December 24, 2025 • 59 mins
Merry Christmas, wrestling fans! In this special holiday episode, Jeff Dye, Producer Alex, and I dive into your questions on everything wrestling. From the origins of our podcast to our thoughts on recent wrestling storylines, we've got your curiosity covered. Fans also get a behind-the-scenes look at our personal lives, our favorite wrestling moments, and even some surprising hypothetical matchups. Plus, we answer your burning questions on celebrity appearances in wrestling, dream manager roles, and more! Grab some eggnog and join us for this festive wrestling Q&A. Happy Holidays!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Merry Christmas to wrestling fans. Happy Christmas Eve. Everyone. Welcome
to our Ask the Federation special where we let you
guys ask the questions, we give you the answers. We
will get through as many of them as we possibly can.
I won't take too long with the intro. But we're
in sunny California as always, where the weather's beautiful. And
(00:22):
don't believe the hype, it's awesome here with me as
always as mister Jeff Die with us as always is
our producer, Alex. We're gonna go through all these together.
Let's start our damn show.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
And now your main event, introducing the hosts a wrestling win, Freddy,
Jeff Died and Freddy Friends Tunor.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
And I don't want to hear no bull crap, Alex.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
If these if these fans trying to come after me
and uh are coming after Freddy, I'm.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Gonna I'm gonna let him let it. I'm gonna cook
that's right. I'm just gonna sit back and watch him
at Viscera eight. All right, here we go. This first
question comes from b Mail two four to two four.
I hope you're a Kobe Bryant fan two four to
two four. That'd be cool anyway. B Mail asks how
do you two even know each other? And how did
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the podcast come to beat? Jeff, do you want to
start with the first part and I'll take the second part.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I being a huge fan of Freddie Prince Junior and
his work growing up, thought he was the man. I've
always thought he was the man often longed to be
with Jessica bil or Rachel Lee Cook. And this guy
lived these worlds in movie format. Uh and uh, you know,
he's a good dude.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Anyways.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
He also likes all the same stuff I like. He
likes wrestling, he likes comics. He also likes other things
I find interesting that I don't really know about. And
we have a mutual friend named Josh Wolf who came
and did my comedy podcast. Who's a stand up comedian.
Jaw shout out to our boy, Josh Wolf, and then
I said, oh, you know Freddy Prince Junior because they
had a podcast, and he goes, yeah, I could reach
out to him and see if he'll do your podcast.
(02:20):
And then when Freddie came on my podcast, you know
when you fall in love. I have an expression that
I use for some of my buddies where I say,
you fall into friendship. Have you ever met someone you're
like this guy rules like this is like I love
this guy, like immediately, like I want to hang out
with him or talk to him as much as possible.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I fell into friendship with Freddy. So that's how I
remember it. Yeah, that's exactly how it happened. And we
became good buds and started talking wrestling a lot, and
I went over to his place for a couple of
pay per views. He had a couple buddies over and
we would just watch sweaty buff dudes smash into each
other what And then I had a podcast about wrestling
(02:59):
and I said, hey, hey man, I'm looking for a
partner and I think you'd be great and do you
want to do it? And he's like, yeah, we'll just
talk more wrestling. And so that's how it came to be,
and now it's Wrestling with Friends. Next up it's Justin
Rayner ninety nine. And they asked, Oh, they just want
to know straight up what we think about a wrestling storyline, Jeff.
(03:19):
They want to know. Justin wants to know will the
Judgment day break up after WrestleMania you see how tough
I just made you sound justin it's because I freaking
love you, bro, I'll start I Ever since Rhea and
Damian Priest left the Judgment Day, I haven't cared too
much about it, So I think it's time for it
(03:42):
to meet its end. I think Dominic and Live are
the perfect sort of foil to destroy it and blow
it all up. With Finn Balor getting sick of being
in a backseat type position, and you can blow the
whole thing up. I liked it originally when it was
Edge and he was bringing all of them together. Him
and Damian Priest had an awesome match in Toronto that
(04:03):
was like one of my favorite matches of the year.
I don't know if you guys remember it, but it
looked like John Wick fight choreographyed in a couple parts
of it. It was awesome. But once they got kind
of tossed out and they tried to turn those two
out and they got beat by Rhea and Damien. I've
never seen them recover since then. Tag team titles are
not Jeff take it away.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I love me some Roxanne and Raquel and Finn.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
And dom and Live and.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Uh, what's the other guy's name I forget.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
That's it, JD. I love all those guys. I love
them all. I think they're all fantastic. I have no
shade to throw at those wrestlers. But I don't like
the I don't like the group. I like them, I
just don't like them as a group. It feels like
it's always ever changing and it doesn't really make sense.
(04:56):
They make these fake green rooms for them to do
their segments in the you can tell they just put
up two crappy walls, like none of it really works.
I'm like, I don't see how Raquel and Roxanne are
really even part of this group. It feels like Finn's
being left behind. Jad Madonna is like this kind of
like whatever. It just doesn't feel good as a group.
(05:17):
So I like all of them if they're all in
individual stars or if they're going to run a tag
team thing, but I don't I think that the group
has been over with for longer than a year.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
From JD third I Photography, What made you a wrestling
fan to begin with?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Well?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
JD third I Photography, My grandma rest her Soul was
a Puerto Rican woman out of Bogue Rone, Puerto Rico.
And she loved lucha libre, and in San Juan, they
would have wrestling matches up there and all the luchadors
would fight. Not everybody was a luchador sometimes, but those
were her favorites. Sometimes, you know, the other American wrestlers
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would come in, or Japanese wrestlers would come into the
territory and wrestle for a little bit as well. And
she took me to a match and they brought a
steel cage in and surrounded the ring, and she had
told me about a cage match. I said, oh, is
this Is this a cage match? She said no, they
always have this cage here and I said why and
she said that in case the wrong guy loses, they
don't kill the they don't kill the winner. And because
(06:16):
the fans back then, a lot of them still thought
it was real, including my grandmother to a certain degree.
And I remember when the Rock turned corporate, she turned
her back on him because he turned his back on
the people. And she got mad that my wife even
made a movie with him. I said, don't worry, grandma,
it's not a good movie. She said, I don't care.
(06:36):
So so anyway, that's how I got into wrestling. It
was through my family, kind of like a grandpa taking
his grandson to his first baseball game. That was my
introduction to wrestling. What about you, Jeff, I've.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Told a story on here before, so you can go
back and listen to the older episode. So I'll keep
it quick on this one, but you can find the
full story back. And when I first came on, but
I was in kindergarten and my mom put me on
a playdate with one of the other classmates that I had.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
His name was Eric Barrens. Shout out to him and.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
He showed me the WWF Hasbro toys and I fell
in love with it. I was looking at these toys.
I couldn't believe how cool they looked. They were all
jacked and they all looked different and had different characters
in personas. And then he goes, you know, these are
real guys, and I was like what, And he showed
me WWF and he showed me that the toy I
was holding was actually on the screen, and so I said,
through those toys, I discovered the show, and then from
(07:29):
there was Sky's the Limit. I fell in love with
wrestling from that day.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
This one's from Doctor Why Underscore eleven and he wants
to know is Roman Reigns already a WWE legend? What
is he? Jeff?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You can start well, of course, I mean the guy's
resume is undeniable. Also, no, not trying to be a jerk,
but the only way, the only thing you have to
do to be in the WWE hahull Hall of Fame
as being the WWE.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Eventually they're gonna put you in. You know, it's not.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
It's not like it's not like baseball, like like eventually
you're gonna be a WWE Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
It's a fact. Yeah, before this podcast, I probably would
have got in. Eventually, Yeah, you might still be in eventually.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Our crazy president of the United States of America is
a ww Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Everybody, I mean, what are we splitting hairs? Everybody is
all right, here we go. This one's from I was
gonna say Joaquin Aldaco, but there's an N in there,
so I don't know if it's Juan Quin and I
just don't know that name, but I'm gonna go with
Joaquin Joaquin Aldalco, does Sarah or any random hot chick
Jeff is with watch Wrestling with You guys, the best
(08:48):
question that we've gotten so far. I don't know if
anybody's gonna top that woaque and you're question fucking rules,
and so do you. So Sarah has watched before, if
there was matches that I've felt were important that I
was like, Yo, these two guys are going to bring
down the house, and I'll kind of set up the
reason why they're fighting what it is. I'll show her
a couple of their promos if I think the acting's good,
(09:09):
and as an actor, she gets interested in that, like
which of these guys and girls can actually act? Or
is it just the same you know, sort of bad
stuff we saw in the eighties and nineties from a
lot of people, Like that's her and most people's experience
to wrestling, especially in Hollywood, which has a higher You
could argue this has a higher standard for acting, but
that's debatable as well. If you want to throw some shade,
(09:31):
feel free. But yeah, man, So she's watched a couple
matches with me, but it's truthfully not her thing. Like
I made her watch a Royal Rumble when I think
Roman Reigns won it, and I even had her tweet.
I was like, tweet, the Roman's gonna win this shit,
and you'll look like a g when he does. And
I think she actually did. I can't remember those a
(09:52):
long ass time ago, if you remember that royal rumble.
So that's my answer, Jeff, what about you? You got any
hot chicks that watch wrestling with you?
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Let me tell you many hot chicks have watched wrestling
with me, and none of them get it. I hate
to crush your hope, but the type of woman I'm
attracted to, I could explain it.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I could defend it.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I could sit there and give her the same speech
every wrestling fan gives their girlfriend or women they know. Well,
it's like theater, but it adds athleticism, and it's really
like a drama. It's just as real as Friends or
Game of Thrones. It's all lost on the type of
birds I date. They don't care, they.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Don't like it, they don't get it, and that's okay.
I have to just go listen.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
You know how you watch those makeup tutorials and all
that crap. I don't like, like Love Island. This is
like my makeup tutorial or my love Island, So let
me have it. And then they go, okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I'll let them have it.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
But none of them sit there and hold my hand
and go, oh, Jeff, we hope bron Breaker wins tonight like.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
They don't get it. I hope he does. I like Brumber. Yeah,
well you're a cool guy. Not a shout out to
Jeff did going back to Frank Sinatra and calling females
birds and ring of dings and dames. Look at his
dame over here, look at his stems on that dame.
That's a great question, right from yo, underscore bitch. What's better?
(11:24):
Better stories with boring matches or better matches with no
build up? All right, yo, bitch, Sorry, Yo, underscore bitch.
I'm gonna answer this first, and this is gonna surprise you.
I actually think it's no build up and a better match.
And here's why. Normally I want build up for it.
But if I have to pick between the two, the
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only reason I ever watched Bruce Lee movie or a
Jackie Chan movie or a Jet Lee movie was to
see these motherfuckers kick ass. And I would buy the
DVDs or buy or rent the VHS tapes, and I
would fast forward to the scene where Jackie Chan would
have to fight twenty seven dudes and slide down the
side of a building and all these like weird Dutch
accents were all throughout the movie. Every when who spoke
(12:07):
English was always Dutch and they sounded weird and I
never got it. But I always loved the fighting. So
if I had to pick between the two, I would
take a speedball Mike Bailey versus Kyle Fletcher tournament match
and over a great build up and being completely let down.
I remember when the USO Brothers wrestled at WrestleMania. The
(12:28):
build up was so dope and the bloodline was falling
apart and they were both turning into stars and we
were watching them go from just a tag team to
people that were getting Mike time, and then the match
was just like crickets, dude, and I was so disappointed.
Whereas if I just see a dope match, I'm like, Yo,
that's a dope match, straight up, Like those guys killed it.
I may wish for a story, but if I had
(12:49):
to pick between the two, I'd go with the latter.
And that surprised you. You'll underscore, bitch, and let's see
what Jeff says. It's a good answer.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I've learned something about myself through talking about wrestling so
much with people. So like, when you hear like a
grumpy Brett Hart do a podcast in twenty twenty five,
he'll say something bad about a wrestler and he'll be like,
I mean, how many great matches has he had? You know,
you know, give me three good so and so matches,
(13:19):
And then I like, listen to that, and I'm like,
I don't even care about matches. If I'm honest, I
care about the build up to a match. I care
about the story of a match. So realistically, I'm not
one of these wrestling fans who can name like, oh,
that was so and so in WrestleMania three or that
was whatever.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I don't really care about the matches that much.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I care more about the build and the story and
the drama of wrestling. So that being said, I care
about build up way way way more. That being said,
don't confuse long build as a good build. Just because
it's long, that doesn't mean it's great. Sometimes they drag
these things out and I'm like, listen, I'm in on it,
(13:57):
but it's too long or it's too short, and it
wasn't a good enough build. So I'd like a good build,
but it has to be appropriately measured.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yo, underscore bitch. For sure thought you and I were
gonna say the exact opposite things we said, So you
got double surprised, Joe, underscore bitch and enjoy. It sounds
like you're insulting him and you're just saying his screen. Yeah,
I'm just saying your name. Bro, You're still You're still
my brother. All right. This one's for Matthew K and
(14:26):
the USA, or this is for Matthew k USA K
one more K and we would have had beef Matthew.
