Mark Henry On Feeling Disrespected By Vince McMahon, Leaving WWE For AEW, Mae Young Giving Birth To A Hand

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Mark Henry (@themarkhenry) is a professional wrestler and commentator currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). He is also a WWE Hall of Famer. He joins Chris Van Vliet to talk about why he left WWE and signed with AEW, what his initial conversation with Tony Khan was like, his thoughts on having one last retirement match, the prank that Vince McMahon pulled that lead to his "Hall of Pain" gimmick, the original plan for his storyline with Mae Young giving birth to a hand, why he chose a salmon-colored jacket for his fake retirement speech, his son Jacob's incredible size and strength, the talent he has discovered like Bianca Belair, Braun Strowman and Jade Cargill, working on Busted Open and much more! Use the code CVV to get your first month of Bluechew for FREE at http://bluechew.com Get $150 off your Plunge with the coupon code CVV at http://thecoldplunge.com Quote I'm thinking about: Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. - Robert Breault For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to: https://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 going.
0:01.3	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blea.
0:08.0	All right.
0:09.2	Here we go, my friends.
0:11.0	Welcome back to another one here on Insight.
0:14.1	I'm CVV Chris Van Fleet, and what a week.
0:17.7	What a week in terms of numbers here.
0:20.6	We just hit 350,000 subscribers on the main
0:24.4	YouTube channel. That exact same day, we also hit 275,000 subscribers on the CVV clips channel.
0:32.0	So, I mean, that was crazy. Both of those together, 625,000 subscribers combined. And then we also hit half a billion views. Yeah,
0:44.2	billion with a B, half a billion views, 500 million views with both channels combined. So I say it a
0:51.4	lot, but it bears repeating. Thank you. Thank you for always being on this ride with me.
0:57.9	And I'm assuming if you're listening to this, that you're already subscribed on YouTube.
1:01.8	But if not, for whatever reason, please take a second to click subscribe.
1:06.4	And also click subscribe or follow wherever you're listening to this right now.
1:10.5	We've got so many big
1:11.6	guests coming up. We've got a guest next week that says, yeah, a lot. Yeah. Uh-huh. That's
1:20.9	going to be real good. Speaking of milestones, we're closing in on episode number 500. This one here with Mark Henry is episode 484.
1:29.9	So good to have him back on the show.
1:32.3	And it was three years ago when we had him on the show.
1:35.1	And things were pretty different in his world when we recorded that one.
1:39.5	Things were pretty different, I guess, in the world in general, three years ago.
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