Kurt Bardella talks WWE on latest episode of ‘Kurt’s Country’ | Morning in America

>> IT'S EVOLUTION OF THE RIGHT GETTING BIGGER AND BIGGER AND BIGGER. WE WERE ONE DAY. NOW WE'RE 2 DAYS OF WRESTLE MANIA BECAUSE WE COULDN'T FIT IT ALL IN ONE YOU KNOW. SO THAT SPECIAL. THAT'S AWESOME. >> SUPERSTAR AJ STYLES EXPANDING BEAR ON THE GROWING IMPACT OF PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING. IT WAS A REALLY EXCITING WEEK FOR KURDS COUNTRY AT WRESTLEMANIA 40 IN PHILADELPHIA NEWS NATION CONTRIBUTOR AND HOST OF KURTZ COUNTRY. KURT BARDELLA JOINS ME NOW FOR MORE ON HIS LATEST EPISODE THAT YOU CAN FIND EXCLUSIVELY ONLINE PRETTY HEAVY FOR I JUST TEXTED, YOU KNOW, LIKE, OH, MY GOSH, WWE, YOUR HAVE BEEN A MAN OF MANY HOBBIES YES, THIS MUST'VE BEEN UTOPIA FOR >> COUNTRY VERY MUCH A BUCKET LIST ITEM. >> TELL ME MORE ABOUT WHO YOU TALK TO THEIR ALSO WRESTLING IS BIGGER THAN EVER. YOU TALK TO FANS YOUNG AND OLD AT WRESTLEMANIA. EVEN A MAN WHO WAS GIVING STONE COLD. STEVE AUSTIN TATTOOED ON HIS WHAT'S FUELING THIS WRESTLING CRAZED RIGHT NOW. YOU THINK. >> YEAH. YOU KNOW, MOST PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE WWE HAS THE 10 LARGEST FOLLOWING AND ALL OF YOU TO MORE THAN 100 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS ARE TRULY GLOBAL INTERNATIONAL SENSATIONS AT THIS POINT. MAINSTREAMING OF WRESTLING HAS GROWN TREMENDOUSLY IN THE I GREW UP AS WWE FAN AS A KID WATCHING, YOU KNOW, HULK HOGAN IN THE 80'S HERE WE ARE NOW ALL THESE DECADES LATER AND THEY'RE DOING EVENTS IN BERLIN LIKE THEY DID LAST SATURDAY. THEY'VE CLASS AT THE CASTLE IN SCOTLAND. THEY DO TONIGHT TO WRESTLE MANIA. CHILLING OUT THE STADIUM THERE WHERE THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES PLAY. BUT ALL 2 NIGHTS IN A SOMETHING 140,000 FANS COME THROUGH THERE FOR FOR THAT TIME DURING IN PHILLY HAVE A CHANCE THAT TALK TO PEOPLE LIKETHE PHENOMENAL AJ STYLES WWE HALL OF FAMER REY MYSTERIO JUNIOR AND THE UP AND COMING SENSATION. TIFFANY STRATTON. IT WAS SUCH AN EYE-OPENING EXPERIENCE AND HE LOOKED THE ONE THING I NOTICED JUST LOOKING AROUND. YOU SEE EVERY DEMOGRAPHIC POSSIBLE REPRESENTED YOUNG OLD, WHITE, BLACK, LATINO, ASIAN FAMILIES. THIS IS MULTIGENERATIONAL AND AND SOMETHING LIKE THAT JUST DOESN'T EXIST AS MUCH ANYMORE. YOU SEE THAT TYPE OF CONGREGATION WHERE EVERYBODY IS WELCOME. EVERYBODY IT ACCEPTED AND YOU CAN BE THE GUY THAT'S GETTING A STONE-COLD ABOUT THE TATTOO ON. YOU'RE YEAH, IT'S SUCH. IT'S SUCH GOOD ENERGY