Sammy is right now and I have no problem saying that Sammy is the top performer in this entire industry right now.

That's how good Sammy is.

Welcome, welcome, welcome to Hat to the Bell. I am still Corey Graves. Extreme rules is right around the corner.

Vicks over in Europe somewhere getting hitched so of course I need a little help steering this ship but like a very short man in a very large diesel pickup truck. I am over compensating.

I am here to make sure that we get through the end of this episode successfully so I've enlisted the help of a real life superhero.

He is a WWE legend. Someday soon to be Hall of Famer is a current producer behind the scenes for WWE. You may know him best as the force of nature known as the Hurricane Shane Helms. Good morning Hurricane. How are you?

I'm doing great man. That's a spectacular introduction man. I appreciate you.

I'm trying to stroke your ego right off the bat. I find that that works well with guests. I need you for the whole duration of this episode to help me avoid the iceberg that I face every single week.

So I'm trying to really really get you to the top of your game before we embark on this journey.

Before you tear me down, it's coming in. That's right.

I'm used to that. There's part of it. There's part of it that's still waiting. There's still a bone. I'm sure that you've been waiting to pick with me publicly for several years now.

Well, hopefully get there. I've got Alex Mezler, producer on the line, waiting standing by to help us with all of the goings on inside the WWE universe.

But before we get there, how's things? How's life? What is life like for the hurricane these days?

Well, for this particular hurricane, they're really good for the hurricane that's changing up down south. I don't know about that one.

Yeah, send some positive vibes to everybody down there having to deal with all that. Yes, yes, please. After Katrina hit in Louisiana, I don't know if I ever told you this.

We were like the WWE is one of the first major events to go back to that area.

And so I went to Johnny Ason. I was like, maybe I don't need to be on the show.

And he was like, why? I'm like, I don't know if you've watched the news lately, but I mean, I was just trying to be sensitive.

And he's like, you're a superhero. And I'm like, okay, I go out there, they play my music and they boot me out of the damn building.

But dang, well, to be fair, just so everybody knows this appearance was booked weeks ago.

This was not meant to be cuter clever. This was booked for weeks.

I just went to the hill and I said, kick my ass man.

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