La Booyah event preview, wrestling talk, lost films

And we are back. It's us once again this week, wrestling with the pop culturians. I'm the dynamic Joey Gaynor. Paul McGee. Dan Madigan. The Unholy Three. And we're here bringing you everything you need. Am I right? I think you are right, Joey. I think for a change I'm right. And then some. And then some, exactly. Some of the stuff you may not even want. We even make things up. Hey, great stuff happened this week. Lots of crazy stuff and some really great stuff coming up this weekend. Yep. La Bula. La Bula's coming up Saturday. La Bula's coming up Saturday. April 11th. Yeah, that's going to be a hell of a show, man. All the artists. Dan, tell us all about it. Get us a little. Well, I'll give you a little prime before you talk. But La Bula is a collaboration between me, Antonio Palayo, who we've had on before, and Steve Guerrero, a friend of ours. And basically, Antonio and I have been friends for 25 years. And we both realized when we were at Disney Animation, we shared a passion for lucha libre and art. And over almost a quarter of a century, we've been going back and forth, going to art galleries together, shows together. We've built our friendship. We've built our friendship. We've built our friendship. We've built our friendship. We've built our, you know, our skills as artists and as, you know, storytellers. Because I worked, you know, I worked in pro wrestling, lucha libre. And we decided one day, you know, Antonio's been doing a great show called El Vario, which we went to a couple months ago at Plaza de la Raza. He's been doing this great show. And the concept came, well, let's take the same concept, more or less, but do a lucha libre one. And the response has been insane. I never thought it would be to this point. We just started. We started talking. We'll do a lucha libre thing. It's a combination of wrestling. It's a combination of wrestling, art, and music. And the concept is that we all basically, all these things are brought together by passion. The passion of the wrestlers, the wrestling fans, the artists, the art collector, the musicians, and the fans. And it just seemed like a natural hybrid to bring these things together. And it's been crazy. I mean, everyone's jumping on board, which is great. We have sponsors, Tito's Vodka, Hamador Tequila, Stella Rosa, Yurito's, the American Diabetes Association, which I think cancels out the first. I don't know how that happened. Everyone's promoting. That's in my honor. My honor. That's how you sleep at night, isn't it? I told them on stage, you'll donate a finger and a toe. Yeah, that's already on my license. So we've already got, I hung up the show, the art portion of the show, Saturday, and we have over 100 artists, well-known guys, Shepard Fairey, the Obey artist, the Andre the Giant artist, who did the whole poster. He donated three pieces. New York Times bestseller illustrator, Califf Brown. My friend, Ed McGinty, who was a photographer, he worked on my book. He's on Boardwalk Empire as an actor. He has pieces in. Pale Horse came in. He's coming in. He's a famous illustrator. Right across the board, everyone involved said, we want to be part of it. I mean, Chewy Quintana. I mean, I have famous tattoo artist, Freddie Negrete. Everyone wants to be part of it. And so from the musician side, from the artist side, the wrestling, I've got four matches. I have some great wrestlers. I got Brian Kendrick coming for the main event. Cool. Are you allowed to say that on the air? I can say that. Seeing it's on the posters and stuff now, I can say that. I can say that. Well, it's certainly not on the billboard, but man, you can't drive around Los Angeles without seeing this. Yeah, the billboard. We were very, very, I want to thank the guys. The billboard was a great touch. We have two billboards. One's on the 710, one's on the 605. And the day we put the billboard up, me and Antonio were setting up our LLC in the bank. We were getting phone calls from Spanish radio stations as they had seen the billboard. That's the power of advertising. I didn't realize it was amazing. And so Azteca TV's, they're coming down on board. We've been on the Spanish version of the LA Times. Lo Pinon's going to be down there. We were just featured in Brooklyn and Boyle. Kiss FM will be coming down. K-Rock's talking about it. So it's just a fun event, April 11th at the Plaza de la Raza. It's 21 and over. That's a big stipulation. Sorry, kiddies. Yeah, well, Antonio's son, Isaac, was fantastic. I mean, he was in the show. He can't come. My son can't come. I mean, I said, and my son said, why? I said, well, unless you change the drinking laws in the state of California, you know, it's 21 and over. We have to be responsible for the sponsors. We're going to have vendors. We have security. It's just an all-out great event. So later on the show, we'll talk about it again. We've got some trailers to show, some of the artwork. I had to share some of the artwork. It was just amazing. I mean, I was texting people as each piece was coming in. It was amazing. And to see all the different variations of the Lucha Libre theme expand upon it was great. I got to tell you, Dan, what I really love about this event is that it reminds me a lot of this show where, you know, we all have wrestling as kind of a jumping off point. But you mentioned it, music, art. We've talked comic book, things like that. And it's amazing how it all comes together. Movies. I was reading about The Rock today. He's in Fortune magazine this month. And he talks about his rags to riches story and him growing up. And getting evicted and promising, you know, I'll never be evicted from a place again. And then he just takes off and all the good luck he's had. But that comes coupled, of course, with a lot of hard work. Which I know you've been putting in a lot of hard work. Yeah, we've put a lot. I mean, you've got to give credit to Antonio. Antonio really, because he's the driving force behind this. Not just an artist, but it's like spearheading this. He's did El Barrio for five years. And he's taken that knowledge and that experience to La Booyah. Yeah. But the response we've got. But it's been off the chart. I mean, we never expected it to be like this. Everyone's coming. I get people from Florida flying in. San Francisco coming in. I get guys coming all over. Wrestlers coming from Mexico. There's some surprise guests coming. I can't really say right now. But this has really built this momentum. Because we want to do this every year. And it is inclusive. All inclusive. Because we always think that the thing that unites the fans. We've said this before on the show. It's the passion. Whether it's wrestling. Whether it's comic books. Whether it's a movie. It's the passion. It's the passion. It's