WEBVTT - The Ice Storm from Hell 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:07.840 What's up you guys. It is Freddie Brinds Jr. And 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:12.000 we're back with another episode of Wrestling with Freddie. Last 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:14.480 week we got pretty deep into the promo classes and 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.480 some of the cool exercises and the successes and failures 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:20.279 of them. So if you haven't heard that, please go 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:23.959 back because this is a continuation episode. But this episode 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.960 we'll touch a little bit more on what I thought 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.560 is like the most heartwarming moment I ever had in 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:33.760 w W. Either weren't many, um, but this time we're 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.000 going into the ice storm. I have built this story up, 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:41.760 so without further ado, the Ice Storm on Wrestling with Freddie. 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:46.360 Now stuffing up to the mic. The host of Wrestling 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:52.839 with Freddie, Freddie Prince Junya. All right, you guys, I'm 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:56.240 on the highway with a makeup artist from uh Friday 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:58.800 Night SmackDown back then, even though we shot it on Tuesdays, 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:04.520 and we're driving I think from Memphis to Atlanta, and 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:06.480 if that's about a four hour drive then I'm right. 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:08.520 If not, it was another town. So we're on the 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.080 freeway and we're cruising down and it's late at night, 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:15.560 probably probably about ten thirty eleven o'clock. At night. We're 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:19.360 on the highway. It's winter and there's snow on both 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.319 sides of the road, and there are no cars anywhere 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:24.440 because we left much later than everyone else. Usually you 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.319 would like pass other wrestlers, or wrestlers would pass you. 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.560 This was before I was on the jet. So so 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.560 we're cruising down. That's getting late. We haven't seen anybody, 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.760 and she's getting sleepy. Right, So I'm cruising, but we 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.480 have a map that remember there's no map quest, there 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:41.600 was no app on a phone that told you I 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:43.760 have We would print out maps at the end of 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.520 the show, and that's how the rookies like me would 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.360 get from town to town before I was, thank god, 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.280 on the black and Red jet. So we're cruising, I 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:56.040 have my map. She's getting sleepy and uh. As we're 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.560 driving down the road, it's been about twenty minutes, maybe 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.480 thirty minutes. Like I said, there's snow everywhere. I see 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:05.080 some smoke down the highway. I'm like, what the hell 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:09.840 is that? Man? So I'm driving cruising down this curve 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.400 and now I see this like fire and smoke and 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.880 in the middle of the snow, and so I slow 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.000 the car down and I'm almost pulled over at this point, 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.400 and the loss of speed wakes up the makeup artist 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.639 and I go, what the hell is that? And it's 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:30.799 this gigantic tree that's fallen over. The roots are uprooted, 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:35.400 and it's on fire, straight, just burning in the middle 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.360 of nowhere. There's nobody around it. There's no cars, there's 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.320 no tire tracks anywhere. It's just a tree that's it 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.960 looks like it's been struck by lightning. There's no lightning, 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.760 at least not to my knowledge, during a snowstorm in 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.880 the South. Maybe maybe I'm wrong. Um hit me up 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.760 on social So I'm slowing down and now I pulled 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:55.880 the car all the way over and I go, what 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.480 the hell is that? And she goes, I don't know. 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:00.280 And I go, I'm gonna go check it out. She goes, 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.639 the hell you are? She because it's freezing outside. We're 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.480 going to Atlanta. I go, no, I just want to 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.680 see what it is. She No, you're not going over there. 