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Speaker 1: the fan? Welcome to on sanctioned Thursdays, horestling with Freddy.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to unsanctioned Thursdays or whatever day you're listening to us.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, and today the Federation answers your questions. And

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Speaker 1: you guys came in with a ton. So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get into more of them now, and we're gonna start

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Speaker 1: right in about ten more seconds. Just give me ten

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Speaker 1: seconds of dead air. I think, people, No, I'm just kidding,

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Speaker 1: Alexander linim line them, line them, I think, Freddy, what

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Speaker 1: do you miss? I haven't read any of these. I

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Speaker 1: haven't preread these, just so you know, so these you're

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Speaker 1: getting cold, cold, honest truths. What do you miss most

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Speaker 1: from working on Star Wars? So, for those of you

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Speaker 1: who don't know, I wasn't like in Star Wars Star Wars.

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Speaker 1: I did a cartoon called Star Wars Rebels for the

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Speaker 1: Disney Channel or the Disney app or I don't remember

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Speaker 1: what it was called back then or what it's called now.

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Speaker 1: But I played this character named Canaan Jeris and he

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Speaker 1: was just like Jedi who lost his master in order

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Speaker 1: sixty six when he was a boy, so he never

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Speaker 1: got to complete his training. So he's a Jedi, but

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Speaker 1: he's not like a great powerful Jedi, although the Force

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Speaker 1: is strong with him and he gets better over time

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Speaker 1: by learning from these other Jedi that are far superior

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Speaker 1: to him. And then his voice is in one of

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Speaker 1: the movies which shouldn't have been in that movie that

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Speaker 1: was super weird and not a good choice. But whatever,

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Speaker 1: everybody makes their choices. But what do I miss most

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Speaker 1: about it? There was an actor named Taylor Gray, and

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Speaker 1: he played my Padawan, my baby Jedi, and him and I.

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Speaker 1: He's a lot younger than me in real life as well,

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Speaker 1: but he and I just kind of clicked and got

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Speaker 1: each other and had a lot in comedy. He's an

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Speaker 1: old soul and we became good friends. And I miss

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Speaker 1: not getting to see him every week. It's it's far

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Speaker 1: and few between. Now. He's working on movies and not

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Speaker 1: a lot of things shooting Los Angeles anymore. So he's

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Speaker 1: traveling all over the world making movies. He was in

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Speaker 1: that Saturday Night Live movie. He just had another movie

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Speaker 1: come out. If you fall him on Instagram. He's got

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Speaker 1: kids working all the time and he's a really talented actor.

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Speaker 1: He's really in touch with his emotions. He can bring

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Speaker 1: since he was a young, young actor. So really talented dude.

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Speaker 1: Respect him a lot. And I miss I missed the

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Speaker 1: whole cast, but Tyler and I, or Taylor and I

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Speaker 1: definitely we got close on that. I know a Tyler

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Speaker 1: Gray as well, who's also an actor. So I often

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Speaker 1: say the wrong name, but I love him. If you're listening, bro,

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Speaker 1: I love you. He's not listening, all right? Next up,

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Speaker 1: Jay Sutton forty two. All right, Jase, here we go.

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Speaker 1: Should the Undertaker and more former wrestlers get into the

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Speaker 1: writer's room? Yeah, if they could talk. If they could talk,

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Speaker 1: they absolutely should. If they weren't talkers on the mic,

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Speaker 1: then absolutely not. You know, I remember a wrestler was

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Speaker 1: He goes he's got experience not getting over. He's like

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Speaker 1: this dude wrestled twenty years. He didn't get over once

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Speaker 1: Now I got to listen to him, and I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: He goes, well, he's not wrong, but he's got to

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Speaker 1: But I remember that that was funny. So yeah, if

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Speaker 1: Kate Fabe. What's one major thing that each major promotion

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Speaker 1: be desired. They're they're getting it right with Hangman, Adam

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Speaker 1: And then when they see each other three months later,

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Speaker 1: I remember what you did to me, you son of

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Speaker 1: a gun. So yeah, So I think that's what they

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Speaker 1: love for those two things to come true. This one's

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Speaker 1: from Adam Geek show. Do you think the WWE is

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Speaker 1: better now that they're under the TKO brand? You'd have

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Speaker 1: to describe better for me, Adam. You know, I think

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Speaker 1: story wise that they're telling really good stories. But they

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Speaker 1: post TKO takeover. I believe if my history is right.

