1
00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:10,720
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready, SHOT's about to hit

2
00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:17,800
Speaker 1: the fan. Welcome to on sanctioned Thursdays are wrestling with Friday.

3
00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:20,119
Speaker 2: What's up everybody?

4
00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:24,400
Speaker 1: And welcome to unsanctioned Thursdays, the show that you demanded

5
00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:28,000
Speaker 1: because our shows aren't long enough. Maybe they are long enough.

6
00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,159
Speaker 1: You just hate commercials, which I feel you on that.

7
00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,320
Speaker 1: I mean I fast forward and skip most of the time,

8
00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,280
Speaker 1: unless I had a cocktail, and then you kind of

9
00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,680
Speaker 1: get lost in the sauce, right, and the commercials on

10
00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,200
Speaker 1: and you can skip things there, but you don't even

11
00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,960
Speaker 1: press it until you have like five seconds left of

12
00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:45,760
Speaker 1: the commercial and you're like, I could have skip this,

13
00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,040
Speaker 1: but I forgot because martinis are good.

14
00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,639
Speaker 2: All right, people, Welcome to Thursday.

15
00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,120
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk a little old school wrestling, and I'll

16
00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,760
Speaker 1: give you a little update on the movie I just finished,

17
00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:01,560
Speaker 1: which was just a great experience that I'll never forget.

18
00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:02,840
Speaker 2: So here we go.

19
00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,760
Speaker 1: Survivor series just came and went, and it has always

20
00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,440
Speaker 1: been my least favorite pay per view, so much so

21
00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:12,560
Speaker 1: that I don't even think I should have to do

22
00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,240
Speaker 1: an episode about it. But we're here anyway, not to

23
00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,200
Speaker 1: bitch and complain, but to take you down memory lane

24
00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,759
Speaker 1: and to remind you that I met Johnson hated both

25
00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:23,880
Speaker 1: the other team and his team. Here we go the

26
00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,760
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, otherwise known as the Golden Era of wrestling,

27
00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,320
Speaker 1: Team Hogan versus Team Andre.

28
00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:32,919
Speaker 2: Now come on this one.

29
00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,800
Speaker 1: I guess it doesn't matter if there's no stories ever,

30
00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,600
Speaker 1: aus Hogan and Andre were the story, so everybody else

31
00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:42,400
Speaker 1: you could just have in there. But the match was Hogan,

32
00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:47,880
Speaker 1: Paul Orndorf, mister Wonderful. He had the pile driver, he

33
00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:52,200
Speaker 1: had a great body, great hair. Don Morocco, Ken Petera,

34
00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:54,200
Speaker 1: who I met as a little kid, who's friends with

35
00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:58,360
Speaker 1: my godfather, Bob Wall. He was also in strongman competitions.

36
00:01:58,400 --> 00:01:59,960
Speaker 1: I met him at one of these strong man compet

37
00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:01,760
Speaker 1: not a strong man competition, but it was like a

38
00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,000
Speaker 1: charity event where a lot of strong men came. It

39
00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,120
Speaker 1: was like this go kart race with celebrities, and Lou

40
00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:10,960
Speaker 1: Farigno was there, Ken Peterra was there, one of the

41
00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,360
Speaker 1: Brady Bunch kids were there. I know it's the dad

42
00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,400
Speaker 1: that was there, and they're all gonna do like a

43
00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:20,640
Speaker 1: go kart race, and Lou Farigno's fucking go kart flips

44
00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,680
Speaker 1: and everyone's like, oh my god, what the hell, and

45
00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:25,640
Speaker 1: I'm freaking out. I'm a kid man. I don't know

46
00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:27,360
Speaker 1: how old I was, but I was young. And all

47
00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:29,800
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you see this huge, this huge friggin'

48
00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:31,680
Speaker 1: arm come out the side of the go kart on

49
00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,800
Speaker 1: the concrete and push the fucking cart and the whole

50
00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:35,880
Speaker 1: thing flips.

51
00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:36,919
Speaker 2: Back over with one arm.

52
00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,079
Speaker 1: He did it with one arm, and the thing still

53
00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,080
Speaker 1: ran in and he took off again. I was like,

54
00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:43,560
Speaker 1: I was a little kid. I was like, yo, he

55
00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:45,200
Speaker 1: really is a fucking hawk man.

56
00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,880
Speaker 2: It was crazy. Anyway, I met Camp peterra Bam Bam.

