WEBVTT - My First WrestleMania 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:08.119 M. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to another episode of 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:12.240 Wrestling with Freddy. The WWF is back and I'm back 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:16.360 with you. I hope you're ready to hear some WrestleMania stories. 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:21.680 Now stepping up for the mining of Wrestling with Freddie 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:27.440 Freddie Prince June. Yeah, we're on the road to WrestleMania 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:30.520 right now. It's getting close. Hope you guys are excited. 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:34.080 You're gonna see Rhonda Rousey the winner of the Women's 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.880 Royal Rumble and Brock Lesner, the winner of the Men's 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.680 Royal Rumble, and the main events of WrestleMania, which is 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:47.280 always awesome. Rhonda gets a very mixed response from the crowd, 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:49.879 and she tends to be very honest with her feelings 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.440 in the moment the crowd. For those who don't follow 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:57.880 the brand very much, they loved her when she first 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.440 came in with the Rock at a WrestleMania that was 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.520 at the San Francisco Fordia Niners New Stadium Levi Stadium, 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:06.720 I don't remember which one it was, and she did 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.200 a hip toss on Stephanie McMahon in the middle of 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.520 the ring, and that was kind of this hint and 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:13.760 this tease that she was gonna come. So when she 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.800 did debut, the crowd got behind her and they were 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.600 really the live crowds were really hyped for and then 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:24.880 they turned and when they did, you could see it 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:30.000 emotionally bother her, not the character Ronda Rousey. It hurt 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.640 Ronda Rousy and she was very public in interviews about it. 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.880 And she's the kind of person who when you feel 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.039 like that you're going to use a certain type of 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.679 person is going to use anger as a means to 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.720 re empower your ego, right, And so she turned on 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.560 the fans and interviews and talked trash back, but not 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.680 in an in character sort of way, just in a 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.800 very dismissive wrestling isn't that important, I'm a real fighter 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.120 sort of way. And once you say that and you 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.200 go into the real in fake world with wrestling fans, 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.640 you're in a lot of trouble. And so the reaction 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.240 to her got worse and worse and worse, and the 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.480 fans didn't drive her out of the business, but it's 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.800 certainly you could tell sucked a lot of her passion 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.240 for the business when she would speak on it. So 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.760 now she's back. She debuted in the Royal Rumble again, 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.920 which is my favorite pay per view I never missed. 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.200 I've only missed one because it worked and I see 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:30.320 her come out and the crowd was pretty darn cool 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.840 about it. So I wonder how long that's gonna last. 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.280 I wonder if she's gonna say something that makes them 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:40.240 mad again, because they pick up every little quote on 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.720 the dirt sheets. Now, I've learned so much about dirt 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.760 sheets since I started this podcast, it's crazy. So I'm 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:51.079 very curious to see how her road to WrestleMania goes 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.959 over the next few weeks and a few couple of months. 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.920 And we're on our road to WrestleMania right now. So 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.799 we're gonna start with the first WrestleMania I ever got 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.280 to go to as a guest, which if you listen 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:04.960 to our episode one, you'll hear some of all the 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.839 way to the first WrestleMania that I worked as an employee. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.040 I'm in Orlando, Florida with a with a group of 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.120 friends and we had gotten into the bad habit of 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:18.760 betting matches on TV and McAuley I've talked about this before, 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:20.720 he's been a guest on the podcast. I hope you 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.480 guys listen to that episode because it's really funny and 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.280 he's got such a good mind for wrestling, and one 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.440 day we shall take over the ind scene. But we 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.519 would bet a hundred dollars a match, right, So however, 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.200 if there are ten matches, you had to bring a 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.840 thousand bucks cash with you, and there were often more 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:41.480 than that. And for whatever reason, I think I can 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.560 count on one hand how many matches I won versus 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.000 how many he wants. So I lost a lot of 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.640 money to this guy. So we go to Mania, and 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.760 I think the first match was this Battle Royale eliminator 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.360 that wasn't even on during the pay per view, and 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.680 the winner of it was going to get a match 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:02.560 against Chavo Guerrera oh for the e c W Championship, 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.360 and Kane wins the Battle Royal. Nobody bets that match, 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.640 so we're all making bets, and everybody bets Kane, so 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.760 we're not gonna bet the e c W match, and 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.920 Mac out of nowhere says I want to make a 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.919 prop bet, and me and the other two two people, 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:19.920 they're like, what, He goes, I bet you it's a 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:21.840 squash match. I bet you came beats him in like 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.640 ten seconds and we go, okay, sure, whatever, man, here's 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.760 a hundred puck. So everyone gives him action on it 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.599 because there's four of us, so including Max, so there's 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.880 three dollars on the line that he could win. And 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.880 so the match happens and I crap you not, I've 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.400 looked it up online. It's over in nine seconds. It's 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:45.000 a full squash choke slab match tablo down one to three. 