Speaker 1: So it's it's trickier to get to know the bad
Speaker 1: guys because they don't want you to get to know them.
Speaker 1: They just want power and money and fame and influence.
Speaker 1: And so I get that from them that they're a
Speaker 1: part of the actual decision making process in reality and
Speaker 1: in story. But they've probably been given the most motive
Speaker 1: as far as tag team's there. And I for me
Speaker 1: and what I came up with on wrestling and my
Speaker 1: what I like in entertainment is the reason why. And
Speaker 1: so I just need a little bit more of that.
Speaker 1: I hope that answers.
Speaker 2: And Jeff, like I said, I talked about Jeff was here,
Speaker 2: you would say the Outrunners with their eighties.
Speaker 1: He loves the Outrunners.
Speaker 2: And now you're made even introducing the hosts are wrestling
Speaker 2: win for.
Speaker 1: Ready, Jef Died and of Ready friends soun what's up? Everybody,
Speaker 1: Welcome to Wrestling with Freddie Wrestling with friends this week.
Speaker 1: Definitely with friends, because we're reaching out to all of
Speaker 1: you to ask questions that you have throughout the season.
Speaker 1: Any questions you have, as inappropriate as they may be,
Speaker 1: they will be answered psych but I will be taking
Speaker 1: questions from all of you. Our producer Alex who's awesome
Speaker 1: and rules and loves wrestling. He's not just producing for
Speaker 1: the cash. Ah, he loves wrestling as much as we do.
Speaker 1: He's going to be reading the questions and or playing
Speaker 1: the voicemails. Jeff is on assignment, which means he's at
Speaker 1: fifty thousand feet in the air, flying somewhere from doing
Speaker 1: a comedy club somewhere and making people laugh, making some
Speaker 1: people cry if you're sensitive. But anyway, here we go.
Speaker 1: Let's start the show, all right, Alex, I will allow
Speaker 1: how many questions today? I will allow up to forty
Speaker 1: questions today, knowing that we won't get past three because
Speaker 1: I talk a lot. All right.
Speaker 2: This first one comes from reebs Loves Roads and Wrestling
Speaker 2: on Instagram. In your new wrestling venture, will you be
Speaker 2: able to give your opinion on getting and bringing in
Speaker 2: new talent?
Speaker 1: One hundred percent? Yes. I you know. I'll never throw
Speaker 1: anyone under a bus. I don't like doing bad business,
Speaker 1: even if someone does bad business on me. I just don't.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's not true, but I think it is. But
Speaker 1: I'll definitely talk about the process of trying to get
Speaker 1: people that I'm passionate about. If something unique happened. As
Speaker 1: far as how I got them excited and they're comfortable
Speaker 1: with me sharing the story, then yeah, I'll share everybody's story,
Speaker 1: but you always have to be make sure that you
Speaker 1: know everybody involved is comfortable with that. I've told stories
Speaker 1: that make people laugh and heard from actors later on
Speaker 1: that were like, man, I wish you wouldn't have told
Speaker 1: that story, like it was kind of embarrassing, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. I thought it made you sound cool.
Speaker 1: You know, you beat that guy's ass. And he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I got kids now, and you know I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want them knowing that part of me. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's my bad. So as long as the wrestlers were
Speaker 1: cool with me sharing the story of how I got
Speaker 1: them or didn't, then yeah, I would share everything, but
Speaker 1: both parties have to be cool with it.
Speaker 2: Reebs, what are your thoughts on former WWE superstar Teagan Knox.
Speaker 2: I think she's super talented, untapped resource that hasn't been
Speaker 2: given a chance to shine. My husband and I love
Speaker 2: the podcast and listen in every week. First of all,
Speaker 2: thank you to you and your hubs. And I liked
Speaker 2: Teagan a lot. I thought she had this cool kind
Speaker 2: of nineties like rom Com look to her, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like like the Rachel Lee Cooks and
Speaker 2: the Julia styles of the world. I thought she had
Speaker 2: a great look to her. I think the problem that
Speaker 2: she had in WWE was injury, and I think she
Speaker 2: was getting hurt more often than they could trust her
Speaker 2: body to give her the push that a lot of
Speaker 2: us wanted to see for her. I loved the voice.
Speaker 2: I think she was from Wales. I love that accent.
Speaker 1: My wife worked with this dude from Wales, and when
Speaker 1: they speak Welsh, it's like the craziest, crazier than Dutch.
