The Frederation Writes In and We Answer Your Questions

us talk about wrestling. Well, I'm gonna summon my inner Vince McMahon, and I'm gonna tell you I'm not excited to speak to the people, squirrel. The people, what I think is the only thing that matters. Their opinions are crap. Their questions suck, and I don't have to answer any of them. You know. Just gotta hear him out. We gotta hear him out. Alright, fine, God damn it. We'll listen to a couple are awesome. Producer United States veteran Alexis Cardoza. We'd call him Big al We've never called

you Big Alum. Alex Is gonna alex Is gonna read your questions, and uh, we're gonna get right into him as soon as he's ready, which is right freaking now. All right, We're gonna start off with a couple of Instagram questions that came in, and the first one is coming in from Chell's Lee nine. She asked, if A E W or w W E offered you a creative job right now, would you take it? Mm hmm, that's a good question. I mean, I'll start, if you don't mind, Jeff,

go ahead. Yeah, they're asking you, Yeah, but I think it'd be cool to get your take to they might. I think stand up comics are good storytellers and that's what wrestling needs. Um. I think it would depend on the position and the amount of time. And here's why. One, I'm trying to get my own thing going, so legally I wouldn't be allowed too if if I signed a contract. But let's just take that off the table and and say everyone hated my idea and I and I can't

make it. What what would I have to do? I'm back in acting. First of all, I'm making a movie in February. I'm making another one this summer, so that it would have to be a friendly schedule. So as far as the type of job, maybe if it was like, Freddie, we're gonna give you three wrestlers that we don't really know, we don't have a story for it, and we're not

we're not focused on them. Can you come up with something like if they challenged me right, like you try to get him over since you tell us on your podcast every week we can't we suck, show us how much you don't suck. If it was that kind of a thing and I could only work with those three and it was like we were doing zooms and maybe there were a couple of shows I would go to and things like that, then hell yeah, hell yeah I would.

I would take that challenge in a second. I would love trying to take the person that no one believes in and making the people believe in them and then shoving it in in the company's face. I mean, that was the whole Jeff Hardy thing, That was the whole motivation behind that was no one, no one believed in him, and and Freebird was loved him, and he's like, Freddy, you gotta help me out here. You gotta get a story for for Jeff Hardy. And it was like and

everybody was like, yeah, good luck. And so I wrote it up and I presented it to this guy Christ to Joseph, and he was like, dude, that's actually pretty good. And I was like, all right, cool, let's pitch it. And we did, and and Vince kept going for it and going for it and going for it until he said, nobody touches Jeff and to larn Mageddon, and that's when

we knew that Jeff was going to get the title match. Right. So, if it was in that regards with w W E, we're like, here's some n XT talent that we're bringing up, or here's like three wrestlers that aren't getting any TV time, or here's Mustafa Ali make us make him not lose, right, Like those to be challenges. I wouldn't just be like, yeah, I want to work with Bray Kevin Owens and Sammy's a and like those guys don't need any help, like

they can do everything on their own. Um as far as a e W goes one, I don't think so, because Tony Khan isn't looking for help, right, But let's say he was and play the hypothetical that would be a more full time thing. That wouldn't be just give me three wrestlers. I would say, hey, let's you tell me who you want to wrestle at your pay per view and let me tell your fans why they're gonna fight.

That would have to be the scenario, right like, Okay, you book it, because clearly you don't want to give that position up. But let me be the reason why. Let me be your head writer. Let me write the reasons why these guys hate each other. Let me be the reason why Soireya is going to take the title from from Jamie Hayd. Let me give you three stories and you pick which one right that That would be a much different situation because w w E is very streamlined.

