December 18, 2024 • 32 mins
This week we dive into all your burning questions about wrestling! We're talking about everything from Tegan Nox and her journey, to me getting into New Japan Pro Wrestling. Our awesome producer Alex will be reading your questions, and we'll even touch on the Continental Classic, and iconic tag teams in WWE and AEW.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
So it's it's trickier to get to know the bad
guys because they don't want you to get to know them.
They just want power and money and fame and influence.
And so I get that from them that they're a
part of the actual decision making process in reality and
in story. But they've probably been given the most motive
as far as tag team's there. And I for me
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and what I came up with on wrestling and my
what I like in entertainment is the reason why. And
so I just need a little bit more of that.
I hope that answers.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
And Jeff, like I said, I talked about Jeff was here,
you would say the Outrunners with their eighties.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
He loves the Outrunners.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And now you're made even introducing the hosts are wrestling
win for.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Ready, Jef Died and of Ready friends soun what's up? Everybody,
Welcome to Wrestling with Freddie Wrestling with friends this week.
Definitely with friends, because we're reaching out to all of
you to ask questions that you have throughout the season.
Any questions you have, as inappropriate as they may be,
they will be answered psych but I will be taking
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questions from all of you. Our producer Alex who's awesome
and rules and loves wrestling. He's not just producing for
the cash. Ah, he loves wrestling as much as we do.
He's going to be reading the questions and or playing
the voicemails. Jeff is on assignment, which means he's at
fifty thousand feet in the air, flying somewhere from doing
a comedy club somewhere and making people laugh, making some
people cry if you're sensitive. But anyway, here we go.
(01:43):
Let's start the show, all right, Alex, I will allow
how many questions today? I will allow up to forty
questions today, knowing that we won't get past three because
I talk a lot. All right.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
This first one comes from reebs Loves Roads and Wrestling
on Instagram. In your new wrestling venture, will you be
able to give your opinion on getting and bringing in
new talent?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
One hundred percent? Yes. I you know. I'll never throw
anyone under a bus. I don't like doing bad business,
even if someone does bad business on me. I just don't.
Maybe that's not true, but I think it is. But
I'll definitely talk about the process of trying to get
people that I'm passionate about. If something unique happened. As
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far as how I got them excited and they're comfortable
with me sharing the story, then yeah, I'll share everybody's story,
but you always have to be make sure that you
know everybody involved is comfortable with that. I've told stories
that make people laugh and heard from actors later on
that were like, man, I wish you wouldn't have told
that story, like it was kind of embarrassing, and I'm like, oh,
(02:53):
I'm so sorry. I thought it made you sound cool.
You know, you beat that guy's ass. And he's like, yeah,
but I got kids now, and you know I don't.
I don't want them knowing that part of me. I'm like, oh,
that's my bad. So as long as the wrestlers were
cool with me sharing the story of how I got
them or didn't, then yeah, I would share everything, but
both parties have to be cool with it.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Reebs, what are your thoughts on former WWE superstar Teagan Knox.
I think she's super talented, untapped resource that hasn't been
given a chance to shine. My husband and I love
the podcast and listen in every week. First of all,
thank you to you and your hubs. And I liked
Teagan a lot. I thought she had this cool kind
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of nineties like rom Com look to her, you know
what I mean, Like like the Rachel Lee Cooks and
the Julia styles of the world. I thought she had
a great look to her. I think the problem that
she had in WWE was injury, and I think she
was getting hurt more often than they could trust her
body to give her the push that a lot of
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us wanted to see for her. I loved the voice.
I think she was from Wales. I love that accent.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
My wife worked with this dude from Wales, and when
they speak Welsh, it's like the craziest, crazier than Dutch.
Y'all got the craziest language in the world out there
in Wales. I thought she was super cool and she
had the shiniest wizard I think was her finisher, and
I like that too. It always looked good. So I
was a Ticker Knox fan. I just think that you know,
when your body betrays you, there's freaking nothing you can do,
(04:21):
and a lot of these wrestlers want to get back
so quickly that maybe they're trying to come back too soon,
and then they hurt something else or they reinjured something
that wasn't all the way quite healed. Yeah, injuries friggin
suck and hers definitely did this.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Next one's coming in from the Potato Pope on ig
Potato pulp. With Freddy's love of Japan, I'm surprised he
doesn't watch your Japan Pro Wrestling. How did we get
him to talk? How do we talk him into watching
Wrestle Kingdom and Russell Dynasty this year?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Okay, so you might not have to talk me into
it because I might have watched a couple episodes over
the last couple weeks. When I was in Australia and
having my downtime, I could not find WWE or AW
on any of their channels out there. I started going
on YouTube and I went on a deep dive on
NJPW New Japan Pro Wrestling, and I watched a lot
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of their matches. Man, because I'm not the lead of
this movie, so I had some downtime, and like I said,
I couldn't find any others. So I've been watching. I
already liked the style. You nailed me on my All
Things Japan. Yeah, maybe I will. It's not as hard
as it was a year ago for me to find
wrestling pay per views. Even though I'm old, I'm learning
(05:38):
how to navigate the internet. I'm learning what Google's all about.
I've even ordered a couple things off Bleacher Report. What
that's right? And I didn't screw it up once. I
ordered some Uber Eats. I just downloaded that app. I'd
never have ubered before until I was in Australia. I
downloaded the app and I didn't screw it up once.
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Not only did I get some to come to my
house and pick me up, and I didn't make him wait.
I was standing outside because I'm good good rider. Is
that what you call a good passenger? A good Uberer?
And they I saw that at Uber Eats on the app.
I didn't even have to download it. I just pushed
that on the right and boom. I ordered Japanese food
to my and it was Japanese food. I swear to God.
(06:19):
I ordered Japanese food to my house and the miso
soup came hot. I gave a twenty percent tip. Well,
in Australia you can only do fifteen, but on Uber
you can do up to twenty. So I gave him
a twenty percent tip because the soup was hot. So yes,
I love Japan. No, it won't be hard to get
me to watch, and maybe we'll even get to talk
about him on the podcast next season.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I really appreciate that question. That was I hope you're
a writer. Should I say your driver gave you five stars?
Because you know you get you get stars as well?
So oh shit, you get stars. Oh I'm so glad
I was on time Fred sucked a one star passenger
eats and Uber if the guy was cool, I don't know,
maybe it wasn't. This one comes from Peter Peter surs
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on Ig. He's a I followed him. He's a comedian.
I want to get into wrestling as a backstage interviewer
or pre post show commentator. Would love to know how
I can get involved in your new promotion or any promotion.
