WEBVTT - AEW CEO Tony Khan (Part 2) 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:05.760 What's up everybody? Welcome back, and here is part two 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:09.240 of our interview with Tony count Now stuffing up to 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:16.680 the mic. The host of Wrestling with Freddie Freddie Bruce June. Yeah, 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.560 m JF my favorite wrestler right now, the man at 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:24.279 the moment, I was watching MLW and it was, you know, 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:26.840 hard to miss. And JF Uh did he cut a 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.520 promo that night? Uh? He cut? I watched him money. 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.760 I watched like for weeks and weeks and months and 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.879 months all through so I saw cut a lot of promos. 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.280 They had a lot of good people on the show 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:43.599 at that time. Um and uh so I was. I 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.560 was watching it pretty regularly looking for people, so I 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:49.800 would go back in that summer and and and Jeff 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.080 was one of the real standout people. You know. Uh 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:54.400 just topped top of my head. And this is the 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.560 same stuff all hardcore fans might have been watching at 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.480 that time. But I was really into New Japan. They 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:02.480 had the show on Access but also a court in 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.039 New Japan World and that was, like he said, A 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:08.520 big part of my business case was, um, you know, 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:14.000 taking Omega versus Jericho, bringing it to America, and I 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:16.240 knew that match had been a huge fan event around 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.680 the world, and I thought on American pay per view 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:20.960 it would draw a big audience and also would draw 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.200 a big house having seen what they did at the Tokyoo, 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.720 and and then I was trying to build a roster 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:31.039 kind of around and obviously, like you know, Young Bucks 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.120 versus Luta Brothers is a great tag match that that 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:38.000 could headline of pay per view. Um, so you love 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.440 you love tag team wrestling, You actually love it. This 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.479 is a fan thing, okay, because I I pushed every 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:47.720 well not just me, everyone when I worked there, pushed 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.440 so hard, and Vince was always like, I'm paying four 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.760 people for one match, and so he just he hated 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:58.000 he hated it. That's why it's never been that legitimate. 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.680 But except maybe like eight months here, three months here 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.240 and then not forget all that, but you have a 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.880 genuine love for it to the point where you guys 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.040 just put Moxley and and and and Brian together. Now 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:16.000 even nobody's beating them, bro, nobody's beating them. Nobody, nobody 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:21.040 is beating the American Dragon period. And my nobody's beating them. 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.840 No way, I'll do a run in and prevent the pinfall. 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.600 If it happens, those men will be killers. I love 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.000 that you guys put them together. They're so great and uh, 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.160 it's a great parent. I didn't want to and I 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.639 don't want a short change. Uh m JF. We still 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.680 haven't given. Don't worry. He won't let you no E, Definitely, 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:41.160 I won't. I won't be able to do that. And 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.520 heast that's one person I'm not gonna have a change 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.600 to short change. He's Uh, such a great wrestler, is 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.400 such a great professional. And you were talking about all 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.720 the great stuff that CM punkin m JF did uh 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.880 in building up their dog collar match, the revolution and 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.520 telling the story. It's one of the best things I've 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.760 ever been a part of in my life. I haven't 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.040 loved a match like that. And I don't know how 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:10.440 long period I I literally start to finish all like 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.799 they say, suspension of disbelief, All that was gone, Like 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.280 I literally, you guys built up to it. This kid, 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.959 he's like twenty four years old, this kid or twenty 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.800 six years old. Some crazy. I was such an idiot 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.560 at that age, and just to see how crisp and 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.560 clean and precise all this was. To see that match 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.400 and you guys had a long chain and so like 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.440 even like the visuals when they were tired and spread 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.680 out across the ring, it was just like it looked 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:40.840 you could pause it and take a photo like. I 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.680 loved everything, And I think it is the best story 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:48.200 and the best maybe not best match, because there's some 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:49.840 other ones that have got to be up there with it, 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.480 but the best story that I've seen you guys do, 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:54.800 and the best story that I've seen in wrestling period 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.560 since before I ever wrote a wrestling story. And I 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.760 couldn't even tell you the one I liked more. Well, 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.520 it's love, I love, I love, Thank you man. It 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.160 means a lot to me to hear that. But also 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:09.640 it's emblematic uh uh my philosophy in a lot of 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.040 ways because I give all the credits to two of 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.520 them and Jaff and see him punk. I am that 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.039 administrator in a lot of ways. And what I think 