Speaker 1: And now your main event introducing the hosts are wrestling
Speaker 1: with for Ready. Jeff died hand for Ready prints soon,
Speaker 1: so we'll start with what's going on with Uncle Fredward
Speaker 1: and life in general. I'm working on a movie, you guys.
Speaker 1: It's called The Girl in the Pool. Don't Trip. Script
Speaker 1: was done and the movie was greenlit and in production
Speaker 1: before the strike ever started. I don't play that shit.
Speaker 1: It's more money for the Federation treasure chest, which I'm
Speaker 1: very happy about. And this has been a crazy journey
Speaker 1: so far, trying to start my own federation and do
Speaker 1: it in a bit of a different way. There's been
Speaker 1: ups and downs, and I feel like I've been game
Speaker 1: for all of them, even the ones that have surprised me.
Speaker 1: But it's changing and moving the way I do things.
Speaker 1: I've invested in the Premiere Streaming Network. You guys should
Speaker 1: check it out. It's an app. You could just go
Speaker 1: to the the Apps Store and download it. It's big
Speaker 1: just big time Indie Wrestling PSN. I call it Premier
Speaker 1: Streaming Network. Guys, go subscribe. You can see all these
Speaker 1: wrestlers that you're watching now in AEW and WWE. You
Speaker 1: can start watching their independent matches. When they were wrestling
Speaker 1: under different names, sometimes sometimes the same, but guys like
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens and Sammy z A and like you can
Speaker 1: see the old Generico and Kevin steam matches. We're signing
Speaker 1: new indie companies all the time. We have House of Glory.
Speaker 1: Now we have more and more come and impact. We
Speaker 1: got love for y'all. We're even going to have some impact.
Speaker 1: But we've got tons of indie wrestling on there. If
Speaker 1: you guys want to see a different side of wrestling,
Speaker 1: or if you want to see a little history lesson
Speaker 1: on the wrestlers you like, now check it out there.
Speaker 1: And then, like with my own thing, I did this
Speaker 1: to learn about the indie promotion business right because I
Speaker 1: want to I don't want to just go in frigging green.
Speaker 1: So that was sort of the impetus for the for
Speaker 1: the investment in the first place. But a producer that
Speaker 1: I I had spoken to who really liked the script
Speaker 1: that I wrote because it wasn't going to be I know,
Speaker 1: I said what I said, but it was never going
Speaker 1: to be like WWE or AW. I just didn't want
Speaker 1: people crapping on it right away. This producer that I
Speaker 1: sent it to, who I was thinking about doing it
Speaker 1: as a TV thing until I was just going to
Speaker 1: lose any and all ownership, basically to the distributor and
Speaker 1: to the showrunner, because they weren't going to let me
Speaker 1: run my own show, pissing me off, probably just for
Speaker 1: ego reasons, but I know what I'm capable of doing,
Speaker 1: and I had already written all the episodes, so I
Speaker 1: didn't even need a writer's room. I didn't feel like
Speaker 1: and this is a while back now, anyway, this producer
Speaker 1: came back and said, what if you did that as
Speaker 1: a movie and the movie spawned the independent promotion, or
Speaker 1: we do the independent promotion and use some of that
Speaker 1: footage for the movie. So I'm thinking about actually doing
Speaker 1: that and sort of rewriting the first season into a
Speaker 1: feature film and kind of spawning it off that. But
Speaker 1: I don't know. And this is sort of like, this
Speaker 1: isn't me confirming or denying anything. This is me just
Speaker 1: like like sort of free consciousness, just sort of thinking
Speaker 1: out loud and trying to work this stuff out. And
Speaker 1: I figured i'd try to work it out with you guys.
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't see everybody's responses, but I
Speaker 1: see some, and you might think it's a horrible idea.