the passion. It's the passion. It's the passion. It's the passion. It's the passion. It's shared between the practitioner and the fan. And that's what brings us all together. Because you come Saturday night, April 11th at Plaza de la Raza. Seven o'clock. You're going to see a lot of happy people there. I bet. Absolutely. I should be back from Santa Barbara by then. Oh yeah. We go seven o'clock. It shouldn't be that much traffic. No. Otherwise you're going to have to move. Traffic in Los Angeles. But yeah, later on in the show. We're going to recap what happened. But later on in the show, I've got a couple of clips to show some artworks. I really want to just share the artwork with you guys. Great. That's great. Now, let's... Let's talk about something that happened Monday night. Monday Night Raw. Uh-oh. Dan, I want your opinion on this. Why did they throw Adrian Neville in the garbage, basically? You know what? I wish I had an answer. We hinted. We were talking about this earlier. Not too much in depth. But I'm kind of mystified about that. Here's a guy who in NXT is really shining. They've done promos. They've done commercials with this kid. They've brought him up. He's got skills. He's got amazing skills. I mean, he's got great lucha skills. He's a high-fly. He did a great Hara-Karana. I mean, he's got a presence about him. So, you've built him up, built him up, built him up and was saying, Okay, we're going to bring you to the big-time kid. You come in the big-time kid. Or this is your big-shot and he comes in with a match with Seth Rollins and basically, he loses. Now, he had a great match but at the end of the day, he lost. Well, I got to tell you, I thought it was an excellent match. It was a great, great match but he still lost. the lust those two uh i think it goes a lot to the credit of nxt that the way that they're teaching them and they're making them go through the same type of thing you see that in the style of the wrestling like they know each other a little bit better they they learn the same moves the same ways so that i mean they were selling these moves they were great i mean it was a great match great match and you said like you said to joey what at the end of the match you're planning this out what's the outcome we're bringing this kid up he's looking really strong in the show we're making a presence for him no he comes to the big time on raw and he has a great match but he loses so i don't know what you're trying i mean is there anyone on the roster there's no one else you could have put match this kid with i mean i'd hate to see him become a jobber all of a sudden after all the work he's doing i gotta tell you fellas i have a completely opposite opinion on this and i want to say a big shout out to seth rollins because man that guy's killing it oh he's yeah fantastic greatest heel since buddy ron john tolis i i'm gonna go down my heel list of favorite heels and i gotta put him up there in the top five because benito mussolini that's no benito mussolini and uh lenny dirksen who's lived in my building yeah but the bottom line is his ability to piss people off immediately and i'll tell you man that matthew mcconaughey thing comes out every time he's got that he's got great natural heel heat i mean i mean vince once said that buddy rogers had it he couldn't explain how he had he just had people want to punch him in the face and they saw him oh yeah and i think seth has that in a good way when people want to kill you and assault you you're doing a job yeah but he and the great thing about him is when he cuts these promos you don't realize he's cutting these promos um sometimes he gets the sides or the the promo sometimes right before the show starts you know sometimes he'll he knows what to say other times it's right at the top of his head so just to sit there to do that and not to fuddle the words up to keep going and to keep that momentum going and to have everyone constantly hate you is great and here's the i was watching i was watching him thinking how much i hate this guy right because he's doing his job and you think about this when he turns it's going to be massive the momentum that he's going to have when he turns face went down the road eventually eventually yeah but he'll have such momentum yeah it's good and and i realized i learned that from vince he says when someone's really hated when they're really despised and you want to kill them it's that easy to turn them and we did it once in a match it was amazing and it's true because you have this all this emotion funneled one way and when he turns it's going to be the greatest face turn i ever saw in the history of bruno san martino and gorilla monsoon for those of you who remember or even if you don't but the point point was the the rivalry was unmatched it was they could have had a match every month at the garden it would have sold out and uh the uh von eric was waldo von eric the great nazi wrestler yes attacked bruno and all of a sudden the announcer said uh-oh here comes monsoon and monsoon came in cleaned house on von eric hauled bruno up and carried him helped him back to the dressing room and that that because we were watching yeah we were all watching this and when monsoon came in we're all kids and we're like oh my god no now they're gonna kill him and he turned and we were like i don't believe it what was you know and that is what's going to happen with seth rod it's happening with randy orton yeah yeah it is it's a great it is it's not so much that randy is a face it's well it's it's the great anti-hero yeah it's and this has always been it's it goes back look at the road warrior the film the road warrior how mad max was he was the anti-hero we've had you know literature and films always has the anti-hero and it's like steve austin's perfect he's not quite a good guy not quite he's his own guy which is great i have my own agenda i'm gonna go by my own rules and i think randy's lesnar lesnar exactly lesnar and and once again we want to give our condolences and we want to give best wishes to michael call a speedy recovery he really got hurt yeah he's he's it's it's a terrible it's i understand the therapy includes sun tanning um lounging a lot of sauna drinks with umbrellas drinks with umbrellas little tiny wooden umbrellas and a lot of cigar smoking cigar smoking and above all keeping the feet up excellent right above the head above the head exactly so a speedy recovery to michael call yes and everybody else got better real fast but back to you thank god but back to your point about neville and that you wanted to talk about i i think and i think joy thinks the same thing i'm mystified why you would bring a guy up like this and it was a great match i'll say but at the end of the day this kid lost it was the extra you know what