1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: And she said you should talk with Stephanie McMahon and 2 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: I went what And she was like, yeah, you should. 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: You should talk to her and just talk about your 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: ideas and you know, who knows what could happen. 5 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, hang out with Stephanie McMahon. Party honest, 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,439 Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, are you ready? Bouts that hit the fan? 7 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 2: Welcome to Unsanctioned Thursdays Interrestling with Friday. 8 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,520 Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody? Welcome to the show that you all 9 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 1: asked for, that you demanded and you got. It's Unsanctioned 10 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: Thursdays where we give you a little bit extra because 11 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: Wednesdays are not long enough. You know it, we know it, 12 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: we agree. Don't yell at us on social media. It hurts. Jeff, 13 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:51,599 Speaker 1: How are you today? 14 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 3: Feeling good? How are you feeling, Bob? 15 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: I'm feeling pretty good. Man. We spoke last week. Here's 16 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: here's your weekly update on my federation. We spoke last week. 17 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: I got a text during the podcast with the bad news. 18 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: I'm comfortable saying who the past was this week? I 19 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: want to make sure I got it right. Yeah. It 20 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 1: was a Warner Discovery. They were the first people that 21 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: I went to and I mentioned that I should have 22 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 1: recognized by the types of questions that it was going 23 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,960 Speaker 1: to be a no. But pitching a brainchild or a 24 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: baby or an idea, however you define it, is such 25 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 1: a It's like being underwater. Man. It's such a roller 26 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 1: coaster going up and down. But it's it's never fast 27 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: when you want it to be fast, and it's never 28 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: slow and you want it to be slow. So yeah, 29 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: So it was Warner Discovery that And I'm not saying 30 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: that to hate on them or anything like that. I 31 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: just want to give you guys all the information so 32 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 1: they they eventually passed on it. I'll mention the places 33 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: as we go through. I know that one of the 34 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: places I went to is going to be a no 35 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 1: because at one point in the conversation I wanted to say, 36 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: do you guys even like Presley, thank you just didn't 37 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: go well? 38 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 3: Like Freddie Jr. But I didn't know he was going 39 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 3: to get wrestling. 40 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 1: Maybe that's what it was. But I'll talk about them 41 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: when they officially say no. But it's gonna be a no. 42 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: And then there's two places where I think one is 43 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: a definite yes and it's and it's coming because They've 44 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: made multiple calls asking all kinds of questions from creative 45 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 1: to financial. When they start talking money, that's when it's 46 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: getting serious. And the other place is like a dark 47 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:23,960 Speaker 1: horse kind of a not a long shot, like a 48 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 1: like a weird choice, but it could be really cool. 49 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: And if they say, I just want to yes. So 50 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 1: whicheverone says yes, I want to put wrestling on TV 51 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: and put more wrestlers on TV because that experience does 52 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: nothing but help everybody, including the fans. So yeah, so 53 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: that's where we stand with that. I'm sorry, I don't 54 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,959 Speaker 1: have any like like Jawbreaker news, but this is the 55 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,079 Speaker 1: update you get. Tell these studios to hurry up and 56 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:50,959 Speaker 1: come here to that's all Iran set up a patch. Sorry, Okay, 57 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 1: I'm good now, Jeff, Where are you going to be 58 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: this weekend? Bro? 59 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 3: This weekend, I am in Arizona at the Desert Ridge 60 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 3: Improv shows are almost sold out, so get tickets quick, 61 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 3: but it's gonna be awesome. I love every time I 62 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:05,639 Speaker 3: get to go into Phoenix or Scottsdale area, Like it's 63 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 3: like my favorite I think it's my favorite state, Arizona. 64 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: It's a good city too. Phoenix is a good city, Man, 65 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,799 Speaker 1: good wrestling city too. Man. They love lucha libre down. 66 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 3: There, just like a little lizard. 67 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 1: So I love the heat. 68 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 3: And there is like a big Mexican culture there, which 69 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 3: is my favorite culture. So I just I love like 70 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 3: place where you can it's right, be hot, watch wrestling, 71 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 3: tell jokes. 