Speaker 1: M h. What's up? Everyone, Welcome back to a brand
Speaker 1: new episode of Wrestling with Freddy, and today's episode is
Speaker 1: a very special episode because of you. Today is our
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Speaker 1: a ton of appreciation for professional wrestling, and let's start
Speaker 1: the show. Wrestling with Freddie starts right now now stuffing
Speaker 1: up for the mic. The host of Wrestling with Freddy
Speaker 1: Freddie Prince Tune. Yeah, all right, everybody, welcome back. Sorry
Speaker 1: for the bat young counter impression. Today's episode was asked Freddie.
Speaker 1: We got tons of questions from all of y'all fine
Speaker 1: ladies and germs, and I'm gonna get through as many
Speaker 1: as I can, and I will try not decide quest
Speaker 1: um although some of you probably like the side quest
Speaker 1: more so we'll keep an open mind and we'll see
Speaker 1: where the river takes us. So today, if I get
Speaker 1: any names wrong, I apologize a lot of these. I
Speaker 1: feel like I cannot screw up. So we're gonna start
Speaker 1: right away with Haley Hales, and I'm reading some of
Speaker 1: these for the first time, so you're gonna get honest
Speaker 1: reactions here we go. Haley Hales asks from Twitter. Throughout
Speaker 1: your tenure with w w E, was there ever a
Speaker 1: time where you thought you might be fired for doing something? No?
Speaker 1: I was never afraid I would lose my job. But
Speaker 1: that's not to say there weren't times where I was
Speaker 1: almost fired. I just don't. I just don't know about him.
Speaker 1: Maybe Bruce Pritchard would know. You could ask his Were
Speaker 1: you guys ever going to secretly fire Freddie? No? I
Speaker 1: never got in any trouble when I worked there. I
Speaker 1: had a couple of segments that Vince didn't feel worked
Speaker 1: or that Vince didn't like that he would yell about.
Speaker 1: But that was never like, oh my gosh, am I
Speaker 1: gonna get fired. That's just two people with different ideas arguing,
Speaker 1: and that's to me, is rarely a bad thing if
Speaker 1: they're both If both people have the same goal in mind,
Speaker 1: which is, let's make the best thing. When one person's
Speaker 1: goal is simply screw you, then no, that's not a
Speaker 1: healthy conversation. But I never had any of those, Hailey Hales.
Speaker 1: Our next question is from Comahan. Oh, like Han Solo
Speaker 1: and the Coma and the Carbon Night, maybe different fans
Speaker 1: want different things with wrestling. Some companies try to be
Speaker 1: a buffet. Yes, they do, some target specific audiences also true.
Speaker 1: How would you balance a national company between character driven,
Speaker 1: moral stories, athletics, sport, light competition, grandeur, nice word, etcetera.
Speaker 1: What's the ideal mix for you? Ask FPJ so Comahan.
Speaker 1: There's no right or wrong answer to this. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's anything wrong with buffet wrestling, though that's not
Speaker 1: what I would want to do if I we're making
Speaker 1: a wrestling con federation. But there is something to be
Speaker 1: said for that, a little something for everyone, and that's
Speaker 1: definitely the w w E style. Per Vince McMahon's own lips,
Speaker 1: you know, he said to me, verbatim, this is this
Speaker 1: is vaudeville. We give the people a little bit of everything,
Speaker 1: a little bit of song dance, which was literal back then.
Speaker 1: It was not Lillian Garcia, it was Jillian and she
Speaker 1: her gimmick was to sing poorly, so the crowd would boo,
Speaker 1: and when the baby face female wrestler would come out
Speaker 1: and beat her up and more importantly shut her up,
Speaker 1: than the crowd would cheer and would love our baby
Speaker 1: face female wrestler. So he literally put song and dance
Speaker 1: into the show. That's not exactly my style, but when
Speaker 1: I was young, I didn't, you know, I didn't mind
Speaker 1: it at all. Then there's cater to your to the
Speaker 1: more of the social media hardcore, the vocal fans, which
Speaker 1: is more the A e W style, which gets it
Speaker 1: right and gets it wrong, just like w W W E.