it was it was the second uh curb stomp that was the embarrassment if you lose to the champ you lose to the champ he's the champ right but when he calls his guys in hold him up i'm going to embarrass you and he says it the only thing i could think is in the back of my mind adrian neville's going to have one hell of a revenge match with this guy yeah and you know great that that uh he got the honor to step in the ring with our champ no that's true which is it which it is a big it is kind of a big deal and he really showed he really shined and that's the awesome entrance oh yeah he's an awesome mentor this kid's got some awesome talent and hopefully they just bring them along the right way and they don't sort of put them in that nether region of like jobbing losing i mean because there's a lot of talent that used to be we were watching in the 70s and 80s they'd always have the enhancement matches yeah the squash but they're not going to be strong they don't do that anymore they don't do it but the roster is very very very seldom you see a match with some local indie talent coming in the ring you know and they did that with the ascension they were bringing in yeah guys that looked like they were delivering uh pieces but here's the thing dan to your point it's i hope he doesn't get buried in the roster because i'll tell you there's a lot of that roster that is already buried i i didn't see ziggler i didn't see daniel bryan and and not just calling those two out but i i gotta think about it and and you had multiple people with multiple matches that night you know uh reigns had two matches that night um orton had two matches that night the big guy right back right back two matches that night and it's like was everyone else there's only so much tv time sometimes i watch and i go man three hours is too much i like this underground one hour but then i go well i need those three hours because half of the sketches are are the authority and then the other half are going to be you know something that involves them that the other people it's funny you are when you when uh georgia wrestling the tbs was on on saturdays it was three hours sat afternoon yeah excuse me three hours but uh you stayed glued to it because they had they had the mulkey brothers and you knew they were going to get crushed but you didn't know how they had all they had the armstrongs you had the four horsemen you had the four horsemen showing up flare and and everybody wrestled and everybody did their four five seven minute match and it just kept it rolling with the dusty road i'll tell you something you know they had a roster to do that they had they had they had talent the guys coming in from georgia you realize all these guys come up from florida they came down from the north yeah here in texas so like all the territories these guys were seasoned pros you had you had guys in that roster that could work you had a lot of guys you goes hey we need to we need you to do an hour they can do an hour i mean you had these and i don't think the talent is is is quite there yet rick flair and his interviews used to say i want all the women to come out because it's 60 minutes of wrestling then 30 minutes of partying and then a full night on space mountain excuse me and that was the whole and 60 minutes of wrestling i mean they these guys did an hour that's 45 minutes an hour it really it just to do anything for 60 minutes sleep is you know sleep is about the only thing i like to do for 60 when you go to a house show though it's so great because they just keep coming yeah after match it really is little talking it's like man it's exciting when i was on the on the road doing the house shows and stuff it was a whole different vibe because you don't have all the blowing up no you know it's not this pressure but there's not the pressure that you know doing live television right true true well and you know uh we talk about rollins and and these other guys having these matches such as randy orton and you mentioned him as the uh the uh anti-hero but i gotta tell you that i really like this new anti-villain who's coming up and i call him john cena and i call him mark an anti-villain because this is a guy who's coming out he's saying quote-unquote the right things he's doing the right things he's telling the kids you know be good kids and everything and and people are sitting there cheering john cena sucks i don't i don't think that killing me it's it's hilarious because it's fun for them to do and he's welcoming it and he loves it he reminds me a lot of when when kurt angle was at his best yeah he was saying you should resp i am i'm your american hero and i went out and i did it for you in this and the other but the one thing that that kurt had that was a little different is that he demanded respect whereas cena goes out and he says no you know what you paid for your ticket you can boo me if you want and it makes me hate him even more and i love it i love i love uh don't tell me i can't believe you tell me not to boo you but there's too much vested in john cena's rumors now that he was going to turn heo with you know he was with the rock and the wrestlemania thing and like i said every he well john came up he was a heel right he first broke it oh yeah i thought he was a punk bastard and i didn't even like that how do you really feel joey just though but i mean the guy really just um he showed his worth he's really come together and showed what he's what he's a fantastic fantastic athlete i mean but people love to i mean and kurt would always get mad and mad the crowd knew it john let it you know he let's just laugh his back and stuff which is good it's all done in good humor but you know you got to realize too when he was doing the marine the second film for the wwe he was flying from australia uh they were shooting on location back to do raw back to do smack and whatever it was back to do a pay-per-view um on a plane going back and forth finishing up going back to australia i mean that's a lot on your plate man i mean that's a lot to do like to australia no it's draining and this guy was doing it i mean so he really for a long time john carried the company on those broad shoulders yeah you know and um so i'd hate to see him turn again because i don't see how and never say never never say never in this business never say never but i i love i love him getting under the skin just a little bit oh it's great for him and then again that's why i say like an anti-villain he's not the villain but i remember years ago adam morocco was wrestling uh uh tony atlas at the olympic auditorium it was a big wwf show and uh he's atlas is rolling around selling and they're throwing garbage in the ring they're throwing cups and junk in the ring and instead of uh morocco getting upset he just looked