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Hello and welcome back to my mom's basement ladies and gentlemen. It is Robbie Fox and I am here with one of my friends going way back. This guy has been in the in the podcast universe of wrestling since I was in diapers pretty much and pretty much gave me my my start in the in the wrestling podcast industry in RBR weekly wrestling talk does not host that show anymore. He just left that in the rear view window and now he hosts Grafcity over on Fightful.

Talk to me about that will how's it going and how are you?

I am great and yeah that's true. I I left RBR a little over a month ago it's almost been two months I guess which is weird because yeah I hosted that show since I was 18 so I hosted it for 16 years and 34 and

it was like the longest stretch of my life I can't believe my entire adult life I was hosting that show you know all of a sudden don't so it is weird to still talk about it in my rear view like my Twitter handle is still William RBR and it's probably going to be forever because it's my gamer tag all of that.

But yeah I host Grafcity now which is on Fightful it airs every Saturday at noon Easter not a specific I host that with righteous red who is famous for his black restaurants 500 he is also a contributor to pro wrestling illustrated and then I also host with Phil Lindsey and Phil he's just he is such a journey man in terms of just the things he's written in the places he's written.

He currently writes for Bleacher Report but yeah the three of us he writes great stuff to he does write great stuff and that was the whole idea behind Grafcity was that I it kind of came out of nowhere in the sense that I had been doing RBR for a long time but there was just there was a place in a lot of RBR listeners have kind of put it out to me that they could sense where my vision for what I wanted to talk about pro wrestling was going.

And because I had been bringing up a lot of black issues and black topics and a lot of those things on RBR and I still felt like I needed the right platform for that and for a short time I started a podcast I did it for I think six or seven weeks called wrestling with weekends and I did that on Saturdays.

And I want to say it was the second episode of wrestling with weekends definitely the second that I had Phil Lindsey on as a guest and that episode did really really well did like some of the best numbers I think RBR has ever done.

Mainly because we cover the CMPunk debut on that one and but it did some great numbers and so it was like all right and just the banter between me and Phil was so good I was like we got to do something with this and then.

Maybe like three or four weeks later I had read on and red was he had we did a really great episode again and reds just has some of the best brands on the planet I when red gets in his back it's it's one of my favorite things and we did a really good episode there and that was one of my favorites and some of the feedback was like wow that was like one of my favorite podcast ever

and then at the end of the episode red said when I was you know you do the normal thing of hey I got to have you back on the show some time and he's like yeah sure and then red shines in with yeah maybe me you and Phil do something one day and that was the end of the

of the episode yeah and that was with a light bulb hit I was like maybe we will and like with that following Monday I went to Phil first and I was like hey reds mentioned the thing at the end of the show and I feel like we might have something here and then I went to red

and I was like Phil seems in and I want to go off what you said I think the three of us should do something together and we're like okay and then I was driving from the airport and the name Grapp city just hit me and I said that's our name and then we were just going to do the show independently and I thought I think I have one more trick up my sleeve and I reached out to the Sean Ross app and

I saw it yes yeah that's the shout out to red for that one that's my favorite but yeah I'm from Grapp city but yeah I reached out to Sean and I told him exactly what we wanted to do and kind of the topics we wanted to to cover on

Grapp city and how we felt like that conversation is kind of missing from a lot of the the top wrestling media outlets and that that's what we wanted to do and Sean was pretty much like okay you're in and so

Grapp city on Fightful was born youtube.com slash Fightful is where that's hosted every week and yeah we have a lot of fun it's so much fun we had Andrew Thompson on this week and this was it's been a blast these last seven weeks

of doing that show I can't get enough of it it's so much fun that's awesome I love seeing the clips on Twitter the beans clip was all time one and nothing beats the beans on my

phone wait a minute when everyone's like wait a minute what and now it's so funny that they came out of nowhere all of a sudden

Regis now like the beans got yeah and like everybody just like is always mentioning beans every time Regis at a show they're like hey you

break it's the Boston fake beans and it's so great yeah I love it check it out that's great and Fightful I feel like is the

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