1 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: What's up you guys. It is Freddie Brinds Jr. And 2 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:12,000 Speaker 1: we're back with another episode of Wrestling with Freddie. Last 3 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: week we got pretty deep into the promo classes and 4 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: some of the cool exercises and the successes and failures 5 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 1: of them. So if you haven't heard that, please go 6 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 1: back because this is a continuation episode. But this episode 7 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: we'll touch a little bit more on what I thought 8 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: is like the most heartwarming moment I ever had in 9 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: w W. Either weren't many, um, but this time we're 10 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 1: going into the ice storm. I have built this story up, 11 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: so without further ado, the Ice Storm on Wrestling with Freddie. 12 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: Now stuffing up to the mic. The host of Wrestling 13 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 1: with Freddie, Freddie Prince Junya. All right, you guys, I'm 14 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: on the highway with a makeup artist from uh Friday 15 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: Night SmackDown back then, even though we shot it on Tuesdays, 16 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: and we're driving I think from Memphis to Atlanta, and 17 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 1: if that's about a four hour drive then I'm right. 18 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: If not, it was another town. So we're on the 19 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: freeway and we're cruising down and it's late at night, 20 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: probably probably about ten thirty eleven o'clock. At night. We're 21 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 1: on the highway. It's winter and there's snow on both 22 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,319 Speaker 1: sides of the road, and there are no cars anywhere 23 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: because we left much later than everyone else. Usually you 24 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 1: would like pass other wrestlers, or wrestlers would pass you. 25 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 1: This was before I was on the jet. So so 26 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 1: we're cruising down. That's getting late. We haven't seen anybody, 27 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,760 Speaker 1: and she's getting sleepy. Right, So I'm cruising, but we 28 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: have a map that remember there's no map quest, there 29 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: was no app on a phone that told you I 30 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: have We would print out maps at the end of 31 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: the show, and that's how the rookies like me would 32 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: get from town to town before I was, thank god, 33 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: on the black and Red jet. So we're cruising, I 34 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: have my map. She's getting sleepy and uh. As we're 35 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 1: driving down the road, it's been about twenty minutes, maybe 36 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: thirty minutes. Like I said, there's snow everywhere. I see 37 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: some smoke down the highway. I'm like, what the hell 38 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: is that? Man? So I'm driving cruising down this curve 39 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: and now I see this like fire and smoke and 40 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: in the middle of the snow, and so I slow 41 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: the car down and I'm almost pulled over at this point, 42 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 1: and the loss of speed wakes up the makeup artist 43 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 1: and I go, what the hell is that? And it's 44 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:30,799 Speaker 1: this gigantic tree that's fallen over. The roots are uprooted, 45 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 1: and it's on fire, straight, just burning in the middle 46 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 1: of nowhere. There's nobody around it. There's no cars, there's 47 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: no tire tracks anywhere. It's just a tree that's it 48 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 1: looks like it's been struck by lightning. There's no lightning, 49 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: at least not to my knowledge, during a snowstorm in 50 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: the South. Maybe maybe I'm wrong. Um hit me up 51 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: on social So I'm slowing down and now I pulled 52 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: the car all the way over and I go, what 53 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: the hell is that? And she goes, I don't know. 54 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: And I go, I'm gonna go check it out. She goes, 55 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:02,639 Speaker 1: the hell you are? She because it's freezing outside. We're 56 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: going to Atlanta. I go, no, I just want to 57 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: see what it is. She No, you're not going over there. 58 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: Get back in the car. I've opened the door. Get 59 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: back in the car. We're gone. I go, okay, okay, okay, 60 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 1: I go with that's some crazy ship. She goes, yeah, 61 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 1: it's crazy ship. Let's go. It's freaky, okay, So I 62 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: closed the door. We're driving, she passes out. Nothing else 63 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,519 Speaker 1: spooky or no Poulter Guy's nothing like that. But the 64 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: road starts getting kind of sketchy, and uh, I have 65 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: the radio on and I'm scanning the A M channels 66 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: because I mean when I mean sketchy, like there's ice 67 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 1: now on the roads and we're getting we're in Georgia, 68 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: we're getting just outside Atlanta. And on the radio, I 69 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:40,839 Speaker 1: hear the mayor of Atlanta, and you could check this out, 70 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: you can figure out what year it is, has just 71 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 1: declared a state of emergency and he's basically closed the 72 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: city because of an ice storm. The roads are unsafe 73 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: to drive on, and everybody is like, not quarantine, but 74 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: it's a curfew, like stay home. You go on the roads, 75 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: you're gonna die. So we're close to the airport. Our 76 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: hotel is at the airport, and uh, I cruise up 77 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: there and I mean we're sliding everywhere like I'm on 78 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: ice skates. Okay, We're not in a four world drive automobile. 79 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 1: I mean like a like a little four door rental sedan. 