I'm just putting that out there, all right. The first
part we've already answered, which is how did Jeff and
you first meet? Has he met the family? Yeah, of
course he's met the family. My daughter thinks he's super
cool because he makes her laugh. He's met He's a
part of my friend group, so he knows some of
(14:48):
my friends. He knows my wife, he knows he's met
Rachel Lee Cook, they've hung out, like, he's met all
the people that I know he knows. So yeah, he's
a home he's a homing Sarah maybe pizza one time.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I thought it was very motherly of She's like, you
need to eat and I was like no, I'm okay,
and then she like fed me.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Like I was like rock here or something. She's like, no,
you got to eat a pia.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Extretty little bitchuse she sent me with a pizza in
the car.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
One of the kids, just eating in the back with
with your kids picking the pepperoni off. I don't like that.
Really nice one all right? From Scooby Doo three underscore
the petition, Oh, this is from Brazil. Brazil wants Scooby
(15:33):
Doo three so bad. Here's the question, Freddie petition for
Scooby Doo three. Here love Brazil, all right, So I'm
just getting love from you, and I appreciate that. Listen.
Brazil gives more love than any other country in the world.
Straight up. Brazil gives so much love. Man, you could
You could f up bad and just ask a Brazilian like, yo,
(15:55):
I have to please forgive me, and the Brazilian will
be like, you know what, it's all good. Let me
choke you out first, but then then it's all good.
Brazil gives mad love. The only country I get love
from consistently, like on Instagram on my painting videos, like
I would get a lot of advice from people like
try this brush, try this technique, and I'm like, okay, sick, sick,
(16:15):
I gotta get Okay, send a link. I'm dumb. I
don't know technology, and they'd be cool and send a link,
and then like the third one down would be like
love from Brazil. They always give love. So I love
you guys so much, but let me just be honest
with you. And I hate breaking people's hearts like this.
I did two of those movies, and I love what
those movies did for people, and I love what those
(16:38):
movies did for me and my family. But I'm done
making I'm almost fifty years old, y'all. I'm not putting
on another blonde yellow wig and pretending to be Fred Jones. Like,
let a young actor who needs the opportunity go in
there and get it. There you go, Scooby Doo three
underscore the petition. Next up from Brandon oh Man. I
(17:03):
think this is Vietnamese name and I'm not good with
these Hume, Brandon Hume. If I'm messed it up, I'm
so sorry, dude. I hate messing people's names up. Except
John Cena's all right, my favorite match in Jeff's favorite
match of John Cena's retirement tour, and who are the
next five wrestlers? That's awfully ambitious of you to demand
(17:25):
would give you five, But let's see where this goes.
And who are the next five wrestlers in AEW that
you'd like to see become champs? All right, I'll start
this one. I like the last match because I thought,
and we said this in another episode. I thought him
tapping out to Kunther is the most generous gift one
wrestler can give to another wrestler, especially on the way out.
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It's letting people know like this is a final thing.
I thought. I thought that was wonderful. So that was
my favorite of all of them. My favorite one that
he ever did, which you didn't ask, is an old
one from my two thousand and nine with him and
Randy Orton when they had their feud going on. But
as far as ae W champs, who would I like
to see with a belt? Who would I like to
(18:09):
see with a belt? We've already well, I want to
see Bobby Lashley. But I feel like you phrased it
as if it was like the new talent, right, and
not like the old school guys they brought in. So
maybe that's a bullshit answer for you. I'm just gonna
give you one, maybe two. So if it wasn't Bobby,
if it wasn't a Shelton Benjamin, then maybe that dude
(18:32):
the other half of Jet Speed, not Speedball Mike Bailey,
but the other guy. What's his name, producer Alex Kevin
Kevin Knight, that's his name. That dude can fly to.
I love the leapers because I loved luch ed Ors right.
I love the people that jump off the top rope
and people like montes Ford. That new kid from NXT,
his name starts with a J. That kid can jump
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out the building, Kevin Knight jumping out the building like
it's just like Blake Griffin level hops and I get
to see it in wrestling match. So there's a couple
that I could give for you, Jeff, I've given you
a lot of time to figure one out, so I
hope you took advantage.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
And what's this guy's name? This they had to ask them.
This is Brandon Hewn Hewn I think Brandon June. I'm
not giving you anybody. I don't care ae wh I
hope MJF wins it and then never loses it ever again.
I hope that he just retains it forever. He becomes
the whole colgan of aew, just never loses the belt,
(19:31):
and then when he's doing thirty years from now, they
go all right then and maybe now.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Someone else can have it.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
But I will say about the John Cena thing, he
just reminded me of something else. Also not what you asked,
But don't you think the retirement of John Cena, the
way he got a slide show and then the guys
came in and took a knee and handed him their
belts and then the whole locker room comes out. Do
I think this sets up kind of an expectation for
(19:58):
other goats when they wrestle, Well, like if no one's
ever gotten that before? Are you kind of saying, well,
you're not as important brock Listener as John Cena was. Oh,
you're not as important aj styles as John Cena was.
John Cena got the real red carpet. I mean we've
made a meal of it for a whole year, the
last match, the last match, the last thing, and so
(20:21):
I'm wondering if that's going to you know, how we're
gonna be able to justify this in the future for
wrestlers that retired. But I know that's not what she asked,
so I just went and answered my own.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Brandon, Jeff may not like you, but I love you.
You're my brother. You're his too. He just you know,
it's the brother that shits on you, all right. Next
up from so Cal King thirty two. As a kid
growing up, I always thought FPJ was neo from the
Matrix because to me, him and Keanu look alike. But
here's my question. Okay, so that was just random information.
(20:54):
I just wanted to thank so Cocky thirty two. Respect.
What is one Christmas gift that you owe always wanted
as a kid but never got? Oh man, all right,
this one hits hard, buddy. So we didn't have a
lot of money coming up. My dad didn't. I mean
he made it, but he wasn't making money and when
he only worked for a year really where he was
(21:15):
making good money, and when he died, the lawyers just
took it all right. So we didn't have a lot
of money coming up. My mom, who recently passed away,
she was struggling and going through problems too, So I
was I was working, you know, by about fourteen fifteen,
and to help pay bills, just to kind of paint
this picture for you. So, when I was a kid,
these toys, the Transformers, were the greatest toys that ever
(21:39):
came out. They I mean, I'm telling you guys, for
the old school fans who were listening you guys know,
but for the new school ones, it would go from
a truck to a fucking robot man and then like
in like six to ten steps. Some of them were
hard to do, like, some of them were very difficult
to remember all the steps. If you could have got
rid of the instructions, which were already complicated, you were
(22:00):
just straight fucked. There was no online video to show
you how to do it. You were just done in
half mid form Transformer. You'd have to get a new one.
It was sucked, but they were expensive because these toys
were amazing. I think they were from Japan, at least
the cartoon was from Japan. And I loved them, and
I begged my mom, mom, all I want for Christmas
is Transformers, No clothes, no anything, please, Transformers, Transformers. Transformers.
(22:24):
They just come out with these new ones called flipbots,
and you could pull them back and they would drive
by themselves and then flip up and land on their feet,
and I thought they were the coolest thing. And on
Christmas Day, dude, I get downstairs and there's some presents
under the tree. Not too many, but not too few.
You know. We tried to make Christmas special. And I
went down and I grabbed the first box and it
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was a little small, so I thought it was the Flipbot.
I was like, all right, it's not Optimus Prime. But
I got the Flipbot and I opened it up and
it was a fucking go Bot. Now, for those of
you who don't know, go bots were like the t
move version of Transformers, all right, they were bullshit. The
cartoons sucked, the toys sucked. It was a one step transformation.
(23:07):
You just like folded it up. The arms didn't articulate
the way optimists did. The legs didn't articulate like it's
And all of the gifts were gobots. And I was like, oh,
I can't even play with my bros. And I can't
get mad at my mom because she tried her best.
She didn't know. But the gobots were way cheaper and
way more affordable than the transformers. So that's what we
(23:28):
got the same thing when I asked her for an
Eyzod shirt, nah son, I got that La Ti Gray bullshit.
And the kids in school, man, that was a straight
fight in the third grade. Getting in fights in the
third grade is bullshit over your clothes. And I wore
corduroy pants, which didn't help because the kids when I'd
walk by, they go because that's the sound it would make.
And that was a fistfight for sure. I got sent
(23:48):
home all the time. So yeah, so that was the
one gift I wanted as a kid. Sorry for the
long winded version of it, but I had to paint
that picture. So you totally understand how important Optimist Prime
was to us kids of the seventies and eighties. Go ahead, Jeff,
what about you talk about some disappointment in your life.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Well, actually, I was gonna give a shout out to
my mom and dad because they didn't have any money,
and they you know, we were a broke family, but
they were they made Christmas a priority and so and
also because I wasn't asking for very expensive things, they
were able to deliver.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
In fact, one year, the Nintendo sixty four was like
wildly hard to get. It was like the gift and
my parents still were able to get me there. Oh heck, yeah,
So I was pretty yeah, pretty lucky in that way,
especially for having such poor parents who would never give
me anything.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
The whole year. They're like, we don't have money and
you don't need it. You don't need it.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
But then on Christmas they were very generous and got
us like what we wanted, which was nice. So if
you count like the year leading up, my parents refused
to buy me shoes, like because when you're growing up
and you're a boy, you're always like going through shoes
your feet are growing quickly. But then also like you
use the same shoes to go to the gym. At
least when I was growing up, we were usually the
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same shoes to walk to the bus stop, the same
shoes and gym, the same shoes at recess, and so
you're really hard on the shoes. And so my mom
was like, well, no, you get twenty bucks and you
got to buy them.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
At pay less shoe store.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
And she didn't realize how much she was affecting my social.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Status at school.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
And so that was very disappointing, and it was like
a weekly battle yelling at my parents like and then
lying to the kids like I got these at footlocker.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
And they're like, no, you're dating.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Those are like cheap attack force shoes. And then I
also my parents didn't buy me clothes that I wanted.
They bought me the clothes that they wanted me to wear,
so like I was wearing like really like form fitting
high water jeans and so fast. So the kids bullied
me for my jeans as well. So I got bullied
all the time for like shoes and clothes and stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
However, Christmas they were very generous, So shout out to
them for Christmas. And we both went into fields where
bullyings common. Yeah right. Ones from fat tat Low twenty
twenty two. Oh no, not fat Tat Sorry, I mean
call you fat tat Bro. It's just tat Low. Why'd
I say fat tat? That's nowhere on there, man, not
(26:12):
just totally shit all over you, bro. I'm so sorry.
The worst podcast host ever. And you ask such a
good question for me because I have my winner if
he's healthy, and they want to know who's your winner
of the upcoming twenty twenty six Royal Rumble. And here's
my pick if he's healthy, and I'm not sure if
he is, because I don't know why he dropped a
US title to the drugnof Guy, But it's Sammy's aint.
(26:35):
I think Sammy's ain is due for his story, for
his championship run, and I think he's gonna win the
Royal Rumble if there's no injuries or anything like that.
If if there is, then you know I'm way wrong.
But if he's healthy, mark my words, and we make picks,
you guys can bet you probably get good odds right now.
Sammy's ain, baby, What about you, ladies and gentlemen. He
(26:58):
scared me. My name is Jeff A.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Die and your two thoy twenty five Royal Rumble winner.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Is Burnawn Burn. See it happen. I can see it happen,
but I'll see I think it might happen in twenty
twenty six, not twenty twenty five. Yeah, well it'll be
next to guys. Dang it. I ruined it. I didn't
even realize the error of all right. I called Tatlow
fat Tatlow for no fucking reason whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Bro Gosh, that'd been so good too. But that's who
I think is winning Broun.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I love them all right. This is from Jut chaffein
eighty four very French, or maybe it's j chafe It four.
(28:02):
I don't know how to say anti four. It's fringe.
Then when we have Scooby Doo three, dude, No, it's
actually a well thought out, long question from Justin. He says,
Hey Freddy, Hey Jeff, and hey Alex. Thanks for making
such a fun podcast. I like the blend of Wednesday
and Thursday shows. The episode when Freddie talks about filming
(28:25):
Road to Recovery. Oh, the movie Yeah and Going After
Your Dreams was timely and really resonated with me. Thanks
Freddy for the inspiration. Oh fuck yeah, Justin. It helped
me with chasing my screenwriting dreams. Best Justine, Justin straight up, man,
let me tell you a real some real talk, and
then some inspirational talk. Real talk. First, don't fucking quit
(28:46):
because ninety eight percent of the people out there already due.
And the reason so many people, the reason so few
people make it, but the reason people do make it
has a lot to do with the fact that everyone
around him gave up. That's how I finished the marathon, brother,
I saw people quitting all around me. I was like,
I ain't gonna fucking quit. I'm gonna finish this shit.
But a lot of actors came out here, a lot
of screenwriters came out here, a lot of stand up
comics came out here, and they said, you know what,
(29:08):
it's too damn hard. I'm tired of suffering, I'm tired
of struggling. I'm getting a straight job in finance and
I'm fucking gone or whatever, construction, whatever it is you're
going to do. And they give up, and that opens
up a spot for you because you fucking didn't. So
that's just that's fifty percent of it is not quitting.