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.760 Get back in the car. I've opened the door. Get 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.000 back in the car. We're gone. I go, okay, okay, okay, 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:12.960 I go with that's some crazy ship. She goes, yeah, 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.360 it's crazy ship. Let's go. It's freaky, okay, So I 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:20.160 closed the door. We're driving, she passes out. Nothing else 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.519 spooky or no Poulter Guy's nothing like that. But the 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.680 road starts getting kind of sketchy, and uh, I have 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.200 the radio on and I'm scanning the A M channels 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:31.120 because I mean when I mean sketchy, like there's ice 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.080 now on the roads and we're getting we're in Georgia, 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:37.080 we're getting just outside Atlanta. And on the radio, I 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.839 hear the mayor of Atlanta, and you could check this out, 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.440 you can figure out what year it is, has just 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:47.480 declared a state of emergency and he's basically closed the 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:51.360 city because of an ice storm. The roads are unsafe 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:55.760 to drive on, and everybody is like, not quarantine, but 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:57.840 it's a curfew, like stay home. You go on the roads, 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:02.440 you're gonna die. So we're close to the airport. Our 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:06.000 hotel is at the airport, and uh, I cruise up 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.400 there and I mean we're sliding everywhere like I'm on 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.200 ice skates. Okay, We're not in a four world drive automobile. 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:15.920 I mean like a like a little four door rental sedan. 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.360 It wasn't built for the snow. So we're at the 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.360 airport because we know the hotel's close to there, and 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:26.039 I see one of those like rental car transport vans 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.400 and it's running and there's this black dude inside, and 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:33.520 so I go up to him and I go, hey, man, 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:35.320 I'm trying to get to my hotel. Can you help 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.080 me out? And he says, well, what's the name of it? 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.960 And I don't remember what it was. It was it's 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.520 the Ice Storm Hotel. Will color you know, the Ice 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.400 Storm Hotel. And he goes, oh, it's down that way. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:48.719 You're just gonna make a right and just keep going 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:50.479 straight and you'll see it. You'll see the big sign. 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.080 It's down a big driveway. I go, okay, So I 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.720 drive down there and we get to the driveway and yeah, 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.680 the driveway goes down, but it's deep and it goes 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:05.880 straight into the hotel lobby. If I take this car 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.880 down this hill, I'm not stopping. It's gonna go through 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.800 the front of the building. So I drive back to 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:17.200 the airport guy and I say, hey, man, is there 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.520 is there another hotel around here? Because we couldn't find 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.000 any other ones um or can I stay in the 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:23.840 can I stay in the airport. I can't get down there. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.120 And he's just Jamaican dude, and he's like, you stay, 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.240 oh dear, you're gonna die. Mind, you better find a 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:32.640 way to that hotel. It's like, all right, the airport's closed. 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.280 They're not gonna let me in. So I drive back 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.320 and now we're parked at the top of this hotel's 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:42.960 driveway and the and the makeup artist is looking at me, 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:44.960 and I'm looking at her, and she goes, how the 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:46.479 hell are we gonna get down there? She goes, I 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.400 can't walk down it. It's all it's all ice. I go, yeah, 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.440 I don't. I don't know, but I'm not gonna have 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.520 like a headline in the paper tomorrow by Freddie Prinz Jr. 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.080 Found with a makeup artist frozen dead in a car. 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.960 I was like, the stories they would ride would share 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.919 my family for the next generation. I said, we're getting 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:06.920 down this damn hill. So I'm looking around. I don't 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.880 see any way down outside of you know, horrible accident, 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:14.440 I get sued or dead or or someone else dies. Right, 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.080 So finally, because I'm an idiot, all right, And I'll 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.080 preface this by saying I've done a lot of dumb 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.560 stuff as a kid, and slid down a lot of 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.880 hills I shouldn't have slid down. So I go to 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.440 the trunk. I'll freezing to death, y'all. I'm a California kid. 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.039 My blood is thin. I surf if the waters, you know, 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:36.080 below seventy I'm wearing a wetsuit. It's how cold as hell. 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:40.720 I'm not dressed properly. I grabbed my suitcase. I said 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:42.080 it at the top of the thing. And now I'm 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.280 just staring down the hill at this hotel, at the 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.880 Ice Storm Hotel, and she comes up to me. She 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:48.719 gets out of the car. She goes, what are you doing? 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.400 And I don't even look at her. I say, I'm 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.680 gonna slide down this hill on my suitcase. She goes, what. 