Speaker 1: I love Daniel Garcia, I completely I used to not
Speaker 1: like the dance move. I was like, man, I don't
Speaker 1: think he needs that. I feel like he's better than that.
Speaker 1: What the fuck do I know? Now I'm sitting there
Speaker 1: ready to do the dance with him. I just think
Speaker 1: it's awesome. He completely changed me. I was down on
Speaker 1: the babay too when it was in NXT, and now
Speaker 1: I'm saying babe all the time. Ladies and gentlemen, are
Speaker 1: you ready's about to hit the fan? Welcome to on
Speaker 1: sanctioned Thursdays? Honestling, what's fready? What's up? Everybody? Welcome to
Speaker 1: unsanctioned Thursdays. I'm drinking green tea because the house I'm
Speaker 1: in Australia has a weird coffee machine that I don't
Speaker 1: know how to work, and I got up too early
Speaker 1: to do this show to even go get coffee. So
Speaker 1: we're doing the Asian vibe today, feeling very Japanese, Chinese,
Speaker 1: very Korean, very Asian in general. I'm going to be
Speaker 1: very respectful on this episode, very disciplined. I'm going to
Speaker 1: be make everything perfect the way Japan does. Hopefully you
Speaker 1: guys like the show. So let's start with some news
Speaker 1: and an update. I told you, guys, I'm a man
Speaker 1: with a TV deal who doesn't have a promotion. That's
Speaker 1: where I'm at right now. I have a TV deal.
Speaker 1: How does this happen? How does how do I get
Speaker 1: this back? How do I do everything backwards? I have
Speaker 1: the TV deal in place without the promotion, And again
Speaker 1: I can't I almost said everything. I can't say too
Speaker 1: too much. But on the last update I said, we
Speaker 1: were speaking with somebody and we were talking more about
Speaker 1: acquisition than than say, creation from scratch, right, something that
Speaker 1: already exists. Some of you had guessed what those promotions
Speaker 1: might be. You all guessed wrong. I saw, I saw that.
Speaker 1: I saw the comments. Everybody was wrong, so ha ha
Speaker 1: in your face. The people we were speaking with, I
Speaker 1: think got a little bit of cold feet. There would
Speaker 1: have been a lot of travel involved for me too,
Speaker 1: which would have been tough, but I would have done it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, that deal is quickly going away into the
Speaker 1: world of into the void of shows that never got
Speaker 1: to be on TV. I was super bummed. I was
Speaker 1: in Australia when I got the news. I was on
Speaker 1: set out here. We're doing that. I know what you
Speaker 1: did last summer movie and Super Bummed, and the girl
Speaker 1: that I was working with, she was like, what's wrong?
Speaker 1: Whole energy just changed. And we had just been talking
Speaker 1: about wrestling because her dad was a wrestling fan. He's
Speaker 1: from Detroit, Good Wrestling City. Letting her know she knows
Speaker 1: more than you guys know that the deal I was
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent sure was going to fall apart. My
Speaker 1: boss or my partner I guess in this case, texted
Speaker 1: me while I was talking to her, and so after
Speaker 1: we spoke, he said, but what about Boom Boom Boom
Speaker 1: Boom Boom? And he named like four or five other
Speaker 1: promotions that are looking for TV deals. I said, look,
Speaker 1: I'm receptive to four of the five that you said.
Speaker 1: There was one there that I felt was trying to
Speaker 1: do the same thing that I was trying to do.
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to go in there and step
Speaker 1: on their toes and be like, well, what you wanted
Speaker 1: to do, even though it's the same as what I
Speaker 1: want to do sucks. We're going to do what I
Speaker 1: want to do. No, they should be able to chase
Speaker 1: their own dream and try to pull that off. But
Speaker 1: there were four other places that they mentioned that are
Speaker 1: all looking for a TV deal or a new TV deal,
Speaker 1: one or the other, and he thought they might be
Speaker 1: receptive to us coming in and talking to them about
Speaker 1: a creative refreshment. And here's a television deal for you.