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.480 So MATC collects money right away from us. The other 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.159 match and I don't remember all of them. I just 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:54.239 remember losing all my money. They had a Belfast Brawl 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:57.920 which was against Fit Finley, and his gimmick the w 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:01.320 W gave him was he's Irish so he likes to fight, 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:08.440 which is honestly, fairly accurate, fairly accurate description of them. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.680 One of my best friends is Wayne McCullough. He was 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.719 a silver medalist in boxing, had gotten a lot of fights, 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.240 so and I've been to Ireland and saw a lot 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.200 of dudes fighting. They were always friends afterwards, but I 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.640 saw a lot of fights. So anyway, it was him 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:28.560 versus John Bradshaw Layfield j b L. And a Belfast 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.040 brawl is basically a street fight where they're bringing out track. 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.359 I remember a lot of trash cans got smashed on 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:38.400 people's heads and and uh we we all said that 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.000 it's a Belfast brawl. So fit Finley is for sure 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:44.600 gonna win his own match. He's Irish like, not just 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:48.760 American Irish like he's from Ireland. You have to listen 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.200 to his accent to hear everything he says because he 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:55.080 has that Irish brogue right, and so for sure he's 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:57.239 winning the match. Well for sure, he didn't win the match, 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.960 and Mac pulls in a three hundred off the script, 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.760 and then they have the main event. Nobody bet the 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.360 Flair retirement match because everybody knew how that was gonna go. 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.800 Mac probably would have said something crazy like I'll bet you. 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.560 Sean Michael says, I'm sorry, I love you. He didn't, 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:17.839 but it's within his potential. So there's the Triple Threat 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:22.240 match and Randy Orton's the champion and I'll never forget 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.480 this Triple h is the challenger and John Cena is 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.760 the second challenger, and the way this story had been 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.080 told on TV, and I was really back into the 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:32.960 brand at this point because I was seeing a lot 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.560 of the new people after this long hiatus I had 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:40.080 taken from wrestling from watching it, and the Orton story 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:44.720 was incredibly undertold, as you see with a lot of 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.479 w w E stories, So it didn't seem like it 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:51.640 was an intentional under cell and the real drama, the 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:56.479 real passion, was all coming from Sena and and Hunter. 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.880 They had the momentum. They're just crushing matches doing this. 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.719 So we all make our stupid bets, and where everyone's 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.600 betting Senia or Triple h. I bet I bet Triple 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:11.480 h Uh. Fathers bets Sina, I don't remember what our 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.040 other buddy bet, and Mac of course bets Randy Orton. 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.760 It's such a slap in the face when Norton wins that. 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.120 The next day on Raw, the show opens and he 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.440 literally walks out with the belt on him and he says, 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.560 expecting someone else and to watch that we were still 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.880 in Orlando. It was just like, I'm looking at Mac 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.520 and it's literally what Mac would have said had he 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:37.320 written it. So after WrestleMania, it's the Rick Flair retirement match. 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:39.200 I get to meet Rick Flair and we kind of 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:43.320 clicked and we're joking and talking. I loved your dad. 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.400 I loved your father. Were you know, cracking jokes And 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.720 this guy named Chavel Classics there and he's telling me 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.680 this crazy story about doing cocaine with my father in 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:58.440 with him, Frank Sinatra and the Chicago Mafia in Chicago 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.280 at this of called Mr. Chows, which isn't there anymore. 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.840 It's a little comedy club. So it's just an insane 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.880 night for me, right And I'm sitting there with the 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:11.600 legend Rick Flair, who's my favorite wrestler ever, and it's 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:17.000 coming on twelve o'clock, one o'clock, two o'clock. I'm done, okay, 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.880 I'm I've had it. I've had I've had some some beverages. 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.559 I've had, you know, a lot of beverages. I'm ready 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.480 to go pass out. This guy hasn't even like gotten 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:31.520 warmed up two AM hits and I'm done. I'm drunk. 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.160 I cannot drink anymore. I'm ready to pass out. And 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.600 Rick Flair is twenty one year old who has been 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:42.080 drinking far more than I have and is nothing like 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.480 he's just ready to go. So I tap out, Mac 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:46.960 taps out. We all go to bed and then we 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.240 watch you know, Monday night raw there in Orlando. The 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.240 next the next night and we all catch red Eyes 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.959 from Orlando back to Los Angeles. Now in episode one, 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:59.520 I told you about uh, this woman who I spoke 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.240 to the kind have arranged all that. Her name is 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.440 Kristen Prouty, and she's an amazing woman. She still works 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:11.880 there and has literally built her career path like it 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.959 was never This is the cool thing about w w E. