern Europe, Google is launching a new initiative to teach people how to spot misinformation before they encounter it. They call it pre bunking, educating people about the techniques common to misleading claims that spread like wildfire on the Internet, like scapegoating, false comparisons, and missing context, now tech giant Google is launching a new campaign in Germany with short videos that will appear as advertisements on platforms like TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook, videos in a testing campaign in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia were seen 38 million times. Beth Goldberg, who studies social challenges for a division of Google, says there is a real appetite for solutions, content moderation prompts cries of censorship and traditional journalism fact checks don't reach people who are already distrustful of the media, pre bunking videos are easy to produce and can be seen by millions. Sander van der Linden with the University of Cambridge tells the AP if misinformation spreads and acts like a virus, then maybe we can figure out how to inoculate people. I'm Jennifer King
The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirack on the William F. Buckley-Pat Buchanan Relationship
"Know what William F. Buckley thought of Buchanan because I loved Buckley, but I just wonder, were they friendly and maybe disagreed on some things or did Buckley have disdain for Pat Buchanan? They were friendly for a while and then it was sort of a crossroads in the 90s where Buckley basically had to decide is natural review going to continue to be a conservative magazine. I will be morph it into a neoconservative magazine. And for a while, when he retired, he appointed John O'sullivan to be the editor, and it was an authentically conservative magazine. For various reasons, it sort of murky behind the scenes, Buckley decided to fire Gino Sullivan and replace him with rich flowery, and the magazine became a neoconservative rag. To the point where I go entire months without remembering that national review even still exists. And I don't know anyone who reads it. I don't know anyone who takes it seriously. I never see the article shared anywhere. It seems to have as much interest as the daily worker has. But you're kind of you're skipping ahead because I don't know that we want to conflate the never Trump magazine of the latter latter years with what it was then. No, this is what it was turning into. But decided the magazine is going to go in a neoconservative direction. And he got rid of the more conservative traditional conservative people and he brought on people like Jonah Goldberg and David frum who would move it in that direction. And
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Whoopi Goldberg Suggests Beating White People First for Police Reform
"The typical race baiters out in force, look at Whoopi Goldberg yesterday, she had to weigh in. Listen to this classic comment. Listen to this despicable takeaway. Well, if white people got beat more often, maybe we get this fixed. This is something that she actually said yesterday on ABC's the view. When will the brutality finally lead to some police for farm from the ground up because clearly, it doesn't matter if it's a white policeman or a black policeman. It is a problem in the police and the police thing. Itself. You know, seems things don't seem to make sense to people unless there's somebody they can feel or they can recognize. But how many times do we have to do we need to see white people also get beaten before anybody will do anything? I'm not suggesting that. So don't write us and tell me what a racist I am. Oh, you're a racist. Nobody needs to write you. You don't need to put that down in writing. You are a racist. And now that it's okay to recognize that black people are capable of racism because now it is, it's accurate to call Whoopi Goldberg or racist. What you want white people beat, you don't think us white people can relate to a 29 year old man? Beaten to death by police officers, you see for most of us, Whoopi, it isn't about race. It's about corruption and brutality and crime, these are criminals. This is awful.
The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak and Eric Reflect on Slavery and the Civil War
"Really understood that what the founders had done and what we had in this country was just so extraordinary that the only way that it could be destroyed would be from within, which is, of course, where the attacks have come from and where they're coming from today. So eventually you and I want to go through them because in the article you mentioned, go ahead. Yeah, okay. So yes, we had this system of government set up with a three branches struggle against each other and the federal government struggles against the state government. They're all intentioned together. It's this real Goldberg apparatus set up intentionally to restrict the power of the state over individual Americans and their families and their churches. A magnificent rare, almost unique historical creation. The only presidents are things like Switzerland. And immediately, of course, fallen human nature starts to chafe against it, corrupt elite start to try to frustrate and corrupt and pervert the system. But the slave power between 1830 and 1860 the slave owning elites of the south were the first, I think, arguably the first elite conspiracy to corrupt the political system. They used their power in the Senate to frustrate all progress in terms of settling the west unless they could spread slavery and spread slavery further and further west, even though slavery was meant to die out. It was supposed to die out Jefferson, Washington, all thought it was an institution that would wither away. The slave power, the wealthiest elites of the southern states who owned a vast plantations worked by slaves. They insisted on extending slavery further and further to the west. They wanted it in California. And as we saw during the Civil War, they wanted to capture Cuba and conquer Mexico and reintroduce slavery. They wanted to go down to Brazil. They wanted a huge slave empire. So we had those elites of the south basically fool the people of the southern states into seceding from the union, and we had a Civil War.
The Jim Ross Report
"goldberg" Discussed on The Jim Ross Report
"But that, again, one of the many flaws in how Goldberg was booked. And if Goldberg had the product knowledge of saying Austin, he'd know what not to do, what not to go for, what to suggest and do something different and just wasn't the case. By the way, I think, as we record this as of today, stone coach birthday. I'm not sure. Is that right? Let's take a look here. We can't go show without acknowledging that if it's the case, and surround around this, how about that? Yeah, you're exactly right. You and I are recording on December 18th and today, stone cold is 58 years old. How about that? And if you guys are planning on giving him cash, he said to me, I think, just in the cast of JR, because you'll hold us for him. I'll hold it for him. Yeah. Happy birthday, Steve. We love you. The big outburst. This is written in its strike two, of course we remember the circumstance with Chris Jericho. But now we're having what's described as a temper tantrum, but it feels like something you would have to deal with. Allegedly, as soon as he comes in the next day, he goes and talks to Vince and apologizes for it. Is that all that needs to be said or is there more at play here? What we want to do, write a theme. Yeah. You got a chop board and say I will not act up again. 500 times. I don't know what you do. I mean, he came to the man with a legitimate apology. And he apologized to the one guy that he had to make happy and apologize to. That was the owner. So I don't know what else he could have done. I mean, seriously, I'm being facetious with other shit, but I thought he did the right thing there. He made a big mistake. And along with that big mistake needs to come a big apology. And to never, ever allow it to happen again. Did you perceive at this moment when you know he's unhappy with his pay? And don't get me wrong, a 1.5 downside back then is strong as hell. Yeah, it is. It's strong as hell now, but it was really strong way back when, but he still was expecting more. And he's disappointed by that and doesn't love the creative and has had some dust ups backstage. Did you kind of feel like, is it even worth it to re sign him? We got to try to keep this going. There's something here. Let's pull the nose up. Or is it more like, let's get as much as we can out of this deal, and just know it ain't happening. I think the latter had probably more validity than the former of two illustrations. You know, I hated, let's give up. We invest a lot of money in Bill. Not just the 1.5 million in salary, but all the other ancillary creator things that took money to produce and so forth and so on. So I think the apology was sufficient, but if you want to make more money to live events, guess what? You got to sell tickets. We weren't selling tickets. Right. Therefore, the enhanced money, the discretionary money, going above and beyond. It just