Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome back to w WF Wrestling with Freddy
Speaker 1: and uh. I teased a big episode last week. This
Speaker 1: is I'm really excited to share these stories with you.
Speaker 1: One of them is gonna make you laugh. One of
Speaker 1: them is gonna rip your heart right out of your chest,
Speaker 1: throw it into pieces, and then it's gonna put an
Speaker 1: arm around you and it's gonna say, don't worry. We're
Speaker 1: gonna take that heart, we're gonna patch it up, we're
Speaker 1: gonna put it right back in there, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: be feeling good, I promise you. And then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you a crazy story that I've teased that I
Speaker 1: like to call the ice Storm. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: a long one. We're probably gonna chop it into two.
Speaker 1: So if you want to wait an extra week and benjam,
Speaker 1: but if you can't wait, I promise there's some good stories.
Speaker 1: And that is what they call a much better tease
Speaker 1: than last week's tease. So let's start the show. Welcome
Speaker 1: to Wrestling with Freddy, now stuffing up for the mic.
Speaker 1: The Hope of Wrestling with Freddie Freddie Prince June. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, you guys, So I kind of told you
Speaker 1: how the promo class started and it was a total fail.
Speaker 1: And uh. I was at work at Tightened Tower the
Speaker 1: next week and I went to talk to Jimmy and
Speaker 1: this was Vince's guy. You've heard me mentioned him before.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he was in the army, real serious,
Speaker 1: just to the point, no nonsense, and you know he
Speaker 1: has Vince's back no matter what. Like if Vince was like, yo, man,
Speaker 1: you gotta take that dude Freddie out, I would That
Speaker 1: would would have been a rap and we would not
Speaker 1: be making this podcast. So I talked to Jimmy. I said, hey, man, uh,
Speaker 1: they put me in a room closet and I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'll do it if that's like dudes, I have to pay.
Speaker 1: And he's like, no, they shouldn't have done that. He goes,
Speaker 1: I'll take care of it, and the dude did so.
Speaker 1: The next Monday it was a raw. I show up
Speaker 1: and they have like the producers meeting is done and
Speaker 1: John Laura IDAs brings all the talent in and brings
Speaker 1: me in and he's standing in front of him and
Speaker 1: he's like six five and always wearing his suit and
Speaker 1: his hair is always like col him and he's like
Speaker 1: looks very corporate, right. He used to be a pro wrestler.
Speaker 1: For those of you don't know, I think the Dynamic
Speaker 1: Dude was his name. So he says, all right, everybody,
Speaker 1: all right, quiet down, and everybody quiets down. And that's
Speaker 1: the whole roster in there. There's probably sixties maybe seventy
Speaker 1: deep then, I mean it was the room was full.
Speaker 1: And uh, he says, as you know, I always provide
Speaker 1: you guys the proper tools you need. And right away
Speaker 1: I step and I go, yo, man, don't don't call
Speaker 1: me a tool. And that kind of made the wrestlers
Speaker 1: pop a little and broke some of the why the
Speaker 1: hell is Freddy Friends Jr. Standing next to Johnny Ayson
Speaker 1: and he's what is going on right now? And he says, uh,
Speaker 1: we brought Freddy in and he's gonna write for a
Speaker 1: lot of you, and he's gonna teach you guys a
Speaker 1: lot about your promos and your acting. Isn't that right, Freddy?
Speaker 1: And uh, it may not have been the best introduction
Speaker 1: that I've ever received, but it was an introduction. So, uh,
Speaker 1: I stood there in front of everybody. I wasn't prepared
Speaker 1: for this. They didn't tell me it was going to
Speaker 1: happen right then, and I just kind of explained what
Speaker 1: promo class was going to be. And I said, when
Speaker 1: I moved back to Los Angeles, I started at this
Speaker 1: acting class called the Shop and it was these two,
Speaker 1: uh these two acting coaches that worked together named John
Speaker 1: Holma and Andrew mcgarrian, and our roster there was deep
Speaker 1: with talent. We had everyone from my wife to Kirsten Dunns,
Speaker 1: to Jennifer love Hewitt, Tina major Reno back in the day.