Speaker 1: Although I do give a W credit for the best
Speaker 1: wrestling story in over a decade with the m JF
Speaker 1: and CM punk storyline, which if you haven't seen it,
Speaker 1: I'm sure someone edited it together on YouTube, if not
Speaker 1: a e W themselves and their social media and YouTube group,
Speaker 1: they cut together some pretty awesome stuff, so you should
Speaker 1: even check that out. They're less buffet and they cater
Speaker 1: I think, more to the modern wrestling fan. And then
Speaker 1: there's smaller promotions that do just female wrestling, the Japanese promotions,
Speaker 1: which is more a strong, beat them up, tough guy
Speaker 1: kind of even tough girl style, which people like, although
Speaker 1: maybe in Japan they called there's buffet style, I don't know,
Speaker 1: and the g c ws that do more hardcore and
Speaker 1: deathmatch stuff. I think for me and I can't say
Speaker 1: too much, and I don't know if your question was
Speaker 1: was evil enough to be trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to do with my federation. But
Speaker 1: if it is, kudos, but it didn't work. Mine is
Speaker 1: certainly gonna be in a specific lane, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: lean into that lane as much as all of us
Speaker 1: physically and emotionally can. But I will be global. As
Speaker 1: far as the type of talent that I'm looking for,
Speaker 1: I feel I have a really smart way to protect
Speaker 1: non English speaking talent. I feel I have a really
Speaker 1: smart way to protect talent that's maybe not so strong
Speaker 1: on the mic, but they're wrestling is super legit and
Speaker 1: they just need someone to help him out. In the
Speaker 1: old days, we have managers speak for him, and in
Speaker 1: the in the in the new day, in the in
Speaker 1: the contemporary wrestling world, it still works as well if
Speaker 1: you have the right kind of voice. Paul Hayman, I guess,
Speaker 1: is the perfect example of that. Although my favorite manager
Speaker 1: of all times Mr Fuji, who wasn't even that great
Speaker 1: on the mic, but I just loved him. But I
Speaker 1: think I have a unique way to do it that
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's been done before, but not to my knowledge.
Speaker 1: I'm no historian, but I look forward to surprising people
Speaker 1: with that. Hopefully it's a surprise, and I don't get
Speaker 1: a million people going, oh, that was done and not
Speaker 1: d in thirty three. I's so sorry, born in seventy,
Speaker 1: so so yeah. I hope that answers your question. I
Speaker 1: think it does, but it will certainly be in a
Speaker 1: specific in a specific lane. Next we have X. That's
Speaker 1: what you get, bro or chick. I don't know who
Speaker 1: you are, asks Freddie. That's me. I've listened to most
Speaker 1: of your podcast apps, hold on most for if your
Speaker 1: hashtag is four twenty, you and I both know how
Speaker 1: much damn free time you have on your hands, and
Speaker 1: you've only listened to most. I get the Cornett and
Speaker 1: the others give you two and a half three hours,
Speaker 1: and that can maybe feel the day. Come on, Matt,
Speaker 1: you can listen to me while you're driving to the
Speaker 1: shop right for twenty or maybe your delivery dude, and
Speaker 1: you're helping people out. You can listen to me on
Speaker 1: your delivery. It be the perfect amount of time. And
Speaker 1: you've listened to most of the episodes. I'm skipping your quip,
Speaker 1: not chucking. Here we go, you've dropped nuggets along the way.
Speaker 1: Then did the full app about your own wrestling promotion, Yes,
Speaker 1: I did. What's the most important to have slash grow
Speaker 1: hardcore fan base or casual fan base. I think there's
Speaker 1: a way to have one show that serves the house
Speaker 1: audience with edits and cuts that they never see that
Speaker 1: would make it to the TV version of that same
Speaker 1: house show. I think there's a way to do that,
Speaker 1: and I think I have a way to do that
Speaker 1: which makes the house show feel more hardcore than it
Speaker 1: would to a television distributor, so to speak. As far
Speaker 1: as what's important to grow, your house has to be
Speaker 1: a hot crowd, whether you have a hundred and fifty attendees,
Speaker 1: which are some of my favorite wrestling shows that I've
Speaker 1: been to, by the way, or whether you have a
Speaker 1: hundred thousand attend to ease either way, your crowd has
Speaker 1: to be hot for the TV product to have energy.
Speaker 1: I used to hate the what chant I really did?
Speaker 1: I've said this before, but I when there were no
Speaker 1: more crowds during the pandemic, I got how wrong I was.
Speaker 1: That energy was gone and the magic was gone. Imagine
Speaker 1: being a magician and doing tricks for no one when
Speaker 1: you know how the trick has done, which you're going
Speaker 1: to impress yourself. What do you even why you why
Speaker 1: did you take up? Magic is a profession if there's
Speaker 1: gonna be no crowd. So I was I was dead
Speaker 1: wrong and and dead ass arrogant on that. But my
Speaker 1: experience came from television, where there is no audience minus sitcoms,
Speaker 1: of course, and I didn't like theater. I liked movies.
Speaker 1: I think you have to dedicate a great portion of
Speaker 1: your energy into servicing the people who bought tickets, over
Speaker 1: servicing the people that turn onto television. And I think
Speaker 1: if you take care of one, that magic exists, and
Speaker 1: it in turn can take care of the other. If
Speaker 1: someone's not gonna watch, they're not gonna watch. There's a
Speaker 1: million cops shows on Law and Order still gets a
Speaker 1: better rating than all of them, but there's a million
Speaker 1: of them, so there's room for a million wrestling shows.
Speaker 1: People are gonna watch what they like and watch what
Speaker 1: they connect to. So I think that answers your question.
Speaker 1: I think if you appetize the hardcore, you can gain
Speaker 1: the mainstream. Look what punk rock did. Punk rock stayed
Speaker 1: true to itself and then the mainstream embraced it, and
Speaker 1: music evolved over time, like all art does. But horror films,
Speaker 1: which were very niche back in the day, get hundred
Speaker 1: million dollar budgets today's and they don't need it. You
Speaker 1: can scare people for a lot less and art always changes,
Speaker 1: just like just like punk rock music and just like wrestling.