wasn't there. What the productivity was not there. To justify giving a guy more money on 11 event that you were losing money on. And that's the case. It's not even close to a 100% that WWE will even make an offer to him, although that decision is not yet been finalized. It's believed that when he goes back to Japan and returns to the raw roster that he and Jim Ross will talk about if either side is interested in serious negotiations or not. Goldberg is also a lot more physically banged up than most realize and that be part may be part of his decision to not wanting to do another year. It's apparently been told to Goldberg that after he lost his cool after his match at Armageddon, that another outburst would be considered as a final straw. Goldberg said he's going to finish up his commitments and try and make the last three months work, and the feeling internally is, there won't be another situation. Of course, at the Royal Rumble Goldberg comes in with the fame number 30, he's going to clean house and Lesnar is going to interfere and hit the F 5 on Goldberg. Angle tosses him over the top rope and it ends Goldberg's dream of having another world title match. And this is some fun creative. Listen, I think everybody going into this assumes will Goldberg is going to win the rumble, and you find a fun, creative way to make sure that it's not the case. then Goldberg would spear Steve Austin on raw after Vince McMahon moves out of the way during a promo, and that creates a circumstance where Austin is now going to be the special guest referee. And this is really fun creative because the dream match for years and years was Goldberg in Austin. We're not going to get that. Austin's not wanting to wrestle. But having him in the same ring at WrestleMania, it's about as big of a deal as it could be. And I think behind the scenes, Goldberg and Austin were becoming pretty good friends at this time. Is that the way you recall? Yeah, that communicated well. Sure. Yeah. Along the way at no way out, Brock Lesnar is going to drop the WWE title to Eddie Guerrero after bill's interference and all of a sudden now Eddie Guerrero is the world champ. And once upon a time, maybe we thought it was going to be champion versus champion Goldberg versus Lesnar. Now there's no titles inside at all. And Meltzer would write Kayla would write rather. Goldberg will be working just one more date with the WWE, and that being WrestleMania 20. He won't be brought back to TV, barring a change in plans until WrestleMania 20. He did have discussions or WWE did have discussions with Goldberg about a new contract, but no offer was made, and the talks never got serious. A well placed source says WWE officials ask Goldberg if he'd be willing to do future shots with the company once his contract expires. Goldberg was very forward with WWE and letting him know he won't talk generality so only talk specifics. It's not money. Money, Connie. Yes. That's a code for money. Specifics. How much will you pay me for this one off shots? Meltzer would even say it would say rather, in other words, Goldberg wants WWE to approach him with an actual offer. The relationship between Goldberg and the office is said to be strained and sourced to say there's very little chance that WWE will offer Goldberg, anything more than a special appearances deal. And even less of a chance that Goldberg would accept anything more than that. WWE is interested in booking Goldberg for the tour of Japan and if they get him enough money for that tour and other special appearances, Goldberg would likely accept that it just feels like wage they're talking to Barry. You know, where else do you go get that information? A 100% accurate. And here's the thing.
The Jim Ross Report
"goldberg" Discussed on The Jim Ross Report
"For. I signed him and sitting on an anvil case in Evansville, Indiana. I wanted to be a success. We needed him to be a success. So. We just rushed things. And that program could have gone on for easily for a year. But in that time frame, in Bruce, he might not agree with this, but I think he might. Is if I gave a shit, a kidding. Ross says he did give a shit what Pritchard says, headline. Dateline. JR's bedroom and Jacksonville. So, you know, I think that. It was just, it was mishandled for the day one. This whole Goldberg investment. And that's how I looked at all these guys. Conrad, if book differently, don't you agree or do you agree that Goldberg would have been a successful headliner for a WrestleMania if he was introduced correctly? Absolutely. Case close, your honor. Well, unfortunately, it doesn't happen instead, or it's going to try to limp along here. The night after the loss that hunter takes, he's going to take a bit of a break. Not injury related, but movie and wedding related. So now raw is essentially Goldberg show. And the night after he wins the world title, he kills Eric Bischoff with a spear and Stone Cold Steve Austin endorses him. So, you know, we're trying to do what we can. And in the main event, Goldberg beats Jericho when a match that Meltzer said, quote, should have been 100 did the night before. While hunters away, it's a typical old school heel stuff. He's going to announce there's a $100,000 bounty on Goldberg's head while he's away. And one of the people looking to cash in is Mark Henry. They go 5 minutes and of course Mark Henry is dispensed with, but this is maybe the first time it looks like Mark Henry got a real shot. You know, touching the main event like this. Goldberg's just got shoved into the spotlight by unusual means or unusual routing, but the publicity picture of Mark Henry versus Goldberg would turn my head. And it did turn my head. Let's talk about Shawn Michaels. It looks like we're going to be building towards a circumstance there with Goldberg and Shawn Michaels when Goldberg accidentally spears Sean after the match. And, you know, these are two baby faces at this point. Henry is going to put Goldberg through a door will be able to make it, but he does. He spears the raft by accident because it seems like he can never spear the guy. He's supposed to eat a super kick before Batista hits the ring and spawned buster's Michaels and Batista bombs Goldberg and puts his ankle in a chair and jumps on it to break it and he's joining evolution as a new major heel, so listen, this is an excellent way to sort of establish Batista as a big time player and brush him up against the main event, but babyface versus babyface. It feels again as if we're asking the WWF loyal fans who have long timers, their whole life, I'm a WWF guy, not a WCW guy. Well, they're always gonna pull for Shawn Michaels over goldberger, they know it. Oh, yeah, pretty much. Pretty much. I still believe and I may be sounding really old school. And you know, I'm not smart enough to sound like Jim cornette because he's much smarter than me. And so that's not being facetious. God damn it Conrad. You sort of a bitch. You know, smart and JR, Ric Flair said it. Life is so much fun. I don't know where I was. I'll go for these sucky tangents. Oh, Batista. Well, we're just trying to get healthy bodies and Dave was a great all that stuff. He was his time. So I like what we did with hunter while he was away. I really did. I thought it was. Yeah, it's gone. Yeah, it's old school. It can't be visible when he wasn't there. He kept his presence felt when he wasn't there. And that's just a good booking. That's just good booking. So I'm not sure how to came up with the idea. A great talent will do that. Now that he's been speared by Goldberg, Eric Bischoff wants to strip Goldberg or the title Austin won't let him Goldberg sort of return to save Steve Austin from Bautista and a match is made for the go home raw for Survivor Series. Survivor Series, of course, is where we're going to get this hunter Goldberg rematch. Hunter returns on that raw to save Batista after two minutes. And now we're ready for Survivor Series. Goldberg retains an 11 minutes and 44 seconds he powers out of a pedigree. He teases hitting hunter with a sledgehammer, but instead throws it out of the ring, spear, jackhammer, and Meltzer gives it two and a half stars. And Meltzer would say, if they had introduced him like this, they would have done big business. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding for Dave. Yep. And what do we have to load a lovely parting gift for Dave this week, ladies and gentlemen? We have some car wax. And some landscape. Well, actually, what we have