80 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 1: It wasn't built for the snow. So we're at the 81 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 1: airport because we know the hotel's close to there, and 82 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 1: I see one of those like rental car transport vans 83 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: and it's running and there's this black dude inside, and 84 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: so I go up to him and I go, hey, man, 85 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 1: I'm trying to get to my hotel. Can you help 86 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: me out? And he says, well, what's the name of it? 87 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: And I don't remember what it was. It was it's 88 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: the Ice Storm Hotel. Will color you know, the Ice 89 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: Storm Hotel. And he goes, oh, it's down that way. 90 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 1: You're just gonna make a right and just keep going 91 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:50,479 Speaker 1: straight and you'll see it. You'll see the big sign. 92 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: It's down a big driveway. I go, okay, So I 93 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,720 Speaker 1: drive down there and we get to the driveway and yeah, 94 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: the driveway goes down, but it's deep and it goes 95 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: straight into the hotel lobby. If I take this car 96 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: down this hill, I'm not stopping. It's gonna go through 97 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: the front of the building. So I drive back to 98 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: the airport guy and I say, hey, man, is there 99 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: is there another hotel around here? Because we couldn't find 100 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: any other ones um or can I stay in the 101 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:23,840 Speaker 1: can I stay in the airport. I can't get down there. 102 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 1: And he's just Jamaican dude, and he's like, you stay, 103 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: oh dear, you're gonna die. Mind, you better find a 104 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: way to that hotel. It's like, all right, the airport's closed. 105 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 1: They're not gonna let me in. So I drive back 106 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 1: and now we're parked at the top of this hotel's 107 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: driveway and the and the makeup artist is looking at me, 108 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: and I'm looking at her, and she goes, how the 109 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:46,479 Speaker 1: hell are we gonna get down there? She goes, I 110 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: can't walk down it. It's all it's all ice. I go, yeah, 111 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know, but I'm not gonna have 112 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: like a headline in the paper tomorrow by Freddie Prinz Jr. 113 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: Found with a makeup artist frozen dead in a car. 114 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: I was like, the stories they would ride would share 115 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,919 Speaker 1: my family for the next generation. I said, we're getting 116 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 1: down this damn hill. So I'm looking around. I don't 117 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: see any way down outside of you know, horrible accident, 118 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: I get sued or dead or or someone else dies. Right, 119 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: So finally, because I'm an idiot, all right, And I'll 120 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: preface this by saying I've done a lot of dumb 121 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: stuff as a kid, and slid down a lot of 122 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: hills I shouldn't have slid down. So I go to 123 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: the trunk. I'll freezing to death, y'all. I'm a California kid. 124 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,039 Speaker 1: My blood is thin. I surf if the waters, you know, 125 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: below seventy I'm wearing a wetsuit. It's how cold as hell. 126 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 1: I'm not dressed properly. I grabbed my suitcase. I said 127 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: it at the top of the thing. And now I'm 128 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 1: just staring down the hill at this hotel, at the 129 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: Ice Storm Hotel, and she comes up to me. She 130 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:48,719 Speaker 1: gets out of the car. She goes, what are you doing? 131 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: And I don't even look at her. I say, I'm 132 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 1: gonna slide down this hill on my suitcase. She goes, what. 133 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: I go almost slide down my hill and I'm gonna 134 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: slide down the cell on my suitcase, and so are you. 135 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 1: She goes, I'm not doing that. I said, you're gonna 136 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: get your ass on your suitcase and you're sliding down 137 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 1: this hill with me. I'm not gonna leave you in 138 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: a car to die. This is the only way down. 139 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: I'm sure it wasn't, but I'm not a genius, so 140 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 1: this was the best way I could think of. I said, so, 141 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: I'm going down with you, and you're not gonna get hurt. 142 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: Don't worry. I'm certain of it in my head. I'm 143 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: certain of it. Sara, Are you ready? She goes now, 144 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 1: I go, well, we're going. I said, I'm not going first, 145 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 1: We're going together. She's she doesn't want to. She gets 146 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 1: her suitcase. What are the I mean you, we have 147 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: an option. Get down this hill. That's the option. So 148 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: she gets her suitcase. Every word that I'm telling you 149 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: in this story is actual. Well I'm about to go 150 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: t l C. It's actual and factual. Every sorry, every 151 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: word I'm telling you it's a true and every word 152 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: i'm telling you you will not believe. And I'm okay 153 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: with that. So I get on my suitcase. I lay 154 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 1: it down and I'm sitting on it the way you 155 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: would have sled, and my feet are on the snow 156 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: so that I can have my heels to dig in 157 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: to slow me down. I tell her to do the 158 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: same thing. She sits on the suitcase. I think I 159 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 1: have like a to me, right, it's like black traveled 160 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:17,559 Speaker 1: to me. That was big enough to get all your crap, 161 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 1: but small enough to get in an overhead bind. One 162 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 1: of those. And she has like a hard case one 163 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: because she's got like makeup and crap. Right, So she 164 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 1: sits on her suitcase. I sit on mine. I said, 165 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: are you ready? She goes, oh, god, I guess so. 166 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: So we kind of do the scooch like our feet 167 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 1: are in the snow like a one and it's too 168 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:41,439 Speaker 1: and three and my feet are in the snow instantly. 