I'd love this podcast. Okay, dude.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
First of all, WWE has like an open door policy
on taking the resumes and things like that reels. If
you have a reel, I would submit that right away
to WWE. AW kind of already has that spot filled,
I feel like with RJ, but WWE does not. They
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don't have anyone that's funny. They have a couple guys
that have tried to be funny on the pre shows,
but they're not so I you know, there could be
an opportunity for you there, but I would present a
reel of your work. If that gets you a meeting,
then you can talk about your passion and knowledge of wrestling,
and then those two things combined perhaps could get you
(07:56):
an opportunity. As far as mine goes, mine has switched
so many times. There used to not be a spot
for that kind of a person. And if I ever
get my shit off the ground in the new way
we're trying to do it, there certainly will be room
for that type of a position. So just keep listening
and reach out. If you ever hear me, pull this,
pull this this damn dream off. Until then, keep grinding,
(08:20):
and I hope to see on WWE. Dude, i'd aw
do I feel like already has that spot filled.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Next one's coming in from four eighty three Tom Tom
for eighty three on IG that's Big Tom?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Sorry, Big Tom.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Who is your favorite WWE tag team of all time?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
That's pretty I might have to give you two. Oh yeah,
I might have to give you two because it's hard
to rate the new ones and say they're as great
as the old ones because their careers aren't done and
over yet they're still building them. So as a as
a kid, it was probably the Heart Foundation because I
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was a big Brett Brett hart nerd. And then when
I worked at WWE, it was certainly the Hardy Boys,
and now, man, now it's tough, it would probably still
be the Heart Foundation. I mean, the New Day is
pretty awesome, but again it's hard because they're they're in
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the middle of their journey, like they have another ten
years before they should be compared to any other tag
teams out there, and they already have a decade in
the business. So those would be the three that I
would give you. I'd give you Heart Foundation, Hardy Man
that leaves out Edge and Christian that leaves out the
Dudley Boys. That leaves I mean, I even like the
(09:45):
Italian Stallions back in the day, was that Paul Romo
and and something Powers Jim Powers Maybe I don't even remember,
but man's that's tough. I would say those three though,
New Day, Hardy Boys, hard Foundation and that sucks to
leave out Edgen, Christian and the Dudley Boys. And I'm
(10:06):
a crappy fan for doing so. There you go.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
You have any from the New Regime from AW and
WW that you like that you're following right now?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You know, I like what the New Day does story wise.
As far as AW, they focus more on tag teams.
But it's more difficult to get into the wrestler's characters
in AEW because they focus more on giving a superior
match than WWE. But in doing so they've sacrificed the
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story and the getting to know you phase of a
lot of these wrestlers careers. Like if you weren't hip
to them in the indies, then too bad. So sad
you don't get to know their story, And that to
me is like shit, how much more wrestling do I
have to watch to keep up with these cats? Like
tell me who you are? It's not hard to do.
They just aren't focused on it. They do it a
(11:01):
little bit like they gave us a little bit with
the Acclaimed Once Daddy asked was in the in the mix?
You started to get to know their personality a little more,
and then eventually they're their win and run with the titles.
Uh private party. They haven't given us much to get
to know them a little bit lately with the MVP
stuff and then wanting to do it without him. That
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gave us a small sense of their motivation, but I'd
like to see more of that. So it's hard. Man.
I like the Luta Bros. But they're not there anymore
FTR again, Like, I know who they are, but I
don't ever get a chance to know why they're wrestling
the guys they're wrestling, So it's hard to get a
sense of of what motivates both men other than we
want gold, which is cool. It just that can't be
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the story every time. And the young young bucks, you know,
it's it's tricky with them because they've been given the most,
so I understand them the most. But they're bad guys.
I'm not supposed to like them, and I don't so
for the right reason. So it's it's trickier to get
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to know the bad guys because they don't want you
to get to know them. They just want power and
money and fame and influence, and so I get that
from them. They're a part of the actual decision making
process in reality and in story, but they've probably been
given the most motive as far as tag teams there
and I for me and what I came up with
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on wrestling, and what I like in entertainment is the
reason why. And so I just need a little bit
more of that. I hope that answers.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
And if Jeff, like I said, I talked about Jeff
was here, he would say the Outrunners with their eighties
the act.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
He loves the Outrunners. Their handshake is money, man. They
did the New Day handshake. I love that, the Arnold
Schwartzenegger Carl Weather's Predator handshake. That shit's money. When you
got biceps, that's the best handshake to get. You know.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I got to give a Jeff is fifty feet plug
because even love he loves those guys. This one, This
one's coming in from Jim Balcony ninety six on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, that's a tough guy. Name.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
What do you think about the C two the AW
Continental Classics so far?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I like the Continental Classic. I like the philosophy behind it.
I like that there's no outside interference allowed. There's a
certain level of respect and decorum that comes with that,
unless you're Kyle Fletcher and your cheat to win. So
I like the format of it. I don't want them
to rely on tournaments to give the best matches I'd
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love to see again. I'm beating a dead horse here.
I'd love to see story behind it. But it is
nice to get to see these sort of dream scenario
matches so quickly grouped together. Does that make sense? Like
you get you'll get like two three weeks, these insane
matches without a story because you don't need it because
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they're forced to wrestle in like a kumite. Right, So
it's much more like watching a you know, an action
movie as opposed to a Liam Neeson action movie, right,
which is more character driven, like you took my daughter.
I'm taking everything from you, motherfuckers. That's more WWE. There's
this more Jackie Chan movie, which is like, Yo, I'm
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fighting forty dudes and I'm gonna freaking win and I'm
gonna show you how I'm gonna win because I'm gonna
be creative with it, and that's more the aw style.
I feel like, nice.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
This one's coming in from CG Camp seventy nine. What
do you Freddy think about inducting matches into the WWE
Hall of Fame? Similar to how the UFC has the
Fight Wing and he gives he gives some examples like
Savageteamboat from so Many three, Austin bread Wrestme thirteen, stuff
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like that, just to change the format a little.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
That's pretty cool and I could definitely see that happening.
I think that's a great idea. I could definitely see
the WWE opening a wing for the greatest matches of
all time. I could see them doing that. They're going
to run out of ideas. I mean, they induct too
many people every year. The induction process is not as
legitimate as you would think. I mean they were when
I worked there. They were asking the writer's room to
(15:19):
come up with who's going to go? I'm like, why
are we qualified to make these nominations and doing all this?
Like shouldn't there be a board of decision makers with
like all these old school people on it. But no,
maybe they've changed it. But when I worked there, the
selection process was bullshit. But I think that's a wonderful idea.
(15:39):
The UFC does do that. I think the is it
the Hollywood Museum of Movies whatever it's called in Beverly Hills,
They have like some of the greatest scenes of all
time that you can go and rewatch. So I think
that's a I think that's a great idea, and I'll
bet you you see that in the near future, and
when you do, you can take credit for it. You
can be like see I said on a podcast and
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some asshole at WW heard Freddy's podcast from some other
asshole and they got the idea for it and stole
my idea. You're damn right, they stole your idea. It
was good. It was a good idea. You're not gonna
get paid for it, Jack, you got screwed on that,
but it was a good idea.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
A lot of residuals to this podcast and to people
who listen.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
He just mentioned.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
He has a side quest, what are the odds of
you going to Pittsburgh to do a comic con?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Love the show? That was pretty scary as well. Pittsburgh's
a direct flight, so the odds are good. If I
have to take two flights, the odds are zero. And
I only do like two maybe three a year. I
don't think I'm doing any this year. I'm working too
much and trying to get too much shit going, and
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then I have to cancel. Nothing's worse than I feel
so shitty when I cancel the convention and people say,
like it's no big deal, like people do it all
the time. But I get it. I understand that people
are buying plane tickets, people are paying for hotel rooms,
and sometimes it's just to see one person, even though
they know there's going to be fifty people there. Sometimes
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it's just to see Hayden Christiansen because you connected to
that dude so much. Sometimes it's just to see Jeff
goldbloomus you love Jeff Goldblum. Sometimes it's just because you
want to see me. And when I cancel, you're out.