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"Jim, let's get back and talk about how the Goldberg thing is even making investment calls. I can't believe this is a real deal. But Linda McMahon is on the financials conference call. The investor call, if you will. And here's the ride up here. Quote, Linda McMahon claimed they were getting creative in order, after which roger shaffer said, you've been just like WCW with the old retreads and not pushing newer talent. When talking about the promises and previous calls of creative improving, he said, quote, it's not happening. And Linda responded by saying the company brought back Bill Goldberg, but that he was, this is an exact quote from Linda McMahon. Disappointing compared to what we expected him to be, I can't believe that's a real quote, but Linda McMahon said it again, in regards to bringing back Goldberg, he was quote unquote disappointing compared to what we expected him to be. That's the full quote. She was telling the truth, but man. It might have been might not have been as timely as one would like, considering that you're dealing with a talent's ego. And how they were going to respond or the other talents might respond. This is just not a one talent deal here. If that's at least that's my take. But so she was just telling the truth, Connie. Well, as stinging as it was, and as ill timed as it could arguably be arguably have been, it was the truth. I don't think it was the truth. Let me explain. You don't think he was disappointing? I don't think he was disappointing. I think the execution of his return was disappointing. Oh, me too. So, but what I'm saying is to say, disappointing compared to what we mean in WWE expected him being Goldberg to be. Like, the disappointing is that this appointment is in the execution of the Goldberg character, not necessarily in his efforts, not necessarily in his presentation. I agree. I agree, wholeheartedly. His efforts were not lacking, you know, males had a comment about some of the things he was doing it wasn't executed this one to Bill Goldberg ever execute perfectly. Right. That wasn't his match. Part of his charm. Yes. Somewhat of an unpredictability and so forth, so I understand what your point is. And you make a very good point, as usual. Because she did a deep dive. Oh, goodness. And he had a little Wikipedia man day Silva 6. It's a long enjoying a delicious breakfast taco. Goddamn moment, one of those right now. This very minute. Let's get around to three. Let's do the whole group. The next 60 seconds we're going to watch JR and Conrad eat. You know, we got to get sponsored for that. I'm for it. Let's do that. Goldberg and Jericho are going to hook up a bad blood. They're going to have a good match, but Meltzer would point out, if Goldberg was defending the title against Jericho, it would have been perfect. But with Goldberg's striving to get to the title, it should have been much more of a WCW scenario with a short match, very explosive. And I guess we should just take a time out right there right now. You know, what did get Goldberg over? Or quick for lack of a better word, squash matches. And that's not what we're trying here. Just off the jump. Are we missing the boat by not giving people what they have grown accustomed to seeing with them? I mean, having competitive matches with The Rock and Jericho, I get is very much the WWE way, but if we're trying to build Goldberg up for the world title, he should just be running through dudes, should he not? You got to stay close to that formula that worked. Yes. The issue was it was a WCW formula and for some insane reason over the years repeating WCW's history hasn't worked at WWE very well. And part of that was because of Vincent's commitment to the angle and he wanted things to be original in his creation. And that was not to wear to go on this one. The formula was so simple. That'd be like telling off, okay, you got cleared, you're coming back to work, but we don't want you to use the spear. And we sure as fuck, I want you to drink 8 beer. Well, first of all, also would never have gone for that. Right. And secondly, it was insanely ridiculous statement to make. And so what worked will still work if it's executed. If it's sampled, it's displayed out there, but it was, it made no sense. It made so many missteps in the so Goldberg scenario. It is unfortunate because I say he's not a bad human being whatsoever. It's amazing to me when you take a look at all the WCW properties of Vince McMahon got his hand on. And how it feels like it just doesn't work out. Like, I think most people assumed the invasion angles, the biggest no brainer, biggest money banking angle in the history of wrestling, bungled. The NWO will shit this can't miss. I mean, we've got the thing that really set this whole business on fire, bungled. And then Goldberg, the former dream match, who would win an Austin versus go, but when they're all at our height, 1998, 1999 business has never been bigger. The two biggest stars Goldberg's bungled two. Like, was it almost a subconscious maybe point of pride with Vince and Bruce would take great issue with this? Like, why would we spend all this money and want it to fail? But it does feel as if it was a Vince's idea inherently. He's not going to like it as well. Because he gets his hand on these big talents and then
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"But all of it, obviously no, not the majority, not even close. You go all the way back to starting this program. I mean, Iraq and Goldberg started off wrong. Yeah. We rushed it. You know, and to think that our audience all knew and were devoted Goldberg fans was a misnomer. We overstated his, his value in as much as at one time, if we had gotten him coming out of when he was hot, then I think maybe we had a better shot at getting him over, but the balloon was off the road, so to speak, he had to be rebuilt and reintroduced. We didn't do any of that. We didn't rebuild him, and we didn't reintroducing the right way. So and he's following orders on creative, so to create has got to take a responsibility for that. At least that's my take on it. And but it never got off right. There started right. It's hard to make something incorrectly Conrad when it doesn't start correctly. It could be done. It could be done, right? Yes. You know, and that sentence there wanted to kick out of the spear. See what I'm saying about how that spreads like wildfire. Yeah. So what does it mean next week? What's it mean in subsequent commentary? What does it mean, you know, at the end of the proverbial day, when you kick out of a guy's finish? Are you going to make a story out of it? Or is it just a spot to appease the guy that's doing the kicking out? I don't know. How pissed after you think Chris Jericho was when Goldberg said, you're not The Rock. Well, I mean, it's a fact, but still, it's not something anybody wants to hear. No. Well, that's not the way that's not a team we have to approach it. Yeah, no. I mean, Billy's been on team. God damn he played for Georgia. Right. He's a division one. He's a big time player in the SEC. He's been a locker rooms. He played for Vince Dooley. He knows what, you know, he knows the right way and the wrong way to talk to teammates. And that was the wrong way. Yes. If you want to, you know, Goldberg has got to realize too that Chris Jericho could end up being a great ally for him. Because the more matches Goldberg and Jericho have together, the better Jericho's going to make Goldberg look. And help get Goldberg over what she direly needed. So many favors on that one whatsoever. I was very disappointed in that, Bill dialog. Well,
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"Get pulled over. Paid for by nhtsa. Let's talk about the pay per view. It's finally going to happen here, backlash, Goldberg versus The Rock. It's a sellout in Worcester. And Meltzer would say, from the management viewpoint of what they were wanting and expecting, they were impressed with the match. Feeling it was the best job of selling Goldberg has ever done in his career. Meltzer would also say The Rock is the one who on the match, even with Goldberg getting the pen because rock seemed to think his job in the match was to entertain and lose to Goldberg and make him viable for a return match. But his job was to put Goldberg over and losing and putting someone over or not the same thing. Rock got near falls with both The Rock bottom and people's elbow, fans booed when Goldberg kicked out both times, Goldberg came back with two spears and a jackhammer for the pen as the show went off the air. Meltzer did not like the match, gave it a star in a quarter. The actual pay per view numbers come in and it does 349,000 bots, which these days would be considered pretty darn good, but at that point it's the lowest of 2003. And it's down from 400,000 the year prior. Where we didn't have this dream match of Goldberg and rock. Man, this is not. What we hoped for is the lowest buy rate of the year at this point, and I know we could say, well, one of those was Royal Rumble and one of those was WrestleMania, but it has to be somewhat of a disappointment. I mean, even no way out was a bigger bigger success financially, but still that was Hogan and rock. I don't know, man, it doesn't feel like we're off to the start we all hope for. But the matches. We weren't. We weren't, we weren't off to the right at the start we wanted. That's obvious. That's obvious, Carly. You know, you're right. This wasn't what everybody wanted. But you know, we've committed and so let's go see if we can work this thing out and persevere. And maybe with a different opponent other than The Rock, Goldberg will get over as that massive baby face. You don't know until you try. A couple of things you mentioned that I believe are dangerous trends that we see more often than