169 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 1: The moment that it gets steep, there's no more snow 170 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: for my feet to dig into. It is hard ice. 171 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: It is a good inch thick, and they're probably not 172 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: an inch thick, but you get the point. Like it is, 173 00:08:55,880 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: there's no attraction. So I hit terminal velocity within about 174 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 1: two and a half seconds, and I'm I mean, I'm flying. 175 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: I looked to my right because it's it's too fast 176 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: for me. I looked to my right, and she's bailing out. 177 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 1: It's too fast, okay, So she bails out to her 178 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: left towards me right. But now she has nothing. Now 179 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 1: it's just her body. So she's just gonna keep on sliding. 180 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 1: But it's not with any sort of control. So she's 181 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: going upside down, she's going horizontal, she's going to the left. 182 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: She's on her left hip, she's on her belly, she's 183 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 1: sliding everywhere. It looks like breaking two electric boogaloo, like 184 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 1: a deleted scene, right. She breakdancing all the way down 185 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:50,440 Speaker 1: the sizes and I'm flying, okay, So I get down first. 186 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 1: She kind of curved off to the side into the 187 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 1: snow drift by the curb, but she's okay. She gets up, 188 00:09:55,960 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 1: she's solid, makeup, good to go, case not destroyed. I 189 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: slide all the way down to basically where the valet 190 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:07,680 Speaker 1: is and onto the brick entry way of this hotel, 191 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: about four ft away from the double sliding doors. The 192 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 1: entire staff of the hotel that was in that area 193 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 1: had been watching us since we were on top of 194 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: the hill, wondering how we were gonna get down. And 195 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 1: they're literally cheering for me because I literally just did 196 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: my evil kinevil shit. I just went like a hundred 197 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 1: twenty seven miles per hour done this driveway, and they're cheering, 198 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 1: and I get up and I'm laughing, and she's laughing. 199 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: Everybody's still in a good mood. And the guy literally 200 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:39,559 Speaker 1: tells me. He goes, dude, we didn't know how you 201 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 1: ever going to get down, that was so sick. So 202 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 1: we go to check in. They don't have her room. 203 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: So she gets my bed and I crashed out on 204 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 1: the couch and then we wake up and the ice 205 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:54,680 Speaker 1: they've now salted and done all this stuff. And the 206 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:57,319 Speaker 1: next day we got on the plane and uh we 207 00:10:57,360 --> 00:10:59,839 Speaker 1: flew back to wife flew to New York City, and 208 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 1: she flew to wherever, to wherever she lived. But that 209 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,079 Speaker 1: is the ice storm, and that's the fastest that I've 210 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: ever gone and something that wasn't a vehicle or a jet. Oh, 211 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 1: by the way, I flew in the jet. This isn't 212 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 1: wrestling related, but the like the dead commander at Nellis 213 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 1: Air Force Base in Las Vegas was Borto Rican dude, 214 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 1: and he loved my dad and my buddy who lives 215 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: out there. Ran a construction company and gave him some 216 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,480 Speaker 1: equipment to help him do his house and uh, his 217 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: off his off base house and uh there in Las Vegas, 218 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 1: I think it was Henderson, Nevada. And so he was 219 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 1: like he saw a picture of me and Brian, my 220 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 1: buddy Brian, and he goes oh, you know Freddie Prince Jr. 221 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:38,960 Speaker 1: Man I loved his dad. And he goes, oh, yeah, 222 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: he's a good friend of mine. And he goes tell 223 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,200 Speaker 1: him if he ever wants to fly in the jet. Uh, 224 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: it's on me. He goes, no cameras, nothing. I was like, 225 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 1: and so my buddy Brian calls me, and I was like, 226 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: what do you mean like a jet jet? He goes, yeah, 227 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: I go to Oh, dude, I'm in. I drove from 228 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 1: l A to Las Vegas at night at like eleven 229 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 1: thirty at night, drove as fast as I could, and uh, 230 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 1: we have the date. I get there and I think 231 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna fly on the jet. No, it's like 232 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:06,679 Speaker 1: an eight hour class on how to breathe because you're 233 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: gonna be pulling so many cheese. And I'm in my twenties. 234 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:12,040 Speaker 1: I'm cocky. I'm like, whatever, man, I'm half listening, right. 235 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 1: So they put me in the two seater and forgive me, 236 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 1: this is over twenty years ago. I don't remember. I 237 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: think it wasn't F sixteen. I don't know what the 238 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: two seater was. It might have even been like a 239 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 1: F one oh something. I don't know. But we get 240 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: in I've done my like my test, and they make 241 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 1: you do this like it's like I don't want to 242 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 1: breathe in the mic because it'll sound weird, but it's 243 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: like labor breathing. Okay, So I get in the jet, 244 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 1: we take off, just the take off my borderline tap out. Okay, 245 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: this dude, I tap out twice. And this isn't even 246 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 1: from tricks. Just turns were literally like, he goes, if 247 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: it feels good, you're not breathing. I said, what do 248 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:55,600 Speaker 1: you mean? He goes if it starts to feel good, 249 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 1: if you feel high, you're not breathing, right, I said, okay, 250 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 1: And that basically is in jiu jitsu, like they say 251 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 1: tap when you when it feels good, that means you're 252 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:04,920 Speaker 1: about to go to sleep. Twice I had to tap 253 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 1: because I forgot to breathe, and the breathing is the 254 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,680 Speaker 1: hardest part. At one point in the air, I said, 255 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 1: how long would it take us to get to