Speaker 1: You might think it's an awesome idea. It's not. It
Speaker 1: won't change my mind, but I definitely get interested in
Speaker 1: what people hate and what people like. So I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about that, you know. And it wouldn't be a comedy
Speaker 1: like Ready to Rumble, which I actually like. I know
Speaker 1: it didn't do that well, but I thought it was
Speaker 1: a cool movie. It would be a drama, and it
Speaker 1: would be sort of some of the crazy stories I've
Speaker 1: heard about independent promotions over the years and taking some
Speaker 1: of those and implementing them into a unique story of
Speaker 1: my own. But yeah, I've I've been thinking about it.
Speaker 1: I only heard about it the last couple of days.
Speaker 1: He texted me while I was on set, and I
Speaker 1: wrote him back, I said, hey, man, I'm working right now,
Speaker 1: but let me talk to you this weekend. And I
Speaker 1: spoke with him yesterday, and you know, he kind of
Speaker 1: pitched me on the idea and the budget and how
Speaker 1: we would pull it off and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: When the when the strike's over and all that crap,
Speaker 1: which hopefully will be soon, and then kind of sitting
Speaker 1: down and figuring out a way. So I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: I don't know yet. I'm not as I even as
Speaker 1: I talk about it, I'm like, nah, maybe it's not
Speaker 1: such a good idea, but I'm trying to keep an
Speaker 1: open mind. I think that's the best way to, uh,
Speaker 1: to create the things we want to create, is to
Speaker 1: examine every opportunity as they come, not just crap on
Speaker 1: it right away. You know, you can crap on it
Speaker 1: down the line once you once you learn a bit.
Speaker 1: But uh, but yeah, it's just something that I've been
Speaker 1: thinking about. So anyway, the Federation continues. It's it's such
Speaker 1: a weird journey. It sometimes makes you question why you come.
Speaker 1: You come back to the business that drives you so crazy.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so I don't I don't know. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I know I could do. I just don't know
Speaker 1: if it's the right thing to do. You guys might
Speaker 1: have an opinion, so let me know. Well, now it's
Speaker 1: time to address the women's division. Not in WWE, minds you,
Speaker 1: but in AW that's all elite wrestling in case you
Speaker 1: didn't know. Anyway, Jade Cargill has taken her first loss,
Speaker 1: which I think is going to end up being a
Speaker 1: good thing. Now she can actually get a story on
Speaker 1: her way back to the title. The woman she lost
Speaker 1: to Miss Chris Statlander. I used to call her Stratlander,
Speaker 1: but it's Statlander is the new champion. But I think
Speaker 1: everybody was surprised when she won. She had her first match,
Speaker 1: our first defense against Nyla Rose and got the win.
Speaker 1: She's got a really cool move set. If you haven't
Speaker 1: seen her work, back to Jade, if we can for
Speaker 1: a moment, because she's a unicorn and there's not a
Speaker 1: lot and I don't feel that she's been utilized as
Speaker 1: well as she could. I've definitely seen her promo work
Speaker 1: get better. I think everyone has seen her work get
Speaker 1: a little better. Again. They limit what she can do
Speaker 1: to a certain degree to keep her safe and to
Speaker 1: keep her opponents safe while she's learning on the job.
Speaker 1: She's been doing this, I think, what is it two years,
Speaker 1: between two and three years something like that, so it's
Speaker 1: not a lot of time. But if you don't know
Speaker 1: what she looks like, go on Instagram or online and
Speaker 1: type in Jade Cargill and you will see the goddess
Speaker 1: of war like. She's Athena like well, they have an Athena,
Speaker 1: but in Greek mythology, she is that like. She looks
Speaker 1: like she's sculpted from stone, and she has an attitude
Speaker 1: and personality that really really matches. She's developing the skills
Speaker 1: that you need on the microphone, and no one can
Speaker 1: argue that she hasn't gotten better. I guess the argument
Speaker 1: would be the wrestling, but I don't know how you
Speaker 1: gauge that based on the types of matches she's been
Speaker 1: asked to have, right, which is her usually dominating the opponent.
