Speaker 1: M M. What's up, everybody. Welcome back to another episode
Speaker 1: of Wrestling with Freddy, and I'm so glad to have
Speaker 1: you here on another Wednesday or whatever day you got
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Speaker 1: you're listening to this one right now. And uh, come
Speaker 1: with us on the journey. Welcome to the Federation, and
Speaker 1: welcome Wrestling with Freddy. Now stuffing up to the mic,
Speaker 1: the host of Wrestling with Freddy, Freddie Prince tune. All right,
Speaker 1: you guys, we're gonna do another deep dive. I really
Speaker 1: enjoyed the Dolf Ziggler deep dive. I like going in
Speaker 1: and re examining the careers of people I was lucky
Speaker 1: enough to work with while I was there and see
Speaker 1: them grow despite speed bumps, or see them grow even
Speaker 1: with the greatest push of all time. It's just it's
Speaker 1: fun to dive into that. So we're doing it again,
Speaker 1: only this time we're doing it with an old school
Speaker 1: legend Ziggler and old school he just old. Oh. Anyway,
Speaker 1: today's episode, I'm gonna deep dive on someone who affected
Speaker 1: me deeply while I worked there. And if you're familiar
Speaker 1: with this show, we've talked about him a little bit
Speaker 1: in some of the acting classes. Today's episode is all
Speaker 1: about Mr William Regal. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, we're
Speaker 1: going British today. We're going to be very proper. There
Speaker 1: will be no cursing on this episode, although the Brits
Speaker 1: can curse. Boy, But this was a guy I learned
Speaker 1: a lot more from than he realized when I was there.
Speaker 1: I think he's heard since then because I've I've told
Speaker 1: enough people. But I love this guy and I want
Speaker 1: to share a couple Well, first I want to share
Speaker 1: the reasons why, and then as a kid, and then
Speaker 1: why I learned to respect him as a rational. Oh
Speaker 1: but we're side questing right away before we get into
Speaker 1: any of this, so check this out. You guys know
Speaker 1: that I love wrestling very much and I'm and I'm
Speaker 1: not sensitive about it, but I'm very protective about it.
Speaker 1: When I first took the job at w w E,
Speaker 1: I said, look, I'm not trying to to change the business.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to do anything like that. This was
Speaker 1: the second time I went there. I said, let me
Speaker 1: just help build a wall and and help protect it.
Speaker 1: So I get very protective of wrestling sometimes, and when
Speaker 1: I see people aren't taking it seriously, it's bothersome to me.
Speaker 1: I've been asked on social media, Hey, would you go
Speaker 1: back and write for w w E, And the answer
Speaker 1: is always no. But the reasoning and this is the
Speaker 1: most honest I I can possibly be. It's a job
Speaker 1: that requires one hundred percent and if you're not well,
Speaker 1: and this is my opinion, this is what worked for
Speaker 1: me when I was able to give ad and not
Speaker 1: focus on family or friends or anything else. I was
Speaker 1: really really good when I When I wasn't able to
Speaker 1: do that, it just wasn't where it deserved to be.
Speaker 1: There are other people. They're depending on your ideas and
Speaker 1: your words sometimes if they're not able to come up
Speaker 1: with their own. And if you're half assent, how we
Speaker 1: already cursed you, shouldn't you shouldn't be working with them.
Speaker 1: So it's I those are the things I get protective about.
Speaker 1: And so I got this weird email from the friendly
Speaker 1: people at Twitch. And for those who don't know what twitches,
Speaker 1: it's a streaming service that started with I think it
Speaker 1: was called justin TV, and it was kids playing video
Speaker 1: games and you could watch them while they were playing
Speaker 1: a game. And people like to watch for various reasons.
Speaker 1: Maybe the person is just sick at the game and
Speaker 1: getting headshots on everybody and never dined. They're getting like
Speaker 1: forty kills and two deaths or sometimes even no deaths,
Speaker 1: and if you're a kid or grown up that's into
Speaker 1: video games, that might be exciting for you to watch.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they were just great storytellers or trash talkers. They
Speaker 1: would they're they're The way they would express themselves when
Speaker 1: they would die or get kills really got them a
Speaker 1: lot of popularity. Sometimes people just thought they look cool
Speaker 1: or thought they were hot, and we're like, yeo, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna follow this first. I don't like video games,
Speaker 1: but they're talking to me, so that's cool. I get
Speaker 1: to interact, and that was a big thing. There was
Speaker 1: an interaction there between the audience. You could read their chat,
Speaker 1: and when it first came out, it blew people away.
