WEBVTT - Grandma Introduces Me to Wrestling 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:07.240 What's up, everybody. I'm Freddie Friends Jr. And Welcome to 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:11.880 Wrestling with Freddie, the brand new WWF. We're gonna talk 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:15.880 about my career that I had as as brief as 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:18.599 it was with the w w E, my passion for 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:21.360 wrestling as a kid, and the love and respect that 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.720 I still have for it, uh to this day. Um. 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:27.560 My time is limited to w w E, but with 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:30.080 wrestling being in the shape it is now and wrestlers 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:32.680 sort of becoming free agents and going to other places, 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:34.960 I can actually talk a lot about other brands too, 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.839 because it's all shared now. UM. So you're gonna hear 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.360 a lot of stories. Some of them are gonna be 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.120 kind of crazy, some would be super funny. Some of 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:44.920 them are even kind of sad. But I feel like 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.040 I have a good perspective on them. I'm not here 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:51.000 to bum anybody out. Um. In today's episode, we're gonna 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:53.920 talk about how I got introduced to wrestling, which was 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:57.280 the craziest way possible. Then we're gonna discuss the moment 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.920 I fell in love with wrestling, and then we're gonna 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:04.600 discussed the ridiculous circumstances of me being in Orlando Florida 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.920 at Ric Flair's retirement match, being in the room right 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.479 next to Snoop Doggs, so you know what that smelled like. 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.120 And then getting offered a job for the w w 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.280 E and for some reason I said yes, So that's 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.920 what we're going to get into. And uh, now it's 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.679 time to start the show. Now stuffing up to the 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:30.040 mic the host of Wrestling with Freddie Freddie Prince Dunyah Okay, 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.040 so uh for those of you who don't know, I 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.119 gotta take you back in time a little bit. My 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.440 father was a stand up comedian named Freddie Prints hence 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.320 the Junior, and he was a big time stand up 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.040 comedian and he was so big time that gave him 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.000 his own show and it was the number one show 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.160 in the country for a very short period of time. 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:51.520 And uh he he died in nineteen seventy seven, so 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:54.360 he couldn't make any more TV shows. But the Puerto 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:58.280 Rican part of my heritage, my grandma mainly has always 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.360 been obsessed with professional wrestling. My grandma will call it 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:06.800 luchad And so my mom wanted me to understand my 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.520 father's side of the family and the culture there, and 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:11.880 she would send me out to Puerto Rico every Christmas 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.959 break and everyone uh and every summer break. H. It's 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:16.920 also a good time for her to find herself and 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.680 got a vacation from her pain in the butt only child, 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:23.320 so she sent me out to Puerto Rico. And back then, 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:24.520 I don't know if they still do it, but they 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.880 would put like a little tag around your neck that 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.080 says I'm flying alone, and you would have, you know, 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.440 a flight attendant help you on the plane and get off. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.480 And I landed in San Juan, uh, Puerto Rico, and 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.400 my Papo William picked me up. He was a butcher 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.600 and he was big and buff like a pro wrestler, 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.240 and uh. He drove me to Bocron, Puerto Rico, where 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:48.160 my grandmother lived. And my grandmother had posters on her 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:52.799 wall of old school matches at the Carlos Cologne Arena 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:56.160 in San Juan, and we would watch American wrestling and 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.799 lucha wrestling pretty much every day. That in a weird 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.840 tune called silver Hawks, which got me into anime too, 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.440 But other than that, it was wrestling, and she, as 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:10.480 did many back then, was fully convinced that wrestling was 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.880 a hundred percent real and that these fights meant something 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.880 and they were important, and the Puerto Rican fans really 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.720 believed in in their person winning because their person was 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.880 the good guy. They hated the heels, and those will 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.160 be some terms you hear me use sometimes heels and 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.760 baby faces. Heels are bad guys all like the hardcore 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:31.840 wrestling fans are like, dude, we know, but there's some 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.640 that aren't. And all the good guys are called baby faces, 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.760 whether you're men or women. So uh so the baby 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.360 faces have to win in Puerto Rico, at least back then. 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.760 I don't know how it is now. And uh we 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.000 started watching it on TV, and I asked if we 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:48.160 could go to uh to see a match live. I've 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:51.880 never I've never been to one. And she goes, yeah, okay, okay, 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:53.880 so we get tickets. And my grandma was like a 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.760 baller in Puerto Rico. Okay. Her son was Freddie Prinz. 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.520 Puerto Rico really claims him even though he was only 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:03.280 half part Ricon, which makes me a quarter quarto rican. Um. 