we need to. And I don't know if the fans agree with this or not, but that's our prerogative. You don't have to. And that is in a match, big match like this we're talking about will Goldberg and rock. That rock that Goldberg, excuse me, rock gets his finishes kicked out of. Not once but twice. Yeah. I think that's stupid. That's a trend. You can think about illustration versus illustration. Same thing with Goldberg having to use two jackhammers or two spears. Because this opponent is so deadly and so resilient and strong and powerful and et cetera, et cetera, it takes double. Defeating. And I've always thought that's a very dangerous trend. It just to me, it makes no sense. You have a hell of a match. You have a knock down drag out. You use a million other things other than your go to final, final finisher. Before you use your finisher, you use it one time. Because it works. And you move on. That's how I would book it. I just don't believe in kicking out of everybody's finish and then he picks out of all your finishes where you kicked out two of mine, so I'll kick out two years, bullshit. That's talent trying to protect themselves. Instead of protecting the match, we see too much of that. In my crotch geography ass view. Hey, by the way, con rest, they're going to read SJ R, our hot sauce is setting up crazy. Oh yeah, JR's BBQ dot com. I love a little red ass JR. Oh man, it's better than part of me. It's better than I ever anticipated. I know it's a bad segue. But I'm very grateful. And we're getting such good feedback from it too. And I'm going to send you some. Because I know you have no silvers about it. He's waiting for his coupon. Oh my goodness. Well, nobody needs a coupon. You
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"goldberg" Discussed on The Jim Ross Report
"The WWF fans, man, they want their guy, not the other teams, guys. Right. And that's probably not even the original idea. I mean, Goldberg's supposed to be the babyface in this scenario, but fans are still cheering The Rock, and I don't know if that's because there is some tribalism of WWF versus WCW fans, or is it just, hey man, we perceive The Rock to be cool. And Goldberg is just the foil in this scenario. What is rock done, Conrad? In this, upon further review, what is a rock done to become a villain? He's just made fun of everybody in the fans, that's all. He did that before. Yes. And they love it. And they love it. Yes. They love this solid humor. The Rock's comedic timing was on a par with anybody I've ever worked with. And that's kind of a new thing because of the talking opportunities that a lot of the talents have now on television. So I don't know what rock did to make this huge turn that's diametrically opposed to what he was and he got over. Right. So, you know, and I think the tribalism term you use is spot on. Goldberg is still perceived as the big stud from WCW. And we're not going to cheer him because we don't like WCW. We bought them. We beat them. We bought them out. We did all these things. So I don't know, colony. I think we've gotten a big hurry there. At least it seems to me like and didn't let things settle. And going right from Goldberg to rock in hindsight again, we talked how good that could be. Might not have been the best idea to let them touch and get together that quickly. Again, 24 hours after the biggest star in the history of the company says ADS. And that's not factored into the psychological equation. You're hanging out with some friends and putting back a few drinks, and a few becomes a few too many. And as the evening comes to an end, people start to head out. You think of calling for Iran nah, you live nearby. You can make it home okay. It's no big deal. What are the odds you get pulled over anyway?
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"Well, the next piece of business that the newsletters are going to have a field day with is regarding Triple H, this is direct quote from the observer here. As many know, there's a lot of legit heat between the two. It's stem from a radio interview Triple H did when the promotion or heat it up and Goldberg was just about the hottest thing in wrestling except for Steve Austin. When asked about Goldberg, Triple H said he didn't think that there would be F would even want him, pointing out his flaws. Goldberg confronted Triple H he was with Stephanie McMahon at a toy fair sometime later and caused a major scene, basically calling him out to fight while Triple H ignored him. It was not a stellar moment for anyone involved. I think this happened back in the year 2000. Do you remember hearing about this way back when? Vaguely, just more interesting bullshit. Let it go. Let it go. I mean, it's not worth spending a lot of time on it. I had pointed a grace over. There was a lot of bacon in it for our country. And so I was trying to make it and I heard about it. There was no physicality. It was glorified more by the Internet than anywhere else. At least that's my take on it. The first time we know that Goldberg is going to be coming into the company is actually a commercial that airs during WrestleMania 19, where you guys are promoting backlash and it features Goldberg in the commercial. So that's really the first acknowledgment that, hey, we got him. And of course, we all remember the night after WrestleMania on Monday Night Raw. It's one of the beginning traditions of the big raw after WrestleMania. Here we're calling it rock appreciation night for having beat Stone Cold Steve Austin, Meltzer would say rock came out and they showed a video of all his great moments. Mainly over the last two months and everyone cheered him. He had to turn on the crowd, but he does so in such a way that nobody really buys it. There's a huge Goldberg champ, rock tries to say his accountant named Ira Goldberg wasn't there. Rock does a great promo saying he's beaten everyone and there's nobody left to beat. So he's retiring because he came back to entertain the fans and they booed him and then Goldberg shows up to a monster pop, although the first pops for unannounced surprises mean nothing these days, because I just saw D lo Brown get one. Goldberg came to the ring and speared rock, rock was too close to him, so he didn't get any momentum into the spear, but rock made it work by selling it like he was broken in half. So let's talk about the creative here for the way we introduce Goldberg, you know, on the one hand, we're letting him brush up against The Rock. So how critical of it can we really be on the second hand? You got your biggest audience. Maybe of the year on pay per view and you want to make sure that they don't just order WrestleMania. They check out Monday Night Raw tomorrow. I'm sure that's the thinking and putting Goldberg in the backlash commercial but if you happen to do over again, do you think this was his highest and best use or was there a pivot that could have made it more impactful? I think any time that you can do a significant and recognizable rub with a rock is a win. And we could think about it and rehash it. What have we done this? What if we have done that? You could have done this. You could have done a lot of shit in hindsight. A lot of stuff could be done in hindsight. But anytime you can rub up against Duane. And we're closed. I call it 20. I know. Oh, God. We're closer in 19 years to 20. Oh, wow. Yeah. So I think it could be reevaluated. Any creative can be re looked at and said, well, what if we did this? Why don't we have done that? Well, I just think that the winning combination is gold burgundy against The Rock. And to me, that's a win. Does it almost feel kind of bittersweet to you? I mean, listen, I know, you know, on some level, this is everybody's job and you just got to go do your job, and I get that. But the night before is sort of like the swan song for Stone Cold Steve Austin, and now here the next night on raw, we've got the debut of Goldberg, it feels like times they are changing here in the organization. Yeah, they were. And I was, I thought we could have done more or some sort of tribute salute, maybe the skies, because a lot of us knew he wouldn't come back. Right. We came back at this two weeks, two months ago, or two years ago, whatever it was. And but normally, it was his official, he was going to do any more matches at that point, ty. Thank God he's healthy enough that he can do a little bit and him doing a little bit, it's like a lot of guys having a 5 star match. He's that big
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"goldberg" Discussed on The Jim Ross Report