Speaker 1: Y'all got the craziest language in the world out there
Speaker 1: in Wales. I thought she was super cool and she
Speaker 1: had the shiniest wizard I think was her finisher, and
Speaker 1: I like that too. It always looked good. So I
Speaker 1: was a Ticker Knox fan. I just think that you know,
Speaker 1: when your body betrays you, there's freaking nothing you can do,
Speaker 1: and a lot of these wrestlers want to get back
Speaker 1: so quickly that maybe they're trying to come back too soon,
Speaker 1: and then they hurt something else or they reinjured something
Speaker 1: that wasn't all the way quite healed. Yeah, injuries friggin
Speaker 1: suck and hers definitely did this.
Speaker 2: Next one's coming in from the Potato Pope on ig
Speaker 2: Potato pulp. With Freddy's love of Japan, I'm surprised he
Speaker 2: doesn't watch your Japan Pro Wrestling. How did we get
Speaker 2: him to talk? How do we talk him into watching
Speaker 2: Wrestle Kingdom and Russell Dynasty this year?
Speaker 1: Okay, so you might not have to talk me into
Speaker 1: it because I might have watched a couple episodes over
Speaker 1: the last couple weeks. When I was in Australia and
Speaker 1: having my downtime, I could not find WWE or AW
Speaker 1: on any of their channels out there. I started going
Speaker 1: on YouTube and I went on a deep dive on
Speaker 1: NJPW New Japan Pro Wrestling, and I watched a lot
Speaker 1: of their matches. Man, because I'm not the lead of
Speaker 1: this movie, so I had some downtime, and like I said,
Speaker 1: I couldn't find any others. So I've been watching. I
Speaker 1: already liked the style. You nailed me on my All
Speaker 1: Things Japan. Yeah, maybe I will. It's not as hard
Speaker 1: as it was a year ago for me to find
Speaker 1: wrestling pay per views. Even though I'm old, I'm learning
Speaker 1: how to navigate the internet. I'm learning what Google's all about.
Speaker 1: I've even ordered a couple things off Bleacher Report. What
Speaker 1: that's right? And I didn't screw it up once. I
Speaker 1: ordered some Uber Eats. I just downloaded that app. I'd
Speaker 1: never have ubered before until I was in Australia. I
Speaker 1: downloaded the app and I didn't screw it up once.
Speaker 1: Not only did I get some to come to my
Speaker 1: house and pick me up, and I didn't make him wait.
Speaker 1: I was standing outside because I'm good good rider. Is
Speaker 1: that what you call a good passenger? A good Uberer?
Speaker 1: And they I saw that at Uber Eats on the app.
Speaker 1: I didn't even have to download it. I just pushed
Speaker 1: that on the right and boom. I ordered Japanese food
Speaker 1: to my and it was Japanese food. I swear to God.
Speaker 1: I ordered Japanese food to my house and the miso
Speaker 1: soup came hot. I gave a twenty percent tip. Well,
Speaker 1: in Australia you can only do fifteen, but on Uber
Speaker 1: you can do up to twenty. So I gave him
Speaker 1: a twenty percent tip because the soup was hot. So yes,
Speaker 1: I love Japan. No, it won't be hard to get
Speaker 1: me to watch, and maybe we'll even get to talk
Speaker 1: about him on the podcast next season.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate that question. That was I hope you're
Speaker 2: a writer. Should I say your driver gave you five stars?
Speaker 2: Because you know you get you get stars as well?
Speaker 2: So oh shit, you get stars. Oh I'm so glad
Speaker 2: I was on time Fred sucked a one star passenger
Speaker 2: eats and Uber if the guy was cool, I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe it wasn't. This one comes from Peter Peter surs
Speaker 2: on Ig. He's a I followed him. He's a comedian.
Speaker 2: I want to get into wrestling as a backstage interviewer
Speaker 2: or pre post show commentator. Would love to know how
Speaker 2: I can get involved in your new promotion or any promotion.
Speaker 2: I'd love this podcast. Okay, dude.
Speaker 1: First of all, WWE has like an open door policy
Speaker 1: on taking the resumes and things like that reels. If
Speaker 1: you have a reel, I would submit that right away
Speaker 1: to WWE. AW kind of already has that spot filled,
Speaker 1: I feel like with RJ, but WWE does not. They
Speaker 1: don't have anyone that's funny. They have a couple guys
Speaker 1: that have tried to be funny on the pre shows,
Speaker 1: but they're not so I you know, there could be
Speaker 1: an opportunity for you there, but I would present a
Speaker 1: reel of your work. If that gets you a meeting,
Speaker 1: then you can talk about your passion and knowledge of wrestling,
Speaker 1: and then those two things combined perhaps could get you
Speaker 1: an opportunity. As far as mine goes, mine has switched
Speaker 1: so many times. There used to not be a spot
Speaker 1: for that kind of a person. And if I ever
Speaker 1: get my shit off the ground in the new way
Speaker 1: we're trying to do it, there certainly will be room
Speaker 1: for that type of a position. So just keep listening
Speaker 1: and reach out. If you ever hear me, pull this,
Speaker 1: pull this this damn dream off. Until then, keep grinding,
Speaker 1: and I hope to see on WWE. Dude, i'd aw
Speaker 1: do I feel like already has that spot filled.
