WEBVTT - WWF Classic: The Ice Storm from Hell 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.840 What's up everyone? Happy holidays to you. Here is another 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:06.960 unsanctioned favorite from the archives and Drew the show piece. 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.200 What's up, you guys, It's Freddy Brins Junior and we're 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:19.360 back with another episode of Wrestling with Freddy. Last week 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:21.840 we got pretty deep into the promo classes and some 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.000 of the cool exercises and the successes and failures of them. 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:27.960 So if you haven't heard that, please go back because 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:32.000 this is a continuation episode. But this episode we'll touch 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.680 a little bit more on what I thought is like 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:37.559 the most heartwarming moment I ever had in WWE. There 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:42.519 weren't many, but this time we're going into the ice Storm. 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:46.160 I have built this story up, so without further ado, 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.720 the Ice Storm, I Wrestling with Freddy. Wow. Stuffing up 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:55.200 to the mic. The host of Wrestling with Freddy Freddy 0:00:55.560 --> 0:01:00.720 Price tune. All Right, you guys, I'm on the highway 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:04.440 with a makeup artist from Friday Night SmackDown back then, 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:07.119 even though we shot it on Tuesdays, and we're driving 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:12.319 I think from Memphis to Atlanta, and if that's about 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:14.120 a four hour drive then I'm right. If not, it 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.600 was another town. So we're on the freeway and we're 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.280 cruising down and it's late at night, probably probably about 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:23.360 ten thirty eleven o'clock at night. We're on the highway. 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:27.400 It's winter and there's snow on both sides of the road, 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.520 and there are no cars anywhere. We left much later 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.039 than everyone else. Usually you would like pass other wrestlers, 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.319 or wrestlers would pass you. This was before I was 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:39.560 on the jet. So we're cruising down. It's getting late, 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.880 we haven't seen anybody, and she's getting sleepy. Right. So 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.320 I'm cruising, but we have a map that remember there's 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.960 no map quest, there was no app on a phone 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.360 that told you I have We would print out maps 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.520 at the end of the show and that's how the 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.680 rookies like me you would get from town to town 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.200 before I was, thank god, on the Black and Red jet. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.640 So we're cruising, I have my map. She's getting sleepy. 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.640 And as we're driving down the road, it's been about 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:08.000 twenty minutes, maybe thirty minutes. Like I said, there's snow everywhere. 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.680 I see some smoke down the highway. I'm like, what 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:16.440 the hell is that? Man? So I'm driving cruising down 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.920 this curve and now I see this like fire and 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.440 smoke and in the middle of the snow, and so 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.399 I slow the car down and I'm almost pulled over 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:29.680 at this point, and the loss of speed wakes up 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.520 the makeup artist and I go, what the hell is that? 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.960 And it's this gigantic tree that's fallen over. The roots 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:42.040 are uprooted, and it's on fire, straight, just burning in 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.239 the middle of nowhere. There's nobody around it. There's no cars, 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.240 there's no tire tracks anywhere. It's just a tree that 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.120 it looks like it's been struck by lightning. There's no lightning, 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.880 at least not to my knowledge, during a snowstorm in 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.520 the South. Maybe I'm wrong. Hit me up on social 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.000 So I'm slowing down and I've now I pulled the 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.160 car all the way over, and I go, what the 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.960 hell is that? And she goes, I don't know. And 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:07.400 I go, I'm gonna go check it out. She goes, 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.760 the hell you are? She goes, it's freezing outside. We're 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:11.600 going to Atlanta. I go, no, I just want to 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:13.399 see what it is. She goes, no, you're not going 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.520 over there. Get back in the car. I've opened the door. 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.120 Get back in the car. We're gone. I go Okay, okay, okay, 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.040 I go, but that's some crazy shit. She goes, yeah, 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.480 it's crazy shit. Let's go. It's freaky. Okay. So I 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:27.280 close the door. We're driving. She passes out. Nothing else 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.639 spooky or no polter guys, nothing like that. But the 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.919 road starts getting kind of sketchy, and I have the 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.640 radio on and I'm scanning the AM channels because I 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:38.640 mean when I mean sketchy, like there's ice now on 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.680 the roads, and we're getting we're in Georgia, we're getting 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:45.640 just outside Atlanta. And on the radio, I hear the 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.040 mayor of Atlanta, and you could check this out. You 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.280 can figure out what year it is, has just declared 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.960 a state of emergency and he's basically closed the city 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.560 because of an ice storm. The roads are unsafe to 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:03.120 drive on, and everybody is like, not quarantine, but it's 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.000 a curfew, like stay home, you go on the roads, 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:09.000 you go and die. So we're close to the airport. 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:13.120 Our hotel is at the airport, and I cruise up 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.520 there and I mean, we're sliding everywhere like I'm on 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.279 ice skates. We're not in a four wheel drive automobile. 