Speaker 1: I think Christina Ricci was in there like it was.
Speaker 1: We had a deep, deep roster. And uh so I'm
Speaker 1: breaking down what we did in acting class, and I
Speaker 1: talked about scenes study, how we're gonna break scenes down
Speaker 1: over a four week period, helped them start to develop,
Speaker 1: you know, memorization skills so they can learn things a
Speaker 1: lot quicker, a lot easier because I know you guys
Speaker 1: worked last minute, I said. And we're also gonna do
Speaker 1: some techniques that are just gonna help sharpen your skills
Speaker 1: in there, especially in case you do forget your lines.
Speaker 1: I want you to have an ability to improv and
Speaker 1: know where to go. And uh, I think, uh, when,
Speaker 1: oh when John said tool, and I said, don't call
Speaker 1: me in tool. I think Candice Michelle was her name.
Speaker 1: She goes, she goes, well, you know how I like
Speaker 1: to work my tools, and so I'm just like, oh lord,
Speaker 1: this is how we're starting this off in front of
Speaker 1: seventy people. She said that and they all laughed, right,
Speaker 1: so I have to like blush. Um. So anyway, I
Speaker 1: explain it, and uh, I say, we'll be starting every
Speaker 1: day right after the production meeting. Eventually I got to
Speaker 1: uh make it a little earlier. I convinced him I
Speaker 1: needed more time, and that got me out of some
Speaker 1: production meetings, which, as I've let you know, those production
Speaker 1: meetings were hell. So that was the real hell in
Speaker 1: the cell was being a writer in those damn rooms,
Speaker 1: by the way. So anyway, uh, we start the first
Speaker 1: one and it's now this is the official one, right,
Speaker 1: and it's pretty it's pretty deep. I'd say about maybe
Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen wrestlers showed up, all young gunners right like
Speaker 1: MS and Morrison, Uh Natty night heart. Um, I'll just
Speaker 1: a lot of the young bucks were there. I think
Speaker 1: Daniel Bryan was or Bryan Danielson was there, Shamus was
Speaker 1: there all like the people who you know now, but
Speaker 1: they were they were young gunners then, and uh I
Speaker 1: start talking to him, and I can see like the
Speaker 1: sus and rightfully so the suspicion in some of their
Speaker 1: faces is to like, why I'm here, what my motives are? Like?
Speaker 1: What the hell are you gonna teach me about acting?
Speaker 1: Like all this kind of just toughness in their faces.
Speaker 1: And uh, I start off with I said, listen, I
Speaker 1: may not be I think. I said, I may not
Speaker 1: be Robert Downey Jr. But Robert Downey Jr. Didn't give
Speaker 1: a shit about y'all, and I do. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: teach you everything I know and everything I believe other
Speaker 1: actors use as their techniques because I've I've worked with
Speaker 1: some of the greats like Peter Falk and just people
Speaker 1: Brian Denny, he people who really have a strong technique
Speaker 1: as far as building a character behind the lines. And
Speaker 1: I asked a ton of questions until I annoyed these
Speaker 1: these sons of bitches, But I always would ask and
Speaker 1: they would always uh give me everything they could. So
Speaker 1: that softened some people up, but not everyone. And I
Speaker 1: start talking to him about this acting exercise for my
Speaker 1: acting class called repetition, and repetition is basically it's a
Speaker 1: game with one rule. You're locked in to whatever the
Speaker 1: other person says. So if you and I are going
Speaker 1: to go back and forth, just a silly example, I'd say,
Speaker 1: you're listening to my podcast. You're locked into that. You
Speaker 1: can you can personalize it or not, but but you're
Speaker 1: locked into that. So I would say you're listening to
Speaker 1: my podcast, and you'd respond, I'm listening to your podcast.
