1 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: Now your maybe it's introducing the hosts are Wrestling with 2 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 1: Freddy Jeff dis tune. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to another 3 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:25,439 Speaker 1: episode of Wrestling with Freddy a k a. Wrestling with Friends. 4 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: The news of the week. Our inside man investigative reporter 5 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: Mr Jeff d infiltrated successfully. I might add the Jericho 6 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 1: Cruise under the guys of stand up comedy. You laughed. 7 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,599 Speaker 1: Now they know that you're here and it's me. Now 8 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 1: they know that I'm the voice and it's not the 9 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:53,279 Speaker 1: real guy. Though, Man, you made me break. Anyway, We're 10 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: gonna get to that and when and I row all 11 00:00:55,560 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: the brand new episode of Wrestling with Freddy worst from 12 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 1: every's great, It's fine. I loved it. Infiltrating into the 13 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 1: skies of stand up comedies perfect. Look, I hate boats, 14 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 1: so I'm never going to be on the Jericho Cruise. 15 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: When they do like the Jericho flight, you know, like 16 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: on a nice comfy plane, or if they do like 17 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:25,039 Speaker 1: Jericho at the Park, like they do Shakespeare in the Park, right, 18 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:27,559 Speaker 1: and now they do Shakespeare in the Park, it's all theater. 19 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 1: When they do like Jericho at Dodger Stadium, I'm there, man, 20 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: But I don't do boats. I don't like being surrounded 21 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 1: by water like that and not and be stuck with 22 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: family that I don't want to be with, or people 23 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: or anyone. Right, It's like a Thanksgiving dinner that lasts 24 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: for three days. I can't handle it. I love the 25 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: idea of the Jericho Cruise, and every time I know 26 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: someone who goes, I get jealous. This year I knew 27 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: three of y'all, you, Ryan Nemith, and Brad Williams, all 28 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: who took amazing photos and had amazing experiences. Jeff, tell 29 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: me what city you started in. How did you even 30 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: infiltrate the Jericho Cruz? How did you board the boat? 31 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: Was it with a grappling hook? Were you in disguise? 32 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: Did you take someone out, get their invitation and go? 33 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:16,959 Speaker 1: Tell me the whole process. So we've dalkeed in Miami, 34 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: and I gotta say before I did stand up comedy 35 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: like before, like I did any comedy on the boat, 36 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 1: everyone was trying to figure out who I am and 37 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: why I'm there, because these are these are the biggest 38 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 1: wrestling fans in the world. Like imagine being willing to 39 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 1: love something so much, to love a show or a 40 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: sport or something to love it so much that you're 41 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 1: willing to stay on a boat with, you know, just 42 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: like in the middle of the Bahamas with the people 43 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:44,679 Speaker 1: you like that, Like they're literally the most passionate, die 44 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:48,920 Speaker 1: hard wrestling fans. You're you're scraping off the top of 45 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: the most insane loyal wrestling fans. All boy. Um, it 46 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: was pretty fascinating. But since I'm six before, everyone's to 47 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: figure out, like who is this guy? We would know 48 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 1: this wrestler, you know, because you've got Ring of Honor, 49 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: you've got you've got the obviously a e W guys. 50 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: There's a lot of like independent guys that are on 51 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: the boat. There's promoters and everyone, so everyone's trying to 52 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 1: like size each other up. And they're the most loyal 53 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: fans in the world, so they're mad at themselves for 54 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: not knowing who I am. And all of the wrestlers too, 55 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 1: they don't know who I am either, so they were 56 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:24,959 Speaker 1: even going like, who is this tall guy that's walking 57 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: around with Brad Williams. So then after that it was 58 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: pretty I admit, I just like literally just shadowed Brad 59 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: Williams every went I just kind of like walked around 60 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: with him because I just felt so like out of place. 61 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: And then after the first night of doing stand up comedy, 62 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 1: all the wrestlers come to the comedy shows. I didn't 63 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: know that. So like after that night it was like, 64 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: oh dude, we all said that was great, let's be 65 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: It was like, so then I became friends the people 66 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: that they must have been up. Yeah, they must have 67 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: loved you. It was so fun We had such a 68 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: good him. Also, Ryan Nemoth is so funny. Oh dude, 69 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: he's the best man. He did stand up twice on 70 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: the boat. He's got a great personality. He's very very funny. 71 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: He like knows his own voice, he has his like 72 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: it was I was so so impressed with that guy. 73 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: He did stand up two times, and both times he 74 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: comes over to my house for like like not Dungeons 75 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:16,720 Speaker 1: and Dragons, but like versions of that, and everybody's doing 76 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: like characters and voices and improv and it's all like 77 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: actors and like stand up comics and people who are 78 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 1: legit like talented at this, and he hangs with everybody 79 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: man and he does go into these characters that are 80 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: all him. They're not these like big care so he 81 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 1: just plays it way straight and kills it every I love. Right, man, 82 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 1: he's a good dude too. Also in the ring, I 83 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: was laughing after getting to know him, Like, I was 84 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: laughing at everything he would do in the ring because 85 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 1: he plays the hunk and you know, he's a good 86 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: like wrestling. If you guys don't know who we're talking about, 87 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: just in case it's Dolph Ziggler's brother, but he would hunk. 88 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,359 Speaker 1: He's so so so good and his stand up was 89 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: perfect for the boat, like as far as like all 90 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: wrestling fans, so they're gonna get each little reference that 91 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: he did. He was doing references I didn't even really understand. 92 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: But he's just so funny and so great. Um, I 93 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 1: was like, I'm upset. You guys know me well enough. 94 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: Now you know that who my favorite guys, the big 95 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: giant guys, right, So I literally every set was you're 96 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: you're the biggest exactly. I love they're my favorite, like Vince. 