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.240 is really cool is you know what people people will 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.440 ask why I don't have a lot of writers, It's 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:29.960 because I've worked with the top talent and there's all 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.880 developed stories and programs front all due to everything and 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:34.440 say like you're gonna do this, this and this, You're 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.720 gonna here's ere gonna work this week. We're gonna build 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.200 you up, and then at the end of the next week, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.600 I'll explain where we're going next week. And you can 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:43.720 do that with like some younger people, but with like 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.400 and Jeff and see him punk, you know, with each 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.839 of them, I spent hours and hours sitting and planning 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.799 and talking, and they both team in with such great 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:56.240 ideas and a lot of this stuff just matched up beautifully. 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.000 And they both had like long term story ideas and 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.919 things that to do. And when you have wrestlers with 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.400 those kinds of great ideas, Look, I don't have to 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.600 do every idea that it's thrown in here and tried to. 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.160 That's the thing. I try to pick the best one 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.800 and talk to different people about different ideas. But I 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:14.960 feel like I'm better off talking to the two of them. 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.799 I imagine if I'd gone off in a room with 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.440 neither of them, with like six other people and then 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:25.200 to this was the death of This was the death 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:29.520 of every good idea that people smashed. The writer's room 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.080 for w W is so often and I've even being 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.440 critical and I've written some dog stories too, by the way, Um, 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:39.400 but the fact that there would be literally forty or 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.880 more people that all got to have say on a storyline. 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.520 The day of a show, I literally would just be like, guys, 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.680 this is so far removed from what it started as. 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.960 This won't how how can we make it? Was crazy? 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.960 So I love that control a controlled envirus with Brian Denna, 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:58.599 he rest in Peace. We're talking about a lot of 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:02.920 past on actors. But h he said artist, Brian Denna, 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:08.080 he said artist, Oh my god, Okay. He was like 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:09.640 a mentor to me on Summer Catch. He was a 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.400 great dude. I went to go watch him a Iceman 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.400 comment on Broadway and he killed it and I was like, man, 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.920 you're amazing. And he goes Freddie actors or he said 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:21.880 artists need an environment that's conducive to success, and I 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.960 was like, oh, yeah, that's why this movie sucked. That 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.280 movie and I started like put peace and things together. 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:31.080 And he was just such an old school, like clean 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:35.760 personality like that. I love that you can trust your 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.520 talent like that, and the ones who you who you 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:41.240 can't you can help kind of shape and develop and 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.800 bring up and not force the entire world upon their 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.400 shoulders before they're ready. The entire thing was the three 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.320 of us like that, and that's how it should be, 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:55.520 like jealous, right, and that's like that's and and it's 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.440 been like that a lot. Like the same thing when 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.159 Paul came in with Darby, you know, he and I, 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.360 Punk and I sat down put ideas together, and then 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.760 I went to Darby and nobody in the wrestling business 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:08.680 knew what was going on with me and Punk, and 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:10.920 I went to Darby and said, it's the promo you're 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:16.360 gonna do. And basically it was the one I think, uh, 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.600 you know, maybe ten days before the first dance. I 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:22.600 think it was um in early August. And the line 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:26.280 I gave Darby was a w you know, no matter 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.240 how great you think you are, if you want to 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.160 prove it, you have to come to a w even 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.080 if you think you're the best in the world. And 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:39.880 I knew that like that one line would Yeah, that's 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.400 it's great. And like working with different people, you know, 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.680 whether it's uh Moxley and and Danielson or the Young 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.440 Bucks and Adam Cole and Tenny when when he spent 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:57.760 healthy obviously Jericho and Eddie Kingston, Oh my gosh, Eddie. 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:02.320 Eddie gets some of the biggest reactions in the damn company. 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.600 They love him and that story they told was beautiful, 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.720 and I love that he didn't shake his hand and 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:11.120 there was so much hatefulness. But Eddie's talking on the mic. 