Interesting
The Tell All Podcast didn't take long to get rolling once the intro happened as they got straight into the details on why Shane McMahon decided to make his return. Shane didn't know if he was going to get a good response and when the roof blew off the building he said he was surprised that he was so well received. Shane described the feeling magical when he felt the embrace of the return he says he was very humbled by his comeback.
Mick Foley asked Shane why he this was a good time for the long awaited return and Shane went on to explain that he was always wanting and planning to come back but the time and the circumstance had to be right for him to return. Shane McMahon said a big part to play in his return was his kids are of the age now and they never got have seen him wrestle live.
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An insight of growing up McMahon
Shane McMahon tells Mick Foley that growing up he missed his dad a lot that he was gone a good chunk of the year because that's what the business required he just wanted his dad to be around he tells a little story that he was on the couch with Vince McMahon when he was three years old. Shane saw his dad Vince on the TV and looked up to him on the couch and said "two dada's."
Mick Foley continued saying he has known Shane for many years and he knows he was a handful growing up. Mick Foley asked what was the angriest Vince McMahon was when Shane McMahon was growing up. He gave us two stories of times Shane really mad Vince McMahon angry. Shane McMahon tells us about the time Vince told him not to get up on a motorcycle because he knows how Shane is and Shane said, "You know Mick I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie."
Shane continued the story saying he got on the motorcycle and flew down the road and that he was driving so fast you could hear him miles away, once he got back to his house he skid the bike to a stop but unknowingly Vine McMahon was out the back working by the pool with Pat Patterson saying Vince was furious at that. The second story is the well-documented rib by Vince McMahon and Pat Patterson that if you had a meeting by the pool you'd end up in the pool as a joke. Shane says, "One day I decided that it needed to be Vince in the pool so I was hiding behind a bush and you know how Vince is when he gets deep in thought he's thinking looking up in the sky so I jump on run up and push so hard into the pool he's throwing a temper tantrum in mid air I swear from my point of view the water boiled when he lunged from the pool I was like see you and jumped in my car and bolted for the rest of the day."
Growing up in and around the WWE
Shane McMahon said that growing up with the WWE around him was fascinating because he got to evolve in such a way and he quickly spoke about the time there was a riot where it got so bad Vince McMahon took him and stuck him under the bleachers and put one security guy with him and said you have to stay here to be safe. He said it was interesting to see the growth of the business. He said it is very impressive and he is very proud of it.
Next Mick asks about two people who were very inspirational to Shane and those two men are Andre the Giant and Superstar Billy Graham. Shane says Andre was always very impressed and he always wanted to be his tag partner and wanted to win the WWE Tag Team Championships with him. He said that he always told Vince that he was always going to be big like Andre and not small like him by always eating his vegetables because that's how Andre told him he became big. Superstar Billy Graham he loved everything about especially his gift of gab.
Shane McMahon said that growing up he was like the mascot and talked about the ribs that the guys in the locker room would do to him he mentions a guy called Baron Mikel Scicluna who was famous for smoking a big cigar, so Mr Fugi would stick Shane in the locker and Scicluna would blow smoke into the locker on top of Shane.
Shane McMahon said that no one, not even his father Vince McMahon has had the education growing up in the business as he has had because Vince got into the business very late as a man. He said he is very proud of his father and that he learned everything much differently than he did, "You pick up some much almost through osmosis where you just sit around all these guys I learned the business backwards where I learned about physiology I learned why to do and when to do it how to do it then when it came time to learn how to do a match obviously you need the physical aspect of it but then the physiology aspect is where to put all the pieces."
They then move onto how important it was for Vince to make sure that Shane was built from the ground up and that just because he is the bosses son doesn't mean he is supposed to be at the top Shane agrees with this and says that was his choice as well. He said when he was five years old he was on ring crew even if that meant taking turnbuckles out of bags. He had to learn what hard work was he said he took such pride in it because that's the performers stage he said even if it was taking jackets or robes.
Then he had to referee he said that the biggest learning experience of being a ref was from Tully Blanched and Arn Anderson he said the physiology of it was amazing the way they had things set up.
Wanting to be involved in the business
Mick Foley and Shane McMahon moved on to Shane wanting to be in the ring from the get go. Shane said he didn't want to be in the ring always. He said at a young age yes he thought it would be cool but as he got older he didn't so much because he wanted to play football but he knew he wanted to be involved in the family business someway or another.
He said wanting to be in the business had something to do with the lineage of his father and his grandfather saying his grandfather was the only man ever to stand up to his father even at a game of pool things would become intense. Shane revealed being competitive is something that runs in the family he said that it's important to be the best at everything he does even Stephanie MacMahon has a need to be the best. He said one time Stephanie beat Vince one time at a game of pool and Shane told Stephanie to retire as the pool champ (and she did). Shane says there were many reasons he wanted to get in the ring as a competitor. mainly because he wanted to flex his athletic muscles because he couldn't in football because of a knee injury.
The bosses kid
He is the man without fear but he was the chicken heel and that was tough but he did it so well that people say it was almost flawless he became so good and he didn't have to be. Mick Foley points that out and asks him why he said its pride and he wanted to prove that he wasn't just the bosses kid that he could stand on his on two feet slowly turning heads that impressed more and more people each time he stepped into the ring.
Winning the European title from X-Pac and then the set of matches that he had with test all the way to the king of the ring with Kurt Angle when he landed on his head hard he did it to show everyone he can be the best. He mentions about walking through the curtain and all the boys in the back were clapping their hands saying that was an amazing match. He talks expectations of what he had to behind the scenes he said it was brutal to him and very tough wanting a pat on the back for a job well done but very rarely getting that pat on the back he thinks without question that he was tougher on him because he is his son.
Why Shane left?
Being asked why Shane McMahon left the WWE October 16, 2009, he said he had it building for awhile but different ideas of which way the company was moving was the main reason
Obviously that decision paid off very well." When that happened you know the WWE defines my father, and I wasn't going to allow a deteriorating business relationship to affect our personal lives - and that's exactly what was happening. So I decided 'you know what, I'm not going to do this.' I love him too much. And I decided to leave."
WrestleMania 32
"A phone call from my father followed by one from The Undertaker. I always knew that one day I would want to return, but it would have to be under the right circumstances and the biggest reason which I've said a couple time is my children. My boys are of the age now where they never got to see me live, ever. They get to watch me on the WWE Network or YouTube or they dig up an old DVD. It's kind of like the perfect storm came together, the right scenario all blended, and we had this great thing to do at WrestleMania. I said 'you know what? I just feel it's time. It's the right time to go do it.' I was flattered and humbled at the same time that Mark, The Undertaker, would have the confidence and want to do that with me."
When they talk the jump of the Hell in a Cell Shane is asked the question did he have to do that. Shane felt the match needed it and that when he went backstage he told Mick Foley that he set the bar and he really had this emotional moment with Vince when they were both crying.