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Road Trip After Hours w/ WWE Hall of Famer Teddy Long and Host Mac Davis
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Road Trip After Hours w/ WWE Hall of Famer Teddy Long and Host Mac Davis
Celebrating 100 Episodes with WWE ICON TRISH STRATUS!
What if you could hear untold stories and hilarious moments from a WWE Hall of Famer herself? Join us on Wrestling's Road Trip After Hours as we celebrate our 100th episode with none other than the legendary Trish Stratus! Teddy Long and Mac Davis share side-splitting anecdotes and inside jokes from their years of friendship with Trish. Plus, Trish takes us on a nostalgic journey from her early dreams of becoming a doctor to the surprising turn that led her to fitness modeling and wrestling. We revisit iconic moments from the Attitude Era that cemented her status as a wrestling icon.
But that’s not all! In this special episode, we also explore the exciting possibility of Trish making a return to the ring. Listen as she discusses her unwavering passion for wrestling and what might inspire her comeback. Trish also gives us a behind-the-scenes glimpse into her role as a judge on "Canada's Got Talent," sharing both the challenges and triumphs of judging aspiring performers. Finally, we delve into her compelling WWE Legends biography, reflecting on its impact and significance. Don’t miss out on this heartfelt and exhilarating celebration with one of wrestling’s most beloved figures!
Hey, all this is WWE Superstar Sammy Zayn. Selena Vega here, yours truly, the half-man, half-amazing, montel Montavious Porter, mvp You're listening to Road Trip After Hours with Mac Davis and Hall of Famer Teddy Long With a certified G and a bonafide stud. And I'm not even talking about me, I'm talking about Teddy Long and my man, Mac Davis. How you guys doing. Enjoy the show, guys.
Speaker 3:Ron Simmons here, aka Baruch, and I want to wish Mac Davis and my very good friend Teddy Long congratulations on their 100th episode on Road Trip After Hours. Brother, their 100th episode. And guess what? When you reach a milestone like that, there's only one thing that you can say.
Speaker 1:Damn. When you reach a milestone like that, there's only one thing that you can say Damn, let's celebrate Celebration. We gonna celebrate and have a good time, everyone around the world. Come on, yahoo, it's a celebration. Celebrate good times. Come on. Come on and celebrate tonight, everything's gonna be all right. Let's celebrate, celebrate good times. Come on, celebrate good times To celebrate 100 weekly episodes. Wrestling's Road Trip After Hours announces our special guest, trish Stratus, a legend whose dreams became reality. Trish Stratus Trailblazer. Trish Stratus, trailblazer. Stratus, faction. Wwe Hall of Famer Historical 448-day reign as WWE Women's Champion the longest reign of any Women's World Champion in the 21st century. Seven-time WWE Women's World Champion. Get Stratisfied. It's our 100th episode celebration with WWE Hall of Famer. Trish Stratus.
Speaker 4:Catty motherfucking Long.
Speaker 5:Oh, that's a great way to start.
Speaker 2:Well, see, you just don't know that's an inside joke with me and Trish. We started that go many, many years ago. I'm telling you, man, and nobody really knows that but me and her.
Speaker 5:Maybe that's something we need to be talking about when we start this show. Let's just do it right now. Hello everybody and welcome to a very special episode. This is our 100th episode of Teddy and I's Wrestling's Road Trip. After Hours, Again, as I mentioned, we have WWE Hall of Famer, mr Teddy Long hey.
Speaker 2:Teddy. Hey, what's going on? Max, tell you what, man, I don't want to waste any time here today because we've got a real special guest and, like you said, this is our 100th episode. And to have this lady here on our show on our 100th episode, man, what an honor it is, and I just want to take the time now to say Trees Stratus.
Speaker 4:Thank you so very much for coming on the show and being a part of our 100th episode, and I just let's just thank you, thank you, thank you Well you know what they say, right?
Speaker 2:Thank you, trish. So it kind of works, doesn't it? Oh?
Speaker 4:it's absolutely my pleasure. I know we've been trying to do this for a long time. You know you and I go way back and every time we see each other post-life, we're like we got to do this, it'll be fun and we just finally found the time and it's apropos as the hundreds were celebrating. So congratulations on that first of all, and I'm honored to be here today.
Speaker 5:Trish, let me ask you you started out, we were starting the show and you were kind of poked fun at Teddy. You had a special introduction and Teddy you mentioned there's a story behind that. You want to share that?
Speaker 2:Well, you know, like Trish said, me and her we go way back, man. We had a great time working with each other, and so sometimes I'd just come down to the dumb down and I'd see Trish and I'd holler at her. And one day Trish looks at me and she says, teddy, motherfucking Long. And so I love that. So that's how we spoke to each other. Every time we would see each other, it didn't make no difference where we were or how many years it had been, but that was our logo, and Trish remembered that. So thank you, trish.
Speaker 4:Oh my God, that was our greeting for years and years and years. Right Like great Love that.
Speaker 5:Trish, let me ask you. I was looking around some of your early history.