Speaker 2: Next one's coming in from four eighty three Tom Tom
Speaker 2: for eighty three on IG that's Big Tom?
Speaker 1: Sorry, Big Tom.
Speaker 2: Who is your favorite WWE tag team of all time?
Speaker 1: That's pretty I might have to give you two. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I might have to give you two because it's hard
Speaker 1: to rate the new ones and say they're as great
Speaker 1: as the old ones because their careers aren't done and
Speaker 1: over yet they're still building them. So as a as
Speaker 1: a kid, it was probably the Heart Foundation because I
Speaker 1: was a big Brett Brett hart nerd. And then when
Speaker 1: I worked at WWE, it was certainly the Hardy Boys,
Speaker 1: and now, man, now it's tough, it would probably still
Speaker 1: be the Heart Foundation. I mean, the New Day is
Speaker 1: pretty awesome, but again it's hard because they're they're in
Speaker 1: the middle of their journey, like they have another ten
Speaker 1: years before they should be compared to any other tag
Speaker 1: teams out there, and they already have a decade in
Speaker 1: the business. So those would be the three that I
Speaker 1: would give you. I'd give you Heart Foundation, Hardy Man
Speaker 1: that leaves out Edge and Christian that leaves out the
Speaker 1: Dudley Boys. That leaves I mean, I even like the
Speaker 1: Italian Stallions back in the day, was that Paul Romo
Speaker 1: and and something Powers Jim Powers Maybe I don't even remember,
Speaker 1: but man's that's tough. I would say those three though,
Speaker 1: New Day, Hardy Boys, hard Foundation and that sucks to
Speaker 1: leave out Edgen, Christian and the Dudley Boys. And I'm
Speaker 1: a crappy fan for doing so. There you go.
Speaker 2: You have any from the New Regime from AW and
Speaker 2: WW that you like that you're following right now?
Speaker 1: You know, I like what the New Day does story wise.
Speaker 1: As far as AW, they focus more on tag teams.
Speaker 1: But it's more difficult to get into the wrestler's characters
Speaker 1: in AEW because they focus more on giving a superior
Speaker 1: match than WWE. But in doing so they've sacrificed the
Speaker 1: story and the getting to know you phase of a
Speaker 1: lot of these wrestlers careers. Like if you weren't hip
Speaker 1: to them in the indies, then too bad. So sad
Speaker 1: you don't get to know their story, And that to
Speaker 1: me is like shit, how much more wrestling do I
Speaker 1: have to watch to keep up with these cats? Like
Speaker 1: tell me who you are? It's not hard to do.
Speaker 1: They just aren't focused on it. They do it a
Speaker 1: little bit like they gave us a little bit with
Speaker 1: the Acclaimed Once Daddy asked was in the in the mix?
Speaker 1: You started to get to know their personality a little more,
Speaker 1: and then eventually they're their win and run with the titles.
Speaker 1: Uh private party. They haven't given us much to get
Speaker 1: to know them a little bit lately with the MVP
Speaker 1: stuff and then wanting to do it without him. That
Speaker 1: gave us a small sense of their motivation, but I'd
Speaker 1: like to see more of that. So it's hard. Man.
Speaker 1: I like the Luta Bros. But they're not there anymore
Speaker 1: FTR again, Like, I know who they are, but I
Speaker 1: don't ever get a chance to know why they're wrestling
Speaker 1: the guys they're wrestling, So it's hard to get a
Speaker 1: sense of of what motivates both men other than we
Speaker 1: want gold, which is cool. It just that can't be
Speaker 1: the story every time. And the young young bucks, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's tricky with them because they've been given the most,
Speaker 1: so I understand them the most. But they're bad guys.
Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to like them, and I don't so
Speaker 1: for the right reason. So it's it's trickier to get
Speaker 1: to know the bad guys because they don't want you
Speaker 1: to get to know them. They just want power and
Speaker 1: money and fame and influence, and so I get that
Speaker 1: from them. They're a part of the actual decision making
Speaker 1: process in reality and in story, but they've probably been
Speaker 1: given the most motive as far as tag teams there
Speaker 1: and I for me and what I came up with
Speaker 1: on wrestling, and what I like in entertainment is the
Speaker 1: reason why. And so I just need a little bit
Speaker 1: more of that. I hope that answers.