out and went more and they threw more and then they were chanting boring and he just stood on the ropes going boring and meanwhile atlas it was very he just continued to sell and roll around and do and the more junk came in and he's pushing it out of the way trying to get up and of course morocco's is picking up the stuff and working them with it oh that's great oh it was awesome and that goes and that goes back to experience that goes back to two guys i mean morocco's done all the territories so alice so they knew how to they knew how to they knew how to get in the crowd exactly and they knew what was going on i mean i've seen this it takes the guy who's been years in the ring to see to check the temperature of the crowd really yeah you know what's going on it's the match going this way it's going that way can we hurry it up i mean if they think it's boring really get them get them hot because when you're bored that's deadly when you're angry that's better it's better so get him so yeah you could take it you get angry and that's what you want we were laughing so hard because we're in the front row and we're watching it we're just laughing go look i've never seen anything like this yeah stuff was coming from the balcony they could have threw the chairs they would have thrown yeah yeah and morocco of course he's a great heat seeker oh what a he's a heat seeking missile that guy he was great but so yeah and monday night raw is an interesting post say post post-war wrestlemania show um i'm waiting for kane to slam seth rollins into a wall i'm waiting i'm waiting for kane to shave his head put the mask on and slam seth rollins into do you think kane is gonna do a well i don't he we've seen authority kane now for how long better part of a year yeah i mean the guy came as the he's this monster and he's getting he's he's gonna his character's in a very short fuse now and he wants to get out of the ring and he's going to get out of the ring and he's going to get out of the ring and he's going to get out of the he wants to get seth rollins he wants to get seth rollins in the ring and i'm waiting for kane to you know when the time's going to come and he still he's still got some longevity to his career i mean it's a and he's he's got heat with the giant they go back and forth oh i was working with them doing some angles with them and stuff was fantastic when you know the giant pushed the car over and stuff yeah it's great this is great stuff i mean um but and and then um big show himself you know now now he's the big guy i don't need andre the giant i'm stepping out of the shadow you know and i love it and you know what we want to hear what you want to think so if you want to tweet us we're at ww pop culture ends or you can call into the studio at 800-893-9562 that's right we're at skid row studios here in beautiful downtown los angeles is that 800-893-9562 that's right joey i believe it's 800-893-9562 800-893-9562 give us a call you might win something hey you might not or you might win something you might not or you might win something no i wanted a little self-promotional thing uh this uh the newest issue of monster memories from scary monsters i am in this i am interviewed uh he is right there yeah i'm right there uh right there with the glasses no there's a great article in here on forest j ackerman oh yeah we all know yeah i worked for fourie uh back in the day and i worked for him for a while yeah and uh for the folks who don't know he published famous monster magazine of course his famous sponsor film land magazine which really was the one of those influential magazines and for guys who like horror movies and sci-fi fantasy and for those of you who are not sure who foray is uncle flory that's uncle forest jay ackerman right there and uh he coined the term sci-fi sci-fi yeah and uh his mansion uh where i worked was the was a museum it was his whole house was actually the sci-fi horror uh thriller all of that and uh boy a guy like me and a of place like there was a kid in a candy store he had a room very quickly had a room where he had all of these uh just just priceless pieces of uh he had one of the ships from war of the worlds oh yeah he had that he had i still have some of the remnants a creature from the black lagoons uh the head because it was crumbling and falling on the floor and i scooped it up but in a closet that was there in a glass door closet were these capes and coats and i would uh spend my lunch hour uh putting on lon cheney's top hat and coat for one after midnight or putting on one of legosi's that's amazing stage uh yeah it was it was just for uncle for is a very nice guy i mean and those are films i mean london after midnight is the golden grail if you could find that film you're a millionaire well i've i've there's been someone i know said the isn't there's a print of it around the world i don't know if it's a print of it around the world i don't know if it's a i don't know the very i'd love to see it but it's i think the it was released like 27 26 27 but it was another title to us london after midnight but they another title is called the hypnotist yeah and supposedly someone saw a copy of the hypnotist in a vault and it was now i don't know how come that wasn't released i mean i'm thinking okay if you've seen it how come everyone doesn't know about it right the i had a guy came into four years one time gave him a book uh london after midnight yeah actual hardcover book 1926 with the photos the photo yeah and you followed it much like you would buy today if you bought a libretto book that's what they call and uh so for he looks at it and goes you want this and i'm like do i do i want the book yeah it doesn't have the jacket but it's in good shape i went uh yeah for you i'll take the book so he signed it to me and uh i was i went home and read it i would and i've been fascinated about that film forever uh it's like it's amazing it's yeah i mean i think that's the same book of the same story but it's the same story but it's the same story but it's the same story but it's the same tcm couple years ago today reenactment and they took it's david it's david brown law i think yes and they took the photos and tried to put the film together as best they could there was i don't know if there was any motion i think i think all they said all the surviving prints supposedly i heard one time there was a print in cuba somewhere but they remade the film in the 30s too it was todd browning and it was um it was on the ambulance no it was no that that was that was the silent film that was um oh right TCM a couple years ago did a reenactment. And they took... It's David Brownlaw, I think. Yes, and they took the photos and tried to put the film together as best they could. They could. There was... I don't know if there was any motion photos. I think all the surviving prints, supposedly, I heard one time there was a print in Cuba somewhere, but they remade the film in the 30s, too. It was Todd Browning. Mm-hmm. And it was... The Zomnambulist? No. No, that was the silent film. That was... Oh, right. