WEBVTT - Huge News and Update on the Frederation! 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:04.600 And they're asking me. This is like an hour and 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:07.760 a half meeting, and they're asking me all kinds of questions. 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:10.200 How would you compete? How would you do this? Do 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:12.240 you want to compete? Do you just want to exist? 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:14.360 Do you want to be the highest rated show? Do 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:16.280 you want to be the second? Like all? And they 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:18.680 were like, please be honest, like we want you to 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:21.040 be real with this. So I'm answering all their questions. 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:36.559 Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready? S's about to hit 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:47.040 the fan? Welcome to sanction Thursday's horestling. What's Freddy? What's up? Everybody? 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:50.040 Welcome to unsanctioned Thursday. As we talk about whatever we 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.800 want to talk about. First things first, Before the show, 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:57.360 producer Alex and I were talking about Star Wars and 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:59.240 Star Trek, and I'm gonna be honest with you guys. 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:01.600 I'm making confident. I know everybody thinks I'm this like 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:03.960 Star Wars guy, because I did a voice in a 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:08.680 cartoon once. I prefer Star Trek. I'll be real with you. 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.399 Star Trek was way cooler when I was young. It 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:15.479 was insinuated that everybody on Star Trek was having sex 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.639 and getting down sexy time and partying that never happened 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.399 in Star Wars. I was like twelve thirteen years old. 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.560 You know how interested I was in those things. There 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.080 was no way as Star Wars was getting any play 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.120 in my house. It was all Next Generation. Then I 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.600 got exposed to the original Star Trek after that, and 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.959 you know, Captain Kirk was getting down with aliens all 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.800 over the galaxy. On Next Generation they were just on 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.040 the ship having relationships deep Space nine. Don't even get 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:44.160 me started the movies. It's way cooler. I just I 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:46.120 prefer Star Trek. And I'll say it right here on 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.360 the podcast. I don't care whose feelings get hurt. It's 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:53.240 better live, long and prosper everybody. All right, As promised, 0:01:54.560 --> 0:02:00.000 I will give an update on the Federation, So bad news, 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.720 good news right as doors closed, others open. And I've 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:07.720 talked about this before. So I went out to I 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:09.919 was it four or five places. I can even tell 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.360 you some of the places now. We went to Warner Discovery, 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.440 which was like the worst meeting that I had out 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.840 of all of them. They basically just wanted me to 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.520 do a reality show. By the end of the pitch, 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:25.079 and knew nothing about wrestling. And didn't seem to care 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.760 for wrestling at all, So it was not I told 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.120 you I'd be more descriptive. So it was not a 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.720 good meeting. I must have failed at some point in 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:35.880 the pitch because they were not interested in what I 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:37.919 was saying. I gave the same pitch to everyone else. 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.359 It was the only place that didn't work. Also pitched too. 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.720 What was it was? It called Vice? Yeah, Vice TV, 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.360 and they wanted the show bad, but they were going 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:52.160 under some business restructuring, trying to basically stay on the air, 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.200 and they couldn't afford the show at the end of 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.600 the day. That was a place I really wanted to 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.120 go because they have dark side of the ring and 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.800 I thought we could be a cool pairing with with them. 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.480 So I was disappointed there. There were a couple other 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.480 places I'm trying to remember the names, but where the 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:13.520 meetings went well. But I feel like I wasn't pitching 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:17.760 to people high enough up on the totem pole to 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:22.600 get the idea heard by the top dogs. And that 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.200 was the wall that I felt I was running into 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:30.520 on the majority of the pitches. And then there was 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.520 a weird meeting at this streaming place and I won't 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.360 say the name of it yet, but I'll tell you 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:41.680 guys as soon as I can. And they asked my 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:45.680 wife in a meeting, hey, is your husband still interested 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:49.320 in wrestling, because we want to be in the wrestling business, 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.880 and my wife said, yeah, he's out with a show 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:56.560 right now, and they said, well, we want to sit 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.160 and meet with him. So now let me back up 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.920 the original pitch to help get this show made. I 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:07.040 can share this now was a documentary about trying to 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:11.240 pull this off for the first six episodes, and then 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.640 episodes seven and eight would be a two hour special 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.960 on what we actually accomplished the actual promotion. So see, 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.360 I'm giving you guys more information than I've ever given anybody. 