Speaker 1: We we haven't had to see her work her way
Speaker 1: from underneath. This can be that opportunity that she can
Speaker 1: fall on hard times. She can struggle now that she's lost.
Speaker 1: I hope to see them do this. I really do it.
Speaker 1: To see her only lose once is not the way
Speaker 1: to go. I think she has to struggle and have
Speaker 1: a mental block and a mental challenge that she herself
Speaker 1: has to come over and that becomes the story until
Speaker 1: you can get her someone that will then be the
Speaker 1: other character in the story. But you can self motivate.
Speaker 1: We're watching Cody Rhoades do it. He doesn't have someone
Speaker 1: to wrestle every week, so it can be done. If
Speaker 1: she lost another match to someone, there's no way she
Speaker 1: should lose to then all of a sudden, the Backstay
Speaker 1: promo is her yelling at her girls like, yo, get
Speaker 1: the bleep away from me right now, get away from
Speaker 1: me now, like something is wrong and she shouldn't be losing,
Speaker 1: and she is. Are you injured? No, I'm not hurt,
Speaker 1: Leave me alone, like whatever, Like she has to go
Speaker 1: through some kind of struggle now so that she can
Speaker 1: do the metamorphosis into the next version of herself. So
Speaker 1: I hope that they're thinking of that. They probably are.
Speaker 1: There's no way you would just make her lose just
Speaker 1: to lose, So hopefully that's the direction they go. If
Speaker 1: you think the idea sucks, then then outdo me and
Speaker 1: do something better. And if you think it's good, then
Speaker 1: steal it. I just want to see all these women
Speaker 1: improve so that you have the kind of roster that
Speaker 1: demands people watch. And I think early on Jade had that,
Speaker 1: and then they lost it, all of them collectively down
Speaker 1: the line a little bit. But it's not That doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you can't get it back. You just have to
Speaker 1: make people want to watch. And I think that's a
Speaker 1: way off the top of my head. Also, in aew,
Speaker 1: Jeff and I love her well, we love them both. Actually,
Speaker 1: Jamie Hayter, Jamie Hayter had to lose in England, you guys,
Speaker 1: And I think it was because she was injured at
Speaker 1: least that's what like dirt Do you guys like being
Speaker 1: called dirt sheets or is that like an insult. I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to like crap on anybody, but I think
Speaker 1: that's what it said on We'll say on wrestling news sites.
Speaker 1: That's more respectfully. So if she was hurt, then that's
Speaker 1: the right thing. If not, then that's kind of weird
Speaker 1: because I think she's a good champion. She got to
Speaker 1: speak a few times without Britt Baker, slowly but surely,
Speaker 1: and got better every time. She could tell she was
Speaker 1: getting more comfortable. Her promos, especially the back the backstage
Speaker 1: stuff was actually better than the in ring stuff, and
Speaker 1: I think they knew that because they did most of
Speaker 1: her stuff backstage. But she's she seems very calm and
Speaker 1: collected backstage. It doesn't always translate great in the ring.
Speaker 1: Jungle Boy's another one, like if you watch the edited
Speaker 1: clips they do when they're trying to get you excited
Speaker 1: for the fight, the stuf where he's like sitting in
Speaker 1: his backyard talking camera. He always does great with that,
Speaker 1: but that cool, calm and collective persona doesn't always come
Speaker 1: through in the ring with a microphone in front of you.
