WEBVTT - Life Inside the WWE Jet 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:10.000 M h. Hello everybody, Welcome back to WWF Wrestling with Freddy. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:13.320 I'm your host, Freddie Prince Jr. And uh, thanks for 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:15.640 coming back to here another episode. We've had a couple 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:18.240 of guests that I believe I have shown you guys 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.919 wrestlers are people too. Um No, they're actually nerds and 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.200 giant dorks. But I love them because I happen to 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:27.640 be one two. If you haven't heard the other episodes 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:29.040 in you're new to it, go back. We've had a 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:30.880 couple of guests and I tell a lot of stories 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.360 about my time at the w w E. I was 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.640 there post Get the f Out and uh, I hope 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:40.720 you guys enjoyed today's episode because today is all about 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:45.919 the w w E plane, gorgeous black with the red stripe. 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.320 But we're gonna talk about stories on the plane today 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.160 and I'll probably get sidetracked a little bit as well, 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.000 and we'll talk about other random stuff. But without any 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:58.080 further delays, let's start the show now. Stumping up to 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:04.760 the mic, the host for Wrestling with Freddy, Freddy jun, Yeah, 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.920 aren't you guys. So to start this episode, we have 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.400 to talk about Scooby Doo. I had to go to 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.039 a press thing. The cast of Scoop, the whole cast 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:18.160 had to go, and they flew us to Cancun, Mexico. 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:23.559 And the international rules dictate that whatever state in America 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:27.479 you crossed the border on on an international flight, you 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:31.720 have to land at the nearest airport to go through customs. 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.039 So for a private jet, and this was I think 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:39.560 Kevin Costner's jet and Kevin Costner's pilot, our closest from 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.880 there was some small town in Texas, South Texas from Cancun. 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:48.160 So we're coming in and it is turbulent is not 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:52.080 the word. The winds are crazy. This plane is We 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.720 felt like the Gilligan's Island ship, like the Chinese ship 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.320 was that was us. So we're literally swerving back and 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.920 forth like the Viking ship at the State Fair, and 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:07.120 you can't see anything out the window. Sarah's hand is 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.520 on my hand and it's gripped tight like nails through skin. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.440 My left hand, I'm in the window seat on the 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.000 left side, is gripped to the arm rest, my nails 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:20.200 into its poor skin, and I'm looking out the window 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:23.639 and all of a sudden I see the ground except 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:29.040 not beneath me. I'm looking directly at the ground. The 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:32.560 plane is about to land sideways on the left wing, 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.880 and my face is about to go through the tarmatic. 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.519 And at the last second, I'm not exaggerating at I 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:41.640 don't even I've never even told the story. At the 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.880 last second, the plane corrects itself. This pilot was a 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:49.320 jet corrects itself. And we were coming in hot. We 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.760 came in, We came in hot, and we're sliding and 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:58.639 slipping and the plane lands, no damage, no anything outside 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:00.600 of you know, the six and a half years it 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.600 took off my life from the scarring of my heart. 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:08.079 So we have to get off the plane. Everybody's freaked out, 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:10.960 and now we have to get right back on the plane, 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.800 take off through this weather, and and get back to 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.040 l A. So I'm freaking out, like, yeah, I mean, 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.720 I trust the pilot now more than any human, more 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:24.760 than my wife. But still like we almost died. So 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.440 we get back on the plane. We made it through customs, 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.120 by the way, we were totally legit and totally legal, 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:35.320 and we land in Los Angeles and I vow to 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.480 never fly on a small plane again. It's just life 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.760 is too precious. So a few months later, I get 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:45.480 this job at w W E. The very first plane 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.280 that I have to get on isn't Vince's. I hadn't 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.400 earned that that seat yet, right, But it's a tiny 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.240 ass plane. I'm sitting on it and all I can 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:59.800 see is the tarmac of I don't Laredo, Texas, whatever 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.840 airport it was, and I see my death and I 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:06.120 legit get up and there's other employees w W employees 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:07.640 on this plane. I was like, yeah, I'm not taking 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:09.640 this plane. I'm gonna take a train and I'm gonna 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.040 see you guys there. I'm out, and I d boarded 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:13.560 the plane got off and they were like, yo, are 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.240 you seriously? Like, I'm out. I'm not gonna be late 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.880 the shows tomorrow. I'm not getting on this airplane. I 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:20.760 don't tell anyone the story I just told you guys, 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.440 because I'm not trying to be on this coffin with 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:28.359 wings for another second. So I get off, take a 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:32.239 train from Grand Central Terminal, not Grand Central Station, Grand 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.960 Central Terminal, and uh. I take the train to Virginia 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.040 and we do our Monday night raw and everything's cool. 