72 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: I love it, sir. Speaking of things you love. You 73 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: love professional wrestling. And when you started on this, I 74 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: don't know why we didn't start the way I started 75 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: on season one, which was giving people a reason why 76 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: why I love professional wrestling, what my history of it was, 77 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: how I came up on it, who introduced me to it, 78 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: who was my first favorite wrestler, all those types of things, 79 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: and you've never gotten the opportunity to share that, which 80 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: is bad co hosting on my part. But I'm a 81 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: rookie at this, all right. It's my first one. So 82 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: why don't you tell the people? Let's get personal. So sure, 83 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: let's get deep. Share the lead. 84 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 3: These wrestling fans, according to our producer Alex and according 85 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 3: to you, they keep reaching WHOA justify your fandom? Justify 86 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 3: your existence? They say, is he even really a wrestling fan? 87 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 3: Let me tell you, kiddos. Fans of the Federation, the Fredsters. 88 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 3: I've been a huge wrestling fan for my no, I 89 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 3: won't say my entire life, but since first grade. You 90 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 3: guys think I'm just some creepy comedian who messes around 91 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:36,679 Speaker 3: with WWE divas. But let me tell you, Jesus Christ, 92 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 3: let me tell you I'm a real fan. It started 93 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 3: with me being a pretty nerdy kid. I would well like, oh, 94 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 3: you know, in first grade, I don't know how to 95 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 3: make friends. I've only had girls in my life as 96 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 3: far as my sisters and my mom, and so I 97 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,359 Speaker 3: didn't know how to like make friends necessarily. So I 98 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:55,839 Speaker 3: got kind of set up with another kid who didn't 99 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 3: have many friends, and they're like they should play together. 100 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 3: So me and my parents and their parents. His parents 101 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:03,840 Speaker 3: like set up like this kind of play date when 102 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 3: I was in first grade to socialize this a little bit. 103 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 3: His name was Eric Barons. Shout out to Eric Barns. 104 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 3: And when I went to his house, he had all 105 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 3: these like little wrestling toys. It was this exact series 106 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 3: the WWS has bros. And they were like, they're like 107 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 3: hard and they've got these big muscles. If you can't 108 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 3: see this, they're these awesome little plastic toys that were 109 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,359 Speaker 3: wildly popular. They're still very popular, and I was like 110 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 3: captivated by the toy. I was like, what are these guys, 111 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:31,720 Speaker 3: because like one of them was a sergeant and one 112 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 3: of them was a clown, and one of them was 113 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 3: a wizard, an undead wizard underdigger, and so I was 114 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 3: just like looking at them all and I was like, 115 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 3: these are cool. And so we sat there and played 116 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 3: with those for a little while and then he goes, yeah, 117 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 3: these are all real people. I was like what, and 118 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 3: then he goes yeah, And so he showed me and 119 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:50,119 Speaker 3: the first thing I watched ever was in nineteen ninety three. 120 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 3: It was like on a battleship. 121 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, Lex Experience and. 122 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 3: Lex Luger had like an American flag and that's like, 123 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 3: that's the that's the one I watched. That's the that's 124 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 3: the first one I can remember. I don't know which 125 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 3: one Eric showed me, but Eric showed me those. And 126 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 3: after watching that, even though that was my first thing 127 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 3: I ever saw was in nineteen ninety three, I took 128 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 3: I bought all the or I didn't buy. I probably 129 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 3: rented all the VHS tapes and I watched everything like 130 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 3: before that and then like would watch. I'd kept up 131 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 3: from that day. I've kept up on wrestling. There was 132 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 3: a one chapter of wrestling that I didn't watch because 133 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 3: I was too busy like surviving and chasing comedy and 134 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 3: living in a car, and that was the era with 135 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 3: like Bautista and like whatever. That era kind of was, 136 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 3: like I missed a lot of that. But besides, like evolution, 137 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 3: you missed a lot of that. And I would check 138 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 3: in because I really liked wrestling, but I was too 139 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 3: busy trying to like survive my twenties. But other than 140 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 3: that all I've been a huge wrestling fan my entire life. 141 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 3: There's a reason I like all these wrestling girls because 142 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:50,280 Speaker 3: I just love wrestling. 