57
00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:52,760
Speaker 1: Bigelow was the last one on Hogan's team versus Andre's team,

58
00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:57,240
Speaker 1: the one man gang, dangerous wrestler King Kong Bundy. You

59
00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:59,840
Speaker 1: son of a bitch, Butcher read you better get out

60
00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:01,360
Speaker 1: of it here, dude, and Rick Rud.

61
00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:02,920
Speaker 2: Can't talk shit about Rick.

62
00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,799
Speaker 1: Rud because he was pretty jacked and had like one

63
00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,000
Speaker 1: of the best bodies in the history of professional wrestling,

64
00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:10,680
Speaker 1: So shout out Rick Rud. This was the main event

65
00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,360
Speaker 1: of the very first Survivor series, and it capitalized on

66
00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:18,679
Speaker 1: a massive Hogan versus Andre rivalry from WrestleMania three, which

67
00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:21,000
Speaker 1: is the only reason why I probably worked, and it

68
00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:24,880
Speaker 1: established the five on five elimination format as a Thanksgiving tradition.

69
00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:27,680
Speaker 2: Again, I always was like, why are they fighting?

70
00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:30,200
Speaker 1: Like I never got it right, But I always liked

71
00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:34,920
Speaker 1: stories more than that. I liked knowing the history of

72
00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:41,279
Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali and knowing about the fighter before he fought anybody.

73
00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,880
Speaker 1: But like the Joe Fraser story and the hate or

74
00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:48,800
Speaker 1: it wasn't really hate, but the projected hate and the

75
00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,560
Speaker 1: perceived hate that we thought existed between the two of

76
00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,320
Speaker 1: them made that fight more interesting. So that's kind of

77
00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,000
Speaker 1: where I come from when I say I want stories,

78
00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:59,400
Speaker 1: is because the old box old boxing fights always had stories.

79
00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,200
Speaker 1: So that was theirs and they started it. So they

80
00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:07,080
Speaker 1: get a shout out. The nineties, the New Generation and

81
00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:11,200
Speaker 1: the Attitude era, the Dream Team versus the Million Dollar Team,

82
00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:15,120
Speaker 1: and let me tell you, it's pretty great billing, pretty

83
00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:18,320
Speaker 1: great billing, Like you very much. The match was Dusty

84
00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:23,000
Speaker 1: Rhodes Gotta love Dusted Vivid Coco Beware with his little

85
00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,640
Speaker 1: parrot Frankie not a parrot?

86
00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,800
Speaker 2: What was that? A cock? A McCaw? Thank you. I

87
00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:29,520
Speaker 2: don't know who told me that. I don't know why

88
00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:30,120
Speaker 2: I said thank you.

89
00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:32,480
Speaker 1: Bret Hart with the worst sunglasses in the history of

90
00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,080
Speaker 1: professional wrestling. Don Callis will vouch for that because he's

91
00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,120
Speaker 1: got the top sunglasses in the game today. And Jim

92
00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,839
Speaker 1: Knight hard of course, because they rolled together versus Ted Dbiassi,

93
00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:43,919
Speaker 1: the Million Dollar Man. Met him when I was a

94
00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:46,599
Speaker 1: little kid because he was friends with my uncle. This

95
00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,800
Speaker 1: dude they called judo Jean LaBelle. It wasn't my blood uncle,

96
00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:52,320
Speaker 1: but he was my godfather's best friend, and he introduced

97
00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:54,200
Speaker 1: himself as Uncle Jean, so I always just called him

98
00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,760
Speaker 1: Uncle Jean. But Jean was a judo champion. They wrote

99
00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:59,640
Speaker 1: a book about him called the Most Dangerous Man in

100
00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:01,479
Speaker 1: the World because he was.

101
00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:04,279
Speaker 2: He had two tendons everywhere.

102
00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:07,240
Speaker 1: You and I have one. So I want you to

103
00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:09,240
Speaker 1: look at your thumb right now, just give yourself a

104
00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:11,400
Speaker 1: thumbs up and look at the back of it. You'll

105
00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:13,920
Speaker 1: see you have two tendons there that connect your thumb

106
00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,120
Speaker 1: to your wrist and that helps it bend in flex.

107
00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:23,080
Speaker 2: Right. He had four, so when he grabs you, it's over.

108
00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,200
Speaker 2: The fight is over. Oh and he.