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:43.000 The train ride goes so well that within three months 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.359 of me doing this, there's an entire new plan in 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.840 the writer's room where all East Coast trips, where the 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.680 train right is four hours or less, the writers are 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.520 gonna take a train. Uh that was me that pulled 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.000 that off. I love trains, I always have, and all 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.400 the writers did too, because you have way more room 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.799 to work when you're on the road. You're writing all 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.800 the time, you're rewriting promos at two in the morning. 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.120 You guys are writing in a laptop. They were not 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.920 high tech back then. They were ghetto. I worked there, 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:16.200 I think and oh oh nine oh seven something like that, 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:18.800 so you get the idea of technology was not what 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:22.760 it is now, and it's brutal. When you're on the train. 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.120 You got a table. Forget that you have room and comfort, 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.279 you have a table to work at. So all the 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.839 writers loved it and they stayed committed to it. And 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.360 then my ask got promoted to the jet, which isn't promotion, 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:39.279 but isn't because it's crazy on the jet too. So 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:41.960 I got off the train and they said you're gonna 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.120 fly on the jet and I'm sweating when they tell me, 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.480 they go vince. Once you're on the jet, it's like, 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:50.840 oh man, all right, okay, and just my my arm 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:52.479 pits are sweating right now. And I ain't even afraid 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.640 of flying anymore thanks to Vince. Actually, you just kept 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:56.400 making me do it till I wasn't scared of it anymore. 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.880 So I get on the jet and the first thing 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.240 Vin says to me when he gets on, he says, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.039 I heard you had a bit of a problem on 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.800 the last plane, with a smirk like, yeah, man, I'm 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.600 not I'm not big on planes. And this is who 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:12.960 I tell this story too, and he goes, I don't worry. 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:18.080 I got a better pilot than him anyway. So he uh, 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:22.400 he's very much long before the pandemic, very anti germ. 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:26.000 And there's more hand sanitizer on this airplane than there 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:30.520 are bottles of water. So everyone's sanitizing their hands and 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.320 Vince finishes his and he holds out the sanitizer for 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.920 me to sanitize my hands, and I go, oh, that's nice, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.280 and I put my hands out and he just starts 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.920 squeezing the damn bottle and doesn't stop, and it's just 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:47.040 it's just ounce after olence after ounce, and I'm looking 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.719 at him and I'm not gonna move my hands, because 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.240 I can't have him dump crap all over his plane 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.360 held get mad. So I just sit there and eyeball him. 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.360 I don't even look in my hands. I just eyeball 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.400 him the whole time until he finally goes uh and 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.280 it's out. It's one of those small like pure l bottles. Right, 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:07.000 It's finally out, and I have this huge glob of 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.200 of sanitizer in my hand. So I walked back to 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.520 the bathroom, slopping into the sink. I come back and 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.080 he's chuckling, and he's just doing that to help me 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.239 relax and uh, not worry so much about the flight. 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.280 I see him side on me a couple of times 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.520 on the takeoff and landing and just kind of nod. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:24.840 It was really good to me. They were all really 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:28.080 good to me. So we land and where I think 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:33.720 it was probably Cleveland. This is during the Misses push. 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:35.800 The stories I'm gonna tell you today are during the 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:39.480 Misses push to his first w w E Championship at 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:44.160 WrestleMania in Atlanta, where they did the giant white letters 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.880 all awesome for his for his entrance. He may have 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.640 already been champ at WrestleMania or that was where he wanted. 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.360 You'll you guys will remember, you have better You're better 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:58.480 historians than I am. So we're flying to U. We're 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:02.360 flying to Cleveland. I lived, thankfully. I'm here now talking 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.120 to you, and I'm starting to relax a little bit. 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:08.560 And the plane is no joke. It's it's work all 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.360 the time. I mean all the time. I remember once 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.720 I opened my laptop and I had downloaded one of 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:19.080 Richard Pryor's specials, Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip. 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:23.000 This was after his accident. He had been humbled big time. 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.440 And most comics when they record a special, they do 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:28.480 it two nights in a row, and they'll edit between 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.200 the two or just choose the best one. The first 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:36.280 one Richard did side Quest. It bombed. He for whatever reason. 