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. That would have been, right. But there was Mark of the Vampire. Oh! With Bela Lugosi. Right, right. Bela Lugosi and Carol Boland. Right. Which is actually sort of a dark comedy. Yeah, it is. But if you watch... If you look up any stills from London After Midnight, it's the famous shot of Lon Chimp with the large stovepipe hat. Yeah. He put these wires in his teeth to really... Yeah, yeah. In his teeth. And he walks around a lot like Groucho Marx, like a duck walk, almost, is his character. So it's always been this fascination. People have always... They've seen... You know, stills and posters. But Fari had seen the movie. Yeah. He told me he'd seen the film. So anyone that has seen that film has long since passed away. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know anybody... No one really has seen this movie London After Midnight. You know, it's so funny because there was a... You talk about lost stuff. There was a special effects guy named Paul Bladestand. Oh, one of my favorites. Paul. Paul Bladestand. Paul Bladestand's friend. Yeah, I wound up with the remnants of his collection. Really? Inadvertently. And didn't even... Didn't even realize what I had because I had forgotten about this little lost film. And it turns out I opened up the box and there are... I actually have two prints in 16 millimeter of the cliff monster. Oh, really? It's disappeared. I have it. And I have an 8 millimeter print and I have... He put out a thing called Filmland Monsters, a little short film of his stuff. And it's like a trailer type of a montage. And then I also found in that box a... A reel of color film that he had shot for whatever reason. He was going to do another one of his own things. And I had no idea at the time that this was Bladestand. This was his. It came out of the house where his wife lived without electricity or water for years. He made this props there? I mean... He made everything there and I had a... I also got a copy of the first famous monsters, number one. And I don't know, about 500... 78 records, 78s, and a whole bunch of other albums in that. But it was just fascinating that after all this time, I had him in a box. I didn't even realize that was the Cliff Monster. And so, if anybody wants Bud... Well, but he... Bladestand's work for most... For AIP, American International Pitches. They paid him nothing. No, he made these props in his... Amazing stuff. With his friend Bob Burns in his garage. The Terror from Outer Space. Uh... Uh... Uh... Uh... He did... He did... Invasion of the Saucerman. Mm-hmm. He did... It was the one with... Now my mind's going blank. Not the beginning of the end. That's the one with the giant grasshopper. There's one with... I think he did the one with Frank Gorshin. Yeah, that's the one. Invasion of the Saucerman. Right. That was the one with Frank Gorshin. He did the one with Levi Cleef. She-Creature. He did the She-Creature. That was with Chester Morris, I think was... He did the She-Creature. Was in that one, yeah. And it's... Paul Blaisdell, it was like... He was the American International Pitches, we'll say, Jack Pierce. Yeah, and they gave him no money. They kept coming to him with nothing, and finally he said, I'm not doing it anymore. And he died broke. I think it was stomach cancer or something, but... Very sad, but at the same time, the guy now is one of the biggest cult figures in the... Oh, absolutely, yeah. ...in the world, and... They make models of him now. Yeah. He played one of the Saucermen. Mm-hmm. And you can see these little models of Paul Blaisdell with the Saucerman. There's one movie that he actually appears in and speaks. It's called... Oh, Ghost of... Oh, Drax Apollo? Drax Apollo. Drax Apollo. And at the end, he comes out as the ghost and goes, you don't know me because I'm always under the mask. I'm the man who makes the monsters. Yeah. But they don't know me. And I didn't even realize then who that was. I mean, I was... I got separated from my favorite thing, this stuff, for a few years. And I was watching... I watched the movie and I went, wait a minute, that's... And then I realized that's Paul Blaisdell. Paul Blaisdell. So if you're a horror movie guy, a sci-fi guy, you look up this stuff, the early Roger Coleman stuff, the American... AIP stuff. AIP. And you look at the credits and it's Paul Blaisdell and here's a guy in his garage with foam and latex and chicken wire making all these, you know... And the cliff monster resembles the Great Garlu, which was a toy. Yeah. Which was... They were selling that in the 70s. Yeah. And the mid-60s and the 70s, I had that toy, which I had it now. It's worth about $15 billion. Not that much, but it resembled that, but he used clock parts. Oh, really? Clock parts inside so that after 14 seconds, this hand moves and then three seconds later, this one. And that was... He was way ahead of the game. So if it broke, he was right at least twice a day. Yeah. Broke it. Yeah, it was right. The cliff monster was right twice a day. Yeah. But, you know, I just... Thinking about what we're talking about in that lost film and whatever, it's amazing what is... Things are starting to show up. Think about all the lost matches. When Mike LaBelle... I was talking to Eric Caden, a friend of ours, friend of the show. Eric Caden, who runs Hollywood Book and Poster. And all the matches that he used to go at the Olympic Auditorium and a lot of that stuff, if it was filmed, it was filmed over or it was... They burned all the tapes, which means they went over the tapes to re-record. And they used to put them on kinescope. Kinescope, yes. And I had a kinescope with Dick Lane called... Oh. Oh. Oh. I was calling a match with Don Carson and Don Savage. And it was another match after that. It was about a half an hour, 40 minutes of the show. I lent it to Eric. You know where that wound up. Gone. I don't know where it is. I put it in the... You were trying to go fast. And that was... That's the last time I lent out film of 16 millimeters. Yeah. And at that point, I said, wow, you know, well, we'll find another one. No. That would have actually been something Vince would have wanted to archive. Absolutely. And I would have happily donated it to the archive so that it could be... Absolutely. From the Joey Gannett collection to you. I'm not kidding. I would have. I understand. I understand he's got the ball. And see, you're talking about videos. We have a video to show you. Yeah, let's get to that. This