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:23.400 I'm in like a little four door rental Sedan. It 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:27.000 wasn't built for the snow. So we're at the airport 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.720 because we know the hotel's close to there, and I 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:34.000 see one of those like rental car transport vans and 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.720 it's running and there's this black dude inside, and so 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.560 I go up to him and I go, hey, man, 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:42.479 I'm trying to get to my hotel. Can you help 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.160 me out? And he says, well, what's the name of it? 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:49.080 And I don't remember what it was, It's the Ice 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.919 Storm Hotel. Will call it the Ice Storm Hotel. And 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.320 he goes, oh, it's down that way. You're just going 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.279 to make a right and just keep going straight and 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.719 you'll see it. You'll see the big sign. It's down 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.880 a big driveway. I go, okay. So I drive down 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.120 there and we get to the driveway and yeah, the 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:09.440 driveway goes down, but it's steep and it goes straight 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:13.360 into the hotel lobby. If I take this car down 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:17.360 this hill, I'm not stopping. It's gonna go through the 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:21.159 front of the building. So I drive back to the 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:24.400 airport guy and I say, hey, man, is there is 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.920 there another hotel around here? Because we couldn't find any 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.560 other ones, or can I stay in the Can I 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:31.039 stay in the airport? I can't get down there. And 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.600 he's this Jamaican dude and he's like, you stay out, dear, 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:35.720 you're gonna dime on. You better find a way to 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:39.760 that hotel. And so I'm like, all right, the airport's closed. 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.440 They're not gonna let me in. So I drive back 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.440 and now we're parked at the top of this hotel's 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:50.080 driveway and the and the makeup artist is looking at me, 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.080 and I'm looking at her, and she goes, how the 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:53.520 hell are we going to get down there? She goes, 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.919 I can't walk down it. It's all it's all Ice. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.080 I go, yeah, I don't. I don't know, but I'm 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:00.000 not going to have like a headline in the paper tomorrow. 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.760 Freddie Prinz Junior found with a makeup artist frozen dead 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.520 in a car. I was like, the stories they would 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.640 write would shame my family for the next generation. I said, 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:13.480 we're getting down this damn hill. So I'm looking around. 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:15.640 I don't see any way down outside of you know, 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:21.520 horrible accident, I get sued or dead or someone else dies. Right, 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:25.200 So finally, because I'm an idiot, all right, And I'll 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.200 preface this by saying, I've done a lot of dumb 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.680 stuff as a kid and slid down a lot of 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.000 hills I shouldn't have slid down. So I go to 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.680 the trunk. I'll freezing to death, y'all. I'm a California kid. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.159 My blood is thin. I surf if the water's you know, 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.799 below seventy I'm wearing a wet suit, so I'm cold 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:46.960 as hell. I'm not dressed properly. I grab my suitcase. 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:48.919 I set it at the top of the thing, and 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.159 now I'm just staring down the hill at this hotel, 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.760 at the Ice Storm Hotel, and she comes up to me. 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:55.440 She gets out of the car. She goes, what are 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.480 you doing? And I don't even look at her. I say, 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.840 I'm a slide down this hill on my suitcase. She goes, what. 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:04.680 I go, i'mna slide down my hill and I'm gonna 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.920 slide down the hill on my suitcase, and so are you. 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.720 She goes, I'm not doing that. I said, you're going 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.560 to get your ass on your suitcase and you're sliding 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.600 down this hill with me. I'm not going to leave 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.240 you in the car to die. Is the only way down. 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.320 I'm sure it wasn't, but I'm not a genius, so 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.040 this was the best way I could think of. I said, So, 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.440 I'm going down with you, and you're not going to 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.680 get hurt. Don't worry. I'm certain of it in my head. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.160 I'm certain of it. Sara, are you ready? She goes no. 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:34.720 I go, well, we're going. I said, I'm not going first, 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:38.600 We're going together. She's she doesn't want to. She gets 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.600 her suitcase. What are the I mean, we have an option, 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.000 get down this hill. That's the option. So she gets 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.160 her suitcase. Every word that I'm telling you in this 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:52.080 story is actual. Well I'm about to go Tilsa. It's 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:57.080 actual and factual everywhere. Sorry, every word I'm telling you 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.000 it is one hundred percent true, and every word I'm 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:02.840 I'm telling you you will not believe. And I'm okay 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.120 with that. So I get on my suitcase. I lay 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.720 it down and I'm sitting on it the way you 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.480 would have sled, and my feet are on the snow 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.400 so that I can have my heels to dig in 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.840 to slow me down. I tell her to do the 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.680 same thing. She sits on the suitcase. I think I 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.880 have like a Toomey. Right, it's like black travel to me, 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:24.800 that was big enough to get all your crap, but 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.040 small enough to get in an overhead bin one of those. 