109
00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,320
Speaker 1: Knew judo like even if he didn't know judo and

110
00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:32,599
Speaker 1: he got his hands on you. You're Donezo's now he's

111
00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:36,360
Speaker 1: got double tendon strength and he's a judoka, So yeah,

112
00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,799
Speaker 1: that was your ass. I met him at Tedy Biassi

113
00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,400
Speaker 1: at Jean's dojo in southern California. They were doing a

114
00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,760
Speaker 1: seminar on like submissions, and there was an old poster

115
00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:49,840
Speaker 1: of it that was in there like decades later, and

116
00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:50,880
Speaker 1: I remember seeing.

117
00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:52,160
Speaker 2: It being like, oh, yeah, I met him when I

118
00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:52,799
Speaker 2: was a little kid.

119
00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,599
Speaker 1: Greg Valentine was his second the Honkey talk Man and

120
00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,839
Speaker 1: a Mystery partner the Mystery and was revealed to be

121
00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:04,839
Speaker 1: the Undertaker, and this match marked the on screen debut

122
00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:09,480
Speaker 1: of arguably the greatest character and attraction wrestler in history.

123
00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,599
Speaker 1: Attraction wrestlers are far and few between, but he was

124
00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,320
Speaker 1: for sure the best. The latest was the late great

125
00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:21,159
Speaker 1: Bray Wyatt in my opinion. Ironically enough, it was also

126
00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,680
Speaker 1: the debut of the Gobbledygooker, which was the worst idea

127
00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:27,400
Speaker 1: in the history of wrestling. Well, maybe the Brawl for

128
00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:30,400
Speaker 1: All was the worst because dude's got hurt, but creatively speaking,

129
00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,440
Speaker 1: the gobbledy Goodman.

130
00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:56,560
Speaker 2: All right.

131
00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:02,039
Speaker 1: Next up Brett Hard versus Stone Cold Steve Austin one

132
00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:05,720
Speaker 1: of the greatest matches of all time, nineteen ninety six

133
00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,320
Speaker 1: standard singles match for the number one contender to the

134
00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:15,000
Speaker 1: WWF Championship. Everybody loves this match. Nobody's ever been like, yeah,

135
00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,800
Speaker 1: but it's overrated, Like nobody said that, and if they did,

136
00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,200
Speaker 1: they were shamed the way people should.

137
00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:21,280
Speaker 2: Still be shamed today.

138
00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,120
Speaker 1: You have to put a scarlet letter across your chest,

139
00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,560
Speaker 1: a D for dummy, for dumb ass, for saying something

140
00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:34,520
Speaker 1: so stupid. Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome match. This was also

141
00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,600
Speaker 1: led to the legendary battle in nineteen ninety seven, the

142
00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:41,360
Speaker 1: Crimson Mask, where Stone Cold is just like bleeding everywhere crazy.

143
00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:46,160
Speaker 1: Also nineteen ninety seven, we got Brett Hart versus Sean Michaels.

144
00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:49,679
Speaker 1: It's funny how Brett Hart's and all these amazing matches weird.

145
00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,320
Speaker 1: I know people say he complains too much, but maybe

146
00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,200
Speaker 1: he is one of the greatest ever do it. He

147
00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:57,840
Speaker 1: just knows it, and you just don't like that he

148
00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:01,040
Speaker 1: knows it. I guess it would kind of be like

149
00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:04,160
Speaker 1: if an actor won an Academy Award and was like, yes, yes,

150
00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,240
Speaker 1: I am the greatest. Yes, you probably hate that guy too.

151
00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:10,360
Speaker 1: All right, we got the early two thousands.

152
00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:11,720
Speaker 2: This was like.

153
00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:16,880
Speaker 1: Primetime me not liking Survivor series. We had Team ww

154
00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,320
Speaker 1: F versus The Alliance. This was The Rock Chris Jericho,

155
00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,720
Speaker 1: Taker Caine and the Big Show versus Stone Cold, Kurt Angle,

156
00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:27,320
Speaker 1: Van Dam, Booker t and Shane McMahon. That's Rob Van Dam.

157
00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,720
Speaker 1: Jean Cloud was never a professional wrestler because he couldn't

158
00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:33,840
Speaker 1: handle it. Little punk ass bitch, you couldn't handle pro wrestling.

159
00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:38,440
Speaker 2: Bro with that ballet, get out of here, you know.