Speaker 1: So that's the update. That's where we're at. I have
Speaker 1: to start over once again. I'm going to have to
Speaker 1: meet with new people once again. I'm going to have
Speaker 1: to pitch myself to these promotions once again and earn
Speaker 1: their trust once again. But hopefully I'll be able to
Speaker 1: do it. I've been able to do it in the past.
Speaker 1: I've done it. We haven't been told no by anybody
Speaker 1: from what I was bringing to the table. It was
Speaker 1: more a financial thing, which is where the no was
Speaker 1: coming from. But the creative has been cool so far.
Speaker 1: So I feel confident in that. I have to just
Speaker 1: remain diligent and stay on the path and not let
Speaker 1: setbacks get me down. I'm telling you, man, when I
Speaker 1: first got the text, you get these thoughts in your head, like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe this isn't what I'm supposed to do. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'm maybe I'm just supposed to act. Maybe I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to to stay in my lane, as they say, and
Speaker 1: all these negative thoughts. Your brain fucking lies to you.
Speaker 1: It's Thursday. We can cuss. I'm not straight edge. Your
Speaker 1: brain lies to you. Man. Your heart inspires you, your
Speaker 1: brain lies to you. Your brain says you can't do it.
Speaker 1: Your brain says it's too dangerous. Your brain says it's
Speaker 1: too risky. Don't ask that girl out. She's just gonna
Speaker 1: say no. Don't chase your dream, man, You don't have
Speaker 1: time to do that. Yes, you freaking do, even if
Speaker 1: you have a full time job. You might have to
Speaker 1: sacrifice some other bullshit in your life, but it's bullshit,
Speaker 1: so sacrifice it and chase your damn dreams. But everybody,
Speaker 1: everybody deals with doubt that's created by our minds. My
Speaker 1: brain lies to me. It has my whole life. It's
Speaker 1: told me maybe two true things in my life, and
Speaker 1: those are both guesses on what Christmas presents would be
Speaker 1: when I was a kid. Other than that, it just lies.
Speaker 1: I don't know if yours brain's worked the way I
Speaker 1: mind does, but that's what my brain does. So I
Speaker 1: was going through a lot of like weird, funky stuff
Speaker 1: and then pulled myself out of it and said, Okay, yeah, fine,
Speaker 1: if I have to start over. I'll start over again.
Speaker 1: I don't give a shit. This is what I want
Speaker 1: to do, this is what I'm meant to do, this
Speaker 1: is what I'm going to do. So I'm back on
Speaker 1: the path. I'm working it again. I would love it
Speaker 1: if I could get a deal done for no other
Speaker 1: reason than I can tell you, guys all the places
Speaker 1: that I failed at, all the people who said no,
Speaker 1: all the people who were nice, all the people who
Speaker 1: were jerks. And there was one lady that literally was
Speaker 1: just like, can we just make it a reality show?
Speaker 1: I was like, that's not what what do you mean?
Speaker 1: You just want me on a reality show? It's a
Speaker 1: wrestling program. But we'll get into all that. But once
Speaker 1: I finally get a deal, and I will because I
Speaker 1: believe in the power of positivity. Like Bo Dallas once said,
Speaker 1: you've got to bow lee real ones know that. Anyway,
Speaker 1: let's get into aw fool Year. What a card, what
Speaker 1: a show, what a pay per view? And god damn
Speaker 1: does it feel good to be right all the time?
Speaker 1: Oh God, it just feels so amazing. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: get into it right now. First up, the AEW Tag
Speaker 1: Team Championship four way match, a four way tag match,
Speaker 1: no way Private Party can retain. There's no way Private
Speaker 1: Party can retain right, right, wrong, as Charlie Murphy said, wrong,
Speaker 1: He's an habitual line stepper. He was talking about Rick James.