I don't know how many hundreds of dollars on your
plane ticket, I don't know how much the convention costs you.
I don't know how much your food cost you while
you were out there. You got to freaking eat. What
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are you going to starve? And then you're just out
all that money And that makes me feel like shit,
and I'm not able to reimburse you know you guys
to even though I feel bad like that's that's just
not going to happen and be too many of you
and my ass would be bankrupt. So yeah, man, I
really don't like committing to them unless I know for
a fact I can be there and this year is
gonna be hard, so I don't think I'm gonna do
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any of this year. But I like Pittsburgh. I saw
a great Kurt Angle match in Pittsburgh. Son of a
Bitch lost to Stone Cold, but whatever, he should he
should have won that match anyway. But yeah, I would
totally to come there and do a convention there. I
just don't have plans for it in the immediate future,
but you never know, my bro Very cool.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
This one's coming in from Ac Brooker on IG. Two
great names in a row. I hope those are your
real names. Huge fan of the pod guys. Top three
on Spotify wrapped. Wow, that's pretty cool. That was pretty
scary in my top five.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Very good. Hey, shout out. That was pretty scary.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
My question is, now that we're nearing the end of
twenty twenty four, what has been your most memorable moment
of wrestling this year?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oh man, that's that's a tough one. We watch, you know,
eight hours of wrestling a week. That's not including the
pay per views and premium live events, so there's a lot,
a lot a lot going on, and I want to
make sure I get the year right.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Even they also say, do you have any iconic storylines
or moments that had you really pumped, fired up, or
jumping out of your seat to go with that question.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I mean, there was a moment between MJF and will
Ospray that I thought was overlooked by almost everybody that
was so smart when will Ospray says, you're jealous that
these people cheer for me, and Max responded with they
used to cheer for me before you showed up. And
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I thought, for a heel to be that vulnerable and
petty at the same time was so smart. I wanted
that storyline to last a lot longer than it did,
and it definitely could have. And I hope these two
meet up again next year for something and have some
reason to fight, because that storyline was not long enough
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for what those two can do on the microphone. But
the signing of will Ospray and his debut in aew
just with his song and his entrants alone, I was
really excited because I wasn't as hip to him as
the rest of you were. I was just getting hip
to him as he was getting signed and starting to
watch stuff on Instagram and saw him do the flip
(20:10):
where they did the edit with the super Saiyan hair
when he lands like that. Was my introduction to will
Osprey was he was a super Saiyan, so I got
really excited for that. I thought he did great. I
thought when Triple H kind of shit on him and
Ousprey took the opportunity to shit back, I thought that
was really smart. Most of the time, I don't agree
with that, but the way he handled it was with
such I don't know is dignity the right word grace.
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He's a gruff, gruff guy, so I don't know how
often we applied dignity and grace to a tough guy.
But that's how he handled it. He shipped on him
a little. He's like, hey man, he done some shady
stuff too, my brother, so just don't forget about that.
I'm not hating on you. It's just you hit me once,
I'm gonna hit you once back. And he gave as
he got, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
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So I've liked what he's brought to the table and
what he's brought to the game so far, and I
wish him and aw a lot of success because I
don't want to see these these guys and girls go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
He did it with a lot of bruughness. I want
to say, a lot of it, a lot of the problem.
Brooker also mentions I didn't want this to go on.
Read that I know you're no longer in Australia, but
mentioned that if you know, if you're still in Australia,
are you doing any meeting greets from a fellow Aussie fan.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
No, meet and greets in Australia, man, I was just
there to work, no conventions or anything like that. My
friend was directing the movie. She also co wrote the movie.
I was out there to kick ass for her, do
my thing we got. We don't finish the movie until February.
We shoot a little more in Los Angeles, so I
have some time to kill in between. Yeah, no meet
and greets. Out there just out there trying to kick
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as much ass as I possibly can and bring the
best performance possible at camera.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
And this question that Snacks goes along with that, what
was the what is the process of getting such an
iconic franchise like I know what should did last summer
back in theaters.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Again, Dude, I passed the first time they brought it
to me. I didn't want to do it. I passed
when they brought the news She's all that to me
because originally She's all that script was super inorganic for
me and Rachel to be in it. I was just like,
you're just forcing us into these roles and it's not
even the characters we played in the first one. You're
like acting like they didn't exist, and they're the reason
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people liked the movie. They related to the characters, and
they're like, well, we think it'd be cool for you
to be the principle, and I was like, yeah, that's
not happening. Miramax just totally screwed this whole that whole
thing up from my perspective, like it just felt forced
and weak, and I think matt ended up playing the
role that they that they offered me, but I just
didn't respond to what they were trying to do in
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any way, shape or form. And I assumed it would
be the same with I Know what you did last summer,
and so when they first brought it to me, I
was like, pass, No, don't even want to read it.
Didn't have the best experience, you know in the first place,
don't need to revisit it. I think this stuff can
be really lame, and it's going to be forced and inorganic,
and shitty didn't even give it a chance. And then
(23:06):
a few months later my wife said, Hey, our friend
jen Is has taken over. She's going to direct the
movie and co write it. And I was like, oh,
that's interesting. She was like, yeah, she wants to talk
to you, and I was like, oh no, And so
she I take the meeting and we sit and talk
and she starts pitching the Ray and the Julie characters
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and it's not like forced or inorganic at all. It's
very natural and where they are in their lives now
at this point, and how they're going to help shape
this story. And these new characters that are the focal
point of the movie, these these new young people. And
she approached the characters with such care and respect that
it was a very not a very easy yes, but
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much easier to say yes than I thought it would be,
because the characters were protected and and they weren't, you know,
they weren't the leads of the movie, which is fine,
I don't care about that, but they were still important.
It wasn't just hey, let's get all the equity that
Freddy built up in the nineties and get a chance
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to market it and get older people to come see
a horror movie too, not just young people like that's
what she's all. That felt like when they offered it,
and this felt the opposite. So it became much easier
to come in and jump in. That might not answer
your question exactly the way you phrased it, but I
don't know if I can answer it any better because
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I don't. You know, the only other film I've done
that was sort of like a franchise was Scooby, and
I know I wouldn't. I wouldn't do that again. It's
organically it just wouldn't. It just wouldn't work. And I
don't love Warner Brothers. I'll just leave it at that.