Speaker 1: And then i'd respond, you're listening to my podcast, and
Speaker 1: you'd fun, i'm listening to your podcast because this is
Speaker 1: getting old. So you have a low attitude on your voice,
Speaker 1: and then I smile, oh, yeah, you're listening to my
Speaker 1: podcast and that's making me feel good. And you're like, yo,
Speaker 1: what is Freddy, I'm listening to your podcast. And it
Speaker 1: goes back and forth until someone can't take it anymore
Speaker 1: and they have to change the words of the sentence,
Speaker 1: and then you get a point. First to three points,
Speaker 1: you win, or in this case, we just did first
Speaker 1: one to change it loses. So I offer all this
Speaker 1: up and uh, I say, now I need a volunteer.
Speaker 1: But if no one volunteers, I'm gonna choose someone. But
Speaker 1: before I can say I'm gonna choose someone, MS just
Speaker 1: stands up. And if you don't know who the miss is,
Speaker 1: if you, if you, if you're listening just to hear
Speaker 1: the crazy stories that I'm telling, and you're not a
Speaker 1: wrestling fan. You may have seen his show on USA
Speaker 1: called MS and Mrs or promos for it. Um you
Speaker 1: may remember him from the old school uh MTV like
Speaker 1: Reality Show Days, or you may have seen him on
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars as Mike the mss mssan in UM.
Speaker 1: So to understand them is and I don't mean to
Speaker 1: take us on a side quest, but I like video
Speaker 1: games and side quests are fun. To understand them is
Speaker 1: you have to understand how this business views reality TV.
Speaker 1: And it's not fair. But it goes film, television, professional wrestling,
Speaker 1: and then reality TV is below that, like reality TV
Speaker 1: is nothing more than a cash grab. It's all show
Speaker 1: business and we all know which words bigger. But the
Speaker 1: reality shows the cheapest show to make. You don't have
Speaker 1: to pay the talent anything, and you can make a
Speaker 1: fortune off of it. But they don't respect wrestling, but
Speaker 1: they respect reality shows even less. A good comparison would
Speaker 1: be the comedy version of THEO Van who everybody loves now.
Speaker 1: But when THEO Van who's selling out arena's nationwide, started
Speaker 1: out in comedy, he was a guy from real world
Speaker 1: road rules and every comedian hated him and no one
Speaker 1: would help him. People would steal his steal his time
Speaker 1: slot just so he wouldn't go on because they didn't
Speaker 1: want this guy who basically they look at it as
Speaker 1: like you got a lottery ticket, you didn't earn it.
Speaker 1: Now they are a handful of comics, a very small
Speaker 1: handful who looked after THEO. One of them is I
Speaker 1: know this story because one of them is my best friend,
Speaker 1: Josh wolfe Um, who said, you know, hey, man, I'm
Speaker 1: happy to give you advice because he doesn't really care
Speaker 1: what other people think. Josh is just a different cat.
Speaker 1: So eventually THEO was so damn good that he earned
Speaker 1: everyone's respect. And now the dudes on the Joe Rogan
Speaker 1: podcast and every other show and people love him, and
Speaker 1: TVs are trying to give him deals so he can
Speaker 1: make a show because his style is so unique. So
Speaker 1: MMS came up on the reality show circuit and said,
Speaker 1: as a grown man, I want to be a w
Speaker 1: w E superstar, and that was a take. Again, it's
Speaker 1: not wrestling is not as respected as I wish it
Speaker 1: was in this business. So he was made almost a
Speaker 1: joke on that show. Now all of a sudden, he
Speaker 1: gets a chance to be a pro wrestler, and a
Speaker 1: lot of these wrestlers are looking at him the same
Speaker 1: way those comics looked at THEO, like, you're here because
Speaker 1: you got famous on a reality show. You're not here
Speaker 1: because you earned it. So the chip and I don't
Speaker 1: know this for a fact, This is just me applying
Speaker 1: my life experience to these situations. But the chip on
Speaker 1: on Mrs shoulder, which is no longer there, was as
Speaker 1: big as a house. Okay, you couldn't you couldn't miss it.