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.439 You can get assigned a job, right and you can 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.720 live with that job, and it can be crazy, it 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.800 can be great, or you can create your own job. 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.160 You can create your own career path within that company 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.880 if you're creative enough. And she's one of the people 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.880 who was and is and she's still there and she's 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.160 at a very high level in the company. And her 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.400 and I started talking and I've I've spoken about this, 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.480 like I said in the first episode about me coming 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.600 to work there, So I did, thanks to the thanks 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.040 to this awesome chick and UH in her introducing me 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.080 to Stephanie McMahon. And it's been a year at this 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:55.600 point and I've been in the company. I'm grooving and 0:09:55.640 --> 0:10:07.040 all of a sudden, I'm gonna work my very first WrestleMania. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:12.480 Ye WrestleMania for the employees on the on like the 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:16.920 non wrestling side is the best and worst week of 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:20.839 the year in the company. You're you're writing stories backwards 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.640 from WrestleMania backwards the whole year, and every time someone 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.480 gets hurt or every time someone gets heat with the company, 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:33.600 every single story is forced to change because we write 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.000 from WrestleMania backwards. So if your main event is John 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:42.440 Cena versus the Miss, everything from the day after WrestleMania 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.960 to the next WrestleMania has to slowly build up a 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.320 story for John Cena and the Miss to eventually meet 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:53.480 in Georgia at WrestleMania the following year. So it's an 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.200 incredible challenge on the on the writing staff or on 0:10:56.240 --> 0:11:01.160 the entire creative team just to get there with all 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.480 the changes that come about. And they're so used to 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:08.040 change that they welcome it, they embrace it, they invite 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:14.000 change even when change isn't necessary. So you know what 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.480 you're in for going in. At least I thought I did. 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:21.120 I thought I was prepared. We get to the hotel 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.400 in Georgia and Vince Rince out like basically like a 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.679 banquet room in the in the hotel where you would 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:30.319 have like a convention where like those snake oils motivational 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.840 speaker salesman like talked to young dudes about how to 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.480 be an alpha. Don't believe that crap, you guys. That's 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.600 a whole bunch of nonsense, and they're just making money 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.760 off you. Um, just my two cents. Anyway, he had 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.000 one of those spaces. Vince us did much more noblie 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:49.880 than they did, and we bring him WrestleMania. And I 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.880 was invited into this meeting and there were only I 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:56.840 think four or five of us in there. It was myself, Brankawortz, 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.679 I believe Christopher to Joseph was in there, and I 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.160 don't remember who else, but it was a very free 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.920 bird was in there. Michael Hayes and Vince sets down 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:10.240 the script and Brian sort of presents it to him, 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.440 and Vince starts banging through everything he wants to rewrite 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.040 and everything he wants to change. And this goes on 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:21.520 for one, two, three, now four hours in. We're four 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.400 hours in, you guys. I've taken a bathroom break once, 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.320 almost tapped out, like I literally there's a part of 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.319 me that wanted to like text somebody in the room 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.400 and be like, hey, tell him I'm sick in the bathroom. 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:37.120 I can't I can't make it back it. This is 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:46.760 Vince's most prized position WrestleMania. WrestleMania is what made wrestling 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:53.320 the mainstream attraction that it is today. I believe the 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.360 terms trademark. I don't think anybody else is even allowed 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.840 to use it. I mean it literally defines the w 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:03.680 W WET in Vince's mind, maybe in some others, but 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.040 it is the show because it is the show that 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.559 made the company. So he cares, and he cares a lot, 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:14.599 and you can accuse him of caring too much, but 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.079 you could accuse him of that every single week, like 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:21.040 we outthink ourselves with the things we're passionate about all 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.120 the time you meet Vince McMahon, But with this, it's 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.800 a different it's a different beast and it makes you, 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.320 it makes you crazy. So this is day one where 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:34.319 this is Saturday's production meeting and we're rewriting the entire 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:38.560 show basically, and Vince wants to have this. We're gonna 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.520 have Snoop Dogg Snoops coming, and we have to write 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.160 in a segment for Snoop Dogg. You're gonna, right, you're 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.600 gonna write the Snoop Dogg segment, All right, what are 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.959 you looking for, man or whatever? Just write something. Oh, 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:54.079 and you're gonna write the Morrison the Morrison segment too 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.360 with Trician Snookie. I go, what because you're doing a 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.080 Snookie segment and he's not smiling, and I'm like, yo, man, 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.040 I'm not doing the Snookie segment. Like that's not that's 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.559 not happening. Man. You tried to get me to do 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:10.240 do this against Michelle McCool another time and I told 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.079 you no, then I'm not doing that. So I got 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.280 four segments. Man, I'm not adding that one. If you 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.559 want me to add one. He goes, oh, I go, man, 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.000 I don't know if you're joking or if you're not, 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.240 but that's what I said. This isn't like, that's bullshit. 