Chris Jericho

0:03It's really cool. It's the first time I've ever had a wrestler on the show. Something different than a musician Which is pretty cool because we get to talk about different stuff other than just music But what are you listening to lately? I'm sitting here with Chris Jericho. Well, I gotta I gotta just tell you I am a musician as well So so you know I am actually not even wrestling. I'm more of the musician thing So now you have a musician who used to be a well used to be a rest so you're not going back to it What's the deal with that? I'm not gonna say I'm not gonna go back But I decided to take a little bit of a break for the last couple months and when the time is right I go back but until then I'm not just been concentrating more with the band with Fuzzy and We've been doing a lot of touring over the last couple months. We've hit Australia Ireland Scotland Wales then we're here in London to do a show tonight. Cool big fan base over there too. Or is it just more? Yeah, no Chris Jericho fans come out. No, it's Fuzzy fans. Yeah, yeah

0:50We've spent a lot of time, you know working the band and we've been there four times so far this year No, I we played to you know 30,000 people at the download festival with black Sabbath and system of a down and Yes, I like to play with those kind of bands. It was great I mean it was it was a big test for us But we kind of passed it in flying colors and one of the big magazines called kurang magazine gave us the Stealing the show award for the day that we played so yeah, whatever for whatever reason England is really picking up What we're doing and it's been great for us to go over there It's been great first to play in Canada to it's always great for us to come here we go I used to play with Sabbath. What is Aussie think your name? I know you used to be called Fuzzy Osborne Yeah for a couple shows way long ago But actually never even got a chance to even see Aussie kind of just gets sequestered and just shows up five minutes before the show and goes on stage

1:37Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah, you know, I kind of start exactly used to be called mongos McQueen when you started off with the band You still doing that or is it is it just no no we started that off? What happened was we got together Group of friends just playing some of our favorite songs that we listen to when we were growing up like anybody else And because of who was in the band myself and a bunch of dudes from the band stuck mojo We got a record deal right off the bat after two shows basically to play covers I for some reason the record company whiz thought that was a great idea and So someone's gonna throw us a bunch of money to play covers stuff that we did and we wanted to come up with something a little More creative so came up with the whole back story like a blues brothers type story and Moongos McQueen was my you know Elwood blues moniker and then is the band progressed and evolved We started playing more and more original stuff until we realized that's what we wanted to do And that's what our fans wanted us to do and that's what any band wants to do is basically play your own material

2:25Just more much more fun that way is big city nice one of your songs was out of cover No, it's a scorpion song cool scorpion song. Do you want to play that one right now? I'm sure if you like it. That's one of my favorites. It sounds really 80s I like how you got that whole kind of like Jeff or starship kind of course going on. Wow. That's that's a scorpion song. So there you go Want to talk about wrestling for a second you said you're you're done with it for now You playing going to movies maybe like the rock something like that I've been working on some things actually did shoot a movie called to human for the sci-fi channel It's gonna be on in March and I'm working on some other stuff that I think is gonna pay off and I Mean the rock obviously is is the exception to the rule. He made it fast He made it big and I'm not saying I want to be the next rock But I think I could definitely make it a good career in Hollywood It's something I've always done and I've always wanted to do and I've been studying very hard to improve on my craft

3:16And I think I think things gonna go good for me the next couple years Most importantly because I have the tenacity to to want to do it the same way that I did with wrestling the same way I did with the band and I think I I know I can do it So it's just matter just putting your nose to the grindstone just going for it You're real good on the mic I mean everyone would take lessons from you when you when you get out there You know exactly what you do. How do you get to that point where you just you know exactly how to hook a crowd together? It's hard to say I mean it's just one of the things that's an intangible it's like having the X factor and You have to connect with the crowd if you want to make it and resting That's the most important thing doesn't matter how big you are how many cool moves you can do you have to make the crowd care about you hate You love you whatever it may be and it's something that I that I always just had a little bit of a knack on how to do it And the best guys just know it's just something you can't really teach it. It's just like having some charisma

4:05just knowing How to make the crowd react to what you want them to do being a puppet master and Manipulating the crowd into believing what you're saying or not believing what you're saying if that's what you want them to do as well What are you preferring a bad guy or good guy? What's it really doesn't matter the both fun? I think it's a lot easier to make people hate you than it is to make them really like you So it's an art form. I think to be a great heel is an art form, but I think it's a much Harder art form to be a great babyface or people truly truly like you and like I said once again I've been able to connect on both sides of the coin So for me it doesn't matter either way as long as people are into what I'm doing and enjoying what I'm doing It's not weird for you to have people hate you one day And then you know in the script it changes and you're a good guy again and then people love you is that weird for you? No, I love it I actually have done it in fight within five minutes