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.000 And she has like a hard case one because she 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.920 got like makeup and crap. Right, So she sits on 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.440 her suitcase. I said on mine. I say, are you ready? 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.920 She goes, oh, god, I guess so. So we kind 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:41.560 of do the scooch like our feet are in the 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:45.840 snow like a one and IT'SO and three and my 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:50.800 feet are in the snow instantly. The moment that it 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.640 gets steep, there's no more snow for my feet to 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:58.199 dig into. It is hard ice. It is a good 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.439 inch thick, and there probably not an inch thick, but 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.920 you get the point. Like it is there's no traction. 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:17.400 So I hit terminal velocity within about two and a 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:21.680 half seconds, and I'm I mean, I'm flying. I look 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.760 to my right because it's it's too fast for me. 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.080 I look to my right and she's bailing out. It's 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.760 too fast, okay, So she bails out to her left 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.319 toward me right. But now she has nothing. Now it's 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.160 just her body, so she's just gonna keep on sliding. 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.840 But it's not with any sort of control. So she's 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.240 going upside down, she's going horizontal, she's going to the left, 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.800 she's on her left hip, she's on her belly, she's 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.400 sliding everywhere. It looks like breaking to Electric Bugoloo, like 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.160 a deleted scene. Right, She's break dancing all the way 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.960 down this ice and I'm flying. Okay, So I get 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.559 down first. She kind of curved off to the side 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.360 into the snow drift by the curb, but she's okay. 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.400 She gets up, she's solid, make up, good to go, 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.840 case not destroyed. I slide all the way down to 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:13.439 basically where the valet is and onto the brick entryway 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.560 of this hotel, about four feet away from the double 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:22.840 sliding doors. The entire staff of the hotel that was 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.160 in that area had been watching us since we were 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.680 on top of the hill, wondering how we were going 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.440 to get down, And they're literally cheering for me because 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.600 I literally just did my evil canievil shit. It just 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:37.920 went like one hundred and twenty seven miles per hour 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.000 done his driveway, and they're cheering, and I get up 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.960 and I'm laughing, and she's laughing. Everybody's still in a 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.160 good mood, and the guy literally tells me, he goes, dude, 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:47.640 we didn't know how you were going to get down. 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:51.040 That was so sick. So we go to check in. 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.760 They don't have her room. So she gets my bed 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.320 and I crash out on the couch and then we 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:01.079 wake up and the ice they now salted and done 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:02.680 all this stuff. And the next day we got on 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.920 the plane and we flew back to well, I flew 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.240 to New York City and she flew to wherever, to 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:12.000 wherever she lived. But that is the ice storm, and 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.240 that's the fastest that I've ever gone in something that 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.120 wasn't a vehicle or a jet. Oh, by the way, 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.160 I flew in a jet. This isn't wrestling related, but 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.480 the like the debt commander at Nellis Air Force Base 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.080 in Las Vegas was a Puerto Rican dude, and he 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.400 loved my dad and my buddy who lives out there. 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:31.320 Ran a construction company and gave him like some equipment 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.160 to help him do his house and his off his 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.120 off base house. And there in Las Vegas, I think 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:40.280 it was Henderson, Nevada. And so he was like he 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.600 saw a picture of me and Brian, my buddy Brian, 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.280 and he goes, oh, you know Freddy Prince Junior man, 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.280 I loved his dad. And he goes, oh, yeah, he's 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.240 a good friend of mine. And he goes tell him 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.560 if he ever wants to fly in the jet, it's 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.720 on me. He goes, no cameras, nothing. I was like, 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.800 and so my buddy Brian calls me and I was like, 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:56.760 what do you mean like a jet jet? He goes yeah. 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.280 I go to oh, dude, I'm in. I drove from 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.880 La to Las Vegas at night at like eleven thirty 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.560 at night, drove as fast as I could, and uh, 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:07.719 we have the date and I get there and I 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.320 think I'm just gonna fly in a jet. No, it's 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.640 like an eight hour class on how to breathe because 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.680 you're going to be pulling so many g's. And I'm 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:17.920 in my twenties. I'm cocky. I'm like, yeh, whatever, man, 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.440 I'm half listening, right. So they put me in the 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.280 two seater and forgive me, this is over twenty years ago. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.640 I don't remember. I think it was an F sixteen. 