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.520 I had him on the show Man and I told 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.000 him this. On the show, I said, and you guys 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:17.880 need to give your social media people are raised by 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.320 the way you guys cut together a clip with some 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.600 music and Eddie was talking about some some Latino pride 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.720 and you know, I'm not full Puerto Rican either, and 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.840 I leg it, like my eyes welled up. I was like, Yo, 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.520 this guy is gonna make me cry. And then like 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:34.719 three months later he's making me want to watch him 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:38.040 fight somebody. I was just like, they have some dudes 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.120 that I am in love with. We talked off air 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:45.199 about my love for for cargill Um, who I told 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.520 you I think literally is is the goddess Athena just 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:51.240 she never left and all the all the other Greek 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.120 gods died and she just ate them or or consumed 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:58.360 their souls or something. I think she I literally have 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.760 never It's like when I was a it in the eighties, 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.319 I saw the ultimate warrior at a house show in 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:08.600 Tinglely Colisseum, which was a rodeo house in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.320 And he looked like he was sculpted from granite and 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.120 that his muscles didn't even push in when the other 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.880 men punched him. Like everything it was like body armor. 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.400 And when I saw her, I was literally watching it 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.120 with my twelve year old daughter, and my daughter I 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.120 don't care about language. She's seen all Sarah's in my movies, 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:32.439 so language isn't it. But when Jade Gargill talked about 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.520 being a bad bitch, and I literally watched my daughter's 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.560 head and you guys can't see this Tony camp, but 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.960 her literally her whole posture when Jade said that, she 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:46.360 just went up up, up, chest out shin hai and 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.760 it was just like she would looked like she was 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:50.600 ready to fight. And I was like, yo, she just 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.240 had her ultimate worrior like she literally was like, yeah, 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.200 I'm taking pride. It was this crazy moment where I'm like, 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.800 that's why I still love wrestling to this to this 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.160 day is because of stuff like that. And I've gotten 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.440 to kind of jump back in through my children, and 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.560 I'm so grateful. People talk about the craziness of wrestling. 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.080 I think this is a renaissance for wrestling. It's a 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.960 rebirth and you guys have shown it now for a 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:20.200 couple of years and have a consistent number that I 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:23.719 can't wait to watch grow. Um, you guys are coming 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.920 to l A soon. I want to come to that show. Uh. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.840 I'm not gonna run in. I will not affect any matches, 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.840 even if Moxley is in trouble and uh, but I 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:35.680 just want to go. I haven't been to a live 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.880 show in so long. I got to indie shows out here, 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.199 but it's a different vibe. You guys are gonna be 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.600 at the Forum, which is beautiful now since they bought 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.560 it and refurbished it. The acoustics are great in there. 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.199 It's such a beautiful space. And a w W A 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.560 abandoned our West coasts. There's no more summer slams here, 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.240 So let us show you. Let us make you feel 0:10:54.240 --> 0:11:00.240 at home. Man, we'll sell your asses out. I'm I've 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.760 lived in l A for you know, years of my life, 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:13.679 and uh, I think wait to come back. M h. 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.480 I said this once in another interview, but I went 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.440 completely over the head of everybody in the room, I 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.719 said it too, so you'll appreciate this much more than 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.040 anyone else in that media scrum. I think, uh so, 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.160 like I love going back, and I was back to 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:29.880 the super Bowl and it was the first time I've 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:31.480 been able to really hang out in l A in 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.319 a while because I was back for a few days 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.120 and I went to Craigs and you know, there's like 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.280 a paparazzi out in front of Craigs, and I'm sure 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.560 that whenever you walk into a friend and Freddy didn't 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:45.400 want to take photos and that's why I hide out. Yeah, 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.200 Like so when I when I never had that at 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.640 Craigs before, like where they like mob me and I 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:56.760 got right like, oh, man, like this is a very 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.600 different l A than the last man TMZ likes for wrestling. Bro. 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:06.320 It's it's you know, Hollywood embraces or embraced wrestling one 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.840 time one time in the eighties, and then it was 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.800 always kind of like this, yeah, they're in our business, 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:14.960 but not really in our business. Like in the nineties 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:16.520 when I was coming up, they'd be like pretty your 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.880 film act or not a TV actor. I'm like what 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:20.719 And then all of a sudden, Glenn Close does a 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.160 show on effects and it's like opens up the floodgates 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.120 for everyone right close. What a really nice lady, bro. 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.040 She and only one other actor are the only people 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:33.400 who have ever won an Academy Award, Tony Award and 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.600 an Emmy Award. It's like her and Jack Albertson from 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.600 Willy Wonka to Chocolate Factor. It's so talented but also 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.200 like a really really nice person. We went to the 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:48.319 Abaijing Olympics together. What whoa whoa what? What American contingent 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:53.559 of people like our our my family and some other families. Uh, 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.880 there was like it was like a group of CEOs 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.560 and her husband and my dad and a bunch of 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.920 people organized this up to Beijing for the two thous Olympics. 