160
00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:41,160
Speaker 1: Jean Cloud, Van Dam and Steven Sagah got called out

161
00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,839
Speaker 1: by the original Dirty Dozen, like the first black belts

162
00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:46,840
Speaker 1: that ever graced the cover of Black Belt magazine, and

163
00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,160
Speaker 1: they would challenge them to fight all the time, not

164
00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:51,880
Speaker 1: to the death or anything, but just to fight to see,

165
00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:54,160
Speaker 1: you know, let's spark, let's let's see if you're as

166
00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,080
Speaker 1: good as as Bruce was, Let's see if you're as

167
00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,959
Speaker 1: good as Chuck is. And they would never do it

168
00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,720
Speaker 1: because they knew they'd get bosed and Steven Sagall one

169
00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:03,839
Speaker 1: time said I'll only fight to the death in all

170
00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:07,120
Speaker 1: twelve of the Dirty Dozen said yeah, all right, that

171
00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:11,079
Speaker 1: was it. Yeah, okay. They never fought it. He never

172
00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:14,840
Speaker 1: wanted that fight. He didn't want that heat. And if

173
00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,360
Speaker 1: there's any defenders of sigall or VANDAM out there, you

174
00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:18,920
Speaker 1: can shout us out on social media.

175
00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,840
Speaker 2: Good luck, all right, you guys.

176
00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:27,640
Speaker 1: Survivor Series two thousand and two famously one of the

177
00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:30,520
Speaker 1: few times in history that the event did not feature

178
00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:33,280
Speaker 1: a traditional five on five or four on four Survivor

179
00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:37,040
Speaker 1: Series elimination tag team match. It is a rare anomaly

180
00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:40,960
Speaker 1: in the event's history. Instead of the classic format, WW

181
00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:43,800
Speaker 1: filled the card with other types of elimination matches like

182
00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:48,200
Speaker 1: the Elimination Chamber, Elimination Tables match, and the triple Threat

183
00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:49,320
Speaker 1: elimination tag match.

184
00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:51,280
Speaker 2: Are you seeing the theme here? Are you starting to

185
00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:51,679
Speaker 2: see why?

186
00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:56,600
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I'm not loving Survivors Series anyway,

187
00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:00,000
Speaker 1: that's our episode on Survivor Series, but it's.

188
00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:03,440
Speaker 2: Not at the end of the episode. So I've been

189
00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:05,000
Speaker 2: gone for a while, about a month.

190
00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,840
Speaker 1: I appreciate your patience, your tolerance, your love and support,

191
00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:13,440
Speaker 1: but I'm also an actor and these are both full

192
00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:17,560
Speaker 1: time jobs and sometimes one has to suffer over the other,

193
00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,760
Speaker 1: and so sorry for having to go, But I also

194
00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:22,640
Speaker 1: have to show my kids that it's important to chase

195
00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:25,320
Speaker 1: your dreams. My daughter wants to be an actor, so

196
00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,079
Speaker 1: it's important to set a good example for her so

197
00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,760
Speaker 1: she can see the sacrifice, the time away from your family,

198
00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,600
Speaker 1: the time committing yourself to a character and sort of

199
00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,960
Speaker 1: stepping outside yourself and stepping into that character and behaving

200
00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:40,800
Speaker 1: like that person and not being the same guy right

201
00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:44,120
Speaker 1: away when you talk to him. It takes time to adjust.

202
00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:46,840
Speaker 1: That sounds like artsybs, but it's just the way it

203
00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:50,480
Speaker 1: goes for certain types of actors. There's different types, right,

204
00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:54,960
Speaker 1: there's like Meisner, the method, there's the Shop, like all

205
00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,760
Speaker 1: these different techniques. The shop is like the simplest. They

206
00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,400
Speaker 1: just say, like look up the definition of and it

207
00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:03,640
Speaker 1: says to do so, just do it. Method is sort

208
00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:07,600
Speaker 1: of stepping outside yourself and becoming the character, making life

209
00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:10,559
Speaker 1: choices that the character would make. This guy doesn't drink,

210
00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:13,120
Speaker 1: so for a month, I'm not going to drink. Not

211
00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,120
Speaker 1: difficult to do, but still it's just a choice that

212
00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,120
Speaker 1: I made to kind of feel more like the dude, right,

213
00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:21,760
Speaker 1: And I thought it was important because the script was

214
00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:22,360
Speaker 1: so special.