Speaker 1: But I think when you stay true to the to
Speaker 1: the foundation of it, that can that can be best.
Speaker 1: Next question is at Reef is Um. I know this
Speaker 1: dude from Twitter. I know Reef is M. He's very
Speaker 1: vocal whether he's he's pro or con my opinion at
Speaker 1: the time. What is the best wrestling match you've seen
Speaker 1: in person? I mean, that's that's pretty easy. It upsets
Speaker 1: some people based on the content, But I think if
Speaker 1: people investigate the damage that was done to that man's brain,
Speaker 1: which was the cause of him doing such horrible damage
Speaker 1: to his family, then hopefully you can get around me
Speaker 1: saying this. If you can't, I understand you can be
Speaker 1: upset with me. You're allowed those feelings. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to hurt anyone's feeling by saying this, so I'm just
Speaker 1: answering the question. But the best match I ever saw
Speaker 1: in person was Curt Angle and the late Chris ben
Speaker 1: Wah at Staples Center, and it was a repeat of
Speaker 1: a match they had in Boston. I remember Shot came
Speaker 1: in and the crowd went crazy because Shot came in,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I only heard the applause. I
Speaker 1: was like, wait, let's go. Why did Charon so loud?
Speaker 1: This is a regular spot. And then I saw this
Speaker 1: seven ft plus pound to walk back. It was the
Speaker 1: best match I ever saw in person because neither man
Speaker 1: stopped moving for thirty minutes like it was. It was
Speaker 1: so insane that I hope answers your question, and anyone
Speaker 1: that I offended, please remember that's that's not that's not
Speaker 1: my intention. It was just the best. It was the
Speaker 1: best match I ever. So next question is from to
Speaker 1: one two Q underscore J g Man. To make sure
Speaker 1: that no one's name is like a prank against me
Speaker 1: where I'm saying stuff like the way y'all got Michael
Speaker 1: bisbeing because I'm not young and quick anymore. All right,
Speaker 1: J g Man, if you were able to go back
Speaker 1: in time too before you worked at the w w E,
Speaker 1: knowing how it turned out, would you still have agreed
Speaker 1: to work for them? Yeah? Absolutely, I mean nothing turned
Speaker 1: out poorly, yet I loved what I was able to
Speaker 1: accomplish there. I loved the opportunities that I was able
Speaker 1: to provide for the people I was there in the
Speaker 1: short amount of time I was there. I've heard from
Speaker 1: wrestlers since I left who said, thank you, this helped
Speaker 1: me so much, or that little things that I didn't
Speaker 1: even realize at the time. I mean, I did Gerald
Speaker 1: Brisco and J B L's podcast, and at Brisco I'm
Speaker 1: sure he says it to everybody just to be polite,
Speaker 1: but he said, hey, you left the business better than
Speaker 1: you than you inherited it, and that meant a lot
Speaker 1: to me. You know again, even if it was just polite,
Speaker 1: he didn't have to, he didn't have to say that
Speaker 1: at the end of the show. But I I took
Speaker 1: it and and I believed it because I felt like
Speaker 1: I did good work when I was there, So regardless
Speaker 1: of of the challenges and all that stuff. Now, I
Speaker 1: would I wouldn't change the thing. I would go there.
Speaker 1: Next question is from Media Uncharted. What are some wrestling
Speaker 1: cliches that you think are overused or sick of seeing
Speaker 1: referees getting something in their eyeballs. That's pretty much that's
Speaker 1: pretty much two. I don't think refs need to I'm
Speaker 1: not saying they can't ever be distracted the eye. The
Speaker 1: I thing is silly. Some of the distractions that are
Speaker 1: used in the mainstream are still silly to me. Some
Speaker 1: are totally acceptable. I get that interference from the outside
Speaker 1: of manager yelling at him, an opponent barking at him,
Speaker 1: sometimes to the point where they get thrown out of
Speaker 1: the ring. I don't get mad at that, but the
Speaker 1: silly distractions, I get a little sick of contract signings maybe,
Speaker 1: but ever once in a a while you still see a
Speaker 1: good one. So I don't think that's played out. I
Speaker 1: think it's just not always done well. So I would
Speaker 1: go with the I got something in my eye cliche.
Speaker 1: That's the one. That's the one I'm done with. Man.
Speaker 1: Next question is from Jim Underscore ko W Jim Cow,
Speaker 1: is there someone either ww UI or a e W
Speaker 1: that you think is under you, that you think is underutilized,
Speaker 1: and if so, how would you book them to get
Speaker 1: over I like that. Thank you for the challenge. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, here we go. First of all, the Return
Speaker 1: of Alexa Bliss was was a complete and total tragedy.