Speaker 2: And if Jeff, like I said, I talked about Jeff
Speaker 2: was here, he would say the Outrunners with their eighties
Speaker 2: the act.
Speaker 1: He loves the Outrunners. Their handshake is money, man. They
Speaker 1: did the New Day handshake. I love that, the Arnold
Speaker 1: Schwartzenegger Carl Weather's Predator handshake. That shit's money. When you
Speaker 1: got biceps, that's the best handshake to get. You know.
Speaker 2: I got to give a Jeff is fifty feet plug
Speaker 2: because even love he loves those guys. This one, This
Speaker 2: one's coming in from Jim Balcony ninety six on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a tough guy. Name.
Speaker 2: What do you think about the C two the AW
Speaker 2: Continental Classics so far?
Speaker 1: I like the Continental Classic. I like the philosophy behind it.
Speaker 1: I like that there's no outside interference allowed. There's a
Speaker 1: certain level of respect and decorum that comes with that,
Speaker 1: unless you're Kyle Fletcher and your cheat to win. So
Speaker 1: I like the format of it. I don't want them
Speaker 1: to rely on tournaments to give the best matches I'd
Speaker 1: love to see again. I'm beating a dead horse here.
Speaker 1: I'd love to see story behind it. But it is
Speaker 1: nice to get to see these sort of dream scenario
Speaker 1: matches so quickly grouped together. Does that make sense? Like
Speaker 1: you get you'll get like two three weeks, these insane
Speaker 1: matches without a story because you don't need it because
Speaker 1: they're forced to wrestle in like a kumite. Right, So
Speaker 1: it's much more like watching a you know, an action
Speaker 1: movie as opposed to a Liam Neeson action movie, right,
Speaker 1: which is more character driven, like you took my daughter.
Speaker 1: I'm taking everything from you, motherfuckers. That's more WWE. There's
Speaker 1: this more Jackie Chan movie, which is like, Yo, I'm
Speaker 1: fighting forty dudes and I'm gonna freaking win and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show you how I'm gonna win because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be creative with it, and that's more the aw style.
Speaker 1: I feel like, nice.
Speaker 2: This one's coming in from CG Camp seventy nine. What
Speaker 2: do you Freddy think about inducting matches into the WWE
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame? Similar to how the UFC has the
Speaker 2: Fight Wing and he gives he gives some examples like
Speaker 2: Savageteamboat from so Many three, Austin bread Wrestme thirteen, stuff
Speaker 2: like that, just to change the format a little.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool and I could definitely see that happening.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great idea. I could definitely see
Speaker 1: the WWE opening a wing for the greatest matches of
Speaker 1: all time. I could see them doing that. They're going
Speaker 1: to run out of ideas. I mean, they induct too
Speaker 1: many people every year. The induction process is not as
Speaker 1: legitimate as you would think. I mean they were when
Speaker 1: I worked there. They were asking the writer's room to
Speaker 1: come up with who's going to go? I'm like, why
Speaker 1: are we qualified to make these nominations and doing all this?
Speaker 1: Like shouldn't there be a board of decision makers with
Speaker 1: like all these old school people on it. But no,
Speaker 1: maybe they've changed it. But when I worked there, the
Speaker 1: selection process was bullshit. But I think that's a wonderful idea.
Speaker 1: The UFC does do that. I think the is it
Speaker 1: the Hollywood Museum of Movies whatever it's called in Beverly Hills,
Speaker 1: They have like some of the greatest scenes of all
Speaker 1: time that you can go and rewatch. So I think
Speaker 1: that's a I think that's a great idea, and I'll
Speaker 1: bet you you see that in the near future, and
Speaker 1: when you do, you can take credit for it. You
Speaker 1: can be like see I said on a podcast and
Speaker 1: some asshole at WW heard Freddy's podcast from some other
Speaker 1: asshole and they got the idea for it and stole
Speaker 1: my idea. You're damn right, they stole your idea. It
Speaker 1: was good. It was a good idea. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: get paid for it, Jack, you got screwed on that,
Speaker 1: but it was a good idea.
Speaker 2: A lot of residuals to this podcast and to people
Speaker 2: who listen.
Speaker 1: He just mentioned.
Speaker 2: He has a side quest, what are the odds of
Speaker 2: you going to Pittsburgh to do a comic con?
