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Speaker 1: Hi, Welcome back to Wrestling with Freddie. I am your host,

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Speaker 1: Freddie Prinz, Jr. And this is a podcast that takes

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Speaker 1: you guys back to my time when I was a

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Speaker 1: writer at w w E. I worked there at two

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Speaker 1: separate occasions for a total of a little over a

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Speaker 1: year of a combined time, and I share a bunch

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Speaker 1: of stories and how those stories sort of shape my

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Speaker 1: a bit of perspective on that as well. But um,

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Speaker 1: it's mainly just stories. I'm not trying to preach to

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Speaker 1: y'all or teach you guys how to start a wrestling brand.

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Speaker 1: But today we're gonna talk about the writing process, the

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Speaker 1: creative process, the booking process, which I was really terrible

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Speaker 1: at and still am, and some stories to kind of

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Speaker 1: help you guys see what it was like when I

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Speaker 1: was working there under Michael ps Pierce, Sexy Hayes, Vince McMahon,

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Speaker 1: and Bruce Pritchard's going to get a shout out in

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Speaker 1: in this week's episode because he was sort of my

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Speaker 1: first mentor backstage. So enjoy the episode. And here we go,

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Speaker 1: now stuffing up for the mic of wrestling with Freddie

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Speaker 1: Freddie Prince June. Yeah, I'm in New York City. You

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Speaker 1: may hear me from time to time. Mentioned another writer

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Speaker 1: who was hired the exact same day I was, and

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Speaker 1: I call him Low Faz, So if you ever hear me,

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Speaker 1: say Low Fas or low that's the That's a writer

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Speaker 1: who I really kind of linked and bonded with, and

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Speaker 1: he worked there another ten years after I left. I'm

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Speaker 1: in New York City. I'm living in Manhattan. M My

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Speaker 1: and it was super quiet down there at night because

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Speaker 1: or living downtown at night because everything closes was perfect

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Speaker 1: for me. It also happened to be the same building

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Speaker 1: that Shane McMahon lived in. Kind of all worked out

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Speaker 1: and he drove me. I wasn't even tell the story,

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Speaker 1: but he drove me home one night from White Plains,

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Speaker 1: New York, which is where they housed the w W

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Speaker 1: E jet, which was black with the red WW on it,

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Speaker 1: and I got to fly on it all the time.

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Speaker 1: But we were he was on the flight. This time

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Speaker 1: he had just sold his shares of like I think,

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Speaker 1: on this first flight with us, and we landed and

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Speaker 1: he was like, hey, Freddie, we're in the same building. Man,

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Speaker 1: I'll drive you home. And he had this like I

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Speaker 1: think it was like fifty six Mercury coupe that was

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Speaker 1: And uh, it was me, him and the head writer

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Speaker 1: And Shane hit the highway and he must have had

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Speaker 1: this thing going a hundred thirty five forty miles down

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Speaker 1: I just do. But Brian Gowerts does not. And I

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Speaker 1: sheer look of joy on Shane's face from causing such

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Speaker 1: terror to Brian was amazing. But that's not today's stories. Uh,

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Speaker 1: he's talking to me about basically, we work backwards, is

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Speaker 1: what he says. He says, Vince gonna give you the

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Speaker 1: We're not doing as many as we used to do,

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Speaker 1: I can do that, and he goes, Now, today's assignment,

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Speaker 1: everybody's gonna go out there. I need you to build

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Speaker 1: who's gonna wrestle and give me a reason why, and

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Speaker 1: all right, how many do you need? And he goes, well,

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Speaker 1: will be about forty people who all crap all over

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Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, that sounds like a regular TV show.

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Speaker 1: Like the first draft of your television scripts are never

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Speaker 1: the best one because the network's gonna give you horrible notes,

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Speaker 1: They just go, yes, it was, because they just want

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Speaker 1: their fingerprint on the product. You know. It's a it's

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Speaker 1: a pride thing. It's not something I agree with wholeheartedly.

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Speaker 1: and that's gonna be a very familiar theme throughout this podcast,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, um, now I have to write wrestling.