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:06.400 I just graduated college like maybe a year prior, and 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:10.040 I was I was working my first job, and uh 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.000 it was a lot of fun. But like the Beijing Olympics, 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.240 it was a real experience and like these days, they 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.800 organized this like tour. So we were like going game 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:22.280 to game and there was no food, like and we 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.600 get to the I haven't seen her in years, but 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.280 this is like she was so nice. Um. We got 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:30.960 into the basketball games and it was USA versus China. 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.880 It was at the time the most watched supporting event 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.920 of all time. There are three billion people watched the 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:43.840 USA versus China, and USA had Lebron, Kobe, Yeah, Carmelo, 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:48.040 so many great players and uh. And I went out 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.640 and the concession stand all. Now, the one thing they 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:52.800 did in Beijing really well is all the stuff on 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.280 the menu was very affordably priced. But like it was like, 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.240 you know, it was like meat on stick, which is like, Okay, 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.560 what's this gonna be? And could you just tell me 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.000 what kind of meat? Yeah, there was just one thing. 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:07.640 I can't remember what it said, but I think it 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:11.120 said biscuits or something, and I was like, I've tried 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:12.880 what is At this point I got to see that 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.559 it turned out to be Rich tract on Oh, like 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.920 biscuits like English crackers. Yeah. Like so I get like 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.480 a box of rich crackers and the Olympics I sit 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.760 down unclosed looks at me and she goes, oh my god, 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:33.680 rich practice, where did you get those? Like it's so like, uh, 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.680 but yeah, it was such a great talent. Also, you know, 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.920 all those old school actresses are so smooth, and so 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.200 I fell in love with all of them a little bit, man, 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:46.400 and they always have like great quotes. I remember Kathleen 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.680 Turner was quoted as saying, a movie is a marriage 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.200 with a guaranteed divorce. So fall in love as much 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.720 as you want because it end's suit enough. And it 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.920 was just like, Yo, that's some smooth ship. I would 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.680 never say, I'd be like, movies are cool, like making 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.560 the like it would never sound smooth like that. Man. 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.160 I love that you got to hang with her. When 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.000 I was coming up, I always got to, you know. 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:09.960 My dad charmed a lot of people, so they they 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:11.800 were good to me, you know. And I met a 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.160 lot of old school cats and I could always tell 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.000 if they had slept with my father or not based 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:19.640 on the way they said. Hi, I'll tell you that 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:21.920 you'll love this story. Okay, you're the perfect age for this. 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:26.240 So you remember Joanna Kerns from Growing Pains, Okay, so 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.440 sweetest mom in the world. In the seventies. She was 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.280 a dancer and a really good one, and my dad 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.200 was dating her, and that he used to go on 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.200 dates with her and Pam Greer because they liked each other. 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:36.920 So we take them both out at the same time. 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:40.440 This is seventies game. So I'm on a pilot that 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.720 didn't get picked up and Joanna Kurrens is playing one 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.920 of the roles and I didn't even know and I 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.440 go into the trailer and I see her look at 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.440 me and double take and she goes hi. So right 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.520 away I know the hand sex. Right right away, I 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.440 know they had sex because there's always a breath first, 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.040 it's always and if it's not, if it's just oh, hello, 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:58.920 then I know they were just friends and cool. Right 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.400 So right away, I'm like, oh my gosh, this is awkward. 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.920 So I'm sitting there and she goes this quiet and 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:06.600 awkward and she goes, can I tell you a story 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.640 about your dad? And I was like, I was waiting 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.840 for it. So she goes, okay, your dad and I 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:15.640 it was and we were on a date with Pam Greer, 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.120 me and your dad at a restaurant and Richard Pryor 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.800 called the restaurant and he said, hey, I'm having a 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:25.320 party at my house. Come by, and Richard discovered my father. 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.040 But he was very jealous of my father because he 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.640 loved Pam Greer, and Pam wrote about this in her biography, 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.840 so it's not like uh an autobias, it's not like 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.000 telling tales out of school. But she loved my daddy. 