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Speaker 2: all right. We're not gonna waste any time. Jeff're getting
Speaker 2: right into it. This one is from Robbie Nielsen five.
Speaker 2: I know you'll get this question a lot, but any
Speaker 2: updates on the Federation?
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me be.
Speaker 2: Completely straight up and get this out of the way,
Speaker 2: because I think I've hinted at it in an earlier episode,
Speaker 2: but I didn't really like give the details. So this
Speaker 2: was and still is. But right now it's a dream
Speaker 2: that's on hold. This was a huge dream of mine
Speaker 2: and I got really friggin close. At the end of
Speaker 2: the day. What I wanted to buy wanted to be
Speaker 2: sold for more than what I could bring to the table.
Speaker 2: And other companies have like WWE and AEW have you know,
Speaker 2: infinite amounts of cash, and I have a what's the
Speaker 2: absite of infinite? A finite A finite a finite amount
Speaker 2: of cash. So after the LA Fires, we decided to
Speaker 2: move because we were really close to where all that
Speaker 2: went down. It literally hit our street. But when we
Speaker 2: were evacuated and so we moved. So my wrestling money
Speaker 2: went into buying a beautiful home for my family that
Speaker 2: we're all he feels very safe and comfortable in. And
Speaker 2: the dream will have to come about a different a
Speaker 2: different way. I haven't given up on it, but I
Speaker 2: did have to shelve it based on life and circumstances
Speaker 2: and tough business negotiations that I just wasn't able to
Speaker 2: get a favorable position in. So I appreciate the question,
Speaker 2: Robbie Nielsen, and that's the answer for all of you.
Speaker 2: I'm not giving up on it. It just has to
Speaker 2: be on hold while I make a couple movies. All right,
Speaker 2: Coming up next, this one's coming from A Z six
Speaker 2: six six, the number of the Devil. What are your
Speaker 2: favorite restaurants around Los Angeles? Oh, you think I'm gonna
Speaker 2: tell you my favorite spot? So you could be there
Speaker 2: and then like ask me some questions about the Federation. Listen, man,
Speaker 2: I'll give you some restaurants, but I can't give you
Speaker 2: my top dog because then everyone knows about it. I'll
Speaker 2: tell you this, and I screwed up. Man. Back in
Speaker 2: the late nineties early two thousands, there was this and
Speaker 2: it's still there. It's an amazing restaurant. I still go there.
Speaker 2: It's called Asanebo. It's a sushi restaurant in the valley
Speaker 2: on Ventura Boulevard and Radford, right in that area, right there,
Speaker 2: and everybody should go there. But it used to be
Speaker 2: this secret spot. It opened up in nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 2: end of ninety six, beginning of ninety seven. And I
Speaker 2: used to go there because Japanese restaurants would always let
Speaker 2: you drink, even if you weren't twenty one. They didn't care.
Speaker 2: They just want your money. So that's a good tip
Speaker 2: for all you eighteen year olds that like to drink.
Speaker 2: Go to Japanese restaurants.
Speaker 3: I used to have a shirt that I bought in
Speaker 3: Japan that said, uh, Japan serves alcohol two children, and
Speaker 3: that's all.
Speaker 1: I thought.
Speaker 3: It was a funny shirt I bought, ut it's the truth.
Speaker 3: It's the truth. So anyway, I told these actors that
Speaker 3: were on a TV show back then. I was friends
Speaker 3: with one of them, and I told him, and I
Speaker 3: brought him to this restaurant. I said, I said specifically,
Speaker 3: but don't tell your friends, because his friends were like
Speaker 3: the people who call the paparazzi and tell them where
Speaker 3: they're gonna be so that they get photographed when they
Speaker 3: come out, and then they act all annoyed that they're
Speaker 3: being photographed, even though they're the ones that called. I
Speaker 3: was like, don't tell your friends because they're all gonna,
Speaker 3: you know, make this place super trendy and popular, and
Speaker 3: I don't want to.
Speaker 2: Get photographed coming in and out of here. It's like
Speaker 2: the secret hole in the wall spot. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: no problem, bro, no problem that weekend happens that Monday,
Speaker 2: I see photos of all his whole cast coming out
Speaker 2: of that restaurant, and I was like, I called him.