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.280 That's what a comic name. Paul Mooney called me when 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:07.800 I was like twelve years old. He's like, you ain't 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.839 even Puerto Rican. You're you're you're a quarto rican um. 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.400 But anyway, Uh, so she drives up to San Juan. 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.320 She had this great Cadillac, right and she gets a 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.000 treatment man. And I didn't know anything about my dad 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:21.880 at this point, so I just thought my grandma was 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.719 like the governor of Puerto Rico or something. So she 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.480 gets to park right up front, and uh, this guy 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.560 sits outside and he says, I'll watch the car. I 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.080 didn't know that, man, he was gonna sit there the 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:33.599 whole time. When we came out, he was in the 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.800 same spot. And the dude watched the car. It was 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.640 she had. She had cloud. So we go and we 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.040 get right up close and uh, we're there really early too, 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.719 by the way, and they're putting a cage around the ring. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.120 And I'm, you know, eight years old, a third grader, 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.520 and I asked my grandma said, oh, it's a steel 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.760 cage match. You didn't tell me it's a steel cage match. 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.040 She said, no, that's to keep the wrestlers safe. I said, 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:58.919 what do you mean she goes to keep them safe 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.880 from us? I said what? And I didn't really understand 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:06.520 until the show started and the fans, I mean a 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:08.960 lot of you'll remember the story like Yankees fans or 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.359 whoever it was, they were like throwing batteries at that 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:16.240 picture John Rocker, Um. And I think that's who it was. 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.080 That's how it was here, Like any food that was 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:23.240 brought was thrown all over these guys. And all they're 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.280 doing is walking to the ring and it's not even 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.840 a steel kid. They didn't, not one wrestler used the 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:31.640 cage as a weapon, like there's any regular matches. But 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:37.599 I'm watching the crowd almost as much. I'm like excited 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:39.880 just talking about this right now, like shaking for real, 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.840 like adrenaline. Um, I'm watching the crowd as much as 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.880 I am the matches because this was it was a 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:50.000 little scary for me. And uh So we go back 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.120 home and we're watching wrestling, and said, did you like it? Oh? 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.599 I loved it. I loved it, and I would wrestle 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.880 with her. She was the first person ever hit me 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.680 with a with a Rick Flair chop and she hit hard. 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.200 And she's a tough Puerto Rican girl. Grew up in 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.719 Puerto Rico and moved to New York. Had to be 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.640 tough out there too, so she was no joke. And 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.799 uh I would watch wrestling with her every single week. 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:12.800 And then I went back to New Mexico where I 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.479 was living with my mom, and uh there was a 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:19.360 wrestling match that was coming. The WWF was coming to Albuquerque, 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.200 New Mexico, in this little place where they had the 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.280 rodeo called Tingly Colosseum. And when I say it had 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.840 dust on the floors, I don't mean dust, I mean 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.359 dirt because it was actually a rodeo and they didn't 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:34.200 put hardwood floor in in there in between the rodeos. 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:38.279 It was just dirt. So there's a wrestling ring, bleachers 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.279 and a dirt walk up basically with some rolled out, 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:43.880 you know, tarp for them to walk down. And it 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.080 was it was you know, New Mexico wasn't the richest 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.279 state in the country. So so we go and our 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.320 seats are awful, so the smaller place, and there were 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.640 a lot of pillars holding it up. And I'm not joking. 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:59.240 Our seats are right behind the pillar and uh so 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.840 I can't see anything. And I sneak down, uh, towards 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.080 the railing where all the wrestlers are coming out, and 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.320 it was like a battle royal, I think, is is 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.200 what it was. Because there was multiple wrestlers already in 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.560 the ring, and then all of a sudden, here he 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:18.760 comes and it's the Ultimate Warrior and he's running down 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.120 the ring, and right when I see him, like come 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:25.000 out of the backstage area, this security dude catches me 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.640 right and he knows I'm not supposed to be down there, 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.840 and he puts his hand on my shoulder, and the 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.960 Warriors like running down and I'm not resisting, you know, 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.800 I'm I can't. I think I'm nine now, maybe maybe 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.560 maybe ten, and uh, but I want to, you know, 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.240 I want to see the Warrior. And the Warrior veers 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.880 to the right, like close to the rail, and he goes, 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:49.520 it's okay. He puts his hand on the security guard 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:53.160 and he goes, here's with me. Now, I wasn't, but 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.280 he was being good to the kid, right, And it's 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.080 not like this place was sold out, like he was 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:02.040 just having this moment. I remember what he smelled like. 