"Goldberg does wind up wrestling a handful of matches in Japan in 2002. I'm sure that lands on your radar too, that he still has an interest, maybe we're just riding out this Turner deal. On your side of the road, who's pushing for Goldberg and WWE the most. Is this event's initiative? Is there someone in creative who thinks we can do some fun stories here? Are there talent thing they really want to work with him? Or is it just a no brainer based on his recent resume? I think Vince was probably the primary individual. The prioritized assigning Goldberg more than anybody else. So it was a good call. It was a good call for business part. So. Again, I've tried to think back the controversy, the dirt. Yeah. And all the bullshit. I don't remember any, a lot of bullshit, a lot of dirt coming out of this negotiation. He knew what he wanted. We knew what we could do. It's then a system matter of getting everybody together and making it work. We're getting a number that everybody can live with. And we were able to do that. Do you remember that's being reluctant to push another WCW idea or talent since the invasion angle had sort of fizzled and by that point I think even the NWO thing had gone Billy up too. No, not really. I think we've kind of gotten past that issue. In the beginning, yeah, there was some pushed back on some talents, I guess. But quite frankly, you know, Goldberg was above that level. He was a special talent. Yes. His local special is background with special, so no. As time went on, a lot of those issues that were issues at one time ceased. They become lessened. And the goal was just to get the hay in the barn. Let's go get this thing done and get this guy signed. So I think that's where we were. The politics were had been lessons, shall we say? Well, let me say this, I think we all agree. Goldberg had one hell of a look. And if you're looking to give yourself a similar look, this episode of grilling JR is brought to you by our favorite producer of ball trimmers.
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"goldberg" Discussed on The Jim Ross Report
"Hey, hey, it's scarlet Thompson, and you're listing the grilling JR. With the voice of wrestling, mister Jim Ross, Jim, how are you, man? I'm good, Connie. Thanks for asking. How are you doing today? Man better than I deserve. So excited this weekend, it's Christmas. It's the most wonderful time of the year getting some family and some food and some football. Second all my boxes, man. How about you? Same, I think. I'm not sure we're recording, I'm sure recording. I don't know exactly where I'm going to be. I think we're going to be in Oklahoma. So that would be good. See my kids and my grandkids and all that stuff. Then I'm going to fly back to drive them down to Orlando and go to the cheez its bowl. There you go. Florida state and Oklahoma. So I got a lot of fun things. I'm looking forward to seeing my kids and the schedule worked out well. You know, being in San Antonio, it's an easy hop at Oklahoma, so taking advantage of the geography. Well, glad to hear it, man. And good for you, I don't know, an interesting time to be in the raslan business too. I don't really think about that, but I'm sure, you know, as much as travel is everyone's least favorite part of the job, it can't be any lighter during the holidays. This has to be the most frustrating time to travel of all year, probably, no. Oh, yeah, yes. Always an adventure, full flights, travelers are out in force, so I'm just trying to schedule around it a little bit and I'm not even fly back to Florida on Christmas Day. I'm thinking about it. Kids got their things they do and I'll see them before then and it's hard to manage everybody's got their little agendas and stuff, which can't blame them. So it's going to be fine. It's going to be a good holiday and seeing my kids always fun. Here their tales of woe and fun and so it's good. It's good. I'm lucky guy. I'm a real lucky guy. And my legs getting better, which is good. That's awesome. People seem to have an interest in that, which they should if my God is getting to add nauseum. I'm tired of talking about it, but it is healing. It's just slow and it's like they talk about sex, slow and easy wins the race. Oh, okay. Something like that. I don't know. Something like that. So it's all good, man. It's all good. We got an interesting topic here today. Very complex guy. We're going to talk about Bill Goldberg. So should be a fun little show. I don't know if we're going to pack anything that people don't know, but probably we always stumble across something. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Well, I appreciate everybody tuning in today. I hope everybody's ready for a big Christmas. Let's jump in to the man of the hour, mister Bill Goldberg, we're covering Goldberg because in just a few days he's going to turn 56. December 27th, being his birthday. Hard to believe. You know, what's even harder to believe is, I think you actually go way back with Goldberg even before he got into wrestling, right? Yeah, yeah. I was a high school in college football official for many years there based in Oklahoma and Bill was the number one player in the state as a defensive lineman at Tulsa Edison high school. So I had a few of his games in high school. He was very much talked about because he was a top recruit, of course everybody thought, much like they would if he was in Alabama. He had a good play for the critic and tide, or he'd go play for the sooners, but he shocked everybody. I went to Georgia. And started. So starting for an SEC team is pretty good accomplishment kind of testament to his ability as a football player. He was very good. And tough and intense. He was everything you see in a wrestling ring. He didn't change a bit. So I enjoyed my early going relationship with Bill and that's the source of something that he and I talked about so much. Over the years, you know, favorite hot dog joints or what have you. Believe it or not, Goldberg, 8 hot dogs at one time. I ate a lot of hot dogs at one time. So anyway, I go back with Bill a long way. Probably longer than farther back than just about any top any person that we've talked about on the show. That's amazing. I just don't know that most people would have guessed that, but you being the football fan you are. I guess it's not all that surprising. Of course, I'm sure you follow him, you know, when he's playing with the falcons, he used to be the voice of the falcons, and he sat in interviews that he actually called you up and wanted an introduction. He would say that he reaches out to you, sets up a meeting, asks if he needs to bring an agent and you say no, Vince hates agents. I just think that's interesting that before he ever signed with WCW, he reached out to you guys. Do you remember this meeting? What events think of him? I think he liked him, you know, Bill had a lot of the same baggage if you want to use that term. That sounds so negative. But guys that don't grow up in the business. You know, I always thought I was talking to Bill, but I remember you guys did this on mid south or whatever. You know, that was the hub of the territory. He didn't watch wrestling. So he knew who I was and we had a decent relationship in that respect, but I don't think Vince was probably underwhelmed of bill's lack of product knowledge, but it sure as hell like the way he looked and he was intelligent and articulate. So but I remember that meeting and we didn't have our system wasn't good and go burger was expecting big money and we weren't ready to give out big money to neophytes, so to speak. And it all worked out, obviously. As time will tell, but he was a, he was a fascinating prospect to say the least. So as the story goes, I believe he winds up hooking up with Eric Bischoff and tells him, you know, he's not going to be a $500 throw around the ring punk. Those are his words, not mine. And he's going to make a difference in the business and Eric essentially signs him to go to the power plant and I assume it's probably the last you hear of him after this meeting until you see him on nitro as a replay or something
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"Wish it would have happened? There's no question that I wish it would have happened. I mean, that was the match to have. Why it never happened, I think 90% of the reasoning behind that was his neck issues. Right. And my finishing moves, right? Whether it be the spear, whether it be the jackhammer, I don't think those are moves that he would have wanted to do nor what his boss would have wanted him to do. Right. I think it was a safety issue more so than anything. But it was never really discussed. We were never really in a room together and it wasn't subject matter and I always wish that it was. I never really brought it up because again, that's not my place, man. I like to think that I show up and I do what people tell me to do and I try to do it to the best of my ability. So I wasn't ever politicking for it, but there's no question that it's a dream match that never happened. So now, modern day Goldberg, you wrestle, you know, three, four times a year, whatever it may be, they bring in when they need you. What's your relationship with the company now and how do you enjoy being in the ring? You know, my role quite obviously has changed exponentially. I at this point look at it as to I'm a you're a cast member. I'm a member and however I need to be used on pretty much okay with it because it's the debt that I owe to the business. If I can help in any way, shape or form, then that's what that's what I'm here for. Vince McMahon has treated me very well throughout the years. And it's a relationship that changed a 180° from my first departure to my to my existing relationship with him now. I owe that man on that company a lot because it gave me the opportunity to come back and put something on tape for my son. And by the way, I'm giving back. And so the way that they use the Goldberg character, you know, granted, yeah, I don't want to be choked out of the middle of the ring by Roman Reigns. But it lends itself lends itself to the storyline. Ultimately, tell the big picture and the big picture, I'm not the number one main character in it anymore. But if I can be used in the proper way to elevate or to destroy somebody, then I'm all for it. And you know, I've had physical issues throughout the years, and I mean, we hide these things. For one reason or another, you know, a football, it's a little different. It's very tough to hide injuries, but you know, a lot of ways in the wrestling business that can be done. And I've hidden the fact that I completely destroyed my shoulder over the years. And I thought that I needed surgery and through these products and through hard work, you know, I'm to a point now that I feel better than I have in ten years. And I can actually move my shoulder and I can actually live pretty well again and I feel really good. And it sucks for my kid because now I can freaking fight back. Right? But I feel good, man. I really do. And I don't really want to go out the way that