Speaker 2: I said, damn it, bro, I told you. He was like, oh, sorry, man,
Speaker 2: it was no big deal. I was like, no, it
Speaker 2: is a big deal. And then the next time I went,
Speaker 2: I got fun. So I stopped going for like two
Speaker 2: years because I hated that crap so much. But it's
Speaker 2: called asinabol it's in the valley. I go there again
Speaker 2: now because now none of those a holes go there anymore.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I called them a holes. They were a holes.
Speaker 2: So dealers were a holes. I'll tell Jeff who they
Speaker 2: were off the air. But yeah, so Asinebo, it's in
Speaker 2: the valley. It's an awesome spot if you like Italian food.
Speaker 2: There's a great place called Scratch, which is like this
Speaker 2: sneaky speakeasy spot. You make a reservation and then you
Speaker 2: got to kind of find it. It's in this like
Speaker 2: not an unmarked shopping center, but just like a very
Speaker 2: nondescript shopping center, and they don't have a sign on
Speaker 2: the door, so you kind of just got to like
Speaker 2: walk around until you find it, and it's annoying, but
Speaker 2: once you get in, you're like, oh wow, this is
Speaker 2: really worth it. So those are your two recommendations, Jeff,
Speaker 2: what do you recommend? I'm a simple man. I'm not
Speaker 2: a foodie.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I could tell you twelve great bars from when I
Speaker 3: was drinking, and I could tell you five great cigar
Speaker 3: loungers that are near where I live that I frequent.
Speaker 3: But I'm not like a big food guy. I'm always
Speaker 3: ordering in Like just last night I had hostmates. I
Speaker 3: ordered sugarfish really sushi plays.
Speaker 1: You know, it's whatever.
Speaker 3: It's hardly a secret, but I will say, if you're
Speaker 3: ever in the Valley of Los Angeles, there's a place
Speaker 3: called Hugos. Yeah, it's just like a healthy diner. But
Speaker 3: it isn't so healthy that it doesn't taste good, and
Speaker 3: it isn't so dinery that you feel guilty about eating it.
Speaker 3: It's just a really good diner called Hugos.
Speaker 2: I have eaten a Hugos on many a brunch, and
Speaker 2: I completely agree with Jeff's endorsement. Next week we'll tell
Speaker 2: you guys where the best cigar bars in the valley are. Yeah,
Speaker 2: next up, and we're really nice to you as considering
Speaker 2: you have the number of the Beast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought about going. I'm not answering this for
Speaker 3: anyone that has six six six. I tell everyone, do
Speaker 3: what you'd like, but don't do what you'd like with
Speaker 3: the devil.
Speaker 1: You know that's a bad thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, the Devil's bad, all right. This one comes
Speaker 2: from Sky's the Limit twenty twenty one. Do your respective
Speaker 2: partners have problems when you're hooking up? In a movie?
Speaker 2: Great question.
Speaker 1: No, my ex.
Speaker 2: Girlfriend did, which is one of the reasons why she's
Speaker 2: my ex. She thought that it was like cheating, and
Speaker 2: so we woke up and then she was the one
Speaker 2: who actually cheated in real life, and I was like, uh,
Speaker 2: what the hell Like, at least I got.
Speaker 1: Hit for it.
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty one. This is the best question ever. And
Speaker 3: I'll tell you why. I've had a theory about this
Speaker 3: forever because these actor guys and these actor guys and gals, yeah,
Speaker 3: tell me about me, Yeah, I will. They always go, oh, gosh,
Speaker 3: it's just a character. It's just a character. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: it's not real. It's like, dude, when I get I
Speaker 3: get turned on, when I get a massage, I don't
Speaker 3: know how to turn it off, just because it's an acting. Also,
Speaker 3: with acting, you get so into it that I don't
Speaker 3: know how. I wouldn't have feelings or emotions if I
Speaker 3: start kissing on someone or hooking up with someone. So
Speaker 3: I respect actors that they're able to not make this
Speaker 3: a thing, but I know I wouldn't be able to.
Speaker 1: I don't know how. I don't know how the heck
Speaker 1: they do it.
Speaker 2: So I know a lot of actors who do have
Speaker 2: issues with it, like what you're saying and can't deal
Speaker 2: with it, and they don't hate. They don't date other
Speaker 2: actors simply because of that, like they can't handle it.
Speaker 2: I also know some actors whose spouses that are not
Speaker 2: in the business who hate the fact that their spouse
Speaker 2: has to kiss somebody else. So there are insecurities that
Speaker 2: can drive those types of feelings, right, My insecurities are
Speaker 2: other stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm more self hate.
