And now your main event introducing the hosts are wrestling with for Ready. Jeff died hand for Ready prints soon, so we'll start with what's going on with Uncle Fredward and life in general. I'm working on a movie, you guys. It's called The Girl in the Pool. Don't Trip. Script was done and the movie was greenlit and in production before the strike ever started. I don't play that shit. It's more money for the Federation treasure chest, which I'm
very happy about. And this has been a crazy journey so far, trying to start my own federation and do it in a bit of a different way. There's been ups and downs, and I feel like I've been game for all of them, even the ones that have surprised me. But it's changing and moving the way I do things. I've invested in the Premiere Streaming Network. You guys should check it out. It's an app. You could just go to the the Apps Store and download it. It's big
just big time Indie Wrestling PSN. I call it Premier Streaming Network. Guys, go subscribe. You can see all these wrestlers that you're watching now in AEW and WWE. You can start watching their independent matches. When they were wrestling under different names, sometimes sometimes the same, but guys like Kevin Owens and Sammy z A and like you can see the old Generico and Kevin steam matches. We're signing new indie companies all the time. We have House of Glory.
Now we have more and more come and impact. We got love for y'all. We're even going to have some impact. But we've got tons of indie wrestling on there. If you guys want to see a different side of wrestling, or if you want to see a little history lesson on the wrestlers you like, now check it out there. And then, like with my own thing, I did this to learn about the indie promotion business right because I want to I don't want to just go in frigging green.
So that was sort of the impetus for the for the investment in the first place. But a producer that I I had spoken to who really liked the script that I wrote because it wasn't going to be I know, I said what I said, but it was never going to be like WWE or AW. I just didn't want
people crapping on it right away. This producer that I sent it to, who I was thinking about doing it as a TV thing until I was just going to lose any and all ownership, basically to the distributor and to the showrunner, because they weren't going to let me run my own show, pissing me off, probably just for ego reasons, but I know what I'm capable of doing, and I had already written all the episodes, so I
didn't even need a writer's room. I didn't feel like and this is a while back now, anyway, this producer came back and said, what if you did that as a movie and the movie spawned the independent promotion, or we do the independent promotion and use some of that footage for the movie. So I'm thinking about actually doing that and sort of rewriting the first season into a feature film and kind of spawning it off that. But I don't know. And this is sort of like, this
isn't me confirming or denying anything. This is me just like like sort of free consciousness, just sort of thinking out loud and trying to work this stuff out. And I figured i'd try to work it out with you guys. And you know, I don't see everybody's responses, but I see some, and you might think it's a horrible idea. You might think it's an awesome idea. It's not. It won't change my mind, but I definitely get interested in what people hate and what people like. So I'm thinking
about that, you know. And it wouldn't be a comedy like Ready to Rumble, which I actually like. I know it didn't do that well, but I thought it was a cool movie. It would be a drama, and it would be sort of some of the crazy stories I've heard about independent promotions over the years and taking some of those and implementing them into a unique story of my own. But yeah, I've I've been thinking about it. I only heard about it the last couple of days.
He texted me while I was on set, and I wrote him back, I said, hey, man, I'm working right now, but let me talk to you this weekend. And I spoke with him yesterday, and you know, he kind of pitched me on the idea and the budget and how we would pull it off and that kind of stuff. When the when the strike's over and all that crap, which hopefully will be soon, and then kind of sitting down and figuring out a way. So I'm thinking about
I don't know yet. I'm not as I even as I talk about it, I'm like, nah, maybe it's not such a good idea, but I'm trying to keep an open mind. I think that's the best way to, uh, to create the things we want to create, is to examine every opportunity as they come, not just crap on it right away. You know, you can crap on it down the line once you once you learn a bit. But uh, but yeah, it's just something that I've been thinking about. So anyway, the Federation continues. It's it's such
a weird journey. It sometimes makes you question why you come. You come back to the business that drives you so crazy. And yeah, so I don't I don't know. I don't know, but I know I could do. I just don't know if it's the right thing to do. You guys might have an opinion, so let me know. Well, now it's time to address the women's division. Not in WWE, minds you, but in AW that's all elite wrestling in case you
didn't know. Anyway, Jade Cargill has taken her first loss, which I think is going to end up being a good thing. Now she can actually get a story on her way back to the title. The woman she lost to Miss Chris Statlander. I used to call her Stratlander, but it's Statlander is the new champion. But I think everybody was surprised when she won. She had her first match, our first defense against Nyla Rose and got the win.
She's got a really cool move set. If you haven't seen her work, back to Jade, if we can for a moment, because she's a unicorn and there's not a lot and I don't feel that she's been utilized as well as she could. I've definitely seen her promo work get better. I think everyone has seen her work get a little better. Again. They limit what she can do to a certain degree to keep her safe and to keep her opponents safe while she's learning on the job.