143 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: That's awesome, dude, his name is Eric. What was Eric Barns? 144 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:55,720 Speaker 1: Don't know where he's at anymore, Eric, Eric Barns. I 145 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,280 Speaker 1: hope you're still a wrestling fan. I hope somehow this 146 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,919 Speaker 1: this audio package finds you and one of your friends 147 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:05,679 Speaker 1: listens to our friends of a friend of a friend 148 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 1: listens and it somehow makes its way to you, and 149 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: it puts a smile on your face. That's awesome, good man, 150 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: that's awesome. Do you remember what your first live show 151 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: was that you ever went to. 152 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:19,239 Speaker 3: I think my first live show. Gosh, that's interesting because 153 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 3: I've been to so many. 154 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 1: Because you were probably a grown up when it happened. 155 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 3: I was in high school or yeah, like tenth grade. 156 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 3: Jeremy Fisher got tickets and Jeremy Fisher invited me and 157 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 3: like the hottest girl in our school, Amber Shoemaker. So 158 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 3: it was kind of an odd pairing of us three. 159 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 3: It's very weird. 160 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: I love that you give last names too. I don't know. 161 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 3: I want them to hear this and know that I'm 162 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 3: talking about it. So it's me, Jeremy Fisher and Amber 163 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 3: Shoemaker and I can't and he might lose his mind 164 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 3: hearing this because I can't confirm that it's true or not. 165 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 3: But in my memory, at least as I remember it, 166 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 3: I think I was the only one that liked wrestling. 167 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: I was like, this is so cool. 168 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 3: I was like having a good time. Amber Shoemaker couldn't 169 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 3: be bothered. And I'm pretty sure that Jeremy Fisher, I don't. 170 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 3: I think maybe he thought it was like ironically funny 171 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 3: or something, but like I was like super into it. 172 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 3: I was like, this is awesome, and our seats were terrible, 173 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 3: and I was like a little in the back of 174 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 3: my mind like these seats are bad, but beggars can't 175 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 3: be choosers, you know, like, let's just enjoy it. And 176 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 3: then about halfway through the Monday Night Raw is what 177 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 3: it was, someone came and said, these are our seats, 178 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 3: and we're like what, And then we looked at our 179 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 3: tickets wrong. We were actually pretty close, so we could 180 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 3: have been the whole time pretty close, but we got 181 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 3: to see the second half super close, which made us 182 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 3: a pretty manse appreciate it more. It was really fun. 183 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 3: So another shout out to Amber Shoemaker and Jeremy Fisher. 184 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: And for any of you, if you're questioning my love 185 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: for wrestling, first of all, the F you big time. 186 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: That's you get a big CAPITALF and big capital you. 187 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 1: I got love for your passion for wrestling. I'm not 188 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: questioning and I'm not judging. It's don't you dare, don't 189 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:55,080 Speaker 1: you dare? But just so you guys know, I worked 190 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,319 Speaker 1: at w W. That's how much I love the damn thing. 191 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 1: My grandma took me to a luta libre match in 192 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 1: Puerto Rican when I was a little kid visiting her 193 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: and they put a cage around the ring. I thought 194 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 1: it was a steel cage match and it was just 195 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 1: to protect the wrestlers from the fans if the wrong 196 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: dude won. They were so hardcore and they were throwing 197 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: pennies at people. They were throwing water balloons that had 198 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 1: peepee in it. It was no good say peepee. Because 199 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 1: I was like eight years old and I was there. Man, 200 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 1: my grandma brought an umbrellas she knew what time. 201 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, they fire throwing pennies. That showed some hate. They 202 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 3: didn't have a lot of pennies despair, you know what 203 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:25,959 Speaker 3: I'm saying. 204 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: You know they were throwing them with passion. Brother, So yeah, 205 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 1: So I fell in love with it at a young 206 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,079 Speaker 1: age and I always watched it. I actually fell off 207 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,319 Speaker 1: of it during the Attitude era because I thought the 208 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 1: stories were getting kind of ridiculous. I was a little 209 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 1: bit older. I was in my twenties, not my teens, 210 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: So I dropped off then and had to catch up 211 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: on all that because my friends were like, dude, it's 212 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: all the best matches. Who cares? And I was started watching. 