Speaker 1: Private Party was going Jeff. You know, Jeff picked the
Speaker 1: Black throwne he loves the Black Throne, and Alex he
Speaker 1: also picked the Black Throne. But your boy Freddie picked
Speaker 1: Private Party to win, and everyone was against me. But
Speaker 1: what kind of a title run would it have been.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to give you guys the philosophies on my
Speaker 1: picks here, so you guys can start making picks without
Speaker 1: my help, and then you don't need me anymore. Then
Speaker 1: you don't need this show. And then we have to
Speaker 1: do on sanctioned Fridays because Thursdays will be canceled. But anyway,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have been much of a run. And it
Speaker 1: really doesn't get your tag team over if as soon
Speaker 1: as they win it, they lose it. So this had
Speaker 1: to be a match that Private Party had to win. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: why did you give them those belts in the first place.
Speaker 1: It would have been a horrible mistake and an absolute
Speaker 1: waste of everybody's time. That was my philosophy behind picking them,
Speaker 1: and it was proven correct. Fun match. Hard to have
Speaker 1: eight people in a ring and tell a singular story
Speaker 1: as far as what everyone wants, but I thought they
Speaker 1: pulled it off. Not a big fan of four ways,
Speaker 1: three is the most that I usually like. Still a
Speaker 1: good match. Private Party wins, But we move on to
Speaker 1: MJF versus Roderick Strung and the winner was MJF. We
Speaker 1: all knew this though. This was an easy pick. Everybody
Speaker 1: pick even Jeff got this one right. Jeff, way to
Speaker 1: go bro. Our producer Alex also picked MJF because he
Speaker 1: knows what time it is and this was an easy match.
Speaker 1: MJF came out, he looked awesome. Roderick Strong looked awesome.
Speaker 1: MJF tried to break his arm. Adam Cole runs out.
Speaker 1: Everybody loves Adam Cole. Beabey, he came out. Kyle O'Reilly
Speaker 1: was like, yo, man, what's up with you? Dude? You
Speaker 1: kind of heal a baby face. Get out of my face.
Speaker 1: So they'll have some beef in the future. But we
Speaker 1: got to deal with the MJF story first. We all
Speaker 1: picked them. JF and if you picked MJF. You made
Speaker 1: money as well. The ae W TBS Championship match. Just
Speaker 1: time to talk to the ladies. We have Mercedes Monday
Speaker 1: versus Chris Statlander. Now look, I've got money, I got
Speaker 1: mone You know that our producer Alex picked Statlander and
Speaker 1: Jeff picked Money as well. The philosophy on this one,
Speaker 1: I guess I didn't explain the philosophy and MJF, but
Speaker 1: that was pretty easy. The match is Adam Cole and Max,
Speaker 1: not Adam Colean Rodrick Strung, so that was why I
Speaker 1: picked that. But they haven't given Mercedes enough yet. Since
Speaker 1: she's been in aw she hasn't been given the story.
Speaker 1: I think the story was her and Britt Baker, but
Speaker 1: if you believe the backstage stuff, some drama happened that
Speaker 1: put that on the on the back burner. If you don't,
Speaker 1: then maybe Brit got hurt and they just couldn't complete
Speaker 1: that story, so they put Chris in there. Britt I
Speaker 1: think could have beaten Mercedes. They could have even gone
Speaker 1: back and forth with it. They're both high level, but
Speaker 1: that didn't happen. So my philosophy was, if that didn't happen,
Speaker 1: they're waiting for that to happen now that she's back,
Speaker 1: and Mercedes has to have the belt to make that
Speaker 1: mean something. So that was the philosophy on that. Of
Speaker 1: course I was right because I'm almost always right, and
Speaker 1: this week I was Jay White versus Adam Hangman Page,
Speaker 1: the man with would you call it a top ten
Speaker 1: clothes line of all time? His Buckshot Lariot, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe the best is JBL. JBL's got the best clothes
Speaker 1: line ever because it came from hell and everything from
Speaker 1: Hell is just all awesome. See you and here. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I picked Jay White. The story was he kind of
Speaker 1: has Hangman's number and he for whatever reason, he's just
Speaker 1: able to sneak out wins over Adam Page, and Adam
Speaker 1: has gotten a victory over him. But it's it's it's
Speaker 1: been more one sided. I thought that would remain true.