97 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 1: So during my sets I kept calling out Wardlow being 98 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:23,720 Speaker 1: like that's my guy. This is the guy that's just said. 99 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: And then after like after the second night of comedy, 100 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:28,280 Speaker 1: he like found me backstage He's like, hey, man, you're 101 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: the best and so then we became buddies, which was 102 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 1: really cool. I love Wardo, who also had like a 103 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: big couple of weeks in wrestling. He's back, cut his 104 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: hair off, challenging Slow and Joe. It looks like they're 105 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: just setting up for that, which will be awesome. But yeah, 106 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: So these are all the guys that hung with Wardlow. 107 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 1: Did Wardlow beat you up? No? I wish I want to. 108 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: He didn't buy power slam you twice. And then I'm 109 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: trying to getting the power bomb me into the pool 110 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 1: or something, but then nobody would let it happen. Nobody 111 00:05:54,760 --> 00:06:00,359 Speaker 1: was allowing it. Okay, continue, Sorry, So Wardlow captain who's amazing, 112 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: like a like a super nice guy and like fun 113 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 1: to hang out with. The captain who's the captain Seawan 114 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: Dean check him out. He's awesome and super nice. And 115 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:10,559 Speaker 1: then the gun Boys or a. K. S. Dan Houson 116 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: calls him the ass boys. I hung out with them 117 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:14,919 Speaker 1: almost every night because they're they're like old school wrestlers, 118 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,440 Speaker 1: so that their dad. With all my heart and soul, 119 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: I'll tell let me, let me put a pin in 120 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: that first. But those guys are they're like old wrestlers. 121 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: They just want to drink and party and hang and 122 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 1: laugh and goofa. They're in character the whole time they're 123 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: walking around the boat. People are calling them ask boys 124 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 1: as wasn't there going shut up? They were just like 125 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: so perfect. And then Flip Gordon that was kind of 126 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: like my crew was like, was all those guys and 127 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 1: Flip Gordon nice guy and wardline. Flip Gordon brought their fiance's. 128 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's their wives or fiance's, but 129 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: so they were in the group. It was very fun 130 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: to just palle around with them, sexiest sexies. It was 131 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 1: a really cool group. What I was gonna say that 132 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,239 Speaker 1: I wanted to put a pin in, dude, Freddie, everyone 133 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: loves you on the boat like everyone I would go, oh, 134 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 1: I'm on the pods. I wish I wasn't scared of. 135 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: But what's it called when your boat phobic? That sounds weird? 136 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: What is what is the phobia of boats? Like? I 137 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: don't like boats, man, I just don't. I don't like boats. 138 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: I would love to go, I would get so Brad 139 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 1: showed me a freaking video. Brad Williams, for those you 140 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:22,520 Speaker 1: don't know, is a dwarf stand up comic and there 141 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: was a dwarf professional wrestler when I worked at w 142 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: w E named Dylan. We called him to Swags, but 143 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: everyone else called him Hornswoggle. He was the lepre con 144 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: and he would hide under the ring and sometimes like 145 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: old school wrestlers would prank him, like fit Finley one time, 146 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: but he's Dylan is afraid of chickens the way I'm 147 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: afraid of boats and fit fin they have a chicken 148 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: under the three Dyling couldn't come out because there's a 149 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: live show, so he's just under their fighting with a 150 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: chicken that's trying to cut his throat. So I love 151 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: Dylan man. I was the one who got him the 152 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: first time, to get his character to speak. And he 153 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: actually rapped a snoop I told him in season one. 154 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 1: Um and yeah, he was actually good at rapping. And 155 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: Brad Show sends me this video of him and Dylan 156 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: getting in each other's face and Dylan hits him with 157 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: the double birds and I'm like, you just disrespect my boy. 158 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: Brad Williams. I'm watching the video thinking this, and Dylan's 159 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: character is like, damn right, I did screw this guy. 160 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: And then Williams didn't having it and just hit some 161 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: with stoke cold stunner Bobo. It was amazing. Yeah, I 162 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: was like, if I was on this boat, I would 163 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,839 Speaker 1: be having so much fun right up. I don't want 164 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 1: to like say anything that's gonna make the wrestlers who 165 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: might listen to this get mad at me. But arguably 166 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: arguably the biggest pop of the of the entire cruise 167 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: ship was when Brad came ran down and got into 168 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: Hornswoggle's face. And they were building it all week. All week, 169 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 1: he kept like during the Q and A Brad would 170 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:54,559 Speaker 1: talk trash about Hornswoggle. Hornswoggle wild talk trash about Brad 171 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: and then for that moment to happen. Oh, so the 172 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 1: crowd on the boat, the crowd on the boat was 173 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: already like revved up and like they would just do 174 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: it suddenly that they were just kept being like they 175 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: could make little jokes like there can't be two dwarfs 176 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: on the boat, and or Brad would like Jericho would 177 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:12,679 Speaker 1: answer some question and Brad old western, this boat's not 178 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: big enough for the two of us. So when he 179 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: ran down, like and this is what I said might 180 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 1: be controversial, but I think it might have been the 181 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 1: biggest pop of the week. They're just to have fun 182 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: and make a book. It was. It was amazing. People 183 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: were so into it and go why they couldn't believe 184 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: that Brad was also so like, Brad is so into 185 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: wrestling and it loves wrestling so much. He didn't even 186 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: care about comedy the whole week. All of his jokes 187 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 1: were just about wrestlers. He spent on the last night 188 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: of comedy, he had like another face off against Hornswoggle, 189 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: Like actually in the on stage, it wasn't even about 190 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: comedy for Brad. Brad is like a wrestler now. He 191 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:48,839 Speaker 1: just was just doing He's such a hardcore fan. He 192 00:09:48,960 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: loves it so much. Man loves wrestlers. Yeah, why do 193 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: you think stand up comics and wrestlers get along so well? 194 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: Because it's like the same art form, right exactly. There's 195 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 1: so much overlap, the travel, the crummy bookers, the slimy bookers, 196 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: the bad shows, the good shows. There's some there's there's 197 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 1: a lot of overlap for sure. But I got to 198 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: hang with Kurt Hawkins and um yeah, Matt Cardona Man 199 