Speaker 4:Oh, I thought I lost you guys for a second. No, no, you still got us.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 4:I was looking at some history on you and I saw where you actually started out wanting to be a doctor. Hold on, I am having an audio problem, guys. Uh-oh, oh there, I don't know what happened there. Okay, there we go.
Speaker 5:There you go. I was just going to ask you though.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I mean, I was on track that's what you know as a kid and you know my biography on A&E recently aired and they dug up this picture because I keep everything it helps when you have a biography not help working in the medical field as a you know job as a kid and then volunteering. I did volunteer work at the hospitals but yeah, that was my life's mission till my university went on strike and I was like, oh, my plans were kind of just on hold. And then that's when you know I always say one door closes, another one opens. That's when all these opportunities, the fitness modeling et cetera, which led to the wrestling, happened. But I was steadfast, that was the goal.
Speaker 5:You were involved in a lot of Attitude Era moments. For a lot of people in that era, I mean, you were a fixture of the Attitude Era and a lot of those things got to be where the clips. You still see them today, whether it's the compromising positions with Hunter and Stephanie walking in barking like a dog, or the bra and panty matches. Was there a moment for you where somebody came up and offered an idea where you simply said no, no, no, no, that's not going to happen.
Speaker 4:Yeah, oh my gosh, there was plenty. There was, you know, and it's funny because a lot of people say, oh man, you guys had to do a lot of stuff that you didn't want to do, and not that I wanted to do a lot of stuff that you didn't want to do, and not that I wanted to do a bra and panties match, but it was like we we, we knew it was about picking our battles right, like when, when me and fit were sort of working and starting to work, like you know, wrestling, we would get, you know, we would go during the day and we'd work on matches and and work. We, as in the females, can offer more than they're allowing us to do, but it's not worth the battle. Right now, I will do this gravy bowl match that you've asked me to do because it's thanksgiving. I get it, we get it. It's a tv product, that's what's what we do, um, but we're gonna make it cool. I'm gonna get thrown off the stage to kick it off and make people say holy shit first, and then we'll do your stupid little gravy bowl match.
Speaker 4:And, yes, there were times when I said no. You know, I learned, though, it wasn't about saying no, it was about? It was a no, how about no? But you know, it was about saying I'm not gonna never say no straight, I'm not doing that, but I mean, hey, I mean maybe we can achieve it by doing this. And you know, there was a way to sort of speak so that you could sort of achieve what they wanted to achieve, but do it a little bit different. But no, there was a couple instances, though, that I said there was a no. That wasn't taken well, though, yeah. Yeah, there were times where you know, I'm like did I just lose the championship Because I said that was because of the no?
Speaker 5:Okay, so you knew it. When it came, you would feel it right.
Speaker 4:For sure, for sure, and that confirmed, you knew it when it came you would feel it right. For sure, for sure, and I confirm. I remember going to Lawler. I'm like, did I just lose that? I did? Okay, yeah, no Good to know.
Speaker 5:Noted, teddy would know that Put it right up here.
Speaker 2:Well, what it's called is you know, you got heat because you learned how to protect yourself.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Right. Do you happen to remember when you and Teddy first met, first time we met, I mean, okay, let's see, I don't know, that was two decades ago.
Speaker 5:Yeah man, I don't even remember that you don't even remember.
Speaker 4:I just remember we were, you know, we were suddenly. I mean, obviously we were back, we were in the same company and I always say, like why are we so close, everyone that we work with, especially back in the day we were all in this you know circus like environment, where we were this traveling roadshow right, we were together achieving a goal. We were all tired together, we were all dragging our asses together. We're all complaining about 300 mile drives. Together, we're all saying, oh my God, you got to try the catering, you know, together. And so that's what really bogged us and why we have this like camaraderie, why we're so close and to this day, 20 years later, why we're still friends and connected, right, um, but I know specifically like we got closer and when the teddy motherfucking long and trish motherfucking strata came along, uh was probably when we worked closer with with jazz, right, the introduction of jazz and, um, you know, teddy long, managing right.
Speaker 2:so and uh, and most of the thing right, most of the stuff that I did with Trish were the backstage promos. We did a whole bunch of those together, and so that's how we became so close too, man, because she was good at the backstage promos. Man, we had a lot of fun Back then. The era was great. Everybody enjoyed their time at work. I mean, it was just, you know, it was absolutely great.
Speaker 5:You know you left wrestling, Go ahead.
Speaker 4:Well, I was going to say well, what was really fun is when we would go and do the house shows, right, the live events were times we could really get into it and really have some fun. Teddy, you remember the time we had with the boot? Right, there was the boot.
Speaker 2:Well, I took my shoe off and I threw it to jazz. Yes, no-transcript.
Speaker 5:You basically retired, but you have come back in some prominent matches. The last match I recall was you and Becky Lynch in the cage. I think that was a payback maybe 2023. Incredible match. Not something I expected out of you. To be honest, when you went into that match, what was your mindset?
Speaker 4:I love it, so why did you not expect it for me as a older, senior, retired wrestler?