The second half of it is a lot of people
are going to tell you can't do it. That's people
(29:29):
to quit. That's people that gave up on their dream
and they want to feel better about themselves. So they're
going to tell you how hard it is, and they're
gonna let you know. Oh, you don't want to suffer
like that, you don't want to hurt like that. That's
gonna be no good. That's bullshit too. Man. You have
to see the dream. You have to see it when
nobody else can see it. You have to believe it
when nobody else believes it. You have to be able
(29:51):
to feel it every single day. That's how serious about
your dream you have to be. So I'm glad that
that resonated with you. Keep letting that shit resonate. You'll
find people out there in the world, not just me.
They're always going to hit you with some knowledge as
long as you're receptive to it. And it sounds like
you are. Most artists are. And if you're a screenwriter,
you're an artist. So all my best back to you. Justin,
(30:14):
mister Jeff, say something inspirational right now.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I agree with what Freddy said. Also, you know it's
it's a sacrifice, you know. So sometimes you know, I've
missed many weddings. I've missed many of my obviously my
friend's weddings. I've missed it so many things, so many
days because I just wanted to be a stand up comedian.
I wanted to be a real stand up comedian. And
it's like he said, like there's so many people that
(30:40):
just give up, you know, they meet someone and they go,
I guess my dream won't be as important as this,
And and like there's a I watched a great video
just not that long ago of Seth Rogan talking about
Ewan McGregor about how he was like this old guy
and he was like doing like local theater and he
was still an act for sure, and very talented, but
(31:01):
like then he books this huge role when he's in
his like seventies, and it's like the only difference between
him and everyone else is that he just didn't quit.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
He just kept doing it.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
He didn't say to himself like, well, who's gonna I'm
not a leading man anymore. I'm in my seventies. No,
he was like, no, I love this. That's the other
question you got to ask yourself. Is there anything else
you'd rather be doing? I do stand up comedy? If
they stopped paying me tomorrow, I would still do it
every night because I love it. So hopefully you're that
(31:31):
into your writing that who cares if it never makes
you a dollar? But you're just doing exactly what you
want to be doing every day. So that's the real
golden secret cup. Hell, yes, Father and Son. Battle Tech.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh shit, Jeff, you have not played this game with
me yet, but you will. Battle Tech is one of
the most fun tabletop board game type games that I
have ever played. It's like chess with robots. Each robot
can move a certain amount of inches, kind of like
in chess, each piece can move a certain ways. Each character,
each piece can do the same. They hit for different
(32:08):
amounts of damage, they have different amount of they have
a different amount of armor, they have a different amount
of movement. It's really really unique. Every game is different.
I play this shit a lot and have a solid group,
but people get sick, people have kids, people have jobs,
and the next time someone comes. If you want to
come join us for a sess, you will love this game.
It is a ton of fun. Everybody has a blast
(32:30):
that plays it. I've brought I've even had girls over
the love of girls play battle Tech too. What do
you know about that? People? Now here's your question. Okay,
here we go. This is not wrestling related, But how
do we get you to come out to a battle
Tech event? It would be amazing to have you at
the table. So I've thought about this. I almost went
to one in Germany and I was gonna take the
(32:53):
whole family, like on a European vacation. I've watched some
German battle battle Tech on YouTube and it's where I
I've like sort of stolen some of my strategies from
was from I can't remember the name of these guys
because I haven't watched them in a long time, but
I'll shout them out on another episode in the new year.
So I've almost done it. But I you know, I
(33:14):
get pretty busy since I've gone back to acting. I
got some some hopefully really great news to report in
the new year as well that will make me even
more busy. So it's hard to get to those It's
hard to get to those events because productions won't let
me go even though it's on a weekend, because Friday
is a travel day, and I have to work five
(33:35):
days a week on a movie. If you're directing, your
working seven days a week because you're editing on the
off days anyway, So so yeah, it's it's tough, but
I want to go. And if there's ever one in
Los Angeles where it's like super easy, my ass will
be there. So just hit me up on Instagram if
you if you can, if you see one ever in
(33:57):
Los Angeles or San Diego or something like that, maybe
Comic Conn'll have one. I don't know, Jeff, you don't
play Battle Tech, so you don't get to answer this question.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Huh yeah, but I mean if they want me there,
how much does it pay?
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Yo?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
They need stand up comics at these conventions, man to
break the ice.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Ye sounds perfect. Yeah, I love money. Y'll hit up
my gofud me send me some dates.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
You know what I'm saying. Jeff Die loves that green,
he loves the green, but he'll do comedy for free.
All right, that's true, this one is all right? Here
we go. Hey, Freddy, I've been a huge fan since
she's all that. Oh yeah, Rachel Lee cook Baby, and
I've watched most of your movies most what the fuck? No,
(34:41):
I'm just kidding, and Scooby Doo would probably have to
be my favorite. When I found out you were a
wrestling fan, I realized why I could have been so
drawn to you as a fan. Yes, we connected on
wrestling like Jeffrey and I. I was just wondering what
your honest opinion was on John Cena's last match at
a Saturday Night's main event. If you've already heard the episode,
you know the answer to this. The way you phrased it,
(35:03):
I'm assuming you maybe didn't care for it. Maybe you
were hoping for a different outcome. But I'll put it
to you this way. I thought it was like a
Shakespearean tragedy, which are beautiful, right, there's beauty and tragedy.
If you've suffered, you can see beauty in trauma, right,
because you can see what comes out on the other side.
(35:24):
Because there's an old saying that pain is temporary. It
may last an hour, a week, a year, but eventually
it subsides and you become someone better at the end
of it. So I thought that was kind of the
story that he was telling there. I thought it was beautiful.
I love the tap out. I think that's the most
generous thing a wrestler can do for another wrestler, especially
on the way out. It just makes the other one
(35:45):
look so great, especially because Gonther promised he would do
exactly that and he didn't break the promise, which makes
him so much more serious to deal with when he
says something the next time. When he goes after the
World Heavyweight Championship against someone like Jeff loves bron Breaker
and he beats his ass, what Jeff interferies? So that
(36:05):
was my honest opinion on seeing his last match. What
about you, Jeff I thought it was fine. I thought
he was great.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I don't know, I think I don't know what all
the celebrities and attendance and everybody really had in mind.
You know, I don't know what they were expecting because
I thought it was fine. I thought it was great.
And also, the Triple H is listening to you. Take
it easy on the guy. He's listening to you. He's
listening to his talent. You all cried that it wasn't
(36:32):
the main event of Saturday Night because they were going
to open with it, and so they changed it like
week of because everyone was like.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
It's not even going to be the last show. So
he's listening to the fans.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
He's trying to give you what he wants, but he's
also trying to listen to the wrestlers and do things
the way they rest in the industry used to do.
So there's a lot of voices that he's trying to factor.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
And so give the guy a break. Are you wearing
a Spider Man shirt? Yes, sir? Right on? Oh Venom? Okay,
respect bro yo. I almost wrote a Venom storyline for
Marvel Comics back in the day, but it all fell apart.
I'll tell you why off camp off air? I can't.
I can't tell the story or people get mad at me.
(37:14):
All right, Moving on to the voice messages with producer
Alex introducing you guys giving up for smile, no booze, go, Elias,
go for it. The floor's yours, Elias.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
If Freddy had his promotion and there was a match
with Jeff versus Alex and who put John be prison
match for any mid court title Freddy has, who's going over?
And what spots are happening?
Speaker 1 (37:48):
All right? First of all, Elias, great voice work. You
sounded totally different than when you sing and do that.
All right, dude, First of all, it's kind of fucked up.
Did you say Jeff and Alex are mid card guys
and they can only get that going on? You just
(38:08):
got mid carded by Elias.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Yea, even in some fantasy made up by a listener,
I have to be mid card.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
That's wild, dude, cold blood Elias is cold blooded man.
I kind of like it. First of all, it would
have to be a Punjabi prison match because that's Jeff's
favorite match, and the storyline would would build up to that,
so we would get there, you know, Jeff Wood harass
Alex's character on what would Alex's name be, Well, just
(38:39):
go to Alex would just be Big al Cardoza the
Big Cardozi versus Jackpot Jeff Dye in a Punjabi prison
match from Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania. It's got to be in Wilkesbury.
So so yeah, So first of all, if you guys
remember the last one, it was the New Day versus
the USO's and at one point Xavier Woods gets like
(39:04):
pinned to the cage by bamboo poles or no sorry,
by kendo sticks, and then they just go to town
on him and just start whipping his ass. And I
know what you're wanting to know, people who's pinned and
who's getting their ass beat? Well, I know what the
people want, and I'm gonna give the people what they want.
So Jeff's pinned in the corner.
Speaker 6 (39:25):
Oh yeah, he's been in the corner, and Ali and
the Big Cardos He's got the kendo stick maybe it's
a bamboo cane pole like Singapore style, and he just
starts going to town on Jeff and it's an I
quit Punjabi match, and he makes Jeff say I quit
because it's just too much of a beating and he
gets split.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
This is what a last wants, this is what the
people want. I'm like triple h. I listened to the
thief has left the chat. That's what's going on here, Bill.
Here's the thing, guys, Alex is a good man. That's
what you don't know about Alex. He's a good man.
He's one of the best men we know. He's a
great man served to this country. It's a family man.
He's a dad, he's a good husband.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
But Jeff die the cheats baby, and I don't lose.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Now. Listen.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
I didn't say I was gonna win clean. I didn't
say that I would win in the honorable way. But
I will back stab, i will cheat. I'll have my
cronies come in. I'll have some hooded, black mask guy
cheat for me. I'll break a two by four over
Alex's face. And when I say face, I mean good
(40:30):
guy face. I'm the heel baby. And so the point is,
I will win. I will prevail by cheating at any
means necessary, and I will escape the Punjabi prisoners.
Speaker 7 (40:41):
Yes, I've taken a lot of beatings over the head,
so we're good.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Yeah, I'm like a oh yeah, bro, Yeah, you can
take a whoop, car can take a whooping. I have
a skull like a samoan. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
And I would take a Puerto Rican flag and make
everyone boom.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
It would be the best. See that's here. Yeah, and
the match would be insane one yeah, freaks.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
From not getting throwing batteries at him, throwing those beers
at me.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Beers you'd beat in, pennies and batteries thrown at you.
That's what they were chucking when I was there. This
next one's coming up from Wayne Phillips. Here we go, Freddy,
This is Wayne Phillips.
Speaker 8 (41:32):
I was curious if you would ever consider being a
manager for any of the wrestlers at ad of you.
If so, which wrestlers would you like to manage?
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Thank you? Oh? Hell yeah, Wayne? I love your accent, dude,
country country as hell man. That accent is so smooth.
I love that you sound like you said wye. I
love Wayne Matt. I love that accent so much as
that I feel like you're gonna invite me in for lemonade.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Uh all right, So I kind of have this secret dream, right,
this secret fantasy that I will be a wrestling manager
one day. It's a point one percent chance of it
ever happening, but I for sure would want it to happen.
I would love to manage Powerhouse Hobbs. I think that
would be super cool because I like him a lot,
and I think I'm pretty good on the mic, so
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I could I could help get him over, and then
while I'm getting him over, work with him and help him,
you know, rely on his own voice so he doesn't
need a dude like me, and then he can turn
on me and smash me through the ring and everyone
will be like, oh, I just smashed bready, and he's like,
because I'm a heal you bastards. So I'd love to
do something like that. But yeah, it's a secret fantasy
(42:41):
of mine. Jeff, what about you, dude, if you could
be a manager, is there somebody that you would love
to manage besides bron Breaker and Bronson Reed, they already
have one.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
No, So I would love to be a manager. Here's
the thing. I would love to be a manager. I
would love to create a unit of guys who are
giants and their whole thing is they just bully the
best the rest of the roster of like dude, you're
all small, and while they talk, just keep talking about
how little they are. So every guy on my team
is just a big giant freak. I book the way
(43:11):
Vince used to book. Just get the biggest guys. I got,
you know, big casts. I got Wardlow, I got all
these big giant guys, and then you know Hobbs, all
those guys.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Best any anybody big.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
And the music just goes cool, like it sounds like
hell is coming to the ring. It's not even music.
It's a big vibration sound. And they're huge freaks that
I bring down to just rain Tyrny on every small
personal roster. Now I'm six foot four, I don't need
to be, uh, you know, looking big. I want my
(43:49):
wrestlers to look big. So my rest my manager character
rides around in a wheelchair and he has a blanket
over his legs. And I'm very small and cowardly, you know,
like when I ever like, they try to give me
I go, but I am a handicappers, why would you
do this? And then my big freaks come in and
break some heads.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
Jeff always goes hell. He always goes full on heel.
Speaker 7 (44:12):
If I play the next one, I do got to
say as your song, because that's what don Kallis comes
out to. He comes out to you ever notice it
is that's his DES's his song. It's just a sound
that just really breaks the arena. No, I think like
it should sound like a Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
I think it should be like a big horn like
warning like you thinks about like the end of times
is coming. Yeah, like the old miural thing like that.