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.520 My dad's manager was Richard's manager. So that's why I 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.800 know this story. I knew Richard very well, not very well, 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.840 but I knew him. So it died and he was 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.680 okay with it, but he was nervous. And they came 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:50.960 out and did the second one, and it's the red 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:55.440 suit that even jokes about. And he does the match, 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.120 he lights the match, he goes, what's that Richard b 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.960 running down the street that it's that special, and he 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.000 just kills it the second night, and that was a 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.000 way for me to just kind of like deal with 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.280 the airplane because I didn't enjoy being on a coffin 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.719 with wings. So I open it up. I'm watching my 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.440 ten minutes in and I feel this like firm thump 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.040 on my shoulder and I turned around and Vince goes, 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.720 what are you doing? What you mean I'm watching? Richard 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:26.400 Perry goes, why we're watching WrestleMania. Yeah, from last year. Man, 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.559 I saw it. He goes, yeah, well he's seeing that too. 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.120 I go, yeah, this makes me laugh. He goes, come on, 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.920 watch WrestleMania. So I legit have to turn off my 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:40.480 laptop and watch WrestleMania from a year ago with with it. 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.800 Nobody else is watching it. He's making me watch it. 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:46.040 So I turn it off and I watch it with him, 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:48.400 and uh, we end up getting back and this is this, 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.120 This is it every time, like he'll go over the 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.760 Monday Night Raw script. Never never the smack Down. He 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:55.840 wouldn't even I don't think he read it until the 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.240 morning of SmackDown if he read it. But I will 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.400 say this. I know a lot of actors who do, 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.360 like TV actors who don't read their scripts. They just 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.120 read their dialogue memorize it. There's literally a saying in 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.880 l A that goes, bullshit, bullshit, my line, my line, bullshit. 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.280 I've heard it since the nineties. So not every It's 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:16.079 not just Vince that does that. There's plenty of successful 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.280 people that, God, I know what I'm doing, don't worry 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:30.480 about it. We would always go over the raw promos 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.640 everything he didn't like. And now you're rewriting on a 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.800 jet and it's not like it's a train. You don't 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.640 have a table to work at, like everybody's bunched up together. 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:40.839 They squeeze as many as you're legally allowed to get 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.800 on the plane, and we all these massive laptops because 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.120 it wasn't like it is now, and we're trying to, 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.280 you know, rewrite promos. So I did not It's not 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.400 the experience that you think it's gonna that you think 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:57.480 it's gonna be. So we uh we land and I 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.880 started talking to to Roddy because I'm just when I 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.040 as a kid, I just loved him so much, and 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.040 we're chatting about life in the business, and he says, oh, 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:09.040 your your dad was a stand up comedian. I oh yeah, 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.280 he was Freddie Prinzi goes get the hell, and then 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.360 he was oh, of course sorry, so oh yeah, yeah 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.880 your name. And he starts talking to about my pops 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.400 and his love for stand up comedy. So he starts 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:23.400 talking to me about how he compares doing a promo 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.199 in the ring to stand up comedy, and he starts 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.040 talking about Andy Kaufman, and he starts talking at which 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.240 oh side quest check this out. My pops is the 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.880 only dude to ever get Andy Kaufman to break character 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.680 while he was in character. So this is the seventies. 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:39.280 If you don't know who he is, looking up. Jim 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.120 Carey made a movie about him called Man in the Moon. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.280 There's probably some biographies that are more accurate. Jim Carrey 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:45.880 is awesome though in the movie, if you want to 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.000 check it out. But he did a lot of like 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.120 risk ay comedy where he would just abuse people in 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:55.040 the audience and be totally rude and disrespectful and say 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.560 the most crass things and the people in the audience 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.080 will get out. And this woman slapped him dead in 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.000 the face and he drops dead. On the floor and 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.840 that's when the audience realizes the girl was a plant 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.480 and she's in on the joke, and that's why he 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.400 sold the slap so hard. And when unconscious and then 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.679 he pops up and the crowd would just die laughing, 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.520 and he owned them and he Andy had a great 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.439 run with Jerry Lawler back in the early eighties I 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:23.000 think it was, and they just crushed it. They drew 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.720 huge numbers, huge money. People loved watching it because Andy 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.440 was They thought he was legit crazy. So the Melrose 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:37.000 improv in Los Angeles, California. It's seventy four or five, 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:41.280 I believe five, and Andy's on stage and he's tearing 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:44.160 into this girl, I mean, just calling her every name 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.480 in the book and just be rating her. And the 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.079 crowd's getting hot. They're like, you know, getting mad at 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:52.520 my dad, who was he had a father, but he 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:56.960 was basically raised by by I don't want to disparage 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.120 my grandfather, but basically a single woman, all right, So 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.480 he wasn't around very much. Shout out Carl brutal. But 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.480 so my dad gets crazy angry. He looks in the 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:10.920 in the room and he sees Andy just tearing the 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.760 scroll apart, and he wasn't familiar with Andy's act, and 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.520 my dad goes up on stage in the middle of 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:20.720 his bit, grabs Andy and just shakes the shift out 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.559 of him, and Andy starts screaming, Friday, Friday, Friday, It's 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:25.679 just a bit. She's no, she's with me, She's with me, 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.120 and she's with me. And my dad like freaked out 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.680 and he realized he just ruined a set and then 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.600 literally goes to let go Andy, and Andy smashes himself 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:39.760 into the fake brick wall and slides down onto the floor. 