l A. 256 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: He said about fifteen minutes, and I literally was just like, 257 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: oh my god. So anyway, I like going fast, we 258 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:22,839 Speaker 1: fly back, I go back and uh, and now I'm 259 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: back ready to go to work. Talking events about the promo, 260 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,839 Speaker 1: class who I like, who I don't. And the storyline 261 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: going on at the time was the Nexus, and this 262 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:37,200 Speaker 1: was Wade Barrett and uh and Michael's something I can't remember, 263 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:39,320 Speaker 1: but it was a big group that came up to 264 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 1: like take on kind of like how the Shield took on, 265 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: like the Current Stars. This was they were taking on 266 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 1: that here's current Stars. So they were going after Randy, 267 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 1: who was a heel, and John who was a baby face, 268 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: and John sold big for like horror movie cells, right, 269 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,439 Speaker 1: because they were really trying to get this group over. 270 00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: They thought they had a couple of solid bangers in there. Right. 271 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 1: So I'm doing my promo class and I have a 272 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 1: lot of these guys and and uh and girls in 273 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,720 Speaker 1: there now, and we're getting to use like really big rooms, 274 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 1: like sometimes even the cafeteria because we have so many 275 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 1: people in there. And I got these Nexus cats, right, 276 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 1: And there was this one dude named Fred and y'all 277 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: if you watch then then he wrestled under the name 278 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:25,479 Speaker 1: Darren Young. His real name is Fred Rosser and uh 279 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: he's now out of out of the closet, and and 280 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: everyone knows that that Fred is a gay wrestler. And 281 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 1: I think was the first one to come out while 282 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: under the employee of w w E, but certainly not 283 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 1: the first gay wrestler in the w w E. If 284 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 1: you know about Pat Patterson, everyone in the company knew 285 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: Pat was. He was very open about it um and 286 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: everyone embraced him. So at this point in time, though 287 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: Fred was not out, he was a young wrestler. He 288 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 1: was coming up and uh so now I think he's 289 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: a new japan wrestling now. So if you're a big 290 00:14:56,160 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: wrestling fan, he's built from stone, looks gray eight solid us, right, 291 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 1: and we just call him black John Cena because he 292 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: looked just like John Cena. But if John was black, 293 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: even his face, it was crazy. You put him side 294 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: by side and it looked like the exact same dude. 295 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: I think John even cut a promo on it, uh, 296 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 1: in like an actual storyline where he's like, maybe we 297 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 1: did have the same father, but I hate you anyway. 298 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: I'm fighting for justice, so uh start doing the promo 299 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 1: classes and it's a lot of you, you going against 300 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 1: me because Vince likes that, right, So it's we're going 301 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 1: to have a fight, and you're gonna give me a 302 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 1: reason to watch like that. If you remember the dog story. 303 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: You're a dog, and you're a dog. Now make me 304 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: want to watch you fight. So a more productive way 305 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: to accomplish that is to give them a reason to fight, 306 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 1: like I did with Kia Stevens and with Beth Phoenix. Um. 307 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: If you remember from last week's episode, so William Regal 308 00:15:53,960 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 1: also known as Stephen Regal, is and was one of 309 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: the single most helpful human beings while I worked at 310 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: that company. He would warn me about people. He would 311 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 1: help show me what wrestlers strengths were and to write 312 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: my promos to fit the type of wrestler they were, 313 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: because I was not doing that. Um, you don't want 314 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: to write a luchad or like a big man. You 315 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: don't want to write a big man like a high flyer. 316 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 1: There's a different attitude. When you're seven ft tall. You 317 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 1: don't have to say as much. Your seven ft tall 318 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 1: I kind of equated to Darth Vader. You don't have 319 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 1: to give Darth Vader a lot of a lot of dialogue. 320 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: And you notice he only moves when he has to. 321 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:46,600 Speaker 1: There's no wasted movement with Darth Vader, which was the 322 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 1: same crap I would hear in the production, not crap 323 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 1: this is good crap um. The same stuff I would 324 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 1: hear in the production meetings when they would talk about, 325 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 1: you know, tell these guys, the big guys, to slow down. 326 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: Less is more And there's something I know a lot 327 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: of people disagree with that, but I tend to agree 328 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:05,720 Speaker 1: with it. It's more. It's what made Frankenstein so scary, 329 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:10,199 Speaker 1: right is It's why Pepper lepu we were amazed with him, like, 330 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: how could someone as slow always catch always catch him? Right? 331 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: So it may be dated, but with the big guys, 332 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 1: they don't want them, you know, flying around everywhere. Vince 333 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 1: doesn't want his guys and his girls getting hurt, which 334 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: is why that w W E style is less exciting 335 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: because he feels it prevents injuries. So Stephen has been 336 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 1: getting me hip to it. And he asks me if 337 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 1: he can come in and uh and cut a promo 338 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,200 Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, man, you want me to pick something? 