WEBVTT - The Mogul Swerve Strickland 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:03.880 And now your mate event. 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:10.600 Introducing the hosts, I'm Wrestling with Freddy Chef d Han 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:17.239 of Fredys Junior. Welcome to a brand new episode of 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:19.840 Wrestling with Freddy Wrestling with Friends. We're not gonna do 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.079 any goofy news intros because we have a guest that 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:24.560 I've been wanting to speak to for a very long time. 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.480 Our producer reached out, got this done, and then our 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:31.760 producer wrote this intro for the man, and it deserves 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:33.760 like a better voice than mine. So I'm going to 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:37.120 do the documentary guy voice, and I hope our guest 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:39.680 likes it, and if not, I didn't write it, but 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.320 I think it's awesome. Here we go, emerging from the shadows, 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:47.640 his eyes burning with an unwavering intensity, Swerve Strickland is 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:49.960 a force to be reckoned with in the squared circle. 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.360 This electrifying athlete is more than just a wrestler. He's 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:56.680 an artist, a storyteller, and a captivating presence that leaves 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.279 fans breathless. With a background steeped in the independence, could 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:04.760 Strickland honed his craft and promotions like CZW and Evolve, 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:08.240 capturing titles and leaving a trail of awe inspiring performances 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.920 in his wake. He burst onto the national scene in 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:14.680 twenty twenty, joining the ranks of WWE's NXT brand, but 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.520 Swerve's hunger for a larger canvas led him to All 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:21.880 Elite Wrestling, and here he has truly unleashed his potential. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.959 He joined forces with the powerful Keith Lee Is swerving 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.480 our glory, dominated the tag team division, captured the coveted 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:32.360 AW World Tag Team Championship. But Swerve is not one 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.880 to rest on his laurels. He's hungry for individual glory, 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.039 and his sites are firmly set on the top prize 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:42.640 in ae W Man, A lot of that shit was true. 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:45.840 Facts, I would know all of it is. 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:49.800 Welcome to the show Man. It's a pleasure to have you. 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.120 Thanks for being our guest. We appreciate you. 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.520 No man, thank you for having me. Man seriously, like 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.360 appreciate all that. Like it's really cool to hear it, 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.240 like in a interesting way like that, like you know 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.800 what this sounded, even if it's bullshit, like that sounds. 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.600 Pretty that was real. That's how we feel. 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.720 Also, sure if you should know that I'm on this 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.400 podcast every week and they just go and with me. 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:10.200 Is Jeff. 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.120 That's a way better intro you got. 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:13.440 Maybe I'll write something for Jeff. 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:13.720 Yeah. 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.080 I like that. He deserves it. 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.480 He first things first, And this is going to be 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.120 a random question, but I heard we have something in 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:25.720 common besides wrestling. You're a horror fan. I'm a horror fan. 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.760 I have a podcast about horror movies. I nerd out 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:29.560 on it so much. 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:30.280 What's it. 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:32.560 I'm sure you don't have one favorite. You probably have 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.560 ten favorites. But what's one horror movie that everybody needs 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:35.960 to see? 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.000 Man? I'll start with like the most recent one that 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:43.440 I think, like it's pretty well known right now. But 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.560 actually the first one I'll talk about is Night of 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.000 the Missing. I just I had a part in that one. 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.200 It just came out on Amazon, is number one on 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.880 screen Box TV, actually on the screen Box app if 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:54.600 you're a big horror fan. So check that out. And 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.600 Out of the Missing worked with Matthew Hirsch and Samuel 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:01.840 Gonzalez Junior on that. Very cool, very cool. Yeah, So 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:03.320 that just came out. We spilled that a year ago 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:05.240 and it just came out in November, end of November, 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.919 So go check that out for one, you know, so 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.760 may burst on the scene with my acting chops. And 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:13.200 then I will say, like, as the most recent film 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.519 I watched, I think like everybody should be checking out 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:20.120 is talk to Me. Talk Yes. Very innovative stuff, very 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.840 innovative stuff, and very original. 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.320 What they did with that hand and basically turning that 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:31.240 hand into a party drug that everybody can partake in 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.960 was so slick and so smart. And I'm forty seven 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.360 years old. I was not the demographic for this movie. 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.680 Like in the beginning, I'm like, oh, that music's so loud, 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.600 But as soon as the acting started and the story started, 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.520 I was just like, Yo, this is good. Like teen 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.320 Hordes a sick horror movie. 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:49.640 Yeah, talk to me, Ray. 