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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome back to w WF Wrestling with Freddy

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Speaker 1: and uh. I teased a big episode last week. This

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Speaker 1: is I'm really excited to share these stories with you.

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Speaker 1: One of them is gonna make you laugh. One of

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Speaker 1: them is gonna rip your heart right out of your chest,

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Speaker 1: throw it into pieces, and then it's gonna put an

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Speaker 1: arm around you and it's gonna say, don't worry. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna take that heart, we're gonna patch it up, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna put it right back in there, and you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be feeling good, I promise you. And then I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: tell you a crazy story that I've teased that I

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Speaker 1: like to call the ice Storm. This is gonna be

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Speaker 1: a long one. We're probably gonna chop it into two.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to wait an extra week and benjam,

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Speaker 1: but if you can't wait, I promise there's some good stories.

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Speaker 1: And that is what they call a much better tease

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Speaker 1: than last week's tease. So let's start the show. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to Wrestling with Freddy, now stuffing up for the mic.

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Speaker 1: The Hope of Wrestling with Freddie Freddie Prince June. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, you guys, So I kind of told you

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Speaker 1: how the promo class started and it was a total fail.

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Speaker 1: And uh. I was at work at Tightened Tower the

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Speaker 1: next week and I went to talk to Jimmy and

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Speaker 1: this was Vince's guy. You've heard me mentioned him before.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he was in the army, real serious,

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Speaker 1: just to the point, no nonsense, and you know he

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Speaker 1: has Vince's back no matter what. Like if Vince was like, yo, man,

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Speaker 1: you gotta take that dude Freddie out, I would That

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Speaker 1: would would have been a rap and we would not

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Speaker 1: be making this podcast. So I talked to Jimmy. I said, hey, man, uh,

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Speaker 1: they put me in a room closet and I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I'll do it if that's like dudes, I have to pay.

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Speaker 1: And he's like, no, they shouldn't have done that. He goes,

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Speaker 1: I'll take care of it, and the dude did so.

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Speaker 1: The next Monday it was a raw. I show up

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Speaker 1: and they have like the producers meeting is done and

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Speaker 1: John Laura IDAs brings all the talent in and brings

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Speaker 1: me in and he's standing in front of him and

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Speaker 1: he's like six five and always wearing his suit and

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Speaker 1: looks very corporate, right. He used to be a pro wrestler.

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Speaker 1: For those of you don't know, I think the Dynamic

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Speaker 1: Dude was his name. So he says, all right, everybody,

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Speaker 1: all right, quiet down, and everybody quiets down. And that's

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Speaker 1: the whole roster in there. There's probably sixties maybe seventy

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Speaker 1: deep then, I mean it was the room was full.

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Speaker 1: And uh, he says, as you know, I always provide

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Speaker 1: you guys the proper tools you need. And right away

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Speaker 1: I step and I go, yo, man, don't don't call

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Speaker 1: me a tool. And that kind of made the wrestlers

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Speaker 1: pop a little and broke some of the why the

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Speaker 1: hell is Freddy Friends Jr. Standing next to Johnny Ayson

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Speaker 1: and he's what is going on right now? And he says, uh,

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Speaker 1: we brought Freddy in and he's gonna write for a

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Speaker 1: lot of you, and he's gonna teach you guys a

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Speaker 1: lot about your promos and your acting. Isn't that right, Freddy?

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Speaker 1: And uh, it may not have been the best introduction

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Speaker 1: I stood there in front of everybody. I wasn't prepared

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Speaker 1: promo class was going to be. And I said, when

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Speaker 1: I moved back to Los Angeles, I started at this

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Speaker 1: acting class called the Shop and it was these two,

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Speaker 1: Holma and Andrew mcgarrian, and our roster there was deep

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Speaker 1: with talent. We had everyone from my wife to Kirsten Dunns,

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Speaker 1: breaking down what we did in acting class, and I

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Speaker 1: talked about scenes study, how we're gonna break scenes down

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Speaker 1: you know, memorization skills so they can learn things a

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Speaker 1: worked last minute, I said. And we're also gonna do

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Speaker 1: production meetings, which, as I've let you know, those production

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Speaker 1: the cell was being a writer in those damn rooms,

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Speaker 1: What the hell are you gonna teach me about acting?

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Speaker 1: be Robert Downey Jr. But Robert Downey Jr. Didn't give

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Speaker 1: acting class called repetition, and repetition is basically it's a

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Speaker 1: And then i'd respond, you're listening to my podcast, and

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Speaker 1: if you, if you, if you're listening just to hear

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Speaker 1: So to understand them is and I don't mean to

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Speaker 1: games and side quests are fun. To understand them is

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Speaker 1: Josh wolfe Um, who said, you know, hey, man, I'm

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Speaker 1: because you earned it. So the chip and I don't

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Speaker 1: whole story together. They brought in Kong and then Uh

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Speaker 1: I wanted to try out some of my ideas in

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Speaker 1: the promo class. So we had already been working together

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Speaker 1: now a few months, and I had a good rapport

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Speaker 1: with them, and we were trying out new things. MS

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Speaker 1: was doing stuff with Alex Riley in there in the

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Speaker 1: promo class where they would just go off on each

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Speaker 1: other and nobody got to see and I'll tell that

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Speaker 1: story another day. But Kia and Beth. I kind of

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Speaker 1: gave Kia more information than Beth, and I said, hey,

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Speaker 1: I want you two because you guys gonna be going

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Speaker 1: together at WrestleMania. But I want the relationship to start

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Speaker 1: in a very sort of Emperor Anakin Skywalker sort of way.