Speaker 1: And he stood up before I could complete the sentence.
Speaker 1: And I respect the hell out of his but he
Speaker 1: did not like me when we were there, and he
Speaker 1: and I aren't like buddies now, we don't like even
Speaker 1: wish each other Merry Christmas or anything like that, but
Speaker 1: we respected each other very much. And so he gets
Speaker 1: up and I say, so you remember the you know
Speaker 1: the rules, and he goes, yeah, I got it. I
Speaker 1: got it. It's just so like dismissive with me right,
Speaker 1: And I go all right, do you want me to
Speaker 1: start for you? And he goes no, no, no no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm ready, I'll start. I'm like, oh, and now I
Speaker 1: get my eyes go wide right. It's like a wolf
Speaker 1: seeing a rabbit with a limp, because this is in
Speaker 1: his world, no matter how good he can do. I've
Speaker 1: been humiliated in this exercise a million times in front
Speaker 1: of all my peers, and I know how that pressure
Speaker 1: builds by the time you have to repeat the same
Speaker 1: sentence four times. And he hasn't felt this. But the
Speaker 1: dude is fearless and he does not care what obstacle
Speaker 1: you put in front of him, and what you say
Speaker 1: he can't do, he will do it and he will
Speaker 1: put it in your face. And I love this dude
Speaker 1: so much for this. So he goes no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'll start, and I go all right, man, go ahead,
Speaker 1: and uh, excuse me. If you hear me, curse now.
Speaker 1: But if you don't want to hear me, curse, just
Speaker 1: you know, mute this part. But he says, what the
Speaker 1: fuck are you gonna teach me about acting? And I again,
Speaker 1: my eyes just like the whitest they've ever been in
Speaker 1: my life. And I go, what the funk? Am I
Speaker 1: gonna teach you about acting? And he goes, what the
Speaker 1: And we go back and forth and eventually he breaks
Speaker 1: because he can't take it. It's he goes about six
Speaker 1: rounds deep with me, which is good. I mean that's
Speaker 1: the normal amount of pressure. And then he had to
Speaker 1: change the sentence and I pointed at him and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh I Everyone was like, oh, you lost,
Speaker 1: you lost. And he sat down and then other people started. Uh.
Speaker 1: Other people started getting up after that and taking a
Speaker 1: shot without me being there. Now they kind of saw
Speaker 1: it happen, so they were starting to go on each other.
Speaker 1: And I had to tell them when it was just them,
Speaker 1: I said, now, listen, when we did this class when
Speaker 1: I was a young buck, you know, like one years
Speaker 1: old and uh doing this and it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: a bunch of pretty people in an acting class and
Speaker 1: this exercise. And I'm telling them this as candidly as
Speaker 1: I'm telling you guys now, I said, you know this
Speaker 1: exercise inherently when it's a boy and a girl, they
Speaker 1: step closer and closer to one another and it gets
Speaker 1: sexier and sexier every time, especially if both people are single.
Speaker 1: It just happens. It's the nature of the beast. I've
Speaker 1: seen it a thousand times to to not know for
Speaker 1: a fact this is true. And I said, when it's
Speaker 1: two men, it gets closer and closer, but it almost
Speaker 1: always turns into a fight. And I said, and when
Speaker 1: it's two women, y'all usually keep it civil and clean.