215
00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:24,480
Speaker 2: We shot in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

216
00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:28,400
Speaker 1: Lovely town reminded me of Albuquerque, New Mexico a lot

217
00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:33,160
Speaker 1: like Albuquerque, New Mexico, just minus the Southwestern culture, the Adobe,

218
00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:34,320
Speaker 1: the Adobe.

219
00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:35,679
Speaker 2: And the Mexican culture.

220
00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:37,720
Speaker 1: Although there's a lot of Mexicans in Oklahoma, and the

221
00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:42,079
Speaker 1: Mexican food better than the barbecue. I'm just going to

222
00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:44,800
Speaker 1: put that out there. The Mexican food was better than

223
00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:48,439
Speaker 1: the barbecue. Now, granted, maybe I'm not an Oklahoma barbecue

224
00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:53,880
Speaker 1: sauce guy, you know, maybe I'm a more Texas barbecue dude.

225
00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:58,800
Speaker 1: But the Mexican food way better in Oklahoma than in Texas.

226
00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,880
Speaker 1: It's not even close, not even close. And I thought

227
00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,080
Speaker 1: there'd be though. I thought i'd be the only dude

228
00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:07,360
Speaker 1: that could speak a lick a Spanish out there, and

229
00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,280
Speaker 1: there were Spanish speakers everywhere.

230
00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:12,480
Speaker 2: So the food pretty good, pretty good.

231
00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:16,200
Speaker 1: But anyway, I read this script and it was called

232
00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:19,360
Speaker 1: The Road to Recovery, and no, it's not a drug

233
00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:23,040
Speaker 1: addicts road to recovery. It's it's a little girl, fifteen

234
00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:26,800
Speaker 1: year old girl with brain cancer, and it's her, it's

235
00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:29,680
Speaker 1: her road to recovery, and I play her father. And

236
00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:33,480
Speaker 1: it's basically a two hander. This movie just me and

237
00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:36,840
Speaker 1: her on a road trip. Maybe should get six months?

238
00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:39,720
Speaker 1: Maybe should get six years. We don't know, but a

239
00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:43,120
Speaker 1: really painful movie to play in a difficult role for me,

240
00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:46,400
Speaker 1: especially I don't normally do like a method approach. I

241
00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,280
Speaker 1: came up at the shop with Andrew mcgarryon and John Homa,

242
00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:52,320
Speaker 1: and they teach him much more simple, like just fucking

243
00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:54,800
Speaker 1: do it, Freddy, Just do it. Know your lines, have

244
00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:58,200
Speaker 1: a point of view, have motivation, Know what your challenge is,

245
00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:00,560
Speaker 1: know what the obstacle is, right the challenge, And how

246
00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,960
Speaker 1: does your character approach said challenge. Do they smash through it?

247
00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:05,920
Speaker 1: Do they sneak their way around it? Do they run

248
00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,160
Speaker 1: away from it? Do they leap over it? Whatever it

249
00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:09,920
Speaker 1: is that you just stay true to that right, And

250
00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:12,440
Speaker 1: that's how I always approached rom comms. But this was different,

251
00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:14,960
Speaker 1: and this felt like it needed a different like a

252
00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,520
Speaker 1: greater level of commitment, and so I just kind of

253
00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:21,600
Speaker 1: stepped inside and wanted to see how it felt. And

254
00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:25,600
Speaker 1: it felt horrible, but it was the best work that

255
00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:27,960
Speaker 1: I was ever capable of doing.

256
00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:32,080
Speaker 2: So it was this strand. And I spoke with a

257
00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:32,320
Speaker 2: friend of.

258
00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:34,720
Speaker 1: Mine who's a method actor and a really talented one,

259
00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:38,160
Speaker 1: and he's actually an Academy Award winner, and I spoke

260
00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,720
Speaker 1: to him about just sort of how to do this

261
00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:42,360
Speaker 1: and how to live it, and that's what he said.

262
00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:43,800
Speaker 1: He was like, you just have to live it. If

263
00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,160
Speaker 1: he doesn't drink, you don't drink. They were all going

264
00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:48,040
Speaker 1: to the whole cast and crew were going to go

265
00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,719
Speaker 1: to a Billie Eilish concert and he was like, my

266
00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:52,600
Speaker 1: character's name is Tom. And I was talking to him.