I'm sure their feeling as mutual, or at least it
was back then. It's probably all new people now. Actually no,
(24:53):
there's still somebody there that probably doesn't like me. But yeah,
so this felt natural and nothing felt forced. So it
was an easy yes. Whereas you know in the past,
when these things have happened, or the way I project
things will happen in the future on other projects, it's
a very easy no.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Do you need to get permission to use the name
of the film. Are there a lot of steps into that,
like into you know, bringing a film back up from
the dead.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Basically, no, I mean it's it's still the same person
that owned the rights is still involved with this one.
So there's no there's no process at all. That only
exists when you're originally getting the rights from Judy Bloom
herself back in the nineties when we first got it,
and that only got that only was was purchased and approved.
Because this is successive Scream. Without Scream, there is no
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I Know what you did last summer. A lot of
people confuse them and think, I Know what you did
came out first. We wouldn't have been greenlit if Screen
didn't make a bazillion dollars. Kevin Williamson, who wrote Scream,
adapted I Know What You Did Last Summer from the
book to the movie. The movie's much different than the book.
I think it's much better than the book. There's not
a lot of action in the book. But yeah, there
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is no I Know what You did without Scream. And
that's kind of how horror works, you know. It goes
on these ten year runs where one movie opens the
door for a bunch of movies, and then they kind
of water down the movie that got them all the
opportunity until they're no longer valuable, and then the business
gives up on them the second half of that decade,
and then a new movie comes out, made by a
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new director or sometimes an old school director with a
new lease on life and finds a new idea, and
they're trying to outdo what the other directors have done before.
And that's why it evolves so much more quickly than
every other type of movie, because these directors are constantly like, well, crap,
I can't do this because people have already yelled and screamed.
They're not going to see the same scare twice since
I got to find a new way to scare people.
(26:46):
That's why James Wand turned I Know You Did Last
Summer into a comedy and nobody screams anymore. They laugh
at it because you know, he's making these morality horror
films right where it's like, if you want to escape,
can you chew off your own ankle like a wolf? Like?
You know? It just it just changed the way we
looked at horror, which was really really cool. I love
James on I'm not shitting on him, but fuck that guy.
(27:08):
So yeah, man, So as far as like being a
part of a franchise, you have to approach it with respect, right,
But I think most actors are approaching their roles with respect.
Most actors and most directors aren't going to go, well,
I'm gonna make this so much better than the original.
You know, you go in there with respect and love
(27:29):
for the original, and in doing so you have a
chance to maybe have it better received or maybe not.
But if you go in there and I know, I've
seen some actors and some directors say, oh, I didn't
even watch the source material or I didn't even read
the book, And it's just like, if you think that's
making you sound cool, you're wrong, Like it just makes
you sound ill prepared and lazy, Like why wouldn't you
(27:52):
want to have as much as well? I want to
go in fresh. You're gonna have your own ideas based
on how you were raised, and you receive information like
it's your perform no matter what. But it's intelligent to
show respect to the material that you were offered because
usually it's something that people plan on being super successful
because it's an intellectual property. It's an idea that someone
(28:13):
had that was successful and that a studio believes they
can make money on, so maybe give it a view.
I read the book for I Note you did last summer,
and I watched the cartoons for Scooby Doo, and I
would approach any sort of franchise thing the same way.
So I think that's the best way to approach the franchise.
If that should answer your question completely. Yeah, that was good.
This last one is not really a question. It comes
from Matt Teals nineteen ninety five. Man.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I really wanted to say thank you, and it was
lovely to meet you in Australia. I'm a huge fan
of the podcast. They met you in Australia Seals nineteen
ninety five.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Dude, why didn't you say where we met? Matt? I
met a handful of people in Australia that said they
were fans of the podcast, and it was tripping me out.
We were getting so much love in Australia. I had
like four people come up to me and be like, hey,
I like the podcast. One guy said fuck Jeff for
(29:07):
real some Australia. I was like, fuck that Jeff guy,
But you're all right. Man, I thought i'd hate you.
I was like, well, I appreciate that you don't hate me.
But Jeff's all right, dude, He's like, I'm sure he's fine.
I'm sure he's fine. But if that guy so he
got mad at Jeff for something, But yeah, man, thanks
for the shout out, thanks for the love. I appreciate it.
Australia is one of my favorite places in the world.
We shot the first Scooby Doo there and I lived
(29:28):
there for five months. We were there, I didn't get
to bring my dog because you guys have crazy quarantine laws.
Your dog has to be quarantined for six months, or
at least back then they did. I'm like, man, I'm
only out here for five I can't do that. So
I didn't get to see my boy Tyson. He was
this one hundred and twenty pound akita. He was such
a stud and he was all muscle. You're like, one
(29:49):
hundred twenty pounds. Was he fat? No, he wasn't fat.
He was spelt baby. And I missed him so much.
But we were in the Gold Coast, which is like,
if you like gambling or golf, it's amazing. But if
you don't it's not that cool. And I was in
my twenties and not into either of those things because
I'm not in my sixties. And so I would cruise
(30:09):
down to Sydney every single weekend and that was my city,
that was my vibe, those were my people. I snuck
up north to the hilaria called Noosa and served some
nice slow rollers. But when I was there, not this trip,
I didn't have time. But on the first Scooby because
you know, a lot of scenes were just Shaggy and Scooby,
I didn't have to be in those scenes, so I
had days off. But yeah, I love it out there.
(30:29):
It's such a beautiful country. The food's good, the people
are good, the weather's good. The driving's crazy. But the
driving in La is way worse, So I don't know
I'm bitching about that. Holy shit, I almost died right
when I got off the plane leaving the airport, like
three different times, almost in three car accidents. It's just
people at La sucker driving so bad. But yeah, shout
(30:50):
out to Australia. I love you guys. You've turned out
some pretty awesome wrestlers over the years. Not talking about
Nathan Jones, talking about Kyle Fletcher, Baby Kyle Fletcher. Nathan
Joe was awesome in Ongbach though I don't know if
you guys have seen Bach. It's this movie with this
guy named Tony Jai or Tony ja He does like
muy Thai in his movies. He's like the Jackie Chann
of Thailand. And he did this movie where these people
were stealing his elephants and like selling him to Zeus
(31:12):
and he's like, yo, fuck Zoo's fuck you and Nathan
Jones is like, no, fuck you and he beats him up.
And then at the end of the movie he comes
back and he beats Nathan Jones. Is huge at Nathan
Jones is like six ' eight, like three hundred and
five pounds of just pure muscle against Tony Jai, who's
like a buck fifty five little muay Thai guy, maybe
like five four or five five. And he has to
like just do everything muy Thai can do to beat
(31:34):
your ass, and he does and he beats up Nathan Jones.
So you lost, Nathan Jones. Suck it, Kyle Fletcher for life.
That's the end of our episode, y'all. Thanks for listening.
Happy holidays, peace. This has been a production of Iheart's
Michael Toura podcast Network. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit
the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to
(31:56):
your favorite shows.
So it's it's trickier to get to know the bad
guys because they don't want you to get to know them.