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.760 So it was six episodes of the process of me 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.960 trying to recruit wrestlers, finding the space, trying to sell 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.800 out the theater or the arena, whatever it was we 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:31.240 were going to do. I knew we wouldn't be able 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.600 to do like, you know, ten thousand or anything like that, 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:35.240 so I was going to do something around, try to 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.200 do something around like twenty five hundred in a theater, 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.760 because I think it's art. I think wrestling is art 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.600 and could be presented in a theater. I wouldn't be 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:43.960 the first guy to have done this, so it was 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:45.919 going to be that whole process. And that's why I 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.480 was saying the Warner Warner Discovery was more interested in 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:52.000 that than doing anything else, and they only focused on that, 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.720 and I kept trying to redirect the conversation and they 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.760 just weren't having it. All the other places were down 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.719 and opened everything. So I sit and I talked to 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.240 this this new company that wants to talk to me 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.720 about wrestling, and they're not interested in the documentary at all. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:11.320 They want a professional wrestling promotion. And they're asking me. 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.840 This is like an hour and a half meeting, and 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.839 they're asking me all kinds of questions. How would you compete? 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:18.880 How would you do this? Do you want to compete? 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:20.800 Do you just want to exist? Do you want to 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:22.520 be the highest rated show? Do you want to be 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.599 the second high? Like all? And they were like, please 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.480 be honest, like we want you to be real with it. 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.280 So I'm answering all their questions and they're real upfront 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:35.400 on their finances where they're at, what they can afford, 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.480 what they can pull off, and how they would pull 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:42.080 it off. And it was unorthodox to me, but not 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:43.880 to them, because it was the first time I had 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.760 ever heard of financing shows this way and doing things 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.480 the way they were wanting to do it. But I 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.239 try to stay open minded, right, I want to have 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.520 a promotion, So I'm listening. I'm listening. Then I start 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.279 asking them questions for about thirty minutes, and they start 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:01.120 explaining their philosophies, their business philosophies, more and more clearly, 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.680 and we continue to talk and have conversations, and eventually 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.480 we come to the I come to the realization that 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:15.160 to start something new in the sort of corporate owned Hollywood, right, Like, 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.200 there's only one independent studio really in Hollywood anymore, that's 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.159 A twenty four. They're the only ones that don't have 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.080 a corporation that owns them and finances them, that's publicly traded, 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.840 that's held hostage by the opinions of their stockholders. If 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.400 they tweet enough bad stuff, then the company loses stock 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.599 like that kind of shit. A twenty four doesn't care. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.400 They make the movies they want to make, and that's 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.599 why their movies are usually pretty cool. They take big swings. 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.720 Sometimes they miss, sometimes they hit home runs. But they 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.000 don't answer to anyone but the people, which I think, 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.839 or to themselves, and then their art speaks to the people. 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:49.000 So to create something new in the corporate world without 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.440 an IP attached and intellectual property, meaning without it already 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:57.000 being a brand and having something is borderline impossible. Marketing 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.200 departments make a lot of choices over presidents at a 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.080 lot of these at a lot of these places now, 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.920 and if they don't feel they can market you, you're 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.040 not making that show work, let alone even getting on 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.320 a list. It's very much like you have to be 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:12.520 a made man, or your show has to be a 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.480 made show, like a really popular comic or a show 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.960 from England or a movie from Japan or something like that, 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:20.960 and then they go, yeah, we can sell that because 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.160 they've already seen it. They lack the creativity of the 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:27.000 marketing people that existed generations before them, who couldn't depend 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.520 on that studios used to build stars. Who is this actor? 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:32.480 I don't know. We're going to tell the people who 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:34.680 that actor is. We're going to tell the people who 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:36.800 she is. We're going to make them fall in love. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.240 We're going to show them who these people are and 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.960 showcase their skills that happened in the music industry too. 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.360 We're going to build these stars not anymore. If you 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.880 don't have a million followers on social media, a lot 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.680 of these record labels won't even meet with you. You have 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.800 to provide everything. It is the least amount of work 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.920 possible for the maximum amount of profit. So that's the 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.600 world we live in. Existing in that world, I come 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:02.920 to the cold realization that I can't start it from scratch, 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.280 and it's a humbling moment, and it's a sad moment. 