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Speaker 1: My whole life has completely done a one eighty. Like

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Speaker 1: I was wanting to just chill. I was gonna hang

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Speaker 1: that would be like rowdy roddy. But I've come here

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Speaker 1: Chris is a big part of that. It was Michael, Chris,

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Speaker 1: So I get humbled. So and DJ wasn't being a

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Speaker 1: get some lights? He goes no lights? I go, okay,

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00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:11,320
Speaker 1: well can I get an audio guy? He goes, no sound.

425
00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:14,200
Speaker 1: What are we gonna do? He goes, you're doing it?

426
00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:18,159
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, okay, so no, so you

427
00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,159
Speaker 1: were you were just walking with a camera. He's like,

428
00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,280
Speaker 1: that's it and he just leaves again. This is my

429
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:26,600
Speaker 1: mentor all right, it's a secret swim company. Let's party.

430
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:30,119
Speaker 1: So we shoot it? Oh sorry, we rehearse it. And

431
00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,159
Speaker 1: then I say, okay, we're gonna we're gonna shoot it.

432
00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,240
Speaker 1: And the stage manager comes up, who I hadn't met yet,

433
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,560
Speaker 1: and he goes, no, you're gonna shoot a live Well,

434
00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:39,120
Speaker 1: why don't we just shoot it now? Like we got

435
00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:41,400
Speaker 1: the camera here now and I've got Collie here. Now

436
00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:42,880
Speaker 1: he goes. They told me they want to shoot a lot.

437
00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:46,280
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, these guys just want there's just they

438
00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,960
Speaker 1: want me to fail so bad, like they're just and

439
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,400
Speaker 1: I know it in my heart. They're just grinding me right.

440
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,199
Speaker 1: And it was the only show in town basically, so

441
00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:57,399
Speaker 1: they can get away with doing stuff that's gonna screw

442
00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:01,119
Speaker 1: up their own show, like legit screw on purpose just

443
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,359
Speaker 1: because it'll give Vince a laugh. I saw him do

444
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,879
Speaker 1: this a million times to talent in the ring. I

445
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,840
Speaker 1: saw them gimmick a chair when Big Show was gonna

446
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,720
Speaker 1: read Christmas stories to Hornswoggle so that the chair with fall.

447
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,160
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, man, what if he gets hurt?

448
00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:17,639
Speaker 1: And Vince's like, guy, he's falling harder than that. And

449
00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 1: I'm like debating the whole that I gotta tell him, man,

450
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,240
Speaker 1: I gotta tell Paul this is crazy or Big Show.

451
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,480
Speaker 1: I gotta tell Big Show this is crazy. And then

452
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:26,880
Speaker 1: Jerry Briscoe is like, you better not tell him shit.

453
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, I won't. So anyway, back to the show.

454
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,920
Speaker 1: They make us shoot it live. Luis is like, bro,

455
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 1: I've done this a million times. Luis is the cameraman.

456
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:38,880
Speaker 1: He says, bro, I've done this a million times. I'm

457
00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:40,919
Speaker 1: gonna make you look bad. Don't worry about a thing.

458
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,080
Speaker 1: And he knows that what they're doing to me too,

459
00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 1: and he's being so cool to me, this guy. And

460
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:49,320
Speaker 1: so they go in three to one and uh they

461
00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 1: do the shot and Kindie just walks and you can't

462
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 1: even see him because it's completely dark. There's no light anywhere.

463
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:57,600
Speaker 1: This is, you know, the backstage of the arena. You

464
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,960
Speaker 1: can't see anything. It looks terrible. This his camera work

465
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,680
Speaker 1: because he was does all the boxing fights, so he's

466
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 1: a pro, a legit dude. But there's no light, and

467
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,119
Speaker 1: they just put like rock and roll music, which doesn't

468
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:11,040
Speaker 1: fit the mood at all. It's like coming up next

469
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,160
Speaker 1: the Great Colleague by now Brown No no, no, no,

470
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,480
Speaker 1: no no, and he's doing this slow like monster walk

471
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 1: like it just doesn't match. It's a horror movie without music.

472
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,920
Speaker 1: So so anyway, we do that and I don't see

473
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 1: anybody else and I'm sitting in the room like, man,

474
00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,879
Speaker 1: these guys they played me. I was waiting for tomorrow.