OF BRINGS EVERYBODY TOGETHER. I WATCH ALL OF YOUR SIT-DOWN INTERVIEWS. >> LAST NIGHT. YOU'RE TEACHING ME A LOT TO SOMEBODY WHO DOESN'T KNOW A LOT ABOUT THE WRESTLING WORLD. YOU SAT WITH AJ STYLES AND HE HIT ON ALL THE STAR POWER LEADING TO THE RISE IN WRESTLING. TAKE A LISTEN. EVERYBODY. >> WHAT WE'RE DOING IS YOU KNOW, THAT WE GOT THE WRONG HERE. I MEAN, THIS GUY'S WITH BIGGEST SUPERSTARS IN HOLLYWOOD AND HE'S CAME BACK AND HE STOLE THE PUCK TO THE WITH ROMAN REIGNS. CODY AND SETH ROLLINS LIKE THIS GUY'S A PLAYER OUT. SO IT'S A IT'S TO HAVE GUYS LIKE THAT IN WWE. >> CURRENT, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO HAVE PEOPLE LIKE THE ROCK RETURNING TO THE WWE. THAT'S A BIG DEAL. >> YOU KNOW, YOU ARGUABLY THE MOST BLOCKBUSTER ACTION SUPERSTAR THIS GENERATION COMING BACK BECAUSE HE WANTS TO NOT BECAUSE HE NEEDS TO NOT. THIS IS PART IN A MOVIE OR PROJECT. HE CAME BACK FOR GOOD FOR 5 MONTHS. RUN. HE WANTED TO. THAT SAYS A LOT ABOUT JUST THE PASSION AND THE ENERGY THAT YOU CAN ONLY GET IN FRONT OF WWE AUDIENCE THAT I JUST WENT TO AN EVENT, A LOT OF WE CAN IN DC AND THERE IS NOTHING LIKE WHEN WHEN A CHARACTER WALKS OUT IN THE PYRO GOES OFF AND THE FANS ARE LOSING THEIR MIND. THAT I THINK THAT YOU CAN'T GET ANYWHERE ELSE. BUT IN A WWE ARENA. YEAH, IT IS EVEN JUST WATCHING IT FROM AFAR. YOU CAN FEEL THE ENERGY. >> YOU TALK TIFFANY STRATTON AS SHE ONLY RISING THE WRESTLING RANKS GETTING MORE AND MORE POPULAR. WHAT WAS YOUR BIG TAKE AWAY FROM HER CONVERSATION AND THE RISE OF OF FEMALES AND A MALE DOMINATED SPORT. >> YEAH, IT WAS GREAT TALKING TO HER. AGAIN, SOME WHO CAME TO THIS BUSINESS MUCH THE WAY SHE WAS GYMNAST INCREDIBLY ATHLETIC AND I TALKED TO HER ABOUT BEING A ROLE MODEL REALLY LIKE YOU WERE GOING SHE WALKS OUT. YOU KNOW, THERE'S HER CATCH PHRASES AND ITS TIPPY TIME AND YOU SEE ALL OF THESE PEOPLE, MEN AND WOMEN ALIKE, YOU KNOW, DOING THE GESTURE AND CHEERING HER ON. AND WHEN YOU GET TO GO AND PERFORM IN PLACES LIKE SAUDI ARABIA IN THE MIDDLE EAST WHERE OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, WOMEN ARE CULTURALLY HELD DIFFERENTLY THAN HERE IN THE UNITED STATES. AND SHE, YOU KNOW, WOMEN YOUNG GIRLS TO SEE SOMETHING LIKE HEARD THIS LARGER THAN LIFE CHARACTER. A SUPERHERO, IF YOU WILL. THAT MEANS A LOT TO HER AND SHE TAKES THAT RESPONSIBILITY VERY SERIOUSLY. YEAH, WELL, IT WAS SUCH A GREAT EPISODE TO WATCH. I'M SURE YOU WERE STAR STRUCK A TIME OR 2 DURING YOUR TIME AT WRESTLEMANIA , 40 >> I TELL