You just see these big freaks.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
That was a good horn sound effect. That was some
Lord of the Rings ship right there. Dude, that'd be awesome.
The writer's a row man, just fucking rolled up man.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
For her needs some sort of strange nineties butt rock
that we can bad tattoos, know what I mean. But
all the music and study was talking about something brand new.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
I was like, wait, what.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
All the wrestling music sounds dated? It seems like something
that would be cool, Like when I was in ninth grade.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Eosky's Music's the only music that I really like because
there's no words.
Speaker 7 (45:18):
This next one coming up as friend of the show,
Emma fred who's always sending in great questions.
Speaker 9 (45:23):
Hey Freddie and Jeff Emma. Emma here, I'm just wondering,
what is the most recent wrestling match you have watched
that you would watch again. I feel like lately wrestling
has been filed of like a lot of moments and
not a lot of good kind of stories. I'm just curious.
That's how I determine like a good match, if I
(45:45):
would watch it again. I'm curious. Yeah, what you guys
have to say about that? Also, thanks for your podcast.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
Bloody love it all right, Emma, are you? Emma? Thank
you for calling in again. Emma. I know, look, the
bar may be low on our podcast here for what
I'm about to say, but I mean this and the
ulmost respect. You got the best voice of any of
the callers that call in.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
And and besides Wayne.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
Wade was cool. Man Wade was cool, but this is
the best voice for sure. The Australian accent is the
best accent on women, on dudes like Jim Jeffries, not
as hot, not as hot. I love Jim Jeffries, but
it's not as hot. But I'm like when Nicole Kidman
or what's her face from the Lord of the Rings,
great actress, what's her name Smith?
Speaker 3 (46:41):
That's what the guys sound like in Australia. Some parts
of Australia.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
He bro anyway, the voice is dope, it's hot, it's awesome,
and I already have one for you because I already
watched it three times, once because it was fun, a
second time because it was awesome, and a third time
because I thought I was going to talk more about
it last week, but I ended up not. And that
was the recent match in the tournament on aew for
(47:06):
the Continental Classic between Mike's Speedball Bailey and Kyle Fletcher.
These dudes win at it your Sydney's own, Kyle Fletcher.
These dudes win at it so hard. They gave so much.
It was no blood, but it was sweat and tears.
You got that, and it was awesome. They were so
(47:26):
fast when they needed to be fast. They took their
time when you want them to take time. I thought
they told an excellent story and that was one that
I definitely was excited to watch again. Any of those
for you, Jeff, Any that you can remember or is
it like you said earlier, the thing that I came
up when she when she first asked it was wargames.
Oh yeah, yeah, whoa Okay.
Speaker 3 (47:44):
I felt like I did rewatch the men's war games
like a few times, so that's the first one that
came up. But like I did say earlier, I'm not
a big match guy. That was the stories that I like,
so it's hard for me to think of one. But
I did watched The Men's War Game three times, so
maybe that. But also to your credit, Em, it was
(48:05):
because there was just a lot of spots. There's just
like all these spots that I liked, So I guess
a good.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
Match is a collection of spots. But I was really
just kind of rewatching those spots. So that's all I
can do you em.
Speaker 7 (48:16):
This next one, we got two more for this. The
next one coming up is from Jason, and we have
two different Jason's, so this one's the first.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Jason. All right, Jason, I'm the Great Brimsie.
Speaker 10 (48:32):
Now hand you my arch nemesis, fred Prince.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
The second.
Speaker 10 (48:41):
You have avoided me because you left the Great Uhlan
Musk's tatter, and now I see you on the Instagram
and your podcasts with all your great wrestling knowledge. But
I want you to know I'm still out here waiting, watching, plotting,
(49:08):
occasionally napping and snacking, but mostly plotting. I'm going to
get you, Freddy, and I hope you all have a
great New Year.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
Thank you so much for your time. So this is
the great brand Zeno. And for those of you who
don't know, he was a part of a wrestling promotion
called Wrestling Pro Wrestling, which was Brian Danielson's comedy cosplay
wrestling promotion that he ran out here in southern California.
(49:40):
They used to do dick kick matches and it was awesome.
They would tell these beautiful stories in between the matches
of like famous movies from the eighties that they were
all fans of, and we would have so much fun.
And I've been to a bunch of these, and the
Great Branzino would come out almost every week he'd be
booked for a match. And he's real short. He's like
(50:01):
a DWARFN wizard, right, He's probably about three feet tall.
And his walkout takes a very long time. Now I
say all this, I'm not bagging on the guy. He's
walking out on his fucking knees. The dude's actually pretty tall,
So he's walking out on his knees. That walk out
takes forever. He's talking to the crowd while he does it,
(50:21):
and he finally gets his ass in the ring, his
slow ass. He finally gets in the ring, only to
tell the crowd that once again, he can't wrestle tonight
because he's contracted some magical disease and it's always some
like magical STDs. So instead of herpes, he contracted harpies
and he can't wrestle tonight because it's highly contagious. And
then he exits the ring and you never get to
(50:42):
see this fucking guy wrestle. He's never wrestled in a match,
but he's been booked a million times, and he started
talking shit to me on Twitter, and I really fell
in love with the guy, and I love that he
called in and listens to the podcast. Shout out to
the great Branzino and comedy wrestlers everywhere. Tino Morello, You're
still my favorite and great Brenzino. Sorry, dude, you're not sucker.
Speaker 3 (51:08):
That Branzino sounded like Gollum reference Sniegel, but it started
as Smigel, then it became like Dan Housen, then it
became Triumph the insult Dog, and then there was also
an Iron Chicade. There was like four of things that
are great all mixed into this guy. I'd like to
see this three foot free It was pretty good, pretty good.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
Little mic whol my god, No the great Branzino on
Freddy Brenzino's money. Dude, all right, hit us.
Speaker 7 (51:40):
This one is from a second Jason, not from magical Jason.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
No, no, no, he has no magic. Hey, guys, Jason Jason.
Speaker 11 (51:48):
First off, big shout out to producer Alex great job
hosting those shows when.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
The guys were out of town. Got a question about
celebrities in wrestling. Now. I grew up.
Speaker 11 (52:00):
With mister T and Dennis Rodman and guys who could
really beat you up if you met him on the street.
Nowadays we're getting jelly roll at a whole bunch of randoms.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
Who would you, guys in the wrestling ring? Pastor president
if you could choose? Thanks? Oh dude, all right, so
I'll give you a past and a present. And I
couldn't agree more with your take. By the way, Jason Momoa,
you guys didn't know Jason Momoa calls into the show
from Denver, but he does. He's got a house there,
and uh, all right, I totally agree. I think the
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last one that worked was probably Hugh Jackman because it
was against Dolf Zigler, and he was bigger and buffer
than Dolf. Sorry for busting you on that, Dolph, but
he got a good knockout shot on you, and so
I thought that was cool. But all the other ones,
I've always been kind of like, eh, if he loses,
so long as he loses, I'm okay with it. So
(52:54):
old school, I'll give you the toughest guy because he
was a real tough guy. My godfather, Bob Wall actually
trained him and taught him how to fight. And that
was Steve McQueen. Steve mc for those of you who
don't know, google Steve McQueen. He was a man's man.
He drove a man's car, he smoked man's cigarettes, he
would fight other men. All the women loved him, all
the men wanted to be him. Now, you guys don't
(53:14):
care about the old stuff, so I'll give you some
new shit. If I could have somebody who's like in
a promoter movie and we needed to tie it in
and we wanted them to actually look like they could
kick some ass. What do you guys think about Jason Statham,
that British dude that always is whipping ass in like
the Transporter movie, and every movie is basically the transporter,
the bee keeper, but I'm also the transporter. I'm the peacekeeper,
(53:35):
but I'm the transport, like they're all the transporter. But
he always whips ass. But yeah, Jason Statham comes off
like a badass in every movie, and I'd love to
see him do some ww stuff. What about you, Jeff,
You can't say me, well, uh oh this is tough.
Oh okay, I thought it was about to be trouble.
Speaker 3 (53:52):
My take on all these people. When I see an
Andrew Schultz and when I see a jelly roll and
I see post Malone, you see all these people they've
put in there, whether it's John Stewart or oh that
one the people we've seen Ken Jong, any of these guys.
Speaker 1 (54:08):
Listen. I get it.
Speaker 3 (54:10):
I am a somewhat known person who is so obsessed
with wrestling that I'll ring out any type of success.
I have to try to be a part of wrestling
because I get it. So I get it. I'm on
their sides, but I think all the celebrities should be
in wrestling, just not in the ring. The second that
they have matches together is when I'm like, what are
(54:30):
we doing? But I think they're good for wrestling when
they're like maybe in a storyline or a backstage segment,
or they're on the side, you know, in the thing.
I like all that, I just don't like it when
it's part of a match. That's when I say, get
them out of there. Let's get real pro wrestlers. I
don't want to see bad Bunny go Wow, he's getting
really good.
Speaker 1 (54:50):
He's been doing it for a whole month. I don't care.
Speaker 3 (54:53):
So that being said from the past, if there's any
wrestler any like celebrities I would want to see, it
would probably be like football players, you.
Speaker 1 (55:01):
Know, like Brian Oh. That would be what it would be.
Speaker 3 (55:05):
That'd be like a cool person, that would make total sense,
and you would believe that they could wrestle the wrestlers
because they're so big and strong. But other than that,
I'm a firm believer of keeping these celebrities in wrestling, but.
Speaker 1 (55:18):
Out of the ring. Yeah, man, I uh, you know.
I had done one of these and it wasn't a match,
but I had to take a move from Randy Orton,
and even that, I was so nervous about not doing
justice and getting it wrong and messing it up because
I think celebrities more often than not, their their ego right,
(55:40):
doesn't want them to look bad. They're doing press for
a movie. They don't want to get beat up and
look like shit. But like you're going into their environment,
you should lose. You should get beat up if you're
going there. So my thing is similar to Jeff's, but
I would say the celebrity should always lose. That would
be my addition to it. But thank you for the question.
I thought that was a cool question.
Speaker 7 (56:01):
Before we get to this last one, Jason Statin. Then
he fights Megaladon twice with his bare hands and kill
the dude, beat a shirt twice. Bro, you don't think
he can be brown Breaker? Yeah, And we had a
Steve Mango McMichael's back in the day, unfortunately he passed away.
And Kevin Green who also man, we had some.
Speaker 1 (56:20):
Monsters back in the day.
Speaker 7 (56:22):
This next one's coming up from Sam Parmi all the
way from the Philippines. Man, he's been listening in a
huge support of the show since day one. Shout out
to the philip y'all got some Gande food.
Speaker 5 (56:33):
Hey Dan, Jeff, I just want to know your thoughts
about the recent development regarding DNA and DNA impact moving
to AMC next year in January twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (56:46):
Six, Sam dude, First of all, thanks for listening all
the way out there, beautiful culture of the Philippines. I
love the food, big Filipino community out here in California,
and uh and yeah, I wish I knew more about
your culture than how delicious it is. But I eat
everything that you guys cook. So I love that. I've
said this for a long time in like wrestling group
(57:09):
friends or talking to wrestlers who actually work there. Like,
all TNA needs is a fucking home. They just need
a home that people know exists, a channel that people's
ears have heard once before spoken by someone else, instead
of these random channels that you've never heard in your life,
like we're on Blueby, We're on Slooper, We're on Clue
Clue Kluke, Like it's just all these like weird names,
(57:32):
just it's hard to find these channels. But most people
know about AMC, So even though it's not an American
movie classic, that's going to be that's what AMC stands
for for those of you guys who didn't know. Even
though it doesn't stand for that, they have a home
that's known, it's going to get a better rating than
it's ever gotten. I guarantee you that's sam just because
(57:52):
there's more eyeballs on AMC than on the previous channel,
of which I can't even tell you the name that
it's on right now. So yes, I think it'll be
a good thing. Jeff, what do you think about the
business of TNA moving to a better channel?
Speaker 3 (58:06):
I like, don't know how to feel about competing brands.
I seem to often be rooting for the monopoly. It
seems like like anytime a guy's doing good on AW,
instead of me just being happy for him, I'm like, well,
when's he gonna come to WB. I still have this
strange thing in my brain where I'm like, well, if
they're good enough on TNA, i'll eventually see them on RAW.
And it's my brain that is thinking that. I don't
(58:29):
know why. I know competition is good, and I know
that it's a more wrestling is good for everybody. But
I would love if if TNA was on Netflix and
I could just watch it the way I watch wrestling.
Speaker 1 (58:41):
I don't know if that's ever gonna happen or how
it would happen.
Speaker 3 (58:43):
But I'd like to be able to watch more TNA
so I could want more wrestling, you know.
Speaker 1 (58:49):
All right, you guys, we hope you had a great
Christmas Eve. Hope you got all the gifts you wanted.
Wake up early, open gifts with the family. Happy Holidays
to everyone. I hope you guys enjoyed the show this year.