Speaker 1: Love the show? That was pretty scary as well. Pittsburgh's
Speaker 1: a direct flight, so the odds are good. If I
Speaker 1: have to take two flights, the odds are zero. And
Speaker 1: I only do like two maybe three a year. I
Speaker 1: don't think I'm doing any this year. I'm working too
Speaker 1: much and trying to get too much shit going, and
Speaker 1: then I have to cancel. Nothing's worse than I feel
Speaker 1: so shitty when I cancel the convention and people say,
Speaker 1: like it's no big deal, like people do it all
Speaker 1: the time. But I get it. I understand that people
Speaker 1: are buying plane tickets, people are paying for hotel rooms,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's just to see one person, even though
Speaker 1: they know there's going to be fifty people there. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's just to see Hayden Christiansen because you connected to
Speaker 1: that dude so much. Sometimes it's just to see Jeff
Speaker 1: goldbloomus you love Jeff Goldblum. Sometimes it's just because you
Speaker 1: want to see me. And when I cancel, you're out.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many hundreds of dollars on your
Speaker 1: plane ticket, I don't know how much the convention costs you.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much your food cost you while
Speaker 1: you were out there. You got to freaking eat. What
Speaker 1: are you going to starve? And then you're just out
Speaker 1: all that money And that makes me feel like shit,
Speaker 1: and I'm not able to reimburse you know you guys
Speaker 1: to even though I feel bad like that's that's just
Speaker 1: not going to happen and be too many of you
Speaker 1: and my ass would be bankrupt. So yeah, man, I
Speaker 1: really don't like committing to them unless I know for
Speaker 1: a fact I can be there and this year is
Speaker 1: gonna be hard, so I don't think I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: any of this year. But I like Pittsburgh. I saw
Speaker 1: a great Kurt Angle match in Pittsburgh. Son of a
Speaker 1: Bitch lost to Stone Cold, but whatever, he should he
Speaker 1: should have won that match anyway. But yeah, I would
Speaker 1: totally to come there and do a convention there. I
Speaker 1: just don't have plans for it in the immediate future,
Speaker 1: but you never know, my bro Very cool.
Speaker 2: This one's coming in from Ac Brooker on IG. Two
Speaker 2: great names in a row. I hope those are your
Speaker 2: real names. Huge fan of the pod guys. Top three
Speaker 2: on Spotify wrapped. Wow, that's pretty cool. That was pretty
Speaker 2: scary in my top five.
Speaker 1: Very good. Hey, shout out. That was pretty scary.
Speaker 2: My question is, now that we're nearing the end of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, what has been your most memorable moment
Speaker 2: of wrestling this year?
Speaker 1: Oh man, that's that's a tough one. We watch, you know,
Speaker 1: eight hours of wrestling a week. That's not including the
Speaker 1: pay per views and premium live events, so there's a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot a lot going on, and I want to
Speaker 1: make sure I get the year right.
Speaker 2: Even they also say, do you have any iconic storylines
Speaker 2: or moments that had you really pumped, fired up, or
Speaker 2: jumping out of your seat to go with that question.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was a moment between MJF and will
Speaker 1: Ospray that I thought was overlooked by almost everybody that
Speaker 1: was so smart when will Ospray says, you're jealous that
Speaker 1: these people cheer for me, and Max responded with they
Speaker 1: used to cheer for me before you showed up. And
Speaker 1: I thought, for a heel to be that vulnerable and
Speaker 1: petty at the same time was so smart. I wanted
Speaker 1: that storyline to last a lot longer than it did,
Speaker 1: and it definitely could have. And I hope these two
Speaker 1: meet up again next year for something and have some
Speaker 1: reason to fight, because that storyline was not long enough
Speaker 1: for what those two can do on the microphone. But
Speaker 1: the signing of will Ospray and his debut in aew
Speaker 1: just with his song and his entrants alone, I was
Speaker 1: really excited because I wasn't as hip to him as
Speaker 1: the rest of you were. I was just getting hip
Speaker 1: to him as he was getting signed and starting to
Speaker 1: watch stuff on Instagram and saw him do the flip
Speaker 1: where they did the edit with the super Saiyan hair
Speaker 1: when he lands like that. Was my introduction to will
Speaker 1: Osprey was he was a super Saiyan, so I got
Speaker 1: really excited for that. I thought he did great. I
Speaker 1: thought when Triple H kind of shit on him and
Speaker 1: Ousprey took the opportunity to shit back, I thought that
Speaker 1: was really smart. Most of the time, I don't agree
Speaker 1: with that, but the way he handled it was with
Speaker 1: such I don't know is dignity the right word grace.
Speaker 1: He's a gruff, gruff guy, so I don't know how
Speaker 1: often we applied dignity and grace to a tough guy.