339 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 1: He goes, oh no, no, no, I have something. I said, 340 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: all right, dude. So he comes in and I it 341 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:50,400 Speaker 1: was either the Saint Crispin's Day from Henry the Five, 342 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,479 Speaker 1: which is no joke, or it was from Hamlet, and 343 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: I feel like it was from Hamlet. Otherwise. I don't 344 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,080 Speaker 1: know why I remember this line, but I feel like 345 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 1: I remember Stephen saying the world is nothing more to 346 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:07,879 Speaker 1: me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors, and 347 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: that I know for sure is from Hamlet, so I 348 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:13,120 Speaker 1: think it was Hamlet. So he cuts this, and then 349 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:15,920 Speaker 1: he's trying to explain why he chose this to all 350 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 1: these young wrestlers, and he said he was talking about 351 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: the iambic pentameter, which is sort of the rhythm and 352 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: cadence required by by Shakespeare. He's trying to explain that 353 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 1: you can tell a story whether you speak English or not. 354 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 1: There are a couple of Japanese wrestlers in the room 355 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 1: at the time. You can communist cad to story whether 356 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: you speak Spanish better than English, the same way he communed, 357 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: those communicated those feelings from that monologue to everyone in there, 358 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 1: and everyone knew exactly what he was saying. When you 359 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 1: say someone, this world has nothing more to me but 360 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:54,919 Speaker 1: a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors, I'm communicating a 361 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:56,919 Speaker 1: message to you with a whole bunch of words that 362 00:18:57,119 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: neither one of us will ever use again in our 363 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: entire life. But you know exactly what I'm talking about. 364 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: You go, whoa, Freddie's a little depressed, ok you do? 365 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 1: And that message has been communicated beautifully, right, So I 366 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: think Funaki was in there. And by the way, I 367 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 1: got a great Funaki story. Kung should we do a 368 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,959 Speaker 1: Japanese side quest? Should we do a side quest? All right, 369 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: we're doing a side quest? Okay. So it's a SmackDown. 370 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: It's over and Shane Hurricane Helms and some of the 371 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 1: writers and my buddy Angelo the writer, We're all having 372 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 1: like a beer at the hotel, and you know, after 373 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,440 Speaker 1: a couple in, Shane goes, man, I wish we could 374 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,880 Speaker 1: get I wish we'd get Funaki over again, and Angela 375 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:39,880 Speaker 1: was like, yeah, well, let's let's think of something. He goes, oh, 376 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 1: then they wouldn't buy anything we do. And he goes 377 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 1: to we could think of something. And this is all 378 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: credit to Shane. Okay, I think he even wrote the 379 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:49,199 Speaker 1: song that our truth saying to him later on, but 380 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 1: he goes, what about what if it was kung fu 381 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 1: KNOCKI and all the writers are drunk and they're like, 382 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:00,040 Speaker 1: wait what He goes, yeah, like kung fu? He we 383 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 1: could sing the song Everybody loves Kong Fu Knack that 384 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 1: dude can't drink some sacking and he had like this 385 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:11,119 Speaker 1: whole freestyle jam that they all fell in love with. 386 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:13,159 Speaker 1: And I was in the writer's room one day and 387 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 1: they're pitching this and I'm like, yo, wait what And 388 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: Shane comes in and they go, Shane, what about Kung Funaki? 389 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: And Shane just looks at the board and he sees 390 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: how we booked and he goes, that's pretty fucking funny, 391 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 1: and he just walked out of the room. And that's 392 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:30,679 Speaker 1: when we gave Funaki the Daniel Son Crane kick, and 393 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 1: m VP sold it better than Johnny Lawrence did in 394 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 1: that movie Are You Kinda May Come Home Baby? Sound 395 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:39,000 Speaker 1: for the Wind? So anyway, that's the Japanese side quest. 396 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 1: So um, we're back in promo class and Sir William 397 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,719 Speaker 1: Regal is in there. Gotta call him sir, even if 398 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,120 Speaker 1: he's not a real knight, he should be Darren. Young 399 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: Fred gets up and he wants to He wants to 400 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:55,120 Speaker 1: do a promo scenario then cutting on each other, and 401 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: so Regal says, I'll stop my friend, and he says, 402 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:04,159 Speaker 1: this is I'll never get this man. He says, you 403 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 1: don't belong here and you're going to quit, And Rosser 404 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 1: comes back and he goes, don't and he does repetition. 405 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 1: He goes, I don't belong here. Do you think I'm 406 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 1: gonna quit? And Rigo just looks back at him and 407 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,639 Speaker 1: he goes, I've seen it a million times before, my friend, 408 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: you're going to quit and you know you don't belong 409 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 1: And Fred gets this like emotion and cuts like the 410 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 1: promo of It's a shame I didn't film any of these. 