She's been doing this, I think, what is it two years, between two and three years something like that, so it's not a lot of time. But if you don't know what she looks like, go on Instagram or online and type in Jade Cargill and you will see the goddess of war like. She's Athena like well, they have an Athena, but in Greek mythology, she is that like. She looks like she's sculpted from stone, and she has an attitude
and personality that really really matches. She's developing the skills that you need on the microphone, and no one can argue that she hasn't gotten better. I guess the argument would be the wrestling, but I don't know how you gauge that based on the types of matches she's been asked to have, right, which is her usually dominating the opponent. We we haven't had to see her work her way from underneath. This can be that opportunity that she can
fall on hard times. She can struggle now that she's lost. I hope to see them do this. I really do it. To see her only lose once is not the way to go. I think she has to struggle and have a mental block and a mental challenge that she herself has to come over and that becomes the story until you can get her someone that will then be the other character in the story. But you can self motivate. We're watching Cody Rhoades do it. He doesn't have someone
to wrestle every week, so it can be done. If she lost another match to someone, there's no way she should lose to then all of a sudden, the Backstay promo is her yelling at her girls like, yo, get the bleep away from me right now, get away from me now, like something is wrong and she shouldn't be losing, and she is. Are you injured? No, I'm not hurt, Leave me alone, like whatever, Like she has to go through some kind of struggle now so that she can
do the metamorphosis into the next version of herself. So I hope that they're thinking of that. They probably are. There's no way you would just make her lose just to lose, So hopefully that's the direction they go. If you think the idea sucks, then then outdo me and do something better. And if you think it's good, then steal it. I just want to see all these women improve so that you have the kind of roster that
demands people watch. And I think early on Jade had that, and then they lost it, all of them collectively down the line a little bit. But it's not That doesn't mean you can't get it back. You just have to make people want to watch. And I think that's a way off the top of my head. Also, in aew,
Jeff and I love her well, we love them both. Actually, Jamie Hayter, Jamie Hayter had to lose in England, you guys, And I think it was because she was injured at least that's what like dirt Do you guys like being called dirt sheets or is that like an insult. I'm not trying to like crap on anybody, but I think that's what it said on We'll say on wrestling news sites. That's more respectfully. So if she was hurt, then that's the right thing. If not, then that's kind of weird
because I think she's a good champion. She got to speak a few times without Britt Baker, slowly but surely, and got better every time. She could tell she was getting more comfortable. Her promos, especially the back the backstage stuff was actually better than the in ring stuff, and I think they knew that because they did most of her stuff backstage. But she's she seems very calm and collected backstage. It doesn't always translate great in the ring.
Jungle Boy's another one, like if you watch the edited clips they do when they're trying to get you excited for the fight, the stuf where he's like sitting in his backyard talking camera. He always does great with that, but that cool, calm and collective persona doesn't always come through in the ring with a microphone in front of you. That's why Vince says things like they need to be bigger, bigger, but backstage that's a mistake. Tony Storm, who we also love,
got the wind. I remember seeing Tony Storm the first time on NXT back in the day and being like, who's this man? Like they made her look like a rock star in the promos, and then she came out and she wrestled like super mean. It wasn't like super hot rockstar girl. It was like, Yo, here's my rikishi ass in your face. Bam. She had this huge hip attack that she did. It just looks violent and brutal, and there was like nothing sweet and Barbie Doll about
her at all. But I remember going like, damn, man, that girl needs to be in WWE. And then they brought her in to the main roster and they just did nothing with her, to the point where she was so unhappy with the way they were booking her in the con that they were wanting her to create, which she didn't I guess didn't feel was wrestling, and I would agree. Girl asked for her release. I was like, yo, I don't belong here. This isn't what I want to do. I need to go. And not a lot of people
have the courage to do that. Not a lot of people have the self respect to do that. Sometimes you'll stay in a job that you hate because you feel like you have to and it's the best you can do. And in some cases that may be true. But in a lot, there is something better for you out there, and she, I think believed in that. This is me guessing, but I know the artists struggle, and I know the choices that they have to make and the consequences and
successes that come with those things. She found the right place for her, She found a home. They treat her great here. She's doing a great job now with Sorea. She was doing a great job on her own. And she is your Women's World Champion. And that's the belt that means more than the TVs title. Is the aw Women's Championship. I think it should. The TBS is more
like a television title. But Jade was or is so special that she's just not the champion now that I think it made the title seem like something more because you kept waiting to see who was going to get it. I may not have loved the story they got the belt off her with, but they got the belt off. So now it's on them to figure out what Statlander's next challenge is going to be. Storyline wise, she can wrestle whoever and in some matches just to get her
over with the people. And more importantly, what do you do with your unicorn? What is what is that story? Her story of redemption? I think she has to fall further? Is it further or farther further from grace before she can start climbing back out? What was that that al Pacino line? We got a one inch at a time. The inches we need are everywhere. I do a crappy
al Pacino. Sorry, but yeah, there's something there for her and they can start to get that character over and evolve her the way Jared is always evolving, which helps keep him interesting, not just his wrestling, it's the stuff he does backstage and in the middle of the ring, and the evolution of his character over all this time. So that's what I'm hoping for in the women's division again, Tony and Sorea and Ruby have a good thing going right now, so they don't necessarily need a story. Britt
Baker is involved in a story. It's just an inner gender story, so she doesn't necessarily need a solo story at the moment. But you have to believe that she's going to be going after Tony as soon as this Adam Cole and Jericho thing is wrapped up. So in the meantime, Tony can chill get some matches. The other ladies can help her cheat to win or maybe maybe just maybe her first opponent that she has to defend against is Sheida Holy Sita. I would love to see
that matching. I've seen it a bunch, but I love those two wrestling. I think She'd is super cool. I think Tony's super cool, so I would love to see that. And their characters kind of hate each other right now. Anyway, this hitter with a kind stick. It was awesome. Anyway, that's the aw women's division. This has been a production of Iheart'smichael Toura podcast Network. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.