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.840 And then the dude that I'm talking to calls me 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.920 up and he says, hey, what if we grabbed someone 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:35.480 else and brought them in as a partner. I said, 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.080 what do you mean? He says, what if you work 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:42.680 within an existing brand? And he says, here's some independent 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:47.480 promotions that are looking for TV deals. They want to 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:51.640 offer me the opportunity to tell my story and to 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:56.000 present my promotion within the existence of another one, sort 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.080 of like how Ring of Honor exists with AW. So 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.160 I start sitting down, I'm thinking about that, and I 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.640 start looking at the rosters of the of the places 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.920 that they that they they brought me, and the infrastructure 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.360 that each one already has or does not have, and 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.480 I start weighing the pros and cons. I talk to 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.280 my guys that are a part of my team and say, hey, 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.360 you know, these are the ones that I'm interested in, 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.440 But what do you think my main guy, my right 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.360 hand happen to like the exact same one that I 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:27.280 liked for all the same reasons that I liked it. 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.320 I call back dude, I say, hey, man, we like 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.920 one of them. Do you think they would meet with us? 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.600 He was like, trust me, they're going to meet. Let 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.440 me set it up. They don't know that it's you. 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.040 I'm going to introduce you in the call. You're going 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.120 to make your pitch to them, and if they say yes, 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.160 we'll let the lawyers get into it. So I sit 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.800 down with these with these two gentlemen on a zoom 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.440 call with my guys and them, and I make my 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.000 pitch and I'll be real with you, guys, I'm just 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.199 grateful for the opportunity to earn their respect. You can't 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.880 earn respect the first time you meet, but you can 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:05.080 get the opportunity to you can earn that. And so 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.840 I'm sitting there like, I just I respect what these 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.480 men have accomplished and what they've done with their brand, 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.040 and now I'm coming in not to change it. I 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.280 don't want to change it because what they established I 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:21.080 happen to love. So I start changing my idea and 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.400 my pitch and start thinking of the best way to 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:27.959 help get their talent over. I can't say too much 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.160 without giving it away, so forgive me for the pauses. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.040 Alex won't edit them out. It'll just be these dramatic 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.600 pauses for you guys to deal with. As I deal 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.120 with the anxiety, you can too. So I make my 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:42.800 pitch and we discuss it in a sort of ring 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.240 of honor sort of way, where it's a brand within 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:52.000 the brand right and help finding talent that either need 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.600 a fresh code of paint, need a fresh start, are 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.080 young and need work, veterans that may not have a 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.880 story that I could provide a story for, and all 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.679 around the board we discuss all of it, and I'm 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:06.719 super nervous during it. These guys are probably going to 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.000 hear this podcast and realize how nervous I was and 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:13.160 be like, oh so sweet. So anyway, I finished my 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.199 pitch and the first thing the dude says, man, I 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.280 can really feel your passion, which is good and bad. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.400 That could go either way. It's yeah, I'm feeling you, 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.480 or that's the only nice thing I could think of 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.320 to say, because I hate all your ideas. So he 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:27.679 says that, I'm like, Okay, I wonder which one that is. 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:29.520 I hope it's the I hope it's the good one. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:34.320 We say our goodbyes. I called my wife. I say, okay, 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:36.920 I had the meeting. How to go. I have no idea. 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.560 They played their cards close to the best, so I'm 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.360 not quite sure. And then this pro wrestler that I 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.240 know texts me and goes, yo, man, so and so 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.000 just texted me to like check you out. I was like, 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.800 oh my god, I hope he's said nice things. He's like, 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.640 don't worry, man, I got your back. You are you're 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.000 a good guy. Man. I told him, you're one of 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.360 the good dudes. Then my guy from the streaming company 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.160 called me and he said, hey, man, we had a 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.120 really good meeting, and I think I think things are 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:04.400 going to move forward. So these are baby steps in 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:08.000 the process. Still, I think things are going to move 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.200 forward is obviously a good thing. It's better than I 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:11.880 don't think things are going to move forward. That's the 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.840 opposite of good. That's really bad. But that doesn't mean 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.320 it's a done deal. Lawyers are going to get involved, 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.000 you know. People still have certain things to think about. 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:24.160 People have are going to want to protect their brand 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.600 as much as possible. They'll find that. I'm very agreeable 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.679 with that. Look at me. I'm like negotiating on my 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:31.840 own podcast. But yeah, it's still a long road and 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:33.640 I have a lot to do and there's a lot 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.400 of work that I don't even get to be involved in, 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.160 which drives me crazy because it's like lawyers in negotiating 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.360 and stuff like that. I am doing my damnedest to 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.120 make this work. I am doing my damnedest to make 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.880 my dreams come true. I have not accepted a closed door, 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.960 as much as they hurt. I keep finding other ones 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.040 that or they find me one way or the other. 