They just want power and money and fame and influence.
And so I get that from them that they're a
part of the actual decision making process in reality and
in story. But they've probably been given the most motive
as far as tag team's there. And I for me
(00:26):
and what I came up with on wrestling and my
what I like in entertainment is the reason why. And
so I just need a little bit more of that.
I hope that answers.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
And Jeff, like I said, I talked about Jeff was here,
you would say the Outrunners with their eighties.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
He loves the Outrunners.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And now you're made even introducing the hosts are wrestling
win for.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Ready, Jef Died and of Ready friends soun what's up? Everybody,
Welcome to Wrestling with Freddie Wrestling with friends this week.
Definitely with friends, because we're reaching out to all of
you to ask questions that you have throughout the season.
Any questions you have, as inappropriate as they may be,
they will be answered psych but I will be taking
(01:19):
questions from all of you. Our producer Alex who's awesome
and rules and loves wrestling. He's not just producing for
the cash. Ah, he loves wrestling as much as we do.
He's going to be reading the questions and or playing
the voicemails. Jeff is on assignment, which means he's at
fifty thousand feet in the air, flying somewhere from doing
a comedy club somewhere and making people laugh, making some
people cry if you're sensitive. But anyway, here we go.
(01:43):
Let's start the show, all right, Alex, I will allow
how many questions today? I will allow up to forty
questions today, knowing that we won't get past three because
I talk a lot. All right.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
This first one comes from reebs Loves Roads and Wrestling
on Instagram. In your new wrestling venture, will you be
able to give your opinion on getting and bringing in
new talent?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
One hundred percent? Yes. I you know. I'll never throw
anyone under a bus. I don't like doing bad business,
even if someone does bad business on me. I just don't.
Maybe that's not true, but I think it is. But
I'll definitely talk about the process of trying to get
people that I'm passionate about. If something unique happened. As
(02:33):
far as how I got them excited and they're comfortable
with me sharing the story, then yeah, I'll share everybody's story,
but you always have to be make sure that you
know everybody involved is comfortable with that. I've told stories
that make people laugh and heard from actors later on
that were like, man, I wish you wouldn't have told
that story, like it was kind of embarrassing, and I'm like, oh,
(02:53):
I'm so sorry. I thought it made you sound cool.
You know, you beat that guy's ass. And he's like, yeah,
but I got kids now, and you know I don't.
I don't want them knowing that part of me. I'm like, oh,
that's my bad. So as long as the wrestlers were
cool with me sharing the story of how I got
them or didn't, then yeah, I would share everything, but
both parties have to be cool with it.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Reebs, what are your thoughts on former WWE superstar Teagan Knox.
I think she's super talented, untapped resource that hasn't been
given a chance to shine. My husband and I love
the podcast and listen in every week. First of all,
thank you to you and your hubs. And I liked
Teagan a lot. I thought she had this cool kind
(03:32):
of nineties like rom Com look to her, you know
what I mean, Like like the Rachel Lee Cooks and
the Julia styles of the world. I thought she had
a great look to her. I think the problem that
she had in WWE was injury, and I think she
was getting hurt more often than they could trust her
body to give her the push that a lot of
(03:53):
us wanted to see for her. I loved the voice.
I think she was from Wales. I love that accent.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
My wife worked with this dude from Wales, and when
they speak Welsh, it's like the craziest, crazier than Dutch.
Y'all got the craziest language in the world out there
in Wales. I thought she was super cool and she
had the shiniest wizard I think was her finisher, and
I like that too. It always looked good. So I
was a Ticker Knox fan. I just think that you know,
when your body betrays you, there's freaking nothing you can do,
(04:21):
and a lot of these wrestlers want to get back
so quickly that maybe they're trying to come back too soon,
and then they hurt something else or they reinjured something
that wasn't all the way quite healed. Yeah, injuries friggin
suck and hers definitely did this.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Next one's coming in from the Potato Pope on ig
Potato pulp. With Freddy's love of Japan, I'm surprised he
doesn't watch your Japan Pro Wrestling. How did we get
him to talk? How do we talk him into watching
Wrestle Kingdom and Russell Dynasty this year?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Okay, so you might not have to talk me into
it because I might have watched a couple episodes over
the last couple weeks. When I was in Australia and
having my downtime, I could not find WWE or AW
on any of their channels out there. I started going
on YouTube and I went on a deep dive on
NJPW New Japan Pro Wrestling, and I watched a lot
(05:15):
of their matches. Man, because I'm not the lead of
this movie, so I had some downtime, and like I said,
I couldn't find any others. So I've been watching. I
already liked the style. You nailed me on my All
Things Japan. Yeah, maybe I will. It's not as hard
as it was a year ago for me to find
wrestling pay per views. Even though I'm old, I'm learning
(05:38):
how to navigate the internet. I'm learning what Google's all about.
I've even ordered a couple things off Bleacher Report. What
that's right? And I didn't screw it up once. I
ordered some Uber Eats. I just downloaded that app. I'd
never have ubered before until I was in Australia. I
downloaded the app and I didn't screw it up once.
(05:58):
Not only did I get some to come to my
house and pick me up, and I didn't make him wait.
I was standing outside because I'm good good rider. Is
that what you call a good passenger? A good Uberer?
And they I saw that at Uber Eats on the app.
I didn't even have to download it. I just pushed
that on the right and boom. I ordered Japanese food
to my and it was Japanese food. I swear to God.
(06:19):
I ordered Japanese food to my house and the miso
soup came hot. I gave a twenty percent tip. Well,
in Australia you can only do fifteen, but on Uber
you can do up to twenty. So I gave him
a twenty percent tip because the soup was hot. So yes,
I love Japan. No, it won't be hard to get
me to watch, and maybe we'll even get to talk
about him on the podcast next season.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I really appreciate that question. That was I hope you're
a writer. Should I say your driver gave you five stars?
Because you know you get you get stars as well?
So oh shit, you get stars. Oh I'm so glad
I was on time Fred sucked a one star passenger
eats and Uber if the guy was cool, I don't know,
maybe it wasn't. This one comes from Peter Peter surs
(06:57):
on Ig. He's a I followed him. He's a comedian.
I want to get into wrestling as a backstage interviewer
or pre post show commentator. Would love to know how
I can get involved in your new promotion or any promotion.