Speaker 1: So I attempted to work with which a long long
Speaker 1: time ago, and we started a game channel there where
Speaker 1: I would play video games and talk to to fans
Speaker 1: and and uh and tell stories kind of like what
Speaker 1: we're doing now. And it transitioned into what really my
Speaker 1: love was, which was tabletop stuff. And I pitched him
Speaker 1: a bunch of like tabletop stuff, video game stuff, all
Speaker 1: kinds of things, and one of them was a wrestling podcast,
Speaker 1: so to speak, a wrestling show. I think I called it.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't even think I knew what a
Speaker 1: podcast was then. So I hit them with all these ideas.
Speaker 1: They rejected everything categorically and then let me know that
Speaker 1: I was not the talent that they were looking to
Speaker 1: work with at Twitch. I guess I was too old, right,
Speaker 1: I guess, or I don't know what it was. They
Speaker 1: didn't give me a reason, but they let me know
Speaker 1: that that, uh, I wouldn't be receiving the support that
Speaker 1: that I was looking for. So I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm not the kind of guy who's gonna ask the
Speaker 1: same girl out twice if she said no, So I
Speaker 1: left started my own thing. Did my own thing well.
Speaker 1: Twitch emailed me and get this, not only did did
Speaker 1: they ask if I would be interested in doing a
Speaker 1: podcast for them, as they called it, which clearly they
Speaker 1: didn't know I was already doing one. But the offer
Speaker 1: was hysterical. They're they're so not committed to the wrestling business.
Speaker 1: They said, we would love to offer you affod to
Speaker 1: eight or eight to ten weeks trial run of a
Speaker 1: wrestling podcast, payment based off your numbers. Right, And I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there reading this, I'm like, this is like a
Speaker 1: record deal in two thousand five, where record companies forgot
Speaker 1: how to build stars and or didn't have employees that
Speaker 1: could build them anymore. So you had to have your
Speaker 1: own following on social media and that was the only
Speaker 1: way you could get signed, whether you were good or not.
Speaker 1: So I emailed this this nice guy back and he
Speaker 1: for sure did not work there when I was there,
Speaker 1: and I started the message with that. I said, hey, man, um,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely not the right guy for this. I said,
Speaker 1: I already have a podcast and we're doing quite well.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much to all of you who are
Speaker 1: who listen and give us that love. That also made
Speaker 1: it feel extra special, and that's because of you guys,
Speaker 1: not me. Um, But I wrote, I said, I'm definitely
Speaker 1: not the right guy for this. You know I tried
Speaker 1: this once before with with you guys, and uh, I
Speaker 1: didn't have much success. And to put in the offer
Speaker 1: you're only gonna give it eight to ten weeks, let's
Speaker 1: me know that you guys aren't committed, and for you
Speaker 1: not to be fully committed and me to be as
Speaker 1: committed as I if you guys suddenly don't like the
Speaker 1: show because of expectations that you didn't inform me of
Speaker 1: weren't met, or because you're simply not as big a fan,
Speaker 1: which you clearly aren't. If it's eight to ten weeks
Speaker 1: of wrestling as I am, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the show has gone. I can't take it with me,
Speaker 1: and then you damage me in my brand. And then
Speaker 1: I followed it, and I thought this was important, and
Speaker 1: I know I'm putting them on blast, but this is
Speaker 1: just called constructive criticism. This isn't hating on anyone. I said,
Speaker 1: I'm sure, and I'm sure I don't know any of them,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure they're out there. I wrote, I'm sure,
Speaker 1: you have dozens of streamers right now for Twitch that
Speaker 1: do this exact thing that you're looking for, and if
Speaker 1: you just gave them a little bit of direction, because
Speaker 1: all shows need a little direction, or we can get
Speaker 1: carried away with ourselves like my side quists. They need
Speaker 1: a little direction, a little support, and some financing. And
Speaker 1: I think you guys could get a great show with
Speaker 1: great numbers. But you should look internally before you start
Speaker 1: looking externally for talent. That's just a cool way to
Speaker 1: run a company. I said. I know you're not in
Speaker 1: charge of the business model and the business structure over there,
Speaker 1: but always look internally first. Otherwise the person that comes
Speaker 1: in is gonna be hated by all the people that
Speaker 1: already exist there, and they'll start campaigning to for you
Speaker 1: not to listen to that show. That's not the way
Speaker 1: you want to do things when your business depends on
Speaker 1: the artist. It was awesome to get to tell them no.
