Dave Bautista On Recent Weight Loss, Triple H, Iconic Theme Music, WWE Hall Of Fame, Evolution

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Dave Bautista (@DaveBautista) is an actor and retired professional wrestler. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet in Hollywood, CA to talk about his new movie "The Killer's Game", how he recruited WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre for a role in the film, slimming down to 240lbs, his early wrestling days as Leviathan and Deacon Batista, why he couldn't do a retirement tour like John Cena is planning for 2025, his friendship with Triple H, if he could have done more in the wrestling world, the botched ending to the 2005 Royal Rumble that saw Vince McMahon tear his quads, Mark Jindrak being in Evolution, his iconic theme music and more! Quote I'm thinking about: "Time is the only currency you spend without ever knowing your balance. Use it wisely" Complete this survey for your chance to win $500: https://bluewirepods.com/survey Sponsors: FACTOR MEALS: Get 50% off your first box and 20% off your next month at http://factormeals.com/Insight50 BONCHARGE: Use the code CVV to save 15% off your infrared sauna blanket at https://boncharge.com/cvv MAREK HEALTH: Get a 10% discount on Marek Health's Optimization Package with code CVV: https://marekhealth.com/cvv BLUECHEW: Use the code CVV to get your first month of BlueChew for FREE at http://bluechew.com ROCKET MONEY: Join Rocket Money today and experience financial freedom: https://rocketmoney.com/cvv PURE PLANK: The future of core fitness! Use the code CVV to save 10% on Pure Plank which was designed by Adam Copeland & Christian: https://gopureplank.com/ PLUNGE: Get $150 off your Plunge with the coupon code CVV150 at http://plunge.com 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	Chris Benfleet.
0:05.0	Yeah.
0:06.0	Oh, yeah. Welcome back to another one here on Insight. I'm CBV Chris Van Fleet. Oh, yeah, welcome back to another one here on Insight.
0:23.6	I'm CBV, Chris Van Fleet.
0:25.5	Thanks for being here with us.
0:27.2	And thank you, as always, for helping to make Insight the number one wrestling
0:32.0	podcast on the planet.
0:34.6	If it's your first time here, hit a Batista bomb on that follow button on Spotify or Apple podcast to support the show.
0:42.8	And so you don't miss out on any of the huge guests that we have coming up in.
0:46.5	And my goodness, we've got some big ones coming up,
0:50.3	including someone who is not your boy toy.
0:55.3	This has been a long time coming, but I'm happy to finally be able to say that we've got Dave
1:03.3	Batista on the show.
1:06.1	I've interviewed him before, but they've always been just a few minutes long, you know,
1:09.9	when he's promoting movies. For this one, he carved out enough time in his extremely busy schedule to do a full
1:16.7	episode with us. His new movie The Killers Game comes out this Friday, September 13th. It's a ton of fun.
1:23.0	It's also the movie debut of Drew McIntyre, who was a guest on the show last week.
1:27.5	So you can go check that out when this episode's done if you haven't listened to it already.
1:33.1	Dave has an incredible career.
1:35.9	Of course, in WWE, he's a WWE Hall of Famer.
1:38.9	We all know that.
1:39.7	I did ask him like, wait, when are you actually going to be inducted into that?
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