We'll be back next year and the year after that
and the year after that, as long as you guys
like listening to us. So on, behalf of Jeff, I'm
behalf of Alex. I'm Freddie saying happy holidays and Peach
Merry Christmas to wrestling fans. Happy Christmas Eve. Everyone. Welcome
to our Ask the Federation special where we let you
guys ask the questions, we give you the answers. We
will get through as many of them as we possibly can.
I won't take too long with the intro. But we're
in sunny California as always, where the weather's beautiful. And
(00:22):
don't believe the hype, it's awesome here with me as
always as mister Jeff Die with us as always is
our producer, Alex. We're gonna go through all these together.
Let's start our damn show.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
And now your main event, introducing the hosts a wrestling win, Freddy,
Jeff Died and Freddy Friends Tunor.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
And I don't want to hear no bull crap, Alex.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
If these if these fans trying to come after me
and uh are coming after Freddy, I'm.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Gonna I'm gonna let him let it. I'm gonna cook
that's right. I'm just gonna sit back and watch him
at Viscera eight. All right, here we go. This first
question comes from b Mail two four to two four.
I hope you're a Kobe Bryant fan two four to
two four. That'd be cool anyway. B Mail asks how
do you two even know each other? And how did
(01:32):
the podcast come to beat? Jeff, do you want to
start with the first part and I'll take the second part.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I being a huge fan of Freddie Prince Junior and
his work growing up, thought he was the man. I've
always thought he was the man often longed to be
with Jessica bil or Rachel Lee Cook. And this guy
lived these worlds in movie format. Uh and uh, you know,
he's a good dude.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Anyways.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
He also likes all the same stuff I like. He
likes wrestling, he likes comics. He also likes other things
I find interesting that I don't really know about. And
we have a mutual friend named Josh Wolf who came
and did my comedy podcast. Who's a stand up comedian.
Jaw shout out to our boy, Josh Wolf, and then
I said, oh, you know Freddy Prince Junior because they
had a podcast, and he goes, yeah, I could reach
out to him and see if he'll do your podcast.
(02:20):
And then when Freddie came on my podcast, you know
when you fall in love. I have an expression that
I use for some of my buddies where I say,
you fall into friendship. Have you ever met someone you're
like this guy rules like this is like I love
this guy, like immediately, like I want to hang out
with him or talk to him as much as possible.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I fell into friendship with Freddy. So that's how I
remember it. Yeah, that's exactly how it happened. And we
became good buds and started talking wrestling a lot, and
I went over to his place for a couple of
pay per views. He had a couple buddies over and
we would just watch sweaty buff dudes smash into each
other what And then I had a podcast about wrestling
(02:59):
and I said, hey, hey man, I'm looking for a
partner and I think you'd be great and do you
want to do it? And he's like, yeah, we'll just
talk more wrestling. And so that's how it came to be,
and now it's Wrestling with Friends. Next up it's Justin
Rayner ninety nine. And they asked, Oh, they just want
to know straight up what we think about a wrestling storyline, Jeff.
(03:19):
They want to know. Justin wants to know will the
Judgment day break up after WrestleMania you see how tough
I just made you sound justin it's because I freaking
love you, bro, I'll start I Ever since Rhea and
Damian Priest left the Judgment Day, I haven't cared too
much about it, So I think it's time for it
(03:42):
to meet its end. I think Dominic and Live are
the perfect sort of foil to destroy it and blow
it all up. With Finn Balor getting sick of being
in a backseat type position, and you can blow the
whole thing up. I liked it originally when it was
Edge and he was bringing all of them together. Him
and Damian Priest had an awesome match in Toronto that
(04:03):
was like one of my favorite matches of the year.
I don't know if you guys remember it, but it
looked like John Wick fight choreographyed in a couple parts
of it. It was awesome. But once they got kind
of tossed out and they tried to turn those two
out and they got beat by Rhea and Damien. I've
never seen them recover since then. Tag team titles are
not Jeff take it away.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I love me some Roxanne and Raquel and Finn.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
And dom and Live and.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Uh, what's the other guy's name I forget.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
That's it, JD. I love all those guys. I love
them all. I think they're all fantastic. I have no
shade to throw at those wrestlers. But I don't like
the I don't like the group. I like them, I
just don't like them as a group. It feels like
it's always ever changing and it doesn't really make sense.
(04:56):
They make these fake green rooms for them to do
their segments in the you can tell they just put
up two crappy walls, like none of it really works.
I'm like, I don't see how Raquel and Roxanne are
really even part of this group. It feels like Finn's
being left behind. Jad Madonna is like this kind of
like whatever. It just doesn't feel good as a group.
(05:17):
So I like all of them if they're all in
individual stars or if they're going to run a tag
team thing, but I don't I think that the group
has been over with for longer than a year.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
From JD third I Photography, What made you a wrestling
fan to begin with?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Well?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
JD third I Photography, My grandma rest her Soul was
a Puerto Rican woman out of Bogue Rone, Puerto Rico.
And she loved lucha libre, and in San Juan, they
would have wrestling matches up there and all the luchadors
would fight. Not everybody was a luchador sometimes, but those
were her favorites. Sometimes, you know, the other American wrestlers
(05:53):
would come in, or Japanese wrestlers would come into the
territory and wrestle for a little bit as well. And
she took me to a match and they brought a
steel cage in and surrounded the ring, and she had
told me about a cage match. I said, oh, is
this Is this a cage match? She said no, they
always have this cage here and I said why and
she said that in case the wrong guy loses, they
don't kill the they don't kill the winner. And because
(06:16):
the fans back then, a lot of them still thought
it was real, including my grandmother to a certain degree.
And I remember when the Rock turned corporate, she turned
her back on him because he turned his back on
the people. And she got mad that my wife even
made a movie with him. I said, don't worry, grandma,
it's not a good movie. She said, I don't care.
(06:36):
So so anyway, that's how I got into wrestling. It
was through my family, kind of like a grandpa taking
his grandson to his first baseball game. That was my
introduction to wrestling. What about you, Jeff, I've.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Told a story on here before, so you can go
back and listen to the older episode. So I'll keep
it quick on this one, but you can find the
full story back. And when I first came on, but
I was in kindergarten and my mom put me on
a playdate with one of the other classmates that I had.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
His name was Eric Barrens. Shout out to him and.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
He showed me the WWF Hasbro toys and I fell
in love with it. I was looking at these toys.
I couldn't believe how cool they looked. They were all
jacked and they all looked different and had different characters
in personas. And then he goes, you know, these are
real guys, and I was like what, And he showed
me WWF and he showed me that the toy I
was holding was actually on the screen, and so I said,
through those toys, I discovered the show, and then from
(07:29):
there was Sky's the Limit. I fell in love with
wrestling from that day.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
This one's from Doctor Why Underscore eleven and he wants
to know is Roman Reigns already a WWE legend? What
is he? Jeff?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You can start well, of course, I mean the guy's
resume is undeniable. Also, no, not trying to be a jerk,
but the only way, the only thing you have to
do to be in the WWE hahull Hall of Fame
as being the WWE.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Eventually they're gonna put you in. You know, it's not.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
It's not like it's not like baseball, like like eventually
you're gonna be a WWE Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
It's a fact. Yeah, before this podcast, I probably would
have got in. Eventually, Yeah, you might still be in eventually.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Our crazy president of the United States of America is
a ww Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Everybody, I mean, what are we splitting hairs? Everybody is
all right, here we go. This one's from I was
gonna say Joaquin Aldaco, but there's an N in there,
so I don't know if it's Juan Quin and I
just don't know that name, but I'm gonna go with
Joaquin Joaquin Aldalco, does Sarah or any random hot chick
Jeff is with watch Wrestling with You guys, the best
(08:48):
question that we've gotten so far. I don't know if
anybody's gonna top that woaque and you're question fucking rules,
and so do you. So Sarah has watched before, if
there was matches that I've felt were important that I
was like, Yo, these two guys are going to bring
down the house, and I'll kind of set up the
reason why they're fighting what it is. I'll show her
a couple of their promos if I think the acting's good,
(09:09):
and as an actor, she gets interested in that, like
which of these guys and girls can actually act? Or
is it just the same you know, sort of bad
stuff we saw in the eighties and nineties from a
lot of people, Like that's her and most people's experience
to wrestling, especially in Hollywood, which has a higher You
could argue this has a higher standard for acting, but
that's debatable as well. If you want to throw some shade,
(09:31):
feel free. But yeah, man, So she's watched a couple
matches with me, but it's truthfully not her thing. Like
I made her watch a Royal Rumble when I think
Roman Reigns won it, and I even had her tweet.
I was like, tweet, the Roman's gonna win this shit,
and you'll look like a g when he does. And
I think she actually did. I can't remember those a
(09:52):
long ass time ago, if you remember that royal rumble.
So that's my answer, Jeff, what about you? You got any
hot chicks that watch wrestling with you?
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Let me tell you many hot chicks have watched wrestling
with me, and none of them get it. I hate
to crush your hope, but the type of woman I'm
attracted to, I could explain it.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I could defend it.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I could sit there and give her the same speech
every wrestling fan gives their girlfriend or women they know. Well,
it's like theater, but it adds athleticism, and it's really
like a drama. It's just as real as Friends or
Game of Thrones. It's all lost on the type of
birds I date. They don't care, they.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Don't like it, they don't get it, and that's okay.
I have to just go listen.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
You know how you watch those makeup tutorials and all
that crap. I don't like, like Love Island. This is
like my makeup tutorial or my love Island, So let
me have it. And then they go, okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I'll let them have it.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
But none of them sit there and hold my hand
and go, oh, Jeff, we hope bron Breaker wins tonight like.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
They don't get it. I hope he does. I like Brumber. Yeah,
well you're a cool guy. Not a shout out to
Jeff did going back to Frank Sinatra and calling females
birds and ring of dings and dames. Look at his
dame over here, look at his stems on that dame.
That's a great question, right from yo, underscore bitch. What's better?
(11:24):
Better stories with boring matches or better matches with no
build up? All right, yo, bitch, Sorry, Yo, underscore bitch.
I'm gonna answer this first, and this is gonna surprise you.
I actually think it's no build up and a better match.
And here's why. Normally I want build up for it.
But if I have to pick between the two, the
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only reason I ever watched Bruce Lee movie or a
Jackie Chan movie or a Jet Lee movie was to
see these motherfuckers kick ass. And I would buy the
DVDs or buy or rent the VHS tapes, and I
would fast forward to the scene where Jackie Chan would
have to fight twenty seven dudes and slide down the
side of a building and all these like weird Dutch
accents were all throughout the movie. Every when who spoke
(12:07):
English was always Dutch and they sounded weird and I
never got it. But I always loved the fighting. So
if I had to pick between the two, I would
take a speedball Mike Bailey versus Kyle Fletcher tournament match
and over a great build up and being completely let down.
I remember when the USO Brothers wrestled at WrestleMania. The
(12:28):
build up was so dope and the bloodline was falling
apart and they were both turning into stars and we
were watching them go from just a tag team to
people that were getting Mike time, and then the match
was just like crickets, dude, and I was so disappointed.
Whereas if I just see a dope match, I'm like, Yo,
that's a dope match, straight up, Like those guys killed it.
I may wish for a story, but if I had
(12:49):
to pick between the two, I'd go with the latter.
And that surprised you. You'll underscore, bitch, and let's see
what Jeff says. It's a good answer.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I've learned something about myself through talking about wrestling so
much with people. So like, when you hear like a
grumpy Brett Hart do a podcast in twenty twenty five,
he'll say something bad about a wrestler and he'll be like,
I mean, how many great matches has he had? You know,
you know, give me three good so and so matches,
(13:19):
And then I like, listen to that, and I'm like,
I don't even care about matches. If I'm honest, I
care about the build up to a match. I care
about the story of a match. So realistically, I'm not
one of these wrestling fans who can name like, oh,
that was so and so in WrestleMania three or that
was whatever.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I don't really care about the matches that much.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
I care more about the build and the story and
the drama of wrestling. So that being said, I care
about build up way way way more. That being said,
don't confuse long build as a good build. Just because
it's long, that doesn't mean it's great. Sometimes they drag
these things out and I'm like, listen, I'm in on it,
(13:57):
but it's too long or it's too short, and it
wasn't a good enough build. So I'd like a good build,
but it has to be appropriately measured.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Yo, underscore bitch. For sure thought you and I were
gonna say the exact opposite things we said, So you
got double surprised, Joe, underscore bitch and enjoy. It sounds
like you're insulting him and you're just saying his screen. Yeah,
I'm just saying your name. Bro, You're still You're still
my brother. All right. This one's for Matthew K and
(14:26):
the USA, or this is for Matthew k USA K
one more K and we would have had beef Matthew.