411 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,120 Speaker 1: He cuts like the promo of the Universe. And he's 412 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:40,160 Speaker 1: straight up his fist ball up and you can hear 413 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:45,640 Speaker 1: his knuckles crack. And we've already established there's no there's 414 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 1: no punching, right, and Fred didn't come off the type 415 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:52,160 Speaker 1: to do it. And there's his eyes start to well 416 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:56,880 Speaker 1: up and I'm sitting there watching and regals so cool man. 417 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 1: He's like a gun slinger in the wild West. He's 418 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 1: gonna let you draw first and still be fastinough like 419 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: he didn't even blink. But this is the guy that 420 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 1: smashed on Goldberg to let people know like what time 421 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 1: it was back in the day, right, Like he does 422 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 1: not care but he was a good giving man at 423 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,680 Speaker 1: this point in his career. He probably was his whole career, 424 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 1: but in this moment especially, and Darren Young just screams 425 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: and tears come down his face. At the same time, 426 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 1: it's like the like Denzel Washington does the perfect tear 427 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:29,439 Speaker 1: right like He'll hold it for a whole scene and 428 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:32,640 Speaker 1: then drop it out right at the end, and everyone's like, oh, 429 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,640 Speaker 1: like that's the next level technique. This was just wrong. 430 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 1: Came out and he screams, I do, my lord, and 431 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: then there's like a ninety second promo of the sacrifice, 432 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: the fear that this that that, And while he's saying this, 433 00:22:48,000 --> 00:23:01,880 Speaker 1: I shit you not. I literally was like, Yo, Fred's gay. 434 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 1: You could just I mean, I'd work in Hollywood, man. 435 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 1: I know a lot of people to this day that 436 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 1: aren't comfortable with who they are based on the reaction 437 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 1: that that society is gonna have. Right. So, and I'm 438 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: not trying to say this to like, oh, look, how 439 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 1: smart I knew, Like I was like, oh my gosh, 440 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,360 Speaker 1: Fred Fred's gay. And I didn't say anything. I never did, 441 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: and he's out now, so it's not a secret. And 442 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 1: I don't think anyone else knew except maybe William who 443 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 1: kind of had this like glint in his eye, and 444 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 1: as as Darren Young. Although this was all Fred Rosser 445 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:42,120 Speaker 1: finished his promo. You know how like British people, like 446 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 1: when you do something sick in America, we'd give you 447 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,359 Speaker 1: that head nod right, like people do memes of it, 448 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,679 Speaker 1: like Robert Redford as Grizzly Adams or whatever. They're like 449 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 1: nod in his head. Well, British people do this smile 450 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: and it's like a half only half their face works, 451 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: and it's this rye sort of half smile. And Rigo 452 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 1: just gives in this that smile already hits him with 453 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 1: it and he goes and uh. And Roster finishes his 454 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 1: promo with I'll Never Quit, and Rico just looks at him. 455 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 1: He says, my mistake, lab, maybe you do belong And 456 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 1: everybody was, I mean balling man balling and Fred was 457 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 1: to and Regal gives him this big hug man and 458 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: you can see like Rosster squeeze him hard like that 459 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: there was hurt and pain in there. And right after 460 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: that we wrote this promo for him. And you'll forgive 461 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:32,239 Speaker 1: me if I don't remember what show it was for 462 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:33,960 Speaker 1: it I believe it was an x T, like he 463 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,439 Speaker 1: got moved down to an x T when it was 464 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 1: like rookies and someone maybe or maybe it was right 465 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: before that, and uh, and he gave him this promo 466 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: where he didn't feel like he should even be there. 467 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 1: And I said, do you remember when you screamed I 468 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:50,879 Speaker 1: do belong? He said yeah. I said, I wanted it 469 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,119 Speaker 1: wasn't my promo, someone else's, but he was struggling with it. 470 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 1: I said, I want you to feel that when you 471 00:24:55,320 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 1: say I wrestled John Cena and he goes, yeah, okay, okay. 472 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: And so he did it, and he hit it about 473 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,879 Speaker 1: like eight percent of where I'd hoped it got, but 474 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 1: he still got the point across. And he's like, but 475 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 1: it was more of an arrogant take because it needed 476 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: to be. He's like, all, I wrestle John Seen and 477 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: he got kind of a little choked up on it, 478 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,879 Speaker 1: and uh, he was able to kind of bring which 479 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,680 Speaker 1: was a real honest moment to TV. Now. I could 480 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 1: relate to this because early in my acting class, my 481 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 1: acting coach gave me this scene. He used to let 482 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,200 Speaker 1: me pick right, but I would always pick really easy stuff, 483 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,119 Speaker 1: and he really challenged me, and I don't remember the 484 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: name of this play, and I don't want to remember 485 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,640 Speaker 1: the name of the play. So even if I say 486 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,199 Speaker 1: words from it that you remember, do not hit me 487 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 1: up at at real F p j R. On Twitter, 488 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 1: and do not hit me up on Instagram because I 489 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: have deleted this ship from my mind because it broke 490 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 1: me in pieces. So my butt hole act I love, 491 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 1: I love my acting coach, but this was just Oh 492 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 1: he was right. I was wrong, but man, I hated 493 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:04,199 Speaker 1: him for this. So he gives me this scene and 494 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,919 Speaker 1: my characters crying right away, And that was my biggest 495 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 1: fear was I don't I don't know if I can 496 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: do that. I don't know if I can cry. I 497 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 1: don't know if I can open up like that. Earlier 498 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: in my career, I manufactured every performance I did until 499 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 1: I was probably almost thirty years old, and it took 500 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,399 Speaker 1: me that long to figure out acting. I'd never I 501 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 1: didn't start until I was eighteen, so I was learning 502 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,119 Speaker 1: on the job and everything came real, real fast. I 503 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,679 Speaker 1: was not ready and not prepared, so I