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: the show, former guest friend of the show. I wrote 200 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 1: for those guys when I worked in in w w E. 201 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: I got there like right after they got pulled up. 202 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,199 Speaker 1: I only know him as Zach Ryder. But the but yeah, 203 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:39,199 Speaker 1: Many Cardona, it was those guys love you too. Those 204 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 1: guys were saying really nice things about you too. They're 205 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: good dudes. Man. So we've established that you assumed the 206 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: disguise of a professional wrestler and piqued the interest of 207 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: many as you entered the boat, what was your wrestling name? 208 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: What was your persona as you boarded? Well, I just 209 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: stayed incognito, tried to blend in. But you know, you know, 210 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: it's just Jeff died. Oh Jeff Jackpot. Yeah, Jeff Jackpot 211 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: dies on the board. So did anyone on the boat 212 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: at any point like from far away god, as you 213 00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: walked by, No, I didn't get no. It was I'll 214 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 1: be honest. And so if anyone's listening, it was on 215 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 1: the Jericho Crows. I didn't. I felt like people were 216 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: not Jeff Dy fans. It was it was very I 217 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,319 Speaker 1: feel like, well, so the first night I came out 218 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:25,680 Speaker 1: and then all the rest of fans are just like 219 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 1: looking at me, like, all right, who is because it's 220 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 1: it felt like I was like a plus one for 221 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 1: a family vacation or something like. It was just trying 222 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: to fare like why is he here? Or who is 223 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: this guy? And then after the second night of comedy, 224 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 1: one of the wrestling fans in the in the elevator going, well, 225 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:42,199 Speaker 1: you're over, and I was like, oh, that's nice to 226 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: feel like nice to hear that, Like I'm finally like 227 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 1: but I don't know if it's just my imagination, but 228 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 1: it just felt so I felt I felt like a 229 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 1: heal or something on the boat, just like when he 230 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: said you're over, Why do you still feel just the 231 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 1: first night? You mean or it took it took a 232 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: while to like win over this you said to earn it. Look, 233 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: you're a handsome guy, You're good looking, and people are 234 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 1: probably a nice you. So they're like, yeah, this is 235 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 1: this good looking guy. It's tall, super funny, handsome man. 236 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: Screw this guy. And then you start doing your stuff 237 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, this he's kind of disarming me. 238 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: He's killing me with kindness. Man, he's kind of crapping 239 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: not just on me, but on him and on all 240 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: of us at the same time. A yeah, okay, I 241 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 1: like this guy, so you just you earned it. It's 242 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 1: always better to earn respect than to be given respect. 243 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,599 Speaker 1: Respect that has given can be taken away. Respect that 244 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 1: has earned is yours forever. I'm paling around with a 245 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: guy who's been on the boat like four times, you know, 246 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:39,679 Speaker 1: so everyone in the boat already knows Brad, Like they 247 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:41,959 Speaker 1: already know Brad Williams, and he's a dwarf. So he's 248 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 1: like so recognizable and he's so lovable and funny. So like, 249 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: literally ever I go, they're like, He's like, you can't 250 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: be in a bad mood when you see a dwarf. 251 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 1: He's like, no matter where you are, everyone's going, hey Brad, 252 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 1: Hey Brad. Even after like the first show, like hey Brad, heybody, 253 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 1: you were so funny. Last night is so great, And 254 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 1: I'm just like link lanky six ft four friends just 255 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: standing by them, like, hey Jack Pott, this one fun 256 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 1: and salty and really acknowledge me. But it was fun, 257 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,680 Speaker 1: super super fun. I'm so so happy that I went. Um. Also, 258 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:18,559 Speaker 1: like wrestlers are so fun, like they're their own kind 259 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: of thing. Something too hard for me, Bro, they go 260 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 1: too hard for me. I was always hanging with the 261 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 1: ones that laid low. They can go so hard though 262 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: many they would have like the WrestleMania parties and all 263 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: the young wrestlers, man, all the diva's, they'd be like, 264 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 1: come hang dance, and they were they would be safe 265 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:39,439 Speaker 1: to dance with, like they were all cool like that. 266 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: But I'd literally be looking at them and like what 267 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: it's it's midnight. I'm I'm dead, Like I'm going to bed. 268 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,319 Speaker 1: They're like, no, you could go all night. I'm like, no, 269 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: I cannot. So it was for me, it was more 270 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 1: like the m v p s, the Our Truths, Jerry Briscoe's, 271 00:13:57,080 --> 00:13:59,559 Speaker 1: Bruce Pritchard's like we would lay low in one of 272 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,679 Speaker 1: our hote tell rooms and just chill out and kick 273 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,679 Speaker 1: back and tell stories and then pass out. Man. Well, 274 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: I think it's kind of half and half. So like 275 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,200 Speaker 1: half of the wrestlers would be out trying to figure 276 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,319 Speaker 1: out what's going on, trying to like make plans, like 277 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: trying to hey, let's go see this band and then 278 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: let's go see this band, let's go to the casino. 279 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:17,719 Speaker 1: But there was the other half that literally casino on 280 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: the boat. Oh yeah. That's the biggest part of these 281 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 1: boats is they make tons of money. Bro, Man, I 282 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 1: really want to go on this boat. If you don't, like, 283 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 1: you could just stay in your cabin because a lot 284 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: of the wrestlers would just lay low, like a lot 285 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: of restlers would just go work out and then they 286 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 1: take their girl to this private area. I'm still on 287 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 1: a boat that's surrounded by water though. That's the part. 288 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: Maybe I can meet you in the Bahamas. I'll fly 289 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 1: out to the Bahamas, meet your ass there when they 290 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: got on the boat while it's docked, and then we 291 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 1: can have a tag team match me and you versus 292 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 1: the ass boys. That would be amazing. I was, you know, 293 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: it was so funny, like and then their dead can 294 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: save that he could do a run in and save 295 00:14:56,760 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: me from almost uttered the jaws of defeat. Mark Henry 296 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: was on the boat. He was super cool. He's good man, dude. 297 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: I know Mark really well. I used to. I used 298 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: to shield him