4:00

You need to stop living in this world

4:02

where everybody's perfect, okay? It's real parents out

4:04

here, okay? You gotta deal with real kids,

4:06

you gotta deal with real situations, right? Trying

4:08

to do work, kids coming down the stairs,

4:10

kids barging in the room, it happens. Oh,

4:13

it's summer vacation too, so everybody's off on

4:15

summer break. It's like, I don't get to

4:17

just record the show in peace anymore now,

4:19

it's- Work don't stop, work don't stop. Work

4:21

don't stop, but it does for them. But

4:24

they want the time, they want the time.

4:26

Gotta give it to them. Well, I've gotta

4:28

say, so I've known your

4:30

work for a very, very long time. But

4:33

I feel like in the last year, especially

4:35

with the advent of collision, it really feels

4:37

like the AEW audience has really gotten a

4:39

chance to get to know Shane Taylor and

4:42

get to experience this iteration of

4:45

Shane Taylor promotions, because we've seen

4:47

various other iterations. This is the

4:49

current incarnation that includes Anthony Agogo,

4:51

Lee Moriarty. I wanna talk

4:54

about the background of the group for

4:56

those unaware of what Shane Taylor promotions

4:58

is and what it has been in the

5:00

past. Shane Taylor promotions is, if

5:04

you were to think of it in rap group

5:06

terms, Shane Taylor promotions is death

5:08

row. That's what we get to

5:10

be, that's who we are. I

5:12

take people that society

5:15

or other people in this industry

5:17

have told, you can't be this.

5:20

We don't see creative plans for

5:22

you. You'll never

5:24

reach these heights. There

5:26

are people who have this job that

5:28

you're just not quite qualified to

5:31

have this job. I take people like

5:33

that. I take people like Lee Moriarty,

5:35

who people have said, we don't know how to

5:38

market him. How do you not know

5:40

how to market one of the best technical wrestlers on the

5:42

planet? But because we live in a society

5:44

where he comes from a two parent household, he's not

5:46

a thug, he's not a pimp, he's not, well, we

5:48

just don't know what to do with him, wrong. I

5:51

know what to do with him, right? And I've had individuals

5:54

like this throughout my

5:57

career, I've been blessed to be able to have

5:59

people on. on the side of me like a

6:01

Bishop Kahn, like a Moses, like

6:03

an O'Shea Edwards, like a Ron

6:05

Hunt. People who have stood next

6:07

to me in these foxholes

6:09

and are ready to go to war with me

6:12

when we go out to the ring, but more

6:14

importantly, they have a similar

6:16

mindset and have similar goals for

6:19

how we represent ourselves outside of the

6:22

ring. And to me, when

6:24

you bring all of that into a

6:26

combat sports area, that's

6:28

what you get with Shane Taylor promotions.

6:31

I also wanted to bring up Anthony Agogo because

6:33

this was something, and like Anthony's phenomenal.

6:35

Like I love him as a person.

6:38

And then it's hard because wrestling still kind of

6:40

follows that like, oh, it's a fake sport. It's

6:42

like, it's not like we all walk away with

6:44

bumps and bruises and whatnot, right? But like Anthony

6:47

is a legit athlete, a Olympic

6:49

gold medalist. So when he ended up with you

6:51

guys, it just made all the sense in the

6:54

world to me. You guys are

6:56

all about throwing punches and being scrappy. And

6:58

then you've got the guy on

7:00

the roster that is the most about it,

7:02

right? And I'm like, the dude's literally at

7:04

the Olympics commentating this week at boxing.

7:08

You can't get more legit than that. It's

7:10

pretty dope. Anybody else from the AEW

7:13

roster commentating at the Olympics right

7:15

now? Nope, don't think so. I

7:17

think so. And just to clarify, right?

7:19

Before the internet, people go crazy. He

7:22

did win a bronze, not a

7:24

gold, but nonetheless, Olympic

7:27

medalists. People sitting in their basement still didn't

7:29

do that. So screw you guys. That's it,

7:31

listen, don't get me started on these internet

7:33

people, please. Trying to have

7:35

a nice show. I'm chilling, I'm Zen. Cause

7:39

these internet chumps, man. I

7:43

come from a world where you

7:45

have to be very careful of the things that you

7:47

say and the things that you do, because there are

7:49

consequences for the things that you say and the things

7:52

that you do. Almost immediate consequences,

7:54

right? Depending on where you're at.

7:57

And so I don't live in this world that most

7:59

people seem to be.