Speaker 1: But that's how he handled it. He shipped on him
Speaker 1: a little. He's like, hey man, he done some shady
Speaker 1: stuff too, my brother, so just don't forget about that.
Speaker 1: I'm not hating on you. It's just you hit me once,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit you once back. And he gave as
Speaker 1: he got, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Speaker 1: So I've liked what he's brought to the table and
Speaker 1: what he's brought to the game so far, and I
Speaker 1: wish him and aw a lot of success because I
Speaker 1: don't want to see these these guys and girls go anywhere.
Speaker 2: He did it with a lot of bruughness. I want
Speaker 2: to say, a lot of it, a lot of the problem.
Speaker 2: Brooker also mentions I didn't want this to go on.
Speaker 2: Read that I know you're no longer in Australia, but
Speaker 2: mentioned that if you know, if you're still in Australia,
Speaker 2: are you doing any meeting greets from a fellow Aussie fan.
Speaker 1: No, meet and greets in Australia, man, I was just
Speaker 1: there to work, no conventions or anything like that. My
Speaker 1: friend was directing the movie. She also co wrote the movie.
Speaker 1: I was out there to kick ass for her, do
Speaker 1: my thing we got. We don't finish the movie until February.
Speaker 1: We shoot a little more in Los Angeles, so I
Speaker 1: have some time to kill in between. Yeah, no meet
Speaker 1: and greets. Out there just out there trying to kick
Speaker 1: as much ass as I possibly can and bring the
Speaker 1: best performance possible at camera.
Speaker 2: And this question that Snacks goes along with that, what
Speaker 2: was the what is the process of getting such an
Speaker 2: iconic franchise like I know what should did last summer
Speaker 2: back in theaters.
Speaker 1: Again, Dude, I passed the first time they brought it
Speaker 1: to me. I didn't want to do it. I passed
Speaker 1: when they brought the news She's all that to me
Speaker 1: because originally She's all that script was super inorganic for
Speaker 1: me and Rachel to be in it. I was just like,
Speaker 1: you're just forcing us into these roles and it's not
Speaker 1: even the characters we played in the first one. You're
Speaker 1: like acting like they didn't exist, and they're the reason
Speaker 1: people liked the movie. They related to the characters, and
Speaker 1: they're like, well, we think it'd be cool for you
Speaker 1: to be the principle, and I was like, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: not happening. Miramax just totally screwed this whole that whole
Speaker 1: thing up from my perspective, like it just felt forced
Speaker 1: and weak, and I think matt ended up playing the
Speaker 1: role that they that they offered me, but I just
Speaker 1: didn't respond to what they were trying to do in
Speaker 1: any way, shape or form. And I assumed it would
Speaker 1: be the same with I Know what you did last summer,
Speaker 1: and so when they first brought it to me, I
Speaker 1: was like, pass, No, don't even want to read it.
Speaker 1: Didn't have the best experience, you know in the first place,
Speaker 1: don't need to revisit it. I think this stuff can
Speaker 1: be really lame, and it's going to be forced and inorganic,
Speaker 1: and shitty didn't even give it a chance. And then
Speaker 1: a few months later my wife said, Hey, our friend
Speaker 1: jen Is has taken over. She's going to direct the
Speaker 1: movie and co write it. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. She was like, yeah, she wants to talk
Speaker 1: to you, and I was like, oh no, And so
Speaker 1: she I take the meeting and we sit and talk
Speaker 1: and she starts pitching the Ray and the Julie characters
Speaker 1: and it's not like forced or inorganic at all. It's
Speaker 1: very natural and where they are in their lives now
Speaker 1: at this point, and how they're going to help shape
Speaker 1: this story. And these new characters that are the focal
Speaker 1: point of the movie, these these new young people. And
Speaker 1: she approached the characters with such care and respect that
Speaker 1: it was a very not a very easy yes, but
Speaker 1: much easier to say yes than I thought it would be,
Speaker 1: because the characters were protected and and they weren't, you know,
Speaker 1: they weren't the leads of the movie, which is fine,
Speaker 1: I don't care about that, but they were still important.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just hey, let's get all the equity that
Speaker 1: Freddy built up in the nineties and get a chance
Speaker 1: to market it and get older people to come see
Speaker 1: a horror movie too, not just young people like that's
Speaker 1: what she's all. That felt like when they offered it,
Speaker 1: and this felt the opposite. So it became much easier
Speaker 1: to come in and jump in. That might not answer
Speaker 1: your question exactly the way you phrased it, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if I can answer it any better because
Speaker 1: I don't. You know, the only other film I've done
Speaker 1: that was sort of like a franchise was Scooby, and
Speaker 1: I know I wouldn't. I wouldn't do that again. It's
Speaker 1: organically it just wouldn't. It just wouldn't work. And I
Speaker 1: don't love Warner Brothers. I'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure their feeling as mutual, or at least it
Speaker 1: was back then. It's probably all new people now. Actually no,
Speaker 1: there's still somebody there that probably doesn't like me. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so this felt natural and nothing felt forced. So it
Speaker 1: was an easy yes. Whereas you know in the past,
Speaker 1: when these things have happened, or the way I project
Speaker 1: things will happen in the future on other projects, it's
Speaker 1: a very easy no.