Speaker 1: Page has seemed to be wanting to help other guys
Speaker 1: out and and put other guys over since he came
Speaker 1: back outside of Swerve, which was the right story. I
Speaker 1: love when wrestlers do this. I don't talk a lot
Speaker 1: of Hangman Page, but what he's been doing in the
Speaker 1: ring I feel like has been the right thing since
Speaker 1: he came back, his characters kind of off off the off,
Speaker 1: out of his gourd right now, out of his mind.
Speaker 1: He's just crazy because of what happened with him and Swerve,
Speaker 1: and he's really stayed true to that character. When you
Speaker 1: when you go through the things he's gone through, I
Speaker 1: think you're more susceptible to mistakes, and that's how he's
Speaker 1: been losing matches. So I think they've been doing a
Speaker 1: really smart job with it. Yeah, we all picked j
Speaker 1: White or no. Jeff picked Hangman Page because he loves him,
Speaker 1: and he was wrong wrong, you know, Alex and your
Speaker 1: Boyfriddie were ready. Kyle Fletcher, Kyle, I'm in your country
Speaker 1: right now, Sydney, Australia, which is where you're from. I
Speaker 1: supported you throughout this. I love this country. I love
Speaker 1: this city. I love the food, I love the weather.
Speaker 1: It's summertime here, so it's nice and warm. I've got
Speaker 1: my endless summer. The waves weren't very good while I
Speaker 1: was out here, so no surfing and my family came out.
Speaker 1: There's also sharks in Australia, which frightened me, even though
Speaker 1: they're nice ones like nurse sharks things like that. But
Speaker 1: I picked Kyle Fletcher. I knew he was gonna win.
Speaker 1: You can't. You can't build this kid up to beat him.
Speaker 1: And they've changed his character. He shaved his head, he's
Speaker 1: changed his clothes, he's changed his persona. He's willing to
Speaker 1: cheat to win and do the don Kallis dirty deeds
Speaker 1: that are necessary to get these evil victories. And he
Speaker 1: had a loss to Will Ospray when they were both
Speaker 1: wrestling under the don Kallis flag. As like this sort
Speaker 1: of showcase that he would do where he was showing
Speaker 1: how his wrestlers are better than everyone else's wrestlers. And
Speaker 1: Will won that match. So I thought it was Kyle's turn,
Speaker 1: and I felt really really confident in this pick. Knew
Speaker 1: this match would bring the house down, knew it would
Speaker 1: steal the show. This was my favorite match of the
Speaker 1: pay per view. This happened two weeks ago. I still
Speaker 1: remember the match really, really well, even though I've seen
Speaker 1: a ton of wrestling since then. When Kyle Fletcher got
Speaker 1: the win, Jeff picked Will because he loves Will Ospray.
Speaker 1: Everybody loves Will Ospray. I love Will Ospray, but it
Speaker 1: was not will Osprey's night. It was Kyle Fletcher's night
Speaker 1: and Kyle Fletcher got the win. And if you went
Speaker 1: with Alex and Freddie, then you made no. If you didn't,
Speaker 1: then you got the big no. Moving on ae WTNT
Speaker 1: Championship match, Daniel Garcia Versus formerly known as Jungle Boy,
Speaker 1: almost called him Luke Perry, Jesus christ Freddy Jack Perry.
Speaker 1: So glad he got rid of the moniker jungle Boy.