I'm just putting that out there, all right. The first
part we've already answered, which is how did Jeff and
you first meet? Has he met the family? Yeah, of
course he's met the family. My daughter thinks he's super
cool because he makes her laugh. He's met He's a
part of my friend group, so he knows some of
(14:48):
my friends. He knows my wife, he knows he's met
Rachel Lee Cook, they've hung out, like, he's met all
the people that I know he knows. So yeah, he's
a home he's a homing Sarah maybe pizza one time.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I thought it was very motherly of She's like, you
need to eat and I was like no, I'm okay,
and then she like fed me.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Like I was like rock here or something. She's like, no,
you got to eat a pia.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Extretty little bitchuse she sent me with a pizza in
the car.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
One of the kids, just eating in the back with
with your kids picking the pepperoni off. I don't like that.
Really nice one all right? From Scooby Doo three underscore
the petition, Oh, this is from Brazil. Brazil wants Scooby
(15:33):
Doo three so bad. Here's the question, Freddie petition for
Scooby Doo three. Here love Brazil, all right, So I'm
just getting love from you, and I appreciate that. Listen.
Brazil gives more love than any other country in the world.
Straight up. Brazil gives so much love. Man, you could
You could f up bad and just ask a Brazilian like, yo,
(15:55):
I have to please forgive me, and the Brazilian will
be like, you know what, it's all good. Let me
choke you out first, but then then it's all good.
Brazil gives mad love. The only country I get love
from consistently, like on Instagram on my painting videos, like
I would get a lot of advice from people like
try this brush, try this technique, and I'm like, okay, sick, sick,
(16:15):
I gotta get Okay, send a link. I'm dumb. I
don't know technology, and they'd be cool and send a link,
and then like the third one down would be like
love from Brazil. They always give love. So I love
you guys so much, but let me just be honest
with you. And I hate breaking people's hearts like this.
I did two of those movies, and I love what
those movies did for people, and I love what those
(16:38):
movies did for me and my family. But I'm done
making I'm almost fifty years old, y'all. I'm not putting
on another blonde yellow wig and pretending to be Fred Jones. Like,
let a young actor who needs the opportunity go in
there and get it. There you go, Scooby Doo three
underscore the petition. Next up from Brandon oh Man. I
(17:03):
think this is Vietnamese name and I'm not good with
these Hume, Brandon Hume. If I'm messed it up, I'm
so sorry, dude. I hate messing people's names up. Except
John Cena's all right, my favorite match in Jeff's favorite
match of John Cena's retirement tour, and who are the
next five wrestlers? That's awfully ambitious of you to demand
(17:25):
would give you five, But let's see where this goes.
And who are the next five wrestlers in AEW that
you'd like to see become champs? All right, I'll start
this one. I like the last match because I thought,
and we said this in another episode. I thought him
tapping out to Kunther is the most generous gift one
wrestler can give to another wrestler, especially on the way out.
(17:48):
It's letting people know like this is a final thing.
I thought. I thought that was wonderful. So that was
my favorite of all of them. My favorite one that
he ever did, which you didn't ask, is an old
one from my two thousand and nine with him and
Randy Orton when they had their feud going on. But
as far as ae W champs, who would I like
to see with a belt? Who would I like to
(18:09):
see with a belt? We've already well, I want to
see Bobby Lashley. But I feel like you phrased it
as if it was like the new talent, right, and
not like the old school guys they brought in. So
maybe that's a bullshit answer for you. I'm just gonna
give you one, maybe two. So if it wasn't Bobby,
if it wasn't a Shelton Benjamin, then maybe that dude
(18:32):
the other half of Jet Speed, not Speedball Mike Bailey,
but the other guy. What's his name, producer Alex Kevin
Kevin Knight, that's his name. That dude can fly to.
I love the leapers because I loved luch ed Ors right.
I love the people that jump off the top rope
and people like montes Ford. That new kid from NXT,
his name starts with a J. That kid can jump
(18:52):
out the building, Kevin Knight jumping out the building like
it's just like Blake Griffin level hops and I get
to see it in wrestling match. So there's a couple
that I could give for you, Jeff, I've given you
a lot of time to figure one out, so I
hope you took advantage.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
And what's this guy's name? This they had to ask them.
This is Brandon Hewn Hewn I think Brandon June. I'm
not giving you anybody. I don't care ae wh I
hope MJF wins it and then never loses it ever again.
I hope that he just retains it forever. He becomes
the whole colgan of aew, just never loses the belt,
(19:31):
and then when he's doing thirty years from now, they
go all right then and maybe now.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Someone else can have it.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
But I will say about the John Cena thing, he
just reminded me of something else. Also not what you asked,
But don't you think the retirement of John Cena, the
way he got a slide show and then the guys
came in and took a knee and handed him their
belts and then the whole locker room comes out. Do
I think this sets up kind of an expectation for
(19:58):
other goats when they wrestle, Well, like if no one's
ever gotten that before? Are you kind of saying, well,
you're not as important brock Listener as John Cena was. Oh,
you're not as important aj styles as John Cena was.
John Cena got the real red carpet. I mean we've
made a meal of it for a whole year, the
last match, the last match, the last thing, and so
(20:21):
I'm wondering if that's going to you know, how we're
gonna be able to justify this in the future for
wrestlers that retired. But I know that's not what she asked,
so I just went and answered my own.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Brandon, Jeff may not like you, but I love you.
You're my brother. You're his too. He just you know,
it's the brother that shits on you, all right. Next
up from so Cal King thirty two. As a kid
growing up, I always thought FPJ was neo from the
Matrix because to me, him and Keanu look alike. But
here's my question. Okay, so that was just random information.
(20:54):
I just wanted to thank so Cocky thirty two. Respect.
What is one Christmas gift that you owe always wanted
as a kid but never got? Oh man, all right,
this one hits hard, buddy. So we didn't have a
lot of money coming up. My dad didn't. I mean
he made it, but he wasn't making money and when
he only worked for a year really where he was
(21:15):
making good money, and when he died, the lawyers just
took it all right. So we didn't have a lot
of money coming up. My mom, who recently passed away,
she was struggling and going through problems too, So I
was I was working, you know, by about fourteen fifteen,
and to help pay bills, just to kind of paint
this picture for you. So, when I was a kid,
these toys, the Transformers, were the greatest toys that ever
(21:39):
came out. They I mean, I'm telling you guys, for
the old school fans who were listening you guys know,
but for the new school ones, it would go from
a truck to a fucking robot man and then like
in like six to ten steps. Some of them were
hard to do, like, some of them were very difficult
to remember all the steps. If you could have got
rid of the instructions, which were already complicated, you were
(22:00):
just straight fucked. There was no online video to show
you how to do it. You were just done in
half mid form Transformer. You'd have to get a new one.
It was sucked, but they were expensive because these toys
were amazing. I think they were from Japan, at least
the cartoon was from Japan. And I loved them, and
I begged my mom, mom, all I want for Christmas
is Transformers, No clothes, no anything, please, Transformers, Transformers. Transformers.
(22:24):
They just come out with these new ones called flipbots,
and you could pull them back and they would drive
by themselves and then flip up and land on their feet,
and I thought they were the coolest thing. And on
Christmas Day, dude, I get downstairs and there's some presents
under the tree. Not too many, but not too few.
You know. We tried to make Christmas special. And I
went down and I grabbed the first box and it
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was a little small, so I thought it was the Flipbot.
I was like, all right, it's not Optimus Prime. But
I got the Flipbot and I opened it up and
it was a fucking go Bot. Now, for those of
you who don't know, go bots were like the t
move version of Transformers, all right, they were bullshit. The
cartoons sucked, the toys sucked. It was a one step transformation.
(23:07):
You just like folded it up. The arms didn't articulate
the way optimists did. The legs didn't articulate like it's
And all of the gifts were gobots. And I was like, oh,
I can't even play with my bros. And I can't
get mad at my mom because she tried her best.
She didn't know. But the gobots were way cheaper and
way more affordable than the transformers. So that's what we
(23:28):
got the same thing when I asked her for an
Eyzod shirt, nah son, I got that La Ti Gray bullshit.
And the kids in school, man, that was a straight
fight in the third grade. Getting in fights in the
third grade is bullshit over your clothes. And I wore
corduroy pants, which didn't help because the kids when I'd
walk by, they go because that's the sound it would make.
And that was a fistfight for sure. I got sent
(23:48):
home all the time. So yeah, so that was the
one gift I wanted as a kid. Sorry for the
long winded version of it, but I had to paint
that picture. So you totally understand how important Optimist Prime
was to us kids of the seventies and eighties. Go ahead, Jeff,
what about you talk about some disappointment in your life.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Well, actually, I was gonna give a shout out to
my mom and dad because they didn't have any money,
and they you know, we were a broke family, but
they were they made Christmas a priority and so and
also because I wasn't asking for very expensive things, they
were able to deliver.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
In fact, one year, the Nintendo sixty four was like
wildly hard to get. It was like the gift and
my parents still were able to get me there. Oh heck, yeah,
So I was pretty yeah, pretty lucky in that way,
especially for having such poor parents who would never give
me anything.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
The whole year. They're like, we don't have money and
you don't need it. You don't need it.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
But then on Christmas they were very generous and got
us like what we wanted, which was nice. So if
you count like the year leading up, my parents refused
to buy me shoes, like because when you're growing up
and you're a boy, you're always like going through shoes
your feet are growing quickly. But then also like you
use the same shoes to go to the gym. At
least when I was growing up, we were usually the
(25:04):
same shoes to walk to the bus stop, the same
shoes and gym, the same shoes at recess, and so
you're really hard on the shoes. And so my mom
was like, well, no, you get twenty bucks and you
got to buy them.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
At pay less shoe store.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
And she didn't realize how much she was affecting my social.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Status at school.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
And so that was very disappointing, and it was like
a weekly battle yelling at my parents like and then
lying to the kids like I got these at footlocker.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
And they're like, no, you're dating.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Those are like cheap attack force shoes. And then I
also my parents didn't buy me clothes that I wanted.
They bought me the clothes that they wanted me to wear,
so like I was wearing like really like form fitting
high water jeans and so fast. So the kids bullied
me for my jeans as well. So I got bullied
all the time for like shoes and clothes and stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
However, Christmas they were very generous, So shout out to
them for Christmas. And we both went into fields where
bullyings common. Yeah right. Ones from fat tat Low twenty
twenty two. Oh no, not fat Tat Sorry, I mean
call you fat tat Bro. It's just tat Low. Why'd
I say fat tat? That's nowhere on there, man, not
(26:12):
just totally shit all over you, bro. I'm so sorry.
The worst podcast host ever. And you ask such a
good question for me because I have my winner if
he's healthy, and they want to know who's your winner
of the upcoming twenty twenty six Royal Rumble. And here's
my pick if he's healthy, and I'm not sure if
he is, because I don't know why he dropped a
US title to the drugnof Guy, But it's Sammy's aint.
(26:35):
I think Sammy's ain is due for his story, for
his championship run, and I think he's gonna win the
Royal Rumble if there's no injuries or anything like that.
If if there is, then you know I'm way wrong.
But if he's healthy, mark my words, and we make picks,
you guys can bet you probably get good odds right now.
Sammy's ain, baby, What about you, ladies and gentlemen. He
(26:58):
scared me. My name is Jeff A.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Die and your two thoy twenty five Royal Rumble winner.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Is Burnawn Burn. See it happen. I can see it happen,
but I'll see I think it might happen in twenty
twenty six, not twenty twenty five. Yeah, well it'll be
next to guys. Dang it. I ruined it. I didn't
even realize the error of all right. I called Tatlow
fat Tatlow for no fucking reason whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Bro Gosh, that'd been so good too. But that's who
I think is winning Broun.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I love them all right. This is from Jut chaffein
eighty four very French, or maybe it's j chafe It four.
(28:02):
I don't know how to say anti four. It's fringe.
Then when we have Scooby Doo three, dude, No, it's
actually a well thought out, long question from Justin. He says,
Hey Freddy, Hey Jeff, and hey Alex. Thanks for making
such a fun podcast. I like the blend of Wednesday
and Thursday shows. The episode when Freddie talks about filming
(28:25):
Road to Recovery. Oh, the movie Yeah and Going After
Your Dreams was timely and really resonated with me. Thanks
Freddy for the inspiration. Oh fuck yeah, Justin. It helped
me with chasing my screenwriting dreams. Best Justine, Justin straight up, man,
let me tell you a real some real talk, and
then some inspirational talk. Real talk. First, don't fucking quit
(28:46):
because ninety eight percent of the people out there already due.
And the reason so many people, the reason so few
people make it, but the reason people do make it
has a lot to do with the fact that everyone
around him gave up. That's how I finished the marathon, brother,
I saw people quitting all around me. I was like,
I ain't gonna fucking quit. I'm gonna finish this shit.
But a lot of actors came out here, a lot
of screenwriters came out here, a lot of stand up
comics came out here, and they said, you know what,
(29:08):
it's too damn hard. I'm tired of suffering, I'm tired
of struggling. I'm getting a straight job in finance and
I'm fucking gone or whatever, construction, whatever it is you're
going to do. And they give up, and that opens
up a spot for you because you fucking didn't. So
that's just that's fifty percent of it is not quitting.