4:51I did it in Canada a couple years ago and it's really easy to do in Canada because even if you're a bad guy you can come on If you're Canadian or you're a good guy you're not from Canada and This is where I grew up and when I think of Canada one thing pops in my head Man am I glad I left because this place sucks or whatever and people automatically just on the drop of a dime Just go from super adulation to just wanting to see you, you know get From you know fall into some pigment or something like that. So it's like I said, it's an art form And it actually becomes quite fun after a while That's my other song your choice off any of the albums maybe something off the new record if you want Yeah, let's play enemy from all their names Things are scripted and you've been the champion a lot of times Is there a lot of respect in the background in like in the dressing room when you become champion? Is there still that kind of thing like in a boxing ring? I would suppose absolutely

5:37I mean it is show business and Like you said a little bit scripted, but it's still they don't just give the world championship to just anybody It's a calculated thing going off what the fans are telling people telling the the the office and You know money making opportunities and just seeing what it is that the people want So even though it's show business, it's still you when you win the title you really still are winning the title because In order to get it you have to be you have to be deserving of it and people want to see you have to want to see you get it And that's part of knowing how to how to portray your character and how to get people to care about you're connecting with the crowd So and there is a lot of respect because there's 120 wrestlers in the back and one champion So here at the top of the mountain how far in advance do you know that that's gonna happen?

6:23There's really no specific thing at all depends sometimes things happen on the drop of a dime when I won the title I found what I think the week before maybe how do you prep yourself or something like that? You don't you just go it doesn't matter when for me if you're winning or losing is the same Yeah, it's all about putting on the best possible performance that you can so you don't really prep yourself to go my gosh I'm gonna be the champion now. It's just another day at the office When I won I won the championship. I wanted in San Diego. I had to drive back to No, actually sorry the first time on the championship. I wanted to see Lewis by the time I got back to my hotel The room services closed everything was closed. I had to order a dominoes pizza Which they wouldn't even deliver to my room because they'd have a policy of leaving in the hotel lobby So I had to walk downstairs in my stocking feet get a cold pizza lock myself out of the room had to come back down

7:08Get the hotel guy to let me back in my room with my cold pizza and my bare feet and I was the world champion So there you go the glamor of wrestling and being a champion ladies and gentlemen The character you portray on TV and wrestling the character you play on stage. I suppose what's the difference between the two of them? Well, I mean the best game makes the best characters are yourself just turned up to 11 So I mean you have to just be be yourself And if I'm a little bit sarcastic and a little bit of a dry wit a quick-witted guy And that you have to portray that in the ring to just turn it up to 11 And that's the best most famous most successful characters are just extensions of the normal guy Who's your favorite person to go against in the ring or was your favorite person? A lot of guys always had fun working with the rock. That was probably my favorite guy Chris Benoit Christian John Michaels those guys

7:58Choose play nameless face us off all that remains I've always had a thing about the whole breadheart thing leaving was it scripted No, that was real I wasn't there at the time. So I don't really know for sure, but knowing what I do know Is the real thing too perfect as a storyline. What's been eight years though, and he's back. No, he's not he's not no Hmm what's the whole thing's going on with him right now nothing. He just has a DVD that they're not coming back I don't think I'll ever come back can't do it. I just don't think he wants to because it was the real deal You know it's the one thing in wrestling that was absolutely hundred percent real cool We just think every week on the show called five questions five quick questions one more answers Kate. Hi Potter CDs. Hi, I'm a car Man McCartney alcohol and marijuana alcohol song you've written your most proud of

8:44Enemy and one word Chris Jericho Dedicated sweet pick another song. All right, let's do off the new record. Let's play Wanderlust featuring Zach wild from Black Label Society and Aussie One more question your father played for the for the Rangers Are you Rangers fan you can go for the flames or the jets back in the day? I love the Jets because I grew up in Winnipeg and that was my team The Rangers too But then I moved when I moved from Winnipeg to Calgary to start training for wrestling and the Jets moved then Calgary became my team So Calgary was my team for about 10 years So when they made it all the way to the finals a couple years ago I was going nuts and I live in Tampa too, so Calgary the Rangers and Tampa my three favorite teams Yeah, so I would suck I went to game five in Calgary one and in Tampa

9:33I was going nuts and I was yelling at my little nephew It's in your face buddy. See how it works. It's how you roll and then the next game they won and then they won the Stanley Cup And I was very sad To the title track from all that remains this is all that remains right here in 88.8 88.3 actually it's plus five because we're so quality today. We just added 0.5 to the dial All right, my pleasure. Thanks