on the planes when he'd always he'd 299 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: always say a h lean forward and I'd leave forward 300 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: so people couldn't see what he was watching on his 301 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: phone because it was inappropriate. And then and then by 302 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: like months six that I was there, he didn't even 303 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 1: carry sitting in the aisle seat. He's like whatever, he's 304 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 1: a freaking such a cool like that's like the King 305 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 1: of Mellow. Yeah. He was on the show a couple 306 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: of times. Always got along real well with the man 307 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: he was. He was just super cool. He was one 308 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: of the guys that like, once I kind of earned 309 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: a little respect. He was real good to me, man, 310 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: But he makes you earn it. He's an old school 311 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: guy man. Yeah, he's awesome. And then um, and then 312 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,880 Speaker 1: you saw the photos that Jericho did Jericho Housing, which 313 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 1: was awesome. That was crazy, dude. It's like, here's why 314 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: it works, okay, and and it shouldn't work, and it 315 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: doesn't work, and I'm not saying it does, but it 316 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 1: does because it's this like all universe Marvel comic kind 317 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: of thing. Anything that happens on the boat stays on 318 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 1: the boat. So it's like that storyline never leaves the 319 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: Jericho cruise, but a year later. I don't know if 320 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 1: they do it twice a year or once a year, 321 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: but a year later it could pick up again as 322 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 1: if it just happened yesterday in that universe. And it 323 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 1: makes me so jelly because you could literally just do 324 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 1: anything in a match and it kind of works because 325 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,160 Speaker 1: even if it's not supposed to. Hey man, we're on 326 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:42,160 Speaker 1: a cruise. It's not a cruise. They're jumping off a 327 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: top turnbuckle into a ring that's on a boat that's 328 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 1: in the ocean, Like, let's just see what happens. There's 329 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: so much fun silly stuff like that because, um, you know, 330 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: the boat is moving and we're also like in a 331 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 1: storm at one can you feel it? Can you feel it? 332 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: You feel it moved, especially on this one it was 333 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: like there was like a storm out there. So that's 334 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: why we're moving a lot. You can't have guys on 335 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: a boat wrestling when the ring is moving and the boat, 336 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:11,359 Speaker 1: so they're a little cautious of that. Also, to the 337 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 1: wrestlers aren't being paid any extra if if they're under 338 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 1: a e W contract. So that's why there's so many 339 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 1: great rests on this boat is because they're all under 340 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 1: like basically salary for a W so they're they're all 341 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: not getting paid any extra. It's just part of their 342 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: check that they get every two weeks. So that's another 343 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 1: reason they're not like trying to do too many crazy things. Three, 344 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 1: it's not televised, so the restlers are like, you know 345 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: what am I doing there's not gonna be I don't 346 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 1: want to hurt you know, there was I saw one time. 347 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 1: There wasn't even a bump for the first two matches. 348 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 1: They were just trying to like do like things like 349 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 1: paper rock scissor match, you know, like like which was 350 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 1: really funny. That's the worst. But on the boat it's great. 351 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: The Claims just kept picking scissors, which is so funny. 352 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 1: No act, and the other guy just had like a 353 00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 1: dance off, which was great. It was like there was 354 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: just how many like fun creative things to do because 355 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: they didn't want to like get anybody hurt raining. I 356 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 1: heared Eddie beat Ryan's ass in a match I think 357 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 1: on the first night, right, yep, I think actually that 358 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,400 Speaker 1: was I think that was actually a dance off too, 359 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:15,719 Speaker 1: Like that was the dance off one is Eddie Kings 360 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 1: didn't want to dance off thing. It was. It was 361 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,160 Speaker 1: just such a fun silly thing. And also like Jericho 362 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 1: dressed up his orange cassidy one year and came out 363 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: and did the same thing as that, and then he 364 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 1: did the same thing as Dan Housing. It's like freaking, 365 00:18:28,359 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 1: it's like freaking some super fun yeah, where they'd have 366 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 1: like the night before the last night a camp and 367 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 1: they do like the Talent Show, and all the cabins 368 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 1: would do their things like it's literally like this little 369 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:42,119 Speaker 1: ald universe where you can just get away with all that. 370 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,440 Speaker 1: It was awesome And also I was a little disappointed 371 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 1: they let mac Cardona win again. He was like the 372 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 1: Oceana defending. Why would he Why would Macardona lose? Well, 373 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 1: here's the thing. They have the greatest champions in the world. 374 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: That's the Oceanic Jericho Cruise Championship and it belongs to 375 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: Matt Cardona. Yeah he does, because he does. He he 376 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: didn't lose, he retained, And I was thought the good 377 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: guy would win. No wholl whoa whoa. First of all, 378 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 1: Matt Cardona is the good guy, so the good guy won. 379 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: He was straight in the crowd off Freddy. I don't 380 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 1: know if it's it's it's reactionary. I've never seen a 381 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 1: face more baby than the face of Matt Cardona. And 382 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:25,639 Speaker 1: I'm on the record right now saying that, so so 383 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,159 Speaker 1: screw everybody that bowed him. And if you had a 384 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: problem with him, Jeff, screw you too. Baby. Now I'm 385 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: happy for him. I'm glad you know it all. You know, 386 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:36,919 Speaker 1: it was fine with whatever happened, but I was shocked 387 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:51,359 Speaker 1: that they let a bad guy win. You know, so 388 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:57,119 Speaker 1: you infiltrated it, You successfully gathered the intel. What about exfiltration? 