is the La Booyah launch video that our engineer, Jenny, is going to play for us. And I can't see, but Paul's going to... Oh, this isn't the one of Paul singing in the shower. No, this is him. Okay, good. We're not going to do that. What? What? You didn't see that little red light? You know, that's not soap. That dot? Yeah, you never said a word. You didn't send me no letter. Don't think I could forgive you. See, our world is slowly dying. I'm not wasting no more time. Don't think I could believe you. Yeah, our hands will get more wrinkled and our hair will be gray. Don't think I could forgive you. And see, the children are starving and their houses were destroyed. Don't think they could forgive you. When seas will cover lands and when men will be no more. Don't think you can forgive you. Yeah, man. Now just be silent and when life will be over. Don't think you will forgive you. What happened to music? A little technical difficulty there. Slight technical difficulty. Slight radio snafu. Not the type of difficulty we've had in the past. No, no. Where we... It leaps and bounds. If it stayed to the engineer, what happened? And he would go, uh, who put that there? And he wasn't in the room half the time. It's not true or no. We're happy to be here at Skid Row Studios because they do a great job. I was in Vegas. There's my name. Yeah, we're going to show the video again. The first one was a test run. Yeah. So we'll try this. We're checking the headphones on that one. Again. Again.! Yeah. You never said a word. You didn't send me no letter. Don't think I could forgive you. See, our word is slowly dying. I'm not wasting no more time. Don't think I could believe you. Yeah. Our hands will get more wrinkled and our hair will be gray. Don't think I could forgive you. And see, the children are starving and their houses were destroyed. Don't think they could forgive you. They could forgive you. Hey, when sea will cover lands and when men will be no more, don't think you can forgive you. Yeah, man, now just be silent and when life will be over, don't think you will forgive you. Wow. Nice. Very nice. And that was Eric Guzman, my friend who's part of the La Booyah team, made that video. Wow. By the way, the next video I'll show in a moment, he shot these on his iPhone. Really? Yeah, he's amazing. Eric's amazing at this stuff. So you'll see him at La Booyah. Eric Guzman, I know the name from somewhere. Isn't he a... You'll see him... He's an artist, right? We mentioned him a lot when we mentioned La Booyah. That's okay. I mentioned La Booyah quite a bit on my Facebook page. I thank him, I thank Antonio, I thank a lot of the guys in the group. Okay, okay. But it's gonna be a fun night. It's a collaboration and everything. And we have a lot, like we talk on the show, we talk about movies, we talk about comic books. I mean, La Booyah is that. It's a collaboration, an artistic collaboration, whether it's wrestling. I've always thought, on the show, I think wrestling is an art form to some extent, if you really think about it. Absolutely. And the wrestlers themselves, they're the colors and the ring is the canvas. And when you see Saturday Night, what happens, it's gonna be fantastic. And putting that show up, you don't realize how hard it is to put an art show up. It really is getting the artist, dealing with the artist, hanging the show up, and putting the show up is a lot of work. And hanging the show up is... Do you have water for the artist? You actually, I've been to your show. Yeah. With your art, which is not exactly... Oh, yeah. Damn it. No, I mean, when you go to see Dan's art, I mean, I'm saying it's, when I say not exactly, what I'm trying to say is it's not just some guy that drew a lot of pictures and I write, and I'm an artist. No. There's a lot of guys in LA like that. Your art was really awesome. Thanks. And it's important people know that the three of you are the artists that are gonna be sitting here and not just, you know... Yeah, that's the art that got me kicked out of the Disney show when they asked me to be in the Disney animation. Said, we want you to be in this art show. I said, sure. And they said, sure. I did some pieces and all of a sudden, I submitted nine pieces and someone complained and I went to defend my work. They said, two of these pieces can't be in the show and I went to defend my work. And after I defended my work, I think in a very well, you know, strong manner, all the work was taken out. Well, you know, and that's important because I know on a lot of those posters that came out for a lot of kids' movies from Disney, and then they got their bonuses and whatever. So after all, they should come to you and bitch to you about two pieces. Yeah, like I'm the one hurting the minds of Americans. Disney, make sure when you send my 37 cent checks, when you do my residuals, because that's really, you know, of course, $28 to do a 35 cent check. We talked a little bit about art though. Do we got any art that we can take a look at? Well, we first, I want to show you the next video is, we call it the hanging video. It's us showing, putting up the work. Oh, okay. And some of the work in La Booyah. So let's get started with this video. For my theme song My leather black jeans on My body means on Parting I'm getting my scream on Into the kingdom But watch what you bring home You see a black man with a white woman at the top floor They gonna come to kill King Kong Middle America packed in Came to see me in my black skin Number one question they ask him Fuck every question you ask him If I don't get ran down by Catholics It's cause the conservative baptists Claiming I'm overreacting Like the black kids that shot rack bins Go in the morning and I'm zoning They say I'm possessed It's the only I keep it 300 And I tell you I don't know my chance And I want, oh Dan, I've never seen you move that fast Absolutely That was amazing That was amazing There's a lot of hyped up on that Monster A lot of A lot of A lot of Red Bull Yeah, a lot of bull there, that's for sure So that's part of this That's, you know, we put up the show Antonio, myself Some friends of ours all put the show Saturday We've got work from all over I mean, I've got guys who sent work from San Francisco Guys from Florida Guys from New York I've got a friend of mine from Canada Sent stuff down And so we were really overwhelmed With a lot of the work And we want to show some of the work Now, I can't see myself But we're just gonna run through some of the work Or maybe Gina will show a couple pieces And we'll just I mean, I don't I can't see So we're not gonna I won't really name Who's there But we'll just sort of go Well, let me have a Well, this is You can go Okay This is the first piece Okay This is called The Submission By Danny I can't Is that Gali Galiote