Speaker 1: We talked to Universal because they were losing I knew
Speaker 1: they'd be losing Monday Night Raw even back then, because
Speaker 1: we know shit, even though we can't talk about it
Speaker 1: on the podcast. They were similarly wanted something more established,
Speaker 1: and again I was brand new there. I wasn't coming
Speaker 1: in with somebody else's promotion, and that became the speed bump.
Speaker 2: That I hit time and time and time again. Ladies
Speaker 2: and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Are you Ready's about to hit the fan? Welcome to
Speaker 1: on sanctioned Thursdays are wrestling?
Speaker 2: What's ready? What's up? Everybody?
Speaker 1: Welcome to unsanctioned Thursday, and we're getting ready to wrap
Speaker 1: up twenty twenty four. We'll talk about my year just
Speaker 1: in general, not even we might not even talk wrestling.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll talk a little wrestling because we got big
Speaker 1: move from Monday Night Raw leaving the USA Network and
Speaker 1: joining Netflix.
Speaker 2: I hope all of you have Netflix.
Speaker 1: If not, they're counting on you to become a subscriber
Speaker 1: so the Netflix can remain the powerhouse juggernaut that it
Speaker 1: is and their executives can get twenty two million dollar
Speaker 1: bonuses instead of putting that money into the budgets for movies.
Speaker 2: And wrestling and TV and things like that. What, Freddie,
Speaker 2: you're exaggerating.
Speaker 1: What No, I'm not Anyway, WW is gonna make a
Speaker 1: lot of money for Netflix.
Speaker 2: It's going to bring a shitload of people over there.
Speaker 1: I am not surprised that they're leaving because USA just
Speaker 1: couldn't compete price wise with what they were going to
Speaker 1: get paid by Netflix. USA is a cable network on
Speaker 1: you know, satellite TV and cable.
Speaker 2: But streaming is is the future.
Speaker 1: Streaming is the now, and all that satellite and cable
Speaker 1: shit is the past.
Speaker 2: It's just hanging on.
Speaker 1: Like, you know, you go on Serious XM and you
Speaker 1: can listen to the seventy station, but there's a seventy station, uh,
Speaker 1: seventies meeting one seventies station. There's about forty different pop stations,
Speaker 1: forty different rock stations. Like it's you know, the seventies
Speaker 1: are what they are. I love them. My cars are
Speaker 1: from the seventies and the sixties. Well, I got a
Speaker 1: new car. You guys, got a sixty nine two thousand
Speaker 1: dots in roadster. Been this thing's been getting worked one
Speaker 1: for over a year. Finally got the clutch disc fixed,
Speaker 1: replace the front shocks, just waiting on carpet that goes in.
Speaker 1: I'm recording this on a Monday, so it's going in
Speaker 1: today Wednesday. The car will be ready. I'll post pictures
Speaker 1: of it. She's cherry red convertible. I may even keep
Speaker 1: the hood off. Now it's wintertime, I'll probably put the
Speaker 1: hood back. I'll put her clothes on. You know, it's
Speaker 1: legal to be topless out here. I'll post some photos
Speaker 1: on my Instagram. It's real Freddie Prinz. It's just real
Speaker 1: Freddy Prince. Yeah, you guys got to check that car out.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so, yeah, I didn't think USA would be
Speaker 1: able to afford them. They're going to Netflix. I'm going
Speaker 1: to be at that debut show, so look for me
Speaker 1: in the crowd. I'll be the one with the sign
Speaker 1: that says, look it's me Freddy Prince.
Speaker 2: Do you know I won't do that.
Speaker 1: I'm bringing my kids and stuff like that, So if
Speaker 1: I see you there, i'll definitely say hi, but I
Speaker 1: won't be able to stop and take photos. I got
Speaker 1: to look after my kids and take care of my
Speaker 1: kids and stuff like that. But I'll definitely return any
Speaker 1: love that you share. If you want to yell you
Speaker 1: suck in front of my kids. You could do that too,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna hear it back. And I talk shit
Speaker 1: better than most, so you better come correct. But yeah,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the year I went through some friggin
Speaker 1: ups and downs wrestling wise. I've been trying to start
Speaker 1: my own federation for a long time, my own promotion.
Speaker 1: It started off this reality company came and pitched this
Speaker 1: like docu series to me of me trying to pull
Speaker 1: this off, with the final episode being sort of what
Speaker 1: we call a backdoor pilot, so the last episode would
Speaker 1: become the first episode of the new promotion that goes
Speaker 1: a backdoor a backdoor pilot, so that was kind of
Speaker 1: the hope and goal for it. I had some interest
Speaker 1: from Vice, who couldn't afford it, and they're restructuring their
Speaker 1: finances and their entire company. I don't even know if
Speaker 1: there'll be a Vice in a couple of years. I
Speaker 1: hope they're because they do Dark Side of the Ring
Speaker 1: and seem to have some love for wrestling. They admittedly said,
Speaker 1: we don't know anything about wrestling, but we like the
Speaker 1: business and we want to be in business, and they
Speaker 1: tried to make it work, but couldn't Warners wanted me
Speaker 1: to be way Warner Discovery wanted me to me to
Speaker 1: be way more established and only focused on the reality
Speaker 1: portion of the of the pitch that they just wanted
Speaker 1: a reality show, which I wasn't interested in, and the
Speaker 1: things they pitched there like it needs more like people
Speaker 1: working against you. I was like, I know, I'm actually
Speaker 1: trying to pull this off. I don't want to have
Speaker 1: people working against me. I'll have enough of that already.
Speaker 1: Like all they wanted was like fake created drama, which
Speaker 1: is such horseshit. That's why reality TV sucks because none
Speaker 1: of it's real. So that was a pass on my side.