They have a writer's room. Those writers would hate me the same way they hated me the first time I worked there, and trust me they did. I had to earn their respect and earn just their like um and probably not all of them like me by the time I probably some of them, you know, we're like, I never liked him, ha ha. But a W is different because they don't have that. There are wrestlers there that are doing all their own things. Like it's just like yo,

I'm writing my promo. I'm doing my own thing. So I would have to go in there and be like, here's what I think. I can't say the term that w W would use, but say put your fingerprints on it. They use a much more politically incorrect term in the wrestling business. Um, but I'd say, you know, change whatever you want to change, you know, find the words that

that fit right for you. But here's the promo that I'm thinking about, and then help shape and guy the changes they make that I vehemently disagree with, right, because it's still at the end of the day, it has to be an environment that's conducive to success. I could write a monologue like nobody's business okay, but if you don't click with it, it's gonna suck, and that makes you suck, right, So I'm not going in there going

look how great this is. It's me going, look, I think I have a great idea here, but you have to make it yours. So they would be two very different scenarios. W W would have to be a limited thing. Here's Wrestler's X y Z and a E. W would have to be let me run the show. And even if it was just like hey, give me rampage instead of Dynamite, and let me show you what I can do.

And if I can bring those numbers up and bring and and make people care about the stories on that show, then let's start bleeding those into dynamite and seeing what we could do. So they'd be two very different scenarios. That said, I don't think Tony con would ever go for that. And I really am, like, it's not just like table talk. I really am trying to get my own federation thing going. I'm I'm pretty far down the line with a couple of different people, and I'm just

kind of waiting for some some things to happen. Um. And I'm working again, so so it's tricky, um, But yeah, I would if certain things didn't already exist. What about you, Jeff, would you ever take a take a call? And and if so, would you take a job if offered to you? What what's the definition of a creative job at wrestling? Okay? You would be told we want Sammy Zane and the USOS to break up and we want Sammy Zane to wrestle Roman Reigns at WrestleMania. Will you come in and

and writes and I wouldn't do the job. Wouldn't take the job. If they want to do smaller wrestlers, no, still wouldn't care. I don't know, I'm in no, this is how this is how Jeff Die operate. I am and I don't care about making Sammy Zanne or any other wrestler or start. Like, if they wanted me to be an announcer, I would love to do that. I would take that job in a second. If they want to make me a manager of a wrestler, oh, I'm

all in on for that. But just sitting somewhere and making other people sound funny on my jokes or making someone else sound interesting on my monologues, like, I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm you know, the manager thing would be tricky because you're so freaking tall. You would make a lot of the talent seem less formidable. Right, But if you wrapped like a women's stable, that would be sick. But if you were on, if you were

on a commentary, that would be that would be pretty dope. Also, if you got to be the color guy, you could literally be the main announcer. And if the if I became a manager for like a female wrestler like I would. I would just take H G H. Try to get jacked too, so like in case you know, something happens, I try to break it up and but hey, nobody, because I could be the I could be a bit guess dude. And the women's division. You know what I'm saying that h just walking in on peptides, just slowly

getting larger, like like an NBA referee. You know, they used to just be dorks and now they're all jazz. Like I would just every week on steroids because I'm not gonna be looking like these bodybuilders. And the men's wrestling, but if I'm a female wrestler manager, they'd be like, oh, he's pretty big. Actually it's a big guy, dude. I could see you as a manager. I could big time

see you as a commentator that way, I think you would. Yeah, I would take that job, but I wouldn't take a writing job, or I wouldn't take any other stuff just because I think it's I just don't think i'd be good at it either. I don't really I like watching

I like being a fan of wrestling, I don't. I don't think getting in there and trying to put my stink on it in the writer's room wouldn't be because you guys have listened to me enough on this podcast and Fred, you've listened to me enough in regular life that I like terrible stuff in wrestling. Like my taste for wrestling is like they do oh ship and I go. I love that, like I love like the brawl for all.