I'd love this podcast. Okay, dude.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
First of all, WWE has like an open door policy
on taking the resumes and things like that reels. If
you have a reel, I would submit that right away
to WWE. AW kind of already has that spot filled,
I feel like with RJ, but WWE does not. They
(07:35):
don't have anyone that's funny. They have a couple guys
that have tried to be funny on the pre shows,
but they're not so I you know, there could be
an opportunity for you there, but I would present a
reel of your work. If that gets you a meeting,
then you can talk about your passion and knowledge of wrestling,
and then those two things combined perhaps could get you
(07:56):
an opportunity. As far as mine goes, mine has switched
so many times. There used to not be a spot
for that kind of a person. And if I ever
get my shit off the ground in the new way
we're trying to do it, there certainly will be room
for that type of a position. So just keep listening
and reach out. If you ever hear me, pull this,
pull this this damn dream off. Until then, keep grinding,
(08:20):
and I hope to see on WWE. Dude, i'd aw
do I feel like already has that spot filled.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Next one's coming in from four eighty three Tom Tom
for eighty three on IG that's Big Tom?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Sorry, Big Tom.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Who is your favorite WWE tag team of all time?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
That's pretty I might have to give you two. Oh yeah,
I might have to give you two because it's hard
to rate the new ones and say they're as great
as the old ones because their careers aren't done and
over yet they're still building them. So as a as
a kid, it was probably the Heart Foundation because I
(09:04):
was a big Brett Brett hart nerd. And then when
I worked at WWE, it was certainly the Hardy Boys,
and now, man, now it's tough, it would probably still
be the Heart Foundation. I mean, the New Day is
pretty awesome, but again it's hard because they're they're in
(09:24):
the middle of their journey, like they have another ten
years before they should be compared to any other tag
teams out there, and they already have a decade in
the business. So those would be the three that I
would give you. I'd give you Heart Foundation, Hardy Man
that leaves out Edge and Christian that leaves out the
Dudley Boys. That leaves I mean, I even like the
(09:45):
Italian Stallions back in the day, was that Paul Romo
and and something Powers Jim Powers Maybe I don't even remember,
but man's that's tough. I would say those three though,
New Day, Hardy Boys, hard Foundation and that sucks to
leave out Edgen, Christian and the Dudley Boys. And I'm
(10:06):
a crappy fan for doing so. There you go.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
You have any from the New Regime from AW and
WW that you like that you're following right now?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You know, I like what the New Day does story wise.
As far as AW, they focus more on tag teams.
But it's more difficult to get into the wrestler's characters
in AEW because they focus more on giving a superior
match than WWE. But in doing so they've sacrificed the
(10:39):
story and the getting to know you phase of a
lot of these wrestlers careers. Like if you weren't hip
to them in the indies, then too bad. So sad
you don't get to know their story, And that to
me is like shit, how much more wrestling do I
have to watch to keep up with these cats? Like
tell me who you are? It's not hard to do.
They just aren't focused on it. They do it a
(11:01):
little bit like they gave us a little bit with
the Acclaimed Once Daddy asked was in the in the mix?
You started to get to know their personality a little more,
and then eventually they're their win and run with the titles.
Uh private party. They haven't given us much to get
to know them a little bit lately with the MVP
stuff and then wanting to do it without him. That
(11:22):
gave us a small sense of their motivation, but I'd
like to see more of that. So it's hard. Man.
I like the Luta Bros. But they're not there anymore
FTR again, Like, I know who they are, but I
don't ever get a chance to know why they're wrestling
the guys they're wrestling, So it's hard to get a
sense of of what motivates both men other than we
want gold, which is cool. It just that can't be
(11:44):
the story every time. And the young young bucks, you know,
it's it's tricky with them because they've been given the most,
so I understand them the most. But they're bad guys.
I'm not supposed to like them, and I don't so
for the right reason. So it's it's trickier to get
(12:05):
to know the bad guys because they don't want you
to get to know them. They just want power and
money and fame and influence, and so I get that
from them. They're a part of the actual decision making
process in reality and in story, but they've probably been
given the most motive as far as tag teams there
and I for me and what I came up with
(12:28):
on wrestling, and what I like in entertainment is the
reason why. And so I just need a little bit
more of that. I hope that answers.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
And if Jeff, like I said, I talked about Jeff
was here, he would say the Outrunners with their eighties
the act.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
He loves the Outrunners. Their handshake is money, man. They
did the New Day handshake. I love that, the Arnold
Schwartzenegger Carl Weather's Predator handshake. That shit's money. When you
got biceps, that's the best handshake to get. You know.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I got to give a Jeff is fifty feet plug
because even love he loves those guys. This one, This
one's coming in from Jim Balcony ninety six on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, that's a tough guy. Name.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
What do you think about the C two the AW
Continental Classics so far?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I like the Continental Classic. I like the philosophy behind it.
I like that there's no outside interference allowed. There's a
certain level of respect and decorum that comes with that,
unless you're Kyle Fletcher and your cheat to win. So
I like the format of it. I don't want them
to rely on tournaments to give the best matches I'd
(13:42):
love to see again. I'm beating a dead horse here.
I'd love to see story behind it. But it is
nice to get to see these sort of dream scenario
matches so quickly grouped together. Does that make sense? Like
you get you'll get like two three weeks, these insane
matches without a story because you don't need it because
(14:04):
they're forced to wrestle in like a kumite. Right, So
it's much more like watching a you know, an action
movie as opposed to a Liam Neeson action movie, right,
which is more character driven, like you took my daughter.
I'm taking everything from you, motherfuckers. That's more WWE. There's
this more Jackie Chan movie, which is like, Yo, I'm
(14:24):
fighting forty dudes and I'm gonna freaking win and I'm
gonna show you how I'm gonna win because I'm gonna
be creative with it, and that's more the aw style.
I feel like, nice.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
This one's coming in from CG Camp seventy nine. What
do you Freddy think about inducting matches into the WWE
Hall of Fame? Similar to how the UFC has the
Fight Wing and he gives he gives some examples like
Savageteamboat from so Many three, Austin bread Wrestme thirteen, stuff
(14:53):
like that, just to change the format a little.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
That's pretty cool and I could definitely see that happening.
I think that's a great idea. I could definitely see
the WWE opening a wing for the greatest matches of
all time. I could see them doing that. They're going
to run out of ideas. I mean, they induct too
many people every year. The induction process is not as
legitimate as you would think. I mean they were when
I worked there. They were asking the writer's room to
(15:19):
come up with who's going to go? I'm like, why
are we qualified to make these nominations and doing all this?
Like shouldn't there be a board of decision makers with
like all these old school people on it. But no,
maybe they've changed it. But when I worked there, the
selection process was bullshit. But I think that's a wonderful idea.
(15:39):
The UFC does do that. I think the is it
the Hollywood Museum of Movies whatever it's called in Beverly Hills,
They have like some of the greatest scenes of all
time that you can go and rewatch. So I think
that's a I think that's a great idea, and I'll
bet you you see that in the near future, and
when you do, you can take credit for it. You
can be like see I said on a podcast and
(16:01):
some asshole at WW heard Freddy's podcast from some other
asshole and they got the idea for it and stole
my idea. You're damn right, they stole your idea. It
was good. It was a good idea. You're not gonna
get paid for it, Jack, you got screwed on that,
but it was a good idea.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
A lot of residuals to this podcast and to people
who listen.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
He just mentioned.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
He has a side quest, what are the odds of
you going to Pittsburgh to do a comic con?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Love the show? That was pretty scary as well. Pittsburgh's
a direct flight, so the odds are good. If I
have to take two flights, the odds are zero. And
I only do like two maybe three a year. I
don't think I'm doing any this year. I'm working too
much and trying to get too much shit going, and
(16:44):
then I have to cancel. Nothing's worse than I feel
so shitty when I cancel the convention and people say,
like it's no big deal, like people do it all
the time. But I get it. I understand that people
are buying plane tickets, people are paying for hotel rooms,
and sometimes it's just to see one person, even though
they know there's going to be fifty people there. Sometimes
(17:05):
it's just to see Hayden Christiansen because you connected to
that dude so much. Sometimes it's just to see Jeff
goldbloomus you love Jeff Goldblum. Sometimes it's just because you
want to see me. And when I cancel, you're out.