475
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 1: We'll go to the next city and uh, I get

476
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,480
Speaker 1: to shoot my thing. So the show ends. I see

477
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 1: Bruce and he goes, hey, great job with that promo,

478
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 1: and I go, yeah, man, thanks, thanks. We uh we

479
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 1: take our our flight or cars. We drove to the

480
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,600
Speaker 1: next town and we get ready for SmackDown. We get

481
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:48,400
Speaker 1: to the production meeting and Vince hasn't read the script

482
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:52,560
Speaker 1: and the showrunner for this I think his name was

483
00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 1: Ed and uh we're sitting there and DJ, yeah it

484
00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,439
Speaker 1: was and indeed I did an x T, DJ did macdam.

485
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 1: So we're sitting there and Vince hasn't read anything, and uh,

486
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 1: he starts tearing the script apart, and he starts asking

487
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:11,399
Speaker 1: for input, and again nobody says anything. So I I

488
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 1: put my hand up again. I'm the new guy, and

489
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,160
Speaker 1: they hate me whatever they're gonna hate me. I'm Eyther,

490
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 1: gonna prove myself or I'm not. And so I just

491
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 1: start pitching what I had originally done, but now with

492
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: the wrestlers that they had agreed we're going to wrestle,

493
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 1: So I'm just kind of forcing stories on people. I'm

494
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 1: going in there and I'm talking to Brian and he's

495
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 1: wanting to do this like sadistic kind of cerebral heal

496
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 1: character who's gonna use his mind to be people. But

497
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,440
Speaker 1: he's not willing to cheat. And so I showed him

498
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,040
Speaker 1: this promo and I tell him basically what I just

499
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,919
Speaker 1: told y'all, which is, you know, anything that you don't like,

500
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,640
Speaker 1: throw away. You can ask my producers. I say, hey,

501
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: you give me any criticism you want. It's not You're

502
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,639
Speaker 1: not gonna hurt my feelings. We're all working on the

503
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: same thing here. There's a million ways to get it right.

504
00:24:58,119 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 1: The only way to get it wrong is if you

505
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,399
Speaker 1: don't commit right. So I'm talking about this and he's

506
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,199
Speaker 1: really goes, no, man, I really like this. I just

507
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 1: want to get it right. I go and I feel that, man,

508
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: because I was like that when I was a young actor.

509
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,880
Speaker 1: I said, but if something sounds off, just kill it

510
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,399
Speaker 1: and do your own thing. Put it on there. And

511
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 1: they've teamed Brian up with this huge dude named Rickland

512
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: and they called him Ezekiel Jackson, so buff man, I mean,

513
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: just looked like he was carved from stone. And Zeus

514
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,439
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, that guy, that's what I want to

515
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 1: look like, not tiny Zeus, the actual Greek god Zeus.

516
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 1: So they don't tell me this, I get there we're

517
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,640
Speaker 1: backstage and he's like, hey man, I'm Rickland and he's

518
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 1: like the nicest dude. I'm like, oh man, he's from Oakland, California.

519
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 1: And I shake his hand and his hand is just

520
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 1: like it's like two of my hands, right, and I

521
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 1: can't even see anything but my wrist. And I'm like, dang, bro,

522
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 1: what's going on? And he's like, oh, I'm with him.

523
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,360
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, let's

524
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 1: let's work this out. So Brian has this high concept

525
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 1: there's this like line between genius and insanity. But if

526
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: you're not willing to tie it, rope it or whatever

527
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 1: the dialogue, if you're not willing to walk that line,

528
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,640
Speaker 1: if you're not willing to take that risk, then you'll

529
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 1: never And it's and what he's saying is kind of true,

530
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: but it's but it's kind of in an a whole

531
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: sort of way. And I don't know what to do

532
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: with Rickland because every w W thing I've ever seen

533
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 1: was just a big guy standing there, right, and they're

534
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 1: intimidating and big and strong, but it's there's nothing there.

535
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 1: So we're about to shoot, and I'm walking by and

536
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,120
Speaker 1: there's like a stack of books, just a random stack

537
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 1: of books that like an employee who worked in the

538
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,920
Speaker 1: arena had left there, and one of them was Dr

539
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 1: SEUs is the Cat in the Hat. And something in

540
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,120
Speaker 1: my brain just went, dude, I'm gonna make him read

541
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,160
Speaker 1: that book in the background while Brian's cutting this promo,

542
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be the funniest ship that is on

543
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: this whole show, and it's gonna look sick. So I

544
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 1: get the book and I go to Rickland. I go, yo, man,

545
00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:01,159
Speaker 1: what if you just read Dr Sue in the background

546
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 1: so I can see it and nobody will know unless

547
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 1: they're looking, and they have to don't, And go, yo,

548
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 1: is that humongous dud reading a cat and a hat

549
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: while this guy is quoting son Sue? That's what it was.