267
00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:53,680
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't think I should go, and

268
00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:56,280
Speaker 1: he's like, would Tom go? That's the character's name. I

269
00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:58,200
Speaker 1: was like, no, Tom doesn't have any friends, Like his

270
00:13:58,240 --> 00:13:59,120
Speaker 1: whole life is his daughter.

271
00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:01,240
Speaker 2: He's like, then you shouldn't go. So I didn't go.

272
00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:03,240
Speaker 1: Man, I missed out on a concert that was really good.

273
00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,040
Speaker 1: Everybody had a good time. But that was sort of

274
00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:09,439
Speaker 1: the discipline that was necessary in my mind to give

275
00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:12,760
Speaker 1: the performance that this guy deserved. And it was a

276
00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,120
Speaker 1: ton of fun. I just I loved every moment of

277
00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:17,080
Speaker 1: this movie. And I got to work with great people

278
00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:19,680
Speaker 1: like Thomas Lennon. I don't know if you guys remember

279
00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,680
Speaker 1: that show Reno nine to one one, but he was Dangle.

280
00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:24,800
Speaker 2: And he's also a great writer as well and wrote

281
00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:25,600
Speaker 2: a lot of that show.

282
00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:27,880
Speaker 1: I got to work with him which was wonderful. I

283
00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:30,560
Speaker 1: got to work with Sarah Shahee who's worked with The

284
00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:32,680
Speaker 1: Rock and been in a bunch of other movies as well.

285
00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,920
Speaker 1: And Ryan Kira Armstrong, who's the lead that was the

286
00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:38,760
Speaker 1: girl who played my daughter. She was on that Star

287
00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:42,000
Speaker 1: Wars show with Jude Law and she booked the lead

288
00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:44,360
Speaker 1: role on My Wife's Buffy remake.

289
00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:45,520
Speaker 2: And I just think.

290
00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,640
Speaker 1: She's wonderful and one of those old souls that's in

291
00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:50,680
Speaker 1: a young person's body, Like when you see those young

292
00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:52,640
Speaker 1: child actors and you're like, oh my god, they seem

293
00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:54,920
Speaker 1: like they're sixty years old. It's one of those kids

294
00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,920
Speaker 1: right where they're just wise beyond their years. And the

295
00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,680
Speaker 1: director was Taylor Scout Compton. She was a child actor,

296
00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:03,480
Speaker 1: so she knows how to end. She's a grown up

297
00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:07,280
Speaker 1: actor too, but she really knows how to communicate with actors,

298
00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,880
Speaker 1: so trust was easy to develop between the two of us.

299
00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,840
Speaker 1: And she wrote the script as well, based on personal

300
00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:17,320
Speaker 1: experiences with her father when he was battling cancer. And

301
00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:19,520
Speaker 1: I just thought it was a wonderful story that I

302
00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:21,720
Speaker 1: had to do, and that's why I had to leave

303
00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:25,080
Speaker 1: for a month and leave you guys, leave my podcast,

304
00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:29,480
Speaker 1: leave my family, leave my dogs, leave my two cool cars,

305
00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,120
Speaker 1: leave my neighborhood, leave my house, leave everything that I

306
00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:34,560
Speaker 1: love and that I'm comfortable with, and go to a

307
00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:37,040
Speaker 1: you know, a tiny little hotel in Tulsa and just

308
00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,080
Speaker 1: be alone and take walks in the cold and the rain.

309
00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:43,840
Speaker 1: I make it sound so sad, but it was a

310
00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:46,360
Speaker 1: great experience and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

311
00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,240
Speaker 2: Man, it was. It was wonderful.

312
00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,560
Speaker 1: And I've talked about this when we have guests on,

313
00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:53,480
Speaker 1: especially in season two, where I would say, you know,

314
00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:55,960
Speaker 1: I have these guests on a lot to inspire people

315
00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,040
Speaker 1: to not quit on their dreams, because no matter how

316
00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,720
Speaker 1: long it takes, you can eventually get there. People quit

317
00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:03,000
Speaker 1: give up and you move up the list just by

318
00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:06,960
Speaker 1: necessity because there's less people dreaming. So don't give up

319
00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:09,840
Speaker 1: on your dreams. Keep chasing him and keep listening to

320
00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:11,360
Speaker 1: this show. We'll see you next Wednesday.

321
00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:11,880
Speaker 2: Peace,