Speaker 1: He's a man's man now. This again, this was an
Speaker 1: easy pick for me. The Daniel Garcia story was the
Speaker 1: ultimate underdog, blue collar. If you're familiar with the Diehard franchise,
Speaker 1: he's John McClain, right, He's the everyman cop. He's the
Speaker 1: guy that you watch in the movie and you go, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would do the same thing. If terrorists tried to
Speaker 1: take over my workplace, I'd be the one that saves
Speaker 1: the day. Who That's who Daniel Garcia is. I always
Speaker 1: almost call him Ryan Garcia. He's way cooler than Ryan Garcia.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this was the story. This was the match
Speaker 1: that I think the fans probably cared about the most
Speaker 1: because they're so behind Daniel right now, and they give
Speaker 1: him this great segment where he's like listening to a
Speaker 1: message from his mom on his voicemail that his mom
Speaker 1: left him reminding him of how she raised him. But
Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I thought
Speaker 1: it was beautiful. I loved this story. I love Daniel Garcia.
Speaker 1: I'm completely I used to not like the dance move.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, I don't think he needs that.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's better than that. What the fuck
Speaker 1: do I know? Now I'm sitting there ready to do
Speaker 1: the dance with him. I just think it's awesome. He
Speaker 1: completely changed me. I was down on the babay too
Speaker 1: when it was in NXT, and now I'm saying babe
Speaker 1: all the time. So when wrestlers do great things, my
Speaker 1: opinions change, and I like it when I'm wrong. I'm
Speaker 1: not wrong on my picks, though, Baby, because Daniel Garcia
Speaker 1: won and he is your new TNT champion, I can't
Speaker 1: wait to see where they go with this. Babyfaces usually
Speaker 1: don't get to hold mid titles as long as heel
Speaker 1: champions do because it's more fun to watch the faces
Speaker 1: chase the heel and it's not representative of the company
Speaker 1: because it's not the main championship. So I feel like
Speaker 1: that's usually more of a heel thing, but it'll be
Speaker 1: a fun run. Daniel's really really good on the mic,
Speaker 1: and he's great in the ring, and he really knows
Speaker 1: how to make people care about him. He's just so early.
Speaker 1: That's the best way to describe him, ernest. If you
Speaker 1: don't know what that word means, or you think you know,
Speaker 1: look it up anyway and it'll literally will be a
Speaker 1: picture of Daniel Garcia Swerve Strickland versus Bobby Friggin Lashly
Speaker 1: and this was I thought the most generous outside of
Speaker 1: Adam Page, the most generous match of the night from
Speaker 1: a wrestler. You had to make Bobby look like the strongest, biggest, baddest,
Speaker 1: toughest wrestler in the world. It couldn't be a fifty
Speaker 1: to fifty match. It had to be this is how
Speaker 1: great this dude is. And he's got help from Shelton
Speaker 1: Friggin Benjamin, and he's got help from MVP, top manager
Speaker 1: in the game today. He had to look great, and
Speaker 1: Swerve had to look like he was overmatched and overwhelmed,
Speaker 1: and both men played their parts perfectly. We all picked Bobby.
Speaker 1: Bobby won the match, and Bobby looked great and Swerve
Speaker 1: was left beaten and broken, which he should have been
Speaker 1: in order to make the Hurt Syndicate mean something again.
Speaker 1: I'm talking the philosophy behind the pick. If you love
Speaker 1: Swerve Strickland and you picked him, I'm sorry. I love
Speaker 1: Swerve Strickland. Two two time guests on the show think
Speaker 1: he's awesome. This was the right decision, the right outcome,
Speaker 1: the right match. Not sure what's next for Bobby. I
Speaker 1: think they've got to recruit one more since it wasn't Swerve.
Speaker 1: I think I mentioned two weeks ago that maybe Hobbs
Speaker 1: Powerhouse Hobbs could be a good addition to that group.
