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