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:39.400 So my dad brought Pam and Joanna to Richard's house 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:43.360 and there was no party. My my dad in the seventies, 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.400 Playboy Radio would do comedy from like ten pm to 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.880 two am on the radio, and a lot of comments 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.160 would try out new new material there just to see 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:52.480 how it would play it. And my dad had a 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.240 set that he hated, and Richard got the set and 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.400 he started playing it as soon as they walked in, 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.400 and it's like, yeah, you're gonna fall in love with 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.480 this on motherfucker. And my dad goes, and Joanne's telling 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:04.480 me the story. She goes, your dad jumped over the couch, 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.399 punched Richard in the face, took the real office like 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.840 it was on like a wheel to wheel audio thing, 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:15.640 grab Pam and left me. I said, what, She goes, Yeah, 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.040 he forgot me at Richard's house. I go, what did 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.480 Richard do? He said, bitch, get yourself a cab through 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:25.320 her holy ship. That's one of the greatest stories I 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:29.240 ever hear. The old school actresses are always the best man, 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.280 always and the seventies were the seventies, man, So they 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.680 get to have the coolest stories. Our stories are like, yeah, 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.440 that was pretty sweet. There's a you know, an hour 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.439 long and awesome. Yeah. Yeah, I've got nothing that can 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.040 compared to that we were. We were just born in 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:46.520 the wrong generation, that's all. But listen, dude, you you're 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.560 kicking so much ass man. And I love to see 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:51.840 the growth of the of the brand that you're building. 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.880 I love to see your take on the business. What's 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.240 your favorite stuff? Like not you take the modern taking 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:00.919 whatever and not that I'm saying, be said you like 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:04.760 a lot of what we're doing going back, Like, you know, 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.320 what's your favorite stuff? So, like, if I had to 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:14.480 my favorite sort of moments. I loved when JBL invaded 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.560 ECW and cut the Wrestling God promo. That's one of 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:21.640 my favorite promos of all time. Uh, Bret, you love 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.520 the original One Night? Yeah? Yeah? Um. I loved Bret Hart, 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.240 not Shawn Michaels. I always pulled pulled for Bret Hart. 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.760 I always believed in Bret Hart. All my friends pulled 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.440 for Shawn Michael's. Karen Culkin and I still argue about 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:39.840 it to this day and in a very unfriendly way. Yes, 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.639 very much, so very much, So I gotta go. Lenarly 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.040 taught my dad out of freaking drive, so I gotta go. Lit. 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:50.199 I felt like we're the way people went back and 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.240 forth on it. It reminds me of Dave and j 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.119 because it was like to like people and in the 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.159 same era in the nineties, these two and especially with 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:00.280 the behind the scenes stuff going on to it was 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.320 very similar. He used to be friends and they were 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.879 really a big part of like and you know, Brett 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.560 had like done a lot to help advance Shahn's career 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:10.960 when even be a singles wrestler, just like David a 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.840 lot to advanced to day his career um as a 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:17.960 comedian when and uh and then the way it shook 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:22.600 out and one guy being maybe flash here and the 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.560 other guy being more In Dave's case, I would say 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.840 like a little bit more probably the comics comics, I 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:32.480 would I would say he's the more intellectual of the 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.720 comics and Jay was the more mainstream, right like Jay 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.480 had Jay. I I know Jay Leno's seventies set because 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:40.480 my dad gave him his first job and he literally 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.400 had jokes about milk and cookies you know what I mean, 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:45.480 whereas like Dave let him is never going to touch 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.760 that subject unless it's in the most cynical way possible, 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.440 and it has nothing to do with milk or cookies. 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.439 That's just like you know, the color for it. So 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:58.120 they were very different, very different comics as far as 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.880 like an accessible, safe and and one who doesn't care 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:03.920 if you don't get his joke. He just doesn't care, 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:05.919 you know what I mean. And Dave, Dave doesn't care 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:07.840 if you don't get to Dave used to be rough 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:10.600 on a guest if the guest wasn't that good, he 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.119 would kind of dump on the guest, whereas Jay's like, 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:17.119 let's let's let's sparkle. Let's sparkle. But I think actors 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.640 and comics and musicians always wanted to earn Dave's respect 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.400 more than Jay's when they were doing the shows back 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:34.600 in the day. There's so many wrestlers in the business 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.239 and they talk about in the same way about trying to, 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:39.560 you know, getting respect. From Brett Hard it's like the 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:44.600 highest because he's so sparing with it. He doesn't throw 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:48.080 it out there. He really it's an old school philosophy 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:54.160 hand out dignity demand people earn respect. Everyone deserves dignity, 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:57.440 but respect should be earned on a case by case basis, 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:00.600 and Bret Hart embodies that way more than anything I 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:02.320 just said, you know what I mean, Like he's so 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:06.240 hardcore about it, and that's still so Yeah. I've always 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:08.639