I don't know how many hundreds of dollars on your
plane ticket, I don't know how much the convention costs you.
I don't know how much your food cost you while
you were out there. You got to freaking eat. What
(17:26):
are you going to starve? And then you're just out
all that money And that makes me feel like shit,
and I'm not able to reimburse you know you guys
to even though I feel bad like that's that's just
not going to happen and be too many of you
and my ass would be bankrupt. So yeah, man, I
really don't like committing to them unless I know for
a fact I can be there and this year is
gonna be hard, so I don't think I'm gonna do
(17:47):
any of this year. But I like Pittsburgh. I saw
a great Kurt Angle match in Pittsburgh. Son of a
Bitch lost to Stone Cold, but whatever, he should he
should have won that match anyway. But yeah, I would
totally to come there and do a convention there. I
just don't have plans for it in the immediate future,
but you never know, my bro Very cool.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
This one's coming in from Ac Brooker on IG. Two
great names in a row. I hope those are your
real names. Huge fan of the pod guys. Top three
on Spotify wrapped. Wow, that's pretty cool. That was pretty
scary in my top five.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Very good. Hey, shout out. That was pretty scary.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
My question is, now that we're nearing the end of
twenty twenty four, what has been your most memorable moment
of wrestling this year?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oh man, that's that's a tough one. We watch, you know,
eight hours of wrestling a week. That's not including the
pay per views and premium live events, so there's a lot,
a lot a lot going on, and I want to
make sure I get the year right.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Even they also say, do you have any iconic storylines
or moments that had you really pumped, fired up, or
jumping out of your seat to go with that question.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I mean, there was a moment between MJF and will
Ospray that I thought was overlooked by almost everybody that
was so smart when will Ospray says, you're jealous that
these people cheer for me, and Max responded with they
used to cheer for me before you showed up. And
(19:28):
I thought, for a heel to be that vulnerable and
petty at the same time was so smart. I wanted
that storyline to last a lot longer than it did,
and it definitely could have. And I hope these two
meet up again next year for something and have some
reason to fight, because that storyline was not long enough
(19:48):
for what those two can do on the microphone. But
the signing of will Ospray and his debut in aew
just with his song and his entrants alone, I was
really excited because I wasn't as hip to him as
the rest of you were. I was just getting hip
to him as he was getting signed and starting to
watch stuff on Instagram and saw him do the flip
(20:10):
where they did the edit with the super Saiyan hair
when he lands like that. Was my introduction to will
Osprey was he was a super Saiyan, so I got
really excited for that. I thought he did great. I
thought when Triple H kind of shit on him and
Ousprey took the opportunity to shit back, I thought that
was really smart. Most of the time, I don't agree
with that, but the way he handled it was with
such I don't know is dignity the right word grace.
(20:36):
He's a gruff, gruff guy, so I don't know how
often we applied dignity and grace to a tough guy.
But that's how he handled it. He shipped on him
a little. He's like, hey man, he done some shady
stuff too, my brother, so just don't forget about that.
I'm not hating on you. It's just you hit me once,
I'm gonna hit you once back. And he gave as
he got, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
(20:56):
So I've liked what he's brought to the table and
what he's brought to the game so far, and I
wish him and aw a lot of success because I
don't want to see these these guys and girls go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
He did it with a lot of bruughness. I want
to say, a lot of it, a lot of the problem.
Brooker also mentions I didn't want this to go on.
Read that I know you're no longer in Australia, but
mentioned that if you know, if you're still in Australia,
are you doing any meeting greets from a fellow Aussie fan.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
No, meet and greets in Australia, man, I was just
there to work, no conventions or anything like that. My
friend was directing the movie. She also co wrote the movie.
I was out there to kick ass for her, do
my thing we got. We don't finish the movie until February.
We shoot a little more in Los Angeles, so I
have some time to kill in between. Yeah, no meet
and greets. Out there just out there trying to kick
(21:44):
as much ass as I possibly can and bring the
best performance possible at camera.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
And this question that Snacks goes along with that, what
was the what is the process of getting such an
iconic franchise like I know what should did last summer
back in theaters.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Again, Dude, I passed the first time they brought it
to me. I didn't want to do it. I passed
when they brought the news She's all that to me
because originally She's all that script was super inorganic for
me and Rachel to be in it. I was just like,
you're just forcing us into these roles and it's not
even the characters we played in the first one. You're
like acting like they didn't exist, and they're the reason
(22:24):
people liked the movie. They related to the characters, and
they're like, well, we think it'd be cool for you
to be the principle, and I was like, yeah, that's
not happening. Miramax just totally screwed this whole that whole
thing up from my perspective, like it just felt forced
and weak, and I think matt ended up playing the
role that they that they offered me, but I just
didn't respond to what they were trying to do in
(22:45):
any way, shape or form. And I assumed it would
be the same with I Know what you did last summer,
and so when they first brought it to me, I
was like, pass, No, don't even want to read it.
Didn't have the best experience, you know in the first place,
don't need to revisit it. I think this stuff can
be really lame, and it's going to be forced and inorganic,
and shitty didn't even give it a chance. And then
(23:06):
a few months later my wife said, Hey, our friend
jen Is has taken over. She's going to direct the
movie and co write it. And I was like, oh,
that's interesting. She was like, yeah, she wants to talk
to you, and I was like, oh no, And so
she I take the meeting and we sit and talk
and she starts pitching the Ray and the Julie characters
(23:26):
and it's not like forced or inorganic at all. It's
very natural and where they are in their lives now
at this point, and how they're going to help shape
this story. And these new characters that are the focal
point of the movie, these these new young people. And
she approached the characters with such care and respect that
it was a very not a very easy yes, but
(23:49):
much easier to say yes than I thought it would be,
because the characters were protected and and they weren't, you know,
they weren't the leads of the movie, which is fine,
I don't care about that, but they were still important.
It wasn't just hey, let's get all the equity that
Freddy built up in the nineties and get a chance
(24:11):
to market it and get older people to come see
a horror movie too, not just young people like that's
what she's all. That felt like when they offered it,
and this felt the opposite. So it became much easier
to come in and jump in. That might not answer
your question exactly the way you phrased it, but I
don't know if I can answer it any better because
(24:32):
I don't. You know, the only other film I've done
that was sort of like a franchise was Scooby, and
I know I wouldn't. I wouldn't do that again. It's
organically it just wouldn't. It just wouldn't work. And I
don't love Warner Brothers. I'll just leave it at that.