550
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,119
Speaker 1: I had. I had Brian quoting Son Sue in the

551
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:16,160
Speaker 1: promo also, and uh And he's like, dude, that's really funny.

552
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 1: I go, I don't know if it will get approved,

553
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: but let's take a shot, and if they hate it,

554
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 1: it's all on me. I'll say you didn't even want

555
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 1: to do it. And he's like, okay, cool, thanks, So

556
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 1: we shoot it. We just shoot it one time. I

557
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,360
Speaker 1: have to get Stephanie McMahon or Bruce to approve it,

558
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,120
Speaker 1: and uh, Bruce comes by and he takes a look

559
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 1: and he goes, damn, that's pretty good, and like, all right, cool,

560
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 1: thanks man. He goes, you gotta get through Steph, and

561
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: I go, okay. So Steph comes by and Steph like me, man.

562
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: I talked to you guys in the first episode about

563
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,439
Speaker 1: the meeting her and I had, and her wanting me

564
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 1: to take chances and and really communicate my opinions to

565
00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: her father in a respectful way, but to communicate those things.

566
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:53,479
Speaker 1: So I showed it to her and she approved it.

567
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: It's sixty seconds. It's not a big thing, but it's

568
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 1: an opportunity for this guy to get a character over

569
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 1: before you see him on his own for the first time.

570
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 1: So he does it. Vince sees it, and Vince really

571
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,880
Speaker 1: likes it, right, this little sixty second, one minute thing,

572
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 1: and he books Brian the next week in a much

573
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: bigger match in the second hour and he's gonna get

574
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 1: a commercial break. And it all kind of clicked for

575
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 1: me there with Michael, because Michael brought me in his

576
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,400
Speaker 1: office and he said, look, you did ah, you did

577
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: a real good thing. You gotta remember, he goes, and

578
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: I wish more you bleepers would remember this. The writer's

579
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 1: sole function is to help get the talent over and

580
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 1: basically what he was saying is, don't have any ego,

581
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: don't make it about you, because a lot of the writers,

582
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 1: well not a lot of them, but a handful of

583
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: the writers would make it. Did you see my promo?

584
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 1: Did you see my promo? It's like you mean, did

585
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: I see Kyne's promo? Yeah? Man, that guy can make

586
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: anybody's writing look good. Get out of here and what

587
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 1: you want to cookie. So there was some of that.

588
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,200
Speaker 1: They're not as much on raw, but definitely on SmackDown,

589
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 1: And so that hammered in my brain pretty quick. And

590
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: I was raised a humble guy. I was raised by

591
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: a bunch of psycho martial artists like Bob Wall, Gene LaBelle,

592
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: Pat Johnson, Chuck Norris. Like anytime I thought, uh that

593
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: I was hot stuff, trust me, they reminded me real

594
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: quick where I was on the letter. So I appreciated

595
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: that point of view, and I started working really hard

596
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: on this. And we weren't supposed to really connect with

597
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: the talent because the promos would change so much. But

598
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: that was one of the w W rules that I

599
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,719
Speaker 1: just threw in the trash. And I contacted Brian right

600
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: away when we started talking about this promo in the ring.

601
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: He's gonna get in ring promo before his match, and uh,

602
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: we're setting all this up and I got the promo

603
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 1: and he just starts reading it to me and he

604
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: makes it. He makes a few he had the confidence

605
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: to make a few changes on it, and uh, it's

606
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: so much better after he does that, and he's reading

607
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: it to me again, and this is over the phone.

608
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, that sounds great. You just need to

609
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: get off book. He's like, brother, I already am. He goes,

610
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 1: I'm not reading. He goes, I've memorized, and I was like, oh, dude,

611
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: you're the man. So we got this whole thing set

612
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: for the week, and uh, the following week, we get

613
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: to the production meeting Monday night. Raw happens. I don't

614
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 1: have much to do on that show yet. That happens later, um,

615
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 1: and so uh so we get to our Tuesday, Vince

616
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: hasn't read smacked down again and all the writers are

617
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 1: just depressed because it felt like you were on a

618
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 1: show he didn't care about. Right. That was why all

619
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: the writers on Raw seemed to work a little harder,

620
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: seemed to have a better attitude because they were getting

621
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,479
Speaker 1: notes during the week, you know what I mean, instead

622
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 1: of in the production meeting telling them all how horrible

623
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: they are and why did they go in this direction?