Speaker 1: They literally just said, here's a match, no story whatsoever,
Speaker 1: here's a match. But they just brought her back, so
Speaker 1: maybe they have something. So I'm not gonna dump on
Speaker 1: that just yet. But Kevin owens Man, I feel he
Speaker 1: should be playing in major stories all the time. I
Speaker 1: think it's unfair to use him in stories that if
Speaker 1: anyone else was trying to sell it, there's just no
Speaker 1: way that the story would work or that you would
Speaker 1: invest any time. But his level of commitment and his
Speaker 1: his talent and his ability to execute that talent in
Speaker 1: the ring and on the mic is next level. So
Speaker 1: he's like writer or proof right, Like there's actors used.
Speaker 1: All have seen movies where you're like, YEO, this movie hucks,
Speaker 1: but actor X is rocking the ship out of this,
Speaker 1: so almost stick with it, whether whether it's male or female.
Speaker 1: And you might like the dog to air Bud movies
Speaker 1: and you're like, Yo, this movie sucks, but man, a
Speaker 1: dog hit a home run, Like whatever it is, it's
Speaker 1: the lead of that that film that that makes you watch,
Speaker 1: you know, irrespective of the words coming out of their mouth.
Speaker 1: Oh how you like that? Mr who wrote Grandeur? In
Speaker 1: your question? I just hit him with irrespective, I'll just
Speaker 1: hit you back. So that's how I feel about that.
Speaker 1: It's hard to say is underutilized. I just feel maybe No,
Speaker 1: I'm sticking with that. He should be a major title player.
Speaker 1: He should always be competing or up near the top
Speaker 1: with say Cody, Seth Roman, Bobby, anybody who's a at
Speaker 1: world championship level. He should be involved with one of
Speaker 1: their character storylines at all times. Alright, Next question from
Speaker 1: mL Gavin if you could watch this is a good question.
Speaker 1: If you could watch two celebs fight in a TLC
Speaker 1: match that's tables, ladders and chairs for all you civilians,
Speaker 1: who would they be? This is good, all right, I
Speaker 1: like this very much. Two celebs in a tables, ladders
Speaker 1: and chairs, and so basically, who do I want to see?
Speaker 1: What two actors do I want to see just get annihilated?
Speaker 1: I would We're gonna do. I might give you two matches. Alright.
Speaker 1: First of all, check peete this. I already have the match.
Speaker 1: And these are two friends of mine who I love
Speaker 1: very much, and both of them love wrestling. But I
Speaker 1: would love to see Seth Green, which is Scott Evil
Speaker 1: if you guys don't know who that is versus Mcaulay Culkin.
Speaker 1: I don't have to tell you what movies he was in.
Speaker 1: In a tables, ladders and Chairs match, They're they're smaller
Speaker 1: than Luca Doors. They would literally fly. If he jumped
Speaker 1: off a ten foot ladder, it would look like it
Speaker 1: was thirty feet up. I would love to and I
Speaker 1: love them, and they would get hurt. Would I would
Speaker 1: visit them in the hospital and give them kind words.
Speaker 1: But Seth Green versus Macaulay Culkin in a TLC match,
Speaker 1: and on the women's side, I'm putting Rachel Lee Cook
Speaker 1: in there against Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Rachel Lee Cook's
Speaker 1: going over big, big, and it's a squash match. And
Speaker 1: I'm not giving the women less time because I'm a misogynist.
Speaker 1: It's just because Rachel's so powerful and unpredictable that she
Speaker 1: just annihilates Love in less than three minutes. I give
Speaker 1: him three minutes with entrances, and I get Seth in
Speaker 1: seven Mack, I give him thirty five minutes. That's my
Speaker 1: favorite question of the day. Not the best question, mL Gavin,
Speaker 1: but my favorite question. Our next question is from Aliva
Speaker 1: Underscore Andrew call you Olive. We're gonna call you alive.
Speaker 1: How's that all right, Olive? If you could pick, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: if you could pick any wrestler in the history of
Speaker 1: the business to be the top guy in your new company,
Speaker 1: who would it be. So this is pretty easy because
Speaker 1: you don't just want to go to who was super successful.
Speaker 1: You have to go to whom had the biggest cultural impact? Right,
Speaker 1: cultural impact where people who didn't even know wrestling knew
Speaker 1: who your top guy was cultural impact, so they'll go to.
Speaker 1: For most people around our age would probably be Hulk Hogan.
Speaker 1: But I'm not a Hogan guy. I was I was
Speaker 1: like the bad guys. I was an Andre the giant guy.
Speaker 1: So if I was going to do cultural like we
Speaker 1: could go hardcore like down in Mexico and go Al Santo. Right,
Speaker 1: who's probably I mean, you could argue as on the
Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore of cultural impact and professional wrestling. If you
Speaker 1: don't know who he is, that's okay, I'm not here
Speaker 1: to dump on you. Just look up his impact in
Speaker 1: Mexico and you'll you'll you'll see man do birthday as
Speaker 1: a holiday. I think you have to go stone cold
Speaker 1: Steve Austin because it was the ultimate fantasy, which was
Speaker 1: punching your boss. Well, if your boss was cool, then
Speaker 1: you don't have this fantasy. But for the working man,
Speaker 1: for the blue collar man and woman for that matter,
Speaker 1: stone Cold represented everything you wanted to do but couldn't.