Speaker 2: That stuff was like, oh, I'm probably horrible at this too. Fuck,
Speaker 2: Like that's more where my insecurities lie. But they've never
Speaker 2: lied in there, Like I've never worried about Sarah liking
Speaker 2: somebody that she worked with, and she's never had to
Speaker 2: worry about that either. I'm friends with most of the
Speaker 2: women that I've had to have an intimate scene with
Speaker 2: on camera, like Rachel ye Cook and I are still
Speaker 2: super friggin tight, and she was like the first girl
Speaker 2: I think I smooched on camera, but there was no like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, we just smooched because she's more like
Speaker 2: a sister, like I looked out for and she looked
Speaker 2: out for me. That's sort of always been our relationship
Speaker 2: and I think maybe because it was established like that
Speaker 2: for me, I've just always taken that approach with every
Speaker 2: single woman that I've had to have a smooch with
Speaker 2: on camera, where it's just like, nah, I'm here to
Speaker 2: look out for you. You're safe with me. Nobody's asking
Speaker 2: you for coffee later, like this is a job. And
Speaker 2: I think because of that, I've always maintained friendships with
Speaker 2: just about every female that I worked with. Some may
Speaker 2: not be friends, but we're not enemies. We just don't
Speaker 2: know each other because we had nothing in common. But yeah,
Speaker 2: that's an excellent question. Sky's the limit and I hope
Speaker 2: we answered it at equipment. Next on the list, this
Speaker 2: one comes from a friend of the show, Emma Frad
Speaker 2: with two d's. I'm not gonna say fraud. That would
Speaker 2: be messed up, but I almost said fraud, but it's
Speaker 2: Frad for sure. Hey, Freddy, Alex and Jeff Alex getting
Speaker 2: some love. I wonder why this question made the list.
Speaker 2: What are each of your favorite wrestling matches of all time?
Speaker 2: In all of the times, As Santino Morello would say,
Speaker 2: Our producer Alex says he has three favorite match three
Speaker 2: she has for one bro three favorite matches. One was
Speaker 2: a w CW Stark nineteen ninety seven where Sting defeated
Speaker 2: Hal Cogan to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. The
Speaker 2: next this is what I was gonna say, Oh wait,
Speaker 2: maybe not Stone Cold versus Bret Hart WrestleMania thirteen when
Speaker 2: they did the double turn Dun Dunt dun. And finally,
Speaker 2: and much more recently, Swerve Strickland versus Brian Danielson career
Speaker 2: versus title match at aw All in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Nothing beats that final countdown entrance. Ever, those were excellent matches.
Speaker 2: Producer Alex I would say one of my favorites of
Speaker 2: all time is raymy st daddy O versus Eddie Guerrero
Speaker 2: when Ray wore the purple. That one was pretty awesome.
Speaker 2: I also love raymus Terio versus Dean Malinko. You can
Speaker 2: pick a match. This was my WCW days back in
Speaker 2: the day, watching matches with my grandma in Puerto Rico
Speaker 2: on Christmas break and summer break, when I would hang
Speaker 2: out and book at her own and she would tape
Speaker 2: all the matches and we would get to watch them
Speaker 2: over and over again. So those are something that I've
Speaker 2: watched like probably a million freaking times, and definitely some
Speaker 2: of my favorites.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Jeff. Well.
Speaker 3: The thing about asking favorites guys, you know, is sometimes
Speaker 3: you're gonna get really obvious answers. You know, people say, Jeff,
Speaker 3: who's the greatest comedians, and you're like, it's not really
Speaker 3: gonna be that exciting, because they'll be exactly you think
Speaker 3: it's gonna be. It's gonna be the Carlins, the Priors,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be the Chappelle's, the Louis. The answer is not.
Speaker 3: The answer is something you probably just could have like
Speaker 3: looked up, you know, because because it's so obvious to everyone.
Speaker 3: So in the same way, my favorite matches and obvious one.
Speaker 3: It's the two thousand and six Punjabi prison match, Bautista
Speaker 3: versus the Great Khalid.
Speaker 2: You know, it was I love that you threw a
Speaker 2: D on the end, like it's DJ College. It was
Speaker 2: just Khalid. There's isn't it wasn't it the great There's
Speaker 2: no D in Khalid, the Great, Well in Khalid, there's
Speaker 2: a D for sure, but his name was the Great Kalead,
Speaker 2: So you were right, and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was my think, my favorite match, if I'm honest,
Speaker 3: all joking aside was Undertaker versus Mankind and the hell
Speaker 3: in hisself. Oh yeah, it was just so cool and unpredictable.