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Speaker 1: I don't want you to try to bury her or

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Speaker 1: break her, kill her. I want you to seduce her.

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Speaker 1: I want you to bring her to the dark side,

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Speaker 1: so to speak, and have the two of you destroy

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Speaker 1: all the rest of these Barbie doll beauties and show

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Speaker 1: the world what women should be. And Kia's just look

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Speaker 1: at emmy, and I swear to God. She goes, I

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Speaker 1: got a baby, and so I sit down. And I've

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Speaker 1: never worked with her before, okay, only Beth and the

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Speaker 1: rest of the case. She was brand new and Beth

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Speaker 1: standing there and Kia comes up to her and she goes,

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Speaker 1: don't be afraid. I don't want to hurt you. I

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Speaker 1: want to join you, and she just walks in a

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Speaker 1: circle around Beth, and Beth just follows her with her

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Speaker 1: head and while she's circling around her, she goes, look

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Speaker 1: at you, and look at me, and now look at

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Speaker 1: all the rest of these dumb bitches in this room,

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Speaker 1: and it's all the rest of the female wrestler is

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Speaker 1: in there, and they're all sitting there and they're just there.

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Speaker 1: They know it's not personal. This is how these promos

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Speaker 1: are done. I mean, they'll shoot on each other straight up.

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Speaker 1: And she starts naming like their weight. This bitch weighs

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Speaker 1: a hundred twenty two pounds. I'm three of her. You

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Speaker 1: could snap her into We could break each and every

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Speaker 1: single one of them, and beyond that, we could break

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Speaker 1: the whole damn system. And they go through this whole

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Speaker 1: thing and she circles her about three times and at

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Speaker 1: the end, Beth just looks her dead in the face

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Speaker 1: and goes, you can go straight to hell. And everybody

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Speaker 1: was like oh, And obviously that I was like, yo,

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Speaker 1: these chicks because Beth wasn't the best on the microphone, right,

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Speaker 1: so I had to protect her more than I would

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Speaker 1: have to protect Kia. Apparently I didn't know how much

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Speaker 1: I would have to do with Kia, but she was

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Speaker 1: just fire, like straight fire. Now the story couldn't couldn't

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Speaker 1: play um and ended up not going because he ended

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Speaker 1: up leaving the company. But that moment in that promo

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Speaker 1: class is basically the beginning of the story of the

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Speaker 1: Ice Store. So I'll give you a tease for the

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Speaker 1: Ice Store, and then if you want to hear the

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Speaker 1: rest of the story, you can tune in next week,

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Speaker 1: or like I said, you could smosh them and binge it.

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Speaker 1: So SmackDown is over, and uh, I'm working late because

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Speaker 1: I'm working on this, this story, and I have to

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Speaker 1: show it to Stephanie. Ah. Pretty much everybody already left,

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Speaker 1: and I told Angelo, the other writer that I was

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Speaker 1: close with. I was like, man, I'll find it right, Like,

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Speaker 1: there's always people so and I and I was getting

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Speaker 1: along with a lot of the people at this point

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Speaker 1: in the company were digging me because they saw how

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Speaker 1: hard I worked. So I'm finishing up this story. Everybody leaves.

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Speaker 1: I'm walking through and there's not many people left in

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Speaker 1: the arena, and uh, I see one of the makeup

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Speaker 1: artists and I say, hey, uh, do you wanna cruise

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Speaker 1: to Atlanta with me? I'll drive, I go, you can

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Speaker 1: just sleep. She goes, oh, that would be amazing, thank you.

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Speaker 1: So we get in the car and makeup artists in

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Speaker 1: Hollywood gossip. It's just they're sitting there in a trailer.

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Speaker 1: You can only make so much conversation when you put

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Speaker 1: makeup on somebody for an hour straight. So they start

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Speaker 1: gossip and they started saying, Hey, oh, this person, that person, who, this, that,

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Speaker 1: and this. I'm not one for gossip. That's why I'm

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Speaker 1: in and out of the makeup trailer inside of twelve minutes.

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Speaker 1: And I make them play music when I'm in there

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Speaker 1: so that everybody hopefully will note a song and sing it,

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Speaker 1: even if it's music I don't like, so long as

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Speaker 1: I have to hear that. Unfortunately, this night I did.

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Speaker 1: But she shaped the company in a different light, and

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Speaker 1: I started looking out for myself a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: And she started telling me not only like who was

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Speaker 1: sleeping with who, but who liked me and who didn't.

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Speaker 1: And so I found out that John Cena couldn't stand

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Speaker 1: me and and didn't want didn't want me in the company.

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Speaker 1: And this even goes into a promo class. And I'll

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Speaker 1: tell this story out another time when when John Cena

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Speaker 1: interrupted the promo class to try and like bury it.

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Speaker 1: But um but yeah, we ended up with a little

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Speaker 1: bit of respect at the end. Um. So She's telling

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Speaker 1: me everything, and I'm like, alright, alright, this wrestler, that wrestler,

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Speaker 1: and uh, we get in the car and we get

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Speaker 1: on the highway. She knows the way, She's done the

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Speaker 1: drive a hundred times, so all she has to do

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Speaker 1: is get me on the highway. And she gets me

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Speaker 1: on the highway and it is the craziest four hour

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Speaker 1: road trip that I've ever been on in my life.

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Speaker 1: And I can't wait to tell you about it next week. Also, guys,

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Speaker 1: you can follow me on Twitter or Instagram. Twitter is

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Speaker 1: is real Freddie Prinz. And I'll speak with you guys

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Speaker 1: on the next WWF Wrestling with Freddie. This has been

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