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:07.360 It was a mixture of baby oil, sweat and dirt 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:11.120 from the from the rodeo and the tassels around his 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.600 arms like the things you will put on your bicycle 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.400 in the eighties if you were like, you know a 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.960 little girl on your bike with a basket. I felt 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.400 him on my face and because of the baby oil, 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.640 they're like stuck to my cheek and slid off as 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.720 he like ran to the ring. And I'm looking at 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:29.520 this guy and it was still real to me, and 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.880 he was a superhero. And the security guard obeyed he. 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.000 He listened to it. He did what he said. And 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:39.319 the Ultimate Warriors in no position of power over this 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.400 guy and his job. The guys doing the right thing, 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.359 but he obeyed him, and so they became these magical 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:50.920 characters to me. And I watched the brand and then, um, 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.240 here's where all the hardcore fans will hate me. Then 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.480 when it became the the Attitude era was when I 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.600 started to tune out a little bit because I didn't 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.160 like a lot of the storylines. They just played more 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:07.960 more goofy to me. That said, I watched all the 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.040 matches because those were some of the greatest matches that 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:15.120 I ever saw in my life. Still to this day. Um, 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:20.080 they had so much time to work and you would 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.719 really commit to the character that was built up, so 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.800 that when they had a match, they didn't have to 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.360 have a lot of time on the microphone. You could 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:32.040 just get to it um or get to it. Get 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.520 it's because I'm from New Mexico and that's close to Texas. Anyway, 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:41.160 they became these like sort of special, magical, magical characters 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.640 to me, and so I kept watching. I kept watching. 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.880 I kept loving it. My grandma, God rest her soul. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.600 It was so real to her. My wife, Sarah Michelle 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.360 Geller made a movie with the Rock years ago called 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.320 Like south Land. I don't know, it wasn't it wasn't 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.040 the best movie, but they made a movie together. And 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.319 for those of you who know the Rock wind from 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.680 being the People's champion, he was a baby faced champion 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.920 to becoming a heel champion, meaning a bad guy, and 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:14.800 he became the corporate champion. My grandma hated him. He 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.960 was her favorite. He was handsome, right he still is. Uh. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.920 He was great on the microphone. He could wrestle and 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.520 bounce around the ring like he weighed a buck sixty. 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.760 But he looked like he was sculpted from stone, like 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.720 Aries or some other Greek god. And he had the 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.840 people's eyebrow, which if you don't know about the people's eyebrow, 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.680 you just need to YouTube that. There's literally like three 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.400 minute montages of it. It's the most powerful eyebrow in 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.280 the history of sports entertainment, and he can just do 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.840 the one where I've never been able to do it. 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.000 And I'm telling you, I like this guy so much 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.760 that it was something I actually practiced and didn't even 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.360 succeed once without taking my finger and just pushing it 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.040 up um the same way you would do your biceps. 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.320 But she loved this guy and it was it was 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:06.080 real man, because he genuinely hated his boss, right, And 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.480 that's why Vince McMahon was so smart. He gave the 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:13.280 working man an opportunity to live out the fantasy of 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.600 slapping your jerk boss across the face when he speaks 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:20.559 out the side of it, and that is so satisfying 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.880 to see as an audience member and not to get 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.800 to like psychological. But that's why we love John McClean 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:30.280 from the die Hard series so much, because he is 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:35.360 the most relatable protagonist of all the eighties and nineties protagonists. 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:40.000 His body is the most attainable, his hairlines the most attainable. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.679 His karate skills are the most attainable because there are none. 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:47.640 He's just gonna out average Joe. You you know, we 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.840 had to. You can't relate to Rambo that much unless 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:54.120 you're super Jack. You can't relate to Commando or the 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:58.040 Terminator because you're not super buff. But we can relate 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:00.840 to the John McClean care her, which is I think 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.360 white fans try to push the smaller guys so much 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.840 in wrestling, because we can relate to that more. But 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.640 we'll get into that episode down the road. So she 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.200 turns on the rock, turns on the people. My grandma 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.080 turns on the rock. My wife and my grandmother, her 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.800 name was Maria. They'd met. She loved her. My wife's 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.040 very very sweet um as John Leguizamo told me smart 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:25.280 Puerto Rican's married Jews, so I'm smart, uh and and 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.400 she's always taking taking care of me. So my grandma 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.360 loved her and they got along great. And then about 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.920 three months after that Christmas that we spent out there, 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.959 my wife books this movie and I get a phone 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.920 call from my grandmother Mary. I called her Mary, and 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.800 she's really upset, and she has this heavy Puerto Rican 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:48.920 accent and she says, your wife, Sara Mitchell, your wife 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:53.520 Sana Michell. Yeah, what's rock? Grandma? She goes she's working 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.760 with the Rock and I go, yeah, yeah, she's working 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.200 with Rus. She goes, hey, Thorn, this back on the people. 