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.160 Alt media is now mainstream. It's a good time to 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.640 be into any of those things. And if you're justin 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:57.440 long in a horror movie, bad things are going to 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.720 happen to you. Talk to me about this journey that 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:05.240 you've on at aew where it started bringing people in 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.360 working with other people, and now all of a sudden, 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.440 you're the focus of this story that was reminiscent of 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.000 the Attitude era back in the day with Adam Hangman 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:19.119 Page and then you do this match and I'm telling 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:20.520 you right now, I'm soft. 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:20.839 Okay. 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:22.839 As soon as I had kids, I never wanted to 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:27.000 skydive again. And bloody matches made me cringe because I 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:30.080 hate seeing people that sometimes I worked with and like 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.200 wrote for, I hate to see them bleed, right, I 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.880 just don't. I don't want to see that. You had 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.880 a match that I couldn't take my eyes off of. 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:42.679 And I've described wrestling a lot as the literal blood, sweat, 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:47.839 and tears on an actual canvas, right, and this was 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.960 everything that I love about wrestling in a match that 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:55.520 I normally would cringe and look away from in terror 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.240 because it's real blood, And instead I could not take 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:03.040 my eyes off this match. How the hell did you 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.520 to pull this story and this climax off? Man? 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.720 We started off, like I'm pretty sure like you've gone 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.960 through writing the same way you start off with motive. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:17.760 Why do I want to take it to this level? 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.000 Why do we want to need to elevate It's almost 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.480 like an elevated horror sense of just painting the broad 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.039 canvas of it. You know, you have your high points 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:27.960 and you have your points where you're like, we kind 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.960 of had to erase a lot of wrestling tropes in 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.440 a sense, it's now like, oh, he's the good guy, 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.479 but he's doing that, he's the bad guy. He's doing that. 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.960 It's like, no, this is a man needing to get 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:42.560 revenge on another man who did a bad thing. So 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.919 it's like we kind of start off with just like boom, 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.640 just that. Now, what are the things that make that 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:52.040 person tick? What makes that person like, what drives the 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:56.159 anger out of someone who is on the defensive, what 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:59.000 drives the anger out to someone who's on the offensive. 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:04.120 What is the switches that turn things around? That was 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.440 the beauty of like starting this whole thing off with 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:10.520 the promos between me and hey man Page. I dressed 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:12.880 him down and showcased all his weaknesses. I put it 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:17.080 all out there on display. And now people like people 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.159 have seen him already for like four years in aw 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.120 but now as people are like, wow, I feel like 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:26.480 I know him now. I addressed the person you know, 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:28.600 and I then I kind of like went through like 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:33.120 you know what, I see all this everybody's nobody's saying it. 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.080 I'm going to say it to you to your face. 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.400 I'm not going to do it from the stage to 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:39.839 you in the ring. I'm not going to do it 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:43.320 over the promo that's up here and then you're down here. No, 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.760 I'm going to address you to your face because Swerve 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.680 isn't in a coward. Swerve is going to come to 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.720 you and say it. That's what kind of makes me 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:55.280 a dangerous threat. I'm not going to hide. I'm going 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.720 to say it to your face. And that's the thing 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.440 about like a lot of tropes in wrestling. And he's like, 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:01.920 oh man, you said it to his face, and he 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.320 kind of that promo ends and they just walk away. 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.919 I'm like, why would you walk away from someone? Like? No, 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.160 Like you're saying all these things, you know what I mean, 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.320 it's like those things. So it's like, as a human being, 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.440 you kind of feel a lot of the things, and 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:18.920 so therefore, when the violence started occurring, you felt for 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:23.320 the person taking the violence and the person inflicting it. Therefore, 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.520 you instead of just seeing two wrestlers bludgeoning each other, 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.760 it didn't feel like a match anymore. It felt like 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.440 somebody has to try to survive this, so how does 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:32.920 he get away from this? And it kind of I 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.640 kind of took a lot of things from like hostile 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:41.320 I took some things from like even like a Halloween 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.560 of like walking through pain because you're just so enraged 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:46.800 and stuff like that. There was a lot of things 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.800 that just like I would say, with Hangman, it was 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:54.760 like this is this is like our ghost Rider. Now 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.760 he's like if you notice, like he kind of went 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.800 from like the cowboy wearing the nice stars and the 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:05.360 dazzle jeans. Now he's like but from like we were 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.880 so polar opposite from the first promo we did, like 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.400 he's wearing like a blue cowboy shirt with like stars, 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.200 and he's had his hair hair and a ponytail man 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.120 bun and stuff like that. By the time we got 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.680 to the second promo where he dresses me down, he 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.000 looks like me now, wearing like more similar than ever. 