The Godfather On Why His Gimmick Would NEVER Work Now In WWE, Being Papa Shango, Right To Censor, WWE Hall Of Fame Induction

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Charles Wright is better known as The Godfather (@thegodfather). He is a WWE Hall of Famer and also performed under the names Papa Shango, Kama Mustafa and The Goodfather with Right to Censor. He joins Chris Van Vliet at the Blue Wire Studios in Las Vegas in this interview from January 2022. He talks about his legendary career, becoming friends with The Undertaker, being discovered working as a bartender at a strip club, having his first wrestling match against Jerry "The King" Lawler, his time in the faction "Right to Censor" with Ivory, Stevie Richards, Val Venis and Bull Buchanan, being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame 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 gathered.
0:01.4	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Bluie!
0:10.0	Does this mean I've officially come aboard the Ho-Train?
0:13.6	Man, you are a member.
0:15.8	You're a member.
0:16.9	I am so glad that we're able to do this in person.
0:19.3	I've been wanting to reach out to you, but the fact that you live in Vegas,
0:22.1	our studios in Vegas, we're making it happen now. It's an honor to be on the show, man. I've been looking forward all day, and that's no boy. I've been looking forward to doing this all day. Dude, the honor is all mine. I'm so glad we're able to share this conversation. and like this is just awesome.
0:18.8	How long have you been in Vegas, by the way?
0:20.1	I moved the Vegas. is all mine. I'm so glad we're able to share this conversation. And like, this is just awesome.
0:38.3	How long have you been in Vegas, by the way? I moved to Vegas in 1984.
0:44.3	Oh, man. Yeah. I was born the year before that. Can you believe that? I just got out of college.
0:49.3	Wow. Playing football at UNR. And I moved out here. I'm from Northern California.
0:55.8	Big stretch there on Northern California to hear.
0:58.8	What I think is so amazing about your story is you've been so many different people, right?
1:02.8	You've always been Charles, but you've been so many different characters.
1:05.6	I'm so curious, which was the character you have pitched that you went?
1:09.6	That thing is going to absolutely work and
1:12.3	maybe it didn't it didn't or it did either way uh the one that did was godfather
1:18.7	when that was pitched to you were you like it was not pitched to me oh bro it was not you know who
1:23.7	came up with it who my, my wife. My wife.
1:28.8	You should be a pimp.
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