389 00:19:57,240 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: How did the how did the cruise end? Um? The 390 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 1: end was, you know, just like to be. Everyone had 391 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 1: a good time, even had fun. Everyone was a little 392 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,200 Speaker 1: banged up and uh and hurt or not hurt, but 393 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 1: like just from all the drinking half priced drinks at 394 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,239 Speaker 1: the casino. It was, it was. It was a tough one. 395 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: Everyone's sunburnt and exhausted and uh, I'm not excited to 396 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: get off the boat. Well, if they had told me 397 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 1: I'd stay on there for ten more days, I'd have 398 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 1: been like, yeah, that's fine. It was that much. I 399 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: really could you really could rocket like that could. The 400 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:27,680 Speaker 1: only bad part was, I'll say, is that you don't 401 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 1: get text messages. You bear you could. They kind of 402 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,199 Speaker 1: like popped through every once in a while and then 403 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,120 Speaker 1: you'd send one. You have to keep saying try again, 404 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 1: track because it was. Yeah, it was tough communicating with 405 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: you for sure. So if someone sends me a video, 406 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,400 Speaker 1: if someone sends me an audio message, if someone sends 407 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 1: me like a gift. I can't get it. All I 408 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,639 Speaker 1: get is like an occasional green text that pops up 409 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: if if it made it through. And so that was 410 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: could have because it was my fourty birthday on the 411 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 1: boat and so yeah, yeah, my birthday was February fourth, 412 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 1: and so happy birthday, man, thank you very much to 413 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: how I didn't even know I'm the worst brand ever. 414 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, bro, happy birthday. I'm buying something. I like 415 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:08,120 Speaker 1: that nobody but to get a lot of text. People 416 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 1: are saying, I'm sending you, you know, birthday text, and 417 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 1: I'm like, you know. So that was a tough part. 418 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:14,360 Speaker 1: But other than that, I mean, I could have stayed 419 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: out there forever. It was super fun. Oh here's a 420 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,159 Speaker 1: funny thing that happened. The comedy show was in a 421 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: wrestling ring. Right. They made a wrestling ring that we 422 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,199 Speaker 1: told jokes in, but it was a full size wrestling ring. 423 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 1: And I'm like a kid, I want I want to 424 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 1: get in there and play. I want to do all 425 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: this stuff. But you know, I'm the comedian. They're not 426 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,120 Speaker 1: supposed to do that. So I was like, my first set, 427 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna come out 428 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 1: like stone Cold. I'm gonna get up on the top 429 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 1: turn buckle. I'm gonna go like that to the crowd 430 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: and then have Brad Williams shoot me drinks that I 431 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 1: can clank and like drink like stone Cold. They didn't 432 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:43,680 Speaker 1: know I was going to do that, and then the 433 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 1: crowd is like being they're well behaved, just kind of 434 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 1: like in like comedy show mode, like in a nice theme. 435 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: I was about to say, this is why everyone was like, 436 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: who is this guy? Hostile? Bro? And it was so 437 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 1: it was so um, it was clunky because I missed 438 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 1: the first one, bread through the first one and I 439 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:06,440 Speaker 1: missed it, so they're all going on, he missed it, 440 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,479 Speaker 1: you know. Plus it like didn't look as smooth as 441 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:13,159 Speaker 1: like when stone Cold does it, obviously, and then I 442 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 1: did it with truly is instead of like Budweiser's that's 443 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,639 Speaker 1: actually funny And that was like the opening of my 444 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 1: like that's bro, everyone hated you. Every hated you terrible. 445 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 1: Also that like I did the whole set basically wet 446 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: because all the trulies go down your chin and mouth 447 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: and like chest like um. But the photos of it, 448 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 1: like the photos of me slapping the beers to the 449 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 1: truly is together and it's sporning. It makes it look 450 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 1: like it was the hottest spot of the week because 451 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 1: it's just a still frame image. Um, but it was 452 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 1: pretty funny, Jeff, I the timing of this podcast is 453 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,399 Speaker 1: so amazing. I promise you we did not edit this 454 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:54,399 Speaker 1: for you to start the podcast off with. Yeah, it 455 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,640 Speaker 1: was tough, man, Like the first the first night was weird. 456 00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 1: I just I didn't feel like the crowd was connected 457 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 1: to me, you know, I didn't know if they liked me, 458 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:04,880 Speaker 1: if it felt like genuinely they didn't like me. Here's 459 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,160 Speaker 1: the guy that's with Brad Williams, the guy we love. 460 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,440 Speaker 1: He makes everybody all in Herd's Jeff Dye. And then 461 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 1: fifteen minutes later, Yeah, So I came out on stage 462 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: at first night, flipped everybody off beer, spilled beer all 463 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 1: over the place, so it smelled like ship in there. 464 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 1: It was God. I was awesome, man. The photos were great. 465 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,879 Speaker 1: They were so the photos were so good. I couldn't 466 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 1: miss that opportunitybody hate me. He's like you want to 467 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,120 Speaker 1: be like when you're when you have a whole ring 468 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,440 Speaker 1: to yourself, Like I mean, like it's not. You gotta 469 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,360 Speaker 1: take that heat, though. If you're gonna come in hot 470 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 1: like that, man, you gotta take it. Do you think 471 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: you caught the wrestling plague of three? I think that 472 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 1: might be what's going on. Yeah, are you patient zero? Noya? 473 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 1: You're the monkey from Outbreak? That guy Dustin Hoffman sick 474 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: that he's famous. That monkey's cool. Yeah, that monkey was 475 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 1: on Monkey Monkey. You'd like, you probably own a monkey 476 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: if you could. I would. My dad thought my mom 477 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:13,119 Speaker 1: a monkey in the seventies. No, dude, And after he died, 478 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 1: the monkey got like this sounds like it should be 479 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 1: a sad story, but it's not. After my dad died, 480 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,640 Speaker 1: it like really hit the monkey hard. Man. I feel 481 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: so Steve bro this is tallegent. I swear, I feel 482 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,639 Speaker 1: so dumb saying that I've never said this a far. 483 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 1: So the monkey really are. I was sorry for laughing, 484 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 1: and he was like he was he was depressed, Like 485 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 1: for real, man, my mom was pacing around smoking. God, 486 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: no one realizes how hard this is for me too. 487 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 1: You know, it's right, he was claim he was close 488 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:51,920 Speaker 1: with it. Then he realized they were my dad's old cigarettes, 489 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:57,159 Speaker 1: and it hurt even more. He's like exactly around, no 490 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 1: flannel shirts, still smells like I'm sober. Wait, so, who 491 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: buys a monkey for their spouse. That's a terrible gift. 492 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 1: This was the seventies and he did a lot of 493 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 1: drugs and you know, and so she said, hey, probably 494 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 1: one night is that I want a monkey? Goes there. 