Speaker 1: The reason I get to tell them no is because
Speaker 1: of y'all listening. So this is more just an ode
Speaker 1: to to the federation. I appreciate you guys very much.
Speaker 1: You guys and gals, thank you for tuning in each week.
Speaker 1: So I'm working at w w E, I'm writing, and
Speaker 1: I meet William Regal, and I'm so impressed to meet
Speaker 1: this man, because when I was a kid, I was
Speaker 1: not the Goldberg guy. I did not like Goldberg. I
Speaker 1: didn't like the fact that he was running through everybody.
Speaker 1: I didn't like the fact that legends, and not maybe
Speaker 1: not legends, but people who I grew up loving to watch,
Speaker 1: we're just getting mowed down. And it just seemed like
Speaker 1: everything they had done in the past didn't matter. And
Speaker 1: for those of you who don't know, Goldberg was like
Speaker 1: an x NFL guy who came in and got the
Speaker 1: single greatest push of all time. He literally, I think
Speaker 1: it was like a hundred and thirty seven and oh
Speaker 1: or a hundred thirty two, some crazy number of victories,
Speaker 1: and no matter who it was, you just knew they
Speaker 1: were getting smashed. So the matches to me, weren't exciting,
Speaker 1: and a lot of guys that I felt were better
Speaker 1: wrestlers and who deserved a good run and opportunity, we're
Speaker 1: just getting owned and smashed. Enter William Regal. Behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: there were a lot of wrestlers who did not like
Speaker 1: the way Bill Goldberg were protecting his partner in there
Speaker 1: was not always his first priority, and I believe it
Speaker 1: was simply because he was new and didn't necessarily know how.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like I don't leave. I've never heard anyway
Speaker 1: that he was maliciously trying to hurt people. It's just
Speaker 1: he didn't have a lot of experience, and he wrestled stiff,
Speaker 1: which is the term they use, which means harder than
Speaker 1: you should, although some guys prefer that nowadays, especially in Japan.
Speaker 1: William Regal supposed to come in and he's supposed to
Speaker 1: lose to this man. For whatever reason, he decides not today.
Speaker 1: Not today. I'm gonna I'm gonna do the work I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to do, and the person who's supposed to win
Speaker 1: this match is going to win the match. But there
Speaker 1: will be a lesson before I go down for a
Speaker 1: one to three, and damn was there. I would like
Speaker 1: all of you go on to YouTube and type William Regal,
Speaker 1: although it might have been Steven Regal back then, but
Speaker 1: either way, William Regal versus Goldberg w c W and
Speaker 1: you will see what I saw when it actually happened.
Speaker 1: And my mind is just getting blown because not only
Speaker 1: is he giving this man a lesson? He is winning
Speaker 1: the match. He is he is working Goldberg all around
Speaker 1: the ring, tossing him, throwing him, swinging him, walking and
Speaker 1: running him, just schooling this man until the time is up.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe the ref was like, what are
Speaker 1: you doing? Bro? Are you crazy? What the you gotta
Speaker 1: take the fall? I don't know what happened. Again. I
Speaker 1: would love to have him on and hear this story,
Speaker 1: if he could break it down. It's it's it's long
Speaker 1: enough now that I feel like it's okay to talk about. Eventually,
Speaker 1: he does the work he's supposed to do, and Bill
Speaker 1: Goldberg goes over one to three and all my friends
Speaker 1: get together that night at Dion's Pizza in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
Speaker 1: and it's all we're talking about. And my friends that
Speaker 1: were hip to the internet were like, Oh, you don't
Speaker 1: even know, dude. Oh my gosh. People are freaking out.
Speaker 1: People are tripping out of there. William, he might get fired.
Speaker 1: What's gonna Everybody was like, you know, speculating and gossiping
Speaker 1: the way little old ladies at the grocery store or
Speaker 1: at the beauty salon in the eighties would right it was.