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:57.560 I go almost slide down my hill and I'm gonna 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.760 slide down the cell on my suitcase, and so are you. 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.719 She goes, I'm not doing that. I said, you're gonna 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.640 get your ass on your suitcase and you're sliding down 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.719 this hill with me. I'm not gonna leave you in 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.080 a car to die. This is the only way down. 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.200 I'm sure it wasn't, but I'm not a genius, so 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.920 this was the best way I could think of. I said, so, 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.760 I'm going down with you, and you're not gonna get hurt. 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.720 Don't worry. I'm certain of it in my head. I'm 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.160 certain of it. Sara, Are you ready? She goes now, 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:27.560 I go, well, we're going. I said, I'm not going first, 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.440 We're going together. She's she doesn't want to. She gets 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.680 her suitcase. What are the I mean you, we have 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.480 an option. Get down this hill. That's the option. So 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.800 she gets her suitcase. Every word that I'm telling you 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:44.160 in this story is actual. Well I'm about to go 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:49.040 t l C. It's actual and factual. Every sorry, every 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.760 word I'm telling you it's a true and every word 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.720 i'm telling you you will not believe. And I'm okay 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:59.000 with that. So I get on my suitcase. I lay 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.600 it down and I'm sitting on it the way you 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:04.320 would have sled, and my feet are on the snow 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.280 so that I can have my heels to dig in 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.720 to slow me down. I tell her to do the 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.560 same thing. She sits on the suitcase. I think I 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.480 have like a to me, right, it's like black traveled 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.559 to me. That was big enough to get all your crap, 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.520 but small enough to get in an overhead bind. One 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.560 of those. And she has like a hard case one 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.280 because she's got like makeup and crap. Right, So she 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.680 sits on her suitcase. I sit on mine. I said, 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.040 are you ready? She goes, oh, god, I guess so. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.120 So we kind of do the scooch like our feet 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.960 are in the snow like a one and it's too 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:41.439 and three and my feet are in the snow instantly. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.760 The moment that it gets steep, there's no more snow 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.360 for my feet to dig into. It is hard ice. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.600 It is a good inch thick, and they're probably not 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.720 an inch thick, but you get the point. Like it is, 0:08:55.880 --> 0:09:09.040 there's no attraction. So I hit terminal velocity within about 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.560 two and a half seconds, and I'm I mean, I'm flying. 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.400 I looked to my right because it's it's too fast 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.640 for me. I looked to my right, and she's bailing out. 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.240 It's too fast, okay, So she bails out to her 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:28.000 left towards me right. But now she has nothing. Now 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.960 it's just her body. So she's just gonna keep on sliding. 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.720 But it's not with any sort of control. So she's 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.120 going upside down, she's going horizontal, she's going to the left. 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.640 She's on her left hip, she's on her belly, she's 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:43.280 sliding everywhere. It looks like breaking two electric boogaloo, like 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.240 a deleted scene, right. She breakdancing all the way down 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:50.440 the sizes and I'm flying, okay, So I get down first. 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.120 She kind of curved off to the side into the 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.880 snow drift by the curb, but she's okay. She gets up, 0:09:55.960 --> 0:10:00.720 she's solid, makeup, good to go, case not destroyed. I 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.040 slide all the way down to basically where the valet 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.680 is and onto the brick entry way of this hotel, 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:12.480 about four ft away from the double sliding doors. The 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:16.560 entire staff of the hotel that was in that area 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.560 had been watching us since we were on top of 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.720 the hill, wondering how we were gonna get down. And 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:26.440 they're literally cheering for me because I literally just did 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.520 my evil kinevil shit. I just went like a hundred 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.800 twenty seven miles per hour done this driveway, and they're cheering, 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:35.720 and I get up and I'm laughing, and she's laughing. 