Speaker 1: And you knew maybe your boss is bigger than you,
Speaker 1: so you couldn't throw a punch because he whooped your butt.
Speaker 1: If you lived through Stone Cold's eyes, that wasn't gonna happen.
Speaker 1: You were, you were getting the w So I think
Speaker 1: I'd have to start it with Stone Cold Steve Austin.
Speaker 1: I mean, his presence is still felt with the what
Speaker 1: chant today in any wrestling federation. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they do in Japan, I don't think. So that's so respectful,
Speaker 1: the crowds are so insanely respectful. But everywhere else it's
Speaker 1: still done. So I think you gotta go with with
Speaker 1: the rattlesnake stone Cold, Stephen. He was getting he was
Speaker 1: drinking beer on live TV. Man like that. He got
Speaker 1: away with a lot at one True Richie. Has there
Speaker 1: ever been a talent that pitched an idea to you
Speaker 1: that you didn't think would work but did? That's a
Speaker 1: pretty good question. I mean, we spoke at length about
Speaker 1: the Dolph Ziggler. We did an episode dedicated to the man,
Speaker 1: but he didn't come up with that. Brian Gowertz came
Speaker 1: up with it, and Vince came up with the gimmick
Speaker 1: of him just introducing himself. And I did not think
Speaker 1: that was gonna work at all, and I was dead
Speaker 1: as wrong. But as far as a wrestler pitching me
Speaker 1: an idea that I then later saw that worked. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think this doesn't exactly go to your question.
Speaker 1: But I worked with E C three back when Ann Next.
Speaker 1: He was like a like a mentor show, like young
Speaker 1: rookie wrestlers, even though they weren't rookies. They're working with
Speaker 1: a w W a mentor to learn how to wrestle,
Speaker 1: and he was one of them, and they gave him
Speaker 1: like this goofy gimmick where he was like a comedy
Speaker 1: guy and he was always kind of pitching more serious stuff.
Speaker 1: But I didn't think it wouldn't work. He just wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna have the opportunity to get that bit over at
Speaker 1: that time because they just didn't see that. They wanted
Speaker 1: silly stuff. And then when he went to t NA,
Speaker 1: he became that guy, and that gimmick got over real quick,
Speaker 1: and he got that over really well too, and he's
Speaker 1: still working that gimmick today. But none of us was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not gonna work. It just that that wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: happen for him. He wasn't going to receive that type
Speaker 1: of an opportunity there. So that's as close to answering
Speaker 1: that one as I can get. Rich all right, This
Speaker 1: one is for at merk Z Underscore Maverick. If you
Speaker 1: had an opportunity to develop any type of video game
Speaker 1: for consoles, what type of game would you choose? And
Speaker 1: why is your show so dope? Love you? All right,
Speaker 1: So we'll get a little off topic here. This will
Speaker 1: be our side quest for the day. Two of my
Speaker 1: favorite worlds have been done already. The Wild West, which
Speaker 1: read Dead Redemption Too is a perfect game. They've already
Speaker 1: done that. So I don't want to do something that
Speaker 1: someone else has done perfectly because I wouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to make it as good. And their stories and that
Speaker 1: were great too, and they pulled from the same movies
Speaker 1: that I would have pulled from. I wrote a Dungeons
Speaker 1: and Dragons story, a much longer one for the up
Speaker 1: Up Downtown people at w w E. I was there
Speaker 1: dungeon Master for season three and wrote like a five
Speaker 1: and a half hour story for them that they broke
Speaker 1: into I think four or five episodes. Originally we're talking
Speaker 1: about doing another one and making it much longer. And
Speaker 1: it was literally the wild West and a lot of
Speaker 1: Red Dead Redemption too was in there, a lot of
Speaker 1: it with my own stuff. I did a lot of
Speaker 1: uh but we still they do it, so I don't
Speaker 1: want to spoil it. But yeah, so I wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to do that, so I'll go with this. I was
Speaker 1: a huge cyberpunk nerd. I have, over the pandemic written
Speaker 1: a custom futuristic ish table top role playing game that
Speaker 1: I can't say the name of yet, maybe I have
Speaker 1: on social media already. It's called Asphalt and Augments, and
Speaker 1: it's basically if Street out Laws and Cyberpunk took mushrooms
Speaker 1: and had a baby, I would probably create something in there.
Speaker 1: Because the Cyberpunk game was not what it should have been.
Speaker 1: I know they did an update and improved it a lot,
Speaker 1: but it was it was not. It just wasn't as
Speaker 1: special as it should have been. And that's not all
Speaker 1: the developers fault. You know, most of it is the
Speaker 1: studio's fault. These release dates that they insist on having
Speaker 1: to make themselves look Hollywood, even though they fall hate
Speaker 1: Hollywood is so stupid. Games and movies with this quarterly crap.