Speaker 1: I still think that, So maybe that's the extra guy
Speaker 1: that they bring in. Yeah. I loved this match. I
Speaker 1: love the way they made Bobby look and I can't
Speaker 1: wait to see what they do next with him. And
Speaker 1: now our main event, John Moxley, the original Werewolf. If
Speaker 1: you listen to this show frequently us you know who
Speaker 1: the squosen one Freshly Squeezed Orange Cassidy. All of us
Speaker 1: picked John Moxley. The philosophy behind it being you can't
Speaker 1: have the death writers not inflicting death and riding away,
Speaker 1: otherwise they're not the Death Writers, and this was very
Speaker 1: similar with Private Party, Like why would you put the
Speaker 1: belt on John just to have him lose it right away,
Speaker 1: especially after all the promos he cut, Like those are
Speaker 1: promises and for him to not be able to keep
Speaker 1: any of those promises and to break each and everyone
Speaker 1: would have just been horrible for his character. He had
Speaker 1: to win this match. Orange Cassidy can afford to lose
Speaker 1: because we love Orange, we believe in Orange. He's he's,
Speaker 1: you know, one of us, one of us. It's that
Speaker 1: kind of vibe. But there was no way he could
Speaker 1: climb this mountain. There was just too much outside interference.
Speaker 1: The Death Writers are too much and we were right
Speaker 1: once again. It led to Darby at the end. So
Speaker 1: I guess it'll be Darby versus mox next. I may
Speaker 1: pick mox again just because I think this championship needs
Speaker 1: to last a while. But I don't know. I might
Speaker 1: be wrong. Maybe I'll switch. We'll see Moxley won. He's
Speaker 1: the man. Can't wait to see his promo. These shows
Speaker 1: air on Thursdays, so we'll have already seen Dynamite by
Speaker 1: then if you listen to him when they come out,
Speaker 1: and we'll see his response to Darby Allen sort of
Speaker 1: attack there at the end of the match outside, But yeah,
Speaker 1: we went a perfect twenty for twenty. There weren't twenty matches,
Speaker 1: but we were perfect, And if you bet with me,
Speaker 1: you were perfect, just like mister perfect. Throw one hundred
Speaker 1: yard passes and catching them because you don't even need
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, throwing up half court shots like Steph
Speaker 1: Curry before Steph Curry was even born, and looking away
Speaker 1: like Larry Bird because you know it's cash. That's how
Speaker 1: perfect we were this week. So if we made you money, cool.
Speaker 1: If not, get to betting, don't bet more than you
Speaker 1: wouldn't spend on a night out. That's a good rule
Speaker 1: for gambling, by the way, Like however much dough you have,
Speaker 1: if like sixty bucks, go out, check out a movie,
Speaker 1: get some popcorn, get a drink, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Don't bet more than sixty If you got a little
Speaker 1: more cash and you can drop, you know, two three
Speaker 1: hundred bucks on a nice dinner with your lady, or
Speaker 1: maybe you're taking your friends out and you had a
Speaker 1: good week of work and you're picking up the check
Speaker 1: and you're gonna drop two hundred fifty bucks don't bet
Speaker 1: more than two hundred and fifty bucks. That's a good
Speaker 1: way to manage your gambling if you're a gambler. I'm
Speaker 1: not much of a gambler, although in my twenties I was.
Speaker 1: I liked a little black jack, but as I got older,
Speaker 1: I'm not much of a gambler. But I think that's
Speaker 1: the right rule. So be responsible if you bet, don't
Speaker 1: bet more than you have, and don't bet more than
Speaker 1: you would spend on a night out. But definitely bet.
Speaker 1: When you listen to Unsanctioned Thursdays and Wrestling with Freddy,
Speaker 1: stay tuned for next week's episode, next Thursday's episode. I'll
Speaker 1: always try to give you guys updates on the Federation
Speaker 1: and give you guys as much information as I can.
Speaker 1: I just don't like announcing things before they're done, because
Speaker 1: otherwise you look like an asshole. It's a dun't do you. Nope,
Speaker 1: not wrong. So yeah, So I'll keep working and grinding
Speaker 1: on that and giving you guys updates, and I hope
Speaker 1: you guys tune in each and every week. I'm half
Speaker 1: a Jeff, Die and O are awesome Producer Alex, I'm
Speaker 1: Freddie Prince Junior, saying peer Yes. This has been a
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