You know what I'm saying, Like you can't trust me on the writer's room, I'm gonna come up with some terrible ideas. Next question, sir, This next question is for Jeff Die having dated a wrest how did that change your perspective of the business? And this question is coming from one Mikey Mike on Instagram. Um, it didn't really change my perspective on rest at all. I dated Becky Lynch if if people are curious and she's awesome, the only thing, Um, the only thing. It actually didn't change

my perspect at all. I will say that this is I don't know if I hope I'm not sharing too much here, but like they would take it really personal, like when her and Charlotte were like feuding like they were, she I would listen to her be like I can't believe Charlotte's actually getting mad at me and like she would like that. I was like, you guys, do know this is a storyline, right, Like you guys don't have to actually be upset with each other for this to work.

But I think it's like comedy or or show business or maybe even um, if you work at a warehouse or you work at Target or you work at Best Buy, you get competitive, like right, you wanna you want the promotion, or you want the race, or you want some position, and so that's just part of it for for them. So it's like like Charlotte had a difficult time that Becky was starting to become the face of the female

wrestling thing, and so I did. Um. I guess it wasn't surprising and didn't change my perspective, but it was interesting to see how much they genuinely, like you know, when when you're struggling on the roster, like it affects their personal life, like they're really their their attitude inspect and as they rise they go yeah, like I mean, it's it's it's a little more real than I thought it was for sure. Now you don't have to answer this question, but I'm just gonna throw something out there.

I did notice when you and and Miss Lynch were dating that her Twitter game was much stronger than when you broke up. You didn't have anything to do with some of those sweet tweets, did you, Becky is she's very very funny, and she's very very uh you know, like very witty with that stuff. She was very good about keeping her Twitter persona like her thing. That's all, Becky. Next question, sir, This one's coming in from Sierra Taylor Hodge on Instagram. If you both became an in ring

tag team, what would your name be? Oh? I already know mine what Jeff Jack Pott die, And every single one of my moves would have like an some sort of money thing to it, you know, like, oh, he did the bank deposit, He did the bank deposit. You know, like just so some sort of like money related stuff, because I think Jack Potts it's about it's about being lucky, it's about winning, it's about uh, you know, it's just

a perfect kind of like name Jeff Jack Pott. Okay, So Josh Wolf and I used to do this years ago on on our old podcast, and he was his character's name was the producer, and I was Alexander Slammleton, and all my moves were kind of like yours, Like I had the Bohamian bank note, and like I think he's on the the five dollar bill or the tent, whichever billy's on it. It was the five dollar thrill, like I had all the same the same kind of vibe. But I wouldn't be able to bring that persona into

the ring. So I would have to be your luchat or tag partner. And my name is from birth, has always been in my lucha, persona is the dude, and so we would have to be the dude and the jackpot, like the butcher and the blade, and I would be

Spanish like in Mark Hamill's Joker Exit. That would have to be like, so it wouldn't be regular Spanish, should be like Costa was stead, and it would have to be very much like so that no one would ever know it was me, And then the reveal would be, oh my god, it's the guy from fucking Scooby Doo, Holy sh it, He's yeah. And eventually and you would be the one that betrays me, right you take off the mask. I'm like, oh no. They'd be like, oh my god, Freddie Brents Jr. Oh my god, that's the

guy from Scooby Doo. He's got a lot of gray hair. Oh my god. I would never betray you, and I would definitely never de mask a luchador. That would be some of our our nemesis, and I would never do that to you. But that would get you over as a healing dude. Disrespectful take that. Never. Never. I love you. You're a good man. You're a good man. Jeff. Why would you guys call each other then your entire team Joker in the jack the joker in the jackpot. Oh

I love that. Yeah, baby, a bad joker accent and Jack Pod Jeff Die Jeff, Jackpod Die. Let's start it up. Let's call a w say, listen, we gotta thing, we gotta start. Let's call the dubs man. Yeah, I got really gotta start. Gotta get to the gym yesterday if we're going to do this. Next question, so this was coming via Twitter from Curious Dabbler, was Vincent Kenny McMahon stepping down the biggest single event in pro wrestling in the last five years. In the last five years, Yes, yeah,

in the last fifty years. I mean hell, I guess he hasn't been doing it fifty years, but yeah, I mean, Vince you didn't know. But if you weren't a fan of pro wrestling, the only thing you associated a pro wrestling was Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon. Like you would know those names, right, Like people in Hollywood who should all over wrestling and don't know anything about it. When I would say, oh, I worked for Vince McMahon for a couple of years, they be like, why did you

quit acting? For everything? I would and work for Vincementman, They'd be like, oh, pro wrestling, and they would know right away. They would know not a single other thing about pro wrestling, and crap all over and go it's fake. I'd be like, yes, so is every movie you produced. Jag Off. Um. I hate when people say it's so stupid. I'm like, every television show, including reality TV, is freaking fake.