The second half of it is a lot of people
are going to tell you can't do it. That's people
(29:29):
to quit. That's people that gave up on their dream
and they want to feel better about themselves. So they're
going to tell you how hard it is, and they're
gonna let you know. Oh, you don't want to suffer
like that, you don't want to hurt like that. That's
gonna be no good. That's bullshit too. Man. You have
to see the dream. You have to see it when
nobody else can see it. You have to believe it
when nobody else believes it. You have to be able
(29:51):
to feel it every single day. That's how serious about
your dream you have to be. So I'm glad that
that resonated with you. Keep letting that shit resonate. You'll
find people out there in the world, not just me.
They're always going to hit you with some knowledge as
long as you're receptive to it. And it sounds like
you are. Most artists are. And if you're a screenwriter,
you're an artist. So all my best back to you. Justin,
(30:14):
mister Jeff, say something inspirational right now.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I agree with what Freddy said. Also, you know it's
it's a sacrifice, you know. So sometimes you know, I've
missed many weddings. I've missed many of my obviously my
friend's weddings. I've missed it so many things, so many
days because I just wanted to be a stand up comedian.
I wanted to be a real stand up comedian. And
it's like he said, like there's so many people that
(30:40):
just give up, you know, they meet someone and they go,
I guess my dream won't be as important as this,
And and like there's a I watched a great video
just not that long ago of Seth Rogan talking about
Ewan McGregor about how he was like this old guy
and he was like doing like local theater and he
was still an act for sure, and very talented, but
(31:01):
like then he books this huge role when he's in
his like seventies, and it's like the only difference between
him and everyone else is that he just didn't quit.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
He just kept doing it.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
He didn't say to himself like, well, who's gonna I'm
not a leading man anymore. I'm in my seventies. No,
he was like, no, I love this. That's the other
question you got to ask yourself. Is there anything else
you'd rather be doing? I do stand up comedy? If
they stopped paying me tomorrow, I would still do it
every night because I love it. So hopefully you're that
(31:31):
into your writing that who cares if it never makes
you a dollar? But you're just doing exactly what you
want to be doing every day. So that's the real
golden secret cup. Hell, yes, Father and Son. Battle Tech.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh shit, Jeff, you have not played this game with
me yet, but you will. Battle Tech is one of
the most fun tabletop board game type games that I
have ever played. It's like chess with robots. Each robot
can move a certain amount of inches, kind of like
in chess, each piece can move a certain ways. Each character,
each piece can do the same. They hit for different
(32:08):
amounts of damage, they have different amount of they have
a different amount of armor, they have a different amount
of movement. It's really really unique. Every game is different.
I play this shit a lot and have a solid group,
but people get sick, people have kids, people have jobs,
and the next time someone comes. If you want to
come join us for a sess, you will love this game.
It is a ton of fun. Everybody has a blast
(32:30):
that plays it. I've brought I've even had girls over
the love of girls play battle Tech too. What do
you know about that? People? Now here's your question. Okay,
here we go. This is not wrestling related, But how
do we get you to come out to a battle
Tech event? It would be amazing to have you at
the table. So I've thought about this. I almost went
to one in Germany and I was gonna take the
(32:53):
whole family, like on a European vacation. I've watched some
German battle battle Tech on YouTube and it's where I
I've like sort of stolen some of my strategies from
was from I can't remember the name of these guys
because I haven't watched them in a long time, but
I'll shout them out on another episode in the new year.
So I've almost done it. But I you know, I
(33:14):
get pretty busy since I've gone back to acting. I
got some some hopefully really great news to report in
the new year as well that will make me even
more busy. So it's hard to get to those It's
hard to get to those events because productions won't let
me go even though it's on a weekend, because Friday
is a travel day, and I have to work five
(33:35):
days a week on a movie. If you're directing, your
working seven days a week because you're editing on the
off days anyway, So so yeah, it's it's tough, but
I want to go. And if there's ever one in
Los Angeles where it's like super easy, my ass will
be there. So just hit me up on Instagram if
you if you can, if you see one ever in
(33:57):
Los Angeles or San Diego or something like that, maybe
Comic Conn'll have one. I don't know, Jeff, you don't
play Battle Tech, so you don't get to answer this question.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Huh yeah, but I mean if they want me there,
how much does it pay?
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Yo?
Speaker 1 (34:10):
They need stand up comics at these conventions, man to
break the ice.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Ye sounds perfect. Yeah, I love money. Y'll hit up
my gofud me send me some dates.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
You know what I'm saying. Jeff Die loves that green,
he loves the green, but he'll do comedy for free.
All right, that's true, this one is all right? Here
we go. Hey, Freddy, I've been a huge fan since
she's all that. Oh yeah, Rachel Lee cook Baby, and
I've watched most of your movies most what the fuck? No,
(34:41):
I'm just kidding, and Scooby Doo would probably have to
be my favorite. When I found out you were a
wrestling fan, I realized why I could have been so
drawn to you as a fan. Yes, we connected on
wrestling like Jeffrey and I. I was just wondering what
your honest opinion was on John Cena's last match at
a Saturday Night's main event. If you've already heard the episode,
you know the answer to this. The way you phrased it,
(35:03):
I'm assuming you maybe didn't care for it. Maybe you
were hoping for a different outcome. But I'll put it
to you this way. I thought it was like a
Shakespearean tragedy, which are beautiful, right, there's beauty and tragedy.
If you've suffered, you can see beauty in trauma, right,
because you can see what comes out on the other side.
(35:24):
Because there's an old saying that pain is temporary. It
may last an hour, a week, a year, but eventually
it subsides and you become someone better at the end
of it. So I thought that was kind of the
story that he was telling there. I thought it was beautiful.
I love the tap out. I think that's the most
generous thing a wrestler can do for another wrestler, especially
on the way out. It just makes the other one
(35:45):
look so great, especially because Gonther promised he would do
exactly that and he didn't break the promise, which makes
him so much more serious to deal with when he
says something the next time. When he goes after the
World Heavyweight Championship against someone like Jeff loves bron Breaker
and he beats his ass, what Jeff interferies? So that
(36:05):
was my honest opinion on seeing his last match. What
about you, Jeff I thought it was fine. I thought
he was great.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I don't know, I think I don't know what all
the celebrities and attendance and everybody really had in mind.
You know, I don't know what they were expecting because
I thought it was fine. I thought it was great.
And also, the Triple H is listening to you. Take
it easy on the guy. He's listening to you. He's
listening to his talent. You all cried that it wasn't
(36:32):
the main event of Saturday Night because they were going
to open with it, and so they changed it like
week of because everyone was like.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
It's not even going to be the last show. So
he's listening to the fans.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
He's trying to give you what he wants, but he's
also trying to listen to the wrestlers and do things
the way they rest in the industry used to do.
So there's a lot of voices that he's trying to factor.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
And so give the guy a break. Are you wearing
a Spider Man shirt? Yes, sir? Right on? Oh Venom? Okay,
respect bro yo. I almost wrote a Venom storyline for
Marvel Comics back in the day, but it all fell apart.
I'll tell you why off camp off air? I can't.
I can't tell the story or people get mad at me.
(37:14):
All right, Moving on to the voice messages with producer
Alex introducing you guys giving up for smile, no booze, go, Elias,
go for it. The floor's yours, Elias.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
If Freddy had his promotion and there was a match
with Jeff versus Alex and who put John be prison
match for any mid court title Freddy has, who's going over?
And what spots are happening?
Speaker 1 (37:48):
All right? First of all, Elias, great voice work. You
sounded totally different than when you sing and do that.
All right, dude, First of all, it's kind of fucked up.
Did you say Jeff and Alex are mid card guys
and they can only get that going on? You just
(38:08):
got mid carded by Elias.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Yea, even in some fantasy made up by a listener,
I have to be mid card.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
That's wild, dude, cold blood Elias is cold blooded man.
I kind of like it. First of all, it would
have to be a Punjabi prison match because that's Jeff's
favorite match, and the storyline would would build up to that,
so we would get there, you know, Jeff Wood harass
Alex's character on what would Alex's name be, Well, just
(38:39):
go to Alex would just be Big al Cardoza the
Big Cardozi versus Jackpot Jeff Dye in a Punjabi prison
match from Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania. It's got to be in Wilkesbury.
So so yeah, So first of all, if you guys
remember the last one, it was the New Day versus
the USO's and at one point Xavier Woods gets like
(39:04):
pinned to the cage by bamboo poles or no sorry,
by kendo sticks, and then they just go to town
on him and just start whipping his ass. And I
know what you're wanting to know, people who's pinned and
who's getting their ass beat? Well, I know what the
people want, and I'm gonna give the people what they want.
So Jeff's pinned in the corner.
Speaker 6 (39:25):
Oh yeah, he's been in the corner, and Ali and
the Big Cardos He's got the kendo stick maybe it's
a bamboo cane pole like Singapore style, and he just
starts going to town on Jeff and it's an I
quit Punjabi match, and he makes Jeff say I quit
because it's just too much of a beating and he
gets split.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
This is what a last wants, this is what the
people want. I'm like triple h. I listened to the
thief has left the chat. That's what's going on here, Bill.
Here's the thing, guys, Alex is a good man. That's
what you don't know about Alex. He's a good man.
He's one of the best men we know. He's a
great man served to this country. It's a family man.
He's a dad, he's a good husband.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
But Jeff die the cheats baby, and I don't lose.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Now. Listen.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
I didn't say I was gonna win clean. I didn't
say that I would win in the honorable way. But
I will back stab, i will cheat. I'll have my
cronies come in. I'll have some hooded, black mask guy
cheat for me. I'll break a two by four over
Alex's face. And when I say face, I mean good
(40:30):
guy face. I'm the heel baby. And so the point is,
I will win. I will prevail by cheating at any
means necessary, and I will escape the Punjabi prisoners.
Speaker 7 (40:41):
Yes, I've taken a lot of beatings over the head,
so we're good.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Yeah, I'm like a oh yeah, bro, Yeah, you can
take a whoop, car can take a whooping. I have
a skull like a samoan. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
And I would take a Puerto Rican flag and make
everyone boom.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
It would be the best. See that's here. Yeah, and
the match would be insane one yeah, freaks.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
From not getting throwing batteries at him, throwing those beers
at me.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Beers you'd beat in, pennies and batteries thrown at you.
That's what they were chucking when I was there. This
next one's coming up from Wayne Phillips. Here we go, Freddy,
This is Wayne Phillips.
Speaker 8 (41:32):
I was curious if you would ever consider being a
manager for any of the wrestlers at ad of you.
If so, which wrestlers would you like to manage?
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Thank you? Oh? Hell yeah, Wayne? I love your accent, dude,
country country as hell man. That accent is so smooth.
I love that you sound like you said wye. I
love Wayne Matt. I love that accent so much as
that I feel like you're gonna invite me in for lemonade.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Brother.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Uh all right, So I kind of have this secret dream, right,
this secret fantasy that I will be a wrestling manager
one day. It's a point one percent chance of it
ever happening, but I for sure would want it to happen.
I would love to manage Powerhouse Hobbs. I think that
would be super cool because I like him a lot,
and I think I'm pretty good on the mic, so
(42:21):
I could I could help get him over, and then
while I'm getting him over, work with him and help him,
you know, rely on his own voice so he doesn't
need a dude like me, and then he can turn
on me and smash me through the ring and everyone
will be like, oh, I just smashed bready, and he's like,
because I'm a heal you bastards. So I'd love to
do something like that. But yeah, it's a secret fantasy
(42:41):
of mine. Jeff, what about you, dude, if you could
be a manager, is there somebody that you would love
to manage besides bron Breaker and Bronson Reed, they already
have one.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
No, So I would love to be a manager. Here's
the thing. I would love to be a manager. I
would love to create a unit of guys who are
giants and their whole thing is they just bully the
best the rest of the roster of like dude, you're
all small, and while they talk, just keep talking about
how little they are. So every guy on my team
is just a big giant freak. I book the way
(43:11):
Vince used to book. Just get the biggest guys. I got,
you know, big casts. I got Wardlow, I got all
these big giant guys, and then you know Hobbs, all
those guys.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Best any anybody big.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
And the music just goes cool, like it sounds like
hell is coming to the ring. It's not even music.
It's a big vibration sound. And they're huge freaks that
I bring down to just rain Tyrny on every small
personal roster. Now I'm six foot four, I don't need
to be, uh, you know, looking big. I want my
(43:49):
wrestlers to look big. So my rest my manager character
rides around in a wheelchair and he has a blanket
over his legs. And I'm very small and cowardly, you know,
like when I ever like, they try to give me
I go, but I am a handicappers, why would you
do this? And then my big freaks come in and
break some heads.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
Jeff always goes hell. He always goes full on heel.
Speaker 7 (44:12):
If I play the next one, I do got to
say as your song, because that's what don Kallis comes
out to. He comes out to you ever notice it
is that's his DES's his song. It's just a sound
that just really breaks the arena. No, I think like
it should sound like a Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
I think it should be like a big horn like
warning like you thinks about like the end of times
is coming. Yeah, like the old miural thing like that.
You just see these big freaks.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
That was a good horn sound effect. That was some
Lord of the Rings ship right there. Dude, that'd be awesome.