Speaker 2: Do you need to get permission to use the name
Speaker 2: of the film. Are there a lot of steps into that,
Speaker 2: like into you know, bringing a film back up from
Speaker 2: the dead.
Speaker 1: Basically, no, I mean it's it's still the same person
Speaker 1: that owned the rights is still involved with this one.
Speaker 1: So there's no there's no process at all. That only
Speaker 1: exists when you're originally getting the rights from Judy Bloom
Speaker 1: herself back in the nineties when we first got it,
Speaker 1: and that only got that only was was purchased and approved.
Speaker 1: Because this is successive Scream. Without Scream, there is no
Speaker 1: I Know what you did last summer. A lot of
Speaker 1: people confuse them and think, I Know what you did
Speaker 1: came out first. We wouldn't have been greenlit if Screen
Speaker 1: didn't make a bazillion dollars. Kevin Williamson, who wrote Scream,
Speaker 1: adapted I Know What You Did Last Summer from the
Speaker 1: book to the movie. The movie's much different than the book.
Speaker 1: I think it's much better than the book. There's not
Speaker 1: a lot of action in the book. But yeah, there
Speaker 1: is no I Know what You did without Scream. And
Speaker 1: that's kind of how horror works, you know. It goes
Speaker 1: on these ten year runs where one movie opens the
Speaker 1: door for a bunch of movies, and then they kind
Speaker 1: of water down the movie that got them all the
Speaker 1: opportunity until they're no longer valuable, and then the business
Speaker 1: gives up on them the second half of that decade,
Speaker 1: and then a new movie comes out, made by a
Speaker 1: new director or sometimes an old school director with a
Speaker 1: new lease on life and finds a new idea, and
Speaker 1: they're trying to outdo what the other directors have done before.
Speaker 1: And that's why it evolves so much more quickly than
Speaker 1: every other type of movie, because these directors are constantly like, well, crap,
Speaker 1: I can't do this because people have already yelled and screamed.
Speaker 1: They're not going to see the same scare twice since
Speaker 1: I got to find a new way to scare people.
Speaker 1: That's why James Wand turned I Know You Did Last
Speaker 1: Summer into a comedy and nobody screams anymore. They laugh
Speaker 1: at it because you know, he's making these morality horror
Speaker 1: films right where it's like, if you want to escape,
Speaker 1: can you chew off your own ankle like a wolf? Like?
Speaker 1: You know? It just it just changed the way we
Speaker 1: looked at horror, which was really really cool. I love
Speaker 1: James on I'm not shitting on him, but fuck that guy.
Speaker 1: So yeah, man, So as far as like being a
Speaker 1: part of a franchise, you have to approach it with respect, right,
Speaker 1: But I think most actors are approaching their roles with respect.
Speaker 1: Most actors and most directors aren't going to go, well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make this so much better than the original.
Speaker 1: You know, you go in there with respect and love
Speaker 1: for the original, and in doing so you have a
Speaker 1: chance to maybe have it better received or maybe not.
Speaker 1: But if you go in there and I know, I've
Speaker 1: seen some actors and some directors say, oh, I didn't
Speaker 1: even watch the source material or I didn't even read
Speaker 1: the book, And it's just like, if you think that's
Speaker 1: making you sound cool, you're wrong, Like it just makes
Speaker 1: you sound ill prepared and lazy, Like why wouldn't you
Speaker 1: want to have as much as well? I want to
Speaker 1: go in fresh. You're gonna have your own ideas based
Speaker 1: on how you were raised, and you receive information like
Speaker 1: it's your perform no matter what. But it's intelligent to
Speaker 1: show respect to the material that you were offered because
Speaker 1: usually it's something that people plan on being super successful
Speaker 1: because it's an intellectual property. It's an idea that someone
Speaker 1: had that was successful and that a studio believes they
Speaker 1: can make money on, so maybe give it a view.
Speaker 1: I read the book for I Note you did last summer,
Speaker 1: and I watched the cartoons for Scooby Doo, and I
Speaker 1: would approach any sort of franchise thing the same way.