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:44.199 My dad looks back and his buddy Tim Thomason tells 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.920 me your dad's thought was, oh my god, I just 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.960 killed Andy Kaufman. And then Andy popped up and got 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:53.080 my pops and uh, which made my dad laugh but 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.280 also pissed and uh, that was so anyway, that was 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.760 the side quest. Hey, you just leveled up. But Rowdy's 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:04.160 telling in me how comedy is is a promo in 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.000 the ring and Rowdy if you don't know who Rowdy 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.440 Roddy Piper is. Hey, you should be ashamed of yourselves. 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.959 Be you should seriously be ashamed of yourselves and see 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.800 YouTube or just watch a cool John Carpenter freaky sci 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:22.000 fi corporation Aliens take over the World kind of movie. 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.720 It's called They Live. It's with him and get Here's 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.000 how small the World is. And the other actor in 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.720 it is Keith David, this black dude who was the 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:34.000 voice of Spawn on the HBO animated series. That was 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.360 my dad's best friend. In high school. They went to 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.200 that fake that Fame High school. I said fake because 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.680 it's gonna have real classes. My wife went there the 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.080 Fame High School Performing Arts whatever it's called in New York. 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.920 They were doing, uh, you guys got two side quests. 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.520 They were doing a performance of of Mice and Men. 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:57.720 Lenny and I was gonna say, Liney and Bruce. That's Lenny, Bruce, 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:02.320 Lenny and whatever. George and my dad was talking about 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.120 making I'm about to make it, man, I'm about to 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.480 break big. Keith David's our David. Keith is telling me 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.200 this story and he has that great low voice, and 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.400 he says, one day, your father didn't show up for 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.840 her for school, and then he didn't show up for rehearsal, 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:17.760 and that's when we all knew your dad made it 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.080 and it was true. It was my dad got this 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:24.360 gig in Chicago, and Richard Pryor saw my dad perform. 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.520 Richard Prior discovered my father, by the way, and told 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.120 his manager at the time, you know, you got to 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.480 sign this kid, or you're an idiot. And so he 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.440 signed him and the rest was history. So I tell 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:40.160 you this story because Rowdy in like the next part 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:43.120 of his life, or that final chapter of his life, 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.240 I should say, because he's no longer with us rest 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:51.200 and power. He became a stand up comedian and he 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.600 would do listen. He only had about five minutes of 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:58.440 material that would that would get you. He would do 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:03.360 ten sometimes well, so you know, he didn't get a 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.600 lot of you know, comedy love from the clubs because 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.440 it just wasn't at the level that you know, a 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:10.520 lot of the other people were doing it. But he 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:14.040 would catch you with like two or three stories, and 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.080 even if the crowd wasn't a wrestling fan, if if 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.840 there could have been none in there, but he was 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.680 such a beautiful storyteller that he would grab you and 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.760 he would do these voices and he could own that 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.360 crowd for a couple of minutes. And I went to 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.200 see him one night with a buddy of mine. And 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.960 it was actually at the Improv which my dad helped 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:39.120 open back when when it first came out here in 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:43.920 Los Angeles. I'm sitting there with this executive producer from 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:47.160 the Conan O'Brien show who loved wrestling and love comedy 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:48.840 just like me. So we've gotten to a lot of 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:52.840 both types of shows together. And uh, We're sitting there 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:57.200 and we're watching him, and I'm almost crying. And it's 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.760 not because it was so funny or so bad. It 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:07.200 was just to see him doing what he didn't think 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.160 he could do, but respected so much to the point 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.399 that he compared it to what he did. That's just 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:19.520 one more person that that Rowdy Piper whose life Rowdy 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.280 Piper touched, and not just as a kid, but as 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:25.440 an adult too. And that's what these wrestlers are there artists. 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:29.560 For me, it's it's it's the literal I've said this before, 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:35.240 the literal blood, sweat, and tears on a literal canvas. 