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.360 Like I'm wearing black leather and black pants. He's wearing 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.640 black leather and black pants, hairs out. I was like, 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.240 I pulled that out of you. So I won as 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.880 the bad person anyway, whether I win or lose, I 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.160 got the Hangman that I was asking for. I got 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.120 cowboys shit back, and now the fans are filling out 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.840 like the fan base was supposed to feel for Swerve. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.280 It's like oh man, this guy's cool. He's dressing like, yeah, 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.920 you're supposed to feel for me. But Hayman has to 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.840 win the fans back. That was the entire plot of 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:53.640 this whole thing, and by the time we did that 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.640 promo right before going into the Texas Deathmatch, he won 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:58.400 the fans back. 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.839 I haven't heard anyone break down and describe the build 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.040 up the way you have, except when I worked at 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.520 WW years ago and I got to work with Edge, 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:22.199 and that's how he talks about matches is intent and motive, 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.160 And motive was the first thing you said. Intent was 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.920 the damn second thing you said. And he talked about 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.119 having a motive, you know, in everything, not just the promos, 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.520 but in every move that you do in there outside 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:34.880 of the you know, the stuff that you of course 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.040 you got you gotta get there, but even that. He 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.559 wants to tell a story with and you break things 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.840 down in a really really similar way. You guys know 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:44.440 each other. 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.120 Right, Yeah, Well he's been my mentor, i'd say for 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.000 the last two to three years ever since I met 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:49.560 him in NXC. 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.840 Oh well, well that makes a lot of sense. 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:57.200 He was like, he's very generous with his information and 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.480 he was the first one to really like break down 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.400 the fall to be wrestling, because when I got there, 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.160 I just knew how to write a monologue of promore. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.400 I could I could tell I could write something that 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.640 would make people get hyped, but that was it. I 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.960 didn't know how to build a match. And he really 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.680 broke that shit down almost the exact way that you 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.240 just broke broke down you and hangman Page, I had 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.520 goosebumps like twice when you were telling that, man, it 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.200 was crazy. It was like looking at it, thank you 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.720 a second, No, that's wild. You really broke it down perfectly. 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.120 Another guy that really like brought that same type of 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.760 mentality to me, but put it in the inn rings 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:33.960 sense I was. I was credit to people for this, 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.679 like definitely Cope Adam Copeland for like as far as 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.680 like promoing and characters and stuff like that, because we 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.920 share like content with like sending each other YouTube videos 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.400 and breakdowns of characters and what this color means of 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:48.880 this suit, why he wore it this way, what this 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:53.559 means the like the polarities of certain characters and all 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.160 those things. So we share content but like with that 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.400 all the time. But then it was Terry Taylor, who 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.839 really taught me how to be in the ring, how 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.480 to bring that in the ring and showcase the person, 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.559 Like you have to showcase that you're a person and 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.600 the feel of it before it gets to just action 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.400 and fighting and moves and spots and running jumping and 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.480 diving and stuff. It's like like, Okay, cool, but you 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:23.200 did that. Now show me why you how your character 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.280 feels about what you just did. Now show the camera 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.640 how you feel about what you just accomplished. I see 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:30.199 you do that. 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:32.360 I see you do that when you point it guys 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.000 and let them know, Yo, I just got that. 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.679 Off on your Yeah. I love that. That's the next level, right, 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.800 And that's like those It's like it's kind of like 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.480 small little tidbits, but after a while it adds up, 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:46.360 and then you do it again the next week, and 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:47.800 then you do it again the next week, and then 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:49.160 you do it again the next week. Then you do 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.920 it again next week. Now the fan base is connected 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.000 to you because they see all the like I feel 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.360 like I feel like that too. Oh man, I've had 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.400 a feeling like that too, or like even like compared 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.880 to an one basketball, when you shake someone, you got 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.839 them laying on the ground, you'd like, ah, you like win. 