Speaker 1: I said, So here are the rules. Y'all ain't allowed
Speaker 1: to make out and you're not allowed to hit each other,
Speaker 1: I said, but everything else is a go. So they
Speaker 1: start doing their thing, and the repetition starts going well,
Speaker 1: and when we finish it's about an hour. I explained
Speaker 1: to them what I want them to do well. First,
Speaker 1: I explained to them what I feel the benefits of
Speaker 1: the exercise are, and the first as two fold. The
Speaker 1: first being there's a million different ways to cut a line, honestly,
Speaker 1: so long as you commit to it and have a
Speaker 1: thought behind the line. The only long way to execute
Speaker 1: a line on camera is to not believe it, to
Speaker 1: not commit, and to be embarrassed or scared to fail,
Speaker 1: which leads us to the second benefit of the exercise,
Speaker 1: a fearlessness to fail. If you're willing to fail in
Speaker 1: front of your peers, the people that you're working with
Speaker 1: and unfortunately competing with, because that's how this business does artists,
Speaker 1: then you're gonna be more willing to fail out on
Speaker 1: the big show because you've already done it. You got
Speaker 1: back up, your career wasn't over, and you're getting another opportunity.
Speaker 1: Another promise that I made to every single wrestler that
Speaker 1: walked into that room was I would never film a
Speaker 1: single session, and that nobody in the like the brass,
Speaker 1: none of the agents, nobody would ever see anything they
Speaker 1: ever did because they were nervous if they did something
Speaker 1: and it wasn't good, that that would get them buried.
Speaker 1: And that was a very legitimate concern because I've seen
Speaker 1: people get buried at that company for far less. Um.
Speaker 1: They could just have a bad promo and FCW and
Speaker 1: it's nothing to do with them. It was just written poorly,
Speaker 1: or they are a person who needs a writer. Um,
Speaker 1: But they were done and didn't get a shot for
Speaker 1: like another two or three years, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So so I understood that fear, and I made that
Speaker 1: promise and I kept it the whole time. I did
Speaker 1: tell them any time I saw something special. I had
Speaker 1: promised Vince that I would report that directly to him
Speaker 1: if there was somebody that I thought, because I just
Speaker 1: wanted all cards on the table so everybody knew what
Speaker 1: time it was and uh, and everybody knew what what
Speaker 1: what was going on. So as the promo classes began
Speaker 1: to kind of take shape, I had sort of my
Speaker 1: regular ten, and then there'd be about I don't know,
Speaker 1: eight to twelve, sometimes less, just depending on on travel
Speaker 1: and things like that and what time they were going
Speaker 1: to be able to get there. But we were doing
Speaker 1: this every single week, and a lot of people who
Speaker 1: weren't getting camera time, I felt deserved camera time. Eve Torres,
Speaker 1: who's now Eve Torres Gracie. She was a former Divas Champion.
Speaker 1: She knew how to act. I could just tell, and
Speaker 1: so I gave her. I wanted everyone to do a monologue,
Speaker 1: which they call a promo, and it's just a paragraph
Speaker 1: or two where no one else is speaking. You're communicating
Speaker 1: a message to your either to the person you're speaking
Speaker 1: to or to the audience. And I gave her this
Speaker 1: speech from Beautiful Girls that Rosie O'donald cut, which just
Speaker 1: talks total trash on beautiful girls and how their life
Speaker 1: is so much easier and they can fail more in
Speaker 1: all this and the classes over and Eve comes up
Speaker 1: to me and she says, Freddy, I I can't do this.
Speaker 1: And I said, what do you mean why not? She
Speaker 1: goes she's talking about me. I said, yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: perfect reason why this is gonna be. I want to
Speaker 1: see if you can handle this. I want to see
Speaker 1: if you can do this. And so they got three
Speaker 1: weeks to kind of work on it, perform it. I
Speaker 1: would give notes things like that, and in the fourth
Speaker 1: week I expected them off book and uh and ready
Speaker 1: to kick ass. So on the fourth week she comes
Speaker 1: in and she cuts this promo and she straight like
Speaker 1: breaks down, like full on like tears, and it's everyone
Speaker 1: in there. She finishes, okay, and everyone in there we
Speaker 1: would always clap when someone was done. Do you want
Speaker 1: to build their egos up? I don't want to break
Speaker 1: them down. That's the w w E philosophy that I
Speaker 1: do not agree with. Break them down to build them
Speaker 1: up in your image. That's a heavy fingerprint, and heavy
Speaker 1: fingerprints are usually dictated by ego, not by imagination. Light
Speaker 1: fingerprints or imagination. That's why Van Gogh's paintings look so awesome.