I'm sure their feeling as mutual, or at least it
was back then. It's probably all new people now. Actually no,
(24:53):
there's still somebody there that probably doesn't like me. But yeah,
so this felt natural and nothing felt forced. So it
was an easy yes. Whereas you know in the past,
when these things have happened, or the way I project
things will happen in the future on other projects, it's
a very easy no.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Do you need to get permission to use the name
of the film. Are there a lot of steps into that,
like into you know, bringing a film back up from
the dead.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Basically, no, I mean it's it's still the same person
that owned the rights is still involved with this one.
So there's no there's no process at all. That only
exists when you're originally getting the rights from Judy Bloom
herself back in the nineties when we first got it,
and that only got that only was was purchased and approved.
Because this is successive Scream. Without Scream, there is no
(25:45):
I Know what you did last summer. A lot of
people confuse them and think, I Know what you did
came out first. We wouldn't have been greenlit if Screen
didn't make a bazillion dollars. Kevin Williamson, who wrote Scream,
adapted I Know What You Did Last Summer from the
book to the movie. The movie's much different than the book.
I think it's much better than the book. There's not
a lot of action in the book. But yeah, there
(26:05):
is no I Know what You did without Scream. And
that's kind of how horror works, you know. It goes
on these ten year runs where one movie opens the
door for a bunch of movies, and then they kind
of water down the movie that got them all the
opportunity until they're no longer valuable, and then the business
gives up on them the second half of that decade,
and then a new movie comes out, made by a
(26:25):
new director or sometimes an old school director with a
new lease on life and finds a new idea, and
they're trying to outdo what the other directors have done before.
And that's why it evolves so much more quickly than
every other type of movie, because these directors are constantly like, well, crap,
I can't do this because people have already yelled and screamed.
They're not going to see the same scare twice since
I got to find a new way to scare people.
(26:46):
That's why James Wand turned I Know You Did Last
Summer into a comedy and nobody screams anymore. They laugh
at it because you know, he's making these morality horror
films right where it's like, if you want to escape,
can you chew off your own ankle like a wolf? Like?
You know? It just it just changed the way we
looked at horror, which was really really cool. I love
James on I'm not shitting on him, but fuck that guy.
(27:08):
So yeah, man, So as far as like being a
part of a franchise, you have to approach it with respect, right,
But I think most actors are approaching their roles with respect.
Most actors and most directors aren't going to go, well,
I'm gonna make this so much better than the original.
You know, you go in there with respect and love
(27:29):
for the original, and in doing so you have a
chance to maybe have it better received or maybe not.
But if you go in there and I know, I've
seen some actors and some directors say, oh, I didn't
even watch the source material or I didn't even read
the book, And it's just like, if you think that's
making you sound cool, you're wrong, Like it just makes
you sound ill prepared and lazy, Like why wouldn't you
(27:52):
want to have as much as well? I want to
go in fresh. You're gonna have your own ideas based
on how you were raised, and you receive information like
it's your perform no matter what. But it's intelligent to
show respect to the material that you were offered because
usually it's something that people plan on being super successful
because it's an intellectual property. It's an idea that someone
(28:13):
had that was successful and that a studio believes they
can make money on, so maybe give it a view.
I read the book for I Note you did last summer,
and I watched the cartoons for Scooby Doo, and I
would approach any sort of franchise thing the same way.
So I think that's the best way to approach the franchise.
If that should answer your question completely. Yeah, that was good.
This last one is not really a question. It comes
from Matt Teals nineteen ninety five. Man.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I really wanted to say thank you, and it was
lovely to meet you in Australia. I'm a huge fan
of the podcast. They met you in Australia Seals nineteen
ninety five.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Dude, why didn't you say where we met? Matt? I
met a handful of people in Australia that said they
were fans of the podcast, and it was tripping me out.
We were getting so much love in Australia. I had
like four people come up to me and be like, hey,
I like the podcast. One guy said fuck Jeff for
(29:07):
real some Australia. I was like, fuck that Jeff guy,
But you're all right. Man, I thought i'd hate you.
I was like, well, I appreciate that you don't hate me.
But Jeff's all right, dude, He's like, I'm sure he's fine.
I'm sure he's fine. But if that guy so he
got mad at Jeff for something, But yeah, man, thanks
for the shout out, thanks for the love. I appreciate it.
Australia is one of my favorite places in the world.
We shot the first Scooby Doo there and I lived
(29:28):
there for five months. We were there, I didn't get
to bring my dog because you guys have crazy quarantine laws.
Your dog has to be quarantined for six months, or
at least back then they did. I'm like, man, I'm
only out here for five I can't do that. So
I didn't get to see my boy Tyson. He was
this one hundred and twenty pound akita. He was such
a stud and he was all muscle. You're like, one
(29:49):
hundred twenty pounds. Was he fat? No, he wasn't fat.
He was spelt baby. And I missed him so much.
But we were in the Gold Coast, which is like,
if you like gambling or golf, it's amazing. But if
you don't it's not that cool. And I was in
my twenties and not into either of those things because
I'm not in my sixties. And so I would cruise
(30:09):
down to Sydney every single weekend and that was my city,
that was my vibe, those were my people. I snuck
up north to the hilaria called Noosa and served some
nice slow rollers. But when I was there, not this trip,
I didn't have time. But on the first Scooby because
you know, a lot of scenes were just Shaggy and Scooby,
I didn't have to be in those scenes, so I
had days off. But yeah, I love it out there.
(30:29):
It's such a beautiful country. The food's good, the people
are good, the weather's good. The driving's crazy. But the
driving in La is way worse, So I don't know
I'm bitching about that. Holy shit, I almost died right
when I got off the plane leaving the airport, like
three different times, almost in three car accidents. It's just
people at La sucker driving so bad. But yeah, shout
(30:50):
out to Australia. I love you guys. You've turned out
some pretty awesome wrestlers over the years. Not talking about
Nathan Jones, talking about Kyle Fletcher, Baby Kyle Fletcher. Nathan
Joe was awesome in Ongbach though I don't know if
you guys have seen Bach. It's this movie with this
guy named Tony Jai or Tony ja He does like
muy Thai in his movies. He's like the Jackie Chann
of Thailand. And he did this movie where these people
were stealing his elephants and like selling him to Zeus
(31:12):
and he's like, yo, fuck Zoo's fuck you and Nathan
Jones is like, no, fuck you and he beats him up.
And then at the end of the movie he comes
back and he beats Nathan Jones. Is huge at Nathan
Jones is like six ' eight, like three hundred and
five pounds of just pure muscle against Tony Jai, who's
like a buck fifty five little muay Thai guy, maybe
like five four or five five. And he has to
like just do everything muy Thai can do to beat
(31:34):
your ass, and he does and he beats up Nathan Jones.
So you lost, Nathan Jones. Suck it, Kyle Fletcher for life.
That's the end of our episode, y'all. Thanks for listening.
Happy holidays, peace. This has been a production of Iheart's
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