Speaker 1: Who else was there? We talked to Universal because they
Speaker 1: were losing I knew they'd be losing Monday Night Raw
Speaker 1: even back then because we know shit, even though we
Speaker 1: can't talk about it on the podcast. They were similarly
Speaker 1: wanted something more established, and again I was brand new there.
Speaker 1: I wasn't coming in with with somebody else's promotion, and
Speaker 1: that became the speed bump that I hit time and
Speaker 1: time and time again until the point where I spoke
Speaker 1: to my partners at the place where I have basically
Speaker 1: a distribution deal although not in writing, but the two
Speaker 1: of us, my partner who is the streaming service, and
Speaker 1: myself are now to the point where we're actively looking
Speaker 1: for other well known promotions that I can then come
Speaker 1: in creatively and help direct and build, you know, culture
Speaker 1: and present to a mainstream TV audience. Right helped them
Speaker 1: get on track. It wouldn't per se, it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: my idea, per se. And I'm not trying to change
Speaker 1: someone's brand. Let's just make up a wrestling company's name
Speaker 1: real quick. Let's say we acquired ICW, right is, which
Speaker 1: is International Competitive Wrestling.
Speaker 2: That's the name of this one ICW.
Speaker 1: There's probably actually an ICW out there, so if there is,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm not trying to blow you up. I
Speaker 1: would then go in and acquire their contracts, their brand,
Speaker 1: their ring, their their content, their everything. Although the content
Speaker 1: on low budget stuff isn't really presentable for TV, so
Speaker 1: those libraries don't have the value that these guys hope
Speaker 1: that they have just because the quality won't match. I
Speaker 1: would then go in there, bring them in and instead
Speaker 1: of calling them what I was going to call my profession,
Speaker 1: because that's disrespectful to just take their shit and change it.
Speaker 1: I would just maintain their name and I would become
Speaker 1: their head of creative and help sort of reguide and focus,
Speaker 1: you know, and do what I did well in WWE
Speaker 1: into their promotion and then make that our promotion. So
Speaker 1: that's where I'm at now. That's the most information I
Speaker 1: can give and just well, no, it's not. That's been
Speaker 1: a freaking challenge too. I've already tried with one that
Speaker 1: I was really passionate about, really like their roster, loved
Speaker 1: a handful of their wrestlers. It just fit so well
Speaker 1: with what I was trying to do, and we just
Speaker 1: couldn't freaking make a deal work. It wasn't their fault,
Speaker 1: it wasn't our fault. It's just sometimes you can't come
Speaker 1: up with with the right numbers that everybody feels comfortable with.
Speaker 2: And that's what a negotiation is.
Speaker 1: And never that's why I don't want It's hard for
Speaker 1: me to talk about stuff because I don't want to
Speaker 1: go I got it, because you never have it until
Speaker 1: both sides have signed in ink or blood and it's
Speaker 1: on paper and you're moving forward and ready to rock
Speaker 1: and roll. And even then sometimes shit falls apart. But
Speaker 1: that's when I'm comfortable talking about. It is when contracts
Speaker 1: are signed. So the most recent one that I've been
Speaker 1: working on fell apart. We're actively looking for more brands
Speaker 1: out there that are looking for a TV deal, and
Speaker 1: we'll investigate all of them. Some of them don't bring
Speaker 1: enough to the table for my partner and I to
Speaker 1: bring our investment too, and some of them want more
Speaker 1: of an investment than I'm willing and my partner are
Speaker 1: willing to bring to the table.
Speaker 2: So it's a challenge.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: It's been hard as hell.
Speaker 1: It's been so hard it's made me doubt myself to
Speaker 1: the where I'm like, maybe this isn't the right move,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm not meant to do this, and like I
Speaker 1: almost you almost want to give up on yourself sometimes,
Speaker 1: and then took a moment realize, that's just how I'm
Speaker 1: feeling right now. I didn't feel like that ten minutes ago,
Speaker 1: and I probably won't feel like that ten minutes from now.
Speaker 1: And usually you're right. Sometimes it takes an hour, a day,
Speaker 1: a week, but whatever it takes, that feeling eventually subsides
Speaker 1: and something stronger takes its place and you get reinspired
Speaker 1: and reinvigorated. I was doing the I know you did
Speaker 1: last summer sequel in Australia. When I got the news,
Speaker 1: the deal I thought was for sure going to happen
Speaker 1: fell apart, and I was so pissed. But I was
Speaker 1: working with all these young people who were so hungry
Speaker 1: and at the beginnings of their career that it made
Speaker 1: me hungry. I fed off their energy and I shook
Speaker 1: that bullshit off as quickly as I could, and it
Speaker 1: did not take long, about ten minutes, and I called
Speaker 1: my partner. I was like, let's just let's reach out
Speaker 1: to everybody else and see who's receptive to what we
Speaker 1: bring to the table and try to get it going.
Speaker 1: That was the outlook that they took as well. For them,
Speaker 1: it's more business than passion for wrestling. For me, it's
Speaker 1: passion of wrestling and then the business for it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm still on the road. It is not easy,
Speaker 1: and I am not giving up, but yeah, I am
Speaker 1: further back than I was two weeks ago. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's I'm out there searching and hunting and trying to
Speaker 1: find the right deal, and as soon as I do,
Speaker 1: I'll let you. I'll let all you guys know stay
Speaker 1: tuned for our holiday episodes coming up. Stay tuned for
Speaker 1: us every single Wednesday. We're going to be with you
Speaker 1: all throughout the holidays. We'll bring some old school stuff too,
Speaker 1: but I'll still be with you guys. So make sure
Speaker 1: you guys tune in and I'll see all of you
Speaker 1: next week every week, and I wish everybody happy Holladays too.
Speaker 2: Peace.
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