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.880 He's the call for a champion. Bleep him. But I 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:03.560 don't know if I can curse you, if if I 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:05.720 can buy episode three, I'll be cursing. Like a story. 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:07.840 But I'm trying to keep it together. When dealing with 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:12.800 my grandmother. It's very hard not to laugh at her accent, right. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:14.640 Like my dad even had a joke about it because 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.800 he introduced her to uh to Peter Falk, the great 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.199 actor Peter Falk, who played Colombo, and I got to 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.240 one of my first movies was with him, and I 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.200 told him the story and he actually confirmed it and 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.680 told me it's true. My grandma wanted to meet Peter 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:28.960 Falk and my dad said, okay, just don't call him Colombo. 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.720 He freaking hates that. Please don't do him. She goes out, 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:33.360 don't worry, I'm not going to embarrass you. Don't work. 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:38.080 And so he goes, Peter, this is my is my mother, Marie, 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.839 and she goes, Colombo, I love you. After they made 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.840 he goes, my, don't I told you, don't call Colombo. 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:46.319 He hates that she goes with his last name and 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.680 my accent. I contact that kind of chance because it 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:50.839 sounds like the effort, which I don't know if I 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.880 can say it um So anyway, I'm trying not to laugh, 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.840 but I know she's upset, but she's upset about pro wrestling. 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.839 And then it all clicks and I remember, oh, yeah, 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:04.679 he he turned his back on the people. So my grandma, 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:06.720 I don't hear some of the stuff in the middle 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.680 because she's pretty upset. But the call finishes before I 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:11.280 say I love you, and she hung up before she 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.480 said I love you too. By the way, she says, 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.600 you'll tell Sada she takes that movie. She's dead to 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.960 me too. I'm not joking, and I'm not joking when 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:25.160 I say this. They never spoke again, she never and 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.000 the movie didn't do that well, and my grandma like 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:34.560 checked to like make sure, and she was happy when 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:36.880 the movie died. It didn't even really I don't think 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:38.960 it got distribution. I think it was like released in 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:43.320 like independent theaters, and she was happy and pleased. Did 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:46.400 the Rocks movies failed? Meanwhile, today she's rolling in her 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.480 grave because the Rocks the most successful dude on the 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.880 planet is probably gonna run for president one day, that 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:54.840 I'll get her to come back from the dead. But 0:14:55.080 --> 0:15:00.480 that's how hardcore, that's how serious the connection for her. 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:02.880 And she passed that passion to me, and then I 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:16.840 interpreted it in my own way. Now in I'm twelve 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:22.000 years old, and uh, you know, the secret is out 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.560 on wrestling right for the out. But there were a 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.760 lot of us that were still holding on even though 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:31.400 we knew. And I'm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at my 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:35.080 second school in one year. I was going through puberty. 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.520 I didn't have a dad. My godfather's Bob wall Uh. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:40.440 You can google him if you want, or I'll tell 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.680 you about him on another episode. But needless to say, 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:44.560 I was getting in a lot of trouble. So I'm 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:49.720 at this private school send you a preparatory academy, and uh, 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.160 I was doing really well. I even I made it 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:54.480 on the chess team as a sixth grader and this 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.760 was like sixth or twelve, um, and they let me 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.880 be on their high school chess team. My heads were good. 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.360 I didn't always get good grades. Kids, if you're listening, 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.680 work harder than me. Um. And there was this dude 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.520 named Ray Garcia, and Ray, I'm sorry for saying your name. 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.720 I love you wherever you are and whatever you're doing, 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:14.880 and I wish you the best. But on this day, man, 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:19.320 you crossed the wrong wrestling fans. So we're at lunch 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.240 and uh, I'm talking to my cousin, my he was 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.520 my best friend. I called my cousin, Chris Sandoval, and uh, 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.520 this fool Ray comes up and he he hears us 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.400 talking wrestling, and he says, you know it's fake, right, 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.000 And it was like someone saying, like, you know, your 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.760 dad shot himself, right? Like that was the kind of 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:43.400 visceral emotional reaction that I couldn't help but have. And 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.600 then he said, I got a curse on this one. 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:50.520 He said, Rick Flair ain't shit, and I like, lost it. 