withdrew and 504 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:32,440 Speaker 1: pulled back, which is what I always do. And uh, 505 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,920 Speaker 1: when I was thirty, I finally like this actor Gil 506 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 1: Bellows just I was gonna do this movie. This is 507 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,159 Speaker 1: another side quest, sorry Alexis, but I was doing a 508 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:42,920 Speaker 1: play in London and he came to watch it because 509 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: I was gonna do a movie that he wrote. And uh, 510 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: we went and had dinner afterwards. My cousin was with me, 511 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,479 Speaker 1: and this dude like broke down my whole performance and 512 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 1: nailed me on every bad habit I had. And I'm 513 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 1: sitting there like everything is. Dude is saying it's like 514 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 1: dead on my cousin. I can feel it's like getting mad, 515 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 1: like he's not. He's getting pissed at the guy. But 516 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,879 Speaker 1: I'm kind of like feeding off the energy. And we 517 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,560 Speaker 1: finally said our good nights, and my cousin Joe was like, now, 518 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:12,920 Speaker 1: I thought you're gonna knock him out. I was like, no, man, 519 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: Like I feel like this guy just kind of unlocks him. 520 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,440 Speaker 1: The next night was the greatest performance that I ever 521 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,679 Speaker 1: had in anything I ever did in my entire career. 522 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 1: It was a Kenneth Lonergan play called This Is Our Youth, 523 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,639 Speaker 1: and uh, it was the first time I ever like 524 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: broke down organically in her performance. So I knew exactly. 525 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 1: I share that story because I knew exactly what Fred 526 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,960 Speaker 1: was going through. The scene was about my dad with 527 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,720 Speaker 1: the character's dad, but I made it about my dad 528 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 1: and the moment I allowed myself to do that and 529 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,160 Speaker 1: allow a real feeling that I hated at the time. 530 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,399 Speaker 1: I'm forty five. Now I have kids, UM, so it 531 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,680 Speaker 1: doesn't carry that weight that it used to. Now it's 532 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 1: just respect and love, um, like on his birthday and stuff, 533 00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:00,440 Speaker 1: I'll miss him. But outside of that, like, I've adjusted 534 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 1: well to it. But then I applied so much real 535 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,400 Speaker 1: hurt and pain. And my character is supposed to accidentally 536 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: knock over this dish full of cocaine and UH and 537 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:15,119 Speaker 1: manitol and he freaks out. And my choice was I 538 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 1: got so mad at myself because I was so stupid 539 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,639 Speaker 1: that I smashed the plate on the table and the 540 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 1: plate cracked open and it split my left hand open 541 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,160 Speaker 1: and I was bleeding everywhere and I didn't even notice 542 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,439 Speaker 1: I was bleeding until the end of the show. Like 543 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: that's how into the moment I was. And I have 544 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 1: Gil Bellows to think for that, And so to see 545 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: someone else let something reel out like that, it just 546 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 1: slap the holy hell out of me. Now that's kind 547 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 1: of deep and heavy. So we're gonna end on a 548 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 1: high note, and I'm going to talk about one of 549 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 1: the funniest promo classes that that we ever had, or 550 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,720 Speaker 1: not maybe scariest, and has to do with Nattie night 551 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 1: Heart and Harry Smith, Um, who was the son of 552 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 1: a legend. So I loved him very much because you 553 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 1: have very big shoes to fill. I was the son 554 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,480 Speaker 1: of a legend, so I have very big shoes to fill, 555 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 1: and so I connected with Harry a lot, and I 556 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 1: really wanted to get him in TJ over UM and 557 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 1: I worked. I worked hard to do it. But we 558 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:14,719 Speaker 1: just you know, I have plenty of failures. We can 559 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 1: talk about those two is just the success. Success ones 560 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,959 Speaker 1: are usually cooler and funnier stories. But um, I failed 561 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 1: those boys. I never I never got over that I failed. 562 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 1: The USOS to tag team wrestling is tough, man. I 563 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 1: remember Vince, I was working so hard on building up 564 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,280 Speaker 1: a tag team division and Ben said, Freddie, I gotta 565 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 1: pay four guys for one fucking match, and I kind 566 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 1: of went, oh, I had never looked at it like that, 567 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: And again, it's show business, and I was in charge 568 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: of of the Cologne Brothers, I named Primo for crying 569 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 1: out loud. Um, that was my name. Um, and uh, 570 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 1: it's kind of like changed my perspective on thing ings 571 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 1: and change the way I approach storylines. I couldn't pitch 572 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 1: for for as much anymore. But anyway, or in promo 573 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 1: class or another side quest completed, you just leveled up. Um. 574 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 1: And if you make it through the whole podcast, you 575 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 1: get all kinds of experience. It's great. Um. So we uh, 576 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,000 Speaker 1: we're in promo class and you guys all remember the rules. 