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Heavy Hands

606 - Wrestling with Ryan feat. Ryan Wagner

Heavy Hands

Connor Ruebusch

Sports

4.8541 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Ryan Wagner returns to the show to teach Connor about a promising new martial art called "wrestling."

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, folks, and welcome to the 2025 handies.

0:05.7

Just kidding.

0:07.3

The handies are coming, of course.

0:09.7

But while I tackle the monumental task of assembling all of our audio and all of our edits,

0:18.8

I present to you a wonderful conversation I had with friend

0:23.4

of the show, Ryan Wagner, about wrestling its place and its future in the sport of MMA, which

0:32.3

I had to do quite a bit of audio engineering to salvage over the last couple weeks due to some recording issues on my end.

0:40.1

So I hope you enjoy the show.

0:42.3

Big thanks to Ryan for coming on and for his patience waiting for his episode to actually appear.

0:50.0

Now, enjoy heavy hands and sit tight.

0:54.2

The handies are coming.

0:56.6

And so am I.

1:17.3

Hello, hello, and welcome to another edition of Heavy Hands.

1:26.6

I am your host, as always, Connor, and with me, for the first time in, I think since 1978,

1:31.1

we have an esteemed guest.

1:34.2

It's Ryan Wagner.

1:36.2

Hey, guys.

1:39.9

I was going to do the accent and pretend to be Phil, but I didn't want to embarrass myself.

1:40.6

Okay.

1:43.0

I thought you were about to pretend to do a German accent.

1:47.4

I don't know when that started. That would be too accurate.

1:48.9

I don't want to scare you guys.

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