Speaker 1: It was this magical moment for all of us. So
Speaker 1: here I am getting to meet him and he knows
Speaker 1: I'm a writer there and he's wanting to talk to
Speaker 1: me about story, something that we could get him on
Speaker 1: on TV. And he was so self aware, humble and
Speaker 1: confident all at the same time. And I remember him saying,
Speaker 1: I'm not looking for a for a you know, a
Speaker 1: massive investment of time on television. But I believe there's
Speaker 1: some young men that I can help and we can
Speaker 1: put a story behind it and make the match means
Speaker 1: something as opposed to just a match where I lose
Speaker 1: that doesn't help me or him. And no one had
Speaker 1: said that to me before, no one, no no one
Speaker 1: in the in the brass had said it. No one.
Speaker 1: And I don't just mean about Regal, I just meant
Speaker 1: the way he broke this down. And so I worked hard.
Speaker 1: It was it was inspiring to me, and I I
Speaker 1: remember I was writing stories and this was when like
Speaker 1: n X t IF, it was like a show on
Speaker 1: sci Fi and they had mentors and and such, and
Speaker 1: we were trying to work stories into there. And I
Speaker 1: just kept hitting brick wall after brick wall, and I
Speaker 1: and I didn't know. I didn't know why. I still
Speaker 1: don't know to this day. And I would talk to
Speaker 1: him and said, hey, man, my story didn't make TV
Speaker 1: for you. I'm sorry. Can we you know, can we
Speaker 1: talk about something else next week? And so every three
Speaker 1: weeks or so we I would listen to his ideas.
Speaker 1: I would try to process some stuff, put some stuff
Speaker 1: on the table, and I could never add. Like most writers,
Speaker 1: this wasn't just with with Regal. This was with most talent,
Speaker 1: and with most writers, it was very difficult not to
Speaker 1: write a long term story to get one on TV,
Speaker 1: and then to maintain it less it was a top
Speaker 1: dog right. It was easy to write edge Dolf stuff
Speaker 1: because that was over the World Heavyweight Championship. It was
Speaker 1: much more difficult to write a low key storyline, even
Speaker 1: one n x T and oh my gosh, I was there.
Speaker 1: Here's another side quest. I was there when Loki one.
Speaker 1: I went back because I wanted to write specifically for him,
Speaker 1: and they knew that, and then they debted his whole story,
Speaker 1: his whole storyline. It was a storyline that I wrote
Speaker 1: and changed it to him challenging instead of for the
Speaker 1: world title for the Inner Continental, which made no sense.
Speaker 1: If you have a golden ticket to cash in for
Speaker 1: any title you choose, why would why wouldn't you choose
Speaker 1: the main one? To quote the late great Scott Hall,
Speaker 1: nobody gets in that business to aim for the middle.
Speaker 1: And that literally was the reason I walked away the
Speaker 1: second time, because I thought that storyline was so ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But back on track, it was difficult to maintain consistency
Speaker 1: and even to get the lesser characters if there wasn't
Speaker 1: a title in both. It was just so so difficult.
Speaker 1: It was so so difficult. So as sort of a
Speaker 1: way for him to meet me halfway, he started putting
Speaker 1: over my promo class that the acting class that we've
Speaker 1: talked about a bunch and I mentioned in I mentioned
Speaker 1: in there in in one episode and if you haven't
Speaker 1: heard it, please go back and jump in. He had
Speaker 1: this promo where we did repetition back and forth. You're
Speaker 1: locked into the dialogue that one other person says. And
Speaker 1: Fred Rosser was there, who was wrestling either in Japan
Speaker 1: or on the indies somewhere right now, and he's he's
Speaker 1: an openly gay wrestler, and William Regal is explaining to
Speaker 1: him why he doesn't belong in the w w E.
Speaker 1: And I remember this so specifically now doing this podcast.
Speaker 1: It's so this part is so ingrained in my brain.
Speaker 1: Rosser at the end of of William Regals promo, which
Speaker 1: was challenging Fred, which he was supposed to do. Fred
Speaker 1: explodes and I mean explodes, and he screams out I
Speaker 1: belong and there's tears in his eyes. And I remember
Speaker 1: looking at this dude and being like, where is that
Speaker 1: coming from. This is a guy, I mean looks like
Speaker 1: black John Cena. He's a good looking I mean, we
Speaker 1: joked that he was the black John Cena. John even
Speaker 1: cracked a joke on Raw that his dad might have
Speaker 1: stepped out because this dude looks so much like him.