Everything is not real. You don't think they've held a plane on the Amazing Race a few times to make sure the team they wanted to win didn't get eliminated, Like that ship happens, bro, Like it's all fake. So yeah, him stepping down and especially the way he stepped down. Had it been gracefully and just been like, thank you very much, it's time for me to retire and and hand this to my to my family, it's still probably

would have been the biggest story. But anytime there's like scandalous stuff that that you know, gossip sites and and National Enquiry type stuff we want to talk about and it's finally real instead of like made up stuff, then it's gonna be you know, ten times as big. So for sure the big since since he started the WWF, that's the single biggest event in wrestling. And that's too bad because it should be like the first WrestleMania or something like that. But unfortunately it's you know, he didn't

he didn't make smart life choices. And also it's to everyone I've ever talked to who knows wrestling. I've never worked for anybody in wrestling, but like everyone wrestler I know, every person I know that's written for them, produced whatever. They all said that Vince was the final say like he was just no matter what if you just he didn't like it. So to have one guy be the

thing that everything has to go through. He had his hands in everything, so for just to just to get rid of the guy who has been the final say for that long. It has to be the biggest thing to to let Triple H finally get to you know, call the shots and delegate responsibilities, say Okay, you can do this and you can do this. So we'll bring Shawn Michaels into this and Fit Finley will decide that like that's a that's a huge, huge, huge um thing

for wrestling. Shout out Fit Finley. All right, this next one's coming in from Shah Raleigh two and one. Which, Yeah, which rivalry would you really like to see in terms of storytelling and match quality? Must be a w w E feud, all right. I know first of all, which one I never want to see again, and that's Randy Orton versus John Cena because they did it for two years straight. Uh and it was boring after two months?

Which w w E rivalry. Okay, you have to be kind of a new school and hardcore fan to go into this one. For me. But if you watched n x T when it was good, and you saw Sammy Zane's path to the World Championship, and you saw Kevin Owen's entrance into n x T and the beginning of these best friends rivalry. It started perfectly and beautifully. He hugs his best friend and then he gives him a power bomb on the apron of the ring and like

breaks Sammy's back and it's like, yeah, congratulations, Champ. And they've had they've been best friends, and they've been mortal enemies ever since, going back and forth, back and forth, to the point where Kevin the last time they spoke, said I don't even want to know you anymore. I don't want to wrestle you, I don't want to see you. I think eventually they're gonna become friends again and then

fall apart again. So I'm not saying it's the greatest of all time, because that's reserved for people like you know, Undertaker and Shawn Michael's and and people of of that caliber. And these two men haven't had enough time in the

company to establish that. But I will tell you this, I'm damn well gonna watch it over the next ten years and see where this rivalry goes between the friendship and rivalry, and watch where it goes um because I love both those guys, because they can both wrestle at a ten and they can both talk on a ten, and they can both tell a story at a ten. So it may not be the greatest yet, but I think it has the potential to and it's the one

that I'm most excited to watch. What say you, Jeff, Well, if I could just do like fantasy, you know, like there's anything in the world I would, I'd love to see Undertaker and Cain again. That was super fun. Sean Michael's and Brett Hart was huge. My The foundation of my wrestling love was Macho Man and Hulk Cogan. I remember just being like, no, I'd love these two. Why is this happening? Temptation in your eyes? I saw it in your eyes woman, and then obviously stone Cold versus Vance.