Speaker 1: That's why Vince says things like they need to be bigger, bigger,
Speaker 1: but backstage that's a mistake. Tony Storm, who we also love,
Speaker 1: got the wind. I remember seeing Tony Storm the first
Speaker 1: time on NXT back in the day and being like,
Speaker 1: who's this man? Like they made her look like a
Speaker 1: rock star in the promos, and then she came out
Speaker 1: and she wrestled like super mean. It wasn't like super
Speaker 1: hot rockstar girl. It was like, Yo, here's my rikishi
Speaker 1: ass in your face. Bam. She had this huge hip
Speaker 1: attack that she did. It just looks violent and brutal,
Speaker 1: and there was like nothing sweet and Barbie Doll about
Speaker 1: her at all. But I remember going like, damn, man,
Speaker 1: that girl needs to be in WWE. And then they
Speaker 1: brought her in to the main roster and they just
Speaker 1: did nothing with her, to the point where she was
Speaker 1: so unhappy with the way they were booking her in
Speaker 1: the con that they were wanting her to create, which
Speaker 1: she didn't I guess didn't feel was wrestling, and I
Speaker 1: would agree. Girl asked for her release. I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: I don't belong here. This isn't what I want to do.
Speaker 1: I need to go. And not a lot of people
Speaker 1: have the courage to do that. Not a lot of
Speaker 1: people have the self respect to do that. Sometimes you'll
Speaker 1: stay in a job that you hate because you feel
Speaker 1: like you have to and it's the best you can do.
Speaker 1: And in some cases that may be true. But in
Speaker 1: a lot, there is something better for you out there,
Speaker 1: and she, I think believed in that. This is me guessing,
Speaker 1: but I know the artists struggle, and I know the
Speaker 1: choices that they have to make and the consequences and
Speaker 1: successes that come with those things. She found the right
Speaker 1: place for her, She found a home. They treat her
Speaker 1: great here. She's doing a great job now with Sorea.
Speaker 1: She was doing a great job on her own. And
Speaker 1: she is your Women's World Champion. And that's the belt
Speaker 1: that means more than the TVs title. Is the aw
Speaker 1: Women's Championship. I think it should. The TBS is more
Speaker 1: like a television title. But Jade was or is so
Speaker 1: special that she's just not the champion now that I
Speaker 1: think it made the title seem like something more because
Speaker 1: you kept waiting to see who was going to get it.
Speaker 1: I may not have loved the story they got the
Speaker 1: belt off her with, but they got the belt off.
Speaker 1: So now it's on them to figure out what Statlander's
Speaker 1: next challenge is going to be. Storyline wise, she can
Speaker 1: wrestle whoever and in some matches just to get her
Speaker 1: over with the people. And more importantly, what do you
Speaker 1: do with your unicorn? What is what is that story?
Speaker 1: Her story of redemption? I think she has to fall further?
Speaker 1: Is it further or farther further from grace before she
Speaker 1: can start climbing back out? What was that that al
Speaker 1: Pacino line? We got a one inch at a time.
Speaker 1: The inches we need are everywhere. I do a crappy
Speaker 1: al Pacino. Sorry, but yeah, there's something there for her
Speaker 1: and they can start to get that character over and
Speaker 1: evolve her the way Jared is always evolving, which helps
Speaker 1: keep him interesting, not just his wrestling, it's the stuff
Speaker 1: he does backstage and in the middle of the ring,
Speaker 1: and the evolution of his character over all this time.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm hoping for in the women's division again,
Speaker 1: Tony and Sorea and Ruby have a good thing going
Speaker 1: right now, so they don't necessarily need a story. Britt
Speaker 1: Baker is involved in a story. It's just an inner
Speaker 1: gender story, so she doesn't necessarily need a solo story
Speaker 1: at the moment. But you have to believe that she's
Speaker 1: going to be going after Tony as soon as this
Speaker 1: Adam Cole and Jericho thing is wrapped up. So in
Speaker 1: the meantime, Tony can chill get some matches. The other
Speaker 1: ladies can help her cheat to win or maybe maybe
Speaker 1: just maybe her first opponent that she has to defend
Speaker 1: against is Sheida Holy Sita. I would love to see
Speaker 1: that matching. I've seen it a bunch, but I love
Speaker 1: those two wrestling. I think She'd is super cool. I
Speaker 1: think Tony's super cool, so I would love to see that.
Speaker 1: And their characters kind of hate each other right now. Anyway,
Speaker 1: this hitter with a kind stick. It was awesome. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's the aw women's division. This has been a production
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