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.640 I don't know what the two seater was. It might've 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:31.840 even been like an F one oh something. I don't know, 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.640 but uh, we get in. I've done my my test 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.200 and they make you do this like like I don't 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:39.720 want to breathe in the mic because it'll sound weird, 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.920 but it's like labor breathing. Okay, So I get in 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:47.600 the jet, we take off, just the takeoff, I borderline 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:51.960 tap out. Okay, this dude, I tap out twice. And 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.960 this isn't even from tricks. Just turns where literally like 0:12:56.000 --> 0:13:00.960 he goes, if it feels good, you're not breathing. I said, 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:02.320 what do you mean? He goes, if it starts to 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.120 feel good, if you feel high, you're not breathing, right, 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.640 I said, okay, And that basically like as in jiu jitsu, 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:09.480 like they say tap when you when it feels good, 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.480 that means you're about to go to sleep. Twice I 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.560 had to tap because I forgot to breathe, and the 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.120 breathing is the hardest part. At one point in the air, 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.040 I said how long would it take us to get 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.880 to LA? He said about fifteen minutes? And I literally 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.000 was just like, oh my god. So anyway, I like 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:28.760 going fast. We fly back, I go back and and 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.920 now I'm back ready to go to work, talking to 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.679 Vince about the promo class. Who I like, who I don't. 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.559 And the storyline going on at the time was the Nexus, 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:44.000 and this was Wade, Barrett and Michael something I can't 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.120 remember saying, but it was a big group that came 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.560 up to like take on kind of like how the 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.480 Shield took on, like the Current Stars. This was they 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.719 were taking on that eras current Stars. So they were 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.720 going after Randy who was a heel, and John who 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.560 was a babyface, and John sold big for him, like 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.120 horror movie sells, right, because they were really trying to 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.600 get this group over. They thought they had a couple 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:09.679 solid bangers in there. Right. So I'm doing my promo 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:11.480 class and I have a lot of these guys and 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:14.720 girls in there now, and we're getting to use like 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.320 really big rooms, like sometimes even the cafeteria because we'd 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.320 have so many people in there. And now I got 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.840 these Nexus cats, right, And there was this one dude 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.800 named Fred, and y'all, if you watch then they he 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.440 wrestled under the name Darren Young. His real name is 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:35.200 Fred Rosser, and he's now out of out of the closet, 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.640 and and everyone knows that that Fred is a gay wrestler, 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.720 and I think was the first one to come out 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.920 while under the employee of WWE, but certainly not the 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.840 first gay wrestler in the WWE. If you know about 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.120 Pat Patterson, everyone in the company knew Pat was. He 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.680 was very open about it and everyone embraced him. So 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.080 at this point in time, though Fred was not out 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.360 and he was a young wrestler, he was coming up 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.000 and U so now I think he's in New Japan 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.560 wrestling now. So if you're a big wrestling fan, he's 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:08.320 built from stone, looks great, solid user. And we used 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.600 to call him Black John Cena because he looked just 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.520 like John Cena. But if John was black, even his face, 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.760 it was crazy. You put him side by side and 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:17.760 it looked like the exact same dude. I think John 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.640 even cut a promo on it in like an actual 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.960 storyline where he's like, maybe we did have the same father, 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.440 but I hate you anyway. I'm fighting for justice. So 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.200 so we're doing the promo classes and it's a lot 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:34.960 of you you going against me because Vince likes that, right, 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.680 So it's we're going to have a fight and you're 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:39.400 going to give me a reason to watch Like that 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:41.920 if you remember the dog story, you're a dog, and 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.960 you're a dog. Now make me want to watch you fight. 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.800 So a more productive way to accomplish that is to 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.040 give them a reason to fight, like I did with 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:55.960 Kea Stevens and with Beth Phoenix if you remember from 0:15:56.040 --> 0:16:03.920 last week's episode. So William also known as Stephenriegal is 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:10.320 and was one of the single most helpful human beings 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.480 while I worked at that company. He would warn me 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:20.440 about people. He would help show me what wrestler strengths 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:25.200 were and to write my promos to fit the type 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.600 of wrestler they were, because I was not doing that. 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.280 You don't want to write a luchador like a big man. 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:34.040 You don't want to write a big man like a 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.760 high flyer. There's a different attitude. When you're seven feet tall. 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.200 You don't have to say as much you're seven feet tall. 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.920 I kind of equate it to Darth Vader. You don't 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.960 have to give Darth Vader at a lot of dialogue. 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.240 And you notice he only moves when he has to. 