624
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: And the writers are like, man, just you give us

625
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 1: any direction, bro, we will go there. But every direction

626
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: we choose, you hate. So they just they needed that

627
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,959
Speaker 1: kind of a flow and they did not. They did

628
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: not have it. So we get in there and uh

629
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 1: and Bruce just tears my promo apart pretty my mentor.

630
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: It just says, that's a lot of talk, Vince, That's

631
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: what he said. And I see DJ's head go down.

632
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's the kiss of death. Okay, DJ's

633
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 1: head goes down. I'm like what I'm I'm fighting for

634
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: my idea. So I go, hang hang on a second,

635
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: hang on a second. I go, look, we did really

636
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,479
Speaker 1: well with this guy last week. We all think he

637
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: can work. Please give me a chance with this promo.

638
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: Give Brian a chance to execute this. I can't say

639
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: he's already off book right, Otherwise I'm admitting that I'm

640
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: breaking a rule. So I go, this guy gets off

641
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: book crazy fast. Give him an opportunity with it. It's

642
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: not too much for him. He's asking for this, he

643
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: wants the opportunity. And he's read and I'm talking, I'm talking,

644
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: I'm talking, and then Bruce just closes it with it's

645
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: a lot of talk, and so they rewrite it. They

646
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: want me to rewrite it. So I rewrite it and

647
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: I make it way shorter, and then DJ takes it

648
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: to Vince and when he comes back, it's being rewritten

649
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: again by Vince, by DJ v E Vince. So now

650
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it and it's a mess. It's just

651
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: a mess, and there's like two words in that are

652
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: mine and I have to go to talent. This is

653
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: my second or third week in the company. I didn't

654
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: know this happened every week. I would like sitting there going, oh,

655
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: he's never heard this before. Meanwhile, he's heard it every

656
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: day of his life working for the company. So I

657
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: knock on the door and uh, he invites me in

658
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: and none of the old school guys are in there,

659
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: which is why I think he did. And uh we

660
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: sit down. I say, hey, man, I got bad news.

661
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 1: And he goes, they killed it and I go, yeah, yeah.

662
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 1: He goes, I don't get to say anything. I go, no, no,

663
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 1: you do. But we gotta figure out a way to

664
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: make this sound good and it and it has to

665
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: be these words I was told. And he's like, all right, man,

666
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: let's just do it. And instead of just you know,

667
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: complaining and moaning, he's a lot like me, and we

668
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: just attack this thing right, and we're working at beat

669
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: by beat. It's called moment to moment. It's how I

670
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: learned in acting School's how a lot of actors learned.

671
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: You don't want to blur moments. You want to make

672
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: sure certain things hit otherwise you take the value away

673
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: from those words if you just keep going right now,

674
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: in the wrestling business, it's hard. Thanks to stone Cold

675
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: Steve Austin as anytime someone paused to remember a line,

676
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: he would go what and the crowd loved that. He

677
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: sort of broke the fourth wall there, Shame on you,

678
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: stone Cold. The whole thing is rewritten. Brian and I

679
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: are trying to learn this and it's gonna be live

680
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: in the ring, and it's my segment. Even though I

681
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 1: didn't write a freaking word of it um. And I

682
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: have to sit next to Vince in Guerrilla for the

683
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: first time, and Brian goes out there and they what

684
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 1: him through the whole promo, through the whole promo, and

685
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: he's off book and that it's why I hate the

686
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,239
Speaker 1: what so much. And it's just personal because I know

687
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: what Brian could have done right. So Vince's piste and

688
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, that's blape and watts A damn it

689
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: this promo ship and he looks at me and he goes,

690
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: this is ship. And I look at him and I go,

691
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: I agreed, and he we don't say anything, goes why,

692
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: I go, I didn't write this. I told you what

693
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: I wanted to do. We made this the best we could.

694
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: I can make this show the best I can make it.