I don't know if it'll ever get as good as that rivalry like this, just every week I couldn't wait for wrestling to start so I could watch how Vince was gonna get his life ruined by Stone Cold. It was just so so so fun. That's oddly probably the best one ever, right because it was like wish fulfillment. Everyone wants to punch their boss in the face. It was actually got to and also I learned that he kind of it seemed like a story they did a

long time ago with a different guy. What was the guy who actually became an actual bounty hunter in real life? Dr d Yeah, Doc, is it Dr David Schultze David Schultz. So I have a theory that this guy John Moffatt or whatever that guy's name was ruined his life. But that guy David Schultz basically like that was stone cold. That that whole character is with even even having the guns, like he had guns on U. They went to his house, they cast at him a fake wife and a fake

kid that he'd be rude to like that. It was perfect anyways. Um, those would be the ones I'd love to see again, just because they were like magic, I'm not really good. I'm as the older I get to get a little less patient with the rivalries, like you know, Brock versus Roman. I don't want to see it again. It was it just too much for me. Um, But any of those old ones, I would love to see anything like that or those again, if I could choose.

David Schultz slapping the ship out of that reporter is one of my favorite moments in the history of wrestling, because like, my whole thing is like if I ever was interviewed by that guy, I would just shoot on him the whole interview and call him out on his bullshit, like why would be my question, like you're you were going after cigarette companies? Why would you go after professional wrestling?

Like everyone's in on the secret, even back then, even the people that didn't want to say it was, everyone knew. So why go out there and just try to expose him like that? Like who are you helping outside of yourself? Right, Like it's just you trying to get cloud by destroying something that people love. I was so glad when he got the ship slapped out of him, and I was even happier when he hit him the second time. I hated that they paid him off. I hated that he

got a settlement. I hope his ears hurt for the rest of his life. Like, screw that guy, man, I think he's kind of looking for trouble something. Yeah, man, screw that guy. I hate that guy and antagonize him and then cry that like something happened, like the guy's asking for trouble. That other New York journalist that tried to like get him destroyed during the steroid trials, Mushnik whatever his name is Screw that guy too, man. I remember Cornette cut a promo on him that was just

freaking gold, like just an absolute brick of gold. And I was like, man, I love to be in a room with that guy, and just slapped the ship out of the way. Dr d did, dude. I hate both those guys. Screw those journalists. And the story goes that Vince told David Schultz to do that. He he knew David Schultz was gonna do that, goes go show him how real rest is, and so like new David Schutz was gonna keep that cafe, you know, like like it

was in that time, like you have fired for it. Yeah, and then he gets sent to Japan for a few years, like, oh, we might get sued for this, such e Vince move. But um, I love Shultz. I love David Schultz. Yeah, man, shout out David Schultz. Next question, sir, all right, so our last question for this episode, and we're gonna end a good one. This one's coming from Danielle Zamorano. Oh nice. Why was the brawl for all the best thing to happen in pro wrestling? You know, I like the idea

of it was an epic failure. It was terrible, but it did stem from a good idea. It did stem from the idea that, like, these guys have been doing choreographed wrestling and lifting weights and eating steroid burgers for the last thirty years, they talking a big game back there, They're talking a big game in the green room. Let's see who's really actually tough if we could put these boxing glibs on and do it. So the idea was, let's let's have Bradshaw put his money where his mouth is.

Let's have these guys earn their way to climb the corporate thing. It was a failure. It was a failure, and it was dangerous, and it was reckless and it was stupid. But I think the idea is good. I think the idea is it stemmed from a good idea, which also is a nice callback to why I wouldn't be a very good creative at rest. Okay, Danielle, I'm so upset with you for sending this question in giving Jeff this this soapbox. Once again, it is the single

worst moment in professional wrestling. Um, the idea is completely assinine that on the same show where you have choreographed fights you're going to have a real one just to show that the bigger stars aren't as tough as the lesser stars, which is stupid. I'm gonna make I'm gonna make who who was even in I'm gonna make the Godfather look tougher than stone Cold Steve Austin, Like, why

