Booker T On LA Knight, His Favorite Catchphrase, King Booker's Accent, NXT Commentary

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Booker T (@bookert5x) is a 2-time WWE Hall of Famer and is known for his time in WCW, TNA and WWE. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet at Reality of Wrestling in Houston, TX to talk about his radio show "The Hall of Fame" that he hosts with Brad Gilmore, his wrestling promotion "Reality of Wrestling", his thoughts on LA Knight, which of his WCW Championships meant the most to him, his hilarious segments with Goldust, the Supermarket Brawl with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, his memories of the last episode of WCW Nitro, becoming the King Booker T character, doing commentary on NXT with Vic Joseph, his favorite catchphrases and much more! Check out Booker T's Reality of Wrestling here: https://www.realityofwrestling.com/ Sponsors: To get 15% off MudWtr go to http://mudwtr.com/cvv to support the show and use the code CVV15 Use the code CVV to get a 50% welcome bonus at http://mybookie.ag Quote I'm thinking about: "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All systems are good.
0:01.3	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blit!
0:08.4	Oh, it is so good to see you, my friends, and welcome back to another one here on Insight.
0:14.4	I'm CVV, Chris Van Fleet, and before we dive into this interview with the legend, with the man himself, the two-time Hall of
0:22.2	Famer, Booker T, I just have to say thank you because as of right now, Insight with Chris
0:29.1	Van Fleet is the number three wrestling podcast in the world. And that is all because of you
0:35.1	showing up each and every episode.
0:37.6	I mean, I guess there's a little part of it that is also owed to some pretty big guests that we've had lately.
0:43.2	I mean, most recently, Cody Rhodes on the last episode.
0:46.2	L.A. Knight, yeah.
0:48.3	Not long ago, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Undertaker, it's been a pretty good run here.
0:53.2	And I just want to say, thank you for being on
0:55.2	this journey with us. Number three, pretty good. Can it be number two? And then can it be number one?
1:03.4	So let's see. If you're not already subscribed, please take a second right now to click subscribe or
1:08.9	follow wherever you listen to this right now.
1:11.6	I did this interview with Booker in Texas. So I did this in Houston, Texas at his reality
1:16.9	of wrestling show. That's his promotion that he has there. And man, it's hard to call this an
1:22.4	indie promotion because there was 1,100 people there. This is by far the biggest independent wrestling show
1:29.3	I've ever been to in my life. And I started going to wrestling shows when I was 16 years old.
1:34.6	I was going to AWF shows in Toronto, Apocalypse Wrestling Federation in Toronto. So 1,100 people to be
1:43.1	there was amazing. It was the debut of Zilla Fatu. He is the son of
1:47.9	the late great Umaga. So great to see him in action. Just great to see Booker in action. Man,
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