Galiote I don't want to miss Galiote Is that an amazing piece Danny Galiote It is It is absolutely amazing I mean, this guy gets $25,000 a piece For his work Wow I mean, he used to work for Disney This guy's a top painter And he donates pieces to the show It was amazing Wow Unreal That's a great When did you see that piece I mean, when did you see that in person That piece is amazing I'm looking forward to it Yeah It's something I'm looking forward to And we'll go check out the next one here This is Eric Yanez Again, my apologies I just learned how to read last week You can't read Spanish, yeah La vida es una lucha You already see the vast difference of styles And painting styles And the artist And that's the great thing about the show It's very The theme is lucha libre But what the artist went was completely overboard Everyone had a different style A different take on it And I think that's a great thing Which is great There were no limitations I said, here you go And they ran with it Wow And the next one is That's from Laquit Higuera And that's La Bruya Which is the witch The witch Yeah When you see this piece When you see this piece When you walk in the side wall You really There's some really little touches She hid in there They're really sharp She did a great job This is going to be as exciting And I'm not making a joke This will be as exciting or more When you go to the Museum of Latin American Art And you see all this stuff Just come off the wall I already know that's what this is Yeah, this is going to be a fun, fun show And Jenny's going to throw the next piece up for us This is Alfie Numeric El Nino El Nino This is a great And once you see the size of this piece You realize how much she put in this piece Once again, it's very painterly There's a lot of detail When you get to look at this piece It's really nice Oh yeah You can appreciate it on the screen But when you're there When you're there And you know Come Saturday night April 11th At La Bruya At La Bruya Will people be able to take their Camera phone out and photograph it? Oh yeah There's no way to stop that There's really no way to stop that And I think it's one way of Having the work get out there Yeah, I don't think Everybody's going to go and print it It wouldn't like the Louvre Or like the Momo Where you can't The flash will bother something Right And this next one is Pablo Damas Yes, I can't That's Pablo's work I mean This When I saw this one This is amazing This is just a great piece That's really pretty Yeah, isn't it? Yeah Yeah, you're going to see these in person too And there's Jenny's going to hit the next one for us And this is Vince Lopez? Yeah, I can't Coming up here? I think it's Vince's work, yeah Wow Yeah See the eclectic style The different styles and techniques These artists have brought to La Bruya Which is a lot of different styles Wrestlers bring to the ring Absolutely Which is the great thing We see guys wrestle Japanese strong style Lucha style Pound and ground Even the Canadians have different styles So we're reflecting the way Artists work Wrestlers work And they're doing it Musicians When you see the varied musicians we have too And Jenny's going to throw the next piece out for us And this one is David Flores With El Luchadore El Luchadore Yeah Oh, yeah Very paint Yeah Very paintily this one too That's great I love that Isn't that great? That's great Then we have The next one, Jenny The next one is Esmeralda It's Esmeralda Villarreal Is the artist And that's La Estralita Negra Yeah, that nice Little pin-up work there A little cheesecake Yeah I hope there's a lot of cheesecake Oh, there's a lot of cheesecake There'll be a lot of cheesecake There's a lot of If you're diabetic You can't have a lot of cheesecake Every night, you know And that's a nice piece And the next one coming I think she has And this one's Chewy Oh, yeah This is amazing Is this Chewy Quintana's work? That is correct This piece is When I first saw the detail of this I was blown away And then when I held it in my hand I looked at the detail Now, Chewy is a famous tattoo artist And he's got some He's got some lucha blood in him I'll explain later The night of the show But I was a fan of Chewy's work For I knew Chewy Because I was, you know When you're pitching ideas For movies and TV shows You're always building a visual bible And I was pulling different things For characters And there were certain tattooed people I thought were fantastic Come to find out These are Chewy's work Chewy is a famous tattoo Of a guy looking There's a man's Bald man with his head down There's a skull on it And I pulled that off the internet For a pitch meeting And come to find out Chewy's now donated a piece to the show And when you look at Chewy's work The details Unbelievable Unbelievable And so the next artist is Next artist is Ralph Villalobos Pedro Aguayo Jr. Campeone Mortal Yeah, this is Thank you, Ralph This is Last month It was that tragedy in Tijuana Where Pedro Aguayo Jr. Passed away A tragedy We talked about that Pretty horrible And we have a little tribute to him In the show itself But Ralph did this great piece And I think that's really When you see this piece When you see what we've done For Pello I'm not going to say it I want you to come down to see it April 11th Plaza de la Raza La Boya When you see what we have out there You'll be really impressed And the next one After Ralph's pieces And this is where we get into Our friend of the show Antonio Antonio Palayo And this is Tupac Shakur Tupac This You all might remember From digital underground That's pencil That's pencil That's something with a pencil Looks like a photograph No, that's the thing When Antonio brings his work in And this I mean And I'm kind of lucky I've seen Antonio's first drawings Literally the first drawings He would do He would do a Disney And we would talk We'd talk We'd go back and forth And I'd see this progression Of an artist And he would He looks at a piece And he just He just He takes the time To break this down You'll see the next piece That he has A couple of pieces And this is Frida This This This piece Frida He once had this in a frame He took it to the frame And he put it in another Nice glass frame And the frame And said Hey, would you get this photograph And he said Well, it's not a photograph He goes I drew this He goes No, no Would you get the photograph He goes No, no He had to take the picture out To show his name Wow So people think This is a silver print Photograph This is Pencil This is a pencil Graphite drawing That he's done And this is amazing work And it just And he's And every piece Antonio's done It's not just Little increments It was leaps and bounds I was seeing leaps and bounds In his work Which was amazing When we had him on the show before And he showed Yeah It's