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"goldberg" Discussed on Talk Is Jericho
"And behold he looks at the opportunity, takes advantage of it and shit and he's got a rocket ship up his butt to the moon. And it was an honor for me to still be looked upon as somebody who was a worthy competitor and a worthy challenge for him. And, you know, Brock's the one that came up with the 92nd deal, right? You know, me, I'm not going to walk in and say, oh, I'm going to, I've been waiting 12 years. I'm going to be Brock at sea. 90 seconds, and then pay me and I'm gone. Just doesn't work like that. So I learned a lot from Brock and I learned a lot about who he is and about how creative he is and how unselfish he is. And that those are things that people would definitely be surprised about when talking about Brock Lesnar. Well, once again, he tapped into the explosiveness of the Goldberg character. That 90 minutes, nobody saw it coming, but it was exactly what it should have been. It was amazing. It resurrected Goldberg as much as it helped Brock create a new opponent. A 100%. And it just shows the unselfishness of rock at that time. You know, and again, I was just lucky to be in that situation and still be able to pull it off. So you mentioned something interesting to me that when you're a power character and obviously Goldberg has and you still have you look pretty much exactly the same as you did 20 years ago other than a great agreeing beard. But how do you stay in that condition?
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"goldberg" Discussed on Talk Is Jericho
"Came in from football because obviously watching the documentary talk about how important football was and is to you. Did it surprise you at first the kind of the politics of wrestling where you did you have any idea about that? Is there such a thing in football the same way as wrestling or is football much more of the team? If you're good, you're good. Tell us some of the differences in pro football pro wrestling for you. Well, football, you know, is based upon performance on the field. It's a numbers game, right? If you're fast enough, if you're strong enough, if you're successful enough on the field in certain situations, then you play. That doesn't necessarily hold true in the wrestling business. And there's politics in every endeavor. Whatever walk of life you attend or take part in, there's going to be a bit of politics. And I was quite gullible in the beginning. I like to listen to everybody and I assume that everybody was pointing me in the proper direction. And it's just in life that's just not always the case. And I learned the hard way and, you know, but it is what it is. I mean, you know, it's a cutthroat world and I grew up a lot in that business as you were witness to. When did you start feeling kind of the momentum rolling? Because like we said, the initial streak was still one of the coolest times in pro wrestling. Right out of the gate or did people start getting into quickly or did it take some time? I think it took time. I think it was a momentum based angle. I think it gained momentum each and every week. I truly believe that after Colorado Springs against Raven for the U.S. championship, that was that was the catalyst. That was the springboard, I believe. I knew it was a reality at that point. I can't really remember a lot of other milestones other than the Hogan match, no question, and Dallas at Halloween havoc and yeah, you know, but I think that the U.S. championship against the clock was the one. I remember that. That was kind of put you on the map for real, you know? When you're talking about the explosiveness of Goldberg and obviously it was fun watching some of your football clips because I had never seen it before, just how much of a killer you were on the field, but that explosiveness came from football to wrestling. The spear in 2022, probably the most one of the most used moves ever in wrestling. But from what I can recall, you basically were the first to use this move. Your idea, what did that come from? Let's talk about the spear. Jamie walking out against Manny Fernández. Jamie says, what's your finish? I said, I'm finished. What is that? I don't have a finish. And he goes, whatever you do, do something impactful that people are going to remember. So I get in the ring, Manny and I are circling and I say, Manny, do you trust me? He goes, yeah. I said then spread then at the finish, tuck your head, spread your legs and kiss your ass goodbye. Hold on. And I did it. And to me, it was a natural move. And I went in the back and everybody's mouths were open, hitting the floor, going, whatever, do that every single time. And I'm like, oh, shit. That's awesome 'cause that's me. That's who I am. So to move, I didn't have to learn and to move. I didn't have to act in it's a move that put me on the map in the football business. And I'm just thankful that something so simple translated. And how do you feel now when you see it used quite often? You know how I feel, it makes me want to, but you know, hey, they say imitation is the best form of flattery of the Gilbert thing. Stephanie, everybody and their mother uses the spear strategically placed, you know, as we were competing against WWE and before I went over there, people started using it and got when I got there, you know, it was a commonly used move, but I don't know, man. All I can say is anybody and everybody can emulate it, but nobody can do it like me. Right. With that explosiveness, you know, what did you think of Gilbert when he first appeared? Again, you know how I felt about it. I wanted to rip his face off. But that just made me understand what the wrestling business is all about. You know, I mean, the way I look back on it now, I'm ecstatic that they were able to give this guy a job. That's how I've broken my life down. It's the good that can come of actions that have happened in the past. And the way I looked at it in the beginning, like I said, I was pissed off about it. Because you're always very much not wanting to have anything to do with comedy. That was something that you always had when we had our issues. I'm not doing any comedy. You didn't like that aspect of wrestling whatsoever. No, I love that aspect. I just didn't think that it would was any there was nothing that I could gain from it as Goldberg the character. At that point in my career, I wasn't open to a lot of different things. And I mean, you were witness to it and I had to protect everything that I had, whether it was things that came out of my mouth or moves that I had in the ring. I felt as though my back was against the wall all the time. And I had to protect everything and everything. I mean, anything and everything that I did. And whether it was it was the case or whether it was like demons that are coming up behind me, I just, I felt as though it was me against the world at times. Was that people in your ear telling you that sort of things as well? The higher up guys? A 100%. A 100%. I mean, there were a lot of things that played into it, but I think me fabricating it in my mind was probably the biggest fact. Yeah. No, I remember the one week I showed up for whatever pay per view it was. And they had me wrestle with, it wasn't even Gilbert. It was another guy that was doing a Goldberg kind of gimmick. And it was Terry Taylor. He goes, beat this guy and pretend he's Goldberg, and I was like, all right. And so we did it. And then the next couple days you found out about it, you were really angry at me. You're like, oh yeah, I heard about this, Jericho. I took things so personally, man. And it's a business. It's a fabricated business, you know? Right. I was a football player, man. That's me. I'm a meathead. I'm a very simplistic person. And I take things way too personally. I really do. I have my entire life.