Speaker 5:or just not to extract style it was just a little rougher around the edges than I expected to see you go into. Which is what? What made the match, to be honest, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, oh, I love that, I love hearing that. Like that's, I think, what I mean. I felt like, first of all, first and foremost, two things happen. Number one is that feud, the rivalry, called for that. It sort of needed that to culminate too, with the whole like oh, summerslam not happening and let's continue like a whole thing right. Like I feel like it needed that kind of a match to like conclude this wild, you know, journey that we had been on. Number two I had always said, you know, when I do make my returns, they're calculated and there are boxes that need to be checked.
Speaker 4:And you know, I want to be able to go back and there's a number of things I want to. I want to elevate new talent. I want to do, you know, do things new for the fans. There's things I want to do and I just had thrown it out there. I was like, look, I've never had a cage match. I just I want to. Is that too much to ask for a girl she's been in the business for a quarter century to have a cage match, you know. But it's just, it is a little bit of the I didn't get to do these things when I was there, of this, you know, this landscape that we like to say me, jazz, molly, victoria, alita, like we built, we had a little you know hand in building the foundation to be able to go back and dip my toes in that water Amazing and to do things that we were not able to do back in the day. And now it was like damn, I'm in this like high profile match, that's a cage match no-transcript.
Speaker 5:Comments that possibly we have not seen the end of trish stratus in the ring. Uh, anything, you can share, any ideas you have coming up down the line.
Speaker 4:I mean, I'm thinking, if Teddy wants to do some managing, again there's an idea. No, I just, you know, I just keep saying this. I really have said this since I retired in 2006, that if I can go at 100%, if I can keep going, I will. And so there's really, because it's such a creative, you know, ongoing machine, there's always ideas and there's always, there's always a way to like, can we utilize? You know the legend, can we use Trish in this scenario and things like that?
Speaker 4:I didn't mean to call myself a legend, I just meant, like you know, a different way to approach the talent, right, and so, yeah, so, so there's always ideas and I just, like I said, if those check, those boxes are checked and it's interesting and it's fun and like, the fans will be like, damn, I want this. Um, it's definitely. I consider it and will it fit into my lifestyle? Will my kids be okay if mama went back on the road for just a little bit? Can I balance things and to me it's important to. When I did that last comeback it was about can I find that balance, um, and still, do you know life and uh, and not get completely absorbed by that as well?
Speaker 5:so, so, let's talk about Canada's Got Talent. You've been on that show now for a couple of years. What?
Speaker 4:surprises you the most when you judge these programs that people will come on stage and you know this is a big moment for them. They've prepared, they say their whole life and then they come on stage and they absolutely, as we say in the business, shit the bed it's really shocking you know, teddy, right?
Speaker 4:uh, there's times where you're like, wow, like that was, this is the day, this is what you brought. That is wow, you know. But they really believe that they're good, right, they? I'm like, I, you know, and you're looking at your fellow judges and you can hear the audience booing like it's. You know this means you're not good you, you know as a referee that's different, right, but in our, in that world, it's it's suck.
Speaker 4:It hit that buzzer. You know what I mean. But yeah, some people are like really bad and it's, you know, and it's hard to crush people's dreams, but I was OK at doing that.
Speaker 5:I was, what kind of days were those? I imagine?
Speaker 4:those had to be long recording days, because you're getting a lot of talent in one day just to record correct. Yeah, we would do them in clusters so it would be like a week. This is audition week and I would say last season we saw 140 acts in the. It's a lot and it's like two sessions and then you get a teeny little break and then another session and it is very. You get to the point where you're just like how can I say yes or no in a new and creative way, like it's a lot right, but it's super fun and a lot of it's all organic and you know it's um, it's, it's a good it was. It was neat to be on that side of things to like help, you know, kind of being part of realizing someone's dreams. And like last two seasons ago I I had picked the golden or the golden, my golden buzzer was the winner. So that was cool to know that I had a part in like helping someone realize their dreams. So it's very cool.
Speaker 5:Trish, I appreciate your time being with us today on our 100th episode. We couldn't ask for somebody better. As you mentioned, we've been going back and forth trying to work out a date and when we realized the 100th episode was coming up, we knew right then this is the episode for Trish, and thank you so much for taking the time. I do want to talk about, before we get out of here, your WWE Legends biography, which is streaming. That was incredible. I have seen that. I know many folks. Teddy, have you had a chance to have the opportunity to see this yet? Of course I've seen that.
Speaker 2:What are?
Speaker 5:you talking about. Yeah, for me, going back and seeing the true story and the stories of some of the people I watched growing, you know, up wrestling uh during my time uh was just incredible and and I do appreciate your time I know how valuable it is and I know you got kids to get to, so we won't hold you up anymore, but thank you so much for being with us so what was it you wanted to say to conclude it?
Speaker 4:you wanted to say three words. What was it, teddy give it say to conclude?
Speaker 2:it. You wanted to say three words. What was it, teddy? Give it to him. Teddy, motherfucking Long you.
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