213 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, these are all the best matches. 214 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: Who cares, So I'm with you on the matches. I 215 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: just thought the stories suck. And then I ended up 216 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: retiring from acting when I had kids and went to 217 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:06,079 Speaker 1: WWE match. It was Rick Flair's retirement match. Supposedly, you'll never. 218 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:11,679 Speaker 3: These big quote end quote fucking retirements and nobody's retiring, frustrating. 219 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: The Barber streisand of wrestling. It's the final concert ever 220 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: twenty seven times later. So yeah, So I went to 221 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,280 Speaker 1: this match, and I spoke to a lady who worked 222 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: there named Kristin Proudy. I'm gonna hit last names like 223 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 1: Jeff did because it just sounds cool. She had worked 224 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: there for a long time and kind of built her 225 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: own division within the company. She was responsible for like 226 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 1: taking care of the celebs that were coming in, and 227 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: then built her spot from that to like a much 228 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: bigger position in the company. And she started talking to 229 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: me about wrestling what I liked and didn't like. And 230 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: so I was living in New York at the time. 231 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 1: I went to Stanford met with Stephanie, had a very 232 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,199 Speaker 1: similar conversation and she goes, you should talk to my dad, 233 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:50,839 Speaker 1: and I'm sitting there like, well, yeah, She's like, yeah, 234 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 1: you should talk. I was like, yeah, I'll talk to 235 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 1: your dad. And by the time I left, I had 236 00:10:54,559 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: a job. I've told this story before, so if you 237 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:12,320 Speaker 1: want to hear it in detail, you can go to 238 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: episode one, Season one, Episode one and you can get 239 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: all the juicy deats bill. That's my resume. If it 240 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 1: pleases you, good and if it does not, you bastards, 241 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:23,719 Speaker 1: You'll pay each and every one. 242 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 3: I got a question for you. Do you think once 243 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 3: your kids are grown up that they'll still watch wrestling? 244 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:34,319 Speaker 1: Charlotte, Yes, Rocky, I don't know, because he wasn't that 245 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: into it, except Kevin Owens you really like, he'd say, Dad, 246 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: tell me if there was covid olans much all cot, 247 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 1: But otherwise he didn't really care where. Charlotte likes the 248 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: boys and the Girls matches, but his buddy Bo who's 249 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: on his football team. I gotta tell a story about 250 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 1: the football team too. By the way, loves wrestling like 251 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: he is eleven years old one hundred percent in that 252 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: first hour of raw demographic. The yeah, the first hour 253 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: demographic is eleven years old. You know still really wants 254 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 1: it to be real. I didn't like, he goes you 255 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 1: worked there how and I was like, oh, I just 256 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 1: like helped the wrestlers be comfortable with the stuff they 257 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 1: you know that they had to say. I didn't want 258 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 1: to wreck the dream from him because he could see 259 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: he's he was kind of searching, but he still believed 260 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 1: a little bit. So my son saw us talking and 261 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:23,079 Speaker 1: he got like a little bit jealous and he was like, dah, 262 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: what wrestler are you talking? 263 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 3: Oh? 264 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 1: I know him, I know that guy. And he did 265 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: not know that guy. And so when the dinner was over, 266 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:30,959 Speaker 1: I just took him and he told me out after 267 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 1: football practice, dropped bow off, and then took Rocky home 268 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: and he goes, Dad, could I watch some wrestling? Nice? 269 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 1: And I was like, anytime you want to, dude. And 270 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: then of course the first thing was the draft, and 271 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 1: he was like this is boring. I'll think I'll tell 272 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: you when Kevin Owens is O, don't worry about it. 273 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 1: I love that. So yeah, man, yeah, oh football story. 