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.280 I've been in that position. I've fallen on the floor. 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:12.720 So now they can kind of the fans and whoever's 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:14.840 watching at home can kind of relate to, like, I've 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.440 been in that situation before, So now I'm connected to 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.800 that ceiling rather than a fan to seeing like a 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.840 crazy acrobatic move. They don't connect to that because they've 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.440 never had that done to them. I don't know what, like, 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.800 the common person watching at home does not know what 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:32.000 it feels like to take a big flipping power bomb 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.679 boom because they never had that before. But they know 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:36.599 how it feels to get punched in the face and 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:40.240 laughed at because it's happened to somebody, either them or 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.040 they watched it on World Star or they had they've 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.200 been to a barbecue of party or a fight, and 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.839 they've watched somebody that happened to somebody. So now it's 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.000 related to them a little more because it's a little 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:52.680 bit more real. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:56.640 Jeff, I've hogged all the time, super sorry, but but 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:57.640 please jump in. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:59.280 But I do want him to know and I want 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.360 the viewers will vouch for this that we're not being 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.600 cute boys, just because you're on, just because you're with us, 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.080 we are huge fans. I've been a big ass Mark 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:10.440 the whole season just talking about you. 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:11.520 I think you're a huge star. 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.520 You're gonna be one of the biggest wrestlers ever, and 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.400 I'm glad that people are starting to notice it. 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:18.400 The point that you guys are just referencing. 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:19.520 I don't think it's any Quinns. 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.559 The coincidence that the point reminds me of Sean camp 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.920 Duncan on Alton Lister back in the day when he 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.280 give them the big the Duncan and the point. You 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:33.560 are from Tacoma, Washington. I am from Kent, Washington. We 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.440 are two five to three boys. Are you a big 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:37.720 are a big Seattle sports guys? 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.520 I am actually a La Rams fan the slash Jaguars, So. 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:45.439 My son will have another reason to love you. Yeah, said, 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.400 I'm a Raiders fan. My son like Raiders, oh Man 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:49.800 slash Jaguars. 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.200 You're all over the map. We have sports teams where 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:52.640 we're from. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.160 Wait a minute, don't take any lip off, Jeff. I've 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.800 seen this guy wear twenty seven different baseball hats from 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:02.120 twenty seven different teams'. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.199 That is to thirty different. Yeah, I'm a big Mariners fan, 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:04.800 but I do wear all the hats, all right. That 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.040 wasn't the question I wanted to ask. What I did 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.520 want to ask is because I imagine you've loved wrestling your 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.920 entire life the way we have. Most of the wrestlers 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:17.040 your age and our age are they grew up watching it? 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:20.360 What does it feel like Explain it to maybe a 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:24.520 guy like me when you get your first Action figure, 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.640 or when you get when you see yourself on the 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:28.720 video game, or when you see it's. 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.360 Like I can put myself in a match on PlayStation, 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.360 Like it's so cool, Like what is that? 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.680 Like? What was it like? The first man, I'll never 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:38.840 get just stepping into the booths for the two K 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.480 scan and like getting all those pictures. I'll never forget 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.880 that day. That was That was awesome. It was like 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.600 at the time, it was like me carrying across at Scarlett. 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:51.200 We're the ones stepping in to get our scans, and 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.120 we were like, oh, this is it. This is it 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:56.040 was you step in here, We're more in line forever. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:58.600 So it was really cool. I didn't even think I 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.640 was going to make the cut on the game, because 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.520 I think it was like the ninety day I got released, 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.000 and then I was on the ninety days and I 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:08.920 was like, I'm probably not gonna be like wiped out 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:10.240 of the game, but They're like, no, they kept it, 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:12.520 and they kept me as North American Champion going into 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.760 the game starting the game off on top of that, 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.000 so I was like, oh, I guess somebody still likes me. 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:18.080 I didn't piss anybody else. 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.960 Yeah, the developers knew you were a star, but. 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.800 It was it was really cool experiences. The craziest thing 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.400 about the game, Like I saved it on my IG 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:29.880 so as like one of those story things, so I 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:33.000 always go back to show that to somebody. It's really cool. 