Speaker 1: He was a good looking dude, he had the body,
Speaker 1: he could he could work at least to the to
Speaker 1: the to the lame person's eye. So I'm sitting there
Speaker 1: in that like what what where is that? Because it
Speaker 1: was not active, something came out, something came out, and
Speaker 1: that was the real moment that he came out. He
Speaker 1: just didn't say the words. I've worked in Hollywood long enough,
Speaker 1: I've seen enough people who are afraid to come out
Speaker 1: because they're afraid men won't believe them as a leading
Speaker 1: man in a movie anymore, and they fear more the
Speaker 1: studios won't believe that, so they keep their stuff private.
Speaker 1: And it's only in certain moments where that insecurity, that
Speaker 1: fear comes out. Because we can't just live a lie
Speaker 1: our whole life, right like, it has to escape sometimes.
Speaker 1: That's why I always say, just get it all out there.
Speaker 1: My mom used to say, people are gonna find a
Speaker 1: reason reason to hate you for something, whether it's your
Speaker 1: fault or not. So just like what you like and
Speaker 1: don't worry about all that other stuff. So I'm seeing
Speaker 1: this huge moment, and I don't even think Regal knows
Speaker 1: that he's partially responsible for that, that sort of release
Speaker 1: of pain and fear. And I remember Fred held his
Speaker 1: head so high in his check was out, and he
Speaker 1: just looked so proud, you know, like say one more,
Speaker 1: say I don't belong here, sad, I wish you would,
Speaker 1: And Rigo just looked at him and smiled and nodded.
Speaker 1: He said, well, perhaps I'm wrong, and everyone just it
Speaker 1: was dead silent, and they just erupted, erupted right, and
Speaker 1: I went up and I thanked him afterwards, and I
Speaker 1: just remember being like, man, that was like the most honesty,
Speaker 1: the most truth that anybody's thrown out there since his
Speaker 1: since his class started. And he asked me, this is
Speaker 1: so crazy. He didn't have to ask. He's William Regal.
Speaker 1: Would you mind? Would you mind? He has this great
Speaker 1: British accent? Would you mind terribly if if next week
Speaker 1: I came in and Pops did a monologue from Shakespeare?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, wait, what you know? You know Shakespeare?
Speaker 1: You're you're supposed to be the villain, like you punch
Speaker 1: guys when they're not looking you. What do you mean
Speaker 1: you know? Shaky? He's like, oh yeah, and he starts
Speaker 1: talking to me about various monologues from Shakespeare. When I
Speaker 1: was in acting class and auditioning to get agents, you know,
Speaker 1: we would pick monologues and I didn't know anything about
Speaker 1: Broadway or off Broadway or anything. I knew zero theater,
Speaker 1: so I thought all the monologues just came from Shakespeare. Right.
Speaker 1: So that's all I worked on from age eighteen to
Speaker 1: like nineteen and a half, and I had a good
Speaker 1: six or seven of them on the lock. Right. So
Speaker 1: this dude comes in the very next week and I
Speaker 1: haven't said anything. There's probably eighteen to twenty young wrestlers
Speaker 1: in there. Natty nine Heart's in there, Um, Harry Smith,
Speaker 1: that's a bulldogs boy, the whole t J was there,
Speaker 1: Eve Torres, Gracie was there, Molina was there, Beth Phoenix,
Speaker 1: like we we were squad squad deep at that point.
Speaker 1: He comes in there and he kind of looks at
Speaker 1: me and I said, hey, RIEGO wants to go up.
Speaker 1: He's gonna he's gonna cut of promo and my man
Speaker 1: and stands up there and he's dressed night. You know,
Speaker 1: he's dressed well. And he looks out at everyone and
Speaker 1: before he even speaks, he just takes in the room
Speaker 1: and he gives eye contact to every single wrestler in there,
Speaker 1: and it's just he's taking his time and he's showing
Speaker 1: them like when you're in the ring. Take it in.
Speaker 1: Allow your confidence to make silence a comfortable place that something.
Speaker 1: Actors here a lot right silence, Allow that to be
Speaker 1: comfortable with silence, or like Uma Thurman says in Pulp Fiction,
Speaker 1: I'll cuss, but you know what she said. Everybody's seen
Speaker 1: the movie. So he takes it all in and he's
Speaker 1: like smiling at them, right, so it's a pleasant moment.