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.240 Everybody's still in a good mood. And the guy literally 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:39.559 tells me. He goes, dude, we didn't know how you 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.720 ever going to get down, that was so sick. So 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.960 we go to check in. They don't have her room. 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.480 So she gets my bed and I crashed out on 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:52.600 the couch and then we wake up and the ice 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:54.680 they've now salted and done all this stuff. And the 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.319 next day we got on the plane and uh we 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.839 flew back to wife flew to New York City, and 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.640 she flew to wherever, to wherever she lived. But that 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:06.079 is the ice storm, and that's the fastest that I've 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.600 ever gone and something that wasn't a vehicle or a jet. Oh, 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.400 by the way, I flew in the jet. This isn't 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:14.560 wrestling related, but the like the dead commander at Nellis 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.720 Air Force Base in Las Vegas was Borto Rican dude, 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.920 and he loved my dad and my buddy who lives 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.640 out there. Ran a construction company and gave him some 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.480 equipment to help him do his house and uh, his 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.760 off his off base house and uh there in Las Vegas, 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.880 I think it was Henderson, Nevada. And so he was 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:34.920 like he saw a picture of me and Brian, my 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.080 buddy Brian, and he goes oh, you know Freddie Prince Jr. 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:38.960 Man I loved his dad. And he goes, oh, yeah, 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:40.920 he's a good friend of mine. And he goes tell 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.200 him if he ever wants to fly in the jet. Uh, 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.600 it's on me. He goes, no cameras, nothing. I was like, 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:47.640 and so my buddy Brian calls me, and I was like, 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:49.600 what do you mean like a jet jet? He goes, yeah, 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.160 I go to Oh, dude, I'm in. I drove from 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.480 l A to Las Vegas at night at like eleven 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.960 thirty at night, drove as fast as I could, and uh, 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:00.760 we have the date. I get there and I think 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.320 I'm just gonna fly on the jet. No, it's like 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.679 an eight hour class on how to breathe because you're 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.240 gonna be pulling so many cheese. And I'm in my twenties. 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.040 I'm cocky. I'm like, whatever, man, I'm half listening, right. 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.600 So they put me in the two seater and forgive me, 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.080 this is over twenty years ago. I don't remember. I 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:20.640 think it wasn't F sixteen. I don't know what the 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.000 two seater was. It might have even been like a 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.880 F one oh something. I don't know. But we get 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.400 in I've done my like my test, and they make 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.240 you do this like it's like I don't want to 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:32.960 breathe in the mic because it'll sound weird, but it's 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:36.280 like labor breathing. Okay, So I get in the jet, 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:41.880 we take off, just the take off my borderline tap out. Okay, 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.720 this dude, I tap out twice. And this isn't even 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:49.560 from tricks. Just turns were literally like, he goes, if 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:54.000 it feels good, you're not breathing. I said, what do 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:55.600 you mean? He goes if it starts to feel good, 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.920 if you feel high, you're not breathing, right, I said, okay, 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.000 And that basically is in jiu jitsu, like they say 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:02.800 tap when you when it feels good, that means you're 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:04.920 about to go to sleep. Twice I had to tap 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.080 because I forgot to breathe, and the breathing is the 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.680 hardest part. At one point in the air, I said, 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:11.280 how long would it take us to get to l A. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:15.160 He said about fifteen minutes, and I literally was just like, 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.360 oh my god. So anyway, I like going fast, we 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:22.839 fly back, I go back and uh, and now I'm 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.760 back ready to go to work. Talking events about the promo, 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.839 class who I like, who I don't. And the storyline 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.160 going on at the time was the Nexus, and this 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:37.200 was Wade Barrett and uh and Michael's something I can't remember, 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.320 but it was a big group that came up to 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.200 like take on kind of like how the Shield took on, 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.880 like the Current Stars. This was they were taking on 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.600 that here's current Stars. So they were going after Randy, 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.480 who was a heel, and John who was a baby face, 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.760 and John sold big for like horror movie cells, right, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.439 because they were really trying to get this group over. 