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.720 I don't I lost it, right, because I all these 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.400 guys were heroes to me as a kid, so and 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.600 I always like the bad guys because the bad guys 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:02.080 always won. Rick Flair, he cheated. That's how we want. 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.080 The iron cheek cheated, that's how he wants. And I 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.399 would literally look at my mom and be like, Mama, 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.680 look and she hated it. Right. I started pulling for 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.040 the bad guys in movies. Because of that, I never 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.880 liked Paul Cogan Andre the Giants my favorite wrestler ever. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.680 So this guy spoke against one of the great villains 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.159 who I think is a hero, and so I punched 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.160 Ray right in his face. And this isn't the funny part. 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.440 And he falls on the ground and I legit grabbed 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:31.320 his left his right leg, and I stepped over it, 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:36.800 spun around, put it over his other leg like the 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.760 number four, and I applied what we all now know 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.720 as the figure four leg lock. Now I had never 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.040 done this before, but I had seen it done a 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:50.600 thousand times, so the technique was flawless. I get on 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:55.240 the ground and I execute the what's what you need 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.080 to execute in the figure four? You put pressure on 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:00.600 the leg that's bent over the other, a leg like 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.080 the angle part of the four, not the straight line 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.680 of the four. And I've seen, you know, Ricky the 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.280 Dragon Steamboat reverse this, so I gotta be careful if 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.520 it gets reversed. I've seen the pain on on Ric 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.800 Flair's face and it's no joke. Um. So I pressed 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.840 down hard with my right leg and I just hear 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.680 and I let go right away. Almost threw up, and 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.680 I nobody said anything because it was loud, and then 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:28.320 Ray just starts screaming, dude, and don't worry, I'm not 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.280 gonna tell everybody. You were crying. Ray, I said, screaming, UM, 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:35.760 but he's crying, and I knew right away. I was like, 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:37.800 oh my god, I sproke this guy's ankle, and I 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.120 freaked out. I got so scared. I ran and got 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.680 a teacher, who bust themselves. By the way, it's such 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.840 an idiot. I just ran home, but I win got 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:49.560 a teacher and he had a legit broken ankle had 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:51.359 to be in a cast for however long you're in 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:53.840 a cast, six eight weeks or twelve weeks, whatever it was. 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:58.639 And I felt so bad, so shout out to Ray Garcia. Um. 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.159 But now you're kind of getting where the crazy comes from, right, 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.960 Like my grandma didn't talk to my wife even on 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:10.639 her deathbed. She had time. She was diabetic, UH and 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:16.840 just refused to to let that go. Ray trash trash 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.680 the nature boys. So he got his ankle broke, which 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:24.040 leads us to UH Orlando, Florida, and it was Rick 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:28.480 Flair's retirement match, and he was wrestling against Shawn Michaels 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.040 and we went out there early. It was me, Um, 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:35.760 Macaulay Culkin and uh a lot of the wrestling shows 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.120 I go to her usually with a Culkin brother. Um, 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.240 one of them has been thrown out for throwing a 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.159 beer on the big show. By the way, I'm not 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:47.520 gonna rad him out though, But it was me and McAuley. 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:50.320 We were sharing a hotel room and our hotel room 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.360 was right next door to the Snoop Doggs and uh, 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.520 they brought like a garbage bag of marijuana into there, 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:01.760 by the way, I'm not exaggerating. Uh. So we're there 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:05.800 and Saturday was the Hall of Fame speech and this 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:09.359 was when everyone hated John Cena and uh they booted 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:11.600 him while he was like trying to give this speech 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:13.880 about somebody who was going into the Hall of Fame 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:17.000 because a poor showing on the fans part. But they 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:21.000 were mad, you know, John Cena represented a different kind 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:23.280 of ww than what they were wanting at that time. 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:25.119 But he had to because the company was p G. 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:27.439 We'll get into the business of w w E in 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:31.480 a in another episode. Um, because actually a ton about 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.119 that from Vince from the Horses mouth, so to speak. 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:36.919 So we go to that, we meet a bunch of 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:39.680 the wrestlers, and I meet this lady who works there 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:42.879 who kind of helped UH do the invites and and 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.520 she tries to book celebrities and things like that for 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:49.200 w W events. And we we chatted up at like 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:52.840 the Hall of Fame party or whatever it was, and 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:54.800 then everybody goes home, goes to bed, and the next 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:58.520 day is WrestleMania, and UH, we're there and we're watching 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:01.480 the final match and it's the whole I'm sorry, I 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:05.280 love you superkick to the face right, and everybody goes crazy, 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:07.520 and I think we had a bet on another match. 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:11.159 And Mac every wrestling match I've ever bet McCauley on, 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:14.680 I've lost. He always knows who's gonna win. He could 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:18.159