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.080 Like walking the entrance, the commentary is talking about the 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.880 Sore City podcast actually on the way to the ring 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.800 in the game, so I was like, that's cool. So 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.240 I got like kind of like a thread of different 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:48.400 my media is in there at the same time. So 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.160 it was really it was really interesting stuff. I was. 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:52.360 I was blown away. 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.320 Of course, if I had an action figure out every target, 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.080 I wouldn't be able to not go in there and 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.520 buy it every single time, just to to the people 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.760 that worked there, like I've got an action figure, like 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.360 I can't it's such a cool thing. 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.720 I just put it through this through the scanner and 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:08.760 they were like scanning, like wait a minute, Like yeah, 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:19.480 that's me, that's right. Yeah. 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:21.680 Tell me about the swerft City podcast. 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.200 Speres City podcast is something that we came with. Me 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:29.960 and my co host Montez, came up with like twenty seventeen. 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.880 I moved down to Florida at the time, and Montez 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:36.520 was he was doing entrance music themes for the wrestlers 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.280 and we met like maybe a two years prior at 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.800 a mcw and independence show and he was always a 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.360 fan of my work and I've seen his work final 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:45.880 I was like, oh man, that's dope. So I moved 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.680 down to Florida. He asked to be to interview me, 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:50.320 so I was like, okay, cool, So I came down. 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:52.760 I loved his interview style. It's very personable. He had 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.640 like notes and stuff and he's like, no what, I'm 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:56.480 just gonna go on the fly. He just crumbled it up, 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.480 through it out though, through it out of the screen. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.080 It's like, let's just vie man. And we just talked 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.639 like for an hour on Thos on his interview and 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:06.119 I was like, you know what, maybe we could do 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:07.680 like uh, I like the way you do this, want 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.439 to do something together. You're like, oh sure. So we 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:12.399 came up with we went to High Spots. We got 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.119 a couple of episodes on the High Spots DVD filmed 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.240 by Sammy Callahan. Those were up they're still up there 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.360 on for sale. Then we're like, let's do I want 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:21.840 to do more. Let's let's see what it was who 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:23.280 can do? So we like kind of do it with 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:27.399 like ig Live, just like yeah, yeah, messing around with stuff, 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.480 just feeling it out on two bean bags. No wall, 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:34.440 nothing here, just bean bags. Then they went to bring 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:36.520 his friend in who can actually actually had a camera 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.080 and could edit. Then we started getting some of my 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.000 friends on. Then I got signed to NXT and stuff 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.800 like that. Then it got Then COVID happened, and that's 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.840 I think COVID. We benefited from that mostly because everybody's 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:52.280 coming down to Florida to just sit in hotels or 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:56.879 go to do the SmackDown wrong and whatever in the 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.760 same place. So I was like, hey, kofy want to 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.160 come to our podcast. It's like sure, I'm not doing nothing. 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.280 So Kofe would come do the podcast. Hey Bailey, want 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.800 to come to our podcast? Sure, yeah, absolutely. Then like 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:11.920 Drew mcintarre won the Rumble then went on to win 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.640 the world title at WrestleMania, So I was like, hey, Drew, 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:20.919 he was like sure, no problem, and that would end 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.639 up being the first episode of The swartsa podcast on 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.720 the ww network. So we got leveled up every time 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.240 just because we me and me and my teez. He's 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:32.640 like the artist, I'm the wrestler, but then he turned 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:34.879 me to the artist at the same time. So we 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.480 kind of like had like a lot of polar similarities 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:41.919 to media, music, and wrestling, and we find ways to 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:46.399 like bring it all together while discussing certain things and 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:48.520 topics and like what's going on in the world and 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:52.800 media and Hollywood and music and stuff, and bring out 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:54.919 a little bit more personality out of the wrestlers and 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:59.040 performers and stuff. So it grew to some to the 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:02.359 fact that we're just bring in like Pat McAfee and yeah, 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:06.879 coming up, Yeah, coming up. We got Dominic Wilkins. That's great. 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.200 So so and then we started traveling, getting on the road. 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:11.679 It was like, Hey, we're gonna go up to Atlanta, 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:15.679 and interview music Soul Child in the studio. I'm like, yes, okay, cool. 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:19.000 So it was always about competition with me and Tez 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.240 was like, well I got so and So. Well, yeah, 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:23.080