Speaker 3: I didn't think any of that would happen. I spent
Speaker 3: years after that trying to convince everyone at my school
Speaker 3: that I had some sort of inside information and that
Speaker 3: wasn't supposed to happen. That's not how they wrote it up,
Speaker 3: you know, like I made it, which I was basically
Speaker 3: lying to everyone, making it sound like this match was
Speaker 3: completely went off the rails and they really tried to
Speaker 3: fight each other. It was just so exciting and uh,
Speaker 3: not only do I have a tremendous amount of nostalgia
Speaker 3: for the match, but it also was awesome.
Speaker 1: It was just so cool, and we still talk about
Speaker 1: that match, you know, thirty years later.
Speaker 2: This next one is just for me Jeff so ha haha,
Speaker 2: unreal And Jess Diaz one two one seven says, how
Speaker 2: does it feel being back on the big screen? That's
Speaker 2: an A never weren't on the big screen. No, I've
Speaker 2: done some small screen stuff and some big screen stuff,
Speaker 2: but this is the first movie I've done in quite
Speaker 2: some time that'll be on three thousand screens plus nationwide,
Speaker 2: uh and then worldwide I don't know how many. So
Speaker 2: it's really exciting because a lot of movies don't get
Speaker 2: theatrical release these days because of streaming services constantly looking
Speaker 2: to buy product. And you know, these these film investors
Speaker 2: are going to sell to whoever gives them the most
Speaker 2: money upfront. They want to make that money back as
Speaker 2: quickly as possible. You make a two million dollar movie,
Speaker 2: you know, on the average they're only making like two
Speaker 2: hundred three hundred thousand back on streaming, So you want
Speaker 2: to have a sale somewhere, like a pre sale, so
Speaker 2: you can make that money back right away as quickly
Speaker 2: as possible, with a distributor or with investors early on,
Speaker 2: if it's the distributor path, Like my last one sold
Speaker 2: for more than we made it for, so that guy
Speaker 2: was happy and now wants to make another one with me.
Speaker 2: When you make a studio movie, it's completely friggin' different,
Speaker 2: completely friggin different. And this experience was lengthy. You know,
Speaker 2: when you make an indie film, you're shooting in three
Speaker 2: four weeks. This was a matter of months that we
Speaker 2: shot this over. There's reshoots, there's test screenings. There's test
Speaker 2: audiences that come in and I like this person, I
Speaker 2: don't like that person, and the studio sometimes listens to
Speaker 2: these random opinions, which is not always a good thing.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you have to trust in the vision of the
Speaker 2: director and just believe in that. When I was doing
Speaker 2: all the Mirrimax movies back in the day, like a
Speaker 2: test screening audience with literally rewrite the movie basically, and
Speaker 2: the director is like, what about the idea that you
Speaker 2: bought for me? Like why don't you believe in that?
Speaker 2: Let's let's die on the sword if we're gonna If
Speaker 2: we're gonna die, let's not change the art, like you
Speaker 2: wouldn't have Picasso paint a painting. And then the gallery
Speaker 2: owner takes it and shows it to people before it's
Speaker 2: for sale, and it says, well, we have some notes, Pablo,
Speaker 2: and we'd like to do some changes before I put it.
Speaker 2: Like that would never fucking happen, But in the corporate
Speaker 2: modern world of movies, it happens on every single film.
Speaker 2: Some people argue that it should, some people argue that
Speaker 2: it doesn't. The truth somewhere in the middle, but yeah,
Speaker 2: so I'm super excited because it's a rarity unless you're
Speaker 2: Tom Cruise obviously to get to do this, so super excited.
Speaker 2: It comes out July eighteenth. I know what you did
Speaker 2: last summer is the name of the movie, just like
Speaker 2: the first one. Hope you guys dig it. I think
Speaker 2: it's really, really solid. I'm really proud of the work
Speaker 2: that I did in it, and I hope you guys
Speaker 2: like it too. Next up, we're running out of time,
Speaker 2: so i'll be fast. This one comes from Jake GOUDI underscore,
Speaker 2: how do you think wa we will change after Seena retires.