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.840 I'm not doing that match, not the match, but the 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.760 segment that they wanted to do. Only the agents, the 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.040 old school wrestlers. They're the only ones that to the matches. 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:33.760 So he's kind of like grunting chuck, like a chuckle grunt. 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:35.840 What do you call that? At gruckle, it's more one 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:39.520 of those like, all right, we'll just get somebody to 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.520 write it, which basically someone not in the room is 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.960 going to have to write it and then direct that segment. 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:45.840 But I'm sure as hell wasn't gonna do it. Man, 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.880 I didn't like the idea when they first brought it up. 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:53.320 I fought against it in the room because the Jersey Shore, 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.400 I think, is the show that she was on, and 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.600 it was big back then. But I'm not a reality 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:01.240 TV dude. In fact, I'm like anti reality TV because 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.080 that takes jobs away from, you know, scriptwriters that I 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.640 know and like a lot, and I would rather then 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:10.040 be working. And this the the industry likes reality shows 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:11.920 so much because they can make it for a tenth 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.920 the cost of a scripted show, So that gets rid 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:17.800 of more scripted shows, which means more of my writer 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.560 friends are broke. So that's why I was so against 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.400 it at the time. Right, it was just like she's 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:26.840 the enemy, so I'm sure she's lovely. I just you know, 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.760 that was my soapbox that I was standing on. So 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.320 they get whoever they get for that. And I have 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:36.200 my segments, and one of them is the snoop segment, 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.400 and I have no idea what to do, and Vince goes, 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:44.200 he's not gonna wrap, and I go, okay, that that's 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:45.680 the only rule we're gonna have Snoop. But he's not 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.280 gonna wrap. In a backstage segment like okay, So I 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.240 go backstage like what are we gonna do? Man? And 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.920 there's this dude named Dylan. They call him horn Swoggle, 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.240 and he played this leper Con right, he's a dwarf 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.680 in real life. He played this leper Con character and 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:00.640 he never spoke that was again. He would go on on 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:03.720 and like, you know, grind his teeth and bite your 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:07.240 ankles and do little evil leprica on things like from 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:11.760 the horror film Leprecha. And I said, hey, man, do 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.120 you want to uh do you want to talk tonight? 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.240 He said what? I go more specifically, do you want 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.960 to rap for Snoop Dogg tonight? He goes, are you kidding? 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:21.880 I go, yeah, I gotta write it, and I can't 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:23.800 write reps, but I'm gonna write you a rap. You're 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.800 gonna do it for Snoop? And like he's looking for new, 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.360 like you know, new acts to bring with him on 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.640 the road. You're gonna be one of the people auditioning. 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:33.880 He says, dude, I would love to do that. I said, 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:35.920 all right, man, as soon as I'll write your thing 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:37.360 first and I'll give it to you so you could 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.680 practice it, because it's gonna be terrible morning you Now, 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.400 he goes, no, man, thank you so much. He was awesome. Dude. 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.840 I still I still know him. I love him. So 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.440 I write this up. I don't remember what the lyrics were. 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.520 I'm sure it's online. If you want to humiliate me 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.240 by hitting me on social media, that's at real F 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:56.520 p j R. On Twitter, I'll block you for life. 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.640 I won't, but you don't have to humiliate me. That's 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:03.720 a choice and it sears to make. So we go 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:08.400 in there and I got Cardona and Rowdy Roddy Piper 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:11.400 who have agreed to help me out. I made this 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.680 like passion plead to Piper about how much I love 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:18.040 him and respect him, and I loved They Lived so much. 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.280 And we're talking about him and Keith David because Keith 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.920 was my dad's best friend in high school, the black 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.399 dude from They Lived The Voice of Spawn on HBO. 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:28.560 That's Keith and my dad used to be in theater 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:30.639 school together and they were doing like of mice and 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.800 men in and my dad dropped out one day side 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:39.040 Quoest and Keith, who I met on the Mass Effect 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.800 video games. We were both voicing characters in the third one. 