mind blowing And the next piece The next piece he has is This is also Antonio Yeah, this is It's the cigar smoke Oh! Once again That's a credit to Antonio's Way of thinking And his discipline To do that And so And I looked at that piece And I said Wow This is an You know That's when you tell You're in the presence Of a real genius Absolutely When you see something Like that You know And then The next piece I think it's another one Antonio's Oh, that's That's the one That blew my mind Which is This is The Lucha Libre Lucha Libre Jumping off the turnbuckle Oh, that's right Yeah Santo Santo Why couldn't I think of his name? And we call this one The Descent If you think about it He's an angel A saint Descending Yeah And the great thing too He leaves The backgrounds black And so What you're focusing on On the image You're focusing on The movement You're focusing on That's the spotlight It's right there And stuff Yeah That's the great thing He's pulling you out Of the shadows Which is fantastic It looks like He's about to actually move Yeah That's what's amazing With his work He's captured movement Yeah When there's still life He's captured movement There's still life Which I think is fantastic And then There's another one I think What's the This is the one Oh This is the Santa one On the ropes Yeah Yeah That's Santa on the ropes With the blood Yeah This is And he took this He took this image From my book Mondo Lucho Gogo And he made it his own Yeah He took the photograph And he made it his own Which is You know The mark of a great artist You take something As a reference point And now it becomes your own You know And we have a Couple more to show I think Now this is Shepard Fairey Yes Is this the skull one Yeah No Shepard Fairey This is the red Yeah The red Looks like A A! An Oscar Yes Not an Oscar But Phoenix The next three is Shepard Now Shepard was Very generous to donate Three of his work Now Shepard is world famous I mean he didn't have to So he donated three pieces For auction And the money The proceeds from this auction Go to the Plaza de la Raza's Fund for the arts Oh The reason we're doing this Is to bring money Into the arts section Because the arts Are being cut In all the public schools And we're getting stumped Music It's I mean So what does a culture have When you have no art How do the kids Express themselves When they're cutting away Music Art! The activist artist And he's got One more I think he's got The skull piece Yeah Yeah That's Universal sign for skull That's yeah Is that great When you see The detail When you come For Saturday night You see the detail Where he's hidden In the skull That tells a picture He has a visual narrative Within the skull Which is fantastic And I think The next piece We have And then of course Here's the banner This banner Became our billboard On the 710 And the 605 And I have to thank The guys that put it up there I can't thank you guys enough You've helped us We want to bring it back It was amazing And there's another guy I really want to thank There's one more fellow That's helped us out This is The Master Republic We would not be Where we are right now In La Booyah With certain portions Of the show Especially the wrestling portion A lot of the art portion Without Kevin Kleinrock And Master Republic These guys have come through Above and beyond You can ask Not just as friends But as collaborators I've asked Kevin for this This Everything I've asked Kevin Kleinrock for He's done Above and beyond And the guys at Master Republic Are going to be there We're going to have Many peoples Will be our host We have Ring card girls And the ring That's where I'm coming from And a lot of this Was brought to us By Kevin Kleinrock His connections His help His love His passion Kevin has been in this business Most of his life And Master Republic And they have a new Launch site coming up They're going to have A debuting some stuff When you see what Kevin has at his table When you see the artwork That Kevin Kleinrock And Master Republic Have at the table I'm just telling you It's going to blow you away So bring your checkbook The money goes The money goes To a good cause And if you did like Some of this information That you saw You can certainly find it on La Bula La Bula La Bula La Bula Gringo You can find it On the Facebook page You can also go to our Twitter Which is WWPopCulturians And we'll have some links That you can go to Exactly And also For those of you Who are not Going to do that I'll just tell you One more time La Bula Will be this Saturday night April 11th 7pm to 1am It's 21 and over And that's at Plaza de la Raza And that's at 3540 North Mission Road Los Angeles 90031 For those of you Who want to map And if you want to Get your tickets now This is I would get the tickets now Yeah Instead of standing in line And everything Get the tickets We may sell out WWW Is this for tickets? Yeah WWW Flavoris That's F-A WWW Dot F-L-A V-O-R U-S Dot com Backslash La Bula Yeah That's a forward Yeah just go to Is that a forward? Yeah That's a forward Go to Facebook Look for my La Bula thing Just go to Facebook Go to our Twitter site Just go to Facebook Give us a hit Everyone's on Facebook Just go to the show That's all that matters It's just Facebook Just go to the show Exactly No it's still Facebook Well that's about time We have for our show today We have more time How much time do we have? One minute One minute One minute One minute There's a whole thing even on the back. Yeah, this old Jack Kirby. Yeah. That was the guy. This is, you know what? You can go to my Facebook, Joey Gaynor on Facebook. Ask me where you can get it. I'll let you know where you can get the magazine. It's a pulp. It's really cool. There's a lot of great stuff in there. Not just because I'm in it. I mean, I read books. This show is a pulp. This show is a pulp. This show is a pulp. Right. The pulp reality. This show is ground up wood thrown out there. That's what we are. Exactly. Exactly. And by the way, if there's any single women out there that want their life ruined, call me. Speaking of ground up wood. What the heck? Yeah, that's it. There you go. I don't know why. We want to thank Jenny again. Thanks for a great show. Thank everyone. Jenny. Who's the mystery man back there? He's just one of my friends. One of her friends that came in and helped out. Congratulations. We want to thank Julian Arzabal. Julian Arzabal for our theme song. Thank you, Julian, for writing it for us. Thank you. We are so, so, so cool. And we'll be back next week. After April 11th. After Little Booyah. We'll be back with a recap of that. A recap of Little Booyah. It's going to be great. Paul, we'll take a shot. Thanks again for listening and watching the Popculturians from Skid Row Studios. Don't click around. Stick around. We'll be right back.