495 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:18,400 Speaker 1: It's a monkey. That's amazing. He uh so he passed away. 496 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: The monkey's really depressed and upset, and uh we move. 497 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 1: And the monkey really liked the old house. So now 498 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: he's depressed and he feels displaced the new house it 499 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 1: doesn't feel like like his house. So he starts acting out. 500 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 1: And the way he would act out is there's this 501 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:41,639 Speaker 1: long hallway and then it like turned to a shorter 502 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: hallway that went into the living room. And in the 503 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,919 Speaker 1: shorter hallway there was like a big armwa ad dresser 504 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 1: that was like too big for the room, but my 505 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 1: mom was couldn't get rid of it, so it was 506 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 1: just in there, and the monkey would hide on top 507 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,280 Speaker 1: of it and he would he would ship in his 508 00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:00,440 Speaker 1: hand and when my mom would walk by, throw it 509 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:06,159 Speaker 1: at her. Classic monkey moved and then go yeah, and 510 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 1: my mom his name was Ori and she'd be like, God, damnit, 511 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,480 Speaker 1: and I would hear this in my room and start laughing, 512 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,639 Speaker 1: and then she cut she'd cuss me out. The next day, 513 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 1: she'd go out and he'd just be sitting there with 514 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 1: his little with his little monkey thing in his hands, 515 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:25,920 Speaker 1: and she walked by her and just I'd hear that 516 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,160 Speaker 1: that once he started doing I knew he did something 517 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,360 Speaker 1: like that, and I would just start dying laughing. As 518 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 1: a little kid, would you know, pee and poop is 519 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: the funniest thing ever, still funny to us. So yeah, 520 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,639 Speaker 1: you know, my mom ended up giving him to the 521 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,280 Speaker 1: zoo to the l a sue. She taught rid of 522 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 1: his just like you you're going to boarding school. I'm 523 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 1: done with your podcast. And I remember she used to 524 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 1: take me to the zoo. When I do you think 525 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 1: ORI's here? And she's like, he's probably Dad, like she 526 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:57,480 Speaker 1: hated so much. Man, he's a depressed little monkey dealing 527 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,119 Speaker 1: with all this trauma. And then he's like, you know, 528 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: for fun, he's pissing and shipping on your mom, and 529 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 1: she don't like that, So I get it. She liked 530 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 1: that one bit. Two quick things, I have two bests 531 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:16,879 Speaker 1: of the week. Jeff My first was Darby Allen versus 532 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 1: Samoa Joe. That was amazing. I love Joe. I know 533 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 1: you're not the biggest Joe fan, but I knew you 534 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 1: were gonna say that because this was the kind of 535 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:29,200 Speaker 1: big man like straw man fight that you would like, 536 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: where the smaller guy is getting bent like a pretzel, 537 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 1: beaten to all hell, has these couple of epic comebacks, 538 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:43,400 Speaker 1: only to just be damn near killed again and again 539 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:48,119 Speaker 1: and again and again. I know you love this match, 540 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 1: tell me, Jeff, it was. I genuinely was impressed from 541 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: the beginning of the match. Of the animation, there's one 542 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,640 Speaker 1: spot where Samoa Joe throws Darby Allen over the top 543 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: rope like he was trying to toss him onto a 544 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 1: table that was set up diagonally on the against the 545 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 1: where the fans sit, whatever that's called, and Derby was 546 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,359 Speaker 1: stilling with such force that he just missed the thing. 547 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 1: And I don't even know if they were trying to 548 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 1: aim for that, but that's what we all thought as fans. 549 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: He just slings him over the top. It was amazing. 550 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,680 Speaker 1: Even then, I was like, oh my gosh, like it 551 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 1: looked reckless, but it was so beautifully played Samoa Joe's 552 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 1: cut open and it looked like a real cut, not 553 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: like um, not like like the planned like. They just said, hey, 554 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 1: we're going hard and we're gonna hit each other, and 555 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 1: if I bleed, I bleed. And then when Darby revealed 556 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 1: the or like took the the top of the canvas off, 557 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 1: took the pads out and just went try and try 558 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 1: to put some Samoa thro But then Samoa Joe just 559 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 1: delcom top rope and slammed. It was it was every 560 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 1: part of the match was amazing. Bro. The crowd was 561 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: so hot for this man. They were so hot for this. 562 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 1: They loved Darby and they were still chanting Joe's gonna 563 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 1: give you and it was clear as as a bell like, 564 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 1: but they loved Darby said a w fans like something 565 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: very different than w W E. So I think I'm 566 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 1: starting to understand the reason for the division. I watched both. 567 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,880 Speaker 1: You watch both because we just love pro wrestling, and 568 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 1: we know if there's even a chance to get a 569 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 1: match that we love, we don't want to miss that. 570 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 1: So that's that's why we watched. IM sorry for speaking 571 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,320 Speaker 1: for you, but I'm I'm paraphrasing both our philosophies. But 572 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 1: this was the kind of match that a e W 573 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 1: fans are like, thank you, this is what we wanted 574 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 1: for twenty years from w w E, and they won't 575 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 1: give it to us. So I'm I'm starting to see 576 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 1: it a little more clearly now. But I absolutely loved 577 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:53,200 Speaker 1: this match. I love having Joe as a heel for 578 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 1: ward Blow, which was a nice little story, and coming 579 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 1: back right your new best friend who gave you a 580 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 1: hug on your day while you were infiltrating his personal cruise. 