would you do that? If Stone Cold Steve Auston is supposed to be the toughest son of a bitch in the business, but he didn't have the guts to join the brawl for all because he's not like a real man. This idea is horrible. I hated every minute of it. I love the Godfather. I love Too Cold Scorpio. I

know he he wasn't it. Remember that old vignette the two Cold had where he comes up in the limo and the kids are late to school and he's like, you need to get in school, and they're like, are we gonna go on the limo and he's like, no, we're gonna step and then they just do the dance all the way to school. Six I'm gonna send it

to you. It's great. I love Too Cold. He used to do, you know, like Hangman Page does that that Larry at that slingshot Buckshot Larry, he calls it where he does a forward hand spring over the top rope and hit you with the clothesline. Too Cold would grab the top rope and do instead of forward handspring, he would do a full flip where his feet don't even touch the ground and frog splash you, dude. It was so he first, his whole move set was ahead of

his time. But two cold, way under w c W two cold best too cold, but he was way ahead of his time, way underrated, and uh had to be in that stupid brawl for all the world. And by the way, I don't even think the origin story that was told on Vice is true at all. I don't think it had anything to do with J. B L. I know J B L pretty damn well. At this point. I did a show with him on A and E called W W E Rivals and he's in every episode, and that dude schooled me up on the history of

business colling Vince Russo a liar. You're calling Vince Russo a liar. Yeah, I don't think. I don't think that that's true at all, and I don't think it would get approved at all. And J B L is not that guy like JB L talks about dudes beating the

ship out of him all the time. Like every conversation I have with him is like, yeah, you know, freaking Shamrock choked me out in three seconds, like like he doesn't care, like he doesn't have an ego like this, I don't even know if the origin of it is is as as as honest as as people looking at stuff in hindsight. It's like the Shock documentary that's out right now and Shack saying, yeah, I knew this, and I knew that, That's why I did this, That's why I did that. I love the Lakers, I love Shack.

A lot of that is bullshit, man, Like that's hindsight and you going, yeah, because A, B and C happened. I'm gonna put my own spin on it to show you why I created that situation, like a lot that I hate a lot a lot they rewrite history because they're the only ones left to tell the stories. Um so so yeah, man, No, I hate your question. Danielle. You are your your your band from the show forever.

I'm gonna find out how you listen to the show, and I'm gonna do whatever Dana Dana White does to the people that stream his his pay per views illegally. You should also know that when I if you go back to the episode when this was talked about, Freddie told me he hated me, So you know you're you're in good company. Danielle. Yeah, and I and I still love him. You can be on the ship with with Jeff on his Mexican cruise and you guys can tell brawl for all stories. It will be thank you for

your written in questions. We appreciate you, guys, We love you. We're gonna two part this because we also have our voicemail messages that we're gonna get to in next week's episode of Wrestling with Freddie Wrestling with Friends. You guys are awesome. You guys give us a lot of laughs today. Appreciate you guys. Danielle. I don't hate you at all. You're super cool and I know that you were just doing that to be a jerk, and I like jerks,

So way to go. Mr Jeff. You've got anything to say to the people before we leave, If you're in Cleveland, Ohio or the Greater Ohio area, I will be at Hilaritous Common Club. Celebrating the New Year's with you guys. Um, so come on down to that, come, come, come hang with Jeffy if you're if you're around for New Year's that's that's this country, bro, That's this country. That's Dull Sigler country, that's Alexa Bliss country. We'll get them at the show. Get them at the show. Let's try to

get them there Lebron's Old stomping Grounds. We wish you guys the happiest New Year ever. I hope you guys party with people you love. I hope you get drunk with people you love. If you smoke pot, I hope you smoke pot with people you love. If you smoke cigarettes, even though I wish you wouldn't, I hope you smoke a cigarette with someone you love. Just don't blow right in my face. It's disrespectful. The same in the nineteen twenties mob movie. We'll see everybody next week right here

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