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:45.440 He voiced it in all three and he was telling 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:47.159 me stories about my dad. He said, always knew one 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:48.880 day I was gonna show for school, and that meant 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.080 that he made it. And sure as how, one day 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.159 he didn't show up, and nobody was mad. They were 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.159 cheering because they knew. Someone called my dad and said, yo, 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:57.879 you got a shot. And I was on the Milton 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.480 Pearl Show and my dad killed it and uh yeah. 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.679 So anyway, so I was talking to a piper and 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:07.000 asked him, I said, hey, will you come and do 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.159 the snook a bit and crack a coconut on on 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.080 Cordona's head. He said, man, I said, he's down with it, 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.080 and uh, Rody's like yeah, I'll love yeah whatever, I 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:16.720 can do it now And we have a couple of 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.159 the you know people doing that. It's like a montage 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:22.720 of auditions and Snoop's job is just to say next 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.320 at as soon as everyone's done next, that's all he 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:36.520 has to do right, easiest job in the world. We're 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.800 shooting all of the talent side first, the wrestling talent 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.480 side first, so that I can just shoot Snoop once 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:45.920 and get him out of there. So it's just Snoops 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.800 p o V and everyone's coming through and said deals 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:52.200 comes our Hornswaggle comes through and he does his rap 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.159 and is he's so good, you guys. The lyrics are trash, 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:58.159 but Swaggle can rhyme, and so he made it sounds 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.080 serviceable to where I literally was like, yo, he did 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:04.320 have one take. I was like, bro, I can't write better, 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:07.480 and you totally saved this whole bit. That's wonderful and 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:09.679 I love it. He's like, all right, cool, So he 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:13.720 crushed it. I failed him, but he crushed it. And 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.639 and then Cardona comes and we're talking. He's talking to 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.359 Piper and I'm just watching. I didn't get involved in 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.000 the physical stuff because that's that's their world, right. I'm 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.919 gonna look, I've worked with some stunt teams, uh seven 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:29.200 different times. Like they're like, dude, I've been resonated every 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.760 day for forty years. So I'm just watching them, let 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:35.480 them do their thing, and and they're ready to go, Okay, 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:37.959 we're ready, We're ready. We get our camera on, all 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.520 the lights are going. I'm so excited to see this. 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:43.800 And then Piper goes, no, no, give me the other coconut, 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:47.960 and Cardona goes, well, Piper, because nothing, and he grabs 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:52.160 the other coconut, which looks like it has not been 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:55.719 gimmicked to break or crack open in any way shape 0:19:55.760 --> 0:20:00.040 or for and Cardona is kind of like Froz and 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.760 it reminded me of this story that I heard back 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.520 in the day. Oh. I think that it was a 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:09.480 movie called The Deer Hunter, and there was a scene 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:13.920 which would never be allowed today on set where they're 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:19.240 playing Russian roulette with a pistol, and before the other 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:22.920 actor gets the gun, Christopher Walking goes to the gunmaster 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:26.199 and goes, no, no, no, get the other gun. That 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:28.280 wasn't a good Christopher Walking, sorry, no, no, get the 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:31.400 other gun. And the other actors like, what the hell? 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:34.520 And they did the scene with the gun that had 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:38.960 not been supposedly cleared for safety, even though it had been, 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:41.000 but the other actor had only seen the other gun, 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:45.800 and Christopher Walking was trying to evoke a very honest 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:50.000 and raw reaction and this is in the seventies, so 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:52.800 you could be more dangerous with the way filmmaking was made, 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:55.480 and often were. But this was the coconut version of 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.359 It's so much lighter. But Cartona still is like, hold up, man, 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:01.000 is that is that nicked or not? Like in his hat. 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:02.720 I can see him watch it. So I'm sitting there like, 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:04.800 oh my god, what's about to happen? What's about to 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:08.679 go down? And I'm trusting Piper, and Cardona's trusting Piper, 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:12.399 and uh so Cardona comes in and he's making his 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:15.199 pitch to Snooped August to why he should be a 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.320 part of the act. You could YouTube this too, and 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:22.800 Piper comes in and just from from camera right so 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:25.919 you're left side of frame, and whacks him in the 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:29.200 head with the coconut, and a coconut cracks open and 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:31.800 looks kind of like a rough crack, so it looks 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:36.119 legit and Cardona drops and then Piper just looks into camera. 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:38.080 And we had talked about this. He was like, things 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:40.400 are always funnier in threes, right, I go, yeah, that's 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:42.600 the comedy rule. He goes okay, and so he just 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:45.719 he kind of like points to the camera looks away, 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:48.359 points off and it walks out and he does it 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:50.600 in threes. It has his his sort of great exit, 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:54.879 and we cut and Cardona's laying there on the floor 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:59.040 and I'm like, hey man, we're good. Cut, Holy Matt, 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:00.879