Speaker 1: So I think that's the best way to approach the franchise.
Speaker 1: If that should answer your question completely. Yeah, that was good.
Speaker 1: This last one is not really a question. It comes
Speaker 1: from Matt Teals nineteen ninety five. Man.
Speaker 2: I really wanted to say thank you, and it was
Speaker 2: lovely to meet you in Australia. I'm a huge fan
Speaker 2: of the podcast. They met you in Australia Seals nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety five.
Speaker 1: Dude, why didn't you say where we met? Matt? I
Speaker 1: met a handful of people in Australia that said they
Speaker 1: were fans of the podcast, and it was tripping me out.
Speaker 1: We were getting so much love in Australia. I had
Speaker 1: like four people come up to me and be like, hey,
Speaker 1: I like the podcast. One guy said fuck Jeff for
Speaker 1: real some Australia. I was like, fuck that Jeff guy,
Speaker 1: But you're all right. Man, I thought i'd hate you.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, I appreciate that you don't hate me.
Speaker 1: But Jeff's all right, dude, He's like, I'm sure he's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's fine. But if that guy so he
Speaker 1: got mad at Jeff for something, But yeah, man, thanks
Speaker 1: for the shout out, thanks for the love. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Australia is one of my favorite places in the world.
Speaker 1: We shot the first Scooby Doo there and I lived
Speaker 1: there for five months. We were there, I didn't get
Speaker 1: to bring my dog because you guys have crazy quarantine laws.
Speaker 1: Your dog has to be quarantined for six months, or
Speaker 1: at least back then they did. I'm like, man, I'm
Speaker 1: only out here for five I can't do that. So
Speaker 1: I didn't get to see my boy Tyson. He was
Speaker 1: this one hundred and twenty pound akita. He was such
Speaker 1: a stud and he was all muscle. You're like, one
Speaker 1: hundred twenty pounds. Was he fat? No, he wasn't fat.
Speaker 1: He was spelt baby. And I missed him so much.
Speaker 1: But we were in the Gold Coast, which is like,
Speaker 1: if you like gambling or golf, it's amazing. But if
Speaker 1: you don't it's not that cool. And I was in
Speaker 1: my twenties and not into either of those things because
Speaker 1: I'm not in my sixties. And so I would cruise
Speaker 1: down to Sydney every single weekend and that was my city,
Speaker 1: that was my vibe, those were my people. I snuck
Speaker 1: up north to the hilaria called Noosa and served some
Speaker 1: nice slow rollers. But when I was there, not this trip,
Speaker 1: I didn't have time. But on the first Scooby because
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of scenes were just Shaggy and Scooby,
Speaker 1: I didn't have to be in those scenes, so I
Speaker 1: had days off. But yeah, I love it out there.
Speaker 1: It's such a beautiful country. The food's good, the people
Speaker 1: are good, the weather's good. The driving's crazy. But the
Speaker 1: driving in La is way worse, So I don't know
Speaker 1: I'm bitching about that. Holy shit, I almost died right
Speaker 1: when I got off the plane leaving the airport, like
Speaker 1: three different times, almost in three car accidents. It's just
Speaker 1: people at La sucker driving so bad. But yeah, shout
Speaker 1: out to Australia. I love you guys. You've turned out
Speaker 1: some pretty awesome wrestlers over the years. Not talking about
Speaker 1: Nathan Jones, talking about Kyle Fletcher, Baby Kyle Fletcher. Nathan
Speaker 1: Joe was awesome in Ongbach though I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys have seen Bach. It's this movie with this
Speaker 1: guy named Tony Jai or Tony ja He does like
Speaker 1: muy Thai in his movies. He's like the Jackie Chann
Speaker 1: of Thailand. And he did this movie where these people
Speaker 1: were stealing his elephants and like selling him to Zeus
Speaker 1: and he's like, yo, fuck Zoo's fuck you and Nathan
Speaker 1: Jones is like, no, fuck you and he beats him up.
Speaker 1: And then at the end of the movie he comes
Speaker 1: back and he beats Nathan Jones. Is huge at Nathan
Speaker 1: Jones is like six ' eight, like three hundred and
Speaker 1: five pounds of just pure muscle against Tony Jai, who's
Speaker 1: like a buck fifty five little muay Thai guy, maybe
Speaker 1: like five four or five five. And he has to
Speaker 1: like just do everything muy Thai can do to beat
Speaker 1: your ass, and he does and he beats up Nathan Jones.
Speaker 1: So you lost, Nathan Jones. Suck it, Kyle Fletcher for life.
Speaker 1: That's the end of our episode, y'all. Thanks for listening.
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