695
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 1: But you have to let me. You gotta give me

696
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: a chance. And he just kind of grunts the way

697
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: he would grunt when he doesn't want to acknowledge the

698
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: opinion and just kind of wants to move on. But

699
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: he's letting you know, all right, this one's on me

700
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: without saying it. Right. It's the most accountability you'll get

701
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,800
Speaker 1: in the in the show. Moments after the show you

702
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: can have talks and stuff like that. So the promo

703
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 1: fails and Brian knows it fails, but they give Brian

704
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: some more opportunities and it leads to the crazy Pat

705
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: Patterson Scramble match. Or technically Brian was the champion for

706
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: a while. Within the construct of that match. Um, some

707
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: shady stuff went down in that match, which we'll talk

708
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 1: about in a later episode because they did arrest the

709
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: rail wrong in that, but I can't get into that

710
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: in this one. UM, So moving on. UM, I'm kind

711
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: of learning the ropes at this point. I'm figuring out

712
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: where I'm gonna fit in, and I'm already learning what

713
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 1: my strengths are. And they begin or Vince says, Freddie,

714
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: I want you to come on the plane. Andre to

715
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 1: come on a plane. We're gonna we're going to Cleveland.

716
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 1: So we flat a lovely Cleveland. It's very cold and

717
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,919
Speaker 1: uh and I like California weather. So we go into

718
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: the arena and Ben says, we're doing a promo class today.

719
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you how we do promo class. Say

720
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:30,959
Speaker 1: all right, man, So I sit down and we're gonna

721
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: finish with this story and then our next episode we

722
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 1: will get deep into it, but this is one of

723
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 1: my favorite moments of working at this company, so I

724
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: want to end it with something that I think is

725
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 1: really awesome. So I sit down, and every single professional

726
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 1: wrestler employed by the w w E on the roster

727
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: is in the production meeting. Okay, before the production meeting

728
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: would happened. We're in that room, all of them, all

729
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: of the writers and agents are in the very back,

730
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: and Vince is sitting like at the front of the room,

731
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: off to the side, behind a table with like protein

732
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 1: bars and whatever, like energy drinks. He drinks, and uh,

733
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there. I'm like, wow, this is crazy, man.

734
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:17,240
Speaker 1: It's like full on auditorium in here. And he starts,

735
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: he gets up and he starts talking about what he's wanting,

736
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: what he's lacking or what they're lacking, and what he's

737
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 1: not seeing from them. And he's literally says the words,

738
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: you gotta give me a little razzle dazzle, and the

739
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: writer to my left, who was a younger guy, whispers,

740
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: what the hell does razzle dazzled me? And so I

741
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: know none of the wrestlers really know. He's like yeah,

742
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: because Vince looks at it like, it's vaudeville. And he's

743
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: even made this comparison to me, says, we give him

744
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: some comedy, we give him some music, we give him

745
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 1: some drama and suspense. It's vaudeville, Freddy, it's vaudeville. Um.

746
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: I was highly educated on vaudeville because my dad, who

747
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 1: was a straight boss stand up comic and comedic actor

748
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: back in the day, worked with Jack Albertson, who was

749
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: the man on Chico and the Man. You guys would

750
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: know him his uncle Joe from Bully Wonka and a

751
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: chocolate factory. But he was an old vaudeville guy. That's

752
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: how he got his start. So I kind of learned

753
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 1: about the history of vaudeville when I was learning about

754
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 1: my father, And all of a sudden, Vince and I click, okay.

755
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 1: So we have this moment right before promo class and

756
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:23,760
Speaker 1: now he's given him the speech of the razzle dazzle

757
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 1: and all that. He goes, so, now you're gonna show

758
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: me what you've got. Let me get some volunteers and

759
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 1: a few people put their hands up. But Shamus, who

760
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: you guys all know, he gets up and he walks

761
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,839
Speaker 1: to the front. He takes initiative. He didn't wait for

762
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 1: someone to say yes, and Vince likes that. That's an

763
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: alpha move, right. Wade Barrett, who used to be there

764
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,880
Speaker 1: now he does commentary, I think for n x T.