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.440 But you have to be ready when opportunity comes. My 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:01.080 godfather used to say people are gonna call like me lucky, 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.960 but I'm just ready when opportunities come my way and 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.959 they're not. And he was a real hardcore Guy's name 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:08.560 was Bob Wall. You guys should google him. He's a 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.439 tough son of a bitch, and I didn't agree with 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.080 everything he said in life, but I do believe him 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.280 being as prepared as possible. You tend to be a 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:19.320 lot luckier when you're prepared. So I encourage all of 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.520 you to follow your dreams and chase him whether they 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.160 whether they fall apart or not. And we're in a 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:29.120 world where a lot more people talk about their dreams 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:34.080 like me, people on social media, people on YouTube, things 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.040 like that, and so there's a lot more room to 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:40.840 be embarrassed and to be shamed. But if you just 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:45.760 go in and I want to say this the right way, 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:50.960 I want to say it clearly so everybody understands, don't 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:55.280 do it for anyone but yourself. When it comes to art, 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.840 don't make art for the people. Make art for you. 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:03.000 If they can, that's a beautiful thing. If they don't, 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:07.360 then they didn't. But it'll still be honest and pure 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.560 and organic, and it'll come from you. It comes from 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:14.280 a place of honesty, and that's you have to hold 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.960 onto that during the tough times. And trust me, during 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.560 this process, I went to five or six places I 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:24.520 got told five or six nos, No, Freddy, your dream's 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.400 not good. Enough for our company. That's basically what they're 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:31.280 telling you. It's easy to give up. It's easy to 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.920 give up. It's hard to keep pushing that boulder up 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:35.520 the hill when you feel like it's just going to 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.760 fall all the way back down again. That's like sisyphis. 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.000 You can look that up too, Bob Wall and sisyphis. 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.560 Those are your Google words for the day. But if 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.400 you keep pressing, this is not Greek mythology. This is 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.480 real life. If you keep pressing and you tell your 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.400 brain to shut up, because your brain's gonna lie to you. 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.160 Your emotions are going to lie to you. They're going 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:57.720 to tell you you're not good enough. They're going to 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:59.920 tell you it's not worth it. You have to shut 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.920 those voices off and remember that initial voice that told 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:07.080 you the initial idea and the initial dream. I had 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.160 thoughts creep in my head of f it man, just 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:13.280 be an actor multiple times, and I squashed those thoughts, 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:17.000 those negative thoughts, and stayed focused on what the dream is. 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.960 And I'm closer now. I haven't been told yes, it 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.960 could all fall apart tomorrow and I'll be super bummed again. 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.880 But that doesn't mean it's over. It just means that 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:30.600 door's closed and you either have to build another opening, 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.560 kick through another door, use a key and unlock it, 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:39.760 or just keep knocking until someone answers. And that's that 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:44.280 kind of is it perseverance, that kind of discipline, that 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:48.920 kind of dedication is how everyone accomplishes their dreams. Anybody 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.720 that tells you it's easier than that, I don't feel 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:56.640 there being honest with you or themselves. It's hard damn work. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:00.160 If it gets easy, i'll let you know, but but 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.760 it hasn't so far. So that's the update. I thought 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:03.920 you were going to get a short one, but I 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.680 guess I gave you guys the long winded version today, 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:12.480 so a little closer. Not there yet. Told you guys 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.560 about the documentary aspect of the show that's gone, and 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.600 now it gets to be exactly what the dream was 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.040 and is, which is the wrestling promotion. So that's where 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:23.760 I'm at. Keep your fingers crossed. I love sharing this 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.400 stuff with you, guys. I share as much as I 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:26.920 can without you know, I don't want to say so 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.680 much that I screw deals up or that I make promises. 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:31.440 I can't keep shit like that. I want to be 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.640 completely honest and as open as I can. I just 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.760 can't say everything. But when the deal's done or when 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.120 the deal dies, and let's say, I have to like 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.560 go okay, I'll try again next year. Then I can 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.080 break down everything for y'all. So anyway, that's where we're at. 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.200 I want to thank you guys for listening, thanks for 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.200 tuning in, thanks for being a part of this process 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.200 with me on this journey. I wish Jeff would have 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.280 been here. He's not going to know any of this stuff, 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:56.960 so you guys can rub that in his face on 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:00.120 social media. Make sure you tune in every single Wednesday 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.080 to Wrestling with Freddy, Wrestling with Friends every single Thursday, 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:07.480 to unsanctioned Thursdays, or listen whenever the heck you want. 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.359 I'm Freddy Prince Junior on behalf of Jeff I Peace. 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.159 This has been a production of Iheart'smichael Toura podcast Network. 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:21.600 For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:26.040 or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.