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.720 They thought they had a couple of solid bangers in there. Right. 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.520 So I'm doing my promo class and I have a 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.000 lot of these guys and and uh and girls in 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.720 there now, and we're getting to use like really big rooms, 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.720 like sometimes even the cafeteria because we have so many 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.360 people in there. And I got these Nexus cats, right, 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:18.640 And there was this one dude named Fred and y'all 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.640 if you watch then then he wrestled under the name 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.479 Darren Young. His real name is Fred Rosser and uh 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.840 he's now out of out of the closet, and and 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.600 everyone knows that that Fred is a gay wrestler. And 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.800 I think was the first one to come out while 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.600 under the employee of w w E, but certainly not 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.200 the first gay wrestler in the w w E. If 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.480 you know about Pat Patterson, everyone in the company knew 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.960 Pat was. He was very open about it um and 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.080 everyone embraced him. So at this point in time, though 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.560 Fred was not out, he was a young wrestler. He 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:54.240 was coming up and uh so now I think he's 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.160 a new japan wrestling now. So if you're a big 0:14:56.160 --> 0:15:00.840 wrestling fan, he's built from stone, looks gray eight solid us, right, 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.000 and we just call him black John Cena because he 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:05.400 looked just like John Cena. But if John was black, 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.760 even his face, it was crazy. You put him side 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.120 by side and it looked like the exact same dude. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.720 I think John even cut a promo on it, uh, 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.800 in like an actual storyline where he's like, maybe we 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:16.840 did have the same father, but I hate you anyway. 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:20.280 I'm fighting for justice, so uh start doing the promo 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:26.040 classes and it's a lot of you, you going against 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.000 me because Vince likes that, right, So it's we're going 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.160 to have a fight, and you're gonna give me a 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.760 reason to watch like that. If you remember the dog story. 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.440 You're a dog, and you're a dog. Now make me 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:40.840 want to watch you fight. So a more productive way 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:44.320 to accomplish that is to give them a reason to fight, 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.080 like I did with Kia Stevens and with Beth Phoenix. Um. 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:53.160 If you remember from last week's episode, so William Regal 0:15:53.960 --> 0:16:00.520 also known as Stephen Regal, is and was one of 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:05.360 the single most helpful human beings while I worked at 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:10.720 that company. He would warn me about people. He would 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:15.120 help show me what wrestlers strengths were and to write 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:19.400 my promos to fit the type of wrestler they were, 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:23.480 because I was not doing that. Um, you don't want 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:25.560 to write a luchad or like a big man. You 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.640 don't want to write a big man like a high flyer. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.120 There's a different attitude. When you're seven ft tall. You 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.040 don't have to say as much. Your seven ft tall 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:36.920 I kind of equated to Darth Vader. You don't have 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.720 to give Darth Vader a lot of a lot of dialogue. 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:43.080 And you notice he only moves when he has to. 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.600 There's no wasted movement with Darth Vader, which was the 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.520 same crap I would hear in the production, not crap 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.400 this is good crap um. The same stuff I would 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.360 hear in the production meetings when they would talk about, 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.080 you know, tell these guys, the big guys, to slow down. 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.560 Less is more And there's something I know a lot 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.080 of people disagree with that, but I tend to agree 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.720 with it. It's more. It's what made Frankenstein so scary, 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:10.199 right is It's why Pepper lepu we were amazed with him, like, 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.840 how could someone as slow always catch always catch him? Right? 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.760 So it may be dated, but with the big guys, 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.480 they don't want them, you know, flying around everywhere. Vince 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.720 doesn't want his guys and his girls getting hurt, which 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.480 is why that w W E style is less exciting 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:30.760 because he feels it prevents injuries. So Stephen has been 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.120 getting me hip to it. And he asks me if 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:37.359 he can come in and uh and cut a promo 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.200 and I'm like, yeah, man, you want me to pick something? 