Speaker 1: So anyway, she breaks down and no one claps, including me,
Speaker 1: and she's sitting there in tears, right, and in tears,
Speaker 1: and about three seconds go by, four seconds go by,
Speaker 1: and then like all the wrestlers, not all of them,
Speaker 1: but like four or five wrestlers get up and they
Speaker 1: all go to her and it's just, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that was and they're hugging her and like holding her up.
Speaker 1: That was amazing. Oh my god, that was so good.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, yea great. And I'm sitting there like, yo,
Speaker 1: do the wrestler just moved me, like what just what
Speaker 1: just happened? And it was like one of the first
Speaker 1: like real moments that I saw with talent there that
Speaker 1: that just kind of like it just sort of messed
Speaker 1: with my head, right. So I talked to Vince about this,
Speaker 1: and I say, yo, man, Eve is like doing next
Speaker 1: level stuff up there where I'm wanting to tell her,
Speaker 1: you know, you need to get out this business in
Speaker 1: audition for like TV shows and movies. You could have
Speaker 1: been wonder woman. So she should have been a great
Speaker 1: wonder woman. So he's like he just gives you that grunt, right,
Speaker 1: which means I'll think about it if I get around
Speaker 1: to it. And it sounds like this, that's it. It's
Speaker 1: not just that means like, I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: this crap anymore. But if you get the triple, he's like, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 1: So a few weeks go by and Uh, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I hear that he's gonna be the general
Speaker 1: manager of Monday and Iraw. And in this instance, the
Speaker 1: storyline died. It came around I think a year and
Speaker 1: a half later, but they had this great idea on
Speaker 1: how she was going to become the general manager, and
Speaker 1: it was her just being in the right place at
Speaker 1: the right time, and the current general manager was making
Speaker 1: a fool of themselves and she comes in with a
Speaker 1: solution instead of a problem. And that's what Vince likes.
Speaker 1: He's solution oriented. Now, granted his philosophy as Reaganomics. He
Speaker 1: fixed his problems with money. But Eve was coming in
Speaker 1: and fixing a problem with an idea, and it got
Speaker 1: all the way to TV and then uh, Pritchard said,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of talk in this episode and
Speaker 1: it got killed. Um, but it came around later and
Speaker 1: she did a great job with it. Anyway, that's the
Speaker 1: Monday night Raw. We go to SmackDown on Tuesday and
Speaker 1: Johnny makes the same speech, but this time doesn't call
Speaker 1: me a tool, which is great. And I start to
Speaker 1: work with the SmackDown group, and this is when I
Speaker 1: meet Natalia Nightheart and Natty. To know her is to
Speaker 1: love her. You just you can't help it. There's nothing
Speaker 1: evil insider. She's too nice to her own detriment. She's
Speaker 1: too good for her own detriment. And her and I
Speaker 1: I've seen her. She had some tears. I was I
Speaker 1: was a shoulder that her, that her head was on.
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta understand this woman. When she was
Speaker 1: like her most over was when the women's division was
Speaker 1: beyond afterthought. Okay it was. They received five minute matches,
Speaker 1: and two minutes of it was their damn intro. So
Speaker 1: they get three minutes to tell a match, and her
Speaker 1: finisher is a damned submission that she only gets to
Speaker 1: apply for about twenty seconds, and you can't tell a
Speaker 1: story of how much pain the other her opponents in
Speaker 1: because then they'd only have like sixty seconds left in
Speaker 1: the match, So it limited anyone with a submission hold,
Speaker 1: which is why very few of them did it, and
Speaker 1: when they did, it wasn't traumatic because they got no time. Right.