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.760 There's no wasted movement with Darth Vader, which was the 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.680 same crap I would hear in the production. Not crap. 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.640 This is good crap, the same stuff I would hear 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:01.840 in the production meetings when they would talk about, you know, 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.760 tell these guys, the big guys, to slow down. Less 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:06.800 is more And there's something I know a lot of 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.560 people disagree with that, but I tend to agree with it. 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:14.880 It's more. It's what made Frankenstein so scary, right is 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.359 It's why pepe lepu we were amazed with him, Like 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.920 how can someone ask slow? Always catch always catch them right? 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.919 So it may be dated, but with the big guys, 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.600 they don't want them, you know, flying around everywhere. Vince 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.880 doesn't want his guys and his girls getting hurt, which 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:34.119 is why that WWE style is less exciting because he 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:38.240 feels it prevents injuries. So Steven has been getting me 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.600 hip to it, and he asks me if he can 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:46.000 come in and cut a promo and I'm like, yeah, man, 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:48.359 you want me to pick something for He goes, oh, no, no, no, 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.359 I have something. I said, all right, dude. So he 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:55.960 comes in and I it was either the Saint Crispin's 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.879 Day from Henry the Fifth, which is no joke, or 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.600 it was from Hamlet, and I feel like it was 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.919 from Hamlet. Otherwise I don't know why I remember this line, 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:09.960 but I feel like I remember Steven saying the world 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.879 is nothing more to me but a foul and pestilent 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.359 congregation of vapors, and that I know for sure is 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.760 from Hamlet, so I think it was Hamlet. So he 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:22.040 cuts this, and then he's trying to explain why he 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.359 chose this to all these young wrestlers, and he said 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.719 he was talking about the iambic pentameter, which is sort 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:34.560 of the rhythm and cadence required by Shakespeare. He's trying 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:38.760 to explain that you can tell a story whether you 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.560 speak English or not. There were a couple of Japanese 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.240 wrestlers in the room at the time. You can communis 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.920 Kate a story whether you speak Spanish better than English, 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.600 the same way he communed. Those communicated those feelings from 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.720 that monologue to everyone in there, and everyone knew exactly 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.440 what he was saying. When you say someone, this world 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.520 does nothing more to me but a foul and pestilent 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:03.000 congregation of vapors, I'm communicating a message to you with 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:05.040 a whole bunch of words that neither one of us 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.639 will ever use again in our entire life. But you 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:09.959 know exactly what I'm talking about. You go, whoa, Freddie 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.240 is a little depressed. Oh you do, and that message 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:17.080 has been communicated beautifully, right, So I think Funaki was 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:20.720 in there. And by the way, I got a great 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:24.159 Funaki story, kung should we do a Japanese side quest? 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:26.440 Should we do a side quest? All right, we're doing 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.760 a side quest? Okay. So it's a SmackDown. It's over 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.359 and Shane Hurricane Helms and some of the writers and 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:36.240 my buddy Angelo the writer, We're all having like a 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:39.879 beer at the hotel, and you know, after a couple in, 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.240 Shane goes, man, I wish we could get I wish 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:45.560 we'd get Funaki over again. And Angela is like, yeah, well, 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:47.240 let's let's think of something. He goes, oh, then it 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:49.520 wouldn't buy anything we'd do, and he goes, do we 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.679 can think of something? And this is all credit to Shane. Okay, 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:54.960 I think he even wrote the song that Artruth saying 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:59.040 to him later on. But uh, he goes, what about 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.760 what if it was kung Fu Naki? And all the 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.760 writers are drunk and they're like, wait what He goes, yeah, 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.040 like kung Fu? Hey, if we can sing the song 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:13.000 Everybody loves Kong Fu Naki. That dude can't drink some 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:17.119 socke and he had like this whole freestyle jam that 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:19.159 they all fell in love with. And I was in 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:21.199 the writer's room one day and they're pitching this and 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:24.679 I'm like, yo, wait what And Shane comes in and 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:28.280 they go, Shane, what about Kung Funaki? And Shane just 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:30.000 looks at the board and he sees how he booked 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:32.679 it and he goes, yeah, that's pretty fucking funny, and 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:34.840 he just walked out of the room. And that's when 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:38.280 we gave Funaki the Daniel song Crane Kick, and MVP 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:40.960 sold it better than Johnny Lawrence did in that movie 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.280 Are You Getting Man? Come Home Baby? Sound for the Wind. 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.880 So anyway, that's the Japanese side question. So we're back 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:51.280 in promo class and Sir William Regal is in there. 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:53.680 Gotta call him sir, even if he's not a real knight, 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:57.119 he should be Darren Young Fred gets up and he 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:00.879 wants to he wants to do a promo them cutting 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:04.600