Speaker 1: Once things got publicly traded, you were getting movies made
Speaker 1: without scripts, without scripts. There was a movie called The Avengers,
Speaker 1: not the Marvel one. It was with Ray Finds, Uma
Speaker 1: Thurman and Sean Connery is the villain, and it was
Speaker 1: based off you know, it was an intellectual property, based
Speaker 1: off an older show or whatever. Yeah, show called the
Speaker 1: Avengers whatever it was, British, British show. They legit started
Speaker 1: filming without a script. They started filming a movie without
Speaker 1: a script because they had to get out x amount
Speaker 1: of films quarterly, and this had been approved by their
Speaker 1: publicly traded company. Would be based on we have this cast,
Speaker 1: this sector of this sector in this sector. And it
Speaker 1: was they were starting to do analytics saying this actor
Speaker 1: equals this amount of revenue with the box office, instead
Speaker 1: of hey, let's get some good actors and make a movie.
Speaker 1: Once all this stuff became corporate, man, to get a
Speaker 1: good game, you have to really give it up to
Speaker 1: the developers who have to not drive over speed bumps.
Speaker 1: I mean they're driving over the Grand Canyon, only there's
Speaker 1: no bridge. They got to jump it and hope they
Speaker 1: don't end up like Thelm and Louise. So shout out
Speaker 1: to video game developers everywhere. And this ends our side quest.
Speaker 1: P F t Asia Tour. We're gonna make your name
Speaker 1: very European. Did you ever sneeze around Vince McMahon, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. If I did, I didn't care. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a normal thing. I know, I've heard
Speaker 1: all like the gross stories and all that, but he
Speaker 1: just plays it up, you know, and he doesn't like it.
Speaker 1: But who wants to get sneezed done? Who wants to
Speaker 1: get sick? Nobody? But I think that's been blown up
Speaker 1: more than it actually is. Or when I worked there
Speaker 1: at one point it had been a real thing. But
Speaker 1: even he kind of played it up a little bit
Speaker 1: at this point. But I never got in trouble for sneezing.
Speaker 1: Damon Moves is our next question er. I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: to refrain from asking you any She's all that questions.
Speaker 1: Everyone thinks a w W E writer is a dream job.
Speaker 1: But what are things that fans don't know that would
Speaker 1: ruin their expectations of the job, pressure, deadlines, etcetera. We
Speaker 1: just spoke about deadlines in our previous video game segment. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, if it's your dream job, I don't know
Speaker 1: what this is. This is tricky because I look, all
Speaker 1: writers jobs can be difficult in the modern age. If
Speaker 1: you knew how many rewrites the script went through from
Speaker 1: the moment of studio buys it to the movie you
Speaker 1: see on screen, you would vomit in in pity for
Speaker 1: the original writer. Because sometimes there's five six writers on
Speaker 1: a single script. A lot of them don't even go
Speaker 1: credited and just get paid a little bit extra to
Speaker 1: not be credited. The writer's life again in the in
Speaker 1: the corporate modern world is is hell. It's hell. And
Speaker 1: the notes you're getting you have to remember you're getting
Speaker 1: notes from people who have never written a script, who
Speaker 1: have never been to college and taught a class on screenwriting.
Speaker 1: They just want to put their fingerprints, meaning their ego
Speaker 1: compels them to give a note. They want their fingerprints
Speaker 1: on something so they can say when they go, oh,
Speaker 1: I like this, they go, oh, well, I had a
Speaker 1: great deal to do with that. This was my note,
Speaker 1: and that's okay. That's a human instinct and there's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with that, but an assertive artist to protect their
Speaker 1: own ideas, their own creativity. When something they know is
Speaker 1: bad for what they've created, they must say, I'll try
Speaker 1: to make that work, but if I can't, we're going
Speaker 1: to have to cross this bridge again. And it's important
Speaker 1: that writers are straight up, incredibly important that they're straight up,
Speaker 1: and a lot of them getting nervous because the person
Speaker 1: buying their script is their boss, and they feel entitled
Speaker 1: two notes, and they are. It's a natural human instinct,
Speaker 1: but a lot of times those notes get you so
Speaker 1: far off what the original idea was, and all the
Speaker 1: note givers are so inside the forest that they don't
Speaker 1: see outside, that they only see it from their tiny prism,
Speaker 1: and it destroys ideas. So that's something if you're an
Speaker 1: aspiring W W E writer that you can get or
Speaker 1: any type of writer you can get ready for emotionally,
Speaker 1: because it's a roller coaster, and it's hell not a
Speaker 1: good one. It's not six flags, it's not what was
Speaker 1: that sick one in Colorado? Elitch Is, it's not is
Speaker 1: it sucks. It sucks very rare. Do you get something
Speaker 1: through with no notes? I think I had one promo,
Speaker 1: well they didn't touch my Jeff Hardy stuff, but an
Speaker 1: Undertaker promo they got zero notes from anybody and everyone
Speaker 1: that that was a big deal. But that's a big