Speaker 1: So this is what all these women were going through
Speaker 1: when I was there, and my relationship with Natty lad
Speaker 1: a lot of the women on SmackDown to come to
Speaker 1: that class to the point where I began writing for
Speaker 1: a lot of them and helping them work on their
Speaker 1: skills to where Steph had me right, this whole crazy storyline.
Speaker 1: They were gonna bring awesome coong in and they gave
Speaker 1: me the story, and we had recently signed Gail Kim,
Speaker 1: and I had awesome cang like smashing her first like
Speaker 1: three opponents, just killing them right, awesome content. If you
Speaker 1: don't know as Kia stevens Um and she's just like
Speaker 1: six too, maybe six one, just gigantic, right, and I
Speaker 1: met her, she's I can't wait to tell you this story.
Speaker 1: So so I write this whole storyline about her and
Speaker 1: she crushes the first three and the w W he
Speaker 1: had signed Gail Kim and her and Gail had some
Speaker 1: really really good matches at t NA, so Gayl was
Speaker 1: gonna give her a match and we were gonna get
Speaker 1: seven minutes. This was that I was promised, right, it
Speaker 1: would have been three minutes, but I was promised seven minutes,
Speaker 1: seven whole minutes. Now they get two commercial breaks and
Speaker 1: they're doing twenty five minute matches in the last hour
Speaker 1: of raw. They're so gangster now. But so we're writing
Speaker 1: this up and Hail hits her finisher, but Cong kicks
Speaker 1: out and Kong beats her, and then she meets Natalia
Speaker 1: and this is the first real real test, and Kong
Speaker 1: beats her, but then goes off after the bell, which
Speaker 1: brings out Beth Phoenix, which is what Vince wanted me
Speaker 1: to work WrestleMania too, And it was gonna be Beth
Speaker 1: Phoenix and Awesome Cong at WrestleMania, or this is what
Speaker 1: Stephanie wanted me to do, and so I put this
Speaker 1: whole story together. They brought in Kong and then Uh
Speaker 1: I wanted to try out some of my ideas in
Speaker 1: the promo class. So we had already been working together
Speaker 1: now a few months, and I had a good rapport
Speaker 1: with them, and we were trying out new things. MS
Speaker 1: was doing stuff with Alex Riley in there in the
Speaker 1: promo class where they would just go off on each
Speaker 1: other and nobody got to see and I'll tell that
Speaker 1: story another day. But Kia and Beth. I kind of
Speaker 1: gave Kia more information than Beth, and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: I want you two because you guys gonna be going
Speaker 1: together at WrestleMania. But I want the relationship to start
Speaker 1: in a very sort of Emperor Anakin Skywalker sort of way.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to try to bury her or
Speaker 1: break her, kill her. I want you to seduce her.
Speaker 1: I want you to bring her to the dark side,
Speaker 1: so to speak, and have the two of you destroy
Speaker 1: all the rest of these Barbie doll beauties and show
Speaker 1: the world what women should be. And Kia's just look
Speaker 1: at emmy, and I swear to God. She goes, I
Speaker 1: got a baby, and so I sit down. And I've
Speaker 1: never worked with her before, okay, only Beth and the
Speaker 1: rest of the case. She was brand new and Beth
Speaker 1: standing there and Kia comes up to her and she goes,
Speaker 1: don't be afraid. I don't want to hurt you. I
Speaker 1: want to join you, and she just walks in a
Speaker 1: circle around Beth, and Beth just follows her with her
Speaker 1: head and while she's circling around her, she goes, look
Speaker 1: at you, and look at me, and now look at
Speaker 1: all the rest of these dumb bitches in this room,
Speaker 1: and it's all the rest of the female wrestler is
Speaker 1: in there, and they're all sitting there and they're just there.
Speaker 1: They know it's not personal. This is how these promos
Speaker 1: are done. I mean, they'll shoot on each other straight up.