581 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,200 Speaker 1: I love how he acts disrespectful and how he doesn't 582 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 1: care and his promos and even in the ring when 583 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 1: he just like casually walks away when guys jump off 584 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 1: the rope. Was like, yeah, it's stupid, bitch, never gonna 585 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 1: give me, he says, awesome like that so disrespectful. Um, 586 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 1: but yeah, this was my first favorite. And going to 587 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 1: w w E the Cody Rhodes and Paul Hayman promo, 588 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,320 Speaker 1: I thought at the beginning when it was just Cody, 589 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 1: it was gonna be rough because he's clearly sick, like 590 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 1: he lost his voice, he was battling something. His energy 591 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: wasn't where it's been in any of his other w 592 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 1: W promos. So he did the smart thing, and he 593 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:47,560 Speaker 1: made it more internal, right, he brought everything more toward 594 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 1: himself than than projecting his energy his energy outward. And 595 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 1: then incomes Paul Hayman. Because Cody's story is he's going 596 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: to WrestleMania and he's assuming that Roman Reigns is going 597 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 1: to be the champion, and he's going to take the 598 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: belt away from this guy, and he's gonna do it 599 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: for his family, he's gonna do it for himself, he's 600 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,840 Speaker 1: gonna do it for the people. And out comes Paul 601 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 1: Hayman to let him know that he is incorrect. And 602 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 1: the people love Paul, they love to hate him, and 603 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 1: you can see that Cody respects him but doesn't trust 604 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 1: him in the slightest. I thought both men did great 605 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 1: in this, by the way. So Paul gets in the 606 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: ring and he starts talking to him about everything, really 607 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 1: about the business. It's a very candid, kill him with 608 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 1: kindness sort of promo from from Hayman. And he does 609 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 1: these really really well. Even if you know where it's going, 610 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 1: you don't know when he's gonna get there. That's how 611 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 1: good he he still is at that he's going in 612 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 1: on Cody in a very polite way. They're talking about 613 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:56,760 Speaker 1: Cody's father, the Great Dusty Rhodes, and he says, listen, 614 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:59,720 Speaker 1: I love I love your dad. I love him and 615 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 1: I I spoke to him the last conversation we had 616 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,280 Speaker 1: before he died, and he spoke to me about you, 617 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 1: and he said that you know that you're you, Cody. 618 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,360 Speaker 1: We're his favorite son. And you can see Cody's like 619 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 1: really reactive through through everything Paul's doing. And they even 620 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 1: shot this a little differently to which I thought was 621 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:25,680 Speaker 1: they took a risk. I don't know if it if 622 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 1: it worked the way they wanted it to, but I 623 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,200 Speaker 1: actually liked it. I don't know if they'll try it 624 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: again when I say, I don't think it worked the 625 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 1: way they wanted it to, but I hope they do 626 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 1: because I thought it was interesting. They moved the camera 627 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 1: and real close down, low up at an angle to 628 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,400 Speaker 1: like get in to these sort of intimate spaces with 629 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,360 Speaker 1: with with Cody and Paul. That made it uncomfortable. Um 630 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,520 Speaker 1: So I like that, but Cody was very reactive and 631 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,240 Speaker 1: Paul had to carry a lot of the weight in 632 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 1: this because I think again, I think Cody was sick 633 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:57,640 Speaker 1: under the weather, and so you see it hurt when 634 00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 1: he says the things that reminds you like, You're never 635 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,160 Speaker 1: gonna be as good as your dad. And you see 636 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,680 Speaker 1: him have pride when he talks about how much Paul 637 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 1: loves his father Dusty, and he says and then gets 638 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 1: back to Paul saying, he told me that you were 639 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:16,440 Speaker 1: his favorite son. But Roman Reigns is the son he 640 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 1: never had. And Cody just like Uber sells it the 641 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 1: way the way Shaun Michael's over sold for all Cogan 642 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,560 Speaker 1: back in the day. And you really see it hurt. 643 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,080 Speaker 1: And then he gets that's but instead of going big 644 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 1: and getting physical with Paul Hayman, he brings it in 645 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 1: and he like leans forward and I'm like, I'm real 646 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,160 Speaker 1: close to the microphone right now, and he's like right 647 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:43,800 Speaker 1: in Paul Hayman's ear, and uh, the camera gets down 648 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 1: low on like the left side of Cody's face and 649 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,360 Speaker 1: up real close, so it's looking up at him and 650 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 1: his face is just, you know, the prominent thing in 651 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,440 Speaker 1: Paul's shoulder, and he's and he basically gets back to 652 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,480 Speaker 1: the whole thing being personal, and he says, I'm gonna 653 00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 1: take it personally. When I when I take those belts back, 654 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna take it personally. And I thought they did 655 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,200 Speaker 1: a great, a great job with this, and it wasn't 656 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:10,680 Speaker 1: the typical kind of reactions you would see. And again, 657 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:15,439 Speaker 1: I don't think it was anything outside of Cody being 658 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,360 Speaker 1: under the weather. But damn if it was planned, awesome, 659 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,880 Speaker 1: if that's where it needed to be because of his energy, awesome. 660 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,840 Speaker 1: But I love this. It was like watching it was 661 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,919 Speaker 1: like watching really good acting on a on a TV 662 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,480 Speaker 1: show or in a movie. Man, I thought it was 663 00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,239 Speaker 1: great and it it got me excited and it helps 664 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,760 Speaker 1: fill time and lets people get healthy for wrestle mating 665 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: and the elimination chamber and all that. I know that 666 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,800 Speaker 1: was long winded as all hell, but I love this, Jeff, 667 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:44,279 Speaker 1: what about you? Um, I'm the ignorant wrestling fan in 668 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,000 Speaker 1: the way that I was like his aunt. So do 669 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,880 Speaker 1: you think that they run those promos by each other 670 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,799 Speaker 1: before they go out, like, Hey, here's something I'm gonna 671 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:56,680 Speaker 1: say yes because in my mind and going this feels 672 00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,520 Speaker 1: kind of icky. When he said that, you know, it's 673 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:00,840 Speaker 1: like because because Code did do a good job of 674 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 1: saying all these really flattering things and they appeared to 675 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,040 Speaker 1: be true, like you know, we were broken, you were 676 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,799 Speaker 1: actually you honored your word, you gave him a thing, 677 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,239 Speaker 1: you know, you took you took care of us when 678 00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,560 Speaker 1: you needed to. Like it looked like Paul Haman is 679 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:16,680 Speaker 1: getting like teary eyed, almost like going like, oh this 680 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,680 Speaker 1: is so as a fan, I'm watching and going oh wow, 681 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:21,520 Speaker 1: like they are pulling back the curtain. It's not just 682 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:23,840 Speaker 1: another like promo. But when he said that part, I 683 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,080 Speaker 1: was like, Jesus, is that, like, I mean one that's 684 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 1: that can't be true? And you said romans that you 685 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:36,359 Speaker 1: know but I don't know. It's very very good. Um. 686 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,319 Speaker 1: But also there's a part that may not have been 687 