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:42.000 And that's a massive sacrifice. Man. Guys like Mankind, Cactus Jack, 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:45.280 you guys always McK foley probably. I mean, that type 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:49.280 of sacrifice is wild and for some people they can't 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:53.200 watch it right. Meryl Street hates the UFC. She doesn't 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.560 understand it's mixed martial arts and there's an art and 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:00.520 there's a beauty to a perfectly executed technique. You're just 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.280 either hip to that form of art or you are 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.560 not hip to that form of art. I like She Devil. 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:09.080 I thought Meryl Streep was great in it. No one 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.919 else did. Nobody saw that movie. So which one of 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:15.120 us is wrong? You know what I mean? Nobody? They're 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.199 picassos that IM like. It's that doesn't really do anything 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.640 for me? How dare you sorry? I like Modri anymore. 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.679 So that was sort of the the impetus is that 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.000 the right word for me to even do the podcast is? 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.760 I really wanted to showcase what I learned about the 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.560 wrestling business, and what I loved most about the wrestling 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:38.720 business was that it's all art. It's not always it's 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.480 not always good. But I've seen episodes of Law in 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:43.960 Order where I was like, I've seen movies where I 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:46.680 was like, yeah, I wouldn't ever watch that again. I've 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:51.200 walked out of movies. You have to so careful with 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.280 your criticism, although a lot of it is valid. I'm 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:58.720 just saying careful, So I'm riding on the airplane now, 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:01.679 and give me a day off. By the way, I 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.040 got raw off so that I could uh just kind 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:05.960 of deal with my own crap. So I get back 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:12.240 in the office and wait, can I even tek? Okay? 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:16.320 I can talk? So free Bird calls me into his office. 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:22.639 Michael hayes, I can tell it, and he says, uh, Freddy, 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.800 I gotta ask you a question, and he looks concerned. 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.959 I go, what's up? Man? He goes, you didn't, uh, 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:31.480 you didn't take a poop on Vincus plane, did you? 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:34.200 I said, what are you talking about? He says, there's 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.480 no poops on the plane. I said, of course I didn't. 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:37.879 What are you talking about, man, I didn't even use 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.240 the restroom. He goes, well, someone did, and I have 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:43.800 to find out who. And he's not laughing when he 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:45.879 says that. Okay, he's piste off, Like what kind of 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:47.960 job assignment is that? I gotta find out who took 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:52.000 a ship on my boss's plane. Freaking the best agent 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:54.680 in the company. I come up with the greatest finishes. 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.520 At least when I was there, all the fans favorite 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.200 finishes were either free Birds or belle ages and usually 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.520 it was a combination of both, and it wasn't anyone else's. 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:06.520 And he's having to find out who took a poop 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:09.240 on the plane. Now we'll say this. He never found 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:13.119 out who it was. But I did I know exactly 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:16.199 who it was because the dude ratted himself out in 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:18.840 my hotel room where a group of writers were all 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:21.840 hanging out and a couple of wrestlers, and literally as 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:23.600 soon as he said it, two of the other writers 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:25.200 were in there, and he jumped up and he goes, 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:28.720 if you tell anyone, anyone, I swear to God. And 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:31.480 we all had a good laugh. So remember there's no 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:44.639 poops on the plate. I've been there, and uh, I'm writing. 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:47.879 And there was this other writer next to me who 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:49.680 I didn't talk to about this episode, so I won't 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:54.199 say his name. And he's talking about this show and 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:56.280 I looked over at him and he goes, yeah, man, 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.280 I love this show. I can't even say the name 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:01.560 of the show. You'll know in a second. And I said, dude, 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:05.080 I I wrote that. He said what. I go, yeah, man, 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:07.639 I wrote that episode. He was no, you didn't. I 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:09.680 probably swear to god I didn't I didn't write it 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:12.920 under my name. It's called ghostwriting. And he goes, what 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:14.520 are you talking about? I go, where you make more 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:16.960 money ghostwriting than selling your own damn scripts some of 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:19.399 the time. I said, I literally the only reason I 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:21.479 know this. I don't know the show. I've never seen it, 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.719 but the episode you're describing is literally the episode that 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:26.920 I wrote. He said, what the hell are you talking about? 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:28.760 I said, I wrote under a ghost name. It is 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:32.359 called William Ramirez. William Ramirez was my Papu's name in 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.119 Puerto Rico, and he was I think I've told you 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:37.119 about him before. He was big, like a pro wrestler, 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.320 was a butcher in San Juan, and nobody wanted to 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:43.160 I was writing these scripts and I couldn't even get 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:48.679 him read because of like the businesses perspective on Scooby Doo. Right, 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:50.480