Speaker 1: deal in Hollywood too. I mean everything it gets changed
Speaker 1: so so much. And even the actors on script sometimes
Speaker 1: they're changing lines. If what you wrote that reads beautifully
Speaker 1: sounds horribly coming out of their head, they're not gonna
Speaker 1: want to say that, they're gonna want to change it
Speaker 1: and make it more of their own. So any type
Speaker 1: of writer outside maybe a novelist where you just have
Speaker 1: an editor, I think it's just a hell crap job
Speaker 1: and you shouldn't do it. Mike f and Murphy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is my Mike Eff and Murphy voice. When you
Speaker 1: open your own promotion, are we gonna get to see
Speaker 1: you take some bumps? I want to see that jiu
Speaker 1: jitsu in action too, O F and No, I'm no
Speaker 1: not taking bumps. And it really isn't to be about me.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be well, let me say this. If
Speaker 1: I have to be in it to get it sold,
Speaker 1: on TV. When it's ready to go, then I'll be
Speaker 1: in it. It would be in a minor way, but
Speaker 1: I would find a way to make that work. But
Speaker 1: in no way, shape or form will I be inside
Speaker 1: a ring in between the start and finished bell. No way, dude,
Speaker 1: no way, that's not That's not what I want to
Speaker 1: do with with my brand. That's not really who I
Speaker 1: am at this age, maybe in my twenties. But I
Speaker 1: appreciate you wanting to see me. I respect that. Craig Fraser, Frasier,
Speaker 1: We're going Fraser now, we're gonna mess it. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go Frazer like Fraggle Rock. If you could go back
Speaker 1: to two one and book a d X versus n
Speaker 1: w O Invasion angle, how would you book it? And
Speaker 1: who goes over? Look? Man, d X is winning. I
Speaker 1: know that Hunter. I wasn't Hunter's favorite person when I
Speaker 1: worked there, but before the Jeff Hardy thing, he and
Speaker 1: I were cool, man like, we showed each other respect.
Speaker 1: It was the Jeff thing that that kind of turned
Speaker 1: him off on me and and had him keep specific
Speaker 1: wrestlers away from me. But as far as as Triple HS,
Speaker 1: the wrestler like, that's d X all day, and this
Speaker 1: would be the quickest booking ever because I would have
Speaker 1: had that tank goes straight through the wall of that arena,
Speaker 1: having him go in there and just beat up everybody,
Speaker 1: and just have it be a full unshoot invasion where
Speaker 1: we're having to pay for the construction of an arena
Speaker 1: and Georgia. So that's how I would book that death
Speaker 1: Death to the n w O, which leads us to
Speaker 1: our next question from Whale Wolf Jones. This is Sean Connery.
Speaker 1: What's something you she in today's Pro Wrestling Loungeescape but
Speaker 1: you don't see your shelf doing with your promotion. That's
Speaker 1: a pretty good question, Mr Connery, I mean Mr wolf Jones. Sorry,
Speaker 1: it's such a good impression. Tricked myself. I don't want
Speaker 1: any supernatural stuff in my promotion. That something that I
Speaker 1: think can work for some people. It certainly has. It
Speaker 1: was a career for the Well, almost an entire career
Speaker 1: for the Undertaker, minus the American badass years, which he
Speaker 1: still managed to pull up. It certainly worked for Kane,
Speaker 1: It even worked for Bray Wyatt to the eyes of
Speaker 1: a lot of people. I know there's vocals, but there
Speaker 1: no no But for most people, Gray White or the Fiend,
Speaker 1: I should say, worked for a lot of people, but
Speaker 1: I'm not looking for supernatural stuff out of mind. That's
Speaker 1: not to say it won't be there won't be room
Speaker 1: for it to be a little darker. Optimal universe spelled
Speaker 1: una verse. Have you ever played the tabletop game Rumble Slam? Okay,
Speaker 1: I've heard of this game. It's a fantasy wrestling so
Speaker 1: thank D and D for Wrestling. Okay. I have heard
Speaker 1: of this game A long time ago. I did a
Speaker 1: stream I think it was probably on Twitch for for
Speaker 1: Wizards of the Coast and it was called D and
Speaker 1: D w Dungeons and Dragons Wrestling, and it was run
Speaker 1: by this actor who does voice work for all the
Speaker 1: anime that you've seen. I don't like the term voice
Speaker 1: there because he's an actor. He just does voices. But
Speaker 1: we're all actors. I hate that crap. On Star Wars,
Speaker 1: what was it side Quest? On Star Wars Rogue one,
Speaker 1: they had the actors that were considered the live action
Speaker 1: actors separate from the voice actors on the red carpet
Speaker 1: when they took the picture of all the actors in
Speaker 1: the movie, and I just thought that was so disrespectful.
Speaker 1: To the other actors that were in that film, because
Speaker 1: it's all such a powerful part of the process and
Speaker 1: to just overlook them like that, it's like, oh, wow,
Speaker 1: you really don't appreciate him. We know you don't financially,
Speaker 1: but that's like next level. That's artistically. You're not respected
Speaker 1: and that's crazy. His name is KG Vontagne and he's awesome. Okay,
Speaker 1: he runs a Monster's only wrestling D and D league,
Speaker 1: so you can't be like you have to be a
Speaker 1: monster to be in it. And I was an owl bear,
Speaker 1: which is a half hour half you get us to bear.