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"goldberg" Discussed on Talk Is Jericho
"Last night. I thought it was amazing. Were you happy with it? Yeah, man. It would have been nice if there were a couple people that said something positive about my wrestling career and I don't know. I tend to believe what people say and I guess I'm really horrible, but you know, hey, at the end of the day, it was a great walk down memory lane for my family, man. You know, I think you already know and a handful of people know what a Family Guy I am and now the world knows. And so it's good to get it out there and it's good to show people that I'm not that fire breeding dragon 24/7. But I will say this though man, you've always been kind of a self deprecating type of guy. We've known each other a long time. Lots of trials and tribulations, which we can discuss. But I think that you kind of estimate your wrestling career. Just to me, I mean, if I would have been asked to do that and obviously they wouldn't ask me now because I'm on the side of the fence, but you're very unique and one of the most explosive performers with your wrestling style that people really related to you. I don't understand what the problem is with that. Okay, you didn't do a lot of holds and technical stuff. But you never had to. Well, you know me, man. I always wanted to be something different. I didn't want to be that chain wrestling guy. I always thought that, you know, I didn't want to fall down that wormhole of being cast like everybody else. So I thought I'd brought something completely different to the business that hadn't been seen before. And you know me, I always want to be the best at anything and everything I do. And so you always hear the, well, he can't wrestle more than 5 minutes. He can't take. Well, you know what? I never, I never wanted to be that guy. You guys are the ones who go out and perfect that craft. I was the explosion. You know, I was the exception to the rule. And so I felt as though if I fell into that mold, I would just be like just everybody else. Sometimes it's not a bad thing, but I wanted to be different. I wanted to be something that people had to sit on the edge of their seat and pay attention to every second, let alone every minute. So I'm human. I hear rumblings and with the forefront of the Internet. You see it all the time, but you know, people's opinions are like assholes. So I'd like to think that I carved out a niche and that a few people fall into that category, you know? No, and I agree with you on that. Now, when you first came into the business, was this something that you came up with or were you told beat them in 20 seconds or how do they kind of the whole concept of Goldberg begin? I think it was a day and time where people fortunately were listening to the public. I don't think it was anything that anyone wasn't foreshadowing. It wasn't a plan written in stone. I think it was it was fluid. It was something that changed every week. Gotcha. I don't know who came up with it, whether it was hainan or tanay, or sivani, I don't know, but you know, I do believe that they listened to the fans and they gave them what they wanted. When you first came in, I recall, did you have a different name other than Goldberg at first? You're like the hybrid or something like that? I wanted to be the hybrid. That was it. Bill gold GOLD. That's pretty entertaining down in you remember the tapings down in Orlando. And I remember before going out my first time against, I think it was Manny Fernández, which I do have on video, by the way. Wow. I went out, I was getting ready to go out of gorilla at the time, and they said, what do you want us to call you? And I'm like, call me the hybrid, and they're like, we can't do that because if you ever sell merchandise, you know, there might be a trademark issue. And I'm like, you know what? I don't foresee myself ever selling anything. So just call me the hybrid. So they called me Bill gold. Yeah, it was pretty. When did the actual Goldberg? Because now Goldberg is such a monumental name, right? It's got such power behind it. But at first, it sounds like, you know, a Jewish accountant or something that Goldberg? Yeah, I put up a smokescreen, man. You know, the main reason why I did it of who I am. I'm proud of my Jewish heritage and in growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where there weren't many prominent Jewish sports figures walking around, let alone in the national spotlight. I just wanted to give little kids, you know, something to look forward to, something something against the grain, something different than the norm. So I worked on my heart like a shield and I'm extremely proud of the decision I made back there. Well, it ended up being a very powerful name for sure. Absolutely. But when you first came in, how was it with the other guys in the locker room? Because obviously you ended up becoming one of the biggest stars in WCW working with Hogan and we'll talk about that. And ended up with hall and Nash, but were you accepted right away because in wrestling, especially at that time frame, there was always a little bit of like, oh, there's the football guy, what's he doing? You're hilarious because you can answer all these questions. You were there. You're just teeing me up. But the best analogy I can give you is that I was like a college football player walking into a frat party. Nobody wanted me there. At least that's how I film, right? You know, at the end of the day, football is a big team, little me, you know, sport. Right. And that's all I ever knew. And wrestling is a business. And whether you see people coming in as attributes to your roster or whether you see them as detriments to your career, is that they're taking a spot of
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"goldberg" Discussed on Talk Is Jericho
"How are you, dude? How you doing, brother? Good, man. It's good. I'm glad we got a chance to talk. This is going to be great. Absolutely, man. Baby talk is Jericho. Mama tongue kiss me. All right, welcome to this very special episode of talk is Jericho. Episode 900. I can't believe it almost 9 years doing this amazing show. Thanks to all of you who have been listening since episode one. Since episode 100 since episode 899, we appreciate you and we thank you for being here. There's literally over a million podcasts in the world today. Think about that. And talk is Jericho, it was consistently in the top 150 top 200 in the world. Thanks to all of you who have been listening and been following me. Like I said, and if you're brand new, welcome, it's a great time to join up. Here's to another 900. All right, don't forget to follow talk is Jericho. Leave us a 5 star rating and review wherever you get your podcasts. We appreciate it and we appreciate you. All right, and we appreciate default for delivering an extra special. Episode 900. Joke. Of the week. The Chris Jericho jumping mckagan. Happy summer. You know, I was at the public pool yesterday. And man, I really had to pee and I so I went down to the deep end and I just kind of like guard got really mad. I guess I should have jumped in the pool and then Pete. Thank you very much, goodbye. That was rotten. Absolutely Ron, until death that was a grown or terrible. But so appropriate for today's special episode, we love you Duff. Thanks for calling in the joke of the week. Every week for the last 5 years. We'll see what he comes up with for episode 1000. It's coming people. You know, we're going to be here probably just about a year from now. But today we got episode 900. We always do something big for the Centennial episodes last year was Rick Rubin. We've got Dennis Miller, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, quite a few very special guests. But today it's going to Naomi, another great one. But today, one of the greats of the wrestling business, a WWE Hall of Famer, a very controversial in a lot of ways, but also a guy that went from being my friend to being my enemy and back to being my friend again. I'm talking about Bill Goldberg. He's making his talk as Jericho debut today for this very special episode 900. We talk about his WCW debut. His WWE debut working with Hogan and Lesnar is friction with Bret Hart, even a couple matches that we had together. He also comments on why he thinks he never had a match of Stone Cold Steve Austin would have been the dream match of dream matches in my opinion. Goldberg explains what brought him back to wrestling in 2016 back to the WWE talks about his relationship with Vince McMahon then and now. And yes, we talk about our infamous locker room brawl. Finally, after all these years, the truth comes out about our famous fight that we had him Milwaukee. All of that and more, here we go with my good friend. And great guests. Bill Goldberg, right here, episode 900 starting now in talk is Jericho, and once again, thanks to all of you for joining us on this ride. Whether you've been here for 900 episodes or this is your first one or anything in between, we appreciate you and I'm going to continue to deliver the best guess and the best podcast I possibly can because it wasn't for you. I wouldn't be here. So thanks to you guys and thanks to Bill. Goldberg here on episode 900. Enjoy. So after 9 years of talk is Jericho, episode 900. One of the biggest guests I've ever had literally and figuratively Goldberg is here. And Matt, so much to talk about, but first of all, I just