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,520 Speaker 1: the main part of the promo that I really liked, 688 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:45,640 Speaker 1: where he was going, listen, you're headlining WrestleMania, not you're 689 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,759 Speaker 1: not You're not just at WrestleMania this time, You're you're 690 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,160 Speaker 1: your headlining WrestleMania for the first time. And to see 691 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,239 Speaker 1: if you'll buckle under the pressure, to see if you 692 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,600 Speaker 1: hand or to see if you have to live with 693 00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,520 Speaker 1: the nightmare of getting this close and not winning wrest 694 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:02,040 Speaker 1: you it almost fell like and again it's just just whatever, 695 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,719 Speaker 1: but I felt like that's Cody even realizing like oh yeah, 696 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,560 Speaker 1: like I've never been to this spot before and like 697 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:10,560 Speaker 1: all this. But it was very very good promo and 698 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,200 Speaker 1: very very awesome. Also, it was tough before this to 699 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,799 Speaker 1: make me interested in Cody Rhodes versus Roman reigns for WrestleMania, 700 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,040 Speaker 1: So this did. This helped. This helped me get a 701 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,239 Speaker 1: little more into it. So that's an interesting take right there, Jeff, 702 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,840 Speaker 1: because I think you're spot on, man, and this is 703 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,319 Speaker 1: the genius of Paul Hayman with a promo. That's why 704 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:31,840 Speaker 1: he's the best promo in and wrestling. I mean, m 705 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:33,879 Speaker 1: JF has some of the best ones of the year, 706 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:38,360 Speaker 1: but Paul is just at a whole different level. It 707 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,839 Speaker 1: it's like making a deal with the devil every time 708 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:46,120 Speaker 1: he speaks to a wrestler, and he's gonna test your morality, 709 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:48,960 Speaker 1: right as a baby face, because you're always gonna be 710 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,160 Speaker 1: a baby face if you're in the ring with Paul Hayman. 711 00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,600 Speaker 1: So it's always gonna be like because then in the 712 00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:58,080 Speaker 1: Bible it said God doesn't tempt you, only the devil does. Right, 713 00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,879 Speaker 1: God would never test your faith, only the devil would 714 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:06,000 Speaker 1: test your faith. And that's what Paul Hayman represents in 715 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:10,080 Speaker 1: every single storyline. He's a part of. It's he here's 716 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,080 Speaker 1: a little taste. And if I don't get you with 717 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:17,080 Speaker 1: with vanity right, because that's a lot of professional wrestlers, Fenkison, 718 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,560 Speaker 1: then I'm gonna come at you with doubt, right, and 719 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,239 Speaker 1: I'll sprinkle doubt on you, like are you big enough 720 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,640 Speaker 1: for that moment? Are you this? Are you that? But 721 00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:29,600 Speaker 1: there was an interesting moment in that promo where Cody 722 00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:33,200 Speaker 1: was almost like nodding along and it it made me 723 00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,279 Speaker 1: think like this could be the moment they go back 724 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:40,040 Speaker 1: to if Cody turns hell too soon and they say 725 00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,800 Speaker 1: or we think it's too soon anyway, and they say, no, 726 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,800 Speaker 1: this was the moment any teams with Paul Hayman, and 727 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:49,080 Speaker 1: that would be the because Paul, that's how seductive. Paul 728 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,520 Speaker 1: is right that it's all of a sudden. If Cody 729 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,640 Speaker 1: loses that WrestleMania match, then it's one of those things 730 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,200 Speaker 1: where I couldn't do it without Paul. He was right, 731 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,040 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to him now and I'm gonna throw 732 00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,160 Speaker 1: my morality out the door, make the deal with the 733 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,560 Speaker 1: devil and get what I want and that's who Paul is. 734 00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:07,239 Speaker 1: That's like, now, I'm not saying that's what they're gonna do. 735 00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,799 Speaker 1: I'm not saying that's what they should do. But there 736 00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,200 Speaker 1: was even a moment there where Cody was agreeing with 737 00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:16,000 Speaker 1: Paul and you were like, no, dude, like stop listening 738 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,160 Speaker 1: to what he's saying. You can do it, bro So yeah, 739 00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:21,800 Speaker 1: I think that was actually the most powerful part of 740 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,279 Speaker 1: the promo was that little sprinkling of doubt that that 741 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,600 Speaker 1: Hayman always layers in there. He's just a stuff. So 742 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,400 Speaker 1: he went from brock Lessner to Roman reigns like overnight, 743 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:35,000 Speaker 1: and none of us even needed to adjust. We're like, yeah, 744 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:39,160 Speaker 1: he's with him. He's so different with Rains than he 745 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,080 Speaker 1: was with Brock, Like he legit is like, oh my 746 00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:46,759 Speaker 1: tribal chief, Like he's overcommits, you know, Like it's crazy, dude, 747 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,840 Speaker 1: I love him. He does a great job. Just a 748 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,200 Speaker 1: great job. M Jeff, Were there any worse of the 749 00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:52,640 Speaker 1: week for you? Is there anything else you want to 750 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:54,880 Speaker 1: throw in there? Anybody you want to call out for 751 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,120 Speaker 1: next year's Jericho cruise in the Ring? What do you 752 00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,239 Speaker 1: want to do? Um? I would like to call a loud, 753 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,439 Speaker 1: Eddie Kingston, you know you're so stupid, bro, He's gonna 754 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,120 Speaker 1: kill you, you know, dude, I'm a giant, I'm six 755 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:10,480 Speaker 1: ft fo He's gonna he's gonna beat me. Yeah, he's 756 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,920 Speaker 1: gonna beat me up a bunch. And then a Wardlow 757 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,320 Speaker 1: is gonna come out and save save my ass. And 758 00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:17,040 Speaker 1: so I'm not too worried about it. You better, you 759 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:20,240 Speaker 1: better hope man. Um, Are you gonna be anywhere this weekend? 760 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:23,840 Speaker 1: Are you recovering from your death cruise? I? Um, I 761 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,200 Speaker 1: am actually going to be in Arizona on the ninth 762 00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:28,080 Speaker 1: and the tenth, and then I go to Chicago on 763 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:31,800 Speaker 1: the eleventh and on Valentine's Damn and Milwaukee at the improv. Everybody, 764 00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:34,520 Speaker 1: thank you for listening today. We will be here next 765 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:38,920 Speaker 1: a week with more wrestling awesomeness. I think my co 766 00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,800 Speaker 1: host the best one ever, Mr Jeff d I'm Freddie 767 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:45,800 Speaker 1: Price Jr. Thanks for listening to Rustling with Freddy or friends. 768 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,560 Speaker 1: Follow us on Instagram, Wrestling with Freddie, Twitter is w 769 00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,960 Speaker 1: w Freddie Pod. Follow us on all the socials so 770 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,080 Speaker 1: you can submit your questions for the Federation. This has 771 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:02,080 Speaker 1: been a production of I Hearts my Cultur podcast network. 772 00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,279 Speaker 1: For more podcasts. For my Heart Radio, visit my heart 773 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,840 Speaker 1: Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your 774 00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:07,600 Speaker 1: favorite shows.