Speaker 1: And she starts naming like their weight. This bitch weighs
Speaker 1: a hundred twenty two pounds. I'm three of her. You
Speaker 1: could snap her into We could break each and every
Speaker 1: single one of them, and beyond that, we could break
Speaker 1: the whole damn system. And they go through this whole
Speaker 1: thing and she circles her about three times and at
Speaker 1: the end, Beth just looks her dead in the face
Speaker 1: and goes, you can go straight to hell. And everybody
Speaker 1: was like oh, And obviously that I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: these chicks because Beth wasn't the best on the microphone, right,
Speaker 1: so I had to protect her more than I would
Speaker 1: have to protect Kia. Apparently I didn't know how much
Speaker 1: I would have to do with Kia, but she was
Speaker 1: just fire, like straight fire. Now the story couldn't couldn't
Speaker 1: play um and ended up not going because he ended
Speaker 1: up leaving the company. But that moment in that promo
Speaker 1: class is basically the beginning of the story of the
Speaker 1: Ice Store. So I'll give you a tease for the
Speaker 1: Ice Store, and then if you want to hear the
Speaker 1: rest of the story, you can tune in next week,
Speaker 1: or like I said, you could smosh them and binge it.
Speaker 1: So SmackDown is over, and uh, I'm working late because
Speaker 1: I'm working on this, this story, and I have to
Speaker 1: show it to Stephanie. Ah. Pretty much everybody already left,
Speaker 1: and I told Angelo, the other writer that I was
Speaker 1: close with. I was like, man, I'll find it right, Like,
Speaker 1: there's always people so and I and I was getting
Speaker 1: along with a lot of the people at this point
Speaker 1: in the company were digging me because they saw how
Speaker 1: hard I worked. So I'm finishing up this story. Everybody leaves.
Speaker 1: I'm walking through and there's not many people left in
Speaker 1: the arena, and uh, I see one of the makeup
Speaker 1: artists and I say, hey, uh, do you wanna cruise
Speaker 1: to Atlanta with me? I'll drive, I go, you can
Speaker 1: just sleep. She goes, oh, that would be amazing, thank you.
Speaker 1: So we get in the car and makeup artists in
Speaker 1: Hollywood gossip. It's just they're sitting there in a trailer.
Speaker 1: You can only make so much conversation when you put
Speaker 1: makeup on somebody for an hour straight. So they start
Speaker 1: gossip and they started saying, Hey, oh, this person, that person, who, this, that,
Speaker 1: and this. I'm not one for gossip. That's why I'm
Speaker 1: in and out of the makeup trailer inside of twelve minutes.
Speaker 1: And I make them play music when I'm in there
Speaker 1: so that everybody hopefully will note a song and sing it,
Speaker 1: even if it's music I don't like, so long as
Speaker 1: I have to hear that. Unfortunately, this night I did.
Speaker 1: But she shaped the company in a different light, and
Speaker 1: I started looking out for myself a little bit more.
Speaker 1: And she started telling me not only like who was
Speaker 1: sleeping with who, but who liked me and who didn't.
Speaker 1: And so I found out that John Cena couldn't stand
Speaker 1: me and and didn't want didn't want me in the company.
Speaker 1: And this even goes into a promo class. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell this story out another time when when John Cena
Speaker 1: interrupted the promo class to try and like bury it.
Speaker 1: But um but yeah, we ended up with a little
Speaker 1: bit of respect at the end. Um. So She's telling
Speaker 1: me everything, and I'm like, alright, alright, this wrestler, that wrestler,
Speaker 1: and uh, we get in the car and we get
Speaker 1: on the highway. She knows the way, She's done the
Speaker 1: drive a hundred times, so all she has to do
Speaker 1: is get me on the highway. And she gets me
Speaker 1: on the highway and it is the craziest four hour
Speaker 1: road trip that I've ever been on in my life.
Speaker 1: And I can't wait to tell you about it next week. Also, guys,
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