Shawn Spears On Giving Me Those 20 Chops, AEW Return, Becoming A Father, Cody Rhodes

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Shawn Spears (@shawnspears) is a professional wrestler with AEW and is known for his time in WWE under the name Tye Dillinger. He joins Chris Van Vliet in Hollywood, CA to talk about why it has been so long since we have seen him in AEW, recently becoming a father to his son Austin, how his wife Cassie Lee is doing, we reflect on the 20 chops I took with him and Tyler Breeze at their wrestling school Flatbacks, what they look for in a great student, life lessons from your 20s, 30s and 40s, his friendship with Cody Rhodes, how he became "The Chairman" with the chairshot to Cody Rhodes at AEW's Fyter Fest and much more! Check out Flatbacks Wrestling School: https://www.flatbackswrestlingschool.com/ 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 gathered.
0:01.4	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blit!
0:07.7	Hey, that's me. I'm Chris Van Vlee.
0:10.4	Thank you to Justin Roberts.
0:11.7	As always, for the amazing introduction.
0:14.6	And hello, friends.
0:16.1	Welcome back to another audio adventure on Insight.
0:18.7	And, man, I just love Sean Spears. Yes, despite all of the chops
0:23.3	that I got from him and Tyler Breeze and all of their students at the wrestling school
0:28.1	flatbacks, despite all of that, I love him. He is such a great guy, probably because he's Canadian.
0:36.1	I don't know. And now that I say that, I realize we've
0:39.3	had a lot of Canadians on the show lately. Four out of the last five guests have been from Canada.
0:44.5	Will Sasse, so that was our last conversation. It's such a good one, by the way. As soon as this episode's
0:49.3	done, if you haven't already, please go listen to that and enjoy his many impersonations of Jesse Ventura,
0:56.2	Brett Hart, Vince McMahon, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Arnold, and the list goes on and on and on.
1:01.4	So Will Saso, Renee Paquette, Renitalia, and now Sean Spears.
1:07.2	And it's been a while since he's been on the show. I think it's, I think the day that we did the chops, which was like right before the
1:14.4	world shut down in January of, yeah, January of 2020 is when we did that interview.
1:19.7	So it's been a little over three years since that interview.
1:23.5	And it's been a long time since we've seen him in AEW as well.
1:27.4	And for good reason, the last time
1:29.5	we saw him, he was in the main event on Dynamite. This was October. They had a show in Toronto.
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