Speaker 1: And I was an indie wrestler. My inspiration was Kevin
Speaker 1: Owens and I was cursed to understand and speak every
Speaker 1: language of every culture, beast, whatever, except my own, by
Speaker 1: a wizard long ago who I ate. By the way,
Speaker 1: it was their final episode and I beat everyone's ass
Speaker 1: because you know, your boy represented and I am because
Speaker 1: that was their final episode and they didn't get picked
Speaker 1: up for another season. That's how That's how much of
Speaker 1: an impact I made. I am the D and D
Speaker 1: w Wrestling Champion, so put some respect on my name
Speaker 1: when you tweet me, it's champion And what was my name?
Speaker 1: I think it was Horace, Horace the Albert and he
Speaker 1: was bad Yeah, he was. He was badass. But I
Speaker 1: need to get this game. When I get off this podcast,
Speaker 1: I'll order it off of Evil Amazon because it's not
Speaker 1: at the game shop that I go to. I know
Speaker 1: that for a fact. And support your local game shops
Speaker 1: if you don't find one close by and and purchase
Speaker 1: there instead of Amazon, and definitely keep them in business
Speaker 1: and your friends and family. Well, thank you for having
Speaker 1: such great games to play. And our final question of
Speaker 1: the day, and I love doing this episode with you guys.
Speaker 1: Is there any wrestlers you have your eye on for
Speaker 1: your promotion and is there any new match type ideas
Speaker 1: you have? Okay, what can I say here? New match types? No?
Speaker 1: I was pitching ideas back and forth or tossing ideas
Speaker 1: that at m JF, and it obviously deteriorated quickly into
Speaker 1: jokes back and forth. The worst match we came up with,
Speaker 1: I think was a trapeeze match suspended the line between
Speaker 1: two elephants, and halfway through the match we pull the net.
Speaker 1: I think is eventually where it was, but I promise
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do that it'll be more old school,
Speaker 1: more traditional style matches. It'll be the world around it
Speaker 1: that is different. And are there any wrestlers. Yeah, this one.
Speaker 1: I even said on social media. Somebody said, hey, you
Speaker 1: should think about Killer Cross for your new promotion, and
Speaker 1: I retweeted, he already knows, like I've I've spoke to
Speaker 1: him months ago at the moment his con trek was
Speaker 1: no more at w w E. Oh buddy. I randomly
Speaker 1: had a FaceTime with him, and when he was on
Speaker 1: the road with John Morrison, when John was briefly back
Speaker 1: with the w w E and they had him and
Speaker 1: crossed cruising together. Johnny just ruled randomly FaceTime me from
Speaker 1: time to time, which is so much cooler than a
Speaker 1: text or a phone call. I love it when old
Speaker 1: friends FaceTime and I get to see their face and
Speaker 1: see their big smiles. He panned over to Cross and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I pop big. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh dude, what's up? Man? I said, you and your
Speaker 1: girl are like like the Satanic, super hot macho man
Speaker 1: and Elizabeth and he laughed and choked and I said
Speaker 1: this before they pulled him up to the main roster.
Speaker 1: I said, man, I love what you guys are doing
Speaker 1: over there for real, and so that's when he and
Speaker 1: I first met, so as soon as he was gone,
Speaker 1: he was one of the first guys that I reached
Speaker 1: out to where I was like, hey, man, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever you signed, make sure the contracts up in about
Speaker 1: a year and a half. Eis. But but yeah, so
Speaker 1: Cross is definitely a cat that uh that I like.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of guys out there. I can't just
Speaker 1: throw everybody's name out, but since I said that one
Speaker 1: on on Twitter, it's okay. A lot of y'all reached out.
Speaker 1: A lot of indie wrestlers reached out, so it was,
Speaker 1: you know, I can't get back to everybody, but I
Speaker 1: checked out a few that were like, yo, look at
Speaker 1: my work list and that that had links there. There
Speaker 1: were some people that were like, hey, give me a
Speaker 1: job and there's nothing I can do with that, and
Speaker 1: I'm a year and a half out anyway, but I
Speaker 1: looked at a few links. I was like, dang, man,
Speaker 1: Like I saw this one dude. I was like, damn,
Speaker 1: I'll call his ask for sure, but I can't say
Speaker 1: any names yet. Uh he was legit. So so yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm working hard on that and I love doing
Speaker 1: this episode. Thank you, guys for all of your awesome
Speaker 1: questions that made me laugh. A couple of them made
Speaker 1: me think, a couple of them are really good guys.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. This has been the
Speaker 1: end of season one of Wrestling with Freddy, but not
Speaker 1: the end of our show. I think each and every
Speaker 1: one of you so much for joining this journey with
Speaker 1: us and for joining the Federation, and I look forward
Speaker 1: to talking to all of y'all next season with all
Speaker 1: kinds of new crazy stuff that we're doing. So thank
Speaker 1: you for listening, and thank you for joining the Federation.
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