Speaker 1: And then he hits him and he says, this is
Speaker 1: from I think the Tempest. He hits him with you fools,
Speaker 1: I and my fellows are ministers of fate. The elements
Speaker 1: of whom your swords are tempered may as well wound
Speaker 1: the ould winds or with bemock that stabs kill, the
Speaker 1: still closing waters as diminished one down. That's in my plume,
Speaker 1: and it's this ill he doesn't better than me. I'm
Speaker 1: not kid of the Brander, but yeah, that's Arials. That's
Speaker 1: Arials monologue from the Tempest. And he's talking smack to
Speaker 1: these guys that come at him right and basically saying, like, yo,
Speaker 1: those swords that are that you have are are are
Speaker 1: built from the things I control. You can't. You can't
Speaker 1: touch me. Like swinging that is like swinging your sword
Speaker 1: in water. It'll hurt the water long before it takes
Speaker 1: one feather off my hat is like the American translation basically,
Speaker 1: and it goes on and on and on. I don't
Speaker 1: remember the whole thing I got. I got the first
Speaker 1: deadlines of every monologue. That's it, and everyone is I
Speaker 1: mean Stone sober as a judge, dead silent. It's like
Speaker 1: listening to the greatest closing argument in a courtroom ever.
Speaker 1: He has captivated me and every single man and woman
Speaker 1: in that room. Nobody's breathing. And then he stops and
Speaker 1: he nods us in and he says thank you very much,
Speaker 1: so quietly and humbly, and he sits down. He sits
Speaker 1: down like a student. Then in amongst the other students
Speaker 1: and everybody's like, no, screw that, and they all stand
Speaker 1: up there clapping and they're like, oh my god. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, the first one up. I'm blown away. I
Speaker 1: love when people can communicate a language I don't understand
Speaker 1: and make me understand it. Does that make sense? Shakespeare
Speaker 1: can be very complex. It's such an old, beautiful way
Speaker 1: of speaking, and we've butchered the English language with words
Speaker 1: like dude, gnarly, sick and I'm guilty of these things.
Speaker 1: But it can be hard to understand if you're just
Speaker 1: reading it off a page. But when somebody who it
Speaker 1: connects with starts to execute those lines for you. It
Speaker 1: was sort of, I said Kenneth Brown earlier, sort of
Speaker 1: when Kenneth Branna played Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter. Right,
Speaker 1: you're sitting there and you're like, uh yeah, no one
Speaker 1: else should be doing that ever again. And if it's
Speaker 1: in a play, the guy who has to follow that
Speaker 1: is gonna suck. And when he executed this promo, like
Speaker 1: I legit said, don't worry, no one else has to
Speaker 1: do a promo today. We'll just do scene work. And
Speaker 1: I just had stuff from like previous weeks that maybe
Speaker 1: didn't work, and we would work on those segments and
Speaker 1: either rewrite them or if I felt they were well
Speaker 1: written by some of the other people, sometimes even Vince,
Speaker 1: we would get another shot at it. Right, so the
Speaker 1: next time they got something that was phrased and worded
Speaker 1: that way, they would have more experience executing it, feel
Speaker 1: a little bit more confident about it. It was all
Speaker 1: about confidence for that. So now let's talk about the
Speaker 1: present day. William Regal he's left w W E or
Speaker 1: was let go? He was basically the character that was
Speaker 1: running an XT when it was the Black and Gold brand,
Speaker 1: and it had a lot of love and respect and
Speaker 1: then behind the scenes, I don't know if he was
Speaker 1: running it. A lot of people say that that was
Speaker 1: that was triple h and I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: like the inside stuff or anything like that, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure his his opinion was respected and listened to. So
Speaker 1: he debuts in a e W a few months later
Speaker 1: in the middle of this conflict between John Moxley and
Speaker 1: Daniel Bryant, and I love Daniel Bryant. He can somehow
Speaker 1: pull off this smirky heel character without being the typical here.
Speaker 1: It's it's just unique. There's something special about him when
Speaker 1: he goes hell. Everybody loves him as a baby face. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's what got on the championship, but I always preferred
Speaker 1: him as this sort of I don't even know how
Speaker 1: to describe the type of heel he is. It's just
Speaker 1: this confident screw you No, it's I don't even know
Speaker 1: he could. I'm not as good as him, so I
Speaker 1: can't explain it. But he had this great conflict with Moxley,
Speaker 1: and they both have connections to William Regal from when
Speaker 1: they were young wrestlers coming up and training and learning
Speaker 1: the ropes. He had an influence in both their lives.