274 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: So I've wanted my son to have a great sports 275 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: moment ever since he got into sports. But my boy 276 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 1: is very small. He was late to puberty, right, and 277 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: so all his friends kind of outgrew him three or 278 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: four years ago and he's always been the smallest one. 279 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: He's quick, but he's for sure the smallest one and 280 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 1: not very tall body or height, and so I always 281 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 1: wanted him to have it, and he hasn't had it yet. 282 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: Like he's had some games where he scored a couple 283 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: of baskets in basketball, he's had some soccer games where 284 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: he's made some good passes and had gotten a couple steals. 285 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:24,079 Speaker 1: And then in football he's had like a couple runs 286 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 1: here and there and a couple of catches here and there, 287 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: but never like the game. And Saturday, while I was 288 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,199 Speaker 1: in Chicago at C two e two, my wife starts 289 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 1: sending me video after video, and my daughter starts texting 290 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: me text after text, and each video is another touchdown 291 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: that my son has scoring. He scored eighteen points with 292 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: touchdowns and two point conversions that were going in. He 293 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: got an interception that he took back to the one 294 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 1: yard line, and he rushed for almost two hundred frigging 295 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: yards in a youth league. That's and I was like crying, 296 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:59,679 Speaker 1: And there were pro wrestlers there, and one of them 297 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 1: was like, dude, what's going on. I was like, it's 298 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: my son. He just had like the game of his life. 299 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 1: And I showed him the video and he's like, dude, 300 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 1: you can cry it. So I love that. But yeah, man, 301 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: it was awesome. It was awesome. It was like my 302 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: highlight of the entire weekend and I didn't even get 303 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:16,079 Speaker 1: to be there. Also, oh and I wrote there too, 304 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 1: for anyone who wants to know, I wrote the Jeff 305 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 1: Hardy storyline that took him to the Title Championship, to 306 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: the World Championship at Armageddon. But yeah, so hopefully that 307 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: answers some of your OLL's questions. I hope it satisfies 308 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 1: you guys. And when I talk tough to you guys, 309 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. I hope you guys know that. I 310 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 1: know it's you can't see my face, but I'm usually 311 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: like smiling right after. 312 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 3: So yeah, I do most people get into wrestling, you 313 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 3: think like their their brothers or their their their I was. 314 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: An only child. My grandma got me into it. But yeah, 315 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: probably siblings. Yeah, probably siblings. 316 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 3: Because my sister's made it fun for you. It was 317 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 3: a whole My sister's made fun of wrestling the whole time. 318 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 3: Like my brother's so stupid, My brother's so stupid. Wrestling 319 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 3: so dumb. Wrestling's fake. Wrestling's fake. And then now like 320 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 3: someone will wear like an Austin three sixteen shirt and 321 00:14:57,640 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 3: my sister will be like, I love that, and I'm like, 322 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 3: you hated that, you made fun of me for that. 323 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 3: What are you talking about? You love that? And she's like, 324 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 3: I watched it with you. I was like, no, you didn't. 325 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 3: You're misremembering history, you loser. So I get a little 326 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 3: bit of the pride of you know, like, hey, we're 327 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 3: wrestling fans, we're you know, we're in this group together. 328 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:23,000 Speaker 1: But whatever, Yeah, man, it's it. Sometimes it's tough being 329 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: a wrestling fan, especially in LA, because it's not looked at. 330 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 1: It's like, oh, rustling, although it's gotten cooler over the 331 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: last couple of years, like WWNAW are responsible for that. 332 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: But like, I remember one time being at this poker 333 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: game and I'm not a gambler, it's not. It was 334 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 1: like a small time, a small stakes game. It was 335 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: like a hundred bucks and everybody bought in and they 336 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 1: got like a thousand in chips and we're playing and 337 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,200 Speaker 1: someone was like, I asked if they could put Monday 338 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 1: Night Raw on, and somebody was like dude, you watch wrestling. 339 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, man, I like it a lot, 340 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: and he kind of chilled out. And then this other 341 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: guy at another table it was a three three tables 342 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: in this big living room and goes, oh, hell yeah, 343 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: Monday night raw. And I looked over and I go, dude, 344 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: what's your name? It was like Gary. I was like, 345 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 1: what's up? Gary? Freddie Man, and like right away we 346 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: were bros. And we were the tag team champions of 347 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: that room, and nobody could have with it exactly. And 348 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: you take pride in those in those friendships, in those relationships, 349 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: because it is alternative entertainment. It's not mainstream. That's why 350 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: they bring mainstream people in to help make it more mainstream. 