577 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 1: There's no makeout sessions allowed and there's no beating each 578 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: other up. That seems they seem like reasonable requests as 579 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: far as like an acting coach and and the talent 580 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: in that room go. And I feel like everyone should 581 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 1: be able to follow those rules. Um, but apparently not. 582 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 1: And it was little Nattie Nidheart who decided to break it. 583 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 1: And so her and Harry are in there, and I've 584 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 1: already told you, like what the state of women's wrestling 585 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 1: was back then, and we're gonna get into the transition, um, 586 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 1: which was the Bella's And I have no responsibility and 587 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 1: take no credit for the women's division. But uh I 588 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 1: did help bring those girls up, and it was those 589 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 1: girls who really opened Vince's eyes with their show Total Divas, 590 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,960 Speaker 1: which we'll get into in another episode. Um, and how 591 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 1: they kind of revolutionized and changed matches from five minutes 592 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 1: to all of a sudden having multiple commercial breaks, which 593 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,600 Speaker 1: is just so sick. But anyway, we're still in the 594 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,440 Speaker 1: time where the ladies got five minutes, and if they 595 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,280 Speaker 1: had a pay per view match, it usually got clipped 596 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 1: to about seven to give to give the boys more time. 597 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 1: So uh as Freebird would say, So they're in there 598 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 1: and it's a repetition and they're going back and forth 599 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:37,959 Speaker 1: about you know, I don't even remember. It was like 600 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 1: you ain't ship, No, you ain't ship. Whatever it was, right, 601 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,160 Speaker 1: they're going back and forth. Michael Tarver was the other 602 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: NEXTUS guy. I was trying to think of that early on. 603 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 1: He had a sick promo where he just wrapped and 604 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,480 Speaker 1: it was amazing. By the way, there's another side quest. Um. 605 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 1: So they're in there and they're going back and forth, 606 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 1: but they're getting closer and closer, and everyone knows that 607 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 1: they're no chance of any like smooch. He smooched with 608 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:07,840 Speaker 1: those two because t J's her man like forever um. 609 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 1: So they're getting closer and closer, and I'm like, this 610 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:12,680 Speaker 1: is this is weird. I don't know where this is going. 611 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,719 Speaker 1: And at this point we were doing points, so if 612 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 1: you changed up the sentence, the other person got a point. 613 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,960 Speaker 1: But it wasn't over until someone got three points, right, 614 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 1: so they change it up and uh. He says something 615 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 1: to Natty about like that's why you are where you 616 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:32,080 Speaker 1: are and I am where I am and Natty just 617 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 1: I mean it looked Richard Bryor had a joke where 618 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 1: he talks about he wanted to be a boxer and 619 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,400 Speaker 1: he got hit with a hook and he said I 620 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 1: saw his hands start down in Mississippi. It gains speed 621 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,400 Speaker 1: through Texas. Now I'm watching Natty throw this right hand 622 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 1: and it's like a John Wi movie. Man, it's full 623 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,960 Speaker 1: slow motion. I'm pretty sure a bunch of doves like 624 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: took flight behind it as it traveled through the air. 625 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 1: And Harry's hands are down at his hide and he's 626 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:05,440 Speaker 1: sticking his chin out like what And Naddy's hook comes 627 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,719 Speaker 1: all the way through open hand hook right like like 628 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,640 Speaker 1: the way, Uh, if you saw The Godfather talked about 629 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 1: how he used to open hand slap people off the stools. 630 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:21,080 Speaker 1: It's like a Godfather slap what bow And it sounds 631 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: like two four two by four smashing together to simulate 632 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,920 Speaker 1: a gun shot. And everyone in the class, including me, 633 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:32,320 Speaker 1: at the same time, goes. And then I jump out 634 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,800 Speaker 1: of my seat before I even let the breath out, 635 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,800 Speaker 1: and instead of breathing out, I just go what dof? 636 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,120 Speaker 1: And I curse. Right, I'm trying to control myself, but 637 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,120 Speaker 1: it was a big f bomb. And I'm not mad. 638 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 1: I'm scared because I mean, it's the loudest shot I've 639 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 1: ever heard of my life. And Harry looks at me, 640 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 1: was put a freaking smile on his face. He goes, bro, 641 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 1: it's so good, like nothing happened. And you know, look, 642 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,480 Speaker 1: I'm an actor. Actors are soft as hell, man. Like 643 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,200 Speaker 1: I've seen dudes not be able to work for two 644 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,680 Speaker 1: weeks just because their feelings got hurt. So this is 645 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,360 Speaker 1: all new to me, man, But this dude took the 646 00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:15,759 Speaker 1: shot of I'm telling you, to this day, I've never 647 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,520 Speaker 1: heard anyone get hit that hard in my life. I'm 648 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:22,600 Speaker 1: including UFC kicks where you here like an Edison Barboza 649 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,399 Speaker 1: foot slap on that one tall skinny dude's face. Back 650 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 1: in the day, I was like, Wow, that ain't ship 651 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:33,240 Speaker 1: compared to this Canadian right hand that literally game speed 652 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:37,560 Speaker 1: through Alberta and then just made contact in whatever city 653 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,279 Speaker 1: we were in. It was we gotta have Natty on 654 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,200 Speaker 1: the show one day as a guest. I just gotta 655 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,240 Speaker 1: know what she was thinking when he did that, because 656 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: in her eyes, he deserved it. And I ain't gonna 657 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,799 Speaker 1: argue with the girl. So that said, guys made it 658 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 1: through like five Cyde quests today. So you guys are 659 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,760 Speaker 1: the real winners. And I'll speak with you guys all 660 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:03,440 Speaker 1: on the next w u F Wrestling with Freddie. This 661 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,839 Speaker 1: has been a production of I Heart Radio's Michael Tura 662 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:09,160 Speaker 1: podcast Network. For more podcasts for my heart Radio, visit 663 00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,200 Speaker 1: the i heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you 664 00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:17,239 Speaker 1: listen to your favorite show. M h m hmm.