Speaker 1: All the smart fans in the audience know this. All
Speaker 1: the fans in the audience at this a e W
Speaker 1: show love William Regal the way I love William Regal,
Speaker 1: because everyone except Bill Goldberg loves William Regal. This man
Speaker 1: comes out, the crowd goes crazy. He gets in the
Speaker 1: middle of the ring and he's basically berating both men,
Speaker 1: why are you fighting each other when you if you
Speaker 1: work together, you could take over this entire company. And
Speaker 1: they both kind of get in his face, or Moxley does,
Speaker 1: and Regal slaps him right across it like the way
Speaker 1: a father in the sixties slaps his son, and Moxley
Speaker 1: takes it because it's like a relationship of father in
Speaker 1: the sixties. And now Daniel Bryant's smirking and laughing like
Speaker 1: you don't talk snack to the boss, bro Bow. Regal
Speaker 1: smacks in and his reaction is twice as good as Moxley's,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, the crowd is just they
Speaker 1: love They love this because he's a real dude, a
Speaker 1: credible dude, a e W still growing it and it
Speaker 1: to have his face there is just this feel good, yes,
Speaker 1: we're moving in the right direction kind of thing. No
Speaker 1: one's ever said a bad thing about Regal, and if
Speaker 1: they have it's time. It's them issue, not a Hymn issue,
Speaker 1: or it was early in his career as as a
Speaker 1: veteran and behind the scenes producer. He is a gem
Speaker 1: of a human being. And I know people who know
Speaker 1: him to this day, who have worked with him to
Speaker 1: this day, and he is a gem of a human beings.
Speaker 1: So if you ever hear anything bad about William Regal,
Speaker 1: you let me know. You let me know, and I
Speaker 1: will handle it and would love to. We've had Look,
Speaker 1: we've had Tony conn on the show. We got to
Speaker 1: reach out to Tony. We gotta get Regal on the show.
Speaker 1: I would love to get his reaction to some of this.
Speaker 1: Maybe he remembers it differently. I don't know. Oh, here's
Speaker 1: here's the side quest. This is the stupidest side quest ever.
Speaker 1: All right. I was telling you, I know wrestlers that
Speaker 1: that no Regal and and they speak highly of him,
Speaker 1: and I pitched this idea. So I want to preface
Speaker 1: this by saying this was a joke. All right. I
Speaker 1: texted my buddy, I said, A do you think if
Speaker 1: I did a bunch of steroids and human growth hormone
Speaker 1: and up my calorie intake to like forty five to
Speaker 1: five thousand calories a day, but only did legs? Would
Speaker 1: only my legs get huge? And follow up question, how
Speaker 1: much would you pay to watch that guy wrestle? So
Speaker 1: these are see serious. Even though it's a joke, there's
Speaker 1: serious questions. Would my legs get super jacked like Wiley
Speaker 1: Kyote in the road Runner cartoon when he takes the
Speaker 1: leg vitamins vitamins just for your legs and his legs
Speaker 1: got hella swolt And my finisher would just be a
Speaker 1: drop kick, just a regular drop kick, but you have
Speaker 1: but my legs are so buffed you would have to
Speaker 1: sell it like it was the sickest wrestling move that's
Speaker 1: ever been hit. Ever, you could call me King quads,
Speaker 1: Baby King quads. So that's what I'm gonna do, you guys,
Speaker 1: I'm not joking. I'm deadly serious. I'm gonna take everything,
Speaker 1: the growths, the steroids, the guerrillas, sweats, the I'll rub
Speaker 1: deer antlers all over my quads every night before I
Speaker 1: go to sleep, and they'll grow exponentially at night, and
Speaker 1: I'll become King Quads. Now, granted, there may not be
Speaker 1: a brand out there promotion willing to hire me, but
Speaker 1: I'll create my own damn brand and the drop Kick
Speaker 1: is making a comeback people. That's the dumbest story I've
Speaker 1: ever told. And I've never really into an episode on
Speaker 1: sort of a huh kind of feeling, and I feel
Speaker 1: like we've done a great job of that today. So
Speaker 1: thank you for listening, and we're gonna do an episode
Speaker 1: that's totally dedicated to y'all, which have made this podcast
Speaker 1: so much fun and I'm so proud of it. I
Speaker 1: really am. I'm so proud of it, and I know
Speaker 1: we're doing good when weirdos out there who don't give
Speaker 1: a crap about wrestling are like, hey, do you want
Speaker 1: to do something about wrestling? Yes, I do. I'm already
Speaker 1: doing it, and I'm doing it with you guys the Federation.
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