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.840 He goes, oh no, no, no, I have something. I said, 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:46.560 all right, dude. So he comes in and I it 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:50.400 was either the Saint Crispin's Day from Henry the Five, 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.479 which is no joke, or it was from Hamlet, and 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.280 I feel like it was from Hamlet. Otherwise. I don't 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:00.080 know why I remember this line, but I feel like 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.720 I remember Stephen saying the world is nothing more to 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:07.879 me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors, and 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.080 that I know for sure is from Hamlet, so I 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.120 think it was Hamlet. So he cuts this, and then 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:15.920 he's trying to explain why he chose this to all 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:19.200 these young wrestlers, and he said he was talking about 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.280 the iambic pentameter, which is sort of the rhythm and 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:28.240 cadence required by by Shakespeare. He's trying to explain that 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:32.879 you can tell a story whether you speak English or not. 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:35.480 There are a couple of Japanese wrestlers in the room 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:38.720 at the time. You can communist cad to story whether 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.560 you speak Spanish better than English, the same way he communed, 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:46.520 those communicated those feelings from that monologue to everyone in there, 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.040 and everyone knew exactly what he was saying. When you 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.280 say someone, this world has nothing more to me but 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.919 a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors, I'm communicating a 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:56.919 message to you with a whole bunch of words that 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:59.320 neither one of us will ever use again in our 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:01.960 entire life. But you know exactly what I'm talking about. 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.600 You go, whoa, Freddie's a little depressed, ok you do? 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:09.000 And that message has been communicated beautifully, right, So I 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:12.240 think Funaki was in there. And by the way, I 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:15.879 got a great Funaki story. Kung should we do a 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:18.959 Japanese side quest? Should we do a side quest? All right, 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.080 we're doing a side quest? Okay. So it's a SmackDown. 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.560 It's over and Shane Hurricane Helms and some of the 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.879 writers and my buddy Angelo the writer, We're all having 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:32.160 like a beer at the hotel, and you know, after 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:34.440 a couple in, Shane goes, man, I wish we could 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:37.880 get I wish we'd get Funaki over again, and Angela 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:39.880 was like, yeah, well, let's let's think of something. He goes, oh, 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:42.119 then they wouldn't buy anything we do. And he goes 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:44.080 to we could think of something. And this is all 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:46.520 credit to Shane. Okay, I think he even wrote the 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.199 song that our truth saying to him later on, but 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.680 he goes, what about what if it was kung fu 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:57.000 KNOCKI and all the writers are drunk and they're like, 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:00.040 wait what He goes, yeah, like kung fu? He we 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:04.480 could sing the song Everybody loves Kong Fu Knack that 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:08.040 dude can't drink some sacking and he had like this 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:11.119 whole freestyle jam that they all fell in love with. 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:13.159 And I was in the writer's room one day and 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:16.680 they're pitching this and I'm like, yo, wait what And 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:19.840 Shane comes in and they go, Shane, what about Kung Funaki? 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:22.320 And Shane just looks at the board and he sees 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:25.320 how we booked and he goes, that's pretty fucking funny, 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:27.520 and he just walked out of the room. And that's 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:30.679 when we gave Funaki the Daniel Son Crane kick, and 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.280 m VP sold it better than Johnny Lawrence did in 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:36.320 that movie Are You Kinda May Come Home Baby? Sound 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.000 for the Wind? So anyway, that's the Japanese side quest. 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:43.200 So um, we're back in promo class and Sir William 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:45.719 Regal is in there. Gotta call him sir, even if 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:48.120 he's not a real knight, he should be Darren. Young 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:51.520 Fred gets up and he wants to He wants to 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:55.120 do a promo scenario then cutting on each other, and 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:58.840