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"Welcome to celebrity news everyone. So instead everybody knows a date Whoopi Goldberg. She was suspended for saying that the Holocaust wasn't a about race on the view. And she got, you know, a lot of, you know, a lot of people was very upset about her backlash about her speaking about this. So it's Whoopi Goldberg's away from the view. Leaders in the Jewish community say they hope she takes the time to contain to educate herself about the Holocaust. Even though we are now 77 plus years away from the end of the Holocaust, there are still a lot of misconceptions about what happened during that time and period. So between 1933 and 1945 more than 6 million Jewish people were killed by the Nazi regimen and its collaborative collaborators, the Nazi believed drummers was radically superior. They viewed Jewish people as a separate race, but on her daytime talk show Monday, Goldberg claimed the Holocaust was not about race. You know there needs to be an understand that's actually was racism that was sent to and was few and Nazi. Idealology and policy. Jewish regardless of what they may physically look like appear to us. That's when people have chosen to prosecute Jews they don't consider them white. They consider them physically jewels. Now, a lot of comets came from that. When she made that statement about that, there are not a reason a lot of people felt she was correct. That, you know, it wasn't.
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"It was sort of the history of american noir in detective fiction. And i just learned to read and those books in. They're pretty easy to read. It's not in a lot of complex metaphors to i walked up and shot a guy in the head and robert parker spencer. Books are very i mean. They are all dialogue. they're fun you just. It is like eating potato chips. I just love and robert robert. Burke was a huge influence on me too. I'm right now. If i turned my computer around and show you a photo of teenage me in robert parker and him signing my copy of a catskill eagle which i cork board But so you don't. I was reading those books as my young adult fiction. That was like the there weren't john. Green wasn't thing you know thirties. So if you want to read books you're reading adult fiction or you're reading kids books. So i read all those books and just inhaled them. And i've always loved the anti hero anti-heroes or my thing and so lawrence block naturally appealed to me his humor the depth of his characterizations so lawrence walk on more leonard dengue west. Like the. that's my. That's my mount rushmore chair. And so i always wanted to write about you know a the wanted to challenge of. How do you make a bad guy. The hero like how bad guy in such a way that readers find empathy amendments. That was an idea that had gone in my head for very long time And so over the years. You know. I i read you know. Probably sixty of his books you know just a an absolute ton of and at the same time my brother who had mentioned He started publishing books as well and he mourns blocked became friends and then he introduced block to me and we became friends as well What i remember most. There's a moment in time where i was like. How is this my life like how how my experience. We're in seattle for some sort of book conference. I was there. My brother lee was there in lawrence. Walk was there in. Lee was like hey we should which she gets dinner lawrence like how can can i come along and i was like spot. Come along ballard's into long almost half of course and so like we're we're walking to dinner distorted talking about you know whatever is talking about and hearing scudder talk. Yes you're having a conversation with scudder as your as you're walking to the fish place on the water and then we're sitting there at dinner and i'm not a shy person. i like. i can talk to anyone. My brother is like me on steroids. He also not a shy guy. Terrible musical tastes as as before. So the three of us are at dinner and lee lawrence walker talking. And i'm just i'm staring at. Lawrence watt eating a steak and. My endurance gets up to the bathroom or something. My brother's like why aren't you talking. And i was like. Because i'm thirteen years. Old and learns block is a dinner. With how.
Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"goldberg" Discussed on Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"To hear him up there playing songs about essentially being haunted by the past so walking into the future. It lets you sort of know emotionally that there's gonna be another side. You know that that you will get through the thing that Has this all these things that have the of so wait as downs last year and for many of us myself at least the last four years where you felt like man i don't i don't know like january. Twenty twenty one that a real thing is or is it like candy lamb but you think might be real you hope israel where you really have no chance of. Hello everyone everyone. And welcome to a new episode. Of set lesson. Bruce your podcast. All about bruce springsteen his music and mostly as fans. I am your host jesse jackson and joining me. Tonight is going to be a fun one. I have a podcast or writer springsteen fan and it just found out we are. We are members of the mutual Admiration society if the great lawrence block so Tod goldberg welcome to the show. Thank for having me. I did not know that this was a dream of mine until you approached me about being on the show. And i went and i listened to like seventy five episodes and had a handwriting. Ninety five can i had. I had some serious argument to some people discussions. I wanna have. I think j armstrong might be wrong about a lot of things that i absolutely loved the show and you know the thing about writers is that we're all failed musicians or we all wish that we were musicians. Yes so whenever bunch of novelists get in a room together we talk about writing books we talked about springsteen neil young and visible and you know all all of our singer songwriters that we love. Because we don't we don't have the body to stand up on stage and we can't do anything in four minutes or less. I assure you well. I don't know if you've listened. But you know the writer. Ron martz joined me me. Talked about that Springsteen and stephen king has to to speak influences on his writing and so i i i have i. I had a friend of a guy who's a fan of my doctor. Who podcast said that. I don't know if you do a springsteen pond gas as much as you do a podcast where you talked to interesting people. And the host happens the love. Resp- thing so i said i don't know i'm so glad And todd it's it is in some ways. I guess embarrassing but I am always searching. Like if i've run into someone on twitter. That makes a comment about bruce or music or darkness on the edge of town or you know Or i can't. I can't believe that people are playing born in the usa outside trump's hospital. This song i immediately like. Hey i do a springsteen podcasts. You ought to join me you know i have to say the one of the great enduring things about america is misunderstanding board..