The writer's a row man, just fucking rolled up man.
Speaker 3 (44:50):
For her needs some sort of strange nineties butt rock
that we can bad tattoos, know what I mean. But
all the music and study was talking about something brand new.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
I was like, wait, what.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
All the wrestling music sounds dated? It seems like something
that would be cool, Like when I was in ninth grade.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Eosky's Music's the only music that I really like because
there's no words.
Speaker 7 (45:18):
This next one coming up as friend of the show,
Emma fred who's always sending in great questions.
Speaker 9 (45:23):
Hey Freddie and Jeff Emma. Emma here, I'm just wondering,
what is the most recent wrestling match you have watched
that you would watch again. I feel like lately wrestling
has been filed of like a lot of moments and
not a lot of good kind of stories. I'm just curious.
That's how I determine like a good match, if I
(45:45):
would watch it again. I'm curious. Yeah, what you guys
have to say about that? Also, thanks for your podcast.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
Bloody love it all right, Emma, are you? Emma? Thank
you for calling in again. Emma. I know, look, the
bar may be low on our podcast here for what
I'm about to say, but I mean this and the
ulmost respect. You got the best voice of any of
the callers that call in.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
And and besides Wayne.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
Wade was cool. Man Wade was cool, but this is
the best voice for sure. The Australian accent is the
best accent on women, on dudes like Jim Jeffries, not
as hot, not as hot. I love Jim Jeffries, but
it's not as hot. But I'm like when Nicole Kidman
or what's her face from the Lord of the Rings,
great actress, what's her name Smith?
Speaker 3 (46:41):
That's what the guys sound like in Australia. Some parts
of Australia.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
He bro anyway, the voice is dope, it's hot, it's awesome,
and I already have one for you because I already
watched it three times, once because it was fun, a
second time because it was awesome, and a third time
because I thought I was going to talk more about
it last week, but I ended up not. And that
was the recent match in the tournament on aew for
(47:06):
the Continental Classic between Mike's Speedball Bailey and Kyle Fletcher.
These dudes win at it your Sydney's own, Kyle Fletcher.
These dudes win at it so hard. They gave so much.
It was no blood, but it was sweat and tears.
You got that, and it was awesome. They were so
(47:26):
fast when they needed to be fast. They took their
time when you want them to take time. I thought
they told an excellent story and that was one that
I definitely was excited to watch again. Any of those
for you, Jeff, Any that you can remember or is
it like you said earlier, the thing that I came
up when she when she first asked it was wargames.
Oh yeah, yeah, whoa Okay.
Speaker 3 (47:44):
I felt like I did rewatch the men's war games
like a few times, so that's the first one that
came up. But like I did say earlier, I'm not
a big match guy. That was the stories that I like,
so it's hard for me to think of one. But
I did watched The Men's War Game three times, so
maybe that. But also to your credit, Em, it was
(48:05):
because there was just a lot of spots. There's just
like all these spots that I liked, So I guess
a good.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
Match is a collection of spots. But I was really
just kind of rewatching those spots. So that's all I
can do you em.
Speaker 7 (48:16):
This next one, we got two more for this. The
next one coming up is from Jason, and we have
two different Jason's, so this one's the first.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Jason. All right, Jason, I'm the Great Brimsie.
Speaker 10 (48:32):
Now hand you my arch nemesis, fred Prince.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
The second.
Speaker 10 (48:41):
You have avoided me because you left the Great Uhlan
Musk's tatter, and now I see you on the Instagram
and your podcasts with all your great wrestling knowledge. But
I want you to know I'm still out here waiting, watching, plotting,
(49:08):
occasionally napping and snacking, but mostly plotting. I'm going to
get you, Freddy, and I hope you all have a
great New Year.
Speaker 1 (49:19):
Thank you so much for your time. So this is
the great brand Zeno. And for those of you who
don't know, he was a part of a wrestling promotion
called Wrestling Pro Wrestling, which was Brian Danielson's comedy cosplay
wrestling promotion that he ran out here in southern California.
(49:40):
They used to do dick kick matches and it was awesome.
They would tell these beautiful stories in between the matches
of like famous movies from the eighties that they were
all fans of, and we would have so much fun.
And I've been to a bunch of these, and the
Great Branzino would come out almost every week he'd be
booked for a match. And he's real short. He's like
(50:01):
a DWARFN wizard, right, He's probably about three feet tall.
And his walkout takes a very long time. Now I
say all this, I'm not bagging on the guy. He's
walking out on his fucking knees. The dude's actually pretty tall,
So he's walking out on his knees. That walk out
takes forever. He's talking to the crowd while he does it,
(50:21):
and he finally gets his ass in the ring, his
slow ass. He finally gets in the ring, only to
tell the crowd that once again, he can't wrestle tonight
because he's contracted some magical disease and it's always some
like magical STDs. So instead of herpes, he contracted harpies
and he can't wrestle tonight because it's highly contagious. And
then he exits the ring and you never get to
(50:42):
see this fucking guy wrestle. He's never wrestled in a match,
but he's been booked a million times, and he started
talking shit to me on Twitter, and I really fell
in love with the guy, and I love that he
called in and listens to the podcast. Shout out to
the great Branzino and comedy wrestlers everywhere. Tino Morello, You're
still my favorite and great Brenzino. Sorry, dude, you're not sucker.
Speaker 3 (51:08):
That Branzino sounded like Gollum reference Sniegel, but it started
as Smigel, then it became like Dan Housen, then it
became Triumph the insult Dog, and then there was also
an Iron Chicade. There was like four of things that
are great all mixed into this guy. I'd like to
see this three foot free It was pretty good, pretty good.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
Little mic whol my god, No the great Branzino on
Freddy Brenzino's money. Dude, all right, hit us.
Speaker 7 (51:40):
This one is from a second Jason, not from magical Jason.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
No, no, no, he has no magic. Hey, guys, Jason Jason.
Speaker 11 (51:48):
First off, big shout out to producer Alex great job
hosting those shows when.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
The guys were out of town. Got a question about
celebrities in wrestling. Now. I grew up.
Speaker 11 (52:00):
With mister T and Dennis Rodman and guys who could
really beat you up if you met him on the street.
Nowadays we're getting jelly roll at a whole bunch of randoms.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
Who would you, guys in the wrestling ring? Pastor president
if you could choose? Thanks? Oh dude, all right, so
I'll give you a past and a present. And I
couldn't agree more with your take. By the way, Jason Momoa,
you guys didn't know Jason Momoa calls into the show
from Denver, but he does. He's got a house there,
and uh, all right, I totally agree. I think the
(52:33):
last one that worked was probably Hugh Jackman because it
was against Dolf Zigler, and he was bigger and buffer
than Dolf. Sorry for busting you on that, Dolph, but
he got a good knockout shot on you, and so
I thought that was cool. But all the other ones,
I've always been kind of like, eh, if he loses,
so long as he loses, I'm okay with it. So
(52:54):
old school, I'll give you the toughest guy because he
was a real tough guy. My godfather, Bob Wall actually
trained him and taught him how to fight. And that
was Steve McQueen. Steve mc for those of you who
don't know, google Steve McQueen. He was a man's man.
He drove a man's car, he smoked man's cigarettes, he
would fight other men. All the women loved him, all
the men wanted to be him. Now, you guys don't
(53:14):
care about the old stuff, so I'll give you some
new shit. If I could have somebody who's like in
a promoter movie and we needed to tie it in
and we wanted them to actually look like they could
kick some ass. What do you guys think about Jason Statham,
that British dude that always is whipping ass in like
the Transporter movie, and every movie is basically the transporter,
the bee keeper, but I'm also the transporter. I'm the peacekeeper,
(53:35):
but I'm the transport, like they're all the transporter. But
he always whips ass. But yeah, Jason Statham comes off
like a badass in every movie, and I'd love to
see him do some ww stuff. What about you, Jeff,
You can't say me, well, uh oh this is tough.
Oh okay, I thought it was about to be trouble.
Speaker 3 (53:52):
My take on all these people. When I see an
Andrew Schultz and when I see a jelly roll and
I see post Malone, you see all these people they've
put in there, whether it's John Stewart or oh that
one the people we've seen Ken Jong, any of these guys.
Speaker 1 (54:08):
Listen. I get it.
Speaker 3 (54:10):
I am a somewhat known person who is so obsessed
with wrestling that I'll ring out any type of success.
I have to try to be a part of wrestling
because I get it. So I get it. I'm on
their sides, but I think all the celebrities should be
in wrestling, just not in the ring. The second that
they have matches together is when I'm like, what are
(54:30):
we doing? But I think they're good for wrestling when
they're like maybe in a storyline or a backstage segment,
or they're on the side, you know, in the thing.
I like all that, I just don't like it when
it's part of a match. That's when I say, get
them out of there. Let's get real pro wrestlers. I
don't want to see bad Bunny go Wow, he's getting
really good.
Speaker 1 (54:50):
He's been doing it for a whole month. I don't care.
Speaker 3 (54:53):
So that being said from the past, if there's any
wrestler any like celebrities I would want to see, it
would probably be like football players, you.
Speaker 1 (55:01):
Know, like Brian Oh. That would be what it would be.
Speaker 3 (55:05):
That'd be like a cool person, that would make total sense,
and you would believe that they could wrestle the wrestlers
because they're so big and strong. But other than that,
I'm a firm believer of keeping these celebrities in wrestling, but.
Speaker 1 (55:18):
Out of the ring. Yeah, man, I uh, you know.
I had done one of these and it wasn't a match,
but I had to take a move from Randy Orton,
and even that, I was so nervous about not doing
justice and getting it wrong and messing it up because
I think celebrities more often than not, their their ego right,
(55:40):
doesn't want them to look bad. They're doing press for
a movie. They don't want to get beat up and
look like shit. But like you're going into their environment,
you should lose. You should get beat up if you're
going there. So my thing is similar to Jeff's, but
I would say the celebrity should always lose. That would
be my addition to it. But thank you for the question.
I thought that was a cool question.
Speaker 7 (56:01):
Before we get to this last one, Jason Statin. Then
he fights Megaladon twice with his bare hands and kill
the dude, beat a shirt twice. Bro, you don't think
he can be brown Breaker? Yeah, And we had a
Steve Mango McMichael's back in the day, unfortunately he passed away.
And Kevin Green who also man, we had some.
Speaker 1 (56:20):
Monsters back in the day.
Speaker 7 (56:22):
This next one's coming up from Sam Parmi all the
way from the Philippines. Man, he's been listening in a
huge support of the show since day one. Shout out
to the philip y'all got some Gande food.
Speaker 5 (56:33):
Hey Dan, Jeff, I just want to know your thoughts
about the recent development regarding DNA and DNA impact moving
to AMC next year in January twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (56:46):
Six, Sam dude, First of all, thanks for listening all
the way out there, beautiful culture of the Philippines. I
love the food, big Filipino community out here in California,
and uh and yeah, I wish I knew more about
your culture than how delicious it is. But I eat
everything that you guys cook. So I love that. I've
said this for a long time in like wrestling group
(57:09):
friends or talking to wrestlers who actually work there. Like,
all TNA needs is a fucking home. They just need
a home that people know exists, a channel that people's
ears have heard once before spoken by someone else, instead
of these random channels that you've never heard in your life,
like we're on Blueby, We're on Slooper, We're on Clue
Clue Kluke, Like it's just all these like weird names,
(57:32):
just it's hard to find these channels. But most people
know about AMC, So even though it's not an American
movie classic, that's going to be that's what AMC stands
for for those of you guys who didn't know. Even
though it doesn't stand for that, they have a home
that's known, it's going to get a better rating than
it's ever gotten. I guarantee you that's sam just because
(57:52):
there's more eyeballs on AMC than on the previous channel,
of which I can't even tell you the name that
it's on right now. So yes, I think it'll be
a good thing. Jeff, what do you think about the
business of TNA moving to a better channel?
Speaker 3 (58:06):
I like, don't know how to feel about competing brands.
I seem to often be rooting for the monopoly. It
seems like like anytime a guy's doing good on AW,
instead of me just being happy for him, I'm like, well,
when's he gonna come to WB. I still have this
strange thing in my brain where I'm like, well, if
they're good enough on TNA, i'll eventually see them on RAW.
And it's my brain that is thinking that. I don't
(58:29):
know why. I know competition is good, and I know
that it's a more wrestling is good for everybody. But
I would love if if TNA was on Netflix and
I could just watch it the way I watch wrestling.
Speaker 1 (58:41):
I don't know if that's ever gonna happen or how
it would happen.
Speaker 3 (58:43):
But I'd like to be able to watch more TNA
so I could want more wrestling, you know.
Speaker 1 (58:49):
All right, you guys, we hope you had a great
Christmas Eve. Hope you got all the gifts you wanted.
Wake up early, open gifts with the family. Happy Holidays
to everyone. I hope you guys enjoyed the show this year.
We'll be back next year and the year after that
and the year after that, as long as you guys
like listening to us. So on, behalf of Jeff, I'm
behalf of Alex. I'm Freddie saying happy holidays and Peach
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