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Speaker 1: But so, yeah, So I don't know if it's better.

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Speaker 1: You know, maybe the quality of life is better for

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Speaker 1: the wrestlers. Maybe it's worse. I don't know. I can

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Speaker 1: far as the types of stories they're telling. That doesn't

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Speaker 1: is a tricky word because it's subjective, right, So there

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Speaker 1: Do you think wrestling is better with or without the Internet.

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Speaker 1: I think it's better. I think wrestlers have another option

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Speaker 1: done it really really well. If you look at what

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Speaker 1: Matt Cardona was able to pull off, he did it first.

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Speaker 1: I think he was the first Internet Champion, a title

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Speaker 1: better for wrestling. There's definitely good and a bad to it, right,

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Speaker 1: like both things can exist at the same time, just

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Speaker 1: like in life. It's not you know, black and white.

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Speaker 1: Life is very, very gray, and there's a bad side

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Speaker 1: to it too. I know people's contract stuff gets leaked.

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Speaker 1: That's bad. Storylines get leaked, that's bad. Finishes get leaked,

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Speaker 1: that's all bad. But it you know, what's the Buddhist thing,

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Speaker 1: there's ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows in life,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes you're going to experience a bunch of them

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Speaker 1: sometimes it's going to be balanced, and sometimes it'll be

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Speaker 1: out of whack the other way. But there's ten thousand

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Speaker 1: joys and ten thousand sorrows with everything that has to

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Speaker 1: All Right, we're getting through these. The final question from

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Speaker 1: the so cal King thirty two, which would be harder

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Speaker 1: to write for SNL or WWE so Cal King thirty two.

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Speaker 1: I am in a unique position that I have seen

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Speaker 1: both environments work and have successes and failures. I hosted

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Speaker 1: SNL back in the day. I don't remember what movie

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Speaker 1: believe it or not, in SNL, because you can have

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Speaker 1: evergreen skits, sketches, scenes that aren't on any kind of timeline.

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Speaker 1: You can just come up with a character and go, well,

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Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna pitch this new character and see

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Speaker 1: Da da da da da. So in wrestling you can't

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Speaker 1: based on the person the other the other characters wrestling, right,

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Speaker 1: and the bosses were very, very different, like Lauren is

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Speaker 1: a very was a very different boss than Vince was.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how how Hunter is as a boss.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know how he is as a boss.

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Speaker 1: I just know Vince and I know how Lauren operated.

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Speaker 1: Lauren was certainly more supportive, tough, but supportive. Vince wouldn't

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Speaker 1: and then would sometimes not like it and make the

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Speaker 1: writers rewrite everything. Right. Then, Lauren is in those pitch

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Speaker 1: even though Saturday Night Live is crazy rushed, and then

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Speaker 1: the final thing is Saturday Night Live runs in seasons.

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Speaker 1: WWE is three hundred and sixty five days a year,

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Speaker 1: so the writers get time off to kind of recharge,

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Speaker 1: come up with new ideas, go out do their stand

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Speaker 1: up comedy, come up with new characters, all that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff. The writers in WWE just get grinded on,

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Speaker 1: grinded on, not like at a strip club where it's

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Speaker 1: awesome in a horrible way, like a rock grinding on

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Speaker 1: your skin, and it really wears It really wears you down,

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Speaker 1: especially when a good idea gets smashed and gets replaced

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Speaker 1: as the one that just got smashed. Now, that probably

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Speaker 1: happens in SNL two, but it happened like on the

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Speaker 1: be not quite as hard as as WWE, although there

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Speaker 1: are comedy stuff on SNL outside well, we'll save that

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Speaker 1: for another episode. Thank you guys for watching. If you're

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Speaker 1: hope everyone is a happy Fourth of July weekend. If

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Speaker 1: because they'll kill you. See y'all next week. Peace,