351 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 1: It's why they bring celebrities in too, be guest gms 352 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: to get rkao'ed by Randy Orton, or to have Butterbean 353 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: go in and knock out Bart Starr back in the 354 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,160 Speaker 1: day at WrestleMania, like to bring more eyeballs to the product. 355 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 1: That's why they did Snookie when I worked there and 356 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 1: brought Snookie to WrestleMania, and she freaking beat Michelle McCool. 357 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 1: What the hell are they doing? But yeah, man, they're 358 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: just they're trying to make it more mainstream. So I 359 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 1: definitely feel the fans on that, and I feel you 360 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: on that as well. Dude. 361 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 3: It's also like, it takes a special type of person 362 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 3: to like wrestling, So when you know someone else likes 363 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 3: wrestling and immediately makes you like like you've got kind 364 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 3: of this connection with him. I was explaining to my 365 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 3: barista this morning. I was like, he's like, what are 366 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 3: you doing today? And I was like, I'm doing my 367 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:10,119 Speaker 3: wrestling podcast and he's like, he's like, you do have 368 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:12,000 Speaker 3: a wrestling podcast. I was like, well, Freddie Prince Junior 369 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,439 Speaker 3: as a wrestling podcast and I'm his co host. And he's like, 370 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 3: oh cool, and then he asked the normal questions about 371 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:19,640 Speaker 3: you and I put you over. Then he's like, isn't 372 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 3: like Joe Rogan like obsessed with pro wrestling, And I 373 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 3: was like, no, no, Joe Rogan likes real like mixed 374 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 3: martial arts, like we like pro wrestling. We like that 375 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 3: stuff too, but we like pro it's a pro wrestling, 376 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 3: big difference. And he goes, oh, yeah, it's like fake right, 377 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, now I have to have 378 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 3: this conversation, you know. So I was like, yes, it's predetermined, Yes, 379 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:39,920 Speaker 3: it's choreographed, Yes it's yeah, you know, it's a show. 380 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 3: But it's also it's not fake. That word isn't really 381 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 3: how we talk about it, because it's you know, it's 382 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 3: it's it's like sirt to Solat. You know, it says 383 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 3: real as cert to Solat. It's a show with athleticism, 384 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:52,159 Speaker 3: and it's sure as helle realer than games. 385 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: The Jackie Chan fight scene and like and it hurts 386 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: more because they don't have pads on shit. It's a 387 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 1: hell of all. 388 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 3: It's a hell of a lot, a realer than Game 389 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 3: of Thrones. And you know, I don't hear you talking 390 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:04,639 Speaker 3: trash about that. It's awesome, it's cool, you know. 391 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, Drew McIntyre has a real sword, not that fake problem. 392 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 3: Now he's got an even reeler sword from The Rock. 393 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 3: The Rock just gave him one. To see that video, 394 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,359 Speaker 3: no Id Rock gifted him a sword and a card 395 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 3: for resigning. I guess that there was some sort of agreement. 396 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:20,199 Speaker 3: I don't know what the agreement was because at the 397 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 3: end of the video Drew McIntyre goes, you kept your 398 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 3: word or something like that. But anyways, he bought them 399 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:27,440 Speaker 3: Ah Bottom the sword. 400 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:29,879 Speaker 1: Which is pretty cool. That's awesome, guys. Make sure you 401 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: tune in next week when our guest is none other 402 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 1: than the AEW World Champion Swerved Strickland. We love him. 403 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:38,199 Speaker 1: He announced he was going to be a champion in 404 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four on this very show, uh last year, 405 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:43,679 Speaker 1: and we can't wait to have him on again, so 406 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 1: tune in for that. And as always on unsanctioned Thursdays, 407 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: I'll continue to give you guys updates regardless of the 408 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:52,399 Speaker 1: success or the failure of my own dream of creating 409 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: my own promotion, so stay tuned for those as well. 410 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 1: Every Thursday, I'm half of Jeff Die. As always, I'm Friday's. 411 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:06,439 Speaker 1: This has been a production of Iheart'smichaeltura podcast Network. 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