765
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 1: He uh, he gets up next. So we got the

766
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: Irishman and the Englishman up there. This should be a

767
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: real easy promo for these guys to cut. If you

768
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: don't know, why, check out your European history so or

769
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:03,399
Speaker 1: just google Protestants versus guy flix Um. Anyway, so they

770
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 1: get up there and they're ready to do their thing,

771
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: and Vince says, hold on, hold on, I'm gonna give

772
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: you a premise. You're a dog, and you're a dog

773
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 1: now make me want to watch you fight. And my

774
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: heart stops. I'm not even the one doing it, but

775
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:23,839
Speaker 1: you could feel the panic, like since everyone got tight, man,

776
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: there was so much tension, and you just see sweat

777
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: beads form all over Wade Barrett's forehead right, just all

778
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: over him. And Shamus is stone quiet like, he doesn't move.

779
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 1: He looks like one of the English soldiers outside the palace.

780
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:45,320
Speaker 1: They're frozen. Thirty seconds go by, not a sound, seconds

781
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 1: go by, nothing, I'm dying man like I want to

782
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: just jump up and yell stop. It's like a murder.

783
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:56,240
Speaker 1: It's like watching a murder. A minute goes by, Shamus

784
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: says on accident out loud, is it on accident or

785
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 1: by accident? Which chevery one? On accident out loud says,

786
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: I think I'm having an out the body experience. And

787
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: no one laughs, no one says anything because they can't

788
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: believe it just came out of his mouth. Now, Wade,

789
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: he takes the first step, because Shamus is like in

790
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: a different zone right now, right like he's in this

791
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:21,840
Speaker 1: place where he was a kid and wanted to be

792
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: a wrestler, and what is going on? I'm a dog?

793
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: Why did I step forward? Why did I raise my hand?

794
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: Why I should just do my own like you could

795
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: just see it right and way. It's like, I'm gonna

796
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,359
Speaker 1: go for it. He said, you're a dog. You're a dog,

797
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: all right. You can see him prepping and he growls.

798
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: And as soon as he growls, Vince gets up and

799
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: goes not an actual plate and dog, and he storms

800
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: out of the room right comes back in. He goes,

801
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:57,399
Speaker 1: let's try again. So now Shamuses go He's not gonna

802
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 1: let Wade go out like that twice in a row,

803
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: Like these dudes look out for each other and these

804
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 1: chicks look out for each other. So Shamus is going

805
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 1: to be the baby faced dog and he starts talking

806
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 1: and he's saying, hey, I'm a good old dog. You

807
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 1: know I'm loyal on this. I'm that, and Vince goes,

808
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: just forget the hall damn thing and he storms off.

809
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: Promo class is canceled. So I, he just told me

810
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: how great it was gonna be. So I go to

811
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 1: Vince's office within like five minutes, knock on the door

812
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 1: and uh come in and go in Vince's office and uh,

813
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 1: I say, hey, let me talk to you about promo class.

814
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: And he goes, well, what did you think? I go, well,

815
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 1: I think you're using terminology that they don't quite understand,

816
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 1: and I think they get crazy nervous at the fear

817
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: of failure in front of not only their peers, but

818
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 1: in front of the people who make decisions on their careers.

819
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: And I don't think it's an environment. I remember this

820
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: word for word, and I don't think it's an environment

821
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: that's conducive to success. That's what I hit him with.

822
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: And I'm like working on this my way into his office.

823
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,360
Speaker 1: I said, listen, this is gonna sound off the wall.

824
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,799
Speaker 1: But what if I did what my acting coach did

825
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: for our class. You give me one of these like

826
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: rooms that don't have anybody in him that's not being used,

827
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: and I'll teach them the same way all these young

828
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 1: actors were taught. And I started hitting him with all

829
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: the actors that were in my acting class, not realizing

830
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: he wouldn't know who Kirsten Dunst is. He didn't know

831
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 1: who the hell I was. He didn't know who any

832
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: of these people were, right, And we had a we

833
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: had a deep class, all crazy successful actors, all of

834
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 1: us were working. So I hit him with this and

835
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:39,800
Speaker 1: he goes, uh, yeah, I go find a stage manager

836
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: let him know. And so I'm like in my head,

837
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, I would just set this up were

838
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna believe me? Like, I don't understand. So I

839
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: have the email Evince's guy Jimmy, who's like the guy

840
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: that sits on his desk. This us his ex army

841
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: dude had to be ex military, and uh. I hit

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Speaker 1: him up and I say, hey man, I'm gonna start

