Guys we always love having you on, and a big reason we're talking to
you today is because you are playable characters, in gears five,
and for our audience, I want to let you know you can unlock the 1999,
new day pack for free with Xbox game pass ultimate perks now
through December 4th and speaking of that game.
Let's take a look at the trailer right now.
[SOUND] >> Don't you dare.
It's a new day.
Yes it is.
>> Nothing can stop the Dream Team.
[MUSIC]
>> Freshly squeezed.
This goes here.
[MUSIC]
Stay positive, ooh, messy.
Hell, yeah!
>> Rated M for mature.
[SOUND] Tremendous, awesome, congratulations.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> A lot of congrats out.
>> Put the hands together guys.
Come on, don't be afraid to, there you go, yeah.
That's applausable.
>> Yeah, yeah. [INAUDIBLE]
>> Kofi, I wanna start with you on this.
>> [LAUGH] >> We were
going over this as we were talking beforehand.
You've been in a bunch of video games, but this is going outside of the WWE genre.
In a game like this, what does that mean to you?
>> It's insane because like you said,
we all three of us have been in a lot of WWE games.
And so to be able to branch out and kind of gain notoriety through something that's
not necessarily wrestling-based and to be accepted in that world is probably
the biggest thing for us because now it's hopefully going to open up the doors for
us in more games that aren't wrestling-based.
And open more doors for more wrestlers to be out in spaces such as this.
So obviously this is not the first video game inclusion for
any of you as you have appeared in multiple WWE games,
but you're breaking new ground by becoming downloadable characters and gear five.
How did this come about that?
>> So we were doing some work with Microsoft and isn't fit three and
it's a thing that we have been kind of wanting for for a good while.
The fact that we are playable characters, I mean, I call for
you to speak on this two like just seeing our faces like on this poster right here
like how sure real is that >> And as for me It hasn't even settled
in, people keep sending me like gameplay footage on Twitter and Instagram and
all that and It still has not settled in.
It's just real because we used to play gears back in college So
it's just very, very strange but like,
unbelievably cool at the same time really, really amazing.
I mean, we got our own gears merchandise right here.
You know what I mean?
Which is limited, we got about less than a week left.
>> Yeah.
>> You got us on the back.
>> Check it out.
>> You got us on the back.
>> Look at it, look at it.
>> It's very stylish.
>> Hey, hey!
>> Look at it, look at it.
>> Aye.
>> You know what I'm saying?
>> [LAUGH] >> That just makes you wanna twerk.
>> [LAUGH] >> You know what I'm saying?
You feel it?
>> No, we got it, we feel it, we feel it, we feel it, the gear one pivot this to
you because obviously as we've touched on, you guys have been in a tone of games.
Obviously you're used to doing your finishers.
And SmackDown, but is there a certain type of the satisfaction to being able to
wreak people as yourself and a game like gears five?
>> Of course, of course and like the boys allured to I play gears in college
with my roommates who were like my good friends now, 16 years later.
So it's incredible to not be in wrestling video games pretty cool too.
But this is, I don't wanna say transcendent but some post, I think
anytime we've had an opportunity to get outside of the confines of wrestling.
I think we really enjoy that.
So showing people that we are entertainers,
not just wrestlers, I think is really cool.
So, it's incredible to be a big part of, not a big part, but
to be a part of such a big franchise It's very very cool.
So I'm really just hitching my wagon to Woods right here.
Obviously this doesn't happened with that old Woodsy.
>> [LAUGH] >> So I said, let me,
give me them talk tales.
>> [LAUGH] >> I say I'm a and I am the world for
Reds.
Take me where you want and I'm Folk Tales.
>> Strong Folk Tale who was like, >> Evan, African who was it suppose,
Evan or Matt who just asked how we came about and said, how thery came bout?
[LAUGH] >> You wanna be against?
I didn't even think that he would ask me Let's say,
you're gonna be against the words, is that cool?
I said, yeah.
[LAUGH] I have no idea how this is even happening right now.
>> The story is so long and I was gonna go into it, but I was like but
Dave [INAUDIBLE] let me just throw it.
>> I had no idea.
[CROSSTALK] >> Essentially,
what happened is they're doing a gears documentary a few years ago and
someone asked me if I want to be a part of it.
If I played gears and I was like, yes, and so
this was supposed to be like a 20-minute interview in the being like an hour and
a half two hours because we were just gushing about gears.
We're having such a good time.
And so that evolved into III being able to go and help present all the stuff for
gears five and then sitting at dinner and saying like,
I heard a little birdie told me no, but he's just gonna be in the game.
But so what about you boys haven't been up a book.
So I played a lot of games.
I love it and so a few months later they came back they go, You know what?
You guys should be in gears.
>> Wow! >> And
you guys should be new day in gears.
Not just characters and gears but bring your whole aesthetic to our game.
And so legit like One of the coolest moments of my life just to get that
confirmation that we were going to in because again, you guys have seen us,
the fans have seen us do all of this crazy stuff on WWE television.
Wearing these crazy outfits, so to be able to wear exactly what our characters
will be wearing in gears five like it's in same breaking barriers.
>> That's my favorite part of this is while you're part of the game,
it's you guys.
It's you guys in the attire which by the way you won survivor series,
you came out in everything in survivor series.
You never go light on your entrances when it comes to the gear.
Was this always the plan or did you basically demand like,
no, we have to also have this stuff in real life?
>> I feel like we've set a precedent that when we are putting our everything into
something we're going to make some sort of entrance gear for.
And so I feel like at this point with the way that new day has been historically,
it would have been a huge miss for us to not wear that stuff in survivor series.
Because it's a perfect opportunity for everything that we've been doing
throughout the entirety of our career as a group together it just made perfect sense.
And like I said, this is the coolest thing we've ever done so
to have the gear to go with it, it just made the moment that much cooler.