Speaker 2: I think you've kind of already seen that Jake when
Speaker 2: he was when he was gone the first time, So
Speaker 2: I think it'll be this is just a quick story
Speaker 2: for John and then it'll go back to getting this
Speaker 2: next generation over. Hopefully there'll be some time for Carry
Speaker 2: and Cross to finally get a freakin push once this
Speaker 2: storyline's over it and he can get more up on
Speaker 2: the top guys, because that dude's money on the mic
Speaker 2: and in the ring. So you look for opportunities like
Speaker 2: that for people when Seena retires. But yeah, I think
Speaker 2: it'll look similar. You'll see Cody get the Cody get
Speaker 2: the strap and lead the crusade until they find that
Speaker 2: next guy, or they think they find that next guy.
Speaker 1: What about you, Jeff, Yeah, I don't really know.
Speaker 3: I don't feel like much will change reality, Like this
Speaker 3: is how things go, you know. You you couldn't picture
Speaker 3: a time that they don't just push Roman reigns in
Speaker 3: every pay per view and he wins every you know,
Speaker 3: main event, and then he goes away, and you know,
Speaker 3: and it's it's not like anything's better because Roman isn't around,
Speaker 3: but now there's a new person that's on everything, you know,
Speaker 3: So like when Sena's gone, Will it's just the way
Speaker 3: the world works, It's the way wrestling works. It'll be
Speaker 3: you know, like I said, or like you said, Cody
Speaker 3: will just kind of be the guy, I think, and
Speaker 3: then hopefully we'll have I mean, we've got so many
Speaker 3: of these young guys that are becoming big stars. So
Speaker 3: maybe one of them will be the next Sena. I
Speaker 3: don't know, But for right now, Cody is the guy,
Speaker 3: and I don't think it'll change that much.
Speaker 2: All Right, we got time for one more, Freddie, Would
Speaker 2: you consider creative writing for WWE again? If there's an opportunity,
Speaker 2: I'd never say no. Like, I don't have any burnt
Speaker 2: bridges there, at least none that I burnt. I don't
Speaker 2: think anyone burned one with me, nobody wronged me when
Speaker 2: I was there or anything like that. So yeah, i'd
Speaker 2: consider it, but I'm definitely on a different path right now,
Speaker 2: so I don't see a scenario where that happens anytime
Speaker 2: in the near future. I have a question, Jeff, if
Speaker 2: you got an opportunity to write promos, to do dialogue,
Speaker 2: to do that kind of stuff in WWE.
Speaker 1: Would you take that job.
Speaker 2: Would you take a couple months or a few months
Speaker 2: off from comedy and actually like sit in a writer's
Speaker 2: room and do that or would it just be too
Speaker 2: much of a lifestyle change.
Speaker 3: I think I would try it, but I would be
Speaker 3: so like skeptical or like not skeptical.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the right term. I would
Speaker 1: be so like I would know right away like.
Speaker 3: If I could do this or if I couldn't do this,
Speaker 3: and right now, like I'm open to thinking maybe I
Speaker 3: wouldn't be good at it, Like I don't really know,
Speaker 3: but I would try it, just because I love wrestling
Speaker 3: so much.
Speaker 1: I've heard it's a pretty thankless job.
Speaker 2: I think it's supposed to be a thankless job. That's
Speaker 2: that was kind of the approach I took. Like, if
Speaker 2: the your job is strictly to help get the talent over,
Speaker 2: if somebody's saying, hey, you did great on that, like
Speaker 2: you're supposed to defer that and go, no, they did great.
Speaker 2: I just wrote it, they executed, Yeah, they did great.
Speaker 2: So it is you're right in that regard. But I
Speaker 2: think it's used to be.
Speaker 3: And I love credit, you know, I love getting my flowers.
Speaker 1: I love getting the attention.
Speaker 3: I don't want to if if my guy goes out
Speaker 3: there he does the thing real good, I go. You know,
Speaker 3: I wrote that, you know, I came up with that,
Speaker 3: so I don't know. Maybe I wouldn't be good at
Speaker 3: the job.
Speaker 2: There were guys there that'd be like, hey, Freddy, you
Speaker 2: like that that promo, that Cane promo. I wrote that,
Speaker 2: So there are still guys today. I'd be like, yeah, man,
Speaker 2: it was good way to go.
Speaker 3: Well, my love for wrestling would me and I couldn't
Speaker 3: turn it down. I would be I'd be just so
Speaker 3: into it.
Speaker 2: Take a swing anyway. Yeah, all right, you guys, thanks
Speaker 2: for tuning in, Thanks for your questions. Sorry, we couldn't
Speaker 2: get to all of them. I'm Freddy Prince. That's Jeff Dye.
Speaker 2: See you guys next Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Peace, we're out.