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Speaker 1: a acting class. I got Vince's approval, but I don't

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Speaker 1: know who the hell to go to to get this

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Speaker 1: thing going. Can you help me out? And he writes

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Speaker 1: me back, I got it. That's it. The next week

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Speaker 1: I show up and all the stage managers who had

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Speaker 1: avoided me like the plague, none of them liked me. Now,

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Speaker 1: like the main dude is right there. He goes, uh, Freddie,

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Speaker 1: I've got a room ready for you. Um, we're ready

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Speaker 1: to start your acting classes. We're calling a promo class

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be labeled outside there, and everything's gonna be

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Speaker 1: taken care for you. And I was like, oh, dude,

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Speaker 1: thank you man. I appreciate that they're being like so nice.

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Speaker 1: So the promo class is gonna happen before the production meeting.

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Speaker 1: So now I've just given myself more work. I have

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Speaker 1: to do both. I get an hour with talent and

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Speaker 1: then I get to go sit through a thirteen hour

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Speaker 1: seconds to prepare for it. So, uh so I go

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Speaker 1: and I see the sign and it's glorious. Man. It

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Speaker 1: says promo class, and they digitally they did all the

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Speaker 1: digital stuff on the printer made it look professional. And

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Speaker 1: it's right on the door. And I opened the door

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Speaker 1: and I get inside and I'm not joking. It's a

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Speaker 1: utility closet. There's no chairs, and it's about the size

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Speaker 1: of a prison cell in Alcatraz. Okay. One wrestler shows up, okay,

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Speaker 1: and he's a e W now Sean Spears and I

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Speaker 1: sit with him and I go, man, this one hurt.

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Speaker 1: And he goes, that's a pretty good rib. And I go,

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Speaker 1: what's a rib? He goes, and they're just pranking you

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Speaker 1: see it? How much you can take? I said, all right?

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Speaker 1: I said all right. He goes, well, what do you

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Speaker 1: want to do. I go, well, let's just work on

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Speaker 1: some stuff. He goes, well, I'm not on TV this week.

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Speaker 1: I go, well, then, what's your favorite movie? And he

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Speaker 1: tells me, are alright, so what movie do you like

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Speaker 1: right now? I think, I said, and he said Bad Boys?

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Speaker 1: And I said, well, I'm gonna take a scene from

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Speaker 1: Bad Boys, and I'm gonna show you how I think

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Speaker 1: these two gentlemen broke it down based on my experience,

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Speaker 1: and you and I are going to do this scene together.

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Speaker 1: He goes, okay, and so for an hour we did

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Speaker 1: the scene from Bad Boys where Martin Lawrence is driving

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Speaker 1: and Will Smith's is you know, you drive almost low

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Speaker 1: enough to drive Miss Daisy, and He's like, drive like

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Speaker 1: a bit. He's like, wow, I got to be all that.

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Speaker 1: And we're doing this back and forth and just kind

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Speaker 1: of like playing right. Next week comes and this is

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Speaker 1: this I promised to the end the story. And I'm

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Speaker 1: in another utility closet, only now I got six wrestlers,

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Speaker 1: and I bring in six chairs that I'm just finding

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Speaker 1: from other rooms and putting them in there. And we

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Speaker 1: just sat down and we talked about the process of

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Speaker 1: what we were gonna do and how we're gonna do it.

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Speaker 1: And I basically told them, you're gonna bring me scenes

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Speaker 1: from your favorite movies. I'm gonna show you how I

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Speaker 1: believe they were broken down by these actors. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: give you four weeks to get off book. Each week,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna want to be further down the road with

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Speaker 1: these scenes. And then when you're done with it and

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Speaker 1: it's performance quality, I expect you to be off book

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Speaker 1: and ready to kick ass with choices that you didn't

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Speaker 1: just see in the movie, but choices that we've been

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Speaker 1: experiencing with and everybody was crazy because I said, you

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Speaker 1: don't have to do any of the work. I said,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna print up all the pages for you. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna email you everything you need to do. You you you

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Speaker 1: just need to be committed to the class. That's all

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Speaker 1: for this week, and I appreciate you guys for listening.

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Speaker 1: trash back and forth with you guys, or send love.

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Speaker 1: If you send love, I will see you on the

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Speaker 1: next episode of Wrestling with Freddy. Until then, this has

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